he's pretty good but you never get to really enjoy it when he's on muchmusic. the going coastal and much on demand interview bits are too short. and he's kind of started being just a zany character. he's really a pretty good interview guy, though. he's my favorite interview guy ever, i think. it's neat to hear him pull out some super-obscure question.

they could delete one episode of becoming from the schedule and fit in a nardwuar show.

WEEELLL-COOOOM TO MY (TO MY)
CAAAAAAAAAAA-SSSSTTLLEEE!

WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!

(etc.)

Doot doola doot doot...

I GOTTA RASH!

I'M GOING TO FRANCE!

also, new album has a song written by former Chretien advisor Warren Kinsella!

I do know that most of his releases are also available on 8-track.

NO ONE TOLD ME!

I am so fucking into this right now. Three hours of YouTube!

dude's clear love of blowfly and millie jackson are huge points in his favor

henry lollins is such a dick to him

RAHZEL interview is so abstract and funny
TAUGHT ME THEN TAUGHT ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUKssQ4W0BI

ahahahahah weird al ahahahahaha

Theres a DVD go buy it IMHO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXcIcblLDI

omg rahzel imitating him is wonderful

I posted a couple of my favourite Nardwuar bits in this thread:

Bands/artists you now respect more only because they were so rad to Nardwuar

Total classic. Aside from being funny, he actually does a lot of research into his subjects and constantly comes up with questions that leave them shocked at what he knows... Well, I think that David Cross says it best at 2:10 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTHFIvHW1b8

There's actually two DVD. The second featuring a lot more of his really early stuff. I own both but I've never gotten around to watching the second.

totally inviting dude to summerstage

I watched a couple last night also.. the lady gaga one was cool bc I learned that she loves new kids on the block & she's never heard of andrew wk.. the nirvana one was uncomfortable and as if I needed another reason to dislike courtney love, she refers to Sloan as "The sloan band" at least twice.

to be honest i watched that last night and i thought courtney was far more normal and courteous than kurdt or noveselic, unless you are just bound and determined to hate her

ohhhhh this lil b one is making me really like both of them a lot

hahaha, the end of the lil b interview.

he is my city's finest, his band the evaporators was one of my favorite live acts when i was a teenager, and he's done so much for vancouver's music scene. when my friend was starting to release albums narduwar was willing to spend hours on the phone with him giving advice about DIY music. he talks normal when he's not in character, it's actually a little jarring to see the switch

"check this out little b!!!" *hands him a bunch of records*
"this is great" (lil b has the expression & intonation of someone who really doesnt want to hurt their grandmother's feelings when they get socks for christmas)

my reaction was pretty similar to forks when i discovered nardwuar a year or two ago, ie. where has this guy been all my life

Haven't heard this in a few years :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWI45d2DTs

I didn't realise that he'd done so much. My favourites are the earlier interviews - the one with sonic youth for instance.

he is my city's finest, his band the evaporators was one of my favorite live acts when i was a teenager, and he's done so much for vancouver's music scene. when my friend was starting to release albums narduwar was willing to spend hours on the phone with him giving advice about DIY music. he talks normal when he's not in character, it's actually a little jarring to see the switch

It's a fact that he has done more for local music than practically anyone else. He's put on hundreds of gigs (mostly all-ages) interviewed or showcased pretty much every little band that makes an effort to contact him, helped god knows how many musicians in thousands of ways and done more to promote the history of Cdn punk/rock than anyone.

I quibble with the last sentence though. He is generally less shrill and less confrontational in real life but he's *never* "not in character". He is always Nardwuar.

dyin at david cross repeating the celebrity poker question

watching nardwuar hand Greg Ginn a copy of my black flag book on camera in his interview was a total unexpected "oh fuck wow wow" moment for me

as much for, like, nardwaur has read my book as, wow, greg ginn now owns a copy of my book

http://www.brianjohnsonracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ACDC-Brian-Johnson-Rock-Icon.jpg

http://www.planetslade.com/images/andycapp/14img602.jpg

Nardwuar is the best. Love the Pharrell interview.

Glad he's on the mend

some good new 1s from sxsw

<3 metro boomin when nard is like so do you trust trump & metro is all im not really answering who I trust and whatnot but (leans in to the mic) no of course not who could trust that nigga

so glad he's recovered enough to go to SXSW. i can't take Nardwuar dying young.

I can't take it at all

Sorry Nard you gotta outlive every other member of the human race

If only so you can ask newly evolved intelligent flying octopi about the punk bands they were into in middle school

Jesus Christ, I saw this link at the top and after his recent health scare, I feared the worst

Glad he's okay.

Doot-doota-loot-doot...

ugly god completely demolished by the nard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCr1F60R41U

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/nardwuar-marks-30-years-of-interviews-and-keeps-onrockin/article36293249/

yeah!

somehow ended up watching a Henry Rollins interview w/a friend and the suggested videos had both of Nardwuar's interviews

it's beautiful, he completely reveals the insecurities and cracks in Rollins's shtick! love you Nardwuar

Nardwuar fucking rules.

so glad he recovered, love this guy

seeing him do a video exhibition thing in December, stoked!!

I see Slow have reformed to do something.

Thread bump made me nervous

He's pretty prolific on instagram. Most recently, reposting all the people who dressed as him for Halloween; fun stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFG-b21aW_w

the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIPhoeHKme0

damn nardwuar got on stage with him, dude's so cool

Logic was super kind and chill

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ND5y5ugCn9A

He was (finally) added to the BC Walk of Fame yesterday, which was proclaimed Nardwuar Day in Vancouver.

https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/71118710_10157427263694890_5664036053435023360_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQkQ22QxQpil_06PAmLqDfGP95Uf7Ge4J_ZjUAcNXdgCDss56rf6nzvZwkKnNurArj4&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=3ebc7859f071919811243737e68f7bd1&oe=5E364963

Praise him 🙏

missed out on the option to DOOT DOODLE OOT DOOT HEREBY PROCLAIM

Nard's mom was apparently in the ICU for most of 2021, he did an amazing remote interview with the medical team as a benefit for the hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1bTL0j9B6Q

just an absolute marker beacon for how to be a good human

he's recently back with some very good interviews with Flo Milli, jpegmafia, J Cole.

I only just learned that the Doot Doodle Oot Doot bit is called "Shave and a Haircut."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut

HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?????

good on nardwuar. exemplary.

HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?????

Not since I was a kid. I know what I'm doing this weekend, thanks!

lol I've never seen (and tbh still haven't watched) his Ted talk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSUazeI2nM

(don't want to spoil for those that haven't seen it, but wfrr? is where i first learned the "shave and a haircut" bit)

his ted talk roolz.

I've always known shave and a haircut, from Looney Tunes cues on down/up. The wiki informs me that, among other facts:

The tune has been used innumerable times as a coda or ending in musical pieces. It is strongly associated with the stringed instruments of bluegrass music, particularly the 5-string banjo. Earl Scruggs often ended a song with this phrase or a variation of it. On the television show The Beverly Hillbillies, musical cues signifying the coming of a commercial break (cues which were in bluegrass style) frequently ended with "Shave and a Haircut". It is the most popular bluegrass run, after the G run.

Johnny's Theme, the music that opened The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, famously ended with the "shave and a haircut" flourish every weeknight for 30 years and 4,531 episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hcqb3hAmr8

Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol recording of "Magic Melody" concluded with the phrase minus the last two notes ("two bits"). Responding to complaints from disc jockeys, Capitol in 1955 released "Magic Melody Part 2"—consisting solely of the missing notes—on a 45, said to be the shortest tune on record/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2O06pa9mjU

The original version of "Love and Marriage" by Frank Sinatra (recorded for Capitol Records in 1955) ends with the tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpeiuVL5hLs

Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol recording of "Magic Melody" concluded with the phrase minus the last two notes ("two bits"). Responding to complaints from disc jockeys, Capitol in 1955 released "Magic Melody Part 2"—consisting solely of the missing notes—on a 45, said to be the shortest tune on record/

lol, this is fantastic, A+++ response

actual lol

nardwuar's GOAT record.

Daniel Kaluuya! was finally wondering which celeb would call nardwuar out.

What are you referring to?

I had to Google it myself. I guess the actor was on Hot Ones, and compared the host to Nardwar, positively.

sorry, yeah the hot ones show. nardwuar on that program would be amazing.

was v anxious for a minute there that narduwar did something terrible

Yeah tbh it was a very cryptic and misleading post...

"Magic Melody - Part II" even has a discogs entry:
https://www.discogs.com/release/22510415-Les-Paul-Mary-Ford-Magic-Melody-Part-II

The label lists the time as "one second". There's a bit of debate as to whether it's shorter than a split 7" with Napalm Death's "You Suffer" on the first side and Electro Hippies "Mega Armageddon Death Part 3" on the B-side:
https://www.45cat.com/record/pro234

But that was a commercial release whereas the Les Paul single was a promo only. As one of the posters points out one second is shorter than a single rotation of a 45rpm 7", so the songs have to be padded out with silence. Unless the groove didn't cover the whole circumference of the record, which would probably be murder on styluses. Stylii?

the Lizzo interview feels like one of the rare times where it's pretty clear who supplied some of the question material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNGIsDFTj9Y

nardwuar hijacking the best show is exactly as great as you'd expect it to be.

Behold: An hour of Nardwuar with Nickelback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X2PrFAn_uA

release the nickelback talk box tape!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ti0DAAvVY

finally got his (outside of neil young) white whale!

lol hearing security say "yo nardwaur's good"

Unless i missed it he still didn’t get the doot doot from uzi though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fiZB-TvPFU