WFMU: Teenage Wasteland Playlist

Listener comments!

1:02am Sid:

BK, as a teaser, what we might hear this afternoon?

1:03am Sid:

...or "what might we hear this afternoon?"

9:26am BK:

I have taken the oath of omerta.

2:56pm Jan Turkenburg:

Hi Bill. Europe has tuned in :-)

3:05pm Vincent Nifigance:

Mothers Day in the UK.

3:06pm Bill Proe:

Soupy

3:06pm Al:

The Soupman!

3:07pm Sid:

No wonder you were being secretive! Falafel?

3:09pm Random Control:

Zappa covers are allowable? I kind of figured he's generally verboten on FMU.

3:09pm kAT:

What is this?! I love it!

3:10pm Mailman Tom:

Spooky!

3:11pm Funk_Wizard:

Why would Zappa be verboten?

3:17pm Random Control:

I virtually never hear him on this station, which is sad, because you pretty much never hear him on any other radio station in America. (Europe, he's on the air a lot.) I figure it can't be an accident. I mean, he rocks, he's alternative, where else would he fit in if not here. Once, Googling on it, I hit on this page. Maybe some clue to the thinking. blog.wfmu.org...

3:20pm kev:

call any vegetable

3:21pm Mailman Tom:

The Nite Owl plays Zappa on almost every show.

3:30pm Al:

Windsor Ontario - Home of the formerly great CKLW "The Big 8"

3:32pm Random Control:

Thanks. I'll check out Nite Owl. Past my bedtime, but I'll find a way.

3:43pm Mailman Tom:

It's in the archives, easily accessible

3:47pm Sid:

Zappa always has been an acquired taste. That linked page is interesting

4:02pm fred:

@Random Control: just the luck of the draw that you didn't hear him. A quick search of the playlists yields 377 plays for Zappa, and 310 for The Mothers of Invention. And I think Scott Williams uses a Zappa snippet as his signature phrase. Of course no DJ would play the Zappa every week, he's not Don Felder. Keep trying, you'll eventually hear him

4:02pm Funk_Wizard:

Chinese rock! Is this the Dee Dee version?

4:03pm jkeigh:

@Random Control, that's probably because there really isn't a lot of Zappa music out there.

4:04pm Funk_Wizard:

> there really isn't a lot of Zappa music out there.
I've got 13 vinyls here that are barely the tip of the iceberg that might disagree

4:05pm jkeigh:

@Funk_Wizard....it was joke. Like saying there aren't a lot of stars out there so there can't be any life out there

4:06pm Al:

@jkeigh: You got me - I was about to post a rebuttal.

4:07pm Al:

Then again, tomorrow is April 1st.

4:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I think that whereas Zappa used to be the snob intellectual's Rawker critic's choice - there has been some backlash / a pendulum swing the other way - & many consider him too cynical & derisive. There is some sense he'd rather have been fiddling w/ Orchestras than slumming w/ all this RawkaRolla lot... For one thing - maybe the old timers had actually seen his amazing bands perform Live...& maybe there's plenty o' irony & stuff to go around these days...hm...I always loved him & drew my own line how far I'd get wit his cynicism before pulling back - then no dif than now...

4:08pm jkeigh:

Darn, one day early. Except for those in Eastern Europe/ Western Asia then I can say it

4:11pm jkeigh:

I go through moods with Zappa. I will always love him but can't always listen to him. When I do, it's usually a specific period that I'm in the mood for but I'm not sure if I love one era more than any other.

4:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I think dif eras is a good point. Perhaps Mothers found less off-putting than later to certains...

4:13pm jkeigh:

I love this Spencer Davis Track. Haven't heard it in a while....a long while.

4:19pm Sid:

Didn't realize there was controversy over who wrote Chinese Rock(s). Always thought it was Dee Dee/Richard Hell. en.wikipedia.org...

4:24pm jkeigh:

@Sid, Thanks I love a good controversy.

4:27pm Sid:

JKeigh, especially over a great song.

4:27pm Mailman Tom:

Zappa issued a 3 disc CD set consisting of nothing but instrumentals. It's called Shut Up and Play Your Guitar