Kenny G's Hour of Pain playlist

Listener comments!

9:02am common:

kenny g! i'm scared.

9:02am Irwin:

Welcome back, my brother.

9:03am Emile:

Yes, what Irwin said.

9:03am Torbjørn:

Yes ! .. I'm still laughing from the Tonya Harding episode.

9:03am Dan B From Upstate:

Wow. Something MORE distracting than Ken's show. Let's see if I get any work done this morning.

9:03am DCE:

I have no experience with Kenny G, and therefore have no idea what to expect

9:04am rsj:

yes! there has been so much pressure on everyone since you left

9:04am %20:

Welcome back, several years is too long.

9:04am DCE:

ok, well, that was unexpected

9:05am pierre:

Bonjour, bonjour Kenny G

9:05am Parq:

Well, there goes the morning.

9:07am Ken From Hyde Park:

Happy Thanksgiving Eve and welcome back, Kenny G. How ya been?

9:07am DJ Stashu:

Oh my word. Good morning.

9:08am sugarwolf:

Wow, Kenny G!!!

9:08am dale:

yay! anal magic in the morning!

9:08am common:

"i'm not even me!" perfect.

9:09am Dan B From Upstate:

Holy crap. Kenny G is back...

9:09am People Like Us:

oh hi

9:12am adrian in mpls:

Holy Shit - this is not what I expected this morning. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

9:13am adrian in mpls:

and, uh, morning everyone!

9:13am common:

mornin' everyone...i say also.

9:14am mark in rosendale:

Kenny Yes! We all miss you!

9:19am People Like Us:

no suspension risk here, nooooo
Brian! Brian! Oh, he's in Berlin
Ken! Oh he's in the lake

9:20am AnAnonymousParty:

You should use laszers!

9:21am Sam:

Hey Kenny G, it is so awesome to hear you again!

9:22am Irwin:

I'm worried he's going to sabotage equipment before my show.

9:22am r i s k y:

KENNY G ITS ME! You're biggest faaaan!!!

9:22am Parq:

I think we can all agree that "Hadassah Clitorectomies" would be a good name for a band.

9:24am rsj:

thanks ken! you better be listening

9:26am dale:

i wonder if the obamas continue to follow kenny g and are listening

9:26am People Like Us:

I suspect Ken tuned out :)

9:26am Jack:

The ripping of the duct tape reminds me of my favorite Kenny G. show - the fart show.

9:26am Sam:

I like how much energy you have, Kenny.

9:27am jan:

Kenny, when you are original you are repulsive. Can't you just read the weather report?

9:27am r i s k y:

Oh Kenny! Oh Kenny!

9:27am Sam:

This is sort of what Ken's shows were like in the early days

9:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Phil Schaap or genital mutilation - ? Why must you always present the hard choices...

9:28am Roberto:

I was working late the night of the fart show so I played it out loud at the office. It wasn't well received by the other late-night workers.

9:28am bobdoesthings:

alright well.. uhh.. bye

9:30am nameless poet:

Kenny you brighten my day

9:31am WNYC:

"Oh Shit" is right, god help WFMU!

9:32am dale:

i was a kenny g virgin and one day tuned in - heard art linkletter's letter to his daughter and a little child's giggle starts in, then it turns to a chortle and then uproarious laughter as art gets weepy. i was appalled and enthralled all at once.

9:33am r i s k y:

GO KENNY!!!

9:33am rsj:

You should set up your operation near or on the G train, if you can find it

9:34am Shoo shoo:

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Yay. Whoa.

9:34am Parq:

Ironically, if any of Nachem's listeners are still around, this will cause his numbers next marathon to skyrocket.

9:35am BILL:

It's been so long! How about some tax code?

9:35am dale:

LOVE the group home singers. PUNKIN PIE!

9:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...if I play Hour of Pain & Hour of Slack @ the same time - does it balance out to just some aching self-conscious ennui - ??...

9:37am rsj:

is this the new dylan album?

9:38am dale:

had to google - this is on folkways. who knew?

9:41am Leonard Lopate:

OMG, I thought Ken was crappy....WTF?

9:42am dale:

'haitian song of possession' is an interesting song to have mentally challenged people sing.

9:43am r i s k y:

KENNY BABY LOVER MAN!

9:44am Roberto:

The KGHOP theme song! Good memories.

9:45am Webhamster Henry:

You're supposed to wipe that Mic off with the biohazard wipes first.

9:45am jan:

There is the Kenny DJ that I love, playing the intriguing musical oddities and more. He's one of my favorite things. I am Listening to the show as I wait on line at Russ and Daugh

9:46am t_J:

haha 4 star condo janitor.. I could be at my top form soon

9:47am blark:

Sing it, white man.

9:48am t_J:

of course nothing fancy .. 3rd world equivalent to trump 2 stars .. its in my heart and my energy

9:48am MD:

"FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY!!!"

9:48am Sam:

This guy's really earning his DJ pay.

9:49am duke:

This is best version of Frederic Jameson's "The End of History" I have ever heard sung

9:49am MD:

SING IT BABY!!!

9:50am duke:

It's definitely better than the Beach Boy's version

9:50am rsj:

is this a U2 cover?

9:50am MD:

Kennith Galbrath has not'in on YOU!!!!

9:50am Sam:

I think history just ended with this show.

9:51am MD:

HAPPY TOFU TURKEY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9:51am timtsoup:

welcome back!!! We really missed you!

9:52am timtsoup:

It's anal magic!

9:52am βrian:

Tiens ! L'heure du pain est revenue ! Moi, je prends un pain de seigle, SVP.

9:53am George of Troy:

This is fantastic. We need you back on the regular schedule!

9:53am Sam:

C'est un pain dans l'as

9:54am sugarwolf:

mmmmm, le pain

9:54am common:

yep!

9:56am Sam:

Next will you sing "Dreams from my father"?

9:56am r i s k y:

OWWWW LETS GO!!

9:56am dale:

wearing nothing but a codpiece, bullet bra and viking helmet in celebration.

9:56am blee:

Sing it Kenny! Yeah!

9:57am t_J:

a lot of exercise, Russian athletes, oven cooking, quit smoking, be a clown and a friend of everybody - not caring with others .. cuz there's no 1 like me

9:57am r i s k y:

Where'd it go?

9:58am βrian:

Donc bagel pas Hegel.

10:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...it's not Jazz w/ Social Theory that's remarkable - it's the name 'Kenny G' coupled w/ actual great saxophone makes such cognitive dissonance...
[Applause]

10:00am duke:

One more time!

10:00am Webhamster Henry:

The will be a short quiz after the break.

10:00am Michael:

Wonder how the traffic is around the GWB?

10:01am Brendan:

Dude. That ... was... Awesome! Hahaha

10:01am Scott Simon:

How many times per day did Ken say we're supposed to turn it off?

10:01am βrian:

Ever played a saxophone with nitrous oxide?

10:02am Sem Chumbo:

Pass the Whippets, I gotta get in the mood for this.

10:03am βrian:

@Sem: "Woof!"

10:05am t_J:

a new Esperanto stream?

10:06am bill:

This is like the ending of Interstellar

10:06am βrian:

Desesperanto, rather.

10:06am Sem Chumbo:

Ok, now that I got whippets, how about a mechanical rabbit? And a jai lai fonton?

10:06am common:

truly insane and yes, sem

10:07am M. Goodtdaughter:

Too early in the morning for this...

10:08am βrian:

I once knew a guy who claimed to be the best left-handed jai alai player in the state.

10:09am Brian Lehrer:

Hey everybody, my show is on right now on 93.9...you don't have to suffer!

10:10am Sem Chumbo:

Hiya, common: is your posse as much fun as Kenny's?
@Brian: did he say this in Basques?

10:10am V Priceless:

Roy!

10:11am common:

@sem: not even close.

10:11am βrian:

Indeed. When I asked him his ETA, he went "boom."

10:13am Sem Chumbo:

@common: maybe try-outs are in order for a NEW posse?
I know some guys who like to paint their faces...
@Brian: hehehe.

10:14am common:

@sem: been thinkin...you're right.

10:14am amEdeo:

<3 <3 <3

10:16am pierre:

checking the white background of the octopus

10:16am steve:

im actually enjoying this. try harder.

10:19am βrian:

Yes, put your nose to the grindstone. Bear down and relax.

10:19am Marc:

Delete kids recite the King Lear versus at the end?

10:19am Marc:

Do these*

10:20am βrian:

Versus cruel fate.

10:21am sinister dexter:

woohoo!! Kenny G!!! yours was one of the shows the got me hooked on WFMU!! long time ago! so good to hear you again here!

10:21am Uncle Michael:

What am I doing on the comments this early?

10:21am -max-:

Kenny!!!! Welcome home!
missyou missyou missyou

10:21am Sem Chumbo:

@Brian:Ne Kenny G scriptor antics carborundum.

10:21am βrian:

(Sorry, it's the espresso talking ...)

10:22am People Like Us:

10:23am fleep:

Just got here. Any traffic reports yet?

10:24am People Like Us:

hands across the water

10:25am common:

click!

10:25am Whosondephone:

hands across the ears

10:26am common:

butter wouldn't melt so i put it in the pie...one o the best lines ever

10:27am βrian:

Common, do you wonder, as I do, whether Mary Kay, had operations in Sweden during the 70s?

10:29am Sam:

Kenny G, have you ever done a show with the Old Codger? I'd love to hear the two of you in a shouting match.

10:29am jamesie:

This is educashonal

10:29am Helen:

Clitorectomy? Not funny. Just stupid.

10:30am common:

Brian: i do

10:30am Webhamster Henry:

Kenny's beard is on a lottery ticket: www.anopticalillusion.com...

10:30am Michael in cowtown:

YEAH! so good to hear Kenny again.

10:31am Tom Wheeler:

This is not going to end well...

10:32am kralb:

ALL BACKWARDS BEATLES ALL THE TIME

10:33am Sem Chumbo:

Red curtains, black and white checkered floor, a shortish fellow in a '70"s disco suit...hmm, hidden message?

10:36am MD:

HELP!!!....I'M HEARING BACKWARDS AGIN!!!!

10:36am fleep:

Stand upside down.

10:37am MD:

AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

10:38am groucho:

Today I have to scrap my beloved car. This is the exact right soundtrack.

10:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...he sounds like Irwin on prozac & speed...& possibly something else...

10:38am MD:

you mean the Dylan song right???

10:38am Sam:

You're right, us crackers have a lot to be thankful for.

10:39am MD:

yeah!!! rev Rab...I thought the same thing!!!

10:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...or, more likely? - everybody sounds like Kenny G...

10:40am fleep:

Some people are naturally strange, and some have to try a little too hard.

10:40am common:

rev. rabbit: i thought he was irwin when i first heard this show in 2004. he tricked me.

10:41am rsj:

he acts like this because his brother Ali is so successful

10:41am DCE:

you got any whole-wheat no-sugar donuts? oh yeah, that's just wheat bread.

10:41am MD:

A YOUNGER "OLD CODGER!!!!"

10:42am Sam:

That's the advantage of being Chinese - you don't have these silly letter songs.

10:42am MD:

Mr Dunkin'?????

10:44am V Priceless:

for a sec there I thought this was gonna be Stranglers "Nuclear Device"!

10:44am MD:

Hey it's Friday in America....the only week of the year when Wednesday is Friday!!!

10:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

In German the silly songs are just one long word.

10:46am MD:

HAPPY "GENOCIDE DAY!"

10:46am Lizardner Dave:

This is the best Thanksgiving present ever. Welcome back Kenny!

10:46am Rev. Turnip Druid:

GREAT SNORKELING JESUS KIDNEYS! IT IS THEE!

10:47am steve:

no tengo pantalon? i have no pants?

10:48am Cucaracha:

No tego pantalón que fumar.

10:49am Sem Chumbo:

¿Quién necesita los pantalones cuando se tiene Kenny G hilaridad?

10:50am βrian:

Or a tuba on helium, maybe.

10:50am r i s k y:

Kenny G, it's me! Your biggest fan.
Have a Thanksgiving, Kenny G!

10:51am MD:

OUR OWN KENNY G!!!!!

10:51am MD:

WE ARE SOOOOO PROUD!!!

10:51am Alison Porchnik:

I heard that first interview and she was excruciating to listen to.

10:51am dale:

'when i sit for hours at my desk staring at my thing....'

10:53am βrian:

Who is Bouncy?

10:53am Alison Porchnik:

Damn I missed the Frederic Jameson cover?

10:53am matt:

Strategic thinking skills being discussed on a morning gab show, that's good.

10:54am Maria D:

Will you sing us another theory-head book please, please?

10:54am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Rupert Murdoch - all is justified...

10:54am Alison Porchnik:

Matt - true. Almost like we're in France.

10:54am βrian:

@Maria D: Roland Barthes, peut-être ?

10:55am danjoseph:

I want a cookie

10:55am Alison Porchnik:

Maria D - yes! I vote for Helene Cixous!!! So Kenny.

11:01am mary:

omg a slice of a weather report

11:04am SueAdynamo:

at first i thought "what is WRONG with Irwin!" and then i looked at the DJ name and it all made sense.

11:05am jan:

Oh I hope Kenny will read some Robert Frost.

11:06am Ken From Hyde Park:

Whoops....I missed the start of this part. What is he counting?

11:07am e12:

Are you okay, Kenny?

11:07am marmalade kitty:

This dude is a head case!

11:07am AL3X:

Ohh, my favorite part is coming up. Wait for it...

11:08am Lizardner Dave:

Nobody spoil the ending.

11:08am βrian:

www.youtube.com...

11:08am MD:

KENNY THROW COLD WATER ON YOUR FACE...SNAP OUT OF IT....YOU CAN DO IT!!! "THROTTLE UP!!!"

11:09am jan:

1-100, see how good it can sound when set to the right beat?

11:09am r i s k y:

KENNY G
KENNY G
KENNY G
KENNY G
KENNY G

11:10am Dominick:

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

11:11am Lizardner Dave:

Conet Project coming up next?

11:13am steve:

what is this guy getting at?

11:15am sarah:

This is great but I am extremely confused

11:16am Dominick:

You say France

11:16am P:

greetings from Paula C. I tune to Ken for normal and good surprise today, the even more normal Kenny. I feel safe. One of the guy's numbers equals the answer to my math question. Joy.

11:16am Ken From Hyde Park:

I was going to question how an M has three downstrokes, but then recalled that the lower case m has three downstrokes.

11:18am Carmichael:

Kenny, I saw you on some show somewhere a while back sometime. Yup.

11:20am Alison Porchnik:

Irwin is still Jewish but he keeps his yarmulke in the glove compartment of his sedan.

11:20am plantlife:

What is FMU supposed to be trying to do, Kenny G

11:21am βrian:

Racial parody?

11:22am Dominick:

WFMU age demo is heavily skewed by the Codger

11:23am Ken From Hyde Park:

Kenny G on TV July 23, 2013 - thecolbertreport.cc.com...

11:24am rsj:

G-mane, you need some new material

11:25am matt:

Throw the bait, Frank. THROW IT!

11:25am Stevel:

Chicks! Waddya gonna do?

11:25am dale:

frank sounds like a dildo. he's hot for his own sister, to boot.

11:25am ?:

Mi par du dir ancora, Kenny G. on WFMU! So good to hear you again! Isn't it more fun than academia?

11:25am plantlife:

I love this.

11:26am plantlife:

What year did this come out?

11:27am Lingo:

Have hipsters taken to using the word "figure" yet?

11:27am dale:

HA! pretty.......he's a horny pig but she eats it up. dumb chick.

11:27am salamander:

does this sound like someone?

11:27am plantlife:

"Say,....."

11:27am Torbjørn:

@plantlife, given all the bullcrap about pickup artistry, I'm guessing last year

11:28am V Priceless:

this guy sounds like an Al Pacino / Woody Allen mash-up

11:28am Marc:

What planet is a story takes place on? It's not realistic.

11:28am Dan B From Upstate:

So... tell girls they're pretty and buy them clothes? Got it.

11:28am plantlife:

@Torbjorn, I dunno.....

11:29am dale:

frank will cut her up and bury her in the basement before that new floor gets poured

11:29am Marc:

The*

11:29am WebHamster Henry:

You could read the weather report or the shipping news.

11:30am plantlife:

I love Kenny G

11:30am George of Troy:

Why are you sitting at home listening to this record when you could be performing Clitorectomies?

11:30am V Priceless:

how's about some Sandburg?

11:30am thelma Blitz:

Is listening to Kenny G on WFMU wasting time on the Internet? No! How are we gonna know what's avant and outrageous without him.?More! More! More!

11:30am TDK60:

Enjoying the levity with Kenny G. Last night I joined the thousands who took the streets in NYC, protesting the Missouri cop murderer, set free.

11:31am greg:

Kenny, this reading is incredible

11:31am -max-:

Frosty Satie, brilliant!

11:31am plantlife:

Very funny George of T

11:33am jan:

Kenny, thanks for taking the bait. No surprise on your choice, but the delivery- very original. Oh, your show is on balance, enjoyable. Just 28 minutes to turn it around.

11:33am plantlife:

radio silence on the comments board. are we stunned?

11:33am Carmichael:

I just got a phone call. What happened to the braless chick? Did they do the nasty??

11:34am plantlife:

How about some walt whitman, KG?

11:35am plantlife:

"downy flake" the whole show is worth hearing how Kenny said those two words...

11:35am TDK60:

Sotty Satie.

11:36am Torbjørn:

@Carmichael, "Frank" was declared to be "some operator", at least .. I kind of lost track after that. Did humans even copulate when this was made ?

11:37am WebHamster Henry:

This show counts as extra debit for his students.

11:37am George of Troy:

@Carmichael: Frank bought her a drink, gave her the blouse, she accepted his offer of dinner, and as Dale pointed out, they would return to Frank's house later, where she will become part of his new basement floor.

11:38am People Like Us:

University should have more debits

11:40am plantlife:

Will she be part of the shag carpeting?

11:40am foreign_listener_k:

You cannot waste time on the Internet watching girls with this soundtrack - creamy .. gleaming .. straight .. shiny .. watching

Ready for a happening.

11:41am dale:

now i wanna hear anthony newley's pornographic 'for you' album

11:41am steve:

save us Duane!

11:41am plantlife:

I wonder if anyone has ever named a person, "Vagina"? It has to have happened, right?

11:41am Carmichael:

When I watch girls on the internet, that music is NOT playing.

11:42am WebHamster Henry:

We're getting the Kenny H greatest hits! Where's the Cake?

11:42am βrian:

"L'Origine Du Monde"

11:42am People Like Us:

glad you can play this again on the radio now
oh hang on

11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- was that Clay Pidgeon?

11:42am Dominick:

Gimme the cake!

11:42am MD:

tHIS FREAKS ME OUT!!! (the fagina thing!) but i still can't stop listening!!! FMU fan for 30 yrs now!!!

11:43am People Like Us:

ha ha that did sound like Clay!

11:43am steve:

oh yeah play some Cake! Vicki's version is the best.

11:43am SeanG:

hahahaha!

11:45am People Like Us:

Kenny thinks Irwin is on next

11:47am cement_dawg:

velvet tofu gradient

11:47am Sem Chumbo:

I'd give just about anything for Kenny's nucleus accumbens. And if it came with the original anterior cingulate, well the sky's the limit.

11:49am George of Troy:

@plantlife: Well, at least one. A friend of my wife was a maternity nurse in rural Texas, and a woman who had just given birth wanted to name her child the "most beautiful word she ever heard", one that she "learned just the other day". The nurses tried to explain that this probably wasn't the best idea, but she was adamant, apparently.

11:50am People Like Us:

ha ha! It's me and Kenny's dad!

11:50am common:

nice, people like us!

11:51am plantlife:

This pigeon thing just caused multiple neuron death.

11:52am sugarwolf:

@george: did your friend know the Lemonjello and Orangejello twins, too?

11:52am plantlife:

@ G of T----really? That kid probably didn't even find out it was kind of an unusual name until she was older.

11:52am Curious:

@George of T: I bet she grew up an introvert.

11:53am Essdog:

Vagina! Hey, I'm from there! Wassssssssup!

11:53am dale:

peter lemonjello?

11:54am ?:

via the patented country teasers black change operation?

11:54am Carmichael:

There was a pro bowler named Lemonjello.

11:54am plantlife:

Is Irwin in blackface?

11:55am steve:

hahahahahahaha help us Duane! save us!

11:55am SeanG:

ROFL!

11:57am ?:

Kudos duane... So much patience.

11:57am Sandy in Houston:

11:57am Goyim in the AM:

All you have to do is stay tuned, Kenny! The funk will free you!

11:58am Ken From Hyde Park:

What show comes on at noon today? The Irwin Train?

11:58am matt:

You're the best of sports Duane.

11:58am common:

must be hard to follow kenny g. good work, duane!

11:58am Torbjørn:

Kenny G, please come back and show us more truth on a regular basis.

11:59am Carmichael:

Restore approximate normalcy, Duane!

11:59am robyn:

duane! great stuff...

11:59am -max-:

Watermelon man!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_Man_(film)

12:00pm J:

So much pain

12:00pm Brainiac:

Kenny was appointed the Museum of Modern Art's first Poet Laureate. A teacher at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. Ken has run a graduate seminar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kenny has written several "books," most recently Seven American Deaths and Disasters.

So why is he back on WFMU? I thought we were free of him forever — I mean I thought he was beyond all this!

12:00pm bill:

Right on Kenny, keep wailing on that sax

12:00pm George of Troy:

Awesome! Come back Kenny G!!!

12:01pm Lizardner Dave:

Standing ovation. Don't stay away so long next time Kenny.

12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...okay - they're all Irwin - prozac, speed, flubber...no...I don't understand...

12:01pm Carmichael:

I don't get any of this.

2:29pm Ike:

Racial parody, indeed!

5:23pm Mike Noble:

It should be noted, ISIS does not actually practice FGM: thinkprogress.org... The practice is somewhat common amongst the Kurds though.