Listener comments!

♥ 2:01pm
: hey Roman, doin the Frug, the Twist, the Shing-A-Ling! 🎸 ♥ 2:01pm
Roman Angelos: Ciao Mr Fab! ♥ 2:02pm
Mr Fab: confession: I have no idea how to do the Shing-A-Ling. But hey, who does? 🎸 ♥ 2:02pm
Roman Angelos: I'm always ready to do the twist ♥ 2:03pm
MHLee: Goes hard 🎸 ♥ 2:03pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @2:02

it only makes me think of jokes that are dirty so yeah, I have no idea either ♥ 2:04pm
Otis: Hi Roman and friends. 🎸 ♥ 2:04pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Otis @2:04

Ciao Otis! 🎸 ♥ 2:06pm
Paper Kosmonaut: Buon pomeriggio! 🎸 ♥ 2:06pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @2:06

Hey PK! 🎸 ♥ 2:07pm
Paper Kosmonaut: Hey Roman. I caught the show almost from the beginning this time. ♥ 2:08pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Otis @2:04

Hey Otis, was Roma Wine actually from Roma? ♥ 2:09pm
David The Splatter: Buon pomeriggio, Roman and all. 🎸 ♥ 2:10pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ David The Splatter @2:09

Hello David, welcome!   🎸 ♥ 2:11pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @2:02

You'll have to ask a girl named Rama Lama Lama Lama Ding Dong.   🎸 ♥ 2:11pm
Jay Current: Hello everyone! 🎸 ♥ 2:12pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Jay Current @2:11

Then also ask her who put the bomp in the bomp-ba-bomp-a-bomp. 🎸 ♥ 2:13pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @2:12

I will not allow this type of language on the board! :) ♥ 2:13pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @2:12

Who do I see about the Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa? ♥ 2:13pm
Mr Fab: i asked the Dalai Lama Rama Ding Dong, but he had no idea. So much for enlightenment! ♥ 2:15pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Mr Fab @2:13

What a dip-da-dip-da-dip! ♥ 2:16pm
mattymatt: hi folks, happy friday   🎸 ♥ 2:16pm
Jay Current:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @2:12

The FCC won't let us discuss the boogity, boogity, boogity shoop though. 🎸 ♥ 2:17pm
Fiore: Partial To Ooh eee, ooh ah-ah, ting tang
Walla walla, bing-bang ♥ 2:18pm
Mr Fab:

↳ David The Splatter @2:15

Ha!

I put the bomp in, but they removed it for remodeling, and haven't put it back since.

  🎸 ♥ 2:18pm
Jay Current: You ever heard of SEO (search engine optimization)? The band "the the" has whatever the opposite of that is. ♥ 2:19pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Giorno di festa" by "Homo Sapiens"

I played a band called The Four couple weeks ago.
Apart from the creativity issue, it also kinda locks in the number of band members. 🎸 ♥ 2:20pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @2:18

haha - exactly! And is there actually a band called "Various Artists"? I've heard a number of musicians joke about calling their band that 🎸 ♥ 2:20pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @2:19

until you find out they had seven members ♥ 2:21pm
Otis:

↳ Mr Fab @2:08

The company was from Cali   🎸 ♥ 2:22pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:20

There is an electronic duo named Various, but there doesn't seem to be a Various Artists. 🎸 ♥ 2:22pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @2:22

you also could probably never find them 🎸 ♥ 2:23pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:22

When I worked at ASCAP I learned that "Hold On" was the number one name for songs written ♥ 2:23pm
Mr Fab: was bummed that one of our stars (Luka) got his damn self injured just before playoffs, but heck, the Lakers have won so many rings, guess it's finally The Knicks turn. And hey, my family is orig from NYC, so Go Knicks! 🎸 ♥ 2:23pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @2:23

yeah c'mon. Let us have one!! 🎸 ♥ 2:27pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Mr Fab @2:19

The band The Band of course is the most well known band with that issue. 🎸 ♥ 2:28pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @2:23

Maybe we gotta get Luka's favorite bands of his youth and play them on VVV   🎸 ♥ 2:32pm
Jay Current: For some reason, I thought the Knicks had won one in the back half of the '70s, but '73 was the last one. But hey it could be worse; the closet two NBA teams to me are the Charlotte Hornets and Atlanta Hawks... ♥ 2:32pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:28

can't imagine a basketball star diggin Laibach, but who knows? 🎸 ♥ 2:36pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @2:32

yeah probably not 🎸 ♥ 2:38pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @2:32

You think Wemby is a big Gainsbourg fan? ♥ 2:40pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:38

ha, they probably all like lame American hip-hop. 🎸 ♥ 2:42pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @2:40

Finnish hockey player Kaapo Kakko said all the other American Rangers players listened to modern country all the time. Which is funny bc they're from like, Pittsburgh 🎸 ♥ 2:42pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Song: "Yazık Oldu Sana" by "Tülin Öz"

Venüs! 🎸 ♥ 2:44pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:42

However Mika Zibanejad does like Aviici so I guess that's like....not awful   🎸 ♥ 2:44pm
Jay Current:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @2:42

Made famous by Dutch band Shocking Blue 🎸 ♥ 2:45pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @2:44

wellllll....would we say their version is more famous than Bananarama? 🎸 ♥ 2:46pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:45

or more famous than the Venus razor commerical? hahaha ♥ 2:51pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @2:42

Ha, yeah, I only say my name/show name, for that very reason: I figure all listeners know what they were clicking on.

But yes, we've grown up with broadcast radio traditions.

  🎸 ♥ 2:51pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:46

"Venus" was released before "fire" and "desire" became pop music's greatest rhyming cliche.   🎸 ♥ 2:52pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Va!... tu sei libero" by "Nella Bellero"

Some Lesley Gore now 🎸 ♥ 2:52pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @2:51

I'm still searching for the person who thought it was ok to rhyme "baby" with "maybe" 🎸 ♥ 2:53pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:52

specifically when people say "i don't mean maybe" 🎸 ♥ 2:55pm
Paper Kosmonaut: Pain and again. 🎸 ♥ 2:55pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Song: "Shedio Gia Ena Skliro Poiima" by "Kyriakos Sfetsas"

The Greek Al DiMeola?   🎸 ♥ 2:56pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:53

It may have been Mike Love: en.wikipedia.org...   🎸 ♥ 2:56pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay Current @2:56

For the "don't mean maybe" context of the rhyme 🎸 ♥ 2:56pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @2:56

everything bad comes back to Mike Love 🎸 ♥ 2:59pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:56

The music nerd's favorite punching bag 🎸 ♥ 2:59pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @2:55

we should do one on foreign languages too. Like what are the most frustrating rhymes in Dutch   🎸 ♥ 3:00pm
Jay Current: Meanwhile, "maybe" and "baby" in general was already getting plenty of wear back in the days of Buddy Holly and Paul Anka. The former just straight-up has a song titled "Maybe Baby." 🎸 ♥ 3:01pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:00

oh right, duh! 🎸 ♥ 3:02pm
Roman Angelos: but yeah for me it's the kind of mid to late 80s hard rock "baby don't mean maybe" line 🎸 ♥ 3:04pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Roman Angelos @2:59

There's one man who is the guiltiest culprit. But he's already dead: André Hazes. He was famous for his ambitions to be taken seriously as a songwriter but he always walked around with a genuine rhyming word book. He covered Nella Bellero's Va! tu sei libero / You don't own me. His rhyming was quite awful.   🎸 ♥ 3:04pm
Jay Current: "Money" and "Honey" is another one. Also "Girl," "World," and "Pearls" see plenty of usge despite none of them quite rhyming. 🎸 ♥ 3:05pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:04

there we go! 🎸 ♥ 3:06pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:04

I also very much dislike when an artist will reverse the proper grammar of a sentence to make a rhyme...for example:

Looking back on when I was a little nappy headed boy
Then my only worry was for Christmas, what would be my toy

♥ 3:07pm
Mr Fab: We need more words that rhyme with "love."

Engineers need to get on this problem, like, now.

🎸 ♥ 3:08pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:07

flub isn't used enough ♥ 3:10pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:06

My beef is lyrics on the wrong syllable. Or, should I say, sy-LA-ble.

Like Pink's "Get this party starTED" always bothered me.

🎸 ♥ 3:10pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:10

oooh, good one 🎸 ♥ 3:10pm
Paper Kosmonaut: I still wait for a disco song called "discombobulated"   🎸 ♥ 3:11pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @3:07

It inevitably devolves into stuff like:

You send your love
You send it from above
It flies down like a dove
Your love is my drug

(Each end word pronounced as two syllables of course)

🎸 ♥ 3:11pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:10

how can that not exist! 🎸 ♥ 3:11pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Mr Fab @3:10

A-dult! a-DULT!
Ed-yoo-Kayshuuuuun! 🎸 ♥ 3:12pm
Roman Angelos: Then there is the practice of "serious" musical theater writers where EVERYTHING has to be a perfect rhyme. Thus you get (sometimes) incredible stupid lyrics ♥ 3:13pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @3:11

Exactly! Your only other options are "glove" or "shove", which don't lend themselves too easily to a love song. 🎸 ♥ 3:14pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:12

In that perspective I think it is marvellous what Mick Harvey has done with his translations of Gainsbourg songs. He even has made an effort to put in the same amount of word play. Very good stuff. 🎸 ♥ 3:15pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:14

oh, I do love to nerd out on alt book translations. I think I may have gone through 4 or 5 versions of the Odyssey at this point ♥ 3:15pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:14

He dd a great job! Sometimes I think they flow even better in his English than the orig. 🎸 ♥ 3:16pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Mr Fab @3:15

Absolutely. His arrangements sometimes are also even more Gainsbourgesque than the originals.   🎸 ♥ 3:17pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @3:07

Doo-wop had arguably already solved this problem. You can just thrown a "buh-buh-duh-ba buh-buh need me your a love-uh" or "hubba-bubba-dubba, just me and my lovuh" in there when you run low on words.   🎸 ♥ 3:18pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @3:13

Songwriting challenge: make a serious rhyme of love and glove without the phrase "fits me like a..." ♥ 3:18pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @3:17

yes! More gibberish lyrics, please! bring back the days when songs like "Surfin Bird' topped the charts. 🎸 ♥ 3:19pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:18

ever seen Hannibal Buress's bit on the first person who decided to scat? ♥ 3:19pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Mr Fab @3:18

"Closing Theme from WKRP" should've been on the Hot 100! 🎸 ♥ 3:20pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:18

why do you think I like non-English music so much? I'm happy not knowing! Great or terrible it's all the same to me 🎸 ♥ 3:20pm
Paper Kosmonaut: Roman, have you ever played stuff from the late great Fadoul here? ♥ 3:20pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @3:18

Oooh, yeah...how about something along the lines of, "it hit me like a boxing glove"?

Or not...

🎸 ♥ 3:22pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:20

but you need to know at least a little. There have been a few times a song with questionable lyrics in Italian almost slipped through the cracks ♥ 3:23pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "L'esercito del surf" by "Catherine Spaak"

is there much surfing in italy?   🎸 ♥ 3:23pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @3:20

The lightest touch of your love
Softer than a velvet glove

That's the best I can get on my current five hours of sleep.

  🎸 ♥ 3:23pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @3:20

I feel like Sparks could pull off that lyric. 🎸 ♥ 3:23pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:23

I was gonna make a joke but honestly, there might be ♥ 3:24pm
Otis: Show today is keeping me cool during the humid heatwave working at the desk, sounding great Roman, I daydream in cinecitta now. ♥ 3:25pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:23

Not as long as Italian Jaws is around. :D
en.wikipedia.org... ♥ 3:25pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @3:23

"Pounded By the Pugilist of Love"   🎸 ♥ 3:25pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:19

No, but I'll check it after the show.   🎸 ♥ 3:26pm
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @3:25

Yeah, that's a Sparks title. ♥ 3:27pm
Otis: Ahh, Sven Libaek. Solar Flares and Inner Space are all time favs. Love the Votary/Roundtable loving reissue campaign over the years. 🎸 ♥ 3:30pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Otis @3:27

yeah, I've been on the search for an original Inner Space for many years 🎸 ♥ 3:30pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Otis @3:27

hey Otis! ♥ 3:30pm
Listening Out There: Am listening today for the first time...good program!   🎸 ♥ 3:30pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:02

I was in school during the peak of "Call Me Maybe." ♥ 3:31pm
Otis:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:30

May the godz of crates and bins be with both of us there! How many times have I played my reissue, my. 🎸 ♥ 3:31pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:20

I may have - at this point I'd have to check the playlists, but he's definitely in "the mix" over on the master VVV playlist ♥ 3:31pm
Otis:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:30

PK Hey Hey. There's a good rhyme! 🎸 ♥ 3:31pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Listening Out There @3:30

Ciao, LOT, thanks for coming by! ♥ 3:34pm
Otis: Running out on grocery errands, popping in earbuds for the show. Roman if I don't catch you at the end on chat have a good weekend. Choice tracks again today! 🎸 ♥ 3:35pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:31

Good! I love his tunes.   🎸 ♥ 3:37pm
Jay Current: Good show going today, by the way. Extra thankful since I'm stuck at work with basically no work to do this afternoon. 🎸 ♥ 3:37pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:35

yeah he's great....I really haven't started in with a bunch of that stuff. I really have such a backlog, which I guess is good! 🎸 ♥ 3:37pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Otis @3:31

It rhymes better than anything does with my real name. I guess nothing really rhymes with my name. ♥ 3:37pm
Mr Fab: from the film: "Shaft In Istanbul" 🎸 ♥ 3:38pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:37

thanks! Hey, listening to Ozkent rock out and do no work on a Friday, pretty good stuff 🎸 ♥ 3:38pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:37

There'll always be good music to discover. isn't that great? 🎸 ♥ 3:38pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:37

we gotta get this "Shaft from around the globe" show going ♥ 3:39pm
Herbie: 👋 🎸 ♥ 3:40pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Herbie @3:39

Ciao Herbie!   🎸 ♥ 3:40pm
Jay Current:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:38

A Mr. Fab/Roman Angelos crossover event? 🎸 ♥ 3:40pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:40

no doubt   🎸 ♥ 3:43pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Inno a Napoli ('A marcia nova)" by "Tullio De Pis...

There's a battle theme in the original Dragon Ball that sounds a bit close to this (minus the vocals.) 🎸 ♥ 3:44pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:43

oh nice. I can see it! ♥ 3:46pm
David The Splatter: Have to take care of some business here. If I don't get back before the end, thank you Roman and have a great weekend. 🎸 ♥ 3:46pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ David The Splatter @3:46

Thanks as always for being here! 🎸 ♥ 3:48pm
Paper Kosmonaut: DJ Georgygirl salutes you, Roman. Especially because you play this Piccioni after that Sorghini tune. 🎸 ♥ 3:49pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:48

wow, well I'll take it! ♥ 3:52pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:49

<runs in from the Flange> LOVING today's show!! <3
<runs back to the Flange> ♥ 3:52pm
Mr Fab:

↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @3:52

THERE she is! 🎸 ♥ 3:53pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ DJ GeorgyGirl @3:52

thanks GG! I just popped my head into the bar as well ♥ 3:53pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

↳ Mr Fab @3:52

I'm on my first glass of Malbec ;-) ♥ 3:53pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:53

<3 ♥ 3:54pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

↳ Roman Angelos @3:53

Come get a drink when you're done, lovely :-) 🎸 ♥ 3:54pm
Roman Angelos: I'm gonna grab a Gibson after the show ♥ 3:55pm
Mr Fab: this show probably goes well with Limoncello. 🎸 ♥ 3:56pm
Paper Kosmonaut:

↳ Song: "La partita di pallone" by "Rita Pavone"

Isn't she potayto? 🎸 ♥ 3:56pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Mr Fab @3:55

(pssst, the name of my Brazilian disco project)   🎸 ♥ 3:57pm
Jay Current: My phone keeps asking if I need a translation any time I go to this show's page. 🎸 ♥ 3:57pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Paper Kosmonaut @3:56

yes! 🎸 ♥ 3:57pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ Jay Current @3:57

hahaha, it can't handle this many languages....mwahahaha   3:58pm
asheville jon: Thanks Roman ♥ 3:58pm
David The Splatter: I haven't heard the word "Stunad" in years! :D 🎸 ♥ 4:00pm
Paper Kosmonaut: Mille grazie, Roman! ♥ 4:00pm
Mr Fab: chow, Roman! 🎸 ♥ 4:00pm
Roman Angelos:

↳ David The Splatter @3:58

i haven't heard it since I left home :) 🎸 ♥ 4:00pm
Roman Angelos: Thanks everyone!