WFMU: Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from November 6, 2017

Listener comments!
	3:03am Scraps: hey hey h’lo
	♥ 3:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Dumb Chevy advertisers kept playing Seger's "Like a Rock" in their commercials. I heard that chorus way too many times from those ads.
	♥ 3:11am Fuzzy: Like A Truck
	3:17am markr: Hi everybody! Been busy with these short songs, the playlist, etc. How is everybody?
	3:19am markr: I trust you're all snapping your fingers.
	♥ 3:24am Hugo (NL): Goodmorning!
	3:27am Scraps: I like Tori Amos, but I hate her cover of Smell Like Teen Spirit, specifically because she leaves out the last verse. Why?
	3:28am markr: Well, thank God it's over, then...Morning, Hugo!
	3:30am Scraps: God, I love Hersh. She’s a reliably good one woman show, too; seen her must have been twelve times or more.
	3:39am Scraps: And in my complete love/hate comment set, like Bob Seger, like even Night Moves, but boy, hate Old Time Rock r Roll, especially when we heard it =again= because of Tom Cruise.
	♥ 3:41am pacific standard simon: I need a fricken sandwich.
	♥ 3:42am Sebastian: Good morning
	3:42am markr: I know for a fact that it was Bob's idea to sell that song to Chevy, not because he needed the money (he didn't), but because he wanted to help the Detroit auto industry. I think he's a very cool guy, he obviously has millions of fans who love his later stuff, but really, for me, I'm with him up through "Live Bullet"--which is actually one of the greatest live rock & roll albums ever--and then I'm out. Nothing after that. Bit for his previous work, he gets a lifetime pass, IMHO.
	3:44am markr: And I've said this on my show before, so not to be boring, but Bob evaluates his work exactly the opposite of me, and hates his early stuff and tries to keep it out of print, but I managed to snag copies of some of those early albums when they came out on CD briefly, so there's always the threat of some early Seger on Circle Time, just like a cloud hanging over us--it might rain, but it might not (probably won't).
	3:46am Scraps: dismayed for Abrams death. At least we heard lots of Chicago jazz in the last week
	♥ 3:46am pacific standard simon: Smokin' OPs is the best Seger album ever. I'm sure he disagrees .
	3:48am markr: Abrams was 87, so he lived a rich and full life, but it's still tough when a giant like that passes. Especially when you know he probably won't get nearly the amount of recognition that he deserved. Now if one of the Kardashians dies, stop the presses...that's all we'll hear about for a week.
	3:48am markr: BTW 28 people dead in that Texas shooting yesterday. We continue to be the stupidest country on earth.
	3:53am Scraps: I didn’t know Seger dislikes his early work so much. That’s kinda weird.
	3:55am markr: I think he considers it raw and amateurish (which is what I like), and his new stuff is more polished and mature (which is what I don't). He's entitled to his opinion, and I'm entitled to mine. And obviously, as I said, millions, and I mean millions of fans disagree with me. I read somewhere that he has the highest net worth of any musician, $87 million or something. I found that hard to believe. But I guess it's possible.
	3:55am Scraps: That first Abrams album is so great!!
	3:56am markr: It's kind of spooky that I played a track from it last week. I just played it because it sounded Halloween-y. I had no idea he had just died.
	♥ 3:56am pacific standard simon: He sounds intense. Repo Mn is always intense.
	4:00am Scraps: I don’t think millions of Seger fans diasgree with you, simply because I don’t think they’ve heard his early work.
	♥ 4:09am pacific standard simon: Well said, Scraps.
	4:11am markr: Well, I mean they disagree with me about his work from the late 70s on, which they love and I don't.
	♥ 4:18am pacific standard simon: Glenn Close. Mark? Seriously?
	4:19am markr: My brain froze for a moment. It happens. Often on the air. I knew it was Del Close lol.
	4:21am Scraps: (this is great)
	4:22am markr: Glad you're enjoying it--I'm listening to it as if I never heard it. He's a super nice guy, very accomodating.
	4:24am Vincent Nifigance: Yes, this is amazing!
	♥ 4:25am pacific standard simon: I can see that I've seen a ton of his stuff.
	4:28am Vincent Nifigance: I only found out the other day that he directed 3 episodes of 'Eerie, Indiana'!
	4:32am debt collector: Bob Weinstein? Good morning from Burlington VT
	4:32am markr: Bob Balaban
	4:33am debt collector: iPhone app playlist truncates description. Context for this interview? Date? Place?
	4:37am markr: Recent interview--conducted in Bob's office about a month ago.
	4:40am pierre: Bonjour bonjour Mark !
	4:40am markr: Bonjour, Pierre.
	4:46am Vincent Nifigance: "...a great woman, who happens to be dead right now..."
	4:47am markr: That's the way he talks--isn't it wonderful?
	4:48am Vincent Nifigance: I want him in my life.
	5:08am Scraps: When I was a child reader, I didn’t care whether the lead character was a boy or a girl. Sigh. (I was a boy, incidentally.)
	5:38am Scraps: Good topic! The first classical album you bought. Mine was George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris, Concert in F, conducted by Mitch Miller
	5:39am Scraps: Concerto, drat
	5:44am mark r: I think a version of "Rhapsody in Blue" was one of my first, too--probably among the first ten classical albums I bought. a beautiful version with Michael Tilson Thomas playing the piano. It had a bunch of other Gershwin tunes on it, too.
	5:47am Scraps: David Golub played the piano on this one
	5:54am mark r: Thanks for hanging out with me tonight, friends. Stay tuned for the one and only Clay Pigeon. (Yes, that's his real name--I've seen his birth certificate.)

Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from November 6, 2017

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Bob Seger System	Ramblin' Gamblin' Man	Ramblin' Gamblin' Man	Capitol	1969	Glenn Frey (background vocals) b. 11/6/48		0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Pere Ubu	Funk 49 "Funk 49" by "Pere Ubu"	20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo	Cherry Red		At Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday and on Brian Turner's Show Tuesday, 11/21	*	0:06:44 (Pop-up)
Dirty Fences	911 "911" by "Dirty Fences"	Goodbye Love	Greenway Records		On Todd-o-phonic Todd's show Saturday	*	0:09:50 (Pop-up)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Mosquito "Mosquito" by "Yeah Yeah Yeahs"	Mosquito	Interscope	2013	At King's Theatre in Brooklyn Tuesday--SOLD OUT :(		0:11:20 (Pop-up)
Shilpa Ray	Rockaway Blues "Rockaway Blues" by "Shilpa Ray"	Door Girl	Northern Spy		At Monty Hall Friday night--come on down!!!	*	0:12:21 (Pop-up)
Kristin Hersh	Peggy Lee "Peggy Lee" by "Kristin Hersh"	Learn To Sing Like a Star	Yep Roc	2007	At the City Vineyard on Pier 26 Tuesday		0:14:29 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lee	Fever "Fever" by "Peggy Lee"	Fever & Other Hits	CEMA Special Markets				0:17:36 (Pop-up)
Tori Amos	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Crucify EP	Atlantic	1992	At the Beacon Theatre Tuesday & Wednesday		0:20:56 (Pop-up)
Colleen	November "November" by "Colleen"	A Flame, My Love, a Frequency	Thrill Jockey			*	0:24:06 (Pop-up)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith	In The World, But Not of the World	The Kid	Western Vinyl			*	0:24:58 (Pop-up)

Jack DeJohnette	Jack Five "Jack Five" by "Jack DeJohnette"	Made in Chicago	ECM	2015	R.I.P. Muhal Richard Abrams (piano & composer) 10/29/17		0:37:16 (Pop-up)
Muhal Richard Abrams	My Thoughts Are My Future, Now and Forever	Levels and Degrees of Light	Delmark	1967			0:49:47 (Pop-up)

INTERVIEW WITH BOB BALABAN "INTERVIEW WITH BOB BALABAN"
Lee Ranaldo	Uncle Skeleton "Uncle Skeleton" by "Lee Ranaldo"	Electric Trim	Mute		At the Bell House in Brooklyn Thursday	*	2:13:09 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	All Along the Watchtower	John Wesley Harding	Capitol	1967	Recorded 11/6/67; At NYCB LIVE (formerly Nassau Coliseum) Wednesday		2:15:49 (Pop-up)
Dan Hicks & The Acoustic Warriors	Up, Up, Up	Shootin Straight	On the Spot	1994	Jim Boggio (accordion) d. 11/6/96		2:17:32 (Pop-up)
Neil Young	Powderfinger "Powderfinger" by "Neil Young"	Hitchhiker	Reprise			*	2:20:37 (Pop-up)
Ikebe Shakedown	Where the Day Breaks	The Way Home	Colemine		On Joe McGasko's show THIS MORNING!!!	*	2:23:56 (Pop-up)

Kyoko Takezawa	Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35, 1st Movement	Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev Violin Concertos	RCA Victor Red Seal	1992	Pyotr Ilych Thaikovsky d. 11/6/1893		2:33:15 (Pop-up)

Miles Davis	On Green Dolphin Street	Live in Europe 1967 - The Bootleg Series Vol. 1	Sony/Columbia	2009	Recorded at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, 11/6/67		2:53:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:03am Scraps: hey hey h’lo
	♥ 3:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Dumb Chevy advertisers kept playing Seger's "Like a Rock" in their commercials. I heard that chorus way too many times from those ads.
	♥ 3:11am Fuzzy: Like A Truck
	3:17am markr: Hi everybody! Been busy with these short songs, the playlist, etc. How is everybody?
	3:19am markr: I trust you're all snapping your fingers.
	♥ 3:24am Hugo (NL): Goodmorning!
	3:27am Scraps: I like Tori Amos, but I hate her cover of Smell Like Teen Spirit, specifically because she leaves out the last verse. Why?
	3:28am markr: Well, thank God it's over, then...Morning, Hugo!
	3:30am Scraps: God, I love Hersh. She’s a reliably good one woman show, too; seen her must have been twelve times or more.
	3:39am Scraps: And in my complete love/hate comment set, like Bob Seger, like even Night Moves, but boy, hate Old Time Rock r Roll, especially when we heard it =again= because of Tom Cruise.
	♥ 3:41am pacific standard simon: I need a fricken sandwich.
	♥ 3:42am Sebastian: Good morning
	3:42am markr: I know for a fact that it was Bob's idea to sell that song to Chevy, not because he needed the money (he didn't), but because he wanted to help the Detroit auto industry. I think he's a very cool guy, he obviously has millions of fans who love his later stuff, but really, for me, I'm with him up through "Live Bullet"--which is actually one of the greatest live rock & roll albums ever--and then I'm out. Nothing after that. Bit for his previous work, he gets a lifetime pass, IMHO.
	3:44am markr: And I've said this on my show before, so not to be boring, but Bob evaluates his work exactly the opposite of me, and hates his early stuff and tries to keep it out of print, but I managed to snag copies of some of those early albums when they came out on CD briefly, so there's always the threat of some early Seger on Circle Time, just like a cloud hanging over us--it might rain, but it might not (probably won't).
	3:46am Scraps: dismayed for Abrams death. At least we heard lots of Chicago jazz in the last week
	♥ 3:46am pacific standard simon: Smokin' OPs is the best Seger album ever. I'm sure he disagrees .
	3:48am markr: Abrams was 87, so he lived a rich and full life, but it's still tough when a giant like that passes. Especially when you know he probably won't get nearly the amount of recognition that he deserved. Now if one of the Kardashians dies, stop the presses...that's all we'll hear about for a week.
	3:48am markr: BTW 28 people dead in that Texas shooting yesterday. We continue to be the stupidest country on earth.
	3:53am Scraps: I didn’t know Seger dislikes his early work so much. That’s kinda weird.
	3:55am markr: I think he considers it raw and amateurish (which is what I like), and his new stuff is more polished and mature (which is what I don't). He's entitled to his opinion, and I'm entitled to mine. And obviously, as I said, millions, and I mean millions of fans disagree with me. I read somewhere that he has the highest net worth of any musician, $87 million or something. I found that hard to believe. But I guess it's possible.
	3:55am Scraps: That first Abrams album is so great!!
	3:56am markr: It's kind of spooky that I played a track from it last week. I just played it because it sounded Halloween-y. I had no idea he had just died.
	♥ 3:56am pacific standard simon: He sounds intense. Repo Mn is always intense.
	4:00am Scraps: I don’t think millions of Seger fans diasgree with you, simply because I don’t think they’ve heard his early work.
	♥ 4:09am pacific standard simon: Well said, Scraps.
	4:11am markr: Well, I mean they disagree with me about his work from the late 70s on, which they love and I don't.
	♥ 4:18am pacific standard simon: Glenn Close. Mark? Seriously?
	4:19am markr: My brain froze for a moment. It happens. Often on the air. I knew it was Del Close lol.
	4:21am Scraps: (this is great)
	4:22am markr: Glad you're enjoying it--I'm listening to it as if I never heard it. He's a super nice guy, very accomodating.
	4:24am Vincent Nifigance: Yes, this is amazing!
	♥ 4:25am pacific standard simon: I can see that I've seen a ton of his stuff.
	4:28am Vincent Nifigance: I only found out the other day that he directed 3 episodes of 'Eerie, Indiana'!
	4:32am debt collector: Bob Weinstein? Good morning from Burlington VT
	4:32am markr: Bob Balaban
	4:33am debt collector: iPhone app playlist truncates description. Context for this interview? Date? Place?
	4:37am markr: Recent interview--conducted in Bob's office about a month ago.
	4:40am pierre: Bonjour bonjour Mark !
	4:40am markr: Bonjour, Pierre.
	4:46am Vincent Nifigance: "...a great woman, who happens to be dead right now..."
	4:47am markr: That's the way he talks--isn't it wonderful?
	4:48am Vincent Nifigance: I want him in my life.
	5:08am Scraps: When I was a child reader, I didn’t care whether the lead character was a boy or a girl. Sigh. (I was a boy, incidentally.)
	5:38am Scraps: Good topic! The first classical album you bought. Mine was George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris, Concert in F, conducted by Mitch Miller
	5:39am Scraps: Concerto, drat
	5:44am mark r: I think a version of "Rhapsody in Blue" was one of my first, too--probably among the first ten classical albums I bought. a beautiful version with Michael Tilson Thomas playing the piano. It had a bunch of other Gershwin tunes on it, too.
	5:47am Scraps: David Golub played the piano on this one
	5:54am mark r: Thanks for hanging out with me tonight, friends. Stay tuned for the one and only Clay Pigeon. (Yes, that's his real name--I've seen his birth certificate.)

Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from November 6, 2017

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