WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from April 18, 2022

Listener comments!
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Yipped late but yipped well! Morning, Joe and all.
	9:02am Spinning Giant: RADIO! (my timing is perfect for once!) - will wonders never cease ;P
	9:03am Clay Pigeon: Sorry if I went over Joe. I have clock synced to FMU.
	9:04am Clay Pigeon: I have NO clock synced to FMU I mean.
	9:04am listener james from westwood: Morning, Joe and all!
	👻 9:04am Marley P. Dogg: Holy boing boing do I need some soothing tunes this morning - hello all
	9:05am dale: the new seekers do an explosive version of this too.
	9:05am The Butterman: Banjer!
	9:05am Mert: Rock : Pinball \| Bluegrass : ?
	9:06am Noel: I saw The Hillbenders in Henderson, NC. They were most excellent!
	👻 9:06am DjLorraine: Counting my blessings starting with #1. Joe McGasko!
	👻 9:07am doctorjazz: Very cool Tommy (Bluegrass and Reggae covers of Rock/Pop tunes float my boat)!
	👻 9:07am LastWhiteRhino: "Blue" Monday ?
	9:08am Son Of Pantz: Good morning, from the Bluegrass state!
	9:08am Joe McG: Howdy, folks! Welcome to the show! (@Clay: No worries!)
	👻 9:09am doctorjazz: And Hi Joe and Monday listeners-recovering from going to see Wilco on a "school night" last night (blasted NJ Transit...).
	9:09am Creature Boy: I think we know where this is goin . I just wonder if the Osborne Brothers will make an appearance
	👻 9:09am DjLorraine: Morphe do you recall which show you were mentioning different moon names? My buddy is interested
	9:10am TDK60: Good morning difficult music historian teacher, Joe. Hope I get a C+ at least.
	9:10am Ian: Morning Joe! Check if you have The CD Turbines for Speed by Strato-Chief in the library. Killer version of Knights in White Satin.
	9:10am Planet Tyler: OMG a whole TOMMY bluegrass performance!!
	9:11am Blix: I actually thought I heard the theme from The Odd Couple for a second in there...
	9:13am Joe McG: @Ian: Bummer, we go right from Stratford 4 to Stravinsky! :( @Noel: I saw the whole "Tommy" by the HillBenders and it was amazing!
	9:13am Tom from Stirling.: @Blix: so did I
	9:13am Creature Boy: Or the Stoneman Family
	9:13am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...No Kuntry for Old Astronauts...
	9:14am Noel: Yes, the whole Tommy. It was very well thought-out. The lead singer looked like Andy Partridge.
	9:14am Joe McG: @CB: I brought "Dawn of the Stoneman's Age" but when I listened to it again it's actually more country rock than I'm going for today.
	9:15am P-90: Yes, the Bluegrass is a potent mood elevator this morning. Right on target @Joe McG.
	9:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So - an entire NewGrass performance of TheWho's 'Tommy' is what you're saying. Righteous.
	9:17am prof.fuzz: morning' JoeMcG! hey hey Handy!
	9:19am P-90: “that old time traditional Bluegrass sound” is a bit of a myth
	9:19am Handy Haversack: Hey, prof.fuzz! How goes? Taking a couple of days off here even though we canceled our trip.
	9:20am gauche knee: this bluegrass is octane this am!
	👻 9:21am Marley P. Dogg: Holding out hope for some Gourds - gin & juice
	9:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...when Johnny comes Hustlin' home...
	👻 9:22am tadpoles: Do the Deighton Family fit in here Joe? One of the many introductions to me from our faithful FMU.
	9:22am prof.fuzz: Hey Handy. Settling in for a long day of teaching after a long weekend of rocking and rolling. We saw our buddies VOLK open for Electric Six in Fort Worth on Thursday night, and then had gigs both Friday and Saturday. Fun times, but I'm a bit tired this morning. This bluegrass pick-me-up is hitting the spot though.
	👻 9:23am doctorjazz: Impressive banjo by McGee Brothers...
	👻 9:24am queems: I LOVE THIS
	9:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wailin'. BlueGrass players gotta be tight.
	9:25am medson: Sweet opening set Joe.
	👻 9:25am DjLorraine: Son of Pantz could you refresh my memory of the name of the live rock music nightclub in Louisville that had the wood plank exterior from the 90's?
	9:25am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: I love the smell of banjo in the morning, smells like weird.
	9:26am manana: What a fun set, now where's my cha- cha heels?
	9:27am Listener Sean in Long Valley: Loving the bluegrass in the morning. Almost makes me wanna to dust off my mandolin.
	9:27am Joe McG: @Karen: Ha ha! @Marley: Great idea, but it's got drums on it! :)
	9:28am SWK: Ok this is the one that sold me
	👻 9:28am YETI BOB: last song was 152BPM, if I'm counting correctly
	👻 9:28am doctorjazz: How Lowe can you go (great cover)!
	👻 9:30am Marley P. Dogg: Oh wow - this is amazing
	9:31am D Rok: What ridiculously fun set! (emphasis on ridiculous)
	9:31am mqsack: Is that Jello singing backgrounds?
	9:32am Vanessa bikes: This bluegrass set is awesome, really enjoyed!
	9:32am P-90: This is is the kind of Bluegrass cover that if you somehow had never heard the original, you’d just accept it as a Bluegrass-origin tune.
	👻 9:33am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Joe and yippengers. I get the hint. I'll mow the grass later this week.
	👻 9:33am Webhamster Henry: Hi there record cleaners!
	9:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I got it. LeeMavers is just waiting to work with Dolly...
	9:35am Joe McG: Can someone remind me who did this song originally? Three Eye Blind or somebody?
	👻 9:35am DjLorraine: Dolly! I have never heard this version
	👻 9:35am YETI BOB: Collective Soul? Dolly redeeiming this otherwise awful song!
	9:36am Andy: wait a minute. the tune sounds like "love of the common people"
	9:36am Son Of Pantz: Third Eye Blind?
	9:36am toots: yea!
	9:36am Joe McG: @Yeti Bob: Ah, thanks! I couldn't recall! Rob Thomas. @Pantz: Ha ha
	9:36am Handy Haversack: K8 confirms Collective Soul.
	9:36am bradford: it's collective soul, but i'm not proud of knowing this
	👻 9:36am DjLorraine: Collective Soul - yeah
	👻 9:36am YETI BOB: I'm not proud of myself for knowing that one!
	9:37am gauche knee: Agreed Yeti! Appreciate this Dolly anointing, Joe!
	9:37am SWK: Swear on Dolly!
	👻 9:37am YETI BOB: hehe bradford, I know what you mean
	9:37am Joe McG: This version is so superior that Collective Soul should just hang their heads in shame.
	9:37am toots: I mooned Collective Soul from the side of a mountain while they performed live at the ski resort. love this song
	9:37am P-90: Dolly knows exactly what a Bluegrass record should sound like. Because she’s Dolly. And she knows what any kind of record should sound like.
	👻 9:37am Marley P. Dogg: I don’t want this set to end
	9:38am Joe McG: @toots: Ha ha ha!
	9:38am P-90: @toots: we applaud you
	9:38am melinda: always loved Dolly's 'Shine'
	9:39am fred: I get laughed at at work for my love of Dolly Parton. I still wave that flag
	9:39am luka: yes. YES.
	9:39am Son Of Pantz: Of all the VH songs to cover, they chose this stinker?
	9:40am Joe McG: @fred: Wow, your coworkers must be morons! Dolly is the greatest!
	9:40am Planet Tyler: Aztec Camera does the best cover of Jump
	9:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a ripping Kentucky AtomicPunk I'll just have to imagine...
	9:41am Joe McG: @Pantz: DLR only sings on two, but I could've given you anything from "Jamie's Cryin'" to "Panama." There's even a version of "Eruption" on this disc!
	9:41am luka: laffing heartily at “your coworkers must be morons!”
	👻 9:41am doctorjazz: Amen to Planet Tyler @9:40!
	9:41am Son Of Pantz: Now Eruption would be amazing!
	👻 9:42am doctorjazz: (but this version is pretty cool)
	👻 9:42am DjLorraine: Toots can we call that “moon- shine“ then?
	9:42am Brendan: Thanks Joe for these unlikely covers
	9:43am fred: @Joe: most are French, the rest German or Italian. Their exposure to Dolly was the worst
	9:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dolly's 'Shine' is more than just a stunt, tho, if you know what I mean.
	👻 9:43am Webhamster Henry: There's a bluegrass Toxic out there, just sayin'.
	9:43am Bryant in TO: EVH's solos really lend themselves to fiddle n 'jo
	👻 9:43am YETI BOB: I'm enjoying this set, but I'll turn off the radio if we get "Freebird".
	9:43am Mark Hurst: Well if it ain't Pickin' Joe McGasko, giving us a right nice opening set.
	9:44am bradford: was wondering if hayseed dixie was going to make the cut...
	9:44am Erin in TO: @Yeti Bob I assume Ken has exclusive rights to any Freebird covers on WFMU
	👻 9:44am Marley P. Dogg: Is there a bluegrass - Felder heavy metal?
	9:45am fred: @YETI BOB: that's the Wednesday special
	9:46am Colleen: Oh that was all sooo good Joe!!
	9:46am Spinning Giant: ...awfully lonesome without you...
	9:46am Son Of Pantz: That was a slobberknocker of a set, Joe!
	9:47am Handy Haversack: Great set, Joe!
	9:47am P-90: See? They’re not morons, they’ve just French. It’s going to take a few generations for them to get hip to Dolly. A little hard for Americans to wrap their heads around, because kneeling before the greatness of Dolly seems so effortless to us.
	9:48am winston legthigh: hay joe. handy!
	9:49am Handy Haversack: winston!
	9:50am luka: that mandolin lick was killer, it had me trying to play along. i love when covers embellish like that. it’s why i love the White Lion cover of “Radar Love” so much.
	9:50am Uleeshuh TN: polished a turd...to be quite frank
	9:51am fred: @P-90: If we elect Le Pen as president next week, please erase any French/moron distinction
	9:51am P-90: White Lion: slightly underrated/overlooked band
	9:52am mqsack: @P-90 100% Saw them open for AC/DC at the Garden in '88
	9:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh I missed the Top there ! Gotta check the WhoGrass !!...
	9:53am Andrew Waterloo: The original Shine really loses it's way after the opening verse.
	9:56am fred: Just thinking I'll vote for Macron, barfing time
	9:56am Creature Boy: Which Loretta Lynne LP didja find , Joe? Did u say it was vinyl?
	9:57am luka: “don’t go breaking in stores” - elton and kiki
	9:57am Son Of Pantz: Don't go breaking into stores. I couldn't if I tried.
	9:57am morphe': Been listening but missing things - what was the underlying roots/reasoning of the Bluegrass/CW/Old timey set???
	9:58am Joe McG: @CB: Yeah! This one: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:58am YETI BOB: morphe': Fun, I think
	9:59am P-90: “don’t go breakin’ in, don’t go breakin’ in…”
	10:02am Joe McG: "If I had to choose between then and now/I'd choose now." Words to live by!
	10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Now I want some kinda Emitt Rhodes.
	10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...but I did then too...
	10:07am eva: good morning!
	10:09am fred: @Joe: totally my way, sometime to grief, but thems the breaks
	10:10am Creature Boy: That's one of the few Loretta Lynn records that u can't stream
	10:10am Joe McG: @fred: Ah yes, I know the feeling! :)
	10:17am eva: at pappy and harriets i saw cate get up and karaoke . apparently she lives down the street.
	10:19am Joe McG: @eva: Yes, I think she ping-pongs between here and Wales. What did she sing?
	👻 10:19am Brian in UK: Hey Joe & late forming easter bunnies.
	👻 10:20am Brian in UK: Joe, good Loretta cover, how could you resist.
	10:20am P-90: Please tell me Cate sang a Britney Spears number from the nineties at karaoke
	10:23am P-90: or a Phil Collins song
	👻 10:25am Brian in UK: Or maybe a Dafydd Iwan number!!
	👻 10:26am Webhamster Henry: hah I sang Poet Fool or Bum with the Loser's Lounge.
	👻 10:27am Webhamster Henry: These lyrics are hard to remember - it doesn't make a lot of sense.
	10:27am ?: Some waggish critic gave this LP a one-word review "Bum"
	10:27am Joe McG: @Henry: Cool!
	10:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lee freaking Hazlewood
	👻 10:28am Webhamster Henry: I think Joe McGinty was going for cognitive dissonance with that choice.
	10:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Waggish. Wrong. But funny.
	10:34am HyperDose: He won't play 45's, no way. He's not that off his rocker...is he? 🤔
	10:35am Joe McG: @HD: I like the phrase "off his rocker"! I have a rocker at home. I am sometimes on it and sometimes off it!
	10:35am Jason from Houston: Phew... This is a good one. Good morning!
	10:36am P-90: Is this the one: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/66428
	👻 10:36am Brian in UK: Funkyist band I ever saw was the Neville Brothers, circa '86.
	10:39am eva: @ joe she sang -heart of glass. such a nice person.
	10:39am Joe McG: @Brian: Lucky! I never caught them.
	10:39am P-90: Heart of Glass! Perfect
	10:41am HyperDose: A chair with good lumbar support is one of life's simple pleasures. Also, this Chubby is DIVINE, Joe! Heyo, Jason and his Blaggards! 🧹🍀
	10:42am Joe McG: I just realized that Chubby Checker and Percy Sledge BOTH sing like muppets!
	10:42am eva: i hear she makes the karaoke circuit . if you ever go to pappy and harriets highly recommend the steak.
	10:43am P-90: waiting for Limbo parties to come back in style
	10:43am Joe McG: @eva: I can hear her voice singing that song! Nice choice.
	10:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...or that guy in TheBand...
	👻 10:43am Brian in UK: P-90, osteopaths would love that.
	10:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there goes Muppet E. Lee...
	10:44am Joe McG: @RR: Future set: Vocalists who sing like muppets!
	10:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - in distinction from those of us who look like one...
	👻 10:45am Brian in UK: Great first album, Jesse Winchester.
	👻 10:46am Brian in UK: That high lonesome muppet sound.
	10:47am Brendan: Yankee Panky
	10:48am rx scabin: Good morning, everyone.
	10:48am Joe McG: @Brendan: Ha ha ha, that's what Jesse should've called it!
	10:49am Son Of Pantz: AM GOLD!
	👻 10:49am Webhamster Henry: People pay for warped record effects, just sayin'.
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: This sounds kind of perfect.
	10:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Produced by KevinShields...
	10:49am mndave: I can feel the boat rocking back and forth, love it
	10:50am Joe McG: @RR: Ha ha
	10:50am drr: Ah yes, You Left Me Just When I Needed Some Toast. An old favorite.
	👻 10:50am Brian in UK: This record came out on the same label as Jesse W's first album.
	10:51am TerrDE: this was a hit the button for a new station number
	10:51am nardo: I'm getting sea sick
	10:51am drr: Vanwarmer is one of the more risible names I've encountered.
	👻 10:51am Webhamster Henry: Autoharp Alert!
	10:51am Brendan: There is a football coach, Ed Orgeron, who sounds exactly like Cookie Monster. https://youtu.be/56w5U8aYnWM
	10:51am Joe McG: I kinda like how woozy it is. Matches the narrator's feelings.
	👻 10:51am queems: drunk carousel
	10:51am G: Wow, that wow lol
	10:51am Joe McG: @drr: Ha ha
	👻 10:51am tadpoles: The warping sort of makes it a little more ethereal!
	10:52am drr: Brendan: Coach O!
	10:52am paddy in matawan: Randy's van was too warm for this biscuit
	10:52am bradford: somebody put something in my drink!
	10:52am McGroovey: I just turned on my radio, and I already feel like puking over the side, and I'm not even in the lake.
	10:52am Colleen: Fantastic
	10:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...so - Ecstasy has flashbacks too ...m'kay...
	👻 10:52am Webhamster Henry: I do run the autoharp through a warpy chorus like this a lot.
	10:52am MrDeb: OMG who could have imagined this song could get more maudlin? But the warpage does just that. Good god, man. Going to doodle dejectedly in my special private diary.
	👻 10:52am doctorjazz: What I needed most was speed correction...
	10:52am TimBK: I think I had too much robotussin this morning
	10:53am Erin in TO: More PSA's should have guitar
	10:53am Joe McG: @MrDeb: Ha ha! Make sure to add hearts and flowers.
	10:53am Alvy Singer: This Randy Vanwarmer track would fit in perfectly in the Robby Benson movie Ice Castles.
	10:53am fred: OK, this still slays
	10:54am Rich in Washington: Love that warped rendition! I thought maybe the 7 inch adapter was MIA in the air room or something.
	10:54am Brendan: Beach House does that wobbly sound intentionally to perfection on the song Norway.
	10:55am Gerry from Miami: Joe, you could hang this melting Vanwarmer 45 over a tree branch just like Salvador Dali did with clocks in his famous painting, "The Persistence of Memory."
	👻 10:55am captain beef fart: Great show today as always, Joe. Thanks!
	10:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: In the end - GET OFF THE STREETS.
	10:55am Rich in Washington: Anybody else have trouble finding this playlist from the front page? The link seemed to be broken for me and I had to come here via the schedule table.
	👻 10:55am Webhamster Henry: Someday, Joe McG can do an all Bearsville set. Make sure to bake them all first.
	10:56am TerrDE: Robby Benson, lol. Forgotten. Gone ?
	10:56am Joe McG: @Gerry: In my mind it's already there!
	👻 10:57am Brian in UK: Joe, you got a warped MacArthur Park?
	10:57am fred: That was 40 years ago. Still relevant. Barf time again
	10:57am Handy Haversack: This song always reminds me of the second season of The Wire.
	10:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Rich - looks that way here too.
	10:58am Joe McG: @Brian: No, but if someone wants to send me one, that would be AMAZING.
	10:58am McGroovey: There were so many depressingly serious (or seriously depressing) top-40 pop songs in the late sixties and really seventies.
	10:58am McGroovey: Early
	10:58am drr: Robby Benson is married to Meatloaf interlocutor Karla DeVito.
	👻 10:58am captain beef fart: this song always makes think of the scene from The Wire when they give Ziggy the fake paternity letter and play this over and over on the jukebox
	10:59am yippie: i just realized casio is really pronounced kashio
	10:59am Handy Haversack: Exactly, captain!
	10:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Often think that ! Dark stuff would Chart ...tho for all I know there's HipHops @ #1 now talkin' about pluggin' each other whada I know...
	11:00am McGroovey: This was actually the first version of Sweet Jane I heard.
	11:00am Joe McG: Is Robbie Benson dead?
	11:00am Gerry from Miami: @TerrDE. Robby did a great job voicing the monster(with electronic enhancement) in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast." But "Ode to Billy Joe" was his peak. And not believable as Olympic 10,000 meter run champion, Billy Mills. Such a career!
	11:01am drr: no.
	11:01am Joe McG: Whew!
	11:02am drr: So no need for a valedictory re-watch of "The Death Of Richie".
	11:03am Danny in Poughkeepsie: Really enjoying your show today Joe. Thank you
	11:03am Son Of Pantz: Wild and crazy guy!
	11:03am Rich in Washington: There was a schizophrenic gentleman who was a regular at the lunch counter of the cafe I worked at as a teenager. He would always confuse me with Robbie Benson for some reason. (I look nothing like Robbie Benson, it goes without saying).
	11:04am Roberto: I couldn't decide if that was Father Guido or Steve Martin.
	11:05am PMD: I did love the warped song
	11:05am Son Of Pantz: @Roberto maybe both, with a little Swedish Chef.
	11:06am fred: @Handy: give them some time (I know it's awkward), but let me know if it doesn't work out, I should be able to sort it out (weird, again, but...)
	👻 11:06am Webhamster Henry: @Rich in WA - yes it seems to be missing! I sent a note to Kenzo.
	11:06am yippie: when i was 5 i used to say the 45 is wurped
	11:07am Handy Haversack: Which, fred? The Baffler?
	11:07am PMD: @eva any beef flesh is great at pappy and Harriet’s
	11:08am PMD: Do a set of everyone who has appeared in the muppets!
	11:09am fred: @Handy: Yeah, The Baffler, it can take a while
	11:10am Gerry from Miami: Robby Benson is 66 and is married to former Meat Loaf back-up vocalist, Karla DeVito, and they have two children. He has suffered for a very long time with congenital heart problems and is heavily involved with charities and research in cardiac illnesses.
	11:10am Handy Haversack: No worries, fred. I'll be patient.
	11:12am HyperDose: I bet Joe's a good movie buddy. Wouldn't use his phone. Just the right amount of conversation pertinent to the picture.
	👻 11:12am tadpoles: Am near Bearsville...and we've got snow coming tonight!
	11:14am Brendan: The rain here in Maryland began as ice an hour ago. Now it’s just cold rain. These are perfect days to listen to Surface Noise.
	11:14am Roberto: I vaguely recall my mom telling me about running into Robby Benson and Brooke Shields in NYC when they were "hanging out" circa 1980 (I knew Brooke from school and my parents knew her from work). My mom said Robby got a little bent out of shape when she chatted with Brooke but had no idea who Robby was :P
	11:16am PMD: Hmmmm. Can’t get to connect board from website
	👻 11:17am chresti: Morning Joe and surfies! Listening from Griffith Park!
	11:17am fred: @Handy: Do let me know if you don't get it, it might be because my email got blocked, it happened before, I can get around that
	11:18am Creature Boy: Luv Melody, watched an absolutely terrible version of it on YouTube recently. Out of sync! Some friends & I soldiered through the entire thing
	11:18am HyperDose: Chrestikins! Does that mean you're on-location in the tennis booth? :)
	👻 11:19am chresti: Hyperkins! Indeed I is!
	11:19am -жеи: Having some Wordpress issues on the homepage today everybody. A batch of stuff on the homepage is currently broken. Let me know if anybody sees any other missing data or feeds (other than on wfmu.org)
	11:20am Rich in Washington: That's the only thing I've noticed so far, that the current show/playlist link isn't working.
	11:20am Brendan: This reminds me of a Carpenters arrangement
	11:21am P-90: “Have Soviet hackers hit the Freeform Station of the Nation?”
	11:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & no 'Playing Today' on the bottom...
	👻 11:22am chresti: Hi SM Ken, yes as a matter of fact, there was no link to this playlist, I got here via the program schedule.
	11:23am TerrDE: I'm in from the kitchen,...yep Melanie, far out
	11:24am Handy Haversack: It was working right at 9 -- I came here from the main page. So it must have happened after then.
	👻 11:25am John L: What could be next? perhaps Nilsson's title track from the 1970 film "Jenny"?
	👻 11:25am chresti: *or the link did not work on the home page
	11:27am iiibeat: In part because of the Polish background here . . I just wanna say that Kieslowski's Dekalog series (made for Polish television in the late 80's) is by far some of the most masterful workings of film I've ever viewed. It makes me feel more deeply human. I strongly recommend Dekalog. Play some noise!!!
	11:28am Gerry from Miami: JOE, NO ONE, I repeat NO ONE, plays Melanie Safka records any more!! Such a shame after her meteoric early success. I would have to check to see if she is still with us. Underappreciated talent.
	11:29am P-90: The archive player doesn’t seem to be streaming, to my IOS app anyway
	11:29am Roberto: Melanie is still with us. And yes, if not for WFMU, I would probably not be aware of her tremendous talent.
	11:29am Son Of Pantz: Gremlins?
	11:31am PMD: Ah, crowdsourcing solutions. Thanks @chresti!
	👻 11:31am Brian in UK: Gerry from Miami there is a great track she sings on The Sixths album, Hyacinths & Thistles.
	11:32am P-90: Clicking on any part of several playlists results in bupkis. From my IOS app.
	11:32am Gerry from Miami: JOE, all these films were released in the very early 70s. Coincidence?
	11:33am Joe McG: @Gerry: Not at all!
	11:33am Son Of Pantz: I've never heard of any of these films. Were they successes at the time?
	👻 11:33am John L: Melanie was my first rock star crush and my first concert. I was 10 or 11 and my dad had to sit through the whole show.
	11:34am drr: Anyone who can sing the words "hyacinths and thistles" has my respect.
	11:34am Joe McG: @Pantz: I kinda doubt it! But the music is pretty good!
	11:35am P-90: This is like a list of “if you haven’t seen them, you might want to check them out” movies
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Spare is Brave. Well - there's several trax on this...
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - neat arrangement tho.
	11:36am Gerry from Miami: I suspect Melanie may have been unfairly maligned and ignored just because of one clinker she released---- that roller skate key song!!
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...this is what I felt Mark Lanegan was for...
	11:37am -жеи: I shall rise to the Melanie challenge. I loved her as a kid - "Look What They've Done to My Song" made my young head spin
	11:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - & she were a major cutieface. Maybe too so...
	11:38am Handy Haversack: Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus?
	11:40am Joe McG: @Handy: Maybe the only music he recorded under his own name?
	👻 11:42am DjLorraine: Drr i was listening to Karla DeVito Bloody Bess and Work just yesterday
	11:44am Son Of Pantz: A Michael Hutchence movie? I might have to check that out.
	11:44am Handy Haversack: Wild times, Joe! And great show -- many thanks! Stay on top, Surfactants!
	11:44am Ryansterlingvirtue: outstanding song
	11:44am Gerry from Miami: If you really want to hear some off-the-beaten-path music from Declan MacManus(affectionately known as Elvis Costello), try "The Juliet Letters," an album he made in collaboration with the Brodsky String Quarter. Rhino re-released it in a deluxe edition. Primo stuff!
	11:45am eva: great show! thanks!
	11:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: MaryChain gets there.
	11:46am Hubig Pie: Psychedelic Beach Boys
	11:46am Gerry from Miami: Pardon my typo---should be Brodsky String QUARTET
	11:47am Michele with One "L": I love Shivers
	11:47am drr: @DJLorraine: She's pretty delightful. I recommend her video for "Is The A Cool. World Or What"?, where she's singing and dancing her heart out, spinning her parasol, while the crowd appears not to know who she is, and to have been gathered to receive some free food. Several of them are eating during the performance.
	11:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: BBoys already were... BBoys Xs VUs ?
	11:47am Hubig Pie: Double psychedelic Beach Boys
	11:48am Son Of Pantz: Now I do remember this flick.
	11:48am nathan: oh nice. i was just thinking the other day about how i love this song but hate morrissey
	11:49am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: nathan - that. Sadly.
	11:51am HyperDose: This rocks!
	11:51am Gerry from Miami: Well, we have at least two more Karla DeVito fans here!! Nice! Thanks, DJLorraine and drr!
	11:52am Jason from Houston: WUT I ALREADY CLICKY STARRED THIS?
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: piSToLS & Clash so central, so foundational ...no I had no idea of half the lyrics...
	11:53am Rich in Washington: I'm a Karla DeVito fan! I loved her Cool World single!
	11:53am Gerry from Miami: Another excellent show, JOE!! No better way one could spend a post-holiday Monday morning.
	11:54am Creature Boy: Party Party also features a great version of Man Who Sold the World by Midge Ure
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting today, everyone. It's been fun playing records for you. Have a great week!
	11:55am Listener Alexandra: I've been sitting here in awe for at last two hours now, Joe! Happy Monday :)
	11:56am P-90: Yeoman work once again, Joe. See you next week.
	11:56am bobobobob: Dave T spazzzzzz. ?? monkey in me
	11:56am bradford: a good time was had by all, joe
	11:56am Hubig Pie: The monkey speaks his mind !
	11:57am HyperDose: Thank you, Joe!
	11:57am radioronan: Thanks Joe!
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JoeMcG ~
	11:57am Gerry from Miami: @CreatureBoy. Midge Ure does Bowie?? Gotta look for that one!
	11:58am P-90: (Todays takeaway: you mention Robby Benson, all the Karla fans get a chance to come out and strut their stuff)
	👻 11:58am tadpoles: Nice morning thanks Joe
	11:59am Brendan: Thank you!
	👻 12:00pm chresti: Thanks Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from April 18, 2022

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April 18, 2022: The Best Mistakes

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
The HillBenders	Pinball Wizard "Pinball Wizard" by "The HillBenders"	TOMMY: A Bluegrass Opry	Compass	2015	CD			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David West and His Bluegrass Band	Cinnamon Girl	Gettin' High on Neil Young: A Bluegrass Tribute	CMH	2000	CD			0:05:51 (Pop-up)
Iron Horse	Rocket Man "Rocket Man" by "Iron Horse"	A Bluegrass Tribute to Elton John	CMH	2013	CD			0:09:23 (Pop-up)
The New Grass Revival	Great Balls of Fire	The New Grass Revival	Starday	1972	LP			0:14:03 (Pop-up)
The Bluegrass Alliance	Proud Mary	No Album	No Label	1971	MP3	live at the Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival, Reidsville, NC		0:16:20 (Pop-up)
McGee Brothers	Stayin' Alive "Stayin' Alive" by "McGee Brothers"	Saturday Night Hay Fever	Skipping Discs	2002	CD			0:18:38 (Pop-up)
Honeywagon	The Way You Make Me Feel	Songs from Neverland	2026 Nashville to You/Rainfeather	2010	MP3			0:22:43 (Pop-up)
Chatham County Line	Heart of the City	Lowe Country: The Songs of Nick Lowe	Fiesta Red	2012	CD			0:25:19 (Pop-up)
Greenwood Rye	Take On Me "Take On Me" by "Greenwood Rye"	No Album	Greenwood Rye	2019	MP3			0:28:34 (Pop-up)
Dollly Parton	Shine "Shine" by "Dollly Parton"	Little Sparrow	Sugar Hill	2001	CD			0:32:06 (Pop-up)
David Lee Roth with the John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band	Jump	Strummin' with the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen	CMH	2006	CD			0:37:12 (Pop-up)
Hayseed Dixie	Highway to Hell "Highway to Hell" by "Hayseed Dixie"	A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC	Western Beat/Dualtone	2001	CD			0:41:39 (Pop-up)

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard	Break Right In	Backhand Deals	Lost Map	2022	MP3		*	0:55:21 (Pop-up)
The Divine Comedy	The Best Mistakes	Charmed Life: The Best of the Divine Comedy	Divine Comedy	2022	MP3		*	0:59:14 (Pop-up)
The Jazz Butcher	Melanie Hargreaves' Father's Jaguar	The Highest in the Land	Tapete	2022	CD		*	1:02:45 (Pop-up)
Metronomy	Things Will Be Fine "Things Will Be Fine" by "Metronomy"	Small World	Because Music	2022	MP3		*	1:06:58 (Pop-up)
Cate Le Bon	Running Away "Running Away" by "Cate Le Bon"	Pompeii	Mexican Summer	2022	LP		*	1:10:30 (Pop-up)
Sally Shapiro	Dulcinea "Dulcinea" by "Sally Shapiro"	Sad Cities	Italians Do It Better	2022	CD		*	1:16:14 (Pop-up)
Flower Meg	けものの眠り (The Sleep of the Beast)	Flower Meg	Cinedelic	2022	MP3	From 1971	*	1:20:51 (Pop-up)
Lee Hazlewood	Poet, Fool or Bum "Poet, Fool or Bum" by "Lee Hazlewood"	Poet, Fool or Bum	Capitol	1973	LP			1:24:17 (Pop-up)

Single File: some 45s all in a row, like
The Meters	Zony Mash "Zony Mash" by "The Meters"	single	Josie	1970	45			1:33:03 (Pop-up)
The Ikettes	Peaches "N" Cream "Peaches "N" Cream" by "The Ikettes"	single	Modern	1965	45			1:35:43 (Pop-up)
Chubby Checker	Let's Limbo Some More	single	Parkway	1963	45			1:38:03 (Pop-up)
Percy Sledge	When She's Touching Me	single	Capricorn	1977	45			1:40:09 (Pop-up)
Brewer and Shipley	Yankee Lady "Yankee Lady" by "Brewer and Shipley"	single	Kama Sutra	1972	45			1:43:42 (Pop-up)
Randy Vanwarmer	Just When I Needed You Most	single	Bearsville	1979	45	whoops, slightly warped!		1:47:17 (Pop-up)
The Clash	Know Your Rights "Know Your Rights" by "The Clash"	single	CBS	1982	45			1:51:17 (Pop-up)
Diana Ross and the Supremes	Love Child	single	Motown	1968	45			1:54:51 (Pop-up)
Mott the Hoople	Sweet Jane "Sweet Jane" by "Mott the Hoople"	single	Columbia	1972	45			1:57:48 (Pop-up)

Music from the Motion Picture "Music from the Motion Picture"
Bee Gees	In the Morning "In the Morning" by "Bee Gees"	"Melody" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Atco	1971	LP			2:13:24 (Pop-up)
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition	A Poem I Wrote for Your Hair (Zoo Montage)	Original Sound Track from the Motion Picture "Fools"	Reprise	1970	LP			2:16:52 (Pop-up)
Melanie	We Don't Know Where We're Goin'	"R.P.M.*Revolutions Per Minute" Soundtrack of the Motion Picture	Bell	1970	LP			2:19:30 (Pop-up)
Trade Martin	Light Country Rock at O.J. (In My Own Kind of Way)	"Made for Each Other" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Buddah	1972	LP			2:22:00 (Pop-up)
Billly Strange	Love Theme for Bunny and Bill	Music from the Sound Track of the American International Picture "Bunny O'Hare"	AIR	1971	LP			2:25:05 (Pop-up)
Michael Small and the Sporting Club Band	Creek Water Song	"The Sporting Club" Original Motion Picture Sound Track	Buddah	1971	LP			2:26:40 (Pop-up)
Gavin Friday & The Man Seezer	He Got What He Wanted	"Bad Influence" Original Soundtrack Recording	Mango	1990	LP			2:30:53 (Pop-up)
Declan MacManus	Last Boat Leaving	"The Courier" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Virgin	1988	LP			2:36:04 (Pop-up)
Marie Hoy & Friends	Shivers "Shivers" by "Marie Hoy & Friends"	"Dogs in Space" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Atlantic	1987	LP			2:38:48 (Pop-up)
The Jesus and Mary Chain	Some Candy Talking	"Modern Girls" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Warner Bros.	1986	LP			2:42:48 (Pop-up)
Kirsty MacColl	You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby	"She's Having a Baby" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	I.R.S.	1988	LP			2:46:08 (Pop-up)
Bananarama	No Feelings "No Feelings" by "Bananarama"	"Party Party" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	A&M	1982	LP			2:49:49 (Pop-up)
Jo Kennedy	Monkey in Me "Monkey in Me" by "Jo Kennedy"	"Star Struck" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	A&M	1983	LP			2:52:07 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Yipped late but yipped well! Morning, Joe and all.
	9:02am Spinning Giant: RADIO! (my timing is perfect for once!) - will wonders never cease ;P
	9:03am Clay Pigeon: Sorry if I went over Joe. I have clock synced to FMU.
	9:04am Clay Pigeon: I have NO clock synced to FMU I mean.
	9:04am listener james from westwood: Morning, Joe and all!
	👻 9:04am Marley P. Dogg: Holy boing boing do I need some soothing tunes this morning - hello all
	9:05am dale: the new seekers do an explosive version of this too.
	9:05am The Butterman: Banjer!
	9:05am Mert: Rock : Pinball \| Bluegrass : ?
	9:06am Noel: I saw The Hillbenders in Henderson, NC. They were most excellent!
	👻 9:06am DjLorraine: Counting my blessings starting with #1. Joe McGasko!
	👻 9:07am doctorjazz: Very cool Tommy (Bluegrass and Reggae covers of Rock/Pop tunes float my boat)!
	👻 9:07am LastWhiteRhino: "Blue" Monday ?
	9:08am Son Of Pantz: Good morning, from the Bluegrass state!
	9:08am Joe McG: Howdy, folks! Welcome to the show! (@Clay: No worries!)
	👻 9:09am doctorjazz: And Hi Joe and Monday listeners-recovering from going to see Wilco on a "school night" last night (blasted NJ Transit...).
	9:09am Creature Boy: I think we know where this is goin . I just wonder if the Osborne Brothers will make an appearance
	👻 9:09am DjLorraine: Morphe do you recall which show you were mentioning different moon names? My buddy is interested
	9:10am TDK60: Good morning difficult music historian teacher, Joe. Hope I get a C+ at least.
	9:10am Ian: Morning Joe! Check if you have The CD Turbines for Speed by Strato-Chief in the library. Killer version of Knights in White Satin.
	9:10am Planet Tyler: OMG a whole TOMMY bluegrass performance!!
	9:11am Blix: I actually thought I heard the theme from The Odd Couple for a second in there...
	9:13am Joe McG: @Ian: Bummer, we go right from Stratford 4 to Stravinsky! :( @Noel: I saw the whole "Tommy" by the HillBenders and it was amazing!
	9:13am Tom from Stirling.: @Blix: so did I
	9:13am Creature Boy: Or the Stoneman Family
	9:13am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...No Kuntry for Old Astronauts...
	9:14am Noel: Yes, the whole Tommy. It was very well thought-out. The lead singer looked like Andy Partridge.
	9:14am Joe McG: @CB: I brought "Dawn of the Stoneman's Age" but when I listened to it again it's actually more country rock than I'm going for today.
	9:15am P-90: Yes, the Bluegrass is a potent mood elevator this morning. Right on target @Joe McG.
	9:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So - an entire NewGrass performance of TheWho's 'Tommy' is what you're saying. Righteous.
	9:17am prof.fuzz: morning' JoeMcG! hey hey Handy!
	9:19am P-90: “that old time traditional Bluegrass sound” is a bit of a myth
	9:19am Handy Haversack: Hey, prof.fuzz! How goes? Taking a couple of days off here even though we canceled our trip.
	9:20am gauche knee: this bluegrass is octane this am!
	👻 9:21am Marley P. Dogg: Holding out hope for some Gourds - gin & juice
	9:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...when Johnny comes Hustlin' home...
	👻 9:22am tadpoles: Do the Deighton Family fit in here Joe? One of the many introductions to me from our faithful FMU.
	9:22am prof.fuzz: Hey Handy. Settling in for a long day of teaching after a long weekend of rocking and rolling. We saw our buddies VOLK open for Electric Six in Fort Worth on Thursday night, and then had gigs both Friday and Saturday. Fun times, but I'm a bit tired this morning. This bluegrass pick-me-up is hitting the spot though.
	👻 9:23am doctorjazz: Impressive banjo by McGee Brothers...
	👻 9:24am queems: I LOVE THIS
	9:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wailin'. BlueGrass players gotta be tight.
	9:25am medson: Sweet opening set Joe.
	👻 9:25am DjLorraine: Son of Pantz could you refresh my memory of the name of the live rock music nightclub in Louisville that had the wood plank exterior from the 90's?
	9:25am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: I love the smell of banjo in the morning, smells like weird.
	9:26am manana: What a fun set, now where's my cha- cha heels?
	9:27am Listener Sean in Long Valley: Loving the bluegrass in the morning. Almost makes me wanna to dust off my mandolin.
	9:27am Joe McG: @Karen: Ha ha! @Marley: Great idea, but it's got drums on it! :)
	9:28am SWK: Ok this is the one that sold me
	👻 9:28am YETI BOB: last song was 152BPM, if I'm counting correctly
	👻 9:28am doctorjazz: How Lowe can you go (great cover)!
	👻 9:30am Marley P. Dogg: Oh wow - this is amazing
	9:31am D Rok: What ridiculously fun set! (emphasis on ridiculous)
	9:31am mqsack: Is that Jello singing backgrounds?
	9:32am Vanessa bikes: This bluegrass set is awesome, really enjoyed!
	9:32am P-90: This is is the kind of Bluegrass cover that if you somehow had never heard the original, you’d just accept it as a Bluegrass-origin tune.
	👻 9:33am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Joe and yippengers. I get the hint. I'll mow the grass later this week.
	👻 9:33am Webhamster Henry: Hi there record cleaners!
	9:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I got it. LeeMavers is just waiting to work with Dolly...
	9:35am Joe McG: Can someone remind me who did this song originally? Three Eye Blind or somebody?
	👻 9:35am DjLorraine: Dolly! I have never heard this version
	👻 9:35am YETI BOB: Collective Soul? Dolly redeeiming this otherwise awful song!
	9:36am Andy: wait a minute. the tune sounds like "love of the common people"
	9:36am Son Of Pantz: Third Eye Blind?
	9:36am toots: yea!
	9:36am Joe McG: @Yeti Bob: Ah, thanks! I couldn't recall! Rob Thomas. @Pantz: Ha ha
	9:36am Handy Haversack: K8 confirms Collective Soul.
	9:36am bradford: it's collective soul, but i'm not proud of knowing this
	👻 9:36am DjLorraine: Collective Soul - yeah
	👻 9:36am YETI BOB: I'm not proud of myself for knowing that one!
	9:37am gauche knee: Agreed Yeti! Appreciate this Dolly anointing, Joe!
	9:37am SWK: Swear on Dolly!
	👻 9:37am YETI BOB: hehe bradford, I know what you mean
	9:37am Joe McG: This version is so superior that Collective Soul should just hang their heads in shame.
	9:37am toots: I mooned Collective Soul from the side of a mountain while they performed live at the ski resort. love this song
	9:37am P-90: Dolly knows exactly what a Bluegrass record should sound like. Because she’s Dolly. And she knows what any kind of record should sound like.
	👻 9:37am Marley P. Dogg: I don’t want this set to end
	9:38am Joe McG: @toots: Ha ha ha!
	9:38am P-90: @toots: we applaud you
	9:38am melinda: always loved Dolly's 'Shine'
	9:39am fred: I get laughed at at work for my love of Dolly Parton. I still wave that flag
	9:39am luka: yes. YES.
	9:39am Son Of Pantz: Of all the VH songs to cover, they chose this stinker?
	9:40am Joe McG: @fred: Wow, your coworkers must be morons! Dolly is the greatest!
	9:40am Planet Tyler: Aztec Camera does the best cover of Jump
	9:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a ripping Kentucky AtomicPunk I'll just have to imagine...
	9:41am Joe McG: @Pantz: DLR only sings on two, but I could've given you anything from "Jamie's Cryin'" to "Panama." There's even a version of "Eruption" on this disc!
	9:41am luka: laffing heartily at “your coworkers must be morons!”
	👻 9:41am doctorjazz: Amen to Planet Tyler @9:40!
	9:41am Son Of Pantz: Now Eruption would be amazing!
	👻 9:42am doctorjazz: (but this version is pretty cool)
	👻 9:42am DjLorraine: Toots can we call that “moon- shine“ then?
	9:42am Brendan: Thanks Joe for these unlikely covers
	9:43am fred: @Joe: most are French, the rest German or Italian. Their exposure to Dolly was the worst
	9:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dolly's 'Shine' is more than just a stunt, tho, if you know what I mean.
	👻 9:43am Webhamster Henry: There's a bluegrass Toxic out there, just sayin'.
	9:43am Bryant in TO: EVH's solos really lend themselves to fiddle n 'jo
	👻 9:43am YETI BOB: I'm enjoying this set, but I'll turn off the radio if we get "Freebird".
	9:43am Mark Hurst: Well if it ain't Pickin' Joe McGasko, giving us a right nice opening set.
	9:44am bradford: was wondering if hayseed dixie was going to make the cut...
	9:44am Erin in TO: @Yeti Bob I assume Ken has exclusive rights to any Freebird covers on WFMU
	👻 9:44am Marley P. Dogg: Is there a bluegrass - Felder heavy metal?
	9:45am fred: @YETI BOB: that's the Wednesday special
	9:46am Colleen: Oh that was all sooo good Joe!!
	9:46am Spinning Giant: ...awfully lonesome without you...
	9:46am Son Of Pantz: That was a slobberknocker of a set, Joe!
	9:47am Handy Haversack: Great set, Joe!
	9:47am P-90: See? They’re not morons, they’ve just French. It’s going to take a few generations for them to get hip to Dolly. A little hard for Americans to wrap their heads around, because kneeling before the greatness of Dolly seems so effortless to us.
	9:48am winston legthigh: hay joe. handy!
	9:49am Handy Haversack: winston!
	9:50am luka: that mandolin lick was killer, it had me trying to play along. i love when covers embellish like that. it’s why i love the White Lion cover of “Radar Love” so much.
	9:50am Uleeshuh TN: polished a turd...to be quite frank
	9:51am fred: @P-90: If we elect Le Pen as president next week, please erase any French/moron distinction
	9:51am P-90: White Lion: slightly underrated/overlooked band
	9:52am mqsack: @P-90 100% Saw them open for AC/DC at the Garden in '88
	9:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh I missed the Top there ! Gotta check the WhoGrass !!...
	9:53am Andrew Waterloo: The original Shine really loses it's way after the opening verse.
	9:56am fred: Just thinking I'll vote for Macron, barfing time
	9:56am Creature Boy: Which Loretta Lynne LP didja find , Joe? Did u say it was vinyl?
	9:57am luka: “don’t go breaking in stores” - elton and kiki
	9:57am Son Of Pantz: Don't go breaking into stores. I couldn't if I tried.
	9:57am morphe': Been listening but missing things - what was the underlying roots/reasoning of the Bluegrass/CW/Old timey set???
	9:58am Joe McG: @CB: Yeah! This one: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:58am YETI BOB: morphe': Fun, I think
	9:59am P-90: “don’t go breakin’ in, don’t go breakin’ in…”
	10:02am Joe McG: "If I had to choose between then and now/I'd choose now." Words to live by!
	10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Now I want some kinda Emitt Rhodes.
	10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...but I did then too...
	10:07am eva: good morning!
	10:09am fred: @Joe: totally my way, sometime to grief, but thems the breaks
	10:10am Creature Boy: That's one of the few Loretta Lynn records that u can't stream
	10:10am Joe McG: @fred: Ah yes, I know the feeling! :)
	10:17am eva: at pappy and harriets i saw cate get up and karaoke . apparently she lives down the street.
	10:19am Joe McG: @eva: Yes, I think she ping-pongs between here and Wales. What did she sing?
	👻 10:19am Brian in UK: Hey Joe & late forming easter bunnies.
	👻 10:20am Brian in UK: Joe, good Loretta cover, how could you resist.
	10:20am P-90: Please tell me Cate sang a Britney Spears number from the nineties at karaoke
	10:23am P-90: or a Phil Collins song
	👻 10:25am Brian in UK: Or maybe a Dafydd Iwan number!!
	👻 10:26am Webhamster Henry: hah I sang Poet Fool or Bum with the Loser's Lounge.
	👻 10:27am Webhamster Henry: These lyrics are hard to remember - it doesn't make a lot of sense.
	10:27am ?: Some waggish critic gave this LP a one-word review "Bum"
	10:27am Joe McG: @Henry: Cool!
	10:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lee freaking Hazlewood
	👻 10:28am Webhamster Henry: I think Joe McGinty was going for cognitive dissonance with that choice.
	10:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Waggish. Wrong. But funny.
	10:34am HyperDose: He won't play 45's, no way. He's not that off his rocker...is he? 🤔
	10:35am Joe McG: @HD: I like the phrase "off his rocker"! I have a rocker at home. I am sometimes on it and sometimes off it!
	10:35am Jason from Houston: Phew... This is a good one. Good morning!
	10:36am P-90: Is this the one: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/66428
	👻 10:36am Brian in UK: Funkyist band I ever saw was the Neville Brothers, circa '86.
	10:39am eva: @ joe she sang -heart of glass. such a nice person.
	10:39am Joe McG: @Brian: Lucky! I never caught them.
	10:39am P-90: Heart of Glass! Perfect
	10:41am HyperDose: A chair with good lumbar support is one of life's simple pleasures. Also, this Chubby is DIVINE, Joe! Heyo, Jason and his Blaggards! 🧹🍀
	10:42am Joe McG: I just realized that Chubby Checker and Percy Sledge BOTH sing like muppets!
	10:42am eva: i hear she makes the karaoke circuit . if you ever go to pappy and harriets highly recommend the steak.
	10:43am P-90: waiting for Limbo parties to come back in style
	10:43am Joe McG: @eva: I can hear her voice singing that song! Nice choice.
	10:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...or that guy in TheBand...
	👻 10:43am Brian in UK: P-90, osteopaths would love that.
	10:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there goes Muppet E. Lee...
	10:44am Joe McG: @RR: Future set: Vocalists who sing like muppets!
	10:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - in distinction from those of us who look like one...
	👻 10:45am Brian in UK: Great first album, Jesse Winchester.
	👻 10:46am Brian in UK: That high lonesome muppet sound.
	10:47am Brendan: Yankee Panky
	10:48am rx scabin: Good morning, everyone.
	10:48am Joe McG: @Brendan: Ha ha ha, that's what Jesse should've called it!
	10:49am Son Of Pantz: AM GOLD!
	👻 10:49am Webhamster Henry: People pay for warped record effects, just sayin'.
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: This sounds kind of perfect.
	10:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Produced by KevinShields...
	10:49am mndave: I can feel the boat rocking back and forth, love it
	10:50am Joe McG: @RR: Ha ha
	10:50am drr: Ah yes, You Left Me Just When I Needed Some Toast. An old favorite.
	👻 10:50am Brian in UK: This record came out on the same label as Jesse W's first album.
	10:51am TerrDE: this was a hit the button for a new station number
	10:51am nardo: I'm getting sea sick
	10:51am drr: Vanwarmer is one of the more risible names I've encountered.
	👻 10:51am Webhamster Henry: Autoharp Alert!
	10:51am Brendan: There is a football coach, Ed Orgeron, who sounds exactly like Cookie Monster. https://youtu.be/56w5U8aYnWM
	10:51am Joe McG: I kinda like how woozy it is. Matches the narrator's feelings.
	👻 10:51am queems: drunk carousel
	10:51am G: Wow, that wow lol
	10:51am Joe McG: @drr: Ha ha
	👻 10:51am tadpoles: The warping sort of makes it a little more ethereal!
	10:52am drr: Brendan: Coach O!
	10:52am paddy in matawan: Randy's van was too warm for this biscuit
	10:52am bradford: somebody put something in my drink!
	10:52am McGroovey: I just turned on my radio, and I already feel like puking over the side, and I'm not even in the lake.
	10:52am Colleen: Fantastic
	10:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...so - Ecstasy has flashbacks too ...m'kay...
	👻 10:52am Webhamster Henry: I do run the autoharp through a warpy chorus like this a lot.
	10:52am MrDeb: OMG who could have imagined this song could get more maudlin? But the warpage does just that. Good god, man. Going to doodle dejectedly in my special private diary.
	👻 10:52am doctorjazz: What I needed most was speed correction...
	10:52am TimBK: I think I had too much robotussin this morning
	10:53am Erin in TO: More PSA's should have guitar
	10:53am Joe McG: @MrDeb: Ha ha! Make sure to add hearts and flowers.
	10:53am Alvy Singer: This Randy Vanwarmer track would fit in perfectly in the Robby Benson movie Ice Castles.
	10:53am fred: OK, this still slays
	10:54am Rich in Washington: Love that warped rendition! I thought maybe the 7 inch adapter was MIA in the air room or something.
	10:54am Brendan: Beach House does that wobbly sound intentionally to perfection on the song Norway.
	10:55am Gerry from Miami: Joe, you could hang this melting Vanwarmer 45 over a tree branch just like Salvador Dali did with clocks in his famous painting, "The Persistence of Memory."
	👻 10:55am captain beef fart: Great show today as always, Joe. Thanks!
	10:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: In the end - GET OFF THE STREETS.
	10:55am Rich in Washington: Anybody else have trouble finding this playlist from the front page? The link seemed to be broken for me and I had to come here via the schedule table.
	👻 10:55am Webhamster Henry: Someday, Joe McG can do an all Bearsville set. Make sure to bake them all first.
	10:56am TerrDE: Robby Benson, lol. Forgotten. Gone ?
	10:56am Joe McG: @Gerry: In my mind it's already there!
	👻 10:57am Brian in UK: Joe, you got a warped MacArthur Park?
	10:57am fred: That was 40 years ago. Still relevant. Barf time again
	10:57am Handy Haversack: This song always reminds me of the second season of The Wire.
	10:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Rich - looks that way here too.
	10:58am Joe McG: @Brian: No, but if someone wants to send me one, that would be AMAZING.
	10:58am McGroovey: There were so many depressingly serious (or seriously depressing) top-40 pop songs in the late sixties and really seventies.
	10:58am McGroovey: Early
	10:58am drr: Robby Benson is married to Meatloaf interlocutor Karla DeVito.
	👻 10:58am captain beef fart: this song always makes think of the scene from The Wire when they give Ziggy the fake paternity letter and play this over and over on the jukebox
	10:59am yippie: i just realized casio is really pronounced kashio
	10:59am Handy Haversack: Exactly, captain!
	10:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Often think that ! Dark stuff would Chart ...tho for all I know there's HipHops @ #1 now talkin' about pluggin' each other whada I know...
	11:00am McGroovey: This was actually the first version of Sweet Jane I heard.
	11:00am Joe McG: Is Robbie Benson dead?
	11:00am Gerry from Miami: @TerrDE. Robby did a great job voicing the monster(with electronic enhancement) in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast." But "Ode to Billy Joe" was his peak. And not believable as Olympic 10,000 meter run champion, Billy Mills. Such a career!
	11:01am drr: no.
	11:01am Joe McG: Whew!
	11:02am drr: So no need for a valedictory re-watch of "The Death Of Richie".
	11:03am Danny in Poughkeepsie: Really enjoying your show today Joe. Thank you
	11:03am Son Of Pantz: Wild and crazy guy!
	11:03am Rich in Washington: There was a schizophrenic gentleman who was a regular at the lunch counter of the cafe I worked at as a teenager. He would always confuse me with Robbie Benson for some reason. (I look nothing like Robbie Benson, it goes without saying).
	11:04am Roberto: I couldn't decide if that was Father Guido or Steve Martin.
	11:05am PMD: I did love the warped song
	11:05am Son Of Pantz: @Roberto maybe both, with a little Swedish Chef.
	11:06am fred: @Handy: give them some time (I know it's awkward), but let me know if it doesn't work out, I should be able to sort it out (weird, again, but...)
	👻 11:06am Webhamster Henry: @Rich in WA - yes it seems to be missing! I sent a note to Kenzo.
	11:06am yippie: when i was 5 i used to say the 45 is wurped
	11:07am Handy Haversack: Which, fred? The Baffler?
	11:07am PMD: @eva any beef flesh is great at pappy and Harriet’s
	11:08am PMD: Do a set of everyone who has appeared in the muppets!
	11:09am fred: @Handy: Yeah, The Baffler, it can take a while
	11:10am Gerry from Miami: Robby Benson is 66 and is married to former Meat Loaf back-up vocalist, Karla DeVito, and they have two children. He has suffered for a very long time with congenital heart problems and is heavily involved with charities and research in cardiac illnesses.
	11:10am Handy Haversack: No worries, fred. I'll be patient.
	11:12am HyperDose: I bet Joe's a good movie buddy. Wouldn't use his phone. Just the right amount of conversation pertinent to the picture.
	👻 11:12am tadpoles: Am near Bearsville...and we've got snow coming tonight!
	11:14am Brendan: The rain here in Maryland began as ice an hour ago. Now it’s just cold rain. These are perfect days to listen to Surface Noise.
	11:14am Roberto: I vaguely recall my mom telling me about running into Robby Benson and Brooke Shields in NYC when they were "hanging out" circa 1980 (I knew Brooke from school and my parents knew her from work). My mom said Robby got a little bent out of shape when she chatted with Brooke but had no idea who Robby was :P
	11:16am PMD: Hmmmm. Can’t get to connect board from website
	👻 11:17am chresti: Morning Joe and surfies! Listening from Griffith Park!
	11:17am fred: @Handy: Do let me know if you don't get it, it might be because my email got blocked, it happened before, I can get around that
	11:18am Creature Boy: Luv Melody, watched an absolutely terrible version of it on YouTube recently. Out of sync! Some friends & I soldiered through the entire thing
	11:18am HyperDose: Chrestikins! Does that mean you're on-location in the tennis booth? :)
	👻 11:19am chresti: Hyperkins! Indeed I is!
	11:19am -жеи: Having some Wordpress issues on the homepage today everybody. A batch of stuff on the homepage is currently broken. Let me know if anybody sees any other missing data or feeds (other than on wfmu.org)
	11:20am Rich in Washington: That's the only thing I've noticed so far, that the current show/playlist link isn't working.
	11:20am Brendan: This reminds me of a Carpenters arrangement
	11:21am P-90: “Have Soviet hackers hit the Freeform Station of the Nation?”
	11:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & no 'Playing Today' on the bottom...
	👻 11:22am chresti: Hi SM Ken, yes as a matter of fact, there was no link to this playlist, I got here via the program schedule.
	11:23am TerrDE: I'm in from the kitchen,...yep Melanie, far out
	11:24am Handy Haversack: It was working right at 9 -- I came here from the main page. So it must have happened after then.
	👻 11:25am John L: What could be next? perhaps Nilsson's title track from the 1970 film "Jenny"?
	👻 11:25am chresti: *or the link did not work on the home page
	11:27am iiibeat: In part because of the Polish background here . . I just wanna say that Kieslowski's Dekalog series (made for Polish television in the late 80's) is by far some of the most masterful workings of film I've ever viewed. It makes me feel more deeply human. I strongly recommend Dekalog. Play some noise!!!
	11:28am Gerry from Miami: JOE, NO ONE, I repeat NO ONE, plays Melanie Safka records any more!! Such a shame after her meteoric early success. I would have to check to see if she is still with us. Underappreciated talent.
	11:29am P-90: The archive player doesn’t seem to be streaming, to my IOS app anyway
	11:29am Roberto: Melanie is still with us. And yes, if not for WFMU, I would probably not be aware of her tremendous talent.
	11:29am Son Of Pantz: Gremlins?
	11:31am PMD: Ah, crowdsourcing solutions. Thanks @chresti!
	👻 11:31am Brian in UK: Gerry from Miami there is a great track she sings on The Sixths album, Hyacinths & Thistles.
	11:32am P-90: Clicking on any part of several playlists results in bupkis. From my IOS app.
	11:32am Gerry from Miami: JOE, all these films were released in the very early 70s. Coincidence?
	11:33am Joe McG: @Gerry: Not at all!
	11:33am Son Of Pantz: I've never heard of any of these films. Were they successes at the time?
	👻 11:33am John L: Melanie was my first rock star crush and my first concert. I was 10 or 11 and my dad had to sit through the whole show.
	11:34am drr: Anyone who can sing the words "hyacinths and thistles" has my respect.
	11:34am Joe McG: @Pantz: I kinda doubt it! But the music is pretty good!
	11:35am P-90: This is like a list of “if you haven’t seen them, you might want to check them out” movies
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Spare is Brave. Well - there's several trax on this...
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - neat arrangement tho.
	11:36am Gerry from Miami: I suspect Melanie may have been unfairly maligned and ignored just because of one clinker she released---- that roller skate key song!!
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...this is what I felt Mark Lanegan was for...
	11:37am -жеи: I shall rise to the Melanie challenge. I loved her as a kid - "Look What They've Done to My Song" made my young head spin
	11:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - & she were a major cutieface. Maybe too so...
	11:38am Handy Haversack: Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus?
	11:40am Joe McG: @Handy: Maybe the only music he recorded under his own name?
	👻 11:42am DjLorraine: Drr i was listening to Karla DeVito Bloody Bess and Work just yesterday
	11:44am Son Of Pantz: A Michael Hutchence movie? I might have to check that out.
	11:44am Handy Haversack: Wild times, Joe! And great show -- many thanks! Stay on top, Surfactants!
	11:44am Ryansterlingvirtue: outstanding song
	11:44am Gerry from Miami: If you really want to hear some off-the-beaten-path music from Declan MacManus(affectionately known as Elvis Costello), try "The Juliet Letters," an album he made in collaboration with the Brodsky String Quarter. Rhino re-released it in a deluxe edition. Primo stuff!
	11:45am eva: great show! thanks!
	11:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: MaryChain gets there.
	11:46am Hubig Pie: Psychedelic Beach Boys
	11:46am Gerry from Miami: Pardon my typo---should be Brodsky String QUARTET
	11:47am Michele with One "L": I love Shivers
	11:47am drr: @DJLorraine: She's pretty delightful. I recommend her video for "Is The A Cool. World Or What"?, where she's singing and dancing her heart out, spinning her parasol, while the crowd appears not to know who she is, and to have been gathered to receive some free food. Several of them are eating during the performance.
	11:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: BBoys already were... BBoys Xs VUs ?
	11:47am Hubig Pie: Double psychedelic Beach Boys
	11:48am Son Of Pantz: Now I do remember this flick.
	11:48am nathan: oh nice. i was just thinking the other day about how i love this song but hate morrissey
	11:49am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: nathan - that. Sadly.
	11:51am HyperDose: This rocks!
	11:51am Gerry from Miami: Well, we have at least two more Karla DeVito fans here!! Nice! Thanks, DJLorraine and drr!
	11:52am Jason from Houston: WUT I ALREADY CLICKY STARRED THIS?
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: piSToLS & Clash so central, so foundational ...no I had no idea of half the lyrics...
	11:53am Rich in Washington: I'm a Karla DeVito fan! I loved her Cool World single!
	11:53am Gerry from Miami: Another excellent show, JOE!! No better way one could spend a post-holiday Monday morning.
	11:54am Creature Boy: Party Party also features a great version of Man Who Sold the World by Midge Ure
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting today, everyone. It's been fun playing records for you. Have a great week!
	11:55am Listener Alexandra: I've been sitting here in awe for at last two hours now, Joe! Happy Monday :)
	11:56am P-90: Yeoman work once again, Joe. See you next week.
	11:56am bobobobob: Dave T spazzzzzz. ?? monkey in me
	11:56am bradford: a good time was had by all, joe
	11:56am Hubig Pie: The monkey speaks his mind !
	11:57am HyperDose: Thank you, Joe!
	11:57am radioronan: Thanks Joe!
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JoeMcG ~
	11:57am Gerry from Miami: @CreatureBoy. Midge Ure does Bowie?? Gotta look for that one!
	11:58am P-90: (Todays takeaway: you mention Robby Benson, all the Karla fans get a chance to come out and strut their stuff)
	👻 11:58am tadpoles: Nice morning thanks Joe
	11:59am Brendan: Thank you!
	👻 12:00pm chresti: Thanks Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from April 18, 2022

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