WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 13, 2019

Listener comments!
	6:49pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers! Nice to be back I have to say
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hello!
	7:01pm hyde: hello! always good to get back to the beach.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! how goes?
	🥁 7:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Shame. Still don't know this album. Shame.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Ah, Hyde! splendid to see you brother
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Well Rev then I envy you the joy in your future as you dig it for the first time
	7:04pm hyde: its a classic, RevRab
	🥁 7:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Never doubted.
	7:05pm fleep: Stream Daddy sittin' on the dock of the bay Watchin' the tide, roll away
	7:06pm Flash Strap: really rather good profile of D.W. here, worth a read while we take a dip: www.theguardian.com...
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hello Stream Daddy Fleep!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: music for your avatar, Fleep
	7:15pm Flash Strap: don't worry, more Dennis coming up. but first we must give the Pacific Ocean & California coast its due
	7:17pm passiflora: love those planes in the distance
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hi Passiflora! is that what those are?
	7:18pm passiflora: could be! every now and then
	7:19pm Flash Strap: very cool, so many little details
	7:19pm passiflora: oh I love this
	7:21pm Flash Strap: me too, the whole record's an underwater dream
	7:27pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Flash. To bad I told a funny Dennis Wilson story once already this week. But I refuse to be the tiresome old man who repeats himself.
	7:30pm Michael 98145: hello, room
	🥁 7:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Perfect Arrangement~Production.
	7:34pm Michael 98145: Whoa. Discoveries. Memories.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: haha well maybe just this once, just for me, Franco?
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Michael!
	7:35pm doctorjazz: Hi all.
	🥁 7:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yerknows - in case ya hadn't heard about these BeachBoys like that...
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:37pm Franco Twinkie: Oh what the Hell....A friend of mine was walking down the street in Venice and this album comes flying out the window of a passing car. My friend picks it up, it's Pacific Ocean Blue. The car is stopped at a traffic light and it's Dennis himself. My friend says " Hey! You're Dennis. I love your stuff!" Dennis cracks a sheepish smile and says "Thanks man" a screeches away.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: holy shit that's an amazing story man
	7:38pm Flash Strap: @Rev: it does bear repeating
	🥁 7:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...story also perfect...
	7:40pm Little Danny: Wow, nice playlist thusfar!
	7:41pm Flash Strap: This track is such an unnecessary, lengthy addendum to a song that embodies precise concision, but I do find it fascinating, even moving
	7:41pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	7:43pm Flash Strap: great, underrated Beach Boys track, this
	7:43pm Franco Twinkie: The thing that gives me shivers is he was driving south on Pacific Avenue that goes straight down to Marina Del Rey, where he drowned under his boat....not that day, but that's the place.
	7:46pm Flash Strap: I think he spent a lot of time there, yeah
	7:50pm Franco Twinkie: Another friend was a stage hand in local 33 and had to pick Dennis up off the stage floor at the Hollywood Bowl because he was so drunk he fell off his stool.
	🥁 7:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Manson song right here. Became 'Never Learn Not to Love You'.
	7:50pm Flash Strap: there it is, the bridge Dennis added to Manson's Cease to Exist (aka Never Learn Not to Love)
	🥁 7:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yurp. Had 45 as a kid - happy Yellow/Orange Capitol label.
	7:51pm Flash Strap: @rev: don't think there's any Manson material on "Peaches" actually
	🥁 7:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx.
	7:53pm Flash Strap: "Gong" sessions here bares it all if you're generous with the stupidness of it. it's pretty revealing and raw
	7:54pm Flash Strap: jesus
	🥁 7:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Just like 'Bugged @ My Old Man'...
	7:55pm Flash Strap: totally! it's like the "Bugged" for the acid era
	7:56pm Flash Strap: sounds disconcertingly like Murry too, which he even points out himself
	7:58pm Franco Twinkie: Just think how many artists did similar such things, but burned them in a metal trash can when the acid wore off.
	7:59pm melinda: Hi all, listening with my family in Austin
	8:00pm Franco Twinkie: Melinda!
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Family in Austin!
	🥁 8:02pm chresti: Adventure music!
	8:02pm geezerette: Hi Evan and gang! Getting studio tan from music!
	8:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette!
	8:04pm Franco Twinkie: Geezer! Can you see the beach from your front yard?
	8:05pm Flash Strap: supposedly there were lyrics to this, would love to hear them but alas I think it may never come to pass
	8:06pm Doug Schulkind: Greetings, Flash Strap, you prince of wails!!
	8:10pm geezerette: Hi Franco! Ha! Not yet, but the way things are going...
	8:14pm Franco Twinkie: For some reason I thought you had an ocean view.
	8:18pm Franco Twinkie: Fifty year anniversary of that night coming up this August.
	8:19pm hyde: i can't even say how much i love this song
	8:20pm Flash Strap: It's just ~~~~ perfect
	8:21pm geezerette: Nope! That would be great, there are trees on street though.
	8:22pm geezerette: Hyyyyyyyyde!
	8:25pm TDK60: Good evening.
	8:25pm hyde: hiya geezerette!
	8:25pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Wouldn't It Be Nice (If This Had Closed Surf's Up)
	8:27pm Franco Twinkie: Remind me again why any one should care what Mike Love has to say at this point.
	8:27pm Flash Strap: to be honest, I always felt this was a worthy inclusion but Surf's Up is a pretty good album closer to Surf's Up... this should have closed the A-side instead of Student Demonstration Time
	8:29pm Flash Strap: !!!! belated hello to Doug!
	8:29pm Flash Strap: in the end, no D.W. tracks made the cut for Surf's Up, a complete atrocity
	8:31pm Flash Strap: @franco: what an absolute asshole Mike Love is. total cop
	8:32pm coelacanth∅: hello Evan & all
	8:33pm geezerette: You can hear the 60's crumbling.
	8:33pm Flash Strap: hi Coelacanth!
	8:34pm Little Danny: Wow. "Fourth of July."
	8:35pm doctorjazz: I hate to turn off this lovely music, but it's time to head home. Thank, Evan! (Try to catch more in the car)
	8:35pm Flash Strap: @LD: i know man, incredible
	8:36pm Flash Strap: bon voyage, Doc! see you in transit if i'm lucky
	8:37pm Flash Strap: best track on Holland in my opinion
	8:37pm Flash Strap: "sail on sailor" is amazing too though
	8:38pm doctorjazz: Love Sail on Sailor...just sayin
	8:40pm Flash Strap: me too Doc
	8:43pm Flash Strap: "Carry Me Home" was rejected from Holland for being "too dark"; excluded from the "Made in California" compilation for the same reasons... but it's so great, my god
	8:44pm geezerette: All lovely ,but the melancholy is profound.
	8:44pm Flash Strap: I only really like 2 songs on Carl & the Passions, both written by Dennis. this is the better of the 2 (other being "make it good")
	8:46pm geezerette: They can really sound angelic.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: how he pulls this sort of bombastic sentimentality off really speaks to how genuine and deep his delivery is
	8:48pm geezerette: Absolutely.
	8:50pm Flash Strap: once again: only 2 good songs on this album! both Dennis (other being the very good "baby blue")
	8:50pm Flash Strap: I get the feeling this was basically made for Pacific Ocean Blue
	🥁 8:51pm chresti: This one is kind of yacht music?
	🥁 8:52pm chresti: Or it starts out that way..
	🥁 8:52pm chresti: @Love surrounds me
	8:53pm Flash Strap: totally, yeah. I think you can say that about a fair amount of his work, actually... though he does transcend, I think
	8:57pm Flash Strap: re: Love Surrounds Me & yacht rock – "Time" is a really interesting example of a kind of yacht-y start that gets totally blown out by his deep feeling and oddly avant-garde approach
	8:58pm TDK60: ..never heard Pacific Ocean Blue and some of this other stuff; like geezerette said, some deep pain amongst the lushness.
	9:14pm geezerette: Can hear relationship with Beatles all through playlist too. Sympathetic intellectual interplay between members of each band.
	9:14pm Flash Strap: this songs always makes me laugh, such a Roadhouse tableau, I love it
	9:15pm Flash Strap: @G: definitely agree
	9:15pm Franco Twinkie: I think the term Yacht Rock is a broad and misleading term. It lumps some truly crappy stuff with things that have the outward trappings, but are so much more. Anyway, thanks Flash...gotta go to the farmers market. The Apricots are hitting their peak this week!
	9:17pm Franco Twinkie: On The Beach - The dark side of Yacht Rock.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: really really agree Franco, tho i guess i feel that way about most genre terms in the end
	9:18pm Flash Strap: happy apricot hunting! thanks for hanging out
	9:19pm Flash Strap: this whole Neil Young album is so closely evocative of Dennis Wilson's late-60s milieu. I guess they were both hanging out with Manson from time to time too
	9:20pm geezerette: Never heard this Neil Young song before.Wow!
	9:21pm Flash Strap: it's as good an album as any he ever made, Geeze, highly highly recommended.
	9:21pm coelacanth∅: (i will never call any Neil Young album yacht rock)
	9:22pm Flash Strap: I agree with that too, Coelacanth
	🥁 9:22pm chresti: Nor disco..
	9:23pm geezerette: It' beautiful. :)
	9:23pm Flash Strap: crazy how long NY's On the Beach was out of print, sadly led to its having a lower profile than it deserves in his canon
	9:24pm Flash Strap: it might be his best, though i'd hate to have to say
	9:27pm Little Danny: Essential Cohran. Man his two LPs on Zulu are like nothing else.
	9:28pm Flash Strap: Really just unbelievable stuff
	9:28pm Little Danny: There's a great 30 second clip of him playing his own frankiphone on YT: www.youtube.com...
	9:29pm geezerette: I've read the Nevil Shute book and seen the movie. Don't think there's any connection, but melancholy.
	9:30pm Flash Strap: I've seen that I think! I'll double-check after the show. All the Zulu singles are outrageously good as well
	9:30pm geezerette: ...The Blues.
	9:30pm Flash Strap: How is it, G? I've never read it
	9:31pm Flash Strap: or seen the movie, for that matter
	9:34pm Little Danny: I have the three Zulu 7"s! Yeah they're blindingly good, and have different, Frankiphone-enhanced recordings of certain LP tracks
	9:34pm geezerette: Dark. Appropriately, given subject.
	9:35pm Flash Strap: I have the compilations only, so incredibly cool you have those on disc man
	9:37pm Little Danny: They were like squarely in the middle of so many of my 7" fetishism's Venn diagrams
	9:38pm Flash Strap: yeah, true desert island discs. man i probably have less than 30 singles i just never stepped up to the big leagues in that sense
	9:40pm Little Danny: Oh god no, you're way healthier for it.
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: yeah Evan (@9.24) fortunately don't have to decide these things. i do have maybe 4 favorites though. and this beautiful piece. i was going to click that star but...already clicked.
	9:41pm Flash Strap: @LD: haha i'm not sure but i'll take that as solace for my wasted life in LPs & MP3s
	9:44pm fleep: Could be worse. Could be cassingles.
	9:46pm Flash Strap: It's not like I don't have tons of LPs that I keep for one track only, you know?
	9:47pm Flash Strap: ah, it's probably not that many... the thing about LPs is that they force you to love more and more of what's on them over time
	9:47pm TDK60: Hi my name's TDK60 and my life was wasted lugging many pounds of LPs, cassettes, some 7"s around.
	🥁 9:48pm JtotheK: Digging the program tonight, Flash! Hi everyone.
	9:48pm fleep: Hi, TDK60!
	9:49pm TDK60: evenin' fleep.
	9:50pm Little Danny: Yes, hi and welcome to our support group TDK. You can speak freely here
	9:50pm Flash Strap: I think the hardest lot is the one of the 78 collector; much much heavier, way more breakable, altogether entirely more quixotic, tragic. there but for the grace go we
	9:50pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK! great to have you on board
	9:51pm Alex In Illinois: "TDK60" reminds me of the early 1980s when I was a teen with a '73 VW bus with a tape player. I usually used TDK SA C90 to get an album on each side.
	9:51pm coelacanth∅: i started going through all my albums (and eps) a few years ago with the intention to thin my collection (got sidetracked; never finished, but...) i had a rule that, unless the album art was indispensable, it had to have at least 25 minutes (?) of music i like; or 15-20 minutes (?) of music i adore to justify keeping it.
	9:52pm TDK60: oh yeh, Alex, 90s were used more by me too.
	🥁 9:52pm chresti: It surely wasn't entirely wasted @TDK60
	🥁 9:52pm JtotheK: @Danny 9:27 comment ... that Cohran LP, I looked it up on Discogs and sometimes those pricing stats really are boggling. There is one for sale at $699. However, the lowest price sold was ... 10 cents. Oh my.
	9:52pm Little Danny: Totally agree re:78s. I dabble. (I buy like five or six per year.) But there's also so much "undiscovered" or at least unreissued music on 78. Some very cool 1920s exoticism, for instance
	9:53pm TDK60: sob...there were some rockin' moments chresti...sigh
	9:53pm geezerette: Thanks, Evan! Beautiful show!
	9:53pm Flash Strap: yeah me too LD. that last aspect torments me
	9:53pm Alex In Illinois: C60 was good for mix tapes, to get an hour of music around a certain theme or mood.
	9:54pm TDK60: ..well, thanks for the more introspective kind of beach party here tonight, Flash. next time!..
	9:54pm Little Danny: Dang. That was fast. Thanks Evan!
	🥁 9:54pm JtotheK: @Flash - agree with your 78 collectro comment. I was talking on Danny's board a few weeks ago about Harry Revel 'Music Out of The Moon' 78 boxset, which I found for $1 and procured even though I have no way to play it.
	9:54pm Doug Schulkind: Marvelous selectitude, Flash. As is per your want!
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: thanks Flash, I'm knocked over and out!
	9:55pm Alex In Illinois: Yes, this was such a different kind of beach music. Glad you brought it out and played it to the multiverse
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: i do have 78s, though i never sought them out. i currently have no means to play them. (at 78 rpm, that is)
	9:55pm Little Danny: YOU GUYS!!! Please stay with me now y'hear: wfmu.org...
	9:58pm Alex In Illinois: I read that if you have some audio capture software and you set it to a certain sampling rate, and play the 78 at 33 or 45, then when you adjust the wave file back to 44,200, it will play the recdoing form the 78 at the right speed.
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Hi and thanks Alex! Goodnight and thanks all! See you next week
	9:59pm Alex In Illinois: See you all at Testify!
	10:01pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 13, 2019

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June 13, 2019: On the Beach with the Beach Boy

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Dennis Wilson	Pacific Ocean Blues	Pacific Ocean Blue	Caribou Records	1977		0:00:14 (Pop-up)
Michel Redolfi	Sunny Afternoon at Bird Rock Beach	Sonic Waters	hat ART	1984		0:02:49 (Pop-up)
Dennis Wilson	Follow Me to the Sea (demo)	1972 session?				0:22:48 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Away "Away" by "The Beach Boys"	Wake the World: The Friends Sessions	Capitol	1967 / 2018		0:24:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Beach Boys	Denny's Drums "Denny's Drums" by "The Beach Boys"	Shut Down Volume 2	Capitol	1964		0:24:42 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Little Bird "Little Bird" by "The Beach Boys"	Friends	Capitol	1968	wr. Dennis Wilson & Stephen Kalinich	0:32:36 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Little Bird – Back Track	Wake the World: The Friends Sessions	Capitol	1967 / 2018		0:33:50 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Be Still "Be Still" by "The Beach Boys"	Friends	Capitol	1968	wr. Dennis Wilson & Stephen Kalinich	0:35:47 (Pop-up)
Stephen John Kalinich	Be Still "Be Still" by "Stephen John Kalinich"	A World of Peace Must Come	Light In The Attic	1969 / 2008	wr. Dennis Wilson & Stephen Kalinich; prod. Brian Wilson	0:37:27 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Celebrate the News	Break Away 7"	Capitol	1969	wr. Dennis Wilson & Gregg Jakobson	0:41:23 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Untitled 1/25/68 "Untitled 1/25/68" by "The Beach Boys"	Wake the World: The Friends Sessions	Capitol	1968 / 2018		0:44:39 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Well You Know I Knew	I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions	Capitol	1968 / 2018		0:45:30 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	A Time to Live in Dreams	I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions	Capitol	1968 / 2018	(2018 Mix); wr. Dennis Wilson & Stephen Kalinich	0:47:02 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Peaches (Demo) "Peaches (Demo)" by "The Beach Boys"	I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions	Capitol	1968 / 2018		0:48:51 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	The Gong (Session Highlights)	I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions	Capitol	1968 / 2018		0:51:23 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Never Learn Not To Love	20/20	Capitol	1968	wr. Dennis Wilson & Charles Manson	0:56:22 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Be With Me "Be With Me" by "The Beach Boys"	20/20	Capitol	1968		0:58:32 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Be With Me (Backing Track)	I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions	Capitol	1968 / 2018	2018 mix	1:01:42 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Mona Kana "Mona Kana" by "The Beach Boys"	I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions	Capitol	1968 / 2018	(2018 Mix); wr. Dennis Wilson & Stephen Kalinich	1:03:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Dennis Wilson	Bambu Album Tag "Bambu Album Tag" by "Dennis Wilson"					1:06:04 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Forever "Forever" by "The Beach Boys"	Sunflower	Capitol	1970	wr. Dennis Wilson & Gregg Jakobson	1:19:02 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Slip on Through "Slip on Through" by "The Beach Boys"	Sunflower	Capitol	1970		1:21:04 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again	Made in California		1970-71	intended as album closer to Surf's Up, never released	1:23:30 (Pop-up)
Dennis Wilson and Rumbo	Sound of Free	Sound of Free 7"	Stateside	1970	prod. & wr. Dennis Wilson; arr. Daryl Dragon aka Rumbo aka The Captain	1:27:55 (Pop-up)
Dennis Wilson and Rumbo	Lady "Lady" by "Dennis Wilson and Rumbo"	Sound of Free 7"	Stateside	1970	prod. & wr. Dennis Wilson; arr. Daryl Dragon aka Rumbo aka The Captain	1:31:15 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Fourth of July "Fourth of July" by "The Beach Boys"	Landlocked		1970	also rejected from Surf's Up	1:32:34 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Steamboat "Steamboat" by "The Beach Boys"	Holland	Brother - Reprise	1973	wr. Dennis Wilson & Jack Rieley	1:35:14 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Carry Me Home "Carry Me Home" by "The Beach Boys"	Holland sessions		1972	wr. Dennis Wilson & Blondie Chaplin (?)	1:39:18 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Cuddle Up "Cuddle Up" by "The Beach Boys"	Carl and the Passions – "So Tough"	Brother - Reprise	1972	wr. Dennis Wilson & Daryl Dragon	1:43:15 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Love Surrounds Me "Love Surrounds Me" by "The Beach Boys"	L.A. Light Album	Caribou / CBS / Brother	1979	wr. Dennis Wilson & Geoffrey Cushing-Murray	1:48:06 (Pop-up)
Dennis Wilson	River Song "River Song" by "Dennis Wilson"	Pacific Ocean Blue	Caribou Records	1977	wr. Dennis Wilson & Carl Wilson	1:51:48 (Pop-up)
Dennis Wilson	Time "Time" by "Dennis Wilson"	Pacific Ocean Blue	Caribou Records	1977	wr. Dennis Wilson & Karen Lamm-Wilson	1:55:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Dennis Wilson	Bambu Album Tag "Bambu Album Tag" by "Dennis Wilson"					1:58:53 (Pop-up)
Dennis Wilson	Moonshine "Moonshine" by "Dennis Wilson"	Pacific Ocean Blue	Caribou Records	1977	wr. Dennis Wilson & Gregg Jakobson	2:11:29 (Pop-up)
Dennis Wilson	Friday Night "Friday Night" by "Dennis Wilson"	Pacific Ocean Blue	Caribou Records	1977	wr. Dennis Wilson & Gregg Jakobson	2:12:37 (Pop-up)
Neil Young	On The Beach "On The Beach" by "Neil Young"	On The Beach	Reprise	1974		2:15:41 (Pop-up)
Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble	On The Beach	On The Beach	Zulu Records	1967		2:22:57 (Pop-up)
The Denvermen	On The Beach "On The Beach" by "The Denvermen"	Let's Go Surfside with the Denvermen	RCA	1963		2:39:47 (Pop-up)
Ashra	Ocean Of Tenderness "Ocean Of Tenderness" by "Ashra"	New Age Of Earth	Virgin	1977		2:42:32 (Pop-up)
Dennis Wilson	Farewell My Friend "Farewell My Friend" by "Dennis Wilson"	Pacific Ocean Blue	Caribou	1977		2:51:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ashra	Ocean Of Tenderness "Ocean Of Tenderness" by "Ashra"	New Age Of Earth				2:55:35 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:49pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers! Nice to be back I have to say
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hello!
	7:01pm hyde: hello! always good to get back to the beach.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! how goes?
	🥁 7:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Shame. Still don't know this album. Shame.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Ah, Hyde! splendid to see you brother
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Well Rev then I envy you the joy in your future as you dig it for the first time
	7:04pm hyde: its a classic, RevRab
	🥁 7:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Never doubted.
	7:05pm fleep: Stream Daddy sittin' on the dock of the bay Watchin' the tide, roll away
	7:06pm Flash Strap: really rather good profile of D.W. here, worth a read while we take a dip: www.theguardian.com...
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hello Stream Daddy Fleep!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: music for your avatar, Fleep
	7:15pm Flash Strap: don't worry, more Dennis coming up. but first we must give the Pacific Ocean & California coast its due
	7:17pm passiflora: love those planes in the distance
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hi Passiflora! is that what those are?
	7:18pm passiflora: could be! every now and then
	7:19pm Flash Strap: very cool, so many little details
	7:19pm passiflora: oh I love this
	7:21pm Flash Strap: me too, the whole record's an underwater dream
	7:27pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Flash. To bad I told a funny Dennis Wilson story once already this week. But I refuse to be the tiresome old man who repeats himself.
	7:30pm Michael 98145: hello, room
	🥁 7:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Perfect Arrangement~Production.
	7:34pm Michael 98145: Whoa. Discoveries. Memories.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: haha well maybe just this once, just for me, Franco?
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Michael!
	7:35pm doctorjazz: Hi all.
	🥁 7:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...yerknows - in case ya hadn't heard about these BeachBoys like that...
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:37pm Franco Twinkie: Oh what the Hell....A friend of mine was walking down the street in Venice and this album comes flying out the window of a passing car. My friend picks it up, it's Pacific Ocean Blue. The car is stopped at a traffic light and it's Dennis himself. My friend says " Hey! You're Dennis. I love your stuff!" Dennis cracks a sheepish smile and says "Thanks man" a screeches away.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: holy shit that's an amazing story man
	7:38pm Flash Strap: @Rev: it does bear repeating
	🥁 7:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...story also perfect...
	7:40pm Little Danny: Wow, nice playlist thusfar!
	7:41pm Flash Strap: This track is such an unnecessary, lengthy addendum to a song that embodies precise concision, but I do find it fascinating, even moving
	7:41pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	7:43pm Flash Strap: great, underrated Beach Boys track, this
	7:43pm Franco Twinkie: The thing that gives me shivers is he was driving south on Pacific Avenue that goes straight down to Marina Del Rey, where he drowned under his boat....not that day, but that's the place.
	7:46pm Flash Strap: I think he spent a lot of time there, yeah
	7:50pm Franco Twinkie: Another friend was a stage hand in local 33 and had to pick Dennis up off the stage floor at the Hollywood Bowl because he was so drunk he fell off his stool.
	🥁 7:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Manson song right here. Became 'Never Learn Not to Love You'.
	7:50pm Flash Strap: there it is, the bridge Dennis added to Manson's Cease to Exist (aka Never Learn Not to Love)
	🥁 7:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yurp. Had 45 as a kid - happy Yellow/Orange Capitol label.
	7:51pm Flash Strap: @rev: don't think there's any Manson material on "Peaches" actually
	🥁 7:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx.
	7:53pm Flash Strap: "Gong" sessions here bares it all if you're generous with the stupidness of it. it's pretty revealing and raw
	7:54pm Flash Strap: jesus
	🥁 7:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Just like 'Bugged @ My Old Man'...
	7:55pm Flash Strap: totally! it's like the "Bugged" for the acid era
	7:56pm Flash Strap: sounds disconcertingly like Murry too, which he even points out himself
	7:58pm Franco Twinkie: Just think how many artists did similar such things, but burned them in a metal trash can when the acid wore off.
	7:59pm melinda: Hi all, listening with my family in Austin
	8:00pm Franco Twinkie: Melinda!
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Family in Austin!
	🥁 8:02pm chresti: Adventure music!
	8:02pm geezerette: Hi Evan and gang! Getting studio tan from music!
	8:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette!
	8:04pm Franco Twinkie: Geezer! Can you see the beach from your front yard?
	8:05pm Flash Strap: supposedly there were lyrics to this, would love to hear them but alas I think it may never come to pass
	8:06pm Doug Schulkind: Greetings, Flash Strap, you prince of wails!!
	8:10pm geezerette: Hi Franco! Ha! Not yet, but the way things are going...
	8:14pm Franco Twinkie: For some reason I thought you had an ocean view.
	8:18pm Franco Twinkie: Fifty year anniversary of that night coming up this August.
	8:19pm hyde: i can't even say how much i love this song
	8:20pm Flash Strap: It's just ~~~~ perfect
	8:21pm geezerette: Nope! That would be great, there are trees on street though.
	8:22pm geezerette: Hyyyyyyyyde!
	8:25pm TDK60: Good evening.
	8:25pm hyde: hiya geezerette!
	8:25pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Wouldn't It Be Nice (If This Had Closed Surf's Up)
	8:27pm Franco Twinkie: Remind me again why any one should care what Mike Love has to say at this point.
	8:27pm Flash Strap: to be honest, I always felt this was a worthy inclusion but Surf's Up is a pretty good album closer to Surf's Up... this should have closed the A-side instead of Student Demonstration Time
	8:29pm Flash Strap: !!!! belated hello to Doug!
	8:29pm Flash Strap: in the end, no D.W. tracks made the cut for Surf's Up, a complete atrocity
	8:31pm Flash Strap: @franco: what an absolute asshole Mike Love is. total cop
	8:32pm coelacanth∅: hello Evan & all
	8:33pm geezerette: You can hear the 60's crumbling.
	8:33pm Flash Strap: hi Coelacanth!
	8:34pm Little Danny: Wow. "Fourth of July."
	8:35pm doctorjazz: I hate to turn off this lovely music, but it's time to head home. Thank, Evan! (Try to catch more in the car)
	8:35pm Flash Strap: @LD: i know man, incredible
	8:36pm Flash Strap: bon voyage, Doc! see you in transit if i'm lucky
	8:37pm Flash Strap: best track on Holland in my opinion
	8:37pm Flash Strap: "sail on sailor" is amazing too though
	8:38pm doctorjazz: Love Sail on Sailor...just sayin
	8:40pm Flash Strap: me too Doc
	8:43pm Flash Strap: "Carry Me Home" was rejected from Holland for being "too dark"; excluded from the "Made in California" compilation for the same reasons... but it's so great, my god
	8:44pm geezerette: All lovely ,but the melancholy is profound.
	8:44pm Flash Strap: I only really like 2 songs on Carl & the Passions, both written by Dennis. this is the better of the 2 (other being "make it good")
	8:46pm geezerette: They can really sound angelic.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: how he pulls this sort of bombastic sentimentality off really speaks to how genuine and deep his delivery is
	8:48pm geezerette: Absolutely.
	8:50pm Flash Strap: once again: only 2 good songs on this album! both Dennis (other being the very good "baby blue")
	8:50pm Flash Strap: I get the feeling this was basically made for Pacific Ocean Blue
	🥁 8:51pm chresti: This one is kind of yacht music?
	🥁 8:52pm chresti: Or it starts out that way..
	🥁 8:52pm chresti: @Love surrounds me
	8:53pm Flash Strap: totally, yeah. I think you can say that about a fair amount of his work, actually... though he does transcend, I think
	8:57pm Flash Strap: re: Love Surrounds Me & yacht rock – "Time" is a really interesting example of a kind of yacht-y start that gets totally blown out by his deep feeling and oddly avant-garde approach
	8:58pm TDK60: ..never heard Pacific Ocean Blue and some of this other stuff; like geezerette said, some deep pain amongst the lushness.
	9:14pm geezerette: Can hear relationship with Beatles all through playlist too. Sympathetic intellectual interplay between members of each band.
	9:14pm Flash Strap: this songs always makes me laugh, such a Roadhouse tableau, I love it
	9:15pm Flash Strap: @G: definitely agree
	9:15pm Franco Twinkie: I think the term Yacht Rock is a broad and misleading term. It lumps some truly crappy stuff with things that have the outward trappings, but are so much more. Anyway, thanks Flash...gotta go to the farmers market. The Apricots are hitting their peak this week!
	9:17pm Franco Twinkie: On The Beach - The dark side of Yacht Rock.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: really really agree Franco, tho i guess i feel that way about most genre terms in the end
	9:18pm Flash Strap: happy apricot hunting! thanks for hanging out
	9:19pm Flash Strap: this whole Neil Young album is so closely evocative of Dennis Wilson's late-60s milieu. I guess they were both hanging out with Manson from time to time too
	9:20pm geezerette: Never heard this Neil Young song before.Wow!
	9:21pm Flash Strap: it's as good an album as any he ever made, Geeze, highly highly recommended.
	9:21pm coelacanth∅: (i will never call any Neil Young album yacht rock)
	9:22pm Flash Strap: I agree with that too, Coelacanth
	🥁 9:22pm chresti: Nor disco..
	9:23pm geezerette: It' beautiful. :)
	9:23pm Flash Strap: crazy how long NY's On the Beach was out of print, sadly led to its having a lower profile than it deserves in his canon
	9:24pm Flash Strap: it might be his best, though i'd hate to have to say
	9:27pm Little Danny: Essential Cohran. Man his two LPs on Zulu are like nothing else.
	9:28pm Flash Strap: Really just unbelievable stuff
	9:28pm Little Danny: There's a great 30 second clip of him playing his own frankiphone on YT: www.youtube.com...
	9:29pm geezerette: I've read the Nevil Shute book and seen the movie. Don't think there's any connection, but melancholy.
	9:30pm Flash Strap: I've seen that I think! I'll double-check after the show. All the Zulu singles are outrageously good as well
	9:30pm geezerette: ...The Blues.
	9:30pm Flash Strap: How is it, G? I've never read it
	9:31pm Flash Strap: or seen the movie, for that matter
	9:34pm Little Danny: I have the three Zulu 7"s! Yeah they're blindingly good, and have different, Frankiphone-enhanced recordings of certain LP tracks
	9:34pm geezerette: Dark. Appropriately, given subject.
	9:35pm Flash Strap: I have the compilations only, so incredibly cool you have those on disc man
	9:37pm Little Danny: They were like squarely in the middle of so many of my 7" fetishism's Venn diagrams
	9:38pm Flash Strap: yeah, true desert island discs. man i probably have less than 30 singles i just never stepped up to the big leagues in that sense
	9:40pm Little Danny: Oh god no, you're way healthier for it.
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: yeah Evan (@9.24) fortunately don't have to decide these things. i do have maybe 4 favorites though. and this beautiful piece. i was going to click that star but...already clicked.
	9:41pm Flash Strap: @LD: haha i'm not sure but i'll take that as solace for my wasted life in LPs & MP3s
	9:44pm fleep: Could be worse. Could be cassingles.
	9:46pm Flash Strap: It's not like I don't have tons of LPs that I keep for one track only, you know?
	9:47pm Flash Strap: ah, it's probably not that many... the thing about LPs is that they force you to love more and more of what's on them over time
	9:47pm TDK60: Hi my name's TDK60 and my life was wasted lugging many pounds of LPs, cassettes, some 7"s around.
	🥁 9:48pm JtotheK: Digging the program tonight, Flash! Hi everyone.
	9:48pm fleep: Hi, TDK60!
	9:49pm TDK60: evenin' fleep.
	9:50pm Little Danny: Yes, hi and welcome to our support group TDK. You can speak freely here
	9:50pm Flash Strap: I think the hardest lot is the one of the 78 collector; much much heavier, way more breakable, altogether entirely more quixotic, tragic. there but for the grace go we
	9:50pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK! great to have you on board
	9:51pm Alex In Illinois: "TDK60" reminds me of the early 1980s when I was a teen with a '73 VW bus with a tape player. I usually used TDK SA C90 to get an album on each side.
	9:51pm coelacanth∅: i started going through all my albums (and eps) a few years ago with the intention to thin my collection (got sidetracked; never finished, but...) i had a rule that, unless the album art was indispensable, it had to have at least 25 minutes (?) of music i like; or 15-20 minutes (?) of music i adore to justify keeping it.
	9:52pm TDK60: oh yeh, Alex, 90s were used more by me too.
	🥁 9:52pm chresti: It surely wasn't entirely wasted @TDK60
	🥁 9:52pm JtotheK: @Danny 9:27 comment ... that Cohran LP, I looked it up on Discogs and sometimes those pricing stats really are boggling. There is one for sale at $699. However, the lowest price sold was ... 10 cents. Oh my.
	9:52pm Little Danny: Totally agree re:78s. I dabble. (I buy like five or six per year.) But there's also so much "undiscovered" or at least unreissued music on 78. Some very cool 1920s exoticism, for instance
	9:53pm TDK60: sob...there were some rockin' moments chresti...sigh
	9:53pm geezerette: Thanks, Evan! Beautiful show!
	9:53pm Flash Strap: yeah me too LD. that last aspect torments me
	9:53pm Alex In Illinois: C60 was good for mix tapes, to get an hour of music around a certain theme or mood.
	9:54pm TDK60: ..well, thanks for the more introspective kind of beach party here tonight, Flash. next time!..
	9:54pm Little Danny: Dang. That was fast. Thanks Evan!
	🥁 9:54pm JtotheK: @Flash - agree with your 78 collectro comment. I was talking on Danny's board a few weeks ago about Harry Revel 'Music Out of The Moon' 78 boxset, which I found for $1 and procured even though I have no way to play it.
	9:54pm Doug Schulkind: Marvelous selectitude, Flash. As is per your want!
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: thanks Flash, I'm knocked over and out!
	9:55pm Alex In Illinois: Yes, this was such a different kind of beach music. Glad you brought it out and played it to the multiverse
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: i do have 78s, though i never sought them out. i currently have no means to play them. (at 78 rpm, that is)
	9:55pm Little Danny: YOU GUYS!!! Please stay with me now y'hear: wfmu.org...
	9:58pm Alex In Illinois: I read that if you have some audio capture software and you set it to a certain sampling rate, and play the 78 at 33 or 45, then when you adjust the wave file back to 44,200, it will play the recdoing form the 78 at the right speed.
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Hi and thanks Alex! Goodnight and thanks all! See you next week
	9:59pm Alex In Illinois: See you all at Testify!
	10:01pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 13, 2019

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