WFMU: Vortex of Chaos with Bill Zebub: Playlist from January 16, 2025

Listener comments!
	12:01pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): Good Day, Mr. Zebub.
	12:02pm Krys O.: Hello!
	12:03pm Andrew Waterloo: afternoon!
	12:03pm Mr Fab: HELL-o!
	👻 12:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sense of impending doom ... increasing!
	12:04pm Bill Zebub: Greetings,Thunder, Krys, Mr. Fab, and Ken
	12:04pm OSS: Hi to everyone!
	12:09pm Mr Fab: anagram for Vortex of Chaos: Havoc Foxes Rot
	12:10pm Bill Zebub: Greetings, OSS
	12:11pm OSS: Hi Bill!
	12:12pm Mr Fab: Roachs Vex Foot
	12:17pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Mr Fab @12:09 Anagrams are pretty cool - I like palindromes, too. My two favorite palindromes are 'DEIFIED' & 'NEVER ODD OR EVEN'.
	12:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:17 WFMU was playing a band called Taco Cat.
	12:19pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Song: "Symptom of the Universe" by "Ozzy Osbourne" Y'know, I LOVE Black Sabbath, but have never listened to Ozzy's solo stuff, aside from the radio, etc.
	12:21pm Rich in Washington: TIL: that Speak of the Devil was made up of Sabbath songs. I'd always assumed it was Ozzy solo material. This smokes. I need to pick up a copy.
	👻 12:22pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Mr Fab @12:18 AᗺBA
	12:23pm Bill Zebub: Rich,when I was a kid, I thought that this was impossibly good for a live recording. but it seems something was lost in the transcoding to digital....
	12:25pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:23 The performance sounds pretty good, IMO. I'm also a huge Iommi fan but Brad Gillis does a fantastic job with the material.
	12:25pm Vladimir: How little sleep did Bill get last night?
	12:26pm Vladimir: And how much ice cream did he eat?
	12:26pm Bill Zebub: Vladimir, enough to make meazombie
	12:29pm lunaro: Hello.
	12:29pm Rich in Washington: I used to find that stuff put onto CD in the early days of CDs sounded not so great, beyond the clarity of not having either tape hiss or vinyl surface noise. I think it's probably come a long way. Paradoxically, with the vinyl resurgence, some labels have had a difficult time mastering music for vinyl again (let alone pressing records again - that's a whole another issue). Some say it's a lost art, like Roman concrete or something.
	12:30pm Bill Zebub: Greetings, Lunaro
	12:30pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:29 <nerd format rant over>
	12:32pm Bill Zebub: when the recording is analog, then I agree that distortion is warmer onvinyl, but with the hiss and occasional crackle. When music is recorded digitally and released on vinyl, it is a gimmick, a war against file sharing. But the Ozzy song I played was the first pressing on CD, so perhaps there is a remaster.
	12:33pm Bill Zebub: OSS, would you go to Disney World?
	12:34pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:33 I can't Bill, but I will see you in Miami! I'm looking forward to meet you!
	12:51pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:33 Will you be going alone to the cruise?
	12:51pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Song: "You take my Breath Away" by "Berlin" The most natural transition in all of music history.
	12:55pm Bill Zebub: OSS, wherever I go, I begin alone but end up with people.
	12:56pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:55 You certainly will meet a lot of people on the cruise!
	12:59pm Bill Zebub: Plus, I know half the bands
	1:00pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:59 Of course! hahaha I went to one cruise once, and I'm not a people's person, but met a lot of cool people and had a great time!
	1:05pm OSS: ↳ Song: "Embracing the Styx" by "Candlemass" I like this record! I was surprised when he was chosen as the new vocalist but his voice grew on me!
	1:07pm Bill Zebub: He refrained from the cheesy and weak higher register that poisoned some of the Solitude Aeturnus songs
	1:13pm OSS: ↳ Song: "Put Me Down" by "The Cranberries" I did like her voice a lot! I do enjoy some music like this!
	1:15pm Bill Zebub: OSS, I think that was a first play, ha ha
	1:19pm OSS: You've played The Cardigans before, I was surprised with that one! I like her voice a lo too!
	1:20pm Bill Zebub: I remember disliking the voice because the radio hit kept playing where I worked at the time, but then eventually kepthearing it in my head and had to buy the album, ha ha
	1:22pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @1:20 and that hit was the lesser song from the album in my opinion!
	1:24pm Bill Zebub: Radio hits sometimes discourage deeper dives. TYPE O NEGATIVE radio songs hint nothing about the ultra dark side of the band
	1:27pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @1:24 When October Rust came out, it was an ep for me because many of the more accesible songs were not to my taste at all! I really liked half the record, but the singles were not to my liking at all
	1:27pm Bill Zebub: ha
	1:34pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Joey" by "Concrete Blonde" Johnette!!! This group has Paul Thompson of Roxy Music and James Mankey who was in Sparks.
	1:37pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Song: "Infecting The Crypts" by "Suffocation" I remember how BLOWN AWAY I was when this album came out.
	1:38pm Bill Zebub: I was blown away by the E.P. but I savor the cleaner versions of songs as well.
	1:38pm Bill Zebub: (Human Waste)
	1:38pm ?: It's good to hear Bill speaking today.
	1:39pm Bill Zebub: Thank you
	1:42pm Vladimir: Bill has a ridiculously sexy voice.
	1:43pm Bill Zebub: ha
	1:43pm Bill Zebub: Sometimes I feel like it is rude to interrupt the flow of songs
	1:45pm Vladimir: Nah
	2:02pm Rich in Washington: Lovely show this morning! Digging thee music while working on a work project.
	2:02pm Bill Zebub: Thanks, Rich
	2:17pm Vladimir: Solid tunes
	2:18pm Bill Zebub: Vladimir, today bears a good mix, aye?
	2:29pm Vladimir: Yes. I like bears.
	2:36pm Laura Panic: This! I'm not usually up this early on a Fridday, so a first time listener to this show. It's terrific!
	2:36pm Laura Panic: Carach Angren were on as I drove up the highway to work. It was GLORY!
	2:37pm Bill Zebub: Thank you, Laura.
	👻 2:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Bill. All Bill and no Bull!
	2:58pm Vladimir: Thank you, Bill. This helped.
	2:59pm Bill Zebub: Thank you for listening. You you want it darker next week?
	👻 3:00pm egal: well played
	3:00pm Vladimir: I like it dark.

Vortex of Chaos with Bill Zebub: Playlist from January 16, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album	Label
After Forever	Beyond Me "Beyond Me" by "After Forever"	Prisoner of Desire	Transmission
Penumbra	The Last Bewitchment "The Last Bewitchment" by "Penumbra"	The Last Bewitchment	Season of Mist
Trouble	Thinking of the Past "Thinking of the Past" by "Trouble"	Run to the Light	Metal Blade
Ozzy Osbourne	Symptom of the Universe	Speak of the Devil
As Divine Grace	Gash "Gash" by "As Divine Grace"	Lumo	Avantgarde Music
Shape of Despair	Entwined in Misery	Illusion's Play	Season of Mist
Drautran	Gebotten de Sterbens Klanglosen Spharren	Throne of Death	Lupus Lounge
Berlin	You take my Breath Away "You take my Breath Away" by "Berlin"	Best of
Communic	Wayward Souls "Wayward Souls" by "Communic"	Bottom Deep	Nuclear Blast
Candlemass	Embracing the Styx "Embracing the Styx" by "Candlemass"	King of the Grey Isles
The Cranberries	Put Me Down "Put Me Down" by "The Cranberries"	Everybdoy Else is Doing It
Mercyful Fate	Gypsy "Gypsy" by "Mercyful Fate"	Don't Break the Oath	Roadrunner
Iniquity	Seranadium "Seranadium" by "Iniquity"	Seranadium	Die Hard
The Buggles	VideoKilled the Radio Star
Immolation	The Rapture of Ghosts "The Rapture of Ghosts" by "Immolation"	Majesty of Decay	Nuclear Blast
Concrete Blonde	Joey "Joey" by "Concrete Blonde"	Bloodletting
Suffocation	Infecting The Crypts "Infecting The Crypts" by "Suffocation"	Effigy of the Forgotten	Roadrunner
Sanctuary	Sanctuary "Sanctuary" by "Sanctuary"	Refuge Denied
Vuur	Valley of Diamonds "Valley of Diamonds" by "Vuur"	In this Momentwe are Free
Marduk	Accuser/Opposer "Accuser/Opposer" by "Marduk"	Rom 5:12
Brian Ferry	Is Your Love Strong Enough?	Legend (Soundtrack)
Tvangeste	Storm "Storm" by "Tvangeste"	Firestorn	Neoblast
Tubeway Army	Listen to the Sirens	Tubeway Army
Carach Angren	Departure Toward a Nautical Curse	Death Through a Phantom Ship	Season of Mist
Madder Mortem	The Flesh, the Blood, and the Man	Eight Ways	Dark Essence
Satan's Host	Revival "Revival" by "Satan's Host"	By the Hands of the Devil	Moribund
David Bowie	Slow Burn "Slow Burn" by "David Bowie"	Heathen
Stilla	Tillsfutet "Tillsfutet" by "Stilla"	Ensamhetens Andar	Nordvis
Saturnus	Alone "Alone" by "Saturnus"	Veronika Decides to Die
Mercyful Fate	Melissa "Melissa" by "Mercyful Fate"	Melissa	Megaforce
Therion	The Perennial Sophia "The Perennial Sophia" by "Therion"	Gothic Kabbalas	Nuclear Blast

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Listener comments!
	12:01pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): Good Day, Mr. Zebub.
	12:02pm Krys O.: Hello!
	12:03pm Andrew Waterloo: afternoon!
	12:03pm Mr Fab: HELL-o!
	👻 12:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sense of impending doom ... increasing!
	12:04pm Bill Zebub: Greetings,Thunder, Krys, Mr. Fab, and Ken
	12:04pm OSS: Hi to everyone!
	12:09pm Mr Fab: anagram for Vortex of Chaos: Havoc Foxes Rot
	12:10pm Bill Zebub: Greetings, OSS
	12:11pm OSS: Hi Bill!
	12:12pm Mr Fab: Roachs Vex Foot
	12:17pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Mr Fab @12:09 Anagrams are pretty cool - I like palindromes, too. My two favorite palindromes are 'DEIFIED' & 'NEVER ODD OR EVEN'.
	12:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:17 WFMU was playing a band called Taco Cat.
	12:19pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Song: "Symptom of the Universe" by "Ozzy Osbourne" Y'know, I LOVE Black Sabbath, but have never listened to Ozzy's solo stuff, aside from the radio, etc.
	12:21pm Rich in Washington: TIL: that Speak of the Devil was made up of Sabbath songs. I'd always assumed it was Ozzy solo material. This smokes. I need to pick up a copy.
	👻 12:22pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Mr Fab @12:18 AᗺBA
	12:23pm Bill Zebub: Rich,when I was a kid, I thought that this was impossibly good for a live recording. but it seems something was lost in the transcoding to digital....
	12:25pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:23 The performance sounds pretty good, IMO. I'm also a huge Iommi fan but Brad Gillis does a fantastic job with the material.
	12:25pm Vladimir: How little sleep did Bill get last night?
	12:26pm Vladimir: And how much ice cream did he eat?
	12:26pm Bill Zebub: Vladimir, enough to make meazombie
	12:29pm lunaro: Hello.
	12:29pm Rich in Washington: I used to find that stuff put onto CD in the early days of CDs sounded not so great, beyond the clarity of not having either tape hiss or vinyl surface noise. I think it's probably come a long way. Paradoxically, with the vinyl resurgence, some labels have had a difficult time mastering music for vinyl again (let alone pressing records again - that's a whole another issue). Some say it's a lost art, like Roman concrete or something.
	12:30pm Bill Zebub: Greetings, Lunaro
	12:30pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @12:29 <nerd format rant over>
	12:32pm Bill Zebub: when the recording is analog, then I agree that distortion is warmer onvinyl, but with the hiss and occasional crackle. When music is recorded digitally and released on vinyl, it is a gimmick, a war against file sharing. But the Ozzy song I played was the first pressing on CD, so perhaps there is a remaster.
	12:33pm Bill Zebub: OSS, would you go to Disney World?
	12:34pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:33 I can't Bill, but I will see you in Miami! I'm looking forward to meet you!
	12:51pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:33 Will you be going alone to the cruise?
	12:51pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Song: "You take my Breath Away" by "Berlin" The most natural transition in all of music history.
	12:55pm Bill Zebub: OSS, wherever I go, I begin alone but end up with people.
	12:56pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:55 You certainly will meet a lot of people on the cruise!
	12:59pm Bill Zebub: Plus, I know half the bands
	1:00pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @12:59 Of course! hahaha I went to one cruise once, and I'm not a people's person, but met a lot of cool people and had a great time!
	1:05pm OSS: ↳ Song: "Embracing the Styx" by "Candlemass" I like this record! I was surprised when he was chosen as the new vocalist but his voice grew on me!
	1:07pm Bill Zebub: He refrained from the cheesy and weak higher register that poisoned some of the Solitude Aeturnus songs
	1:13pm OSS: ↳ Song: "Put Me Down" by "The Cranberries" I did like her voice a lot! I do enjoy some music like this!
	1:15pm Bill Zebub: OSS, I think that was a first play, ha ha
	1:19pm OSS: You've played The Cardigans before, I was surprised with that one! I like her voice a lo too!
	1:20pm Bill Zebub: I remember disliking the voice because the radio hit kept playing where I worked at the time, but then eventually kepthearing it in my head and had to buy the album, ha ha
	1:22pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @1:20 and that hit was the lesser song from the album in my opinion!
	1:24pm Bill Zebub: Radio hits sometimes discourage deeper dives. TYPE O NEGATIVE radio songs hint nothing about the ultra dark side of the band
	1:27pm OSS: ↳ Bill Zebub @1:24 When October Rust came out, it was an ep for me because many of the more accesible songs were not to my taste at all! I really liked half the record, but the singles were not to my liking at all
	1:27pm Bill Zebub: ha
	1:34pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Joey" by "Concrete Blonde" Johnette!!! This group has Paul Thompson of Roxy Music and James Mankey who was in Sparks.
	1:37pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Song: "Infecting The Crypts" by "Suffocation" I remember how BLOWN AWAY I was when this album came out.
	1:38pm Bill Zebub: I was blown away by the E.P. but I savor the cleaner versions of songs as well.
	1:38pm Bill Zebub: (Human Waste)
	1:38pm ?: It's good to hear Bill speaking today.
	1:39pm Bill Zebub: Thank you
	1:42pm Vladimir: Bill has a ridiculously sexy voice.
	1:43pm Bill Zebub: ha
	1:43pm Bill Zebub: Sometimes I feel like it is rude to interrupt the flow of songs
	1:45pm Vladimir: Nah
	2:02pm Rich in Washington: Lovely show this morning! Digging thee music while working on a work project.
	2:02pm Bill Zebub: Thanks, Rich
	2:17pm Vladimir: Solid tunes
	2:18pm Bill Zebub: Vladimir, today bears a good mix, aye?
	2:29pm Vladimir: Yes. I like bears.
	2:36pm Laura Panic: This! I'm not usually up this early on a Fridday, so a first time listener to this show. It's terrific!
	2:36pm Laura Panic: Carach Angren were on as I drove up the highway to work. It was GLORY!
	2:37pm Bill Zebub: Thank you, Laura.
	👻 2:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Bill. All Bill and no Bull!
	2:58pm Vladimir: Thank you, Bill. This helped.
	2:59pm Bill Zebub: Thank you for listening. You you want it darker next week?
	👻 3:00pm egal: well played
	3:00pm Vladimir: I like it dark.

Vortex of Chaos with Bill Zebub: Playlist from January 16, 2025

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