WFMU: Scott Williams: Playlist from April 4, 2016

Listener comments!
	3:03pm Greg from ZONE 5: YES! Great start…
	3:04pm northguineahills: I've been listening to the History of Germany podcast, and the guy uses Faust for the theme music.
	3:05pm Greg from ZONE 5: Faust > Wagner
	3:06pm Scott Williams: whenever Faust is in the air, you can't ignore it. welcome buddies!
	3:06pm Cliff: I had a college roommate who would play Wagner full-blast to drive me out of the room whenever he wanted to study. (I moved out in less than a month)
	3:07pm Chris from DC: I will content myself with Jowe Head this evening, having missed Faust this time around.
	3:07pm TDK60: Hiya Scott and rainy day listeners.
	3:07pm northguineahills: agreed, Greg!
	3:08pm Cliff: Yep, Faust is waaay better.
	3:09pm Cecile: I know I wouldn't have blown out my voice on this song, like I did the children's chorus in Tannhauser
	3:11pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Scott!
	3:14pm Scott Williams: Hey there Bronwyn!
	3:15pm Bronwyn Bishop: Did you guys get my postcard?
	3:16pm Scott Williams: We did, thank you! It's hanging up in the kitchen as we speak
	3:20pm Chris from DC: Oh no.
	3:20pm TDK60: Ah yeah, Dutch-Ethiopian punk jazz.
	3:21pm TDK60: Didn't see til now the note; Getachew passed.
	3:23pm InBrkly: I never really clicked with The Ex but I really miss Dog Faced Hermans.
	3:24pm Greg from ZONE 5: I didn't see Katherina on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Drummers list, but she is #1 in my heart.
	3:25pm Greg from ZONE 5: Kid Millions either…
	3:25pm bloopy: hey scott, been missing ya show for a few weeks! good sounds
	3:28pm northguineahills: Just saw Kid Millions two weeks ago. Always fun!
	3:28pm Clay: Henry Flynt, now there's a story. I wonder how many people know that he was Henry Ford's grandson? Taking his name from Henry Ford and the city of Flint (Flynt) - Henry Flynt (real name, Archibald Ford) tried to make a go of music, but never really cobbled together anything but the most tenuous of careers and music that appealed to no more than a few crazed zealots. I met him at a Shakey's Pizza in Pontiac, Michigan, circa 1979. By that time, I was already an "old man" in a rock music context, but I was on the road playing 4th 'bone for a version of Buddy Miles Electric Flag. Buddy was no longer in the band at that time. He had been replaced by his cousin, Minnie Miles. She weighed no more than 80 lbs and stood 4'-9" in high heels, but she was a severe taskmaster and a frenetic, nervous little drummer. Anyway, Henry Flynt wasn't doing so well at this time. As I recall, he was trying to make a living as a drawbridge oiler, but things were not going well as openings in that field were few and far between. One would think his famous family might have stepped in, but they had shunned him some months earlier when he refused to head up a new automotive division developing what would become the ill-fated Pontiac Sunbird. When I met Henry Flynt at Shakee's, he was the Assistant Manager. However, he had little interest in pizza and he could more often be found going table to table selling a little money-making gadget he called the "Flynt-Roller" which removed threads and other debris from one's fine clothing. I bought one and kind of shoo'd him away as he was not a pleasant man to deal with. He had a very high, nasally voice and he tended to poke people in the chest when making a point. To be honest, I never saw him after that. I never heard of him until now, on this playlist. Another footnote in musical history.
	3:30pm Clay: And Lyle's secret is out (accidentally) ... sigh. It was me! Good show Scott.
	3:31pm Cliff: Lyle was Clay all along, that makes a lot of sense in retrospect
	3:32pm JP from KC: It's ok, Cliff. In a way, we wera all Lyle... in a way.
	3:32pm Scott Williams: Thanks CP! Whoops - Lyle's fun, keep him around
	🧩 3:33pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Lyle, @Clay - Paul Harvey's voice is in my head for this: "And now you know the rest of the story!"
	3:33pm glenn: i liked the tao of lyle.
	3:33pm Greg from ZONE 5: No way is his real story better than his fake story.
	3:34pm Cliff: He can now be a regularly-occuring character on the Clay Pigeon show! Or he could kibbitz with Fabio (if you can get him to play along)
	3:35pm glenn: what's next? will irwin out himself as the old codger?
	3:38pm Greg from ZONE 5: Will it finally be revealed that "Ken & Andy" are actually just one guy doing characters?
	3:38pm JP from KC: It's just a little disappointing. I didn't think we'd ever know who Lyle was until the day a news story was released about a man in his 90s dying after the floor of his apartment collapsed under the weight of his massive vinyl and brass instrument collection.
	3:40pm Clay: I felt that way when Jandek surfaced.
	3:40pm JP from KC: I'm with Cliff, though. Now that we all know, it seems like it should've been more obvious...
	3:40pm Clay: I felt that way when Jandek surfaced.
	3:41pm TDK60: Who's Lyle? I'm lost.
	3:41pm Clay: Weird computer issues today. Sorry for double-post. Mercury Retrograde? I need Feen-A-Mint or something.
	3:42pm Cliff: Oh I knew it was somebody much younger yanking all our chains, but it didn't occur to me it'd be somebody working at the station
	3:44pm JP from KC: I figured we were being had, but like Fox Mulder, I wanted to believe.
	🧩 3:45pm Ken From Hyde Park: There should be an email address like "lyle at wfmu.org" where listeners can send leads and ideas for stories like that. Then some kind of blog area where the curator could put the compilations. "Musings From Lyle" or some such title.
	3:46pm Dean: Lyre.
	3:47pm JP from KC: Well played, Dean. Well played...
	3:47pm Cecile: I knew it! I knew Lyle was Clay!!!!
	3:48pm Cecile: I just didn't have any hard evidence.
	3:49pm JP from KC: See what you've done, Clay? None of us are ready to let Lyle go. He must live on!
	3:50pm northguineahills: Crap, I'm dogsitting and need to walk my friend's dog, and my last pair of water-resistant shoes died last week, and it's beautifully chilly and wet outside.
	🧩 3:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: @TDK60 - A commenter with handle Lyle would randomly post amusing anecdotes on the message boards. Example: www.wfmu.org... at 1:53 AM.
	3:51pm Polyus: Hey so Chris Forsyth/Solar Motel Band are touring with Heron Oblivion pretty soon. That might automatically qualify as my show of the year. Too bad they aren't hitting my backwater.
	3:54pm geezerette: Lyle is pretending to be Clay pretending to be Lyle. That's my theory anyway.
	3:56pm lloyd michigan: Dogs don't need shoes.
	🧩 3:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: @geezerette - If Clay can come up with an alibi, however flimsy, I'll believe that.
	3:59pm geezerette: Flimsy works for me Ken.
	4:00pm Dean: Anybody make it to the Troubadour for Guns 'n' Roses?
	4:01pm geezerette: @lloyd m.: They don't need them but they really,really like them.
	4:01pm Cecile: flying lizards are six kinds of awesome
	4:01pm JP from KC: And if he can't come up with one, we'll do it for him. Just to keep Lyle alive!
	4:03pm Barney Grubbs: my 9 yr old daughter heard the original Curtis Move on up for the first time over the weekend--she didn't want it to end. First time that has happened in a while. I will have to try the flying lizards version out on her.
	4:03pm TDK60: Thanks Ken for the orientation. My life is now back in order.
	4:06pm geezerette: @Dean: Did you go? What was that like?
	4:07pm Clay: I was told by a friend that I'd better check out the AccuPlaylist. Can I just say ... who the hell is LYLE? And who is saying it's me??? As for G'NR at the Troubador, that is VERY exciting! I guess the reunion will all implode before long, but they said that about Trump, too.
	4:08pm Dean: @geezerette: No, and I was kinda joking, figuring odds are against anybody having gone. I confess I peaked at some clandestine YT videos. They did not seem to be in top form, but maybe you had to be there. Seriously, though, word is Metallica is playing a record store here in town in the near future.
	4:08pm geezerette: Yay Clay!!! Keep it going man!!!
	4:08pm Cliff: Lyle's this guy that's been telling fantastical stories, I'll be he was pretending to impersonate you to gain some credibility Clay
	4:08pm glenn: nice save attempt, lyle. er, clay.
	4:09pm geezerette: @Dean: Assuming that would be Amoeba.
	4:10pm Dean: Close. One block north, Rasputin.
	4:10pm geezerette: @Cliff: Exactly!
	4:11pm Cliff: Hey, it's that crazy German New Wave comp again! I love this stuff.
	4:16pm βrian: I once heard a BBC presenter make reference to a band called "Meta-Licker."
	4:17pm βrian: We used to play this one in the kid's nursery during nap time.
	4:19pm glenn: okay, can i just say that creme fraiche mixed with maple syrup is beyond fabulous.
	4:20pm DreamCricket: Rainy and Brainy
	4:24pm Tommy Haynes: It's snowing today ..in the WMFU area
	🧩 4:25pm Matt from Springfield: The Jim Morrison Robots?? Hi Scott and folks! No snow here - humid, overcast and sprinkling!
	🧩 4:28pm Matt from Springfield: Aw man, missed Flying Lizards! "Move On Up" is great - their "Sex Machine" also kicks ass! "Go ahead!"
	🧩 4:30pm Matt from Springfield: And I agree - Lyle should record parts for the Dusty Show, talking about his past experiences from the rock world! :)
	4:33pm Rich in Washington: I feel kinda dumb admitting this, but the first time I heard this track on the radio, I thought "Black Sabbath's Changes was a cover song?". He pulled it off so convincingly.
	🧩 4:34pm Matt from Springfield: Considering the Daptone label, I'm not surprised - they take "authentic" to the next level!
	4:36pm geezerette: Wonder what Lyle thinks about new Miles Davis & Chet Baker movies. I'm sure he worked with both of them,maybe at the same time. :)
	4:39pm βrian: Scott Walker, thy name is anathema. Sorry.
	4:44pm Greg from ZONE 5: ISB was at FMU? Jeez oh man!
	4:44pm Polyus: I didn't know Dalek still existed.
	🧩 4:45pm Matt from Springfield: I want a Dalek for--April.
	4:47pm Scott Williams: @Z5Greg, indeed they were! Well, Mike Heron & Clive Palmer, anyway - no Robin. @Polyus, funny I was wondering the same thing pretty recently - they are!
	4:52pm Bas NL: Hi Scott! Great track by NWW!
	4:53pm Scott Williams: Hello Bas!
	4:54pm Cliff: Yep, I also heard this one on Daniel Blumin's show, good stuff
	🧩 4:54pm Matt from Springfield: You'd literally go to the end of the earth (finis terra) to find this! Also: totally dig the "United Jnana" label name.
	4:55pm Scott Williams: Awww, that Blumin beats me to every punch - even birth! just barely...
	🧩 4:55pm Matt from Springfield: Scott: does Daniel B. have almost the same birthday as you?
	🧩 4:57pm Matt from Springfield: Jnana is a Hindu concept of "knowledge", but what really wow-ed me was the common Indo-European roots for knowledge across many different languages: "The root jñā- is cognate to English know, as well as to the Greek γνώ- (as in γνῶσις gnosis). Its antonym is ajñāna "ignorance"." And even Latin coGNition was borrowed from that same Greek/IE "gno". Amazing stuff!
	4:58pm Scott Williams: @Matt, yep
	5:00pm geezerette: Matt,so interesting,kind of encouraging even.
	5:00pm βrian: Yes, and the french 'cogner' which means to bang or strike against ..... Well, maybe not.
	5:00pm Parq: Been following all the remembrances of Getatchew Mekurya and his show with the Ex at Lincoln Center in 2008. I was there too, and endorse what everyone else has said about what a great show it was. One thing I remember is how a huge number of Ethiopian nationals turned out to see Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete (who were also great --Mahmoud particularly knocked me out) and then left, allowing all of the FMU listeners and other off-off-mainstream rock rooters to stream into the good seats for the Ex.
	5:00pm Kub: I am not smart enough.
	🧩 5:01pm Matt from Springfield: "encouraging even" - YES! My feeling exactly! @Brian: To "bang ones head" with knowledge, of course. Sometimes it don't go in easily...
	5:02pm Kub: Then Play On ... what a frickin record. The Green God w/Kirwan.
	5:02pm Ghost of DuBrow: Metal health will drive you mad.
	5:04pm Cliff: "glimmer", "glamour", "grammar", and "grimoire" are all historically related as well.
	5:04pm βrian: Je me cogne la caboche contre le mur.
	5:07pm Diem Changes: Carpe Brute!
	5:08pm Bas NL: I have seen Bomino on stage three times now... i can't get enough of his incredible sounds.
	🧩 5:09pm Matt from Springfield: So jealous Bas! I'd like to see him after hearing this!
	5:09pm Sigurður: Ekkert nema tími yfir sjó
	5:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Kub: Sound like they mean it - no? @Bas NL: 'African guitar' (stupidly broad of me - but yerknow...) totally beguiles me...
	5:10pm Bas NL: (That's Bombino,, My 'b' key flew out of my keyboard!)
	🧩 5:10pm Matt from Springfield: @Cliff: Hmm, I could see that. "The word grammar is derived from Greek γραμματικὴ τέχνη (grammatikē technē), which means "art of letters", from γράμμα (gramma), "letter", itself from γράφειν (graphein), "to draw, to write". And so graphics, grapheme, and photograph also come from that root.
	5:11pm geezerette: Hey Cliff! Yeah anything that reminds us how alike we are is a very good thing. A lot of language lovers here,one of the great things about the people FMU attracts. This Bombino thing is gorgeous.
	5:12pm JP from KC: I'd like to see him, too, but instead of on stage, how about from across a Bedouin bonfire in the desert as you drink a strong homemade liquor out of a handcrafted leather canteen?
	5:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So this is TheFeelies: I need edumacatin. Seems a GunClub groove...
	🧩 5:13pm Matt from Springfield: Sounds a bit like early Dylan x hard blues. Hey RR!
	5:13pm geezerette: Matt,I love that! I draw a lot and I'm always trying to decode tagging. Visual language.
	5:14pm Bas NL: Bombino learned to play guitar by listening and playing along with to Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix..
	5:14pm geezerette: Hey JP,is that ever a great fantasy.
	🧩 5:14pm Matt from Springfield: Visual language is not only efficient communication, but an art! :)
	5:15pm Parq: Matt, yeah, I was thinking "Subterranean" too.
	5:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...by way of 'Rock'n'Roll' by VUs... @BasNL: Aw - love the source-influence-back to source thing...
	5:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...as long as yer not somewhere in the desert someone declares jihad on all music er something...
	5:16pm geezerette: Matt,high five! Bas NL,nice! RevRab,howdy!
	5:17pm JP from KC: Thanks, geezerette! I can't help it. The incomparable diversity of this station gets the creative juices flowing. Every once in a while, and probably more so on this station than anywhere else, the music just takes you places.
	5:18pm Cliff: Rev. Rabbit: Which is why Tinariwen are exiled from Timbuktu.
	5:18pm Bas NL: @Rev. R Let's hope not indeed!
	5:18pm BriJet: Helloooo!!!! me dig
	5:19pm LuLu: This is amazingness
	5:20pm geezerette: JP: Yep! Thank you Scott and all the other DJs!
	5:21pm Bas NL: One expects less after each track, but alas..
	🧩 5:22pm Matt from Springfield: @Cliff: Ugh, the state of the world...it's all cyclical I know, but sure sucks to be at the bottom of a cycle...
	🧩 5:22pm chris: <swoon> loving this, Scott! hi to you and to all!
	5:23pm Scott Williams: Glad you're into it, everyone!
	5:24pm geezerette: Glad to have this beautiful distraction.
	5:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Great book has a pocket history of collective 'Festival' - & the Conservative Religious elements opposed to it - is 'Dancing in the Streets' by Barbara Ehrenreich. Yeah - hella set.
	🧩 5:26pm Matt from Springfield: And sometimes, you just need to hear Kebekelektrik (always a good exit button).
	5:27pm BriJet: @Rev Rabbit Nov63 Looks like a cool read!
	5:28pm geezerette: Rev Rab, hadn't heard of that book,sounds great. Thanks for tip.
	5:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - chapter deals w/ Conservative Religion goes a long way towards explaining how Islam can have both Sufi Dervishes & violent extremists. She suggests Christianity similarly probably started out Ecstatic - & eventually there were Calvinists...The Conservative movements were usually together w/ Imperialists & Militarists...
	5:33pm Cecile: this is banging
	5:33pm geezerette: Oh those Chimp genes...
	5:36pm Cliff: It's not dead air, it's an impromptu performance of John Cage!
	5:36pm Cliff: And yay, Prince Rama :D
	5:37pm Cecile: Collapsing New Krishna
	5:37pm geezerette: hahaha Cliff! :)
	🧩 5:37pm Matt from Springfield: Yes, the concept is to listen quietly to your surroundings instead--and 10 seconds later have your surroundings interrupted with a flood of sound! I like it.
	5:38pm sweeks: Nice, Prince Rama put on a trippy good show
	5:38pm Cliff: Cecile: Haha, yeah I can hear that, maybe with more banging on metal things
	5:40pm geezerette: Cecile that sounds like a band name!
	5:41pm Michael in Seattle: @RR, aren't we all now awash in Christianity because Constantine believed the cross gave him power in battle ??
	5:41pm Cecile: The song reminds me of Fad Gadget's Collapsing New Buildings
	5:42pm SheWolf: this=FABBBB
	5:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Michael: Oh - the Witches & NeoPagans all say the Patriarchal Monotheists were all originally about War Gods anyhow.
	5:43pm Cliff: You mean Collapsing New People.....whereas I thought you meant the band whose German name translates to Collapsing New Buildings
	5:47pm steve: hey people
	5:48pm Cliff: Apparently Fad Gadget did a collab w/Einstürzende Neubauten and he named that song after them so I wasn't that far off :)
	5:48pm northguineahills: W00! Third Eye Foundation!
	5:48pm khd: what are the strings that this TEF song is sampling - it's from a soundtrack, correct?
	🧩 5:49pm Matt from Springfield: Patriarchal types - so vicious towards women, and ultimately, deathly afraid of them.
	5:54pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Scotty!
	5:55pm Monica: beautiful show today, scott! a grey skies soundtrack of the first order.
	🧩 5:55pm Matt from Springfield: Oh, does Björk have her own line of prams out now?
	5:55pm geezerette: Ditto !
	5:56pm Scott Williams: Aww, thanks Monica! And you too Greg! And you too, everybody! stay warm and colorful
	5:56pm Cliff: Yep, thanks for the show today Scott!
	5:56pm Bas NL: Next week, same time! Thanks Scott!
	5:57pm geezerette: Happiness!
	🧩 5:58pm chris: grazie, Scott! molto clicky stars!
	🧩 5:59pm Matt from Springfield: Beautiful Karla Borecky, beautiful conclusion! Thanks Scott and everyone, great show, great afternoon! Have a good evening!

Scott Williams: Playlist from April 4, 2016

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April 4, 2016

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Faust	It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl	So Far	Collector's Choice
Novak	We Died.... Part One (The Survivors)	Dumb Records: 1977-1979	Orion Head / Athena			0:06:37 (Pop-up)
Henry Flynt	Double Spindizzy "Double Spindizzy" by "Henry Flynt"	Graduation	Superior Viaduct			0:10:32 (Pop-up)
The Ex w/ Getatchew Mekuria & Friends	Shellelle	The Ex At Bimhuis (1991-2015)	Ex		R.I.P. Getatchew	0:16:38 (Pop-up)
Kid Millions & Zhang Shou Wang	side 2 excerpt	Beijing 2014	Genjing			0:20:57 (Pop-up)
Chris Forsyth & Shawn Edward Hansen	I First Saw You (exc)	Dirty Pool	Ultramarine			0:29:01 (Pop-up)
Jeff Buckley	Just Like a Woman "Just Like a Woman" by "Jeff Buckley"	You and I	Columbia Legacy			0:38:14 (Pop-up)

Somatic Responses	Coldway "Coldway" by "Somatic Responses"	Folding Space	Hymen			0:51:40 (Pop-up)
Flying Lizards	Move On Up "Move On Up" by "Flying Lizards"	Fourth Wall	Virgin		cover: Curtis Mayfield	0:56:51 (Pop-up)
Ilitch	Peripherikredcomando "Peripherikredcomando" by "Ilitch"	10 Suicides	Superior Viaduct			1:02:39 (Pop-up)
ZaZa	Zauberstab "Zauberstab" by "ZaZa"	V/a, NDW: Aus Grauer Stade Muaren - Die Neue Deutsche Welle 1977-1985 Tiel 4	Bear Family			1:06:28 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone	Stress Infinito "Stress Infinito" by "Ennio Morricone"	sdtk, "Spasmo"	Dagored			1:11:08 (Pop-up)
Scott Walker	It's Raining Today "It's Raining Today" by "Scott Walker"	Boy Child: The Best of 1967-1970	Fontana			1:16:42 (Pop-up)
Inutili	Robots "Robots" by "Inutili"	Elves, Red Sprites, Blue Jets	Aagoo			1:20:35 (Pop-up)
Charles Bradley	Changes "Changes" by "Charles Bradley"	Changes	Daptone / Dunham		cover: Sabbath	1:28:00 (Pop-up)

Nurse With Wound	Finis Terra "Finis Terra" by "Nurse With Wound"	Lumb's Sister	United Jnana			1:43:40 (Pop-up)
Fog	Check Fraud (Kid Koala's Space Cadet E003 Remix)	Check Fraud	Ninja Tune			1:52:47 (Pop-up)
Fleetwood Mac	Closing My Eyes "Closing My Eyes" by "Fleetwood Mac"	Then Play On	Reprise			1:57:44 (Pop-up)
Bombino	Igmayagh Dum (My Lover) "Igmayagh Dum (My Lover)" by "Bombino"	Azel	Partisan			2:02:53 (Pop-up)
The Feelies	Time for a Witness "Time for a Witness" by "The Feelies"	Time For a Witness	Bar None	1991		2:08:14 (Pop-up)
Fat White Family	Whitest Boy on the Beach	Songs for Our Mothers	Without Consent / Fat Possum			2:11:49 (Pop-up)
Unloved	I Could Tell You But I'd Have to Kill	Guilty of Love	Unloved			2:16:34 (Pop-up)

The Analog Session w/ Alexander Robotnick & Ludus Pinsky)	N5 From Outer Space (Summer RMX)	N5 From Outer Space	Medical			2:26:16 (Pop-up)
Prince Rama	Fantasy "Fantasy" by "Prince Rama"	Xtreme Now	Carpark			2:33:30 (Pop-up)
Outsekt	Star "Star" by "Outsekt"	V/a, Zolk Zamily Zassette #1	Zolk Zamily			2:37:08 (Pop-up)
Third Eye Foundation	Closure "Closure" by "Third Eye Foundation"	The Dark	Ici d'Alleurs			2:41:16 (Pop-up)
Pram	Dorothy "Dorothy" by "Pram"	The Stars Are So Big, the Earth Is So Small...Stay as You Are	Medical			2:51:09 (Pop-up)
Karla Borecky	The Sadness of Things	Still In Your Pocket	Recital			2:55:33 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:03pm Greg from ZONE 5: YES! Great start…
	3:04pm northguineahills: I've been listening to the History of Germany podcast, and the guy uses Faust for the theme music.
	3:05pm Greg from ZONE 5: Faust > Wagner
	3:06pm Scott Williams: whenever Faust is in the air, you can't ignore it. welcome buddies!
	3:06pm Cliff: I had a college roommate who would play Wagner full-blast to drive me out of the room whenever he wanted to study. (I moved out in less than a month)
	3:07pm Chris from DC: I will content myself with Jowe Head this evening, having missed Faust this time around.
	3:07pm TDK60: Hiya Scott and rainy day listeners.
	3:07pm northguineahills: agreed, Greg!
	3:08pm Cliff: Yep, Faust is waaay better.
	3:09pm Cecile: I know I wouldn't have blown out my voice on this song, like I did the children's chorus in Tannhauser
	3:11pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Scott!
	3:14pm Scott Williams: Hey there Bronwyn!
	3:15pm Bronwyn Bishop: Did you guys get my postcard?
	3:16pm Scott Williams: We did, thank you! It's hanging up in the kitchen as we speak
	3:20pm Chris from DC: Oh no.
	3:20pm TDK60: Ah yeah, Dutch-Ethiopian punk jazz.
	3:21pm TDK60: Didn't see til now the note; Getachew passed.
	3:23pm InBrkly: I never really clicked with The Ex but I really miss Dog Faced Hermans.
	3:24pm Greg from ZONE 5: I didn't see Katherina on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Drummers list, but she is #1 in my heart.
	3:25pm Greg from ZONE 5: Kid Millions either…
	3:25pm bloopy: hey scott, been missing ya show for a few weeks! good sounds
	3:28pm northguineahills: Just saw Kid Millions two weeks ago. Always fun!
	3:28pm Clay: Henry Flynt, now there's a story. I wonder how many people know that he was Henry Ford's grandson? Taking his name from Henry Ford and the city of Flint (Flynt) - Henry Flynt (real name, Archibald Ford) tried to make a go of music, but never really cobbled together anything but the most tenuous of careers and music that appealed to no more than a few crazed zealots. I met him at a Shakey's Pizza in Pontiac, Michigan, circa 1979. By that time, I was already an "old man" in a rock music context, but I was on the road playing 4th 'bone for a version of Buddy Miles Electric Flag. Buddy was no longer in the band at that time. He had been replaced by his cousin, Minnie Miles. She weighed no more than 80 lbs and stood 4'-9" in high heels, but she was a severe taskmaster and a frenetic, nervous little drummer. Anyway, Henry Flynt wasn't doing so well at this time. As I recall, he was trying to make a living as a drawbridge oiler, but things were not going well as openings in that field were few and far between. One would think his famous family might have stepped in, but they had shunned him some months earlier when he refused to head up a new automotive division developing what would become the ill-fated Pontiac Sunbird. When I met Henry Flynt at Shakee's, he was the Assistant Manager. However, he had little interest in pizza and he could more often be found going table to table selling a little money-making gadget he called the "Flynt-Roller" which removed threads and other debris from one's fine clothing. I bought one and kind of shoo'd him away as he was not a pleasant man to deal with. He had a very high, nasally voice and he tended to poke people in the chest when making a point. To be honest, I never saw him after that. I never heard of him until now, on this playlist. Another footnote in musical history.
	3:30pm Clay: And Lyle's secret is out (accidentally) ... sigh. It was me! Good show Scott.
	3:31pm Cliff: Lyle was Clay all along, that makes a lot of sense in retrospect
	3:32pm JP from KC: It's ok, Cliff. In a way, we wera all Lyle... in a way.
	3:32pm Scott Williams: Thanks CP! Whoops - Lyle's fun, keep him around
	🧩 3:33pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Lyle, @Clay - Paul Harvey's voice is in my head for this: "And now you know the rest of the story!"
	3:33pm glenn: i liked the tao of lyle.
	3:33pm Greg from ZONE 5: No way is his real story better than his fake story.
	3:34pm Cliff: He can now be a regularly-occuring character on the Clay Pigeon show! Or he could kibbitz with Fabio (if you can get him to play along)
	3:35pm glenn: what's next? will irwin out himself as the old codger?
	3:38pm Greg from ZONE 5: Will it finally be revealed that "Ken & Andy" are actually just one guy doing characters?
	3:38pm JP from KC: It's just a little disappointing. I didn't think we'd ever know who Lyle was until the day a news story was released about a man in his 90s dying after the floor of his apartment collapsed under the weight of his massive vinyl and brass instrument collection.
	3:40pm Clay: I felt that way when Jandek surfaced.
	3:40pm JP from KC: I'm with Cliff, though. Now that we all know, it seems like it should've been more obvious...
	3:40pm Clay: I felt that way when Jandek surfaced.
	3:41pm TDK60: Who's Lyle? I'm lost.
	3:41pm Clay: Weird computer issues today. Sorry for double-post. Mercury Retrograde? I need Feen-A-Mint or something.
	3:42pm Cliff: Oh I knew it was somebody much younger yanking all our chains, but it didn't occur to me it'd be somebody working at the station
	3:44pm JP from KC: I figured we were being had, but like Fox Mulder, I wanted to believe.
	🧩 3:45pm Ken From Hyde Park: There should be an email address like "lyle at wfmu.org" where listeners can send leads and ideas for stories like that. Then some kind of blog area where the curator could put the compilations. "Musings From Lyle" or some such title.
	3:46pm Dean: Lyre.
	3:47pm JP from KC: Well played, Dean. Well played...
	3:47pm Cecile: I knew it! I knew Lyle was Clay!!!!
	3:48pm Cecile: I just didn't have any hard evidence.
	3:49pm JP from KC: See what you've done, Clay? None of us are ready to let Lyle go. He must live on!
	3:50pm northguineahills: Crap, I'm dogsitting and need to walk my friend's dog, and my last pair of water-resistant shoes died last week, and it's beautifully chilly and wet outside.
	🧩 3:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: @TDK60 - A commenter with handle Lyle would randomly post amusing anecdotes on the message boards. Example: www.wfmu.org... at 1:53 AM.
	3:51pm Polyus: Hey so Chris Forsyth/Solar Motel Band are touring with Heron Oblivion pretty soon. That might automatically qualify as my show of the year. Too bad they aren't hitting my backwater.
	3:54pm geezerette: Lyle is pretending to be Clay pretending to be Lyle. That's my theory anyway.
	3:56pm lloyd michigan: Dogs don't need shoes.
	🧩 3:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: @geezerette - If Clay can come up with an alibi, however flimsy, I'll believe that.
	3:59pm geezerette: Flimsy works for me Ken.
	4:00pm Dean: Anybody make it to the Troubadour for Guns 'n' Roses?
	4:01pm geezerette: @lloyd m.: They don't need them but they really,really like them.
	4:01pm Cecile: flying lizards are six kinds of awesome
	4:01pm JP from KC: And if he can't come up with one, we'll do it for him. Just to keep Lyle alive!
	4:03pm Barney Grubbs: my 9 yr old daughter heard the original Curtis Move on up for the first time over the weekend--she didn't want it to end. First time that has happened in a while. I will have to try the flying lizards version out on her.
	4:03pm TDK60: Thanks Ken for the orientation. My life is now back in order.
	4:06pm geezerette: @Dean: Did you go? What was that like?
	4:07pm Clay: I was told by a friend that I'd better check out the AccuPlaylist. Can I just say ... who the hell is LYLE? And who is saying it's me??? As for G'NR at the Troubador, that is VERY exciting! I guess the reunion will all implode before long, but they said that about Trump, too.
	4:08pm Dean: @geezerette: No, and I was kinda joking, figuring odds are against anybody having gone. I confess I peaked at some clandestine YT videos. They did not seem to be in top form, but maybe you had to be there. Seriously, though, word is Metallica is playing a record store here in town in the near future.
	4:08pm geezerette: Yay Clay!!! Keep it going man!!!
	4:08pm Cliff: Lyle's this guy that's been telling fantastical stories, I'll be he was pretending to impersonate you to gain some credibility Clay
	4:08pm glenn: nice save attempt, lyle. er, clay.
	4:09pm geezerette: @Dean: Assuming that would be Amoeba.
	4:10pm Dean: Close. One block north, Rasputin.
	4:10pm geezerette: @Cliff: Exactly!
	4:11pm Cliff: Hey, it's that crazy German New Wave comp again! I love this stuff.
	4:16pm βrian: I once heard a BBC presenter make reference to a band called "Meta-Licker."
	4:17pm βrian: We used to play this one in the kid's nursery during nap time.
	4:19pm glenn: okay, can i just say that creme fraiche mixed with maple syrup is beyond fabulous.
	4:20pm DreamCricket: Rainy and Brainy
	4:24pm Tommy Haynes: It's snowing today ..in the WMFU area
	🧩 4:25pm Matt from Springfield: The Jim Morrison Robots?? Hi Scott and folks! No snow here - humid, overcast and sprinkling!
	🧩 4:28pm Matt from Springfield: Aw man, missed Flying Lizards! "Move On Up" is great - their "Sex Machine" also kicks ass! "Go ahead!"
	🧩 4:30pm Matt from Springfield: And I agree - Lyle should record parts for the Dusty Show, talking about his past experiences from the rock world! :)
	4:33pm Rich in Washington: I feel kinda dumb admitting this, but the first time I heard this track on the radio, I thought "Black Sabbath's Changes was a cover song?". He pulled it off so convincingly.
	🧩 4:34pm Matt from Springfield: Considering the Daptone label, I'm not surprised - they take "authentic" to the next level!
	4:36pm geezerette: Wonder what Lyle thinks about new Miles Davis & Chet Baker movies. I'm sure he worked with both of them,maybe at the same time. :)
	4:39pm βrian: Scott Walker, thy name is anathema. Sorry.
	4:44pm Greg from ZONE 5: ISB was at FMU? Jeez oh man!
	4:44pm Polyus: I didn't know Dalek still existed.
	🧩 4:45pm Matt from Springfield: I want a Dalek for--April.
	4:47pm Scott Williams: @Z5Greg, indeed they were! Well, Mike Heron & Clive Palmer, anyway - no Robin. @Polyus, funny I was wondering the same thing pretty recently - they are!
	4:52pm Bas NL: Hi Scott! Great track by NWW!
	4:53pm Scott Williams: Hello Bas!
	4:54pm Cliff: Yep, I also heard this one on Daniel Blumin's show, good stuff
	🧩 4:54pm Matt from Springfield: You'd literally go to the end of the earth (finis terra) to find this! Also: totally dig the "United Jnana" label name.
	4:55pm Scott Williams: Awww, that Blumin beats me to every punch - even birth! just barely...
	🧩 4:55pm Matt from Springfield: Scott: does Daniel B. have almost the same birthday as you?
	🧩 4:57pm Matt from Springfield: Jnana is a Hindu concept of "knowledge", but what really wow-ed me was the common Indo-European roots for knowledge across many different languages: "The root jñā- is cognate to English know, as well as to the Greek γνώ- (as in γνῶσις gnosis). Its antonym is ajñāna "ignorance"." And even Latin coGNition was borrowed from that same Greek/IE "gno". Amazing stuff!
	4:58pm Scott Williams: @Matt, yep
	5:00pm geezerette: Matt,so interesting,kind of encouraging even.
	5:00pm βrian: Yes, and the french 'cogner' which means to bang or strike against ..... Well, maybe not.
	5:00pm Parq: Been following all the remembrances of Getatchew Mekurya and his show with the Ex at Lincoln Center in 2008. I was there too, and endorse what everyone else has said about what a great show it was. One thing I remember is how a huge number of Ethiopian nationals turned out to see Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete (who were also great --Mahmoud particularly knocked me out) and then left, allowing all of the FMU listeners and other off-off-mainstream rock rooters to stream into the good seats for the Ex.
	5:00pm Kub: I am not smart enough.
	🧩 5:01pm Matt from Springfield: "encouraging even" - YES! My feeling exactly! @Brian: To "bang ones head" with knowledge, of course. Sometimes it don't go in easily...
	5:02pm Kub: Then Play On ... what a frickin record. The Green God w/Kirwan.
	5:02pm Ghost of DuBrow: Metal health will drive you mad.
	5:04pm Cliff: "glimmer", "glamour", "grammar", and "grimoire" are all historically related as well.
	5:04pm βrian: Je me cogne la caboche contre le mur.
	5:07pm Diem Changes: Carpe Brute!
	5:08pm Bas NL: I have seen Bomino on stage three times now... i can't get enough of his incredible sounds.
	🧩 5:09pm Matt from Springfield: So jealous Bas! I'd like to see him after hearing this!
	5:09pm Sigurður: Ekkert nema tími yfir sjó
	5:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Kub: Sound like they mean it - no? @Bas NL: 'African guitar' (stupidly broad of me - but yerknow...) totally beguiles me...
	5:10pm Bas NL: (That's Bombino,, My 'b' key flew out of my keyboard!)
	🧩 5:10pm Matt from Springfield: @Cliff: Hmm, I could see that. "The word grammar is derived from Greek γραμματικὴ τέχνη (grammatikē technē), which means "art of letters", from γράμμα (gramma), "letter", itself from γράφειν (graphein), "to draw, to write". And so graphics, grapheme, and photograph also come from that root.
	5:11pm geezerette: Hey Cliff! Yeah anything that reminds us how alike we are is a very good thing. A lot of language lovers here,one of the great things about the people FMU attracts. This Bombino thing is gorgeous.
	5:12pm JP from KC: I'd like to see him, too, but instead of on stage, how about from across a Bedouin bonfire in the desert as you drink a strong homemade liquor out of a handcrafted leather canteen?
	5:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So this is TheFeelies: I need edumacatin. Seems a GunClub groove...
	🧩 5:13pm Matt from Springfield: Sounds a bit like early Dylan x hard blues. Hey RR!
	5:13pm geezerette: Matt,I love that! I draw a lot and I'm always trying to decode tagging. Visual language.
	5:14pm Bas NL: Bombino learned to play guitar by listening and playing along with to Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix..
	5:14pm geezerette: Hey JP,is that ever a great fantasy.
	🧩 5:14pm Matt from Springfield: Visual language is not only efficient communication, but an art! :)
	5:15pm Parq: Matt, yeah, I was thinking "Subterranean" too.
	5:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...by way of 'Rock'n'Roll' by VUs... @BasNL: Aw - love the source-influence-back to source thing...
	5:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...as long as yer not somewhere in the desert someone declares jihad on all music er something...
	5:16pm geezerette: Matt,high five! Bas NL,nice! RevRab,howdy!
	5:17pm JP from KC: Thanks, geezerette! I can't help it. The incomparable diversity of this station gets the creative juices flowing. Every once in a while, and probably more so on this station than anywhere else, the music just takes you places.
	5:18pm Cliff: Rev. Rabbit: Which is why Tinariwen are exiled from Timbuktu.
	5:18pm Bas NL: @Rev. R Let's hope not indeed!
	5:18pm BriJet: Helloooo!!!! me dig
	5:19pm LuLu: This is amazingness
	5:20pm geezerette: JP: Yep! Thank you Scott and all the other DJs!
	5:21pm Bas NL: One expects less after each track, but alas..
	🧩 5:22pm Matt from Springfield: @Cliff: Ugh, the state of the world...it's all cyclical I know, but sure sucks to be at the bottom of a cycle...
	🧩 5:22pm chris: <swoon> loving this, Scott! hi to you and to all!
	5:23pm Scott Williams: Glad you're into it, everyone!
	5:24pm geezerette: Glad to have this beautiful distraction.
	5:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Great book has a pocket history of collective 'Festival' - & the Conservative Religious elements opposed to it - is 'Dancing in the Streets' by Barbara Ehrenreich. Yeah - hella set.
	🧩 5:26pm Matt from Springfield: And sometimes, you just need to hear Kebekelektrik (always a good exit button).
	5:27pm BriJet: @Rev Rabbit Nov63 Looks like a cool read!
	5:28pm geezerette: Rev Rab, hadn't heard of that book,sounds great. Thanks for tip.
	5:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - chapter deals w/ Conservative Religion goes a long way towards explaining how Islam can have both Sufi Dervishes & violent extremists. She suggests Christianity similarly probably started out Ecstatic - & eventually there were Calvinists...The Conservative movements were usually together w/ Imperialists & Militarists...
	5:33pm Cecile: this is banging
	5:33pm geezerette: Oh those Chimp genes...
	5:36pm Cliff: It's not dead air, it's an impromptu performance of John Cage!
	5:36pm Cliff: And yay, Prince Rama :D
	5:37pm Cecile: Collapsing New Krishna
	5:37pm geezerette: hahaha Cliff! :)
	🧩 5:37pm Matt from Springfield: Yes, the concept is to listen quietly to your surroundings instead--and 10 seconds later have your surroundings interrupted with a flood of sound! I like it.
	5:38pm sweeks: Nice, Prince Rama put on a trippy good show
	5:38pm Cliff: Cecile: Haha, yeah I can hear that, maybe with more banging on metal things
	5:40pm geezerette: Cecile that sounds like a band name!
	5:41pm Michael in Seattle: @RR, aren't we all now awash in Christianity because Constantine believed the cross gave him power in battle ??
	5:41pm Cecile: The song reminds me of Fad Gadget's Collapsing New Buildings
	5:42pm SheWolf: this=FABBBB
	5:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @Michael: Oh - the Witches & NeoPagans all say the Patriarchal Monotheists were all originally about War Gods anyhow.
	5:43pm Cliff: You mean Collapsing New People.....whereas I thought you meant the band whose German name translates to Collapsing New Buildings
	5:47pm steve: hey people
	5:48pm Cliff: Apparently Fad Gadget did a collab w/Einstürzende Neubauten and he named that song after them so I wasn't that far off :)
	5:48pm northguineahills: W00! Third Eye Foundation!
	5:48pm khd: what are the strings that this TEF song is sampling - it's from a soundtrack, correct?
	🧩 5:49pm Matt from Springfield: Patriarchal types - so vicious towards women, and ultimately, deathly afraid of them.
	5:54pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Scotty!
	5:55pm Monica: beautiful show today, scott! a grey skies soundtrack of the first order.
	🧩 5:55pm Matt from Springfield: Oh, does Björk have her own line of prams out now?
	5:55pm geezerette: Ditto !
	5:56pm Scott Williams: Aww, thanks Monica! And you too Greg! And you too, everybody! stay warm and colorful
	5:56pm Cliff: Yep, thanks for the show today Scott!
	5:56pm Bas NL: Next week, same time! Thanks Scott!
	5:57pm geezerette: Happiness!
	🧩 5:58pm chris: grazie, Scott! molto clicky stars!
	🧩 5:59pm Matt from Springfield: Beautiful Karla Borecky, beautiful conclusion! Thanks Scott and everyone, great show, great afternoon! Have a good evening!

Scott Williams: Playlist from April 4, 2016

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