WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from April 29, 2020

Listener comments!
	3:00pm Lizardner Dave 2: RIP Lester "Roadhog" Moran.
	3:01pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy
	3:01pm Handy Haversack: Hello, Irwin and all the Chusidians. Nice to be here with you all.
	3:01pm Hopey Sockmonkey: FIVE.
	3:02pm queems: already creeped out, off to a good start!
	3:02pm Roberto: What's social distancing the lever way? Is it using a lever to measure the necessary distance between persons?
	👻 3:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: I wonder what the kind folks at Inclined Planes, Inc., have to say about that.
	3:04pm mb: Irwin
	3:04pm Irwin: Lever is apparently based in South Park.
	3:05pm Laura L: Looks like the Lever method involves an unfortunate amount of limb and/or hand amputation.
	3:05pm Handy Haversack: I guess none of those person icons is worried about unseemly BO, though, thanks to Lever.
	3:06pm Roberto: What you can't tell from that graphic is that what are presumably the doctors are standing six feet behind what are presumably the nurses.
	3:06pm dave wuz here: paging Dr. Benway to the ICU
	3:07pm Roberto: And yes, that is to scale. They're very large doctors. Or very diminutive nurses.
	👻 3:10pm AnAnonymousParty: Firesign Theater!
	3:14pm Andrew_in_WI: Is 5his new Fiona Apple terrible?.. it might be
	3:16pm Ochre Ogre: Great release by Fiona, saw her in an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.
	3:17pm KevinfromBayRidge: Thanks Irwin I have two barking maniacs five feet away from me. And that doesn't include the humans.
	👻 3:21pm Mark Hurst: Hi Irwin, hi all!
	👻 3:23pm Alison Porchnik: working but lurking
	👻 3:24pm Listening Out There: Lurking and working here...
	3:24pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: -same here, Alison-
	3:25pm ackthpfft: Here too...
	👻 3:25pm Mark Hurst: lwurking
	3:26pm Handy Haversack: Lwurking here, too. Hey, Mark Hurst!
	3:26pm Stevel: Lwurking and working at home. Mostly bugging the dogs.
	3:26pm hip: Qué pasa? means What's up?
	3:27pm hip: Of course you can shout it in a very angry way but...still meaning 'What's up' (in a very angry way)
	👻 3:28pm Mark Hurst: Hi Handy!
	👻 3:29pm AnAnonymousParty: Isn't working at home great? I was on a conference call today where someone's dog started barking in the background, then someone else's dog heard that dog and so we had two dogs barking at each other over a conference call. Presumably they we complaing about whether or not they could hear each other barking at each other, over the humans on the call complaining about the dogs barking. I wanted to shout 'squirrel' so bad.
	3:30pm Handy Haversack: @Stevel, I bugged my dog in solidarity. One eye cracked open but is ... slowly ... closing ... again ... At least the cats have stopped yelling at me.
	👻 3:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sounds like a variation of the "rovalert" sniglet.
	3:31pm Irwin: Pets want their alone time back. Fish and home-bound owners stink in three days.
	3:31pm Handy Haversack: Spoke too soon. Voltron has more complaints to register. I should never have accepted the ombudsman position.
	3:32pm mndave: @AnAnonymousParty, I mute my call and say "go git the bunny" and that'll distract my dog for a good ten. What really grinds my gears is hearing other people's message alert sounds on a call, or bird/outdoor sounds suggesting they have nicer weather than me
	👻 3:32pm Listening Out There: I've worked from home for years. Am getting a kick out of hearing misc. stories about coping with isolation, video conferencing, and the like. Man, talk about cryin' in yr. beer...
	3:33pm Handy Haversack: Irwin, I think the dog feels some of that -- he's tired of music always being on! Lulu the cat has decided that my being here means she can yell at me for attention all day long. And it usually works, too!
	3:35pm Irwin: LoT: Copy that.
	3:35pm Peter from Dover NJ: Hello Irwin, and everyone. I'm gonna try writing with the radio on. @ Mark Hurst, I quit like the program Monday nite.
	3:35pm Kat in Chicago: Lwurking is a useful concept but awkward to pronounce
	3:36pm Kat in Chicago: Not that you necessarily have to say it aloud for any reason
	👻 3:36pm Listening Out There: People of the Waterfalls = Quality guitar abuse
	3:36pm listener 126464: I hurt my back lwurking.
	3:37pm Handy Haversack: Still got the skiing to deal with, @Peter from Dover?
	3:37pm Roberto: I think our cats are generally stoked to have us around all day. I'm more concerned about how they'll react if and when we start leaving them alone again.
	3:38pm queems: my parents just got my cat a 6 ft tall cat tree. she's living her best life these days
	3:39pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Oh sweet, I was not aware of this XTC re-issue of Black Sea.
	3:40pm the artist: Listening Out There: Indeed!
	3:40pm Handy Haversack: That's my dog worry, Roberto. queems, whenever we try to get the cats durable gifts, the Pee Wars go once more from cold to shooting. And don't even think about getting the dog a bed. I think Voltron just peed on the dog on spec when I typed that.
	3:41pm queems: @handy i'm super lucky because my cat is generally not super destructive, other than she scratches the rugs
	3:42pm Peter from Dover NJ: Hello Handy, yes still dealing with skiing. I ditched my first draft because it sucked. The second draft is coming along much better
	👻 3:42pm Mark Hurst: @Peter, thanks so much!
	3:42pm SSS: I need this very oddness.
	👻 3:43pm Alison Porchnik: There are a lot of Beatles-esque riffs in this tune
	3:43pm Roberto: MJ + Elvis > MJ \|\| Elvis
	3:43pm Hex Fam Sam: NICE HAHA!
	3:43pm queems: i thrive on hee's and hoo's
	3:44pm Handy Haversack: queems, ours can maintain the peace as long as no new objects of common desire are introduced. Voltron and Callipygian go SACPOP with truly disturbing quickness. Good luck, Peter!
	👻 3:44pm Mark Hurst: @queems there are both hee's and hoo's in this 12-second clip - twitter.com...
	3:45pm Ochre Ochre: Headed for some major doggie depression, some cats could care less.
	3:45pm queems: @mark HAHAH
	3:46pm brainiac: Just got back from grocery shopping and was prepared to spit on my hands and hoist the black flag. But this music hath charms to soothe.
	3:47pm Roberto: "Hees" and "hoos" -- no apostrophes needed.
	3:47pm People Like Us: there are noises in this track that sound like my cat
	3:47pm queems: @handy that is one of the many reasons why i only have one cat at the moment. she's a diva and when she was living with her brothers someone was peeing on everything and i don't know who (it wasn't me) and i don't want to find out the hard way that it was her
	👻 3:47pm Mark Hurst: @Roberto i think you mean... apostrophe's
	3:47pm Roberto: In fact, apostrophes heavily discouraged.
	👻 3:47pm Mark Hurst: (I kid, I kid - same stuff drives me crazy)
	3:48pm queems: '''''''''''''''''
	3:48pm Roberto: Ironic apostrophes (aka irostrophes) are acceptable.
	👻 3:48pm Mark Hurst: l'wurking
	3:48pm Handy Haversack: So, "Mind your hees and hoos!" is the takeaway I'm getting here.
	👻 3:52pm Listening Out There: Salutations to Vicki B. Hope to hear more PLU bits flying through the Interwebs sometime soon...
	3:52pm Ochre Ogre: Gonna mind my own bee's' wax and not get involved.
	3:53pm People Like Us: at some point, Listening Out There! Bit occupied with moving house at the moment
	3:53pm Roberto: Emily and Eric may have been inspired by Amanda and her friend. Oy what was her name again?
	3:54pm Roberto: Or maybe just Amanda and her brother Jody.
	3:54pm mb: mmmm. "Syrup"
	3:55pm flashbazbo: Irwin: I hope things are going well for you under current conditions. You should only be hectored for a fortnight and 4 days by an ear worm of the chordette’s doing “let’s get it on”.
	3:55pm brainiac: I'd rather be a fish
	3:55pm Roberto: Was it Brandy? Mandy and Brandy? Sounds too good to be true.
	3:56pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: I'm fine with carryin' my moonbeams, inna' jar or otherwise
	3:57pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: ~but then, I'm forever chasin' rainbows too...
	3:59pm angelo: hey irwin, baby, is there any way to snag that swell tune?
	3:59pm Olive Oyl: Popeye!!
	3:59pm iiibeat: Title: Storage in the ground. Storage in the clouds. Stowed away in sound. Ghost man on the pitcher's mound. Skin tickled with gentle breeze . . Warped with the wasps . . Tunnels, funnels and pores . . Follicles, stingers, wings and grins . . Shut your eyes and let the antennae leak light in . . Dropping things for the win. Sandwiches (turns) gone elastic . . Smearing mud on drifting rock faces . . Gas and geese pacing break markers on swift motion . . Devotion to movement . . Calm and then doom based tunes before the idiots feel happy again. Love love love . . Love the fear of the Reaper. Harvest none. Harvest one. Harvest all. Harvest down the hardest hall. Seasons note. Bags for animals. Bags a plenty. Ramshackled freckles . . Under-water freight trains . . Microscopic sub brains . . Skin in the game . . Teaching teeth to . . Behave!
	4:00pm Handy Haversack: Dungeons, eh?
	4:01pm Andrew_in_WI: I would've assumed Michele as being the owner of the masturbatorium, but she's part of the skeleton crew.
	4:02pm BH: as long as the internet connection in the dungeon is reliable
	4:02pm Roberto: Most importantly, they appeared on the Young Ones.
	4:03pm angelo: yoo III, THAT WAS SUCH A FUN POEM
	4:05pm angelo: Excuse me, masturbatorium concierge, may i order that baby gramps track a la carte?
	4:07pm Irwin: angelo: The Baby Gramps set used to be in the WFMU Free Music Archive, but I'm not sure if the FMA exists at any accessible source these days. Check around the web.
	4:08pm angelo: thanks papi chulo. You da homie
	4:10pm Irwin: N.B. This phone con is from several years ago, before the current circumstances.
	4:10pm angelo: wow irwin, you played that baby gramps song 7 years ago. so unoriginal smh
	4:11pm Handy Haversack: "On line"!
	4:11pm Roberto: It was Brandy, wasn't it. Amanda and Brandy.
	4:12pm berbo: he wanted everyone to join in! why didn't you join in?
	4:12pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: This is hilarious and I KNOW I would have had the same reaction. JEEZUS.
	4:13pm MikeG: oh my god ... I'm dying
	4:13pm Roberto: This sounds about the same as how I would have reacted. Basically whenever people sing unsolicitedly in public, I'm like, GTFO with that S.
	4:13pm queems: i would have sung with him
	4:13pm Asheville Jon: oh Irwin, I feel soooo sorry for you. makes me want to drive up there and whack that guy in the throat with a 2x4
	4:13pm brainiac: @Roberto 4:11: youtu.be...
	4:13pm Ochre Ogre: Well, at least it wasn't Hotel California!
	4:13pm queems: because i like to irritate others
	4:14pm Roberto: Yep, Brandy. Nailed it.
	4:15pm Ochre Ogre: OR Jilly Boel!!
	4:15pm People Like Us: thank you
	4:15pm Roberto: And dudes singing/humming in the men's room at the office (back when we worked out of an office) -- aw HELL naw.
	4:15pm iiibeat: Imagine that . . Imagine them jumping . . Rope . . For World Peace.
	👻 4:15pm βrian: en.wiktionary.org...
	4:16pm brainiac: I am all too familiar with violent impulses rising within me at the workplace.
	4:16pm mariano: Remember the George W mashup of Imagine and Walk on the Wild Side? Hi Irwin, crew, and people.
	4:16pm Carmichael: I just cannot stand this insipid song in ANY form.
	4:16pm Asheville Jon: right there with ya Carmichael
	4:16pm People Like Us: my Jump mashup is better
	4:17pm Colin: Awesome
	4:17pm JakeGould: I like this.
	4:17pm brainiac: Lisa is the voice of reason here.
	4:18pm Ochre Ogre: A redneck type guy in front of me starting badly drunk dancing to 'Money' at a roger Waters concert.
	4:19pm flashbazbo: Leave Ernest alone. He's just trying to be himself. It's important.
	4:19pm joe mulligan: Vicki what was that song earlier w/you n Ergo - it's the outro tune Ken does that has the sort of slack key gtr
	4:19pm JakeGould: DJ Earnest on WFMU
	4:20pm People Like Us: In The Waking from Rhapsody in Glue - is on bandcamp People Like Us
	4:20pm Roberto: Somehow I never heard "Imagine" until the days immediately following Lennon's death. At first I thought it was one of his last releases.
	4:21pm Laura L: Bwé Kafe: "Where the care in making a delicious brew surpasses the cup and transforms into creative energy that we all need and benefit from even on our best days." Yes, that's on their website. Imagine!
	4:21pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Roberto, technically everything he did was his "LAST"
	4:21pm Ochre Ogre: Roberto- No way!
	4:21pm dave wuz here: BRE' (brutal ration of earnestness) cafe
	4:21pm iiibeat: @People . . The title is drawing me in. I'll be right there.
	4:22pm Roberto: Way.
	4:22pm joe mulligan: Thanks Vicki! loved it.
	4:22pm Carmichael: "Self Interview", why does that not surprise me?
	4:22pm People Like Us: peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com...
	4:23pm Rich in Bay Ridge: Roberto - that's my recollection too. Radio only really played Whatever gets you through the night or Instant Karma until his death
	4:24pm Roberto: Of course, Double Fantasy tracks were played on the radio nonstop during those days, so I just lumped it in with them.
	4:26pm mrdonutsu: Who does he work for?
	4:26pm Ochre Ogre: Right, Double Fantasy tracks and non stop Beatles.
	👻 4:26pm Listening Out There: Dept. of Work Avoidance: Looks like "satan is real" can e anagrammed to "seal strain." Hidden lyrics, y'knows...
	4:26pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Mariano!
	4:27pm Laura L: "Our very first coffee shop, Washington & 10th will always be bursting with colors and smiles, just from the loving neighborhood crowd that we brew coffee for, every morning. Our wonderful team of baristas will get your name as quick as a flash and will soon be greeting your yawn every morning with a smile in a cup." Can a person just get a cup of coffee? No Bwé!
	4:27pm Carmichael: I once knew a guy named Chris Clarke. His anagram was Crack Relish.
	4:29pm -Ken: I recognize the "Too Loud" guy! He was interviewing early Pink Floyd, amiright?
	👻 4:30pm Mark Hurst: @Vicki where is your Jump cover? I've missed that one
	4:31pm Listener Robert: Irwin, I know the FMA passed from the hands of the outfit Auricle bequeathed it to to another organization about a year ago, haven't checked lately but assume it's still operating according to its original purpose.
	4:31pm Roberto: Yep that's the "your music is a regression to childhood" guy.
	4:31pm flashbazbo: I have to say that once at an important event I prevented Imagine from being played and had them play Across The Universe. Word to the wise.
	👻 4:32pm βrian: Good Imagine Hygiene is important.
	4:32pm Giselle: Irvin eviscerated Bwe! Where is it? I want to go there. I'll make a special trip from Canada!
	4:33pm BH: the Governor of NJ cited a need for COBOL programmers to deal with the unemployment system a few weeks ago, so using AOL for e-mail is relatively modern
	4:33pm Listener Robert: Sharon Presley thought "Imagine" was a great libertarian anthem. At that time decades ago she convinced me. But now I think it's severely ANTIlibertarian.
	4:33pm People Like Us: @mark hurst peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com...
	4:34pm Ochre Ogre: @Rich in B R- Commercial radio squeezing a few songs of an artists catalog into a few songs. Like Bowie or Dylan's massive output and what do they play like 3-4 of the same over and over and...
	👻 4:37pm Mark Hurst: @Vicki oh that is amazing - thanks
	4:38pm brainiac: @Vicki & Mark: I like this one too peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com...
	4:39pm Ochre Ogre: Irwin, you should be glad it wasn't the Boobie Drothers, Oh the world listen to the music, Oh the world listen to the music, Oh the world listen to the music Oh the world listen to the music, Oh the world listen to the music, Oh the world listen to the music, drives me nuts already.
	4:39pm People Like Us: @brainiac - it's probably more or less the same track, I just lose track of my track names :)
	4:42pm People Like Us: thanks Mark! I would have just given it to you but that will buy me some crackers :)
	4:42pm Mariano: Oh, lol Handy, missed your greeting. Thanks for the capitalization reminder.
	4:43pm brainiac: I missed the memo
	4:44pm Crudbringer: Nordine!
	4:44pm Jeezuseffinchrist: honey, ain't we all good at fooling ourselves
	4:45pm People Like Us: @mark hurst here's the video for Jump vimeo.com...
	4:45pm Handy Haversack: I went back and read what I missed out on on Creamo's show last night, @Mariano. It's like you guys were just waiting for me to go outside to let the good times roll! Well, I'm never going outside again! So there!
	4:45pm flashbazbo: It's "Oh the world" listen to the music? Never had a clue. I just say "oooohhh"I have to listen to it a lot more...
	4:45pm Crudbringer: money's a pretty big thing in our society
	4:45pm angelo: ay irwin, thanks for introducing me to the free music archive. it's magnificent
	4:46pm Handy Haversack: @People Like Us: On behalf of all Mark Hurst has helped me remember to remember: THANK you for that being a Vimeo link!
	4:48pm People Like Us: happy to share it in here :)
	4:48pm dave: SHUT UP, NORDINE! SHUT UP
	4:50pm David in London: Yo Peeps. I’m in! How are you, you fine bunch of reprobates?
	4:50pm People Like Us: I think you'll find he has shut up forever
	4:51pm Handy Haversack: Withering under cat glare, David, but still sucking air! How's the London night getting on?
	👻 4:51pm Jennica: Hi DiL. Swell. You?
	4:52pm People Like Us: London is still here but rather liking Irwin's distractions
	👻 4:52pm Mark Hurst: @Vicki thanks for the video! This is great work
	4:52pm People Like Us: thanks!
	👻 4:52pm Mark Hurst: @Handy agreed, thx
	4:54pm The Oscar: Been busy working, but LOVE this TV Personalities cover!
	4:55pm Mariano: 'Evening, David.
	4:55pm Handy Haversack: I never get to watch anything that people send me. It gets me a little glum sometimes!
	4:55pm People Like Us: @Mark hurst @handy I've just made the vimeo downloadable, so grab it because I'll disappear it again
	4:55pm David in London: Yeah, not bad Handy. Late dinner after jamming with Kenny Burrell. Sadly he was on vinyl and not with me in the room. It I’m sure he enjoyed it as much as I did.
	4:56pm David in London: Mark, great Techtonic the other night.
	4:56pm David in London: Hi Jennica. All good here thanks.
	4:56pm brainiac: Hey David in London, what's your least favorite Billy Joel song? I'm conducting a poll. Everyone is invited to submit an answer.
	👻 4:59pm Jennica: I dislike all Billy Joel songs, really. Least fave? Ouch. PM or It's still R&R to me? Or... I could go on...
	5:00pm Roberto: I like the one about 'nam and Captain Jack all right.
	5:00pm flashbazbo: Satan is real can be Lear’s stain.
	5:02pm David in London: Brainiac, hello mate. Ah, you put me in an awkward position here. I am forced to expose myself, in that I actually quite like Billy Joel. I kept quiet when everyone was piling on during Ken’s show recently, but I’m quite fond of him. So I’m going to have to say Uptown Girl because I was quite disappointed when it came out because it seemed popcrapulous. I’m going to plug his raw meat based pronto metal power due Attila too!
	5:05pm Carmichael: @brainiac, Italian Restaurant. And all the others, in chronological order.
	5:05pm listener 126464: Atilla!
	5:05pm brainiac: Thanks all for your well-considered responses. I think this may be a hot-button issue, much like the proper use of hyphens.
	5:06pm Irwin: I don't enjoy most Billy Joel songs, but the man has a rare, undeniable gift for composing and recording music with broad popular (read: commercial) appeal, and he's done it consistently over several decades. He's worked for his success.
	👻 5:07pm Mark Hurst: @David thanks very much
	👻 5:07pm Mark Hurst: @Vicki got the file, thanks!
	5:08pm Handy Haversack: @People Like Us: Yoink! Will share with Kate later when the workday is (oh dear god please) done! @brainiac: "WWBJD? 'What would Billy Joel do'?" "Probably write another crappy song about it." I do rather like "You May Be Right," though.
	5:09pm coelacanth∅: good job!
	5:10pm Chi Bill: Stones and TRex mashup is one of many reasons I LOVE this station! Thanks!!!
	5:10pm coelacanth∅: (2000 light years from Bolan)
	5:11pm Carmichael: Another Brick in the Wall vs Stayin' Alive has been my favorite so far.
	5:11pm Mariano: I have a vague memory of a brief time when Billy Joel was seen as being in the same phylum as Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson, but I was in like 5th grade and maybe my memory's playing tricks. When I first heard "You May Be Right" I filed it away in my 11-year-old head as a new wave song.
	5:13pm Roberto: I mean, the guy did use the M word in a song. That's got to be good for something.
	5:13pm Handy Haversack: It's a solid choice for karaoke and esp. a duet with live-band karaoke.
	5:13pm Mariano: Oh, have any of you seen Bill McClintock's YT channel? All kinds of mashups. I think my favorite is "Mother Was a Rolling Stone", a mashup of the Temptations and Danzig.
	5:14pm coelacanth∅: @5.11 those 2 songs i dislike as much as most Billy Joel songs.
	5:14pm Roberto: MICHAEL STIPE IS SOOOO HOT
	5:15pm Handy Haversack: I mean, he's not un-hot.
	5:15pm David in London: Hey mAriano. I’m capping you in a novel way. Hey Carmichael.
	5:16pm Irwin: coel: "Another Brick" is one of the most pretentious songs in the classic rock canon. It's unbearably pompous.
	5:16pm brainiac: Just thought of a sub poll question: Who are you more triggered by, Billy Joel or Phil Collins?
	5:17pm iiibeat: Dialects can break bricks.
	5:17pm Handy Haversack: Got it!
	5:17pm Mariano: Uh, thanks David, I think.. ;)
	5:17pm Irwin: brain: if Phil keeps his mouth shut and just plays drums, I can listen for hours.
	5:17pm Carmichael: @Irwin, I think that's why I like the mashup so much.
	5:17pm Handy Haversack: @David: Capital idea.
	👻 5:18pm Jennica: PC way worse than BJ
	5:18pm coelacanth∅: right on Irwin. i was deeply into pink floyd at the time and when the wall came out it seriously depressed me, how bad it was.
	5:18pm David in London: Brainiac, Collins’ ‘Invisible Touch’ is one I absolutely loathe.
	5:18pm Roberto: I get these two and Joan Marie mixed up with the Closet Queen.
	5:19pm Handy Haversack: I think there are better Collins covers than Billy Joel covers? Or at least I can't think of covers of BJ that I liked ... or have heard of?
	5:19pm iiibeat: Maybe if you put duct tape over his mouth and hold a gun to his head . . He will just drum!
	5:19pm Carmichael: Some FMU DJ had the wonderful idea of playing every Phil Collins song at the same time. I believe it was Scott Williams.
	5:21pm coelacanth∅: Phil Collins' music bores me to tears, for the most part; still i think he is, or was a decent writer, decent singer...and obviously an excellent drummer. ...and he can drum and sing simultaneously!
	5:22pm brainiac: It's definitely Collins for me. But at least he has publicly apologized for his offenses.
	5:23pm iiibeat: My idea was horrible. Truly. I'm going now to grab a switch to whip my own hind-side with. It'll teach me.
	5:24pm Mariano: A few years ago PBS ran a Billy Joel concert in London from the mid-70s. I watched part of it, and I was amazed at how orchestral his relatively small band sounded, especially for the era. One guy in particular was really impressive, switched between keyboards, horns, and reeds.
	5:24pm Toothgrinder Tom: Why can’t they both be bad in their own ways? Who is worse, Engelbert Humperdink or Wayne Newton?
	👻 5:25pm Jennica: I have to switch from lwurking to working soon, so I'll miss the end. I'll double back to listen to the whole show soon though. Loved what I heard, per usgh. Be well...all of you...
	5:25pm brainiac: Thanks Jennica. You too!
	5:26pm dk50b: Is it me or Visage's Fade to Grey the underbed of Mr. sandman
	5:26pm David in London: Ta ta Jennica.
	5:27pm Handy Haversack: Bye, Jennica. I can't tell now if it's related, but I do like Huey Lewis.
	5:27pm dk50b: Sorry, "Untitled 1"
	5:29pm David in London: Handy, have you ever seen the Robot Chicken Huey Lewis sketch? If not, put that right PDQ, it’s in shockingly poor taste and is utterly hilarious.
	5:29pm Ochre Ogre: Great stuff The Matrix Tapes, first heard it when Fabio played at his record store, Earwax.
	5:30pm coelacanth∅: i really can't stand most of Billy Joel's music, but he's had moments of brilliance...at least in regard to songcraft. "you may be right" was not one of those. trying to capitalize on the new wave was like peter paul & mary singing about how they dig rock and roll music; or my beloved kinks trying to jump on both the disco and the new wave bandwagon at once with that abomination,"superman". ...but then i mostly can't stand Frank Sinatra also.
	5:31pm Mariano: Toothgrinder Tom: my stepdad's Sicilian grandma loved Englebert but had such a heavy old-country accent that she couldn't say his name; instead she's say "I like-a da Hinky Dinky."
	5:32pm Ochre Ogre: Mariano, hilarious! Love those language imperfections.
	5:32pm coelacanth∅: mariano hahaha!
	5:33pm Toothgrinder Tom: I think Billy Joel is a much better songwriter than Phil Collins; I don’t think he could write a Billy Joel song, but Billy Joel could write a Phil Collins song.
	5:34pm coelacanth∅: Toothgrinder, you may be right.
	5:34pm David in London: Englebert with Hendrix as his supporting act must have been quite an experience (pun half intended).
	5:35pm brainiac: I have a metal-head friend who insists he traveled from LA to Alaska to see Huey Lewis play live without a shred of irony (from the metal head, not Huey. Huey may have played ironically as hell for all I know).
	5:35pm Toothgrinder Tom: @Mariano cute!
	5:35pm David in London: Irwin, we were talking this afternoon about that version of Nothing Compares 2 U by unknown you played a few weeks back. Everyone agree that it was actually quite haunting. I’ve listened to it again since.
	5:36pm Ochre Ogre: Mariano- When I turned my wife from Italy on to Patsy Cline, she loved it and used to refer to her as Pitsy Patsy.
	5:37pm coelacanth∅: but i cannot respect any rock n roller who wears a suit
	5:38pm coelacanth∅: (or a polo shirt)
	5:38pm Handy Haversack: Wow, shots fired, @coela!
	5:38pm brainiac: @coel: Not even Bryan Ferry?
	5:38pm Carmichael: Unless it's made of bubble wrap.
	5:39pm berbo: @c - does that include the Rolling Stones and the Beatles?
	5:39pm coelacanth∅: haha don't take me too literally Handy!
	5:39pm Toothgrinder Tom: @DiL David, you missed band practice!
	5:39pm Ochre Ogre: coel- What about Bowie?!
	5:39pm Mr. Pumpy: Hello Irwin and all...and that's a lot of you, dang! The accu is hoppin'. Anyhow...Pumpy come lately today, but glad to have made it at all.
	5:39pm David in London: Coel, Lee Brilleaux is at the door and he wants a word...
	5:40pm coelacanth∅: thin white duke was not a Bowie phase i wanted anything to do with!
	5:40pm Mariano: Ochre Ogre: That's funny! coela: Patti Smith?!?
	5:40pm coelacanth∅: ...his image was why i stopped paying attention to Bowie, in the late 70s
	5:40pm Mr. Pumpy: Nothing compares to Nothing Compares 2 U by unknown
	5:41pm brainiac: @coel: TRIGGERED!
	5:41pm Mr. Pumpy: @coel...would you say it was more the thinness, or the whiteness? Or..simply the suits?
	5:42pm Carmichael: "All the great soul groups wore suits. Suits are neat, dignified."
	5:42pm coelacanth∅: mariano, not a good look for Patti, but i still Love her!
	5:42pm Mariano: Us reacting to coela's revelation: www.youtube.com...
	5:42pm Handy Haversack: You're losing the crowd, @coela! Quick, play "We Didn't Start the Fire"! Hey, Mr. P.
	5:42pm coelacanth∅: Mr.P haha!
	5:43pm Mr. Pumpy: Capital 'M' mariano...ha! Ned...
	5:43pm coelacanth∅: ...anyway i was referring to Huey Lewis' era. not the beatles' or the miracles' era.
	5:43pm Mr. Pumpy: Handy! How you been?
	5:44pm David in London: Hey Mr Pumpy! Toothgrinder, shit, I did an enormous bong and slept through it. Sorry about that! How was it?
	5:44pm Handy Haversack: Sempiternal though sodden toward sundown, Mr. P!
	5:45pm Ochre Ogre: coel- DUDE too bad, you missed Scary Monsters, Reality, The Next Day...!
	5:45pm Toothgrinder Tom: @David it went well!
	5:46pm Mr. Pumpy: @Handy...got into the manual a bit last night after the requisite Jeopardy session with pops. Great having a physical book now and not being a slave to a PDF.
	5:46pm Toothgrinder Tom: @David but the washboard was out of tune - again.
	5:46pm Mariano: Have you heard the recordings of Eliot reading Four Quartets? Or Alec Guinness?
	5:47pm Mr. Pumpy: David! That harassment film thread was killing me the other day. Funny shite!
	5:47pm brainiac: I am having a galvanic response to this Say Sue Me song.
	5:48pm Mariano: For me, Phil Collins went a good ways towards redeeming himself with his appearance in GTA Vice City Stories. There's a mission where your character has to save him during a concert from being killed by a mob hitman trying to crush him with a stage light.
	5:48pm Mr. Pumpy: @Handy...not too bad of a status report in these trying times. I'm working on a nice pint me self.
	5:48pm Joe D.: damn Say Sue Me switched over from american indie to american cosmic???
	5:49pm Ochre Ogre: Doh! Ned Flaners
	5:49pm Handy Haversack: @Mariano: Yes! Kate requests my Eliot impersonation often, esp. in April.
	5:49pm Irwin: JoeD: Haven't heard anything by SSM I haven't loved. Lots of variety in their sounds.
	5:49pm Joe D.: lol nevermind I actually played that song
	5:50pm Joe D.: they're great!!!!
	5:50pm coelacanth∅: Ogre, no -up through scary monsters. then i gave up. when i heard blackstar, 2 days before he died, i realised i may've missed a lot -and went though all that time i wasn't paying attention to him. i listened to every album. some (like the next day) many times.
	5:50pm Irwin: JD: And their band name is easy to pronounce.
	5:52pm Ochre Ogre: K coel, good.
	5:53pm Joe D.: i.stack.imgur.com...
	5:53pm Mariano: Ochre Ogre: Stupid sexy Flanders!
	5:55pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Irwin! And, could you tell me where to get a Fried Sandwich?
	5:55pm Irwin: OO: Would you like another fried sandwich?
	5:55pm David in London: Mr P, yeah, I was still chuckling about it this morning.
	5:56pm Carmichael: @Joe D, why aren't you on Monday with the other Joes? I thought it was some kind of mandate.
	5:56pm dk50b: Irwin, guessing you've heard about the time Harvey Sid Fisher attend David Geffen's presser for his American Masters in 1992, but I hand't. When asked, turns out he hadn't heard of "Astrology Songs." www.huffpost.com...
	👻 5:56pm βrian: Alas, our Orange Interlude will soon be over.
	5:56pm Ochre Ogre: Yes I would like another fried sandwich.
	5:56pm brainiac: Wishing Irwin and everyone the happiest of Walpurgis Nights tomorrow. Bye!
	5:56pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Irwin!
	5:56pm David in London: Thanks Irwin, great show. Right, bedtime for me. Night pals!
	5:57pm Mariano: Thanks Irwin and crew, take care everyone, 'night David!
	5:57pm Laura L: What? Six pm already! Thanks, Irwin!
	👻 5:58pm Mark Hurst: Yeah!
	5:58pm Handy Haversack: Man, that went fast. Thanks, Irwin. Have a good night, David!
	5:58pm Ochre Ogre: Cheers David!
	5:58pm radioronan: Another fine presentation - Thanks, Irwin
	3:26pm evan500: This is just what I'm needing during the lockdown. Between the set and the pot brownie I'm transported somewhere else.

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April 29, 2020: In these platitudinous times ...

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
various sources	opening montage "opening montage" by "various sources"	various audio sources	no label	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Quinsin Nachoff's Flux	Path of Totality	Path of Totality	Whirlwind Recordings	0:01:50 (Pop-up)
Old Maybe	Ugly Love Me "Ugly Love Me" by "Old Maybe"	Piggity Pink	Apollonian Sound	0:09:07 (Pop-up)
Fiona Apple	Fetch the Bolt Cutters	Fetch the Bolt Cutters	Epic Records	0:10:40 (Pop-up)
Stuk Bambuka v XI Chasov	White Devil - Lily of the Valley	Easy Case Cold	Stuk Bambuka v XI Chasov	0:15:34 (Pop-up)
Horace Silver Trio	Que Pasa "Que Pasa" by "Horace Silver Trio"	Song for My Father	Blue Note	0:19:27 (Pop-up)

Marbled Eye	Dirt "Dirt" by "Marbled Eye"	Ep II	Melters	0:27:36 (Pop-up)
Nguyên Lé	People of the Waterfalls	Overseas	ACT Music + Vision	0:31:26 (Pop-up)
XTC	Rocket from a Bottle (instrumental)	Black Sea instrumentals	Virgin	0:37:37 (Pop-up)
Michael Jackson vs. Elvis Presley	Black Sister	DJ Joel-Steven (Voicedude) mashup	Voicedude	0:40:59 (Pop-up)
Rip Rig + Panic	Subversive Wisdom	I Am Cold	Virgin	0:43:01 (Pop-up)
Sex Mob (ft. Steven Bernstein, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen & Briggan Krauss)	Syrup	Cultural Capital	Rex Records	0:48:35 (Pop-up)
Emily and Eric Xu	Germs on Toes "Germs on Toes" by "Emily and Eric Xu"	Germs on Toes video	Emily and Eric Xu	0:51:59 (Pop-up)
Baby Gramps	Swingin' on a Star "Swingin' on a Star" by "Baby Gramps"	Live on WFMU May 13, 1998	Baby Gramps	0:52:58 (Pop-up)

Elliot Galvin	Lobster Cracking "Lobster Cracking" by "Elliot Galvin"	Lobster Cracking	Edition Records Ltd.	1:03:01 (Pop-up)
Irwin and Lisa	"Imagine" at the Bwé Kafe	phone conversation (2015)	no label	1:07:49 (Pop-up)
John Lennon vs. Van Halen	Imagine a Jump	Mighty Mike's Mild Thing(s) 2 - A Downtempo Compilation	Mighty Mike	1:14:13 (Pop-up)
Irwin and Lisa	postscript on "Imagine"	phone conversation (2020)	no label	1:16:26 (Pop-up)
Meadow House	After Three Years of Floating	Attempts & Results	Beautiful Music	1:17:54 (Pop-up)
John Lennon	Self-Interview (1975, excerpt)	John Lennon 1975 interview	no label	1:21:14 (Pop-up)
Herzog	Satan is Real "Satan is Real" by "Herzog"	Boys	Exit Stencil Recordings	1:21:50 (Pop-up)
Sic Alps	Message from the Law "Message from the Law" by "Sic Alps"	A Long Way Around to a Shortcut	Animal Disguise	1:25:40 (Pop-up)

Eddie Harris	Listen Here "Listen Here" by "Eddie Harris"	The Electrifying Eddie Harris	Atlantic	1:32:23 (Pop-up)
Valerie June	Astral Plane "Astral Plane" by "Valerie June"	The Order of Time	June Tunes Music	1:40:03 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine	Roger "Roger" by "Ken Nordine"	You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters	Rhino	1:43:33 (Pop-up)
Boxed In	Mystery "Mystery" by "Boxed In"	Boxed In	Nettwerk	1:48:51 (Pop-up)
Los Bonsáis	Punks a Tiempo Parcial (Part Time Punks)	Fanzine!	Elefant	1:52:45 (Pop-up)
Byron Parker and His Percussion Ensemble	Caravan	Nothing But Percussion	Westminster	1:54:44 (Pop-up)

Austra (ft. Cecile Believe)	Mountain Baby	HiRUDiN	Domino	2:00:57 (Pop-up)
Chris Morris	Docphone "Docphone" by "Chris Morris"	Blue Jam	Warp	2:04:23 (Pop-up)
The Stones vs. T. Rex	2000 Light Years from Bolan	Go Home Productions: Spliced Krispies	Go Home Productions	2:07:20 (Pop-up)
Joan Marie Polo	Go, Go, Fight, Fight	The Love and Affection I Used to Have	Joan Marie Polo	2:11:48 (Pop-up)
K. Lewis	I Got That Feeling for You	K. Lewis cassette	K. Lewis	2:14:01 (Pop-up)
Linda Penfold and Suzanne Small (The Hoot)	If I Can't Have You	found cassette	Hoot Records	2:16:05 (Pop-up)
Mr. Sandman	Untitled 1 "Untitled 1" by "Mr. Sandman"	Hey Mr. Sandman	Bionic Ear	2:19:10 (Pop-up)
Velvet Underground	Beginning to See the Light	The Complete Matrix Tapes	The Velvet Underground Trust	2:25:13 (Pop-up)

Harvey Sid Fisher	Taurus "Taurus" by "Harvey Sid Fisher"	Astrology Songs	Amarillo Records	2:34:25 (Pop-up)
Peel Dream Magazine	Emotional Devotion Creator	Agitprop Alterna	Slumberland	2:37:01 (Pop-up)
Say Sue Me	Coming to the End "Coming to the End" by "Say Sue Me"	When We Were Together	Damnably	2:40:10 (Pop-up)
Pamelia Kurstin (now Stickney) on theremin	God Only Knows	live on Irwin's show Jan. 25, 2006	WFMU	2:47:34 (Pop-up)
Durutti Column	For Belgian Friends	A Factory Quartet	Factory	2:50:26 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:00pm Lizardner Dave 2: RIP Lester "Roadhog" Moran.
	3:01pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy
	3:01pm Handy Haversack: Hello, Irwin and all the Chusidians. Nice to be here with you all.
	3:01pm Hopey Sockmonkey: FIVE.
	3:02pm queems: already creeped out, off to a good start!
	3:02pm Roberto: What's social distancing the lever way? Is it using a lever to measure the necessary distance between persons?
	👻 3:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: I wonder what the kind folks at Inclined Planes, Inc., have to say about that.
	3:04pm mb: Irwin
	3:04pm Irwin: Lever is apparently based in South Park.
	3:05pm Laura L: Looks like the Lever method involves an unfortunate amount of limb and/or hand amputation.
	3:05pm Handy Haversack: I guess none of those person icons is worried about unseemly BO, though, thanks to Lever.
	3:06pm Roberto: What you can't tell from that graphic is that what are presumably the doctors are standing six feet behind what are presumably the nurses.
	3:06pm dave wuz here: paging Dr. Benway to the ICU
	3:07pm Roberto: And yes, that is to scale. They're very large doctors. Or very diminutive nurses.
	👻 3:10pm AnAnonymousParty: Firesign Theater!
	3:14pm Andrew_in_WI: Is 5his new Fiona Apple terrible?.. it might be
	3:16pm Ochre Ogre: Great release by Fiona, saw her in an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.
	3:17pm KevinfromBayRidge: Thanks Irwin I have two barking maniacs five feet away from me. And that doesn't include the humans.
	👻 3:21pm Mark Hurst: Hi Irwin, hi all!
	👻 3:23pm Alison Porchnik: working but lurking
	👻 3:24pm Listening Out There: Lurking and working here...
	3:24pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: -same here, Alison-
	3:25pm ackthpfft: Here too...
	👻 3:25pm Mark Hurst: lwurking
	3:26pm Handy Haversack: Lwurking here, too. Hey, Mark Hurst!
	3:26pm Stevel: Lwurking and working at home. Mostly bugging the dogs.
	3:26pm hip: Qué pasa? means What's up?
	3:27pm hip: Of course you can shout it in a very angry way but...still meaning 'What's up' (in a very angry way)
	👻 3:28pm Mark Hurst: Hi Handy!
	👻 3:29pm AnAnonymousParty: Isn't working at home great? I was on a conference call today where someone's dog started barking in the background, then someone else's dog heard that dog and so we had two dogs barking at each other over a conference call. Presumably they we complaing about whether or not they could hear each other barking at each other, over the humans on the call complaining about the dogs barking. I wanted to shout 'squirrel' so bad.
	3:30pm Handy Haversack: @Stevel, I bugged my dog in solidarity. One eye cracked open but is ... slowly ... closing ... again ... At least the cats have stopped yelling at me.
	👻 3:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sounds like a variation of the "rovalert" sniglet.
	3:31pm Irwin: Pets want their alone time back. Fish and home-bound owners stink in three days.
	3:31pm Handy Haversack: Spoke too soon. Voltron has more complaints to register. I should never have accepted the ombudsman position.
	3:32pm mndave: @AnAnonymousParty, I mute my call and say "go git the bunny" and that'll distract my dog for a good ten. What really grinds my gears is hearing other people's message alert sounds on a call, or bird/outdoor sounds suggesting they have nicer weather than me
	👻 3:32pm Listening Out There: I've worked from home for years. Am getting a kick out of hearing misc. stories about coping with isolation, video conferencing, and the like. Man, talk about cryin' in yr. beer...
	3:33pm Handy Haversack: Irwin, I think the dog feels some of that -- he's tired of music always being on! Lulu the cat has decided that my being here means she can yell at me for attention all day long. And it usually works, too!
	3:35pm Irwin: LoT: Copy that.
	3:35pm Peter from Dover NJ: Hello Irwin, and everyone. I'm gonna try writing with the radio on. @ Mark Hurst, I quit like the program Monday nite.
	3:35pm Kat in Chicago: Lwurking is a useful concept but awkward to pronounce
	3:36pm Kat in Chicago: Not that you necessarily have to say it aloud for any reason
	👻 3:36pm Listening Out There: People of the Waterfalls = Quality guitar abuse
	3:36pm listener 126464: I hurt my back lwurking.
	3:37pm Handy Haversack: Still got the skiing to deal with, @Peter from Dover?
	3:37pm Roberto: I think our cats are generally stoked to have us around all day. I'm more concerned about how they'll react if and when we start leaving them alone again.
	3:38pm queems: my parents just got my cat a 6 ft tall cat tree. she's living her best life these days
	3:39pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Oh sweet, I was not aware of this XTC re-issue of Black Sea.
	3:40pm the artist: Listening Out There: Indeed!
	3:40pm Handy Haversack: That's my dog worry, Roberto. queems, whenever we try to get the cats durable gifts, the Pee Wars go once more from cold to shooting. And don't even think about getting the dog a bed. I think Voltron just peed on the dog on spec when I typed that.
	3:41pm queems: @handy i'm super lucky because my cat is generally not super destructive, other than she scratches the rugs
	3:42pm Peter from Dover NJ: Hello Handy, yes still dealing with skiing. I ditched my first draft because it sucked. The second draft is coming along much better
	👻 3:42pm Mark Hurst: @Peter, thanks so much!
	3:42pm SSS: I need this very oddness.
	👻 3:43pm Alison Porchnik: There are a lot of Beatles-esque riffs in this tune
	3:43pm Roberto: MJ + Elvis > MJ \|\| Elvis
	3:43pm Hex Fam Sam: NICE HAHA!
	3:43pm queems: i thrive on hee's and hoo's
	3:44pm Handy Haversack: queems, ours can maintain the peace as long as no new objects of common desire are introduced. Voltron and Callipygian go SACPOP with truly disturbing quickness. Good luck, Peter!
	👻 3:44pm Mark Hurst: @queems there are both hee's and hoo's in this 12-second clip - twitter.com...
	3:45pm Ochre Ochre: Headed for some major doggie depression, some cats could care less.
	3:45pm queems: @mark HAHAH
	3:46pm brainiac: Just got back from grocery shopping and was prepared to spit on my hands and hoist the black flag. But this music hath charms to soothe.
	3:47pm Roberto: "Hees" and "hoos" -- no apostrophes needed.
	3:47pm People Like Us: there are noises in this track that sound like my cat
	3:47pm queems: @handy that is one of the many reasons why i only have one cat at the moment. she's a diva and when she was living with her brothers someone was peeing on everything and i don't know who (it wasn't me) and i don't want to find out the hard way that it was her
	👻 3:47pm Mark Hurst: @Roberto i think you mean... apostrophe's
	3:47pm Roberto: In fact, apostrophes heavily discouraged.
	👻 3:47pm Mark Hurst: (I kid, I kid - same stuff drives me crazy)
	3:48pm queems: '''''''''''''''''
	3:48pm Roberto: Ironic apostrophes (aka irostrophes) are acceptable.
	👻 3:48pm Mark Hurst: l'wurking
	3:48pm Handy Haversack: So, "Mind your hees and hoos!" is the takeaway I'm getting here.
	👻 3:52pm Listening Out There: Salutations to Vicki B. Hope to hear more PLU bits flying through the Interwebs sometime soon...
	3:52pm Ochre Ogre: Gonna mind my own bee's' wax and not get involved.
	3:53pm People Like Us: at some point, Listening Out There! Bit occupied with moving house at the moment
	3:53pm Roberto: Emily and Eric may have been inspired by Amanda and her friend. Oy what was her name again?
	3:54pm Roberto: Or maybe just Amanda and her brother Jody.
	3:54pm mb: mmmm. "Syrup"
	3:55pm flashbazbo: Irwin: I hope things are going well for you under current conditions. You should only be hectored for a fortnight and 4 days by an ear worm of the chordette’s doing “let’s get it on”.
	3:55pm brainiac: I'd rather be a fish
	3:55pm Roberto: Was it Brandy? Mandy and Brandy? Sounds too good to be true.
	3:56pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: I'm fine with carryin' my moonbeams, inna' jar or otherwise
	3:57pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: ~but then, I'm forever chasin' rainbows too...
	3:59pm angelo: hey irwin, baby, is there any way to snag that swell tune?
	3:59pm Olive Oyl: Popeye!!
	3:59pm iiibeat: Title: Storage in the ground. Storage in the clouds. Stowed away in sound. Ghost man on the pitcher's mound. Skin tickled with gentle breeze . . Warped with the wasps . . Tunnels, funnels and pores . . Follicles, stingers, wings and grins . . Shut your eyes and let the antennae leak light in . . Dropping things for the win. Sandwiches (turns) gone elastic . . Smearing mud on drifting rock faces . . Gas and geese pacing break markers on swift motion . . Devotion to movement . . Calm and then doom based tunes before the idiots feel happy again. Love love love . . Love the fear of the Reaper. Harvest none. Harvest one. Harvest all. Harvest down the hardest hall. Seasons note. Bags for animals. Bags a plenty. Ramshackled freckles . . Under-water freight trains . . Microscopic sub brains . . Skin in the game . . Teaching teeth to . . Behave!
	4:00pm Handy Haversack: Dungeons, eh?
	4:01pm Andrew_in_WI: I would've assumed Michele as being the owner of the masturbatorium, but she's part of the skeleton crew.
	4:02pm BH: as long as the internet connection in the dungeon is reliable
	4:02pm Roberto: Most importantly, they appeared on the Young Ones.
	4:03pm angelo: yoo III, THAT WAS SUCH A FUN POEM
	4:05pm angelo: Excuse me, masturbatorium concierge, may i order that baby gramps track a la carte?
	4:07pm Irwin: angelo: The Baby Gramps set used to be in the WFMU Free Music Archive, but I'm not sure if the FMA exists at any accessible source these days. Check around the web.
	4:08pm angelo: thanks papi chulo. You da homie
	4:10pm Irwin: N.B. This phone con is from several years ago, before the current circumstances.
	4:10pm angelo: wow irwin, you played that baby gramps song 7 years ago. so unoriginal smh
	4:11pm Handy Haversack: "On line"!
	4:11pm Roberto: It was Brandy, wasn't it. Amanda and Brandy.
	4:12pm berbo: he wanted everyone to join in! why didn't you join in?
	4:12pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: This is hilarious and I KNOW I would have had the same reaction. JEEZUS.
	4:13pm MikeG: oh my god ... I'm dying
	4:13pm Roberto: This sounds about the same as how I would have reacted. Basically whenever people sing unsolicitedly in public, I'm like, GTFO with that S.
	4:13pm queems: i would have sung with him
	4:13pm Asheville Jon: oh Irwin, I feel soooo sorry for you. makes me want to drive up there and whack that guy in the throat with a 2x4
	4:13pm brainiac: @Roberto 4:11: youtu.be...
	4:13pm Ochre Ogre: Well, at least it wasn't Hotel California!
	4:13pm queems: because i like to irritate others
	4:14pm Roberto: Yep, Brandy. Nailed it.
	4:15pm Ochre Ogre: OR Jilly Boel!!
	4:15pm People Like Us: thank you
	4:15pm Roberto: And dudes singing/humming in the men's room at the office (back when we worked out of an office) -- aw HELL naw.
	4:15pm iiibeat: Imagine that . . Imagine them jumping . . Rope . . For World Peace.
	👻 4:15pm βrian: en.wiktionary.org...
	4:16pm brainiac: I am all too familiar with violent impulses rising within me at the workplace.
	4:16pm mariano: Remember the George W mashup of Imagine and Walk on the Wild Side? Hi Irwin, crew, and people.
	4:16pm Carmichael: I just cannot stand this insipid song in ANY form.
	4:16pm Asheville Jon: right there with ya Carmichael
	4:16pm People Like Us: my Jump mashup is better
	4:17pm Colin: Awesome
	4:17pm JakeGould: I like this.
	4:17pm brainiac: Lisa is the voice of reason here.
	4:18pm Ochre Ogre: A redneck type guy in front of me starting badly drunk dancing to 'Money' at a roger Waters concert.
	4:19pm flashbazbo: Leave Ernest alone. He's just trying to be himself. It's important.
	4:19pm joe mulligan: Vicki what was that song earlier w/you n Ergo - it's the outro tune Ken does that has the sort of slack key gtr
	4:19pm JakeGould: DJ Earnest on WFMU
	4:20pm People Like Us: In The Waking from Rhapsody in Glue - is on bandcamp People Like Us
	4:20pm Roberto: Somehow I never heard "Imagine" until the days immediately following Lennon's death. At first I thought it was one of his last releases.
	4:21pm Laura L: Bwé Kafe: "Where the care in making a delicious brew surpasses the cup and transforms into creative energy that we all need and benefit from even on our best days." Yes, that's on their website. Imagine!
	4:21pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Roberto, technically everything he did was his "LAST"
	4:21pm Ochre Ogre: Roberto- No way!
	4:21pm dave wuz here: BRE' (brutal ration of earnestness) cafe
	4:21pm iiibeat: @People . . The title is drawing me in. I'll be right there.
	4:22pm Roberto: Way.
	4:22pm joe mulligan: Thanks Vicki! loved it.
	4:22pm Carmichael: "Self Interview", why does that not surprise me?
	4:22pm People Like Us: peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com...
	4:23pm Rich in Bay Ridge: Roberto - that's my recollection too. Radio only really played Whatever gets you through the night or Instant Karma until his death
	4:24pm Roberto: Of course, Double Fantasy tracks were played on the radio nonstop during those days, so I just lumped it in with them.
	4:26pm mrdonutsu: Who does he work for?
	4:26pm Ochre Ogre: Right, Double Fantasy tracks and non stop Beatles.
	👻 4:26pm Listening Out There: Dept. of Work Avoidance: Looks like "satan is real" can e anagrammed to "seal strain." Hidden lyrics, y'knows...
	4:26pm Handy Haversack: Hey, Mariano!
	4:27pm Laura L: "Our very first coffee shop, Washington & 10th will always be bursting with colors and smiles, just from the loving neighborhood crowd that we brew coffee for, every morning. Our wonderful team of baristas will get your name as quick as a flash and will soon be greeting your yawn every morning with a smile in a cup." Can a person just get a cup of coffee? No Bwé!
	4:27pm Carmichael: I once knew a guy named Chris Clarke. His anagram was Crack Relish.
	4:29pm -Ken: I recognize the "Too Loud" guy! He was interviewing early Pink Floyd, amiright?
	👻 4:30pm Mark Hurst: @Vicki where is your Jump cover? I've missed that one
	4:31pm Listener Robert: Irwin, I know the FMA passed from the hands of the outfit Auricle bequeathed it to to another organization about a year ago, haven't checked lately but assume it's still operating according to its original purpose.
	4:31pm Roberto: Yep that's the "your music is a regression to childhood" guy.
	4:31pm flashbazbo: I have to say that once at an important event I prevented Imagine from being played and had them play Across The Universe. Word to the wise.
	👻 4:32pm βrian: Good Imagine Hygiene is important.
	4:32pm Giselle: Irvin eviscerated Bwe! Where is it? I want to go there. I'll make a special trip from Canada!
	4:33pm BH: the Governor of NJ cited a need for COBOL programmers to deal with the unemployment system a few weeks ago, so using AOL for e-mail is relatively modern
	4:33pm Listener Robert: Sharon Presley thought "Imagine" was a great libertarian anthem. At that time decades ago she convinced me. But now I think it's severely ANTIlibertarian.
	4:33pm People Like Us: @mark hurst peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com...
	4:34pm Ochre Ogre: @Rich in B R- Commercial radio squeezing a few songs of an artists catalog into a few songs. Like Bowie or Dylan's massive output and what do they play like 3-4 of the same over and over and...
	👻 4:37pm Mark Hurst: @Vicki oh that is amazing - thanks
	4:38pm brainiac: @Vicki & Mark: I like this one too peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com...
	4:39pm Ochre Ogre: Irwin, you should be glad it wasn't the Boobie Drothers, Oh the world listen to the music, Oh the world listen to the music, Oh the world listen to the music Oh the world listen to the music, Oh the world listen to the music, Oh the world listen to the music, drives me nuts already.
	4:39pm People Like Us: @brainiac - it's probably more or less the same track, I just lose track of my track names :)
	4:42pm People Like Us: thanks Mark! I would have just given it to you but that will buy me some crackers :)
	4:42pm Mariano: Oh, lol Handy, missed your greeting. Thanks for the capitalization reminder.
	4:43pm brainiac: I missed the memo
	4:44pm Crudbringer: Nordine!
	4:44pm Jeezuseffinchrist: honey, ain't we all good at fooling ourselves
	4:45pm People Like Us: @mark hurst here's the video for Jump vimeo.com...
	4:45pm Handy Haversack: I went back and read what I missed out on on Creamo's show last night, @Mariano. It's like you guys were just waiting for me to go outside to let the good times roll! Well, I'm never going outside again! So there!
	4:45pm flashbazbo: It's "Oh the world" listen to the music? Never had a clue. I just say "oooohhh"I have to listen to it a lot more...
	4:45pm Crudbringer: money's a pretty big thing in our society
	4:45pm angelo: ay irwin, thanks for introducing me to the free music archive. it's magnificent
	4:46pm Handy Haversack: @People Like Us: On behalf of all Mark Hurst has helped me remember to remember: THANK you for that being a Vimeo link!
	4:48pm People Like Us: happy to share it in here :)
	4:48pm dave: SHUT UP, NORDINE! SHUT UP
	4:50pm David in London: Yo Peeps. I’m in! How are you, you fine bunch of reprobates?
	4:50pm People Like Us: I think you'll find he has shut up forever
	4:51pm Handy Haversack: Withering under cat glare, David, but still sucking air! How's the London night getting on?
	👻 4:51pm Jennica: Hi DiL. Swell. You?
	4:52pm People Like Us: London is still here but rather liking Irwin's distractions
	👻 4:52pm Mark Hurst: @Vicki thanks for the video! This is great work
	4:52pm People Like Us: thanks!
	👻 4:52pm Mark Hurst: @Handy agreed, thx
	4:54pm The Oscar: Been busy working, but LOVE this TV Personalities cover!
	4:55pm Mariano: 'Evening, David.
	4:55pm Handy Haversack: I never get to watch anything that people send me. It gets me a little glum sometimes!
	4:55pm People Like Us: @Mark hurst @handy I've just made the vimeo downloadable, so grab it because I'll disappear it again
	4:55pm David in London: Yeah, not bad Handy. Late dinner after jamming with Kenny Burrell. Sadly he was on vinyl and not with me in the room. It I’m sure he enjoyed it as much as I did.
	4:56pm David in London: Mark, great Techtonic the other night.
	4:56pm David in London: Hi Jennica. All good here thanks.
	4:56pm brainiac: Hey David in London, what's your least favorite Billy Joel song? I'm conducting a poll. Everyone is invited to submit an answer.
	👻 4:59pm Jennica: I dislike all Billy Joel songs, really. Least fave? Ouch. PM or It's still R&R to me? Or... I could go on...
	5:00pm Roberto: I like the one about 'nam and Captain Jack all right.
	5:00pm flashbazbo: Satan is real can be Lear’s stain.
	5:02pm David in London: Brainiac, hello mate. Ah, you put me in an awkward position here. I am forced to expose myself, in that I actually quite like Billy Joel. I kept quiet when everyone was piling on during Ken’s show recently, but I’m quite fond of him. So I’m going to have to say Uptown Girl because I was quite disappointed when it came out because it seemed popcrapulous. I’m going to plug his raw meat based pronto metal power due Attila too!
	5:05pm Carmichael: @brainiac, Italian Restaurant. And all the others, in chronological order.
	5:05pm listener 126464: Atilla!
	5:05pm brainiac: Thanks all for your well-considered responses. I think this may be a hot-button issue, much like the proper use of hyphens.
	5:06pm Irwin: I don't enjoy most Billy Joel songs, but the man has a rare, undeniable gift for composing and recording music with broad popular (read: commercial) appeal, and he's done it consistently over several decades. He's worked for his success.
	👻 5:07pm Mark Hurst: @David thanks very much
	👻 5:07pm Mark Hurst: @Vicki got the file, thanks!
	5:08pm Handy Haversack: @People Like Us: Yoink! Will share with Kate later when the workday is (oh dear god please) done! @brainiac: "WWBJD? 'What would Billy Joel do'?" "Probably write another crappy song about it." I do rather like "You May Be Right," though.
	5:09pm coelacanth∅: good job!
	5:10pm Chi Bill: Stones and TRex mashup is one of many reasons I LOVE this station! Thanks!!!
	5:10pm coelacanth∅: (2000 light years from Bolan)
	5:11pm Carmichael: Another Brick in the Wall vs Stayin' Alive has been my favorite so far.
	5:11pm Mariano: I have a vague memory of a brief time when Billy Joel was seen as being in the same phylum as Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson, but I was in like 5th grade and maybe my memory's playing tricks. When I first heard "You May Be Right" I filed it away in my 11-year-old head as a new wave song.
	5:13pm Roberto: I mean, the guy did use the M word in a song. That's got to be good for something.
	5:13pm Handy Haversack: It's a solid choice for karaoke and esp. a duet with live-band karaoke.
	5:13pm Mariano: Oh, have any of you seen Bill McClintock's YT channel? All kinds of mashups. I think my favorite is "Mother Was a Rolling Stone", a mashup of the Temptations and Danzig.
	5:14pm coelacanth∅: @5.11 those 2 songs i dislike as much as most Billy Joel songs.
	5:14pm Roberto: MICHAEL STIPE IS SOOOO HOT
	5:15pm Handy Haversack: I mean, he's not un-hot.
	5:15pm David in London: Hey mAriano. I’m capping you in a novel way. Hey Carmichael.
	5:16pm Irwin: coel: "Another Brick" is one of the most pretentious songs in the classic rock canon. It's unbearably pompous.
	5:16pm brainiac: Just thought of a sub poll question: Who are you more triggered by, Billy Joel or Phil Collins?
	5:17pm iiibeat: Dialects can break bricks.
	5:17pm Handy Haversack: Got it!
	5:17pm Mariano: Uh, thanks David, I think.. ;)
	5:17pm Irwin: brain: if Phil keeps his mouth shut and just plays drums, I can listen for hours.
	5:17pm Carmichael: @Irwin, I think that's why I like the mashup so much.
	5:17pm Handy Haversack: @David: Capital idea.
	👻 5:18pm Jennica: PC way worse than BJ
	5:18pm coelacanth∅: right on Irwin. i was deeply into pink floyd at the time and when the wall came out it seriously depressed me, how bad it was.
	5:18pm David in London: Brainiac, Collins’ ‘Invisible Touch’ is one I absolutely loathe.
	5:18pm Roberto: I get these two and Joan Marie mixed up with the Closet Queen.
	5:19pm Handy Haversack: I think there are better Collins covers than Billy Joel covers? Or at least I can't think of covers of BJ that I liked ... or have heard of?
	5:19pm iiibeat: Maybe if you put duct tape over his mouth and hold a gun to his head . . He will just drum!
	5:19pm Carmichael: Some FMU DJ had the wonderful idea of playing every Phil Collins song at the same time. I believe it was Scott Williams.
	5:21pm coelacanth∅: Phil Collins' music bores me to tears, for the most part; still i think he is, or was a decent writer, decent singer...and obviously an excellent drummer. ...and he can drum and sing simultaneously!
	5:22pm brainiac: It's definitely Collins for me. But at least he has publicly apologized for his offenses.
	5:23pm iiibeat: My idea was horrible. Truly. I'm going now to grab a switch to whip my own hind-side with. It'll teach me.
	5:24pm Mariano: A few years ago PBS ran a Billy Joel concert in London from the mid-70s. I watched part of it, and I was amazed at how orchestral his relatively small band sounded, especially for the era. One guy in particular was really impressive, switched between keyboards, horns, and reeds.
	5:24pm Toothgrinder Tom: Why can’t they both be bad in their own ways? Who is worse, Engelbert Humperdink or Wayne Newton?
	👻 5:25pm Jennica: I have to switch from lwurking to working soon, so I'll miss the end. I'll double back to listen to the whole show soon though. Loved what I heard, per usgh. Be well...all of you...
	5:25pm brainiac: Thanks Jennica. You too!
	5:26pm dk50b: Is it me or Visage's Fade to Grey the underbed of Mr. sandman
	5:26pm David in London: Ta ta Jennica.
	5:27pm Handy Haversack: Bye, Jennica. I can't tell now if it's related, but I do like Huey Lewis.
	5:27pm dk50b: Sorry, "Untitled 1"
	5:29pm David in London: Handy, have you ever seen the Robot Chicken Huey Lewis sketch? If not, put that right PDQ, it’s in shockingly poor taste and is utterly hilarious.
	5:29pm Ochre Ogre: Great stuff The Matrix Tapes, first heard it when Fabio played at his record store, Earwax.
	5:30pm coelacanth∅: i really can't stand most of Billy Joel's music, but he's had moments of brilliance...at least in regard to songcraft. "you may be right" was not one of those. trying to capitalize on the new wave was like peter paul & mary singing about how they dig rock and roll music; or my beloved kinks trying to jump on both the disco and the new wave bandwagon at once with that abomination,"superman". ...but then i mostly can't stand Frank Sinatra also.
	5:31pm Mariano: Toothgrinder Tom: my stepdad's Sicilian grandma loved Englebert but had such a heavy old-country accent that she couldn't say his name; instead she's say "I like-a da Hinky Dinky."
	5:32pm Ochre Ogre: Mariano, hilarious! Love those language imperfections.
	5:32pm coelacanth∅: mariano hahaha!
	5:33pm Toothgrinder Tom: I think Billy Joel is a much better songwriter than Phil Collins; I don’t think he could write a Billy Joel song, but Billy Joel could write a Phil Collins song.
	5:34pm coelacanth∅: Toothgrinder, you may be right.
	5:34pm David in London: Englebert with Hendrix as his supporting act must have been quite an experience (pun half intended).
	5:35pm brainiac: I have a metal-head friend who insists he traveled from LA to Alaska to see Huey Lewis play live without a shred of irony (from the metal head, not Huey. Huey may have played ironically as hell for all I know).
	5:35pm Toothgrinder Tom: @Mariano cute!
	5:35pm David in London: Irwin, we were talking this afternoon about that version of Nothing Compares 2 U by unknown you played a few weeks back. Everyone agree that it was actually quite haunting. I’ve listened to it again since.
	5:36pm Ochre Ogre: Mariano- When I turned my wife from Italy on to Patsy Cline, she loved it and used to refer to her as Pitsy Patsy.
	5:37pm coelacanth∅: but i cannot respect any rock n roller who wears a suit
	5:38pm coelacanth∅: (or a polo shirt)
	5:38pm Handy Haversack: Wow, shots fired, @coela!
	5:38pm brainiac: @coel: Not even Bryan Ferry?
	5:38pm Carmichael: Unless it's made of bubble wrap.
	5:39pm berbo: @c - does that include the Rolling Stones and the Beatles?
	5:39pm coelacanth∅: haha don't take me too literally Handy!
	5:39pm Toothgrinder Tom: @DiL David, you missed band practice!
	5:39pm Ochre Ogre: coel- What about Bowie?!
	5:39pm Mr. Pumpy: Hello Irwin and all...and that's a lot of you, dang! The accu is hoppin'. Anyhow...Pumpy come lately today, but glad to have made it at all.
	5:39pm David in London: Coel, Lee Brilleaux is at the door and he wants a word...
	5:40pm coelacanth∅: thin white duke was not a Bowie phase i wanted anything to do with!
	5:40pm Mariano: Ochre Ogre: That's funny! coela: Patti Smith?!?
	5:40pm coelacanth∅: ...his image was why i stopped paying attention to Bowie, in the late 70s
	5:40pm Mr. Pumpy: Nothing compares to Nothing Compares 2 U by unknown
	5:41pm brainiac: @coel: TRIGGERED!
	5:41pm Mr. Pumpy: @coel...would you say it was more the thinness, or the whiteness? Or..simply the suits?
	5:42pm Carmichael: "All the great soul groups wore suits. Suits are neat, dignified."
	5:42pm coelacanth∅: mariano, not a good look for Patti, but i still Love her!
	5:42pm Mariano: Us reacting to coela's revelation: www.youtube.com...
	5:42pm Handy Haversack: You're losing the crowd, @coela! Quick, play "We Didn't Start the Fire"! Hey, Mr. P.
	5:42pm coelacanth∅: Mr.P haha!
	5:43pm Mr. Pumpy: Capital 'M' mariano...ha! Ned...
	5:43pm coelacanth∅: ...anyway i was referring to Huey Lewis' era. not the beatles' or the miracles' era.
	5:43pm Mr. Pumpy: Handy! How you been?
	5:44pm David in London: Hey Mr Pumpy! Toothgrinder, shit, I did an enormous bong and slept through it. Sorry about that! How was it?
	5:44pm Handy Haversack: Sempiternal though sodden toward sundown, Mr. P!
	5:45pm Ochre Ogre: coel- DUDE too bad, you missed Scary Monsters, Reality, The Next Day...!
	5:45pm Toothgrinder Tom: @David it went well!
	5:46pm Mr. Pumpy: @Handy...got into the manual a bit last night after the requisite Jeopardy session with pops. Great having a physical book now and not being a slave to a PDF.
	5:46pm Toothgrinder Tom: @David but the washboard was out of tune - again.
	5:46pm Mariano: Have you heard the recordings of Eliot reading Four Quartets? Or Alec Guinness?
	5:47pm Mr. Pumpy: David! That harassment film thread was killing me the other day. Funny shite!
	5:47pm brainiac: I am having a galvanic response to this Say Sue Me song.
	5:48pm Mariano: For me, Phil Collins went a good ways towards redeeming himself with his appearance in GTA Vice City Stories. There's a mission where your character has to save him during a concert from being killed by a mob hitman trying to crush him with a stage light.
	5:48pm Mr. Pumpy: @Handy...not too bad of a status report in these trying times. I'm working on a nice pint me self.
	5:48pm Joe D.: damn Say Sue Me switched over from american indie to american cosmic???
	5:49pm Ochre Ogre: Doh! Ned Flaners
	5:49pm Handy Haversack: @Mariano: Yes! Kate requests my Eliot impersonation often, esp. in April.
	5:49pm Irwin: JoeD: Haven't heard anything by SSM I haven't loved. Lots of variety in their sounds.
	5:49pm Joe D.: lol nevermind I actually played that song
	5:50pm Joe D.: they're great!!!!
	5:50pm coelacanth∅: Ogre, no -up through scary monsters. then i gave up. when i heard blackstar, 2 days before he died, i realised i may've missed a lot -and went though all that time i wasn't paying attention to him. i listened to every album. some (like the next day) many times.
	5:50pm Irwin: JD: And their band name is easy to pronounce.
	5:52pm Ochre Ogre: K coel, good.
	5:53pm Joe D.: i.stack.imgur.com...
	5:53pm Mariano: Ochre Ogre: Stupid sexy Flanders!
	5:55pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Irwin! And, could you tell me where to get a Fried Sandwich?
	5:55pm Irwin: OO: Would you like another fried sandwich?
	5:55pm David in London: Mr P, yeah, I was still chuckling about it this morning.
	5:56pm Carmichael: @Joe D, why aren't you on Monday with the other Joes? I thought it was some kind of mandate.
	5:56pm dk50b: Irwin, guessing you've heard about the time Harvey Sid Fisher attend David Geffen's presser for his American Masters in 1992, but I hand't. When asked, turns out he hadn't heard of "Astrology Songs." www.huffpost.com...
	👻 5:56pm βrian: Alas, our Orange Interlude will soon be over.
	5:56pm Ochre Ogre: Yes I would like another fried sandwich.
	5:56pm brainiac: Wishing Irwin and everyone the happiest of Walpurgis Nights tomorrow. Bye!
	5:56pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Irwin!
	5:56pm David in London: Thanks Irwin, great show. Right, bedtime for me. Night pals!
	5:57pm Mariano: Thanks Irwin and crew, take care everyone, 'night David!
	5:57pm Laura L: What? Six pm already! Thanks, Irwin!
	👻 5:58pm Mark Hurst: Yeah!
	5:58pm Handy Haversack: Man, that went fast. Thanks, Irwin. Have a good night, David!
	5:58pm Ochre Ogre: Cheers David!
	5:58pm radioronan: Another fine presentation - Thanks, Irwin
	3:26pm evan500: This is just what I'm needing during the lockdown. Between the set and the pot brownie I'm transported somewhere else.

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from April 29, 2020

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