Favoriting Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk: Playlist from May 11, 2012 Favoriting

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Favoriting May 11, 2012: Too Late to Turn Back Now (Oblique Strategies)
~Animation by Minnesota Jeff

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Approx. start time
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose  Too Late to Turn Back Now   Favoriting   United Artists  1972  45  First Card: Do we need holes? For more information on the Oblique Strategies cards that will be guiding today's show, go to: http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/   
AMM  Generative Theme i   Favoriting Generative Themes  Matchless Recordings    CD  Recorded in 1982; NEXT CARD: Make something implied more definite (reinforce, duplicate)  0:02:54 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno  Select a Bonk   Favoriting Curiosities Volume 1  Opal  2003  CD  Next card Who should be doing this job? How would they do it?  0:12:15 (Pop-up)
 
ZZ Top  Move Me On Down the Line   Favoriting Tres Hombres  London  1973  LP  Next card: Slow preparation, fast execution.  0:21:20 (Pop-up)
WOLD  We Kill for Her   Favoriting Badb  Crucial Blast  2012  CD  Next card: Use 'unqualified' people.  0:23:44 (Pop-up)
Portsmouth Sinfonia  Pinball Wizard   Favoriting 20 Classic Rock Classics  Phillips  1979  CD-R  Next card: What wouldn't you do?  0:28:25 (Pop-up)
Bruce Springsteen  Death To My Hometown   Favoriting Wrecking Ball  Columbia  2012  CD  Next card: What would your closest friend do?  0:30:10 (Pop-up)
 
Michael Cosmic  Arabia   Favoriting Pece in the World  Cosmic/Intex  1974  MP3  Next card: What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate.  0:42:40 (Pop-up)
 
Lou Reed  She's My Best Friend   Favoriting Coney Island Baby  RCA  1975  LP  Next Card: What mistakes did you make last time?  1:06:55 (Pop-up)
Beastie Boys  Gratitude   Favoriting Check Your Head  Capitol  1992  LP  Next card: Try faking it!  1:12:49 (Pop-up)
 
Brian Eno  2/1   Favoriting Music For Airports          1:21:28 (Pop-up)
The Clash  Cheat   Favoriting Live at Mont de Marsan - France - 5/6 August 1977      MP3  Next Card: Think: Inside the work, Outside the work  1:27:25 (Pop-up)
The Work  The Great Climax   Favoriting Rubber Cage  Ad Hoc  2007  CD  Next Card: Abandon Normal Instruments  1:28:58 (Pop-up)
La Drivers Union Por Por Group  Trotro Tour of Ghana   Favoriting Por Por: Honk Horn Music Of Ghana  Smithsonian  2007  CD  Next card: Accretion  1:33:25 (Pop-up)
 
Eric Glick Rieman  What's Said, Reinterpreted by Future Hearers   Favoriting In My Mind, Her Image Was Reversed  Accretions  2011  CD  Next card: Accept advice.  1:45:39 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno  Kurt's Rejoinder   Favoriting Before and After Science  Asphodel  2004  CD  Originally released in 1977; Next card: Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a structure)  1:52:58 (Pop-up)
 
John Fahey  The Transcendental Waterfall   Favoriting The Legend of Blind Joe Death  Fantasy  1996  CD  Recorded in 1959; Next card: Are there sections? Consider transitions.  2:01:10 (Pop-up)
Michael Chapman  Waiting for a Train   Favoriting Sweet Powder  Rural Retreat  2012  CD  Next card: Be dirty  2:11:43 (Pop-up)
The Cramps  Garbage Man   Favoriting File Under Sacred Music: Early Singles 1978-1981  Munster  2011  CD  Next card: Be extravagant.  2:14:05 (Pop-up)
Roxy Music  Virginia Plain   Favoriting Roxy Music  Virgin  1972  CD  Next Card: Disconnect From Desire  2:17:39 (Pop-up)
Oren Ambarchi  Salt   Favoriting Audience of One  Touch  2012  CD  Next Card: Ask your body  2:20:35 (Pop-up)
This Heat  A New Kind of Water   Favoriting Deceit  Rough Trade  1981  CD  Next card: Always first steps  2:26:00 (Pop-up)
 
Wreckless Eric  A Pop Song   Favoriting Big Smash  Stiff  2007  MP3  Next card: Ask people to work against their better judgment  2:35:58 (Pop-up)
Phil Fucking Collins  All The Hits, All At Once   Favoriting All the Hits at Once  No Label  2012  CD-R  Next card: Just carry on.  2:38:50 (Pop-up)
Phil Fucking Collins  Easy Lover   Favoriting All the Hits at Once  No Label  2012  CD-R  Next card: Is it finished? (I swear that's what it was!)  2:45:18 (Pop-up)
Petula Clark  The Show is Over   Favoriting Beautiful Sounds: The Petula Clark Songbook  Castle  2000  CD    2:57:07 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:02pm
Doublemint Twins:

Is it dark in here, or is it just us?
  3:02pm
37:

always makes me laugh that the part of your show my wife would like best is always your intro 45... ha ha ha....
  3:02pm
Richard from Venezuela:

Greetings Kurt.
  3:03pm
Swan:

Oh yes, the cards. Deal us in, Kurt!!
  3:04pm
still b/p:

Holes, yes. Do the holes in 45s count, or will you have to create literal or figurative holes in the program material, the playlist or the energy of both?
  3:06pm
northguineahills:

Cornelius Bros vs. Cornelius vs Cornelius mashup.
  3:11pm
Cecile:

vs. Cornelius Bumpus...
  3:11pm
Taylor:

Cornelius and Zira were...my friends.
  3:11pm
Caryn:

So wait, did the "holes" card inspire the Cornelius track or the one after it? Just want to keep up with things.
  3:14pm
Looms:

Freeform's at its best today :)
  3:17pm
Cecile:

I didn't know about these. Fascinating.
  3:23pm
\m/ >v< \m/:

I always thought this was BTO!
  3:23pm
Cheri Pi:

This album rules.
  3:23pm
johnnykevlar:

The only ZZ Top album I've heard, what's next?
  3:25pm
steve:

just heard this morning that Wold will be opening for Merzbow in Bk in early June! that is exciting
  3:27pm
steve:

btw is Wold "slow prep fast execution" or "use unqualified people"?
  3:28pm
Cecile:

Unquailified people might be the Shaggs.
Avatar 3:29pm
bryce:

caryn, steve et al. i am listing the cards as i draw them, so the card drawn AMM, for example, suggested playing Eno.
  3:29pm
Looms:

"Unquailified people"... The Shaggs are next?
  3:30pm
Cecile:

that works, too.
  3:30pm
Cecile:

The next one - Some new kind of kick by the Cramps?
  3:30pm
Caryn:

Please don't play "I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" for the next card!
  3:31pm
Caryn:

Oh yay, Bruce!
  3:33pm
Cecile:

jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way...
  3:33pm
tim from champaign:

What would my best friend do (and is probably doing at this moment)? Chug-A-Lug by Roger Miller
  3:35pm
BodegaMan:

yeah, thanks for introducing the cards. i went to the Eno Shop (http://enoshop.co.uk/) to check them out too, but got caught up looking at those trumpet style speakers. Very cool
  3:36pm
BodegaMan:

Funny, Tim from Champaign is my best friend, although he lives in Portland, OR now.
  3:40pm
http://www.last.fm/user/johnnykevlar:

play some captain beefheart
  3:43pm
Rarus Avis:

Play some Gino Robair or Mavis Strawn.
  3:46pm
BodegaMan:

For the next card "what are you thinking about" it's perfect time for some David Allan Coe.
  3:47pm
Cecile:

Great choice, Ariela.
never heard this before.
  3:49pm
northguineahills:

I was thinking about just now how I don't hear enough Cecil Taylor.
  3:50pm
G:

@ngh: Cecil Taylor review in the Village Voice this week, p. 48 print edition
  3:52pm
northguineahills:

Thanks G, I'll my gf to pick up a copy.
  4:03pm
still b/p:

On The Brian Eno Official Store site, if you click "Basket" with nothing selected for purchase, it says "Basket is empty." Routine someplace else. But there in the EnozonE realm of Oblique Strategies..."Ohh, yyyeeeessss, ah, yes...my basket is...empty."
  4:06pm
still b/p:

More accurately, it says, "Your basket is empty."
  4:07pm
Mike East:

I just got Coney Island Baby...its not as bad as I was expecting.
  4:09pm
Cecile:

that's a ringing endorsement.
  4:11pm
Mike East:

hehehe...well I'm sure you know how Lou Reed albums can be. I don't have to try as hard to like this one.
  4:12pm
tim from champaign:

I think Coney Island Baby is fantastic. The title track and A Gift are true gems.
  4:13pm
Minnesota Jeff:

YES!
  4:15pm
BodegaMan:

Next card s/b "Cheat" by The Clash
  4:17pm
northguineahills:

Fakebook
  4:20pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Rutles or Beatlemania?
  4:23pm
Carmichael:

The Pre-Fab Four!!
  4:25pm
Cecile:

Gorillaz
  4:27pm
Minnesota Jeff:

So...whats everyone up to this weekend?
  4:30pm
\m/ >v< \m/:

The Fab Faux
  4:33pm
Mike East:

@MN Jeff: I'm goin' on a pic-a-nic tomorrow...and I will start the day by watching the Who's "Tommy" at about 7am.
  4:34pm
still b/p:

Must hike a mountain!
  4:36pm
northguineahills:

aural bric-o-brac accretion
  4:37pm
Mike East:

yeah, I'm gonna do that, too still b/p!!!
  4:38pm
steve:

im gonna go see THEY LIVE at midnight movies tonight! then probably sit in a park and drink coffee and read all day tomorrow.
  4:39pm
northguineahills:

Radio Ruido introduced me to this La Drivers Union Por Por Group . It's an awesome honking danceteria!
  4:45pm
next card?:

Drain the pipe of literalness.
  4:46pm
Mike East:

is it a literal drain pipe?
  4:46pm
ENO:

Kurt's rejoinder please.
Avatar 4:46pm
DJ KG:

HA! i've been posting as bryce? forgot to change that.

nghills: tmmmmmm!

next card requires listener imput. i need advice
  4:46pm
\m/ >v< \m/:

Edith Massey!
  4:47pm
Cecile:

Play Hump Day by Tin Huey.
It has a work theme and is very strange and squonky.

My other advice would be to draw another card.
  4:48pm
common:

kayodot
  4:49pm
still b/p:

Miracles - You Better Shop Around
Jack Jones - Wives and Lovers
  4:53pm
Carmichael:

Richard Thompson - One Door Opens
Stereolab - Lo Boob Oscillator
  4:53pm
Cecile:

Good Advices by REM
  4:54pm
ENO:

THANKS KG!!!
  4:54pm
37:

ah... back just in time...
  4:55pm
northguineahills:

Power utility
  5:01pm
Mike East:

but isn't following the card to abandon structure still following the structure of the cards dictating? Trying to wrap my brain around that.
Avatar 5:05pm
DJ KG:

east, yes. and reverting to structure also seems like a contradiction. but this was my best solution. and i think now i am being told to consider the transitions within an acoustic guitar set, at least until the next card is drawn.
  5:06pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Fahey rules.
  5:07pm
Mike East:

I think all of your decisions have been spot on, Kurt. I really dig the concept of the show today.
Avatar 5:08pm
DJ KG:

thanks, mike!
  5:09pm
Carmichael:

What a gtreat Fahey song.
  5:09pm
northguineahills:

MN Jeff is correct!
  5:14pm
Cecile:

my dad used to sing the first verse of this song to us when he gave us baths as tiny kids.
  5:17pm
Carmichael:

Be extravagant = DJ's choice!
  5:18pm
http://www.last.fm/user/johnnykevlar:

Oh snap, my favorite Roxy Music song
  5:19pm
Cecile:

YES.
I was going to suggest that or Queen. Something decadent and over the top.
  5:19pm
Cecile:

for the next card, you could play music made by monks or nuns.
  5:19pm
ENO:

Yeah, this is one of the goodder ones.
  5:21pm
Carmichael:

yeah, the Black Monks!
  5:27pm
http://www.last.fm/user/johnnykevlar:

heating up in here
  5:27pm
http://www.last.fm/user/johnnykevlar:

self titled or deceit?
Avatar 5:28pm
DJ KG:

deceit
  5:37pm
ENO:

Sweet WE!!!
  5:38pm
Carmichael:

If I worked TOTALLY against better judgment, I'd play some Debby Boone.
  5:40pm
Minnesota Jeff:

Ha!
  5:41pm
steve:

you sure hit the nail on the head with this one
  5:45pm
fred von helsing:

Hey, question for y'all. Years ago there was another US copyright brouhaha and some DJ decided to play his collection sorted by length The show started with 1-second bursts, then 2-second, ... you get the idea. Can someone tell me who it was and maybe point me to the archive? greets from Hellsinki where it's 50F
  5:46pm
Cecile:

That was Kenny G. That show is in the archives.
It was kind of hysterical, but he got in trouble. Well, that was pretty much true of all his shows.
  5:49pm
\m/ >v< \m/:

Didn't you play this alreaady?
  5:49pm
steve:

ahaha
  5:49pm
too much coffee:

like, what kind of trouble?
  5:50pm
too much coffee:

Kurt G is getting himself into trouble by playing this song
  5:50pm
Cecile:

I kinda of liked "easy lover" but it got old fast.
98% of its goodness was Phillip Bailey.
  5:51pm
too much coffee:

though as long as he squelches most of it out I suppose it's not so bad
  5:51pm
Cecile:

Like ASCAP people telling Ken that Kenny was flouting the rule and they didn't appreciate it.
  5:51pm
Minnesota Jeff:

fred von helsing: Nat Roe does shows that sound like this all the time. Lots of things that will play first 3 seconds of each #1 song for a particular year, etc.
  5:51pm
fred von helsing:

Dang here's his archives but which show? http://wfmu.org/special.php/KG
  5:51pm
Carmichael:

I recall that Kenny G did that show BECAUSE he got in trouble. Kind of a middle finger to The Man. But who knows, that was a looooong time ago.
  5:52pm
Cecile:

Yeah, Phil was such great friends with Earth Wind and Fire that his EWF touring horn section had to sue him for back wages.
  5:52pm
fred von helsing:

Yeah I've hear Nat's stuff, it's pretty cool and he's published the software too
  5:52pm
too much coffee:

which show? just look for the one with the longest playlist, of course
  5:53pm
Cecile:

Agh. they changed things up with his hour of pain. I would ask Ken about it, Fred.
  5:54pm
Cecile:

I can't tell by just looking at his older archives. I think it was 2007 or 2008 if that is any help.
  5:57pm
too much coffee:

we enjoyed being served by you, Kurt
  5:57pm
fred von helsing:

@TMC good theory if he actually logged all the short bursts. I just checked all the playlists and well maybe just this one might be it "Kenny G and Vicki Bennet Go Apeshit in the Studio for 3 hours"
  5:58pm
Mike East:

I was listening to "no jacket required" this morning.
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