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The Songs Vin Played for 03/13/2004
There are three
essential Commandments:
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable,
Without Bias.
— David Fricke
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2004 - 8 PM - 12 MIDNIGHT
This is my mud
These are my wild geese
That's my breath pulling me along
It'll lead me home whenever I please ....
- Eszter Balint, "Mud"
Jack McDuff Walking The Dog B-3in': Organ Jazz (V/A)
(opening theme music)
Talking Heads Psycho Killer Stop Making Sense
Wynton Marsalis Quartet You And Me The Magic Hour
Eszter Balint No One Mud
Eszter Balint - guest - conversation only
Eszter has been involved in theater, film and music since her childhood
in Bulgaria (where she was born), Paris (where her parents first moved
to escape East European Communist oppression) and New York
(where the family finally land in the 1970s); her parents were founding
members of the influential radical theater collective called Squat. She
appeared in the 1984 Jim Jarmusch indie film classic, Stranger Than
Paradise and more recently was seen in Steve Buscemi's Trees Lounge.
Her first album, Flicker, came out in 1999. Her new one, Mud, is released
on Bar-None Records.
Lately I've been inviting musicians to come to the show with some of
their favorite records rather than their instruments. Without the pressure
of a live radio performance distracting them, I find that very often the
conversation can be more relaxed and intimate. Most of the
non-Eszter records played during her visit were her selections.
Eszter Balint Pebbles & Stones Mud
Sam Phillips Say What You Mean Fan Dance
Eszter Balint What Are You Now Mud
Randy Newman Marie Gold Old Boys
Eszter Balint Your God Mud
The Gleaners This Plane Blessed
The Gourds My Name Is Jorge Cow Fish Fowl Or Pig
Graham Parker The Rest Is History Your Country
Eszter Balint Here We Are Mud
Eszter Balint If Mud
Sons & Daughters Start To End Love The Cup
The Mountains Goats Your Belgian Things We Shall All Be Healed
I am coming late to The Mountain Goats, who have been making records
since 1995. I imagine I'm not alone. The group is basically one man,
John Darnielle, the songwriter and singer. Home base is Oregon. I
can't imagine how such literate funny touching unsentimental quirky
heartbreaking unpretentious music has taken so long to reach my ears!
Well now that is has, now that I've become on obsessed fan, I intend
to spread the word about The Mountain Goats to every open ear. The
group's two most recent albums are We Shall All Be Healed and Tallahassee.
They are both extraordinary. I've gone on-line to order everything else.
Stay tuned ...
The Mountain Goats Letter From Belgium We Shall All Be Healed
The Mountain Goats Mole We Shall All Be Healed
The Mountain Goats Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph of We Shall All Be Healed
The Mountain Goats The Young Thousands We Shall All Be Healed
Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes All The Young Dudes
David Bowie Oh! You Pretty Things Hunky Dory
Stephen Trask Wicked Little Town Hedwig And The Angry Inch (soundtrack)
John Cameron Mitchell Wicked Little Town Hedwig And The Angry Inch (soundtrack)
Flying Burrito Brothers Wild Horses Burrito Deluxe
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos Las Lomas de New Jersey Muy Divertido!
Brad Mehldau Trio Get Happy Anything Goes
Count Basie One O'Clock Jump Complete 1941-1951 Columbia Recordings
Richard "Groove Holmes Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me B-3in': Organ Jazz (V/A)
(closing theme music)
Thanks to Engineer Chris and AP Jessica, who filled in tonight
for Engineer Erich and AP Kim ...
and, as always, to Producer "Booker T" Manning ...
Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight is a broadcast-only program on 90.7 PM.
It is not streamed or archived on the WFUV website. For further information,
please go here.
The direct link to past Idiot's Delight playlists at WFUV.org is here:
http://www.wfuv.org/wfuv/playlists/indexvin.html
However, there is a feature entitled "Vin Scelsa's Be My Guest" -
an internet only archive of selected guest slots from both recent and
past shows - not entire shows just the guest portions. The direct link
to the page at the WFUV site is here.
Interviews currently in the VSBMG archives:
Paul Auster
Jeff Buckley
June Carter Cash
Alejandro Escovedo
Marianne Faithfull
Frogholler
Joseph Heller
Eddie Izzard
Mark and Rae Jacobson
Mary Lee's Corvette
Juana Molina
Norah Jones
Allan Pepper with Meg Griffin
Tom Waits
Kurt Vonnegut
NOTES:
SUPPORT WFUV! Become a member! Go to the web site and join us ... were the only place on New York broadcast radio for quality adult eclectic music played for quality eclectic adults! Commercial radio is no longer interested in intelligently presenting quality music. Public radio is our only hope ... it must be supported ... or it will not survive.
THERE IS AN IDIOT’S DELIGHT T-SHIRT!!
I designed it myself. It's simple, low key and to the point. It's short-sleeved, in heather gray, with very dark blue (almost black) lettering. The "3 essential commandments" are on the front and the show name is on the back, all quite unobtrusive, with no station, corporate or commercial logos anywhere. The shirt is only available through World Hunger Year (it was a Hungerthon '99 premium), for a $50 donation to that fine organization. For further information, call Sue Leventhal at W.H.Y. – (212) 629-8850 or visit http://www.worldhungeryear.org
My friend Engineer Paul has a personal web page http://www.engineerpaul.com, which also contains "The Songs I Played" every week, as well as some of the digital photos he took of guests during our K-ROCK and WNEW days together.
Listener FiL Wisneski runs an indispensable archive of the show lists at http://cherk.com/vin/ for which I am most grateful.
I am also indebted to Listener Scott Perschke, who maintains the Idiot's Delight Digest, an email discussion forum with a wide-ranging scope.
To subscribe to the Idiot's Delight Digest, send an email to:
idd-subscribe-digest@topica.com
I can be reached via snail mail at:
These are listener-run websites which have information about - or actually contain - downloadable audio files of Idiot's Delight. We all owe these people a debt of gratitude for their devotion to the show and the listeners.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/iddiot_tree/
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/IDDTree/
http://www3.streamload.com/IDD_Tree/Idiots_Delight_Archives
http://www.humanvalues.net/phpBB2/
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable,
Without Bias.
— David Fricke
These are the songs I played on
Vin Scelsa's IDIOT'S DELIGHT®
These are the songs I played on member supported 90.7 FM WFUV in New York
on VIN SCELSA'S IDIOT'S DELIGHT® — 3/13/04 — Saturday, 8 PM to Midnight
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2004 - 8 PM - 12 MIDNIGHT
This is my mud
These are my wild geese
That's my breath pulling me along
It'll lead me home whenever I please ....
- Eszter Balint, "Mud"
Jack McDuff Walking The Dog B-3in': Organ Jazz (V/A)
(opening theme music)
Talking Heads Psycho Killer Stop Making Sense
Wynton Marsalis Quartet You And Me The Magic Hour
Eszter Balint No One Mud
Eszter Balint - guest - conversation only
Eszter has been involved in theater, film and music since her childhood
in Bulgaria (where she was born), Paris (where her parents first moved
to escape East European Communist oppression) and New York
(where the family finally land in the 1970s); her parents were founding
members of the influential radical theater collective called Squat. She
appeared in the 1984 Jim Jarmusch indie film classic, Stranger Than
Paradise and more recently was seen in Steve Buscemi's Trees Lounge.
Her first album, Flicker, came out in 1999. Her new one, Mud, is released
on Bar-None Records.
Lately I've been inviting musicians to come to the show with some of
their favorite records rather than their instruments. Without the pressure
of a live radio performance distracting them, I find that very often the
conversation can be more relaxed and intimate. Most of the
non-Eszter records played during her visit were her selections.
Eszter Balint Pebbles & Stones Mud
Sam Phillips Say What You Mean Fan Dance
Eszter Balint What Are You Now Mud
Randy Newman Marie Gold Old Boys
Eszter Balint Your God Mud
The Gleaners This Plane Blessed
The Gourds My Name Is Jorge Cow Fish Fowl Or Pig
Graham Parker The Rest Is History Your Country
Eszter Balint Here We Are Mud
Eszter Balint If Mud
Sons & Daughters Start To End Love The Cup
The Mountains Goats Your Belgian Things We Shall All Be Healed
I am coming late to The Mountain Goats, who have been making records
since 1995. I imagine I'm not alone. The group is basically one man,
John Darnielle, the songwriter and singer. Home base is Oregon. I
can't imagine how such literate funny touching unsentimental quirky
heartbreaking unpretentious music has taken so long to reach my ears!
Well now that is has, now that I've become on obsessed fan, I intend
to spread the word about The Mountain Goats to every open ear. The
group's two most recent albums are We Shall All Be Healed and Tallahassee.
They are both extraordinary. I've gone on-line to order everything else.
Stay tuned ...
The Mountain Goats Letter From Belgium We Shall All Be Healed
The Mountain Goats Mole We Shall All Be Healed
The Mountain Goats Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph of We Shall All Be Healed
The Mountain Goats The Young Thousands We Shall All Be Healed
Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes All The Young Dudes
David Bowie Oh! You Pretty Things Hunky Dory
Stephen Trask Wicked Little Town Hedwig And The Angry Inch (soundtrack)
John Cameron Mitchell Wicked Little Town Hedwig And The Angry Inch (soundtrack)
Flying Burrito Brothers Wild Horses Burrito Deluxe
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos Las Lomas de New Jersey Muy Divertido!
Brad Mehldau Trio Get Happy Anything Goes
Count Basie One O'Clock Jump Complete 1941-1951 Columbia Recordings
Richard "Groove Holmes Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me B-3in': Organ Jazz (V/A)
(closing theme music)
Thanks to Engineer Chris and AP Jessica, who filled in tonight
for Engineer Erich and AP Kim ...
and, as always, to Producer "Booker T" Manning ...
Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight is a broadcast-only program on 90.7 PM.
It is not streamed or archived on the WFUV website. For further information,
please go here.
The direct link to past Idiot's Delight playlists at WFUV.org is here:
http://www.wfuv.org/wfuv/playlists/indexvin.html
However, there is a feature entitled "Vin Scelsa's Be My Guest" -
an internet only archive of selected guest slots from both recent and
past shows - not entire shows just the guest portions. The direct link
to the page at the WFUV site is here.
Interviews currently in the VSBMG archives:
Paul Auster
Jeff Buckley
June Carter Cash
Alejandro Escovedo
Marianne Faithfull
Frogholler
Joseph Heller
Eddie Izzard
Mark and Rae Jacobson
Mary Lee's Corvette
Juana Molina
Norah Jones
Allan Pepper with Meg Griffin
Tom Waits
Kurt Vonnegut
NOTES:
SUPPORT WFUV! Become a member! Go to the web site and join us ... were the only place on New York broadcast radio for quality adult eclectic music played for quality eclectic adults! Commercial radio is no longer interested in intelligently presenting quality music. Public radio is our only hope ... it must be supported ... or it will not survive.
THERE IS AN IDIOT’S DELIGHT T-SHIRT!!
I designed it myself. It's simple, low key and to the point. It's short-sleeved, in heather gray, with very dark blue (almost black) lettering. The "3 essential commandments" are on the front and the show name is on the back, all quite unobtrusive, with no station, corporate or commercial logos anywhere. The shirt is only available through World Hunger Year (it was a Hungerthon '99 premium), for a $50 donation to that fine organization. For further information, call Sue Leventhal at W.H.Y. – (212) 629-8850 or visit http://www.worldhungeryear.org
My friend Engineer Paul has a personal web page http://www.engineerpaul.com, which also contains "The Songs I Played" every week, as well as some of the digital photos he took of guests during our K-ROCK and WNEW days together.
Listener FiL Wisneski runs an indispensable archive of the show lists at http://cherk.com/vin/ for which I am most grateful.
I am also indebted to Listener Scott Perschke, who maintains the Idiot's Delight Digest, an email discussion forum with a wide-ranging scope.
To subscribe to the Idiot's Delight Digest, send an email to:
idd-subscribe-digest@topica.com
I can be reached via snail mail at:
Vin Scelsa
Idiot's Delight
c/o WFUV
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
These are listener-run websites which have information about - or actually contain - downloadable audio files of Idiot's Delight. We all owe these people a debt of gratitude for their devotion to the show and the listeners.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/iddiot_tree/
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/IDDTree/
http://www3.streamload.com/IDD_Tree/Idiots_Delight_Archives
http://www.humanvalues.net/phpBB2/