WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 5, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: these guys kill me..each time
	9:03am annie: good morning joe and all noise-makers
	👻 9:04am doctorjazz: Hey all, good morning!
	9:04am Michele: Good morning!
	9:05am Bronwyn Bishop: morning joe, morning everyone
	9:06am Brendan: Good morning Joe. Count me in!
	9:06am melinda: hi guys
	9:06am DaveinPA: The Bats!
	👻 9:07am doctorjazz: Man, did I hear this Count many many times as my kids were growing up...
	9:07am annie: joy of joys!!
	9:08am Uncle Michael: As Jerry Reed once said, "make it count, son!"
	👻 9:08am tadpoles: Counting on you for another great show Joe. Cheers.
	9:10am the Canterbury wood-elf: "In the mid-1970s, the Count became friendlier, did not have hypnotic powers, and interacted more with the characters (both live actors and Muppets). His laugh also changed from maniacal laughter to a more triumphant, stereotypical Dracula-style laugh." Got to love Wikipedia! Hey Joe and everyone...
	9:10am Joe McG: You guys are all so funny! Thanks, and welcome to the show this morning! Numbers about numbers and my guest David Klein around 10:30.
	9:11am Cheri Pi: This is my JAM!
	9:12am Cheri Pi: Good morning McGaskwegians
	9:12am foofs: Who knew there were SO MANY numbers?
	9:13am PKNY: Always loved this some Sesame Street, but I have no recollection of the steel drum solo. Straight fire!
	👻 9:13am Ken From Hyde Park: I was thinking earlier that it was ten to one that Joe would play this song today.
	9:15am PKNY: @Joe - don't know if it's on your radar, but DJ Shadow's "Number Song" would be a perfect fit in this set.
	9:15am Jeffy Jazz: This is great, Joe! 8, 8, 8, 8, let's sing a song of 8. How many is 8?
	9:17am moose: What kind of pies is 8?
	9:20am Jeffy Jazz: Oh, I forget!! Have to YouTube it...
	9:20am Jeffy Jazz: Sesame Street in Germany.
	9:21am pantz: Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out.
	9:22am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe
	9:22am Jeffy Jazz: @moose: It was 8 raspberry pudding desserts! --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZjObQW247Q ---
	9:22am Sem Chumbo: Morning, Joe, and all who listen to the McGasko.
	9:22am Uncle Michael: WFMU is my favorite numbers station.
	9:23am the Canterbury wood-elf: Joe, see if you can "figure" out how to play this www.youtube.com... as heard on Stashu's show recently... a gorgeous song of 8 for Jeffy Jazz
	9:23am annie: i spent yesterday listening to a youtube collection of kraftwerk... so many repeats, but still good
	👻 9:25am Ken From Hyde Park: Hey, quit announcing my PIN on the air!
	9:25am adrian in mpls: who doesn't love a good numbers station?
	9:26am KP: That's the number I have written on the back of my hand
	9:27am Parq: Dee!
	9:27am Polyus: Anyone manage to get all that?
	9:27am JakeGould: Gonna play these numbers in the lottery and be rich!
	👻 9:27am Webhamster Henry: The Conet Project never gets old!
	👻 9:28am Webhamster Henry: Be sure to get to Owada!
	9:29am PKNY: @Joe - props to you, sir! And I recently came up on a copy of the Ramones' "It's Alive", and I realized that few things in life make me as happy as Dee Dee Ramone counting to four.
	9:29am Jeffy Jazz: @TCW-Elf: Thanks! I love that tune. I'm getting all nostalgic...
	9:29am annie: you know it's been a good set when you're still rocking when the music stops.
	9:29am pantz: Anyone know who DJ Shadow sampled this drum line from? It's incredible.
	9:30am Joe McG: Thanks for the suggestion, PKNY! I forgot about that one. I would love it if there was a recording of Dee Dee counting to 5!
	9:30am PKNY: @pantz - Third Guitar "Baby Don't Cry" is the main drum break.
	9:31am Rob Weisberg: Smoke City: Numbers. Lyrics here: www.lyricsfreak.com... www.youtube.com...
	9:31am PKNY: @Joe - or prog Dee Dee doing 11/8 count-ins!
	9:31am pantz: Thx @PKNY
	9:32am Joe McG: Oh, Rob, another classic! I identify that song so much with Ken.
	👻 9:34am doctorjazz: Love that Lena Lovich!
	9:35am PKNY: I always thought "lucky Number" was the Missing Persons for some reason...you learn something new every day!
	9:35am Roberto: This song will for me forever be identified with my brother's ex-gf, who played Stateless nonstop in our house throughout 1983.
	9:35am jamesie: we were all into Beefheart, back then in London Lena Lovitch)
	👻 9:38am doctorjazz: Amazing how much nostalgia there is for JM in the AM...I heard the end of the Thursday morning JM in the AM finale, with Ken there reminiscing, thought I was going to cry...
	9:39am steveo: Ugh I missed Kraftwerk AGAIN.
	9:40am steveo: (Oh and a fun set, also missed.)
	9:42am Rob W: Really fun show, great to extend the numbers concept from your guest segment, thanks Joe!
	9:43am melinda: One is one of my favorite number songs, as well as being the loneliest number.
	9:44am ranjit: Hoping to hear some 3 Mustaphas 3 soon
	9:44am steveo: 3 is a magic number?
	👻 9:44am tadpoles: Methinks you're going through the digits Joe. Looking forward to the interview.
	9:45am Brendan: I once wrote a song about pi but it it was crazy. An irrational number, that song.
	9:45am simper: "too can be as bad as won"-the minefield that is the language Emglish?
	9:45am Joe McG: You guys got it pretty quick.
	9:47am βrian: Wall-to-wall floors? No way!
	9:48am Cecile: Got 12 Bar Blues by NRBQ?
	9:48am pantz: What condition is your lip in? Gotta use that.
	9:50am JakeGould: The three little pigs is a parable about people with a common enemy not working together and sabotaging themselves by focusing on petty infighting! The people who convinced the three pigs to use straw, wood and bricks separately made it easier for the wolf to destroy them! Brick homes are a lie perpetuated by the manufacturing sector working with the wolves!
	9:50am Mark the Sardine: Is it just me or does Al Collins sound a lot like Kevin Spacey?
	9:50am simper: Ray Price-Four the Good Times?
	9:51am Agent Peter: excellent
	9:51am steveo: such a cheerful tune!
	9:53am pantz: If Man were Five, then the Devil is Six.
	9:55am Brendan: And five was afraid of six because seven ate nine
	9:56am steveo: I find it comforting that none of us can guess the next song. (Joe MgG runs deep.)
	9:56am ChrisB.: Yma sorta sounds like Irwin's protégé, Amanda.
	9:56am KP: Was enjoying the over the air but it lacks the mod cons of artist and title.
	9:59am steveo: I rented a car for Thanksgiving and noticed that WFMU doesn't push the artist/title to the radio display, like in most modern cars. I wondered what it would take for them to do that. Is it expensive or technologically difficult? The DJs all enter the playlist anyway....
	👻 9:59am tadpoles: Forgotten about the Neats..excellent. Sound very Flying Nun!
	10:02am sue: Wylie Coyote
	10:02am dia: the neats! a band from my youth. thanks!
	10:04am Cecile: tadpoles, also some Mission of Burma flavor there.
	10:04am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe & co!
	10:05am Bronwyn Bishop: Boo, I missed Yma :(
	10:06am Cecile: tadpoles, also lots of (fellow Bostonians) Mission of Burma flavor.
	10:06am Agent Peter: Jaco Pastorious covering The Eleven on the horizon?
	👻 10:06am doctorjazz: I thought this instrumental Eight Miles High was going to be sappy, but it is really good.
	10:07am KP: The Casio Byrds
	👻 10:07am tadpoles: Cecile...must be the British descent! Cheers
	10:09am steveo: That Steve Marcus was amazing.
	10:10am Cecile: Or that everyone was listening to Wire like their lives depended on it at the time.
	10:21am ?: I've always just loved this Gone All Stars track. what a groove! nice show Joe!
	10:22am Dennis Diken: oh sorry, that was me re Gone All Stars!
	10:23am Joe McG: Hey Dennis, thanks for checking in!
	10:28am Cheri Pi: Cecile, that Wire sentiment is right on the money, I know I did.
	10:29am Cecile: Some people used to call Burma the American Wire
	10:31am the Canterbury wood-elf: Junior High School in Wisconsin!
	10:32am Greg from ZONE 5: Seven seven seven ninety-threeeeeee eleven
	10:32am steveo: Lead guitarist Jim Keller, interviewed by People in 1982, said "Jenny is a regular girl, not a hooker. Friends of mine wrote her name and number on a men's room wall at a bar. I called her on a dare, and we dated for a while. I haven't talked with her since the song became a hit, but I hear she thinks I'm a real jerk for writing it."
	10:35am ⓘⓚⓔ: Greetings from a new office in Zone 5!
	10:37am Cecile: Dusty Springfield does an amazing version of this.
	10:38am Joe McG: Welcome to the neighborhood, Ike! @steveo: Ha ha ha!
	10:40am Greg from ZONE 5: Welcome, Ike!
	10:42am pantz: This song has to be my biggest ear worm. "Hello, my love..." is etched into my subconscious.
	10:46am KP: Cool Love tune!
	👻 10:47am Webhamster Henry: Has anyone done a bluegrass cover of "19th nervous breakdown"? Yes they have (not great sound) www.youtube.com...
	10:54am pantz: Ah cool. Is this the scene where he slowly kicks over the tv set?
	10:54am MD: Monday Morning Joe! Good Morning Faithful!!!
	10:55am MD: A sign Post Up A...Head!!!!
	10:55am MD: Oh no I mixed up my Taxi Driver with my Twilight Zone!!!!
	10:56am johnk77: @steveo Jim Keller is a great guy and that People article came out during the very brief 15 minutes of fame for Tommy Tutone Alex Call was the primary songwriter and the book 867-5309 Jenny he also wrote is informative and entertaining:>
	10:56am ﾉズ乇: Thanks! Almost everything in this office is a blinding white color. Walls, ceiling... I'm stunned into submission. #jcsowhite
	10:56am MD: "Suddenly there is change"....
	10:56am annie: WFMU is my Woobie
	11:01am MD: Train in vain...
	11:10am steveo: @johnk77: thanks; I'll keep my eye out for that book
	11:12am Cecile: 88 is a lucky number. 7 is a lucky number. 3's are powerful
	👻 11:12am tadpoles: Yeah! TV Personalities!
	11:13am Cecile: 23 is from Robert Anton Wilson, 42 is from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
	11:15am Cecile: general Johnson from Chairman of the Board fronted this group
	11:16am Greg from ZONE 5: Always loved this guy's voice.
	11:18am Cecile: YAH.
	11:18am Cecile: Greg, me too.
	👻 11:19am doctorjazz: Toots!!! Yay!!! Give it to me ONE TIME!!!
	11:23am Cheri Pi: What a lovely song, the 15th
	11:27am Cecile: efd's favorite song.
	11:27am dan in wisconsin: no. 13 Baby by the Pixies!
	11:28am melinda: I like the critique of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. Haha
	11:28am V Priceless: greets, all! '13th Floor Vendetta', baby!
	11:31am V Priceless: Yeah! Great Strawbs cut! Was gonna ask if 'Pieces of 79 and 15' was mentioned
	👻 11:33am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, bit late. Had 6345789 That's My Number yet?
	11:34am Mick: Toni!
	11:34am Mick: This has been such a good show - thanks much Joe & David!!
	11:35am Joe McG: Glad you're enjoying it, Mick!
	11:41am Cecile: I know a drag queen who does an adorable but filthy routine to Teach Me Tiger.
	11:41am Passaic River Blues: It's interesting how a facile seeming theme cuts across the history of recorded music and exposes so much more than, as Klein explained, merely songs with numbers in the title. Love, aging, death and eschatology, sex and romance, guns (lots of guns, strangely), absurdism, childhood, female anatomy alongside proto-feminist musings, telephone numerology, etc. Nicely done.
	11:43am dan in wisconsin: Then there's "37" by Devo.
	11:45am Sem Chumbo: Diggin' this mucho, mucho, Joe. Thanks for another real swell show. See ya!
	11:46am Listener David: Did you use one of my favorite numbers...pi ?
	11:46am Joe McG: @dan: David mentions that one! Hi, Sem!
	11:49am Blix: Cool show.
	11:49am Cecile: I used to play dancing with my 80 wives back in the olden days.
	👻 11:50am Ken From Hyde Park: Nice work, Joe. You really pulled a number on us listeners today!
	11:52am Dean: Plimsouls' "Million Miles Away."
	11:53am dan in wisconsin: YES! Magnetic Fields!
	11:53am Cheri Pi: thought the same thing @Dean!
	11:53am melinda: I love 100,000 Fireflies
	11:54am Dean: Can't imagine finding a 999,999 song, though.
	11:55am MD: We need to hold our loved ones Close...THE DARK IS COMING..
	👻 11:55am Brian in UK: Six Blocks Away by Lucinda Williams does it for me. Great show, gents.
	11:56am Tommy Jack Haynes: What an interesting show...Thanks Joe and thanks to your guest
	11:56am Passaic River Blues: @MD: Word.
	11:57am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, everybody! Check out the book at www.if6was9thebook.com!
	11:58am steveo: fantastic show, thanks Joe and David...
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Super fun show, Joe!
	11:59am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Joe!
	12:00pm Guido from Cologne: The better version of 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box . It was a demo until it came out on one of the first bamCaruso-comps in the 80ies.
	12:07pm Philthy woman: Fun show, good idea Joe
	3:01pm Mark from Toronto: 9,999,999 Tears to Go by Dickie Lee, a great song.
	3:34pm Mark from Toronto: 88 Lines About 44 Women by the Nails

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 5, 2016

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

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments
Basil Kirchen	I Start Counting "I Start Counting" by "Basil Kirchen"	Fuzzy Felt Folk	Trunk	2006	CD	demo, 1969
The Count with Ftatateeta and the Bats	Count Up to Nine	Born to Add	Sesame Street	1983	LP
Inez and Charlie Foxx	(1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count the Days	single	Dynamo	1967	45
The Pointer Sisters	Pinball Number Count	This Record Belongs To __________	Light in the Attic	2015	CD	From 1975
Gary Toms Empire	7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle)	7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Blow Your Whistle	PIP	1975	LP
Kraftwerk	Numbers "Numbers" by "Kraftwerk"	Computer World	Warner Bros.	1981	LP
Unknown	The Lincolnshire Poacher "The Lincolnshire Poacher" by "Unknown"	The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations	Irdial	2013	CD	From 1995; if you're curious
Dee Dee Ramone	1-2-3-4 (x 50) "1-2-3-4 (x 50)" by "Dee Dee Ramone"	Count Me In!: Charlie's 2007 WFMU Marathon Premium	WFMU	2007	CD-R	Charlie's edit
DJ Shadow	The Number Song "The Number Song" by "DJ Shadow"	Entroducing...	Island Universal	2005	CD	From 1996
Lene Lovich	Lucky Number "Lucky Number" by "Lene Lovich"	single	Stiff	1978	45

George Tipton	One "One" by "George Tipton"	Nilsson by Tipton	Warner Bros.	1970	LP
The Cowsills	II x II "II x II" by "The Cowsills"	II x II	MGM	1970	LP
Al "Jazzbo" Collins	The Three Little Pigs	Fairy Tales for Hip Kids	el	2008	CD	From 1952
Pink Floyd	Free Four "Free Four" by "Pink Floyd"	Cre/ation: The Early Years 1967-1972	Pink Floyd	2016	CD	"2016 remix"
Yma Sumac	Five Bottles Mambo "Five Bottles Mambo" by "Yma Sumac"	Mambo!	Capitol	1987	LP	From 1954
The Neats	6 "6" by "The Neats"	DIY: Mass. Ave.: The Boston Scene (1975-83)	Rhino	1993	CD	From 1981
Wah! Heat	7 Minutes to Midnight "7 Minutes to Midnight" by "Wah! Heat"	MOJO Presents... Beloved	MOJO Magazine	2008	CD	From 1980
Steve Marcus	Eight Miles High "Eight Miles High" by "Steve Marcus"	Tomorrow Never Knows	Vortex	1968	LP
Simtec & Wylie	Nine Times Out of Ten	single	Mister Chand	1971	45
Ruth Etting	Ten Cents a Dance "Ten Cents a Dance" by "Ruth Etting"	The Original Recordings of Ruth Etting	Columbia	?	LP	From 1930

Single File: a bunch of number records in a row!
Lucky Peterson Blues Band	1-2-3-4	single	Today	1971	45
Gone All Stars Feat. Buddy Lucas	7-11	single	Gone	1957	45
Exuma	Shake It Up (1-2-3) "Shake It Up (1-2-3)" by "Exuma"	single	Inagua	1975	45
1910 Fruitgum Company	1, 2, 3 Red Light	single	Buddah	1968	45
Ann Peebles	99 Lbs. "99 Lbs." by "Ann Peebles"	single	Hi	1971	45
Tommy Tutone	867-5309/Jenny "867-5309/Jenny" by "Tommy Tutone"	single	Columbia	1981	45	one of many telephone number songs
Lew Lewis	1-30 2-30 3-35 "1-30 2-30 3-35" by "Lew Lewis"	single	Stiff	1980	45
Jane Aire	I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten	single	Stiff	1982	45	a lot of Stiffs this show
Shuggie Otis	Strawberry Letter 23	single	Epic	1971	45
Love	No. Fourteen "No. Fourteen" by "Love"	single	Elektra	1966	45

The Sharpees	Do the 45" "Do the 45"" by "The Sharpees"	single	One-Wonderful	1966	45
G.L. Crockett	Watch My 32 "Watch My 32" by "G.L. Crockett"	single	Four Brothers	1965	45
Bernard Hermann	The .44 Magnum Is a Monster	"Taxi Driver" Original Soundtrack Recording	Arista	1976	LP

Interview with David Klein #1	"Interview with David Klein #1"					Author of "If 6 Was 9 – And Other Assorted Number Songs from the No. 1 Song in Heaven to the 99th Floor"
Anna Domino	88 "88" by "Anna Domino"	Favorite Songs from the Twilight Years, 1984-1990	Janken Pon	1996	CD	From 1988
Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats	Rocket 88	Loud Fast and Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of '50s Rock	Rhino	1999	CD	From 1951

Interview with David Klein #2	"Interview with David Klein #2"
The Showmen	39-21-46 "39-21-46" by "The Showmen"		Minit	1963	MP3	title's actually a misprint; never sings "46"
Toots and the Maytals	54-46 Was My Number	The Best of the Toots and the Maytals	Trojan	1979	LP	From 1969

Interview with David Klein #3	"Interview with David Klein #3"
Scott Walker	30th Century Man "30th Century Man" by "Scott Walker"	Scott 3	Fontana	2000	CD	From 1969
Strawbs	Thirty Days "Thirty Days" by "Strawbs"	From the Witchwood	A&M	1971	LP
Toni Basil	I'm 28 "I'm 28" by "Toni Basil"	One Kiss Leads to Another: Girl Groups Lost and Found	Rhino	2005	CD	From 1966
Jan Dukes de Grey	28th June, Village Song	Sorcerers	Cherry Tree	2009	CD	From 1970

Interview with David Klein #4	"Interview with David Klein #4"
Hildegard Knef	Im 80. Stockwerk (Im Achtzigsten Stockwerk)	Knef	Decca	1970	MP3
The Individuals	Dancing w/ My Eighty Wives	single	Plexus	1982	45

Interview with David Klein #5	"Interview with David Klein #5"
Magnetic Fields	100,000 Fireflies	single	Harriet	1991	45
The Aquarian Age	10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box	Tomorrow	EMI	1999	CD	From 1968

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Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: these guys kill me..each time
	9:03am annie: good morning joe and all noise-makers
	👻 9:04am doctorjazz: Hey all, good morning!
	9:04am Michele: Good morning!
	9:05am Bronwyn Bishop: morning joe, morning everyone
	9:06am Brendan: Good morning Joe. Count me in!
	9:06am melinda: hi guys
	9:06am DaveinPA: The Bats!
	👻 9:07am doctorjazz: Man, did I hear this Count many many times as my kids were growing up...
	9:07am annie: joy of joys!!
	9:08am Uncle Michael: As Jerry Reed once said, "make it count, son!"
	👻 9:08am tadpoles: Counting on you for another great show Joe. Cheers.
	9:10am the Canterbury wood-elf: "In the mid-1970s, the Count became friendlier, did not have hypnotic powers, and interacted more with the characters (both live actors and Muppets). His laugh also changed from maniacal laughter to a more triumphant, stereotypical Dracula-style laugh." Got to love Wikipedia! Hey Joe and everyone...
	9:10am Joe McG: You guys are all so funny! Thanks, and welcome to the show this morning! Numbers about numbers and my guest David Klein around 10:30.
	9:11am Cheri Pi: This is my JAM!
	9:12am Cheri Pi: Good morning McGaskwegians
	9:12am foofs: Who knew there were SO MANY numbers?
	9:13am PKNY: Always loved this some Sesame Street, but I have no recollection of the steel drum solo. Straight fire!
	👻 9:13am Ken From Hyde Park: I was thinking earlier that it was ten to one that Joe would play this song today.
	9:15am PKNY: @Joe - don't know if it's on your radar, but DJ Shadow's "Number Song" would be a perfect fit in this set.
	9:15am Jeffy Jazz: This is great, Joe! 8, 8, 8, 8, let's sing a song of 8. How many is 8?
	9:17am moose: What kind of pies is 8?
	9:20am Jeffy Jazz: Oh, I forget!! Have to YouTube it...
	9:20am Jeffy Jazz: Sesame Street in Germany.
	9:21am pantz: Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out.
	9:22am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe
	9:22am Jeffy Jazz: @moose: It was 8 raspberry pudding desserts! --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZjObQW247Q ---
	9:22am Sem Chumbo: Morning, Joe, and all who listen to the McGasko.
	9:22am Uncle Michael: WFMU is my favorite numbers station.
	9:23am the Canterbury wood-elf: Joe, see if you can "figure" out how to play this www.youtube.com... as heard on Stashu's show recently... a gorgeous song of 8 for Jeffy Jazz
	9:23am annie: i spent yesterday listening to a youtube collection of kraftwerk... so many repeats, but still good
	👻 9:25am Ken From Hyde Park: Hey, quit announcing my PIN on the air!
	9:25am adrian in mpls: who doesn't love a good numbers station?
	9:26am KP: That's the number I have written on the back of my hand
	9:27am Parq: Dee!
	9:27am Polyus: Anyone manage to get all that?
	9:27am JakeGould: Gonna play these numbers in the lottery and be rich!
	👻 9:27am Webhamster Henry: The Conet Project never gets old!
	👻 9:28am Webhamster Henry: Be sure to get to Owada!
	9:29am PKNY: @Joe - props to you, sir! And I recently came up on a copy of the Ramones' "It's Alive", and I realized that few things in life make me as happy as Dee Dee Ramone counting to four.
	9:29am Jeffy Jazz: @TCW-Elf: Thanks! I love that tune. I'm getting all nostalgic...
	9:29am annie: you know it's been a good set when you're still rocking when the music stops.
	9:29am pantz: Anyone know who DJ Shadow sampled this drum line from? It's incredible.
	9:30am Joe McG: Thanks for the suggestion, PKNY! I forgot about that one. I would love it if there was a recording of Dee Dee counting to 5!
	9:30am PKNY: @pantz - Third Guitar "Baby Don't Cry" is the main drum break.
	9:31am Rob Weisberg: Smoke City: Numbers. Lyrics here: www.lyricsfreak.com... www.youtube.com...
	9:31am PKNY: @Joe - or prog Dee Dee doing 11/8 count-ins!
	9:31am pantz: Thx @PKNY
	9:32am Joe McG: Oh, Rob, another classic! I identify that song so much with Ken.
	👻 9:34am doctorjazz: Love that Lena Lovich!
	9:35am PKNY: I always thought "lucky Number" was the Missing Persons for some reason...you learn something new every day!
	9:35am Roberto: This song will for me forever be identified with my brother's ex-gf, who played Stateless nonstop in our house throughout 1983.
	9:35am jamesie: we were all into Beefheart, back then in London Lena Lovitch)
	👻 9:38am doctorjazz: Amazing how much nostalgia there is for JM in the AM...I heard the end of the Thursday morning JM in the AM finale, with Ken there reminiscing, thought I was going to cry...
	9:39am steveo: Ugh I missed Kraftwerk AGAIN.
	9:40am steveo: (Oh and a fun set, also missed.)
	9:42am Rob W: Really fun show, great to extend the numbers concept from your guest segment, thanks Joe!
	9:43am melinda: One is one of my favorite number songs, as well as being the loneliest number.
	9:44am ranjit: Hoping to hear some 3 Mustaphas 3 soon
	9:44am steveo: 3 is a magic number?
	👻 9:44am tadpoles: Methinks you're going through the digits Joe. Looking forward to the interview.
	9:45am Brendan: I once wrote a song about pi but it it was crazy. An irrational number, that song.
	9:45am simper: "too can be as bad as won"-the minefield that is the language Emglish?
	9:45am Joe McG: You guys got it pretty quick.
	9:47am βrian: Wall-to-wall floors? No way!
	9:48am Cecile: Got 12 Bar Blues by NRBQ?
	9:48am pantz: What condition is your lip in? Gotta use that.
	9:50am JakeGould: The three little pigs is a parable about people with a common enemy not working together and sabotaging themselves by focusing on petty infighting! The people who convinced the three pigs to use straw, wood and bricks separately made it easier for the wolf to destroy them! Brick homes are a lie perpetuated by the manufacturing sector working with the wolves!
	9:50am Mark the Sardine: Is it just me or does Al Collins sound a lot like Kevin Spacey?
	9:50am simper: Ray Price-Four the Good Times?
	9:51am Agent Peter: excellent
	9:51am steveo: such a cheerful tune!
	9:53am pantz: If Man were Five, then the Devil is Six.
	9:55am Brendan: And five was afraid of six because seven ate nine
	9:56am steveo: I find it comforting that none of us can guess the next song. (Joe MgG runs deep.)
	9:56am ChrisB.: Yma sorta sounds like Irwin's protégé, Amanda.
	9:56am KP: Was enjoying the over the air but it lacks the mod cons of artist and title.
	9:59am steveo: I rented a car for Thanksgiving and noticed that WFMU doesn't push the artist/title to the radio display, like in most modern cars. I wondered what it would take for them to do that. Is it expensive or technologically difficult? The DJs all enter the playlist anyway....
	👻 9:59am tadpoles: Forgotten about the Neats..excellent. Sound very Flying Nun!
	10:02am sue: Wylie Coyote
	10:02am dia: the neats! a band from my youth. thanks!
	10:04am Cecile: tadpoles, also some Mission of Burma flavor there.
	10:04am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe & co!
	10:05am Bronwyn Bishop: Boo, I missed Yma :(
	10:06am Cecile: tadpoles, also lots of (fellow Bostonians) Mission of Burma flavor.
	10:06am Agent Peter: Jaco Pastorious covering The Eleven on the horizon?
	👻 10:06am doctorjazz: I thought this instrumental Eight Miles High was going to be sappy, but it is really good.
	10:07am KP: The Casio Byrds
	👻 10:07am tadpoles: Cecile...must be the British descent! Cheers
	10:09am steveo: That Steve Marcus was amazing.
	10:10am Cecile: Or that everyone was listening to Wire like their lives depended on it at the time.
	10:21am ?: I've always just loved this Gone All Stars track. what a groove! nice show Joe!
	10:22am Dennis Diken: oh sorry, that was me re Gone All Stars!
	10:23am Joe McG: Hey Dennis, thanks for checking in!
	10:28am Cheri Pi: Cecile, that Wire sentiment is right on the money, I know I did.
	10:29am Cecile: Some people used to call Burma the American Wire
	10:31am the Canterbury wood-elf: Junior High School in Wisconsin!
	10:32am Greg from ZONE 5: Seven seven seven ninety-threeeeeee eleven
	10:32am steveo: Lead guitarist Jim Keller, interviewed by People in 1982, said "Jenny is a regular girl, not a hooker. Friends of mine wrote her name and number on a men's room wall at a bar. I called her on a dare, and we dated for a while. I haven't talked with her since the song became a hit, but I hear she thinks I'm a real jerk for writing it."
	10:35am ⓘⓚⓔ: Greetings from a new office in Zone 5!
	10:37am Cecile: Dusty Springfield does an amazing version of this.
	10:38am Joe McG: Welcome to the neighborhood, Ike! @steveo: Ha ha ha!
	10:40am Greg from ZONE 5: Welcome, Ike!
	10:42am pantz: This song has to be my biggest ear worm. "Hello, my love..." is etched into my subconscious.
	10:46am KP: Cool Love tune!
	👻 10:47am Webhamster Henry: Has anyone done a bluegrass cover of "19th nervous breakdown"? Yes they have (not great sound) www.youtube.com...
	10:54am pantz: Ah cool. Is this the scene where he slowly kicks over the tv set?
	10:54am MD: Monday Morning Joe! Good Morning Faithful!!!
	10:55am MD: A sign Post Up A...Head!!!!
	10:55am MD: Oh no I mixed up my Taxi Driver with my Twilight Zone!!!!
	10:56am johnk77: @steveo Jim Keller is a great guy and that People article came out during the very brief 15 minutes of fame for Tommy Tutone Alex Call was the primary songwriter and the book 867-5309 Jenny he also wrote is informative and entertaining:>
	10:56am ﾉズ乇: Thanks! Almost everything in this office is a blinding white color. Walls, ceiling... I'm stunned into submission. #jcsowhite
	10:56am MD: "Suddenly there is change"....
	10:56am annie: WFMU is my Woobie
	11:01am MD: Train in vain...
	11:10am steveo: @johnk77: thanks; I'll keep my eye out for that book
	11:12am Cecile: 88 is a lucky number. 7 is a lucky number. 3's are powerful
	👻 11:12am tadpoles: Yeah! TV Personalities!
	11:13am Cecile: 23 is from Robert Anton Wilson, 42 is from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
	11:15am Cecile: general Johnson from Chairman of the Board fronted this group
	11:16am Greg from ZONE 5: Always loved this guy's voice.
	11:18am Cecile: YAH.
	11:18am Cecile: Greg, me too.
	👻 11:19am doctorjazz: Toots!!! Yay!!! Give it to me ONE TIME!!!
	11:23am Cheri Pi: What a lovely song, the 15th
	11:27am Cecile: efd's favorite song.
	11:27am dan in wisconsin: no. 13 Baby by the Pixies!
	11:28am melinda: I like the critique of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. Haha
	11:28am V Priceless: greets, all! '13th Floor Vendetta', baby!
	11:31am V Priceless: Yeah! Great Strawbs cut! Was gonna ask if 'Pieces of 79 and 15' was mentioned
	👻 11:33am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, bit late. Had 6345789 That's My Number yet?
	11:34am Mick: Toni!
	11:34am Mick: This has been such a good show - thanks much Joe & David!!
	11:35am Joe McG: Glad you're enjoying it, Mick!
	11:41am Cecile: I know a drag queen who does an adorable but filthy routine to Teach Me Tiger.
	11:41am Passaic River Blues: It's interesting how a facile seeming theme cuts across the history of recorded music and exposes so much more than, as Klein explained, merely songs with numbers in the title. Love, aging, death and eschatology, sex and romance, guns (lots of guns, strangely), absurdism, childhood, female anatomy alongside proto-feminist musings, telephone numerology, etc. Nicely done.
	11:43am dan in wisconsin: Then there's "37" by Devo.
	11:45am Sem Chumbo: Diggin' this mucho, mucho, Joe. Thanks for another real swell show. See ya!
	11:46am Listener David: Did you use one of my favorite numbers...pi ?
	11:46am Joe McG: @dan: David mentions that one! Hi, Sem!
	11:49am Blix: Cool show.
	11:49am Cecile: I used to play dancing with my 80 wives back in the olden days.
	👻 11:50am Ken From Hyde Park: Nice work, Joe. You really pulled a number on us listeners today!
	11:52am Dean: Plimsouls' "Million Miles Away."
	11:53am dan in wisconsin: YES! Magnetic Fields!
	11:53am Cheri Pi: thought the same thing @Dean!
	11:53am melinda: I love 100,000 Fireflies
	11:54am Dean: Can't imagine finding a 999,999 song, though.
	11:55am MD: We need to hold our loved ones Close...THE DARK IS COMING..
	👻 11:55am Brian in UK: Six Blocks Away by Lucinda Williams does it for me. Great show, gents.
	11:56am Tommy Jack Haynes: What an interesting show...Thanks Joe and thanks to your guest
	11:56am Passaic River Blues: @MD: Word.
	11:57am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, everybody! Check out the book at www.if6was9thebook.com!
	11:58am steveo: fantastic show, thanks Joe and David...
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Super fun show, Joe!
	11:59am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Joe!
	12:00pm Guido from Cologne: The better version of 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box . It was a demo until it came out on one of the first bamCaruso-comps in the 80ies.
	12:07pm Philthy woman: Fun show, good idea Joe
	3:01pm Mark from Toronto: 9,999,999 Tears to Go by Dickie Lee, a great song.
	3:34pm Mark from Toronto: 88 Lines About 44 Women by the Nails

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 5, 2016

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