C/D: Nardwuar

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

And he's going to call you up and say "Hey wait I would have done some interviews" and then Rollins will feel left out and do the same thing and you can have the revised edition with everyone's stories at last and retire rich and famous. (I like thinking this is how the world must work.)

yeah, that's usually the point at which i wake up...

in case anyone doesn't know, Nardwuar has a show on WFMU available streaming here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/NW.

my fav nardwuar moment is the last 2 min of the white stripes interview where he reads to jack white from groupie central dot com :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbNAMStU4o0

"those are some good lies"

He is generally less shrill and less confrontational in real life but he's *never* "not in character". He is always Nardwuar.

― everything

I dunno. I've seen him be just John. Not in public places, tho.

slipknot interview is great

nardwuar gets one of the silent clown dudes talking about naughty by nature and suddenly the dude just gets so embarrassed that he runs away

CLOWN NUMBER THREE! COME BACK!

"Sean number six clown of Slipknot....."

"you guys did an interview where you told FHM-- slipknot said to FHM magazine that, quote, they've: PLEASURED GROUPIES WITH LOBSTER CRUSTACEANS!!!!!"

*awkward silence*

"...i don't know anything about that"

"and what i was wondering is: when you pleasure the groupies, number three, do they want you to wear the mask, or not???"

"...i don't pleasure them"

"where's number three going??? number three! number three!"

http://nardwuar.com/gallery/albums/nardpics/slipknot.sized.jpg

I've seen him be just John. Not in public places, tho.

― relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems I have loved (staggerlee), Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:22 PM (2 hours ago)

Yup.

"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)

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha. it might have been bcuz he gave him a record for the wrong Choppa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3IOq4uzpc

god the last minute or so of that video is insane, he's gotta be blazed

man i wish i had my headphones with me so i could listen at work. haven't seen a bunch of these.

It's fun to watch the reactions he elicits on them but really he's not that impressive. Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them. The reaction is natural and sometimes entertains the artists simply because they're used to people asking the same questions all the time and it feels refreshing to have someone bring out some rare records and ask you about that first band or bad haircut you had.

that Curren$y interview had me loling in my office

It's fun to watch the reactions he elicits on them but really he's not that impressive. Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them. The reaction is natural and sometimes entertains the artists simply because they're used to people asking the same questions all the time and it feels refreshing to have someone bring out some rare records and ask you about that first band or bad haircut you had.

― Moka, Friday, March 25, 2011 4:06 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm this is also why the jay-z one in partic didnt impress me so much, since the more obscure trivia about him is pretty well known

also why its kind of goofy that he messed up the different Choppa's

Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them.

yes, sometimes this ^^ but stuff like a groupie's report on Jack White's style in bed, or a totally batshit, off-the-wall string of connections between Slipknot, Ross Robinson, some bass player, Vanilla Ice and Naughty by Nature, is not really designed to "impress" -- more like "provoke," see how much an artist can take before breaking down on camera (Jack White clearly can hang; Slipknot guy w/ long nose, not so much)

if that's what makes up most of your act, you're doing fine.

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