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Habitat Enrichment

Feb 15, 2024 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

With Krista

Habitat Enrichment is the concept of introducing novelty to an animal's enclosure to keep it from getting bored or sad. Let me play you something fun. Genres span world and time, just like a cat with a box to play in.

Some specialties you can usually hear a little on my show: Luk Thuong, 60s crooners, cow punk, and synthwave. If you don't like the song currently playing, wait approximately 2 minutes for something else!

anti valentine

broken, deranged, sorrowful, and delusional love songs. NO murder ballads (just break up, you utter maniac)

7:01 AM		The Hesitations Go Away Masterpieces of Modern Soul Ace Records 2016
7:04 AM		The Choir It's Cold Outside It's Cold Outside/I'm Going Home Canadian American 1966
7:08 AM		Buttering Trio I Cried for You Jam Raw Tapes Records 2014
7:12 AM		ODESZA The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette) The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette) - Single Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune 2022
7:21 AM		BaBa ZuLa Adultress (feat. Mad Professor) [Dub Version] XX Glitterbeat Records 2017
7:22 AM		Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina Stereo Love Stereo Love - EP Catchy Tunes 2010
7:26 AM		Daryl Hall & John Oates Everytime I Look At You Abandoned Luncheonette Rhino Atlantic 1973
7:32 AM		Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Good
7:40 AM		Erik Zurcher Once You Said You Wouldn't Leave Me, Baby VI Ska Alla Den Vägen Vandra! 1982
7:47 AM		Tamaki Sawa Last Theme
7:55 AM		Erykah Badu Next Lifetime Baduizm (Special Edition) Motown (Kedar) 2007
8:05 AM		Balladur Time Is a Killing Machine Balladur 2013
8:08 AM		Mabel Thinking of You Thinking of You - EP Polydor Records 2017 "I'm a nine, you're a five" -screaming at this being a love song
8:11 AM		two blinks, i love you i love you N ep 1 - EP Heist Or Hit Records 2023
8:16 AM		Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams Your Mind’s Walking Out Plastic Bouquet New West Records 2020
8:18 AM		Ola Belle Reed High On a Mountain Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2002
8:22 AM		Thai hill tribe musicians The Errant Husband (Hmong) Voices from Within: Women of the Golden Triangle Indigenius 2009
8:25 AM		Courtney Marie Andrews Let the Good One Go Honest Life Loose Music 2017
8:33 AM		Charley Crockett In the Night In the Night Son of Davy 2016
8:37 AM		Stylar Loneliness the saddest beeps
8:41 AM		Art Lord & The Self-Portraits We Were Flames In Your Idea House 307 Knox Records 2008
8:44 AM		Nyarons The Space Between Us N The Space Between Us - Single MARU STUDIO 2023
8:47 AM		Aaliyah Miss You I Care 4 U Blackground Records, LLC 2002
8:51 AM		Leonard Cohen The Night of Santiago Thanks for the Dance Columbia/Legacy 2019
8:58 AM		Bobby Vee Pretend You Don't See Her Rarities EMI Gold 2010
9:01 AM		Jerry Landis Play Me a Sad Song Play Me a Sad Song - Single Warwick Records 1961
9:03 AM		The Ballet House on Fire
9:08 AM		Bill Ryder-Jones A Bad Wind Blows in my Heart A Bad Wind Blows in my Heart Domino Recording Co 2013
9:12 AM		Alice Clark I Keep It Hid Alice Clark Mainstream Records 1972
9:15 AM		Fawn Wood Mr. Wrong Iskwewak - Songs of Indigenous Womanhood Canyon Records 2012
9:19 AM		PRINCESS PRINCESS Go Away Boy STAR BOX EXTRA PRINCESS PRINCESS Sony Music Labels Inc. 2001
9:23 AM		Prince 17 Days (Piano & a Microphone 1983 Version) Piano & a Microphone 1983 Warner Records 2018 the "good god" here is a kick to the gut. the perfectionist directions here in amongst his obvious distress is classic Prince
9:30 AM		veggi Lost You Liquid - EP Lowly 2022
9:36 AM		Etulu Etidloie Uinirulutuinnaria - Get Married, I Don't Care N Udlumi Isumait - Today's Thoughts Pheromone Distribution / Fontana North 2023
9:38 AM		Martha Wainwright Love Is a Stranger I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too Zoe Records 2008
9:41 AM		Jimmy Mawi Let Me Keep Away from You Jimmy Mawi - EP Soundway Records Ltd 2013
9:45 AM		Sarah Mary Chadwick Someone Else’s Baby N Messages To God Kill Rock Stars 2023 can't stop playing this one, so good
9:52 AM		Bob Dylan Most of the Time Oh Mercy Columbia 1989
10:00 AM		Borislav Slavov Down by the River Baldur's Gate 3 (Original Game Soundtrack) Borislav Slavov 2023
10:01 AM		Shin joo hyung i think there was someone else

Chat is archived.

good morning!

Ohai

how's it going? did you have a good valentine's day? My parents are visiting this weekend so I was busy turning my hovel less shambolic

I'm at the Sad ShopRite getting some Sad Seltzer

shoprite blastin "proud to be an american" when you walk in is the definition of bad vibes

I found out that's ONLY at these Wakefern/World Class owned ones. I went to a different one near Cherry Hill last year and it was totally different. No music and a different layout too.

I love how they interrupt the commercial radio inside the store every 30 seconds with more ShopRite propaganda just like Wawa does

when i worked at Petsmart it was excruciating

"you're in a Petsmart! Welcome to hell! is the sound of 16 dogs barking at once not enough?? how about an ad for the store you are currently inside"

The day I have to ever return to customer facing work is when I'll go to Newark airport and live there forever like that Brazilian guy

good morning. it's that day when the chocolates are half off and all the seniors are out hoarding it up. betty has a hell of a voice....

Mornin!

Bettye is incredible. She's done it all: country, gospel, dance

TAndy - did i miss the can can sale? they toned down the sexiness of the tv commercials over the years....

You're so right.

I won't forgive them for changing the look of the little Mario ripoff. 3

a real shame, Dale, I loved the jarring (pun intended) juxtaposition of sexiness and canned food

*electric can opener whirrs* OH YEAHBABY ITS THAT TIME

can can sale

ha ha!

funniest lyric from "everytime I look at you" : Everytime I see your face, I can't believe how you lied to me So get your laundry out of my place

Aw man Hall & Oates is another unfortunate heartbreak story augh

Still funny though just scrolling around and seeing all of a sudden there was a restraining order involved like HUH??

deep H&O cuts with Deejay Krista! 💥💥💥

I'll never believe those two aren't deeply in love

Hoates shipper, what can I say

unnecessary bluegrass breakdown here

i saw daryl hall anddiana ross chumming it up in that we are the world documentary. i wonder if that's how he ended up producing her swept away album. seemed like such an incongruous matchup to me at the time.

Hall moved onto better and bigger things. Like Wheat. Got tired of Oats every night :)

Mornin JimbeaYEEEEEEEEEHAW BANJO YEAH FIDDLE WOO

Yeoooooowheehawwww

speaking of breakups, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires broke up

imagine the absolute audacity of being told "I can't make myself be good I wish I could Somewhere my conscience tuned to petrified old wood I can't make myself do right On Friday night"

I've got some wood for you, baby! IT'S MY PETRIFIED CONSCIENCE

love tamaki.

that "sayonara" hits so deep

i may have to put on some michel polnareff later today.

I refused to watch it because I was asleep

literally slept on em

I was out in the woods, it was a beautiful day. Found some snowdrops coming up.

I don't like either team either so poo. I wanted to see the Lions but nah it was just average NFL Agenda™bowl

notice my bee balm is poking up out of the earth. under a blanket of snow now but i shouldn't see that until april.

yes, I also wanted to see the Lions! I lived in Ypsilanti for a year and got a little taste of Lions fandom

Right, Dale, the woods definitely thought it was spring when I was out there. Hopefully the ticks got frozen

for some reason, a lot of birdsong made its way onto the playlist this time

birdsong is welcome.

maybe the most cutting lyrics of the day: Time is on your side Though you're looking like you're barely alive Cursed by how you envisioned your life And you don't know how to change it now

CURSED BY HOW YOU ENVISIONED YOUR LIFE

Good morning all.

good morning, Amy Lee

i always wonder how i got where i am. not where i thought i'd be. so many currents pushing and pulling.

i wish i could understand what comeuppance is beffalling this errant husband.

Dropped off our international student this morning and kept mumbling "Love is a killing machine' so my very bent brain would remember to look it up when I got to my studio. Boss show this morning. THX

Thanks, Todd, glad to give you brainworms

For kicks, eyeball what we're doing at the Navy Yard in Philly, and share with any of your friends from there. MUCH groove being planned out, in the face of MUCH opposition by Philistines. Somehow, that makes it that much more delicious. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1043586586919429

if someone says 'this will hurt me more than it will hurt you' - RUN.

Extremely odd event just happened. My portable radio is somehow 1.5 seconds ahead of my bedside radio. both are on FM

Good morning, folks!

you've got a jump on reality, 1.5 seconds

good morning, iamthelabhras

agree, Dale, wtfffffff I hate a nice breakup. tell me I'm a piece of shit, don't say I'm nice

at least if I'm a piece of shit there's somewhere to improve

TAndy - you have a time machine there. albeit a not very useful one.

Mornin Labhras, Todd, and Amy!

@TAndy ... do you ever sleep?

this song is so outta line

"she said she was a maiden. that isn't what I heard."

then it gets way more out of pocket from there

her thighs slipped away from me like schools of startled fish

soon the night surrenders to a daffodil machete

her nipples rose like bread. urp.

lol dave i specifically avoided recounting that lyric

i can never walk past the bakery section the same again.

this mother of multiple children tricked Leonard Cohen into thinking she was a virgin... LOL

what a weird weird way to start a fling

went to visit a girlfriend of three years once on a sunday morning. her trash can was full of beer cans and liquor bottles and snack bags. i asked 'did you have a party and i wasn't invited?' that was pretty much the end.

oof, Dale

I've also been the bad one, that should be clear. I was a rip roaring mess in my early 20s

oh, there was a decade where i didn't think with my brain.

I ghosted before I knew it was a thing. Not proud...

same, Amy Lee

@labhras Sleep will come within the next hour if my body allows me

For the record, I didn't think it was a 'relationship' per se.

Morning Kris, mutual familiar songs (Hall-Oates, Erykah, Aaliyah)

if I thought a person was normal I would just say "hey the chemistry ain't there" but if I thought they were clingy, creepy, etc then I would just ghost. This is when I would go ona few dates, never ghosted a full on relationship

good morning, Ossy

"....never ghosted a full on relationship." i guess i was special then.

ha ha, these lyrics...

"Mr Five Kids On the Side"

Ouch. 💔

Excellent anti-love song picks, Krista!

@ Krista (host) It's a painfully good theme today, Krista. Post-Valentines = Post-Love.

Thanks, Christine and Richard

@ Krista (host) I don't know if you have time and/or music library to take requests, but ... "Again and Again" by The Bird & the Bee ("It's creepy how we always seem to do it again") or "Oh My God" by The Police ("How can I turn the other cheek/It's black and bruised and torn").

Krista, that was the exact situation, so yeah.

💜 Prince

Or "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan ...

at least the sandpiper isn't a dick like the cowbird.

Beat me to it Dale.

Wow, this version of Eurythmics...

amy lee, wouldn't be so bad if they just added an extra egg to someone else's nest, it's the kicking one of the eggs out that's douchey.

yesh, this is a nice toe tapper.

So fitting Dale - as lately, I've been more of a 'drinking beer & cursing at birds' kind of birder.

drinking and cussing birders are valid

at least you're not in love with the birds. Flaco the Owl has claimed another victim to his magnetic charm

Speaking of birds, has anyone seen the male painted bunting that was at Bartram's Garden in Philly?

Well, with a name like Flaco.. Christine - that is so cool! Have not seen it.

I haven't seen it in person either, but I follow Bartram's Garden on socials and I saw some beautiful photos people took.

gorgeous, Christine, would love to sight it

Flaco and Big Bird??? Truly, the love that dare not speak its name!!!

@Richard, lol

Christine - Sounds beautiful like a peacock

ooh, love this one. oh mercy is one of the few dylan albums i can sit through from a to z.

I'm a dylan fangirl

Thank you Krista for this timely anti-valentine show! 💌

Luna does a fantastic cover of this Dylan song.

(*note to catch up on news...). Saw a Pileated Woodpecker next to Shoprite in Burlington NJ a few weeks ago, just slumming it w/some sparrows on a narrow strip of trees lining the delivery road.

the pat garrett and billy the kid soundtrack is pretty special. think i was just too much into proggy stuff when i was a kid.

amy lee, i saw one in the trees behind my house a couple of weeks ago too. i like that they like to do their tree clinging and pecking low to the ground.

Thanks for a great show Krista!

thanks for the music and good chatter.

Great show @Krista! Happy post-V-Day everybody.