WFMU: Norflax Oxdun Sidetower with Nick The Bard: Playlist from October 18, 2018

Listener comments!
	3:03am Nick the Bard: HAY GUESS WAT?! This is like my first time using the cassette decks here too, so, learning curve tonight as well with everything, OH WHAT FUN
	3:12am Jaz-Paz: Rough around the edges but kudos to any DJ who boldly opens with Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
	3:12am Andrew S: clean heads and a good deck and cassettes last. I have about 1k jazz cassettes from the 80s that i squirreled away for a few decades and ive been playing them the last few years and they sound great to my ears. They lasted longer thn i thought i would
	3:13am Nick the Bard: I'm used to doing all digital, but of course I figure it's like, ok, let's do this authentic tonight, so, yeh (it's all new buttons and stuff to press and toggle)
	3:15am Nick the Bard: I also brought my cd/cassette player as a backup in case things really start going screwy (yay more stuff to lug home too)
	3:20am Jaz-Paz: There's no cassette deck in the studio? I feel bad I've neglected my Tascam deck. You may have inspired me to get it hooked up and working this week.
	3:20am Andrew S: more rudimentary down there than one might think if you have to bring your own cassette player. donations now more than ever
	3:21am Andrew S: youd think a million bucks would get you a tape p,ayer, i see them at the sally anne every day
	3:21am Nick the Bard: There's two in here, but it's acting all weird, but THAT'S more because I'm not used to using these things and I kind of forgot to ask about how to deal with these things
	3:23am Nick the Bard: like, the first one is acting weird, the second one is going fine, so, yeh, we're going kind of obtuse tonight for a bit, maybe. Don't think we're THAT backwards techwise, it's more on me :P
	♥ 3:25am Fuzzy: Keith is sweatin'.
	3:27am Andrew S: can almost smell him
	3:28am Jaz-Paz: Nick, just go with it. Experimental tape collage. I love how I can hear the tape being chewed up over the air. Now THIS is what I remember about tapes especially ones you loved and listened to the most.
	3:30am ?: cassettes my favorite medium!
	3:31am Andrew S: rememebre spinning them with your fingers and trying to untwine them
	3:31am Andrew S: putting a pencil in the spools
	3:34am Jaz-Paz: Poor man's rewind. Gotta conserve every drop of juice in the Walkman batteries.
	3:36am Andrew S: auto reverse was a revolution because actuakky taking the tape out manually was exhausting
	3:37am Andrew S: does anyone know what dolby menas? I know i can loik it up, being at a computer and all. but thats no fun. Dolby was a big thing whatever it was
	3:46am Jaz-Paz: Dolby was for noise reduction. I don't know the science but in my experience it was better left off on cheap units that supposedly supported it. It only sounded better to me if it was good quality tape on a decent deck. Otherwise it sounded awful. Like rolling off the entire top end.
	3:48am Andrew S: what about chromium dioxide? That was the actual tape right? Not the recording? I dont know shit abou this stuff. I just remember having suitcases full of metal tapes in the 80s
	3:49am power turle: wuuuaah this show is so eerie. its like i know all these songs from before i'd heard of music. it's like the early 90s culture industry lef6t a sleeper cell in my brain
	3:49am Andrew S: they tried to make them hard to steal at kmart by putting them in long plastic boxes but you just snapped the bottom of those and the tape slid out
	3:50am Andrew S: tapes weer indeed killing the industry like those stickers said, if you collected them the way we did
	3:50am P-90: “Kidz Klassiks”?
	3:53am Andrew S: a tape was a disposable piece of shit like a cd but it did the trick
	3:53am P-90: That analog needle-in-groove romanticism of the vinyl worshippers
	3:53am Rob Gee: "Home taping is killing music!"
	3:54am Andrew S: yeah thos stickers
	3:54am Andrew S: i think they had a skull and crossbones
	3:54am Jaz-Paz: The oxides are the secret sauce of blended metal that distinguished the different manufacturers and quality of tape. There's a very notable difference in cheap stuff and everything else.
	3:56am P-90: In my day we tried to stay with TDK. Than everyone tried Maxell for a while, then I think we pretty much went back to TDK...
	3:58am Andrew S: i reember both when taoing songs off th radio, you had to press play and record at the same time. But i didnt and dont know any dfiference between quality. i
	4:01am P-90: Now flashing back to the cassette stage of evolution of life on Earth... recovered memories of dipping the Q-tip in the solvent (alcohol?) and wiping the amber goo off the playback head... mmm, that smell...
	4:01am Andrew S: sony was to portable cassette players like iphones are now
	4:01am Andrew S: man i nrmemebr that. dip the q tip and scrape it around and it would pull all this black goo off the heads
	4:03am Andrew S: they came out with those yellow sportsman i think they were supposed to be water resistant, they were like carrying around a colostomy bag
	4:06am Andrew S: i had every banzai cassette in the 80s or nearly every one
	4:07am Nick the Bard: Best portable I had was an RCA that actually played the tapes at the correct speed no matter how low the batteries got, not sure what year it was from though (was using it around 2007/08 I know)
	4:07am P-90: In the eighties I dated a girl who wore a colostomy bag with a cassette player actually built in. OK, no I didn’t
	4:07am Nick the Bard: Growing up it was all about the Sounddesign stuff though
	4:11am Andrew S: i dont know what that means. I just remember having briefcases full of metal tapes
	4:11am Nick the Bard: Sounddesign was like a budget brand of stereo stuff, but it was actually pretty decent quality
	4:11am P-90: Sony had the Walkman Pro, like a Walkman at a whole different level of quality in the components and performance. Journalists used them for interviews and stuff and musicians liked them to record rough demos on the fly, the way they used portable DAT recorders later on.
	4:12am P-90: Expensive though. For a Walkman.
	4:14am Andrew S: jmoney was no object back then
	4:19am Andrew S: I remember i was about 12 or 13 and metallica were playing they were nobodys they were the opening band before wasp and armrored saint nd playing pretty much in a big basemant. but i had to se them so my mom had a job at a bingo hall and we went ad stole all the money out of her cashbox so we could go and some extra to buy hash and acid. Thats why I am where I am today
	4:20am Andrew S: party on
	4:23am Andrew S: stryper rocked for the lord man
	4:23am Andrew S: and the lord was proud
	4:24am Andrew S: very bold
	4:26am Andrew S: man this is epic, i need to finfd this recording.
	4:26am Andrew S: this beats the hit out of heavy metal parking lot
	4:28am Nick the Bard: It's an actual tape put out to promote Can't Stop The Rock The Styrper Collection 1984-1991 (the tape itself is litterally called Limited Edition Words And Music"
	4:29am Nick the Bard: had to flip the tape, oops (using the player I brought, no window on the tape deck)
	4:31am Andrew S: If only we could see them sitting around in theor yellow and black spandex
	4:41am queems: rip good weezer
	5:14am jdaFromCologne: ??? is that toto?
	5:25am Diezel Tea: @queems Amen to that.((
	♥ 5:44am Sem: Hello and good morning, Nick the B. As always, dishing up a completely amzing show. Thank you.
	5:46am jdaFromCologne: somethings wrong with the audio? or just me?
	♥ 5:47am Sem: Getting brief drop-outs here as well.
	5:47am Nick the Bard: No, I think the tape might have some mold in it
	5:47am liXiviated life: Audio problems? It’s hard to tell
	5:47am Rocky Horror: @Nick The Bard: I hear a buzz between the songs!!
	5:49am jdaFromCologne: basically i hear just some faint noise with scratches…
	5:49am jdaFromCologne: back to normal now
	5:50am Nick the Bard: Yeh, I think the tape itself was bad, and there's weirdness with the wire i had to use to get the cd player into the board
	5:50am liXiviated life: I’ll always miss Cynthia
	5:50am Nick the Bard: Like if I turn it the wrong way it goes all staticy
	5:50am Rocky Horror: This track is in proper full stereo!! YAY!!! I wans about to throw Clay's Box Of Pain!!!!!!!
	5:51am Zetti: Morning, last weeks tune has haunted me all week, thanks Nick.
	5:52am Colleen: Nice...reminds me of Prodigy
	5:52am Nick the Bard: I think I'd rather just replay last weeks show than do this one over again :/
	5:55am liXiviated life: This one?
	6:00am liXiviated life: Today?
	6:00am Colleen: Sooo….your trashing your set...but I cant wait to check this show out on the archives...it sounds great...mix ups and all!
	6:01am Rocky Horror: Michael Bolton - What Fabio would sould like if he could sing

Norflax Oxdun Sidetower with Nick The Bard: Playlist from October 18, 2018

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October 18, 2018: Episode 43.2 - Octoberween '18 Part 3: Cassingle Casgoing Cassteady

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Sigue Sigue Sputnik	Love Missile F1-11 (Extended Version)	Love Missile F1-11		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jamiroquai	Supersonic (Pete Heller - The Love Mix)	Supersonic		0:07:46 (Pop-up)
Information Society	How Long (album version)	How Long		0:17:43 (Pop-up)
Keith Sweat	Make You Sweat (Edit of Remix)	Merry Go Round		0:21:54 (Pop-up)
Partners In Kryme	Turtle Power! "Turtle Power!" by "Partners In Kryme"	Turtle Power!		0:25:57 (Pop-up)
Nyasia	Who's Got Your Love (Lazaro Mendez's Universal Hip-Hop Bass Music Classic Dance)	Who's Got Your Love		0:30:13 (Pop-up)
Gillette	Mr. Personality (album version)	Mr. Personality		0:34:48 (Pop-up)
Brother Makes 3	Do Ya Wanna Dance? (Brother May Shock)	Do Ya Wanna Dance	remix by Roman Ricardo	0:38:24 (Pop-up)
Sgt Slaughter, Road Warriors, etc	2:24 AWA Wrestling VHS Video Cassette Commercial			0:44:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: someone...	RPG Mode "RPG Mode" by "someone..."	Pinball Quest		0:47:48 (Pop-up)
Green Jelly	Electric Harley House (Of Love) (Rawk Edit)	Electric Harley House (Of Love)		1:02:15 (Pop-up)
Dokken	Dream Warriors "Dream Warriors" by "Dokken"	Dream Warriors : Theme From A Nightmare on Elm Street 3		1:06:54 (Pop-up)
Ugly Kid Joe	Panhandlin' Prince "Panhandlin' Prince" by "Ugly Kid Joe"	Cats In The Cradle		1:11:42 (Pop-up)
Stryper	Can't Stop The Rock, Believe, + Interview segments	Limited Edition Words And Music		1:17:36 (Pop-up)
Weezer	Snippets "Snippets" by "Weezer"	special "Green Album" preview	Snippets of Photograph, Hashpipe, Island In The Sun, Smile, O Girlfriend	1:36:44 (Pop-up)
Goo Goo Dolls	Hit or Miss "Hit or Miss" by "Goo Goo Dolls"	Name		1:41:03 (Pop-up)
Various	assorted "assorted" by "Various"	Papa The Great sampler	>>>IS THAT JOHNY JOHNY'S PAPA?!!?! not sure what the songs on here are, arrgg	1:43:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: someone	RPG Mode "RPG Mode" by "someone"	Pinball Quest		2:01:52 (Pop-up)
Michael Bolton	Save Me "Save Me" by "Michael Bolton"	When A Man Loves A Woman	and then the tape died	2:09:07 (Pop-up)
The Cure	Halo "Halo" by "The Cure"	Friday I'm In Love		2:12:32 (Pop-up)
Biz Markie	Just a Friend (Instrumental)	Just a Friend		2:16:39 (Pop-up)
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Waffle King "Waffle King" by ""Weird Al" Yankovic"	Smells Like Nirvana		2:20:49 (Pop-up)
Roxette	Joyride "Joyride" by "Roxette"	Hot Tracks 2		2:25:30 (Pop-up)
PM Dawn	Looking Through Patient Eyes (radio edit?)	Looking Through Patient Eyes	This one's confusing, it SAYS same program on both sides, but there's only one song on it? And I listened to this thing a couple times over, so....I"m GUESSING it's one on each side instead?	2:31:03 (Pop-up)
Ace of Base	All That She Wants (Banghra Version)	All That She Wants		2:34:17 (Pop-up)
Warrant	Letter To A Freind "Letter To A Freind" by "Warrant"	Warrant '96 Sampler		2:39:00 (Pop-up)
Cynthia	Forever Missing You "Forever Missing You" by "Cynthia"	Forever Missing YOu	hit buttons all wrong and I think the tape itself was going bad, like moldy, so, that was done with	2:43:00 (Pop-up)
Sunscreem	B/Doved Up "B/Doved Up" by "Sunscreem"	Love You More		2:47:41 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:03am Nick the Bard: HAY GUESS WAT?! This is like my first time using the cassette decks here too, so, learning curve tonight as well with everything, OH WHAT FUN
	3:12am Jaz-Paz: Rough around the edges but kudos to any DJ who boldly opens with Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
	3:12am Andrew S: clean heads and a good deck and cassettes last. I have about 1k jazz cassettes from the 80s that i squirreled away for a few decades and ive been playing them the last few years and they sound great to my ears. They lasted longer thn i thought i would
	3:13am Nick the Bard: I'm used to doing all digital, but of course I figure it's like, ok, let's do this authentic tonight, so, yeh (it's all new buttons and stuff to press and toggle)
	3:15am Nick the Bard: I also brought my cd/cassette player as a backup in case things really start going screwy (yay more stuff to lug home too)
	3:20am Jaz-Paz: There's no cassette deck in the studio? I feel bad I've neglected my Tascam deck. You may have inspired me to get it hooked up and working this week.
	3:20am Andrew S: more rudimentary down there than one might think if you have to bring your own cassette player. donations now more than ever
	3:21am Andrew S: youd think a million bucks would get you a tape p,ayer, i see them at the sally anne every day
	3:21am Nick the Bard: There's two in here, but it's acting all weird, but THAT'S more because I'm not used to using these things and I kind of forgot to ask about how to deal with these things
	3:23am Nick the Bard: like, the first one is acting weird, the second one is going fine, so, yeh, we're going kind of obtuse tonight for a bit, maybe. Don't think we're THAT backwards techwise, it's more on me :P
	♥ 3:25am Fuzzy: Keith is sweatin'.
	3:27am Andrew S: can almost smell him
	3:28am Jaz-Paz: Nick, just go with it. Experimental tape collage. I love how I can hear the tape being chewed up over the air. Now THIS is what I remember about tapes especially ones you loved and listened to the most.
	3:30am ?: cassettes my favorite medium!
	3:31am Andrew S: rememebre spinning them with your fingers and trying to untwine them
	3:31am Andrew S: putting a pencil in the spools
	3:34am Jaz-Paz: Poor man's rewind. Gotta conserve every drop of juice in the Walkman batteries.
	3:36am Andrew S: auto reverse was a revolution because actuakky taking the tape out manually was exhausting
	3:37am Andrew S: does anyone know what dolby menas? I know i can loik it up, being at a computer and all. but thats no fun. Dolby was a big thing whatever it was
	3:46am Jaz-Paz: Dolby was for noise reduction. I don't know the science but in my experience it was better left off on cheap units that supposedly supported it. It only sounded better to me if it was good quality tape on a decent deck. Otherwise it sounded awful. Like rolling off the entire top end.
	3:48am Andrew S: what about chromium dioxide? That was the actual tape right? Not the recording? I dont know shit abou this stuff. I just remember having suitcases full of metal tapes in the 80s
	3:49am power turle: wuuuaah this show is so eerie. its like i know all these songs from before i'd heard of music. it's like the early 90s culture industry lef6t a sleeper cell in my brain
	3:49am Andrew S: they tried to make them hard to steal at kmart by putting them in long plastic boxes but you just snapped the bottom of those and the tape slid out
	3:50am Andrew S: tapes weer indeed killing the industry like those stickers said, if you collected them the way we did
	3:50am P-90: “Kidz Klassiks”?
	3:53am Andrew S: a tape was a disposable piece of shit like a cd but it did the trick
	3:53am P-90: That analog needle-in-groove romanticism of the vinyl worshippers
	3:53am Rob Gee: "Home taping is killing music!"
	3:54am Andrew S: yeah thos stickers
	3:54am Andrew S: i think they had a skull and crossbones
	3:54am Jaz-Paz: The oxides are the secret sauce of blended metal that distinguished the different manufacturers and quality of tape. There's a very notable difference in cheap stuff and everything else.
	3:56am P-90: In my day we tried to stay with TDK. Than everyone tried Maxell for a while, then I think we pretty much went back to TDK...
	3:58am Andrew S: i reember both when taoing songs off th radio, you had to press play and record at the same time. But i didnt and dont know any dfiference between quality. i
	4:01am P-90: Now flashing back to the cassette stage of evolution of life on Earth... recovered memories of dipping the Q-tip in the solvent (alcohol?) and wiping the amber goo off the playback head... mmm, that smell...
	4:01am Andrew S: sony was to portable cassette players like iphones are now
	4:01am Andrew S: man i nrmemebr that. dip the q tip and scrape it around and it would pull all this black goo off the heads
	4:03am Andrew S: they came out with those yellow sportsman i think they were supposed to be water resistant, they were like carrying around a colostomy bag
	4:06am Andrew S: i had every banzai cassette in the 80s or nearly every one
	4:07am Nick the Bard: Best portable I had was an RCA that actually played the tapes at the correct speed no matter how low the batteries got, not sure what year it was from though (was using it around 2007/08 I know)
	4:07am P-90: In the eighties I dated a girl who wore a colostomy bag with a cassette player actually built in. OK, no I didn’t
	4:07am Nick the Bard: Growing up it was all about the Sounddesign stuff though
	4:11am Andrew S: i dont know what that means. I just remember having briefcases full of metal tapes
	4:11am Nick the Bard: Sounddesign was like a budget brand of stereo stuff, but it was actually pretty decent quality
	4:11am P-90: Sony had the Walkman Pro, like a Walkman at a whole different level of quality in the components and performance. Journalists used them for interviews and stuff and musicians liked them to record rough demos on the fly, the way they used portable DAT recorders later on.
	4:12am P-90: Expensive though. For a Walkman.
	4:14am Andrew S: jmoney was no object back then
	4:19am Andrew S: I remember i was about 12 or 13 and metallica were playing they were nobodys they were the opening band before wasp and armrored saint nd playing pretty much in a big basemant. but i had to se them so my mom had a job at a bingo hall and we went ad stole all the money out of her cashbox so we could go and some extra to buy hash and acid. Thats why I am where I am today
	4:20am Andrew S: party on
	4:23am Andrew S: stryper rocked for the lord man
	4:23am Andrew S: and the lord was proud
	4:24am Andrew S: very bold
	4:26am Andrew S: man this is epic, i need to finfd this recording.
	4:26am Andrew S: this beats the hit out of heavy metal parking lot
	4:28am Nick the Bard: It's an actual tape put out to promote Can't Stop The Rock The Styrper Collection 1984-1991 (the tape itself is litterally called Limited Edition Words And Music"
	4:29am Nick the Bard: had to flip the tape, oops (using the player I brought, no window on the tape deck)
	4:31am Andrew S: If only we could see them sitting around in theor yellow and black spandex
	4:41am queems: rip good weezer
	5:14am jdaFromCologne: ??? is that toto?
	5:25am Diezel Tea: @queems Amen to that.((
	♥ 5:44am Sem: Hello and good morning, Nick the B. As always, dishing up a completely amzing show. Thank you.
	5:46am jdaFromCologne: somethings wrong with the audio? or just me?
	♥ 5:47am Sem: Getting brief drop-outs here as well.
	5:47am Nick the Bard: No, I think the tape might have some mold in it
	5:47am liXiviated life: Audio problems? It’s hard to tell
	5:47am Rocky Horror: @Nick The Bard: I hear a buzz between the songs!!
	5:49am jdaFromCologne: basically i hear just some faint noise with scratches…
	5:49am jdaFromCologne: back to normal now
	5:50am Nick the Bard: Yeh, I think the tape itself was bad, and there's weirdness with the wire i had to use to get the cd player into the board
	5:50am liXiviated life: I’ll always miss Cynthia
	5:50am Nick the Bard: Like if I turn it the wrong way it goes all staticy
	5:50am Rocky Horror: This track is in proper full stereo!! YAY!!! I wans about to throw Clay's Box Of Pain!!!!!!!
	5:51am Zetti: Morning, last weeks tune has haunted me all week, thanks Nick.
	5:52am Colleen: Nice...reminds me of Prodigy
	5:52am Nick the Bard: I think I'd rather just replay last weeks show than do this one over again :/
	5:55am liXiviated life: This one?
	6:00am liXiviated life: Today?
	6:00am Colleen: Sooo….your trashing your set...but I cant wait to check this show out on the archives...it sounds great...mix ups and all!
	6:01am Rocky Horror: Michael Bolton - What Fabio would sould like if he could sing

Norflax Oxdun Sidetower with Nick The Bard: Playlist from October 18, 2018

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