WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from August 10, 2017

Listener comments!
	9:00am bobdoesthings: goodmorning!
	9:01am Jenny: Morning Everyone!!
	9:02am steveo: hellooo!
	9:02am steveo: will have to go back and listen to that whole open
	9:02am Trouble: good morning sunshine thursday-ites!
	9:03am Sebastian: trouble!
	9:03am steveo: the medium is, apparently, operatic rap
	9:04am steveo: oh, no wait, that's Marshall McLuhan -- sorry
	9:04am Passaic River Blues: I have probably listened to this song once a fortnight since Trouble played it last Singles Going Steady. I don't care if McLaren was a titanic asshole--this is so good. @Steveo: Quip acquitted nicely.
	9:05am jess: dies anything suck more than losing your debit card?
	9:05am steveo: ;)
	9:06am melinda: Hi Trouble and all!
	9:06am glenn: lots of things suck more than that. replacing a debit card is pretty simple. replacing 5 k in cash ain't so easy.
	9:07am adampsyche: wow that's a nice song, thanks trouble!
	9:07am melinda: @Passaic I agree!
	9:07am jaime sommers: Great Opening! Love the thursday vibe!
	9:09am Passaic River Blues: @Melinda: hello there! I'm going to be in Portland and Casco Bay this coming week, by the way. I am pretty excited.
	9:09am paul: Duck for the oyster!
	9:10am The Oscar: Is it time yet to reevaluate Malcolm McLaren? Despite being, by all accounts, a terrible person, his impact on both punk and dance is pretty incalculable.
	9:11am Bill W: G'morning, Trouble! I visited M McLaren's grave in London last fall (not far from Karl Marx's in Highgate). RIP Glen.
	9:12am Itzall Ablurr: Good morning, Trouble!
	9:12am karen eliot: good morning! glen sang such sad songs.
	9:12am The Oscar: True fact: the writer of this song would later appear as a crazy old poet in a French maid's uniform in Harmony Korine's TRASH HUMPERS.
	9:13am John in Bklyn: Why can't HE give her the good life?!
	9:14am neanderthalhead: That Campbell track was Scott Walker-esque.
	9:14am Bill W: Beyond his means...
	9:14am John in Bklyn: I mean, if he has the self-awareness to notice all that.
	9:15am John in Bklyn: Lineman didn't make good coin in Wichita, I guess.
	9:15am Itzall Ablurr: John, I always took that line to mean that he was extremely appreciative of what she "had" before "giving it up" for a life with... him. An humble statement, in my opinion- she probably DID have a very, very good life with him. Too serious for the morning?
	9:15am John in Bklyn: What's a lineman anyway?
	9:16am MD: dreams of the everyday housewife...!!!! Free at Last...Free at last...Free at last!!! MAYBE???
	9:16am MD: GOOD MORNING ALL!!!
	9:16am Itzall Ablurr: And, from what I gathered, they never had kids, so they MUST have been happy. ; )
	9:17am John in Bklyn: @Itzall Not at all. That's a good read!
	9:17am sugarwolf: Good morning
	9:19am steveo: is this the Happy Valley verison?
	9:20am Itzall Ablurr: Haha. Thanks, John. I'm still pretty wound up after the commute and lyrical analysis and deconstruction has such a calming effect on me. Well, that and a few more cups of office coffee.
	9:21am Trouble: bonjour sugarwolf! a lineman checks the rail lines to make sure they are passable for trains, i imagine. example: "if it snows that stretch down south won't stand the strain." if we evaluated every artists or musician by their asshole quotient there would be very few that make the cut. malcolm was a huge innovator, and a super jerk. those two are not mutually exclusive.
	9:21am melinda: @Passaic hope you have a swell time!
	9:22am paul: A lineman works on telephone lines.
	9:22am Bill W: I always thought he was a telephone lineman...
	9:22am glenn: nope. a lineman works on the power lines. essentially an electrician.
	9:22am Trouble: btw, until 8:59 i had no idea the opening set would start so heavy. the total eclipse of the heart must be guiding me...
	9:23am melinda: What did McLaren do to deserve the asshole/jerk rep? I've always heard he is one but don't know the details.
	9:23am John in Bklyn: I used to think he was a lineman on a football team!
	9:23am neanderthalhead: "Still on the line" suggests phone lines, but electrical is possible.
	9:23am Bill W: "I hear you singin' in the wire..."
	9:23am paul: I will defer to glenn.
	9:24am paul: But Bill makes a good point.
	9:24am neanderthalhead: Jimmy Webb wrote some fine tunes, that's for sure.
	9:25am Trouble: indeed, it is about telephone poles. and some other very cool things... americansongwriter.com...
	9:25am neanderthalhead: Phone lines - what a quaint notion.
	9:26am melinda: I assumed lineman was a rail thing, too. Maybe because there's a stronger tradition of train songs than phone repair ballads, but I'm terrible w/lyrics so I'm sure I missed the obvious cues.
	9:26am paul: Telephone lines. Final answer.
	9:26am Trouble: today's fab art work is by Etel adnan, a lebanese-american poet, and visual artist
	9:27am paul: Thanks for clearing that up, Trouble.
	9:28am John in Bklyn: The sad part is, he left the Everyday Housewife for Tanya Tucker.
	9:28am glenn: the phone line metaphor definitely works better than a metaphor about 600 volts a.c.
	9:29am The Oscar: @melinda I think a lot of it has to do with the way he handled the Sex Pistols, taking the lion's share of the credit (he claimed "Johnny Rotten" and "Sid Vicious" were characters he created), trying to keep milking it after the band split, exploiting Sid's death, etc. Also, his "concept" behind Bow Wow Wow was decidedly skeezy.
	9:29am Adrian in London: Good morning/afternoon all…
	9:31am The Oscar: That said, I DO think he deserves a lot of credit for getting the Pistols started and dominating the media. I feel like his and Lydon's accounts are sort of a Rashomon-type thing, and we may never actually know who was responsible for what.
	9:33am steveo: Was Campbell a jerk too? Is that why he only got a one-track tribute and it was a creepy, dated take on housewives?
	9:42am bobdoesthings: TIL - alternative abbreviation of NSA = No Suckas Allowed
	9:48am bobdoesthings: was recently at a local record shop in my hood.. and saw a Helado Negro album on the wall with a note that said "Local Artist! Roberto Lange!" I had no idea he lived in my area in Brooklyn..
	9:49am Trouble: true dat@bobdoesthings
	9:50am annie: routine is all agog, i'm here, but cleaning the house. good morning all!! almost finished moving into my lady-cave.
	9:55am John in Bklyn: Uh oh, here we go.
	9:56am MD: every FMU DJ should play this today...GLEN WE HARDLY KNEW YE!!!
	9:57am The Oscar: For many years, my brain confused "Wichita Lineman" and "Tennessee Birdwalk." I have no explanation or excuse for this.
	9:57am Trouble: www.youtube.com...
	9:57am choggie: R.I.P. Glen Campbell
	9:58am Listener Gregory: Fantastic opening set, Trouble. You really kept me guessing.
	9:59am Priscilla: Alzheimers — he had an amazing voice.
	9:59am MD: hair helumt!!!
	10:00am bobdoesthings: his hair at 1:58 is choice!
	10:00am Waking Bacon: Aug 10 at 10
	10:01am choggie: Little Feet??
	10:01am Listener Gregory: An important part of Glen Campbell's legacy is his TV show, which I watched as a tot. It brought some high quality country and folk music to the masses, which was unusual at the time. And yes, his hair was awesome. I knew that even then.
	10:01am steveo: the other HH track(s?) were there before...
	10:02am melinda: That hair represents counterculture gone mainstream (a conservative variant of 'long' hair). Seems like a lot of country musicians in the 70s had some variation of it.
	10:06am Itzall Ablurr: melinda, when even Elvis the "P" had long hair, you KNEW the trend was dead. And I loved that guy, but he was seriously out of step toward the end of his days.
	10:08am jaime sommers: dig the selection
	10:09am themutante: Love this!
	10:09am neanderthalhead: Alice on Glenn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6q2hsdXenQ
	10:11am steveo: Thursday 07 September 2017 Kevin Morby Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, US
	10:11am fm Mike: I thought today was Friday, and was expecting to hear Marty McSorley xD But I'm happy to hear you Trouble :)
	10:13am steveo: some nerve you have, following up that excellent, delightful, and interesting first set with this gorgeous (thus far) second set
	10:14am melinda: @Itzall yeah. As a kid, late Elvis was the only Elvis I knew, and didn't understand why everyone thought he was so great.
	10:19am Trouble: thanks @listener gregory & @steveo. i also kept myself guessing in that opening set. 5 hours of sleep is NOT enough to do early morning radio
	10:20am Serpico: this is indeed the modern world with lots of trouble :)
	10:21am bobdoesthings: ugh 5 hours is not enough for anything... I tried to get a full 8 hours last night but I think my cat was onto my plan and decided to start knocking things off my desk to wake me up at 5:50 am... ughhh.. but the jokes on him I meditated and went on a long early morning walk in the park to compensate.
	10:22am Serpico: @Trouble it is recommended that adults have at least 7 hours of sleep per day..at least that's what i heard :)
	10:23am fm Mike: Ohhhhhhhh this is Howlin' Wolf!
	10:23am glenn: i read an article yesterday that says there's 35,000 elvis impersonators in the world. that seems low to me.
	10:26am fm Mike: Lol
	10:28am Serpico: probably 35,000 elvis "costello" impersonators. elvis presley impersonators should be higher.
	10:31am Trouble: 5 hours is NOT my usual fair, I am a huge fan of sleeping! I try for minimum of 7, and am not afraid of 9. my own damn fault, went to bed late and then read for over an hour. lost in a book, that's my defense...
	10:33am Priscilla: Saw one of these shows at BAM — Stephen Merritt was enclosed in a plexiglas room. Someone said he had hearing trouble.
	10:33am Adrian in London: @Trouble Which book? I'm currently reading Edna O'Brien's autobiog, Country Girls, which is very good, and Jenny Landreth's Swell, A Waterbiography, about the history of women swimming.
	10:33am Serpico: @Trouble i am a big fan of sleeping as well ;)
	10:33am Megaroni: Making my Thursday morning so much cooler! You're great Trouble :)
	10:33am themutante: The magnificent Magnetic Fields.
	10:34am glenn: maybe those are the official impersonators, and all the rest are bootleg elvises. elvisi?
	10:35am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, gang!
	10:36am Trouble: loved that autobio @adrian! i am reading small admissions by amy poeppel. silly and laugh out loud fun.
	10:36am Priscilla: These country songs keep bringing up the image of Ruth Langmore from Ozark.
	10:36am Serpico: or perhaps those are only one half of the elvisi. there 50's era elvis and then comeback elvis so the article may have only included one type.
	10:38am Itzall Ablurr: Where are the "Jim Dandy Mangrum" impersonators (besides David Lee Roth, I mean)?!? It is TIME.
	10:39am glenn: i've never seen a 50's era fake elvis. they're always old fat drug addled elvis.
	10:40am Serpico: @glenn hah true!
	10:41am glenn: collingwoodelvisfestival.com
	10:41am themutante: You are adorable, Trubz!
	10:41am annie: in case any of you want some theater seats for free...in harlem... there's a CL post ...i just saw a post on FB...
	10:41am melinda: Absent-minded dog walker does sound funny.
	10:42am Vivian: Darn it, I missed the end of book talk. I got the title but the author?
	10:45am themutante: Love this. Tom Ze with those feels.
	10:45am themutante: Amazing bass.
	10:48am fm Mike: Trouble have you heard the music of Sevdaliza?
	10:48am steveo: lack of sleep may not feel good but maybe it's put you in an dreamlike record-picking trance of some sort
	10:49am ɨkɛ: At work, I keep running across all kinds of interesting (and also all kinds of terrible) recently released and yet-to-be-released books. There are way too many things to actually read. This one looks like it might be good, if I can just find the time: www.amazon.com...
	10:50am steveo: watching glen campbell play this synth solo on his guitar (with choice hair)
	10:51am Trouble: @vivian www.amypoeppel.com...
	10:51am Trouble: no i haven't @ FM MIKE
	10:54am Itzall Ablurr: "TISH!"
	10:55am fm Mike: Oooo, spooky beginning! @ Trouble, OH MY GOD HER VOICE IS AMAZING!!! www.youtube.com... is her song "Human"
	10:55am Adrian in London: @Trouble @FM MIKE I saw Sevdaliza her play in London earlier this year and it was one of the best gigs I've seen in ages. She is UTTERLY AMAZING!! And Mike's right, Human is stunning.
	10:59am steveo: @ike, I reserved a copy of Riencarnation Blues, because why not
	10:59am Trouble: merci@fm mike and adrian, i will look her up!
	10:59am themutante: What a voice!
	10:59am Vivian: Thank you, Trouble. Love the show for it's music and book recommendations.
	10:59am fm Mike: Adrian in London YOU SAW SEVDALIZA PERFORM?!?!?!? <3 <3 <3
	11:00am bobdoesthings: gorgeous voice on this aldous harding lady... not sure about the decision of having children screaming "hey!" on the hit.. really detracts the tone
	11:01am thriftstoreleather: wow! this song is great, then the sax comes in! super nice!
	11:01am ⓔⓘⓚ: @steveo, cool! Let me know what you think! I may not get to it in this life, LOL.
	11:02am steveo: Ditto, Small Admissions.
	11:02am fm Mike: The sax reminds me of The Zutons :)
	11:03am Adrian in London: @FM Mike: I did, yes, in a 250-capacity club near London Bridge. And I'm seeing her again in November. She played NYC a few weeks ago too. She's playing various European dates in November.
	11:03am themutante: Love a restrained sax.
	11:04am steveo: @ike will do; I see that we have communicated re: wfmu radio frequency pirates via twitter ... (I am @eveostay there...)
	11:05am ɛɨk: On the downside of publishing, there are an infinite number of gross billionaire romances that make me want to vomit. And there's at least 2 or 3 made-up-sounding Scandinavian self-help rip-offs of Hygge coming up the pike! If I had time, I'd write some parodies of those. "Lämpiimämpii: Learn the Finnish art of jazz-funk dancing in your underwear to beat stress and instantly remove ticks!"
	11:13am steveo: from mclaren to mclaurin!
	11:13am fm Mike: @Adrian that's awesome. Ah yeah, I saw her tour dates. She won't be back in the States in a while xD
	11:16am emily: just checkin' in. been out. hellooo!
	11:18am fm Mike: Hello emily!
	11:20am Trouble: cool: www.eclipse.aaq.org.au...
	11:21am Itzall Ablurr: Sandhill cranes!
	11:24am Itzall Ablurr: That was a very good Emergency Alert announcement, definitely a contender. Better than Ken's, pretty tight race with Irwin...
	11:24am The Oscar: Aw, Rob Noyes! We used to work together in the record store trenches. Great guy.
	11:34am fm Mike: I KNOW THAT RIFF! I KNOW THAT RIFF! Gorillaz sampled it :D
	11:34am Whosondephone: I almost can't believe I'm hearing this right now.
	11:36am BronwynB: hello trouble and troubled friends
	11:41am kevlicki: Good morning Trouble from Mexico City
	11:41am kevlicki: O buenas días
	11:42am steveo: la mala es bunea
	11:46am steveo: Kev: que quiere decir "el enden"?
	11:47am Trouble: bueno kevlicki! so jealous!!
	11:51am fm Mike: I love your show Trouble. It can be so soothing, yet so energetic.
	11:52am Julia Anne Colette: This is absolute heaven
	11:53am blee: Wow, this is beautiful.
	11:54am bobdoesthings: great show, so many clicky stars, thanks trouble!
	11:54am Trouble: thanks for all the good words, enjoy the eclipse! i will see you in 2 weeks.
	11:55am bobdoesthings: did you mention who is doing your fill-ins? or don't'cha know?
	11:57am steveo: thanks for a (-nother) great show, trouble; it went so quickly...
	11:57am Passaic River Blues: Thank you!
	11:59am ⓘⓚⓔ: Thanks Trubz! @BDT, John Allen! wfmu.org...
	11:59am bobdoesthings: thanks ike!
	12:00pm bobdoesthings: I forget that that fill-in page exists
	12:00pm Adrian in London: Thanks!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from August 10, 2017

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A viking ship appears on the horizon, a likeness of Alice Coltrane carved into its bow. Rare birds flock together to sing Francoise Hardy as soul hits. A sunset of blips and bleeps fills the air.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	New	Approx. start time
Chuck Roberts	in the beginning (a capella)	my house	starville record company			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
malcolm mclaren	madam butterfly "madam butterfly" by "malcolm mclaren"	fans	island records			0:01:30 (Pop-up)
malcolm mclaren and the world famous supreme team	buffalo gals ( scratch version)	buffalo gals	island			0:08:30 (Pop-up)
glen campbell	dreams of the everyday housewife	greatest hits	Capitol			0:11:14 (Pop-up)
Herbie Hancock	trust me "trust me" by "Herbie Hancock"	feets don't fail me now	columbia			0:13:59 (Pop-up)
eddy grant	it's all in you "it's all in you" by "eddy grant"	killer on the rampage	cbs			0:35:04 (Pop-up)
herbie hancock	chameleon "chameleon" by "herbie hancock"	head hunters	columbia			1:05:35 (Pop-up)
grandmaster flash	you know what time it is	you know what time it is	elektra	12"		0:40:47 (Pop-up)
clare fischer	Morning "Morning" by "clare fischer"	A Gozar! Latin Grooves on Blue Note (various artists)	blue note			0:42:34 (Pop-up)
helado negro	runaround (alternate mix)	private energy	RVNG International		*	0:46:03 (Pop-up)
freddy	noche de ronda "noche de ronda" by "freddy"	La Voz Del Sentimiento	antilla			0:50:23 (Pop-up)
glen campbell	wichita lineman live	tv show	glen campbell			0:54:35 (Pop-up)

freakwater	bolshevik and bollweevil	Scheherazade	bloodshot			1:02:52 (Pop-up)
kevin morby	city music "city music" by "kevin morby"	city music	dead oceans		*	1:07:16 (Pop-up)
Patsy Cline	lovesick blues "lovesick blues" by "Patsy Cline"	crazy dreams	sony			1:13:43 (Pop-up)
los wembler's de iquitos	Sonido Amazonico	ikarp del amor	barbes		*	1:15:39 (Pop-up)
howlin' wolf	how many more years "how many more years" by "howlin' wolf"	Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll v/a	yep roc			1:21:19 (Pop-up)
valerie june feat jimbo mathus and amy la vere	sure to fall ( in love with you)	Red Hot: A Memphis Celebration of Sun Records	Americana Music Society		*	1:24:41 (Pop-up)
bee gees	melody fair "melody fair" by "bee gees"	Odessa (Deluxe Edition)	reprise			1:27:16 (Pop-up)
the magnetic fields	ghosts of the marathon dancers	50 Song Memoir	nonesuch		*	1:30:30 (Pop-up)
helen hall	something special "something special" by "helen hall"	The Gals of the Big "D" Jamboree	dragon street records			1:33:29 (Pop-up)

Tom Zé	Correio Da Estacao do Bras	brazil 70	soul jazz records			1:42:00 (Pop-up)
TCP	at the waterhole (wolf muller edit)	Tropic Drums of Deutschland	music for dreams	Vinyl	*	1:45:52 (Pop-up)
michel legrand	magnificat "magnificat" by "michel legrand"	Qui etes-vous Polly Maggoo?	warner chappel france	7"		1:50:19 (Pop-up)
claude lombard	petit frere "petit frere" by "claude lombard"	chante	sommor records		*	1:53:01 (Pop-up)
aldous harding	imagining my man "imagining my man" by "aldous harding"	party	4ad		*	1:55:10 (Pop-up)
breathers	don't it make you feel "don't it make you feel" by "breathers"	seafaring strangers: private yacht	numero	Vinyl	*	2:00:57 (Pop-up)
alexander	no title "no title" by "alexander"	rob noyes/alexander	c/s	7"	*	2:05:05 (Pop-up)
Bette McLaurin	you're the greatest	Hits and Misses - Muhammad Ali and the Ultimate Sound of Fistfighting	trikont		*	2:09:57 (Pop-up)
barbara jones	trains and boats and planes	you're always on my mind	dynamic			2:12:15 (Pop-up)
The Mauskovic Dance Band	weather "weather" by "The Mauskovic Dance Band"	repeating nigh tb/w weather	bongo joe	7"	*	2:16:46 (Pop-up)

terry and the tunisians	tom-tom "tom-tom" by "terry and the tunisians"	Femme Pop From the President Vault	president			2:25:52 (Pop-up)
saint etienne	out of my mind "out of my mind" by "saint etienne"	home counties	heavenly /pias		*	2:29:35 (Pop-up)
gorillaz	slow country strictly rub a dub	space monkeyz versus gorillaz-laika come home	emi			2:31:10 (Pop-up)
nite jewel	in the nite "in the nite" by "nite jewel"	real high	gloriette records		*	2:35:11 (Pop-up)
adanowsky	Un Sol Con Corazon "Un Sol Con Corazon" by "adanowsky"	amor	adan jodorowsky			2:38:11 (Pop-up)
bajofondo w/ mala rodriguez	el enden	mardulce	decca			2:40:22 (Pop-up)

Michael Stearns	As the Earth Kissed the Moon (excerpt)	I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990 (V/A)	light inthe attic			2:47:08 (Pop-up)
deux filles	drinking at a stream "drinking at a stream" by "deux filles"	Silence & Wisdom / Double Happiness	LTMrecordings			2:53:52 (Pop-up)
TAL SOUNDS	DISGRACE "DISGRACE" by "TAL SOUNDS"	love sick	badabing!		*	2:58:28 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:00am bobdoesthings: goodmorning!
	9:01am Jenny: Morning Everyone!!
	9:02am steveo: hellooo!
	9:02am steveo: will have to go back and listen to that whole open
	9:02am Trouble: good morning sunshine thursday-ites!
	9:03am Sebastian: trouble!
	9:03am steveo: the medium is, apparently, operatic rap
	9:04am steveo: oh, no wait, that's Marshall McLuhan -- sorry
	9:04am Passaic River Blues: I have probably listened to this song once a fortnight since Trouble played it last Singles Going Steady. I don't care if McLaren was a titanic asshole--this is so good. @Steveo: Quip acquitted nicely.
	9:05am jess: dies anything suck more than losing your debit card?
	9:05am steveo: ;)
	9:06am melinda: Hi Trouble and all!
	9:06am glenn: lots of things suck more than that. replacing a debit card is pretty simple. replacing 5 k in cash ain't so easy.
	9:07am adampsyche: wow that's a nice song, thanks trouble!
	9:07am melinda: @Passaic I agree!
	9:07am jaime sommers: Great Opening! Love the thursday vibe!
	9:09am Passaic River Blues: @Melinda: hello there! I'm going to be in Portland and Casco Bay this coming week, by the way. I am pretty excited.
	9:09am paul: Duck for the oyster!
	9:10am The Oscar: Is it time yet to reevaluate Malcolm McLaren? Despite being, by all accounts, a terrible person, his impact on both punk and dance is pretty incalculable.
	9:11am Bill W: G'morning, Trouble! I visited M McLaren's grave in London last fall (not far from Karl Marx's in Highgate). RIP Glen.
	9:12am Itzall Ablurr: Good morning, Trouble!
	9:12am karen eliot: good morning! glen sang such sad songs.
	9:12am The Oscar: True fact: the writer of this song would later appear as a crazy old poet in a French maid's uniform in Harmony Korine's TRASH HUMPERS.
	9:13am John in Bklyn: Why can't HE give her the good life?!
	9:14am neanderthalhead: That Campbell track was Scott Walker-esque.
	9:14am Bill W: Beyond his means...
	9:14am John in Bklyn: I mean, if he has the self-awareness to notice all that.
	9:15am John in Bklyn: Lineman didn't make good coin in Wichita, I guess.
	9:15am Itzall Ablurr: John, I always took that line to mean that he was extremely appreciative of what she "had" before "giving it up" for a life with... him. An humble statement, in my opinion- she probably DID have a very, very good life with him. Too serious for the morning?
	9:15am John in Bklyn: What's a lineman anyway?
	9:16am MD: dreams of the everyday housewife...!!!! Free at Last...Free at last...Free at last!!! MAYBE???
	9:16am MD: GOOD MORNING ALL!!!
	9:16am Itzall Ablurr: And, from what I gathered, they never had kids, so they MUST have been happy. ; )
	9:17am John in Bklyn: @Itzall Not at all. That's a good read!
	9:17am sugarwolf: Good morning
	9:19am steveo: is this the Happy Valley verison?
	9:20am Itzall Ablurr: Haha. Thanks, John. I'm still pretty wound up after the commute and lyrical analysis and deconstruction has such a calming effect on me. Well, that and a few more cups of office coffee.
	9:21am Trouble: bonjour sugarwolf! a lineman checks the rail lines to make sure they are passable for trains, i imagine. example: "if it snows that stretch down south won't stand the strain." if we evaluated every artists or musician by their asshole quotient there would be very few that make the cut. malcolm was a huge innovator, and a super jerk. those two are not mutually exclusive.
	9:21am melinda: @Passaic hope you have a swell time!
	9:22am paul: A lineman works on telephone lines.
	9:22am Bill W: I always thought he was a telephone lineman...
	9:22am glenn: nope. a lineman works on the power lines. essentially an electrician.
	9:22am Trouble: btw, until 8:59 i had no idea the opening set would start so heavy. the total eclipse of the heart must be guiding me...
	9:23am melinda: What did McLaren do to deserve the asshole/jerk rep? I've always heard he is one but don't know the details.
	9:23am John in Bklyn: I used to think he was a lineman on a football team!
	9:23am neanderthalhead: "Still on the line" suggests phone lines, but electrical is possible.
	9:23am Bill W: "I hear you singin' in the wire..."
	9:23am paul: I will defer to glenn.
	9:24am paul: But Bill makes a good point.
	9:24am neanderthalhead: Jimmy Webb wrote some fine tunes, that's for sure.
	9:25am Trouble: indeed, it is about telephone poles. and some other very cool things... americansongwriter.com...
	9:25am neanderthalhead: Phone lines - what a quaint notion.
	9:26am melinda: I assumed lineman was a rail thing, too. Maybe because there's a stronger tradition of train songs than phone repair ballads, but I'm terrible w/lyrics so I'm sure I missed the obvious cues.
	9:26am paul: Telephone lines. Final answer.
	9:26am Trouble: today's fab art work is by Etel adnan, a lebanese-american poet, and visual artist
	9:27am paul: Thanks for clearing that up, Trouble.
	9:28am John in Bklyn: The sad part is, he left the Everyday Housewife for Tanya Tucker.
	9:28am glenn: the phone line metaphor definitely works better than a metaphor about 600 volts a.c.
	9:29am The Oscar: @melinda I think a lot of it has to do with the way he handled the Sex Pistols, taking the lion's share of the credit (he claimed "Johnny Rotten" and "Sid Vicious" were characters he created), trying to keep milking it after the band split, exploiting Sid's death, etc. Also, his "concept" behind Bow Wow Wow was decidedly skeezy.
	9:29am Adrian in London: Good morning/afternoon all…
	9:31am The Oscar: That said, I DO think he deserves a lot of credit for getting the Pistols started and dominating the media. I feel like his and Lydon's accounts are sort of a Rashomon-type thing, and we may never actually know who was responsible for what.
	9:33am steveo: Was Campbell a jerk too? Is that why he only got a one-track tribute and it was a creepy, dated take on housewives?
	9:42am bobdoesthings: TIL - alternative abbreviation of NSA = No Suckas Allowed
	9:48am bobdoesthings: was recently at a local record shop in my hood.. and saw a Helado Negro album on the wall with a note that said "Local Artist! Roberto Lange!" I had no idea he lived in my area in Brooklyn..
	9:49am Trouble: true dat@bobdoesthings
	9:50am annie: routine is all agog, i'm here, but cleaning the house. good morning all!! almost finished moving into my lady-cave.
	9:55am John in Bklyn: Uh oh, here we go.
	9:56am MD: every FMU DJ should play this today...GLEN WE HARDLY KNEW YE!!!
	9:57am The Oscar: For many years, my brain confused "Wichita Lineman" and "Tennessee Birdwalk." I have no explanation or excuse for this.
	9:57am Trouble: www.youtube.com...
	9:57am choggie: R.I.P. Glen Campbell
	9:58am Listener Gregory: Fantastic opening set, Trouble. You really kept me guessing.
	9:59am Priscilla: Alzheimers — he had an amazing voice.
	9:59am MD: hair helumt!!!
	10:00am bobdoesthings: his hair at 1:58 is choice!
	10:00am Waking Bacon: Aug 10 at 10
	10:01am choggie: Little Feet??
	10:01am Listener Gregory: An important part of Glen Campbell's legacy is his TV show, which I watched as a tot. It brought some high quality country and folk music to the masses, which was unusual at the time. And yes, his hair was awesome. I knew that even then.
	10:01am steveo: the other HH track(s?) were there before...
	10:02am melinda: That hair represents counterculture gone mainstream (a conservative variant of 'long' hair). Seems like a lot of country musicians in the 70s had some variation of it.
	10:06am Itzall Ablurr: melinda, when even Elvis the "P" had long hair, you KNEW the trend was dead. And I loved that guy, but he was seriously out of step toward the end of his days.
	10:08am jaime sommers: dig the selection
	10:09am themutante: Love this!
	10:09am neanderthalhead: Alice on Glenn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6q2hsdXenQ
	10:11am steveo: Thursday 07 September 2017 Kevin Morby Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, US
	10:11am fm Mike: I thought today was Friday, and was expecting to hear Marty McSorley xD But I'm happy to hear you Trouble :)
	10:13am steveo: some nerve you have, following up that excellent, delightful, and interesting first set with this gorgeous (thus far) second set
	10:14am melinda: @Itzall yeah. As a kid, late Elvis was the only Elvis I knew, and didn't understand why everyone thought he was so great.
	10:19am Trouble: thanks @listener gregory & @steveo. i also kept myself guessing in that opening set. 5 hours of sleep is NOT enough to do early morning radio
	10:20am Serpico: this is indeed the modern world with lots of trouble :)
	10:21am bobdoesthings: ugh 5 hours is not enough for anything... I tried to get a full 8 hours last night but I think my cat was onto my plan and decided to start knocking things off my desk to wake me up at 5:50 am... ughhh.. but the jokes on him I meditated and went on a long early morning walk in the park to compensate.
	10:22am Serpico: @Trouble it is recommended that adults have at least 7 hours of sleep per day..at least that's what i heard :)
	10:23am fm Mike: Ohhhhhhhh this is Howlin' Wolf!
	10:23am glenn: i read an article yesterday that says there's 35,000 elvis impersonators in the world. that seems low to me.
	10:26am fm Mike: Lol
	10:28am Serpico: probably 35,000 elvis "costello" impersonators. elvis presley impersonators should be higher.
	10:31am Trouble: 5 hours is NOT my usual fair, I am a huge fan of sleeping! I try for minimum of 7, and am not afraid of 9. my own damn fault, went to bed late and then read for over an hour. lost in a book, that's my defense...
	10:33am Priscilla: Saw one of these shows at BAM — Stephen Merritt was enclosed in a plexiglas room. Someone said he had hearing trouble.
	10:33am Adrian in London: @Trouble Which book? I'm currently reading Edna O'Brien's autobiog, Country Girls, which is very good, and Jenny Landreth's Swell, A Waterbiography, about the history of women swimming.
	10:33am Serpico: @Trouble i am a big fan of sleeping as well ;)
	10:33am Megaroni: Making my Thursday morning so much cooler! You're great Trouble :)
	10:33am themutante: The magnificent Magnetic Fields.
	10:34am glenn: maybe those are the official impersonators, and all the rest are bootleg elvises. elvisi?
	10:35am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, gang!
	10:36am Trouble: loved that autobio @adrian! i am reading small admissions by amy poeppel. silly and laugh out loud fun.
	10:36am Priscilla: These country songs keep bringing up the image of Ruth Langmore from Ozark.
	10:36am Serpico: or perhaps those are only one half of the elvisi. there 50's era elvis and then comeback elvis so the article may have only included one type.
	10:38am Itzall Ablurr: Where are the "Jim Dandy Mangrum" impersonators (besides David Lee Roth, I mean)?!? It is TIME.
	10:39am glenn: i've never seen a 50's era fake elvis. they're always old fat drug addled elvis.
	10:40am Serpico: @glenn hah true!
	10:41am glenn: collingwoodelvisfestival.com
	10:41am themutante: You are adorable, Trubz!
	10:41am annie: in case any of you want some theater seats for free...in harlem... there's a CL post ...i just saw a post on FB...
	10:41am melinda: Absent-minded dog walker does sound funny.
	10:42am Vivian: Darn it, I missed the end of book talk. I got the title but the author?
	10:45am themutante: Love this. Tom Ze with those feels.
	10:45am themutante: Amazing bass.
	10:48am fm Mike: Trouble have you heard the music of Sevdaliza?
	10:48am steveo: lack of sleep may not feel good but maybe it's put you in an dreamlike record-picking trance of some sort
	10:49am ɨkɛ: At work, I keep running across all kinds of interesting (and also all kinds of terrible) recently released and yet-to-be-released books. There are way too many things to actually read. This one looks like it might be good, if I can just find the time: www.amazon.com...
	10:50am steveo: watching glen campbell play this synth solo on his guitar (with choice hair)
	10:51am Trouble: @vivian www.amypoeppel.com...
	10:51am Trouble: no i haven't @ FM MIKE
	10:54am Itzall Ablurr: "TISH!"
	10:55am fm Mike: Oooo, spooky beginning! @ Trouble, OH MY GOD HER VOICE IS AMAZING!!! www.youtube.com... is her song "Human"
	10:55am Adrian in London: @Trouble @FM MIKE I saw Sevdaliza her play in London earlier this year and it was one of the best gigs I've seen in ages. She is UTTERLY AMAZING!! And Mike's right, Human is stunning.
	10:59am steveo: @ike, I reserved a copy of Riencarnation Blues, because why not
	10:59am Trouble: merci@fm mike and adrian, i will look her up!
	10:59am themutante: What a voice!
	10:59am Vivian: Thank you, Trouble. Love the show for it's music and book recommendations.
	10:59am fm Mike: Adrian in London YOU SAW SEVDALIZA PERFORM?!?!?!? <3 <3 <3
	11:00am bobdoesthings: gorgeous voice on this aldous harding lady... not sure about the decision of having children screaming "hey!" on the hit.. really detracts the tone
	11:01am thriftstoreleather: wow! this song is great, then the sax comes in! super nice!
	11:01am ⓔⓘⓚ: @steveo, cool! Let me know what you think! I may not get to it in this life, LOL.
	11:02am steveo: Ditto, Small Admissions.
	11:02am fm Mike: The sax reminds me of The Zutons :)
	11:03am Adrian in London: @FM Mike: I did, yes, in a 250-capacity club near London Bridge. And I'm seeing her again in November. She played NYC a few weeks ago too. She's playing various European dates in November.
	11:03am themutante: Love a restrained sax.
	11:04am steveo: @ike will do; I see that we have communicated re: wfmu radio frequency pirates via twitter ... (I am @eveostay there...)
	11:05am ɛɨk: On the downside of publishing, there are an infinite number of gross billionaire romances that make me want to vomit. And there's at least 2 or 3 made-up-sounding Scandinavian self-help rip-offs of Hygge coming up the pike! If I had time, I'd write some parodies of those. "Lämpiimämpii: Learn the Finnish art of jazz-funk dancing in your underwear to beat stress and instantly remove ticks!"
	11:13am steveo: from mclaren to mclaurin!
	11:13am fm Mike: @Adrian that's awesome. Ah yeah, I saw her tour dates. She won't be back in the States in a while xD
	11:16am emily: just checkin' in. been out. hellooo!
	11:18am fm Mike: Hello emily!
	11:20am Trouble: cool: www.eclipse.aaq.org.au...
	11:21am Itzall Ablurr: Sandhill cranes!
	11:24am Itzall Ablurr: That was a very good Emergency Alert announcement, definitely a contender. Better than Ken's, pretty tight race with Irwin...
	11:24am The Oscar: Aw, Rob Noyes! We used to work together in the record store trenches. Great guy.
	11:34am fm Mike: I KNOW THAT RIFF! I KNOW THAT RIFF! Gorillaz sampled it :D
	11:34am Whosondephone: I almost can't believe I'm hearing this right now.
	11:36am BronwynB: hello trouble and troubled friends
	11:41am kevlicki: Good morning Trouble from Mexico City
	11:41am kevlicki: O buenas días
	11:42am steveo: la mala es bunea
	11:46am steveo: Kev: que quiere decir "el enden"?
	11:47am Trouble: bueno kevlicki! so jealous!!
	11:51am fm Mike: I love your show Trouble. It can be so soothing, yet so energetic.
	11:52am Julia Anne Colette: This is absolute heaven
	11:53am blee: Wow, this is beautiful.
	11:54am bobdoesthings: great show, so many clicky stars, thanks trouble!
	11:54am Trouble: thanks for all the good words, enjoy the eclipse! i will see you in 2 weeks.
	11:55am bobdoesthings: did you mention who is doing your fill-ins? or don't'cha know?
	11:57am steveo: thanks for a (-nother) great show, trouble; it went so quickly...
	11:57am Passaic River Blues: Thank you!
	11:59am ⓘⓚⓔ: Thanks Trubz! @BDT, John Allen! wfmu.org...
	11:59am bobdoesthings: thanks ike!
	12:00pm bobdoesthings: I forget that that fill-in page exists
	12:00pm Adrian in London: Thanks!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from August 10, 2017

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