WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 5, 2013

Listener comments!
	9:02am common: BOING!
	👻 9:03am 12539: s l o w l y w a k i n g.
	9:04am Guido (Cologne): Hi Joe! Nice to have you back! Hello all the others!
	9:06am Joe McG: Thanks, Guido, great to be back!
	9:07am SeanG: Hola Joe! I'm locked in and ready.
	9:07am Chop Scott: JOE! Just off the plane from Johannesburg. Could not ask for a better welcome home than to unpack while listening to you...
	9:07am KP: Definitely a slow awakening,
	9:07am common: hello guido, joe, 12539, seang and chop. yep.
	9:08am Joe McG: Hey, SeanG! Chop Scott! Wow, want to hear about your trip!
	👻 9:08am Ken From Hyde Park: The words "slow wake" make me think of driving your boat carefully around the docks so you don't cause a big wave.
	9:08am Joe McG: Hey, common! Hey, 12539!
	9:11am Cheri Pi: Good morning my GIF spirit!
	9:11am David L.B. is RRN63: ...I got Thur. off for a change - Hey Joe!: Do you feel Cheri Pi is scooping your territory w/ her gif'tar - ?! Or is it all in the family : p ...
	9:11am Guido (Cologne): Xpressway-Label, NZ ... still have an old Dead-C EP. A bit surprised that The Dead C still exist.
	9:11am David L.B. is RRN63: - jinx C Pi !
	9:12am Cheri Pi: Yipyipyip. We share the same brain sometimes.
	9:14am Joe McG: I adore Cheri Pi's GIF. I consider it high tribute!
	9:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - figured !
	9:15am Mike East: Hey Joe! Great meeting you at the record fair. Thanks for your help with the tee shirt...it fits my daughter perfectly. I made the right decision.
	9:15am Parq: I am mad jealous of Pi's GIF.
	9:15am luca: love that yves simon track
	9:15am Cheri Pi: It was either this or a Sherman Hemsley GIF.
	9:16am Joe McG: @Mike: Great to meet you, too, Mike! I'm so glad the shirt suits!
	9:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I got my PeteTownshend windmilling Guitar Gif'tar ...for when we have the Marxist Revolution & seize the Means of Gifduction for thuh Maahn !! - oh - Pete's just swatted me off-stage like he did Abbie Hoffman...
	9:22am earrie: 'Morning Joe and listeners. Great to hear you back, Joe.
	9:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...from duh Man...this man needs marmite bagel & tea...
	9:24am Joe McG: Hey, earrie! Thanks, nice to see you! Hey to KP, RR63, Luca, and anyone else I didn't say hi to. Hi!
	9:27am P-90: Mi Andaluz: melody and arrangement similar to Desi Arnaz's "Babaloo." Same key too, I think. Coincidence? Or a tradtional song that has taken many forms?
	9:27am Guido (Cologne): Amy Camus!
	9:29am JD: OLE! Viva Joe!
	9:29am P-90: She was famous for her 14 and a half octave singing range.
	9:30am Stevel: MAMBO!!
	9:34am P-90: Now that I see that you can upload GIF's as an avatar, I'm finally gonna have to get me one of those. If Cheri Pi doesn't want the Sherman Helmsley GIF, I got dibs on that one!
	👻 9:37am James in ATL: Welcome back Joe. Nice first set of songs.
	9:38am Cheri Pi: You can have it P-90, when the day comes maybe we could trade GIFS.
	9:39am maja: HI all yes I stay looking forward lalala
	9:40am Joe McG: Thanks, James. Easing in!
	9:41am Gordon FM: Joe Crow!
	9:43am P-90: @Cheri: 'tis the season for re-GIFing!
	👻 9:47am Ken From Hyde Park: The Mistakes are using the same keyboard as Supertramp?
	9:52am Joe McG: @Ken: It's a shame they never did a version of "The Logical Song."
	9:53am P-90: That did sound like the Wurlitzer that was recognizable on Supertramps's albums. A distinct difference from the more common Fender piano sound. So it would have been logical for them to cover The Logical Song.
	👻 9:55am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Bill Zurat did a sterling job last week.
	9:57am Joe McG: @Brian: He always does, Brian! Anyone who missed it should check out Bill's archives: wfmu.org...
	10:02am common: hell yea haircut 100!!!
	10:03am Gordon FM: Great show! Thanks for making this morning bright.
	10:03am SeanG: this song RULES
	10:04am listener james from westwood: i too would like to register my haircut 100 glee.
	👻 10:04am 12539: (Joe, you typed it "Haricut.")
	10:04am Kurt Gottschalk: extended version!
	10:05am Joe McG: @Gordon FM: What a nice thing to say! @12539: Oops, one haircut fix coming up.... @Kurt: King Kurt!
	10:05am John W: Haircut 100, what a good song for a gloomy NJ day. Thanks for brightening it up!
	10:06am Brian C.: coincidence? I am getting a haircut today. Hard to think of anything to do with this song being spooky though
	10:06am SeanG: you set the tone for the whole day with this song
	10:06am PKNY: Now you're gonna make me search the YouTubes for the video of this. I'm sure this was one of the first vids I ever saw, back when HBO used to play vids between movies.
	👻 10:07am tim from champaign: Howdy all! Great set Joe. So asbestos is being scraped up on the floor right above my desk. No dust has shaken into my coffee yet. A little asbestos ingestion just builds character, right?
	10:07am listener james from westwood: my mental playlist is already queuing up scritti politti or the blow monkeys, but i'm happy to see the direction joe goes after this 80s nugget.
	10:07am Brian C.: Makes me want to bust out a turtleneck sweater
	10:08am listener james from westwood: dear gods, tim! make like walter white and mask up!
	10:10am PKNY: I also had to look up the history of the name Haircut 100, here's what I found online from some random site: "i saw in VH1's bands reunited that they got this name by just sitting down in the kitchen and thinking of the stupidest name they could possibly think of. Haircut 100 was the one they laughed at the most, so that was their band name"
	10:12am Joe McG: Ha ha, nice tidbit, PKNY!
	10:14am dc pat: 'lo
	👻 10:14am tim from champaign: listener james - I'm masked up and in my undies. I'm sure everything's kosher safety-wise but I still mentioned it to my supervisor. She wasn't aware asbestos removal was happening. She's going to follow up.
	10:16am common: naughty.
	10:16am P-90: Haircut 100 is def one of the best band names of that decade (and thanks for playing the track Joe McG). My personal vote for #1 band name of the eighties remains: Echo and the Bunnymen.
	10:16am dc pat: uh...isn't "hair in your teeth" getting a little racy for the FCC?
	10:16am Joe McG: @common: Just a song about mangoes.
	10:17am dc pat: oh, ok Joe, sure, got it.
	10:17am common: oh, i know, joe. Hee!
	10:18am Joe McG: @P-90: The Teardrop Explodes is actually a pretty good name, too!
	10:19am ben von: Reverb hits!
	10:19am listener james from westwood: go mango!
	10:19am Ike: If your mangoes have hair, you're buying the wrong kind of mangoes. My advice is, switch to champagne mangoes STAT.
	10:20am P-90: @Joe: Yes! certainly in the top five!
	10:20am Joe McG: @Ike: I support the hairy mango.
	10:20am dc pat: Ike speaks the truth.
	10:21am listener james from westwood: good to hear, tim. years ago, the company next to the one where I was working decided to lacquer or resurface the floor of its warehouse. talk about fumes. we lasted about an hour before our supervisor said, "grab what you can and either work outside or from home." the pregnant woman among us was the most appreciative of that order.
	10:21am dc pat: Oh wait, if we're speaking in analogies I'm going with Joe.
	10:21am H. Mango: Equal rights for all Mangoes!
	10:22am groucho: $55 for that Lloyd Simmons record on Amazon. very tempted
	👻 10:23am tim from champaign: My wife is always asking if I want a knuckle sandwich. Is that the same as a hairy mango?
	10:23am listener james from westwood: to quote jeff sarge: rub a dub a dub. great groove.
	10:24am Joe McG: @groucho: A fine investment in your future! @tim: Depends on what you're into, I guess!
	👻 10:24am Brian in UK: Thanks for reminding me I need a haircut.
	👻 10:25am tim from champaign: Ha! That's true, Joe.
	10:28am Joe McG: This track sounds great on headphones, BTW, if any of you have 'em handy.
	10:30am dc pat: I hate liking this.
	10:31am maja: I like the party
	10:34am dc pat: isn't "eating a mango" getting a little racy for FCC?
	10:34am Roberto: Correcto. Pata de perro = paw of the dog.
	10:34am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: @Brian in UK - instagram.com...
	10:35am Gregg Allman: I recommend you eat a peach.
	10:36am earrie: What would you have us eat, @dc pat? Stew?
	10:36am Dr. Goot: Sweet PG tune!
	10:37am P-90: Peter!
	10:37am common: i always thought peter g. was singing, "she's so funky, yea."
	10:37am Ike: Stew is even more racy. Also, I like this song.
	👻 10:38am Brian in UK: @ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ Thanks bit lost though?
	👻 10:38am Brian in UK: Anyone ever watch this inane programme?
	10:39am Joe McG: @common: I recently discovered he's singing the French of the title. I thought it was "funky" for YEARS!
	10:39am Rev. Turnip Druid: ...& technically that's kate bush doing that bit...
	10:40am Roberto: Common misconception. I thought the same until relatively recently. Part of the problem is the French is mispronounced. Kate Bush, I'm looking at you!
	10:40am Rev. Turnip Druid: ...if memory serves...
	👻 10:40am Brian in UK: Jeux Sans Frontiers. Kate Bush on vocals.
	10:41am Joe McG: I prefer her cameo on this record to the later one.
	10:42am SeanG: FUNK
	10:44am Cecile: These hobbits make me want to side with the orcs.
	10:44am Ike: ROTFL, Cecile. Agreed!
	10:45am dc pat: GOBLINS!
	👻 10:45am tim from champaign: The tweeist little hobbits of them all.
	10:45am Cecile: Saruman where the hell are you? We need you. Come back, all is forgiven.
	10:46am Roberto: Actually, the vocal on this kind of sounds like a dude trying to sound like Kate Bush.
	👻 10:46am 12539: This sounds like a hobbit Kate Bush.
	10:46am Rev. Turnip Druid: good lord.
	10:46am P-90: Actually, the French always sounded pretty good to me, and something I don't think Gabriel would let slip by on an important track, he's an English dude who probably had about 10 years of elementary school French. But, the way they sing the refrain, "Jeux" does sound a lot like "she's" or "shears"or "jeers"
	10:46am dc pat: actually this tune is cracking me up. What were they thinking??
	👻 10:47am tim from champaign: What did you guys think of the first Hobbit installment from last year? I thought there was too much CGI razzle dazzle. Enough so that I'm not interested in seeing the one coming out this month.
	10:47am common: thanks joe! learn something every day.
	10:48am Cecile: P-90. our nerd crew picked up on the second listen.
	10:49am Cecile: tim, it was too frantic. I'll probably wait til On Demand on DirectTV. But Frozen was decent.
	10:49am Mike East: i didnt see it, tim. it pissed me off that they were stretching it to 3 films
	10:49am P-90: I see the commercials for part 2, loaded with situations AND characters that are not in the book, and I am so not inspired to see the movie. Maybe on Netflix.
	10:50am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: @Tim - I actually forgot I saw it, then remembered I did. That was the impression it made on me. It blurred into the LOTR series.
	10:50am Cecile: they did pick the smokin' hot vampire from the early seasons of UK Being Human for the role of a dwarf. That was a plus.
	10:50am KevinfromBayRidge: Hello Joe & all McGaskites! Just snuck enough time to sign in and enjoy. Lovely shew!
	10:50am Mike East: that said, yes, i will probably netflix all of them
	10:51am Cecile: the plate throwing scene was really fun.
	10:51am common: ah, hollywood. not an original idea in the smog.
	10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Hobbits love mushrooms...& possibly nitrous... - tim: missed it though a bigtime Tolkien fan. Always interesting to me the difference in tone in Hobbit from LoTR - more - Beowulfish or something hard to express - that's not it exactly... - Oh dear. Why do they think they can write better then Tolkien - ?! I could maybe see relating things that are happening simultaneously before LoTR that aren't in 'The Hobbit' book...
	👻 10:51am tim from champaign: Singers in the early 70s sure liked singing about young girls.
	10:52am Cecile: this is cool
	10:52am Joe McG: @tim: Do you know "Virginia (Touch Me Like You Do)"? "My belt might break..."--yuck!
	10:53am dc pat: didn't see the Hobbit part1, not that interested but just completed reading the book to my son. THAT was fun.
	10:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: + dc pat : )
	10:54am P-90: @@common: I think that's spelled "Smaug". And: does anyone know who does the voice of the dragon in Hobbit Part Deux?
	👻 10:54am tim from champaign: uh, I don't think I've heard that one Joe. yeesh.
	10:54am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - the Rankin Bass 'Hobbit' cartoon was actually not bad...
	👻 10:55am tim from champaign: dc pat - are you going to watch the Ralph Bakshi Hobbit with your son?
	10:55am Joe McG: @tim: I'll have to play it some time. I have it on 45!
	10:55am P-90: @Joe: did Peter Yarrow write that lyric about "Virginia"?
	10:56am Cecile: I think that's Rankin-Bass. Bakshi did that shitty LOTR movie
	10:56am Cecile: The Rankin Bass special is also crappy
	10:56am listener james from westwood: as yet i haven't seen the first hobbit, but the ads touted the sort of video-gamey set pieces that i hated in jackson's "king kong." queued for a future netflix binge once all 3 come out (not bit on the mass moviegoing experience any more).
	👻 10:56am Brian in UK: Hey Joe AND EMMYLOU this is a duet.
	10:57am listener james from westwood: P-90: smaug is voiced by benedict cumberbatch.
	10:57am KP: Heart's on fire here on chilly Ave C.
	10:57am dc pat: yeah RRN63/tim, my brother and I liked that one. Hadn't thought of showing that one to the kids. My daughter saw part 1 and I think the boy's jonesing for that one too.
	10:57am Joe McG: @Brian: Gee, I'd like to, but I always type what's on the label. Poor Emmy not even mentioned!
	👻 10:57am tim from champaign: Oh right, cecile. Joe, you can take your time bringing that one to Single File.
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bakshi's kewl - but out of his depth there - I think his funding didn't come thru is part of the story - sad because 'Wizards' by him is pretty kewl!
	10:58am Joe McG: @tim: Ha ha ha! It's catchy, tho'!
	10:59am Rev. Turnip Druid: True Cecile - The Bakshi one was pretty bad. Though it did gift us all with that marching Orc song (where there's a whip, there's a way) -- a strange kind of wonderful/bad, that.
	10:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Jackson's Kong was okay - quite an effort, & if seen as a tribute or sort of a vanity piece, fine.
	👻 11:00am Brian in UK: Shocking, Warners should know better. The Hobbit in three parts. Jackson should have filmed The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg.
	11:00am Cecile: I forgot that song, RTD. I had a Necron 99 shirt I got at my 1st SF convention. They were made to order, so I made them take the caption "peace" off it. Loleatta!
	11:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - the Bakshi LotR might have a moment or two.
	11:01am Cecile: I think Peter Jackson should go back to tiny budgets.
	11:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: RTD: Was that tune not the RankinBass 'Hobbit' ? A true Tolkien-LouReed moment...
	11:03am Guido (Cologne): Whow!! The Link to Tom Wilson alone is worth worth the entire show! Thanks! Common knowledge over here is fragmented. As far as I know he was more an arranger than a technican, thus letting young Rockers (Zappa, Velvets) do what they want to do in the studio, occasionally showing up in order to introduce his latest party-chicks, so to say.
	11:03am Cecile: Stop, recognize and listen!
	11:03am P-90: @listener James: Thanks. As good a choice as any, I suppose. I'd rather they had Christopher Lee read those lines. I have a longtime acquaintance with Mr. Lee, who thought my comment about LOTR was interesting: that shooting the movies in all those picturesque New Zealand locations with such a mixed-nationality cast kinda sucked a certain "Englishness" out of the story. The Hobbit is even more a story inspired by the English woods and English culture than LOTR, so I'm in no rush to be dissapointed by it too.
	👻 11:03am tim from champaign: Ha! Excellent, Joe.
	11:04am paula pc: only David Bowie duet I really like
	11:04am listener james from westwood: there is also a rankin-bass return of the king, if it hasn't been mentioned yet. it's quite truncated vs. the plot of the 3rd novel. i can't recall, but i think the "where there's a whip" song might be from that one.
	👻 11:04am Brian in UK: Tom Wilson has some discography. Phew.
	11:05am Cecile: Freddy is great on this.
	11:05am paula pc: oh and of course the Bing Crosby duet!!!
	11:05am BarbR: Check out this song with just the vocals. Amazing. www.youtube.com...
	11:05am paula pc: @ Cecile -- yes, Freddie is amazing on this
	👻 11:06am Brian in UK: Anyone ever read 'Bored of the Rings' with Dildo Bugger.
	11:06am listener james from westwood: yes, if sir christopher hadn't already been in as saruman, he absolutely would have been a terrifying smaug. but he is a fine saruman.
	11:06am dc pat: speaking of Rankin/Bass, the Rankin/Bassified Spongebob xmas special is on tonight.
	11:06am Roberto: Dang this sounds better than I remember with headphones.
	11:06am Rev. Turnip Druid: Holy crap, upon fresh viewing, it's BEYOND awesomely bad. www.youtube.com...
	11:07am dc pat: oh yeah, now I remember that...Joe, you gotta play Where there's a whip, there's a way!
	11:08am listener james from westwood: @brian, i got that one in high school. "hop a hill! pop a pill! for old tim benzedrino!"
	11:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: P-90: That's putting it better than saying the 'Hobbit''s more 'Beowufish' - nice job, Thx ! - altho' NZ did a remarkable acting job as Middle-earth. Yeah - RankinBass kinda picked up the end of LotR after Bakshi's...
	👻 11:09am Brian in UK: Thanks james it was not just me.
	11:09am Mike Noble: When people talk about pressure I always think "Pressure Drop." Mainly I hear the guitar riff from the Clash cover.
	11:09am Cecile: Brian, yes!
	11:09am Cecile: It was more a "let's appreciate Emmylou Harris after all this time" revival.
	11:10am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: I was taking highschool chemistry when that song came out, and whenever my teacher mentioned pressure on molecules, which was a lot for some reason, I kept hearing Under Pressure in my head.
	11:10am KP: What about GC and 1982? I wasn't taking notes
	11:10am Mike Noble: "But you ought to be more careful around the little girls"
	11:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - okay RTD - tune from the RankinBass 'Return of the King'...
	11:11am listener james from westwood: "under pressure": the official soundtrack of boyle's law.
	11:11am Guido (Cologne): For a Gram Parsons Revival first a Alterntive/Country/Revival had to happen. Guess 1982 is a bit to ealy for that.
	11:12am Cecile: See my comment above. People finally decided that Emmylou Harris was worth paying attention to.
	11:12am listener james from westwood: when i see my friends' young offspring approaching in a mass, i tend to slip into the voice of the gatekeeper of bree in "fellowship": " 'obbits! four 'obbits!"
	11:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Bored of the Rings' by National Lampoon ! Where did my copy ever go - ?!?...
	11:12am P-90: @listener James: One doesn't preclude the other, remember John Rhs-Davies played Gimli the Dwarf Dude and also did the voice of Treebeard...a CG character like Smaug. Chris Lee could easily have done both, and he's a lifetime Tolkein freak, he has read all the books once a year since shortly after they were published, and corresponded with Tolkein about the mythical and dramatic content of the story. Just sayin'
	👻 11:14am Brian in UK: Harvard Lampoon originally I believe. Just saying.
	11:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Chistopher Lee as Saruman. Got that right.
	11:16am listener james from westwood: that's true, p-90. had they asked him to do the voice of sauron in the first trilogy, he'd likely have been all over that.
	11:17am Cecile: Lee did boycott the red carpet for the first run of the 3rd movie. Too many of his scenes were cut and he felt it wasn't true to the book. he did reappear for the release of the director's cut DVD rollout, though.
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Harvard Lampoon. That is different. Do we ever hear Sauron?
	👻 11:18am Ken From Hyde Park: Benny And The Jets?
	11:19am P-90: @James: Interesting, when you consider that Sauron and Saruman are kind of alter-egos, or different faces of the same presence. Or whatever
	11:19am Carmichael: Snowy hello, Joe. Better late than later.
	11:19am PKNY: Is this a different live version of "Jealous Guy" than the one on "Donny Hathaway Live"? In any event, so so killer.
	11:20am Kurt Gottschalk: 'jealous guy' would be a good contender for mary wing's 'three of a kind.' never heard this version. nice.
	11:20am paula pc: such a sad sad sad story, and yes Joe he is amazing
	👻 11:21am tim from champaign: I thought the same thing, Ken from Hyde Park.
	11:21am Cecile: here's why it's bad to be a member of the Whispers. They opened for Donny and were going to hang with him when they got the terrible news. Then years later, Phyllis Hyman killed herself hours before opening for them.
	11:21am P-90: Great track, but after Ken's comment all I can hear is "Benny"
	11:21am Joe McG: @PKNY: Yes! @paula: I agree on both counts! The live album is my favorite.
	11:22am listener james from westwood: y'all are gonna have me throwing the extended edition of lotr into the disc player this weekend, i just know it!
	11:22am PKNY: Just did some sleuthing, this seems to be an alternate version of "Jealous Guy", but recorded around the same time as the version of "DH Live": theseconddisc.com...
	11:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - Elton & Lennon pals of course. Yeah this version is killin'.
	11:24am PKNY: Donny always did killer cover versions, I much prefer his "Jealous Guy" over Lennon's. And his version of "What's Goin' On" is almost as good as Marvin's.
	11:26am PKNY: For a second, I thought this was just another booty song, but I'm glad Mr. Taylor set me straight.
	11:27am Joe McG: @PKNY: Ha!
	11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...wull - Lennon expresses quite a range of mixed emotions from his complex self, I'd say - but all of those sorts like Lennon (have always) idealized AfricanAmerican R&B Singers (who wouldn't)...
	👻 11:29am tim from champaign: I'd like to dedicate this Mind & Matter song to the sandwich I ate the other day. It was really good. I miss it dearly.
	11:29am KP: Cecile I saw Emmylou many times, with the original Hot Band and on. In the East at least, she was incredibly appreciated.
	11:31am Cecile: M&M! I'm in the same department at work as lead singer "Sabu's" wife!
	11:31am P-90: And among musicians, Emmylou has been respected as a first-rate vocalist, arranger, producer, for many years---she's a "musician's musician."
	11:32am dc pat: I was reading Lennon's In His Own Write last night. Really surreal, funny and influential as hell but man he was pretty racist back then..hard to get through.
	11:33am Cecile: I know guys, but there seemed to be a press push at that time. When Larry "Sabu" Brown's wife told me Numero Group was putting their old demos, I screamed, and she nearly crashed the car we were driving in.
	👻 11:33am tim from champaign: This is a real 3 hanky set, Joe.
	11:33am Cecile: Gloria Scott is a great find from your show, Joe.
	11:33am Joe McG: @Cecile: That's so cool! Tell her we love the album!
	11:33am Cecile: I will do that.
	11:34am P-90: Affectionately referred to Yoko and himself as "Me and my Monkey" -- in a song
	👻 11:34am tim from champaign: That's pretty funny, cecile. Very cool.
	11:35am KP: P-90, right. She is more a musician than a star. She shares the stage and welcomes the likes of James Burton
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - EH too certainly a distinctive & expressive voice. ...I have sometimes thot there's no racist like a British racist - until I consider the American South of course - that pre-Liberated pre-CivilRights early 1960s can be a jolt awlright. There's a particular photo of Townshend standing in front of a Chinese Resturant slanting his eyes that represents that for me...even Python in the later 60s...My understanding is 'Me & My Monkey' was an answer to the Brit Press that called Yoko that - & is a hilarious great masturbation song...
	11:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...like - Python has said they didn't write a lot of parts for women because they didn't understand them...
	11:39am dc pat: yeah, specifically in Lennon's case, I just don't think he'd thought about anything seriously up to that point. He made fun of everybody--and his humor was pretty uncomfortable at times.
	11:40am dc pat: ..imitating Hitler on a balcony in front of thousands of adoring fans for instance...
	11:41am Cecile: Joe, did you see that awesome picture of M&M in the white tuxes in the CD booklet?
	11:43am Joe McG: @Cecile: Fantastic!
	11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - his humour was sharp as a saber. Along w/ that - was his Wordplay not WorldClass though? - I think of Lennon as notably (& erm - obviously) Evolving thru phases personally & in his Art like Picasso or Malcolm X...Was it George who said he thot John possibly went a bit actually mad for a moment @ Shea Stadium - up to then the only stadium-sized Rock show, I think?? 'Help' was more literal than anybody realized. which is incredible if you think about it, since the World was listening...
	11:43am DCE: hi guys, been listening all morning but "PHEW" too busy to comment~
	11:44am Carmichael: Dave!!
	11:44am Cecile: Dave!
	11:45am Carmichael: He he ..
	11:46am Cecile: Poob ruck!
	👻 11:49am tim from champaign: Digging The Motors!
	11:49am Carmichael: This is Bram Tchaikovsky, right?
	11:49am Kurt Gottschalk: the motors? holy heck! i just got their record with "you beat the hell outta me" last week (the only song i knew by them). what a funny band.
	11:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...how I wish the local Rucked like this...
	11:50am Joe McG: @Kurt: This is the one! Love that song!
	11:51am dc pat: Lennon + wordplay -- i think he took the old English, and specifically Scoucer wordplay to an absurd level and got off on it. The rest of the Beatles kind of caught on too. You can hear a lot of it on the Xmas records. BUt I think it's all based in traditional English wordplay. Englishers, correct me if I'm wrong.
	11:52am Carmichael: Hey Kurt, here you go. Pearl Harbour & The Explosions, San Fran's finest.
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - Beatles & Python (& Firesign. &tc.) were Goon Show heads, to the max.
	11:53am Kurt Gottschalk: yeah! all these bands i only know from comps i had in high school!
	11:54am Kurt Gottschalk: i got the first 7" by the table at the record fair - the ultimate in who's that comp bands.
	11:54am Carmichael: I saw them open for the Tubes at the Palace of Fine Arts (ironic venue).
	11:54am dc pat: and current CrimerShow is directly influenced by Lennon I think.
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for the comments, folks! See you next week!
	11:56am common: great show, joe!
	11:57am earrie: Thursday thanks and thanks for Thursday.
	👻 11:57am Brian in UK: Got me a hercut. Not a Nick Hayward though.
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx to you Joe! Glad to have a rare Thurs. I could clutter your Comments. Hopefully able to stream @ work someday...Thx for tip on that dc pat.
	11:58am Cecile: Minneapolis! Jimmy Jam arranged for them. It was his first gig.
	11:58am SeanG: still listening to Love Plus One on repeat!
	👻 11:59am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:59am listener james from westwood: thanks, joe! later, all!!
	12:00pm Guido (Cologne): CU!
	12:48pm tony: Thanks joe ! A little mistake with song title for yves simon it's "raconte-toi" and not "ragonte-toi" which doesn't have any meaning in french
	6:49pm Joe McG: Merci for catching that typo, tony! Fixed!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 5, 2013

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December 5, 2013: Down to the Lake, I Fear

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Carlton Melton	Slow Wake "Slow Wake" by "Carlton Melton"	Always Even	Agitated	2013	LP		*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Peter Gutteridge	Sand "Sand" by "Peter Gutteridge"	Pure	540/Xpressway	2013	LP	From 1989	*	0:07:11 (Pop-up)
Yves Simon	Raconte-Toi "Raconte-Toi" by "Yves Simon"	Psychemagik Presents Magik Sunrise	Leng	2013	CD		*	0:11:16 (Pop-up)
RK Nagati	De L'Orient a L'Orion "De L'Orient a L'Orion" by "RK Nagati"	Mobilisation Generale: Protest and Spirit Jazz from France 1970-1976	Born Bad	2013	LP		*	0:15:33 (Pop-up)
Akron	Synaptic Beat "Synaptic Beat" by "Akron"	Synaptic Beat	Vampisoul	2013	CD		*	0:20:03 (Pop-up)
Sylvia con Los Caminantes	Mi Andaluz	Pippermint Twist: Rockin' Twist Instrumentals Exotica and Other Sounds from Spain 1958-1966	Munster	2013	CD	From 1963	*	0:23:28 (Pop-up)
Yma Sumac	Five Bottles Mambo "Five Bottles Mambo" by "Yma Sumac"	Mambo and More!	Rev-Ola	2006	CD	From 1954		0:26:35 (Pop-up)

The Room	Things Have Learnt to Walk That Ought to Crawl	Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop 1980-1989	Cherry Red	2013	CD	From 1982	*	0:36:46 (Pop-up)
Joe Crow	Compulsion "Compulsion" by "Joe Crow"	Pillows and Prayers (Cherry Red 1982-1983)	Cherry Red	1982	LP			0:39:53 (Pop-up)
The Mistakes	Romance "Romance" by "The Mistakes"	Making Waves - A Collection of 12 Womens Bands from the UK	Girlfriend	1981	MP3	thanks to Faye		0:44:01 (Pop-up)
The Slits	Love and Romance "Love and Romance" by "The Slits"	The Peel Sessions	Strange Fruit/BBC	1989	CD	Sept 19, 1977		0:46:58 (Pop-up)
The Student Teachers	Second Before	Invitation To...The Student Teachers 1978-1980	Nacional	2013	MP3	previously unreleased late 70s	*	0:49:32 (Pop-up)
The Lines	Nerve Pylon "Nerve Pylon" by "The Lines"	Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop 1980-1989	Cherry Red	2013	CD	From 1980	*	0:52:12 (Pop-up)
Peter Gutteridge	Planet Phrom "Planet Phrom" by "Peter Gutteridge"	Pure	540/Xpressway	2013	LP		*	0:55:59 (Pop-up)
The Suede Crocodiles	Stop the Rain	Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop 1980-1989	Cherry Red	2013	CD	From 1983	*	0:58:49 (Pop-up)
Haircut One-Hundred	Love Plus One		Arista	1982	12"	extended version		1:02:14 (Pop-up)
La Maldita Vecindad	Pata de Perro	El Rock De Mi Mundo: Transpacific Sound Paradise 2007 WFMU Marathon Premium	WFMU	2007	CD-R			1:07:44 (Pop-up)
The Mgababa Queens	Maphuthi "Maphuthi" by "The Mgababa Queens"	Next Stop...Soweto: Township Sounds from the Golden Age of Mbaqanga	Strut	2010	CD	From 1973		1:11:10 (Pop-up)
Lloyd Simmons	Hair in Your Teeth "Hair in Your Teeth" by "Lloyd Simmons"	Calyso Party	Bandstand	1961	LP	thanks to Irwin; "add spice to your parties" says the cover		1:14:03 (Pop-up)
Sheriff Lindo and the Hammer	! (Dub)	Ten Dubs That Shook the World	Em	2013	CD	mid-80s	*	1:17:51 (Pop-up)
Factory Floor	Here Again "Here Again" by "Factory Floor"	Factory Floor	DFA	2013	CD		*	1:23:14 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of random 45s arranged in very little order whatever
Peter Gabriel	Games Without Frontiers		The Famous Charisma Label	1980	45			1:36:31 (Pop-up)
The Bloods	Button Up "Button Up" by "The Bloods"		021/Exit International	1981	45			1:39:40 (Pop-up)
The Hobbits	Daffodil Days (The Affection Song)		Decca	1967	45			1:42:52 (Pop-up)
The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra	Coco Bongo		RCA-Victor	1953	45			1:46:09 (Pop-up)
Simon Turner	She Was Just a Young Girl (No Way)		20th Century	1974	45			1:49:19 (Pop-up)
The Serfs	Early Bird Cafe "Early Bird Cafe" by "The Serfs"		Capitol	1969	45	produced by Tom Wilson. Have you seen Irwin's Web site?		1:52:01 (Pop-up)
Gram Parsons	Hearts on Fire "Hearts on Fire" by "Gram Parsons"		Warner Bros.	1982	45	remixed version of 1974 song		1:55:34 (Pop-up)
Loleatta Holloway	I Know Where You're Coming From		Aware	1975	45			1:59:24 (Pop-up)
Queen & David Bowie	Under Pressure		EMI	1981	45			2:02:30 (Pop-up)

Donnie Hathaway	Jealous Guy "Jealous Guy" by "Donnie Hathaway"	Never My Love: The Anthology	Atco/Rhino	2013	CD	live at the Bitter End	*	2:17:52 (Pop-up)
Johnnie Taylor	Not Just Another Booty Song	Rated Extraordinaire	Columbia	1977	LP			2:22:25 (Pop-up)
Mind & Matter	Now That I Don't Have You	1514 Oliver Avenue (Basement)	The Numero Group	2013	CD	From 1977	*	2:26:06 (Pop-up)
Gloria Scott	It's Better to Have No Love	What Am I Gonna Do	Casablanca	1974	MP3			2:30:30 (Pop-up)
Barbara Barrow and Mike Smith	Osceola's Last Words	Mickey and Babs Get Hot	Bell	1974	LP			2:34:44 (Pop-up)
Mike Fiems	Desert Sands "Desert Sands" by "Mike Fiems"	I Would Dream	Vermillion	1974	MP3	thanks to Doug		2:38:57 (Pop-up)
Dave Edmunds	Country Roll "Country Roll" by "Dave Edmunds"	Rockpile	Repetoire	2001	CD	From 1971 (bonus cut on reissue)		2:43:07 (Pop-up)
The Motors	Breathless "Breathless" by "The Motors"	Approved by the Motors	Virgin	1978	LP			2:45:43 (Pop-up)
Pearl Harbour	Everybody's Boring But My Baby	Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost Too	Warner Brothers	1980	LP	Happy Pearl Harbor Day this Saturday!		2:50:15 (Pop-up)
Jess Hooper and the Daydreamers	All Messed Up	Meteor Rockabillies	Ace	1993	CD	From 1955		2:53:37 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am common: BOING!
	👻 9:03am 12539: s l o w l y w a k i n g.
	9:04am Guido (Cologne): Hi Joe! Nice to have you back! Hello all the others!
	9:06am Joe McG: Thanks, Guido, great to be back!
	9:07am SeanG: Hola Joe! I'm locked in and ready.
	9:07am Chop Scott: JOE! Just off the plane from Johannesburg. Could not ask for a better welcome home than to unpack while listening to you...
	9:07am KP: Definitely a slow awakening,
	9:07am common: hello guido, joe, 12539, seang and chop. yep.
	9:08am Joe McG: Hey, SeanG! Chop Scott! Wow, want to hear about your trip!
	👻 9:08am Ken From Hyde Park: The words "slow wake" make me think of driving your boat carefully around the docks so you don't cause a big wave.
	9:08am Joe McG: Hey, common! Hey, 12539!
	9:11am Cheri Pi: Good morning my GIF spirit!
	9:11am David L.B. is RRN63: ...I got Thur. off for a change - Hey Joe!: Do you feel Cheri Pi is scooping your territory w/ her gif'tar - ?! Or is it all in the family : p ...
	9:11am Guido (Cologne): Xpressway-Label, NZ ... still have an old Dead-C EP. A bit surprised that The Dead C still exist.
	9:11am David L.B. is RRN63: - jinx C Pi !
	9:12am Cheri Pi: Yipyipyip. We share the same brain sometimes.
	9:14am Joe McG: I adore Cheri Pi's GIF. I consider it high tribute!
	9:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - figured !
	9:15am Mike East: Hey Joe! Great meeting you at the record fair. Thanks for your help with the tee shirt...it fits my daughter perfectly. I made the right decision.
	9:15am Parq: I am mad jealous of Pi's GIF.
	9:15am luca: love that yves simon track
	9:15am Cheri Pi: It was either this or a Sherman Hemsley GIF.
	9:16am Joe McG: @Mike: Great to meet you, too, Mike! I'm so glad the shirt suits!
	9:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I got my PeteTownshend windmilling Guitar Gif'tar ...for when we have the Marxist Revolution & seize the Means of Gifduction for thuh Maahn !! - oh - Pete's just swatted me off-stage like he did Abbie Hoffman...
	9:22am earrie: 'Morning Joe and listeners. Great to hear you back, Joe.
	9:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...from duh Man...this man needs marmite bagel & tea...
	9:24am Joe McG: Hey, earrie! Thanks, nice to see you! Hey to KP, RR63, Luca, and anyone else I didn't say hi to. Hi!
	9:27am P-90: Mi Andaluz: melody and arrangement similar to Desi Arnaz's "Babaloo." Same key too, I think. Coincidence? Or a tradtional song that has taken many forms?
	9:27am Guido (Cologne): Amy Camus!
	9:29am JD: OLE! Viva Joe!
	9:29am P-90: She was famous for her 14 and a half octave singing range.
	9:30am Stevel: MAMBO!!
	9:34am P-90: Now that I see that you can upload GIF's as an avatar, I'm finally gonna have to get me one of those. If Cheri Pi doesn't want the Sherman Helmsley GIF, I got dibs on that one!
	👻 9:37am James in ATL: Welcome back Joe. Nice first set of songs.
	9:38am Cheri Pi: You can have it P-90, when the day comes maybe we could trade GIFS.
	9:39am maja: HI all yes I stay looking forward lalala
	9:40am Joe McG: Thanks, James. Easing in!
	9:41am Gordon FM: Joe Crow!
	9:43am P-90: @Cheri: 'tis the season for re-GIFing!
	👻 9:47am Ken From Hyde Park: The Mistakes are using the same keyboard as Supertramp?
	9:52am Joe McG: @Ken: It's a shame they never did a version of "The Logical Song."
	9:53am P-90: That did sound like the Wurlitzer that was recognizable on Supertramps's albums. A distinct difference from the more common Fender piano sound. So it would have been logical for them to cover The Logical Song.
	👻 9:55am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Bill Zurat did a sterling job last week.
	9:57am Joe McG: @Brian: He always does, Brian! Anyone who missed it should check out Bill's archives: wfmu.org...
	10:02am common: hell yea haircut 100!!!
	10:03am Gordon FM: Great show! Thanks for making this morning bright.
	10:03am SeanG: this song RULES
	10:04am listener james from westwood: i too would like to register my haircut 100 glee.
	👻 10:04am 12539: (Joe, you typed it "Haricut.")
	10:04am Kurt Gottschalk: extended version!
	10:05am Joe McG: @Gordon FM: What a nice thing to say! @12539: Oops, one haircut fix coming up.... @Kurt: King Kurt!
	10:05am John W: Haircut 100, what a good song for a gloomy NJ day. Thanks for brightening it up!
	10:06am Brian C.: coincidence? I am getting a haircut today. Hard to think of anything to do with this song being spooky though
	10:06am SeanG: you set the tone for the whole day with this song
	10:06am PKNY: Now you're gonna make me search the YouTubes for the video of this. I'm sure this was one of the first vids I ever saw, back when HBO used to play vids between movies.
	👻 10:07am tim from champaign: Howdy all! Great set Joe. So asbestos is being scraped up on the floor right above my desk. No dust has shaken into my coffee yet. A little asbestos ingestion just builds character, right?
	10:07am listener james from westwood: my mental playlist is already queuing up scritti politti or the blow monkeys, but i'm happy to see the direction joe goes after this 80s nugget.
	10:07am Brian C.: Makes me want to bust out a turtleneck sweater
	10:08am listener james from westwood: dear gods, tim! make like walter white and mask up!
	10:10am PKNY: I also had to look up the history of the name Haircut 100, here's what I found online from some random site: "i saw in VH1's bands reunited that they got this name by just sitting down in the kitchen and thinking of the stupidest name they could possibly think of. Haircut 100 was the one they laughed at the most, so that was their band name"
	10:12am Joe McG: Ha ha, nice tidbit, PKNY!
	10:14am dc pat: 'lo
	👻 10:14am tim from champaign: listener james - I'm masked up and in my undies. I'm sure everything's kosher safety-wise but I still mentioned it to my supervisor. She wasn't aware asbestos removal was happening. She's going to follow up.
	10:16am common: naughty.
	10:16am P-90: Haircut 100 is def one of the best band names of that decade (and thanks for playing the track Joe McG). My personal vote for #1 band name of the eighties remains: Echo and the Bunnymen.
	10:16am dc pat: uh...isn't "hair in your teeth" getting a little racy for the FCC?
	10:16am Joe McG: @common: Just a song about mangoes.
	10:17am dc pat: oh, ok Joe, sure, got it.
	10:17am common: oh, i know, joe. Hee!
	10:18am Joe McG: @P-90: The Teardrop Explodes is actually a pretty good name, too!
	10:19am ben von: Reverb hits!
	10:19am listener james from westwood: go mango!
	10:19am Ike: If your mangoes have hair, you're buying the wrong kind of mangoes. My advice is, switch to champagne mangoes STAT.
	10:20am P-90: @Joe: Yes! certainly in the top five!
	10:20am Joe McG: @Ike: I support the hairy mango.
	10:20am dc pat: Ike speaks the truth.
	10:21am listener james from westwood: good to hear, tim. years ago, the company next to the one where I was working decided to lacquer or resurface the floor of its warehouse. talk about fumes. we lasted about an hour before our supervisor said, "grab what you can and either work outside or from home." the pregnant woman among us was the most appreciative of that order.
	10:21am dc pat: Oh wait, if we're speaking in analogies I'm going with Joe.
	10:21am H. Mango: Equal rights for all Mangoes!
	10:22am groucho: $55 for that Lloyd Simmons record on Amazon. very tempted
	👻 10:23am tim from champaign: My wife is always asking if I want a knuckle sandwich. Is that the same as a hairy mango?
	10:23am listener james from westwood: to quote jeff sarge: rub a dub a dub. great groove.
	10:24am Joe McG: @groucho: A fine investment in your future! @tim: Depends on what you're into, I guess!
	👻 10:24am Brian in UK: Thanks for reminding me I need a haircut.
	👻 10:25am tim from champaign: Ha! That's true, Joe.
	10:28am Joe McG: This track sounds great on headphones, BTW, if any of you have 'em handy.
	10:30am dc pat: I hate liking this.
	10:31am maja: I like the party
	10:34am dc pat: isn't "eating a mango" getting a little racy for FCC?
	10:34am Roberto: Correcto. Pata de perro = paw of the dog.
	10:34am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: @Brian in UK - instagram.com...
	10:35am Gregg Allman: I recommend you eat a peach.
	10:36am earrie: What would you have us eat, @dc pat? Stew?
	10:36am Dr. Goot: Sweet PG tune!
	10:37am P-90: Peter!
	10:37am common: i always thought peter g. was singing, "she's so funky, yea."
	10:37am Ike: Stew is even more racy. Also, I like this song.
	👻 10:38am Brian in UK: @ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ Thanks bit lost though?
	👻 10:38am Brian in UK: Anyone ever watch this inane programme?
	10:39am Joe McG: @common: I recently discovered he's singing the French of the title. I thought it was "funky" for YEARS!
	10:39am Rev. Turnip Druid: ...& technically that's kate bush doing that bit...
	10:40am Roberto: Common misconception. I thought the same until relatively recently. Part of the problem is the French is mispronounced. Kate Bush, I'm looking at you!
	10:40am Rev. Turnip Druid: ...if memory serves...
	👻 10:40am Brian in UK: Jeux Sans Frontiers. Kate Bush on vocals.
	10:41am Joe McG: I prefer her cameo on this record to the later one.
	10:42am SeanG: FUNK
	10:44am Cecile: These hobbits make me want to side with the orcs.
	10:44am Ike: ROTFL, Cecile. Agreed!
	10:45am dc pat: GOBLINS!
	👻 10:45am tim from champaign: The tweeist little hobbits of them all.
	10:45am Cecile: Saruman where the hell are you? We need you. Come back, all is forgiven.
	10:46am Roberto: Actually, the vocal on this kind of sounds like a dude trying to sound like Kate Bush.
	👻 10:46am 12539: This sounds like a hobbit Kate Bush.
	10:46am Rev. Turnip Druid: good lord.
	10:46am P-90: Actually, the French always sounded pretty good to me, and something I don't think Gabriel would let slip by on an important track, he's an English dude who probably had about 10 years of elementary school French. But, the way they sing the refrain, "Jeux" does sound a lot like "she's" or "shears"or "jeers"
	10:46am dc pat: actually this tune is cracking me up. What were they thinking??
	👻 10:47am tim from champaign: What did you guys think of the first Hobbit installment from last year? I thought there was too much CGI razzle dazzle. Enough so that I'm not interested in seeing the one coming out this month.
	10:47am common: thanks joe! learn something every day.
	10:48am Cecile: P-90. our nerd crew picked up on the second listen.
	10:49am Cecile: tim, it was too frantic. I'll probably wait til On Demand on DirectTV. But Frozen was decent.
	10:49am Mike East: i didnt see it, tim. it pissed me off that they were stretching it to 3 films
	10:49am P-90: I see the commercials for part 2, loaded with situations AND characters that are not in the book, and I am so not inspired to see the movie. Maybe on Netflix.
	10:50am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: @Tim - I actually forgot I saw it, then remembered I did. That was the impression it made on me. It blurred into the LOTR series.
	10:50am Cecile: they did pick the smokin' hot vampire from the early seasons of UK Being Human for the role of a dwarf. That was a plus.
	10:50am KevinfromBayRidge: Hello Joe & all McGaskites! Just snuck enough time to sign in and enjoy. Lovely shew!
	10:50am Mike East: that said, yes, i will probably netflix all of them
	10:51am Cecile: the plate throwing scene was really fun.
	10:51am common: ah, hollywood. not an original idea in the smog.
	10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Hobbits love mushrooms...& possibly nitrous... - tim: missed it though a bigtime Tolkien fan. Always interesting to me the difference in tone in Hobbit from LoTR - more - Beowulfish or something hard to express - that's not it exactly... - Oh dear. Why do they think they can write better then Tolkien - ?! I could maybe see relating things that are happening simultaneously before LoTR that aren't in 'The Hobbit' book...
	👻 10:51am tim from champaign: Singers in the early 70s sure liked singing about young girls.
	10:52am Cecile: this is cool
	10:52am Joe McG: @tim: Do you know "Virginia (Touch Me Like You Do)"? "My belt might break..."--yuck!
	10:53am dc pat: didn't see the Hobbit part1, not that interested but just completed reading the book to my son. THAT was fun.
	10:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: + dc pat : )
	10:54am P-90: @@common: I think that's spelled "Smaug". And: does anyone know who does the voice of the dragon in Hobbit Part Deux?
	👻 10:54am tim from champaign: uh, I don't think I've heard that one Joe. yeesh.
	10:54am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - the Rankin Bass 'Hobbit' cartoon was actually not bad...
	👻 10:55am tim from champaign: dc pat - are you going to watch the Ralph Bakshi Hobbit with your son?
	10:55am Joe McG: @tim: I'll have to play it some time. I have it on 45!
	10:55am P-90: @Joe: did Peter Yarrow write that lyric about "Virginia"?
	10:56am Cecile: I think that's Rankin-Bass. Bakshi did that shitty LOTR movie
	10:56am Cecile: The Rankin Bass special is also crappy
	10:56am listener james from westwood: as yet i haven't seen the first hobbit, but the ads touted the sort of video-gamey set pieces that i hated in jackson's "king kong." queued for a future netflix binge once all 3 come out (not bit on the mass moviegoing experience any more).
	👻 10:56am Brian in UK: Hey Joe AND EMMYLOU this is a duet.
	10:57am listener james from westwood: P-90: smaug is voiced by benedict cumberbatch.
	10:57am KP: Heart's on fire here on chilly Ave C.
	10:57am dc pat: yeah RRN63/tim, my brother and I liked that one. Hadn't thought of showing that one to the kids. My daughter saw part 1 and I think the boy's jonesing for that one too.
	10:57am Joe McG: @Brian: Gee, I'd like to, but I always type what's on the label. Poor Emmy not even mentioned!
	👻 10:57am tim from champaign: Oh right, cecile. Joe, you can take your time bringing that one to Single File.
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bakshi's kewl - but out of his depth there - I think his funding didn't come thru is part of the story - sad because 'Wizards' by him is pretty kewl!
	10:58am Joe McG: @tim: Ha ha ha! It's catchy, tho'!
	10:59am Rev. Turnip Druid: True Cecile - The Bakshi one was pretty bad. Though it did gift us all with that marching Orc song (where there's a whip, there's a way) -- a strange kind of wonderful/bad, that.
	10:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Jackson's Kong was okay - quite an effort, & if seen as a tribute or sort of a vanity piece, fine.
	👻 11:00am Brian in UK: Shocking, Warners should know better. The Hobbit in three parts. Jackson should have filmed The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg.
	11:00am Cecile: I forgot that song, RTD. I had a Necron 99 shirt I got at my 1st SF convention. They were made to order, so I made them take the caption "peace" off it. Loleatta!
	11:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - the Bakshi LotR might have a moment or two.
	11:01am Cecile: I think Peter Jackson should go back to tiny budgets.
	11:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: RTD: Was that tune not the RankinBass 'Hobbit' ? A true Tolkien-LouReed moment...
	11:03am Guido (Cologne): Whow!! The Link to Tom Wilson alone is worth worth the entire show! Thanks! Common knowledge over here is fragmented. As far as I know he was more an arranger than a technican, thus letting young Rockers (Zappa, Velvets) do what they want to do in the studio, occasionally showing up in order to introduce his latest party-chicks, so to say.
	11:03am Cecile: Stop, recognize and listen!
	11:03am P-90: @listener James: Thanks. As good a choice as any, I suppose. I'd rather they had Christopher Lee read those lines. I have a longtime acquaintance with Mr. Lee, who thought my comment about LOTR was interesting: that shooting the movies in all those picturesque New Zealand locations with such a mixed-nationality cast kinda sucked a certain "Englishness" out of the story. The Hobbit is even more a story inspired by the English woods and English culture than LOTR, so I'm in no rush to be dissapointed by it too.
	👻 11:03am tim from champaign: Ha! Excellent, Joe.
	11:04am paula pc: only David Bowie duet I really like
	11:04am listener james from westwood: there is also a rankin-bass return of the king, if it hasn't been mentioned yet. it's quite truncated vs. the plot of the 3rd novel. i can't recall, but i think the "where there's a whip" song might be from that one.
	👻 11:04am Brian in UK: Tom Wilson has some discography. Phew.
	11:05am Cecile: Freddy is great on this.
	11:05am paula pc: oh and of course the Bing Crosby duet!!!
	11:05am BarbR: Check out this song with just the vocals. Amazing. www.youtube.com...
	11:05am paula pc: @ Cecile -- yes, Freddie is amazing on this
	👻 11:06am Brian in UK: Anyone ever read 'Bored of the Rings' with Dildo Bugger.
	11:06am listener james from westwood: yes, if sir christopher hadn't already been in as saruman, he absolutely would have been a terrifying smaug. but he is a fine saruman.
	11:06am dc pat: speaking of Rankin/Bass, the Rankin/Bassified Spongebob xmas special is on tonight.
	11:06am Roberto: Dang this sounds better than I remember with headphones.
	11:06am Rev. Turnip Druid: Holy crap, upon fresh viewing, it's BEYOND awesomely bad. www.youtube.com...
	11:07am dc pat: oh yeah, now I remember that...Joe, you gotta play Where there's a whip, there's a way!
	11:08am listener james from westwood: @brian, i got that one in high school. "hop a hill! pop a pill! for old tim benzedrino!"
	11:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: P-90: That's putting it better than saying the 'Hobbit''s more 'Beowufish' - nice job, Thx ! - altho' NZ did a remarkable acting job as Middle-earth. Yeah - RankinBass kinda picked up the end of LotR after Bakshi's...
	👻 11:09am Brian in UK: Thanks james it was not just me.
	11:09am Mike Noble: When people talk about pressure I always think "Pressure Drop." Mainly I hear the guitar riff from the Clash cover.
	11:09am Cecile: Brian, yes!
	11:09am Cecile: It was more a "let's appreciate Emmylou Harris after all this time" revival.
	11:10am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: I was taking highschool chemistry when that song came out, and whenever my teacher mentioned pressure on molecules, which was a lot for some reason, I kept hearing Under Pressure in my head.
	11:10am KP: What about GC and 1982? I wasn't taking notes
	11:10am Mike Noble: "But you ought to be more careful around the little girls"
	11:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - okay RTD - tune from the RankinBass 'Return of the King'...
	11:11am listener james from westwood: "under pressure": the official soundtrack of boyle's law.
	11:11am Guido (Cologne): For a Gram Parsons Revival first a Alterntive/Country/Revival had to happen. Guess 1982 is a bit to ealy for that.
	11:12am Cecile: See my comment above. People finally decided that Emmylou Harris was worth paying attention to.
	11:12am listener james from westwood: when i see my friends' young offspring approaching in a mass, i tend to slip into the voice of the gatekeeper of bree in "fellowship": " 'obbits! four 'obbits!"
	11:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Bored of the Rings' by National Lampoon ! Where did my copy ever go - ?!?...
	11:12am P-90: @listener James: One doesn't preclude the other, remember John Rhs-Davies played Gimli the Dwarf Dude and also did the voice of Treebeard...a CG character like Smaug. Chris Lee could easily have done both, and he's a lifetime Tolkein freak, he has read all the books once a year since shortly after they were published, and corresponded with Tolkein about the mythical and dramatic content of the story. Just sayin'
	👻 11:14am Brian in UK: Harvard Lampoon originally I believe. Just saying.
	11:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Chistopher Lee as Saruman. Got that right.
	11:16am listener james from westwood: that's true, p-90. had they asked him to do the voice of sauron in the first trilogy, he'd likely have been all over that.
	11:17am Cecile: Lee did boycott the red carpet for the first run of the 3rd movie. Too many of his scenes were cut and he felt it wasn't true to the book. he did reappear for the release of the director's cut DVD rollout, though.
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Harvard Lampoon. That is different. Do we ever hear Sauron?
	👻 11:18am Ken From Hyde Park: Benny And The Jets?
	11:19am P-90: @James: Interesting, when you consider that Sauron and Saruman are kind of alter-egos, or different faces of the same presence. Or whatever
	11:19am Carmichael: Snowy hello, Joe. Better late than later.
	11:19am PKNY: Is this a different live version of "Jealous Guy" than the one on "Donny Hathaway Live"? In any event, so so killer.
	11:20am Kurt Gottschalk: 'jealous guy' would be a good contender for mary wing's 'three of a kind.' never heard this version. nice.
	11:20am paula pc: such a sad sad sad story, and yes Joe he is amazing
	👻 11:21am tim from champaign: I thought the same thing, Ken from Hyde Park.
	11:21am Cecile: here's why it's bad to be a member of the Whispers. They opened for Donny and were going to hang with him when they got the terrible news. Then years later, Phyllis Hyman killed herself hours before opening for them.
	11:21am P-90: Great track, but after Ken's comment all I can hear is "Benny"
	11:21am Joe McG: @PKNY: Yes! @paula: I agree on both counts! The live album is my favorite.
	11:22am listener james from westwood: y'all are gonna have me throwing the extended edition of lotr into the disc player this weekend, i just know it!
	11:22am PKNY: Just did some sleuthing, this seems to be an alternate version of "Jealous Guy", but recorded around the same time as the version of "DH Live": theseconddisc.com...
	11:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - Elton & Lennon pals of course. Yeah this version is killin'.
	11:24am PKNY: Donny always did killer cover versions, I much prefer his "Jealous Guy" over Lennon's. And his version of "What's Goin' On" is almost as good as Marvin's.
	11:26am PKNY: For a second, I thought this was just another booty song, but I'm glad Mr. Taylor set me straight.
	11:27am Joe McG: @PKNY: Ha!
	11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...wull - Lennon expresses quite a range of mixed emotions from his complex self, I'd say - but all of those sorts like Lennon (have always) idealized AfricanAmerican R&B Singers (who wouldn't)...
	👻 11:29am tim from champaign: I'd like to dedicate this Mind & Matter song to the sandwich I ate the other day. It was really good. I miss it dearly.
	11:29am KP: Cecile I saw Emmylou many times, with the original Hot Band and on. In the East at least, she was incredibly appreciated.
	11:31am Cecile: M&M! I'm in the same department at work as lead singer "Sabu's" wife!
	11:31am P-90: And among musicians, Emmylou has been respected as a first-rate vocalist, arranger, producer, for many years---she's a "musician's musician."
	11:32am dc pat: I was reading Lennon's In His Own Write last night. Really surreal, funny and influential as hell but man he was pretty racist back then..hard to get through.
	11:33am Cecile: I know guys, but there seemed to be a press push at that time. When Larry "Sabu" Brown's wife told me Numero Group was putting their old demos, I screamed, and she nearly crashed the car we were driving in.
	👻 11:33am tim from champaign: This is a real 3 hanky set, Joe.
	11:33am Cecile: Gloria Scott is a great find from your show, Joe.
	11:33am Joe McG: @Cecile: That's so cool! Tell her we love the album!
	11:33am Cecile: I will do that.
	11:34am P-90: Affectionately referred to Yoko and himself as "Me and my Monkey" -- in a song
	👻 11:34am tim from champaign: That's pretty funny, cecile. Very cool.
	11:35am KP: P-90, right. She is more a musician than a star. She shares the stage and welcomes the likes of James Burton
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - EH too certainly a distinctive & expressive voice. ...I have sometimes thot there's no racist like a British racist - until I consider the American South of course - that pre-Liberated pre-CivilRights early 1960s can be a jolt awlright. There's a particular photo of Townshend standing in front of a Chinese Resturant slanting his eyes that represents that for me...even Python in the later 60s...My understanding is 'Me & My Monkey' was an answer to the Brit Press that called Yoko that - & is a hilarious great masturbation song...
	11:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...like - Python has said they didn't write a lot of parts for women because they didn't understand them...
	11:39am dc pat: yeah, specifically in Lennon's case, I just don't think he'd thought about anything seriously up to that point. He made fun of everybody--and his humor was pretty uncomfortable at times.
	11:40am dc pat: ..imitating Hitler on a balcony in front of thousands of adoring fans for instance...
	11:41am Cecile: Joe, did you see that awesome picture of M&M in the white tuxes in the CD booklet?
	11:43am Joe McG: @Cecile: Fantastic!
	11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - his humour was sharp as a saber. Along w/ that - was his Wordplay not WorldClass though? - I think of Lennon as notably (& erm - obviously) Evolving thru phases personally & in his Art like Picasso or Malcolm X...Was it George who said he thot John possibly went a bit actually mad for a moment @ Shea Stadium - up to then the only stadium-sized Rock show, I think?? 'Help' was more literal than anybody realized. which is incredible if you think about it, since the World was listening...
	11:43am DCE: hi guys, been listening all morning but "PHEW" too busy to comment~
	11:44am Carmichael: Dave!!
	11:44am Cecile: Dave!
	11:45am Carmichael: He he ..
	11:46am Cecile: Poob ruck!
	👻 11:49am tim from champaign: Digging The Motors!
	11:49am Carmichael: This is Bram Tchaikovsky, right?
	11:49am Kurt Gottschalk: the motors? holy heck! i just got their record with "you beat the hell outta me" last week (the only song i knew by them). what a funny band.
	11:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...how I wish the local Rucked like this...
	11:50am Joe McG: @Kurt: This is the one! Love that song!
	11:51am dc pat: Lennon + wordplay -- i think he took the old English, and specifically Scoucer wordplay to an absurd level and got off on it. The rest of the Beatles kind of caught on too. You can hear a lot of it on the Xmas records. BUt I think it's all based in traditional English wordplay. Englishers, correct me if I'm wrong.
	11:52am Carmichael: Hey Kurt, here you go. Pearl Harbour & The Explosions, San Fran's finest.
	11:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - Beatles & Python (& Firesign. &tc.) were Goon Show heads, to the max.
	11:53am Kurt Gottschalk: yeah! all these bands i only know from comps i had in high school!
	11:54am Kurt Gottschalk: i got the first 7" by the table at the record fair - the ultimate in who's that comp bands.
	11:54am Carmichael: I saw them open for the Tubes at the Palace of Fine Arts (ironic venue).
	11:54am dc pat: and current CrimerShow is directly influenced by Lennon I think.
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for the comments, folks! See you next week!
	11:56am common: great show, joe!
	11:57am earrie: Thursday thanks and thanks for Thursday.
	👻 11:57am Brian in UK: Got me a hercut. Not a Nick Hayward though.
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx to you Joe! Glad to have a rare Thurs. I could clutter your Comments. Hopefully able to stream @ work someday...Thx for tip on that dc pat.
	11:58am Cecile: Minneapolis! Jimmy Jam arranged for them. It was his first gig.
	11:58am SeanG: still listening to Love Plus One on repeat!
	👻 11:59am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:59am listener james from westwood: thanks, joe! later, all!!
	12:00pm Guido (Cologne): CU!
	12:48pm tony: Thanks joe ! A little mistake with song title for yves simon it's "raconte-toi" and not "ragonte-toi" which doesn't have any meaning in french
	6:49pm Joe McG: Merci for catching that typo, tony! Fixed!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 5, 2013

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