WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 12, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:01am LizGig: Good morning, Trouble.
	9:01am Asheville Jon: Good morning Trouble, and everyone
	9:01am sugarwolf: Good morning
	9:01am Planet Tyler: Sniffle
	9:02am pierre: Bonjour Trouble and Troubladours, how's everybody ?
	9:02am Ernst Soup: Sad
	9:03am annie: good morning trouble!!
	9:04am Guido from Cologne: Hello Trouble and troulblists!
	9:05am Peter: Good morning Trouble
	9:05am rebuketodali: Good morning, everyone!
	9:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Love his real early stuff. I'm weird.
	9:05am Trouble: good sad mournnnning
	9:05am sphere: hi trouble and folks.
	9:06am doctorjazz: Good Morning Trouble and assorted Trouble makers....
	9:06am blee: Buenos Dias, La Trouble y chicos y chicas.
	9:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Bleh, off to a late start today. Daughter spilled oil on her shoe on the way through the garage. Shame on me for not getting rid of it right away. My story of troubles in this modern world.
	9:09am pygmylunch: hey folks
	9:10am Adrian in London: Hi all, and welcome to the world without Bowie day 2… Not good, is it?
	9:10am geegee vindaloo: Good morning Trouble. It's day two of the year 0001 AB
	9:10am sphere: omg. pierre the LP!
	9:11am pierre: I beg you pardon Sphere ?
	9:11am Peter: no, Adrian, not good....:-(
	9:12am sphere: sorry i meant Chicken Soup the album--Carol King and Maurice Sendak
	9:12am sphere: there is a song on it named Pierre.
	9:13am sphere: it is a childhood favorite of mine.
	9:15am pierre: :)
	9:18am MD: Farewell Major Tom...
	9:19am MD: Good Morning World...
	9:20am Adrian in London: I'm supposed to be transcribing an interview but can't stop listening to this mellow set. Someone tell me to get back to work!
	9:22am Marcel M: Trouble, play something really harsh and abrasive so Adrian will get back to work ;-)
	9:22am Asheville Jon: GET BACK TO WORK! oh wait, I should be working too
	9:23am Trouble: sorry marcel m i left motorhead at home
	9:23am northguineahills: I knew this was Aine O'Dwyer!
	9:25am pierre: this is gorgeous music
	9:25am pygmylunch: Luckily my job is just looking at photos all day phew
	9:27am pygmylunch: This set is so chill I might fall asleep zzz
	9:29am Ken From Hyde Park: Maybe there's an EAS coming soon to help Adrian get back to it.
	9:30am MD: DINOSAURS!!!
	9:32am Billy London: Hi trouble, wish you could have been in Brixton last night!
	9:32am Adrian in London: @Billy You were there? Looked like a joyful event.
	9:33am Peter: What was it like Billy?
	9:34am Billy London: Really awesome actually so glad I went
	9:34am sugarwolf: @sphere: I remember performing Pierre in I think 4th grade, I'm not sure if it was with music. @pierre: unlike Sendak's Pierre, I think you do care!!
	9:36am Billy London: Just felt great to be with people who felt the loss of DB, we had a great little troupe of people and one guy from France playing guitar and we all sang as many songs as we knew, we even sang the laughing gnome!
	9:41am Billy London: Here's a great vid showing our little group At the end http://youtu.be/NpLa3mJTkVU
	9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: Per advice from Dave Hill, off I go to buy a Powerball ticket. What could possibly go wring?
	9:45am bobdoesthings: good morning.
	9:45am Trouble: sounds fabulous billy london! one of my students is a big a bowie fan so in art 1 yesterday morning we had a little bowie moment, listening and making art. sad.
	9:48am Billy London: @trouble sounds like the perfect way to reflect on the current state of (after Bowie) that we finds ourselves in.
	9:50am dcp: well that Odetta Hartman song was perfect.
	9:51am Priscilla: Gorgeous, Trouble
	9:52am LizGig: I adore the soundtrack to the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou! (sp?) Any chance of Life on Mars? Either version on the soundtrack.
	9:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Life on Mars' on Pipe organ : www.facebook.com...
	9:54am dcp: GO Icepack!
	9:54am Priscilla: OMG this is so great! DJ Icepack!
	9:54am Peter: DJ Icepack!?
	9:54am chromaphone: Nice!
	9:55am OTB: This is absolutely perfect. I'm kinda tearing up over here....
	9:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: \m/_
	9:55am Adam from Philly: WOW! Killer.
	9:55am bobdoesthings: hahaha icepack!! this is great
	9:55am Billy London: Love that pipe organ version!
	9:55am Peter: remembering Curran's starman voicemail message at age 7!
	9:55am MD: THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!!!
	9:56am rebuketodali: I have the biggest smile on my face right now. This is wonderful!
	9:56am Lewis: go dj icepack!
	9:56am Lewis: (does he know this is happening?)
	9:57am MD: NICE JOB ICEPACK!!!
	9:57am Mick: Amazeballs!
	9:58am pygmylunch: So posi, love it
	10:00am Marcel M: Woahhh that was DJ Icepack?!?!? That was amazing!
	10:01am Roberto: Gold star for the Starman.
	10:02am Cheri Pi: DJ Icepack gave me chills!
	10:02am Trouble: dj icepack is in school at this moment: sssshhhh
	10:03am OTB: Shtum.
	10:03am Marcel M: Trouble, how do you think he would react to you playing that?
	10:05am bobdoesthings: @marcel - I bet dj icepack is pretty chill about it (pun intended!)
	10:05am Marcel M: @Bob: haha! Ice cold, baby.
	10:06am JakeGould: UU2late.
	10:06am bobdoesthings: ululate? I say "ool-you-late"
	10:06am emily: Good Morning, Trouble! Missed some of the monologues but happy to hear you this morning. I missed something about dj icepack. must catch on archives. xo
	10:06am blee: That was a Beautiful set / tribute.
	10:06am bobdoesthings: although now that I'm reading it... hmm maybe its "ull - you late"...
	10:08am sugarwolf: Oh man, I was out of the room when you played Icepack. Oh well I SAW IT LIVE!!!!
	10:08am bobdoesthings: ah I use to fence in my youth.. foil, epee, or saber?
	10:08am suea: did you change the words from ludes to foods? LOL
	10:09am Marcel M: Oh man... that is one of the best stories I've heard in a while. He should be proud!
	10:11am Marcel M: Yeah my reaction to his death was something like, "Wait.. thats impossible!!!" I later realized how silly this was but it was my gut reaction.
	10:12am MD: Oxy......leads to...Junk...
	10:13am Lewis: sounds kinda moon dog-ish...
	10:14am Lewis: at least it did...
	10:14am Trouble: @bobdoesthings ; epee now, started out with saber
	10:14am sugarwolf: It feels like cancer has been affecting so many people lately, in the public eye and also my personal sphere.
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...think it's the psychological thing that Bowie was such an Image - & always transforming - that represents immortality & resurrection on the symbolic level. I loved Bowie but I'm still surprised how sad I am & how long I'm sad ...Art Rock is a slow burn too - easy to take for granted...
	10:15am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Trouble and all…
	10:17am dcp: Different point of view: I'm not a big Bowie fan--I like some of his tunes but don't love them. But I'm feeling the loss too. The guy was big and you can feel his presence all over. Hard not to be affected by his exit.
	10:18am bobdoesthings: @trouble - ahhh very cool. I fenced foil myself. I always thought of epee as the more purists choice though, very cool. good luck to him with it
	10:19am Marcel M: @BOB: You used to fence?! Do you have any photos of that?!
	10:19am JakeGould: @dcp: Pretty much my feeling as well; I like Bowie but just not the biggest fan. But that said, his death happened a few days after a new album is released and a his own birthday? This is a guy who calculated his whole career and life and now even death? Too surreal.
	10:20am bobdoesthings: @marcel- yeahh dude.. for like 4 years or so.. Im sure there are photos. haha.. Still have most my equipment and whatnot at my folks' house.
	10:20am Marcel M: Yeah the whole thing is novelesque.. he was a true poet.
	10:20am dcp: Exactly @Jake, you gotta hand it to him, quite a masterful departure.
	10:20am Marcel M: @Bob: I need to see that!
	10:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: His final Bowie-ism. Amazing.
	10:20am Mike East: just got c'est chic (the first volume) a couple months back on coloured vinyl. I'm tryin to keep up.
	10:21am glenn: i've done some fencing. a good shovel is de rigueur.
	10:21am JakeGould: @RevolutionRabbitNov63: Dude, you know about star charts and such. Anything you can glean from the timing of this all?
	10:22am bobdoesthings: @marcel - hah alright i'll see what i can do.
	10:22am dcp: Actually though, I think his lyrics were kind of lame and lazy a lot of the time. I was reading through some of them for Dark Star and not too impressed.
	10:23am JakeGould: @dcp: Awww. Give me a break. 95% of lyrics out there are garbage. Ever pay attention to Led Zeppelin or even King Crimson? Garbage lyrics. Great music.
	10:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @JakeG: Haven't looked into that yet - but Pluto planet of death & transformation is going thru Capricorn (Blackstar indeed).
	10:24am Peter: ok, quick dash to school where I'll pick this up and force the middle schoolers to listen!
	10:24am JakeGould: @RevolutionRabbitNov63: Well, that’s good enough for me! Thank you!
	10:25am Marcel M: I meant "poet" in a higher sense, not literally poems. And novelesque referring to his life as a whole and how it just seems unreal now. If you were responding to me with your lyrics line. But I couldn't disagree more... especially about basing it on his 25th album only.
	10:25am dcp: @Jake: that's the point. Bowie's suppose to be different. Early Beatles too were pathetic. Maybe my standard is too high for pop lyrics though.
	10:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...we don't all die @ a Pluto transit, but we encounter the Underworld in one way or another...Let a pro Astrologer speak to Bowie's specifics...
	10:26am dcp: Not just Dark Star but it's not a point I'm feeling overly argumentative about...so I'll just let it go.
	10:27am JakeGould: @dcp: I don’t know. In general I think there are two types of music fans: Those who actually care about lyrics, and others who just see lyrics as words that just shape sounds as a part of a song. I’m a part of the later. Sometimes I discover lyrics and wince, but in general if the music is good I will listen to gibberish.
	10:27am glenn: my fave tune from my fave girl group.
	10:27am glenn: or at least, the shangri-las are my fave girl group. neko case and the sadies kill this one also.
	10:28am dcp: Yeah, I'm firmly a member of the first group. But I spend a LOT of time on my lyrics so...
	10:29am JakeGould: @dcp: Just assure me you don’t overanalyze Bob Dylan lyrics.
	10:29am Tome: car phone now ,, ahh Diggin' the Trouble !
	10:29am Marcel M: @Jake: Haha.. I hate when people do that as well!
	10:30am dcp: Rock and/or roll is so great because the lyrics allow for a whole extra level of communication that isn't there in a lot of kinds of music. So to just fill it up with fluff is a waste to me--I'm not talking about Bowie at all now. just generally.
	10:30am dcp: On the contrary, I just want them to be creative and thoughtful. I don't need James Joyce or anything.
	10:30am JakeGould: @dcp: So when Little Richard sings, “Good golly, Miss Molly.” you really want there to be a gravitas to that declaration.
	10:31am Marcel M: Jame's Joyce's writing was just as wacked out as Dylan's ;-)
	10:31am dcp: Ha, Little Richard had AMAZING lyrics. Great example.
	10:33am glenn: hmm. i've read ulysses and tarantula. i'd say dylan wins the "what the fuck" award.
	10:33am JakeGould: @dcp: Okay… I think I understand you now. You want NO gravitas to the lyrics, but the lyrics should reflect some impulsive enthusiasm only pop music can generate.
	10:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Myself - always knocked on my butt by Bowie's ability to write virtual short stories in popsong form - w/ an overview for Theme & sense of theatrics & visual design all included syncretically. Whether an awful lot of Pop/Rawk lyrics stand on their own on the page as 'Poetry' in the most clinical sense - & how one defines 'Poetry' - what is Poetry...you'll never get to the bottom of that, but can have fun trying...Things you sing you are particularly thinking of the phonemes & the sounds...Blues have fantastic Poetry (Robert Johnson) - his Imagery...
	10:36am dcp: @glenn: you're right there. @Jake: I'm a firm believer in the punk rock method--just do whatever you want but MAKE IT GOOD. @RRN63: Oh yeah, Come On In My Kitchen is brilliant.
	10:36am Andrew Waterloo: I tend to ignore lyrics but absolutely love lyrics when they work well and I love a good word smith. But, I tend be less enthusiastic about lyrics that try to be overly profound by mixing fancy sounding lines with no actual story.
	10:38am Howard F: Hi Trouble! Thanks again for the great tunes. Are the Shop Assistants the original version of Train from Kansas City? The first version I heard was Superchunk.
	10:40am glenn: it's a shangri-las song.
	10:40am Trouble: @howard f; shop assistants is from 1986, so i would say so
	10:40am solhnyc: just got out of the car... loved the Icepack version...!
	10:40am glenn: with billy joel on piano.
	10:42am Trouble: i mean, before superchunk, but they did not write it, maybe shangri-las?
	10:42am Marcel M: OG www.youtube.com...
	10:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dylan: 'A song is anything that can stand on its' own two legs.'
	10:44am tiago: Sorry I'm late...but on cue to sound and vision
	10:44am Howard F: The version you played by the Shop Assistants is awesome, I'm gonna seek that out. Cheers!
	10:46am ?: Oh! You Pretty Things has always been a favorite. Listened to it a few times in the past couple of days. Man, the lyrics our just, wow.
	10:47am Mark the Sardine: This Chinese song makes this sardine happy! 谢谢.
	10:47am dcp: I agree with @?. Great lyrics there.
	10:48am dcp: Wow DIG THESE LYRICS!
	10:49am dcp: Totally loved that tune without understanding anything sung.
	10:50am northguineahills: I have no idea what the lyrics are to over 99% of the music I listen to. I literally have to listen to a song nearly a hundred times before I realize what some of the words are. I don't hear words, just sounds.... Then again, I don't enunciate my own speech very clearly (according to friends..)
	10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'm pretty verbal, & I'm very musical - but they aren't very integrated.
	10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Alas.
	10:55am dcp: I'm unverbal. I don't believe in talking. But if you're going to do it, do it right.
	10:58am Andrew Waterloo: I'm generally like that dcp, but there are times when I discover the lyrics and love a song even more. David Bowie's Heroes is a good example of that. Especially the way he performs it later on his career.
	10:58am JakeGould: I like to order food via pantomime and rebus puzzles. Emoji gives my way of being a new life.
	10:59am dcp: I think Strummer once talked about the different level of complexity added to reggae tunes because you had no idea what they were talking about at first. So slowly the song would grow and change as you figured out what the hell they were singing. I love that. I'm going to be singing Misery by the Beatles at a party soon. Talk about dumb lyrics. But the song is fantastic still. So I guess I just contradicted the hell out of myself. Oh well. I'm a large man, I contain multitudes.
	11:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Misery' is a drunk getting maudlin. Listen how they sing it. TheBeatles did Simple right.
	11:02am Mark the Sardine: @northguineahills, same here. I can hum every note in a guitar solo for songs I first heard 20 years ago... but can't remember a single complete verse of lyrics.
	11:02am dcp: [It's also one of the only Beatles songs that's actually easy to play on guitar]
	11:03am Grok-o-matic: I was just talking about this gravedigger track last night. Surprising a lot of big Bowie fans don't know that first album.
	11:04am mmorovati: Gravedigger song! wonderful. Thank you! <3
	11:05am Barney Grubbs: I first heard Mr Gravedigger on a Dr. Demento halloween special in my distant youth. It was my first clue that Bowie was more than just Let's Dance, etc.
	11:05am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: That was awesome, thanks Trouble.
	11:09am dcp: Holy hell, I'm disgusted too. There are tons of wimmen rockabilly singers.
	11:10am dcp: musAAM I hear a lot.
	11:11am mmorovati: I didn't read Kim Gordon's book but have read Viv Albertine's and it was a very nice story. I recommend
	11:13am Julie: this has a marc bolan sound to it
	11:13am Howard F: @mmorovati: I just started reading Viv's book, and really enjoying it. Kim Gordon's book is fantastic as well. It has some great photos too.
	11:14am Trouble: @mmorovati: i second that recommendation!
	11:14am Peter: My mentor was Bob Blackburn at the Printmaking Workshop 1986-1990. RIP. An amazing artist, printmaker, person.
	11:16am Priscilla: Peter I made lithos there too, for years! We probably overlapped.
	11:17am dcp: I guess my mentor was BC who took me under his wing when I was 15. We started a group and played all over central PA. He introduced me to punk rock. Which changed my life of course.
	11:18am Polyus: Don Metcalf, my Jr. HS band director, who encouraged me to play the drums and then eventually hired me to play in his wedding band.
	11:18am kevlicki: Morning Trouble and all. My mentors are many of the collaborators I've had over the years, most notable, my pal Josh MacPhee. He's an incredibly prolific graphic designer, visual artist, organizer and anarchist. And ive had the fortune of working with him for about 10 years now!
	11:19am Listening Out There: Just got here. Like the playlist image.
	11:22am glenn: a mentor? nobody would have had the patience to mentor me as a young'un, given i was such a blatantly useless article.
	11:23am βrian: "Holey Moley!"
	11:23am Mick: The Hunger - not to be forgotten. Such a good show, Trouble.
	11:24am glenn: la wally last week, lachme this week. are you experiencing a diva phase, trouble?
	11:24am βrian: (That Délibes piece always reminds me of _I've Heard the Mermaids Singing_)
	11:26am listener james from westwood: My professional mentor was my first boss in publishing. Taught me how to be a production editor, to copyedit, and to proofread. No small amount of business writing tutoring, too, and how to train folks when I was given a bump to senior editor. Also introduced me to WFMU on my first day of work! If you hear a shout-out to Listener Chris from Bloomfield during the marathon, that's him. I owe him a ton!
	11:30am Trouble: @glenn- i am always in a diva phase! i played that bit for " the hunger" reference...
	11:30am mmorovati: Breaking my heart today @Trouble
	11:32am dcp: Think I'm going to have to watch Life Aquatic again. Don't really remember it. I must have been loaded.
	11:32am jamesie: I dont mind saying, you are a mentor for me. x
	11:32am Lewis: Are these Sue Jorge cuts from Life Aquatic?
	11:33am Julie: me too, jamesie, me too!
	11:34am Tome: "verklempt" :(
	11:34am Andrew Waterloo: Life Aquatic is just one of those movies I can watch over and over again.
	11:34am kwhitehead: dcp: I just recently re-watched it with my kids. Life Aquatic is underrated, if you ask me
	11:35am dcp: I remember enjoying it but...good idea "with my kids."
	11:41am Trouble: hey kevlicki!! my sister-in-law loved the prints we bought from interference archive!! and of course i love the ones I kept for our house and my classroom!
	11:42am Trouble: yes they are lewis! and seu jorge put out his own short album with a few more that are not on the soundtrack @JAMES!!! i blush....
	11:43am Trouble: merci julie!!!!
	11:45am Lewis: Thanks Trouble - I thought that I remembered that short album as well... (damn spell check misspelled his name - grrrrr)
	11:47am Julie: ooh I like this..very lovesliescrushing
	11:47am maja: hi trouble. nice show, thank you! Just missed it: when did you say kurt will do that show about our black star
	11:48am Trouble: today's artwork is by ruby onyinyechi amanze. saw some fab work of hers at studio museum of harlem this weekend
	11:48am Risky: Hey Trouble, home sick. Enjoying my head cold tooo much!
	11:49am Trouble: maja- tomorrow at noon on give the drummer some stream
	11:49am βrian: Some French, when sung, seems like a different language. So stylized!
	11:49am Chuck: I tuned in during the announcement, wgen's the Bowie special again?
	11:49am popsicornia: Love this.
	11:49am maja: ps 'nice' sounds really stupid @maja
	11:50am Chuck: oops just saw the reply!
	11:51am Trouble: no problem maja!! all good!
	11:53am bobdoesthings: oh man, almost noon already! thanks trouble!
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So good. Thx DJ T!
	11:56am βrian: Tony Coulter coming up if you're of a mind to stream-hop: wfmu.org... Tony? Liz? Tony? Liz? ... Ach!
	11:57am Mick: Really, really great show Trouble. Helping us deal with the whole thing.
	11:57am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Trouble!
	11:58am Priscilla: Perfect!
	11:58am MD: Who was the Nome???
	11:58am V Priceless: Thanks for this, Trouble - BOWIE 4EVER
	11:58am MD: G...Nome!!!
	11:58am sugarwolf: Wearing my gnome socks in tribute
	11:59am MD: Thanks Trouble!!!
	12:42pm maja: yes thank you for the info! :-)

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 12, 2016

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	New	Approx. start time
david bowie	silly boy blue "silly boy blue" by "david bowie"	The Deram Anthology 1966-1968					0:00:00 (Pop-up)
egg	fugue in d minor "fugue in d minor" by "egg"	Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word (V/A)					0:03:33 (Pop-up)
the beckies	river bayou "river bayou" by "the beckies"	the beckies	real gone music			*	0:06:06 (Pop-up)
carole king	one was johnny "one was johnny" by "carole king"	this record belongs to ____	light in the attic			*	0:08:55 (Pop-up)
lars tetens	daybreak "daybreak" by "lars tetens"	Making Love to Mosquitoes: John Allen 2015 WFMU Marathon Premium					0:11:05 (Pop-up)
eyeless in gaza	new risen "new risen" by "eyeless in gaza"	pillows and prayers vol 2 v/a					0:14:11 (Pop-up)
fleetwood mac	over & over ( the alternate tusk)	Tusk box set				*	0:17:16 (Pop-up)
aine o'dwyer	dance! for the world still spins	Music for Church Cleaners Vol 1&2					0:22:25 (Pop-up)
david bowie	remembering Marie A "remembering Marie A" by "david bowie"	in bertolt brecht's BAAL					0:26:38 (Pop-up)

karen dalton	whoopee ti yi yo "whoopee ti yi yo" by "karen dalton"	Green Rocky Road: The Loop Tapes Volume Two					0:34:52 (Pop-up)
Koo Nimo & Vishal Nagar	mohammadu/odo yewu	Koo Nimo & Vishal Nagar		1999			0:37:44 (Pop-up)
horace andy	just say who "just say who" by "horace andy"	skylarking				*	0:42:25 (Pop-up)
odetta hartman	lazy LA "lazy LA" by "odetta hartman"	222	Northern Spy			*	0:46:11 (Pop-up)
seu jorge	starman "starman" by "seu jorge"	the life aqautic with steve zissou					0:49:53 (Pop-up)
dj icepack	Rebel Rebel "Rebel Rebel" by "dj icepack"	live wfmu finale marathon karaoke 2010					0:53:34 (Pop-up)
PP Arnold	everything's gonna be alright	the best of					0:57:17 (Pop-up)
david bowie	oh! you pretty things	hunky dory					0:59:54 (Pop-up)

michel legrand & company	malagan stew feat gerry mulligan	le jazz grand					1:12:14 (Pop-up)
delphine	les prisons de sa majeste	toujours chic! v/a	ace			*	1:17:06 (Pop-up)
jack kitchen	hot rod boogie "hot rod boogie" by "jack kitchen"	Big Box of Rockabilly Vol. 2					1:19:49 (Pop-up)
the immediate family	rubaiyat "rubaiyat" by "the immediate family"	Golden State Psychedelia v/a	ace/big beat			*	1:22:09 (Pop-up)
shop assistants	train from kansas city	will anything happen					1:25:01 (Pop-up)
eddie bo	every dog got his day "every dog got his day" by "eddie bo"	soul for dancers v/a	fantastic voyage			*	1:28:23 (Pop-up)
illes	nem erdekel amit mondsz "nem erdekel amit mondsz" by "illes"						1:30:56 (Pop-up)
pure bathing culture	in the night in the peaceful night	pray for rain				*	1:33:36 (Pop-up)
liquid liquid	rubbermiro "rubbermiro" by "liquid liquid"	Successive Reflexes					1:38:54 (Pop-up)
david bowie vs 808 state	sound and vision 808 gift mix				12"		1:42:45 (Pop-up)
lily chao	tea plucking and catching butterflies	chinese folk songs	akuphone	1968		*	1:45:35 (Pop-up)
don drummond & the city slickers	that man is back	Coxsone's Music: The First Recordings of Sir Coxsone the Downbeat 1960-62				*	1:48:10 (Pop-up)
bianca	la fourmi "la fourmi" by "bianca"	france chebran:french boogie 1981-85	born bad			*	1:50:30 (Pop-up)
roseau	alright "alright" by "roseau"	salt	big dada			*	1:53:20 (Pop-up)
make asakawa	hikkoshi "hikkoshi" by "make asakawa"	maki asakawa	honest jons			*	1:58:16 (Pop-up)
david bowie	please mr gravedigger	starting point					2:01:52 (Pop-up)

john wesley coleman III	television	greatest hits	supersecret			*	2:11:14 (Pop-up)
tom ze	ma "ma" by "tom ze"	Nuts for Brazil: Scott Williams' 2015 Marathon Premium v/a					2:13:44 (Pop-up)
undersea poem	menina que corre "menina que corre" by "undersea poem"	undersea poem					2:18:32 (Pop-up)
choeurs et orchestre du theatre national de l'opera-comique lombard	duettino viens malika	delibes lakme					2:21:30 (Pop-up)
antena	silly things "silly things" by "antena"	camino del sol					2:23:00 (Pop-up)
Masahiko Sato	the notice is notice	belladonna	finders keepers			*	2:26:03 (Pop-up)
seu jorge	life on mars "life on mars" by "seu jorge"						2:29:15 (Pop-up)
peter walker	april in cambridge "april in cambridge" by "peter walker"	rainy day raga					2:33:55 (Pop-up)

sophie cooper	blessing angel and the roses	our aquarius	wild silence			*	2:39:37 (Pop-up)
damia	la rue de notre amour "la rue de notre amour" by "damia"	paris blues the french realist singers 1926-1958 v/a					2:47:19 (Pop-up)
elyse weinberg	city of angels "city of angels" by "elyse weinberg"	Greasepaint Smile	Numerophon			*	2:50:17 (Pop-up)
Pastor T.L. Barrett	after the rain	Christians Catch Hell v/a	honest jon's				2:56:44 (Pop-up)
david bowie	the laughing gnome "the laughing gnome" by "david bowie"						2:57:05 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am LizGig: Good morning, Trouble.
	9:01am Asheville Jon: Good morning Trouble, and everyone
	9:01am sugarwolf: Good morning
	9:01am Planet Tyler: Sniffle
	9:02am pierre: Bonjour Trouble and Troubladours, how's everybody ?
	9:02am Ernst Soup: Sad
	9:03am annie: good morning trouble!!
	9:04am Guido from Cologne: Hello Trouble and troulblists!
	9:05am Peter: Good morning Trouble
	9:05am rebuketodali: Good morning, everyone!
	9:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Love his real early stuff. I'm weird.
	9:05am Trouble: good sad mournnnning
	9:05am sphere: hi trouble and folks.
	9:06am doctorjazz: Good Morning Trouble and assorted Trouble makers....
	9:06am blee: Buenos Dias, La Trouble y chicos y chicas.
	9:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Bleh, off to a late start today. Daughter spilled oil on her shoe on the way through the garage. Shame on me for not getting rid of it right away. My story of troubles in this modern world.
	9:09am pygmylunch: hey folks
	9:10am Adrian in London: Hi all, and welcome to the world without Bowie day 2… Not good, is it?
	9:10am geegee vindaloo: Good morning Trouble. It's day two of the year 0001 AB
	9:10am sphere: omg. pierre the LP!
	9:11am pierre: I beg you pardon Sphere ?
	9:11am Peter: no, Adrian, not good....:-(
	9:12am sphere: sorry i meant Chicken Soup the album--Carol King and Maurice Sendak
	9:12am sphere: there is a song on it named Pierre.
	9:13am sphere: it is a childhood favorite of mine.
	9:15am pierre: :)
	9:18am MD: Farewell Major Tom...
	9:19am MD: Good Morning World...
	9:20am Adrian in London: I'm supposed to be transcribing an interview but can't stop listening to this mellow set. Someone tell me to get back to work!
	9:22am Marcel M: Trouble, play something really harsh and abrasive so Adrian will get back to work ;-)
	9:22am Asheville Jon: GET BACK TO WORK! oh wait, I should be working too
	9:23am Trouble: sorry marcel m i left motorhead at home
	9:23am northguineahills: I knew this was Aine O'Dwyer!
	9:25am pierre: this is gorgeous music
	9:25am pygmylunch: Luckily my job is just looking at photos all day phew
	9:27am pygmylunch: This set is so chill I might fall asleep zzz
	9:29am Ken From Hyde Park: Maybe there's an EAS coming soon to help Adrian get back to it.
	9:30am MD: DINOSAURS!!!
	9:32am Billy London: Hi trouble, wish you could have been in Brixton last night!
	9:32am Adrian in London: @Billy You were there? Looked like a joyful event.
	9:33am Peter: What was it like Billy?
	9:34am Billy London: Really awesome actually so glad I went
	9:34am sugarwolf: @sphere: I remember performing Pierre in I think 4th grade, I'm not sure if it was with music. @pierre: unlike Sendak's Pierre, I think you do care!!
	9:36am Billy London: Just felt great to be with people who felt the loss of DB, we had a great little troupe of people and one guy from France playing guitar and we all sang as many songs as we knew, we even sang the laughing gnome!
	9:41am Billy London: Here's a great vid showing our little group At the end http://youtu.be/NpLa3mJTkVU
	9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: Per advice from Dave Hill, off I go to buy a Powerball ticket. What could possibly go wring?
	9:45am bobdoesthings: good morning.
	9:45am Trouble: sounds fabulous billy london! one of my students is a big a bowie fan so in art 1 yesterday morning we had a little bowie moment, listening and making art. sad.
	9:48am Billy London: @trouble sounds like the perfect way to reflect on the current state of (after Bowie) that we finds ourselves in.
	9:50am dcp: well that Odetta Hartman song was perfect.
	9:51am Priscilla: Gorgeous, Trouble
	9:52am LizGig: I adore the soundtrack to the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou! (sp?) Any chance of Life on Mars? Either version on the soundtrack.
	9:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Life on Mars' on Pipe organ : www.facebook.com...
	9:54am dcp: GO Icepack!
	9:54am Priscilla: OMG this is so great! DJ Icepack!
	9:54am Peter: DJ Icepack!?
	9:54am chromaphone: Nice!
	9:55am OTB: This is absolutely perfect. I'm kinda tearing up over here....
	9:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: \m/_
	9:55am Adam from Philly: WOW! Killer.
	9:55am bobdoesthings: hahaha icepack!! this is great
	9:55am Billy London: Love that pipe organ version!
	9:55am Peter: remembering Curran's starman voicemail message at age 7!
	9:55am MD: THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!!!
	9:56am rebuketodali: I have the biggest smile on my face right now. This is wonderful!
	9:56am Lewis: go dj icepack!
	9:56am Lewis: (does he know this is happening?)
	9:57am MD: NICE JOB ICEPACK!!!
	9:57am Mick: Amazeballs!
	9:58am pygmylunch: So posi, love it
	10:00am Marcel M: Woahhh that was DJ Icepack?!?!? That was amazing!
	10:01am Roberto: Gold star for the Starman.
	10:02am Cheri Pi: DJ Icepack gave me chills!
	10:02am Trouble: dj icepack is in school at this moment: sssshhhh
	10:03am OTB: Shtum.
	10:03am Marcel M: Trouble, how do you think he would react to you playing that?
	10:05am bobdoesthings: @marcel - I bet dj icepack is pretty chill about it (pun intended!)
	10:05am Marcel M: @Bob: haha! Ice cold, baby.
	10:06am JakeGould: UU2late.
	10:06am bobdoesthings: ululate? I say "ool-you-late"
	10:06am emily: Good Morning, Trouble! Missed some of the monologues but happy to hear you this morning. I missed something about dj icepack. must catch on archives. xo
	10:06am blee: That was a Beautiful set / tribute.
	10:06am bobdoesthings: although now that I'm reading it... hmm maybe its "ull - you late"...
	10:08am sugarwolf: Oh man, I was out of the room when you played Icepack. Oh well I SAW IT LIVE!!!!
	10:08am bobdoesthings: ah I use to fence in my youth.. foil, epee, or saber?
	10:08am suea: did you change the words from ludes to foods? LOL
	10:09am Marcel M: Oh man... that is one of the best stories I've heard in a while. He should be proud!
	10:11am Marcel M: Yeah my reaction to his death was something like, "Wait.. thats impossible!!!" I later realized how silly this was but it was my gut reaction.
	10:12am MD: Oxy......leads to...Junk...
	10:13am Lewis: sounds kinda moon dog-ish...
	10:14am Lewis: at least it did...
	10:14am Trouble: @bobdoesthings ; epee now, started out with saber
	10:14am sugarwolf: It feels like cancer has been affecting so many people lately, in the public eye and also my personal sphere.
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...think it's the psychological thing that Bowie was such an Image - & always transforming - that represents immortality & resurrection on the symbolic level. I loved Bowie but I'm still surprised how sad I am & how long I'm sad ...Art Rock is a slow burn too - easy to take for granted...
	10:15am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Trouble and all…
	10:17am dcp: Different point of view: I'm not a big Bowie fan--I like some of his tunes but don't love them. But I'm feeling the loss too. The guy was big and you can feel his presence all over. Hard not to be affected by his exit.
	10:18am bobdoesthings: @trouble - ahhh very cool. I fenced foil myself. I always thought of epee as the more purists choice though, very cool. good luck to him with it
	10:19am Marcel M: @BOB: You used to fence?! Do you have any photos of that?!
	10:19am JakeGould: @dcp: Pretty much my feeling as well; I like Bowie but just not the biggest fan. But that said, his death happened a few days after a new album is released and a his own birthday? This is a guy who calculated his whole career and life and now even death? Too surreal.
	10:20am bobdoesthings: @marcel- yeahh dude.. for like 4 years or so.. Im sure there are photos. haha.. Still have most my equipment and whatnot at my folks' house.
	10:20am Marcel M: Yeah the whole thing is novelesque.. he was a true poet.
	10:20am dcp: Exactly @Jake, you gotta hand it to him, quite a masterful departure.
	10:20am Marcel M: @Bob: I need to see that!
	10:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: His final Bowie-ism. Amazing.
	10:20am Mike East: just got c'est chic (the first volume) a couple months back on coloured vinyl. I'm tryin to keep up.
	10:21am glenn: i've done some fencing. a good shovel is de rigueur.
	10:21am JakeGould: @RevolutionRabbitNov63: Dude, you know about star charts and such. Anything you can glean from the timing of this all?
	10:22am bobdoesthings: @marcel - hah alright i'll see what i can do.
	10:22am dcp: Actually though, I think his lyrics were kind of lame and lazy a lot of the time. I was reading through some of them for Dark Star and not too impressed.
	10:23am JakeGould: @dcp: Awww. Give me a break. 95% of lyrics out there are garbage. Ever pay attention to Led Zeppelin or even King Crimson? Garbage lyrics. Great music.
	10:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @JakeG: Haven't looked into that yet - but Pluto planet of death & transformation is going thru Capricorn (Blackstar indeed).
	10:24am Peter: ok, quick dash to school where I'll pick this up and force the middle schoolers to listen!
	10:24am JakeGould: @RevolutionRabbitNov63: Well, that’s good enough for me! Thank you!
	10:25am Marcel M: I meant "poet" in a higher sense, not literally poems. And novelesque referring to his life as a whole and how it just seems unreal now. If you were responding to me with your lyrics line. But I couldn't disagree more... especially about basing it on his 25th album only.
	10:25am dcp: @Jake: that's the point. Bowie's suppose to be different. Early Beatles too were pathetic. Maybe my standard is too high for pop lyrics though.
	10:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...we don't all die @ a Pluto transit, but we encounter the Underworld in one way or another...Let a pro Astrologer speak to Bowie's specifics...
	10:26am dcp: Not just Dark Star but it's not a point I'm feeling overly argumentative about...so I'll just let it go.
	10:27am JakeGould: @dcp: I don’t know. In general I think there are two types of music fans: Those who actually care about lyrics, and others who just see lyrics as words that just shape sounds as a part of a song. I’m a part of the later. Sometimes I discover lyrics and wince, but in general if the music is good I will listen to gibberish.
	10:27am glenn: my fave tune from my fave girl group.
	10:27am glenn: or at least, the shangri-las are my fave girl group. neko case and the sadies kill this one also.
	10:28am dcp: Yeah, I'm firmly a member of the first group. But I spend a LOT of time on my lyrics so...
	10:29am JakeGould: @dcp: Just assure me you don’t overanalyze Bob Dylan lyrics.
	10:29am Tome: car phone now ,, ahh Diggin' the Trouble !
	10:29am Marcel M: @Jake: Haha.. I hate when people do that as well!
	10:30am dcp: Rock and/or roll is so great because the lyrics allow for a whole extra level of communication that isn't there in a lot of kinds of music. So to just fill it up with fluff is a waste to me--I'm not talking about Bowie at all now. just generally.
	10:30am dcp: On the contrary, I just want them to be creative and thoughtful. I don't need James Joyce or anything.
	10:30am JakeGould: @dcp: So when Little Richard sings, “Good golly, Miss Molly.” you really want there to be a gravitas to that declaration.
	10:31am Marcel M: Jame's Joyce's writing was just as wacked out as Dylan's ;-)
	10:31am dcp: Ha, Little Richard had AMAZING lyrics. Great example.
	10:33am glenn: hmm. i've read ulysses and tarantula. i'd say dylan wins the "what the fuck" award.
	10:33am JakeGould: @dcp: Okay… I think I understand you now. You want NO gravitas to the lyrics, but the lyrics should reflect some impulsive enthusiasm only pop music can generate.
	10:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Myself - always knocked on my butt by Bowie's ability to write virtual short stories in popsong form - w/ an overview for Theme & sense of theatrics & visual design all included syncretically. Whether an awful lot of Pop/Rawk lyrics stand on their own on the page as 'Poetry' in the most clinical sense - & how one defines 'Poetry' - what is Poetry...you'll never get to the bottom of that, but can have fun trying...Things you sing you are particularly thinking of the phonemes & the sounds...Blues have fantastic Poetry (Robert Johnson) - his Imagery...
	10:36am dcp: @glenn: you're right there. @Jake: I'm a firm believer in the punk rock method--just do whatever you want but MAKE IT GOOD. @RRN63: Oh yeah, Come On In My Kitchen is brilliant.
	10:36am Andrew Waterloo: I tend to ignore lyrics but absolutely love lyrics when they work well and I love a good word smith. But, I tend be less enthusiastic about lyrics that try to be overly profound by mixing fancy sounding lines with no actual story.
	10:38am Howard F: Hi Trouble! Thanks again for the great tunes. Are the Shop Assistants the original version of Train from Kansas City? The first version I heard was Superchunk.
	10:40am glenn: it's a shangri-las song.
	10:40am Trouble: @howard f; shop assistants is from 1986, so i would say so
	10:40am solhnyc: just got out of the car... loved the Icepack version...!
	10:40am glenn: with billy joel on piano.
	10:42am Trouble: i mean, before superchunk, but they did not write it, maybe shangri-las?
	10:42am Marcel M: OG www.youtube.com...
	10:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dylan: 'A song is anything that can stand on its' own two legs.'
	10:44am tiago: Sorry I'm late...but on cue to sound and vision
	10:44am Howard F: The version you played by the Shop Assistants is awesome, I'm gonna seek that out. Cheers!
	10:46am ?: Oh! You Pretty Things has always been a favorite. Listened to it a few times in the past couple of days. Man, the lyrics our just, wow.
	10:47am Mark the Sardine: This Chinese song makes this sardine happy! 谢谢.
	10:47am dcp: I agree with @?. Great lyrics there.
	10:48am dcp: Wow DIG THESE LYRICS!
	10:49am dcp: Totally loved that tune without understanding anything sung.
	10:50am northguineahills: I have no idea what the lyrics are to over 99% of the music I listen to. I literally have to listen to a song nearly a hundred times before I realize what some of the words are. I don't hear words, just sounds.... Then again, I don't enunciate my own speech very clearly (according to friends..)
	10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'm pretty verbal, & I'm very musical - but they aren't very integrated.
	10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Alas.
	10:55am dcp: I'm unverbal. I don't believe in talking. But if you're going to do it, do it right.
	10:58am Andrew Waterloo: I'm generally like that dcp, but there are times when I discover the lyrics and love a song even more. David Bowie's Heroes is a good example of that. Especially the way he performs it later on his career.
	10:58am JakeGould: I like to order food via pantomime and rebus puzzles. Emoji gives my way of being a new life.
	10:59am dcp: I think Strummer once talked about the different level of complexity added to reggae tunes because you had no idea what they were talking about at first. So slowly the song would grow and change as you figured out what the hell they were singing. I love that. I'm going to be singing Misery by the Beatles at a party soon. Talk about dumb lyrics. But the song is fantastic still. So I guess I just contradicted the hell out of myself. Oh well. I'm a large man, I contain multitudes.
	11:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Misery' is a drunk getting maudlin. Listen how they sing it. TheBeatles did Simple right.
	11:02am Mark the Sardine: @northguineahills, same here. I can hum every note in a guitar solo for songs I first heard 20 years ago... but can't remember a single complete verse of lyrics.
	11:02am dcp: [It's also one of the only Beatles songs that's actually easy to play on guitar]
	11:03am Grok-o-matic: I was just talking about this gravedigger track last night. Surprising a lot of big Bowie fans don't know that first album.
	11:04am mmorovati: Gravedigger song! wonderful. Thank you! <3
	11:05am Barney Grubbs: I first heard Mr Gravedigger on a Dr. Demento halloween special in my distant youth. It was my first clue that Bowie was more than just Let's Dance, etc.
	11:05am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: That was awesome, thanks Trouble.
	11:09am dcp: Holy hell, I'm disgusted too. There are tons of wimmen rockabilly singers.
	11:10am dcp: musAAM I hear a lot.
	11:11am mmorovati: I didn't read Kim Gordon's book but have read Viv Albertine's and it was a very nice story. I recommend
	11:13am Julie: this has a marc bolan sound to it
	11:13am Howard F: @mmorovati: I just started reading Viv's book, and really enjoying it. Kim Gordon's book is fantastic as well. It has some great photos too.
	11:14am Trouble: @mmorovati: i second that recommendation!
	11:14am Peter: My mentor was Bob Blackburn at the Printmaking Workshop 1986-1990. RIP. An amazing artist, printmaker, person.
	11:16am Priscilla: Peter I made lithos there too, for years! We probably overlapped.
	11:17am dcp: I guess my mentor was BC who took me under his wing when I was 15. We started a group and played all over central PA. He introduced me to punk rock. Which changed my life of course.
	11:18am Polyus: Don Metcalf, my Jr. HS band director, who encouraged me to play the drums and then eventually hired me to play in his wedding band.
	11:18am kevlicki: Morning Trouble and all. My mentors are many of the collaborators I've had over the years, most notable, my pal Josh MacPhee. He's an incredibly prolific graphic designer, visual artist, organizer and anarchist. And ive had the fortune of working with him for about 10 years now!
	11:19am Listening Out There: Just got here. Like the playlist image.
	11:22am glenn: a mentor? nobody would have had the patience to mentor me as a young'un, given i was such a blatantly useless article.
	11:23am βrian: "Holey Moley!"
	11:23am Mick: The Hunger - not to be forgotten. Such a good show, Trouble.
	11:24am glenn: la wally last week, lachme this week. are you experiencing a diva phase, trouble?
	11:24am βrian: (That Délibes piece always reminds me of _I've Heard the Mermaids Singing_)
	11:26am listener james from westwood: My professional mentor was my first boss in publishing. Taught me how to be a production editor, to copyedit, and to proofread. No small amount of business writing tutoring, too, and how to train folks when I was given a bump to senior editor. Also introduced me to WFMU on my first day of work! If you hear a shout-out to Listener Chris from Bloomfield during the marathon, that's him. I owe him a ton!
	11:30am Trouble: @glenn- i am always in a diva phase! i played that bit for " the hunger" reference...
	11:30am mmorovati: Breaking my heart today @Trouble
	11:32am dcp: Think I'm going to have to watch Life Aquatic again. Don't really remember it. I must have been loaded.
	11:32am jamesie: I dont mind saying, you are a mentor for me. x
	11:32am Lewis: Are these Sue Jorge cuts from Life Aquatic?
	11:33am Julie: me too, jamesie, me too!
	11:34am Tome: "verklempt" :(
	11:34am Andrew Waterloo: Life Aquatic is just one of those movies I can watch over and over again.
	11:34am kwhitehead: dcp: I just recently re-watched it with my kids. Life Aquatic is underrated, if you ask me
	11:35am dcp: I remember enjoying it but...good idea "with my kids."
	11:41am Trouble: hey kevlicki!! my sister-in-law loved the prints we bought from interference archive!! and of course i love the ones I kept for our house and my classroom!
	11:42am Trouble: yes they are lewis! and seu jorge put out his own short album with a few more that are not on the soundtrack @JAMES!!! i blush....
	11:43am Trouble: merci julie!!!!
	11:45am Lewis: Thanks Trouble - I thought that I remembered that short album as well... (damn spell check misspelled his name - grrrrr)
	11:47am Julie: ooh I like this..very lovesliescrushing
	11:47am maja: hi trouble. nice show, thank you! Just missed it: when did you say kurt will do that show about our black star
	11:48am Trouble: today's artwork is by ruby onyinyechi amanze. saw some fab work of hers at studio museum of harlem this weekend
	11:48am Risky: Hey Trouble, home sick. Enjoying my head cold tooo much!
	11:49am Trouble: maja- tomorrow at noon on give the drummer some stream
	11:49am βrian: Some French, when sung, seems like a different language. So stylized!
	11:49am Chuck: I tuned in during the announcement, wgen's the Bowie special again?
	11:49am popsicornia: Love this.
	11:49am maja: ps 'nice' sounds really stupid @maja
	11:50am Chuck: oops just saw the reply!
	11:51am Trouble: no problem maja!! all good!
	11:53am bobdoesthings: oh man, almost noon already! thanks trouble!
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So good. Thx DJ T!
	11:56am βrian: Tony Coulter coming up if you're of a mind to stream-hop: wfmu.org... Tony? Liz? Tony? Liz? ... Ach!
	11:57am Mick: Really, really great show Trouble. Helping us deal with the whole thing.
	11:57am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Trouble!
	11:58am Priscilla: Perfect!
	11:58am MD: Who was the Nome???
	11:58am V Priceless: Thanks for this, Trouble - BOWIE 4EVER
	11:58am MD: G...Nome!!!
	11:58am sugarwolf: Wearing my gnome socks in tribute
	11:59am MD: Thanks Trouble!!!
	12:42pm maja: yes thank you for the info! :-)

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 12, 2016

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