WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 11, 2024

Listener comments!
	5/8 8:59pm Listener Baby: 45 Sheep? What can be done, man? What can be done? Oh.. And Baby!
	9:57am Listener Baby: Word on the street is that dude never had 45 sheep in the first place. Word is, dude is playing a dangerous game. Word is.
	9:59am clarke: mikey is convinced that 45 sheep have been stolen.
	11:01am Joey C: Good morning Mike and Listeners of Number One Hits
	11:01am Cheryl The Nerd: Greetings fellow nerds...
	11:02am Greg from ZONE 5: Sounds like Saturday in here
	11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am pgalub: Hey everyone. Top tune! Wish I had seen the Twigs cover this last weekend.
	11:03am Squints: ↳ Song: "I Don't Wanna Cry" by "Keys, The" This is Numbah 1 right heah.
	11:03am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Song: "I Don't Wanna Cry" by "Keys, The" Hi, Michael. You are aware this is one of my favorite sings in the history of ever!
	11:04am clarke: mornin cookie!
	11:05am Curt in SC: Saw the twigs at a small venue in Charleston on Thursday. It was unbelievably good of course.
	11:05am Listener Baby: Gaylord! Handsome man! Hugs, cousin.
	11:05am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:03 *songs
	11:06am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:05 sings!
	11:06am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Listener Baby @11:05 Baby! Back atcha, primo!
	11:06am Handy Haversack: Hey now, MS, all!
	11:06am clarke: this tune might have legs...
	11:06am Frank In Queens: Hey Now!
	11:06am Mr. Jones: ↳ clarke @9:59 Mary had a little lamb, with mint jelly and cabernet.
	11:06am Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @11:06 I was wrong but also right with that typo.
	11:07am clarke: he shoots, he scores!!
	11:07am listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all!
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:06 oh so right!
	11:07am prof.fuzz: howdy y'all
	11:07am clarke: FuZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
	11:08am prof.fuzz: ClarkEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
	11:08am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers. Gaylord, just over 2 months to the Dublin Irish Festival. I can hook up you and your entourage with passes ☘️
	11:09am clarke: crankin' up the FuZZmobile!! vrrroooomm
	11:10am Bill in W.O.: ↳ Song: "Coming On Strong" by "Blue Shadows, The" So great, I wasn't aware they'd reissued these recording so www.avra-records.com...
	11:11am SeanG: what up ya'll morning clarke!
	11:11am clarke: avidly lisssnin'!!
	11:11am Gaylord Fields: Whaaaaat?! I can’t believe I missed one of my favorite current bands covering an all-time favorite! (The show happened while I was out of the country, alas.)
	11:11am Michael Shelley: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:03 naturally. another love we share!
	11:12am SeanG: seeing the twigs tomorrow here in Tampa
	11:12am clarke: and they let you back in??
	11:12am Listener Baby: BP on the sticks? Who be that?
	11:12am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:12 he on ever'thang!! pretty!!
	11:13am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:11 We’re brothers, my brother.
	11:15am Listener Baby: I’m hearing you, Man!
	11:16am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." This is Saturday morning 🥣📰📺
	11:16am jmd: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." I was just talking about this track with a pal of mine.
	11:16am clarke: baby!
	11:16am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." The intentional release of balloons is now illegal in Florida.
	11:16am greg g: Morning Michael, Gaylord and All! It’s a #1 Saturday!! Go Sammy!!
	11:17am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." I wanna say Vegas guy, but that doesn't really mean anything probably.
	11:17am clarke: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." i'm gonna say earl palmer, here.
	11:17am Listener Baby: Ed O'Shaughnessy ?
	11:18am clarke: probably too early for ed
	11:18am SeanG: get on UP
	11:19am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:18 69/70? His peak, perhaps?
	11:19am clarke: yeah but i am guessing that song was earlier
	11:20am Listener Baby: Original came out in 68? No?
	11:20am clarke: you mean the jim webb version? 66
	11:21am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:20 No, the massive hit
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:21 67ish
	11:22am clarke: nice cymbal wash, baboo!
	11:22am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Treat Me Like A Man" by "Shan Dels, The" Hey, "hometown" band for me.
	11:22am Squints: Time to play B-sides.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:22 yes!!!
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:22 rochester?
	11:24am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:23 No, that's Christina. I'm a down-stater. I was born in Brooklyn, but grew up in Levittown.
	11:24am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Treat Me Like A Man" by "Shan Dels, The" Amazing
	11:25am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:24 ahhhh!!
	11:25am Frank In Queens: My old man grew up playing the squeeze box. A rite of passage for Italian kids growing up in the 50's/60s.
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:25 polka dots!!
	11:27am Cooh John: ↳ Listener Baby @11:17 I saw Ed play with Buddy Rich on The Tonight show. Ed outplayed Buddy imho.
	11:27am clarke: anyone else watching A Gentleman In Moscow?? lovin' it!!
	11:27am clarke: ↳ Cooh John @11:27 restraint always wins!
	11:28am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Cooh John @11:08 Thanks for the offer, friend! Not sure if scheduling will work this time, but one of these years it would be great to take my 1/8 Irish great-nephews who live in Dublin to the festival.
	11:29am Squints: ↳ Song: "Who's Making Love" by "Young Hot Unlimited" Young and Hot. You betcha.
	11:30am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:29 holt!
	11:31am Cooh John: I am now spooked by the AI bumpers.
	11:31am clarke: would this be mistah galub's coasters?? niiice.
	11:31am clarke: hey ladyyyy!!!
	11:32am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:30 We Sox fans always spelled the super sub's name Brock! Holt! Exclamation points mandatory.
	11:32am clarke: yes, seen the julia roberts and sean penn thang - good.
	11:32am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Song: "Who's Making Love" by "Young Hot Unlimited" I was on the beach in Costa Ria yesterday, and there was an unlimited supply of the young and hot!
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:32 no sox in my house.
	11:33am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:32 *Costa Rica
	11:33am Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @11:32 In the recent Carl Erskine obit, he talked about his first time at Ebbetts Field and the fans calling out, "Hey, it's Oisk!"
	11:33am Cooh John: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:28 Let me know, Gaylord. It is a standing offer.
	11:33am Squints: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:32 Unlimited supply. Heh. I would say John Lydon could not be reached for comment. But John Lydon can always be reached for comment.
	11:34am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:33 surfing??
	11:34am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Cooh John @11:33 It’s a deal! Thanks for looking out for me once again!
	11:35am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Come On, Come On (The Steve Albini sessions)" by ... The guitars sound a lot more evil.
	11:35am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:32 You should talk to Alan6Degrees. He's spent a lot of time in Costa Rica.
	11:35am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Come On, Come On (The Steve Albini sessions)" by ... Sweet. What strikes me is how goddamn hot the band sound.
	11:35am mndave: ↳ Song: "Come On, Come On (The Steve Albini sessions)" by ... I just listened to this! It's available in full on the evil video site, search "Cheap Trick: Steve Albini Sessions 1997"
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:35 a tad of bass.
	11:36am Spikey BXL: Highly recommend finding the Anthony Bourdain / Steve Albini videos.
	11:36am Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @11:34 Unlike Squiddly Diddly, I am 100% hodad.
	11:36am Cooh John: Going to see Cheap Trick on Wednesday with Heart. ❤️
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:36 more ho and less dad
	11:37am davek: Thee best Cheap Trick recording!!! Have had it for years...
	11:37am William Hellfire: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:36 What?!?!
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ Cooh John @11:36 please report back
	11:37am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:37 Needs mo' ho.
	11:38am herb.nyc: Dumb question - Michael said ALbini, and I too. wnyc was saying ALLbini Dumber question- exact date of Eric Carmen was not originally told. Wiki has it, but only days (wks?) later. Why?
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:37 in toledo!!
	11:38am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @11:35 Oh, you better believe Alan was our guide in absentia for this entire trip. Otherwise, it would be like going to the moon and not consulting Neil Armstrong.
	11:39am Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael, Baby, Greg, Clarke, PEEEEEEETE, Nerd Cheryl, Gaylord, Frank, Handy, Prof, HyperD, Spikey, everybody!
	11:39am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:31 Pete from The Anderson Council
	11:39am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:38 buzz aldrin defers.
	11:39am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:39 ah! niiice!
	11:40am Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @11:37 Haha! I’m grandad age but still got a bit of ho in me!
	11:40am prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @11:39 buzz was the first person with a phd to walk on the moon.
	11:40am Listener Baby: Jack!!!!
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:39 jaaack. solid man!!
	11:40am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:40am herb.nyc: ↳ herb.nyc @11:38 I lied. Wiki does NOT have death date for Eric Carmen. Sorry
	11:41am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:40 i can't believe you are a grand (yer a million to me!!)
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...you could use accordion to be Beatlesque if were like (say) the harmonium in 'We Can Work It Out' ...& there's 'Wouldn't It Be Nice', but, digressing... BillHaley & the Accordionist Part Ways ...unrecognized significant moments in Modern Music...
	11:42am clarke: ↳ herb.nyc @11:40 that's strange, too!
	11:42am clarke: rev!!
	11:43am herb.nyc: ↳ clarke @11:42 Maybe he’s not really dead. Head is cryogenically freezed?
	11:43am Moammar: Kay-Zerg
	11:43am clarke: k-surg.
	11:44am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "I'm Broke" by "Wardell And The Sultans" Wait… is he broke?
	11:44am clarke: yep.
	11:44am clarke: baroque!!
	11:44am greg g: Hey Hoboken Jack!!
	11:45am Spikey BXL: ↳ William Hellfire @11:37 Parts Unknown in Chicago. Anthony with Steve: youtu.be...
	11:45am Listener Baby: Is he baroque, because he has no Monet?
	11:45am Hughie Considine: As Hemingway said, you go broke two ways: gradually, then suddenly.
	11:45am drr: Ka-zairg gets my vote but I defer to clarke, he's been here longer. It gets spelled different ways too.
	11:45am clarke: this was a go-to for the Duke Of Paducah (nola deejay)
	11:45am DJ Johnny Cool: Pronounced Ka-zerg
	11:46am Gaylord Fields: Try “keh-zairg” (with a hard g)
	11:46am Hughie Considine: Ernie K-Doe's last name is also pronounced Ka-zerg.
	11:46am Spikey BXL: Jack!!!!
	11:46am clarke: ↳ drr @11:45 it's just they way i hear 'them' say it, here.
	11:46am Squints: ↳ Song: "I'm Broke" by "Wardell And The Sultans" I hear there's good money in moving rope.
	11:47am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:38 👍🙂
	11:47am clarke: just like you don't walk down bur-bone street.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Song: "Chickenhead Blues" by "Above, The" now we cookin' with GAS!!!
	11:48am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:46 not out of state.
	11:48am Listener Baby: Where’s Frank? Is this “new” new?
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Chickenhead Blues" by "Above, The" The World Accordion to TheAbove
	11:49am clarke: levittown rock!!
	11:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...waiting for the boxset - 'All of TheAbove'...
	11:51am clarke: recently watched when mac davis hosted Midnight Special. he had a way with an audience. total showman!
	11:51am Scott from Boston: In the 70s, I wanted to be Mac Davis
	11:51am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Song: "Weep Little Girl Weep" by "Mac Davis" Anyone remember Mac Davis' guest spot on the Muppet Show?
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Scott from Boston @11:51 congradulations! you made it!!
	11:52am pgalub: JAAAAACK!!
	11:52am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:45 ouch
	11:53am clarke: there's footage on the youtube of roger playing crosby's Gretsch in the studio. mind-blowing.
	11:53am Squints: ↳ Song: "Time Between" by "Christian Parker" Can never be too many versions of this.
	11:53am Dennis: Why do this song? To work that stringbender, that’s why!
	11:53am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:51 He was pretty huge there for awhile, posing shirtless on the cover of People magazine and such ... many got hooked on him, one imagines.
	11:54am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:53 but, i just kinda considered mac to be a studio feller - didn't realize he was such a star.
	11:55am Frank In Queens: Thank you for the spin Michael! To clarify, it’s an old recording that’s newly released. We recorded chicken head blues sometime around 2012 but decided to not release it for some reason that none of us can really remember. But we just put all of our music up on all the digital platforms and decided that this one deserved a release after all. But! We are working on new new material or at least we start working on that material hopefully by the end of the year.
	11:55am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:53 i mean he obviously had hits.
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:55 rockin' good news!!! from above ^
	11:56am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Give the Drummer Some More" by "Little Hooks With... Maybe he should get out more? Or join the Sierra Club?
	11:57am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:56 the Monet Society.
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:55 👏
	11:57am prof.fuzz: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:55 glad that you set this one loose!
	11:57am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Song: "Give the Drummer Some More" by "Little Hooks With... A little boy says to his mom, "When I grow up I want to be a drummer." Mom says, "I'm sorry son, you can't do both.' *Joke courtesy of Amy Rigby
	11:58am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:55 Right, but it's kind of easy to forget the star part because it didn't last very long and I don't think he left behind any unappreciated cinematic masterpieces.
	11:58am clarke: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:57 it crosses the road!
	11:58am greg g: Love this Little Hooks track! Wonder if the Godfather of Soul ever hear it. Think he would have approved.
	11:58am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:58 i actually think mac IS in a movie?? is it Cannonball Run??
	11:59am drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:58 He wrote "In The Ghetto", that's a cinematic masterpiece.
	11:59am yerfriendpaul: Hi Michael, everyone!
	11:59am clarke: ↳ drr @11:59 yes, but that is more of the 'studio guy' i am thinking of. songwriter.
	11:59am drr: ↳ clarke @11:58 I saw him in something recently....North Dallas Forty?
	12:00pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Sweet Darlin'" by "She And Him" Almost the same chords in the chorus as "Come On, Come On"
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ drr @11:59 oh he is great in ND40!! forgot that.
	12:00pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:59 Indisputably cinematic.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:00 truth. ascending chords.
	12:01pm listener phat in Lincoln: Check this filmography! en.m.wikipedia.org...
	12:02pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:59 He did a smattering of movies (Sting II) and a lot of TV work.
	12:03pm jg: My fave HsHs song is My Reservation Has Been Confirmed. Sound like the Stones on that
	12:03pm Gaylord Fields: Mac Davis is way overdue a career reassessment.
	12:04pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Busy Line" by "Herman's Hermits" Oh shit. Massive late key change!
	12:04pm clarke: hey, i know this cat!
	12:04pm Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @12:04 Gerald approved.
	12:04pm Cheryl The Nerd: Well, at least there wasn't a sax solo.
	12:04pm clarke: THAT Gerald!
	12:04pm Rich from Wading River: Saw Noone last night in Riverhead. Great showman.
	12:05pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens" Done/sun Points off for that rhyme
	12:05pm Listener Baby: ↳ Squints @12:04 Funny. Good old Gerald. It was all his doing.
	12:06pm Squints: ↳ Rich from Wading River @12:04 Saw him a few years ago in Hyannis on a double bill with Tommy James. I didn't realize at the time it was Vance Brescia of The Mosquitos directing his band.
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ McGroovey @12:05 but a plus for the 'got damn"
	12:06pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens" Nice little nod to a "Teenager In Love" there.
	12:06pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:06 Agreed.
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:06 on a revolving stage near you!!
	12:07pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ McGroovey @12:05 Is there an exception on the “love”/“above” ban if I want to write a couplet expressing my ardor for Frank in Queens’ band?
	12:07pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:06 I never don't imagine Will Ferrell when I go to the Cape Cod Melody Tent.
	12:08pm McGroovey: ↳ clarke @12:06 True
	12:08pm Squints: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 Paul Rodgers may have used up the relevant exception.
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:07 bobby mohan. (powered by rope)
	12:08pm McGroovey: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 Yes
	12:09pm Squints: ↳ Song: "16 Toneladas" by "Noriel Vilela" El Ernez. The Mexican Ernie Ford.
	12:09pm clarke: are there still people i know that have not seen Bowfinger??
	12:10pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 For me, "fisted glove" is the only truly banned "love" rhyme.
	12:10pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:04 Who is that?
	12:10pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:09 I haven't.
	12:10pm Listener Baby: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 Like for instance, Baby, I Love The Above? Something in that vein?
	12:10pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "16 Toneladas" by "Noriel Vilela" Tonelada - beer cocktail made with tuna.
	12:10pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Squints @12:09 This is the result of Ernie spending time with Ricky Rickardoo!
	12:10pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:10 you can change that tonight!
	12:11pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Listener Baby @12:10 Exactly like that.
	12:11pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:09 What is this Bowfinger of which you speak?
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:10 too much chicken and rice.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:11 a great Film.
	12:11pm Squints: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:10 Which, I think there was an episode of I Love Lucy....
	12:11pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:10 I won’t kink shame any lyricist.
	12:12pm clarke: ricker-doh
	12:12pm McGroovey: Also, in what circumstances is it acceptable to rhyme love and glove? 1. It's definitely -200 points for using "fits me like a glove" 2. "Hit me with your glove" is probably +10 3. "Hit me with my own glove" might be +12
	12:12pm SeanG: NICE!
	12:12pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" Chune rite cheer!!
	12:13pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" This is 1987 in a wonderful way.
	12:13pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:10 I'll make sure Melody and I check it out before we visit NO, which we talked about the other night.
	12:13pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" Yes. Very 1987. Such a great band.
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:13 dang - now she has a name!! and a good one!!
	12:14pm Squints: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:13 When, just like that, production became drier.
	12:14pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" Oh, that regrettable snare sound. But I do love the Go-Betweens.
	12:14pm evancuts: Right Here was featured prominently on our cocktail hour mix after we tied the knot! Number one hit for sure!
	12:14pm rx "rexy" scabin: Good bye and thank you, Michael and Everyone. I must go to the Hell that is end-of-semester grading. Great (portion of the) show.
	12:15pm McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @12:14 And that guitar flanger, set on 11 And the tiny keyboards. DX7?
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:14 party on, rexy!
	12:15pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" " know you're 32 but you look 55." Such a pretty song, such a cutting line.
	12:15pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:39 Hey, Jack! Brunch is eaten. We took it outside since fly and mosquito season has not quite started. And young Radio has supervised off-leash yard privileges now.
	12:15pm Squints: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:14 I know how to expedite the grading. Give 'em all Numbah Ones.
	12:15pm McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @12:15 Tinny keyboards
	12:15pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:14 Oddly coincidentally as I've literally been studying melody the last few weeks. Kismet.
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:15 jalapenos ward off the bugs!
	12:16pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ McGroovey @12:15 I've grown to embrace the DX7 sounds of my yute. I need to buy one.
	12:16pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:16 Here's hoping!
	12:17pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:15 of course, by studying the Beegee's tune Melody Faire!!
	12:17pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:17 Oh man!
	12:18pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Born to Be a Rolling Stone" by "Gene Vincent" even if we fix the engine - the transmission is blown.
	12:18pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Born to Be a Rolling Stone" by "Gene Vincent" Not a sound I associate with Gene Vincent at all. God I love this show.
	12:20pm McGroovey: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:16 The Reface DX is worth a look. $300ish, portable, and it probably sounds right. I have the Reface YC organ, and it does that thing really well.
	12:20pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:13 indeed!
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ McGroovey @12:20 send me that link
	12:21pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ McGroovey @12:20 Yeah. I should look into that. I'm such a goofball that I want an original. I'd actually love to get one of those old rackmount versions. My synths are in a rack right now.
	12:21pm Frank In Queens: @Gaylord 12:05, of course there is!
	12:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Perennial MacDavis anecdote (apocryphal or otherwise) : He's on MikeDouglas or such talkshow - recounts going to Paris. Says to waiter - pardon me ...muh French is not too good. Waiter says ...frumm whut I understand Mizz-urrr - yor Eeeng-lish is 'not too good' eeethurrr...
	12:24pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:21 MovieTime sir??
	12:24pm listener phat in Lincoln: The rich girls in my high school had DX7s for their talent show performances.
	12:24pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Goodnight Baby" by "Butterflys, The" Love the vibraphone here!
	12:24pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:24 ha ha ha ha ha. good one!
	12:24pm Wanda: Big Butterflys’ fan!
	12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:24 ...come back & I will taunt you a second time...
	12:25pm clarke: there was a consensus!!
	12:26pm clarke: i'm just telling you how they say it here.
	12:26pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 thats fair
	12:26pm listener phat in Lincoln: Fade in use = too little Also, more song lyrics need to start with the word, "and."
	12:27pm Hubig Pie: Ka-zerk, like berserk
	12:27pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Everything Is Strange" by "Wesley Fuller" Was "Eight Days a Week" the first major fade-in in pop history?
	12:27pm Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:26 Also, more song lyrics need to start with the word, "and." - YES!
	12:27pm clarke: the funny thing about nola is that everyone thinks the local pronunciation is always french - and that just outs them as tourists, most of the time.
	12:27pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:27 I keep meaning to start a list.
	12:28pm David Watts: Anyone see the Aurora borealis last night?
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ David Watts @12:28 not in this pea soup!
	12:30pm clarke: when someone says "we need to talk" = you usually DON'T have to talk.
	12:31pm Harry Corvair: She gave me some dictation But my strength is in administration Step Into My Office, Baby by Belle And Sebastian
	12:32pm clarke: i forgot about that coda part!! wow
	12:32pm drr: movies: saw Hundreds of Beavers at a pool party put on by the filmmakers. Started out amusing, became tiresome, we left. The pool was nice. Also The World According To Garp. Good enough I guess. Haven't read the book but I feel like something substantial was just missing from the movie.
	12:33pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:32 garp is a good book. there is some missing stuff, yes.
	12:34pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:33 Usually what's missing is the authorial voice.
	12:34pm clarke: a re-watch of Hud has me now thinking that, for me, the film is about Lon (brandon de wilde - shoulda won an oscar for it)
	12:34pm Handy Haversack: I liked the book at one point, but the dude's deep conservatism started to grate at me and then I started seeing it in his books as well, and the bloom really fell off the rose.
	12:35pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:34 but also: elmer's soundtrack - wunnefull!!
	12:35pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:21 <3
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Often muse on the relation of Directors & Authors. As in - too often even a great Director could've benefited from one...
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:34 and that point was probably Hotel New Hampshire. (sorry rev - hampshuh)
	12:36pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ drr @12:34 That's a good point. I'm not even sure how you'd really do that without a voiceover.
	12:37pm clarke: hello gregory!!
	12:38pm Hughie Considine: Rex emerges from his underground bunker every spring.
	12:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Cinema is only good when the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.' - Orson Welles [slight paraphrase possible.]
	12:39pm listener phat in Lincoln: Not live in the studio at all? I've never done that with a band. I've done a ton of overdubs (I'm a master of the punch in), but I don't know if I could do a whole album like that. I suppose I do it with my own stuff (granted I never finish any of that).
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight" by "Sid King And ... sid!
	12:39pm Listener John from NJ: Greg from Zone 5 is good. At least that's my opinion. I'll be liss-nin.
	12:40pm clarke: that is a snare!
	12:41pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:40 It's cool. Those vocal microphones are getting murdered.
	12:41pm Handy Haversack: Wait, what's wrong with scotch and soda?
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:41 moidahed!!
	12:42pm Handy Haversack: OK, well, free Thunderbird is free Thunderbird.
	12:42pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:41 expensive!
	12:42pm clarke: handy takes exception. man.
	12:42pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:42 Michael, I'm worth it.
	12:43pm Handy Haversack: We took Radio to his first bar last night. Went pretty well. Though he didn't even REACH for the check.
	12:43pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:41 That was Rockford's drink.
	12:43pm clarke: paws for effect
	12:45pm Cooh John: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:37 Will do, Michael.
	12:46pm listener phat in Lincoln: You know, this show is great for absorbing recording techniques used over the years. I hadn't really thought of that. It really is a great education in pop music (broadly defined) arrangement, performance, and recording.
	12:46pm clarke: shelley knows his shit. (still ...45 sheep??)
	12:48pm Hughie Considine: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:46 I concur. When the discussion runs in that direction, I just sit back and take notes.
	12:48pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:46 Yes.
	12:49pm Handy Haversack: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:43 Bars don't seem to really carry well scotch anymore. Black and White or whatever. They start with call brands and exalt things like Dewar's or J&B all out of reason! I'm reduced to ordering "whisky and soda" and hoping they can hear that I'm pronouncing it without an "e."
	12:49pm KevinfromBayRidge: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:43 I'm sure he would've eaten the check!
	12:50pm clarke: next thing you know Radio is playing poker. sitting for portraiture.
	12:50pm Faux Jean: She’s got dimples everywhere. Great lyric!
	12:50pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:50 The pug cheats!
	12:50pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:49 Wow. I haven't had a drink in 13 years (as of May Day) so I really don't know what's up with bars. I used to drink a Rockford (as I named it) regularly.
	12:50pm clarke: always.
	12:51pm clarke: Squints already left for the pub.
	12:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ clarke @12:50 I'd like to see a tapestry of the Haversack pets playing poker.
	12:51pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... This remix is particularly welcome given the fluffy studio version.
	12:51pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:49 When you wanna go on the cheap, ask for the T & L. (Taylor and Lloyd)
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @12:51 ha ha ha - that would SELL!
	12:52pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... This is really great. I know why some people hated Albini's engineering. But it has its well-defined place in the world.
	12:52pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:51 Sorry, not remix. Albini hated remixes, the concept, the word, and people who remix.
	12:52pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:51 Nah. It'll still be there. I hope.
	12:52pm HyperDose: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... Heck yes!
	12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:51 The vocals are intense AF. What a freakin' great singer.
	12:53pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @12:51 I'm Cheryl The Nerd, and I approve this message.
	12:53pm clarke: well, it is sad about albini (RIP) but there are live shows recorded way better.
	12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: Guys in a room bashing it out.
	12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Think it's just what CheapTrick needs. Record 'em like Punks.
	12:53pm Hughie Considine: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:53 One of the best pure rock singers ever. No doubt.
	12:53pm Rick Zander: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... Albini Re-Engineered so many beyond the Windy City
	12:54pm clarke: rockford.
	12:54pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "What's The" by "Apples in Stereo" the piano plinks!
	12:54pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:54 Yes!
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ Song: "What's The" by "Apples in Stereo" indeedy!!!
	12:55pm drr: Cheap Trick made an album called Rockford IIRC.
	12:55pm clarke: yes. yes they did. it is all about Jim.
	12:56pm clarke: and Angel, of course.
	12:56pm zak: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... the guitars sound so good on this recording! crunchy raw and sweet all at the same time
	12:56pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:55 Yep, and his sidekick. And his lovely wife, Mariette Hartley.
	12:56pm listener phat in Lincoln: I'm supposed to be engineering an album for a buddy who is a huge Albini fan sometime soon. I'm looking forward to it.
	12:57pm clarke: Rope = A to B
	12:57pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:56 I met her a few times when her kid was at a camp i worked at. She was super lovely.
	12:57pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:57 It is time
	12:58pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @12:51 Now so would I!
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:57 Miss Hartley to you! hugh!
	12:58pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:57 Jealous
	12:58pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:57 It was ovah heah. Now it's ovah theah.
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:58 go bruinz.
	12:59pm KWilde: Thanks for bringing the hits today Michael!
	12:59pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:58 Bear grumpy. Bear want dance.
	12:59pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been Sam'd? good nite.
	12:59pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Rub A Dub Dub" by "Sam Ulano" Was this the guy in Taxi Driver?
	12:59pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "Rub A Dub Dub" by "Sam Ulano" No. 1 HIT!!!
	12:59pm drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:57 very much in agreement.
	1:00pm drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:59 yep!
	1:00pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael!
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	1:00pm I'm with the banned: ↳ Song: "The Big Spender" by "Cornbread And Biscuits" Thanks a lot Michael Shelley!
	1:00pm drr: Thanks Michael!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 11, 2024

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
Keys, The	I Don't Wanna Cry "I Don't Wanna Cry" by "Keys, The"
Lemon Twigs, The	They Don't Know How To Fall In Place	0:04:07 (Pop-up)
Blue Shadows, The	Coming On Strong	0:08:31 (Pop-up)
Bobby Bland	Road of Brokenhearted Men	0:11:37 (Pop-up)
Sammy Davis, Jr.	Up Up And Away "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr."	0:15:12 (Pop-up)
Sweet Baboo	If I Died "If I Died" by "Sweet Baboo"	0:19:11 (Pop-up)
Shan Dels, The	Treat Me Like A Man	0:22:30 (Pop-up)
Luke Wills' Rhythm Busters	Four Or Five Times	0:25:02 (Pop-up)
Young Hot Unlimited	Who's Making Love	0:28:01 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick	Come On, Come On (The Steve Albini sessions)	0:34:47 (Pop-up)
Orient Express, The	1 Fruit Of Desert	0:36:51 (Pop-up)
Hank Garland	E-String Rag "E-String Rag" by "Hank Garland"	0:39:55 (Pop-up)
Wardell And The Sultans	I'm Broke	0:43:34 (Pop-up)
Above, The	Chickenhead Blues "Chickenhead Blues" by "Above, The"	0:46:43 (Pop-up)
Mac Davis	Weep Little Girl Weep "Weep Little Girl Weep" by "Mac Davis"	0:50:21 (Pop-up)
Christian Parker	Time Between "Time Between" by "Christian Parker"	0:52:27 (Pop-up)
Little Hooks With Ray Nato And The Kings	Give the Drummer Some More	0:54:56 (Pop-up)
She And Him	Sweet Darlin' "Sweet Darlin'" by "She And Him"	0:58:09 (Pop-up)
Herman's Hermits	Busy Line "Busy Line" by "Herman's Hermits"	1:01:41 (Pop-up)
Gary Owens	Direct Sun Light "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens"	1:04:38 (Pop-up)
Jackie Harris	No Kind Of Man "No Kind Of Man" by "Jackie Harris"	1:06:25 (Pop-up)
Noriel Vilela	16 Toneladas "16 Toneladas" by "Noriel Vilela"	1:08:20 (Pop-up)
Go Betweens, The	Right Here "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The"	1:12:33 (Pop-up)
Gene Vincent	Born to Be a Rolling Stone	1:17:19 (Pop-up)
Dean And Gene Reece	Jailbreak "Jailbreak" by "Dean And Gene Reece"	1:19:59 (Pop-up)
Butterflys, The	Goodnight Baby "Goodnight Baby" by "Butterflys, The"	1:22:03 (Pop-up)
Wesley Fuller	Everything Is Strange	1:26:15 (Pop-up)
Belle And Sebastian	Step Into My Office, Baby	1:28:35 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Campbell	That's Right, That's Me	1:33:12 (Pop-up)
Sid King And The Five Strings	Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight	1:38:13 (Pop-up)
Cornbread And Biscuits	The Big Spender	1:40:16 (Pop-up)
Shannon and The Clams	The Vow "The Vow" by "Shannon and The Clams"	1:43:48 (Pop-up)
Gonzalez Smith	She's My Girl "She's My Girl" by "Gonzalez Smith"	1:47:30 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick	I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)	1:50:23 (Pop-up)
Apples in Stereo	What's The "What's The" by "Apples in Stereo"	1:54:08 (Pop-up)
Yolks, The	Take Your Time "Take Your Time" by "Yolks, The"	1:56:52 (Pop-up)
Sam Ulano	Rub A Dub Dub "Rub A Dub Dub" by "Sam Ulano"	1:58:36 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5/8 8:59pm Listener Baby: 45 Sheep? What can be done, man? What can be done? Oh.. And Baby!
	9:57am Listener Baby: Word on the street is that dude never had 45 sheep in the first place. Word is, dude is playing a dangerous game. Word is.
	9:59am clarke: mikey is convinced that 45 sheep have been stolen.
	11:01am Joey C: Good morning Mike and Listeners of Number One Hits
	11:01am Cheryl The Nerd: Greetings fellow nerds...
	11:02am Greg from ZONE 5: Sounds like Saturday in here
	11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am pgalub: Hey everyone. Top tune! Wish I had seen the Twigs cover this last weekend.
	11:03am Squints: ↳ Song: "I Don't Wanna Cry" by "Keys, The" This is Numbah 1 right heah.
	11:03am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Song: "I Don't Wanna Cry" by "Keys, The" Hi, Michael. You are aware this is one of my favorite sings in the history of ever!
	11:04am clarke: mornin cookie!
	11:05am Curt in SC: Saw the twigs at a small venue in Charleston on Thursday. It was unbelievably good of course.
	11:05am Listener Baby: Gaylord! Handsome man! Hugs, cousin.
	11:05am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:03 *songs
	11:06am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:05 sings!
	11:06am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Listener Baby @11:05 Baby! Back atcha, primo!
	11:06am Handy Haversack: Hey now, MS, all!
	11:06am clarke: this tune might have legs...
	11:06am Frank In Queens: Hey Now!
	11:06am Mr. Jones: ↳ clarke @9:59 Mary had a little lamb, with mint jelly and cabernet.
	11:06am Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @11:06 I was wrong but also right with that typo.
	11:07am clarke: he shoots, he scores!!
	11:07am listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all!
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:06 oh so right!
	11:07am prof.fuzz: howdy y'all
	11:07am clarke: FuZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
	11:08am prof.fuzz: ClarkEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
	11:08am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers. Gaylord, just over 2 months to the Dublin Irish Festival. I can hook up you and your entourage with passes ☘️
	11:09am clarke: crankin' up the FuZZmobile!! vrrroooomm
	11:10am Bill in W.O.: ↳ Song: "Coming On Strong" by "Blue Shadows, The" So great, I wasn't aware they'd reissued these recording so www.avra-records.com...
	11:11am SeanG: what up ya'll morning clarke!
	11:11am clarke: avidly lisssnin'!!
	11:11am Gaylord Fields: Whaaaaat?! I can’t believe I missed one of my favorite current bands covering an all-time favorite! (The show happened while I was out of the country, alas.)
	11:11am Michael Shelley: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:03 naturally. another love we share!
	11:12am SeanG: seeing the twigs tomorrow here in Tampa
	11:12am clarke: and they let you back in??
	11:12am Listener Baby: BP on the sticks? Who be that?
	11:12am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:12 he on ever'thang!! pretty!!
	11:13am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:11 We’re brothers, my brother.
	11:15am Listener Baby: I’m hearing you, Man!
	11:16am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." This is Saturday morning 🥣📰📺
	11:16am jmd: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." I was just talking about this track with a pal of mine.
	11:16am clarke: baby!
	11:16am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." The intentional release of balloons is now illegal in Florida.
	11:16am greg g: Morning Michael, Gaylord and All! It’s a #1 Saturday!! Go Sammy!!
	11:17am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." I wanna say Vegas guy, but that doesn't really mean anything probably.
	11:17am clarke: ↳ Song: "Up Up And Away" by "Sammy Davis, Jr." i'm gonna say earl palmer, here.
	11:17am Listener Baby: Ed O'Shaughnessy ?
	11:18am clarke: probably too early for ed
	11:18am SeanG: get on UP
	11:19am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:18 69/70? His peak, perhaps?
	11:19am clarke: yeah but i am guessing that song was earlier
	11:20am Listener Baby: Original came out in 68? No?
	11:20am clarke: you mean the jim webb version? 66
	11:21am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:20 No, the massive hit
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:21 67ish
	11:22am clarke: nice cymbal wash, baboo!
	11:22am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Treat Me Like A Man" by "Shan Dels, The" Hey, "hometown" band for me.
	11:22am Squints: Time to play B-sides.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:22 yes!!!
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:22 rochester?
	11:24am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:23 No, that's Christina. I'm a down-stater. I was born in Brooklyn, but grew up in Levittown.
	11:24am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Treat Me Like A Man" by "Shan Dels, The" Amazing
	11:25am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:24 ahhhh!!
	11:25am Frank In Queens: My old man grew up playing the squeeze box. A rite of passage for Italian kids growing up in the 50's/60s.
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:25 polka dots!!
	11:27am Cooh John: ↳ Listener Baby @11:17 I saw Ed play with Buddy Rich on The Tonight show. Ed outplayed Buddy imho.
	11:27am clarke: anyone else watching A Gentleman In Moscow?? lovin' it!!
	11:27am clarke: ↳ Cooh John @11:27 restraint always wins!
	11:28am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Cooh John @11:08 Thanks for the offer, friend! Not sure if scheduling will work this time, but one of these years it would be great to take my 1/8 Irish great-nephews who live in Dublin to the festival.
	11:29am Squints: ↳ Song: "Who's Making Love" by "Young Hot Unlimited" Young and Hot. You betcha.
	11:30am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:29 holt!
	11:31am Cooh John: I am now spooked by the AI bumpers.
	11:31am clarke: would this be mistah galub's coasters?? niiice.
	11:31am clarke: hey ladyyyy!!!
	11:32am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:30 We Sox fans always spelled the super sub's name Brock! Holt! Exclamation points mandatory.
	11:32am clarke: yes, seen the julia roberts and sean penn thang - good.
	11:32am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Song: "Who's Making Love" by "Young Hot Unlimited" I was on the beach in Costa Ria yesterday, and there was an unlimited supply of the young and hot!
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:32 no sox in my house.
	11:33am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:32 *Costa Rica
	11:33am Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @11:32 In the recent Carl Erskine obit, he talked about his first time at Ebbetts Field and the fans calling out, "Hey, it's Oisk!"
	11:33am Cooh John: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:28 Let me know, Gaylord. It is a standing offer.
	11:33am Squints: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:32 Unlimited supply. Heh. I would say John Lydon could not be reached for comment. But John Lydon can always be reached for comment.
	11:34am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:33 surfing??
	11:34am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Cooh John @11:33 It’s a deal! Thanks for looking out for me once again!
	11:35am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Come On, Come On (The Steve Albini sessions)" by ... The guitars sound a lot more evil.
	11:35am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:32 You should talk to Alan6Degrees. He's spent a lot of time in Costa Rica.
	11:35am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Come On, Come On (The Steve Albini sessions)" by ... Sweet. What strikes me is how goddamn hot the band sound.
	11:35am mndave: ↳ Song: "Come On, Come On (The Steve Albini sessions)" by ... I just listened to this! It's available in full on the evil video site, search "Cheap Trick: Steve Albini Sessions 1997"
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:35 a tad of bass.
	11:36am Spikey BXL: Highly recommend finding the Anthony Bourdain / Steve Albini videos.
	11:36am Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @11:34 Unlike Squiddly Diddly, I am 100% hodad.
	11:36am Cooh John: Going to see Cheap Trick on Wednesday with Heart. ❤️
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:36 more ho and less dad
	11:37am davek: Thee best Cheap Trick recording!!! Have had it for years...
	11:37am William Hellfire: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:36 What?!?!
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ Cooh John @11:36 please report back
	11:37am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:37 Needs mo' ho.
	11:38am herb.nyc: Dumb question - Michael said ALbini, and I too. wnyc was saying ALLbini Dumber question- exact date of Eric Carmen was not originally told. Wiki has it, but only days (wks?) later. Why?
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:37 in toledo!!
	11:38am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @11:35 Oh, you better believe Alan was our guide in absentia for this entire trip. Otherwise, it would be like going to the moon and not consulting Neil Armstrong.
	11:39am Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael, Baby, Greg, Clarke, PEEEEEEETE, Nerd Cheryl, Gaylord, Frank, Handy, Prof, HyperD, Spikey, everybody!
	11:39am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:31 Pete from The Anderson Council
	11:39am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:38 buzz aldrin defers.
	11:39am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:39 ah! niiice!
	11:40am Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @11:37 Haha! I’m grandad age but still got a bit of ho in me!
	11:40am prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @11:39 buzz was the first person with a phd to walk on the moon.
	11:40am Listener Baby: Jack!!!!
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:39 jaaack. solid man!!
	11:40am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:40am herb.nyc: ↳ herb.nyc @11:38 I lied. Wiki does NOT have death date for Eric Carmen. Sorry
	11:41am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:40 i can't believe you are a grand (yer a million to me!!)
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...you could use accordion to be Beatlesque if were like (say) the harmonium in 'We Can Work It Out' ...& there's 'Wouldn't It Be Nice', but, digressing... BillHaley & the Accordionist Part Ways ...unrecognized significant moments in Modern Music...
	11:42am clarke: ↳ herb.nyc @11:40 that's strange, too!
	11:42am clarke: rev!!
	11:43am herb.nyc: ↳ clarke @11:42 Maybe he’s not really dead. Head is cryogenically freezed?
	11:43am Moammar: Kay-Zerg
	11:43am clarke: k-surg.
	11:44am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "I'm Broke" by "Wardell And The Sultans" Wait… is he broke?
	11:44am clarke: yep.
	11:44am clarke: baroque!!
	11:44am greg g: Hey Hoboken Jack!!
	11:45am Spikey BXL: ↳ William Hellfire @11:37 Parts Unknown in Chicago. Anthony with Steve: youtu.be...
	11:45am Listener Baby: Is he baroque, because he has no Monet?
	11:45am Hughie Considine: As Hemingway said, you go broke two ways: gradually, then suddenly.
	11:45am drr: Ka-zairg gets my vote but I defer to clarke, he's been here longer. It gets spelled different ways too.
	11:45am clarke: this was a go-to for the Duke Of Paducah (nola deejay)
	11:45am DJ Johnny Cool: Pronounced Ka-zerg
	11:46am Gaylord Fields: Try “keh-zairg” (with a hard g)
	11:46am Hughie Considine: Ernie K-Doe's last name is also pronounced Ka-zerg.
	11:46am Spikey BXL: Jack!!!!
	11:46am clarke: ↳ drr @11:45 it's just they way i hear 'them' say it, here.
	11:46am Squints: ↳ Song: "I'm Broke" by "Wardell And The Sultans" I hear there's good money in moving rope.
	11:47am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:38 👍🙂
	11:47am clarke: just like you don't walk down bur-bone street.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Song: "Chickenhead Blues" by "Above, The" now we cookin' with GAS!!!
	11:48am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:46 not out of state.
	11:48am Listener Baby: Where’s Frank? Is this “new” new?
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Chickenhead Blues" by "Above, The" The World Accordion to TheAbove
	11:49am clarke: levittown rock!!
	11:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...waiting for the boxset - 'All of TheAbove'...
	11:51am clarke: recently watched when mac davis hosted Midnight Special. he had a way with an audience. total showman!
	11:51am Scott from Boston: In the 70s, I wanted to be Mac Davis
	11:51am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Song: "Weep Little Girl Weep" by "Mac Davis" Anyone remember Mac Davis' guest spot on the Muppet Show?
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Scott from Boston @11:51 congradulations! you made it!!
	11:52am pgalub: JAAAAACK!!
	11:52am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:45 ouch
	11:53am clarke: there's footage on the youtube of roger playing crosby's Gretsch in the studio. mind-blowing.
	11:53am Squints: ↳ Song: "Time Between" by "Christian Parker" Can never be too many versions of this.
	11:53am Dennis: Why do this song? To work that stringbender, that’s why!
	11:53am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:51 He was pretty huge there for awhile, posing shirtless on the cover of People magazine and such ... many got hooked on him, one imagines.
	11:54am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:53 but, i just kinda considered mac to be a studio feller - didn't realize he was such a star.
	11:55am Frank In Queens: Thank you for the spin Michael! To clarify, it’s an old recording that’s newly released. We recorded chicken head blues sometime around 2012 but decided to not release it for some reason that none of us can really remember. But we just put all of our music up on all the digital platforms and decided that this one deserved a release after all. But! We are working on new new material or at least we start working on that material hopefully by the end of the year.
	11:55am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:53 i mean he obviously had hits.
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:55 rockin' good news!!! from above ^
	11:56am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Give the Drummer Some More" by "Little Hooks With... Maybe he should get out more? Or join the Sierra Club?
	11:57am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:56 the Monet Society.
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:55 👏
	11:57am prof.fuzz: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:55 glad that you set this one loose!
	11:57am Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Song: "Give the Drummer Some More" by "Little Hooks With... A little boy says to his mom, "When I grow up I want to be a drummer." Mom says, "I'm sorry son, you can't do both.' *Joke courtesy of Amy Rigby
	11:58am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:55 Right, but it's kind of easy to forget the star part because it didn't last very long and I don't think he left behind any unappreciated cinematic masterpieces.
	11:58am clarke: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:57 it crosses the road!
	11:58am greg g: Love this Little Hooks track! Wonder if the Godfather of Soul ever hear it. Think he would have approved.
	11:58am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:58 i actually think mac IS in a movie?? is it Cannonball Run??
	11:59am drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:58 He wrote "In The Ghetto", that's a cinematic masterpiece.
	11:59am yerfriendpaul: Hi Michael, everyone!
	11:59am clarke: ↳ drr @11:59 yes, but that is more of the 'studio guy' i am thinking of. songwriter.
	11:59am drr: ↳ clarke @11:58 I saw him in something recently....North Dallas Forty?
	12:00pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Sweet Darlin'" by "She And Him" Almost the same chords in the chorus as "Come On, Come On"
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ drr @11:59 oh he is great in ND40!! forgot that.
	12:00pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:59 Indisputably cinematic.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:00 truth. ascending chords.
	12:01pm listener phat in Lincoln: Check this filmography! en.m.wikipedia.org...
	12:02pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:59 He did a smattering of movies (Sting II) and a lot of TV work.
	12:03pm jg: My fave HsHs song is My Reservation Has Been Confirmed. Sound like the Stones on that
	12:03pm Gaylord Fields: Mac Davis is way overdue a career reassessment.
	12:04pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Busy Line" by "Herman's Hermits" Oh shit. Massive late key change!
	12:04pm clarke: hey, i know this cat!
	12:04pm Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @12:04 Gerald approved.
	12:04pm Cheryl The Nerd: Well, at least there wasn't a sax solo.
	12:04pm clarke: THAT Gerald!
	12:04pm Rich from Wading River: Saw Noone last night in Riverhead. Great showman.
	12:05pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens" Done/sun Points off for that rhyme
	12:05pm Listener Baby: ↳ Squints @12:04 Funny. Good old Gerald. It was all his doing.
	12:06pm Squints: ↳ Rich from Wading River @12:04 Saw him a few years ago in Hyannis on a double bill with Tommy James. I didn't realize at the time it was Vance Brescia of The Mosquitos directing his band.
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ McGroovey @12:05 but a plus for the 'got damn"
	12:06pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens" Nice little nod to a "Teenager In Love" there.
	12:06pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:06 Agreed.
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:06 on a revolving stage near you!!
	12:07pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ McGroovey @12:05 Is there an exception on the “love”/“above” ban if I want to write a couplet expressing my ardor for Frank in Queens’ band?
	12:07pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:06 I never don't imagine Will Ferrell when I go to the Cape Cod Melody Tent.
	12:08pm McGroovey: ↳ clarke @12:06 True
	12:08pm Squints: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 Paul Rodgers may have used up the relevant exception.
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:07 bobby mohan. (powered by rope)
	12:08pm McGroovey: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 Yes
	12:09pm Squints: ↳ Song: "16 Toneladas" by "Noriel Vilela" El Ernez. The Mexican Ernie Ford.
	12:09pm clarke: are there still people i know that have not seen Bowfinger??
	12:10pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 For me, "fisted glove" is the only truly banned "love" rhyme.
	12:10pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:04 Who is that?
	12:10pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:09 I haven't.
	12:10pm Listener Baby: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 Like for instance, Baby, I Love The Above? Something in that vein?
	12:10pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "16 Toneladas" by "Noriel Vilela" Tonelada - beer cocktail made with tuna.
	12:10pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Squints @12:09 This is the result of Ernie spending time with Ricky Rickardoo!
	12:10pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:10 you can change that tonight!
	12:11pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Listener Baby @12:10 Exactly like that.
	12:11pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ clarke @12:09 What is this Bowfinger of which you speak?
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:10 too much chicken and rice.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Cheryl The Nerd @12:11 a great Film.
	12:11pm Squints: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:10 Which, I think there was an episode of I Love Lucy....
	12:11pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:10 I won’t kink shame any lyricist.
	12:12pm clarke: ricker-doh
	12:12pm McGroovey: Also, in what circumstances is it acceptable to rhyme love and glove? 1. It's definitely -200 points for using "fits me like a glove" 2. "Hit me with your glove" is probably +10 3. "Hit me with my own glove" might be +12
	12:12pm SeanG: NICE!
	12:12pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" Chune rite cheer!!
	12:13pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" This is 1987 in a wonderful way.
	12:13pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:10 I'll make sure Melody and I check it out before we visit NO, which we talked about the other night.
	12:13pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" Yes. Very 1987. Such a great band.
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:13 dang - now she has a name!! and a good one!!
	12:14pm Squints: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:13 When, just like that, production became drier.
	12:14pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" Oh, that regrettable snare sound. But I do love the Go-Betweens.
	12:14pm evancuts: Right Here was featured prominently on our cocktail hour mix after we tied the knot! Number one hit for sure!
	12:14pm rx "rexy" scabin: Good bye and thank you, Michael and Everyone. I must go to the Hell that is end-of-semester grading. Great (portion of the) show.
	12:15pm McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @12:14 And that guitar flanger, set on 11 And the tiny keyboards. DX7?
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:14 party on, rexy!
	12:15pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Right Here" by "Go Betweens, The" " know you're 32 but you look 55." Such a pretty song, such a cutting line.
	12:15pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:39 Hey, Jack! Brunch is eaten. We took it outside since fly and mosquito season has not quite started. And young Radio has supervised off-leash yard privileges now.
	12:15pm Squints: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:14 I know how to expedite the grading. Give 'em all Numbah Ones.
	12:15pm McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @12:15 Tinny keyboards
	12:15pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:14 Oddly coincidentally as I've literally been studying melody the last few weeks. Kismet.
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:15 jalapenos ward off the bugs!
	12:16pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ McGroovey @12:15 I've grown to embrace the DX7 sounds of my yute. I need to buy one.
	12:16pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:16 Here's hoping!
	12:17pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:15 of course, by studying the Beegee's tune Melody Faire!!
	12:17pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:17 Oh man!
	12:18pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Born to Be a Rolling Stone" by "Gene Vincent" even if we fix the engine - the transmission is blown.
	12:18pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Born to Be a Rolling Stone" by "Gene Vincent" Not a sound I associate with Gene Vincent at all. God I love this show.
	12:20pm McGroovey: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:16 The Reface DX is worth a look. $300ish, portable, and it probably sounds right. I have the Reface YC organ, and it does that thing really well.
	12:20pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:13 indeed!
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ McGroovey @12:20 send me that link
	12:21pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ McGroovey @12:20 Yeah. I should look into that. I'm such a goofball that I want an original. I'd actually love to get one of those old rackmount versions. My synths are in a rack right now.
	12:21pm Frank In Queens: @Gaylord 12:05, of course there is!
	12:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Perennial MacDavis anecdote (apocryphal or otherwise) : He's on MikeDouglas or such talkshow - recounts going to Paris. Says to waiter - pardon me ...muh French is not too good. Waiter says ...frumm whut I understand Mizz-urrr - yor Eeeng-lish is 'not too good' eeethurrr...
	12:24pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:21 MovieTime sir??
	12:24pm listener phat in Lincoln: The rich girls in my high school had DX7s for their talent show performances.
	12:24pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Goodnight Baby" by "Butterflys, The" Love the vibraphone here!
	12:24pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:24 ha ha ha ha ha. good one!
	12:24pm Wanda: Big Butterflys’ fan!
	12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:24 ...come back & I will taunt you a second time...
	12:25pm clarke: there was a consensus!!
	12:26pm clarke: i'm just telling you how they say it here.
	12:26pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:07 thats fair
	12:26pm listener phat in Lincoln: Fade in use = too little Also, more song lyrics need to start with the word, "and."
	12:27pm Hubig Pie: Ka-zerk, like berserk
	12:27pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Everything Is Strange" by "Wesley Fuller" Was "Eight Days a Week" the first major fade-in in pop history?
	12:27pm Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:26 Also, more song lyrics need to start with the word, "and." - YES!
	12:27pm clarke: the funny thing about nola is that everyone thinks the local pronunciation is always french - and that just outs them as tourists, most of the time.
	12:27pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:27 I keep meaning to start a list.
	12:28pm David Watts: Anyone see the Aurora borealis last night?
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ David Watts @12:28 not in this pea soup!
	12:30pm clarke: when someone says "we need to talk" = you usually DON'T have to talk.
	12:31pm Harry Corvair: She gave me some dictation But my strength is in administration Step Into My Office, Baby by Belle And Sebastian
	12:32pm clarke: i forgot about that coda part!! wow
	12:32pm drr: movies: saw Hundreds of Beavers at a pool party put on by the filmmakers. Started out amusing, became tiresome, we left. The pool was nice. Also The World According To Garp. Good enough I guess. Haven't read the book but I feel like something substantial was just missing from the movie.
	12:33pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:32 garp is a good book. there is some missing stuff, yes.
	12:34pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:33 Usually what's missing is the authorial voice.
	12:34pm clarke: a re-watch of Hud has me now thinking that, for me, the film is about Lon (brandon de wilde - shoulda won an oscar for it)
	12:34pm Handy Haversack: I liked the book at one point, but the dude's deep conservatism started to grate at me and then I started seeing it in his books as well, and the bloom really fell off the rose.
	12:35pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:34 but also: elmer's soundtrack - wunnefull!!
	12:35pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:21 <3
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Often muse on the relation of Directors & Authors. As in - too often even a great Director could've benefited from one...
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:34 and that point was probably Hotel New Hampshire. (sorry rev - hampshuh)
	12:36pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ drr @12:34 That's a good point. I'm not even sure how you'd really do that without a voiceover.
	12:37pm clarke: hello gregory!!
	12:38pm Hughie Considine: Rex emerges from his underground bunker every spring.
	12:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Cinema is only good when the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.' - Orson Welles [slight paraphrase possible.]
	12:39pm listener phat in Lincoln: Not live in the studio at all? I've never done that with a band. I've done a ton of overdubs (I'm a master of the punch in), but I don't know if I could do a whole album like that. I suppose I do it with my own stuff (granted I never finish any of that).
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight" by "Sid King And ... sid!
	12:39pm Listener John from NJ: Greg from Zone 5 is good. At least that's my opinion. I'll be liss-nin.
	12:40pm clarke: that is a snare!
	12:41pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:40 It's cool. Those vocal microphones are getting murdered.
	12:41pm Handy Haversack: Wait, what's wrong with scotch and soda?
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:41 moidahed!!
	12:42pm Handy Haversack: OK, well, free Thunderbird is free Thunderbird.
	12:42pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:41 expensive!
	12:42pm clarke: handy takes exception. man.
	12:42pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:42 Michael, I'm worth it.
	12:43pm Handy Haversack: We took Radio to his first bar last night. Went pretty well. Though he didn't even REACH for the check.
	12:43pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:41 That was Rockford's drink.
	12:43pm clarke: paws for effect
	12:45pm Cooh John: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:37 Will do, Michael.
	12:46pm listener phat in Lincoln: You know, this show is great for absorbing recording techniques used over the years. I hadn't really thought of that. It really is a great education in pop music (broadly defined) arrangement, performance, and recording.
	12:46pm clarke: shelley knows his shit. (still ...45 sheep??)
	12:48pm Hughie Considine: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:46 I concur. When the discussion runs in that direction, I just sit back and take notes.
	12:48pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:46 Yes.
	12:49pm Handy Haversack: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:43 Bars don't seem to really carry well scotch anymore. Black and White or whatever. They start with call brands and exalt things like Dewar's or J&B all out of reason! I'm reduced to ordering "whisky and soda" and hoping they can hear that I'm pronouncing it without an "e."
	12:49pm KevinfromBayRidge: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:43 I'm sure he would've eaten the check!
	12:50pm clarke: next thing you know Radio is playing poker. sitting for portraiture.
	12:50pm Faux Jean: She’s got dimples everywhere. Great lyric!
	12:50pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:50 The pug cheats!
	12:50pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:49 Wow. I haven't had a drink in 13 years (as of May Day) so I really don't know what's up with bars. I used to drink a Rockford (as I named it) regularly.
	12:50pm clarke: always.
	12:51pm clarke: Squints already left for the pub.
	12:51pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ clarke @12:50 I'd like to see a tapestry of the Haversack pets playing poker.
	12:51pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... This remix is particularly welcome given the fluffy studio version.
	12:51pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:49 When you wanna go on the cheap, ask for the T & L. (Taylor and Lloyd)
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @12:51 ha ha ha - that would SELL!
	12:52pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... This is really great. I know why some people hated Albini's engineering. But it has its well-defined place in the world.
	12:52pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:51 Sorry, not remix. Albini hated remixes, the concept, the word, and people who remix.
	12:52pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:51 Nah. It'll still be there. I hope.
	12:52pm HyperDose: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... Heck yes!
	12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:51 The vocals are intense AF. What a freakin' great singer.
	12:53pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @12:51 I'm Cheryl The Nerd, and I approve this message.
	12:53pm clarke: well, it is sad about albini (RIP) but there are live shows recorded way better.
	12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: Guys in a room bashing it out.
	12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Think it's just what CheapTrick needs. Record 'em like Punks.
	12:53pm Hughie Considine: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:53 One of the best pure rock singers ever. No doubt.
	12:53pm Rick Zander: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... Albini Re-Engineered so many beyond the Windy City
	12:54pm clarke: rockford.
	12:54pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "What's The" by "Apples in Stereo" the piano plinks!
	12:54pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:54 Yes!
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ Song: "What's The" by "Apples in Stereo" indeedy!!!
	12:55pm drr: Cheap Trick made an album called Rockford IIRC.
	12:55pm clarke: yes. yes they did. it is all about Jim.
	12:56pm clarke: and Angel, of course.
	12:56pm zak: ↳ Song: "I Want You To Want Me (The Steve Albini sessions)... the guitars sound so good on this recording! crunchy raw and sweet all at the same time
	12:56pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:55 Yep, and his sidekick. And his lovely wife, Mariette Hartley.
	12:56pm listener phat in Lincoln: I'm supposed to be engineering an album for a buddy who is a huge Albini fan sometime soon. I'm looking forward to it.
	12:57pm clarke: Rope = A to B
	12:57pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:56 I met her a few times when her kid was at a camp i worked at. She was super lovely.
	12:57pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:57 It is time
	12:58pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @12:51 Now so would I!
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:57 Miss Hartley to you! hugh!
	12:58pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:57 Jealous
	12:58pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:57 It was ovah heah. Now it's ovah theah.
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:58 go bruinz.
	12:59pm KWilde: Thanks for bringing the hits today Michael!
	12:59pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:58 Bear grumpy. Bear want dance.
	12:59pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been Sam'd? good nite.
	12:59pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Rub A Dub Dub" by "Sam Ulano" Was this the guy in Taxi Driver?
	12:59pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "Rub A Dub Dub" by "Sam Ulano" No. 1 HIT!!!
	12:59pm drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:57 very much in agreement.
	1:00pm drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:59 yep!
	1:00pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael!
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	1:00pm I'm with the banned: ↳ Song: "The Big Spender" by "Cornbread And Biscuits" Thanks a lot Michael Shelley!
	1:00pm drr: Thanks Michael!

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