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The Songs Vin Played for 08/31/1997
There are three essential Commandments:
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
__________________________________________________________________________
These are the songs I played on WNEW-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S DELIGHT" 8/31/97,
another working day in the sad and beautiful world.
"It's a sad and beautiful world ..." — Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni — scene
from the Jim Jarmusch film "Down By Law."
... for DIANA ...
MARK EITZEL On A Clear Day ...
(live performance on the show, 6/30/96)
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE BRODSKY QUARTET Lost In The Stars
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" V/A)
BOB DYLAN Highlands (pre-release from the new album)
JOHN CULLUM On A Clear Day ...
(title song from the original B'way cast album)
PORNO FOR PYROS Tonight (the "West Side Story" song)
(from "Music For Our Mother Ocean" V/A)
PAUL WELLER Up In Suze's Room
BOB DYLAN Love Sick (from the new album's released 4-song EP)
A visit to the show and a meeting with me was given as a birthday gift to
listener Jonathan Brooks by his girlfriend Kristina Grish. I did not know
these people prior to tonight. Kristina had approached me with her idea to
give me as a surprise gift because Jonathan is a very devoted listener to the
show. Something in her voice reminded me of my niece Laurie and I was touched
by her desire to do something really special for her boyfriend (and impressed
by her chutzpah!); and so I agreed to the visit. They proved to be a charming
young couple and chatting with them on the air made me feel somewhat like the
aging Groucho Marx on "You Bet Your Life" — "Well, you're a swell couple of
kids ... but now it's time to play our game." NOTE: I never do stuff like
this! This was a total and complete aberration. Do not attempt to follow in
their footsteps.
YO LA TENGO Center Of Gravity
TINDERSTICKS w/ISABELLA ROSSELLINI A Marriage Made In Heaven
ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM & ELIS REGINA Aguas De Marco (Waters Of March)
DIMITRI FROM TOKYO Toujours L'Amore
(from a compilation of offbeat dance music by various artists which Producer
Manning picked up on her recent visit to Scotland; it's called "Sounds Like
Paris" on Pan Recordings, distributed by a London-based company called Pias
Recordings — phone 0181-324-2500.)
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Let's Jazz All You Young Aliens
ASTRUD GILBERTO Call Me
The John Southworth album "Mars Pennsylvania" is released on A&M in Canada
only; it can be ordered by phone at 1-800-563-7234. I have been informed that
both the Tower Records and HMV chain stores in New York will be carrying this
at some point in the next few weeks.
OF MONTREAL Tim, I Wish You Were Born A Girl
JOE JACKSON It's Different For Girls
BEN FOLDS FIVE Selfless, Cold and Composed
GREG GARING Say What You Mean
GREG GARING Dream Too Real To Hold
RADIOHEAD Subterranean Homesick Alien
ELLIOTT SMITH Ballad Of Big Nothing
ELLIOTT SMITH Ballad Of Big Nothing (again because it's too good and too
short!)
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping
OLD 97s Barrier Reef
SLEATER-KINNEY Words And Guitar
THE HONEYDOGS Rumor Has It
TERRI BINION Texas
GREG GARING Where The Bluegrass Grows
SLEATER-KINNEY Little Babies
LINDA HUSIK Fly Stereophonic
THE MAMAS & PAPAS California Dreaming
JOHN SOUTHWORTH It's Not The End Of The World
U2 Until The End Of The World
Longtime listener Jordan (currently employed in some murky way in the film
business) called with information about the upcoming Wim Wenders film "The End
Of Violence" and we chatted for a while about movies.
BILLY JOEL To Make You Feel My Love
LOTTE LENYA It Never Was You
BOB DYLAN To Make You Feel My Love (pre-release from the new album)
R.E.M. Nightswimming
ERIC MATTHEWS My Morning Parade
BELLE & SEBASTIAN Seeing Other People
Speaking still of films: I finally rented Steve Buscemi's "Trees Lounge" and
found it quite charming (in a shaggy and certainly inebriated way). I forgot
to mention that Carol Kane (Simka of "Taxi" fame) is in the movie (she plays
the bartender) and she's wonderful, as is the entire cast of New York-based
actors. Buscemi manages to get beat up and bloodied by an irate parent in one
scene, but by typical Buscemi standards this is a non-violent, relatively
mild, very down-to-earth and ultimately rather gentle film.
DYSTOPIA ONE Steve Buscemi
KING MISSILE Martin Scorsese ("clean" version)
NICK CAVE Mack The Knife
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" V/A)
SOUL COUGHING Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago
J.J. JOHNSON BRASS ORCHESTRA Why Indianapolis, Why Not Indianapolis?
Dystopia One is a New York-based band with a 6-song EP CD entitled "The
Buscemi Tapes" on Winged Disk Records, POB 53, Nesconset, NY 11767. They can
be reached by e-mail at <a href="mailto:DYS1@aol.com">DYS1@aol.com</a> for information.
DYSTOPIA ONE Sesame Street
JOHN BARRY Goldfinger
(from "The James Bond Suite")
WILCO Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
THE CRITTERS Mr. Dieingly Sad
HARRY NILSSON Without You
BOB DYLAN Standing In The Doorway (from the new album's released 4-song
EP)
JOHN HIATT Walk On
THE REPLACEMENTS Here Comes A Regular
VAN MORRISON w/MARY BLACK St. Dominic's Preview
(from "Sult: Spirit Of The Music" — Irish television soundtrack V/A)
DAR WILLIAMS End Of The Summer
THE DOORS Summer's Almost Gone
BUFFALO TOM Summer
KIRSTY MacCOLL Last Day Of Summer
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Man If We Could Surf Forever More
DEL AMITRI Some Other Sucker's Parade
MATTHEW RYAN Irrelevant
WHISKEYTOWN Turn Around
JAMES TAYLOR Line 'Em Up
PAUL WELLER Science
MATTHEW RYAN Irrelevant
MATTHEW RYAN Irrelevant (okay, okay, I was in a mood)
DEXTER GORDON Laura (the old movie theme; a gorgeous 1977 performance)
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 3:10 AM
List typed up by Vin on Monday 9/1/97 at 2:00 PM; all omissions are
inadvertent and all typos and spelling mistakes are solely mine.
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
9/7 JOE JACKSON
9/14 PAUL AUSTER, author
9/21 THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS
9/28 MAGNET (w/MOE TUCKER)
10/5 DAVE SOLDIER
10/19 WHISKEYTOWN
11/16 HUNGERTHON RENT PARTY to raise money for World Hunger Year
(Yes, I will once again play your requests for donations to W.H.Y. —
the only time I ever play requests!)
PROGRAM NOTE: Due to the broadcast this Fall of the New York Giants Sunday
afternoon football games, Idiot's Delight will start at approximately 9 PM
(instead of 8 PM) immediately following the "post-game show" on the following
dates: 9/7, 9/21, 10/12, 10/19, 11/9 and 11/30. There will be no show at all
on 11/23 because that's a night game.
Respect The Elders.
Embrace The New.
Encourage The Impractical and Improbable, Without Bias.
__________________________________________________________________________
These are the songs I played on WNEW-FM / NY on "IDIOT'S DELIGHT" 8/31/97,
another working day in the sad and beautiful world.
"It's a sad and beautiful world ..." — Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni — scene
from the Jim Jarmusch film "Down By Law."
... for DIANA ...
MARK EITZEL On A Clear Day ...
(live performance on the show, 6/30/96)
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE BRODSKY QUARTET Lost In The Stars
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" V/A)
BOB DYLAN Highlands (pre-release from the new album)
JOHN CULLUM On A Clear Day ...
(title song from the original B'way cast album)
PORNO FOR PYROS Tonight (the "West Side Story" song)
(from "Music For Our Mother Ocean" V/A)
PAUL WELLER Up In Suze's Room
BOB DYLAN Love Sick (from the new album's released 4-song EP)
A visit to the show and a meeting with me was given as a birthday gift to
listener Jonathan Brooks by his girlfriend Kristina Grish. I did not know
these people prior to tonight. Kristina had approached me with her idea to
give me as a surprise gift because Jonathan is a very devoted listener to the
show. Something in her voice reminded me of my niece Laurie and I was touched
by her desire to do something really special for her boyfriend (and impressed
by her chutzpah!); and so I agreed to the visit. They proved to be a charming
young couple and chatting with them on the air made me feel somewhat like the
aging Groucho Marx on "You Bet Your Life" — "Well, you're a swell couple of
kids ... but now it's time to play our game." NOTE: I never do stuff like
this! This was a total and complete aberration. Do not attempt to follow in
their footsteps.
YO LA TENGO Center Of Gravity
TINDERSTICKS w/ISABELLA ROSSELLINI A Marriage Made In Heaven
ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM & ELIS REGINA Aguas De Marco (Waters Of March)
DIMITRI FROM TOKYO Toujours L'Amore
(from a compilation of offbeat dance music by various artists which Producer
Manning picked up on her recent visit to Scotland; it's called "Sounds Like
Paris" on Pan Recordings, distributed by a London-based company called Pias
Recordings — phone 0181-324-2500.)
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Let's Jazz All You Young Aliens
ASTRUD GILBERTO Call Me
The John Southworth album "Mars Pennsylvania" is released on A&M in Canada
only; it can be ordered by phone at 1-800-563-7234. I have been informed that
both the Tower Records and HMV chain stores in New York will be carrying this
at some point in the next few weeks.
OF MONTREAL Tim, I Wish You Were Born A Girl
JOE JACKSON It's Different For Girls
BEN FOLDS FIVE Selfless, Cold and Composed
GREG GARING Say What You Mean
GREG GARING Dream Too Real To Hold
RADIOHEAD Subterranean Homesick Alien
ELLIOTT SMITH Ballad Of Big Nothing
ELLIOTT SMITH Ballad Of Big Nothing (again because it's too good and too
short!)
CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping
OLD 97s Barrier Reef
SLEATER-KINNEY Words And Guitar
THE HONEYDOGS Rumor Has It
TERRI BINION Texas
GREG GARING Where The Bluegrass Grows
SLEATER-KINNEY Little Babies
LINDA HUSIK Fly Stereophonic
THE MAMAS & PAPAS California Dreaming
JOHN SOUTHWORTH It's Not The End Of The World
U2 Until The End Of The World
Longtime listener Jordan (currently employed in some murky way in the film
business) called with information about the upcoming Wim Wenders film "The End
Of Violence" and we chatted for a while about movies.
BILLY JOEL To Make You Feel My Love
LOTTE LENYA It Never Was You
BOB DYLAN To Make You Feel My Love (pre-release from the new album)
R.E.M. Nightswimming
ERIC MATTHEWS My Morning Parade
BELLE & SEBASTIAN Seeing Other People
Speaking still of films: I finally rented Steve Buscemi's "Trees Lounge" and
found it quite charming (in a shaggy and certainly inebriated way). I forgot
to mention that Carol Kane (Simka of "Taxi" fame) is in the movie (she plays
the bartender) and she's wonderful, as is the entire cast of New York-based
actors. Buscemi manages to get beat up and bloodied by an irate parent in one
scene, but by typical Buscemi standards this is a non-violent, relatively
mild, very down-to-earth and ultimately rather gentle film.
DYSTOPIA ONE Steve Buscemi
KING MISSILE Martin Scorsese ("clean" version)
NICK CAVE Mack The Knife
(from "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" V/A)
SOUL COUGHING Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago
J.J. JOHNSON BRASS ORCHESTRA Why Indianapolis, Why Not Indianapolis?
Dystopia One is a New York-based band with a 6-song EP CD entitled "The
Buscemi Tapes" on Winged Disk Records, POB 53, Nesconset, NY 11767. They can
be reached by e-mail at <a href="mailto:DYS1@aol.com">DYS1@aol.com</a> for information.
DYSTOPIA ONE Sesame Street
JOHN BARRY Goldfinger
(from "The James Bond Suite")
WILCO Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
THE CRITTERS Mr. Dieingly Sad
HARRY NILSSON Without You
BOB DYLAN Standing In The Doorway (from the new album's released 4-song
EP)
JOHN HIATT Walk On
THE REPLACEMENTS Here Comes A Regular
VAN MORRISON w/MARY BLACK St. Dominic's Preview
(from "Sult: Spirit Of The Music" — Irish television soundtrack V/A)
DAR WILLIAMS End Of The Summer
THE DOORS Summer's Almost Gone
BUFFALO TOM Summer
KIRSTY MacCOLL Last Day Of Summer
JOHN SOUTHWORTH Man If We Could Surf Forever More
DEL AMITRI Some Other Sucker's Parade
MATTHEW RYAN Irrelevant
WHISKEYTOWN Turn Around
JAMES TAYLOR Line 'Em Up
PAUL WELLER Science
MATTHEW RYAN Irrelevant
MATTHEW RYAN Irrelevant (okay, okay, I was in a mood)
DEXTER GORDON Laura (the old movie theme; a gorgeous 1977 performance)
SANTO & JOHNNY Sleepwalk (closing theme)
Show ended approximately 3:10 AM
List typed up by Vin on Monday 9/1/97 at 2:00 PM; all omissions are
inadvertent and all typos and spelling mistakes are solely mine.
IDIOT's DELIGHT is produced by KARA MANNING.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:
9/7 JOE JACKSON
9/14 PAUL AUSTER, author
9/21 THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS
9/28 MAGNET (w/MOE TUCKER)
10/5 DAVE SOLDIER
10/19 WHISKEYTOWN
11/16 HUNGERTHON RENT PARTY to raise money for World Hunger Year
(Yes, I will once again play your requests for donations to W.H.Y. —
the only time I ever play requests!)
PROGRAM NOTE: Due to the broadcast this Fall of the New York Giants Sunday
afternoon football games, Idiot's Delight will start at approximately 9 PM
(instead of 8 PM) immediately following the "post-game show" on the following
dates: 9/7, 9/21, 10/12, 10/19, 11/9 and 11/30. There will be no show at all
on 11/23 because that's a night game.