WFMU: Krys O's Free-Form Roller Coaster: Playlist from August 5, 2023

Listener comments!
	12:57pm Krys O.: Good afternoon!
	1:00pm Handy Haversack: Happy anniversary, Krys! I'm going to aim the speaker out the window while we have a burning party out here in wild western Michigan.
	1:01pm tom tom the pipers son: hi krys, happy saturday!
	1:01pm Krys O.: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:00 Thanks, Handy! Much obliged!
	1:01pm Jan Turkenburg: Happy Anniversary, Krys!
	1:01pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:01 Howdy, pal!
	1:02pm tom tom the pipers son: oh, and happy anniversary...
	1:02pm Krys O.: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @1:01 Many thanks, Jan!!
	👻 1:02pm WR: I had a phonolog. Trying to remember in which move did I finally let it go.
	1:04pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @1:02 Hi, WR! It was my job at the record store to keep the Phonolog in order with updates and such. I used it a lot to help customers. I worked at a record store when I started doing a show at WFMU. I'd already been working at the station since 1981 as a student.
	👻 1:05pm WR: 1985! Live Aid being that summer helps me remember that year.
	1:06pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @1:05 Ah, yes. We had to have MTV on at the record store. It was Crazy Eddie's. Got to see Live AID while working. I didn't own a TV myself at the time.
	1:07pm tom tom the pipers son: listened to your dad's cassette, he was very committed and little stewart had a real knack for radio, liked/remember the toyota that doesn't use gas, very prescient, and the karate kid fight.
	1:07pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:07 Thankee!
	👻 1:11pm WR: Also, that summer was my first visit to NYC. Found WFMU on the radio and would listen to it regularly during my 10 day or so visit.
	1:11pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @1:11 Excellent!
	1:17pm tom tom the pipers son: my grandmother, on mother's side, was born in poland. don't know to much about grandfather, although he was probably also born in poland, who died when my mother was a child, she found him slumped over at the kitchen table, choked on vomit, a heavy drinker, he boxed and drove a cab for money. my grandmother raised four kids on her own in les nyc which was possible in the 40's- 50's. anyway grew up on pierogi's and keilbasa, not every day, as probably you did.
	1:19pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:17 Oh, so sorry for your loss. I never met my grandparents.
	👻 1:22pm WR: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:17 Intense memory for your mother to carry. Hurray for strong matriarchs.
	1:26pm tom tom the pipers son: yes, sure is. my grandmother was a true matriarch.
	1:32pm tom tom the pipers son: ah ... the synthesized 80's
	1:33pm tom tom the pipers son: reagan... the simulacrum president
	1:36pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:33 Indeed. The rise of Neo-Liberalism with Thatcherism and Reaganomics.
	1:41pm tom tom the pipers son: synths and big drums, the soundtrack for it... big hair too
	1:45pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Come Softly To Me" by "The Roches" I remember seeing Maggie Roche on the street outside the Greenwich Village Crazy Eddie's store once. If I wasn't working, I would have gone out to gush like a fan girl.
	1:46pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Last Time Forever" by "Squeeze" Yes, they dropped in bits from The Shining in this song.
	1:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Come Softly To Me" by "The Roches" very sweet song, seemed like sweet people too
	1:50pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:49 Suzzy was in a fine movie, Crossing Delancey directed by Joan Micklin Silver.
	1:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @1:50 i think i've seen bits of that on tcm, with amy irving, trying to remember suzzy roche, seem to remember her as part of some school or organization that main character was involved with.
	1:56pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:55 Suzzy was the friend that Amy Irving set up with Peter Riegert.
	1:57pm tom tom the pipers son: don't remember microdisney, like the album cover. oh, thanks, kinda remember
	1:57pm Krys O.: BTW-I'm talking over an instrumental version of Wings' Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five.
	1:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ah, you're a complete-ist... ha!
	2:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "9th & Hennepin" by "Tom Waits" Love Waits' music from this period. Actually, love ALL his stuff.
	2:01pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:01 Howdee, Rich! Yes, indeedy.
	2:02pm Rich in Washington: Hiya, Krys O! Diggin' the show this afternoon while doing otherwise boring household chores.
	2:03pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:02 Thanks! Glad to present it.
	2:04pm Rich in Washington: A friend managed to get Screaming Jay do a station ID for KBOO and it's freaking hilarious in all its ad lib glory.
	2:04pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:04 Good googa mooga!
	2:06pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Krys O. @2:04 he also included a brief call for funds for the station and started naming off household items the station might need ("paper towels, coffee cups" It was hilarious.
	2:06pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:06 WOW!
	2:09pm tom tom the pipers son: screamin' jay hawkins is good in mystery train and surprisingly pretty low key
	2:10pm chresti: Hi Krys and coasters!
	2:10pm Krys O.: Hi, chresti!!
	2:13pm Rich in Washington: Jim Thirwell is the Anti-Elfman
	2:13pm Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Song: "Enter the Exterminator" by "Scraping Foetus Off t... hall of the mountain king quote report!
	2:14pm Krys O.: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @2:13 Correct!!
	2:15pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:13 Tee hee
	2:16pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @2:13 Jan!
	2:19pm tom tom the pipers son: enjoying this fall...
	2:22pm Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:16 Rich! :-)
	👻 2:28pm fred: ↳ Song: "Waking the Witch" by "Kate Bush" One of my favorite songs ever, so many memories...
	2:29pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:28 Hello, fred! It's a stupendous album. My friends and I were Kate fans from waaaaay back. Her appearance on SNL was a treat for us.
	2:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Surabaya Johnny" by "Dagmar Krause" before this came on, was thinking someone should do a siegrfried kracauer treatment of eighties music
	2:32pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Surabaya Johnny" by "Dagmar Krause" Dagmar's voice never fails to give me goosebumps.
	👻 2:40pm WR: I first learned of John Giorno when I found his book "Cancer in My Left Ball" in Austin TX booksore in mid-70s. Never saw him read / perform in person.
	👻 2:40pm fred: ↳ Krys O. @2:29 I was schooled by metalhead bikers I was hanging out with in high school. Kate was their chill out music. Metallica at day, Kate Bush at night
	2:41pm Krys O.: Not exactly 1985, but this is a photo of me in the main studio in East Orange in the basement of the dorm at Upsala College: www.flickr.com...
	2:41pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:40 Wonderful!
	2:41pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @2:40 It was a spiritual experience for me.
	2:45pm Krys O.: This is one of the performances I saw of John Giorno: youtu.be...
	2:46pm northguineahills: Krys! I got here for the end!
	2:47pm Krys O.: ↳ northguineahills @2:46 NGH!!!! Greetings! Hope you're doing well.
	2:48pm northguineahills: ↳ Krys O. @2:47 doing excellent, thank you!
	2:49pm Krys O.: ↳ northguineahills @2:48 Huzzah!
	2:51pm northguineahills: ↳ Krys O. @2:49 went through a battery of doctors, and everything is even better then before (I did a double-blind test w/ two doctors at the same time ordering the same test, one who knew my previous condition, and who did not. The latter had no idea that there was once something wrong w/ me. Now, I just need prescription glasses (just been getting by w/ readers).
	2:51pm Krys O.: ↳ northguineahills @2:51 Excellent news!
	2:55pm chresti: Thanks Krys!
	2:55pm Krys O.: Thank you to everyone for stopping by! Hugs all around! Take care of yourselves.
	2:55pm Jan Turkenburg: great show, lots of memories, thanks, Krys!
	2:55pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks, krys, see ya around...
	👻 2:55pm WR: Thank you! Krys!

Krys O's Free-Form Roller Coaster: Playlist from August 5, 2023

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August 5, 2023: It's 1985! Celebrate the anniversary of my first show on WFMU

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Images	Approx. start time
The System	My Radio Rocks "My Radio Rocks" by "The System"	The Pleasure Seekers	Mirage/Atlantic	1985			0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Fishbone	Ugly "Ugly" by "Fishbone"	Fishbone EP	Columbia	1985			0:04:38 (Pop-up)
E.U.	Oo La La La "Oo La La La" by "E.U."	Go-Go Crankin'	4th & Broadway	1985			0:07:27 (Pop-up)
Scritti Politti	The Word Girl "The Word Girl" by "Scritti Politti"	Cupid & Psyche '85	Warner Bros.	1985			0:12:29 (Pop-up)
Alpha Blondy	Idjidja "Idjidja" by "Alpha Blondy"	Apartheid is Nazism	Pathé	1985			0:16:46 (Pop-up)
Wally Badarou	Chief Inspector "Chief Inspector" by "Wally Badarou"		4th & Broadway	1985			0:21:40 (Pop-up)

Durutti Column	Silence "Silence" by "Durutti Column"	Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say	Factory	1985			0:28:14 (Pop-up)
Virginia Astley	Tender "Tender" by "Virginia Astley"		Elektra	1985			0:35:55 (Pop-up)
The Roches	Come Softly To Me "Come Softly To Me" by "The Roches"	Another World	Warner Bros.	1985			0:41:45 (Pop-up)
Squeeze	Last Time Forever "Last Time Forever" by "Squeeze"	Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti	A&M	1985			0:44:31 (Pop-up)
Prince & The Revolution	Around the World in a Day	Around the World in a Day	Paisley Park	1985			0:49:58 (Pop-up)
Microdisney	A Friend with a Big Mouth	The Clock Comes Down the Stairs	Rough Trade	1985			0:53:18 (Pop-up)

Tom Waits	9th & Hennepin "9th & Hennepin" by "Tom Waits"	Rain Dogs	Island	1985	Ralph Carney on clarinet!!!!		0:58:05 (Pop-up)
Screaming Jay Hawkins & The Fuzztones	Alligator Wine	Screaming Jay Hawkins & The Fuzztones Live!	Midnight Records	1985			1:00:23 (Pop-up)
John Giorno Band	Scum & Slime "Scum & Slime" by "John Giorno Band"	A Diamond Hidden In The Mouth Of A Corpse	Giorno Poetry Systems	1985		cover art by Keith Haring cover art by Keith Haring	1:05:10 (Pop-up)
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel	Enter the Exterminator	Nail	Some Bizarre	1985			1:09:19 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Paintwork "Paintwork" by "The Fall"	This Nation's Saving Grace	PVC	1985			1:14:09 (Pop-up)
Nina Hagen	Universal Radio "Universal Radio" by "Nina Hagen"	In Ekstasy	CBS	1985			1:20:48 (Pop-up)
Kate Bush	Waking the Witch "Waking the Witch" by "Kate Bush"	Hounds of Love	EMI	1985			1:24:14 (Pop-up)
Dagmar Krause	Surabaya Johnny "Surabaya Johnny" by "Dagmar Krause"	Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill	A&M	1985			1:28:27 (Pop-up)

Book of Love	I Touch Roses "I Touch Roses" by "Book of Love"		Sire	1985			1:36:26 (Pop-up)
The Mekons	Psycho Cupid (Danceband On The Edge Of Time)	Fear and Whiskey	Sin Records	1985			1:40:00 (Pop-up)
Golden Palominos	Omaha "Omaha" by "Golden Palominos"	Visions of Excess	Celluloid	1985			1:42:53 (Pop-up)
Camper Van Beethoven	Where the Hell is Bill?	Telephone Free Landslide Victory	Independent Project	1985			1:45:45 (Pop-up)
Meat Puppets	Buckethead "Buckethead" by "Meat Puppets"	Up on the Sun	SST	1985			1:47:39 (Pop-up)
Welcome the Happy Cat	I Took a Chance	Welcome the Happy Cat		1985	Wm. Berger!		1:50:03 (Pop-up)

XTC	Wake Up "Wake Up" by "XTC"		Virgin	1985			1:55:28 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:57pm Krys O.: Good afternoon!
	1:00pm Handy Haversack: Happy anniversary, Krys! I'm going to aim the speaker out the window while we have a burning party out here in wild western Michigan.
	1:01pm tom tom the pipers son: hi krys, happy saturday!
	1:01pm Krys O.: ↳ Handy Haversack @1:00 Thanks, Handy! Much obliged!
	1:01pm Jan Turkenburg: Happy Anniversary, Krys!
	1:01pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:01 Howdy, pal!
	1:02pm tom tom the pipers son: oh, and happy anniversary...
	1:02pm Krys O.: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @1:01 Many thanks, Jan!!
	👻 1:02pm WR: I had a phonolog. Trying to remember in which move did I finally let it go.
	1:04pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @1:02 Hi, WR! It was my job at the record store to keep the Phonolog in order with updates and such. I used it a lot to help customers. I worked at a record store when I started doing a show at WFMU. I'd already been working at the station since 1981 as a student.
	👻 1:05pm WR: 1985! Live Aid being that summer helps me remember that year.
	1:06pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @1:05 Ah, yes. We had to have MTV on at the record store. It was Crazy Eddie's. Got to see Live AID while working. I didn't own a TV myself at the time.
	1:07pm tom tom the pipers son: listened to your dad's cassette, he was very committed and little stewart had a real knack for radio, liked/remember the toyota that doesn't use gas, very prescient, and the karate kid fight.
	1:07pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:07 Thankee!
	👻 1:11pm WR: Also, that summer was my first visit to NYC. Found WFMU on the radio and would listen to it regularly during my 10 day or so visit.
	1:11pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @1:11 Excellent!
	1:17pm tom tom the pipers son: my grandmother, on mother's side, was born in poland. don't know to much about grandfather, although he was probably also born in poland, who died when my mother was a child, she found him slumped over at the kitchen table, choked on vomit, a heavy drinker, he boxed and drove a cab for money. my grandmother raised four kids on her own in les nyc which was possible in the 40's- 50's. anyway grew up on pierogi's and keilbasa, not every day, as probably you did.
	1:19pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:17 Oh, so sorry for your loss. I never met my grandparents.
	👻 1:22pm WR: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:17 Intense memory for your mother to carry. Hurray for strong matriarchs.
	1:26pm tom tom the pipers son: yes, sure is. my grandmother was a true matriarch.
	1:32pm tom tom the pipers son: ah ... the synthesized 80's
	1:33pm tom tom the pipers son: reagan... the simulacrum president
	1:36pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:33 Indeed. The rise of Neo-Liberalism with Thatcherism and Reaganomics.
	1:41pm tom tom the pipers son: synths and big drums, the soundtrack for it... big hair too
	1:45pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Come Softly To Me" by "The Roches" I remember seeing Maggie Roche on the street outside the Greenwich Village Crazy Eddie's store once. If I wasn't working, I would have gone out to gush like a fan girl.
	1:46pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Last Time Forever" by "Squeeze" Yes, they dropped in bits from The Shining in this song.
	1:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Come Softly To Me" by "The Roches" very sweet song, seemed like sweet people too
	1:50pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:49 Suzzy was in a fine movie, Crossing Delancey directed by Joan Micklin Silver.
	1:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Krys O. @1:50 i think i've seen bits of that on tcm, with amy irving, trying to remember suzzy roche, seem to remember her as part of some school or organization that main character was involved with.
	1:56pm Krys O.: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:55 Suzzy was the friend that Amy Irving set up with Peter Riegert.
	1:57pm tom tom the pipers son: don't remember microdisney, like the album cover. oh, thanks, kinda remember
	1:57pm Krys O.: BTW-I'm talking over an instrumental version of Wings' Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five.
	1:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ah, you're a complete-ist... ha!
	2:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "9th & Hennepin" by "Tom Waits" Love Waits' music from this period. Actually, love ALL his stuff.
	2:01pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:01 Howdee, Rich! Yes, indeedy.
	2:02pm Rich in Washington: Hiya, Krys O! Diggin' the show this afternoon while doing otherwise boring household chores.
	2:03pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:02 Thanks! Glad to present it.
	2:04pm Rich in Washington: A friend managed to get Screaming Jay do a station ID for KBOO and it's freaking hilarious in all its ad lib glory.
	2:04pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:04 Good googa mooga!
	2:06pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Krys O. @2:04 he also included a brief call for funds for the station and started naming off household items the station might need ("paper towels, coffee cups" It was hilarious.
	2:06pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:06 WOW!
	2:09pm tom tom the pipers son: screamin' jay hawkins is good in mystery train and surprisingly pretty low key
	2:10pm chresti: Hi Krys and coasters!
	2:10pm Krys O.: Hi, chresti!!
	2:13pm Rich in Washington: Jim Thirwell is the Anti-Elfman
	2:13pm Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Song: "Enter the Exterminator" by "Scraping Foetus Off t... hall of the mountain king quote report!
	2:14pm Krys O.: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @2:13 Correct!!
	2:15pm Krys O.: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:13 Tee hee
	2:16pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @2:13 Jan!
	2:19pm tom tom the pipers son: enjoying this fall...
	2:22pm Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Rich in Washington @2:16 Rich! :-)
	👻 2:28pm fred: ↳ Song: "Waking the Witch" by "Kate Bush" One of my favorite songs ever, so many memories...
	2:29pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:28 Hello, fred! It's a stupendous album. My friends and I were Kate fans from waaaaay back. Her appearance on SNL was a treat for us.
	2:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Surabaya Johnny" by "Dagmar Krause" before this came on, was thinking someone should do a siegrfried kracauer treatment of eighties music
	2:32pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Surabaya Johnny" by "Dagmar Krause" Dagmar's voice never fails to give me goosebumps.
	👻 2:40pm WR: I first learned of John Giorno when I found his book "Cancer in My Left Ball" in Austin TX booksore in mid-70s. Never saw him read / perform in person.
	👻 2:40pm fred: ↳ Krys O. @2:29 I was schooled by metalhead bikers I was hanging out with in high school. Kate was their chill out music. Metallica at day, Kate Bush at night
	2:41pm Krys O.: Not exactly 1985, but this is a photo of me in the main studio in East Orange in the basement of the dorm at Upsala College: www.flickr.com...
	2:41pm Krys O.: ↳ fred @2:40 Wonderful!
	2:41pm Krys O.: ↳ WR @2:40 It was a spiritual experience for me.
	2:45pm Krys O.: This is one of the performances I saw of John Giorno: youtu.be...
	2:46pm northguineahills: Krys! I got here for the end!
	2:47pm Krys O.: ↳ northguineahills @2:46 NGH!!!! Greetings! Hope you're doing well.
	2:48pm northguineahills: ↳ Krys O. @2:47 doing excellent, thank you!
	2:49pm Krys O.: ↳ northguineahills @2:48 Huzzah!
	2:51pm northguineahills: ↳ Krys O. @2:49 went through a battery of doctors, and everything is even better then before (I did a double-blind test w/ two doctors at the same time ordering the same test, one who knew my previous condition, and who did not. The latter had no idea that there was once something wrong w/ me. Now, I just need prescription glasses (just been getting by w/ readers).
	2:51pm Krys O.: ↳ northguineahills @2:51 Excellent news!
	2:55pm chresti: Thanks Krys!
	2:55pm Krys O.: Thank you to everyone for stopping by! Hugs all around! Take care of yourselves.
	2:55pm Jan Turkenburg: great show, lots of memories, thanks, Krys!
	2:55pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks, krys, see ya around...
	👻 2:55pm WR: Thank you! Krys!

Krys O's Free-Form Roller Coaster: Playlist from August 5, 2023

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