WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 12, 2019

Listener comments!
	9:04am annie: blues brothers was on the teevee last night..what a great movie and soundtrack!
	9:04am The Oscar: Hi-de-ho!
	9:05am Snoochienucci: morning y'all
	9:05am annie: GM everyone!
	9:05am mb: G'morn all
	9:06am Last White Rhino: Hi dee Ho, Joe. Will there be any Brian Ferry on your playlist today????
	9:06am melinda: Morning Joe & all! Makes me happy to hear this.
	9:06am Snoochienucci: pretty swell intro song. Hi-De-Ho!
	9:08am pantz: Did any DJ's do a tribute for David Berman?
	9:09am Guido from Cologne: Good morning Joe!
	9:09am melinda: @pantz I've heard a few songs but not aware of any longer tributes.
	9:09am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe!
	9:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...if you think about it - Carole King is a perfect name for a major Songwriter...
	9:09am Guido from Cologne: All-"City"-groups-set?
	9:09am melinda: @Rabbit haha
	9:10am Guido from Cologne: There was a GDR-band, simply called 'City'.
	9:11am zephyr: Carole King before she became the goddess of the times. My dad was her drummer, Joel O'Brien. Rest in peace dad...
	👻 9:11am karlward: I predict that the second set will start with either Big Country or Country Joe, and carry on from there.
	9:11am Listener Alexandra: Good morning, Joe! Early day over here....
	9:12am L W Rhino: Bay City Rollers ?
	9:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& they're all about bein' frum Thuh Kuntry...
	9:13am The Oscar: This seems like the proper place to report that I received my swag over the weekend-- thanks Joe!
	9:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Watching the American Masters on Carole: Jeepers - she wrote that?? & that tooo ??? Is there anybody else spanned decades like that ??
	9:15am Joe McG: Hey, good morning, radio friends! Hope your life is right this morning. @LWR: There may very well be! @zephyr: Wow, you must have stories!
	9:15am Listener Bop Monroe: Greetings all from Bay Ridge via Tannersville. Suffragette City?
	9:16am The Oscar: @RRN I think the moment I realized the extent of Carole King's powers was when I learned she wrote "The Locomotion." The goddamned Locomotion!
	9:16am Marley Dogg: Great opening set Joe!
	9:17am Listener Bop Monroe: Moody Blues - Cities?
	9:18am The Oscar: OH MY GOD I JUST GOT THE THEME.
	9:18am L W Rhino: Does Chicago fit in with the "City" theme?
	👻 9:19am tadpoles: These are very obscure bands...all power to you Joe!
	9:19am fleep: Citified greetings!
	9:20am Asheville Jon: hmm, will there be any Bay City Rollers played this morning?
	9:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Willie Nelson only one I can think of stayed relevant starting Writing in the 1950s like that - but then not like that... Think CK brought a Great American Songbook attitude to Chart Pop from the very. start...
	9:21am Asheville Jon: or perhaps some Nite City?
	9:21am FletcherNYC: i feel like all these bands have one thing in common, but i cant quite put my finger on it.
	👻 9:22am Ken From Hyde Park: Let's see if there's a Nick Gilder tribute band Hot Child in the City.
	9:22am Joe McG: You know me, guys, I'm very rigid when it comes to my criteria for theme sets. Band name has to end in "City"! It's fun to give myself these little challenges: Make a set, I dare ya, I tell myself.
	9:22am Listener Bop Monroe: like to see this list reach a dozen. go joe!
	9:22am Asheville Jon: Nite City!
	9:23am Asheville Jon: YES!!!!
	9:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ....& they're all decent trax...
	9:25am Krys O.: I could NEVER attempt your fortitude in creating these themes, Joe. You are the Master of thematic programming.
	9:25am The Butterman: They had synthesizer in the pyramids? Curious.
	9:26am Joe McG: @Butterman: Ray was branching out.
	9:27am L W Rhino: You don't hear enuff of sets dedicated to the "suburbs" these days. Why is that?
	9:28am The Butterman: Fun and funky stuff, Joe. Thanks.
	9:29am Asheville Jon: always liked Ray's post-Doors stuff
	👻 9:30am Ken From Hyde Park: Also cool is that these are all physical copies. Not mp3s downloaded off the internet.
	9:32am pantz: YES! I was hoping you'd play this Naked City. This album is freaky as hell.
	9:32am The Butterman: Oh shit, I didn’t know that was Ray Manzarak.
	👻 9:35am Ken From Hyde Park: Huh....no bands with the name Jersey City. Opportunity, folks!
	9:36am Krys O.: No squats.
	9:36am pantz: Joe-zerrcise
	9:37am Mr Banana Pants: "This City" by Steve Earle
	9:38am Mr Banana Pants: oh...artist, nevermind
	9:39am Asheville Jon: yeah, the post-Doors Doors albums are pretty good, although a lot of people don't like it. READ IT JOE!!! leave out the bad word, would love to hear what he said!
	9:41am L W Rhino: Dropping the "City" from each band name you get....The Fat River, Rock Radio Music Nite , Smoke Naked! (words to live by).
	9:41am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning, Morning Joe and everyone!
	9:41am The Butterman: Are the post Jim Doors albums instrumental?
	9:42am melinda: The first part of the set had a nice easy late 60s early 70s vibe, at first I thought that was going to be the theme.
	9:42am Asheville Jon: butterman: no, they are not just instrumenta. Ray and Robbie do singing.
	9:43am curtis_chaos_in_la: Song: macho city by Steve Miller band!
	9:43am paul: No "Big Fun" from Inner City?
	9:43am The Oscar: Have the Doors formally crossed the line from "overrated" to "underrated" yet?
	👻 9:44am karlward: Dust off your Info Society twelve inches!
	👻 9:45am Webhamster Henry: I like interminable disco 12" singles. I have exactly one: the "I Love New York" disco single.
	9:45am paul: "Listen To What The Man Said by Owl City" The Art Of McCartney [Disc 2]
	9:45am steveo: Good morning. Ray gets some guff around here. I guess cause he's kind of a ham, but I like him. I recently saw a video on youtube where he plays Riders on the Storm and talks about the good old days. He sure liked to tell stories.
	👻 9:46am karlward: Joe knows about my love for the "World in Motion" 12" single from New Order. Sing it with me! Or, rap it, I guess.
	9:49am Joe McG: @karl: Great one, karl, wish I had a copy. Only have "Blue Monday." Which I didn't bring. @steveo: He had a famous encounter with Jonesey, so that's part of it.
	9:49am Joe McG: @Oscar: I've always loved the Doors. They are hilarious and catchy.
	9:50am steveo: @joe: Ah!
	9:54am Snoochienucci: I had the opportunity to see Ray before he passed. He was great! Had his feet up on the keyboard. awesome show him and Krieger put on
	9:55am The Oscar: @Joe: I agree, and I think you're right on with "hilarious"-- a big part is to enjoy how ridiculous they could be. "The End" was one of my favorite wiseass jukebox picks in high school, right after "Revolution 9."
	10:03am βrian: 92% humidity today. Ick.
	10:03am Linda Lee: they were sincere, though. uniquely so. good morning!
	10:04am Joe McG: @Brian: Sticky on the isthmus!
	10:06am βrian: Today, the isthmus is like a thong between two large sweaty lakes.
	10:06am Linda Lee: or: hilarious along with PiL, who were also uniquely sincere.
	10:10am Kick Out The Jams Joe: This Mueran Humanos tune is great
	👻 10:13am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Father Yes Son I want to be in the services like you.
	10:16am Joe McG: @Brian: Mother? I want to have some cereal, please.
	10:17am Kat in Chicago: Nasty humidity here too. Waiting for the thunderstorms later.
	10:17am Phillippe Bastille: Oh, this Lloyd Cole is beautiful!
	10:18am Joe McG: @Phillippe: This new LP is quite nice!
	10:21am Phillippe Bastille: I will have to track it down (not that that is hard in the Internet age...)
	10:27am FletcherNYC: And Jealous Guy:)
	10:28am Buddha of Suburbia: Hi folks! Hi Joe!
	10:30am Guido from Cologne: Dee Mimis "What is going on here?"
	10:31am coelacanth∅: good morning Joe and others
	10:32am paul: Do they still release 45s?
	10:32am Buddha of Suburbia: Hi Linda Leeeeeee! Bonjour Phillippe Bastille!
	10:33am Joe McG: Thanks for the translation, Guido!
	10:33am paul: Paul Collins Beat?
	10:35am paul: English Beat?
	10:35am Joe McG: @pauL: Nope, UK division!
	10:36am paul: Thanks. That was my second guess. :)
	👻 10:36am Brian in UK: Never understood why the Beat were called the English Beat over your way. Holding out for Frankie's Two Tribes
	10:37am Joe McG: Has anybody read the new Ranking Roger book? @Brian: Paul Collins' group The Beat was active over here before the UK Beat was.
	10:37am paul: Because "The Beat" was taken by Paul Collins' band.
	10:38am paul: Same reason we had the Charlartans UK
	👻 10:38am doctorjazz: Wasn't there another group called "The Beat" in the US? I seen to recall that was the reason BiUK.
	10:39am paul: Right, doctor. See above.
	10:39am Hubig Pie: and The Mekons UK?
	10:39am paul: Same with Yaz and Yazoo
	10:40am Mike Sin: Alright! I'm going to enjoy this "12-inch only" single file. I'm patiently waiting for Joe McG's "cereal-box record" single file edition!
	10:40am coelacanth∅: (as squeeze's first album was called "u.k.squeeze" over here, and australia, because other squeezes existed...somehow)
	10:41am Joe McG: @Mike: It would give me the chance to break out that Sugar Bears song! :)
	👻 10:42am Brian in UK: Thanks.
	10:43am paul: And then you had the Special Beat, featuring members of the Specials and the (English) Beat
	10:44am pantz: Would love to hear The Tucan Sam Workout again.
	10:45am Joe McG: @pantz: Damn, so would I!
	👻 10:46am tim from champaign: Hi Joe and everybody! I'm having a terrible morning. I woke up with Don Felder's Heavy Metal and the Mormons song from the Music For Mind Control premium stuck in my head. Maybe some 12" Single File will clean things out.
	👻 10:46am tadpoles: Suede had to be called the "London Suede" over here.
	10:48am Joe McG: @tim: "We are MOR-MONS!" I don't think they would enjoy "In My Pants."
	10:48am Kat in Chicago: I'm certainly enjoying it.
	10:49am melinda: @tim I’m sorry
	👻 10:49am tim from champaign: Hahahaha!
	10:49am Joe McG: @Kat: "Booty booty!"
	👻 10:50am queems: YESSS
	10:50am Krys O.: Oh, this hits the spot!
	10:51am Strandlund: Get out the mirrored ball...
	10:51am coelacanth∅: they'd like "in my pants", as long as it's between married couples. (...or married groups?)
	10:52am steveo: "boogie wonderland" I never understood that lyric until today!
	10:53am βrian: Don't keep it a secret, @steveo!
	10:53am Brendan: Keep it in your pants
	10:55am Brendan: Good morning btw . What the hell?
	10:55am steveo: that's most of the words, AFAICT, Brian. Also "dance" and "ooh ooh".
	10:56am coelacanth∅: Joe's doing a cassingles going steady segment. ...oh that's next week.
	10:56am P-90: Maybe a little bit early in the day for a case of Disco fever. Or: maybe not
	10:57am βrian: On those cold winter mornings when mom handed us the pasties, fresh from the oven, she told us, "Keep it in your pants."
	10:57am Brendan: In My Pants can only be followed by the Buddy Scott Trio’s BBQ
	10:58am The Oscar: WHOAAAA. The only way this could be better is if it were to the tune of "The Ballad of John and Yoko."
	10:58am coelacanth∅: hahaha!
	10:59am Marshall Stacks: Grifters grifting grifters.
	👻 10:59am tim from champaign: Yes! I'm on Tammy Faye's side! Has anyone seen "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"?
	10:59am Kat in Chicago: Oh good lord
	10:59am The Oscar: This is like a televangelist rap beef! @tim Yes-- it's so good!
	11:00am P-90: Now, if there was a 12 inch mix of the original Harper Valley PTA, now THAT would be a thing.
	11:01am zopa: Yay Pogues!
	11:01am pantz: The Pogues is just the thing to wash the Baker-taste away. Slàinte!
	11:04am Joe McG: The Bakkers don't know anything about whiskey or the devil.
	👻 11:06am Brian in UK: Ah Talking Heads
	11:06am pantz: I dunno @Joe. Have you seen what Jim Bakker is up to these days? Selling prepper food to a bunch of gullible seniles.
	11:07am Gooner: This song is my new jam https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TSKizLRFbTo
	11:07am zopa: Oh may! Never heard this version of KLH before.
	11:08am Chapelhillian: Saw Ultravox at Hurrah ca 1980, this was their encore played with 2 basses and no guitar. Pretty great
	11:09am Chapelhillian: though I still prefer the John Foxx led band to Midge Ure
	👻 11:10am karlward: whut
	👻 11:12am karlward: Still waiting to stumble across that bootleg of Leonard Cohen doing "Eye of the Tiger" in the early 80s
	11:12am melinda: Interesting interpretation
	11:12am The Oscar: Oh this is tremendous.
	11:14am rsj: seems like the original
	11:14am Joe McG: @Oscar: Survivor never knew what hit 'em. Winner: Nighthawk, by KO!
	11:14am Jeepster: this set is jammin! I really can't dance but I'm on the ceiling now!
	11:15am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe and all! Sorry I'm late. Dentist.
	11:16am pantz: Is this the band that did "Top That"?
	11:17am Boomer: Is UbuRadio stream no more?
	11:18am Joe McG: @Greg: I thought it was just the Tammy Faye that made your teeth hurt.
	11:19am Linda Lee: brooklyn, bronx, queens. we finally can finally find "funkytown" on a map!
	11:19am The Oscar: The bowling alley I went to as a kid always played the same disco compilation, and "Funkytown" invariably marked the point at which my game began to decline.
	11:19am Linda Lee: finally!
	11:19am Danimal: I hear Pop music by M coming
	11:20am miles: oh.....its a state of MIND! It all seems so simple now!
	11:21am βrian: Ah, those studio hand-clappers! My dream.
	11:22am Brendan: I take a different view. Push it. Push it real good.
	11:22am pantz: Oh you nasty, Leon!
	11:24am coelacanth∅: (spinning wheel got to go round)
	11:24am Joe McG: @coelacanth: AH, you heard that, too! :)
	11:24am Geno: how bout a little WOT by Captain Sensible...
	11:25am steveo: also ladies night
	11:25am JakeGould: Dang! Missed “The City” block.
	11:25am Joe McG: @Geno: Wish I had it on 12"!
	11:26am melinda: @Oscar haha! Funkytown takes me back to summer camp days.
	11:26am Brendan: That staccato riff !
	👻 11:27am tim from champaign: I didn't know there was a 12" of Da Da Da! Nice.
	👻 11:27am Brian in UK: @Boomer if you go to LISTEN on the front page drop down, it is there.
	👻 11:27am doctorjazz: Played this single, Da Da Da, over and over back in the day. Still love it.
	11:27am coelacanth∅: yeah love this
	11:27am Greg from ZONE 5: On my short list of best Hoof & Mouth performances EVER.
	👻 11:28am doctorjazz: As Coel said, that Spinning Wheel quote was cool.
	11:28am melinda: @Greg I liked it too.
	11:29am Joe McG: @Greg: Aw, thanks, Greg. I loved that Ira played the Casio on it and Bryce did the German part.
	11:29am Brendan: This always feels like something Lou Reed would have written
	👻 11:30am tadpoles: Like the "Flying Lizards"....simplicity is powerful.
	👻 11:30am Ken From Hyde Park: Why just stop at 12"? Given the right tooling and equipment,a person could create a homemade record three feet across, or whatever desired size. Along with a contraption to play it on.
	11:30am Listening Out There: Da Da Da is a thing with a hook...
	11:31am Joe McG: I was going to keep this segment to an hour, but I'm having a lot of fun, so I'm going to play more 12"s till the end. Fair warning!
	👻 11:31am Brian in UK: @tadpoles, yes but they had a posh bird 'singing'. They could have done the Doors songbook.
	11:31am The Oscar: The only thing more strange and wonderful than this song is that it managed to be a hit in two different decades!
	👻 11:32am tim from champaign: An extended play of Ana would be mighty great too.
	11:32am Chi Bill: Da Da Da!!!
	11:33am melinda: Joe you’re on a roll
	11:33am Brendan: Keep the dance club open as late as you want Joe
	11:34am northguineahills: @Ken: Have you seen the 36" records that were made as soundtracks to play w/ some films in the 40s/50s. Larry7 and Leyland Kirby have some (the only ones I have seen).
	👻 11:35am tadpoles: #BrianUK...now that I'd love to hear.
	11:35am coelacanth∅: (i have a 12" of "roxanne's on a roll". ...Joe and Roxanne are both on a roll)
	👻 11:35am Webhamster Henry: This 12" set is another example of WFMU curation to get you to listen to something you'd (a/k/a I'd) never listen to. This set is also strangely relaxing. It's like comfort food.
	11:36am βrian: Comfort food: even when it's not good for you, it's good for you.
	11:36am Kat in Chicago: Get up get up get up... sit back down
	11:37am Joe McG: @Henry: I think all the music I play is comfort food! :)
	11:38am βrian: Gonna have to run this track by 5-year Old. I think she'll like it, too.
	11:39am Hubig Pie: Please stand by, because We Will Rock You
	11:41am Joe McG: The Sequence were from South Carolina, not NYC!
	11:42am Andrea in Jersey City: Great music today, sorry to have missed so much of the show
	11:42am Brendan: These sirens have hip-o-tized. Im all funked up.
	👻 11:43am tadpoles: 40 years old....when Rap was Funky!
	11:44am Brendan: They just won the best creative use of a yodel in rap funk dance genre award
	11:44am The Oscar: I love the title "Dealin' with the Boogie." It makes it sound like the boogie is a problem you might as well take care of before it gets worse.
	11:45am Joe McG: @Andrea: With WFMU, you're always right on time! ;)
	👻 11:45am tim from champaign: Joe, you wouldn't by chance have a 12" of Eddie Murphy's Boogie In Your Butt?
	11:45am Joe McG: @Oscar: Definitely a Rufus rip going on in this song!
	11:46am Yes: just got here and i feel like i never left
	11:47am Joe McG: @tim: I wish! I think Duane probably has it. He usually plays it around marathon time!
	11:47am coelacanth∅: tell me something good. nice, fairly subtle job of it though
	11:47am Crudbringer: Extremely here for the disco boogie ((oo oo)). That is ASCII of me shaking my booty.
	11:49am Joe McG: @Crudbringer: Ha! This one is sort of a cross between early Prince and EWF.
	11:51am ifeelfatnsassy: Joe, you are killing it with this set. I'm getting so much work done.
	11:51am coelacanth∅: yeah earth wind and fire were ahead of the curve
	11:51am pantz: I can't think of one Funk song title that isn't an affirmation of some kind. You just can't be sad/mad when you is funky.
	11:52am coelacanth∅: (this is a pretty direct rip though)
	11:53am Hubig Pie: That's it then, everything I do gonna be funky from now on
	👻 11:53am tim from champaign: Super show today, Joe!
	11:53am Joe McG: @ifeelfat: Ha ha, the corporations pay me to increase productivity.
	11:54am melinda: Nice cover
	👻 11:55am tadpoles: Joe you embody the eclecticism that makes FMU great. Thanks.
	👻 11:55am Ken From Hyde Park: Garfield the cat should listen more often. He'd feel a lot better about Mondays if he did. Thanks, Joe. @ngh - Will have to look for big records some time.
	11:56am Kat in Chicago: That was great!
	11:56am Itzall ClearD'me Nåu: We are ALL having fun!
	11:56am Phillippe Bastille: Thanks Joe! Catch ya later!
	11:57am Andrea in Jersey City: Thanks! :)
	11:57am coelacanth∅: Thanks Joe! Excellent as usual take care
	12:00pm melinda: Thanks for bringin the boogie Joe
	12:00pm Krys O.: Thanks, Joe!
	👻 12:00pm Webhamster Henry: What a show! Thanks, Joe & Listeners!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 12, 2019

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

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August 12, 2019: Boogie City

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
The City	That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)	Now That Everything's Been Said	Epic	1968	LP			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Fat City	Holly Would "Holly Would" by "Fat City"	Reincarnation	ABC Probe	1969	LP			0:05:18 (Pop-up)
River City	Sunshine, Won't You Help Me	single	Enterprise	1973	45			0:08:06 (Pop-up)
Rock City	My Life Is Right "My Life Is Right" by "Rock City"	Rock City	Lucky Seven	2003	CD	From 1969-70		0:11:16 (Pop-up)
Radio City	Don't Mistake Love "Don't Mistake Love" by "Radio City"	Class of '77	Radio Heartbeat	2009	LP	From 1980		0:14:38 (Pop-up)
Music City	Pretty Feelings "Pretty Feelings" by "Music City"	single	Static Shock	2018	45			0:17:27 (Pop-up)
Nite City	In the Pyramid "In the Pyramid" by "Nite City"	Nite City	20th Century	1977	LP			0:21:36 (Pop-up)
Smoke City	Numbers "Numbers" by "Smoke City"	Brasil 2mil: The Soul of Bossa Nova	Six Degrees	1999	CD			0:25:54 (Pop-up)
Naked City	The James Bond Theme "The James Bond Theme" by "Naked City"	Naked City	Elektra Nonesuch	1989	LP			0:29:44 (Pop-up)

L'Épée	Springfield 61 "Springfield 61" by "L'Épée"	Diabolique	a recordings	2019	CD		*	0:44:18 (Pop-up)
Strange Passage	Idle Time / Ranks of the Righteous	Shouldn't Be Too Long	Synchro System	2019	LP	Whoops, looks like you get 2 today for the price of 1	*	0:47:06 (Pop-up)
Die Mimmi's	Boyfriend "Boyfriend" by "Die Mimmi's"	Was'n Hier Los?	Frostschutz Weser	1984	LP			0:52:18 (Pop-up)
The Gymslips	Big Sister (It's Probably Better)	Sharon Signs to Cherry Red: Independent Women 1979-1985	RPM	2016	CD			0:56:06 (Pop-up)
Ghosts of Dance	Ghosts of Dance "Ghosts of Dance" by "Ghosts of Dance"	Walking Through Gardens	Dark Entries	2019	LP	From 1981	*	0:59:17 (Pop-up)
Mueran Humanos	Detrás de una Flor	Hospital Lullabies	Cinema Paradiso Recordings	2019	CD	"Behind a Flower"	*	1:02:51 (Pop-up)
Mellotron Variations	Waltzing Riverbed Way	Mellotron Variations	Spaceflight	2019	LP		*	1:09:02 (Pop-up)
Lloyd Cole	The Over Under "The Over Under" by "Lloyd Cole"	Guesswork	e.a.r. Music	2019	LP			1:13:45 (Pop-up)
Bryan Ferry	Send in the Clowns "Send in the Clowns" by "Bryan Ferry"	Avonmore	BMG	2014	CD			1:19:38 (Pop-up)

Single File Special This Week: 12" Single File!
The Beat	Hit It "Hit It" by "The Beat"	12" single	Go Feet	1981	12"			1:30:50 (Pop-up)
Hammatan	Nite of Bliss / Don't Turn Away	12" single	Lagos International	1980	12"			1:36:52 (Pop-up)
The Reddings	In My Pants "In My Pants" by "The Reddings"	12" single	Polydor	1985	12"	remixed version		1:42:37 (Pop-up)
Earth, Wind & Fire	Boogie Wonderland	12" single	ARC	1979	12"	instrumental version		1:48:27 (Pop-up)
Tammy Faye Bakker	The Ballad of Jim & Tammy	12" single	Sutra	1987	12"			1:55:14 (Pop-up)
The Pogues	Whiskey You're the Devil	12" single	Stiff	1985	12"			1:58:14 (Pop-up)
Carcrash International	All Passion Spent	12" single	Crammed Discs	1984	12"			2:00:25 (Pop-up)
Ultravox	Kings Lead Hat "Kings Lead Hat" by "Ultravox"	12" single	Chrysalis	1980	10"	live at the Lyceum, 17.8.80		2:03:43 (Pop-up)
Nighthawk	Eye of the Tiger "Eye of the Tiger" by "Nighthawk"	12" single	Quality/RFC	1982	12"	"long vocal version"		2:07:49 (Pop-up)
Chase	Back to Funkytown "Back to Funkytown" by "Chase"	12" single	Central Park	1983	12"			2:13:09 (Pop-up)
Leon Haywood	Don't Push It Don't Force It	12" single	20th Century Fox	1980	12"			2:18:50 (Pop-up)
Trio	Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha	12" single	Mercury	1982	12"			2:24:18 (Pop-up)
The Sequence	Funk You Up "Funk You Up" by "The Sequence"	12" single	Sugar Hill	1979	12"			2:30:58 (Pop-up)
West Side Strutters	Dealin' with the Boogie	12" single	Parachute	1978	12"			2:41:39 (Pop-up)
7th Wonder	I Enjoy Ya "I Enjoy Ya" by "7th Wonder"	12" single	Chocolate City	1980	12"			2:47:30 (Pop-up)
The Primitives	I'll Be Your Mirror	12" single	BMG/RCA	1989	12"			2:50:51 (Pop-up)

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	9:04am annie: blues brothers was on the teevee last night..what a great movie and soundtrack!
	9:04am The Oscar: Hi-de-ho!
	9:05am Snoochienucci: morning y'all
	9:05am annie: GM everyone!
	9:05am mb: G'morn all
	9:06am Last White Rhino: Hi dee Ho, Joe. Will there be any Brian Ferry on your playlist today????
	9:06am melinda: Morning Joe & all! Makes me happy to hear this.
	9:06am Snoochienucci: pretty swell intro song. Hi-De-Ho!
	9:08am pantz: Did any DJ's do a tribute for David Berman?
	9:09am Guido from Cologne: Good morning Joe!
	9:09am melinda: @pantz I've heard a few songs but not aware of any longer tributes.
	9:09am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe!
	9:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...if you think about it - Carole King is a perfect name for a major Songwriter...
	9:09am Guido from Cologne: All-"City"-groups-set?
	9:09am melinda: @Rabbit haha
	9:10am Guido from Cologne: There was a GDR-band, simply called 'City'.
	9:11am zephyr: Carole King before she became the goddess of the times. My dad was her drummer, Joel O'Brien. Rest in peace dad...
	👻 9:11am karlward: I predict that the second set will start with either Big Country or Country Joe, and carry on from there.
	9:11am Listener Alexandra: Good morning, Joe! Early day over here....
	9:12am L W Rhino: Bay City Rollers ?
	9:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& they're all about bein' frum Thuh Kuntry...
	9:13am The Oscar: This seems like the proper place to report that I received my swag over the weekend-- thanks Joe!
	9:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Watching the American Masters on Carole: Jeepers - she wrote that?? & that tooo ??? Is there anybody else spanned decades like that ??
	9:15am Joe McG: Hey, good morning, radio friends! Hope your life is right this morning. @LWR: There may very well be! @zephyr: Wow, you must have stories!
	9:15am Listener Bop Monroe: Greetings all from Bay Ridge via Tannersville. Suffragette City?
	9:16am The Oscar: @RRN I think the moment I realized the extent of Carole King's powers was when I learned she wrote "The Locomotion." The goddamned Locomotion!
	9:16am Marley Dogg: Great opening set Joe!
	9:17am Listener Bop Monroe: Moody Blues - Cities?
	9:18am The Oscar: OH MY GOD I JUST GOT THE THEME.
	9:18am L W Rhino: Does Chicago fit in with the "City" theme?
	👻 9:19am tadpoles: These are very obscure bands...all power to you Joe!
	9:19am fleep: Citified greetings!
	9:20am Asheville Jon: hmm, will there be any Bay City Rollers played this morning?
	9:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Willie Nelson only one I can think of stayed relevant starting Writing in the 1950s like that - but then not like that... Think CK brought a Great American Songbook attitude to Chart Pop from the very. start...
	9:21am Asheville Jon: or perhaps some Nite City?
	9:21am FletcherNYC: i feel like all these bands have one thing in common, but i cant quite put my finger on it.
	👻 9:22am Ken From Hyde Park: Let's see if there's a Nick Gilder tribute band Hot Child in the City.
	9:22am Joe McG: You know me, guys, I'm very rigid when it comes to my criteria for theme sets. Band name has to end in "City"! It's fun to give myself these little challenges: Make a set, I dare ya, I tell myself.
	9:22am Listener Bop Monroe: like to see this list reach a dozen. go joe!
	9:22am Asheville Jon: Nite City!
	9:23am Asheville Jon: YES!!!!
	9:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ....& they're all decent trax...
	9:25am Krys O.: I could NEVER attempt your fortitude in creating these themes, Joe. You are the Master of thematic programming.
	9:25am The Butterman: They had synthesizer in the pyramids? Curious.
	9:26am Joe McG: @Butterman: Ray was branching out.
	9:27am L W Rhino: You don't hear enuff of sets dedicated to the "suburbs" these days. Why is that?
	9:28am The Butterman: Fun and funky stuff, Joe. Thanks.
	9:29am Asheville Jon: always liked Ray's post-Doors stuff
	👻 9:30am Ken From Hyde Park: Also cool is that these are all physical copies. Not mp3s downloaded off the internet.
	9:32am pantz: YES! I was hoping you'd play this Naked City. This album is freaky as hell.
	9:32am The Butterman: Oh shit, I didn’t know that was Ray Manzarak.
	👻 9:35am Ken From Hyde Park: Huh....no bands with the name Jersey City. Opportunity, folks!
	9:36am Krys O.: No squats.
	9:36am pantz: Joe-zerrcise
	9:37am Mr Banana Pants: "This City" by Steve Earle
	9:38am Mr Banana Pants: oh...artist, nevermind
	9:39am Asheville Jon: yeah, the post-Doors Doors albums are pretty good, although a lot of people don't like it. READ IT JOE!!! leave out the bad word, would love to hear what he said!
	9:41am L W Rhino: Dropping the "City" from each band name you get....The Fat River, Rock Radio Music Nite , Smoke Naked! (words to live by).
	9:41am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning, Morning Joe and everyone!
	9:41am The Butterman: Are the post Jim Doors albums instrumental?
	9:42am melinda: The first part of the set had a nice easy late 60s early 70s vibe, at first I thought that was going to be the theme.
	9:42am Asheville Jon: butterman: no, they are not just instrumenta. Ray and Robbie do singing.
	9:43am curtis_chaos_in_la: Song: macho city by Steve Miller band!
	9:43am paul: No "Big Fun" from Inner City?
	9:43am The Oscar: Have the Doors formally crossed the line from "overrated" to "underrated" yet?
	👻 9:44am karlward: Dust off your Info Society twelve inches!
	👻 9:45am Webhamster Henry: I like interminable disco 12" singles. I have exactly one: the "I Love New York" disco single.
	9:45am paul: "Listen To What The Man Said by Owl City" The Art Of McCartney [Disc 2]
	9:45am steveo: Good morning. Ray gets some guff around here. I guess cause he's kind of a ham, but I like him. I recently saw a video on youtube where he plays Riders on the Storm and talks about the good old days. He sure liked to tell stories.
	👻 9:46am karlward: Joe knows about my love for the "World in Motion" 12" single from New Order. Sing it with me! Or, rap it, I guess.
	9:49am Joe McG: @karl: Great one, karl, wish I had a copy. Only have "Blue Monday." Which I didn't bring. @steveo: He had a famous encounter with Jonesey, so that's part of it.
	9:49am Joe McG: @Oscar: I've always loved the Doors. They are hilarious and catchy.
	9:50am steveo: @joe: Ah!
	9:54am Snoochienucci: I had the opportunity to see Ray before he passed. He was great! Had his feet up on the keyboard. awesome show him and Krieger put on
	9:55am The Oscar: @Joe: I agree, and I think you're right on with "hilarious"-- a big part is to enjoy how ridiculous they could be. "The End" was one of my favorite wiseass jukebox picks in high school, right after "Revolution 9."
	10:03am βrian: 92% humidity today. Ick.
	10:03am Linda Lee: they were sincere, though. uniquely so. good morning!
	10:04am Joe McG: @Brian: Sticky on the isthmus!
	10:06am βrian: Today, the isthmus is like a thong between two large sweaty lakes.
	10:06am Linda Lee: or: hilarious along with PiL, who were also uniquely sincere.
	10:10am Kick Out The Jams Joe: This Mueran Humanos tune is great
	👻 10:13am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Father Yes Son I want to be in the services like you.
	10:16am Joe McG: @Brian: Mother? I want to have some cereal, please.
	10:17am Kat in Chicago: Nasty humidity here too. Waiting for the thunderstorms later.
	10:17am Phillippe Bastille: Oh, this Lloyd Cole is beautiful!
	10:18am Joe McG: @Phillippe: This new LP is quite nice!
	10:21am Phillippe Bastille: I will have to track it down (not that that is hard in the Internet age...)
	10:27am FletcherNYC: And Jealous Guy:)
	10:28am Buddha of Suburbia: Hi folks! Hi Joe!
	10:30am Guido from Cologne: Dee Mimis "What is going on here?"
	10:31am coelacanth∅: good morning Joe and others
	10:32am paul: Do they still release 45s?
	10:32am Buddha of Suburbia: Hi Linda Leeeeeee! Bonjour Phillippe Bastille!
	10:33am Joe McG: Thanks for the translation, Guido!
	10:33am paul: Paul Collins Beat?
	10:35am paul: English Beat?
	10:35am Joe McG: @pauL: Nope, UK division!
	10:36am paul: Thanks. That was my second guess. :)
	👻 10:36am Brian in UK: Never understood why the Beat were called the English Beat over your way. Holding out for Frankie's Two Tribes
	10:37am Joe McG: Has anybody read the new Ranking Roger book? @Brian: Paul Collins' group The Beat was active over here before the UK Beat was.
	10:37am paul: Because "The Beat" was taken by Paul Collins' band.
	10:38am paul: Same reason we had the Charlartans UK
	👻 10:38am doctorjazz: Wasn't there another group called "The Beat" in the US? I seen to recall that was the reason BiUK.
	10:39am paul: Right, doctor. See above.
	10:39am Hubig Pie: and The Mekons UK?
	10:39am paul: Same with Yaz and Yazoo
	10:40am Mike Sin: Alright! I'm going to enjoy this "12-inch only" single file. I'm patiently waiting for Joe McG's "cereal-box record" single file edition!
	10:40am coelacanth∅: (as squeeze's first album was called "u.k.squeeze" over here, and australia, because other squeezes existed...somehow)
	10:41am Joe McG: @Mike: It would give me the chance to break out that Sugar Bears song! :)
	👻 10:42am Brian in UK: Thanks.
	10:43am paul: And then you had the Special Beat, featuring members of the Specials and the (English) Beat
	10:44am pantz: Would love to hear The Tucan Sam Workout again.
	10:45am Joe McG: @pantz: Damn, so would I!
	👻 10:46am tim from champaign: Hi Joe and everybody! I'm having a terrible morning. I woke up with Don Felder's Heavy Metal and the Mormons song from the Music For Mind Control premium stuck in my head. Maybe some 12" Single File will clean things out.
	👻 10:46am tadpoles: Suede had to be called the "London Suede" over here.
	10:48am Joe McG: @tim: "We are MOR-MONS!" I don't think they would enjoy "In My Pants."
	10:48am Kat in Chicago: I'm certainly enjoying it.
	10:49am melinda: @tim I’m sorry
	👻 10:49am tim from champaign: Hahahaha!
	10:49am Joe McG: @Kat: "Booty booty!"
	👻 10:50am queems: YESSS
	10:50am Krys O.: Oh, this hits the spot!
	10:51am Strandlund: Get out the mirrored ball...
	10:51am coelacanth∅: they'd like "in my pants", as long as it's between married couples. (...or married groups?)
	10:52am steveo: "boogie wonderland" I never understood that lyric until today!
	10:53am βrian: Don't keep it a secret, @steveo!
	10:53am Brendan: Keep it in your pants
	10:55am Brendan: Good morning btw . What the hell?
	10:55am steveo: that's most of the words, AFAICT, Brian. Also "dance" and "ooh ooh".
	10:56am coelacanth∅: Joe's doing a cassingles going steady segment. ...oh that's next week.
	10:56am P-90: Maybe a little bit early in the day for a case of Disco fever. Or: maybe not
	10:57am βrian: On those cold winter mornings when mom handed us the pasties, fresh from the oven, she told us, "Keep it in your pants."
	10:57am Brendan: In My Pants can only be followed by the Buddy Scott Trio’s BBQ
	10:58am The Oscar: WHOAAAA. The only way this could be better is if it were to the tune of "The Ballad of John and Yoko."
	10:58am coelacanth∅: hahaha!
	10:59am Marshall Stacks: Grifters grifting grifters.
	👻 10:59am tim from champaign: Yes! I'm on Tammy Faye's side! Has anyone seen "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"?
	10:59am Kat in Chicago: Oh good lord
	10:59am The Oscar: This is like a televangelist rap beef! @tim Yes-- it's so good!
	11:00am P-90: Now, if there was a 12 inch mix of the original Harper Valley PTA, now THAT would be a thing.
	11:01am zopa: Yay Pogues!
	11:01am pantz: The Pogues is just the thing to wash the Baker-taste away. Slàinte!
	11:04am Joe McG: The Bakkers don't know anything about whiskey or the devil.
	👻 11:06am Brian in UK: Ah Talking Heads
	11:06am pantz: I dunno @Joe. Have you seen what Jim Bakker is up to these days? Selling prepper food to a bunch of gullible seniles.
	11:07am Gooner: This song is my new jam https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TSKizLRFbTo
	11:07am zopa: Oh may! Never heard this version of KLH before.
	11:08am Chapelhillian: Saw Ultravox at Hurrah ca 1980, this was their encore played with 2 basses and no guitar. Pretty great
	11:09am Chapelhillian: though I still prefer the John Foxx led band to Midge Ure
	👻 11:10am karlward: whut
	👻 11:12am karlward: Still waiting to stumble across that bootleg of Leonard Cohen doing "Eye of the Tiger" in the early 80s
	11:12am melinda: Interesting interpretation
	11:12am The Oscar: Oh this is tremendous.
	11:14am rsj: seems like the original
	11:14am Joe McG: @Oscar: Survivor never knew what hit 'em. Winner: Nighthawk, by KO!
	11:14am Jeepster: this set is jammin! I really can't dance but I'm on the ceiling now!
	11:15am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe and all! Sorry I'm late. Dentist.
	11:16am pantz: Is this the band that did "Top That"?
	11:17am Boomer: Is UbuRadio stream no more?
	11:18am Joe McG: @Greg: I thought it was just the Tammy Faye that made your teeth hurt.
	11:19am Linda Lee: brooklyn, bronx, queens. we finally can finally find "funkytown" on a map!
	11:19am The Oscar: The bowling alley I went to as a kid always played the same disco compilation, and "Funkytown" invariably marked the point at which my game began to decline.
	11:19am Linda Lee: finally!
	11:19am Danimal: I hear Pop music by M coming
	11:20am miles: oh.....its a state of MIND! It all seems so simple now!
	11:21am βrian: Ah, those studio hand-clappers! My dream.
	11:22am Brendan: I take a different view. Push it. Push it real good.
	11:22am pantz: Oh you nasty, Leon!
	11:24am coelacanth∅: (spinning wheel got to go round)
	11:24am Joe McG: @coelacanth: AH, you heard that, too! :)
	11:24am Geno: how bout a little WOT by Captain Sensible...
	11:25am steveo: also ladies night
	11:25am JakeGould: Dang! Missed “The City” block.
	11:25am Joe McG: @Geno: Wish I had it on 12"!
	11:26am melinda: @Oscar haha! Funkytown takes me back to summer camp days.
	11:26am Brendan: That staccato riff !
	👻 11:27am tim from champaign: I didn't know there was a 12" of Da Da Da! Nice.
	👻 11:27am Brian in UK: @Boomer if you go to LISTEN on the front page drop down, it is there.
	👻 11:27am doctorjazz: Played this single, Da Da Da, over and over back in the day. Still love it.
	11:27am coelacanth∅: yeah love this
	11:27am Greg from ZONE 5: On my short list of best Hoof & Mouth performances EVER.
	👻 11:28am doctorjazz: As Coel said, that Spinning Wheel quote was cool.
	11:28am melinda: @Greg I liked it too.
	11:29am Joe McG: @Greg: Aw, thanks, Greg. I loved that Ira played the Casio on it and Bryce did the German part.
	11:29am Brendan: This always feels like something Lou Reed would have written
	👻 11:30am tadpoles: Like the "Flying Lizards"....simplicity is powerful.
	👻 11:30am Ken From Hyde Park: Why just stop at 12"? Given the right tooling and equipment,a person could create a homemade record three feet across, or whatever desired size. Along with a contraption to play it on.
	11:30am Listening Out There: Da Da Da is a thing with a hook...
	11:31am Joe McG: I was going to keep this segment to an hour, but I'm having a lot of fun, so I'm going to play more 12"s till the end. Fair warning!
	👻 11:31am Brian in UK: @tadpoles, yes but they had a posh bird 'singing'. They could have done the Doors songbook.
	11:31am The Oscar: The only thing more strange and wonderful than this song is that it managed to be a hit in two different decades!
	👻 11:32am tim from champaign: An extended play of Ana would be mighty great too.
	11:32am Chi Bill: Da Da Da!!!
	11:33am melinda: Joe you’re on a roll
	11:33am Brendan: Keep the dance club open as late as you want Joe
	11:34am northguineahills: @Ken: Have you seen the 36" records that were made as soundtracks to play w/ some films in the 40s/50s. Larry7 and Leyland Kirby have some (the only ones I have seen).
	👻 11:35am tadpoles: #BrianUK...now that I'd love to hear.
	11:35am coelacanth∅: (i have a 12" of "roxanne's on a roll". ...Joe and Roxanne are both on a roll)
	👻 11:35am Webhamster Henry: This 12" set is another example of WFMU curation to get you to listen to something you'd (a/k/a I'd) never listen to. This set is also strangely relaxing. It's like comfort food.
	11:36am βrian: Comfort food: even when it's not good for you, it's good for you.
	11:36am Kat in Chicago: Get up get up get up... sit back down
	11:37am Joe McG: @Henry: I think all the music I play is comfort food! :)
	11:38am βrian: Gonna have to run this track by 5-year Old. I think she'll like it, too.
	11:39am Hubig Pie: Please stand by, because We Will Rock You
	11:41am Joe McG: The Sequence were from South Carolina, not NYC!
	11:42am Andrea in Jersey City: Great music today, sorry to have missed so much of the show
	11:42am Brendan: These sirens have hip-o-tized. Im all funked up.
	👻 11:43am tadpoles: 40 years old....when Rap was Funky!
	11:44am Brendan: They just won the best creative use of a yodel in rap funk dance genre award
	11:44am The Oscar: I love the title "Dealin' with the Boogie." It makes it sound like the boogie is a problem you might as well take care of before it gets worse.
	11:45am Joe McG: @Andrea: With WFMU, you're always right on time! ;)
	👻 11:45am tim from champaign: Joe, you wouldn't by chance have a 12" of Eddie Murphy's Boogie In Your Butt?
	11:45am Joe McG: @Oscar: Definitely a Rufus rip going on in this song!
	11:46am Yes: just got here and i feel like i never left
	11:47am Joe McG: @tim: I wish! I think Duane probably has it. He usually plays it around marathon time!
	11:47am coelacanth∅: tell me something good. nice, fairly subtle job of it though
	11:47am Crudbringer: Extremely here for the disco boogie ((oo oo)). That is ASCII of me shaking my booty.
	11:49am Joe McG: @Crudbringer: Ha! This one is sort of a cross between early Prince and EWF.
	11:51am ifeelfatnsassy: Joe, you are killing it with this set. I'm getting so much work done.
	11:51am coelacanth∅: yeah earth wind and fire were ahead of the curve
	11:51am pantz: I can't think of one Funk song title that isn't an affirmation of some kind. You just can't be sad/mad when you is funky.
	11:52am coelacanth∅: (this is a pretty direct rip though)
	11:53am Hubig Pie: That's it then, everything I do gonna be funky from now on
	👻 11:53am tim from champaign: Super show today, Joe!
	11:53am Joe McG: @ifeelfat: Ha ha, the corporations pay me to increase productivity.
	11:54am melinda: Nice cover
	👻 11:55am tadpoles: Joe you embody the eclecticism that makes FMU great. Thanks.
	👻 11:55am Ken From Hyde Park: Garfield the cat should listen more often. He'd feel a lot better about Mondays if he did. Thanks, Joe. @ngh - Will have to look for big records some time.
	11:56am Kat in Chicago: That was great!
	11:56am Itzall ClearD'me Nåu: We are ALL having fun!
	11:56am Phillippe Bastille: Thanks Joe! Catch ya later!
	11:57am Andrea in Jersey City: Thanks! :)
	11:57am coelacanth∅: Thanks Joe! Excellent as usual take care
	12:00pm melinda: Thanks for bringin the boogie Joe
	12:00pm Krys O.: Thanks, Joe!
	👻 12:00pm Webhamster Henry: What a show! Thanks, Joe & Listeners!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 12, 2019

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