WFMU: Tony Coulter: Playlist from March 11, 2014

Listener comments!
	🥁 11:44am listener james from westwood: Good afternoon, Tony and all!! Love the label on the "Happy-Go-Lucky Native"!
	11:56am Gary: Bring it on!
	11:56am Tony Coulter: Hey there, James! That Costes cassette packaging is very handmade, as you can probably tell.
	11:58am Tony Coulter: Hiya, Gary!
	🥁 11:58am listener james from westwood: Fittingly unique for a one-time-only unique broadcast!
	11:58am Gary: Holy Tony + James!
	🥁 11:59am listener james from westwood: Gonna go see how long range my Wi-Fi is by taking the iThing down to the laundry room. Will also class up this trap with your opening theme.
	🥁 11:59am listener james from westwood: How do, Gary!
	12:01pm Doug Schulkind: Wait, Listener James! WFMU will do your laundry for the next year as our thanks! #frommylipstogodsears
	12:02pm Tony Coulter: Doug Doug!
	12:03pm DCE: well, hello, Tony
	🥁 12:05pm listener james from westwood: Oh, man, nobody deserves that fate! LOL!! Held the signal just before the bend in the hall. Not even my fillings could amp it up.
	12:06pm Santos L Halper: Afternoon! Psyched to have a day off so I can hear my first tape hiss!
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Heya DCE and Santos L. Halper!
	12:09pm Doug Schulkind: I have to run out and get some epsom salts for my dog. (Don't ask.) Back soon, Hiss lovers!
	🥁 12:12pm listener james from westwood: Charming Bowie cover!
	12:12pm pacific standard simon: Those damn epsom salts burn like a bitch. Had to soak my toe after having part of the nail removed a few years ago. HI TONY!
	12:13pm Santos L Halper: Thomas P>David B
	12:13pm Tony Coulter: @ James: Indeed-y. There are a few other covers on here, which should be easy to spot.
	12:14pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Simon!
	12:14pm Fred Roberts: Listening from Hamburg, Germany!
	12:14pm pacific standard simon: The old-timey approach just makes sense.
	12:15pm Tony Coulter: Hey there, Fred!
	12:16pm tahomajohn: Hey! Cheers from the gritty underbelly of Puget Sound. Hiss on!
	12:17pm Tony Coulter: He ho, Tahomajohn!
	12:18pm pacific standard simon: Puget Sound -- there's something in the water!
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: This is all so good.
	🥁 12:18pm listener james from westwood: Met my upstairs neighbor while getting the mail. I wonder if he dug the Public Enemy that Jeff played yesterday when the station hit 100%. He got a very loud dose of it. :) There's another cover!
	12:20pm Tony Coulter: Ho hola ho, Uncle Michael!
	🥁 12:22pm listener james from westwood: (In point of fact, he's actually quite deaf. His loss on the PE, really. Not as much his loss on my rap-along. Chuck D is in no danger of losing his spot on the mic.)
	12:28pm Tony Coulter: Hey: Has the stream been louder recently? Or is it just my new computer playing tricks on me?
	12:30pm Tony Coulter: Recently, as in the last couple of weeks.
	12:33pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Tony is there any way we can get a heads up on these Tape Hiss shows
	🥁 12:35pm listener james from westwood: Tony: Can't tell; it certainly hasn't sounded worse. (It sounds good and has been steady today.)
	12:35pm Tony Coulter: Hi Aaron. Yes, I should be better about that. I mention it on my own FB page, but maybe I should give the show its own page. Or list them on FMU's special events page (used to do that).
	12:36pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Thanks!
	12:40pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, James. It's probably just my new computer sounding different to me.
	12:41pm steve: hey Tony! is that Costes as in, the french sicko? that cover looks curiously non threatening...
	12:42pm Tony Coulter: Hey Steve! Yes, it is the very same Costes. Amazingly, the theme of this particular tape in neither fucking nor shit.
	12:43pm Tony Coulter: ... or even fucking shit.
	12:43pm MrFab: This guy's like: hello, Tom Lehrer, we salute you! If today's indie bands were truly cool, they'd cover "The Vatican Rag" instead of "Love Will Tear us Apart" for the 5 millionth time.
	12:45pm indeterminacy: Hear hear, Mr Fab!
	12:45pm Tony Coulter: Hello, MrFab, we salute you!
	12:45pm Tony Coulter: I'm strong to the finach....
	12:46pm pacific standard simon: Hey MrFab, are you the MrFab whose website I was just visiting?
	12:46pm Tony Coulter: Greets, indeterminacy!
	🥁 12:47pm listener james from westwood: Aaron, are you on the Give the Drummer Radio mailing list? Stream-meister Doug sends list memberas an email before each show, and always flags the Tape Hiss shows if you're especially bent on catching those (who wouldn't be?). Tony, is it doug@wfmu.org to join the list? (I believe Doug's still out on Epsom salt duty.)
	12:48pm MrFab: Well that depends, Simon: were you on MidgetFootFetish.com? It's one of my more popular sites.
	12:49pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: umm -- that's his email address -- so probably, yes.
	12:50pm Aaron in Minneapolis: James thanks! Thanks Tony!
	12:51pm pacific standard simon: Even better than that -- this site features a balalaika-playing bear.
	12:52pm Tony Coulter: Hmm. The guy across the street from is either a drug dealer, running a B&B, or the most popular person in the world.
	12:54pm northguineahills: Sounds like my kind of B&B.
	12:55pm Tony Coulter: This cassette is another one with handmade covers -- cut out from kiddies books. (It's the lower one on the right.)
	🥁 12:59pm listener james from westwood: Ah, good; thanks for confirming, Tony. Couldn't recall whether there was some sort of auto-address like "subscribe @ etc. com" or something.
	1:01pm Tony Coulter: There may be -- Doug will have to confirm.
	1:02pm Tony Coulter: By the way, this tape ends super abruptly -- on both sides.
	1:06pm indeterminacy: That almost sounds like Felix Kubin on Teenage Tapes
	1:07pm Tony Coulter: Also by the way: Sara (the female vocalist here) later moved to the U.S. and became a professional wrestler. She usually wore a Union Jack while wrestling.
	1:16pm northguineahills: ....was not expecting that trivia....
	1:17pm Tony Coulter: Hey NGH! Info via Ken Freedman, who met her back in the '90s.
	1:17pm Uncle Michael: That entire Thomas P. was insanely good. Just crazy that he kept it on the down-low.
	1:19pm DCE: suitably weird
	1:21pm Tony Coulter: @ Uncle Michael: Seems like some artists definitely go out of their way to keep themselves obscure -- only their therapists know for sure why.
	🥁 1:26pm listener james from westwood: That was delightfully strange.
	1:28pm Tony Coulter: Amos is a master of delightfully strange.
	1:28pm Tony Coulter: -- and of abrupt endings.
	🥁 1:38pm listener james from westwood: Nice how the title uses "An" to reflect the Franglish pronunciation " 'appy."
	1:39pm Rich in Washington: Greetings, Tony! Wonderful show!
	1:40pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: Spoken like a copy editor.
	1:40pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Rich!
	1:42pm Tony Coulter: Was the phone just ringing in the background there? I mean in Costes' background?
	1:42pm Rich in Washington: I remember reading a perhaps apocryphal story about Costes and how - back when CDs were first coming out and were several dollars more than LPs and cassettes - he supposedly put out a release in a CD package and how - if you bought it and opened it, there was just a 5" piece of circular cardboard that said you were "a stupid fucker for buying this" . Don't remember where I read it. Maybe Forced Exposure.
	1:44pm Rich in Washington: Hah! Costes site is blocked as 'pornography' here at my work.
	1:44pm Tony Coulter: I can believe it. I've got an LP of his that has deep needle-destroying gouges deliberately cut into the last track. You can never forget about having to leap up at the end of the record.
	1:47pm Tony Coulter: Nonetheless, I'd bet good money that if you had him as a house guest he'd be perfectly sane and pleasant. In my experience, people who make "crazy"music usually aren't crazy. It's more often superstar types like Michael Jackson who are genuinely nuts.
	🥁 1:50pm listener james from westwood: @Tony: Heh! We always admire a well-tuned silent H!
	1:51pm steve: i wonder what Costes does for a living, what he's like on a day to day basis.
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: '..an 'alibut..."
	1:52pm Rich in Washington: This is the most Costes that I've ever heard to date. I found reading about him and Lisa Suckdog intriguing but never heard too much of their - or his stuff - until now.
	1:53pm Rich in Washington: @Steve: maybe a daycare worker...?
	1:55pm Tony Coulter: I'm a big Costes fan. I got official clearance in pre-stream days to play even the most obscene and scatological of his stuff on FMU -- as long as it was in French. French obscenity is totally FCC-compliant.
	1:59pm northguineahills: Holy crap, I have my windows open!
	2:00pm Tony Coulter: That abrupt ending for the Costes cassette wasn't an equipment malfunction -- that's just how the tape is.
	🥁 2:03pm listener james from westwood: I just signed up for a spelling bee at a copy editors' conference. I'll be competing with word loons from the nation's top dailies; no freelance copy editors had signed up, so I pulled a Katniss Everdeen and offered myself as tribute. (Note: I might be less photogenic than Jennifer Lawrence.) I'm likely to get crushed like a bug. B-U-G. Bug.
	🥁 2:07pm listener james from westwood: NGH: Windows open here, too. We can finally see grass and turf and whatnot here in northern NJ. Thought we'd be seeing mammoths lumbering about soon.
	🥁 2:10pm listener james from westwood: Really like the La 1919!
	2:10pm steve: love this old lofi industrial, nice post Costes cleansing.
	2:11pm Tony Coulter: You mean cloned mammoths, brought back to life? If the NYT mag is to believed, that'll be happening soon.
	2:11pm Rich in Washington: We're getting Spring-like weather here in the Pac. NW: lots and lots of rain.
	🥁 2:12pm listener james from westwood: They'd have found a comfy home here this winter!
	2:15pm steve: and now this is collaged with a car parked outside blasting Cotton Eyed Joe
	2:15pm Rich in Washington: this is really cool, Tony!
	2:19pm Tony Coulter: Can still be gotten pretty cheaply on places like Discogs.
	2:25pm Tony Coulter: Relatively cheaply, that is. Some of these '80s cassettes are starting to go for mucho dinero.
	2:28pm Rich in Washington: again, really lamenting the fact that I almost totally ignored cassette-only releases back in the day. Not sure why.
	2:29pm Tony Coulter: Track on now is the one on my marathon premium.
	2:30pm Uncle Michael: I never, ever remember that one can shop on Discogs. I use it for research, exclusively.
	2:31pm northguineahills: I know I've heard this La 1919 Spontaneo track before.
	2:32pm Tony Coulter: @ NGH: I've played it many times over the years!
	2:32pm Doug Schulkind: My father was born in 1919. Still, I'm not sure this would be his cup of tea.
	2:33pm Tony Coulter: @ Uncle Michael: Discogs actually makes it dangerously easy to buy stuff -- once you have a want list anyhow.
	2:33pm MrFab: Rich, I think I had a bias (no pun intended) against tapes, like: they must not have been good enough to be a "real" proper vinyl release. Unless it was on ROIR, which for some reason, was acceptable. I still know someone with fairly esoteric tastes who doesn't like tapes releases.
	2:34pm Doug Schulkind: Now that Billie Holiday you played last week, Tony. That would be his cup of tea. My father saw Billie perform live. I drool every time he tells me the story.
	2:35pm Rich in Washington: @MrFab: that was my rationale, as well, however irrational. Now I wish I had paid more attention. but a lot of it was also living 20+ miles from a proper city - I bought the majority of my music from Tower Records.
	2:35pm indeterminacy: @Tony: I brought some tapes with me to Germany from the Endicott area, circa 1985 - Neon Circus, Public Welfare, and Jack Survives. Wondering if you've heard of any of them. And an odd tape that I might have gotten in Ithaca by one Brett Munroe "New Dream Schedule" totally obscure - could never find out anything more about it.
	2:36pm Rich in Washington: I fondly remember getting RIOR catalogs, ordering stuff. Still have a few RIOR tapes. Wished I'd kept the catalogs, too...
	2:37pm Rich in Washington: I also recall arranging tape trades from the classified ads in either Flipside or Maximum Rock N' Roll.
	2:37pm Tony Coulter: @ indeterminacy: Haven't heard of any of those! Would be curious to hear 'em.
	2:38pm still b/p: 1985...you reckon this was done mostly or exclusively with tape/analog editing?
	2:38pm Doug Schulkind: @LJFW Or, as Fox News calls it, a "Spelling Be."
	2:40pm Tony Coulter: @ still b/p: most likely -- tho '85 is sort of on the digital cusp, I guess.
	2:41pm Doug Schulkind: The speaker here sounds like a cousin of the dude in Parliament/Funkadelic telling the tale of Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk!
	2:42pm still b/p: Yeah, some helpful tools and synth tricks available by then, but still the amount of work...it is The Shitload.
	2:45pm Kay: Congratulations on reaching your Marathon goal, Tony. When do you think your premium will be mailed to us lucky pledgers?
	2:46pm indeterminacy: Is it ok to share dropbox links here? A friend digitilized the Jack Survives tapes - really bizarre but fun electronic project by some SUNY Binghamton film students. May be the only surviving copy. Check the spectacular thread at the facebook group "Slipped Disc Record Co-op - SUNY Binghamton" for the story.
	2:49pm Tony Coulter: @ Kay: Yes, thanks, hurray! I'm guessing it'll be a while before they get mailed out. Maybe May? Dunno fer sure.
	2:49pm Tony Coulter: @ indeterminacy: Please do share that link. Thanks!
	2:50pm indeterminacy: www.dropbox.com...
	2:50pm indeterminacy: (It's just over 100MB)
	2:50pm Tony Coulter: Thanks much!
	2:52pm Tony Coulter: Hope I'm not bumming you all out with this track....
	2:53pm indeterminacy: Enjoy! They started sharing some of their later recordings, and opened a fb page "Music of the First Ward" - this earlier tape is just so raw and crazy. I love it. This program was excellent, by the way! Enjoyed all the tapes.
	🥁 2:53pm listener james from westwood: Riveting stuff. Thanks to David Greenberger for capturing these folks' lives.
	2:55pm steve: yeah, this is harsh but worth hearing, like Joe Frank or Clay Pigeon
	2:57pm Tony Coulter: Thanks for showing up everybody! See you next time.
	🥁 2:58pm listener james from westwood: Happy to be here! Thanks for the fine show!!
	2:58pm northguineahills: Thanks Tony!
	2:59pm Uncle Michael: Great stuff Tony...thank you.
	3:00pm indeterminacy: Thanks!

Tony Coulter: Playlist from March 11, 2014

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March 11, 2014: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Thomas P., Fear Merchants, Costes, La 1919 Spontaneo [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year
The In-Theme	Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy

Thomas P.	Don't Ever Fall for Someone That You're Not Prepared to Lose	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Modern Love "Modern Love" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Mr. Sinister Wears Glasses	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Billie Jean "Billie Jean" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Boinger Music Hits the Best Demographics	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Drinking and Ping Pong "Drinking and Ping Pong" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Girl Named Fantasy "Girl Named Fantasy" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992

Thomas P.	Seka's Song "Seka's Song" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Supergroup "Supergroup" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Did I Fall in Love? "Did I Fall in Love?" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Absurd Surreal Song "Absurd Surreal Song" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	God Doesn't Want Your Money	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Popeye "Popeye" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	I Am a Prostitute "I Am a Prostitute" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992
Thomas P.	Walk on the Wild Side "Walk on the Wild Side" by "Thomas P."	New World Odor	no label	1992

Fear Merchants	Mental Theme "Mental Theme" by "Fear Merchants"	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	Un Choix du Mal Song	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	U-Boat Captain "U-Boat Captain" by "Fear Merchants"	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	The Uzbeck Connection 9	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	Industrialists Dirge	Mental	It's War Boys	1983

Fear Merchants	Interlude for Breif Fag	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	Fiasco "Fiasco" by "Fear Merchants"	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	Ya Habibi "Ya Habibi" by "Fear Merchants"	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	Aristocratic Out-Cast Song	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	Absolutely Misery Theme	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	Doctors Orders "Doctors Orders" by "Fear Merchants"	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	When She Weighs Eighty Six Stones	Mental	It's War Boys	1983
Fear Merchants	Mental Theme "Mental Theme" by "Fear Merchants"	Mental	It's War Boys	1983

Costes	An Happy-Go-Lucky Native "An Happy-Go-Lucky Native" by "Costes"	An Happy-Go-Lucky Native	Costes Cassette	1987

La 1919 Spontaneo	Questo Caldo "Questo Caldo" by "La 1919 Spontaneo"	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985
La 1919 Spontaneo	Molto Azzardato	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985
La 1919 Spontaneo	Senza Tregua "Senza Tregua" by "La 1919 Spontaneo"	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985
La 1919 Spontaneo	Dornier Cordaianthus	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985

La 1919 Spontaneo	L'enorme Tragedia	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985
La 1919 Spontaneo	Il Sogno di F.F.	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985
La 1919 Spontaneo	Metzengerstein "Metzengerstein" by "La 1919 Spontaneo"	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985
La 1919 Spontaneo	8'35" "8'35"" by "La 1919 Spontaneo"	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985
La 1919 Spontaneo	La Caduta "La Caduta" by "La 1919 Spontaneo"	L'enorme Tragedia	ADN	1985

David Greenberger & 3 Log Torso	Two Strokes	Legibly Speaking	Meester	2004
The Out-Theme	Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]

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Listener comments!
	🥁 11:44am listener james from westwood: Good afternoon, Tony and all!! Love the label on the "Happy-Go-Lucky Native"!
	11:56am Gary: Bring it on!
	11:56am Tony Coulter: Hey there, James! That Costes cassette packaging is very handmade, as you can probably tell.
	11:58am Tony Coulter: Hiya, Gary!
	🥁 11:58am listener james from westwood: Fittingly unique for a one-time-only unique broadcast!
	11:58am Gary: Holy Tony + James!
	🥁 11:59am listener james from westwood: Gonna go see how long range my Wi-Fi is by taking the iThing down to the laundry room. Will also class up this trap with your opening theme.
	🥁 11:59am listener james from westwood: How do, Gary!
	12:01pm Doug Schulkind: Wait, Listener James! WFMU will do your laundry for the next year as our thanks! #frommylipstogodsears
	12:02pm Tony Coulter: Doug Doug!
	12:03pm DCE: well, hello, Tony
	🥁 12:05pm listener james from westwood: Oh, man, nobody deserves that fate! LOL!! Held the signal just before the bend in the hall. Not even my fillings could amp it up.
	12:06pm Santos L Halper: Afternoon! Psyched to have a day off so I can hear my first tape hiss!
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Heya DCE and Santos L. Halper!
	12:09pm Doug Schulkind: I have to run out and get some epsom salts for my dog. (Don't ask.) Back soon, Hiss lovers!
	🥁 12:12pm listener james from westwood: Charming Bowie cover!
	12:12pm pacific standard simon: Those damn epsom salts burn like a bitch. Had to soak my toe after having part of the nail removed a few years ago. HI TONY!
	12:13pm Santos L Halper: Thomas P>David B
	12:13pm Tony Coulter: @ James: Indeed-y. There are a few other covers on here, which should be easy to spot.
	12:14pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Simon!
	12:14pm Fred Roberts: Listening from Hamburg, Germany!
	12:14pm pacific standard simon: The old-timey approach just makes sense.
	12:15pm Tony Coulter: Hey there, Fred!
	12:16pm tahomajohn: Hey! Cheers from the gritty underbelly of Puget Sound. Hiss on!
	12:17pm Tony Coulter: He ho, Tahomajohn!
	12:18pm pacific standard simon: Puget Sound -- there's something in the water!
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: This is all so good.
	🥁 12:18pm listener james from westwood: Met my upstairs neighbor while getting the mail. I wonder if he dug the Public Enemy that Jeff played yesterday when the station hit 100%. He got a very loud dose of it. :) There's another cover!
	12:20pm Tony Coulter: Ho hola ho, Uncle Michael!
	🥁 12:22pm listener james from westwood: (In point of fact, he's actually quite deaf. His loss on the PE, really. Not as much his loss on my rap-along. Chuck D is in no danger of losing his spot on the mic.)
	12:28pm Tony Coulter: Hey: Has the stream been louder recently? Or is it just my new computer playing tricks on me?
	12:30pm Tony Coulter: Recently, as in the last couple of weeks.
	12:33pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Tony is there any way we can get a heads up on these Tape Hiss shows
	🥁 12:35pm listener james from westwood: Tony: Can't tell; it certainly hasn't sounded worse. (It sounds good and has been steady today.)
	12:35pm Tony Coulter: Hi Aaron. Yes, I should be better about that. I mention it on my own FB page, but maybe I should give the show its own page. Or list them on FMU's special events page (used to do that).
	12:36pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Thanks!
	12:40pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, James. It's probably just my new computer sounding different to me.
	12:41pm steve: hey Tony! is that Costes as in, the french sicko? that cover looks curiously non threatening...
	12:42pm Tony Coulter: Hey Steve! Yes, it is the very same Costes. Amazingly, the theme of this particular tape in neither fucking nor shit.
	12:43pm Tony Coulter: ... or even fucking shit.
	12:43pm MrFab: This guy's like: hello, Tom Lehrer, we salute you! If today's indie bands were truly cool, they'd cover "The Vatican Rag" instead of "Love Will Tear us Apart" for the 5 millionth time.
	12:45pm indeterminacy: Hear hear, Mr Fab!
	12:45pm Tony Coulter: Hello, MrFab, we salute you!
	12:45pm Tony Coulter: I'm strong to the finach....
	12:46pm pacific standard simon: Hey MrFab, are you the MrFab whose website I was just visiting?
	12:46pm Tony Coulter: Greets, indeterminacy!
	🥁 12:47pm listener james from westwood: Aaron, are you on the Give the Drummer Radio mailing list? Stream-meister Doug sends list memberas an email before each show, and always flags the Tape Hiss shows if you're especially bent on catching those (who wouldn't be?). Tony, is it doug@wfmu.org to join the list? (I believe Doug's still out on Epsom salt duty.)
	12:48pm MrFab: Well that depends, Simon: were you on MidgetFootFetish.com? It's one of my more popular sites.
	12:49pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: umm -- that's his email address -- so probably, yes.
	12:50pm Aaron in Minneapolis: James thanks! Thanks Tony!
	12:51pm pacific standard simon: Even better than that -- this site features a balalaika-playing bear.
	12:52pm Tony Coulter: Hmm. The guy across the street from is either a drug dealer, running a B&B, or the most popular person in the world.
	12:54pm northguineahills: Sounds like my kind of B&B.
	12:55pm Tony Coulter: This cassette is another one with handmade covers -- cut out from kiddies books. (It's the lower one on the right.)
	🥁 12:59pm listener james from westwood: Ah, good; thanks for confirming, Tony. Couldn't recall whether there was some sort of auto-address like "subscribe @ etc. com" or something.
	1:01pm Tony Coulter: There may be -- Doug will have to confirm.
	1:02pm Tony Coulter: By the way, this tape ends super abruptly -- on both sides.
	1:06pm indeterminacy: That almost sounds like Felix Kubin on Teenage Tapes
	1:07pm Tony Coulter: Also by the way: Sara (the female vocalist here) later moved to the U.S. and became a professional wrestler. She usually wore a Union Jack while wrestling.
	1:16pm northguineahills: ....was not expecting that trivia....
	1:17pm Tony Coulter: Hey NGH! Info via Ken Freedman, who met her back in the '90s.
	1:17pm Uncle Michael: That entire Thomas P. was insanely good. Just crazy that he kept it on the down-low.
	1:19pm DCE: suitably weird
	1:21pm Tony Coulter: @ Uncle Michael: Seems like some artists definitely go out of their way to keep themselves obscure -- only their therapists know for sure why.
	🥁 1:26pm listener james from westwood: That was delightfully strange.
	1:28pm Tony Coulter: Amos is a master of delightfully strange.
	1:28pm Tony Coulter: -- and of abrupt endings.
	🥁 1:38pm listener james from westwood: Nice how the title uses "An" to reflect the Franglish pronunciation " 'appy."
	1:39pm Rich in Washington: Greetings, Tony! Wonderful show!
	1:40pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: Spoken like a copy editor.
	1:40pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Rich!
	1:42pm Tony Coulter: Was the phone just ringing in the background there? I mean in Costes' background?
	1:42pm Rich in Washington: I remember reading a perhaps apocryphal story about Costes and how - back when CDs were first coming out and were several dollars more than LPs and cassettes - he supposedly put out a release in a CD package and how - if you bought it and opened it, there was just a 5" piece of circular cardboard that said you were "a stupid fucker for buying this" . Don't remember where I read it. Maybe Forced Exposure.
	1:44pm Rich in Washington: Hah! Costes site is blocked as 'pornography' here at my work.
	1:44pm Tony Coulter: I can believe it. I've got an LP of his that has deep needle-destroying gouges deliberately cut into the last track. You can never forget about having to leap up at the end of the record.
	1:47pm Tony Coulter: Nonetheless, I'd bet good money that if you had him as a house guest he'd be perfectly sane and pleasant. In my experience, people who make "crazy"music usually aren't crazy. It's more often superstar types like Michael Jackson who are genuinely nuts.
	🥁 1:50pm listener james from westwood: @Tony: Heh! We always admire a well-tuned silent H!
	1:51pm steve: i wonder what Costes does for a living, what he's like on a day to day basis.
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: '..an 'alibut..."
	1:52pm Rich in Washington: This is the most Costes that I've ever heard to date. I found reading about him and Lisa Suckdog intriguing but never heard too much of their - or his stuff - until now.
	1:53pm Rich in Washington: @Steve: maybe a daycare worker...?
	1:55pm Tony Coulter: I'm a big Costes fan. I got official clearance in pre-stream days to play even the most obscene and scatological of his stuff on FMU -- as long as it was in French. French obscenity is totally FCC-compliant.
	1:59pm northguineahills: Holy crap, I have my windows open!
	2:00pm Tony Coulter: That abrupt ending for the Costes cassette wasn't an equipment malfunction -- that's just how the tape is.
	🥁 2:03pm listener james from westwood: I just signed up for a spelling bee at a copy editors' conference. I'll be competing with word loons from the nation's top dailies; no freelance copy editors had signed up, so I pulled a Katniss Everdeen and offered myself as tribute. (Note: I might be less photogenic than Jennifer Lawrence.) I'm likely to get crushed like a bug. B-U-G. Bug.
	🥁 2:07pm listener james from westwood: NGH: Windows open here, too. We can finally see grass and turf and whatnot here in northern NJ. Thought we'd be seeing mammoths lumbering about soon.
	🥁 2:10pm listener james from westwood: Really like the La 1919!
	2:10pm steve: love this old lofi industrial, nice post Costes cleansing.
	2:11pm Tony Coulter: You mean cloned mammoths, brought back to life? If the NYT mag is to believed, that'll be happening soon.
	2:11pm Rich in Washington: We're getting Spring-like weather here in the Pac. NW: lots and lots of rain.
	🥁 2:12pm listener james from westwood: They'd have found a comfy home here this winter!
	2:15pm steve: and now this is collaged with a car parked outside blasting Cotton Eyed Joe
	2:15pm Rich in Washington: this is really cool, Tony!
	2:19pm Tony Coulter: Can still be gotten pretty cheaply on places like Discogs.
	2:25pm Tony Coulter: Relatively cheaply, that is. Some of these '80s cassettes are starting to go for mucho dinero.
	2:28pm Rich in Washington: again, really lamenting the fact that I almost totally ignored cassette-only releases back in the day. Not sure why.
	2:29pm Tony Coulter: Track on now is the one on my marathon premium.
	2:30pm Uncle Michael: I never, ever remember that one can shop on Discogs. I use it for research, exclusively.
	2:31pm northguineahills: I know I've heard this La 1919 Spontaneo track before.
	2:32pm Tony Coulter: @ NGH: I've played it many times over the years!
	2:32pm Doug Schulkind: My father was born in 1919. Still, I'm not sure this would be his cup of tea.
	2:33pm Tony Coulter: @ Uncle Michael: Discogs actually makes it dangerously easy to buy stuff -- once you have a want list anyhow.
	2:33pm MrFab: Rich, I think I had a bias (no pun intended) against tapes, like: they must not have been good enough to be a "real" proper vinyl release. Unless it was on ROIR, which for some reason, was acceptable. I still know someone with fairly esoteric tastes who doesn't like tapes releases.
	2:34pm Doug Schulkind: Now that Billie Holiday you played last week, Tony. That would be his cup of tea. My father saw Billie perform live. I drool every time he tells me the story.
	2:35pm Rich in Washington: @MrFab: that was my rationale, as well, however irrational. Now I wish I had paid more attention. but a lot of it was also living 20+ miles from a proper city - I bought the majority of my music from Tower Records.
	2:35pm indeterminacy: @Tony: I brought some tapes with me to Germany from the Endicott area, circa 1985 - Neon Circus, Public Welfare, and Jack Survives. Wondering if you've heard of any of them. And an odd tape that I might have gotten in Ithaca by one Brett Munroe "New Dream Schedule" totally obscure - could never find out anything more about it.
	2:36pm Rich in Washington: I fondly remember getting RIOR catalogs, ordering stuff. Still have a few RIOR tapes. Wished I'd kept the catalogs, too...
	2:37pm Rich in Washington: I also recall arranging tape trades from the classified ads in either Flipside or Maximum Rock N' Roll.
	2:37pm Tony Coulter: @ indeterminacy: Haven't heard of any of those! Would be curious to hear 'em.
	2:38pm still b/p: 1985...you reckon this was done mostly or exclusively with tape/analog editing?
	2:38pm Doug Schulkind: @LJFW Or, as Fox News calls it, a "Spelling Be."
	2:40pm Tony Coulter: @ still b/p: most likely -- tho '85 is sort of on the digital cusp, I guess.
	2:41pm Doug Schulkind: The speaker here sounds like a cousin of the dude in Parliament/Funkadelic telling the tale of Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk!
	2:42pm still b/p: Yeah, some helpful tools and synth tricks available by then, but still the amount of work...it is The Shitload.
	2:45pm Kay: Congratulations on reaching your Marathon goal, Tony. When do you think your premium will be mailed to us lucky pledgers?
	2:46pm indeterminacy: Is it ok to share dropbox links here? A friend digitilized the Jack Survives tapes - really bizarre but fun electronic project by some SUNY Binghamton film students. May be the only surviving copy. Check the spectacular thread at the facebook group "Slipped Disc Record Co-op - SUNY Binghamton" for the story.
	2:49pm Tony Coulter: @ Kay: Yes, thanks, hurray! I'm guessing it'll be a while before they get mailed out. Maybe May? Dunno fer sure.
	2:49pm Tony Coulter: @ indeterminacy: Please do share that link. Thanks!
	2:50pm indeterminacy: www.dropbox.com...
	2:50pm indeterminacy: (It's just over 100MB)
	2:50pm Tony Coulter: Thanks much!
	2:52pm Tony Coulter: Hope I'm not bumming you all out with this track....
	2:53pm indeterminacy: Enjoy! They started sharing some of their later recordings, and opened a fb page "Music of the First Ward" - this earlier tape is just so raw and crazy. I love it. This program was excellent, by the way! Enjoyed all the tapes.
	🥁 2:53pm listener james from westwood: Riveting stuff. Thanks to David Greenberger for capturing these folks' lives.
	2:55pm steve: yeah, this is harsh but worth hearing, like Joe Frank or Clay Pigeon
	2:57pm Tony Coulter: Thanks for showing up everybody! See you next time.
	🥁 2:58pm listener james from westwood: Happy to be here! Thanks for the fine show!!
	2:58pm northguineahills: Thanks Tony!
	2:59pm Uncle Michael: Great stuff Tony...thank you.
	3:00pm indeterminacy: Thanks!

Tony Coulter: Playlist from March 11, 2014

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