WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 8, 2022

Listener comments!
	9:03am PuraVida: Good morning Joe & everyone...
	👻 9:03am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): hi all!
	9:03am Handy Haversack: Hey there, Joe and all Surfactants.
	👻 9:04am Brian in UK: Bok Bok. Oh no. Thought this was chicken fanciers weekly.
	👻 9:04am Webhamster Henry: In the beginning .. of the Kaiju universe!
	9:04am fm Mike: Good Disco Stuff!!!
	👻 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Joe (yip yip!). Too close for comfort here!
	👻 9:04am DjLorraine: Good morning radio Joe and friends
	9:05am common: joe, meco, all
	9:05am Handy Haversack: Ducks are good backup singers.
	9:05am RB: Hey Joe and McGaskonions (not to be pronounced Onions , please )
	9:05am Asheville Jon: this is sweet. i needed a cheese-disco beginning to my morning. thanks Joe!
	9:06am Handy Haversack: Oh, Brian in UK! I found a flexible grasping tool at the hardware for $4 and had the petrol-can bits out of the tank in about two minutes. Just needed the right tool.
	👻 9:07am Marley P. Dogg: Morning friends!
	9:07am Krys O.: Beep boop.
	9:08am Asheville Jon: this is like 'hot pursuit' background music in CHiPs
	9:08am Meco Menardo: Meco like a the star war
	👻 9:09am Brian in UK: Handy. Right tool in the right place & at the right price. Unbeatable.
	9:09am Meco Menardo: you make a space movie film, I make it a disco
	9:10am Joe McG: We're riding the Time Machine with Meco this morning. We're currently in 1690 A.D. in Sherwood Forest.
	👻 9:11am Brian in UK: Joe, ah men in tights!
	9:12am Joe McG: OK, now we're in the Antarctic in 1880.
	9:12am Asheville Jon: i can feel that 1880's vibe!
	👻 9:13am Marley P. Dogg: In case no one has seen this album cover before www.discogs.com...
	9:13am Asheville Jon: full on stereo effects! it's like i am REALLY THERE!
	9:13am Joe McG: And now the Wild West!
	👻 9:14am Marley P. Dogg: Meco’s knock off Star Wars album is one of my prized possessions www.discogs.com...
	9:15am Asheville Jon: i am soooo happy that my coffee has been kicking in within the past few minutes
	9:15am Joe McG: @Marley: Side B kicks serious butt!
	👻 9:15am Webhamster Henry: Can Irwin, the Disco Duck be far behind? Or Hooked On Classics?
	9:15am The Oscar: Mornin' all! I feel like this Meco record is what would be playing on the loudspeakers if WestWorld had been an actual theme park in the '70s.
	9:16am david_r: Marley P: "Escalator, going down!"
	9:17am drr: Asheville Jon: nailed it!
	👻 9:17am Ken From Hyde Park: Live video feed from Studio A - youtu.be...
	9:17am The Oscar: Meco's Star Wars album always gives me 'Nam flashbacks to playing laser-tag at the local roller rink.
	👻 9:18am Webhamster Henry: Light up to Elmer Bernstein!
	👻 9:19am Marley P. Dogg: Hahahah- - well said Oscar!
	9:19am Handy Haversack: Beef! It's what's for dinner.
	9:21am Handy Haversack: Marley and The Oscar, it features in Heller's Strange Stars as well: www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
	9:21am Deano de los Muertos: Magnificent Seven. Great film
	9:22am Asheville Jon: YESSSSSS!!!! CLOSE ENCOUNTERS!!!!!!!
	9:22am Asheville Jon: oh, i am going to make the most hugest mash potato devil's tower for lunch today!!!!
	👻 9:23am Webhamster Henry: ARP 2600 to the rescue! I like the commander calling out intervals to play!
	9:23am Roberto: I recorded this Close Encounters scene off the TV when I was 14.
	👻 9:23am Marley P. Dogg: Handy! Thanks! I need to check that book out!
	9:24am Greg from ZONE 5: This first set is making my Monday morning routine feel a lot more exciting than it actually is.
	9:24am HyperDose: Go low Joe!
	👻 9:24am Webhamster Henry: Not a little bit o' jawas leitmotif here too.
	👻 9:24am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): Nice reference to Jaws them e in the CLose Encounters "conversation" scene.
	9:24am The Oscar: I read a great story from the filming of Close Encounters where Spielberg was having an argument with the crew, and one of the crewmembers pointed to Truffaut as he was passing by and said "Why don't you let a REAL director take over?!"
	👻 9:25am MasterofPuberty: The joy of watching that Close Encounters scene actually made me tear up just now listening.
	9:25am Roberto: Recorded as in, audio cassette.
	9:25am Joe McG: @Greg: What is that you just saw out the window? A glint of light? Must be what it was.
	9:26am Son Of Pantz: It's really difficult to mold scrambled eggs into Devil's Tower.
	9:26am dave wuz here: did wfmu make first contact?
	9:26am drr: Is there a prize for the first person to figure out the theme of the set?
	9:27am Roberto: I saw Richard Dreyfuss crossing Broadway about 20 years ago, so I guess they gave him back.
	9:27am drr: is it movie themes or UFOs?
	👻 9:27am karlward: So smooth
	9:28am Roberto: OR DID THEY
	9:28am Asheville Jon: i got so caught up in this set that i forgot to feed my dog (this situation has since been remedied)
	9:29am The Oscar: Oh HELL YES.
	9:30am drr: wow, this is so not the Theme From Close Encounters. I admire the gall though.
	9:30am Joe McG: @Jon: Oh no, feed little Fido! @drr: On the label it says "Inspired by"!
	9:30am dave wuz here: big shouts to the Zeblionites of Frapptosser 5. you guys rock!
	9:31am The Oscar: Imagining a version of Close Encounters where they send Meco out to communicate with the aliens.
	👻 9:31am Webhamster Henry: Everything Meco touches turns to disco.
	9:31am Asheville Jon: Joe: fido is not so little (about 52lbs), and he didn't even get off the couch when i put food in his bowl. :)
	9:31am drr: And the aliens send Taco.
	9:32am Roberto: Thank you, Taco, for that touching tribute to Falco.
	9:32am drr: Cause I think that's what actually happened.
	9:32am JetBoy of Brooklyn: Music to spy on Earth by
	9:32am Joe McG: @Jon: Geez, better feed that beast quick!!
	9:33am Zephyr: “Even the sweetest WFMU deejays have a sadistic side.” —Me
	9:33am Asheville Jon: hahaha Joe. he'll get around to eating when he feels like it. might be in a few minutes, might be an hour, who knows with this one
	👻 9:34am Marley P. Dogg: Well played Joe McG!
	9:34am ?: I total had the 45 of the close encounters. I was like right in the wheelhouse for that. Nine when it came out
	9:34am morphe': LPs - a company in the Nederlands = Green Vinyl Records - is producing a "more eco friendly" product ... BBC Radio said there are criticism of lower quality sound? https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2019/08/17/can-vinyl-records-also-be-green/?sh=4ca5502257f7
	9:35am Analog Nights: It was the plot to the movie Nope?
	9:36am Roberto: I'll take this opportunity to unleash a pet peeve -- UFO means Unidentified Flying Object. It does not necessarily mean craft of extraterrestrial origin.
	9:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tractor Tank Victory !! ...There is hope for the Cosmos in the 21stCentury...
	👻 9:37am YETI BOB: i need to get my hands on real data, but it's hard to imagine pollution from vinyl records is even a drop in the bucket compared to single-use plastic like water bottles. americans throw away 2.5 MILLION water bottles per hour.
	👻 9:38am Webhamster Henry: @YETI BOB while Vinyl sits, safely unplayed, on a shelf for eternity.
	👻 9:38am Brian in UK: Who played the 3D triangle?
	9:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...we all about the UAP - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - these days...
	9:39am Handy Haversack: We all did, Brian. We all did.
	9:40am bk845: Weirdest thing on Spotify...if you play Meco's 12" Star Wars medley, the song timer at the bottom is a light saber, which slowly illuminates as the song goes on.
	9:41am Asheville Jon: oh yeah, we NEED to hear the Black Hole music!
	👻 9:41am Brian in UK: Is there a White Hole?
	9:41am Bo: Morning Joe and everyone! On the aliens tip, really enjoyed the movie ‘Nope’ and recommend it as a summer pic. Great score and cinematography
	9:43am bk845: I'm using the app on a PC, not sure what the phone app does. I wish I could post a screen shot:)
	9:44am HyperDose: @bk845 Confirmed twitter.com...
	9:45am bk845: @Hyper- Thanks:)
	9:46am drr: I'm in awe of Johnny Mercer as a songwriter and performer. Seems like he led a n intense life. It's a biography I'd like to read.
	👻 9:47am DjLorraine: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe!!
	9:48am drr: DJLorraine: It's the most sonorous phrase.
	9:48am Handy Haversack: Goodness. This one's heavy.
	9:48am chresti: Morning Joe and surfies! Coffee stop on my way to work♨️☕️
	9:48am drr: I was somewhere where this My Intention is War record was playing, but I think it was that Other Music documentary?
	9:50am Joe McG: @Handy: Today's memento mori.
	9:51am Brendan: This is a nice pallet cleanser after that dissertation on death. Digging the show Joe
	9:52am Brendan: Palate ( stupid voice recognition)
	9:52am ChukAmok: Good morning, and happy Monday everyone!
	9:52am HyperDose: I'm in awe of these sounds
	9:52am Joe McG: @Brendan: I like the idea of cleaning the pallet!
	9:53am ChukAmok: Got to celebrate Swagvent over the weekend. Thanks Joe and Scott!
	9:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Heavens - it must have been a 78 of 'Atchison' we had...
	9:54am Joe McG: @Chuk: That's great, Chuk. Good news: We FINALLY got the Record Bags in, so all of you big spenders will soon be getting your swag. Thanks for your ENDLESS patience!
	9:54am Handy Haversack: Happy SWAGVENT, ChukAmok!
	9:55am Handy Haversack: Ahh, good news, Joe! I'd love to come in and pack more up this month, but August is a beast.
	9:55am Brendan: Great! I’ll start a line of useless marketing ideas. New and improved pallet cleanser! Look for it in the ceiling wax aisle.
	👻 9:55am Marley P. Dogg: Swagmas!!!!
	9:56am ChukAmok: Thanks Handy! Still in the Mitt?
	9:57am Krys O.: Ella! 💘
	9:57am Brainiac from Neuron 3: Notable birthdays today include: 1899 Clarence Kummer, American Racing HOF jockey (Preakness Stakes 1920, 25; Belmont Stakes 1920, 28; US Champion Jockey by earnings 1920), born in NYC, New York (d. 1930) 1907 (Bennett) "Benny" Carter, American Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, arranger, composer ("Harlem Renaissance Suite"), and bandleader, born in NYC, New York (d. 2003) 1922 Rory Calhoun [Francis Timothy McCown], American actor (Blue & Gray, How to Marry a Millionaire), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1999) 1931 Roger Penrose, English physicist (2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on black holes), born in Colchester, England 1932 (Lonnie Melvin) "Mel" Tillis, American country singer ("Who's Julie"; "M-M-Mel"), born in Pahokee, Florida (d. 2017) 1933 Joe Tex [Joseph Arrington, Jr.], American soul musician ("Hold What You've Got"; "I Gotcha"), born in Rogers, Texas (d. 1982) 1937 Dustin Hoffman, American actor (The Graduate; Tootsie; Kramer vs Kramer; Ishtar), born in Los Angeles, California 1938 Connie Stevens [Concetta Ingoglia], American actress (Hawaiian Eye - "Cricket"; Back to the Beach), and singer ("Sixteen Reasons"), born in Brooklyn, New York 1949 Keith Carradine, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby, Southern Comfort), born in San Mateo, California 1950 Liberatori "Liberty" DeVitto, American rock drummer (Billy Joel, 1976-2006), born in New York City 1950 Willie Hall, American drummer (Blues Brothers Band), born in Memphis, Tennessee 1956 David Grant, British pop-soul singer ("Stop & Go"; "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"), and televeion personality (Pop Idol), born in Hackney, London, England 1961 Rikki Rockett {Ricahrd Ream], American drummer (Poison - "Every Rose Has A Thorn"), born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 1961 The Edge [David Evans], British rock guitarist (U2 - "I Will Follow"; "Desire"; "Where The Streets Have No Name"), born in London, England 1973 Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed; "With Arms Wide Open"), born in Orlando, FL 1977 Robert Randolph, American pedal steel guitarist (Robert Randolph and the Family Band), born in Irvington, New Jersey 1998 Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter (Handwritten, Treat You Better), born in Toronto, Ontario .
	9:58am HyperDose: Careful Handy, I might be tempted to join ya
	9:58am The Oscar: BUDDY MAX!!! I'd know that roller-skating cowboy anywhere.
	9:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: started a heatwave by letting her seat wave The Great American SongBook
	10:00am Joe McG: @RRV63: Butts!
	10:00am drr: Wow, this guy ran for President?
	10:01am PaulRobeson1922: 1st day…
	10:02am Mike W.: wavy Rod McKuen vibes
	10:03am LiXiviated Life: Well… hiya Joe
	10:04am Joe McG: Hiya!
	10:07am Passaic River Blues: Damn this is good.
	👻 10:10am Brian in UK: I cleanse pallets by turning them into compost containers.
	10:10am Andres: Good morning, Joe and all! I love a good flea market find.
	10:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...does the pallet cleanser come on pallets ...is there no end to this...
	10:11am Faye: Good morning Joe!!
	10:11am Joe McG: HI, FAYE!!
	10:12am Jason from Houston: Phew... Good morning.
	10:13am Faye: :D
	10:13am LiXiviated Life: @Passaic River Blues Rode my bike along the river today It’s awfully low.
	10:13am Jason from Houston: Bananas. LOL
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Feelin' it.
	10:15am iiibeat: WORSHIP ME!!!!
	10:15am Passaic River Blues: @Lix: Yeah. It's a tidal river so low tide can look pretty gnarly even during the most flush of times, but holy god do we need rain!
	10:15am holland oats: tres shaggsy
	10:15am Handy Haversack: ChukAmok, yup. Packing up to vacate the Farm this morning and back to town. Then the road tomorrow.
	10:15am Andres: There were conflicting messages.
	👻 10:16am Ken From Hyde Park: Sound Alikes: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
	👻 10:17am Marley P. Dogg: Can we hear the Sesame Street - 1-2-3-4-5 song too? Love that one haha
	10:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...LBJ took the IRT (?) down to Main St. USA when he got there what did he see the youth of America on LSD...
	10:18am Joe McG: @Marley: No, but I think we'll hear the funky chimes before this is all over.
	10:19am Andres: Funky chimes is the heavy hitter!
	👻 10:21am YETI BOB: Why the (?) RevRab? It's the old name for the Seventh Avenue subway in NYC. There were three different subway companies, IRT, BMT, and IND. They merged in 1940 but even in the 70s growing up I still heard people use those names.
	10:24am EG_Astro: I love that anything this heavily autotuned can sound like Cher
	10:25am Tommy: The Meco Star Trek medley is awesome!
	10:25am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: YetiB - it's been a while...
	10:25am Brendan: @Passaic , Lixiviated. Here in Maryland August is the month with the greatest precipitation yet also the month were the average water level of the Potomac River is at its lowest. Absorption and transpiration (trees) and evaporation (heat), I believe, account for this.
	10:26am LiXiviated Life: @Passaic River Blues I lived in the Riverside section of Silk City and when the river was low we used to see, what my old man called the “Indian Bridge”. I think it was actually the relic of a fish weir from back in the days when the river was clean. Before the dye factories and machine shops dumped their waste into the river.
	10:27am The Oscar: Whoa-- is Double Dip Recess ending already?
	10:27am Andres: Love the horn blasts!
	10:27am Handy Haversack: I can hear through time!!!!
	10:27am Jason from Houston: Same, Handy!!
	👻 10:28am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): The sounds of my childhood... Disappointment in the end of Sesame Street.
	10:28am Jason from Houston: The best.
	👻 10:29am Ken From Hyde Park: This morning's content has been provided by the Children's Television Workshop and brought to you by the letters S and N and by the number 3.
	10:29am Dano59: omg Buddy Max! wonder if he ever won office?
	10:29am Mike W.: So much tv in my youffulness
	👻 10:30am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): Here you go... a remix of the Pointer Ssters' "Eleven Twelve". SLAMMING GROOVE! youtu.be...
	👻 10:31am YETI BOB: I do not want to hear Melnyck/Dylan mashup. Thanks.
	10:32am ledzeppelinsucks: The After School Special I remember was a kid took a sip of beer after school on Tuesday. On Friday afternoon she was standing on a roof top saying 'I can fly, I can fly' and the other kids were crying and yelling 'don't jump'.
	👻 10:33am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): @zeppelin hater: Wasn't that after school special with some jackass jumping off a roof about Acid?
	10:34am Dano59: James at 15 would be James at 60 now.
	10:36am Joe McG: Swamp Dogg is having a lot of fun with the string arrangement on this record!
	10:39am EG_Astro: This is the theme song for the podcast working people, never heard the original before. Awesome - thanks Joe
	10:39am Dano59: yesterday went boating on Seneca and jumped right off into the lake. This weekend headed to the.Adirondacks to play Neil Young tunes with friends. Maybe I'll head over to Vermont after. Have been stuck at home several weeks this year.
	👻 10:39am Marley P. Dogg: Random question- is there a limit on how many songs you can favorite on the playlist?
	10:40am Joe McG: @EG: Actually not the original! The Isley Brothers wrote it and did the original one, but this Average White Band cover is also great.
	10:40am Brendan: This guy was a slacker. He was telling her he was going to work but he was really going to their horse track.
	10:40am Dano59: I remember seeing John Hall. & band cover this song! Work to Do was kind of a lost classic even then.
	10:40am drr: I watched the A.S.S. "Psst! Hammerman's After You!!" on YouTube out of curiosity. It wasn't too bad. Lance Kerwin confronts a bully and gets his ass beat. But the rest of the story was better than it needed to be. Amusingly journeyman actor Titos Vandis is cast in it as an old man who doesn't talk. I guess he did a good job.
	10:42am EG_Astro: Excellent info! I'll check it out
	10:42am Brendan: For somebody that has a lot of work to do, he sure does talk about it a lot. Makes you wonder how he ever gets any work done. Yeah I’m definitely calling BS
	👻 10:44am Webhamster Henry: A little Tarzan for International Yodel Day.
	10:44am Mike W.: The Lois Segue
	10:44am Joe McG: I'm not sure if I'm Goofus or Gallant.
	10:45am Listener Alexandra: Wow...haven't heard Courtney Love (the band) since your Alternagrrrls comp. Happy Monday, Joe!
	10:45am Joe McG: Hey, Alex! :)
	10:45am Son Of Pantz: Is she singing about the kid's magazine Highlights?
	10:45am The Oscar: One of the most memorable days in my record store career was the time Courtney Love came through. She was... an EXPERIENCE.
	10:46am Jason from Houston: Also the best: Lois.
	10:46am Joe McG: @Pantz: The sleeve of the single looks just like it! @Oscar: DO TELL!
	10:47am Listener Alexandra: Howdy Joe :) Lois Maffeo to James Taylor is just everything too :)
	👻 10:47am chresti🥎☕: Oscar, did she pee on the counter?
	10:47am morphe': James Taylor was the resident musician on Stephen Colbert.... last week ... I did not see/hear him play
	10:48am JetBoy of Brooklyn: @Jason - Courtney sounds like Lois Maffeo there
	10:48am Dano59: I am still confused by your parsing of Courtney Love (the band), Joe
	10:49am The Oscar: @Joe The first thing she did was literally drop a hundred dollar bill on the counter for a Gregorian Chant box set. She then barged behind the counter and clambered up onto a stool to look at box sets, which I had to hold steady to keep her from falling and breaking her neck!
	10:49am Handy Haversack: Nice, Dano59! Yesterday was our first nonboating day in a week. Rains. But we got in a little Ladder Ball between showers. And I finished the mowing and fixed the tractor! Just made our final Farm breakfast. And now ... the packing.
	10:49am Joe McG: @Oscar: Wowzer! She loves box sets, just like me.
	10:49am drr: I learned that Highlights for Children is produced in Honesdale, PA. Honesdale also hosts the Wayne County Fair, which looks to me like a multi-day residency concert for Polka King Jimmy Sturr, kinda a big event for fans like the Allman Brothers at the Beacon Theatre.
	👻 10:50am karlward: Handy: I rowed Lake Sebago yesterday, badly, but I feel like you would have been proud
	10:51am drr: @morphé: wasn't that weird? I liked his reminiscences, but I wanted to hear at least "Handy Man" or something.
	10:51am Handy Haversack: Up in Harriman, karlward? Cool!
	10:51am Joe McG: @drr: Wow, I had no idea! Right in my own backyard!
	10:51am Handy Haversack: (Cool even if it wasn't up in Harriman, too!)
	10:51am The Oscar: We also sold a t-shirt for the shop that was the Hard Day's Night cover, but with Yoko instead of John. Courtney saw that and said "Don't you think that's in kinda poor taste? You know, FOR ME?" Then she paused and said "Eh, it's funny. I'll take a medium."
	10:52am Dano59: I play the Stories song at vinyl nights every chance I get.
	👻 10:52am karlward: Yes, Harriman. Turns out that rowing is harder than it looks, especially when it's windy and you have no idea what you're doing.
	10:53am Special_Vessels: Heya Joe, it's Ben & JW listening remotely from Brooklyn and Tel Aviv as we work...Thanks for keeping us together in time and space, conductor! 🚂
	👻 10:54am karlward: Oh you're breaking out the Dan
	10:54am Crownless Gander: Is there gas in the car?
	10:54am Joe McG: @SV: Happy to keep the world working together! :)
	10:54am drr: @JoeMcG: you come from out that way? We used to rent a cabin out there. One time I stopped at the store and bought a local paper. The headline was something like "Deadly Collision Avoided On First and Main".
	10:54am Passaic River Blues: Getting serious over here.
	👻 10:54am karlward: And that makes it about Dan time
	10:54am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'WFMU - where grudges are still held against JohnLennon for breaking up Fluxus.' - when the HomePage had a quip every day...
	10:55am EG_Astro: yesssssss
	10:56am jmd: Whoa! The bass sounds more up front on this mix. Fantastic!
	10:56am Joe McG: @drr: Yeah, I'm from NEPA. Just visited this past weekend.
	10:56am Handy Haversack: karlward: try it in the dark, on mushrooms, and while the boat is still tied to a tree some time. Challenge rating: extreme! There's an American Canoe Association camp on Sebago, so I have been up there a few times.
	10:56am Joe McG: @jmd: I'm playing the mono mix from the single instead of the stereo one. Great ears!
	👻 10:56am karlward: Handy now you're just showing off
	👻 10:56am karlward: This solo is insane
	10:57am McGroovey: Hey, I have that Courtney Love Highlights single in my big trunk of 45s. I was so pissed off at Courtney love the person for hijacking the band's name. "Oh, crap, it's not a new Courtney Love record; it's a new Courtney Love record. Poo."
	10:57am Roberto: DAN DAN DAN DAN DANNNN
	👻 10:57am yerfriendpaul: One of Steely Dan's best! Hey Joe, everyone!
	👻 10:57am karlward: Becker just all over the place like some sort of wizard
	10:57am Dano59: Late one night a couple months ago Abbie from Mars was freaking out over her ambivalence about Steely Dan.
	👻 10:58am karlward: I used to be a Dan hater
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...whenever I get into CourtneyLove ...it's a rabbit Hole...
	10:58am chris_in_space: @karlward Larry Carlton if I'm not mistaken
	10:58am morphe': ddr - I watch the next day as am in Spain via YouTube and do not get the whole show so did not even see him perform = just his presence on the set...
	10:58am Alvy Singer: Larry Carlton with the beautiful guitar work.
	👻 10:58am karlward: Now I love the Dan and wish I had listened to my friend John when he tried to convince a bunch of us to follow them around on tour
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Somehow the Dan escaped my hatred of Popular Things. Iirc.
	10:58am Dano59: I used to love Aja when it was new but now I kinda like everything that came before.
	10:58am Crownless Gander: Perfect 1-2 punch!
	10:59am Roberto: Yeah Abbie's interviewee was expressing her appreciation for The Dan. I also finally realized from their conversation that Donald Fagen is Jewish. Neither here nor there, obvi.
	10:59am Joe McG: True Story: I pulled my complete Steely Dan collection out of the garbage!
	10:59am EG_Astro: YES YAZ holy wow, feel like today's show is for meeee. - love when that happens : )
	👻 10:59am queems: the garbage provides many gifts
	10:59am luka: @Dano59 on Abbie’s show this past sat. they had a guest on, were talkin Dan and played a cool late catalog track i never heard. hi, everyone!
	11:00am Dano59: ... someone threw it out as an editorial decision?
	11:00am Crownless Gander: Oh, I thought you meant you threw it out yourself and then changed your mind!
	11:00am Crownless Gander: Projecting.
	👻 11:01am karlward: Re: Larry Carlton, I always thought that solo was idiosyncratic for Becker. Now I know why. True fact: I don't own any Steely Dan records.
	11:01am morphe': Crownless .. I was wondering that too ...
	11:01am Dano59: oh nice, glad to see Abbie is continuing her fixation. I tried to call in that first night (in defense of) but ended up just on comment board.
	11:01am Joe McG: @Dano and Gander: No, someone else threw them out! No idea why, but I got 'em all except "Gaucho" and they just had a little bit of scratching on the spines. Cat scratch, probably.
	👻 11:01am chresti🥎☕: I asscociate Dan with wine bars and tanned guys in tropical shirts with women in halter tops.
	11:02am Dano59: This Yaz is so so good
	11:02am Krys O.: Thanks for that Yaz gem.
	11:02am Joe McG: @chresti: Definitely the best place to listen to them, in their natural environment.
	👻 11:03am chresti🥎☕: *in Santa Barbara
	11:03am nathan: maybe they threw it out in disgust over the collection being incomplete without Gaucho. all or nothing!
	11:04am McGroovey: I've always appreciated the craft of Steely Dan, while disliking the actual records. And yet one of my favorite records in the '90s was the first High Llamas album, which has Steely Dan schmeared all over it.
	11:04am drr: Gaucho is the most disposable one though.
	11:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dan has the frictionless surface & all kinds of other thing beneath it. & they got it in the Charts ! & if you love Jazz there's that in Dan - loving references or rips ymmv... No idea who listened to them - aside from everybody cause radio. Not too many of those guys in NewHampshuh in the day...
	11:05am drr: Was the first High Llamas called "Gideon Gaye"? that one was great.
	11:05am McGroovey: @drr Yes
	11:06am Asheville Jon: Steely Dan was great, until that michael mcdonald guy came in and ruined everything
	11:06am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Fan cliches are kinda funny. I lived in central Maine back in the day and loved Steely Dan. I have never been to a wine bar.
	11:06am Dano59: I have a Gideon Gaye cassette and interviewed their frontman onsuponatime
	11:06am Handy Haversack: McGroovey: agreed on all counts.
	👻 11:07am YETI BOB: Steely Dan's music is better than it sounds ...
	👻 11:07am Brian in UK: Remember the first time you heard SD's Do It Again?
	👻 11:07am karlward: "Do It Again" is the Steely Dan gateway drug
	11:07am Dano59: @Brian - yes, 1972, in my friend Jake's living room.
	👻 11:08am karlward: James Bridle!
	11:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: chresti very SB where I was 16 years - the most Class stratified society in the USA. I had no association with those people & limited awareness of their behaviors...
	11:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Corporation' - literally to be given a body.
	👻 11:10am Marley P. Dogg: Mark Hurst did a great fill in for double dip recess last Saturday- check it out!
	11:11am Dano59: Velvet Monkeys were Don's band, no? (he put his influences right in the name!) I saw him with Half Japanese; and maybe the Backbeat Band will get an airing on Ken's shoe.
	11:11am Handy Haversack: You mean this one, Marley? www.wfmu.org...
	👻 11:11am Marley P. Dogg: Handy - you are correct sir
	👻 11:12am yerfriendpaul: I love Gaucho. Just thought I'd submit that for the records
	11:12am StringOFperils: Yay! I love Mitch Easter's stuff!
	11:13am Joe McG: @paul: If you ever find one in the garbage, save it for me!
	11:13am Asheville Jon: Micah did a fantastic fill-in for Bad Animals this past saturday.
	11:13am Dano59: Joe Jackson's version of SD's 'Night By Night' is kind of the perfect mixed drink that goes down smooth & packs a punch
	11:13am sonnyspop: In Little Ways — wow, such a favorite!!! Amazing album. Bless you, Joe!
	11:14am Dano59: yes, yay Micah. Bad Nocturnal Animals.
	11:15am Dano59: my litmus test for indie-label tribute albums is whether or not it has a Mitch Easter track.
	11:15am miniteeny: Love this one
	11:15am drr: This Let's Active sounds way better than I remember! We played this record a lot, I guess, I recognized the sound of it at once.
	👻 11:15am chresti🥎☕: Asheville Jon, Micah was on @4am, I missed it!:(
	11:16am Dano59: I'll have to take the iPod and Bluetooth spkr outside so I can hear Therese while I'm painting.
	👻 11:16am Brian in UK: What I do not understand is why Joe threw them in the garbage in the first place.
	11:16am rx scabin: Good morning, Joe and Everyone.
	11:17am Hydroplane: I just realized how much Mitch Easter's voice sounds like Tommy Keene
	11:17am Dano59: spot-on observation, @Hydroplane
	11:17am Joe McG: @Brian: I didn't! They were in someone else's garbage.
	11:18am Son Of Pantz: This singer sounds a lot like early Tim Finn.
	11:21am Hydroplane: I love lots of 80s college rock adjacent stuff, and these songs are great, but it all really suffers from the oppressive samey-ness of the mid-tempo and that big snare sound. Again, these tunes are great
	11:21am listener 126464: Hi Joe, great show today!
	11:21am McGroovey: @YETI BOB Or maybe that should be, "Steely Dan's music sounds better than it is."? Steely Dan records do sound great.
	11:22am Hydroplane: Love this Dumptruck album!!! None of the others hooked me like this first one
	11:23am Joe McG: Thanks, 126464! @Hydroplane: Gird your loins, more college rock coming your way! ;)
	11:24am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I love 80s college rock because it reminds me of when I was in college and had nothing more important to think about than do I have enough money to get beer AND that Nervous Eaters record.
	11:25am drr: Paul Bruno's Premium this year was excellent--it's called "Strum and Desist", and he copied/took off on the format of that "Strum and Thrum" 80s indie comp, essentially creating a volume 2.
	11:25am drr: well, look at this.
	11:26am Hydroplane: Hey bring it on! I was just stepping back and thinking about why lots of these albums aren't as sought after as others.
	11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Been debating the merits of REM in chats of late - & I very much share the proclivity for the genre & time. Didn't go to college - for me 'Reckoning' - & the entire rise of AltIndy - are inseparable from Leaving Home.
	11:26am Yeh Yeh: Wonder has Gaylord Fields ever delivered a verdict on steely dan..?
	11:28am Hydroplane: OK had to check... this is definitely a different The Wake from the 80s than I'm used to
	11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...that's Leaving Home the life passage not the Ramones album ...per se...
	11:28am HyperDose: This is wild
	11:29am Analog Nights: Interesting without the bass line.
	11:30am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I'm impressed that he could figure out all of those muddy lyrics.
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: He could parse their lyrics - alone proves he was Genius.
	11:30am Pax: Hello Joe McHachiko: as we all know One man's garbage is another man's treasure.
	11:30am Kat in Chicago: How the heck did Scott Miller figure out the lyrics? This was peak Michael Mumblemouth REM
	11:30am Rich in Washington: I'm of the vintage where Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade - a themed album that's LITERALLY about leaving home - was my leaving home album.
	11:31am Barney Grubbs: there's a funny hammered replacements cover of radio free europe on When the Shit Hits the Fans
	11:31am drr: well, who could correct him?
	11:31am Joe McG: @Pax: True enough! @Kat: I wondered that myself!!
	11:31am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @drr: Good point!
	11:31am Dano59: @rr63: my R.E.M. phase was deep and all-consuming. I was out of college by then and living in the sticks so it took 'Fables' and then I had to hear everything; buy up all the B-sides, etc. Still really love Murmur and Reckoning, especially. ,,, and so many bands in that jangly vein still resonate with me.
	11:32am Handy Haversack: I grew up in Atlanta and can testify to this being an R.E.M. song.
	11:32am Kat in Chicago: He was Genius for sure RevRab
	11:32am Handy Haversack: Oooo, this too!
	11:32am StringOFperils: When asked how he knew these lyrics, Scott Miller was overheard to reply,"Mmmmpph nnurmmmm t hmmmph nnt."
	11:32am rx scabin: @McGroovey agreed.
	11:33am efd: Just hopping on to brag that I saw Eyelids doing “Radio Free Europe” with Peter Buck playing guitar in Portland this past June and it was incredible.
	11:33am efd: sorry to remind you, @Handy.
	11:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wish I had access to ZenArcade just then ...for that matter I didn't have Murmur. & Murmur is one of the most sublime things in existence.
	11:34am Dano59: If you can, listen to The Kinetics' mid-'80s live covering both sides of the R.E.M. Hib-Tone single -- at jimlawrence.net. Local band from Owego. I saw his new wave band The Choice a lot.
	11:34am drr: I was like the self-styled "R.E.M. guy" at school. I got "Reckoning" the day before release, the store manager just gave it to me. I told everybody how good they were. Then one day I saw a teenage cover band do "Driver 8" and now every jock was an "R.E.M. guy", and I knew I'd made a huge mistake.
	11:35am Joe McG: @efd: When Peter Buck was here at the station with Robyn Hitchcock he seemed pretty depressed, but he did send us a donation and got some DJ premiums afterwards!
	11:35am Analog Nights: Wish Stipe was more active. Important voice.
	11:36am Joe McG: @Analog: I think he just recorded something with Eno. Also working on his first solo album!
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: drr - what did Burroughs say? First they violently oppose - then they laugh - then they embrace ...& no they never credit us being there first.
	11:36am efd: @Joe fwiw he was in great spirits when I saw him!
	11:37am Joe McG: @efd: Great to hear! I'm a big admirer.
	11:37am Roberto: R.E.M. was probably the most universally admired band of my college years.
	11:37am Kat in Chicago: Stipe & Eno? 👀
	11:37am efd: Loving this set, btw and needless to say.
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Buck the System.
	11:37am PB: Not a big REM fan but do like New Adventures in Hi-Fi a great deal.
	11:38am Dano59: a lot of ugly Americans who never 'got' the Tragically Hip always said they sounded just like R.E.M.
	11:38am Joe McG: I feel like just rolling with this concert recording. It's pretty good! They only had their first single out at the time.
	11:39am Dano59: @PB: oh yeah! Hi-Fi is in my top 3 or 5 albums of theirs.
	11:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: REM 1981. It's not TheBeatles in the Cavern but the comparison comes to mind.
	11:40am Hydroplane: You guys would all love this blog of 80s/90s rarities in this wheelhouse and more (I have no affiliation FTR): wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com
	11:40am drr: Have I already done my brag in here about driving to Athens at age 16 or 17 to go to the 40 Watt Club?
	11:40am Joe McG: What I like is that they clearly had their shit together pretty early on. Songs from that time would still be popping up on their 4th album.
	11:41am Joe McG: @drr: Now you have!
	11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dare we say fresher even ?
	11:41am Dano59: It was a joyful to see Peter and Mike Mills with the Minus 5 a few years ago. I got to meet Mike and Scott McCaughey.
	11:42am Handy Haversack: efd (@11:33): Couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow!
	11:42am efd: @Hydroplane I often come across (and benefit from) entries on that blog when I’m researching some little-known band for my Pop Roxx segments.
	11:42am Dano59: The dB's Repercussion blog is another great one.
	11:42am Krys O.: At the Ritz in 1980/81 they would show music videos on the screen before bands played and R.E.M.'s Wolves, Lower was on heavy rotation.
	11:42am efd: (Heard every Wednesday morning at 7:20am!)
	11:43am Kat in Chicago: This is really fun to hear
	11:43am efd: @Handy aw, shucks
	11:43am Hydroplane: @efd Nice yeah I've discovered a lot of extremely obscure (naturally) favorites from that blog for 10+ years and it seemed highly relevant to mention right now
	11:43am LiXiviated Life: “Too Hot This town is too hot Now they're calllin' for their guns About to spoil the rude boys funs But rude boys never give up their guns It's too hot”
	11:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...so too late for Cavern analogies ...not yet 1983 awlright ?...
	11:44am Krys O.: Scratch that. It was Radio Free Europe at the Ritz first.
	11:45am Rick from SC: REM played at the Student Center, basically a cafeteria, in my freshman year at Georgia Tech, 79-80. Still remember it being a great show.
	11:45am Analog Nights: 1981...2 years before that famous Letterman appearance. Kids!
	11:45am Joe McG: @RR63: It's pretty cool how many fans over the years have made the effort to record shows and that's why we have these art-ifacts.
	👻 11:45am YETI BOB: McGroovey: It's an old joke about Wagner.
	11:45am drr: @JoeMcG: yeah, here's the Washington Post article about it: www.washingtonpost.com...
	11:47am G: We tape/CD traders at one time called them ROIOs -- "recordings of indeterminate origin" -- though often we knew exactly who had recorded them haha
	11:47am Handy Haversack: Loving this, Joe! Great packing music!
	11:47am Claire from Montclair: Time traveling!
	11:48am rx scabin: This reminds me of FM radio in the 1970s where a dj would play a side of an album. Great show, Joe.
	11:48am Roberto: Y'all have seen that clip of Radio Free Europe played on American Bandstand right?
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Remember first actually seeing them on some kids' show ...asked pretty good questions tho! Asked about the indistinct vocals - or maybe general influences - Stipe said it's humid in Georgia like swimming in air. & they sounded like that... Up in NewHampshuh's Appalachians in a smalltown - this had magical resonances...
	11:48am Pax: @Joe McG: in case you were wondering why the McHachiko is because i watched the movie 'Hachi A dogs tail' late last night. And in the movie they also referred to dog as Hachiko, and well it seemed to blend with your name so I just did it on a whim i guess.
	👻 11:49am chresti🥎☕: Lix-Prince Buster!
	11:49am Hydroplane: Despite the irregular $1 sale recently is this weekend still back to regular sidewalk sale goodness? Just needed to double check
	11:49am Roberto: The kids dug it!
	11:49am Jeff g. via app: Jangletastic, Joe.
	11:50am dday: @Webhamster Henry @9:04: strangely enough upon just returning home from a food shopping trip, I have now read the word "Kaiju" 4 times in the last twelve hours. Coincidence ???
	11:50am Dano59: thank goddess WFMU is immune to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's heinous restrictions.
	11:50am Joe McG: @Hydroplane: Yes, indeed! I'll announce it at the break.
	11:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...when I cross the little river into White River Junction, Vermont & see old railroad buildings & such - you better believe I got a head full of REM...
	11:50am drr: I see from my notes I saw R.E.M. August 26, 1983. At Six Flags.
	11:51am dday: @JoeMcGasko: you from anywhere near Shohola, PA?
	11:51am TimBK: Went to UGA in the mid 80's, this set brings me back. They used to play all of the time.
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Devoted to Kaiju.
	11:52am StringOFperils: I must have seen REM within days of that Six Flags gig , here in Toronto
	11:52am Hydroplane: @Joe McG Thanks! Also more specifically the aforementioned blog came to mind because of the literal REM rarities they offered up - demos and whatnot; pretty cool! wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com...
	11:52am dday: Make that 5 times :)
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wull Thx DJ JoeMcG. If nothing else today that REM.
	11:52am Joe McG: @dday: Hazleton boy. @Hydroplane: Thanks for the link!
	👻 11:53am chresti🥎☕: Thanks Joe!
	11:53am drr: here's a facsimile copy of the WaPo article about me going to Athens and having braces and still getting into the club: davidrhoden.com...
	11:53am drr: And there, that's my brag, I won't do it again.
	11:54am Kat in Chicago: I came really close to enrolling at UGA in 1977. I think the choice I made of a school further from home was the right one, but I do wonder what turn my life would have taken
	11:54am cuspidor: @TimBK: me too, 82-86.
	11:54am dday: @Joe : I'm a Jersey transplant to Shohola, now here 28 years.I've been in the area since '76. This is home. Garfield,NJ..just a fading memory
	11:55am Pax: Fab tunes as always Joe McG.
	11:55am drr: Hydroplane, this Willfully Obscure link is gonna be a huge rabbit hole. Thanks.
	11:55am Paul: Agree with Pax.
	11:56am dday: I would've loved to see R E M..The 80's for me was all work , no play, sick wife, divorce, no fun
	11:56am Handy Haversack: Many thanks, Joe! See you all back east!
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! See you again next week. Stay tuned for Therese in for Joe B.!
	11:56am radioronan: Thank you, Joe! Cheers y'all!
	11:57am sinner: Bama's Primitons!
	👻 11:57am Brian in UK: Thanks Joe.
	11:57am Brendan: Thanks Joe
	11:57am Hydroplane: @drr Enjoy! I owe that blog a whole lot. Lots of nobodies featured there among my very favorites now.
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JoeMcG ~
	11:58am Kat in Chicago: Thanks, Joe!
	11:58am drr: Kat in Chicago: Me too! I really wanted to try something out of the South, and it was great, but Georgia would have been better. In part because I would have dated my Georgia alum ex-wife earlier and gotten that out of the way.
	11:59am drr: (we're friends again.)
	11:59am βrian: Irene: wfmu.org...
	11:59am Rich in Washington: Thanks for a swell show, Joe!
	11:59am drr: Thanks Joe, obviously I got into this. Great set.
	12:00pm Cagey: really great show!
	12:38pm SyndProd: Hazleton here as well. South side, barely in town, butted up against Carbon County.

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 8, 2022

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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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August 8, 2022: There's Gas in the Car

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Meco	In the Beginning / Roman Nights / Lady Marion / Icebound / Hot in the Saddle	Encounters of Every Kind	Milennium	1977	LP			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Elmer Bernstein	Main Title and Calvera	"The Magnificent Seven" Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack	Rykodisc	1998	CD	From 1960		0:17:26 (Pop-up)
John Williams	The Conversation "The Conversation" by "John Williams"	"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Arista	1977	LP			0:21:16 (Pop-up)
Hot Chocolate	No Doubt About It "No Doubt About It" by "Hot Chocolate"	Outa Space, Outta Sight!: My 2015 WFMU Marathon Premium	WFMU	2015	CD-R	From 1980		0:24:04 (Pop-up)
Meco	Theme from Close Encounters "Theme from Close Encounters" by "Meco"	Encounters of Every Kind	Milennium	1977	LP			0:28:17 (Pop-up)

Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers	On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe	Songs That Got Us Through WWII Vol. 2	Rhino	1994	CD	From 1945		0:43:05 (Pop-up)
The Lion	Death "Death" by "The Lion"	My Intention Is War: Trinidad Calypsos 1928-1948	Mississippi	2015	LP	From 1939		0:45:58 (Pop-up)
Eucalyptus	It's in a Move "It's in a Move" by "Eucalyptus"	Moves	Telephone Explosion	2022	CD		*	0:48:47 (Pop-up)
Ella Fitzgerald	Heat Wave "Heat Wave" by "Ella Fitzgerald"	Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook	Verve	2022	CD	From 1958	*	0:55:19 (Pop-up)
Buddy Max, The Singing Flea Market Cowboy	PInky the Rabbit	Little Circle B	Cowboy Junction	1990	LP			0:57:33 (Pop-up)
Kerry	Not So Long Ago "Not So Long Ago" by "Kerry"	Vacation from My Mind	Forager	2022	LP	From 1973	*	0:59:25 (Pop-up)
Omertà	Le Magnifique "Le Magnifique" by "Omertà"	Collection Particulière	ZamZamRec	2022	LP		*	1:01:50 (Pop-up)
Elkhorn	Wilderness "Wilderness" by "Elkhorn"	Distances	Feeding Tube	2022	LP		*	1:03:01 (Pop-up)
Buddy Max, The Singing Flea Market Cowboy	The Life That I Live	Little Circle B	Cowboy Junction	1990	LP			1:07:50 (Pop-up)
Willie Nelson	I Don't Go to Funerals	A Beautiful Time	Legacy	2022	CD		*	1:09:50 (Pop-up)
Unknown Artist	Willie Nelson "Willie Nelson" by "Unknown Artist"	Hits from the Cloud, V. 7: Frow Show 2022 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2022	CD-R		*	1:12:09 (Pop-up)
The Village Soul Choice	ABCs "ABCs" by "The Village Soul Choice"	After School Special: Global Grease's 2022 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2022	CD-R	From 1970	*	1:14:37 (Pop-up)
Quinn Deveaux & The California Honeydrops	Take You Back	single	Sofaburn	2022	MP3		*	1:17:03 (Pop-up)
Swamp Dogg	I Need a Job "I Need a Job" by "Swamp Dogg"	"I Need a Job... So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune."	Don Giovanni	2022	CD		*	1:21:25 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo	Funky Chimes "Funky Chimes" by "Joe Raposo"	After School Special: Global Grease's 2022 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2022	CD-R	From 1972	*	1:26:07 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour
Michelle Williams	Keep on Doin' Whatcha Doin', Whatcha Doin', Whatcha Doin'	single	Parachute	1978	45			1:34:11 (Pop-up)
AWB	Work to Do "Work to Do" by "AWB"	single	Atlantic	1974	45			1:37:14 (Pop-up)
The Eternals	Rockin' in the Jungle	single	Hollywood	1959	45			1:40:34 (Pop-up)
Courtney Love	Highlights "Highlights" by "Courtney Love"	single	K	1991	45			1:42:59 (Pop-up)
James Taylor	Carolina in My Mind "Carolina in My Mind" by "James Taylor"	single	Apple	1970	45			1:45:31 (Pop-up)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich	Master Llewellyn	single	Fontana	1967	45			1:48:30 (Pop-up)
Roy Ayers	Brother Louie "Brother Louie" by "Roy Ayers"	single	Polydor	1973	45			1:51:01 (Pop-up)
Steely Dan	Kid Charlemagne "Kid Charlemagne" by "Steely Dan"	single	ABC	1976	45			1:53:37 (Pop-up)
Yaz	Nobody's Diary "Nobody's Diary" by "Yaz"	single	Sire	1983	45			1:57:55 (Pop-up)

Let's Active	In Little Ways "In Little Ways" by "Let's Active"	Big Plans for Everybody	I.R.S.	1986	CD			2:12:28 (Pop-up)
Attention	Statesong "Statesong" by "Attention"	What Have We Done?	Mb/3	1985	EP			2:15:30 (Pop-up)
Dancing Hoods	She May Call You Up Tonight	Twelve Jealous Roses	Relativity	1985	LP			2:18:25 (Pop-up)
Dumptruck	Things Go Wrong "Things Go Wrong" by "Dumptruck"	D Is for Dumptruck	Incas	1983	LP			2:21:06 (Pop-up)
The Wake	The Crystal Mile "The Crystal Mile" by "The Wake"	Strum & Desist: Paul Bruno's 2022 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2022	CD-R	From 1985	*	2:24:56 (Pop-up)
Game Theory	Radio Free Europe "Radio Free Europe" by "Game Theory"	Dead Center	Omnivore Recordings	2015	CD	live circa 1983		2:27:28 (Pop-up)
R.E.M.	Ages of You / I Can't Control Myself / Ha (We Get Paid for It) / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still	No Album	No Label	1981	MP3	live at Viceroy Park, Charlotte, NC, 11/7/81		2:31:41 (Pop-up)
The Drongos	Closed Doors "Closed Doors" by "The Drongos"	The Drongos	Proteus	1984	LP			2:50:41 (Pop-up)
Primitons	All My Friends "All My Friends" by "Primitons"	Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987	Captured Tracks	2020	LP	From 1985		2:54:35 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am PuraVida: Good morning Joe & everyone...
	👻 9:03am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): hi all!
	9:03am Handy Haversack: Hey there, Joe and all Surfactants.
	👻 9:04am Brian in UK: Bok Bok. Oh no. Thought this was chicken fanciers weekly.
	👻 9:04am Webhamster Henry: In the beginning .. of the Kaiju universe!
	9:04am fm Mike: Good Disco Stuff!!!
	👻 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Joe (yip yip!). Too close for comfort here!
	👻 9:04am DjLorraine: Good morning radio Joe and friends
	9:05am common: joe, meco, all
	9:05am Handy Haversack: Ducks are good backup singers.
	9:05am RB: Hey Joe and McGaskonions (not to be pronounced Onions , please )
	9:05am Asheville Jon: this is sweet. i needed a cheese-disco beginning to my morning. thanks Joe!
	9:06am Handy Haversack: Oh, Brian in UK! I found a flexible grasping tool at the hardware for $4 and had the petrol-can bits out of the tank in about two minutes. Just needed the right tool.
	👻 9:07am Marley P. Dogg: Morning friends!
	9:07am Krys O.: Beep boop.
	9:08am Asheville Jon: this is like 'hot pursuit' background music in CHiPs
	9:08am Meco Menardo: Meco like a the star war
	👻 9:09am Brian in UK: Handy. Right tool in the right place & at the right price. Unbeatable.
	9:09am Meco Menardo: you make a space movie film, I make it a disco
	9:10am Joe McG: We're riding the Time Machine with Meco this morning. We're currently in 1690 A.D. in Sherwood Forest.
	👻 9:11am Brian in UK: Joe, ah men in tights!
	9:12am Joe McG: OK, now we're in the Antarctic in 1880.
	9:12am Asheville Jon: i can feel that 1880's vibe!
	👻 9:13am Marley P. Dogg: In case no one has seen this album cover before www.discogs.com...
	9:13am Asheville Jon: full on stereo effects! it's like i am REALLY THERE!
	9:13am Joe McG: And now the Wild West!
	👻 9:14am Marley P. Dogg: Meco’s knock off Star Wars album is one of my prized possessions www.discogs.com...
	9:15am Asheville Jon: i am soooo happy that my coffee has been kicking in within the past few minutes
	9:15am Joe McG: @Marley: Side B kicks serious butt!
	👻 9:15am Webhamster Henry: Can Irwin, the Disco Duck be far behind? Or Hooked On Classics?
	9:15am The Oscar: Mornin' all! I feel like this Meco record is what would be playing on the loudspeakers if WestWorld had been an actual theme park in the '70s.
	9:16am david_r: Marley P: "Escalator, going down!"
	9:17am drr: Asheville Jon: nailed it!
	👻 9:17am Ken From Hyde Park: Live video feed from Studio A - youtu.be...
	9:17am The Oscar: Meco's Star Wars album always gives me 'Nam flashbacks to playing laser-tag at the local roller rink.
	👻 9:18am Webhamster Henry: Light up to Elmer Bernstein!
	👻 9:19am Marley P. Dogg: Hahahah- - well said Oscar!
	9:19am Handy Haversack: Beef! It's what's for dinner.
	9:21am Handy Haversack: Marley and The Oscar, it features in Heller's Strange Stars as well: www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
	9:21am Deano de los Muertos: Magnificent Seven. Great film
	9:22am Asheville Jon: YESSSSSS!!!! CLOSE ENCOUNTERS!!!!!!!
	9:22am Asheville Jon: oh, i am going to make the most hugest mash potato devil's tower for lunch today!!!!
	👻 9:23am Webhamster Henry: ARP 2600 to the rescue! I like the commander calling out intervals to play!
	9:23am Roberto: I recorded this Close Encounters scene off the TV when I was 14.
	👻 9:23am Marley P. Dogg: Handy! Thanks! I need to check that book out!
	9:24am Greg from ZONE 5: This first set is making my Monday morning routine feel a lot more exciting than it actually is.
	9:24am HyperDose: Go low Joe!
	👻 9:24am Webhamster Henry: Not a little bit o' jawas leitmotif here too.
	👻 9:24am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): Nice reference to Jaws them e in the CLose Encounters "conversation" scene.
	9:24am The Oscar: I read a great story from the filming of Close Encounters where Spielberg was having an argument with the crew, and one of the crewmembers pointed to Truffaut as he was passing by and said "Why don't you let a REAL director take over?!"
	👻 9:25am MasterofPuberty: The joy of watching that Close Encounters scene actually made me tear up just now listening.
	9:25am Roberto: Recorded as in, audio cassette.
	9:25am Joe McG: @Greg: What is that you just saw out the window? A glint of light? Must be what it was.
	9:26am Son Of Pantz: It's really difficult to mold scrambled eggs into Devil's Tower.
	9:26am dave wuz here: did wfmu make first contact?
	9:26am drr: Is there a prize for the first person to figure out the theme of the set?
	9:27am Roberto: I saw Richard Dreyfuss crossing Broadway about 20 years ago, so I guess they gave him back.
	9:27am drr: is it movie themes or UFOs?
	👻 9:27am karlward: So smooth
	9:28am Roberto: OR DID THEY
	9:28am Asheville Jon: i got so caught up in this set that i forgot to feed my dog (this situation has since been remedied)
	9:29am The Oscar: Oh HELL YES.
	9:30am drr: wow, this is so not the Theme From Close Encounters. I admire the gall though.
	9:30am Joe McG: @Jon: Oh no, feed little Fido! @drr: On the label it says "Inspired by"!
	9:30am dave wuz here: big shouts to the Zeblionites of Frapptosser 5. you guys rock!
	9:31am The Oscar: Imagining a version of Close Encounters where they send Meco out to communicate with the aliens.
	👻 9:31am Webhamster Henry: Everything Meco touches turns to disco.
	9:31am Asheville Jon: Joe: fido is not so little (about 52lbs), and he didn't even get off the couch when i put food in his bowl. :)
	9:31am drr: And the aliens send Taco.
	9:32am Roberto: Thank you, Taco, for that touching tribute to Falco.
	9:32am drr: Cause I think that's what actually happened.
	9:32am JetBoy of Brooklyn: Music to spy on Earth by
	9:32am Joe McG: @Jon: Geez, better feed that beast quick!!
	9:33am Zephyr: “Even the sweetest WFMU deejays have a sadistic side.” —Me
	9:33am Asheville Jon: hahaha Joe. he'll get around to eating when he feels like it. might be in a few minutes, might be an hour, who knows with this one
	👻 9:34am Marley P. Dogg: Well played Joe McG!
	9:34am ?: I total had the 45 of the close encounters. I was like right in the wheelhouse for that. Nine when it came out
	9:34am morphe': LPs - a company in the Nederlands = Green Vinyl Records - is producing a "more eco friendly" product ... BBC Radio said there are criticism of lower quality sound? https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2019/08/17/can-vinyl-records-also-be-green/?sh=4ca5502257f7
	9:35am Analog Nights: It was the plot to the movie Nope?
	9:36am Roberto: I'll take this opportunity to unleash a pet peeve -- UFO means Unidentified Flying Object. It does not necessarily mean craft of extraterrestrial origin.
	9:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tractor Tank Victory !! ...There is hope for the Cosmos in the 21stCentury...
	👻 9:37am YETI BOB: i need to get my hands on real data, but it's hard to imagine pollution from vinyl records is even a drop in the bucket compared to single-use plastic like water bottles. americans throw away 2.5 MILLION water bottles per hour.
	👻 9:38am Webhamster Henry: @YETI BOB while Vinyl sits, safely unplayed, on a shelf for eternity.
	👻 9:38am Brian in UK: Who played the 3D triangle?
	9:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...we all about the UAP - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - these days...
	9:39am Handy Haversack: We all did, Brian. We all did.
	9:40am bk845: Weirdest thing on Spotify...if you play Meco's 12" Star Wars medley, the song timer at the bottom is a light saber, which slowly illuminates as the song goes on.
	9:41am Asheville Jon: oh yeah, we NEED to hear the Black Hole music!
	👻 9:41am Brian in UK: Is there a White Hole?
	9:41am Bo: Morning Joe and everyone! On the aliens tip, really enjoyed the movie ‘Nope’ and recommend it as a summer pic. Great score and cinematography
	9:43am bk845: I'm using the app on a PC, not sure what the phone app does. I wish I could post a screen shot:)
	9:44am HyperDose: @bk845 Confirmed twitter.com...
	9:45am bk845: @Hyper- Thanks:)
	9:46am drr: I'm in awe of Johnny Mercer as a songwriter and performer. Seems like he led a n intense life. It's a biography I'd like to read.
	👻 9:47am DjLorraine: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe!!
	9:48am drr: DJLorraine: It's the most sonorous phrase.
	9:48am Handy Haversack: Goodness. This one's heavy.
	9:48am chresti: Morning Joe and surfies! Coffee stop on my way to work♨️☕️
	9:48am drr: I was somewhere where this My Intention is War record was playing, but I think it was that Other Music documentary?
	9:50am Joe McG: @Handy: Today's memento mori.
	9:51am Brendan: This is a nice pallet cleanser after that dissertation on death. Digging the show Joe
	9:52am Brendan: Palate ( stupid voice recognition)
	9:52am ChukAmok: Good morning, and happy Monday everyone!
	9:52am HyperDose: I'm in awe of these sounds
	9:52am Joe McG: @Brendan: I like the idea of cleaning the pallet!
	9:53am ChukAmok: Got to celebrate Swagvent over the weekend. Thanks Joe and Scott!
	9:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Heavens - it must have been a 78 of 'Atchison' we had...
	9:54am Joe McG: @Chuk: That's great, Chuk. Good news: We FINALLY got the Record Bags in, so all of you big spenders will soon be getting your swag. Thanks for your ENDLESS patience!
	9:54am Handy Haversack: Happy SWAGVENT, ChukAmok!
	9:55am Handy Haversack: Ahh, good news, Joe! I'd love to come in and pack more up this month, but August is a beast.
	9:55am Brendan: Great! I’ll start a line of useless marketing ideas. New and improved pallet cleanser! Look for it in the ceiling wax aisle.
	👻 9:55am Marley P. Dogg: Swagmas!!!!
	9:56am ChukAmok: Thanks Handy! Still in the Mitt?
	9:57am Krys O.: Ella! 💘
	9:57am Brainiac from Neuron 3: Notable birthdays today include: 1899 Clarence Kummer, American Racing HOF jockey (Preakness Stakes 1920, 25; Belmont Stakes 1920, 28; US Champion Jockey by earnings 1920), born in NYC, New York (d. 1930) 1907 (Bennett) "Benny" Carter, American Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, arranger, composer ("Harlem Renaissance Suite"), and bandleader, born in NYC, New York (d. 2003) 1922 Rory Calhoun [Francis Timothy McCown], American actor (Blue & Gray, How to Marry a Millionaire), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1999) 1931 Roger Penrose, English physicist (2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on black holes), born in Colchester, England 1932 (Lonnie Melvin) "Mel" Tillis, American country singer ("Who's Julie"; "M-M-Mel"), born in Pahokee, Florida (d. 2017) 1933 Joe Tex [Joseph Arrington, Jr.], American soul musician ("Hold What You've Got"; "I Gotcha"), born in Rogers, Texas (d. 1982) 1937 Dustin Hoffman, American actor (The Graduate; Tootsie; Kramer vs Kramer; Ishtar), born in Los Angeles, California 1938 Connie Stevens [Concetta Ingoglia], American actress (Hawaiian Eye - "Cricket"; Back to the Beach), and singer ("Sixteen Reasons"), born in Brooklyn, New York 1949 Keith Carradine, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby, Southern Comfort), born in San Mateo, California 1950 Liberatori "Liberty" DeVitto, American rock drummer (Billy Joel, 1976-2006), born in New York City 1950 Willie Hall, American drummer (Blues Brothers Band), born in Memphis, Tennessee 1956 David Grant, British pop-soul singer ("Stop & Go"; "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"), and televeion personality (Pop Idol), born in Hackney, London, England 1961 Rikki Rockett {Ricahrd Ream], American drummer (Poison - "Every Rose Has A Thorn"), born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 1961 The Edge [David Evans], British rock guitarist (U2 - "I Will Follow"; "Desire"; "Where The Streets Have No Name"), born in London, England 1973 Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed; "With Arms Wide Open"), born in Orlando, FL 1977 Robert Randolph, American pedal steel guitarist (Robert Randolph and the Family Band), born in Irvington, New Jersey 1998 Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter (Handwritten, Treat You Better), born in Toronto, Ontario .
	9:58am HyperDose: Careful Handy, I might be tempted to join ya
	9:58am The Oscar: BUDDY MAX!!! I'd know that roller-skating cowboy anywhere.
	9:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: started a heatwave by letting her seat wave The Great American SongBook
	10:00am Joe McG: @RRV63: Butts!
	10:00am drr: Wow, this guy ran for President?
	10:01am PaulRobeson1922: 1st day…
	10:02am Mike W.: wavy Rod McKuen vibes
	10:03am LiXiviated Life: Well… hiya Joe
	10:04am Joe McG: Hiya!
	10:07am Passaic River Blues: Damn this is good.
	👻 10:10am Brian in UK: I cleanse pallets by turning them into compost containers.
	10:10am Andres: Good morning, Joe and all! I love a good flea market find.
	10:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...does the pallet cleanser come on pallets ...is there no end to this...
	10:11am Faye: Good morning Joe!!
	10:11am Joe McG: HI, FAYE!!
	10:12am Jason from Houston: Phew... Good morning.
	10:13am Faye: :D
	10:13am LiXiviated Life: @Passaic River Blues Rode my bike along the river today It’s awfully low.
	10:13am Jason from Houston: Bananas. LOL
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Feelin' it.
	10:15am iiibeat: WORSHIP ME!!!!
	10:15am Passaic River Blues: @Lix: Yeah. It's a tidal river so low tide can look pretty gnarly even during the most flush of times, but holy god do we need rain!
	10:15am holland oats: tres shaggsy
	10:15am Handy Haversack: ChukAmok, yup. Packing up to vacate the Farm this morning and back to town. Then the road tomorrow.
	10:15am Andres: There were conflicting messages.
	👻 10:16am Ken From Hyde Park: Sound Alikes: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
	👻 10:17am Marley P. Dogg: Can we hear the Sesame Street - 1-2-3-4-5 song too? Love that one haha
	10:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...LBJ took the IRT (?) down to Main St. USA when he got there what did he see the youth of America on LSD...
	10:18am Joe McG: @Marley: No, but I think we'll hear the funky chimes before this is all over.
	10:19am Andres: Funky chimes is the heavy hitter!
	👻 10:21am YETI BOB: Why the (?) RevRab? It's the old name for the Seventh Avenue subway in NYC. There were three different subway companies, IRT, BMT, and IND. They merged in 1940 but even in the 70s growing up I still heard people use those names.
	10:24am EG_Astro: I love that anything this heavily autotuned can sound like Cher
	10:25am Tommy: The Meco Star Trek medley is awesome!
	10:25am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: YetiB - it's been a while...
	10:25am Brendan: @Passaic , Lixiviated. Here in Maryland August is the month with the greatest precipitation yet also the month were the average water level of the Potomac River is at its lowest. Absorption and transpiration (trees) and evaporation (heat), I believe, account for this.
	10:26am LiXiviated Life: @Passaic River Blues I lived in the Riverside section of Silk City and when the river was low we used to see, what my old man called the “Indian Bridge”. I think it was actually the relic of a fish weir from back in the days when the river was clean. Before the dye factories and machine shops dumped their waste into the river.
	10:27am The Oscar: Whoa-- is Double Dip Recess ending already?
	10:27am Andres: Love the horn blasts!
	10:27am Handy Haversack: I can hear through time!!!!
	10:27am Jason from Houston: Same, Handy!!
	👻 10:28am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): The sounds of my childhood... Disappointment in the end of Sesame Street.
	10:28am Jason from Houston: The best.
	👻 10:29am Ken From Hyde Park: This morning's content has been provided by the Children's Television Workshop and brought to you by the letters S and N and by the number 3.
	10:29am Dano59: omg Buddy Max! wonder if he ever won office?
	10:29am Mike W.: So much tv in my youffulness
	👻 10:30am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): Here you go... a remix of the Pointer Ssters' "Eleven Twelve". SLAMMING GROOVE! youtu.be...
	👻 10:31am YETI BOB: I do not want to hear Melnyck/Dylan mashup. Thanks.
	10:32am ledzeppelinsucks: The After School Special I remember was a kid took a sip of beer after school on Tuesday. On Friday afternoon she was standing on a roof top saying 'I can fly, I can fly' and the other kids were crying and yelling 'don't jump'.
	👻 10:33am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): @zeppelin hater: Wasn't that after school special with some jackass jumping off a roof about Acid?
	10:34am Dano59: James at 15 would be James at 60 now.
	10:36am Joe McG: Swamp Dogg is having a lot of fun with the string arrangement on this record!
	10:39am EG_Astro: This is the theme song for the podcast working people, never heard the original before. Awesome - thanks Joe
	10:39am Dano59: yesterday went boating on Seneca and jumped right off into the lake. This weekend headed to the.Adirondacks to play Neil Young tunes with friends. Maybe I'll head over to Vermont after. Have been stuck at home several weeks this year.
	👻 10:39am Marley P. Dogg: Random question- is there a limit on how many songs you can favorite on the playlist?
	10:40am Joe McG: @EG: Actually not the original! The Isley Brothers wrote it and did the original one, but this Average White Band cover is also great.
	10:40am Brendan: This guy was a slacker. He was telling her he was going to work but he was really going to their horse track.
	10:40am Dano59: I remember seeing John Hall. & band cover this song! Work to Do was kind of a lost classic even then.
	10:40am drr: I watched the A.S.S. "Psst! Hammerman's After You!!" on YouTube out of curiosity. It wasn't too bad. Lance Kerwin confronts a bully and gets his ass beat. But the rest of the story was better than it needed to be. Amusingly journeyman actor Titos Vandis is cast in it as an old man who doesn't talk. I guess he did a good job.
	10:42am EG_Astro: Excellent info! I'll check it out
	10:42am Brendan: For somebody that has a lot of work to do, he sure does talk about it a lot. Makes you wonder how he ever gets any work done. Yeah I’m definitely calling BS
	👻 10:44am Webhamster Henry: A little Tarzan for International Yodel Day.
	10:44am Mike W.: The Lois Segue
	10:44am Joe McG: I'm not sure if I'm Goofus or Gallant.
	10:45am Listener Alexandra: Wow...haven't heard Courtney Love (the band) since your Alternagrrrls comp. Happy Monday, Joe!
	10:45am Joe McG: Hey, Alex! :)
	10:45am Son Of Pantz: Is she singing about the kid's magazine Highlights?
	10:45am The Oscar: One of the most memorable days in my record store career was the time Courtney Love came through. She was... an EXPERIENCE.
	10:46am Jason from Houston: Also the best: Lois.
	10:46am Joe McG: @Pantz: The sleeve of the single looks just like it! @Oscar: DO TELL!
	10:47am Listener Alexandra: Howdy Joe :) Lois Maffeo to James Taylor is just everything too :)
	👻 10:47am chresti🥎☕: Oscar, did she pee on the counter?
	10:47am morphe': James Taylor was the resident musician on Stephen Colbert.... last week ... I did not see/hear him play
	10:48am JetBoy of Brooklyn: @Jason - Courtney sounds like Lois Maffeo there
	10:48am Dano59: I am still confused by your parsing of Courtney Love (the band), Joe
	10:49am The Oscar: @Joe The first thing she did was literally drop a hundred dollar bill on the counter for a Gregorian Chant box set. She then barged behind the counter and clambered up onto a stool to look at box sets, which I had to hold steady to keep her from falling and breaking her neck!
	10:49am Handy Haversack: Nice, Dano59! Yesterday was our first nonboating day in a week. Rains. But we got in a little Ladder Ball between showers. And I finished the mowing and fixed the tractor! Just made our final Farm breakfast. And now ... the packing.
	10:49am Joe McG: @Oscar: Wowzer! She loves box sets, just like me.
	10:49am drr: I learned that Highlights for Children is produced in Honesdale, PA. Honesdale also hosts the Wayne County Fair, which looks to me like a multi-day residency concert for Polka King Jimmy Sturr, kinda a big event for fans like the Allman Brothers at the Beacon Theatre.
	👻 10:50am karlward: Handy: I rowed Lake Sebago yesterday, badly, but I feel like you would have been proud
	10:51am drr: @morphé: wasn't that weird? I liked his reminiscences, but I wanted to hear at least "Handy Man" or something.
	10:51am Handy Haversack: Up in Harriman, karlward? Cool!
	10:51am Joe McG: @drr: Wow, I had no idea! Right in my own backyard!
	10:51am Handy Haversack: (Cool even if it wasn't up in Harriman, too!)
	10:51am The Oscar: We also sold a t-shirt for the shop that was the Hard Day's Night cover, but with Yoko instead of John. Courtney saw that and said "Don't you think that's in kinda poor taste? You know, FOR ME?" Then she paused and said "Eh, it's funny. I'll take a medium."
	10:52am Dano59: I play the Stories song at vinyl nights every chance I get.
	👻 10:52am karlward: Yes, Harriman. Turns out that rowing is harder than it looks, especially when it's windy and you have no idea what you're doing.
	10:53am Special_Vessels: Heya Joe, it's Ben & JW listening remotely from Brooklyn and Tel Aviv as we work...Thanks for keeping us together in time and space, conductor! 🚂
	👻 10:54am karlward: Oh you're breaking out the Dan
	10:54am Crownless Gander: Is there gas in the car?
	10:54am Joe McG: @SV: Happy to keep the world working together! :)
	10:54am drr: @JoeMcG: you come from out that way? We used to rent a cabin out there. One time I stopped at the store and bought a local paper. The headline was something like "Deadly Collision Avoided On First and Main".
	10:54am Passaic River Blues: Getting serious over here.
	👻 10:54am karlward: And that makes it about Dan time
	10:54am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'WFMU - where grudges are still held against JohnLennon for breaking up Fluxus.' - when the HomePage had a quip every day...
	10:55am EG_Astro: yesssssss
	10:56am jmd: Whoa! The bass sounds more up front on this mix. Fantastic!
	10:56am Joe McG: @drr: Yeah, I'm from NEPA. Just visited this past weekend.
	10:56am Handy Haversack: karlward: try it in the dark, on mushrooms, and while the boat is still tied to a tree some time. Challenge rating: extreme! There's an American Canoe Association camp on Sebago, so I have been up there a few times.
	10:56am Joe McG: @jmd: I'm playing the mono mix from the single instead of the stereo one. Great ears!
	👻 10:56am karlward: Handy now you're just showing off
	👻 10:56am karlward: This solo is insane
	10:57am McGroovey: Hey, I have that Courtney Love Highlights single in my big trunk of 45s. I was so pissed off at Courtney love the person for hijacking the band's name. "Oh, crap, it's not a new Courtney Love record; it's a new Courtney Love record. Poo."
	10:57am Roberto: DAN DAN DAN DAN DANNNN
	👻 10:57am yerfriendpaul: One of Steely Dan's best! Hey Joe, everyone!
	👻 10:57am karlward: Becker just all over the place like some sort of wizard
	10:57am Dano59: Late one night a couple months ago Abbie from Mars was freaking out over her ambivalence about Steely Dan.
	👻 10:58am karlward: I used to be a Dan hater
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...whenever I get into CourtneyLove ...it's a rabbit Hole...
	10:58am chris_in_space: @karlward Larry Carlton if I'm not mistaken
	10:58am morphe': ddr - I watch the next day as am in Spain via YouTube and do not get the whole show so did not even see him perform = just his presence on the set...
	10:58am Alvy Singer: Larry Carlton with the beautiful guitar work.
	👻 10:58am karlward: Now I love the Dan and wish I had listened to my friend John when he tried to convince a bunch of us to follow them around on tour
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Somehow the Dan escaped my hatred of Popular Things. Iirc.
	10:58am Dano59: I used to love Aja when it was new but now I kinda like everything that came before.
	10:58am Crownless Gander: Perfect 1-2 punch!
	10:59am Roberto: Yeah Abbie's interviewee was expressing her appreciation for The Dan. I also finally realized from their conversation that Donald Fagen is Jewish. Neither here nor there, obvi.
	10:59am Joe McG: True Story: I pulled my complete Steely Dan collection out of the garbage!
	10:59am EG_Astro: YES YAZ holy wow, feel like today's show is for meeee. - love when that happens : )
	👻 10:59am queems: the garbage provides many gifts
	10:59am luka: @Dano59 on Abbie’s show this past sat. they had a guest on, were talkin Dan and played a cool late catalog track i never heard. hi, everyone!
	11:00am Dano59: ... someone threw it out as an editorial decision?
	11:00am Crownless Gander: Oh, I thought you meant you threw it out yourself and then changed your mind!
	11:00am Crownless Gander: Projecting.
	👻 11:01am karlward: Re: Larry Carlton, I always thought that solo was idiosyncratic for Becker. Now I know why. True fact: I don't own any Steely Dan records.
	11:01am morphe': Crownless .. I was wondering that too ...
	11:01am Dano59: oh nice, glad to see Abbie is continuing her fixation. I tried to call in that first night (in defense of) but ended up just on comment board.
	11:01am Joe McG: @Dano and Gander: No, someone else threw them out! No idea why, but I got 'em all except "Gaucho" and they just had a little bit of scratching on the spines. Cat scratch, probably.
	👻 11:01am chresti🥎☕: I asscociate Dan with wine bars and tanned guys in tropical shirts with women in halter tops.
	11:02am Dano59: This Yaz is so so good
	11:02am Krys O.: Thanks for that Yaz gem.
	11:02am Joe McG: @chresti: Definitely the best place to listen to them, in their natural environment.
	👻 11:03am chresti🥎☕: *in Santa Barbara
	11:03am nathan: maybe they threw it out in disgust over the collection being incomplete without Gaucho. all or nothing!
	11:04am McGroovey: I've always appreciated the craft of Steely Dan, while disliking the actual records. And yet one of my favorite records in the '90s was the first High Llamas album, which has Steely Dan schmeared all over it.
	11:04am drr: Gaucho is the most disposable one though.
	11:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dan has the frictionless surface & all kinds of other thing beneath it. & they got it in the Charts ! & if you love Jazz there's that in Dan - loving references or rips ymmv... No idea who listened to them - aside from everybody cause radio. Not too many of those guys in NewHampshuh in the day...
	11:05am drr: Was the first High Llamas called "Gideon Gaye"? that one was great.
	11:05am McGroovey: @drr Yes
	11:06am Asheville Jon: Steely Dan was great, until that michael mcdonald guy came in and ruined everything
	11:06am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Fan cliches are kinda funny. I lived in central Maine back in the day and loved Steely Dan. I have never been to a wine bar.
	11:06am Dano59: I have a Gideon Gaye cassette and interviewed their frontman onsuponatime
	11:06am Handy Haversack: McGroovey: agreed on all counts.
	👻 11:07am YETI BOB: Steely Dan's music is better than it sounds ...
	👻 11:07am Brian in UK: Remember the first time you heard SD's Do It Again?
	👻 11:07am karlward: "Do It Again" is the Steely Dan gateway drug
	11:07am Dano59: @Brian - yes, 1972, in my friend Jake's living room.
	👻 11:08am karlward: James Bridle!
	11:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: chresti very SB where I was 16 years - the most Class stratified society in the USA. I had no association with those people & limited awareness of their behaviors...
	11:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Corporation' - literally to be given a body.
	👻 11:10am Marley P. Dogg: Mark Hurst did a great fill in for double dip recess last Saturday- check it out!
	11:11am Dano59: Velvet Monkeys were Don's band, no? (he put his influences right in the name!) I saw him with Half Japanese; and maybe the Backbeat Band will get an airing on Ken's shoe.
	11:11am Handy Haversack: You mean this one, Marley? www.wfmu.org...
	👻 11:11am Marley P. Dogg: Handy - you are correct sir
	👻 11:12am yerfriendpaul: I love Gaucho. Just thought I'd submit that for the records
	11:12am StringOFperils: Yay! I love Mitch Easter's stuff!
	11:13am Joe McG: @paul: If you ever find one in the garbage, save it for me!
	11:13am Asheville Jon: Micah did a fantastic fill-in for Bad Animals this past saturday.
	11:13am Dano59: Joe Jackson's version of SD's 'Night By Night' is kind of the perfect mixed drink that goes down smooth & packs a punch
	11:13am sonnyspop: In Little Ways — wow, such a favorite!!! Amazing album. Bless you, Joe!
	11:14am Dano59: yes, yay Micah. Bad Nocturnal Animals.
	11:15am Dano59: my litmus test for indie-label tribute albums is whether or not it has a Mitch Easter track.
	11:15am miniteeny: Love this one
	11:15am drr: This Let's Active sounds way better than I remember! We played this record a lot, I guess, I recognized the sound of it at once.
	👻 11:15am chresti🥎☕: Asheville Jon, Micah was on @4am, I missed it!:(
	11:16am Dano59: I'll have to take the iPod and Bluetooth spkr outside so I can hear Therese while I'm painting.
	👻 11:16am Brian in UK: What I do not understand is why Joe threw them in the garbage in the first place.
	11:16am rx scabin: Good morning, Joe and Everyone.
	11:17am Hydroplane: I just realized how much Mitch Easter's voice sounds like Tommy Keene
	11:17am Dano59: spot-on observation, @Hydroplane
	11:17am Joe McG: @Brian: I didn't! They were in someone else's garbage.
	11:18am Son Of Pantz: This singer sounds a lot like early Tim Finn.
	11:21am Hydroplane: I love lots of 80s college rock adjacent stuff, and these songs are great, but it all really suffers from the oppressive samey-ness of the mid-tempo and that big snare sound. Again, these tunes are great
	11:21am listener 126464: Hi Joe, great show today!
	11:21am McGroovey: @YETI BOB Or maybe that should be, "Steely Dan's music sounds better than it is."? Steely Dan records do sound great.
	11:22am Hydroplane: Love this Dumptruck album!!! None of the others hooked me like this first one
	11:23am Joe McG: Thanks, 126464! @Hydroplane: Gird your loins, more college rock coming your way! ;)
	11:24am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I love 80s college rock because it reminds me of when I was in college and had nothing more important to think about than do I have enough money to get beer AND that Nervous Eaters record.
	11:25am drr: Paul Bruno's Premium this year was excellent--it's called "Strum and Desist", and he copied/took off on the format of that "Strum and Thrum" 80s indie comp, essentially creating a volume 2.
	11:25am drr: well, look at this.
	11:26am Hydroplane: Hey bring it on! I was just stepping back and thinking about why lots of these albums aren't as sought after as others.
	11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Been debating the merits of REM in chats of late - & I very much share the proclivity for the genre & time. Didn't go to college - for me 'Reckoning' - & the entire rise of AltIndy - are inseparable from Leaving Home.
	11:26am Yeh Yeh: Wonder has Gaylord Fields ever delivered a verdict on steely dan..?
	11:28am Hydroplane: OK had to check... this is definitely a different The Wake from the 80s than I'm used to
	11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...that's Leaving Home the life passage not the Ramones album ...per se...
	11:28am HyperDose: This is wild
	11:29am Analog Nights: Interesting without the bass line.
	11:30am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I'm impressed that he could figure out all of those muddy lyrics.
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: He could parse their lyrics - alone proves he was Genius.
	11:30am Pax: Hello Joe McHachiko: as we all know One man's garbage is another man's treasure.
	11:30am Kat in Chicago: How the heck did Scott Miller figure out the lyrics? This was peak Michael Mumblemouth REM
	11:30am Rich in Washington: I'm of the vintage where Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade - a themed album that's LITERALLY about leaving home - was my leaving home album.
	11:31am Barney Grubbs: there's a funny hammered replacements cover of radio free europe on When the Shit Hits the Fans
	11:31am drr: well, who could correct him?
	11:31am Joe McG: @Pax: True enough! @Kat: I wondered that myself!!
	11:31am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @drr: Good point!
	11:31am Dano59: @rr63: my R.E.M. phase was deep and all-consuming. I was out of college by then and living in the sticks so it took 'Fables' and then I had to hear everything; buy up all the B-sides, etc. Still really love Murmur and Reckoning, especially. ,,, and so many bands in that jangly vein still resonate with me.
	11:32am Handy Haversack: I grew up in Atlanta and can testify to this being an R.E.M. song.
	11:32am Kat in Chicago: He was Genius for sure RevRab
	11:32am Handy Haversack: Oooo, this too!
	11:32am StringOFperils: When asked how he knew these lyrics, Scott Miller was overheard to reply,"Mmmmpph nnurmmmm t hmmmph nnt."
	11:32am rx scabin: @McGroovey agreed.
	11:33am efd: Just hopping on to brag that I saw Eyelids doing “Radio Free Europe” with Peter Buck playing guitar in Portland this past June and it was incredible.
	11:33am efd: sorry to remind you, @Handy.
	11:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wish I had access to ZenArcade just then ...for that matter I didn't have Murmur. & Murmur is one of the most sublime things in existence.
	11:34am Dano59: If you can, listen to The Kinetics' mid-'80s live covering both sides of the R.E.M. Hib-Tone single -- at jimlawrence.net. Local band from Owego. I saw his new wave band The Choice a lot.
	11:34am drr: I was like the self-styled "R.E.M. guy" at school. I got "Reckoning" the day before release, the store manager just gave it to me. I told everybody how good they were. Then one day I saw a teenage cover band do "Driver 8" and now every jock was an "R.E.M. guy", and I knew I'd made a huge mistake.
	11:35am Joe McG: @efd: When Peter Buck was here at the station with Robyn Hitchcock he seemed pretty depressed, but he did send us a donation and got some DJ premiums afterwards!
	11:35am Analog Nights: Wish Stipe was more active. Important voice.
	11:36am Joe McG: @Analog: I think he just recorded something with Eno. Also working on his first solo album!
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: drr - what did Burroughs say? First they violently oppose - then they laugh - then they embrace ...& no they never credit us being there first.
	11:36am efd: @Joe fwiw he was in great spirits when I saw him!
	11:37am Joe McG: @efd: Great to hear! I'm a big admirer.
	11:37am Roberto: R.E.M. was probably the most universally admired band of my college years.
	11:37am Kat in Chicago: Stipe & Eno? 👀
	11:37am efd: Loving this set, btw and needless to say.
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Buck the System.
	11:37am PB: Not a big REM fan but do like New Adventures in Hi-Fi a great deal.
	11:38am Dano59: a lot of ugly Americans who never 'got' the Tragically Hip always said they sounded just like R.E.M.
	11:38am Joe McG: I feel like just rolling with this concert recording. It's pretty good! They only had their first single out at the time.
	11:39am Dano59: @PB: oh yeah! Hi-Fi is in my top 3 or 5 albums of theirs.
	11:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: REM 1981. It's not TheBeatles in the Cavern but the comparison comes to mind.
	11:40am Hydroplane: You guys would all love this blog of 80s/90s rarities in this wheelhouse and more (I have no affiliation FTR): wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com
	11:40am drr: Have I already done my brag in here about driving to Athens at age 16 or 17 to go to the 40 Watt Club?
	11:40am Joe McG: What I like is that they clearly had their shit together pretty early on. Songs from that time would still be popping up on their 4th album.
	11:41am Joe McG: @drr: Now you have!
	11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dare we say fresher even ?
	11:41am Dano59: It was a joyful to see Peter and Mike Mills with the Minus 5 a few years ago. I got to meet Mike and Scott McCaughey.
	11:42am Handy Haversack: efd (@11:33): Couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow!
	11:42am efd: @Hydroplane I often come across (and benefit from) entries on that blog when I’m researching some little-known band for my Pop Roxx segments.
	11:42am Dano59: The dB's Repercussion blog is another great one.
	11:42am Krys O.: At the Ritz in 1980/81 they would show music videos on the screen before bands played and R.E.M.'s Wolves, Lower was on heavy rotation.
	11:42am efd: (Heard every Wednesday morning at 7:20am!)
	11:43am Kat in Chicago: This is really fun to hear
	11:43am efd: @Handy aw, shucks
	11:43am Hydroplane: @efd Nice yeah I've discovered a lot of extremely obscure (naturally) favorites from that blog for 10+ years and it seemed highly relevant to mention right now
	11:43am LiXiviated Life: “Too Hot This town is too hot Now they're calllin' for their guns About to spoil the rude boys funs But rude boys never give up their guns It's too hot”
	11:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...so too late for Cavern analogies ...not yet 1983 awlright ?...
	11:44am Krys O.: Scratch that. It was Radio Free Europe at the Ritz first.
	11:45am Rick from SC: REM played at the Student Center, basically a cafeteria, in my freshman year at Georgia Tech, 79-80. Still remember it being a great show.
	11:45am Analog Nights: 1981...2 years before that famous Letterman appearance. Kids!
	11:45am Joe McG: @RR63: It's pretty cool how many fans over the years have made the effort to record shows and that's why we have these art-ifacts.
	👻 11:45am YETI BOB: McGroovey: It's an old joke about Wagner.
	11:45am drr: @JoeMcG: yeah, here's the Washington Post article about it: www.washingtonpost.com...
	11:47am G: We tape/CD traders at one time called them ROIOs -- "recordings of indeterminate origin" -- though often we knew exactly who had recorded them haha
	11:47am Handy Haversack: Loving this, Joe! Great packing music!
	11:47am Claire from Montclair: Time traveling!
	11:48am rx scabin: This reminds me of FM radio in the 1970s where a dj would play a side of an album. Great show, Joe.
	11:48am Roberto: Y'all have seen that clip of Radio Free Europe played on American Bandstand right?
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Remember first actually seeing them on some kids' show ...asked pretty good questions tho! Asked about the indistinct vocals - or maybe general influences - Stipe said it's humid in Georgia like swimming in air. & they sounded like that... Up in NewHampshuh's Appalachians in a smalltown - this had magical resonances...
	11:48am Pax: @Joe McG: in case you were wondering why the McHachiko is because i watched the movie 'Hachi A dogs tail' late last night. And in the movie they also referred to dog as Hachiko, and well it seemed to blend with your name so I just did it on a whim i guess.
	👻 11:49am chresti🥎☕: Lix-Prince Buster!
	11:49am Hydroplane: Despite the irregular $1 sale recently is this weekend still back to regular sidewalk sale goodness? Just needed to double check
	11:49am Roberto: The kids dug it!
	11:49am Jeff g. via app: Jangletastic, Joe.
	11:50am dday: @Webhamster Henry @9:04: strangely enough upon just returning home from a food shopping trip, I have now read the word "Kaiju" 4 times in the last twelve hours. Coincidence ???
	11:50am Dano59: thank goddess WFMU is immune to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's heinous restrictions.
	11:50am Joe McG: @Hydroplane: Yes, indeed! I'll announce it at the break.
	11:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...when I cross the little river into White River Junction, Vermont & see old railroad buildings & such - you better believe I got a head full of REM...
	11:50am drr: I see from my notes I saw R.E.M. August 26, 1983. At Six Flags.
	11:51am dday: @JoeMcGasko: you from anywhere near Shohola, PA?
	11:51am TimBK: Went to UGA in the mid 80's, this set brings me back. They used to play all of the time.
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Devoted to Kaiju.
	11:52am StringOFperils: I must have seen REM within days of that Six Flags gig , here in Toronto
	11:52am Hydroplane: @Joe McG Thanks! Also more specifically the aforementioned blog came to mind because of the literal REM rarities they offered up - demos and whatnot; pretty cool! wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com...
	11:52am dday: Make that 5 times :)
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wull Thx DJ JoeMcG. If nothing else today that REM.
	11:52am Joe McG: @dday: Hazleton boy. @Hydroplane: Thanks for the link!
	👻 11:53am chresti🥎☕: Thanks Joe!
	11:53am drr: here's a facsimile copy of the WaPo article about me going to Athens and having braces and still getting into the club: davidrhoden.com...
	11:53am drr: And there, that's my brag, I won't do it again.
	11:54am Kat in Chicago: I came really close to enrolling at UGA in 1977. I think the choice I made of a school further from home was the right one, but I do wonder what turn my life would have taken
	11:54am cuspidor: @TimBK: me too, 82-86.
	11:54am dday: @Joe : I'm a Jersey transplant to Shohola, now here 28 years.I've been in the area since '76. This is home. Garfield,NJ..just a fading memory
	11:55am Pax: Fab tunes as always Joe McG.
	11:55am drr: Hydroplane, this Willfully Obscure link is gonna be a huge rabbit hole. Thanks.
	11:55am Paul: Agree with Pax.
	11:56am dday: I would've loved to see R E M..The 80's for me was all work , no play, sick wife, divorce, no fun
	11:56am Handy Haversack: Many thanks, Joe! See you all back east!
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! See you again next week. Stay tuned for Therese in for Joe B.!
	11:56am radioronan: Thank you, Joe! Cheers y'all!
	11:57am sinner: Bama's Primitons!
	👻 11:57am Brian in UK: Thanks Joe.
	11:57am Brendan: Thanks Joe
	11:57am Hydroplane: @drr Enjoy! I owe that blog a whole lot. Lots of nobodies featured there among my very favorites now.
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JoeMcG ~
	11:58am Kat in Chicago: Thanks, Joe!
	11:58am drr: Kat in Chicago: Me too! I really wanted to try something out of the South, and it was great, but Georgia would have been better. In part because I would have dated my Georgia alum ex-wife earlier and gotten that out of the way.
	11:59am drr: (we're friends again.)
	11:59am βrian: Irene: wfmu.org...
	11:59am Rich in Washington: Thanks for a swell show, Joe!
	11:59am drr: Thanks Joe, obviously I got into this. Great set.
	12:00pm Cagey: really great show!
	12:38pm SyndProd: Hazleton here as well. South side, barely in town, butted up against Carbon County.

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 8, 2022

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