WFMU: Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk: Playlist from September 12, 2014

Listener comments!
	3:02pm Carmichael: Hey hey, Kurt. Finally caught the beginning of your show. If Bryce would quit talking ...
	3:02pm Brendan: Love the witty banter... Float on
	3:03pm common: so good
	3:04pm Andrew Waterloo: Afternoon!
	3:05pm Ken From Hyde Park: Mmmm....floats!
	3:06pm Caryn: Hello all!
	3:07pm common: yay! hey caryn
	3:08pm common: someone get don on the phone!
	3:10pm Caryn: Hey common!
	3:10pm Chris from DC: He was a little dog named Snuggles.
	3:10pm Phillip in Brooklyn: Hello Kurt:) negativeland is a good start
	3:10pm CZECHANO: Howdy howdy y'all
	3:10pm emmagineering: THESE GUYS ARE FROM ENGLAND
	3:10pm Carmichael: Hope we get to hear Casey all pissed off about the request for a dead dog.
	3:11pm bombay rickey: ah, the voice of the weatherman...
	3:11pm Brendan: Kasey Kasem fun facts: hi kids these 4 irish waifs met in a dublin garage and the rest is top 40 history. And now theyve pushed content onto my iphone today with their new godamn album
	3:11pm Brendan: Without my permission
	3:12pm CZECHANO: ha!
	3:13pm Mike East: i have an iphone, but i didn't get the U2 album forced upon me somehow. I consider myself lucky.
	3:13pm still b/p: You will summon him back from beyond with this dangerous ritual and he will be wrathful.
	3:14pm Phillip in Brooklyn: Yes please more negativeland! Kurt you could do a whole show over negativeland that would be great. I love negativeland
	3:14pm Caryn: I consider this whole U2 debacle further proof that I've been extremely wise to steer clear of Apple products. Well, wise and dirt poor.
	3:16pm Carmichael: I better check my iPhone. And my iTunes on home PC. I don't want that shite music on my devices.
	3:20pm Parq: I found for years that, every time there was an update to iTunes, it eliminated a feature that I really liked. As a result, I haven't updated iTunes in, like, five years. The U2 thing is just one more reason not to.
	3:21pm YETI BOB: Great show Kurt! We are drinking tea and listening to Tea Culture.
	3:21pm Andrew Waterloo: I'm afraid of installing Itunes because I'm sure it will decide to rearrange my music collection, and it would ask me if I want to do that because someone decided that wasn't the crisp way to do it.
	3:22pm Parq: That said, I'll readily admit that Apple products are shoddier and require more passivity from the user than was the case when I started with them in '08. But I still remember how much I hated Microsoft, and I'm too old to learn the one with the penguin, so ...
	3:23pm Mike East: Yeah, itunes is pretty useless to me. The only time I go near it is when my wife needs me to figure out how to get something from the computer onto her phone, then it usually takes me 45 minutes to figure out. I try to stay away from it at all costs.
	3:23pm YETI BOB: JUST SAY NO TO APPLE (you can do it!)
	3:25pm Ken From Hyde Park: I just don't want to end up in one of their human cent-i-pad things.
	3:27pm bombay rickey: when did U2 get this unbelievable chick singer?
	3:30pm Caryn: Just went to check out my account balance. Turns out I won a tenner in the lottery. Nice! Not as nice as the 7 million I could've won, but I'll take it.
	3:34pm still b/p: You'll buy a Friday feast for yourself?
	3:34pm Parq: Congrats, Caryn. You're buying. Chewing gum for the house!
	3:34pm northguineahills: I don't have iTunes on my iPhone. I have no desire to listen to music off my phone, unless it's WFMU.
	3:35pm Carmichael: Czech mate, Kurt!
	3:38pm Caryn: @sb/p & Parq: got a shopping list for tomorrow: plums, grapes, chicken and lettuce. That's about 8.50. Might blow the budget if I decide to get some sundries I need, like bread.
	3:40pm Andrew Waterloo: I've only ever listened to WFMU archives on my phone.
	3:45pm S from I: The great thing about this U2 iPhone debacle is it will give them a nice number to look at if they wanted to know just how disliked they are. They gave their album to everyone and everyone threw it in the trash. Might deflate their ego a bit... probably not.
	3:47pm Andrew Waterloo: What's worse is listening to Apple fanboys go on about how Apple could save 'the album' with this type of strategy.
	3:53pm steve: Float On is just the greatest
	3:58pm Caryn: Speaking of dead famous people, I like to think that the "From Russia With Love" bit Kurt played earlier was a subtle RIP to Richard Kiel.
	4:01pm PKNY: @SFI - supposedly Apple ponied up $10 million dollars for the U2 album/launch thingy, so if anything, I'd see their egos getting bigger from getting all that cash. BTW, has anyone on here listened to their Joey Ramone 'tribute'? I'm too scared to do it.
	4:05pm Caryn: @PKNY: U2 got 30 million total for the album and for Apple using the album tracks in future ads, so I think they're fine financially. But as for the vast numbers of iTunes subscribers who are publicly going, "I don't want this trash on my phone!" or worse "Who is U2?"... that might be a blow to their egos. Probably not, though. Not going to penetrate their bubble.
	4:05pm still b/p: Is it ego and addiction to being BIG? They're certainly not unique in it, and I guess we can't really know unless we're in the same position, and in the same business machine, but I wonder why after all the massive worldwide success they already got to enjoy across a good number of years, the U2 bandmembers still feel that the biggest-stick kind of corporate promotion and still being OH, SO VERY BIG are worthy pursuits and driving needs. Speaking of ego and addiction....Rob Ford announced today he won't run for reelection as mayor, but will run for a council seat while his brother runs for mayor.
	4:06pm Andrew Waterloo: I'm sure U2 will just take the Rob Ford approach and brush off any criticism as unfair.
	4:07pm PKNY: In a perfect world, an acapella version of "Reign in Blood" would come with every smartphone.
	4:07pm Andrew Waterloo: This Dokaka is incredibly awesome
	4:08pm bombay rickey: why can't dokaka magically appear on my phone?
	4:08pm Parq: This thread prompted me to take a little break and go over to Google news (speaking of monoliths) and see what kind of press this is getting. So far, this is my favorite snippet: “We were paid [by Apple],” Bono told TIME yesterday. “I don’t believe in free music. Music is a sacrament.” Oh, well then ...
	4:08pm PKNY: According to this page, Apple might be handing $100 mil over to U2 --> www.billboard.com...
	4:09pm Caryn: @bombay rickey: maybe they do, but only when you're asleep. And they magically disappear when you wake up. They're impish that way.
	4:10pm bombay rickey: @caryn: hmm, maybe that's why my dreams sound like this :) dokaka can use at least a few million...
	4:15pm still b/p: In comments just yesterday there was discussion about "redundant dollars," a term suited perfectly to this conversation.
	4:16pm Parq: The $100 mil figure is getting lots of press, from what I just saw. And on a different but quite related note, here's a lament from Wired on Apple's abandoning (we all knew this was coming) the old-school iPod. I still have mine, and will continue to use it for as long as I can. When that's over, I will probably just stop using iTunes altogether. www.wired.com...
	4:16pm Kurt Gottschalk: omigosh, been jumping around too much to say hello. hello everyone! thanks for tuning in!
	4:17pm common: music is sacred...good one, bono.
	4:19pm Parq: Common -- music is sacred AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY FOR IT!
	4:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: Bono always wants to be #1. He cannot stand to be #2.
	4:24pm MenfussMike: gawd, i love vibes
	4:24pm common: @parq: exaclty. don't they have enough money? i work with a guy who knows his daughter. i'm gonna see what he thinks.
	4:26pm Ray: Brubaker from the band Circle of Shit also died this week. A hardcore Philly legend. #RIP
	4:32pm S from I: "Music is sacred therefore it should not be free" is like the most fucked up concept i've ever heard. That mentality wants to go back to the dawn of humanity and charge people for beating on a log.
	4:35pm Carmichael: Dokaka's version of Ramblin' Man is still one of the best things I've ever heard.
	4:35pm Ray: Just listened to The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) in the new U2 and its HORRIBLE. A mix between Green Day n Coldplay. Terrible. Joey has got to be pissed. I would be.
	4:36pm Andrew Waterloo: Oh yah, Randy Weston :)
	4:38pm common: i asked my coworker what he thought about the u2 thing. not much. then he told me that there's a world news special on sting tonight. it seems that he won't be giving money to his children because he wants them to know the beauty of hard work. world news. good lord people!
	4:39pm still b/p: I just looked to see if we could fairly say, "Well, at least he gives a great deal of money and effort to humanitarian causes." But much of the info on Bono in that regard...it don't smell so good.
	4:40pm Andrew Waterloo: I think the beauty of having tons of money is people able to elevate your family a bit.
	4:41pm Kurt Gottschalk: his kids could pay to pick his olives, tho. www.telegraph.co.uk...
	4:46pm Andrew Waterloo: Still love the line about Sting being 4/5th scented candle.
	4:51pm still b/p: Musical scored by Sting opens on Broadway this month! Wax on!
	4:54pm Dean: 1978 or '9, the Whisky, Sunset Blvd. The Police on stage. I kept checking my wristwatch wondering when it all would end. And I didn't even own a wristwatch.
	4:56pm Parq: Common, I know that may seem ludicrous to you, but if you've seen as many snotty, spoiled-ass rich kids as I (resident of lower midtown Manhattan) have seen in the past year or two, then maybe Sting's thinking would seem a little less looney.
	4:59pm steve: I KNEW NIHILIST SPASM BAND WAS COMING NEXT I KNEW IT
	4:59pm common: maybe, parq. in any even...beeeeeersies!!!
	4:59pm Dean: OTOH, Nihilist Spasm Band at Victo in the late '90s were enthralling.
	5:00pm common: event. beersies.
	5:00pm Kurt Gottschalk: i was there!
	5:00pm steve: i just realized there's beer in the fridge. thanks common.
	5:00pm Dean: Very cool! It was in the small venue, IIRC.
	5:01pm GeesyCreesy: I feel like this is the same character as Was (Not Was)'s "Dad, I'm in JAIL" guy.
	5:03pm Andrew Waterloo: got to see them this spring, still amazing, they played this song
	5:04pm Kurt Gottschalk: i haven't seem them since hugh died. do they have another bassist now?
	5:06pm Andrew Waterloo: yes, they do introduce him as playing Hugh's bass.
	5:08pm Carmichael: Yikes, just recovered from the Blue Screen of Death. All's well, now.
	5:19pm dc waters: @Parq: @4:56 : You don't think there are plenty of "trust fund brats" right around these here parts? I can smell their privileged asses a mile away, even if their heads are in the right place with FMU.
	5:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: RIP Zeus, the world's tallest dog - www.guinnessworldrecords.com...
	5:32pm Parq: Ken, sad to say, Danes don't live very long. Dog hearts just can't handle bodies that size.
	5:32pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Hey folks.
	5:33pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Waah, I remember seeing that piece on Zeus. It's hard enough just watching the meat-head boxer get older (he with the tongue)
	5:34pm Sigurdur: 'freakin, huge dog
	5:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I think U2 were 'fine financially' well before this ...$30 million ?!...one album...nothing like the signing bonuses Mariah Carey got or anything, but - think of what $30mil would mean to any of us & most of the Artists who get played here; yerknow - that's what is it - 6, 10 Marathons ??...& people give blood for those...I guess Bono shoulda put up a ticket booth when U2 stole TheBeatles on their roof thing & played Live in a street for a movie idea; reminded of Bill Graham @ Woodstock saying hadda put up booths & collect tickets - & WavyGravy pulling him aside & telling him: you wanna a GoodMovie - or a BadMovie - ??
	5:36pm steve: sad he and similar dogs die so young... so he was only 5ish?
	5:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yerknow - if playing Free is so Wrong...
	5:39pm Rev. Turnip Druid: $30 million... hah. Meanwhile some of us who dared to produce 500 copies of an LP are having quite a trip just getting them anywhere. And I daresay the music involved in those tiny, passionate, honest projects is likely worlds beyond whatever those rich bastards have "produced."
	5:42pm adrian in mpls: there's a pretty good takedown of these U2 shenanigans over at thequietus.com, including detailing their tax evasion, their faux-social consciousness, etc.
	5:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& to think U2 represented freshness & Spirituality to many when they were hungry early on - those 1st few albums...watched a video of R.E.M. doing the Arena-sized thang, & myself impressed how well they kept it relevant, w/ the cheap surrealistic Alt vibe; how one hits the Top40 & Arenas & keeps it I guess is the dilemma. Not everyone is TheBeatles, I guess ; & they were too early to develop the Arena thing @ that pioneering stage - quit Beatlemania to Record...
	5:46pm YETI BOB: This track is not on the "801 Live" record I have!
	5:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...as a Wh♂ worshipper, always suspected U2 were (un)consciously aping their steps - including ones no one should; they're so much like all the Huge Classic bands that dragged out into doldrums that drove everyone mad... ...mine either YetiB - later edition bonus CD track ?
	5:49pm Dean: Is it mean to say I'm loving the U2-hating?
	5:51pm Kurt Gottschalk: ha - there's been plenty of it today! well deserved, i'd say.
	5:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...they've long been thee Alt band that got Hugest: it's nothing new...
	5:52pm adrian in mpls: @Dean - it's not mean. it's sensible.
	5:55pm Dean: Whew. Let me just share that one of my almost internationally acclaimed bands played on the very same stage of a seedy club, The Woodstock in Buena Park, CA, where U2 made their OC debut.
	5:58pm bombay rickey: the bigger a band is, the easier/more fun it is to make fun of them, no? @Kurt, thanks for your awesome show, great to see you this past monday!
	5:59pm Carmichael: Hey thanks, Kurt!
	5:59pm Dean: You're right, bombay. Nobody makes fun of my almost internationally acclaimed band, alas.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
The Floaters	Float On "Float On" by "The Floaters"	single	ABC	1977	45
Negativland	1991 A Cappella Mix - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	These Guys Are From England and Who Gives a Shit	Seeland	1991	CD		0:07:25 (Pop-up)
Silvia Kastel/Ninni Morgia/Bren't Lewis	The Footprint of the American Chicken	Fix It Again, Tony	Butte County Free Music Society	2012	LP	With Lyrical "The Fouz is Back"	0:13:40 (Pop-up)
John Cooper Clarke	Health Fanatic	Punk Poets, Beatniks and Counter Culture Heroes	Ozit	2010	DVD		0:17:46 (Pop-up)
Tea Culture	untitled: "untitled:" by "Tea Culture"	Kwik Save's Shopping in Asda's Bags	Arsybackwardzsod!		CD-R		0:19:35 (Pop-up)
Bombay Rickey	Dum Maro Dum "Dum Maro Dum" by "Bombay Rickey"	Cinefonia	Cowboys & Indian	2014	CD		0:23:40 (Pop-up)
XTC	Desert Island "Desert Island" by "XTC"	single	Virgin Records	1983	7"		0:27:40 (Pop-up)
Zdenka Lorencová	Tady, tam a vsude te mam	Představy	Panton	1980	LP		0:32:23 (Pop-up)
Dalava	A ty moja najmilejsi "A ty moja najmilejsi" by "Dalava"	dalava	Sanasar	2014	CD		0:34:53 (Pop-up)
Jiri Schlengir	Hudba Radost Dava "Hudba Radost Dava" by "Jiri Schlengir"	Romance za korunu	Supraphon	1975	LP		0:37:54 (Pop-up)
Helena Vondráčková	Všechno už je pryč už je ráno	Ostrov Heleny Vondráčkové	Bonton	1998	CD		0:40:46 (Pop-up)
People Like Us	Well I "Well I" by "People Like Us"	Stifled Love	Mess Media	2002	LP		0:43:33 (Pop-up)
Rangers	Nos Por Trable "Nos Por Trable" by "Rangers"	Rangers	Panton	1971	LP		0:46:48 (Pop-up)
Mustangove	Buchty "Buchty" by "Mustangove"	Mustangove	Panton	1972	7"		0:49:47 (Pop-up)

Petra Janů	Na buben dát vlastní kůži		Supraphon	1983	45		0:57:55 (Pop-up)
Dva	Surfi "Surfi" by "Dva"	Nipomo	Label HomeTable / Northern Spy	2013	LP		1:01:37 (Pop-up)
Dokaka	Angel Of Death "Angel Of Death" by "Dokaka"	The Agents of Impurity	Sonic Arts Network	2006	CD		1:04:39 (Pop-up)
Derek and the Ruins	Irakhioschukk	Tohjinbo	Paratactile	1998	CD		1:09:56 (Pop-up)
Clusone Trio	Angelica (Purple Gazelle)	I Am an Indian	Gramavision	1994	CD		1:12:35 (Pop-up)
Bill Ware (with Marc Ribot)	mood indigo	Sir Duke	Knitting Factory	2001	CD		1:17:57 (Pop-up)
Ceramic Dog	Take Five "Take Five" by "Ceramic Dog"	Your Turn	Northern-Spy	2013	CD		1:25:19 (Pop-up)
Mustapha Mahjoub	Tal Raibak Arzali (Cheb Hosni)	Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El Fna	Sublime Frequencies	2010	LP		1:30:41 (Pop-up)
Randy Weston	Ganawa (Blue Moses) "Ganawa (Blue Moses)" by "Randy Weston"	Blue Moses	CTI	1972	MP3		1:35:37 (Pop-up)
Kronos Quartet	Ya Habibi Ta'ala "Ya Habibi Ta'ala" by "Kronos Quartet"	Floodplain	Nonesuch	2009	CD		1:47:31 (Pop-up)
O(+>	Animal Kingdom "Animal Kingdom" by "O(+>"	The Truth	NPG Records	1998	CD		1:50:21 (Pop-up)
Rex Harrison	The Vegetarian "The Vegetarian" by "Rex Harrison"	Doctor Doolittle	20th Century Fox Records	1967	LP		1:54:20 (Pop-up)
The Nihilist Spasm Band & Joe McPhee	Meateater	No Borders	Non Musica Rex	2002	CD		1:58:53 (Pop-up)

Ensemble Plus Minus	After and Before	The Music of Making Strange	Carrier	2013	CD	Composed by Alex Hills	2:17:07 (Pop-up)
801	The Fat Lady Of Limbourg "The Fat Lady Of Limbourg" by "801"	801 Live	Expression	2009	CD	Recoded September 3, 1976	2:43:35 (Pop-up)
Wayne Horvitz	55 (29) "55 (29)" by "Wayne Horvitz"	55: Music and Dance in Concrete	Other Rooms	2014	LP		2:49:25 (Pop-up)
Petula Clark	The Show is Over "The Show is Over" by "Petula Clark"	Beautiful Sounds: The Petula Clark Songbook	Castile	2000	CD		2:59:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:02pm Carmichael: Hey hey, Kurt. Finally caught the beginning of your show. If Bryce would quit talking ...
	3:02pm Brendan: Love the witty banter... Float on
	3:03pm common: so good
	3:04pm Andrew Waterloo: Afternoon!
	3:05pm Ken From Hyde Park: Mmmm....floats!
	3:06pm Caryn: Hello all!
	3:07pm common: yay! hey caryn
	3:08pm common: someone get don on the phone!
	3:10pm Caryn: Hey common!
	3:10pm Chris from DC: He was a little dog named Snuggles.
	3:10pm Phillip in Brooklyn: Hello Kurt:) negativeland is a good start
	3:10pm CZECHANO: Howdy howdy y'all
	3:10pm emmagineering: THESE GUYS ARE FROM ENGLAND
	3:10pm Carmichael: Hope we get to hear Casey all pissed off about the request for a dead dog.
	3:11pm bombay rickey: ah, the voice of the weatherman...
	3:11pm Brendan: Kasey Kasem fun facts: hi kids these 4 irish waifs met in a dublin garage and the rest is top 40 history. And now theyve pushed content onto my iphone today with their new godamn album
	3:11pm Brendan: Without my permission
	3:12pm CZECHANO: ha!
	3:13pm Mike East: i have an iphone, but i didn't get the U2 album forced upon me somehow. I consider myself lucky.
	3:13pm still b/p: You will summon him back from beyond with this dangerous ritual and he will be wrathful.
	3:14pm Phillip in Brooklyn: Yes please more negativeland! Kurt you could do a whole show over negativeland that would be great. I love negativeland
	3:14pm Caryn: I consider this whole U2 debacle further proof that I've been extremely wise to steer clear of Apple products. Well, wise and dirt poor.
	3:16pm Carmichael: I better check my iPhone. And my iTunes on home PC. I don't want that shite music on my devices.
	3:20pm Parq: I found for years that, every time there was an update to iTunes, it eliminated a feature that I really liked. As a result, I haven't updated iTunes in, like, five years. The U2 thing is just one more reason not to.
	3:21pm YETI BOB: Great show Kurt! We are drinking tea and listening to Tea Culture.
	3:21pm Andrew Waterloo: I'm afraid of installing Itunes because I'm sure it will decide to rearrange my music collection, and it would ask me if I want to do that because someone decided that wasn't the crisp way to do it.
	3:22pm Parq: That said, I'll readily admit that Apple products are shoddier and require more passivity from the user than was the case when I started with them in '08. But I still remember how much I hated Microsoft, and I'm too old to learn the one with the penguin, so ...
	3:23pm Mike East: Yeah, itunes is pretty useless to me. The only time I go near it is when my wife needs me to figure out how to get something from the computer onto her phone, then it usually takes me 45 minutes to figure out. I try to stay away from it at all costs.
	3:23pm YETI BOB: JUST SAY NO TO APPLE (you can do it!)
	3:25pm Ken From Hyde Park: I just don't want to end up in one of their human cent-i-pad things.
	3:27pm bombay rickey: when did U2 get this unbelievable chick singer?
	3:30pm Caryn: Just went to check out my account balance. Turns out I won a tenner in the lottery. Nice! Not as nice as the 7 million I could've won, but I'll take it.
	3:34pm still b/p: You'll buy a Friday feast for yourself?
	3:34pm Parq: Congrats, Caryn. You're buying. Chewing gum for the house!
	3:34pm northguineahills: I don't have iTunes on my iPhone. I have no desire to listen to music off my phone, unless it's WFMU.
	3:35pm Carmichael: Czech mate, Kurt!
	3:38pm Caryn: @sb/p & Parq: got a shopping list for tomorrow: plums, grapes, chicken and lettuce. That's about 8.50. Might blow the budget if I decide to get some sundries I need, like bread.
	3:40pm Andrew Waterloo: I've only ever listened to WFMU archives on my phone.
	3:45pm S from I: The great thing about this U2 iPhone debacle is it will give them a nice number to look at if they wanted to know just how disliked they are. They gave their album to everyone and everyone threw it in the trash. Might deflate their ego a bit... probably not.
	3:47pm Andrew Waterloo: What's worse is listening to Apple fanboys go on about how Apple could save 'the album' with this type of strategy.
	3:53pm steve: Float On is just the greatest
	3:58pm Caryn: Speaking of dead famous people, I like to think that the "From Russia With Love" bit Kurt played earlier was a subtle RIP to Richard Kiel.
	4:01pm PKNY: @SFI - supposedly Apple ponied up $10 million dollars for the U2 album/launch thingy, so if anything, I'd see their egos getting bigger from getting all that cash. BTW, has anyone on here listened to their Joey Ramone 'tribute'? I'm too scared to do it.
	4:05pm Caryn: @PKNY: U2 got 30 million total for the album and for Apple using the album tracks in future ads, so I think they're fine financially. But as for the vast numbers of iTunes subscribers who are publicly going, "I don't want this trash on my phone!" or worse "Who is U2?"... that might be a blow to their egos. Probably not, though. Not going to penetrate their bubble.
	4:05pm still b/p: Is it ego and addiction to being BIG? They're certainly not unique in it, and I guess we can't really know unless we're in the same position, and in the same business machine, but I wonder why after all the massive worldwide success they already got to enjoy across a good number of years, the U2 bandmembers still feel that the biggest-stick kind of corporate promotion and still being OH, SO VERY BIG are worthy pursuits and driving needs. Speaking of ego and addiction....Rob Ford announced today he won't run for reelection as mayor, but will run for a council seat while his brother runs for mayor.
	4:06pm Andrew Waterloo: I'm sure U2 will just take the Rob Ford approach and brush off any criticism as unfair.
	4:07pm PKNY: In a perfect world, an acapella version of "Reign in Blood" would come with every smartphone.
	4:07pm Andrew Waterloo: This Dokaka is incredibly awesome
	4:08pm bombay rickey: why can't dokaka magically appear on my phone?
	4:08pm Parq: This thread prompted me to take a little break and go over to Google news (speaking of monoliths) and see what kind of press this is getting. So far, this is my favorite snippet: “We were paid [by Apple],” Bono told TIME yesterday. “I don’t believe in free music. Music is a sacrament.” Oh, well then ...
	4:08pm PKNY: According to this page, Apple might be handing $100 mil over to U2 --> www.billboard.com...
	4:09pm Caryn: @bombay rickey: maybe they do, but only when you're asleep. And they magically disappear when you wake up. They're impish that way.
	4:10pm bombay rickey: @caryn: hmm, maybe that's why my dreams sound like this :) dokaka can use at least a few million...
	4:15pm still b/p: In comments just yesterday there was discussion about "redundant dollars," a term suited perfectly to this conversation.
	4:16pm Parq: The $100 mil figure is getting lots of press, from what I just saw. And on a different but quite related note, here's a lament from Wired on Apple's abandoning (we all knew this was coming) the old-school iPod. I still have mine, and will continue to use it for as long as I can. When that's over, I will probably just stop using iTunes altogether. www.wired.com...
	4:16pm Kurt Gottschalk: omigosh, been jumping around too much to say hello. hello everyone! thanks for tuning in!
	4:17pm common: music is sacred...good one, bono.
	4:19pm Parq: Common -- music is sacred AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY FOR IT!
	4:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: Bono always wants to be #1. He cannot stand to be #2.
	4:24pm MenfussMike: gawd, i love vibes
	4:24pm common: @parq: exaclty. don't they have enough money? i work with a guy who knows his daughter. i'm gonna see what he thinks.
	4:26pm Ray: Brubaker from the band Circle of Shit also died this week. A hardcore Philly legend. #RIP
	4:32pm S from I: "Music is sacred therefore it should not be free" is like the most fucked up concept i've ever heard. That mentality wants to go back to the dawn of humanity and charge people for beating on a log.
	4:35pm Carmichael: Dokaka's version of Ramblin' Man is still one of the best things I've ever heard.
	4:35pm Ray: Just listened to The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) in the new U2 and its HORRIBLE. A mix between Green Day n Coldplay. Terrible. Joey has got to be pissed. I would be.
	4:36pm Andrew Waterloo: Oh yah, Randy Weston :)
	4:38pm common: i asked my coworker what he thought about the u2 thing. not much. then he told me that there's a world news special on sting tonight. it seems that he won't be giving money to his children because he wants them to know the beauty of hard work. world news. good lord people!
	4:39pm still b/p: I just looked to see if we could fairly say, "Well, at least he gives a great deal of money and effort to humanitarian causes." But much of the info on Bono in that regard...it don't smell so good.
	4:40pm Andrew Waterloo: I think the beauty of having tons of money is people able to elevate your family a bit.
	4:41pm Kurt Gottschalk: his kids could pay to pick his olives, tho. www.telegraph.co.uk...
	4:46pm Andrew Waterloo: Still love the line about Sting being 4/5th scented candle.
	4:51pm still b/p: Musical scored by Sting opens on Broadway this month! Wax on!
	4:54pm Dean: 1978 or '9, the Whisky, Sunset Blvd. The Police on stage. I kept checking my wristwatch wondering when it all would end. And I didn't even own a wristwatch.
	4:56pm Parq: Common, I know that may seem ludicrous to you, but if you've seen as many snotty, spoiled-ass rich kids as I (resident of lower midtown Manhattan) have seen in the past year or two, then maybe Sting's thinking would seem a little less looney.
	4:59pm steve: I KNEW NIHILIST SPASM BAND WAS COMING NEXT I KNEW IT
	4:59pm common: maybe, parq. in any even...beeeeeersies!!!
	4:59pm Dean: OTOH, Nihilist Spasm Band at Victo in the late '90s were enthralling.
	5:00pm common: event. beersies.
	5:00pm Kurt Gottschalk: i was there!
	5:00pm steve: i just realized there's beer in the fridge. thanks common.
	5:00pm Dean: Very cool! It was in the small venue, IIRC.
	5:01pm GeesyCreesy: I feel like this is the same character as Was (Not Was)'s "Dad, I'm in JAIL" guy.
	5:03pm Andrew Waterloo: got to see them this spring, still amazing, they played this song
	5:04pm Kurt Gottschalk: i haven't seem them since hugh died. do they have another bassist now?
	5:06pm Andrew Waterloo: yes, they do introduce him as playing Hugh's bass.
	5:08pm Carmichael: Yikes, just recovered from the Blue Screen of Death. All's well, now.
	5:19pm dc waters: @Parq: @4:56 : You don't think there are plenty of "trust fund brats" right around these here parts? I can smell their privileged asses a mile away, even if their heads are in the right place with FMU.
	5:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: RIP Zeus, the world's tallest dog - www.guinnessworldrecords.com...
	5:32pm Parq: Ken, sad to say, Danes don't live very long. Dog hearts just can't handle bodies that size.
	5:32pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Hey folks.
	5:33pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Waah, I remember seeing that piece on Zeus. It's hard enough just watching the meat-head boxer get older (he with the tongue)
	5:34pm Sigurdur: 'freakin, huge dog
	5:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I think U2 were 'fine financially' well before this ...$30 million ?!...one album...nothing like the signing bonuses Mariah Carey got or anything, but - think of what $30mil would mean to any of us & most of the Artists who get played here; yerknow - that's what is it - 6, 10 Marathons ??...& people give blood for those...I guess Bono shoulda put up a ticket booth when U2 stole TheBeatles on their roof thing & played Live in a street for a movie idea; reminded of Bill Graham @ Woodstock saying hadda put up booths & collect tickets - & WavyGravy pulling him aside & telling him: you wanna a GoodMovie - or a BadMovie - ??
	5:36pm steve: sad he and similar dogs die so young... so he was only 5ish?
	5:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yerknow - if playing Free is so Wrong...
	5:39pm Rev. Turnip Druid: $30 million... hah. Meanwhile some of us who dared to produce 500 copies of an LP are having quite a trip just getting them anywhere. And I daresay the music involved in those tiny, passionate, honest projects is likely worlds beyond whatever those rich bastards have "produced."
	5:42pm adrian in mpls: there's a pretty good takedown of these U2 shenanigans over at thequietus.com, including detailing their tax evasion, their faux-social consciousness, etc.
	5:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& to think U2 represented freshness & Spirituality to many when they were hungry early on - those 1st few albums...watched a video of R.E.M. doing the Arena-sized thang, & myself impressed how well they kept it relevant, w/ the cheap surrealistic Alt vibe; how one hits the Top40 & Arenas & keeps it I guess is the dilemma. Not everyone is TheBeatles, I guess ; & they were too early to develop the Arena thing @ that pioneering stage - quit Beatlemania to Record...
	5:46pm YETI BOB: This track is not on the "801 Live" record I have!
	5:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...as a Wh♂ worshipper, always suspected U2 were (un)consciously aping their steps - including ones no one should; they're so much like all the Huge Classic bands that dragged out into doldrums that drove everyone mad... ...mine either YetiB - later edition bonus CD track ?
	5:49pm Dean: Is it mean to say I'm loving the U2-hating?
	5:51pm Kurt Gottschalk: ha - there's been plenty of it today! well deserved, i'd say.
	5:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...they've long been thee Alt band that got Hugest: it's nothing new...
	5:52pm adrian in mpls: @Dean - it's not mean. it's sensible.
	5:55pm Dean: Whew. Let me just share that one of my almost internationally acclaimed bands played on the very same stage of a seedy club, The Woodstock in Buena Park, CA, where U2 made their OC debut.
	5:58pm bombay rickey: the bigger a band is, the easier/more fun it is to make fun of them, no? @Kurt, thanks for your awesome show, great to see you this past monday!
	5:59pm Carmichael: Hey thanks, Kurt!
	5:59pm Dean: You're right, bombay. Nobody makes fun of my almost internationally acclaimed band, alas.

Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk: Playlist from September 12, 2014

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