Monica on WFMU, my favorite dj, yours?

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if i could just get the tracks from her archived playlists onto a computer or something i wouldn't need anything else. today's highlights:

patsy montana, rose "chi-chi" murphy, it's a beautiful day, and lakeside project.

who else out there gives you what you need?

― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite DJ is Steve Cushing on "Blues Before Sunrise". I stay in and stay up til 4 am on Saturday nights just to listen!

Your favorite WFMU DJ!

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Even though there's already another thread for this, I'm going to say it again: The best show on WFMU is The Best Show On WFMU. The most accurate name for anything ever!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

1. gaylord
2. small change
3. belinda & hova

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't listen to the radio much, but it's probably the guy who hosts the all-klezmer show "Vibes from the 12 tribes" on WTUL 91.5 in New Orleans.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

p.s. my three are all wfmu'ers, which i thought was the point of the thread, but i might have thought wrong, but they're my three favorite nonetheless.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks for posting the related thread broheems, i hadn't come across that one before.

yeah, i hadn't intended this to be a fmu specific thread.

hope some of you have been dialed into monica today, she brings it frank's red hot style.

― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Monica is truly kicking it today.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Gaylord Fields once said I looked a little like Ann-Margret.

Monica's Marathon CDs are really really good.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Tony Coulter, great for only-on-vinyl 60's soft psych.

― dlp9001, Friday, 19 December 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

blues before sunrise is on wfmu? no, wait, this isn't a wfmu thread. well yeah i love blues before sunrise, especially since i used to feel cool for staying up late enough to hear all of it. also because he plays incredible music. i think i like dick buckley better, because he is so knowledgeable.

but monica is def. my favorite wfmu dj.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and marc grobman whenever he subs for somebody, his playlists are astoundingly great.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i like andy walzer's shows too. but i'm saying what i said on the other thread i think.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm aorry I cannot only pick three:

1 Brian Turner (NO ONE has turned me onto more great shit in the last few years than the great BT -- and he's such a friggin mensch! -- I'm always emailing him while a song is playing before the thing updates on the site, saying 'What is THIS?' and he always answers right away and doesn't get p.o.'ed at me or anything, wow.)
2 Sinner's Crossroads guy
3 Fabio
4 Laura Cantrell
5 Tony Coulter

...And I totally miss: The Hound, Terry, & Bill Berger

― yetimike (McGonigal), Saturday, 20 December 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

KennyG, he's got Anal Magic

― PeterALopez, Saturday, 20 December 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

chris goldfinger!!

― dave k, Saturday, 20 December 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

brian turner's shows give me a headache because they veer every which way, although i like a lot of the stuff he plays.

monica pulls off a great trick in being super-eclectic but never in a pedantic or show-offy way...her shows almost always blend in surprising and sensible ways.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the idea of djing, the possibilities of it, so it's nice to see when someone realizes those possibilities.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

My top five are, in no order,

Donna Summer
Monica
Mike Lupica
Fabio
Doug Schulkind

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 20 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Doug Schulkind
Terre T
Joe Belock
Laura Cantrell

are all priceless American treasures. I miss Trouble, Douglas and Mosurock.

― scott m (mcd), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Amateurist OTM about Dick Buckley. I shouldn't have forgotten him. What an unbelievable font of knowledge - just a delight to listen to.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Fiona Talkington (perfect DJ name!)

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Cat

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

$mall Change!!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenny G is awesome, haven't heard him for a while though. He's on during the day isn't he? I need to get internet radio working at my work. Dave Mandl is great, and Eva on Sunday nights (but I have to say that, since she's a friend). Also, Tony Coulter.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 20 December 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

not to forget vicki bennett's show, though she's only doing one season...

― (Jon L), Sunday, 21 December 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember one Kenny G show where he for some reason decided to start playing Rolling Stones songs backwards. I don't know how he got them to play backwards, but the weird thing was they still kind of rocked, in a strange way.

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 21 December 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, he would alternate, playing one backwards then playing one forwards. He did this for several songs.

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 21 December 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Dick Buckley: "Now the liner notes have him down for trumpet, but that's a mistake -- he always played cornet."

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 21 December 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know how he got them to play backwards

I once saw Kid Koala do it this way: stack a bunch of 45-centerpieces on top of each other, turn the cartridge on the turntable arm around so that the stylus is facing up, place needle under the record balancing on the 45 adaptors, and viola, you've got a record playing backwards at a consistent speed.

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 21 December 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

W/my father's old turntable, if you manually rotated it the wrong way while starting it up, it would continue in that direction on its own. I'm assuming this worked for other old record players.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 21 December 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Mosurock turned me on to a lot of great music, it's a shame he isn't on WFMU anymore.

― webcrack (music=crack), Sunday, 21 December 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still having a hard time picturing how that upside-down record trick would work. How would you keep the needle in contact with the bottom of the record? Actually, I just realized an easier, high-tech way to do it. Most WAV file recorders allow you to reverse a WAV file quite easily - so he could just rip them, flip them, and burn them.

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 21 December 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

In other words, fremme neppa venette.

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 21 December 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

yltcaxe

― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 21 December 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I've actually tried that at home. The tone arm on Technics 1200s are weighted to balance the needle accordingly; you can weight the opposite end so that the arm points up rather than down at your record, then unscrew the needle and turn it so that it faces straight up into the air.

― scott m (mcd), Sunday, 21 December 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Dick Buckley: "Now the liner notes have him down for trumpet, but that's a mistake -- he always played cornet."

Dick Buckley is amazing. I want to sit him down one day and fire off the most obscure questions about pre-bebop jazz and watch as he answers every one of them. He's like "Mr. Memory" from "The 39 Steps"! Yeah, he's always correcting liner notes and stuff, and sometimes he'll be like, "Oh, the notes say that's Muff Johnson on alto but I know Muff Johnson and those four notes in the bridge sound a lot more like James Bleederson to me. And since Bleederson was in St. Louis on the weekend of February 6 and 7 when this session was done, I'll bet that's him."*

*these are fake names to simulate a level of obscurity

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 21 December 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the sexual ambiguity of "Muff Johnson." Kinda like "Mrs. Paul's Fish Sticks" or "Dick Hyman."

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 21 December 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

>>>brian turner's shows give me a headache

i totally give me a headache too

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry brian

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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