WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from March 29, 2021

Listener comments!
	👻 9:00am YETI BOB: YIP!
	👻 9:00am 12539: RAY DEE OOOOOOOOOO!
	9:01am Clay Pigeon: Hey Joe! Think i forgot the legal ID. Have a great show. See you in May!
	👻 9:01am Threemoons: Greetings Joe McG, fellow YipYips!
	👻 9:02am YETI BOB: Maybe the YipYips can do the legal
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Monday! Happy happy! Hello, Joe and boingers!
	👻 9:03am Threemoons: YES to the YipYips doing the Legal!
	9:03am Strandlund: Yip Yip Yip 91.1
	👻 9:03am 12539: Clay drops the ball and Joe saves the day!
	9:04am Planet Tyler: Time to change my avatar back to the martians....
	9:04am Clay Pigeon: Thank God for Joe McGasko.
	👻 9:04am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG and fellow yippers!
	9:04am melinda: Morning Joe and friends!
	9:05am Son Of Pantz: Joe ain't called 'Mr Clutch' fer nuttin
	9:05am Creature Boy: Radio boing boing
	9:05am Phillippe Bastille: good morning!
	9:05am Waters7: Woo hoo!
	9:06am Creature Boy: 1984 Waylon , oh my goodness ...haha.
	👻 9:06am 12539: We still love you, Clay.
	👻 9:07am YETI BOB: I like Waylon's version a lot better than Jilly Boel's.
	9:07am earthwalker: Yeeee Hay Hi Joe !
	9:08am Son Of Pantz: Get it, Dolly!!!
	9:08am Creature Boy: Did Joel write this? Yeah. R we do for a billy J cover set?
	9:08am Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Joe and everybody else.
	9:08am Matt Fiveash: Is this what I think it is?
	9:08am GeorgeSimian: Great Dolly!
	👻 9:08am Threemoons: OK, now I imagine how the YipYips would handle a civil court appearance. I picture them with ties, slamming their briefcases....."Counsel and Co-counsel, how does your client plead?" "Not Guilty....Not Guilty....Nopenopenopenope yipyipyipyip letimgo letimgo yipyipyipyip..."
	9:09am REDSPIDER: Dolly and Waylon in the A.M.!
	9:09am sonofsammydavis: this Dolly is kicking ass.
	9:09am Krys O.: Hello, Dolly!
	9:09am JG: Billy Joel is a really good song writer
	9:09am Brian in Charlottesville: Good morning, Joe!
	9:09am Colleen: So fun!!
	9:09am KWilde: BJ covers
	👻 9:10am Threemoons: Saint Dolly, who is helping her rural community with essential COVID vaccine and acceptance thereof, AND doing literacy programs!
	9:11am REDSPIDER: This song (well not this version)reminds me of that Freaks and Geeks episode..
	👻 9:12am Threemoons: Let's hope that this entire set is "songs that were done better than Billy Joel did them!!"
	👻 9:12am Marley P. Dogg: Three moons - I would watch that legal drama show
	9:12am Roberto: I guess this is as close as we're going to get to an April 1st program.
	👻 9:12am Threemoons: @Marley It needs to be a recurring item on Adult Swim.
	9:13am Son Of Pantz: Who covers "Pressure"? I must know!!
	9:14am Creature Boy: Crazy set. I called it DURINg Waylon, first track
	9:14am WaffleMix: I'd like to see if a cover can elevate Uptown Girl
	👻 9:14am Threemoons: @WaffleMix I vaguely remember a foreign language cover of Uptown Girl on a different show....
	👻 9:15am Threemoons: @Creature Boy you get a cigar and your pick of the top shelf stuffed animals! :) Correct and nicely done!
	👻 9:16am Threemoons: AND speaking of foreign language covers.....yo soy en fuego!
	9:16am Niko, Copenhagen: Hey McGasko - and Surfacers - ... is this a Billy Joel track?!
	9:16am Heidi P: This Movin Out cover is amazing!
	9:16am Creature Boy: Joel looked like a Crumb character with his supermodel wife towering over him in the Uptown Girl video . Who was she again?
	👻 9:17am Threemoons: Niko--it would seem that this set so far is all BJ covers!
	9:17am djsheilab: What a set to be greeted with this Monday morning! Haha! Bravo Joe!
	9:17am nathan: ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK
	9:17am REDSPIDER: @CreatureBoy...Billy Noid lol
	9:17am Creature Boy: They're ALL Joel songs niko
	9:17am Niko, Copenhagen: All right. Joe is the one who could do it! Just tuned in I say to my defense... Cough...
	9:17am Sebastian: Guys and gals... grab a coffee and a pancake!
	9:18am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I happened to listen to River of Dreams this weekend.
	9:18am Asheville Jon: oh yeah, i like how this show is starting!
	👻 9:18am Threemoons: And Niko--hello to Copenhagen....spent almost a month there in the October after 9/11....my Danish BF at the time was going over for his grandparents' 75th anniversary, huge family reunion..his dad had over a million flyer miles left over and I was out of work so I got to stay with his family and fly over for free! Marvelous city.
	9:18am Joe McG: Just bowing to public PRESSURE. Everybody wanted it, so I'm an audience pleaser. :)
	9:18am Rich in Bay Ridge: Was in the shower listeneng as the show started and remembered the Billy Joel threat from last week. Well played!
	9:19am onthetrain: Joe any idea what city she said in place of Hackensack ack ack ack ?
	9:19am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Joe McG: Does this mean you'll be playing some pre-Eliminator ZZ Top?
	9:19am Creature Boy: Moving out was the first Billy Joel song I ever heard. In a tacky record store in Chicago in the 1970s
	9:19am jnif: #nabjfd
	9:19am JG: I am enjoying the hell out of this and w/out irony. I don't get people who thumb their nose condescendingly at Billy Joel as if a guy who who simply wrote DOZENS of hit songs, and with real musicianship, is not super talented. I think the guy is awesome. S are his MSG shows. Get over the "he's not cool" childishness
	9:19am Niko, Copenhagen: Joel is a very odd character in the history of pop music. Kind of "odd man out". Seems like a guy who had his feelings hurt somehow. I have a very soft spot for him - we always listen to him in the car on summer holidays. The kids like him!
	👻 9:20am Threemoons: HOLY CRAP RONNIE SPECTOR>BJ VERSION
	9:20am Renée In Fanwood: I see a pattern developing....
	👻 9:20am YETI BOB: 3Moons: Absolutely Anybody > BJ (in my opinion)
	👻 9:21am Ken From Hyde Park: When one artist appears consecutively, always check the obits! Billy Joel is still alive, so all is well. Any bets on who will cover "We Didn't Start the Fire"?
	9:21am REDSPIDER: "You May Be Right" should have been a Rolling Stones song
	9:21am onthetrain: Chipmunks at 16 speed covering blondie next ?
	👻 9:21am LW Rhino: Nice !
	9:21am Niko, Copenhagen: @Threemoons - glad you liked our humble capitol! Where in CPH did you stay?
	9:22am Creature Boy: Do u suppose Joel was a Nilsson fan? Do u THINNK he mightve been?
	9:22am Dano59: Ronnie did/released such great stuff in the '70s. This is way, way, way up there. I have the. 12' - anyone have the Record Store Day reissue?
	👻 9:22am Threemoons: @YetiBob I DO have a soft spot for Billy Joel--growing up in and around the NYC area, his music was an absolute constant backdrop for my entire childhood and adolescence. He was on every car pool radio when we got driven to school in the AM, the bus driver played stations that were Joel heavy, etc. I mean, from birth until I went away to college he was a constant. So there's some nostalgia there, but also a bit of resentment because he was so OVERPLAYED.
	9:24am harry j: that ronnie w e street was soooo goood
	9:24am Dano59: A recent top 10 by pop maven David Bash inspired me to post my own 10 by Billy. -- it's such a deep, diverse catalog. You can easily avoid a lot of the dross!
	👻 9:24am YETI BOB: @3Moons: I grew up in NJ and heard his songs constantly growing up, too. I think I just got the resentment part, not the nostalgia. (And then there's the fact that he's just terrible.)
	9:24am Tim 07030: Good morning, Joe! I have a vivid memory of the Three Degrees singing 'When Will I See You Again' in Japanese on the Mike Douglas Show.
	9:24am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from windy Tannersville Mr JMcG. Enjoying this set more than i expected. anyone remember when SUW did 'worst band in the world' episode...? took 45 minutes to get to answer: BJoel!
	9:24am Renée In Fanwood: JG, for me Billy Joel falls under the I can appreciate his talent, but he isn’t my thing. I grew up on Long Island, and it’s practically the law to love him. Kind of like Springsteen or Bon Jovi in NJ.
	9:24am Creature Boy: That Genya Raven Spector record is a killer Dano
	👻 9:25am YETI BOB: Can't stand Bruce Springsteen or Bon Jovi either. And only after about 60 years I'm starting to get over my distaste for Sinatra
	9:25am Dano59: @creature boy: Siren? oh yeah.
	9:25am Krys O.: My older brother had the Piano Man LP back then in 1973. I used to listen to it when I came home from school. Never kept up with him after that. I also found later on that Joel ripped off a lot of other composers, but not close enough to be sued.
	9:25am Joe McG: @YETI BOB: Springsteen special is NEXT week.
	9:26am Asheville Jon: oh no, springsteen, must avoid at all costs
	9:26am Sebastian: Sounds like a Bowie’s fame
	9:26am Renée In Fanwood: Ha ha Joe! You play what you want friend.
	9:26am Creature Boy: Yeah siren w Cheetah Chrome
	👻 9:26am Threemoons: @Niko I stayed in two different places--most of the time we were in a nice residential neighborhood within walking distance of the Hellerup subway stop, but we also spent a full week at the very nice home of his uncle up on the main peninsula. At the time, his uncle was the richest man in Denmark (may still be) and had a gorgeous house up near some managed pine stands. Really lovely. Peaceful, sane, clean country and city. We also visited a bunch of farm museums which were amazing. And I LOVED the food. A lot of mornings, my then-BF wanted solo time with his grands, so I would doddle off into the city and explore.....
	9:26am WaffleMix: Springsteen is great, maybe like Joel should stayed in the background as a songwriter. Bon Jovi, just no.
	9:26am onthetrain: Growing up in nj ,I can say Bon Jovi was never good . He had the look but ugg way over played .
	9:27am Renée In Fanwood: I did enjoy the Rosalinda’s Eyes cover.
	9:27am Creature Boy: Its a cool set nonetheless
	9:27am Listener Scott: I grew up on the Levittown-Hicksville (Long Island) border and delivered the Daily News to Billy Joel's house when I was 13.
	9:27am Dano59: I've wavered, waxed and waned with love and disdain/tiredness of both Joel and Springsteen. Like I said, I cherry-pick the good stuff. I've played Dolly's Travellin' Prayer on my own show,but that may be the only Joel I've touched to date. (since I had him on 8-track ...)
	9:27am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I find the sneering at the popular very entertaining here. Also laughed out loud yesterday when Jonesy played The Village People.
	👻 9:27am Threemoons: @Niko and his grands were ex-embassy. It was really nice living like a local for that month, hitting the grocery stores/auto repair shops, etc.....
	9:28am Dano59: and NOW Joe McG is in his wheelhouse!
	9:28am onthetrain: Jonsey plied the village people ! Get out !
	9:28am harry j: i used to bartend in sag harbor and billy was court ordered to live near town to prevent him from driving hed come in a down a bottle of vino @ 11 am all the time
	9:28am Listener Bop Monroe: they say that billy joel is a baaaadd mother shut your mouth!!!
	9:28am Colleen: Oh this guy's just askin for a fight...
	9:28am Dano59: next week: 17 Billy Joel versions of 'Eleanor Rigby'
	9:28am The Oscar: We need to re-normalize 10-minute spoken prologues to R&B songs.
	9:28am Tim 07030: This was not what I expected Billy's speaking voice to sound like.
	9:29am Krys O.: @Yeti Bob: Check out Sinatra's early stuff with the Dorsey Brothers in the 30s, then his Columbia recordings.
	👻 9:29am Threemoons: RE Springsteen--Another great artists and "growing up soundtrack" that sometimes reaches saturation level in my life.....
	9:29am Joe McG: @Dano59: Hard choice between this version and Barry White's.
	9:29am Spinning Giant: good morning and happy monday, gang! looks like i already missed aome tasty nuggies, but thia is a helluva cut to kick off the day with :D)))
	9:30am Creature Boy: I literally laughed out loud when trump exited (stage left) on air force one playing the Village People
	9:30am Dano59: yeah, I've heard Barry's ... kind of shocking on first listen. Isaac's delivery kind of fakes you out that he's gonna sing 'Let's Just Kiss and Say Goodbye'
	9:30am Listener Bop Monroe: oh chef... oh chef....
	9:30am harry j: theres a gr8 takanaka instrumental cover too
	9:31am Roberto: Should have been "try TO please me."
	9:31am Dano59: Meanwhile, all across the Tri-State area, people are drinking coffee and saying 'Did Billy Joel fucking DIE?'
	9:31am Niko, Copenhagen: @3moons - wow - sounds insane! Was it with a view over the sea - that leads to Sweden.? I have visited NJ and NY myself. And of course WFMU. I love your country and US folks. Lived in CA six months once when I was in academia. My first child spent her first months there. A magic time for me and my better half.. We lived in Santa Barbara...
	👻 9:31am Webhamster Henry: Isaac Hayes is redeeming this song.
	9:31am PaulRobeson1920: Yip Yip yip Good Morninggg
	9:31am Thursday Fernworthy: ISAAC!
	👻 9:31am Threemoons: @Joe McG: As a chaser, I think you need to play this, possibly in its entirety: www.youtube.com...
	9:32am harry j: anyone catch gene ween does billy joel live
	9:32am Niko, Copenhagen: Pheeew - this cover makes me a little emotional. I'm soft!
	9:32am Marco Esquandolas: @Dano59, Checking in to say Yep that's what I was thinking earlier
	9:32am JZI Jon: This is fantastic Joe. Love your show.
	9:32am bigkafka: is it a little warm in here? just me?
	9:33am choggie: Love his cover of Alanis Morrisette's,' Stinky Britches'
	9:33am Rick A: Have you ever played a Billy Joel song as performed by the man himself? I love Oleta Adams' version of "New York State of Mind".
	9:33am Dano59: I have three Joel covers in my iTunes, including Homer Simpson singing 'Uptown Girl'
	9:33am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I kissed a girl on a ferris wheel at the Skowhegan State Fair while this song played on the outdoor speakers.
	9:33am Asheville Jon: wow, at this rate, this song would take up an entire album side
	9:33am Jacques Trois: Springsteen is an all time favorite of mine. Bon Jovi, i only appreciate his Jersey pride.
	9:34am Creature Boy: I won't say my mind is blown. Perhaps blown dry?
	9:34am Joe McG: @Rick A: Good question! I'm not sure that I have.
	9:34am Son Of Pantz: Somehow my underwear just jumped off my body. That Isaac is a smoothie.
	9:34am Renée In Fanwood: Okay, here is my one Billy Joel story. When I was young my dad worked for a flooring company in Sag Harbor. He was sent to replace the carpet in a set of offices. Turns out they were Billy Joel’s and on one of the days my dad was working, he popped in and said hi to everyone. A few weeks later I was at a friend’s house and they were watching MTV (my family could not afford cable). The video for Pressure came on. As we watched I mentioned that my dad installed carpeting in his offices. At that moment, Billy Joel was swallowed by the carpet on the video! Hilarious!
	9:34am harry j: so smoove
	👻 9:34am Threemoons: @Niko--We were sort of in the center of the peninsula--very high elevation for Denmark; you needed a 4x4 to get up into the deep of the woods. There were a few gorgeous naturally colored mineral pools up there, and a family of tree-keepers lived in a little cottage up there--they had a few ponies and sometimes this little girl maybe 6 or 7 would ride one, herding along a flock of ducks.....Glad you like the US despite ourselves! Did you actually ever visit the WFMU studios?
	9:34am WaffleMix: Bon Jovi does good work, owns a restaurant that feeds the homeless. Never crashed and burned.
	9:34am Joe McG: @Woods: I love that story! @Renee: Another good story!
	👻 9:35am LW Rhino: Break out the malt liquor !
	9:35am JG: Renee, to each his own, but I find if you listen closely, his stuff has real emotional sincerity. Is it too much to deal with? And catch melodies too.
	9:35am queems: did billy joel die
	9:35am harry j: brass monkeys on isaac
	👻 9:35am Threemoons: I, too, am loving all of these Billy Joel stories!! And yeah, Isaac Hayes, although I can't hear him now without seeing Chef from South Park singing it.
	9:36am Listener Bop Monroe: he really did love his little crackers
	9:36am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @JoeMcG: Some people say that nostalgia isn't a 'valid' reason for liking something, which I think is pure, cynical B.S.
	9:36am PKNY: Had to do a Wikipedia lookup of this Isaac Hayes record, and it includes a track called "Shaft II"...my guess is it's not that good as the original.
	9:37am Creature Boy: Joel's addition to the reggae new wave "pressure" continuum wasn't lost on me back in the day
	9:37am LP Stevenson: Definitely making the best case argument for Billy Joel, but I've got to say you haven't sold me.
	👻 9:37am Threemoons: Chef Good morning Glisteners! How's it going? Glisteners Bad. Chef Why bad, kids? G JoeMcG is only playing Billy Joel covers. Chef Oh, come on now, kids, it's not ALL bad. He made some SWEET music to make SWEET LOVE too.....goes on riff, opening to Just the Way you Are
	9:37am Dano59: Bash's Top 10: t’s Still Billy Joel To Me! 1. Allentown 2. Say Goodbye To Hollywood 3. Uptown Girl 4. All For Layna 5. My Life 6. Piano Man 7. Only The Good Die Young 8. You May Be Right 9. Miami 2017 (I’ve Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) 10. Captain Jack
	9:37am Matt Fiveash: Young John Bongiovi is one of the singers on the Star Wars Christmas album- Joe it's in the box of Xmas LPs in the basement, if you're looking for it for next week's Bon Jovi tribute...
	9:38am harry j: what about the stranger dano?
	9:38am Joe McG: @Matt: Thanks, Matt, so helpful!
	👻 9:38am Webhamster Henry: @Dano59 not finishing with Weird Al would be very disappointing to me, but I'd understand.
	9:38am Creature Boy: The sum is greater than the parts as far as this playlist goes , children
	9:38am Niko, Copenhagen: @3moons - blush when I declare that I played live on the station with my Danish band: Skammens vogn (Car of Shame). We never made it in the Big Apple or the US for that matter. But we just put out our sixth album last month here in DK where we have a decent following and a lot of critical acclaim. Joe has played our music sometimes! -- I think maybe you stayed in Dyrehaven!? That is really POSH! But beautiful! And Peaceful.
	9:39am Dano59: My top 10, and HMs: Top 10 Billy Joel songs ... 1 Angry Young Man 2 Rosalinda's Eyes 3 The Entertainer 4 The Ballad of Billy the Kid 5 Big Shot 6 Only the Good Die Young 7 Big Man on Mulberry Street (...love the production) 8 Summer, Highland Falls 9 Captain Jack 10 Famous Last Words HM: (Earworms, mostly) Honesty (... as "Sodomy" on MTV Night School, 1983) Vienna And So It Goes* It's Still Rock and Roll to Me Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) New York State of Mind Say Goodbye to Hollywood Scenes From An Italian Restaurant We Didn't Start the Fire You May Be Right
	9:39am Listener Bop Monroe: 3moons: you nailed it!
	9:39am harry j: and los angelinos
	👻 9:40am Webhamster Henry: And Seen The Lights Got Out On Broadway.
	9:40am Marco Esquandolas: @WoodsofNH comment at 9:36 - I totally agree
	9:40am Joe McG: @SheilaB: This "Piano Man" goes out to you! ;)
	9:41am Dano59: awwww...
	9:41am Matt Fiveash: I still contend that Dylan's Murder Most Foul is We Didn't Start the Fire for people who think they're too smart for Billy Joel
	9:41am WaffleMix: I'm on the edge of my seat to see what comes next.
	👻 9:41am Threemoons: @Niko OK that is so COOL, awesome!! No idea of the name of where we were....all I know is that after work one day his Aunt came in a 4x4, we had dinner with the Grands, and then we took a LONG drive including a very long bridge ride in the dark, and when we got out of the car it was a gorgeous damp night and you could smell the pine trees.....my ex and I got to sleep in a guest bedroom that the Danish Royals had stayed in--it was a restored noble mansion with modern addons.....
	9:41am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I hadn't listened to any Billy Joel in quite a while and then last week Jeff Kazee (from the Asbury Jukes) played "Lullaby" during his Living Room Lounge show so I had to dig out River of Dreams.
	👻 9:41am Threemoons: @Niko and try to make it to NYC after the plague! The WFMU Fam will show you a good time!
	9:41am Creature Boy: No mention of The Hassles yet . Joel's 60s band THEY do a cool Zombies cover as I recall
	9:41am melinda: Billyho Joela!
	9:41am The Oscar: I will never, ever be able to hear "Piano Man" without thinking of the Clickhole lyric quiz: clickhole.com...
	9:42am cobradan: WHY ARE YOU PLAYING BILLY JOEL. THIS IS NOT OK. NOT OK. NOT OK
	9:42am Dano59: I think what got me back to Billy Joel was the use of Rosalinda's Eyes in an episode of Freaks & Geeks.
	9:42am Asheville Jon: german billy joel? is SMK enjoying this? :)
	9:42am Listener Bop Monroe: isn't this Polish?
	9:43am cobradan: No version of Billy Joel is acceptable to play at any time or anywhere. Same goes for Hall and Oates
	👻 9:43am Webhamster Henry: Czech name, German song.
	👻 9:43am Threemoons: Artist is Polish, language is German.
	9:43am Dano59: This show is one for the ages, Sir Joe
	9:43am harry j: but its pesach
	9:43am Tim 07030: It sounds like Springsteen wandered over to Europe right after recording 'Nebraska' to add the harmonica to this.
	9:43am Creature Boy: He's not playing Billy Joel hes playing Billy's disciples
	9:43am melinda: Definitely better than the original
	👻 9:43am Marley P. Dogg: This set belongs in the radio hall of fame
	9:44am Earl City: These covers are making me happy.
	9:44am Asheville Jon: oh, i disagree cobradan. i think 3 hours of hall & oates covers would be fantastic
	9:44am Niko, Copenhagen: @3moons - wo w - I think maybe you stayed at the royal castle in Dyrehaven. That is looked after by a Forest Guy. Anyway - that is what I will have in my head next time I see it: 3moons - a FMU'er stayed in there! A HC Andersen Fairytale!
	9:44am Carl from Providence: i am enjoying this set... But time you DJs play a themed set I think the main Artist died... Did Billy Die?
	9:44am Creature Boy: & aren't we all his disciples? Aren't we?
	👻 9:44am Threemoons: Now we just have to get Billy Joel to cover Einsteurzendene Neubauten.
	9:44am Renée In Fanwood: JG, it is said that great art is meant to illicit reaction.
	9:44am Niko, Copenhagen: Joe - a bottle of red / a bottle of white? "Italian restaurant" or something ---
	9:44am melinda: @Asheville Jon H & O covers would be fun
	9:45am Dano59: @Creature Boy : or, the Joel diaspora, if you will
	9:45am Listener Bop Monroe: going on 45 minutes of this and i haven't turned it off yet. s**t like this is why i LOVE LOVE LOVE WFMU! chill out.
	9:45am Joe McG: @Niko: I wish!
	9:45am Renée In Fanwood: Threemoons, that would be something!
	9:45am WaffleMix: Duane Train played a live Sara Smile and it was fantastic
	👻 9:45am Threemoons: @Niko May be! The owner is the owner of some kind of hearing aid company. They re-built out the wine cellar with changeable panels in the ceiling so that when you had a tasting/meal the stars reflected the constellations outside....
	9:45am Creature Boy: But really the set is pure unmitigated mcgasko
	9:46am harry j: haha i remember this Joe!
	9:46am TerrDE: An all time great song. One of those songs that seems like you know it the first time you hear it.
	9:46am Renée In Fanwood: Bret, I’m trying to watch TV!
	9:46am Dano59: hahaha Joel meets Sarstedt!
	👻 9:47am Marley P. Dogg: Haha - is this the first time flight of the conchords has been played on fmu?
	9:47am JG: Renee, that is a good definition
	9:47am Matt Fiveash: cobradan, there's no such thing as "unacceptable". And I say that as someone who's pretty firmly in the "Billy Joel sucks" camp...
	9:48am alan the painter: this is a very funny radio station, di'n't like the pre- and current song, butt readressing it in German is very enjoyable, thank you.
	9:49am alan the painter: kicking it Joe
	9:49am ze boocherie: Story goes that BJ's lawyer swindled him into buying a Komatsu Motors franchise and funneled the money away via the uncle of my college roommate. Billy was left broke.
	9:49am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): REALLY looking forward to the Hall & Oates set.
	9:49am Rich in Bay Ridge: Well YLT saved us from the Chipmunk Punk version of this song.
	9:50am Creature Boy: Someone earlier brought up the Conchords/ Kevin Ayers similarity
	9:50am Walt: I don't know why Billy Joel seems to rub people the wrong way. His "rock" songs are really wannabe Tin Pan Alley/Broadway material in disguise, maybe. Also it seems he's gotten creepier as he's gotten older, what with marrying 20-year-olds and driving drunk and all. (I don't have anything the man myself). I saw him in 1977(?) at the late great Omni in Atlanta (half house show with a huge curtain draped across the arena to reduce the seating capacity).
	9:50am Dano59: @harry j: I had The Stranger on 8-track, played it constantly. The title track was behind several others in my favored list...
	9:50am Dano59: ... plus, I was dating a Catholic virgin.
	9:50am Marco Esquandolas: I don't understand all the hate for Billy Joel
	9:50am harry j: understood!
	9:50am The Oscar: YES!!!!
	9:50am nathan: god this set is incredible
	9:51am alan the painter: ...ha ha ha
	9:51am Dano59: @web-h Henry: you got your wish!
	9:51am Asheville Jon: hahahaha, this is great!
	9:51am Renée In Fanwood: Oh man, Weird Al has been unleashed!
	9:51am TVP: Yes! I was hoping you'd play this Weird Al song after all the Billy Joel played so far this morning.
	9:51am Mark Hurst: Joe, I'm looking forward to your residency at MSG.
	9:51am Jess in Kingston NY: 😁!!!
	👻 9:51am Webhamster Henry: I saw Al do this live in 1984!
	9:51am melinda: go weird al
	9:51am Hugo (NL): hi there! this is great!
	9:51am eºIºk: Woo hoo it’s Weird Al! Never heard this one!
	9:51am Strandlund: Hell Yeah!!
	9:51am HyperDose: Joe McGasko bringin' the heat on a Monday morning!
	9:51am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): There was a somewhat depressing article about Joel in The New Yorker a few years back. His band director had to try hard to convince him to change the set for the MSG shows. Really weird.
	9:51am The Oscar: I can't remember if BJ refused permission on this one, or if Al just decided it was too mean to release. Either way, it's incredible.
	9:51am joe mulligan: thank you Joe and webhamster Henry, the weird al makes it
	9:52am Roberto: AWWWWWWW YEAHHHHHH
	9:52am Creature Boy: Ya see naysayers? Joe M understands his subject
	👻 9:52am LW Rhino: This guy Al sure is weird.
	9:52am Rosey is Listening on 91.1 MHz: I imagine Stashu approves of this song. Loving this set very much, Joe!
	9:52am BillD: Did you miss NY State of Mind by Mark Almond ?
	9:52am Treekisser: Henceforth if Billy Joel is played on FMU he must be identified on all playlists as Billyho Joela.
	9:53am Asheville Jon: there are some fine videos of this on youtube
	9:53am Niko, Copenhagen: This is evil
	9:53am harry j: yo la tengo / weird al MOT's love billy myself included
	9:53am Listener Bop Monroe: slow clap sir!!!!
	9:53am Matt Fiveash: This Weird Al reminds me that there was a parody of Ode to Billie Joe that got played pretty regularly on Dr Demento when I was a prepubescent listener, called Ode to Billy Joel ("I heard last night Billy Joel jumped off the Verrazano Bridge....")
	👻 9:53am Webhamster Henry: This set is why you all supported WFMU during the Marathon.
	👻 9:53am Threemoons: Joe McG, that set helped blow the Monday AM cobwebs out!
	9:53am TerrDE: I m surprised so much Billie hate. Is it the , played on radio too much syndrome ? Thats the reason I can't stand Fleetwood Mac or Eagles (w out Joe Walch )
	9:54am joe mulligan: @Creature Boy and Al even left out the excruciating "wooooooo hoo" at the end, leaving us with such artistic tension
	9:54am Asheville Jon: you have not failed us Joe!
	9:54am WaffleMix: Joe, u r worth the extra $20 I threw your way (but I would still like an avatar).
	9:54am PaulRobeson1920: More Billy! More Billy! Ten more Hours!
	9:54am Strandlund: We're not sorry...
	9:54am GiB: I thought he might have died or something... even looked it up to see if he was still alive
	9:54am Planet Tyler: No, thank YOU Joe - an hour was plenty
	👻 9:54am Threemoons: @TerrDE--reminds me of the old saying in the 70's and 80's--at any given time, an FM radio station somewhere was playing "Stairway to Heaven"
	9:54am Listener Baby: Good morning Joe. Morning all.
	9:54am LiXiviated Life: Really? Only 1 hour of Billy Joel? You’re dead to my Joe.
	9:55am listener Rey: TerrDE, I think that's it. I can no longer listen to Thriller because of this very reason.
	9:55am Jon S: Billy will get thru - applying for PPP
	9:55am LiXiviated Life: Somebody set up a Go Fund Me for Billy Joel STAT
	9:56am Hubig Pie: What about REM cover of We Didn't Start the Fire?
	9:56am Rich in Washington: I am fairly sure it was this program that introduced me to that incredible Vondráčková album.
	👻 9:56am Threemoons: OK now we need an hour of Leonard Cohen as a chaser.
	👻 9:56am Webhamster Henry: I have the same attitude ("Cover him , please") with Randy Newman.
	9:56am nathan: won't somebody think of poor Billy Joel??!?!
	9:56am TerrDE: @3 moons, a local singer has a song called "Stairway to Freebird"
	9:56am Roberto: Oh yeah Sometimes a Fantasy is a good'n.
	👻 9:57am Threemoons: @TerrDE OK now I must find that....
	9:57am Rick A: I would rather hear anyone but Guns 'N Roses do Guns N' Roses. Luna's version of Sweet Child O' Mine appeals to me.
	9:57am Mick: I for one will gladly accept 'only' an hour of BJ songs.
	9:57am Brian C.: Billy Joel is LI's Bruce, right? Makes me glad I live in NJ
	9:57am harry j: handful is good enough
	9:57am duke: I'm with you on this Joe
	9:57am The Oscar: At the record store where I worked the only Billy Joel tune that would ever be played was "Captain Jack," because it's the only Billy Joel song where he says the word "masturbate."
	9:57am Planet Tyler: That friggin Cadil-lac-lac-lac-lac-lac-lac-lac came on in the sore yesterday, I left fast
	9:57am Mup Mahoy: It's funny. I've been an FMU lover for decades, and one thing I notice is how DJs can get defensive about liking music by popular artists. You like Billy Joel? Grrrreeaaat! No need to apologize. Me, I'll take Elton, but,
	9:58am WaffleMix: Can't wait for Bruce next week!
	9:58am Madmadmike: It was a great hour from all over the spectrum to pay homage
	9:58am Dano59: "If he wanted to be a humble tunesmith — a ‘piano man,’ if you will — he would be a lot better off. But he’s not content with that. He wants something grander. And that pretentious side infects not only his bad and mediocre work, but also his best work." - Robert Christgau
	9:58am TerrDE: Pressure kills. Like some wierd Eastern European Folk Rock
	9:58am The Butterman: Billy and Neil Diamond records were my introduction to music as a youngster. Only Neil stuck- in an obsessive way.
	9:58am melinda: This is how I feel about Billyho too. A good tunesmith with some good songs but overplayed.
	9:59am nathan: honestly i think "Extra" kinda dropped the ball on their movin' out cover by not leaning into the ACK ACK ACK
	👻 9:59am Webhamster Henry: There actually was a nice BJ interview on WNYC' "Here's the Thing": * www.wnycstudios.org... * heard while stuck in my Joeliphiliac sister's car for a few hours.
	9:59am Planet Tyler: @Dano, great quote
	9:59am Brian C.: I can't shake my bias against BJ, I had to listen to one of the alt streams for a while. That said, "Uptown Girl" is a guilty pleasure, don't ask me to explain
	9:59am Rick A: Everyday you learn a new thing listening to WFMU.
	9:59am Mup Mahoy: I became a musician because of the cartoon bands; Monkeys, Archies, Partridge family.
	10:00am JG: Joe, you just played 10 songs (covers), all pretty great. There are probably a lot more covers that would have fit nicely into the set. The guy is a primo talent as a songwriter. It's ok to admit
	10:00am melinda: @Dano59 I think that's a fair assessment. There was always something icky and annoying about his persona.
	10:00am courtneynoir: My fave BJ cover of all time: harlanygrossman.bandcamp.com...
	10:01am Rick A: Following your Randy Newman marathon CD, you should put out songs by Billy Joel by others for the next marathon.
	10:01am joe mulligan: @Nathan there is a cover "ACK ACK ACK ACK (Movin' Out w/ lots more Acks" that gets airplay by Ken and Vicki
	10:01am Dano59: Xgau quote from a Chuck Klosterman article, with Joel-R.E.M. crossover discussion addressed here: highlowblog.com...
	10:01am TerrDE: Threemoons, lol, the title's much better than the song. The Reverend Billy Wurtz was the artist
	10:02am joe mulligan: It would be great to "Ack Ack Ack" someone like rickrolling
	10:02am JG: Melinda, can't agree w your take on his personality. He always comes across to me as pretty self effacing and down to earth
	10:02am Dano59: I still say the Conchords tune was more a rip on Peter Sarstedt than Billy Joel, but hey, next to 'Piano Man' in German, it definitely works.
	10:02am nathan: more acks! i need an all ack version!
	10:02am Creature Boy: Correction! The Hassles ( bj's 60s band) did Taste Of Honey & not a Zombies cover
	10:03am Mark Hurst: Apologies for the link to toxic YouTube, but here's ACK ACK ACK www.youtube.com...
	10:03am eºIºk: @Mup, I think this dates back to the 80s and 90s when the radio was basically the only way to hear new music (unless you worked in a record store or something) so stations like FMU were the only way to escape overplayed popular stuff. Now you can listen to almost anything anywhere anytime on demand, so everything is jumbled together (as it should), but that old-school mentality of “non-commercial stations should defend us against the hits” perseveres sometimes (guilty as charged, totally can’t get over the 90s).
	10:03am Dano59: I gotta get on the road for my second Pfizer shot, folks .. have a great day full of smiles and more Billy Joel.
	10:03am jnif: Most days one will hear Billy Joel randomly out in the world (grocery store), or will think of BJ because something reminds them of a BJ song. It's not a bad thing when it's "Not A Billy Joel Free Day," #nabjfd, which is most days. My fav BJ album is Glass Houses.
	10:04am Roberto: Yep I sang that Weird Al as a yoot as well.
	10:05am PaulRobeson1920: Up town Girl!! She’s been living in my up town world, baby
	10:05am Rich in Bay Ridge: Anyone parodied by Weird Al should consider it an honor and privilege.
	10:05am Roberto: Wasn't that Weird Al recorded long before he and Christy were married? Maybe they were already an item, I dunno.
	10:05am Brendan: Good morning, did Billy Joel die?
	10:05am alan the painter: drop out
	10:06am Creature Boy: He's alive Brendan
	10:06am The Oscar: I've always thought it's kinda sweet that Weird Al won't release a parody if the original artist doesn't approve. He did a version of "Live and Let Die" called "Chicken Pot Pie," but Macca wouldn't give the go-ahead on vegetarian grounds.
	👻 10:06am Webhamster Henry: Although, if Neil Innes is any guide, Billy better check his health.
	10:06am TVP: I remember reading on Al's website years ago saying that he didn't think Billy Joel would ever give permission to the parody, so he never tried to release "It's Still Billy Joel..." on an album.
	10:07am djsheilab: Oi! I heard that. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
	10:07am Joe McG: @SheilaB: I await Friday's revenge!
	10:07am Brendan: OK thanks. I always get a little freaked when I tune in to a set by a single artist.
	10:07am nathan: @Mark Hurst, bless you
	10:08am alan the painter: oops it was me, ah, fmu back again
	10:09am TerrDE: Al coulda been the next Charlie Pride
	👻 10:09am John L: I'm in the last week of a 3 week family/LI visit. My sister loves Billy Joel; I'll have to play her this set later. I have a feeling she might hate a few of these covers, but may like a few others. I saw Billy Joel, at Stonybrook, in 1975. I don't regret it but I got rid of all my Billy Joel LPs in the 80'sand never felt the need to buy them again. Still dig a few songs, though. Summer, Highland Falls remains a sentimental favorite.
	10:10am Listener Bop Monroe: nuthin sez lovin' like Al!
	10:10am Son Of Pantz: I can't believe Spiderland turned 30 on Saturday. Gee, I must be old.
	10:11am Brendan: Billy can’t die until I forgive him for using the phrase “tonic and gin“. That’s just wrong.
	10:14am Steve from Dunwoody: Highland Falls NY is West Point's "garrison town."
	👻 10:15am John L: When I owned a record store I had two similar same day sales. One customer bought The Stranger and Royal Scam. Another bought 52nd Street and Aja. I guess people like a BJ with their Steely Dan
	10:15am Mick: I think Weird Al had a public tiff with Coolio over "Amish Paradise." Then again, Stevie Wonder is the person whose opinion mattered/whose blessing would have been needed
	10:16am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): When I hear "Piano Man," I end up thinking about Anthony Newly on the Merv Griffin Show. Or maybe it was just Merv Griffin. Or maybe it was Anthony Newly on the Mike Douglas show?
	10:16am Listener Bop Monroe: thank you for cleansing the musical pallette, as it were...
	10:17am nathan: I posted the Movin' Out ack version in a chat with some friends. one of them commented "true story this was playing over the radio when I was on nitrous getting my wisdom teeth out and this perfectly captures the experience"
	10:17am artbrau: Just have to thank Joe because i learned something today. I always thought Ronnie Spector teamed with Southside Johnny to sing "Say Goodbye to Hollwoood" because I saw her sing it with the Jukes at Cleveland stadium in 1977. When I've heard this version, I always assumed it was the Jukes, not the E. Street Band. Great cover!
	10:18am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @artbrau: Those horns sure sounded like The Jukes.
	10:19am artbrau: Exactly!
	10:19am Joe McG: @artbrau: Glad you enjoyed that! Probably was the Jukes horns on it, but it's also the full E Street Band. @nathan: Ha ha ha
	10:20am Asheville Jon: thanks for the billy joel set Joe!
	10:20am Joe McG: My pleasure! It was fun!
	10:21am Treekisser: Now see, Steely Dan I like- sorry not sorry. Billyho Joela- not so much. It's not snobbiness about popularity.
	👻 10:22am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, sad news about former FMU DJ and listener to this show Deborah Kanter's demise earlier this month.
	10:22am D Rok (in brooklyn): @Mick: Yeah, Al got clearance from Coolio's "people" but apparently Coolio himself wasn't in on that, then got upset. Coolio has since acknowledged that raising a stink over that was one of the dumbest things he did in his career.
	10:23am Hubig Pie: Bill Joel- He's no Burt Bacharach
	👻 10:24am Brian in UK: Hubig Pie, who is?
	10:25am Joe McG: @Brian: Yes, I know it's very sad. There have been a few tributes here and there. I never met her, unfortunately.
	10:26am Listener Bop Monroe: an hour set of Burt B covers!!!!! please...?
	👻 10:27am Brian in UK: Only one hour?
	10:27am Joe McG: @Bop: Could do 5 shows of Bacharach!
	10:27am The Butterman: Now the timbre entire day is going to be set by all this Billy Joel nonsense. He did do backflips off his piano during the Stormfront tour.
	10:27am TerrDE: Burt Bacharach.What a life.Wakes up in Angie Dickinson's lovin arms, turn on the radio and Dionne and Dusty are singing his songs
	10:32am paddy in matawan: You get to use that cool think that people have taken to tattoo on themselves!
	10:32am artbrau: Gaylord did a great Hal David (w/Bacharach, of course) tribute here wfmu.org...
	10:33am Listener Bop Monroe: got my bulletproof ski jacket on.
	10:34am paddy in matawan: The 45 adapter looks kinda like Hatchet Man from ICP RIP X-Ray.
	10:37am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	10:37am Jason from Houston: YESSSSSSSS PLEASE
	👻 10:39am yerfriendpaul: I can't believe I missed the Billy Joel cover set! I grew up in a piano playing family so Billy was big in our house. Will have to go back and listen. I know BJ gets a lot of grief but I have a soft spot for him and saw him live many times in the 80s. He always put on a great show. Saw him the day my Red Sox let our World Series victory slip through Bill Buckner's legs. Billy was giving us the score throughout his show. He was a NY fan of course so he wasn't happy. I was thrilled on the other hand because our Sox were winning throughout his show. Only afterward, in the parking lot, did it all fall apart!
	10:40am queems: LOLLLLLL
	10:40am Asheville Jon: hahaha, this poopdeck song is awesome
	👻 10:40am Webhamster Henry: Ooh a party song!
	10:41am Listener Bop Monroe: In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or "aft", part of the superstructure of a ship. The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. Thus the poop deck is technically a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or "after" cabin, also known as the "poop cabin". On sailing ships, the helmsman would steer the craft from the quarterdeck, immediately in front of the poop deck. At the stern, the poop deck provides an elevated position ideal for observation.
	10:41am The Oscar: Getting in on the TikTok sea shanty craze!
	10:41am Jim the Poet: Do pirates poop?
	👻 10:42am Webhamster Henry: I hope Sheena's Jungle Room knows about this tune.
	10:42am davefromtoronto: billy joel ain't got nothin on this ditty!
	10:42am D Rok (in brooklyn): Everybody poops
	10:43am TerrDE: next Donovan Intergalactic laxative, then the Fugs I feel like a pile of homemade shit
	10:44am davefromtoronto: would pooping on the poop deck be redundant?
	👻 10:45am Webhamster Henry: And Bonzo Dog Band's "Do The Strain."
	10:45am Listener Bop Monroe: 'excuse me, do you have any grey poupon?' 'ewww, no, i use paper.'
	10:45am harry j: its a shaaaameme how much ppl hate billy joel
	10:45am Joe McG: And "Constipation Blues" by Screamin' Jay, of course.
	10:45am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	10:45am JtotheK: Great Spinners track! Hi Joe, hi everyone.
	👻 10:46am Brian in UK: Joe, you have such a quality audience!
	10:46am Martinibomb: @Webham we do now! Lol that song was amazing! <3
	10:46am Listener Bop Monroe: heard TOPT Tommy James interview. he mentioned 'the spinners, not THAT spinners..."
	10:49am mb: G'morning Joe and errybody
	10:49am The Oscar: I love the "clean" version of "Constipation Blues," where they just cut out the intro and the sound effects and retitle it "Moanin'"
	👻 10:50am Threemoons: And I'm back. Just had a half hour power interruption....ConEd is installing smart meters in my building.
	10:50am Rick A: One of the best parts of single file is that you play mostly songs from the 60s/70s/80s.
	10:52am McGroovey: I'm in line for my vax#1. Woohoo. I think. But my appointment was for 10:15. Oh, well.
	10:52am Joe McG: @Rick: I just have fewer 45s from the '90s and beyond, so it's just the way it plays out....
	10:52am artbrau: "Gin and Tonic" as God intended.
	10:52am Jason from Houston: This is a good one. Phew...
	10:52am Spankyflop: The dude from Ween did a whole Billy Joel tribute show for a fundraiser for the School of rock. www.youtube.com...
	10:53am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @McGroovey: Had my first on Saturday at a gigando NASCAR track in New Hampshire. What a surreal and wonderful experience. Also, an incredible display of logistics. Truly.
	👻 10:53am Webhamster Henry: Recorder break!
	10:54am Son Of Pantz: yes!!!
	10:54am artbrau: That penny whistle makes me laugh out loud.
	10:54am mb: @Spankyflop: They are both Ween's. I believe you are referring to Gene Ween not Dean.
	10:54am TerrDE: speaking of Electric Co.s. DelMarVa Power was bought out and our power rates went DOWN ! I m still amazed.
	10:54am The Oscar: I'm honestly shocked no contemporary pop stars have brought back the Bozzio/Lovich/Lauper vocal hiccup.
	10:54am Jim the Poet: No one listens anymore. Because my stories are boring.
	10:55am Mike East: Missing Persons always makes me happy. Morning, Joe! Gonna be a great week, I can feel it!
	👻 10:55am yerfriendpaul: Love Missing Persons!
	10:55am B R M: Missing Persons always welcome... underrated!
	10:55am McGroovey: Most of my singles are indie things from the early nineties, because that's when I was buying them. It was easy to shell out cash at $3 or $4 each.
	10:55am Joe McG: @Jim: Ha ha. Maybe you need to put on your fishbowl bra.
	10:55am Rick A: In the 90s, the classic 45 was largely replaced with the CD single which is not as cool.
	👻 10:55am Ken From Hyde Park: Missing Persons <==> Spring Session M
	10:56am Joe McG: @Rick A: I have very few of those.
	10:56am Tookie a.k.a Wuthry Guffy: i need a manatee a periscope and some face paint.... but there is talk of cheetahs and alligators so who knows how this trip to the toy store will go.
	10:56am Roberto: Pissing Mersons!
	10:56am TerrDE: @Woods any Magot hats ?
	10:57am PaulRobeson1920: @Jim the Poet .... there is no place in American society for a poet...
	👻 10:57am tim from champaign (now washington): Hey Joe! I hear you and I care!
	10:58am Joe McG: @tim: Thanks, Tim! :)
	10:58am Roberto: In '82, I don't think there was any band more L.A. than MP. Runners-up: X, The Motels.
	10:58am Toutevoix: ((((((◍))))))
	10:58am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @TerrDE: Not that I saw.
	10:58am Jim the Poet: @paul thankfully
	10:58am PaulRobeson1920: : )
	10:59am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I saw Terry Bozio give a drum clinic way back. Holy smokes can that dude play the drums.
	👻 10:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Note: Kevin Ayers is the Wake 'n' Bake Artist of the Week.
	10:59am Son Of Pantz: You're turning into the Nutty Professor, Joe.
	10:59am artbrau: @roberto. Yes. That drops me right into that summer.
	11:00am Roberto: Maybe The BusBoys too.
	11:00am artbrau: I would say there is no band more 1982 than MP
	11:01am TerrDE: Sia as well
	11:01am Roberto: Hey Dale, would you mind coming up here and holding my pickle to satisfy this weird man up here on the stage?
	11:01am Santos L Halper: The whole band was with FZ...great show Joe!
	11:02am paddy in matawan: O man I didnt realize I missed the Billly Joel set! Gene Ween did a whole Billy Joel show at Brooklyn Bowl that was fantastic. He even looks like him a little bit.
	11:02am Stevel: How did I miss Missing Persons. So much missing!
	11:02am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I have been getting the wacky visuals from the videos being put out by Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox.
	11:03am steveo: Jessica Griffin
	11:04am steveo: Sorry I missed the Billy Joel set, as we are about to drive to Long Island
	11:04am Alvy Singer: Dale Bozzio sang on Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage and Thing-Fish.
	11:05am steveo: I heard my name on the radio!! 🙂
	11:05am johnk77: nice work selecter terry bozzio super guy off-stage he is from northern california new subject tommy james interview great he dated the music biz move from singles to albums being mid-1968
	11:06am TerrDE: Toyah at 62 gives meaning to Sexygenerian
	11:06am McGroovey: When I was a teenager, my favorite thing about Terry Bozzio was that he was in UK (the band).
	11:06am bobby: Got 1st shot Saturday was feeling pretty crappy. getting better and as I sit in sun by window listening to your show it's like a healing calming medicine, Joe- THANK YOU! THANK YOU Thank you
	11:07am PaulRobeson1920: 200,000 tons
	11:07am Faye: and I've got guest graphic novelist Nick Drnaso on my show tonight at 8!! Hi Joe!!
	11:08am Hubig Pie: Container ships have no poop deck
	11:09am paddy in matawan: Poopship Destroyer honorable mention
	11:09am bobby: ween is all I think of when ya'll say poop deck their song "poop ship destroyer" ok im tired now..
	11:09am Brendan: And Ghostbusters they said never cross the streams
	11:09am paddy in matawan: ^^ : )
	11:09am Asheville Jon: Woods: had to look that robert & toyah up, and i'm not sure whether to thank you or curse you!
	11:10am Rich in Washington: Thanks for plugging our weird lil' stream, Joe! We're pleased as punch to have Gaylord on this Friday!
	11:10am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Asheville Jon: You need to go back and find the one where they do ballet in the back yard. Hilarious.
	11:10am Asheville Jon: will do!
	11:11am Gaylord Fields: Thanks for the plug, Joe! We are one big happy freeform family!
	11:11am Rich in Washington: Hey, Gaylord! Looking forward to Friday!
	👻 11:12am tim from champaign (now washington): @Faye - That's so cool. Nick Drnaso's book Beverly knocked my socks off. Thanks for the tip!
	👻 11:12am YETI BOB: I've got to follow up on Matt LaJoie - every time I hear his music on WFMU I really like it
	11:13am Joe McG: Hey Faye! Sorry I missed that one, it wasn't one the site, so thanks for chiming in! Hey Gaylord, happy to oblige.
	11:13am Asheville Jon: hahahaha, found it, omg, the unicorns!
	11:13am TerrDE: Bad Bobby's and the Mrs cover choices are funny as well.Shes a good dancer,. I like the tap video
	11:14am Handy Haversack: Hi, Joe, everyone. Late, lazy greetings from Out of Town.
	11:15am McGroovey: Matt LaJoie is good sitting-in-the-car-after-my-car-after-my-COVID-shot-waiting-to-find-out-whether-I'm-going-to-go-into-convulsions music. So far, so good.
	👻 11:15am YETI BOB: Yo Handy, I hope you are having a great getaway weekend! @Terr: There's one where Bob plays "Fracture" on guitar and Toyah tap-dances like an overcafeinated mouse, it's great.
	11:20am Rich in Bristol: Lovely work today, Joe!
	11:22am Son Of Pantz: Joe! Joe! He's our man! If he can't do it, we'll have to find someone else! Yay Joe!
	11:23am Rich in Bay Ridge: We'll never think of Bob Fripp the same way again.
	11:23am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, friends.
	11:23am Jason from Houston: Good news, McGroovey! I will be sitting in a lobby this afternoon hoping for the same.
	11:24am bobby: thank you Joe
	11:24am Rich in Bay Ridge: Thanks Joe. Another fantastic show. Lots of joy today!
	👻 11:24am YETI BOB: @Rich - I think he's always had a super-dry sense of humor
	11:26am Rich in Bay Ridge: @Yeti - yeah. Well, he was usually loath to display it. I met him and Toyah at a badly attended signing in 1992 in NYC (basically, me, my friend, and a dozen Crafty guitarists hanging around Tower Records) and they were unbelievably charming and fun.
	11:26am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Speaking of Fripp, I fell down the DGM rabbit hole this weekend, buying up a Projekt 3 show that I was at plus a Crimson show I saw in Boston.
	11:27am TerrDE: sounds like DJ Trouble has snuck in a tune
	11:27am Mark Hurst: Thanks, Joe, great show today!
	11:28am porchy: What a gawgeous tune
	11:28am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @JoeMcG: Great show today! Hall & Oates set next week???
	11:29am Son Of Pantz: Thanks for starting the fire, this morning. And I say that with all Hoooo-nesty.
	11:29am Joe McG: @Pantz: Ha ha! @Woods: Don't dare me, I might. @Mark: Thanks, Mark, see you tonight on the radio!
	11:30am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @JoeMcG: DO IT!!!! Ha.
	11:31am TonyR: The Billy Joel set went right over my schedule (as did Single File). Good Mornoon, everybody!
	👻 11:31am YETI BOB: this sounds like all the gear I had in the 80s - cheap Casio synth, cheap Ibanez chorus pedal, etc...
	👻 11:31am waters7: Hey, this is my friend Linda Smith! She's great!
	11:31am TerrDE: Woods did you get the 170 CDs boxed set of Court of Crimson King including them just think about what they going to play?
	👻 11:32am YETI BOB: waters7 - that was not intended as a put-down, i like the track
	11:33am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @TerrDE: Ha! No. Man, tho...that site is dangerous!
	11:33am TonyR: 1992 was just 1988 in flannel.
	11:34am TonyR: Likin' Rob Noise.
	👻 11:34am waters7: I get it Yeti Bob. She's the original "bed-sit diva" in the 80's in the east village and Williamsburg. Still making music in Baltimore.
	11:34am The Oscar: Aw, Rob! An old buddy and coworker from my record store days-- great dude, and his new album's fantastic!
	11:36am TonyR: @Oscar: Favorited MoT, for what that's worth.
	11:36am Joe McG: @Oscar: Yes, it really is good!
	11:36am Spence in Baltimore: I worked with Linda Smith years ago. She's great, so glad she's getting the airplay.
	11:37am Joe McG: @Spence: This new compilation of her stuff is a very worthy tribute.
	11:39am Spence in Baltimore: So good. I worked with her at the Baltimore Museum of Art - didn't even know she played music until now!
	11:40am TonyR: "Arc Minutes" available for streaming on Tidal, in case you don't have a rekkid player.
	11:40am Spence in Baltimore: (Err, "now" meaning when the record came out this year)
	11:41am Dennis Diken: hey Joe and everyone! been diggin' the show, no time to hang and chat but good one, son!
	11:42am JG: Always an interesting and enjoyable show, Joe. Thank you!
	11:42am Carmichael: Late Heya Joe and listeners.
	11:42am TonyR: Yes! Monday brunch champagne toast to JMcG.
	11:42am Joe McG: Thanks, Dennis. The sun is cutting across the parking lot in the back of the building and this music fits it quite nicely.
	11:44am Brendan: This set is kicking ass. It punched a hole right through my Monday. I can see the way to Friday now.
	11:46am Joe McG: @Brendan: I like the idea of seeing through to the goodness at the other side!
	11:46am Hubig Pie: I heard this on Daniel Blumin's show last year. Beautiful
	👻 11:47am 12539: (ah, Blumin!)
	11:47am spodiodi: good morning, Joe and everyone. nothing like a little Alan Watts in the asm
	11:47am Treekisser: Good lord is this Alan Watts?
	11:48am bnowb: Allen watts the great
	11:48am Joe McG: Miss Daniel greatly. Hope he will be back soon!
	11:48am Ernst Unding: It isn't a well examined week without the requisite Watts sample.
	11:49am JG: Was that Allen Watts's voice?
	11:51am Dayffid: I feel soothed. Thanks Joe
	11:51am Ernst Unding: In particular, Watts from his "Overcoming Social Anxiety."
	👻 11:51am tim from champaign (now washington): Joe - great set of serious music! Thanks for the super show today.
	11:52am Listening Out There: What's wrong with hearing a little Allen Watts now and Zen?
	11:52am Joe McG: @Dayffid: I figured you might need it if the Billy Joel set was rough on you.
	👻 11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. Your miracle set of Billy Joel covers did the trick. The container ship is free and the Suez Canal is working again! 🚢
	11:53am Joe B: bummed to have missed the billy joel covers set! looks great Joe!
	11:53am Andres: Tuned in late but in time for the last hour, absolutely beautiful! Thanks, Joe!
	👻 11:54am 12539: To quote Clay Pigeon: Thank God for Joe McGasko!
	11:54am Joe McG: @Joe B.: The listeners demanded it, I obliged. :)
	11:54am pgalub: Fab show Joe! 🎸
	11:55am Asheville Jon: dang, i needed some noodling with my lunch, this fits the menu!
	11:55am Stillwell Coney Islander: Lots of favourites today. Thanks Joe :-))
	11:55am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Joe!
	11:55am Ernst Unding: @Ken FHP: Noooo! Boat-chan had so much more to give! Still...the best gift Ever Given.
	11:55am Joe McG: This guitar solo will wake you up for Three Chord Monte!
	11:56am spodiodi: thanks, Joe!
	11:56am Jason from Houston: So much great music. Thank you, Joe.
	11:56am Carmichael: Is this the Gary Lucas from Beefheart?
	11:56am J-W from B: Gary Lucas! How nice to hear him again! Thanks Joe! I wonder if he ever did a version of Eleanor Rigby.
	11:56am Dayffid: @Joe McG Indeed I did, your intuition never seems to fail you haha
	11:56am Brendan: I like that little Stylistics phrase hidden in the guitar solo there
	11:57am Rich in Washington: I've always loved Gary Lucas' take on Kraftwerk's Autobahn.
	11:58am TerrDE: Alan Watts. Who said to the Hot Dog vender, "Make me one w everything"
	11:58am Brendan: Thanks dude
	11:58am PaulRobeson1920: Thanks, Joe McG! Thank YOU WFMU! Peace and (the most powerful force in the universe) Love! all for one and one for all
	11:59am jt: What happened to the Alan Watts Hour that WFMU had I guess the estate / family is fighting over the ownership of all the recordings ?
	12:00pm TerrDE: Great. show. Good bye Joe, Hello Joe
	12:01pm JohnEBGood: Hi Joe and WFMU family. The Clash Sandanista is here and there, up and down, hot and cold. The great Katy Perry tells us so. The only tune I've heards are spun by Jonesy. Charlie Don't Surf!!!
	2:46pm Joe McG: @jt: It was free for years, but then they wanted to charge us to broadcast it, so we decided not to run it any longer.

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from March 29, 2021

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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March 29, 2021: Just the Way I Am

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Waylon Jennings	The Entertainer "The Entertainer" by "Waylon Jennings"	Never Could Toe the Mark	RCA	1984	LP			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton	Travelin' Prayer "Travelin' Prayer" by "Dolly Parton"	The Grass Is Blue	Sugar Hill	1999	CD			0:05:18 (Pop-up)
Conjunto Impacto	Rosalinda's Eyes	Conjunto Impacto	SOLS	1984	MP3			0:09:17 (Pop-up)
Extra	Vengo via "Vengo via" by "Extra"	single	CBS Italia	1978	MP3			0:14:31 (Pop-up)
Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band	Say Goodbye to Hollywood	single	Epic	1977	45			0:18:05 (Pop-up)
The Three Degrees	Stop in Nevada "Stop in Nevada" by "The Three Degrees"	A Toast to Love	CBS Japan	1976	MP3			0:21:09 (Pop-up)
Isaac Hayes	Just the Way You Are "Just the Way You Are" by "Isaac Hayes"	For the Sake of Love	Polydor	1978	LP			0:26:20 (Pop-up)
The Manhattans	Everybody Has a Dream	There's No Good in Goodbye	Columbia	1978	LP			0:35:25 (Pop-up)
Helena Vondráčková	Die Nachtbar (Noční bar)	Písně Billyho Joela	Supraphon	1981	MP3			0:39:12 (Pop-up)
Flight of the Conchords	Rambling Through the Avenues of Time	I Told You I Was Freaky	Sub Pop	2009	CD			0:44:37 (Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	You May Be Right "You May Be Right" by "Yo La Tengo"	Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics	Egon	2006	CD	From 1999		0:47:21 (Pop-up)
"Weird Al" Yankovic	It's Still Billy Joel to Me	Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes, Vol. 5	The Demento Society	1996	MP3	home demo from 1980		0:49:40 (Pop-up)

Al Green	Before the Next Teardrop Falls	single	Fat Possum	2020	MP3			1:04:46 (Pop-up)
Bahamas	Trick to Happy "Trick to Happy" by "Bahamas"	Sad Hunk	Brushfire	2020	MP3			1:07:58 (Pop-up)
Rogér Fakhr	Had to Come Back Wet	Fine Anyway	Habibi Funk	2021	MP3	From 1978	*	1:11:19 (Pop-up)
Nel Oliver	Let My Music Take You "Let My Music Take You" by "Nel Oliver"	Afro Exotique: Adventures in the Leftfield, Africa 1972-82	Africa Seven	2019	LP	From 1976		1:14:30 (Pop-up)
Lianne La Havas	I Say a Little Prayer	No Album	Lianne La Havas	2016	MP3	live at The New Parish, Oakland, CA, 2/9/16		1:19:59 (Pop-up)
Arlo Parks	Green Eyes "Green Eyes" by "Arlo Parks"	Collapsed in Sunbeams	Transgressive/PIAS	2021	CD		*	1:24:13 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s played in a row for about a half-hour
Claudine Longet	Good Day Sunshine	single	A&M	1966	45			1:31:27 (Pop-up)
Sledge Hammer	Wild and Free "Wild and Free" by "Sledge Hammer"	single	RCA	1971	45			1:33:22 (Pop-up)
Millie Jackson	I Ain't Giving Up "I Ain't Giving Up" by "Millie Jackson"	single	Spring	1972	45			1:35:39 (Pop-up)
Cliff Ferré with Cafe Society Quintet	The Pirate's Poop	single	KEM	1956	45			1:38:26 (Pop-up)
Tommy James and the Shondells	Do Something to Me	single	Roulette	1968	45			1:41:04 (Pop-up)
The Spinners	It's a Shame "It's a Shame" by "The Spinners"	single	V.I.P.	1970	45			1:43:31 (Pop-up)
Angelic Upstarts	Lust for Glory "Lust for Glory" by "Angelic Upstarts"	single	Anagram	1982	45			1:46:37 (Pop-up)
Would Be-Goods	The Camera Loves Me	single	él/Cherry Red	1988	45			1:49:14 (Pop-up)
Missing Persons	Words "Words" by "Missing Persons"	single	Capitol	1982	45			1:52:18 (Pop-up)

Matt LaJoie	Everlasting Spring "Everlasting Spring" by "Matt LaJoie"	Everlasting Spring	Flower Room	2020	LP			2:08:58 (Pop-up)
Bobby Lee	Broken Prayer Stick "Broken Prayer Stick" by "Bobby Lee"	Origin Myths	Tompkins Square	2021	MP3		*	2:20:04 (Pop-up)
Dom La Nena	Doux de Rêver "Doux de Rêver" by "Dom La Nena"	Tempo	Six Degrees	2021	CD		*	2:23:35 (Pop-up)
Linda Smith	I Just Had To "I Just Had To" by "Linda Smith"	Til Another Time: 1988-1996	Captured Tracks	2021	CD	From 1992	*	2:27:28 (Pop-up)
Rob Noyes	Magic on Television "Magic on Television" by "Rob Noyes"	Arc Minutes	Vin Du Select Qualitite	2021	LP		*	2:30:44 (Pop-up)
Lido Pimienta	Coming Through "Coming Through" by "Lido Pimienta"	Miss Colombia	Anti-	2021	CD		*	2:33:42 (Pop-up)
Chuck Johnson	Raz-de-Marée "Raz-de-Marée" by "Chuck Johnson"	The Cinder Grove	Vin Du Select Qualitite	2021	LP		*	2:36:17 (Pop-up)
Gia Margaret	Body "Body" by "Gia Margaret"	Mia Gargaret	Orindal	2020	LP			2:44:23 (Pop-up)
Sophie Cooper	Struck "Struck" by "Sophie Cooper"	single	Tina Turner Tapes	2021	45	lathe cut - enjoy it now!	*	2:46:49 (Pop-up)
Gary Lucas	Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro	The Essential Gary Lucas	Knitting Factory	2020	CD	live at the Knitting Factory, 1990		2:50:17 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 9:00am YETI BOB: YIP!
	👻 9:00am 12539: RAY DEE OOOOOOOOOO!
	9:01am Clay Pigeon: Hey Joe! Think i forgot the legal ID. Have a great show. See you in May!
	👻 9:01am Threemoons: Greetings Joe McG, fellow YipYips!
	👻 9:02am YETI BOB: Maybe the YipYips can do the legal
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Monday! Happy happy! Hello, Joe and boingers!
	👻 9:03am Threemoons: YES to the YipYips doing the Legal!
	9:03am Strandlund: Yip Yip Yip 91.1
	👻 9:03am 12539: Clay drops the ball and Joe saves the day!
	9:04am Planet Tyler: Time to change my avatar back to the martians....
	9:04am Clay Pigeon: Thank God for Joe McGasko.
	👻 9:04am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG and fellow yippers!
	9:04am melinda: Morning Joe and friends!
	9:05am Son Of Pantz: Joe ain't called 'Mr Clutch' fer nuttin
	9:05am Creature Boy: Radio boing boing
	9:05am Phillippe Bastille: good morning!
	9:05am Waters7: Woo hoo!
	9:06am Creature Boy: 1984 Waylon , oh my goodness ...haha.
	👻 9:06am 12539: We still love you, Clay.
	👻 9:07am YETI BOB: I like Waylon's version a lot better than Jilly Boel's.
	9:07am earthwalker: Yeeee Hay Hi Joe !
	9:08am Son Of Pantz: Get it, Dolly!!!
	9:08am Creature Boy: Did Joel write this? Yeah. R we do for a billy J cover set?
	9:08am Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Joe and everybody else.
	9:08am Matt Fiveash: Is this what I think it is?
	9:08am GeorgeSimian: Great Dolly!
	👻 9:08am Threemoons: OK, now I imagine how the YipYips would handle a civil court appearance. I picture them with ties, slamming their briefcases....."Counsel and Co-counsel, how does your client plead?" "Not Guilty....Not Guilty....Nopenopenopenope yipyipyipyip letimgo letimgo yipyipyipyip..."
	9:09am REDSPIDER: Dolly and Waylon in the A.M.!
	9:09am sonofsammydavis: this Dolly is kicking ass.
	9:09am Krys O.: Hello, Dolly!
	9:09am JG: Billy Joel is a really good song writer
	9:09am Brian in Charlottesville: Good morning, Joe!
	9:09am Colleen: So fun!!
	9:09am KWilde: BJ covers
	👻 9:10am Threemoons: Saint Dolly, who is helping her rural community with essential COVID vaccine and acceptance thereof, AND doing literacy programs!
	9:11am REDSPIDER: This song (well not this version)reminds me of that Freaks and Geeks episode..
	👻 9:12am Threemoons: Let's hope that this entire set is "songs that were done better than Billy Joel did them!!"
	👻 9:12am Marley P. Dogg: Three moons - I would watch that legal drama show
	9:12am Roberto: I guess this is as close as we're going to get to an April 1st program.
	👻 9:12am Threemoons: @Marley It needs to be a recurring item on Adult Swim.
	9:13am Son Of Pantz: Who covers "Pressure"? I must know!!
	9:14am Creature Boy: Crazy set. I called it DURINg Waylon, first track
	9:14am WaffleMix: I'd like to see if a cover can elevate Uptown Girl
	👻 9:14am Threemoons: @WaffleMix I vaguely remember a foreign language cover of Uptown Girl on a different show....
	👻 9:15am Threemoons: @Creature Boy you get a cigar and your pick of the top shelf stuffed animals! :) Correct and nicely done!
	👻 9:16am Threemoons: AND speaking of foreign language covers.....yo soy en fuego!
	9:16am Niko, Copenhagen: Hey McGasko - and Surfacers - ... is this a Billy Joel track?!
	9:16am Heidi P: This Movin Out cover is amazing!
	9:16am Creature Boy: Joel looked like a Crumb character with his supermodel wife towering over him in the Uptown Girl video . Who was she again?
	👻 9:17am Threemoons: Niko--it would seem that this set so far is all BJ covers!
	9:17am djsheilab: What a set to be greeted with this Monday morning! Haha! Bravo Joe!
	9:17am nathan: ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK
	9:17am REDSPIDER: @CreatureBoy...Billy Noid lol
	9:17am Creature Boy: They're ALL Joel songs niko
	9:17am Niko, Copenhagen: All right. Joe is the one who could do it! Just tuned in I say to my defense... Cough...
	9:17am Sebastian: Guys and gals... grab a coffee and a pancake!
	9:18am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I happened to listen to River of Dreams this weekend.
	9:18am Asheville Jon: oh yeah, i like how this show is starting!
	👻 9:18am Threemoons: And Niko--hello to Copenhagen....spent almost a month there in the October after 9/11....my Danish BF at the time was going over for his grandparents' 75th anniversary, huge family reunion..his dad had over a million flyer miles left over and I was out of work so I got to stay with his family and fly over for free! Marvelous city.
	9:18am Joe McG: Just bowing to public PRESSURE. Everybody wanted it, so I'm an audience pleaser. :)
	9:18am Rich in Bay Ridge: Was in the shower listeneng as the show started and remembered the Billy Joel threat from last week. Well played!
	9:19am onthetrain: Joe any idea what city she said in place of Hackensack ack ack ack ?
	9:19am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Joe McG: Does this mean you'll be playing some pre-Eliminator ZZ Top?
	9:19am Creature Boy: Moving out was the first Billy Joel song I ever heard. In a tacky record store in Chicago in the 1970s
	9:19am jnif: #nabjfd
	9:19am JG: I am enjoying the hell out of this and w/out irony. I don't get people who thumb their nose condescendingly at Billy Joel as if a guy who who simply wrote DOZENS of hit songs, and with real musicianship, is not super talented. I think the guy is awesome. S are his MSG shows. Get over the "he's not cool" childishness
	9:19am Niko, Copenhagen: Joel is a very odd character in the history of pop music. Kind of "odd man out". Seems like a guy who had his feelings hurt somehow. I have a very soft spot for him - we always listen to him in the car on summer holidays. The kids like him!
	👻 9:20am Threemoons: HOLY CRAP RONNIE SPECTOR>BJ VERSION
	9:20am Renée In Fanwood: I see a pattern developing....
	👻 9:20am YETI BOB: 3Moons: Absolutely Anybody > BJ (in my opinion)
	👻 9:21am Ken From Hyde Park: When one artist appears consecutively, always check the obits! Billy Joel is still alive, so all is well. Any bets on who will cover "We Didn't Start the Fire"?
	9:21am REDSPIDER: "You May Be Right" should have been a Rolling Stones song
	9:21am onthetrain: Chipmunks at 16 speed covering blondie next ?
	👻 9:21am LW Rhino: Nice !
	9:21am Niko, Copenhagen: @Threemoons - glad you liked our humble capitol! Where in CPH did you stay?
	9:22am Creature Boy: Do u suppose Joel was a Nilsson fan? Do u THINNK he mightve been?
	9:22am Dano59: Ronnie did/released such great stuff in the '70s. This is way, way, way up there. I have the. 12' - anyone have the Record Store Day reissue?
	👻 9:22am Threemoons: @YetiBob I DO have a soft spot for Billy Joel--growing up in and around the NYC area, his music was an absolute constant backdrop for my entire childhood and adolescence. He was on every car pool radio when we got driven to school in the AM, the bus driver played stations that were Joel heavy, etc. I mean, from birth until I went away to college he was a constant. So there's some nostalgia there, but also a bit of resentment because he was so OVERPLAYED.
	9:24am harry j: that ronnie w e street was soooo goood
	9:24am Dano59: A recent top 10 by pop maven David Bash inspired me to post my own 10 by Billy. -- it's such a deep, diverse catalog. You can easily avoid a lot of the dross!
	👻 9:24am YETI BOB: @3Moons: I grew up in NJ and heard his songs constantly growing up, too. I think I just got the resentment part, not the nostalgia. (And then there's the fact that he's just terrible.)
	9:24am Tim 07030: Good morning, Joe! I have a vivid memory of the Three Degrees singing 'When Will I See You Again' in Japanese on the Mike Douglas Show.
	9:24am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from windy Tannersville Mr JMcG. Enjoying this set more than i expected. anyone remember when SUW did 'worst band in the world' episode...? took 45 minutes to get to answer: BJoel!
	9:24am Renée In Fanwood: JG, for me Billy Joel falls under the I can appreciate his talent, but he isn’t my thing. I grew up on Long Island, and it’s practically the law to love him. Kind of like Springsteen or Bon Jovi in NJ.
	9:24am Creature Boy: That Genya Raven Spector record is a killer Dano
	👻 9:25am YETI BOB: Can't stand Bruce Springsteen or Bon Jovi either. And only after about 60 years I'm starting to get over my distaste for Sinatra
	9:25am Dano59: @creature boy: Siren? oh yeah.
	9:25am Krys O.: My older brother had the Piano Man LP back then in 1973. I used to listen to it when I came home from school. Never kept up with him after that. I also found later on that Joel ripped off a lot of other composers, but not close enough to be sued.
	9:25am Joe McG: @YETI BOB: Springsteen special is NEXT week.
	9:26am Asheville Jon: oh no, springsteen, must avoid at all costs
	9:26am Sebastian: Sounds like a Bowie’s fame
	9:26am Renée In Fanwood: Ha ha Joe! You play what you want friend.
	9:26am Creature Boy: Yeah siren w Cheetah Chrome
	👻 9:26am Threemoons: @Niko I stayed in two different places--most of the time we were in a nice residential neighborhood within walking distance of the Hellerup subway stop, but we also spent a full week at the very nice home of his uncle up on the main peninsula. At the time, his uncle was the richest man in Denmark (may still be) and had a gorgeous house up near some managed pine stands. Really lovely. Peaceful, sane, clean country and city. We also visited a bunch of farm museums which were amazing. And I LOVED the food. A lot of mornings, my then-BF wanted solo time with his grands, so I would doddle off into the city and explore.....
	9:26am WaffleMix: Springsteen is great, maybe like Joel should stayed in the background as a songwriter. Bon Jovi, just no.
	9:26am onthetrain: Growing up in nj ,I can say Bon Jovi was never good . He had the look but ugg way over played .
	9:27am Renée In Fanwood: I did enjoy the Rosalinda’s Eyes cover.
	9:27am Creature Boy: Its a cool set nonetheless
	9:27am Listener Scott: I grew up on the Levittown-Hicksville (Long Island) border and delivered the Daily News to Billy Joel's house when I was 13.
	9:27am Dano59: I've wavered, waxed and waned with love and disdain/tiredness of both Joel and Springsteen. Like I said, I cherry-pick the good stuff. I've played Dolly's Travellin' Prayer on my own show,but that may be the only Joel I've touched to date. (since I had him on 8-track ...)
	9:27am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I find the sneering at the popular very entertaining here. Also laughed out loud yesterday when Jonesy played The Village People.
	👻 9:27am Threemoons: @Niko and his grands were ex-embassy. It was really nice living like a local for that month, hitting the grocery stores/auto repair shops, etc.....
	9:28am Dano59: and NOW Joe McG is in his wheelhouse!
	9:28am onthetrain: Jonsey plied the village people ! Get out !
	9:28am harry j: i used to bartend in sag harbor and billy was court ordered to live near town to prevent him from driving hed come in a down a bottle of vino @ 11 am all the time
	9:28am Listener Bop Monroe: they say that billy joel is a baaaadd mother shut your mouth!!!
	9:28am Colleen: Oh this guy's just askin for a fight...
	9:28am Dano59: next week: 17 Billy Joel versions of 'Eleanor Rigby'
	9:28am The Oscar: We need to re-normalize 10-minute spoken prologues to R&B songs.
	9:28am Tim 07030: This was not what I expected Billy's speaking voice to sound like.
	9:29am Krys O.: @Yeti Bob: Check out Sinatra's early stuff with the Dorsey Brothers in the 30s, then his Columbia recordings.
	👻 9:29am Threemoons: RE Springsteen--Another great artists and "growing up soundtrack" that sometimes reaches saturation level in my life.....
	9:29am Joe McG: @Dano59: Hard choice between this version and Barry White's.
	9:29am Spinning Giant: good morning and happy monday, gang! looks like i already missed aome tasty nuggies, but thia is a helluva cut to kick off the day with :D)))
	9:30am Creature Boy: I literally laughed out loud when trump exited (stage left) on air force one playing the Village People
	9:30am Dano59: yeah, I've heard Barry's ... kind of shocking on first listen. Isaac's delivery kind of fakes you out that he's gonna sing 'Let's Just Kiss and Say Goodbye'
	9:30am Listener Bop Monroe: oh chef... oh chef....
	9:30am harry j: theres a gr8 takanaka instrumental cover too
	9:31am Roberto: Should have been "try TO please me."
	9:31am Dano59: Meanwhile, all across the Tri-State area, people are drinking coffee and saying 'Did Billy Joel fucking DIE?'
	9:31am Niko, Copenhagen: @3moons - wow - sounds insane! Was it with a view over the sea - that leads to Sweden.? I have visited NJ and NY myself. And of course WFMU. I love your country and US folks. Lived in CA six months once when I was in academia. My first child spent her first months there. A magic time for me and my better half.. We lived in Santa Barbara...
	👻 9:31am Webhamster Henry: Isaac Hayes is redeeming this song.
	9:31am PaulRobeson1920: Yip Yip yip Good Morninggg
	9:31am Thursday Fernworthy: ISAAC!
	👻 9:31am Threemoons: @Joe McG: As a chaser, I think you need to play this, possibly in its entirety: www.youtube.com...
	9:32am harry j: anyone catch gene ween does billy joel live
	9:32am Niko, Copenhagen: Pheeew - this cover makes me a little emotional. I'm soft!
	9:32am Marco Esquandolas: @Dano59, Checking in to say Yep that's what I was thinking earlier
	9:32am JZI Jon: This is fantastic Joe. Love your show.
	9:32am bigkafka: is it a little warm in here? just me?
	9:33am choggie: Love his cover of Alanis Morrisette's,' Stinky Britches'
	9:33am Rick A: Have you ever played a Billy Joel song as performed by the man himself? I love Oleta Adams' version of "New York State of Mind".
	9:33am Dano59: I have three Joel covers in my iTunes, including Homer Simpson singing 'Uptown Girl'
	9:33am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I kissed a girl on a ferris wheel at the Skowhegan State Fair while this song played on the outdoor speakers.
	9:33am Asheville Jon: wow, at this rate, this song would take up an entire album side
	9:33am Jacques Trois: Springsteen is an all time favorite of mine. Bon Jovi, i only appreciate his Jersey pride.
	9:34am Creature Boy: I won't say my mind is blown. Perhaps blown dry?
	9:34am Joe McG: @Rick A: Good question! I'm not sure that I have.
	9:34am Son Of Pantz: Somehow my underwear just jumped off my body. That Isaac is a smoothie.
	9:34am Renée In Fanwood: Okay, here is my one Billy Joel story. When I was young my dad worked for a flooring company in Sag Harbor. He was sent to replace the carpet in a set of offices. Turns out they were Billy Joel’s and on one of the days my dad was working, he popped in and said hi to everyone. A few weeks later I was at a friend’s house and they were watching MTV (my family could not afford cable). The video for Pressure came on. As we watched I mentioned that my dad installed carpeting in his offices. At that moment, Billy Joel was swallowed by the carpet on the video! Hilarious!
	9:34am harry j: so smoove
	👻 9:34am Threemoons: @Niko--We were sort of in the center of the peninsula--very high elevation for Denmark; you needed a 4x4 to get up into the deep of the woods. There were a few gorgeous naturally colored mineral pools up there, and a family of tree-keepers lived in a little cottage up there--they had a few ponies and sometimes this little girl maybe 6 or 7 would ride one, herding along a flock of ducks.....Glad you like the US despite ourselves! Did you actually ever visit the WFMU studios?
	9:34am WaffleMix: Bon Jovi does good work, owns a restaurant that feeds the homeless. Never crashed and burned.
	9:34am Joe McG: @Woods: I love that story! @Renee: Another good story!
	👻 9:35am LW Rhino: Break out the malt liquor !
	9:35am JG: Renee, to each his own, but I find if you listen closely, his stuff has real emotional sincerity. Is it too much to deal with? And catch melodies too.
	9:35am queems: did billy joel die
	9:35am harry j: brass monkeys on isaac
	👻 9:35am Threemoons: I, too, am loving all of these Billy Joel stories!! And yeah, Isaac Hayes, although I can't hear him now without seeing Chef from South Park singing it.
	9:36am Listener Bop Monroe: he really did love his little crackers
	9:36am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @JoeMcG: Some people say that nostalgia isn't a 'valid' reason for liking something, which I think is pure, cynical B.S.
	9:36am PKNY: Had to do a Wikipedia lookup of this Isaac Hayes record, and it includes a track called "Shaft II"...my guess is it's not that good as the original.
	9:37am Creature Boy: Joel's addition to the reggae new wave "pressure" continuum wasn't lost on me back in the day
	9:37am LP Stevenson: Definitely making the best case argument for Billy Joel, but I've got to say you haven't sold me.
	👻 9:37am Threemoons: Chef Good morning Glisteners! How's it going? Glisteners Bad. Chef Why bad, kids? G JoeMcG is only playing Billy Joel covers. Chef Oh, come on now, kids, it's not ALL bad. He made some SWEET music to make SWEET LOVE too.....goes on riff, opening to Just the Way you Are
	9:37am Dano59: Bash's Top 10: t’s Still Billy Joel To Me! 1. Allentown 2. Say Goodbye To Hollywood 3. Uptown Girl 4. All For Layna 5. My Life 6. Piano Man 7. Only The Good Die Young 8. You May Be Right 9. Miami 2017 (I’ve Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) 10. Captain Jack
	9:37am Matt Fiveash: Young John Bongiovi is one of the singers on the Star Wars Christmas album- Joe it's in the box of Xmas LPs in the basement, if you're looking for it for next week's Bon Jovi tribute...
	9:38am harry j: what about the stranger dano?
	9:38am Joe McG: @Matt: Thanks, Matt, so helpful!
	👻 9:38am Webhamster Henry: @Dano59 not finishing with Weird Al would be very disappointing to me, but I'd understand.
	9:38am Creature Boy: The sum is greater than the parts as far as this playlist goes , children
	9:38am Niko, Copenhagen: @3moons - blush when I declare that I played live on the station with my Danish band: Skammens vogn (Car of Shame). We never made it in the Big Apple or the US for that matter. But we just put out our sixth album last month here in DK where we have a decent following and a lot of critical acclaim. Joe has played our music sometimes! -- I think maybe you stayed in Dyrehaven!? That is really POSH! But beautiful! And Peaceful.
	9:39am Dano59: My top 10, and HMs: Top 10 Billy Joel songs ... 1 Angry Young Man 2 Rosalinda's Eyes 3 The Entertainer 4 The Ballad of Billy the Kid 5 Big Shot 6 Only the Good Die Young 7 Big Man on Mulberry Street (...love the production) 8 Summer, Highland Falls 9 Captain Jack 10 Famous Last Words HM: (Earworms, mostly) Honesty (... as "Sodomy" on MTV Night School, 1983) Vienna And So It Goes* It's Still Rock and Roll to Me Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) New York State of Mind Say Goodbye to Hollywood Scenes From An Italian Restaurant We Didn't Start the Fire You May Be Right
	9:39am Listener Bop Monroe: 3moons: you nailed it!
	9:39am harry j: and los angelinos
	👻 9:40am Webhamster Henry: And Seen The Lights Got Out On Broadway.
	9:40am Marco Esquandolas: @WoodsofNH comment at 9:36 - I totally agree
	9:40am Joe McG: @SheilaB: This "Piano Man" goes out to you! ;)
	9:41am Dano59: awwww...
	9:41am Matt Fiveash: I still contend that Dylan's Murder Most Foul is We Didn't Start the Fire for people who think they're too smart for Billy Joel
	9:41am WaffleMix: I'm on the edge of my seat to see what comes next.
	👻 9:41am Threemoons: @Niko OK that is so COOL, awesome!! No idea of the name of where we were....all I know is that after work one day his Aunt came in a 4x4, we had dinner with the Grands, and then we took a LONG drive including a very long bridge ride in the dark, and when we got out of the car it was a gorgeous damp night and you could smell the pine trees.....my ex and I got to sleep in a guest bedroom that the Danish Royals had stayed in--it was a restored noble mansion with modern addons.....
	9:41am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I hadn't listened to any Billy Joel in quite a while and then last week Jeff Kazee (from the Asbury Jukes) played "Lullaby" during his Living Room Lounge show so I had to dig out River of Dreams.
	👻 9:41am Threemoons: @Niko and try to make it to NYC after the plague! The WFMU Fam will show you a good time!
	9:41am Creature Boy: No mention of The Hassles yet . Joel's 60s band THEY do a cool Zombies cover as I recall
	9:41am melinda: Billyho Joela!
	9:41am The Oscar: I will never, ever be able to hear "Piano Man" without thinking of the Clickhole lyric quiz: clickhole.com...
	9:42am cobradan: WHY ARE YOU PLAYING BILLY JOEL. THIS IS NOT OK. NOT OK. NOT OK
	9:42am Dano59: I think what got me back to Billy Joel was the use of Rosalinda's Eyes in an episode of Freaks & Geeks.
	9:42am Asheville Jon: german billy joel? is SMK enjoying this? :)
	9:42am Listener Bop Monroe: isn't this Polish?
	9:43am cobradan: No version of Billy Joel is acceptable to play at any time or anywhere. Same goes for Hall and Oates
	👻 9:43am Webhamster Henry: Czech name, German song.
	👻 9:43am Threemoons: Artist is Polish, language is German.
	9:43am Dano59: This show is one for the ages, Sir Joe
	9:43am harry j: but its pesach
	9:43am Tim 07030: It sounds like Springsteen wandered over to Europe right after recording 'Nebraska' to add the harmonica to this.
	9:43am Creature Boy: He's not playing Billy Joel hes playing Billy's disciples
	9:43am melinda: Definitely better than the original
	👻 9:43am Marley P. Dogg: This set belongs in the radio hall of fame
	9:44am Earl City: These covers are making me happy.
	9:44am Asheville Jon: oh, i disagree cobradan. i think 3 hours of hall & oates covers would be fantastic
	9:44am Niko, Copenhagen: @3moons - wo w - I think maybe you stayed at the royal castle in Dyrehaven. That is looked after by a Forest Guy. Anyway - that is what I will have in my head next time I see it: 3moons - a FMU'er stayed in there! A HC Andersen Fairytale!
	9:44am Carl from Providence: i am enjoying this set... But time you DJs play a themed set I think the main Artist died... Did Billy Die?
	9:44am Creature Boy: & aren't we all his disciples? Aren't we?
	👻 9:44am Threemoons: Now we just have to get Billy Joel to cover Einsteurzendene Neubauten.
	9:44am Renée In Fanwood: JG, it is said that great art is meant to illicit reaction.
	9:44am Niko, Copenhagen: Joe - a bottle of red / a bottle of white? "Italian restaurant" or something ---
	9:44am melinda: @Asheville Jon H & O covers would be fun
	9:45am Dano59: @Creature Boy : or, the Joel diaspora, if you will
	9:45am Listener Bop Monroe: going on 45 minutes of this and i haven't turned it off yet. s**t like this is why i LOVE LOVE LOVE WFMU! chill out.
	9:45am Joe McG: @Niko: I wish!
	9:45am Renée In Fanwood: Threemoons, that would be something!
	9:45am WaffleMix: Duane Train played a live Sara Smile and it was fantastic
	👻 9:45am Threemoons: @Niko May be! The owner is the owner of some kind of hearing aid company. They re-built out the wine cellar with changeable panels in the ceiling so that when you had a tasting/meal the stars reflected the constellations outside....
	9:45am Creature Boy: But really the set is pure unmitigated mcgasko
	9:46am harry j: haha i remember this Joe!
	9:46am TerrDE: An all time great song. One of those songs that seems like you know it the first time you hear it.
	9:46am Renée In Fanwood: Bret, I’m trying to watch TV!
	9:46am Dano59: hahaha Joel meets Sarstedt!
	👻 9:47am Marley P. Dogg: Haha - is this the first time flight of the conchords has been played on fmu?
	9:47am JG: Renee, that is a good definition
	9:47am Matt Fiveash: cobradan, there's no such thing as "unacceptable". And I say that as someone who's pretty firmly in the "Billy Joel sucks" camp...
	9:48am alan the painter: this is a very funny radio station, di'n't like the pre- and current song, butt readressing it in German is very enjoyable, thank you.
	9:49am alan the painter: kicking it Joe
	9:49am ze boocherie: Story goes that BJ's lawyer swindled him into buying a Komatsu Motors franchise and funneled the money away via the uncle of my college roommate. Billy was left broke.
	9:49am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): REALLY looking forward to the Hall & Oates set.
	9:49am Rich in Bay Ridge: Well YLT saved us from the Chipmunk Punk version of this song.
	9:50am Creature Boy: Someone earlier brought up the Conchords/ Kevin Ayers similarity
	9:50am Walt: I don't know why Billy Joel seems to rub people the wrong way. His "rock" songs are really wannabe Tin Pan Alley/Broadway material in disguise, maybe. Also it seems he's gotten creepier as he's gotten older, what with marrying 20-year-olds and driving drunk and all. (I don't have anything the man myself). I saw him in 1977(?) at the late great Omni in Atlanta (half house show with a huge curtain draped across the arena to reduce the seating capacity).
	9:50am Dano59: @harry j: I had The Stranger on 8-track, played it constantly. The title track was behind several others in my favored list...
	9:50am Dano59: ... plus, I was dating a Catholic virgin.
	9:50am Marco Esquandolas: I don't understand all the hate for Billy Joel
	9:50am harry j: understood!
	9:50am The Oscar: YES!!!!
	9:50am nathan: god this set is incredible
	9:51am alan the painter: ...ha ha ha
	9:51am Dano59: @web-h Henry: you got your wish!
	9:51am Asheville Jon: hahahaha, this is great!
	9:51am Renée In Fanwood: Oh man, Weird Al has been unleashed!
	9:51am TVP: Yes! I was hoping you'd play this Weird Al song after all the Billy Joel played so far this morning.
	9:51am Mark Hurst: Joe, I'm looking forward to your residency at MSG.
	9:51am Jess in Kingston NY: 😁!!!
	👻 9:51am Webhamster Henry: I saw Al do this live in 1984!
	9:51am melinda: go weird al
	9:51am Hugo (NL): hi there! this is great!
	9:51am eºIºk: Woo hoo it’s Weird Al! Never heard this one!
	9:51am Strandlund: Hell Yeah!!
	9:51am HyperDose: Joe McGasko bringin' the heat on a Monday morning!
	9:51am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): There was a somewhat depressing article about Joel in The New Yorker a few years back. His band director had to try hard to convince him to change the set for the MSG shows. Really weird.
	9:51am The Oscar: I can't remember if BJ refused permission on this one, or if Al just decided it was too mean to release. Either way, it's incredible.
	9:51am joe mulligan: thank you Joe and webhamster Henry, the weird al makes it
	9:52am Roberto: AWWWWWWW YEAHHHHHH
	9:52am Creature Boy: Ya see naysayers? Joe M understands his subject
	👻 9:52am LW Rhino: This guy Al sure is weird.
	9:52am Rosey is Listening on 91.1 MHz: I imagine Stashu approves of this song. Loving this set very much, Joe!
	9:52am BillD: Did you miss NY State of Mind by Mark Almond ?
	9:52am Treekisser: Henceforth if Billy Joel is played on FMU he must be identified on all playlists as Billyho Joela.
	9:53am Asheville Jon: there are some fine videos of this on youtube
	9:53am Niko, Copenhagen: This is evil
	9:53am harry j: yo la tengo / weird al MOT's love billy myself included
	9:53am Listener Bop Monroe: slow clap sir!!!!
	9:53am Matt Fiveash: This Weird Al reminds me that there was a parody of Ode to Billie Joe that got played pretty regularly on Dr Demento when I was a prepubescent listener, called Ode to Billy Joel ("I heard last night Billy Joel jumped off the Verrazano Bridge....")
	👻 9:53am Webhamster Henry: This set is why you all supported WFMU during the Marathon.
	👻 9:53am Threemoons: Joe McG, that set helped blow the Monday AM cobwebs out!
	9:53am TerrDE: I m surprised so much Billie hate. Is it the , played on radio too much syndrome ? Thats the reason I can't stand Fleetwood Mac or Eagles (w out Joe Walch )
	9:54am joe mulligan: @Creature Boy and Al even left out the excruciating "wooooooo hoo" at the end, leaving us with such artistic tension
	9:54am Asheville Jon: you have not failed us Joe!
	9:54am WaffleMix: Joe, u r worth the extra $20 I threw your way (but I would still like an avatar).
	9:54am PaulRobeson1920: More Billy! More Billy! Ten more Hours!
	9:54am Strandlund: We're not sorry...
	9:54am GiB: I thought he might have died or something... even looked it up to see if he was still alive
	9:54am Planet Tyler: No, thank YOU Joe - an hour was plenty
	👻 9:54am Threemoons: @TerrDE--reminds me of the old saying in the 70's and 80's--at any given time, an FM radio station somewhere was playing "Stairway to Heaven"
	9:54am Listener Baby: Good morning Joe. Morning all.
	9:54am LiXiviated Life: Really? Only 1 hour of Billy Joel? You’re dead to my Joe.
	9:55am listener Rey: TerrDE, I think that's it. I can no longer listen to Thriller because of this very reason.
	9:55am Jon S: Billy will get thru - applying for PPP
	9:55am LiXiviated Life: Somebody set up a Go Fund Me for Billy Joel STAT
	9:56am Hubig Pie: What about REM cover of We Didn't Start the Fire?
	9:56am Rich in Washington: I am fairly sure it was this program that introduced me to that incredible Vondráčková album.
	👻 9:56am Threemoons: OK now we need an hour of Leonard Cohen as a chaser.
	👻 9:56am Webhamster Henry: I have the same attitude ("Cover him , please") with Randy Newman.
	9:56am nathan: won't somebody think of poor Billy Joel??!?!
	9:56am TerrDE: @3 moons, a local singer has a song called "Stairway to Freebird"
	9:56am Roberto: Oh yeah Sometimes a Fantasy is a good'n.
	👻 9:57am Threemoons: @TerrDE OK now I must find that....
	9:57am Rick A: I would rather hear anyone but Guns 'N Roses do Guns N' Roses. Luna's version of Sweet Child O' Mine appeals to me.
	9:57am Mick: I for one will gladly accept 'only' an hour of BJ songs.
	9:57am Brian C.: Billy Joel is LI's Bruce, right? Makes me glad I live in NJ
	9:57am harry j: handful is good enough
	9:57am duke: I'm with you on this Joe
	9:57am The Oscar: At the record store where I worked the only Billy Joel tune that would ever be played was "Captain Jack," because it's the only Billy Joel song where he says the word "masturbate."
	9:57am Planet Tyler: That friggin Cadil-lac-lac-lac-lac-lac-lac-lac came on in the sore yesterday, I left fast
	9:57am Mup Mahoy: It's funny. I've been an FMU lover for decades, and one thing I notice is how DJs can get defensive about liking music by popular artists. You like Billy Joel? Grrrreeaaat! No need to apologize. Me, I'll take Elton, but,
	9:58am WaffleMix: Can't wait for Bruce next week!
	9:58am Madmadmike: It was a great hour from all over the spectrum to pay homage
	9:58am Dano59: "If he wanted to be a humble tunesmith — a ‘piano man,’ if you will — he would be a lot better off. But he’s not content with that. He wants something grander. And that pretentious side infects not only his bad and mediocre work, but also his best work." - Robert Christgau
	9:58am TerrDE: Pressure kills. Like some wierd Eastern European Folk Rock
	9:58am The Butterman: Billy and Neil Diamond records were my introduction to music as a youngster. Only Neil stuck- in an obsessive way.
	9:58am melinda: This is how I feel about Billyho too. A good tunesmith with some good songs but overplayed.
	9:59am nathan: honestly i think "Extra" kinda dropped the ball on their movin' out cover by not leaning into the ACK ACK ACK
	👻 9:59am Webhamster Henry: There actually was a nice BJ interview on WNYC' "Here's the Thing": * www.wnycstudios.org... * heard while stuck in my Joeliphiliac sister's car for a few hours.
	9:59am Planet Tyler: @Dano, great quote
	9:59am Brian C.: I can't shake my bias against BJ, I had to listen to one of the alt streams for a while. That said, "Uptown Girl" is a guilty pleasure, don't ask me to explain
	9:59am Rick A: Everyday you learn a new thing listening to WFMU.
	9:59am Mup Mahoy: I became a musician because of the cartoon bands; Monkeys, Archies, Partridge family.
	10:00am JG: Joe, you just played 10 songs (covers), all pretty great. There are probably a lot more covers that would have fit nicely into the set. The guy is a primo talent as a songwriter. It's ok to admit
	10:00am melinda: @Dano59 I think that's a fair assessment. There was always something icky and annoying about his persona.
	10:00am courtneynoir: My fave BJ cover of all time: harlanygrossman.bandcamp.com...
	10:01am Rick A: Following your Randy Newman marathon CD, you should put out songs by Billy Joel by others for the next marathon.
	10:01am joe mulligan: @Nathan there is a cover "ACK ACK ACK ACK (Movin' Out w/ lots more Acks" that gets airplay by Ken and Vicki
	10:01am Dano59: Xgau quote from a Chuck Klosterman article, with Joel-R.E.M. crossover discussion addressed here: highlowblog.com...
	10:01am TerrDE: Threemoons, lol, the title's much better than the song. The Reverend Billy Wurtz was the artist
	10:02am joe mulligan: It would be great to "Ack Ack Ack" someone like rickrolling
	10:02am JG: Melinda, can't agree w your take on his personality. He always comes across to me as pretty self effacing and down to earth
	10:02am Dano59: I still say the Conchords tune was more a rip on Peter Sarstedt than Billy Joel, but hey, next to 'Piano Man' in German, it definitely works.
	10:02am nathan: more acks! i need an all ack version!
	10:02am Creature Boy: Correction! The Hassles ( bj's 60s band) did Taste Of Honey & not a Zombies cover
	10:03am Mark Hurst: Apologies for the link to toxic YouTube, but here's ACK ACK ACK www.youtube.com...
	10:03am eºIºk: @Mup, I think this dates back to the 80s and 90s when the radio was basically the only way to hear new music (unless you worked in a record store or something) so stations like FMU were the only way to escape overplayed popular stuff. Now you can listen to almost anything anywhere anytime on demand, so everything is jumbled together (as it should), but that old-school mentality of “non-commercial stations should defend us against the hits” perseveres sometimes (guilty as charged, totally can’t get over the 90s).
	10:03am Dano59: I gotta get on the road for my second Pfizer shot, folks .. have a great day full of smiles and more Billy Joel.
	10:03am jnif: Most days one will hear Billy Joel randomly out in the world (grocery store), or will think of BJ because something reminds them of a BJ song. It's not a bad thing when it's "Not A Billy Joel Free Day," #nabjfd, which is most days. My fav BJ album is Glass Houses.
	10:04am Roberto: Yep I sang that Weird Al as a yoot as well.
	10:05am PaulRobeson1920: Up town Girl!! She’s been living in my up town world, baby
	10:05am Rich in Bay Ridge: Anyone parodied by Weird Al should consider it an honor and privilege.
	10:05am Roberto: Wasn't that Weird Al recorded long before he and Christy were married? Maybe they were already an item, I dunno.
	10:05am Brendan: Good morning, did Billy Joel die?
	10:05am alan the painter: drop out
	10:06am Creature Boy: He's alive Brendan
	10:06am The Oscar: I've always thought it's kinda sweet that Weird Al won't release a parody if the original artist doesn't approve. He did a version of "Live and Let Die" called "Chicken Pot Pie," but Macca wouldn't give the go-ahead on vegetarian grounds.
	👻 10:06am Webhamster Henry: Although, if Neil Innes is any guide, Billy better check his health.
	10:06am TVP: I remember reading on Al's website years ago saying that he didn't think Billy Joel would ever give permission to the parody, so he never tried to release "It's Still Billy Joel..." on an album.
	10:07am djsheilab: Oi! I heard that. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
	10:07am Joe McG: @SheilaB: I await Friday's revenge!
	10:07am Brendan: OK thanks. I always get a little freaked when I tune in to a set by a single artist.
	10:07am nathan: @Mark Hurst, bless you
	10:08am alan the painter: oops it was me, ah, fmu back again
	10:09am TerrDE: Al coulda been the next Charlie Pride
	👻 10:09am John L: I'm in the last week of a 3 week family/LI visit. My sister loves Billy Joel; I'll have to play her this set later. I have a feeling she might hate a few of these covers, but may like a few others. I saw Billy Joel, at Stonybrook, in 1975. I don't regret it but I got rid of all my Billy Joel LPs in the 80'sand never felt the need to buy them again. Still dig a few songs, though. Summer, Highland Falls remains a sentimental favorite.
	10:10am Listener Bop Monroe: nuthin sez lovin' like Al!
	10:10am Son Of Pantz: I can't believe Spiderland turned 30 on Saturday. Gee, I must be old.
	10:11am Brendan: Billy can’t die until I forgive him for using the phrase “tonic and gin“. That’s just wrong.
	10:14am Steve from Dunwoody: Highland Falls NY is West Point's "garrison town."
	👻 10:15am John L: When I owned a record store I had two similar same day sales. One customer bought The Stranger and Royal Scam. Another bought 52nd Street and Aja. I guess people like a BJ with their Steely Dan
	10:15am Mick: I think Weird Al had a public tiff with Coolio over "Amish Paradise." Then again, Stevie Wonder is the person whose opinion mattered/whose blessing would have been needed
	10:16am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): When I hear "Piano Man," I end up thinking about Anthony Newly on the Merv Griffin Show. Or maybe it was just Merv Griffin. Or maybe it was Anthony Newly on the Mike Douglas show?
	10:16am Listener Bop Monroe: thank you for cleansing the musical pallette, as it were...
	10:17am nathan: I posted the Movin' Out ack version in a chat with some friends. one of them commented "true story this was playing over the radio when I was on nitrous getting my wisdom teeth out and this perfectly captures the experience"
	10:17am artbrau: Just have to thank Joe because i learned something today. I always thought Ronnie Spector teamed with Southside Johnny to sing "Say Goodbye to Hollwoood" because I saw her sing it with the Jukes at Cleveland stadium in 1977. When I've heard this version, I always assumed it was the Jukes, not the E. Street Band. Great cover!
	10:18am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @artbrau: Those horns sure sounded like The Jukes.
	10:19am artbrau: Exactly!
	10:19am Joe McG: @artbrau: Glad you enjoyed that! Probably was the Jukes horns on it, but it's also the full E Street Band. @nathan: Ha ha ha
	10:20am Asheville Jon: thanks for the billy joel set Joe!
	10:20am Joe McG: My pleasure! It was fun!
	10:21am Treekisser: Now see, Steely Dan I like- sorry not sorry. Billyho Joela- not so much. It's not snobbiness about popularity.
	👻 10:22am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, sad news about former FMU DJ and listener to this show Deborah Kanter's demise earlier this month.
	10:22am D Rok (in brooklyn): @Mick: Yeah, Al got clearance from Coolio's "people" but apparently Coolio himself wasn't in on that, then got upset. Coolio has since acknowledged that raising a stink over that was one of the dumbest things he did in his career.
	10:23am Hubig Pie: Bill Joel- He's no Burt Bacharach
	👻 10:24am Brian in UK: Hubig Pie, who is?
	10:25am Joe McG: @Brian: Yes, I know it's very sad. There have been a few tributes here and there. I never met her, unfortunately.
	10:26am Listener Bop Monroe: an hour set of Burt B covers!!!!! please...?
	👻 10:27am Brian in UK: Only one hour?
	10:27am Joe McG: @Bop: Could do 5 shows of Bacharach!
	10:27am The Butterman: Now the timbre entire day is going to be set by all this Billy Joel nonsense. He did do backflips off his piano during the Stormfront tour.
	10:27am TerrDE: Burt Bacharach.What a life.Wakes up in Angie Dickinson's lovin arms, turn on the radio and Dionne and Dusty are singing his songs
	10:32am paddy in matawan: You get to use that cool think that people have taken to tattoo on themselves!
	10:32am artbrau: Gaylord did a great Hal David (w/Bacharach, of course) tribute here wfmu.org...
	10:33am Listener Bop Monroe: got my bulletproof ski jacket on.
	10:34am paddy in matawan: The 45 adapter looks kinda like Hatchet Man from ICP RIP X-Ray.
	10:37am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	10:37am Jason from Houston: YESSSSSSSS PLEASE
	👻 10:39am yerfriendpaul: I can't believe I missed the Billy Joel cover set! I grew up in a piano playing family so Billy was big in our house. Will have to go back and listen. I know BJ gets a lot of grief but I have a soft spot for him and saw him live many times in the 80s. He always put on a great show. Saw him the day my Red Sox let our World Series victory slip through Bill Buckner's legs. Billy was giving us the score throughout his show. He was a NY fan of course so he wasn't happy. I was thrilled on the other hand because our Sox were winning throughout his show. Only afterward, in the parking lot, did it all fall apart!
	10:40am queems: LOLLLLLL
	10:40am Asheville Jon: hahaha, this poopdeck song is awesome
	👻 10:40am Webhamster Henry: Ooh a party song!
	10:41am Listener Bop Monroe: In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or "aft", part of the superstructure of a ship. The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. Thus the poop deck is technically a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or "after" cabin, also known as the "poop cabin". On sailing ships, the helmsman would steer the craft from the quarterdeck, immediately in front of the poop deck. At the stern, the poop deck provides an elevated position ideal for observation.
	10:41am The Oscar: Getting in on the TikTok sea shanty craze!
	10:41am Jim the Poet: Do pirates poop?
	👻 10:42am Webhamster Henry: I hope Sheena's Jungle Room knows about this tune.
	10:42am davefromtoronto: billy joel ain't got nothin on this ditty!
	10:42am D Rok (in brooklyn): Everybody poops
	10:43am TerrDE: next Donovan Intergalactic laxative, then the Fugs I feel like a pile of homemade shit
	10:44am davefromtoronto: would pooping on the poop deck be redundant?
	👻 10:45am Webhamster Henry: And Bonzo Dog Band's "Do The Strain."
	10:45am Listener Bop Monroe: 'excuse me, do you have any grey poupon?' 'ewww, no, i use paper.'
	10:45am harry j: its a shaaaameme how much ppl hate billy joel
	10:45am Joe McG: And "Constipation Blues" by Screamin' Jay, of course.
	10:45am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	10:45am JtotheK: Great Spinners track! Hi Joe, hi everyone.
	👻 10:46am Brian in UK: Joe, you have such a quality audience!
	10:46am Martinibomb: @Webham we do now! Lol that song was amazing! <3
	10:46am Listener Bop Monroe: heard TOPT Tommy James interview. he mentioned 'the spinners, not THAT spinners..."
	10:49am mb: G'morning Joe and errybody
	10:49am The Oscar: I love the "clean" version of "Constipation Blues," where they just cut out the intro and the sound effects and retitle it "Moanin'"
	👻 10:50am Threemoons: And I'm back. Just had a half hour power interruption....ConEd is installing smart meters in my building.
	10:50am Rick A: One of the best parts of single file is that you play mostly songs from the 60s/70s/80s.
	10:52am McGroovey: I'm in line for my vax#1. Woohoo. I think. But my appointment was for 10:15. Oh, well.
	10:52am Joe McG: @Rick: I just have fewer 45s from the '90s and beyond, so it's just the way it plays out....
	10:52am artbrau: "Gin and Tonic" as God intended.
	10:52am Jason from Houston: This is a good one. Phew...
	10:52am Spankyflop: The dude from Ween did a whole Billy Joel tribute show for a fundraiser for the School of rock. www.youtube.com...
	10:53am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @McGroovey: Had my first on Saturday at a gigando NASCAR track in New Hampshire. What a surreal and wonderful experience. Also, an incredible display of logistics. Truly.
	👻 10:53am Webhamster Henry: Recorder break!
	10:54am Son Of Pantz: yes!!!
	10:54am artbrau: That penny whistle makes me laugh out loud.
	10:54am mb: @Spankyflop: They are both Ween's. I believe you are referring to Gene Ween not Dean.
	10:54am TerrDE: speaking of Electric Co.s. DelMarVa Power was bought out and our power rates went DOWN ! I m still amazed.
	10:54am The Oscar: I'm honestly shocked no contemporary pop stars have brought back the Bozzio/Lovich/Lauper vocal hiccup.
	10:54am Jim the Poet: No one listens anymore. Because my stories are boring.
	10:55am Mike East: Missing Persons always makes me happy. Morning, Joe! Gonna be a great week, I can feel it!
	👻 10:55am yerfriendpaul: Love Missing Persons!
	10:55am B R M: Missing Persons always welcome... underrated!
	10:55am McGroovey: Most of my singles are indie things from the early nineties, because that's when I was buying them. It was easy to shell out cash at $3 or $4 each.
	10:55am Joe McG: @Jim: Ha ha. Maybe you need to put on your fishbowl bra.
	10:55am Rick A: In the 90s, the classic 45 was largely replaced with the CD single which is not as cool.
	👻 10:55am Ken From Hyde Park: Missing Persons <==> Spring Session M
	10:56am Joe McG: @Rick A: I have very few of those.
	10:56am Tookie a.k.a Wuthry Guffy: i need a manatee a periscope and some face paint.... but there is talk of cheetahs and alligators so who knows how this trip to the toy store will go.
	10:56am Roberto: Pissing Mersons!
	10:56am TerrDE: @Woods any Magot hats ?
	10:57am PaulRobeson1920: @Jim the Poet .... there is no place in American society for a poet...
	👻 10:57am tim from champaign (now washington): Hey Joe! I hear you and I care!
	10:58am Joe McG: @tim: Thanks, Tim! :)
	10:58am Roberto: In '82, I don't think there was any band more L.A. than MP. Runners-up: X, The Motels.
	10:58am Toutevoix: ((((((◍))))))
	10:58am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @TerrDE: Not that I saw.
	10:58am Jim the Poet: @paul thankfully
	10:58am PaulRobeson1920: : )
	10:59am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I saw Terry Bozio give a drum clinic way back. Holy smokes can that dude play the drums.
	👻 10:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Note: Kevin Ayers is the Wake 'n' Bake Artist of the Week.
	10:59am Son Of Pantz: You're turning into the Nutty Professor, Joe.
	10:59am artbrau: @roberto. Yes. That drops me right into that summer.
	11:00am Roberto: Maybe The BusBoys too.
	11:00am artbrau: I would say there is no band more 1982 than MP
	11:01am TerrDE: Sia as well
	11:01am Roberto: Hey Dale, would you mind coming up here and holding my pickle to satisfy this weird man up here on the stage?
	11:01am Santos L Halper: The whole band was with FZ...great show Joe!
	11:02am paddy in matawan: O man I didnt realize I missed the Billly Joel set! Gene Ween did a whole Billy Joel show at Brooklyn Bowl that was fantastic. He even looks like him a little bit.
	11:02am Stevel: How did I miss Missing Persons. So much missing!
	11:02am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I have been getting the wacky visuals from the videos being put out by Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox.
	11:03am steveo: Jessica Griffin
	11:04am steveo: Sorry I missed the Billy Joel set, as we are about to drive to Long Island
	11:04am Alvy Singer: Dale Bozzio sang on Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage and Thing-Fish.
	11:05am steveo: I heard my name on the radio!! 🙂
	11:05am johnk77: nice work selecter terry bozzio super guy off-stage he is from northern california new subject tommy james interview great he dated the music biz move from singles to albums being mid-1968
	11:06am TerrDE: Toyah at 62 gives meaning to Sexygenerian
	11:06am McGroovey: When I was a teenager, my favorite thing about Terry Bozzio was that he was in UK (the band).
	11:06am bobby: Got 1st shot Saturday was feeling pretty crappy. getting better and as I sit in sun by window listening to your show it's like a healing calming medicine, Joe- THANK YOU! THANK YOU Thank you
	11:07am PaulRobeson1920: 200,000 tons
	11:07am Faye: and I've got guest graphic novelist Nick Drnaso on my show tonight at 8!! Hi Joe!!
	11:08am Hubig Pie: Container ships have no poop deck
	11:09am paddy in matawan: Poopship Destroyer honorable mention
	11:09am bobby: ween is all I think of when ya'll say poop deck their song "poop ship destroyer" ok im tired now..
	11:09am Brendan: And Ghostbusters they said never cross the streams
	11:09am paddy in matawan: ^^ : )
	11:09am Asheville Jon: Woods: had to look that robert & toyah up, and i'm not sure whether to thank you or curse you!
	11:10am Rich in Washington: Thanks for plugging our weird lil' stream, Joe! We're pleased as punch to have Gaylord on this Friday!
	11:10am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Asheville Jon: You need to go back and find the one where they do ballet in the back yard. Hilarious.
	11:10am Asheville Jon: will do!
	11:11am Gaylord Fields: Thanks for the plug, Joe! We are one big happy freeform family!
	11:11am Rich in Washington: Hey, Gaylord! Looking forward to Friday!
	👻 11:12am tim from champaign (now washington): @Faye - That's so cool. Nick Drnaso's book Beverly knocked my socks off. Thanks for the tip!
	👻 11:12am YETI BOB: I've got to follow up on Matt LaJoie - every time I hear his music on WFMU I really like it
	11:13am Joe McG: Hey Faye! Sorry I missed that one, it wasn't one the site, so thanks for chiming in! Hey Gaylord, happy to oblige.
	11:13am Asheville Jon: hahahaha, found it, omg, the unicorns!
	11:13am TerrDE: Bad Bobby's and the Mrs cover choices are funny as well.Shes a good dancer,. I like the tap video
	11:14am Handy Haversack: Hi, Joe, everyone. Late, lazy greetings from Out of Town.
	11:15am McGroovey: Matt LaJoie is good sitting-in-the-car-after-my-car-after-my-COVID-shot-waiting-to-find-out-whether-I'm-going-to-go-into-convulsions music. So far, so good.
	👻 11:15am YETI BOB: Yo Handy, I hope you are having a great getaway weekend! @Terr: There's one where Bob plays "Fracture" on guitar and Toyah tap-dances like an overcafeinated mouse, it's great.
	11:20am Rich in Bristol: Lovely work today, Joe!
	11:22am Son Of Pantz: Joe! Joe! He's our man! If he can't do it, we'll have to find someone else! Yay Joe!
	11:23am Rich in Bay Ridge: We'll never think of Bob Fripp the same way again.
	11:23am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, friends.
	11:23am Jason from Houston: Good news, McGroovey! I will be sitting in a lobby this afternoon hoping for the same.
	11:24am bobby: thank you Joe
	11:24am Rich in Bay Ridge: Thanks Joe. Another fantastic show. Lots of joy today!
	👻 11:24am YETI BOB: @Rich - I think he's always had a super-dry sense of humor
	11:26am Rich in Bay Ridge: @Yeti - yeah. Well, he was usually loath to display it. I met him and Toyah at a badly attended signing in 1992 in NYC (basically, me, my friend, and a dozen Crafty guitarists hanging around Tower Records) and they were unbelievably charming and fun.
	11:26am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Speaking of Fripp, I fell down the DGM rabbit hole this weekend, buying up a Projekt 3 show that I was at plus a Crimson show I saw in Boston.
	11:27am TerrDE: sounds like DJ Trouble has snuck in a tune
	11:27am Mark Hurst: Thanks, Joe, great show today!
	11:28am porchy: What a gawgeous tune
	11:28am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @JoeMcG: Great show today! Hall & Oates set next week???
	11:29am Son Of Pantz: Thanks for starting the fire, this morning. And I say that with all Hoooo-nesty.
	11:29am Joe McG: @Pantz: Ha ha! @Woods: Don't dare me, I might. @Mark: Thanks, Mark, see you tonight on the radio!
	11:30am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @JoeMcG: DO IT!!!! Ha.
	11:31am TonyR: The Billy Joel set went right over my schedule (as did Single File). Good Mornoon, everybody!
	👻 11:31am YETI BOB: this sounds like all the gear I had in the 80s - cheap Casio synth, cheap Ibanez chorus pedal, etc...
	👻 11:31am waters7: Hey, this is my friend Linda Smith! She's great!
	11:31am TerrDE: Woods did you get the 170 CDs boxed set of Court of Crimson King including them just think about what they going to play?
	👻 11:32am YETI BOB: waters7 - that was not intended as a put-down, i like the track
	11:33am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @TerrDE: Ha! No. Man, tho...that site is dangerous!
	11:33am TonyR: 1992 was just 1988 in flannel.
	11:34am TonyR: Likin' Rob Noise.
	👻 11:34am waters7: I get it Yeti Bob. She's the original "bed-sit diva" in the 80's in the east village and Williamsburg. Still making music in Baltimore.
	11:34am The Oscar: Aw, Rob! An old buddy and coworker from my record store days-- great dude, and his new album's fantastic!
	11:36am TonyR: @Oscar: Favorited MoT, for what that's worth.
	11:36am Joe McG: @Oscar: Yes, it really is good!
	11:36am Spence in Baltimore: I worked with Linda Smith years ago. She's great, so glad she's getting the airplay.
	11:37am Joe McG: @Spence: This new compilation of her stuff is a very worthy tribute.
	11:39am Spence in Baltimore: So good. I worked with her at the Baltimore Museum of Art - didn't even know she played music until now!
	11:40am TonyR: "Arc Minutes" available for streaming on Tidal, in case you don't have a rekkid player.
	11:40am Spence in Baltimore: (Err, "now" meaning when the record came out this year)
	11:41am Dennis Diken: hey Joe and everyone! been diggin' the show, no time to hang and chat but good one, son!
	11:42am JG: Always an interesting and enjoyable show, Joe. Thank you!
	11:42am Carmichael: Late Heya Joe and listeners.
	11:42am TonyR: Yes! Monday brunch champagne toast to JMcG.
	11:42am Joe McG: Thanks, Dennis. The sun is cutting across the parking lot in the back of the building and this music fits it quite nicely.
	11:44am Brendan: This set is kicking ass. It punched a hole right through my Monday. I can see the way to Friday now.
	11:46am Joe McG: @Brendan: I like the idea of seeing through to the goodness at the other side!
	11:46am Hubig Pie: I heard this on Daniel Blumin's show last year. Beautiful
	👻 11:47am 12539: (ah, Blumin!)
	11:47am spodiodi: good morning, Joe and everyone. nothing like a little Alan Watts in the asm
	11:47am Treekisser: Good lord is this Alan Watts?
	11:48am bnowb: Allen watts the great
	11:48am Joe McG: Miss Daniel greatly. Hope he will be back soon!
	11:48am Ernst Unding: It isn't a well examined week without the requisite Watts sample.
	11:49am JG: Was that Allen Watts's voice?
	11:51am Dayffid: I feel soothed. Thanks Joe
	11:51am Ernst Unding: In particular, Watts from his "Overcoming Social Anxiety."
	👻 11:51am tim from champaign (now washington): Joe - great set of serious music! Thanks for the super show today.
	11:52am Listening Out There: What's wrong with hearing a little Allen Watts now and Zen?
	11:52am Joe McG: @Dayffid: I figured you might need it if the Billy Joel set was rough on you.
	👻 11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. Your miracle set of Billy Joel covers did the trick. The container ship is free and the Suez Canal is working again! 🚢
	11:53am Joe B: bummed to have missed the billy joel covers set! looks great Joe!
	11:53am Andres: Tuned in late but in time for the last hour, absolutely beautiful! Thanks, Joe!
	👻 11:54am 12539: To quote Clay Pigeon: Thank God for Joe McGasko!
	11:54am Joe McG: @Joe B.: The listeners demanded it, I obliged. :)
	11:54am pgalub: Fab show Joe! 🎸
	11:55am Asheville Jon: dang, i needed some noodling with my lunch, this fits the menu!
	11:55am Stillwell Coney Islander: Lots of favourites today. Thanks Joe :-))
	11:55am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Joe!
	11:55am Ernst Unding: @Ken FHP: Noooo! Boat-chan had so much more to give! Still...the best gift Ever Given.
	11:55am Joe McG: This guitar solo will wake you up for Three Chord Monte!
	11:56am spodiodi: thanks, Joe!
	11:56am Jason from Houston: So much great music. Thank you, Joe.
	11:56am Carmichael: Is this the Gary Lucas from Beefheart?
	11:56am J-W from B: Gary Lucas! How nice to hear him again! Thanks Joe! I wonder if he ever did a version of Eleanor Rigby.
	11:56am Dayffid: @Joe McG Indeed I did, your intuition never seems to fail you haha
	11:56am Brendan: I like that little Stylistics phrase hidden in the guitar solo there
	11:57am Rich in Washington: I've always loved Gary Lucas' take on Kraftwerk's Autobahn.
	11:58am TerrDE: Alan Watts. Who said to the Hot Dog vender, "Make me one w everything"
	11:58am Brendan: Thanks dude
	11:58am PaulRobeson1920: Thanks, Joe McG! Thank YOU WFMU! Peace and (the most powerful force in the universe) Love! all for one and one for all
	11:59am jt: What happened to the Alan Watts Hour that WFMU had I guess the estate / family is fighting over the ownership of all the recordings ?
	12:00pm TerrDE: Great. show. Good bye Joe, Hello Joe
	12:01pm JohnEBGood: Hi Joe and WFMU family. The Clash Sandanista is here and there, up and down, hot and cold. The great Katy Perry tells us so. The only tune I've heards are spun by Jonesy. Charlie Don't Surf!!!
	2:46pm Joe McG: @jt: It was free for years, but then they wanted to charge us to broadcast it, so we decided not to run it any longer.

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from March 29, 2021

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