WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from September 24, 2024

Listener comments!
	5:40pm Jim the Poet: CALL 201 209 9368 or LEAVE A MESSAGE 773 922 8235 TODAY'S QUESTION: What is your favorite movie soundtrack? What's your favorite song in a movie? A DIFFERENT MAN THE SUBSTANCE MEGALOPOLIS
	6:00pm Karl: Here for Steely Dan
	6:00pm Bobby: Oh hai Jim
	6:01pm Ike: I was just listening to Bryce (a rerun) on EVR. Now I'm waiting for the incredibly creepy 3 Thumbs theme song to end before I tune in.
	6:01pm Hunterian: Looking forward to the take on Megalopolis
	6:02pm ∫ydniuß: 🎥🍿 about Dan time
	6:02pm Karl: Oh it's not that creepy Oh wait yes it is I love it
	6:02pm Yes: Steely Dan so funky
	6:02pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Jim the Poet @5:40 Hi Jim answer is easy for me: True Romance
	6:04pm Ike: OK everybody, the deeply alarming theme song is over! Yay!
	6:05pm chresti: Hi Jim the poet thumbs up movie show!
	6:05pm Karl: Best soundtrack: Clueless Best song in a movie: maybe "Mad World" in Donnie Darko?
	6:06pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Karl @6:05 Bosstones fan?!?
	6:06pm paddy in matawan: Beverly Hills Cop really does it for me.
	6:07pm paddy in matawan: Not specifically the Axel F theme but Pointer Sisters and Patti LaBelle.
	6:08pm Karl: ↳ paddy in matawan @6:06 Oh no, not me.
	6:08pm maryevey: when the replacements hits “within your reach” in “say anything”! and no, it’s not “in your eyes” although that song is also amazing!
	👍 6:08pm Sean T-Rex: Love the Repo Man soundtrack
	6:08pm Tom from Stirling: Soundtrack - The Illusionist by Philip Glass
	6:08pm The Butterman: The Natural. Triumphant! Almost as good as when Clay plays Yanni.
	6:09pm erik: I just saw Fall Guy, and enjoyed the Darkness's song montage. And yes theme song is about pedos.
	6:09pm EyeballKid: Thanks Jim The Poet's Dad! Easy question tonight. REPO MAN. Not a bad song on it. I'm sure that Station Manager Ken will agree as Institutionalized is one of the songs!
	👍 6:09pm Sean T-Rex: Also, Disney has some slamming soundtracks tbh
	6:10pm Yes: JAM
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Naomi, she nice.
	6:10pm paddy in matawan: Nothing But Trouble is another fav.
	👍 6:10pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ EyeballKid @6:09 Agreed
	6:10pm common: glad i just took a gummie
	6:11pm cosmic matrix: oooh i’d have to go with breakin’ 2: electric boogaloo
	6:11pm erik: Rumblefish, Stewart Copeland, one of the few OSTs that I purchased the album of.
	6:11pm Yes: This is peak Tuesday evening
	6:12pm common: ↳ erik @6:11 so good. my friend lent me the lp when i was a kid. love that movie
	6:13pm paddy in matawan: Adding Teen Witch to my Haloween party playlist
	👍 6:13pm Sean T-Rex: I forgot 'Harold and Maude' soundtrack. Its really good with Cat Stevens
	6:14pm joe mulligan: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:08 me too, that opened me up to a lot of punk rok
	6:15pm Tom from Stirling: The illusionist soundtrack - Philip Glass
	6:16pm joe mulligan: ↳ EyeballKid @6:09 a gen X epic.
	👍 6:18pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ joe mulligan @6:14 'The Return of the Living Dead' also a decent soundtrack
	6:19pm common: wow! this caller's song choice is so good! i can never see that film
	6:19pm Tom from Stirling: Next
	👍 6:19pm zachary: Good evening Jim and Naomi. Good evening listeners. More singing, Jim!
	6:19pm Bobby K: New Jack City and Juice? I also like the Repo Man and Breakin’ 2 picks
	6:20pm Lily: Hi y'all. I love WFMU but Jim The poets show is a COPY of Mike Sergeant's show on WBAI 99.5 on Fridays AT 6:30-7P.M. Mike has been doing his show forever and it's far better than I'm Jim's!!!
	6:21pm Bobby: Deep Cover from Deep Cover. Colors from Colors.
	6:21pm joe mulligan: I can't wait to see Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
	6:22pm UWS Joe: Hey Jim! Thanks for bringing something new and refreshing to the line up! Glad to see you staying for the Fall.
	6:22pm Tom from Stirling: Dunkirk soundtrack is a good one.
	👍 6:22pm Sean T-Rex: I forgot about Clerks soundtrack. That's one I enjoy. 'Berserker'
	6:23pm 🖤 d a r c y 🌈: White shade of pale over the opening credits of withnail & i.
	6:23pm paddy in matawan: Teen Witch seems impossible to find on any format.
	6:24pm 🖤 d a r c y 🌈: I heard that dee dee ramone wrote the song while the band was visiting stephen king at his house.
	👍 6:27pm zachary: For the Stephen King SNL sketch, looks like it was Weekend Update with Dennis Miller and Jon Lovitz www.youtube.com...
	6:27pm Billybob: The entire soundtrack of Natural Born Killers is great, but especially Leonard Cohen's song, The Future. Some of his more disturbing lyrics in that one.
	6:27pm UWS Joe: Possibly a hot take but love that first Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack! Had my toe tapping from beginning to end
	6:30pm paddy in matawan: Real Genius is my no. 1 favorite sdtk. Comsat Angels, Chaz Jankel...
	6:31pm ∫ydniuß: did someone say Real Genius? 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
	6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: I rather like the songs in the Blues Brothers movie and how they kind of play off each other. The Forrest Gump movie did that same thing, too.
	6:31pm joe mulligan: oh wow was that song from The Hired Hand (1971, Peter Fonda) Soundtrack album by Bruce Langhorne? hands down best ever OST
	6:32pm ∫ydniuß: I’m watching you, Kent
	6:32pm theroth: Fight Club • Where Is My Mind • Pixies
	6:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:31 "each other" = the movie and the songs
	6:32pm dale: that song is called 'losing your way in the rain.' it was first released on an album called mike batt and friends 'tarot suite' and was sung by colin blunstone.
	6:33pm dale: ooph - must be the other song he sang...
	6:34pm Tom from Stirling: Heat with De Niro and Pacino, that's a good soundtrack.
	👍 6:36pm Sean T-Rex: Who doesn't like 'Pink Flamingos'
	6:37pm Tom from Stirling: Brad Pitt's name in True Romance was Clarence.
	6:38pm MKT in Inwood: For some reason there's only one Country-Western sci-fi song: "Benson Arizona" from Dark Star. Set that up for karaoke for a meeting of amateur astronomers
	6:41pm maurer: 'Destruction' from 'Just for the Hell of It' youtu.be...
	👍 6:41pm Sean T-Rex: This Jim character is very popular, huh?
	👍 6:42pm Folsom: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:08 Yes Repo man the best soundtrack. No one has called Jim an asshole.
	6:42pm Tom from Stirling: Amanda, she nice.
	👍 6:43pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Folsom @6:42 LOL. I've been listening to that song while walking lately. You feel badass with it
	6:43pm Ike: That's Teen Wolf.
	👍 6:43pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:41 Everyone loves, Jim.
	6:44pm goes211: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-awuNzko4&pp=ygUkcmFuZHkgYmFjaG1hbiBoYXJkIGRheSdzIG5pZ2h0IGNob3Jk Jim. Check this out if you want to hear a story about Hard Days Night chord.
	6:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: Tickets still available for Freeform Roulette — www.eventbrite.com...
	👍 6:45pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:43 He said it best once, "I'm the utility man of WFMU." I was sold there. What's up Zach!
	6:46pm paddy in matawan: One word. The Blob.
	6:47pm common: halloween II! and yes! paddy in matawan
	6:47pm Deano de los Muertos: that song reminds me of 8 Heads in a Duffelbag
	👍 6:47pm Folsom: Three hands on the wheel!
	6:48pm Tom from Stirling: Aubrey Plaza is on the "Daily Show" tonight.
	6:49pm Deano de los Muertos: that’s Salem’s Lot, Jim
	6:49pm UWS Joe: Three Thumbs Up should be followed with an hour of Ask Alan for the ultimate double feature!
	6:49pm maurer: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:18 apparently George Romero and the producer Russel Streiner fought over the rights to 'Night of the Living Dead' and the courts gave Romero rights "Night of the Living Dead", and Streiner rights to "Living Dead", which is why Romero had nothing to do with "Return of the Living Dead"... which is a fun flick... shares dancing on top of a car with Blue Velvet... check.
	6:50pm Ike: Does the town get wiped out in 30 Days of Night? I can't remember. That one's pretty creepy except that young Josh Hartnett is laughably miscast as a tough sheriff.
	6:50pm Tom: That was excellent Thanks goes211
	6:52pm Tom from Stirling: Steven Soderbergh "Traffic" has a good soundtrack.
	👍 6:52pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ maurer @6:49 Yea, I heard something like this before.
	6:53pm geo: Girl, you're a woman Pulp Fiction.
	👍 6:53pm Sean T-Rex: Wait, so what is this song that this caller is talking about, Sounds awesome
	6:54pm chresti: Ilike the soundtrack for Drugstore Cowboy
	6:55pm common: ↳ chresti @6:54 hell yea!
	6:55pm Tom from Stirling: Aubrey Plaza is my favorite.
	6:55pm DjLorraine: Busting a grape for realz
	6:56pm maurer: hiring 'cancelled' actors is one way to hire people on the cheap...
	👍 6:57pm Sean T-Rex: UNCLE MO! WE SHALL FOLLOW YOUR LEAD!!!
	6:57pm ultradamno: My movie pick of the week is Eight Eyes on Shudder, with a score by Morricone Island
	6:57pm Tom from Stirling: Rolling Stones sing "I Am Waiting" on Rushmore.
	6:58pm DjLorraine: I watched Bugger
	6:58pm ultradamno: Best soundtrack album (not score): Decline Of Western Civilization
	6:58pm UWS Joe: Thanks for another great show, Jim The Critic!
	6:58pm common: 9th configuration is great!!!
	6:59pm ultradamno: Oddity will be on Shudder Friday too, by the way
	👍 6:59pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ ultradamno @6:58 That's a good one. Remind me of 'Suburbia'
	👍 6:59pm Sean T-Rex: Thanks Mr. Poet!!!
	7:00pm chresti: Thanks Jim!

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from September 24, 2024

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September 24, 2024: "Megalopolis", "The Substance", "My Old Ass", "The KIller's Game", "Afraid", "Tokyo Cowboy", "Slingshot",
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TODAY'S QUESTION: What is your favorite movie soundtrack? What's your favorite song in a movie?
A DIFFERENT MAN THE SUBSTANCE MEGALOPOLIS

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Steely Dan	Everyone's Gone to the Movies	Kety Lied	Geffen*
Jim the Poet discusses	"The Substance"			Directed by Coralie Fargeat Written by Coralie Fargeat Produced by Coralie Fargeat Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Starring Demi Moore Margaret Qualley Dennis Quaid
Jim the Poet discusses	"Megalopolis"			Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Written by Francis Ford Coppola Produced by Barry Hirsch Fred Roos Michael Bederman Francis Ford Coppola Starring Adam Driver Giancarlo Esposito Nathalie Emmanuel Aubrey Plaza Shia LaBeouf Jon Voight Laurence Fishburne Kathryn Hunter Dustin Hoffman

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Listener comments!
	5:40pm Jim the Poet: CALL 201 209 9368 or LEAVE A MESSAGE 773 922 8235 TODAY'S QUESTION: What is your favorite movie soundtrack? What's your favorite song in a movie? A DIFFERENT MAN THE SUBSTANCE MEGALOPOLIS
	6:00pm Karl: Here for Steely Dan
	6:00pm Bobby: Oh hai Jim
	6:01pm Ike: I was just listening to Bryce (a rerun) on EVR. Now I'm waiting for the incredibly creepy 3 Thumbs theme song to end before I tune in.
	6:01pm Hunterian: Looking forward to the take on Megalopolis
	6:02pm ∫ydniuß: 🎥🍿 about Dan time
	6:02pm Karl: Oh it's not that creepy Oh wait yes it is I love it
	6:02pm Yes: Steely Dan so funky
	6:02pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Jim the Poet @5:40 Hi Jim answer is easy for me: True Romance
	6:04pm Ike: OK everybody, the deeply alarming theme song is over! Yay!
	6:05pm chresti: Hi Jim the poet thumbs up movie show!
	6:05pm Karl: Best soundtrack: Clueless Best song in a movie: maybe "Mad World" in Donnie Darko?
	6:06pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Karl @6:05 Bosstones fan?!?
	6:06pm paddy in matawan: Beverly Hills Cop really does it for me.
	6:07pm paddy in matawan: Not specifically the Axel F theme but Pointer Sisters and Patti LaBelle.
	6:08pm Karl: ↳ paddy in matawan @6:06 Oh no, not me.
	6:08pm maryevey: when the replacements hits “within your reach” in “say anything”! and no, it’s not “in your eyes” although that song is also amazing!
	👍 6:08pm Sean T-Rex: Love the Repo Man soundtrack
	6:08pm Tom from Stirling: Soundtrack - The Illusionist by Philip Glass
	6:08pm The Butterman: The Natural. Triumphant! Almost as good as when Clay plays Yanni.
	6:09pm erik: I just saw Fall Guy, and enjoyed the Darkness's song montage. And yes theme song is about pedos.
	6:09pm EyeballKid: Thanks Jim The Poet's Dad! Easy question tonight. REPO MAN. Not a bad song on it. I'm sure that Station Manager Ken will agree as Institutionalized is one of the songs!
	👍 6:09pm Sean T-Rex: Also, Disney has some slamming soundtracks tbh
	6:10pm Yes: JAM
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Naomi, she nice.
	6:10pm paddy in matawan: Nothing But Trouble is another fav.
	👍 6:10pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ EyeballKid @6:09 Agreed
	6:10pm common: glad i just took a gummie
	6:11pm cosmic matrix: oooh i’d have to go with breakin’ 2: electric boogaloo
	6:11pm erik: Rumblefish, Stewart Copeland, one of the few OSTs that I purchased the album of.
	6:11pm Yes: This is peak Tuesday evening
	6:12pm common: ↳ erik @6:11 so good. my friend lent me the lp when i was a kid. love that movie
	6:13pm paddy in matawan: Adding Teen Witch to my Haloween party playlist
	👍 6:13pm Sean T-Rex: I forgot 'Harold and Maude' soundtrack. Its really good with Cat Stevens
	6:14pm joe mulligan: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:08 me too, that opened me up to a lot of punk rok
	6:15pm Tom from Stirling: The illusionist soundtrack - Philip Glass
	6:16pm joe mulligan: ↳ EyeballKid @6:09 a gen X epic.
	👍 6:18pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ joe mulligan @6:14 'The Return of the Living Dead' also a decent soundtrack
	6:19pm common: wow! this caller's song choice is so good! i can never see that film
	6:19pm Tom from Stirling: Next
	👍 6:19pm zachary: Good evening Jim and Naomi. Good evening listeners. More singing, Jim!
	6:19pm Bobby K: New Jack City and Juice? I also like the Repo Man and Breakin’ 2 picks
	6:20pm Lily: Hi y'all. I love WFMU but Jim The poets show is a COPY of Mike Sergeant's show on WBAI 99.5 on Fridays AT 6:30-7P.M. Mike has been doing his show forever and it's far better than I'm Jim's!!!
	6:21pm Bobby: Deep Cover from Deep Cover. Colors from Colors.
	6:21pm joe mulligan: I can't wait to see Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
	6:22pm UWS Joe: Hey Jim! Thanks for bringing something new and refreshing to the line up! Glad to see you staying for the Fall.
	6:22pm Tom from Stirling: Dunkirk soundtrack is a good one.
	👍 6:22pm Sean T-Rex: I forgot about Clerks soundtrack. That's one I enjoy. 'Berserker'
	6:23pm 🖤 d a r c y 🌈: White shade of pale over the opening credits of withnail & i.
	6:23pm paddy in matawan: Teen Witch seems impossible to find on any format.
	6:24pm 🖤 d a r c y 🌈: I heard that dee dee ramone wrote the song while the band was visiting stephen king at his house.
	👍 6:27pm zachary: For the Stephen King SNL sketch, looks like it was Weekend Update with Dennis Miller and Jon Lovitz www.youtube.com...
	6:27pm Billybob: The entire soundtrack of Natural Born Killers is great, but especially Leonard Cohen's song, The Future. Some of his more disturbing lyrics in that one.
	6:27pm UWS Joe: Possibly a hot take but love that first Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack! Had my toe tapping from beginning to end
	6:30pm paddy in matawan: Real Genius is my no. 1 favorite sdtk. Comsat Angels, Chaz Jankel...
	6:31pm ∫ydniuß: did someone say Real Genius? 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
	6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: I rather like the songs in the Blues Brothers movie and how they kind of play off each other. The Forrest Gump movie did that same thing, too.
	6:31pm joe mulligan: oh wow was that song from The Hired Hand (1971, Peter Fonda) Soundtrack album by Bruce Langhorne? hands down best ever OST
	6:32pm ∫ydniuß: I’m watching you, Kent
	6:32pm theroth: Fight Club • Where Is My Mind • Pixies
	6:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:31 "each other" = the movie and the songs
	6:32pm dale: that song is called 'losing your way in the rain.' it was first released on an album called mike batt and friends 'tarot suite' and was sung by colin blunstone.
	6:33pm dale: ooph - must be the other song he sang...
	6:34pm Tom from Stirling: Heat with De Niro and Pacino, that's a good soundtrack.
	👍 6:36pm Sean T-Rex: Who doesn't like 'Pink Flamingos'
	6:37pm Tom from Stirling: Brad Pitt's name in True Romance was Clarence.
	6:38pm MKT in Inwood: For some reason there's only one Country-Western sci-fi song: "Benson Arizona" from Dark Star. Set that up for karaoke for a meeting of amateur astronomers
	6:41pm maurer: 'Destruction' from 'Just for the Hell of It' youtu.be...
	👍 6:41pm Sean T-Rex: This Jim character is very popular, huh?
	👍 6:42pm Folsom: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:08 Yes Repo man the best soundtrack. No one has called Jim an asshole.
	6:42pm Tom from Stirling: Amanda, she nice.
	👍 6:43pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Folsom @6:42 LOL. I've been listening to that song while walking lately. You feel badass with it
	6:43pm Ike: That's Teen Wolf.
	👍 6:43pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:41 Everyone loves, Jim.
	6:44pm goes211: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-awuNzko4&pp=ygUkcmFuZHkgYmFjaG1hbiBoYXJkIGRheSdzIG5pZ2h0IGNob3Jk Jim. Check this out if you want to hear a story about Hard Days Night chord.
	6:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: Tickets still available for Freeform Roulette — www.eventbrite.com...
	👍 6:45pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:43 He said it best once, "I'm the utility man of WFMU." I was sold there. What's up Zach!
	6:46pm paddy in matawan: One word. The Blob.
	6:47pm common: halloween II! and yes! paddy in matawan
	6:47pm Deano de los Muertos: that song reminds me of 8 Heads in a Duffelbag
	👍 6:47pm Folsom: Three hands on the wheel!
	6:48pm Tom from Stirling: Aubrey Plaza is on the "Daily Show" tonight.
	6:49pm Deano de los Muertos: that’s Salem’s Lot, Jim
	6:49pm UWS Joe: Three Thumbs Up should be followed with an hour of Ask Alan for the ultimate double feature!
	6:49pm maurer: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:18 apparently George Romero and the producer Russel Streiner fought over the rights to 'Night of the Living Dead' and the courts gave Romero rights "Night of the Living Dead", and Streiner rights to "Living Dead", which is why Romero had nothing to do with "Return of the Living Dead"... which is a fun flick... shares dancing on top of a car with Blue Velvet... check.
	6:50pm Ike: Does the town get wiped out in 30 Days of Night? I can't remember. That one's pretty creepy except that young Josh Hartnett is laughably miscast as a tough sheriff.
	6:50pm Tom: That was excellent Thanks goes211
	6:52pm Tom from Stirling: Steven Soderbergh "Traffic" has a good soundtrack.
	👍 6:52pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ maurer @6:49 Yea, I heard something like this before.
	6:53pm geo: Girl, you're a woman Pulp Fiction.
	👍 6:53pm Sean T-Rex: Wait, so what is this song that this caller is talking about, Sounds awesome
	6:54pm chresti: Ilike the soundtrack for Drugstore Cowboy
	6:55pm common: ↳ chresti @6:54 hell yea!
	6:55pm Tom from Stirling: Aubrey Plaza is my favorite.
	6:55pm DjLorraine: Busting a grape for realz
	6:56pm maurer: hiring 'cancelled' actors is one way to hire people on the cheap...
	👍 6:57pm Sean T-Rex: UNCLE MO! WE SHALL FOLLOW YOUR LEAD!!!
	6:57pm ultradamno: My movie pick of the week is Eight Eyes on Shudder, with a score by Morricone Island
	6:57pm Tom from Stirling: Rolling Stones sing "I Am Waiting" on Rushmore.
	6:58pm DjLorraine: I watched Bugger
	6:58pm ultradamno: Best soundtrack album (not score): Decline Of Western Civilization
	6:58pm UWS Joe: Thanks for another great show, Jim The Critic!
	6:58pm common: 9th configuration is great!!!
	6:59pm ultradamno: Oddity will be on Shudder Friday too, by the way
	👍 6:59pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ ultradamno @6:58 That's a good one. Remind me of 'Suburbia'
	👍 6:59pm Sean T-Rex: Thanks Mr. Poet!!!
	7:00pm chresti: Thanks Jim!

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from September 24, 2024

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