WFMU: Shmelting with Zabedon: Playlist from April 2, 2025

Listener comments!
	9:04pm bixa: woah
	♥ 9:05pm Dan S: Happy Birthday (or near birthday), Zabedon!
	♥ 9:07pm Dan S: I think this is an intriguing idea you have for your birthday show.
	♥ 9:07pm duke: ↳ Song: "Coo Coo Bird" by "Rufus Kasey" Hits of 1998 hold up pretty well.
	♥ 9:11pm duke: Happy birthday
	♥ 9:11pm Pauly from Clifton: Sto lat Zabedon! What a cool concept.
	9:12pm Scientist: ↳ Song: "Moya" by "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" One of my favorite GY!BE tracks. Remember reading an interview where the band was confused why they were approached about using this song in movies etc more than any of there others...
	9:12pm bixa: hbd
	♥ 9:15pm Deano de los Muertos: Happy Birthday, Zabedon! 🥳💨
	♥ 9:18pm ClayBeFree: Happy Birthday. I hope it is the equivalent of riding a motorcycle for eight hours down the Blue Ridge Parkway while listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor
	9:18pm shmelting: Thank you everyone!!
	9:19pm shreen: i remember seeing gy!be outdoors at hopscotch 2014?15? and the sky erupted in pouring rain perfectly synchronized, i get chills when i think abt it
	♥ 9:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: Happy Schmelting Birthday! 🎂 (Mine is coming up, too. So, double yay!)
	♥ 9:20pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Moya" by "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" hi everyone! my favorite band!!!!!
	9:21pm DigiFrere: ↳ Song: "Moya" by "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" This would have been around the time we saw them at the Palais Royale in Toronto.So loud. Except for the quiet bits. Good viz, too.
	9:21pm Scientist: "The vinyl version came with a bag of goodies, including a penny flattened by a train and several illustrations."
	♥ 9:22pm pot8o: saw them back in november in lawrence, ks, that was a real face-melter
	9:24pm DigiFrere: Happy B'day. What a great idea for a show.
	9:26pm Steve in bearsville: I love this song so much. I once helped my friend dig a hole for his dog while this song was playing. The dog named rampage was getting put down and we found a big flagstone and dug a hole in the mountains of Northern California for old rampage. This track always makes me cry and think of that awesome dog. Rip rampage!!!! We love you.
	♥ 9:29pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Night Falls on Hoboken" by "Yo La Tengo" Latter half of my 20s were long days and nights working in Hoboken..in Sinatra, home Washington.
	9:30pm shmelting: Thank you for these stories ! they're the greatest bday gift truly
	9:35pm bixa: rip rampage <3
	♥ 9:35pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Steve in bearsville @9:26 Rip rampage 🥲
	♥ 9:36pm Deano de los Muertos: all dogs go to heaven
	9:38pm shmelting: And yes RIP Rampage <3 killer name for a dog
	9:39pm EM: ↳ shreen @9:19 YES that shit was crazy - happy almost bday zabedon !
	9:40pm maus in macon: Good evening, loving the show
	9:40pm Steve in bearsville: Legendary dog. Thank you guys :)
	9:41pm goatrude: Zooey for Zoe. Happy birthday Zabs!
	♥ 9:44pm Deano de los Muertos: 🫠
	9:47pm darcy: This that freeform shit
	9:48pm Scientist: Nothing special about WFMU. I'm sure these songs were in heavy rotation at pretty much any station at that time...
	♥ 9:48pm tom tom the pipers son: hello shmelting and all...
	9:48pm Mos Def MF: We share a birthday, Zabedon. Hope yours is as great as your show!
	9:49pm shmelting: ↳ Scientist @9:48 lol yes I'm sure they were spinning Sun City Girls on IHeartRadio back in the day
	9:50pm shmelting: ↳ Mos Def MF @9:48 sick! happy birthday!! and thank u :)
	♥ 9:53pm tom tom the pipers son: "heavy rotation"…makes me think "heavy flow", but that’s just me and i’m not even female...
	♥ 9:54pm Quinn02: heavy rotation at wfmu is something that gets played twice?
	♥ 9:54pm Mos Def MF: Based on your playlist—the years have been good to you. Cheers❗️
	9:55pm cbunny: I love love this birthday thru the years set! Great concept!!
	9:56pm shmelting: ↳ Quinn02 @9:54 I'm admittedly using that term loosely...but I did stay true to the archival lists!
	9:59pm ANAGRAM MAN: SHMELTING WITH ZABEDON = IT BLAZING METH-DEN SHOW
	10:01pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Badidoom" by "Archimedes Badkar" Christ that was good! Reminded me a bit of Von Zamla. First time listener here. - w/ love from Brooklyn
	10:03pm Scientist: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:53 I mentioned to one "DJ Payload" that his name reminded me of a dirty diaper, but I don't think he really appreciated it.
	♥ 10:06pm coelacanth∅: heavy rotation on wfmu to me means ~6 times over a few weeks; or >10 times in it's entire history. ..by contrast many radio stations play a song 5-6X/day for weeks or months; and classic rock stations might play the same song around the same time every day for... months? years? (a song that's already been played thousands of times over the years) there there's fodder for the masses, while we have a smörgåsbord.
	♥ 10:07pm coelacanth∅: Happy birthday Zabedon!
	10:07pm Skye: ↳ Scientist @9:12 Do they ever license their work for movies, like at all, lol? The only movie I can think of with their music is of course 28 Days Later, which they never gave permission for and ended up being left off the official soundtrack release.
	♥ 10:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Scientist @10:03 ha! i can see that… but i don’t see any negative connotation in heavy flow if that’s what you are getting at...
	10:08pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Workinonit" by "J Dilla" "WORKINONIT"—10cc sample! I think...
	10:11pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Atabat" by "Omar Souleyman" Maestoso!
	♥ 10:12pm coelacanth∅: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:08 i've mentioned that i didn't care for (the) wipers back in the day because it was too predictable, too mainstream for me; not punk enough. (i Love it now) but i wonder if the name "wipers" had something to do with it! ...i'll say i'm repulsed by the band name "the remains"!
	♥ 10:13pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Atabat" by "Omar Souleyman" Banger
	10:13pm Scientist: ↳ Skye @10:07 I haven't researched it, but given their general ethos, i doubt it. Money = cohesion, so accepting money to do art isn't all that different from accepting money to have sex. In an ideal world we would want people to be free to express themselves without cohesion.
	♥ 10:15pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:12 sure i find the wipers music transcends the name…remains….? i think more of architectural rubble
	10:15pm Skye: ↳ Scientist @10:13 You must mean coercion? But yes, I understand. I was amused at a recent show of theirs to hear some attendees wonder where all their merch was...
	10:17pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Atabat" by "Omar Souleyman" Dynamite track!
	10:19pm Skye: Let me add in the chorus of happy birthday, Zabedon!
	♥ 10:20pm coelacanth∅: "how will i get people to ask me about it if i don't have a t-shirt?"
	10:21pm javakid: ↳ Song: "Love Comes Close" by "Cold Cave" lovely choice
	10:25pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:20 Haha, yes, I'm afraid that's how some folks are. I own exactly 2 band tees: Pink Floyd and Public Image Ltd.... And I can do without most people asking about them. 😂
	10:28pm Saltonstall: Great idea for a theme. It’s a theme, but not a theme at the same time.
	10:31pm Sunny: Liturgy!
	10:32pm shmelting: ↳ Sunny @10:31 hell yeah
	10:33pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Veins of God" by "Liturgy" \m/ \m/ I know their drummer! Great guy.
	♥ 10:33pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:25 i think i have but one! x-ray spex, which i made myself after they broke up in the 80s. it was stolen from me a few years ago by someone who wasn't even alive when they existed; but i saw it in her pick-up, broke in and got it back! i had a clash shirt, which i bought in 1981, which she also stole. 'wish i still had that. it meant something to me.
	10:35pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:33 Haha, nice that you got one back at least, that's dedication!
	♥ 10:36pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Veins of God" by "Liturgy" more bangers!
	♥ 10:36pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:35 ha, Thanks! for the record i didn't damage her truck getting in! (not that she wouldn't have deserved that)
	♥ 10:37pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:25 ...and i know - what's left to say about 'floyd and pil!
	♥ 10:39pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ Song: "Veins of God" by "Liturgy" looked back & found I ordered this Liturgy album, Gridlink, True Widow, and the Cartagena! cumbia comp from Aquarius records almost 14 years ago. halcyon times
	10:39pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Mezgil Jangyrygy (Echoes of Time)" by "Kutman Sul... You know, I was just thinking about the need for more jaw harp on WFMU!
	10:40pm shmelting: ↳ Skye @10:39 Jaw harp was alive and well on WFMU in 2012 and now we're bringing it back
	10:40pm Mos Def MF: I do have a Husker Du Zen Arcade T from about ‘84. My mom kept everything—mostly not good stuff.
	♥ 10:41pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Skye @10:25 the ones I’ve owned, it’s usually about the artwork. People want to be asked?
	♥ 10:41pm coelacanth∅: i think Ken played jaw harp songs every week for a long, long time!
	♥ 10:42pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker" Beam me up Scotty
	♥ 10:42pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mos Def MF @10:40 i'd wear that shirt
	10:42pm Scientist: ↳ Barney Grubbs @10:39 I have more than a few CDs with aQ stickers on them. They were a great resource in the early 00s.
	10:43pm KEN WAHL: ↳ Song: "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker" Scott had more people in his official fan club in 1968 than the Beatles. Fact
	10:43pm Sufferwords: I was just interviewed by the International Jews Harp magazine- had to inform that as an actual Jew and being the most widely heard Jews Harp player ever (per them) that calling the instrument a Jews harp was in no way derogatory and to feel encumbered when referring to it as such
	10:45pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:41 Haa, I love the lore! Only started listening to WFMU just recently. Re: Floyd and PiL: well, it's more of a case of being an obsessive fan/critic of the former (prefer their work from 66-71, and don't rate their two most popular albums very highly at all). With the latter, it's more a case of me being loathe to bring up John Lyndon, who is a huge ahole...
	♥ 10:45pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: top shelf goods, shmelting! thanks for the great soundtrack.
	10:46pm Skye: ↳ Sufferwords @10:43 I will never be clear on the politics of it all! I don't see what's wrong with calling it a Jews harp, really...
	10:46pm EM: jaw harp tip: https://wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/nuosu-music-from-liangshan-vol-1-mouth-harp
	♥ 10:46pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ Scientist @10:42 I was living way up in NH & a long way from any interesting record stores from 2001-2008, so they kept me from going totally nuts
	10:47pm bixa: great show
	10:48pm Haricots Vert: ↳ Song: "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker" Oh Absolutely Yes Yes Yes … great Scott’s end run was even more exciting than his already wonderfully weird career catalog! Gotta watch that docu 30th Century Man. Thanks for this bashing Bish Bosch! 👏 👏 👏
	10:49pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker" I've been meaning to hear the experimental Scott Walker stuff and kept putting it off. This is, well... Really bizarre. But I'm digging it. 😄
	10:49pm Scientist: ↳ Barney Grubbs @10:46 I lived close, but not quite, in the armpit of Wisconsin. I'll be eternally grateful for them having the patience to accept internet order paid with a money order. Different times...
	♥ 10:50pm Iratemix: ↳ Sufferwords @10:43 When I was DJ'ing on SF Radio Station KUSF in 1997 I played something off of the debut OOIOO album on my show and mentioned that there was a "Jew's Harp" on that selection. Not long after, I received a very angry letter addressed to me in the mail from a listener who was upset that I said "Jew's Harp". I had never known that term to be discriminatory.....
	♥ 10:51pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ Skye @10:49 this makes his later collaboration with Sunn much less surprising
	♥ 10:51pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:45 i generally agree with you... only i like pink floyd all the way through 1977. (then my giving a crap about them stopped abruptly with the wall) P.I.L. is a cool t-shirt; but i know what you mean!
	♥ 10:52pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Sufferwords @10:43 if you ever elaborate on this this i hope i am present.
	10:53pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:51 Animals was just a phenomenal album and really should have been their swansong (I can go for hours and hours)
	♥ 10:54pm neil quarantino: Just loving this show, happy birthday!
	10:55pm Skye: ↳ Iratemix @10:50 Wow 😂 how was the letter signed?
	♥ 10:55pm coelacanth∅: i never cared for Scott Walker until i heard he collaborated with sun o))) and i started paying attention
	10:57pm Skye: ↳ EM @10:46 Saved this for later!
	♥ 10:57pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @10:50 right... is a french bulldog offensive? is an italian pizza offensive? ...irish coffee?
	♥ 10:58pm Stevel: Wonderful show on a stormy night. Thanks!
	♥ 10:58pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:53 let's NOT go for hours! (many will be grateful!) - but i fully agree.
	10:59pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:58 Many, who can't handle the truth! 😂😉
	♥ 11:00pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ Iratemix @10:50 I ended up with most of my dad’s collection of harps—he was from western kentucky where they were most certainly called jew’s harps, but since the name seems most likely to have come from some association of the harps with Jewish people in England, rather than any specific connection I have stuck with jaw harp
	11:00pm Scientist: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:57 you've stepped into the classic minefield of is jew a religion or a race or a nationality or...
	♥ 11:00pm Iratemix: ↳ Skye @10:55 I can't remember how the letter was signed, I wonder if I still have that letter somewhere in a box....BTW Yes, "Animals" was the last Pink Floyd album I could stomach. "Animals" was a real great gateway album for me as a sophomore in high school, 1977, to get into much more difficult listening material over the next few years on real underground WFMU type radio. When the Wall came out with all the hype I was thoroughly disappointed.
	11:03pm Skye: ↳ Iratemix @11:00 The Wall was my first Floyd album, so damning it now does seem a strange thing... But it must have been fascinating to have grown up around their music while they were still active creatively! For introducing me to them, I owe it all to my mother... 😁
	♥ 11:10pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Scientist @11:00 oh, crap (no pun intended...well, sort of) i did, didn't i. but it's not my fault! i once asked a person's ancestral background; she said "i'm jewish". i said that's a religion - and she went into the explanation that has never left me, yet still i regard as a bit of a scapegoat. i've settled on: it's a religion for some folks, and a culture for others. (and of course both for many)
	11:11pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Displaced" by "Dirty Beaches" That was lovely!!
	11:14pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Adounia" by "Mdou Moctar" ... Sahara blues!!! 🔥 🔥
	♥ 11:17pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @11:00 my experience exactly. i was thoroughly into pink floyd at the time, and when i heard the wall played on the radio i was profoundly disappointed. ...my older brother, knowing i was into the 'floyd gave me the album for xmas. bless him, i'm sure it wasn't cheap. i tried, but it's just so predictable, formulaic... cheesy! -and recycled subject matter for Waters.
	♥ 11:22pm Iratemix: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:17 New records back in 1977 were probably around 5 or 6 bucks for a single domestic LP, so not too expensive. It sure would have been great to hear WFMU in 1977! I was living in the Baltimore-Wash.,DC area then and we had Georgetown's WGTB which I assume was playing the same records as WFMU, they were shut down in 1979, but before they were shut down I was turned onto the Residents, Chrome, 1/2 Japanese, all the great German Electronic music and albums like "Animals" were my gateway to the underground...
	11:23pm shmelting: ↳ Iratemix @11:22 1977 concept show coming up next!
	11:24pm Skye: ↳ Iratemix @11:22 So cool to hear your memories, thanks for sharing!
	11:24pm Skye: ↳ shmelting @11:23 Hahaha, a moment in time! 😁
	♥ 11:26pm JohnEBGood: Hi DJ. Thanks for the music
	♥ 11:26pm Iratemix: ↳ shmelting @11:23 Well,I am sure enjoying this ride through recent history. That will be great when you do the 1977 Concept show. You'll have to read the DJ comments on the WFMU albums from that year if they still exist.
	11:29pm boxesO'Sudafed: pllay hick town by jaspn aldean
	11:30pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Summer Jam" by "Tapes" This as a covid lockdown theme? Somehow, I can see it.
	11:31pm boxesO'Sudafed: hey willl u plz play my gurrrrrrrlz jaam
	11:32pm shmelting: ↳ Skye @11:30 totally. to me it sounds like if hold music was good
	11:33pm Egomwah: ↳ Skye @11:30 Bought this 10” from commend nyc via mail order during covid right before they closed (rip) got a lot of plays
	11:34pm Skye: ↳ shmelting @11:32 Yeesss. 😂 Love the sounds it's generating from my subwoofer too
	♥ 11:36pm Drunken Creep: Sounding good DJ, gracias
	11:36pm Scientist: So glad that I'm a bot. It would be hard to tell who the bots were if I wasn't one o them :/
	♥ 11:37pm Mos Def MF: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:42 I may have a chance to wear it again. Greg Norton and Friends are doing some shows around Mpls in May…
	♥ 11:37pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @11:22 it was around 15. (1979). they probably jacked it up because of all the hype. pink floyd was huge. (they did that with the beatles "white album" in 1968 too. more than other double albums.) ...a good chunk of change for a teenager to spend on his little brother that he rarely got along with - in a "lower middle class" family.
	♥ 11:40pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @11:22 you're lucky you had that station. i discovered wfmu in '77, but didn't fully immerse until 1980. but we did have, for a short time, wpix-fm. a renegade commercial station that played punk, new wave, 60s punk and psych... then one morning i turned it on, and it was "love songs. nothing, but love songs".
	♥ 11:44pm Iratemix: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:40 You're very lucky to have been able to listen to WFMU for such a long time. The Gerogetown Station mentioned that there was a great station in NJ near NYC so they were talking about WFMU, then once i was in college radio in 1981 I heard about WFMU, first got to listen to WFMU on a NYC Trip in Oct. 1984.
	♥ 11:45pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mos Def MF @11:37 really! -probably not coming this far north though. i hung out with them in trenton nj around when that album came out. went to a diner after their show. really sweet guys. rest in peace, Grant.
	♥ 11:47pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @11:44 you were on top of it! very cool.
	11:49pm SE: ↳ Song: "Totally Wired (Live in New York)" by "The Fall" you don't have to be weird to be wired (but it helps)
	♥ 11:51pm Mos Def MF: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:45 I’m not sure if it’s a purely local to Minneapolis thing. That’s a great experience to hang with the Huskers! Zen Arcade and New Day Rising rocked my world in the mid 80’s. Totally Wired me for all sorts of tangents. Including the Fall.
	♥ 11:56pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mos Def MF @11:51 i just got lucky. i was very into the first eps - everything falls apart and metal circus. one day a friend says lets go see hüsker dü at city gardens. i didn't even know he liked them, then it turns out he knew them!
	♥ 11:58pm coelacanth∅: Excellent program Zabedon Thanks!
	11:58pm Skye: That was such a heavy playlist, thanks Zabedon! Hope we meet again...
	11:58pm shmelting: Thanks y'all! It's been real <3333

Shmelting with Zabedon: Playlist from April 2, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
Sukia	Dream Machine "Dream Machine" by "Sukia"	Contacto Especial con el Tercer Sexo	Westside Freeride	It's April of 1997. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rufus Kasey	Coo Coo Bird "Coo Coo Bird" by "Rufus Kasey"	Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia	Smithsonian Folkways	It's April of 1998. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	0:05:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Godspeed You! Black Emperor	Moya "Moya" by "Godspeed You! Black Emperor"	Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada	Kranky	It's April of 1999. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	0:09:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	Night Falls on Hoboken	And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out	Matador	It's April of 2000. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	0:22:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Zooey	111.1 "111.1" by "Zooey"	No Watches. No Maps.	Fat Cat	It's April of 2001. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	0:37:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sun City Girls	Naga Smoke Signals	High Asia / Lo-Pacific	Abduction	It's April of 2002. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	0:43:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Amadou & Mariam	Mali Denou "Mali Denou" by "Amadou & Mariam"	Wait	Circular Moves	It's April of 2003. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	0:47:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Archimedes Badkar	Badidoom "Badidoom" by "Archimedes Badkar"	Tre	MNW	It's April of 2004. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	0:51:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Apparat (feat. Complexàcord)	Silizium	Silizium	Shitkatapult	It's April of 2005. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:02:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
J Dilla	Workinonit "Workinonit" by "J Dilla"	Donuts	Stones Throw	It's April of 2006. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:06:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Omar Souleyman	Atabat "Atabat" by "Omar Souleyman"	Highway To Hassake	Sublime Frequencies	It's April of 2007. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:09:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Suns of Arqa, Muslim Gauze	Khammurabi	Suns of Arqa Re-Mixs Muslimgauze	Arka Sound	It's April of 2008. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:17:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cold Cave	Love Comes Close "Love Comes Close" by "Cold Cave"	Love Comes Close	Hospital Productions	It's April of 2009. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:20:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: William Basinski	Vivian & Ondine 1.1	Vivian & Ondine	2062	It's April of 2010. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:27:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Liturgy	Veins of God "Veins of God" by "Liturgy"	Aesthethica	Thrill Jockey	It's April of 2011. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:28:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kutman Sultanbekov and Kambar Kalendarov	Mezgil Jangyrygy (Echoes of Time)	JAW	Cantaloupe Music	It's April of 2012. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:36:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Scott Walker	Epizootics! "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker"	Bish Bosch	4AD	It's April of 2013. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:39:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Beautiful Swimmers	The Zoo "The Zoo" by "Beautiful Swimmers"	Music For Shut-Ins	L.I.E.S.	It's April of 2014. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:49:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Guerilla Toss	367 Equalizer "367 Equalizer" by "Guerilla Toss"	367 Equalizer Live!	Feeding Tube	It's April of 2015. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	1:59:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dirty Beaches	Displaced "Displaced" by "Dirty Beaches"	Stateless	Zoo Music	It's April of 2016. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:03:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mdou Moctar	Adounia "Adounia" by "Mdou Moctar"	Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Otoruku	It's April of 2017. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:11:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bardo Pond	Kailash "Kailash" by "Bardo Pond"	Volume 8	Fire	It's April of 2018. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:15:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ultrafog	Cependant "Cependant" by "Ultrafog"	How Those Fires Burned That Are No Longer	Motion Ward	It's April of 2019. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:21:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tapes	Summer Jam "Summer Jam" by "Tapes"	Summer Jam / Salavere 10"	EM Records	It's April of 2020. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:27:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Isasa	Océano "Océano" by "Isasa"	Isasa	La Castayna	It's April of 2021. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:36:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Karen Dalton	Same Old Man "Same Old Man" by "Karen Dalton"	In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition)	Light in the Attic	It's April of 2022. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:41:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Fall	Totally Wired (Live in New York)	A Part Of America Therein, 1981 (Expanded Edition)	Superior Viaduct	It's April of 2023. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:44:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Matmos	The Way Japanese Beetles Sound to a Rose	Return To Archive	Smithonian Folkways	It's April of 2024. This is in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:48:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ichiko Aoba	COLORATURA "COLORATURA" by "Ichiko Aoba"	Luminescent Creatures	Hermine	It's April of 2025. This song could soon be in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:49:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jiboia	Solar (Yaw Temba) "Solar (Yaw Temba)" by "Jiboia"	Salar		It's April of 2025. This song could soon be in heavy rotation on WFMU.	2:55:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:04pm bixa: woah
	♥ 9:05pm Dan S: Happy Birthday (or near birthday), Zabedon!
	♥ 9:07pm Dan S: I think this is an intriguing idea you have for your birthday show.
	♥ 9:07pm duke: ↳ Song: "Coo Coo Bird" by "Rufus Kasey" Hits of 1998 hold up pretty well.
	♥ 9:11pm duke: Happy birthday
	♥ 9:11pm Pauly from Clifton: Sto lat Zabedon! What a cool concept.
	9:12pm Scientist: ↳ Song: "Moya" by "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" One of my favorite GY!BE tracks. Remember reading an interview where the band was confused why they were approached about using this song in movies etc more than any of there others...
	9:12pm bixa: hbd
	♥ 9:15pm Deano de los Muertos: Happy Birthday, Zabedon! 🥳💨
	♥ 9:18pm ClayBeFree: Happy Birthday. I hope it is the equivalent of riding a motorcycle for eight hours down the Blue Ridge Parkway while listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor
	9:18pm shmelting: Thank you everyone!!
	9:19pm shreen: i remember seeing gy!be outdoors at hopscotch 2014?15? and the sky erupted in pouring rain perfectly synchronized, i get chills when i think abt it
	♥ 9:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: Happy Schmelting Birthday! 🎂 (Mine is coming up, too. So, double yay!)
	♥ 9:20pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Moya" by "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" hi everyone! my favorite band!!!!!
	9:21pm DigiFrere: ↳ Song: "Moya" by "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" This would have been around the time we saw them at the Palais Royale in Toronto.So loud. Except for the quiet bits. Good viz, too.
	9:21pm Scientist: "The vinyl version came with a bag of goodies, including a penny flattened by a train and several illustrations."
	♥ 9:22pm pot8o: saw them back in november in lawrence, ks, that was a real face-melter
	9:24pm DigiFrere: Happy B'day. What a great idea for a show.
	9:26pm Steve in bearsville: I love this song so much. I once helped my friend dig a hole for his dog while this song was playing. The dog named rampage was getting put down and we found a big flagstone and dug a hole in the mountains of Northern California for old rampage. This track always makes me cry and think of that awesome dog. Rip rampage!!!! We love you.
	♥ 9:29pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Night Falls on Hoboken" by "Yo La Tengo" Latter half of my 20s were long days and nights working in Hoboken..in Sinatra, home Washington.
	9:30pm shmelting: Thank you for these stories ! they're the greatest bday gift truly
	9:35pm bixa: rip rampage <3
	♥ 9:35pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Steve in bearsville @9:26 Rip rampage 🥲
	♥ 9:36pm Deano de los Muertos: all dogs go to heaven
	9:38pm shmelting: And yes RIP Rampage <3 killer name for a dog
	9:39pm EM: ↳ shreen @9:19 YES that shit was crazy - happy almost bday zabedon !
	9:40pm maus in macon: Good evening, loving the show
	9:40pm Steve in bearsville: Legendary dog. Thank you guys :)
	9:41pm goatrude: Zooey for Zoe. Happy birthday Zabs!
	♥ 9:44pm Deano de los Muertos: 🫠
	9:47pm darcy: This that freeform shit
	9:48pm Scientist: Nothing special about WFMU. I'm sure these songs were in heavy rotation at pretty much any station at that time...
	♥ 9:48pm tom tom the pipers son: hello shmelting and all...
	9:48pm Mos Def MF: We share a birthday, Zabedon. Hope yours is as great as your show!
	9:49pm shmelting: ↳ Scientist @9:48 lol yes I'm sure they were spinning Sun City Girls on IHeartRadio back in the day
	9:50pm shmelting: ↳ Mos Def MF @9:48 sick! happy birthday!! and thank u :)
	♥ 9:53pm tom tom the pipers son: "heavy rotation"…makes me think "heavy flow", but that’s just me and i’m not even female...
	♥ 9:54pm Quinn02: heavy rotation at wfmu is something that gets played twice?
	♥ 9:54pm Mos Def MF: Based on your playlist—the years have been good to you. Cheers❗️
	9:55pm cbunny: I love love this birthday thru the years set! Great concept!!
	9:56pm shmelting: ↳ Quinn02 @9:54 I'm admittedly using that term loosely...but I did stay true to the archival lists!
	9:59pm ANAGRAM MAN: SHMELTING WITH ZABEDON = IT BLAZING METH-DEN SHOW
	10:01pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Badidoom" by "Archimedes Badkar" Christ that was good! Reminded me a bit of Von Zamla. First time listener here. - w/ love from Brooklyn
	10:03pm Scientist: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:53 I mentioned to one "DJ Payload" that his name reminded me of a dirty diaper, but I don't think he really appreciated it.
	♥ 10:06pm coelacanth∅: heavy rotation on wfmu to me means ~6 times over a few weeks; or >10 times in it's entire history. ..by contrast many radio stations play a song 5-6X/day for weeks or months; and classic rock stations might play the same song around the same time every day for... months? years? (a song that's already been played thousands of times over the years) there there's fodder for the masses, while we have a smörgåsbord.
	♥ 10:07pm coelacanth∅: Happy birthday Zabedon!
	10:07pm Skye: ↳ Scientist @9:12 Do they ever license their work for movies, like at all, lol? The only movie I can think of with their music is of course 28 Days Later, which they never gave permission for and ended up being left off the official soundtrack release.
	♥ 10:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Scientist @10:03 ha! i can see that… but i don’t see any negative connotation in heavy flow if that’s what you are getting at...
	10:08pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Workinonit" by "J Dilla" "WORKINONIT"—10cc sample! I think...
	10:11pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Atabat" by "Omar Souleyman" Maestoso!
	♥ 10:12pm coelacanth∅: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:08 i've mentioned that i didn't care for (the) wipers back in the day because it was too predictable, too mainstream for me; not punk enough. (i Love it now) but i wonder if the name "wipers" had something to do with it! ...i'll say i'm repulsed by the band name "the remains"!
	♥ 10:13pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Atabat" by "Omar Souleyman" Banger
	10:13pm Scientist: ↳ Skye @10:07 I haven't researched it, but given their general ethos, i doubt it. Money = cohesion, so accepting money to do art isn't all that different from accepting money to have sex. In an ideal world we would want people to be free to express themselves without cohesion.
	♥ 10:15pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:12 sure i find the wipers music transcends the name…remains….? i think more of architectural rubble
	10:15pm Skye: ↳ Scientist @10:13 You must mean coercion? But yes, I understand. I was amused at a recent show of theirs to hear some attendees wonder where all their merch was...
	10:17pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Atabat" by "Omar Souleyman" Dynamite track!
	10:19pm Skye: Let me add in the chorus of happy birthday, Zabedon!
	♥ 10:20pm coelacanth∅: "how will i get people to ask me about it if i don't have a t-shirt?"
	10:21pm javakid: ↳ Song: "Love Comes Close" by "Cold Cave" lovely choice
	10:25pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:20 Haha, yes, I'm afraid that's how some folks are. I own exactly 2 band tees: Pink Floyd and Public Image Ltd.... And I can do without most people asking about them. 😂
	10:28pm Saltonstall: Great idea for a theme. It’s a theme, but not a theme at the same time.
	10:31pm Sunny: Liturgy!
	10:32pm shmelting: ↳ Sunny @10:31 hell yeah
	10:33pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Veins of God" by "Liturgy" \m/ \m/ I know their drummer! Great guy.
	♥ 10:33pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:25 i think i have but one! x-ray spex, which i made myself after they broke up in the 80s. it was stolen from me a few years ago by someone who wasn't even alive when they existed; but i saw it in her pick-up, broke in and got it back! i had a clash shirt, which i bought in 1981, which she also stole. 'wish i still had that. it meant something to me.
	10:35pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:33 Haha, nice that you got one back at least, that's dedication!
	♥ 10:36pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Veins of God" by "Liturgy" more bangers!
	♥ 10:36pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:35 ha, Thanks! for the record i didn't damage her truck getting in! (not that she wouldn't have deserved that)
	♥ 10:37pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:25 ...and i know - what's left to say about 'floyd and pil!
	♥ 10:39pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ Song: "Veins of God" by "Liturgy" looked back & found I ordered this Liturgy album, Gridlink, True Widow, and the Cartagena! cumbia comp from Aquarius records almost 14 years ago. halcyon times
	10:39pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Mezgil Jangyrygy (Echoes of Time)" by "Kutman Sul... You know, I was just thinking about the need for more jaw harp on WFMU!
	10:40pm shmelting: ↳ Skye @10:39 Jaw harp was alive and well on WFMU in 2012 and now we're bringing it back
	10:40pm Mos Def MF: I do have a Husker Du Zen Arcade T from about ‘84. My mom kept everything—mostly not good stuff.
	♥ 10:41pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Skye @10:25 the ones I’ve owned, it’s usually about the artwork. People want to be asked?
	♥ 10:41pm coelacanth∅: i think Ken played jaw harp songs every week for a long, long time!
	♥ 10:42pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker" Beam me up Scotty
	♥ 10:42pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mos Def MF @10:40 i'd wear that shirt
	10:42pm Scientist: ↳ Barney Grubbs @10:39 I have more than a few CDs with aQ stickers on them. They were a great resource in the early 00s.
	10:43pm KEN WAHL: ↳ Song: "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker" Scott had more people in his official fan club in 1968 than the Beatles. Fact
	10:43pm Sufferwords: I was just interviewed by the International Jews Harp magazine- had to inform that as an actual Jew and being the most widely heard Jews Harp player ever (per them) that calling the instrument a Jews harp was in no way derogatory and to feel encumbered when referring to it as such
	10:45pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:41 Haa, I love the lore! Only started listening to WFMU just recently. Re: Floyd and PiL: well, it's more of a case of being an obsessive fan/critic of the former (prefer their work from 66-71, and don't rate their two most popular albums very highly at all). With the latter, it's more a case of me being loathe to bring up John Lyndon, who is a huge ahole...
	♥ 10:45pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: top shelf goods, shmelting! thanks for the great soundtrack.
	10:46pm Skye: ↳ Sufferwords @10:43 I will never be clear on the politics of it all! I don't see what's wrong with calling it a Jews harp, really...
	10:46pm EM: jaw harp tip: https://wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/nuosu-music-from-liangshan-vol-1-mouth-harp
	♥ 10:46pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ Scientist @10:42 I was living way up in NH & a long way from any interesting record stores from 2001-2008, so they kept me from going totally nuts
	10:47pm bixa: great show
	10:48pm Haricots Vert: ↳ Song: "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker" Oh Absolutely Yes Yes Yes … great Scott’s end run was even more exciting than his already wonderfully weird career catalog! Gotta watch that docu 30th Century Man. Thanks for this bashing Bish Bosch! 👏 👏 👏
	10:49pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Epizootics!" by "Scott Walker" I've been meaning to hear the experimental Scott Walker stuff and kept putting it off. This is, well... Really bizarre. But I'm digging it. 😄
	10:49pm Scientist: ↳ Barney Grubbs @10:46 I lived close, but not quite, in the armpit of Wisconsin. I'll be eternally grateful for them having the patience to accept internet order paid with a money order. Different times...
	♥ 10:50pm Iratemix: ↳ Sufferwords @10:43 When I was DJ'ing on SF Radio Station KUSF in 1997 I played something off of the debut OOIOO album on my show and mentioned that there was a "Jew's Harp" on that selection. Not long after, I received a very angry letter addressed to me in the mail from a listener who was upset that I said "Jew's Harp". I had never known that term to be discriminatory.....
	♥ 10:51pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ Skye @10:49 this makes his later collaboration with Sunn much less surprising
	♥ 10:51pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:45 i generally agree with you... only i like pink floyd all the way through 1977. (then my giving a crap about them stopped abruptly with the wall) P.I.L. is a cool t-shirt; but i know what you mean!
	♥ 10:52pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Sufferwords @10:43 if you ever elaborate on this this i hope i am present.
	10:53pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:51 Animals was just a phenomenal album and really should have been their swansong (I can go for hours and hours)
	♥ 10:54pm neil quarantino: Just loving this show, happy birthday!
	10:55pm Skye: ↳ Iratemix @10:50 Wow 😂 how was the letter signed?
	♥ 10:55pm coelacanth∅: i never cared for Scott Walker until i heard he collaborated with sun o))) and i started paying attention
	10:57pm Skye: ↳ EM @10:46 Saved this for later!
	♥ 10:57pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @10:50 right... is a french bulldog offensive? is an italian pizza offensive? ...irish coffee?
	♥ 10:58pm Stevel: Wonderful show on a stormy night. Thanks!
	♥ 10:58pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Skye @10:53 let's NOT go for hours! (many will be grateful!) - but i fully agree.
	10:59pm Skye: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:58 Many, who can't handle the truth! 😂😉
	♥ 11:00pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ Iratemix @10:50 I ended up with most of my dad’s collection of harps—he was from western kentucky where they were most certainly called jew’s harps, but since the name seems most likely to have come from some association of the harps with Jewish people in England, rather than any specific connection I have stuck with jaw harp
	11:00pm Scientist: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:57 you've stepped into the classic minefield of is jew a religion or a race or a nationality or...
	♥ 11:00pm Iratemix: ↳ Skye @10:55 I can't remember how the letter was signed, I wonder if I still have that letter somewhere in a box....BTW Yes, "Animals" was the last Pink Floyd album I could stomach. "Animals" was a real great gateway album for me as a sophomore in high school, 1977, to get into much more difficult listening material over the next few years on real underground WFMU type radio. When the Wall came out with all the hype I was thoroughly disappointed.
	11:03pm Skye: ↳ Iratemix @11:00 The Wall was my first Floyd album, so damning it now does seem a strange thing... But it must have been fascinating to have grown up around their music while they were still active creatively! For introducing me to them, I owe it all to my mother... 😁
	♥ 11:10pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Scientist @11:00 oh, crap (no pun intended...well, sort of) i did, didn't i. but it's not my fault! i once asked a person's ancestral background; she said "i'm jewish". i said that's a religion - and she went into the explanation that has never left me, yet still i regard as a bit of a scapegoat. i've settled on: it's a religion for some folks, and a culture for others. (and of course both for many)
	11:11pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Displaced" by "Dirty Beaches" That was lovely!!
	11:14pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Adounia" by "Mdou Moctar" ... Sahara blues!!! 🔥 🔥
	♥ 11:17pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @11:00 my experience exactly. i was thoroughly into pink floyd at the time, and when i heard the wall played on the radio i was profoundly disappointed. ...my older brother, knowing i was into the 'floyd gave me the album for xmas. bless him, i'm sure it wasn't cheap. i tried, but it's just so predictable, formulaic... cheesy! -and recycled subject matter for Waters.
	♥ 11:22pm Iratemix: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:17 New records back in 1977 were probably around 5 or 6 bucks for a single domestic LP, so not too expensive. It sure would have been great to hear WFMU in 1977! I was living in the Baltimore-Wash.,DC area then and we had Georgetown's WGTB which I assume was playing the same records as WFMU, they were shut down in 1979, but before they were shut down I was turned onto the Residents, Chrome, 1/2 Japanese, all the great German Electronic music and albums like "Animals" were my gateway to the underground...
	11:23pm shmelting: ↳ Iratemix @11:22 1977 concept show coming up next!
	11:24pm Skye: ↳ Iratemix @11:22 So cool to hear your memories, thanks for sharing!
	11:24pm Skye: ↳ shmelting @11:23 Hahaha, a moment in time! 😁
	♥ 11:26pm JohnEBGood: Hi DJ. Thanks for the music
	♥ 11:26pm Iratemix: ↳ shmelting @11:23 Well,I am sure enjoying this ride through recent history. That will be great when you do the 1977 Concept show. You'll have to read the DJ comments on the WFMU albums from that year if they still exist.
	11:29pm boxesO'Sudafed: pllay hick town by jaspn aldean
	11:30pm Skye: ↳ Song: "Summer Jam" by "Tapes" This as a covid lockdown theme? Somehow, I can see it.
	11:31pm boxesO'Sudafed: hey willl u plz play my gurrrrrrrlz jaam
	11:32pm shmelting: ↳ Skye @11:30 totally. to me it sounds like if hold music was good
	11:33pm Egomwah: ↳ Skye @11:30 Bought this 10” from commend nyc via mail order during covid right before they closed (rip) got a lot of plays
	11:34pm Skye: ↳ shmelting @11:32 Yeesss. 😂 Love the sounds it's generating from my subwoofer too
	♥ 11:36pm Drunken Creep: Sounding good DJ, gracias
	11:36pm Scientist: So glad that I'm a bot. It would be hard to tell who the bots were if I wasn't one o them :/
	♥ 11:37pm Mos Def MF: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:42 I may have a chance to wear it again. Greg Norton and Friends are doing some shows around Mpls in May…
	♥ 11:37pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @11:22 it was around 15. (1979). they probably jacked it up because of all the hype. pink floyd was huge. (they did that with the beatles "white album" in 1968 too. more than other double albums.) ...a good chunk of change for a teenager to spend on his little brother that he rarely got along with - in a "lower middle class" family.
	♥ 11:40pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @11:22 you're lucky you had that station. i discovered wfmu in '77, but didn't fully immerse until 1980. but we did have, for a short time, wpix-fm. a renegade commercial station that played punk, new wave, 60s punk and psych... then one morning i turned it on, and it was "love songs. nothing, but love songs".
	♥ 11:44pm Iratemix: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:40 You're very lucky to have been able to listen to WFMU for such a long time. The Gerogetown Station mentioned that there was a great station in NJ near NYC so they were talking about WFMU, then once i was in college radio in 1981 I heard about WFMU, first got to listen to WFMU on a NYC Trip in Oct. 1984.
	♥ 11:45pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mos Def MF @11:37 really! -probably not coming this far north though. i hung out with them in trenton nj around when that album came out. went to a diner after their show. really sweet guys. rest in peace, Grant.
	♥ 11:47pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Iratemix @11:44 you were on top of it! very cool.
	11:49pm SE: ↳ Song: "Totally Wired (Live in New York)" by "The Fall" you don't have to be weird to be wired (but it helps)
	♥ 11:51pm Mos Def MF: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:45 I’m not sure if it’s a purely local to Minneapolis thing. That’s a great experience to hang with the Huskers! Zen Arcade and New Day Rising rocked my world in the mid 80’s. Totally Wired me for all sorts of tangents. Including the Fall.
	♥ 11:56pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mos Def MF @11:51 i just got lucky. i was very into the first eps - everything falls apart and metal circus. one day a friend says lets go see hüsker dü at city gardens. i didn't even know he liked them, then it turns out he knew them!
	♥ 11:58pm coelacanth∅: Excellent program Zabedon Thanks!
	11:58pm Skye: That was such a heavy playlist, thanks Zabedon! Hope we meet again...
	11:58pm shmelting: Thanks y'all! It's been real <3333

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