WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 7, 2020

Listener comments!
	👻 9:00am 12539: Ray! Dee! O!
	👻 9:00am YETI BOB: YIP!
	👻 9:01am Marley P. Dogg: Yip, yip, yip... yip of earl... yip, yip, yip
	👻 9:01am 12539: Put the book down, Yippers!
	9:01am Mx. Granny (e/em): Uh-HUH!
	9:01am Jnorton34328: yip yip yip yip
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Ready to catch a case of the yips! Hi, Joe and all.
	9:02am David (in London): Hello Yippers. Afternoon Joe. Handy, Yeti Bob, Granny!
	9:02am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: Harumph! Harumph!
	9:02am Jnorton34328: @Granny morning
	9:02am Fuzzy: boing boing boing!
	👻 9:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Ray Dee Oh!
	9:02am Krys O.: Greetings!
	9:02am Barbara in PA: Hi Handy!
	👻 9:03am YETI BOB: Hey Granny, D(iL), Handy, Krys! New week is off to a good start
	9:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: rayyy-deeee-ohhhh
	9:03am TDK60: Hi Joe M! Please pass my "good morning" up the comments board, RevRab...
	9:03am Strandlund: The Great Joe McGasko!!
	9:04am Handy Haversack: Hi, Barbara! So nice to see you! How goes in PA? YB! David, Granny, everyone!
	👻 9:04am YETI BOB: and Mr. McGasko as well - greetings & much appreciation to you!
	9:04am Colleen: Great start already Joe!! You always make my Monday!
	9:04am Cal Zone!: Good Morning JMCG!
	9:04am Colleen: Hey Handy! Hey Strandlund!!
	👻 9:04am LW Rhino: Manday, Menday, Minday,Monday, Munday, and sometimes Mynday. Hello !
	9:05am David (in London): TDK, Krys, Rev Rab.
	9:05am Deborah: Radio Radio! Nice beginning.
	9:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...do my best TDK ^ umph - ! ^ ^ ...phew... ^ ^ ...Good Morning.
	👻 9:06am LW Rhino: Is that a concertina I hear?
	👻 9:06am Webhamster Henry: I sing "swor--ord fish trom bones" with this tune.
	9:06am Rick A.: Tom Waits: a most welcome Monday morning sound!
	9:06am pp: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tom-waits-10-best-songs/
	9:06am Handy Haversack: Colleen!!!! Did you get a ticket for karaoke next Sat.? Kate and I are in -- songs selected and OKed! Wow, this was worth Waitsing for.
	9:07am tiago: it is 2020 so I'm now afraid something happened to tow waits just coz 3 songs in a row ...
	9:07am TDK60: Thanks for the effort, RevRab. Maybe it's too much to ask....
	9:07am Krys O.: Oh, it's Tom's birthday.
	👻 9:07am Webhamster Henry: You're innocent when you dream.
	9:07am Handy Haversack: Please let nothing have happened to Tom Waits -- whew, thanks, Krys O.!
	9:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 71 ! ...Tom Waits for no man... What a body of work.
	9:08am Handy Haversack: National damn treasure.
	9:08am Mx. Granny (e/em): David (in London), lifting my teacup to you! YETI BOB, great to see you! Jnorton34328, back atcha! Hey, hey, hey, Handy!
	👻 9:08am YETI BOB: @LW Rhino: I think it's a regular accordion.
	9:08am Joe McG: Happy birthday to Tom Waits, and a happy set for anyone who doesn't like his voice. Good morning!
	9:09am Blues Mandinga: Ea!
	9:09am Colleen: Oooh.....I did not get a ticket yet....but yes...I deefinately will be!!!
	9:09am Prettyfluffy: Alice and Blood Money are my two favorite Tom Waits albums. Recognized the strings immediately.
	9:09am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: Makin' the scene with a magazine
	👻 9:09am YETI BOB: I used to listen to Tom Waits all the time. I don't know what happened. I still like him, but I never play these records any more
	👻 9:10am Marley P. Dogg: What a perfect way to start the day
	9:10am Mx. Granny (e/em): ok, i'm so delighted about this Tom Waits set. Joyous solar return!
	9:10am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): (** furiously check the internet for Tom Waits news **)....phew!!! Gees.
	👻 9:11am YETI BOB: I think in general I listen to a lot less vocal music, and a lot more instrumental (jazz, electronica, psych) - when I'm not listening to WFMU that is
	9:11am dale: he didn't die, did he? now i gotta google....
	👻 9:12am Ken From Hyde Park: Ever since that day I head a string of Elvis Presley songs, I get a little nervous when I hear multiples when it's not Two-fer Tuesday.
	9:12am Mx. Granny (e/em): It's Tom's birthday! Don't panic! xoxox
	👻 9:12am YETI BOB: he's 71 today and doing fine
	9:12am melinda: @Yeti I used to listen to Tom all the time too, I think I stopped so I wouldn't get tired of him.
	👻 9:12am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Is it going to be a random pull of Christmas tunes or is that a contradiction.
	9:12am Rich in Washington: I'm still having 'learning about Bowie via WFMU' flashbacks.
	9:13am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): The one time I got to see Waits live was one of the most transporting concerts I'd ever attended (Mule Variations tour).
	9:13am Mx. Granny (e/em): The Night On Earth soundtrack came out at a time when it was exactly what i needed
	👻 9:13am YETI BOB: @melinda: that's a good reason
	9:13am Prettyfluffy: I was in a coffee shop in north philly when I heard about Bowie. Cried into my damn coffee.
	9:13am melinda: @Rich I learned of Bowie's death on this comments board
	9:13am Miles: Googled the same dale. no as someone else mentioned and as your googler will tell ya its Tom's bday (a day after mine i might add)
	9:14am Chris S: I was getting worried about Tom
	9:14am KWilde: Hey Joe! Nice BD tribute
	9:14am Strandlund: Happy Monday Colleen!!
	9:14am Joe McG: @Brian: I hadn't thought of that. I could do a section of that on the show! Thx for the suggestion.
	9:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: You think Waits sounds like familiar Americanas - like it's always been there ...them you think - wait(s) ...what else exactly sounds like this ?? The texture - the observation - the individualism... Like a painter, director or actor as accessible popular music maker...
	👻 9:14am LW Rhino: I had a Beatles dream last night. Very weird yet intriguing.
	9:15am Mx. Granny (e/em): so brilliant to do an instrumental set
	👻 9:16am Webhamster Henry: I'm not seeing any Tom Waits Karaoke videos. I may have to make some. #WFMUKaraoke
	9:16am Karl Liber: Will never forget the premiere of Alice in Hamburg... Thalia..Waits Burroughs Wilson, just too much. Happy Birthday, thanks for all...
	9:16am Bob Dublon: Todd o phonic ...great music same shit i listen to ...you mighta heard the band i used to play with plasticland ...midnight records
	9:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Waits the kinda Artist you have phases listening... Beatles the kind you literally dream about...
	👻 9:17am LW Rhino: Smaltzing Broomhilda.
	9:17am Bob Dublon: Tom.Waits.birthday
	9:17am David (in London): Yeah, like Nick Cave, Waits is one of those artists I tend to binge on then leave for a while, until I rediscover how amazing he is all over again.
	👻 9:18am Webhamster Henry: Well, there is this: www.youtube.com...
	9:19am andy the painter: thanks for the Tom W birthday party joe!
	9:19am Deborah: Did anyone do the staring contest on Saturday?
	👻 9:19am Brian in UK: Confess Tom Waits has never moved me, probably because I never moved for Tom Waits.
	9:20am Joe McG: Glad you guys are enjoying my Tom Waits birthday party!
	9:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Put a buncha Waits on an iPod to come up as Shuffled - 400+ trax ! Beatles whole thing was ~200...yeah they were like seven years - but still...
	9:20am Handy Haversack: @Webhamster Henry, when Kate and I host karaoke marathons in Koreatown (7-8 hours, starting on a Sat. afternoon), the first hour is usually just the two of us singing sad songs about alcohol to each other. Fortunately, the place has "Tom Traubert's Blues."
	9:20am Krys O.: Aw, Tom Waits' music has me thinking about my late friend, Ralph Carney who worked with Tom.
	9:21am David (in London): My last Tom binge was precipitated by seeing that old clip of him explaining his newly-bought antique rat catcher to David Letterman. www.youtube.com...
	9:21am Miles: a riveting comment of mine was absolutely evaporated & lost to the ether ! nuts
	9:21am hank2sday: Great stuff today joe!!!!!!
	9:21am Mx. Granny (e/em): back before the internet (heh) i rode a train from Amsterdam to Hamburg because i heard Tom Waits had a production there, but found out when i got there i'd just missed it. Didn't even leave the train station, just headed onward to Prague… (yeah, TW tunes fill me with nostalgia) oh no, here comes the big one for me!!!)
	9:21am Stewball: Happy Birthday Tom.
	9:21am Mx. Granny (e/em): Russian Dance gets me every time.
	9:22am Rich in Washington: Nighthawks at the Diner is my all time favorite Waits record. It's like a party in itself.
	9:22am The Oscar: Morning! Realizing this must be the fourteenth anniversary of my mom calling me and waking me up to inform me that it was Tom Waits’ birthday, and that I should plan my college radio show accordingly. It’s nice having parents who look out for you.
	9:22am PaulRobeson1920: Yip!
	9:22am J-W from Belgium: Thanks for the birthday string if Tom Waits songs. I enjoy it! For those Tom Waits fans, anyone ever heard the “song by song” podcast?
	9:23am Handy Haversack: @Joe McG: Should be The Black Rider? It's a major part of my November soundtrack every year. Love this tune!
	👻 9:23am Webhamster Henry: @Handy How about Tom Waits Gangnam Style? #veryWFMU
	9:23am Buddha of Suburbia: Hey Joe McGasko! Hey friends!
	9:23am Mx. Granny (e/em): The Oscar! YEAH!
	9:23am Joe McG: I like that 5 people are credited on this song with "boots."
	👻 9:23am LW Rhino: "The coffee just wasn't strong enough to defend itself"
	9:24am melinda: @Oscar that's sweet
	9:24am Mx. Granny (e/em): Joe!!! YES!!! i love this!!! I'm stomping around!
	9:24am Miles: well anyways it mentioned having seen the stage production of Waits' musical Frank's Wild Years at The Briar Street Theater in Chicago in 1986. Purdy gud show
	9:24am Krys O.: I helped Waits at the record store where I worked in the mid-80s. Will never forget that I made him chuckle.
	9:24am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): My one regret was turning down tickets for the 2nd night of Waits in Boston. When I read the review I almost cried...he came from the back of the arena with a megaphone, blaring out the" Ladies and Gentleman!" opening from The Black Rider. Gah!!
	9:25am Joe McG: @Krys O.: Great story!
	9:25am Barnaby: Wow, i missed half an hour of Tom Waits. Luckily we have the archive :). Thanks Joe!
	9:26am Buddha of Suburbia: Krys O. nice!!
	9:26am Handy Haversack: A teacher in HS gave me /Small Change/ and the Pogues' /Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash/. And that has made all the difference.
	9:27am Mx. Granny (e/em): Handy: yay for the HS teachers who give their students such gifts.
	9:27am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Krys O: Can I have your autograph? Ha!!
	9:28am ?: Good morning Joe and all others. Yip.Yip.
	9:28am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: Is that Pete Zorn?
	9:28am David (in London): Woods, bummer. You must have been kicking yourself. He wouldn't play in London following unpleasant altercations with the tabloid press in the the 80s. Just meant I had to go to Paris and Edinburgh to see him. Not much of a hardship overall really.
	9:29am Mu Major: Nope, John Yorn
	9:29am Mx. Granny (e/em): oh man, Ralph Carney. i'm still sad about losing him.
	9:29am Woo: Sometimes I need a break from Tom Waits but now is not one of those times.
	👻 9:29am LW Rhino: Once I rode behind Tom Waits in Passaic NJ who was driving himself in an old Taxi cab to his own concert at the Capitol theater. We were headed to the concert as well. It was a great show in a great venue.
	9:29am Handy Haversack: Oh jeez. Just when I thought I was gonna keep it together.
	9:29am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @David (in London): Yeah. I and can't really remember why I didn't go. Probably money. Oh well, the show that I went to was just fab.
	9:29am steveo: lo, what glorious sounds doth mine ears caress
	9:30am WO Town Wick: I saw Waits' "operetta" Woyzek at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music in early part of the century. About a German mental patient. This may be hard to believe, but it was really weird. They didn't do "Jersey Girl" in it.
	9:30am Mx. Granny (e/em): LW Rhino, that is awesome!
	9:30am Joe McG: @LWRhino: Love it! @WOTW: Ha ha
	9:31am PaulRobeson1920: 1973
	9:32am Mx. Granny (e/em): i thought i had stuff to do but i'm just transfixed
	9:32am PaulRobeson1920: Happy Birthday Tom Waits
	9:32am Miles: yeah great idea for a set, joe
	9:33am Strandlund: You consistently out do yourself Mr. McGasko!!
	9:33am melinda: Love Closing Time
	9:34am Handy Haversack: Right, Granny?
	9:34am Miles: wow I forgot about Rainbirds GOOD TRACK
	9:34am Joe McG: These last two songs in particular have such lovely melodies. People underrate him as a melody maker.
	9:34am Karl Liber: Just instrumentals, brilliant set...
	9:34am Blacktooth: sheesh... had to quickly check the news and also read back through the comments... everyone knows what it typically means these days when you randomly hear 10+ songs by the same artist in a row.....
	9:35am melinda: @Joe so true
	9:35am Mx. Granny (e/em): Handy, i've lost it about three times during this set, pass the hanky!
	9:36am zzzacck: @blacktooth I had the exact same feeling
	9:36am Matt Fiveash: Really cool idea for a set, Joe! My appreciation of Waits has diminished somewhat with age, but all this instrumental stuff is pretty unimpeachable...
	9:36am Listener Scott: On almost any road trip playlist I manage to stick at least one Tom Waits instrumental on there. Thanks Joe, for putting them all in one place.
	9:36am Hubig Pie: Just tuned in, thought this was in memoriam, but it's birthday related, sos that's good
	9:37am melinda: Brilliant set, thanks!
	9:37am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: GREAT SET!
	9:37am Blacktooth: @zzzacck: very relieved
	9:37am steveo: when we were kids nobody ever died, mostly
	9:38am Miles: ha "croaks"
	9:38am Woo: We're all busy dying Joe
	👻 9:38am Webhamster Henry: Well, John Lennon was shot 40 years ago tomorrow.
	9:38am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Yeah, if you don't like him, you're WRONG! ;-)
	9:38am melinda: 'Someone croaks, we start slingin on the records' FMU slogan hee hee
	9:38am zzzacck: @blacktooth an onlooker would've heard "Oh no" and then saw a frantic online news search for Tom Waits
	9:39am The Oscar: My partner loves Tom Waits the actor, but hates Tom Waits the singer.
	👻 9:39am Brian in UK: Joe, that Neil Innes tribute was one year ago 9th Dec.
	9:39am Miles: that last album was pretty gud - check out "Chicago" on yEs Letterman - killer
	9:39am Blacktooth: @zzzacck: haha, literally what happened on my end as well
	9:39am VincentNifigance: Has taken me a long time to get into ‘Bad As Me’, but clicked with me a few weeks ago. Really good.
	👻 9:40am YETI BOB: @WO Town Wick: Also an early modern opera by Alban Berg, anda a Herzog movie
	9:40am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): First Tom Waits tune I ever heard: "Pasties & a G String" via WJUL, University of Lowell radio station.
	👻 9:41am Ken From Hyde Park: @WH - At the end of her show yesterday morning, Carol played Howard Cosell's announcement on Monday Night Football from that night. Spooky.
	9:41am andy the painter: i always like to imagine what Tom was thinking when his wife first introduced him to Capt Beefheart
	9:41am melinda: My intro was also Frank's Wild Years when I was in 6th or 7th grade. My older cousin played it for us and it blew my mind that someone could just talk and say weird things against a musical backdrop rather than sing.
	9:41am The Oscar: FYI Tom’s amazing (and rare) quasi-concert film Big Time is currently streaming on Prime.
	9:42am Morgan: i love hearing stories of difficult relationships with any album
	9:42am melinda: @Oscar cool, I've never seen it
	9:42am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @The Oscar It is?! Cool, I've never seen it.
	9:43am billyLondon: Great waits set!!
	👻 9:43am YETI BOB: His band got so much better when Marc Ribot joined on guitar
	9:43am PizzaWolf: love the Waits set
	9:43am PaulRobeson1920: But John your 40 years dead. I never died says he
	9:44am Karl Liber: Black Rider Hamburg Alice Copenhagen Got confused....
	👻 9:44am Webhamster Henry: <In a Paul Robeson voice>
	9:44am Morgan: @oscar thats a great tip! it’s never been released on dvd
	9:44am Rich in Washington: We owe a debt of gratitude to Waits' partner Kathleen Brennan for turning him onto avant garde artists and musicians - something he's acknowledge numerous times over the years.
	9:44am ike p: greetings, thanks, and good morning all! from the other end of the spectrum, i could've named 5 tom waits songs before this show and i'm definitely getting more from learning his music here than on my own i'm sure
	9:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Think 'Step Right Up' made me laugh & I was a fan. Beefheart I knew early because I had an older sibling into Musics. Some Jazz too. Later I learned of the Beats & became immersed in that verbal & philosophical connection... Harry Partch I probly only knew from photos till FMU & Irwin...
	9:45am Matt Fiveash: My intro was seeing Down By Law in the theater as a teen, that opening sequence with the dolly shots of New Orleans shotgun houses with Jockey Full of Bourbon playing. That really set me off...
	9:45am VincentNifigance: @David (in London) You should check his interview with Gay Byrne on the Late Late Show from the early 80s. Very interesting and awkward!
	9:45am melinda: @Yeti yes, Jockey Full of Bourbon in particular for me
	9:46am Emily Ebird: This morning’s Tom Wait’s show is an absolute Deeelite. THANK YOU, Joe!
	👻 9:46am Webhamster Henry: Tom is big on homemade and junky instruments. He wrote the intro to "Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones"
	9:46am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @melinda @YETI BOB: That was the tune he opened the show with in Boston.
	9:46am Morgan: brechtian even
	9:47am PaulRobeson1920: Happy B Day Tom!
	9:48am Morgan: John Lurie is in Down By Law too. thats a treat
	9:48am steveo: RANDOM PULL RULES!!!
	9:48am Crei6hton: Morning WFMU
	9:48am Phillippe Bastille: Howdy
	9:48am Handy Haversack: Seems not impossible that Tom Waits might hear this show, Joe. Happy birthday, Tom Waits!
	9:48am Krys O.: @Granny: It was so nice to see Ralph and the other band members in the Big Time movie. TCM aired it earlier this year.
	👻 9:49am YETI BOB: @Morgan: I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
	9:49am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Handy That Ubuweb book! Cripes, now I've gone down the People Like Us rabbit hole.
	9:49am non: i ♥ Joe McGasko
	👻 9:50am YETI BOB: I have a crush on Juana Molina
	9:50am Joe McG: @non: Aw, shucks, love you guys, too.
	👻 9:50am Ken From Hyde Park: The 2005 Robots animated movie used Tom's 1983 "Underground" track.
	9:50am Handy Haversack: I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream!!! Woods, that's fantastic! I shared your enjoyment with the acquiring editor and his assistant -- we rarely get to hear about our books bringing actual joy, so it's a treat!
	9:51am Morgan: @yeti bob lol and roberto benigni
	9:52am Roberto: I read that title as "Carajo de Espejo" at first.
	9:53am medson: Good morning Joe and everyone. Hope all is well
	9:53am Joe McG: @Roberto: Explain the difference to me, Roberto!
	9:54am Roberto: Face + "jo" = shite
	9:54am listener Rey: Hi Joe and everyone. Tom Waits work was so diverse. Really enjoyed that set this morning
	9:54am Joe McG: @Roberto: Whoa!
	👻 9:56am YETI BOB: Google Translate translates it as "Mirror F*ck" which is pretty funny
	9:57am Joe McG: I wish I knew the words. "Mirror Face" is an intriguing concept. Do we like that face in there or do we not? Mine is certainly looking more haggard these days.
	9:58am Morgan: slang is so treacherous! living languages are sneaky
	9:59am xtrakrispy: Tom Waits is good friends with Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch is a known listener of WFMU. Not at all impossible for Tom to check out the show.
	👻 9:59am YETI BOB: Thanks Crammed Discs for releasing Juana Molina's record on LP! Just ordered myself a copy. And thanks Joe for this awesome music, I like this Meridian Brothers track a lot
	10:01am melinda: Fans of Waits/Jarmusch/Lurie should see Fishing With John, if you haven't already
	👻 10:01am captain beef fart: Ugh missed Tom Waits because werk. Looking forward to the archive.
	10:02am Hubig Pie: I'm a good egg. That opening pan of Down by Law showed the Desire housing projects. All demolished after Katrina
	10:02am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @melinda Fishing With John is freaking hilarious!
	👻 10:02am YETI BOB: And it's on red vinyl. and the expected arrival date is Dec 25. Merry Christmas to Me!
	👻 10:05am Brian in UK: @YETI BOB, shame you could not walk round the corner to your local record shop; long gone I guess.
	10:06am Jnorton34328: @captain beef fart there is that four letter word WORK
	👻 10:07am YETI BOB: @Brian in UK: Not true at all. I have both Reckless Records and Dusty Groove in walking distance from my house. (And I used to also have Permanent Records before they moved to LA). But none of those shops have ARNMAL so I ordered it from Juana Molina's Bandcamp.
	10:07am Woo: @YETI BOB do you live near a Reckless Records? One thing I miss about going downtown to work is browsing at Reckless on Madison during my lunch hour.
	👻 10:08am YETI BOB: @Woo: Yeah I'm not far from Wicker Park.
	10:09am Rachel Bo Bachel: Fun show so far Joe! Happy Birthday Tom Waits!
	👻 10:09am YETI BOB: The shops are good for browsing, and for unloading used vinyl. But when I'm looking for something very specific I often have to order it.
	10:10am Jnorton34328: @Rachel morning
	10:10am Joe McG: "I get no signal/From your output" is a great line.
	10:10am Handy Haversack: Fishing with John was great! Tom Waits was so whiny in his episode. Rache!
	10:11am Joe McG: Tom did look sick and green for the whole show! Hi, RBR, happy belated!
	10:11am Jnorton34328: @Handy tom waits is such a treasure
	10:12am MplsCoco: Good morning Joe!
	10:13am Joe McG: Good morning, Coco! And all of your other folks. Pretend I'm Sheila B. and I can type super fast and thank you all individually! I wish I could type faster!
	10:15am βrian: "To be or not to be Sheila B."
	10:16am Rachel Bo Bachel: Hi Jnorton! Hiya handy! Joe, gee, thanks! :D The big 3-8. How old are You? I thought you were maybe my age but then you said you went to a show at BAM in 1993, when I was 11. Maybe you were a precocious 11-year-old?? Then again I guess I could see you as a young Max Fisher type ;D
	10:17am Rachel Bo Bachel: (Albeit probably less angsty)
	10:17am Jnorton34328: @Brian that is the question:)
	10:19am Handy Haversack: Rache, he wrote a hit play!
	👻 10:21am Brian in UK: Is Theremin Man, a Super Hero? No contact, very appropriate in this modern age.
	10:22am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy that is the line I was thinking of too hee hee! One of the favorite movies of our household for sure :)
	10:25am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: Pac Man Fever next?
	10:26am David (in London): I sincerely hope that they were dressed head-to-toe in silver lame when they recorded this.
	👻 10:26am Brian in UK: Joe, was one of your Premiums along these lines?
	10:26am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: I remember Chicken Man! "Chicken MAN! He's everywhere! He's everywhere!"
	10:27am Joe McG: @Brian: Indeed it was!
	10:27am Handy Haversack: David, it's the only way to generate that tone!
	👻 10:29am Brian in UK: OUTA SPACE, OUTTA SIGHT!
	10:30am iiibeat: Solaris is the name of a most excellent Russian film from the 1970's by Andrei Tarkovsky!
	10:31am Roberto: No it means Mirror Shite lol
	10:33am Hubig Pie: In the vacuum of space, the only thing that can save you is silver lame
	10:34am David (in London): Great choice Joe. I went to the same school as Dury. The teachers certainly remembered him...
	10:35am davefromtoronto: no such luck...
	10:35am Joe McG: Wow, David, cool! I like his paintings a lot. @dave: Ha! I know the feeling.
	10:36am Roberto: I think Ian Dury got more airplay on the Dr. Demento show than anywhere else in the U.S.
	10:36am efd: I have always been too abashed to play this song on my show. Bravo, Joe!
	👻 10:36am Brian in UK: Without Chaz Jankel I feel that he would not have got the airplay.
	10:37am Joe McG: @efd: Ha! You're a sweet guy, Evan.
	10:37am andy the painter: “what happens next is private” ow!
	10:38am luka: who wouldn't want to get it on with that voice first thing in the morning.
	10:38am Mairzy Doats: A fave memory- supermarket in suburban Virginia, late 80's- random mom & child doing the call & response from "Wot"...
	👻 10:38am Brian in UK: First track on New Boots....?
	👻 10:38am 12539: What does efd have against sex with people who are awake?!
	10:39am davefromtoronto: it's more like "wake up and take the dog out in the freezing cold..."
	10:39am Blacktooth: Ian Dury: proof that you don't need to be a model to enjoy sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. In fact, you can be a sweaty troll. It's all attitude, baby....
	10:39am Bill D: I have a copy of Spasticus Artisticus on 12"45 . Hypothetically, would that qualify for single file?
	10:40am Joe McG: @BillD: Jealous, Bill, I've never run across it and I want it!
	10:40am listener Rey: I missed parts 1 &2
	👻 10:40am YETI BOB: timeless
	👻 10:40am Brian in UK: Wake Up! on Stiff. Where else!!
	10:40am Joe McG: There should be an Ian Dury Guide for non-British listeners.
	10:40am Listener Baby: Good morning Joe. Good morning all!
	10:41am luka: i just realized i'd never looked at a picture of Ian Dury and i just kind of always assumed he looked like UK reggae legend Judge Dread for some reason??
	10:41am Bill D .: EFD, what about Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick?
	10:41am Steve from Dunwoody: Mairzy Doats -- "Say Captain" -- that's Captain Sensible, author of my fave Xmas song, Christmas Catalogue.
	10:42am ratso: My first exposure to Ian Dury was with this one. A friend came into the cafeteria in high school and said "I heard this cool song, and have no idea who does it!" When plied for more info, all he could "remember" was that it went something like "duh-duh, chapter 3. duh-duh, chapter 3." Took us a month to figure it out.
	10:43am Roberto: Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll was his big hit on Dr. D circa 1981.
	👻 10:43am Brian in UK: Love the fact that he never tried an American drawl like say Jagger.
	10:43am David (in London): Joe, "coming out of chokey" means leaving prison. "slap & tickle" means sexual congress.
	10:44am davefromtoronto: i saw a doc on him on Kanopy that was pretty good.
	10:45am Joe McG: @David: This is exactly what I need. His East End lingo is sometimes impenetrable.
	👻 10:45am Brian in UK: Trunchbull in Matilda mentions chokey.
	10:45am Hubig Pie: Chokey cuz it rhymes with pokey?
	10:45am Joe McG: Ian was also a randy bugger, in case I didn't mention it.
	10:45am Mairzy Doats: @ Steve from Dunwoody, LOL I kind of file them both in the same corner in my mind
	10:48am GeorgeSimian: That You're More Than Fair song was killer
	👻 10:48am Brian in UK: Was it a Health & Efficiency mag?
	👻 10:49am Ken From Hyde Park: Ian Dury's birthday is May 12, 1942 and he died of colorectal cancer on March 27, 2000. Don't put off your colonoscopy tests, yippies.
	👻 10:50am YETI BOB: @Brian: Thanks, you just gave me new insight into a This Heat record I've owned since 1980
	10:51am Joe McG: Good reminder, Ken! :)
	10:52am Mike W: hit me with your single file
	10:53am mariano: 'Morning Joe McG, Crew, everyone. Hey David - very interesting about the English prison slang. In the States there's an older term, "the pokey" as well as a couple of archaic, Spanish-derived terms like hoosegow (juzgado) and calaboose (calaboso). Tom Waits' "Walking Spanish" is a compendium of 20s and 30s US prison slang.
	10:53am ?: Toms B-day whew! When I hear a block of an artist always assume they died. carry on
	10:54am davefromtoronto: i expected him to look like alexei sayle.
	10:55am luka: @dave that's fair, too. dr. martin's boots!!
	10:55am David (in London): Yeti Bob, I'll send you something which will explain it even further if you like. Hey mariano.
	10:56am Handy Haversack: Even Jesus wanted just a little more time, Mariano.
	👻 10:57am YETI BOB: Here's a song about the sunshine / Dedicated to the sunshine ... one of my all-time-favorite tracks. Yes please, David!
	👻 10:57am Brian in UK: Two mentions of Coltrane, will there be a third?
	10:57am Steve from Dunwoody: Winter of 79/80, I was an engineer lieutenant at Fort Ord CA and our company was picked to exchange places for a month with a Royal Engr squadron in N. Yorkshire. Hmm, Monterey CA or Ripon England in February? Great fun, though. First bus off the plane and the radio is playing Rhythm Stick. I was the only one bouncing as none of my troops knew the tune.
	10:58am Lizardner Dave !: JONESY!!!
	10:58am listener 126464: all I want for my birthday is another birthday
	10:58am Steve from Dunwoody: MY PLAN! OK Ian. No one knows my plan.
	👻 10:59am YETI BOB: Back to the East End lingo topic - there are actually some Ian Dury annotations on genius.com (former Rap Genius) - where you can learn that "Razzle was a British men’s magazine", if it's not obvious from context
	👻 10:59am Brian in UK: Joe, great single file. Stand by your beds.
	11:00am David (in London): Your "gaff" is generally your home. But can also be applied to where you are: office, shop etc.
	11:00am Hubig Pie: Small world Steve from D. I was stationed at Presidio of Monterey in '79
	11:00am David (in London): Yeti Bob - "raz mag" became a generic term for a pornographic magazine.
	11:01am luka: big tune right here though.
	11:01am Rich in Washington: OH NO! Don't tell me Ian Dury's dead! ;)
	11:01am steveo: he's fine, he just eloped with Tom Waits
	11:02am Rich in Washington: <haven't been able to listen to the last half hour or so on my commute because my phone wouldn't cooperate>
	👻 11:02am Brian in UK: This single file proves that rumours of Ian Dury's demise are greatly exaggerate.
	11:02am steveo: *where "fine" = died 20 years ago
	👻 11:02am YETI BOB: @D(il): I see. Please continue the edifying explanations.
	11:03am dale: many moons ago there was a great mojo article about how all the stiff artists touring together would try to outdo each other musically. elvis costello and nick lowe were really writing powerhouses. others enjoyed the party more.
	11:03am B. from Detroit: I will ENDLESSLY grateful for you introduceing me to this British horny weirdo. I’m gonna have to share him with everyone I know. You don’t know how happy this made me today.
	11:03am mariano: Handy: one of my favorite lines in any song. David: The history of English slang is so interesting. Especially when you bring in things like Polari and other cants, as I've seen them called sometimes.
	11:04am Rich in Washington: That Stiff documentary is really worth tracking down and watching. So good.
	11:04am Joe McG: @Rich: Ha ha ha @B.: WOW, that makes ME so happy. Yes, he's a wonderful weirdo. Start with "New Boots and Panties!!" and go from there. Much to discover!
	👻 11:04am YETI BOB: I love the German/French mashups: Je t'adore, ich liebe dich. Das ist gut, c'est fantastique. C'est si bon, mm? Ist es nicht?
	11:04am Phillippe Bastille: Oh man, I remember dancing to this.
	11:04am P-90: Another diverting and uplifting Single File. Thanks @Joe McG.
	11:05am David (in London): "Two fat persons, click click click", means when the number 88 comes up in bingo.
	11:05am Steve from Dunwoody: @Hubig It is a small world. I lived in beautiful Marina CA with 3 other LTs in an old farmhouse next to the ice rink. Maybe you came to one of our large parties?! I was a baby at Presidio of Monterey in 1956 as my dad was learning German at DLI. All the best!
	👻 11:06am YETI BOB: D(iL): In the USA we call that "Double Snowman"
	11:06am mariano: "Punk" has a really interesting history too, from its original Elizabethan meaning of "prostitute," to its adoption in American prisons as a term replaced later by "bitch," to its general meaning of young male delinquent. That's why in older films you'll hear stuff like "I'm nobody's punk!" David: Always had you pegged for a bingo hustler ;)
	11:07am Phillippe Bastille: @YB or, in my case, my best golf score (damn windmill)
	11:07am P-90: “Two Fat Persons” doesn’t mean double eights in Dominoes?
	11:07am Handy Haversack: Pocket 8s "the snowmen" in Texas Hold 'Em. Great set, Joe!
	👻 11:08am YETI BOB: @D(iL): Actually we don't - I just thought it would be fun to try to teach you some totally made-up American slang. But "Double nickels" is real.
	👻 11:08am YETI BOB: @HH: Haha, I was just trying to make something up. Didn't know about the snowmen in poker.
	👻 11:09am YETI BOB: It sort of suggests itself, I guess.
	11:10am Handy Haversack: Many hole-card combos have names in poker. I love "walking back to Houston" for Ace-King. And of course "Jack-King Off."
	👻 11:10am Brian in UK: Guess you all know of the Stiff T-shirt. 'If It Aint Stiff, It Aint Worth a F...'
	11:10am Spankyflop: Ian's son Baxter has done some decent stuff too. Very much followed in his dad's footsteps.
	11:10am Phillippe Bastille: Double nickels in a double nickel Chevy Bel Air was about the best you could do
	11:12am Hubig Pie: @Steve from D, I was a young spazzed out AF recruit trying to learn the Arabic language and didn't get invited to any house parties.
	11:12am egould310: Just got my October fund drive swag on Friday. Some good looking t-shirts, and a great sticker. Thanks to the WFMU crew for all your efforts.
	11:13am mariano: There's also US diner slang, which aside from "86" I don't think I've ever heard used in real life. I suspect it was only ever used by figures in Edward Hopper paintings and 30s screwball comedies. en.wikipedia.org...
	11:13am David (in London): For me, 'double nickels' brings one thing to mind: The Minutemen. And that's a good thing for sure.
	11:13am Handy Haversack: Hooray! Thanks, Joe -- that was fantabulous! Hope to see you at the karaoke party! Dog's taking me for my walk. I will catch up with some of you at the Next Joe Up's. Excellent good news, Joe!
	11:14am mariano: Take care, Handy!
	11:15am David (in London): TTFN Handy.
	👻 11:15am Brian in UK: David in London, I saw Mike Watt at the Lexington about four years ago, did you ever get to see him?
	👻 11:16am Brian in UK: Joan's first album is tops.
	11:18am P-90: I cherish the floperoos.
	👻 11:19am tim from champaign (now washington): Who you callin' 'rube', city slicker!
	11:20am David (in London): Brian, sadly I didn't make that Lexington show, Luckily I saw him with Firehose back in the 80s, then more recently with J Mascis & The Fog and twice with The Stooges. Can't complain about that really. He was never less than amazing.
	11:21am Mister Dobalina: Pretty cool song!
	11:22am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	11:22am steveo: good song; did he say the colors are colorful?
	11:22am mariano: Wow, David, lucky. Never got to see Firehose.
	11:23am Brendan: @Joe. Sounds mighty good to me. Would make a good accompaniment for reasonably priced beer at any self-respecting honky-tonk.
	11:23am Joe McG: I know it's a bit late for the Bandcamp deal, but check out Rube on Bandcamp, they're great.
	11:23am Rachel Bo Bachel: Great song and song title!
	11:24am Dennis Diken: hey Joe and all, duckin' in and out today, just wanted to say hey! have a ball!
	11:26am Joe McG: Thanks for stoppin' by, Dennis, always great to see you. Heard you play on Todd's show this morning!
	11:26am Rachel Bo Bachel: “Luftmensch” is a cool term too- my mother-in-law speaks Yiddish and she calls ppl that sometimes
	11:27am egould310: I saw Mike Watt, George Hurley, Nels Cline, and Thurston Moore at the Alligator Lounge in Santa Monica, CA back in 1996? Two hours of improvised noisy guitar free-form awesomeness. Plus I took three hits of acid and the music was creating amazing visuals.
	11:28am Rachel Bo Bachel: Dennis and Todd played “Denis” by Blondie, maybe for you!!
	11:28am paul: Nick Lowe's "Christmas at the Airport" would fit into this set nicely.
	11:30am Joe McG: @paul: Great suggestion! Our Xmas music is still in the basement, though! :)
	11:30am Dennis Diken: @Rachel & Joe - ha! was that it? missed ol' Todd today
	👻 11:30am tim from champaign (now washington): @Paul - and Purple Mountains' "Margaritas at the Mall".
	11:32am mariano: egould310: I saw George Hurley as part of the short-lived Vida in SF around the same time, a group that also included Dez Cadena and Tom Troccoli. Was good to see them, but it definitely felt like a side project.
	11:32am Rachel Bo Bachel: Dennis he also played “behind the wall of sleep” :) a favorite on Wake beautiful!
	11:33am Joe McG: @paul: Hey, I found a Xmas-related song I brought with me that I'll play next. @Dennis: Yes, "Behind the Wall of Sleep" was the one I heard!
	11:33am Rachel Bo Bachel: Todd is back on Wednesday AM i think- I bet he’d be stoked if you stopped in!
	11:33am David (in London): egould310: I salute your pre-gig preparation there.
	👻 11:33am Brian in UK: If you like this set, then Gina Bacon's Someday Matinee show on Saturday, Drummer Stream is the place for you.
	11:34am egould310: I saw Vida. Thanksgiving Day 1993. They played in Tony Lombardo’s garage in Lakewood.
	👻 11:35am tim from champaign (now washington): @mariano - I missed a mid-90s Red Krayola show for some reason I can't remember. I was even more bummed when my friend who went told me that George Hurley was drumming with them.
	11:35am Kevin-san: great show today, Joe. Enjoyed the Ian Dury set, was lucky enough to see him live a few times in the UK, what a blast he was in person
	11:35am KWilde: @ Brian - yes Gina does a great show!
	11:36am David (in London): Ah, kevin-san. Hello. I shared the RGS connection earlier.
	11:36am Joe McG: @Kevin: Oh, that is lucky. I never had the chance.
	11:37am Phillippe Bastille: Ben Platt did an amazing cover of this in The Politician
	11:37am Dennis Diken: i gotta get up earlier...
	11:38am Jason from Houston: Just finished my annual reading of John Graves' Goodbye to a River.
	11:38am patrick321: Hi Joe! This is a nice cover. I'm partial to Tracey Thorn's version.
	11:38am xtrakrispy: Thinking of Starz: Sheer Mag’s logo is very reminiscent of the Starz logo.
	11:39am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	👻 11:40am tim from champaign (now washington): @Dennis - are there plans for Ronnie to play shows post pandemic?
	11:40am gorp: great set joe! perfect for today (for me anyway)
	11:40am Yes: thank you for prine
	👻 11:40am Brian in UK: This set is putting me in mind of Chip Taylor's 70s albums for no particular reason.
	11:41am βrian: Damn, I was sure he meant Rome, New York.
	11:41am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	11:42am KWilde: Sad that I'll never get to see John Prine again
	11:42am paul: Thanks, @Joe!
	11:43am Kevin-san: Hi David! I saw you also explained Slap & tickle, good work!
	11:43am paul: @Tim, I'll have to track that one down.
	11:44am mariano: timFC: Yeah, if anything, it was great to see Hurley at the drums.
	11:44am Dennis Diken: @Tim, haven't heard but I know she loves to play live
	11:44am David (in London): kevin, you might almost call me a Cockney Translator... (Apologies to Smiley Culture).
	11:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: Dennis me too I keep just catching the last 20mins! Joe awesome show thanks for what you do!! <3
	11:45am KWilde: The last time I saw JP Elizabeth Cook opened the show
	11:46am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	11:46am Jason from Houston: So fine...
	👻 11:47am tim from champaign (now washington): @Dennis - that's great! My partner and I had tickets for her Edmonds, WA show in May '19. We were so bummed when she had to cancel.
	11:48am PizzaWolf: such a good song
	11:48am dano59: Ooooh . I love Beth. Nice pairing with Prine, Joe.
	11:48am Morgan: well this is my introduction to Elizabeth Cook
	11:48am judy from croton: Joe, your show is, once again, helping me through a difficult time. Through it; not around it, over, or under it.
	11:50am Joe McG: Oh, I'm so glad to hear that, judy. Hang in there, we'll make it.
	11:50am Krys O.: Thanks, Joe!
	11:50am βrian: Frat-boy hazing == Baby poop.
	11:51am P-90: Clickey-Star for rhyming “mod” with “God,”. then “rod” with “God,” in the same verse...
	11:51am mariano: Thank you Joe, bye all!
	11:52am hoeg: OK now i'm sobbing in the kitchen, thanks Joe that was great
	11:53am Jason from Houston: ꒰ ⌯•̩̩̩́ ˑ̫ •̩̩̩̀⌯꒱
	11:53am Joe B: great show Joe!
	11:54am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everyone! It's been a pleasure. See you next week for the Random Pull Special!
	11:54am David (in London): Great show today Joe, thanks.
	👻 11:54am LastWhiteRhino: Take care Joe. I'm looking forward to the Stashu/McGasko duet. I'm sure it will be EPIC.
	11:54am listener 126464: Thanks Joe McG.
	👻 11:54am 12539: Today's show had it all. Thanks, Joe! Be well everyone.
	11:55am βrian: Irene is ready to radiate via the Drummer Stream: wfmu.org...
	11:55am Yes: excellent . thank you
	11:55am Phillippe Bastille: Thanks Joe!
	11:55am thriftstoreleather: beautiful set! thank u Joe
	11:56am JG: Thanks Joe, your show always helps ease the Monday suck fest of the workworld reaity
	👻 11:56am Brian in UK: Joe. Great sets today.
	👻 11:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. In other birthday news, DJ Stork Club celebrated Dave Brubeck's 100th yesterday and Irene mentioned she may play some more on her show set to radiate momentarily.
	11:57am Hubig Pie: Death on the highway songs is a special show just waiting to happen
	11:58am paul: Hubig....would that include The Carroll County Accident?
	👻 11:58am Ken From Hyde Park: Haha, a dude on the school bus years ago used the phrase "Wake up and die right." It is indeed due for a comeback, along with "Shoot a mile!"
	👻 11:59am nortonjutland: as always; perfect show Joe!
	12:42pm P-90: LOVE that Brinkley impression! Well-written bit too.

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 7, 2020

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December 7, 2020: Everyone Will Feel Useful in Lovely Ways

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
An Instrumentally Deuteronomous Birthday Salute to Tom Waits
Tom Waits	Cinny's Waltz "Cinny's Waltz" by "Tom Waits"	Foreign Affairs	Asylum	1977	LP			0:09:39 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Just Another Sucker on the Vine	Swordfishtrombones	Island	1983	LP			0:11:56 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Untitled Instrumental "Untitled Instrumental" by "Tom Waits"	Alice (The Original Demos)	No Label	1992	CD-R			0:13:41 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Fawn "Fawn" by "Tom Waits"	Alice	Anti-	2002	CD			0:16:15 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Good Old World (waltz) "Good Old World (waltz)" by "Tom Waits"	"Night on Earth": Original Soundtrack Recording	Island	1992	CD			0:18:16 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	In Shades "In Shades" by "Tom Waits"	Heartattack and Vine	Asylum	1980	LP			0:20:43 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Instrumental Montage: The Tango/Circus Girl	"One from the Heart": Music from the Motion Picture	Columbia Legacy	2004	CD	From 1982		0:24:58 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Russian Dance "Russian Dance" by "Tom Waits"	The Black Rider	Island	1993	CD			0:28:02 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Redrum "Redrum" by "Tom Waits"	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards	Anti-	2006	CD			0:31:05 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Knife Chase "Knife Chase" by "Tom Waits"	Blood Money	Anti-	2002	CD			0:32:18 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Midtown "Midtown" by "Tom Waits"	Rain Dogs	Island	1985	LP			0:34:41 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Closing Time "Closing Time" by "Tom Waits"	Closing Time	Elektra/Aslyum	1990	CD	From 1973		0:36:01 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Rainbirds "Rainbirds" by "Tom Waits"	Swordfishtrombones	Island	1983	LP			0:39:57 (Pop-up)

Juana Molina	Cara de Espejo "Cara de Espejo" by "Juana Molina"	ARNMAL	Crammed Discs	2020	MP3		*	0:56:52 (Pop-up)
The Meridian Brothers	Los Golpeadores de la Cumbia	Cumbia Siglo XXI	Bongo Joe	2020	MP3		*	1:02:15 (Pop-up)
DEVO	Snowball "Snowball" by "DEVO"	Freedom of Choice	Warner Bros.	1980	LP			1:06:19 (Pop-up)
Craze	Lucy "Lucy" by "Craze"	Musik Music Musique: (1980) The Dawn of Synth Pop	Cherry Red	2020	CD	From 1980	*	1:10:21 (Pop-up)
R.AGGS	Exhuberance "Exhuberance" by "R.AGGS"	//TAPE 1//	Rachel Aggs	2020	MP3		*	1:12:13 (Pop-up)
The Metronomes	A Circuit Like Me "A Circuit Like Me" by "The Metronomes"	Musik Music Musique: (1980) The Dawn of Synth Pop	Cherry Red	2020	CD	From 1980	*	1:14:47 (Pop-up)
Music on Hold	Gary Manders "Gary Manders" by "Music on Hold"	30 Minutes of Music on Hold	Born Bad	2020	CD		*	1:18:37 (Pop-up)
Trees Speak	Those Who Know "Those Who Know" by "Trees Speak"	Shadow Forms	Soul Jazz	2020	CD		*	1:22:07 (Pop-up)
Stephen Hamm	Analogue Rock "Analogue Rock" by "Stephen Hamm"	Theremin Man	Pro-Am Entertainment	2019	CD			1:24:48 (Pop-up)
Pierre Bachelet	Motel Show "Motel Show" by "Pierre Bachelet"	Cosmic Machine: A Voyage Across French Cosmic & Electronic Avantgarde (1970–1980)	Because Music	2013	CD	From 1979		1:27:45 (Pop-up)
Solaris	Space Invaders "Space Invaders" by "Solaris"	Space Funk: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-1984	Soul Jazz	2020	CD	From 1981	*	1:29:55 (Pop-up)

This Week, Single File Single Artist: Ian Dury!
Ian Dury	Wake Up! "Wake Up!" by "Ian Dury"	single	Stiff	1978	45			1:42:02 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury and the Blockheads	Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3	single	Stiff	1979	45			1:45:45 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury & the Blockheads	You're More Than Fair	single	Stiff	1977	45			1:50:40 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury	Razzle in My Pocket (True Story)	single	Stiff	1977	45			1:53:46 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury	Profoundly in Love with Pandora	single	EMI	1985	45			1:56:36 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury	Really Glad You Came "Really Glad You Came" by "Ian Dury"	single	Polydor	1983	45			2:00:06 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury & the Blockheads	You'll See Glimpses	single	Stiff	1980	45			2:03:58 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury and the Blockheads	Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick (Dance Version)	single	Stiff-Epic	1979	45			2:07:43 (Pop-up)

Rube	Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth ('Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye)	Clean, Masculine & Confident	Luftmensch	2018	Cassette			2:26:13 (Pop-up)
Colter Wall	Houlihans at the Holiday Inn	Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs	La Honda	2020	CD		*	2:31:18 (Pop-up)
C. Albert Blomquist	Never Had a Heart Hurt So Hard	C. Albert Blomquist	C. Albert Blomquist	2020	MP3		*	2:36:06 (Pop-up)
Little Gold	Half Over You "Half Over You" by "Little Gold"	Wake Up & Die Right	Sophomore Lounge	2020	LP		*	2:38:26 (Pop-up)
Margo Price	River "River" by "Margo Price"	No Album	No Label	2020	MP3	from a radio session	*	2:41:24 (Pop-up)
John Prine	Jesus The Missing Years	The Missing Years	Oh Boy	1991	CD			2:45:26 (Pop-up)
Elizabeth Cook	Mary The Submissing Years	Aftermath	Agent Love Music	2020	MP3		*	2:51:23 (Pop-up)
Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams	Plastic Bouquet	Plastic Bouquet	New West	2020	CD		*	2:56:39 (Pop-up)
Tobin Sprout	No Shame "No Shame" by "Tobin Sprout"	Empty Horses	Fire	2020	CD		*	2:59:35 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 9:00am 12539: Ray! Dee! O!
	👻 9:00am YETI BOB: YIP!
	👻 9:01am Marley P. Dogg: Yip, yip, yip... yip of earl... yip, yip, yip
	👻 9:01am 12539: Put the book down, Yippers!
	9:01am Mx. Granny (e/em): Uh-HUH!
	9:01am Jnorton34328: yip yip yip yip
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Ready to catch a case of the yips! Hi, Joe and all.
	9:02am David (in London): Hello Yippers. Afternoon Joe. Handy, Yeti Bob, Granny!
	9:02am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: Harumph! Harumph!
	9:02am Jnorton34328: @Granny morning
	9:02am Fuzzy: boing boing boing!
	👻 9:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Ray Dee Oh!
	9:02am Krys O.: Greetings!
	9:02am Barbara in PA: Hi Handy!
	👻 9:03am YETI BOB: Hey Granny, D(iL), Handy, Krys! New week is off to a good start
	9:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: rayyy-deeee-ohhhh
	9:03am TDK60: Hi Joe M! Please pass my "good morning" up the comments board, RevRab...
	9:03am Strandlund: The Great Joe McGasko!!
	9:04am Handy Haversack: Hi, Barbara! So nice to see you! How goes in PA? YB! David, Granny, everyone!
	👻 9:04am YETI BOB: and Mr. McGasko as well - greetings & much appreciation to you!
	9:04am Colleen: Great start already Joe!! You always make my Monday!
	9:04am Cal Zone!: Good Morning JMCG!
	9:04am Colleen: Hey Handy! Hey Strandlund!!
	👻 9:04am LW Rhino: Manday, Menday, Minday,Monday, Munday, and sometimes Mynday. Hello !
	9:05am David (in London): TDK, Krys, Rev Rab.
	9:05am Deborah: Radio Radio! Nice beginning.
	9:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...do my best TDK ^ umph - ! ^ ^ ...phew... ^ ^ ...Good Morning.
	👻 9:06am LW Rhino: Is that a concertina I hear?
	👻 9:06am Webhamster Henry: I sing "swor--ord fish trom bones" with this tune.
	9:06am Rick A.: Tom Waits: a most welcome Monday morning sound!
	9:06am pp: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tom-waits-10-best-songs/
	9:06am Handy Haversack: Colleen!!!! Did you get a ticket for karaoke next Sat.? Kate and I are in -- songs selected and OKed! Wow, this was worth Waitsing for.
	9:07am tiago: it is 2020 so I'm now afraid something happened to tow waits just coz 3 songs in a row ...
	9:07am TDK60: Thanks for the effort, RevRab. Maybe it's too much to ask....
	9:07am Krys O.: Oh, it's Tom's birthday.
	👻 9:07am Webhamster Henry: You're innocent when you dream.
	9:07am Handy Haversack: Please let nothing have happened to Tom Waits -- whew, thanks, Krys O.!
	9:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 71 ! ...Tom Waits for no man... What a body of work.
	9:08am Handy Haversack: National damn treasure.
	9:08am Mx. Granny (e/em): David (in London), lifting my teacup to you! YETI BOB, great to see you! Jnorton34328, back atcha! Hey, hey, hey, Handy!
	👻 9:08am YETI BOB: @LW Rhino: I think it's a regular accordion.
	9:08am Joe McG: Happy birthday to Tom Waits, and a happy set for anyone who doesn't like his voice. Good morning!
	9:09am Blues Mandinga: Ea!
	9:09am Colleen: Oooh.....I did not get a ticket yet....but yes...I deefinately will be!!!
	9:09am Prettyfluffy: Alice and Blood Money are my two favorite Tom Waits albums. Recognized the strings immediately.
	9:09am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: Makin' the scene with a magazine
	👻 9:09am YETI BOB: I used to listen to Tom Waits all the time. I don't know what happened. I still like him, but I never play these records any more
	👻 9:10am Marley P. Dogg: What a perfect way to start the day
	9:10am Mx. Granny (e/em): ok, i'm so delighted about this Tom Waits set. Joyous solar return!
	9:10am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): (** furiously check the internet for Tom Waits news **)....phew!!! Gees.
	👻 9:11am YETI BOB: I think in general I listen to a lot less vocal music, and a lot more instrumental (jazz, electronica, psych) - when I'm not listening to WFMU that is
	9:11am dale: he didn't die, did he? now i gotta google....
	👻 9:12am Ken From Hyde Park: Ever since that day I head a string of Elvis Presley songs, I get a little nervous when I hear multiples when it's not Two-fer Tuesday.
	9:12am Mx. Granny (e/em): It's Tom's birthday! Don't panic! xoxox
	👻 9:12am YETI BOB: he's 71 today and doing fine
	9:12am melinda: @Yeti I used to listen to Tom all the time too, I think I stopped so I wouldn't get tired of him.
	👻 9:12am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Is it going to be a random pull of Christmas tunes or is that a contradiction.
	9:12am Rich in Washington: I'm still having 'learning about Bowie via WFMU' flashbacks.
	9:13am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): The one time I got to see Waits live was one of the most transporting concerts I'd ever attended (Mule Variations tour).
	9:13am Mx. Granny (e/em): The Night On Earth soundtrack came out at a time when it was exactly what i needed
	👻 9:13am YETI BOB: @melinda: that's a good reason
	9:13am Prettyfluffy: I was in a coffee shop in north philly when I heard about Bowie. Cried into my damn coffee.
	9:13am melinda: @Rich I learned of Bowie's death on this comments board
	9:13am Miles: Googled the same dale. no as someone else mentioned and as your googler will tell ya its Tom's bday (a day after mine i might add)
	9:14am Chris S: I was getting worried about Tom
	9:14am KWilde: Hey Joe! Nice BD tribute
	9:14am Strandlund: Happy Monday Colleen!!
	9:14am Joe McG: @Brian: I hadn't thought of that. I could do a section of that on the show! Thx for the suggestion.
	9:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: You think Waits sounds like familiar Americanas - like it's always been there ...them you think - wait(s) ...what else exactly sounds like this ?? The texture - the observation - the individualism... Like a painter, director or actor as accessible popular music maker...
	👻 9:14am LW Rhino: I had a Beatles dream last night. Very weird yet intriguing.
	9:15am Mx. Granny (e/em): so brilliant to do an instrumental set
	👻 9:16am Webhamster Henry: I'm not seeing any Tom Waits Karaoke videos. I may have to make some. #WFMUKaraoke
	9:16am Karl Liber: Will never forget the premiere of Alice in Hamburg... Thalia..Waits Burroughs Wilson, just too much. Happy Birthday, thanks for all...
	9:16am Bob Dublon: Todd o phonic ...great music same shit i listen to ...you mighta heard the band i used to play with plasticland ...midnight records
	9:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Waits the kinda Artist you have phases listening... Beatles the kind you literally dream about...
	👻 9:17am LW Rhino: Smaltzing Broomhilda.
	9:17am Bob Dublon: Tom.Waits.birthday
	9:17am David (in London): Yeah, like Nick Cave, Waits is one of those artists I tend to binge on then leave for a while, until I rediscover how amazing he is all over again.
	👻 9:18am Webhamster Henry: Well, there is this: www.youtube.com...
	9:19am andy the painter: thanks for the Tom W birthday party joe!
	9:19am Deborah: Did anyone do the staring contest on Saturday?
	👻 9:19am Brian in UK: Confess Tom Waits has never moved me, probably because I never moved for Tom Waits.
	9:20am Joe McG: Glad you guys are enjoying my Tom Waits birthday party!
	9:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Put a buncha Waits on an iPod to come up as Shuffled - 400+ trax ! Beatles whole thing was ~200...yeah they were like seven years - but still...
	9:20am Handy Haversack: @Webhamster Henry, when Kate and I host karaoke marathons in Koreatown (7-8 hours, starting on a Sat. afternoon), the first hour is usually just the two of us singing sad songs about alcohol to each other. Fortunately, the place has "Tom Traubert's Blues."
	9:20am Krys O.: Aw, Tom Waits' music has me thinking about my late friend, Ralph Carney who worked with Tom.
	9:21am David (in London): My last Tom binge was precipitated by seeing that old clip of him explaining his newly-bought antique rat catcher to David Letterman. www.youtube.com...
	9:21am Miles: a riveting comment of mine was absolutely evaporated & lost to the ether ! nuts
	9:21am hank2sday: Great stuff today joe!!!!!!
	9:21am Mx. Granny (e/em): back before the internet (heh) i rode a train from Amsterdam to Hamburg because i heard Tom Waits had a production there, but found out when i got there i'd just missed it. Didn't even leave the train station, just headed onward to Prague… (yeah, TW tunes fill me with nostalgia) oh no, here comes the big one for me!!!)
	9:21am Stewball: Happy Birthday Tom.
	9:21am Mx. Granny (e/em): Russian Dance gets me every time.
	9:22am Rich in Washington: Nighthawks at the Diner is my all time favorite Waits record. It's like a party in itself.
	9:22am The Oscar: Morning! Realizing this must be the fourteenth anniversary of my mom calling me and waking me up to inform me that it was Tom Waits’ birthday, and that I should plan my college radio show accordingly. It’s nice having parents who look out for you.
	9:22am PaulRobeson1920: Yip!
	9:22am J-W from Belgium: Thanks for the birthday string if Tom Waits songs. I enjoy it! For those Tom Waits fans, anyone ever heard the “song by song” podcast?
	9:23am Handy Haversack: @Joe McG: Should be The Black Rider? It's a major part of my November soundtrack every year. Love this tune!
	👻 9:23am Webhamster Henry: @Handy How about Tom Waits Gangnam Style? #veryWFMU
	9:23am Buddha of Suburbia: Hey Joe McGasko! Hey friends!
	9:23am Mx. Granny (e/em): The Oscar! YEAH!
	9:23am Joe McG: I like that 5 people are credited on this song with "boots."
	👻 9:23am LW Rhino: "The coffee just wasn't strong enough to defend itself"
	9:24am melinda: @Oscar that's sweet
	9:24am Mx. Granny (e/em): Joe!!! YES!!! i love this!!! I'm stomping around!
	9:24am Miles: well anyways it mentioned having seen the stage production of Waits' musical Frank's Wild Years at The Briar Street Theater in Chicago in 1986. Purdy gud show
	9:24am Krys O.: I helped Waits at the record store where I worked in the mid-80s. Will never forget that I made him chuckle.
	9:24am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): My one regret was turning down tickets for the 2nd night of Waits in Boston. When I read the review I almost cried...he came from the back of the arena with a megaphone, blaring out the" Ladies and Gentleman!" opening from The Black Rider. Gah!!
	9:25am Joe McG: @Krys O.: Great story!
	9:25am Barnaby: Wow, i missed half an hour of Tom Waits. Luckily we have the archive :). Thanks Joe!
	9:26am Buddha of Suburbia: Krys O. nice!!
	9:26am Handy Haversack: A teacher in HS gave me /Small Change/ and the Pogues' /Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash/. And that has made all the difference.
	9:27am Mx. Granny (e/em): Handy: yay for the HS teachers who give their students such gifts.
	9:27am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Krys O: Can I have your autograph? Ha!!
	9:28am ?: Good morning Joe and all others. Yip.Yip.
	9:28am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: Is that Pete Zorn?
	9:28am David (in London): Woods, bummer. You must have been kicking yourself. He wouldn't play in London following unpleasant altercations with the tabloid press in the the 80s. Just meant I had to go to Paris and Edinburgh to see him. Not much of a hardship overall really.
	9:29am Mu Major: Nope, John Yorn
	9:29am Mx. Granny (e/em): oh man, Ralph Carney. i'm still sad about losing him.
	9:29am Woo: Sometimes I need a break from Tom Waits but now is not one of those times.
	👻 9:29am LW Rhino: Once I rode behind Tom Waits in Passaic NJ who was driving himself in an old Taxi cab to his own concert at the Capitol theater. We were headed to the concert as well. It was a great show in a great venue.
	9:29am Handy Haversack: Oh jeez. Just when I thought I was gonna keep it together.
	9:29am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @David (in London): Yeah. I and can't really remember why I didn't go. Probably money. Oh well, the show that I went to was just fab.
	9:29am steveo: lo, what glorious sounds doth mine ears caress
	9:30am WO Town Wick: I saw Waits' "operetta" Woyzek at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music in early part of the century. About a German mental patient. This may be hard to believe, but it was really weird. They didn't do "Jersey Girl" in it.
	9:30am Mx. Granny (e/em): LW Rhino, that is awesome!
	9:30am Joe McG: @LWRhino: Love it! @WOTW: Ha ha
	9:31am PaulRobeson1920: 1973
	9:32am Mx. Granny (e/em): i thought i had stuff to do but i'm just transfixed
	9:32am PaulRobeson1920: Happy Birthday Tom Waits
	9:32am Miles: yeah great idea for a set, joe
	9:33am Strandlund: You consistently out do yourself Mr. McGasko!!
	9:33am melinda: Love Closing Time
	9:34am Handy Haversack: Right, Granny?
	9:34am Miles: wow I forgot about Rainbirds GOOD TRACK
	9:34am Joe McG: These last two songs in particular have such lovely melodies. People underrate him as a melody maker.
	9:34am Karl Liber: Just instrumentals, brilliant set...
	9:34am Blacktooth: sheesh... had to quickly check the news and also read back through the comments... everyone knows what it typically means these days when you randomly hear 10+ songs by the same artist in a row.....
	9:35am melinda: @Joe so true
	9:35am Mx. Granny (e/em): Handy, i've lost it about three times during this set, pass the hanky!
	9:36am zzzacck: @blacktooth I had the exact same feeling
	9:36am Matt Fiveash: Really cool idea for a set, Joe! My appreciation of Waits has diminished somewhat with age, but all this instrumental stuff is pretty unimpeachable...
	9:36am Listener Scott: On almost any road trip playlist I manage to stick at least one Tom Waits instrumental on there. Thanks Joe, for putting them all in one place.
	9:36am Hubig Pie: Just tuned in, thought this was in memoriam, but it's birthday related, sos that's good
	9:37am melinda: Brilliant set, thanks!
	9:37am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: GREAT SET!
	9:37am Blacktooth: @zzzacck: very relieved
	9:37am steveo: when we were kids nobody ever died, mostly
	9:38am Miles: ha "croaks"
	9:38am Woo: We're all busy dying Joe
	👻 9:38am Webhamster Henry: Well, John Lennon was shot 40 years ago tomorrow.
	9:38am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Yeah, if you don't like him, you're WRONG! ;-)
	9:38am melinda: 'Someone croaks, we start slingin on the records' FMU slogan hee hee
	9:38am zzzacck: @blacktooth an onlooker would've heard "Oh no" and then saw a frantic online news search for Tom Waits
	9:39am The Oscar: My partner loves Tom Waits the actor, but hates Tom Waits the singer.
	👻 9:39am Brian in UK: Joe, that Neil Innes tribute was one year ago 9th Dec.
	9:39am Miles: that last album was pretty gud - check out "Chicago" on yEs Letterman - killer
	9:39am Blacktooth: @zzzacck: haha, literally what happened on my end as well
	9:39am VincentNifigance: Has taken me a long time to get into ‘Bad As Me’, but clicked with me a few weeks ago. Really good.
	👻 9:40am YETI BOB: @WO Town Wick: Also an early modern opera by Alban Berg, anda a Herzog movie
	9:40am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): First Tom Waits tune I ever heard: "Pasties & a G String" via WJUL, University of Lowell radio station.
	👻 9:41am Ken From Hyde Park: @WH - At the end of her show yesterday morning, Carol played Howard Cosell's announcement on Monday Night Football from that night. Spooky.
	9:41am andy the painter: i always like to imagine what Tom was thinking when his wife first introduced him to Capt Beefheart
	9:41am melinda: My intro was also Frank's Wild Years when I was in 6th or 7th grade. My older cousin played it for us and it blew my mind that someone could just talk and say weird things against a musical backdrop rather than sing.
	9:41am The Oscar: FYI Tom’s amazing (and rare) quasi-concert film Big Time is currently streaming on Prime.
	9:42am Morgan: i love hearing stories of difficult relationships with any album
	9:42am melinda: @Oscar cool, I've never seen it
	9:42am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @The Oscar It is?! Cool, I've never seen it.
	9:43am billyLondon: Great waits set!!
	👻 9:43am YETI BOB: His band got so much better when Marc Ribot joined on guitar
	9:43am PizzaWolf: love the Waits set
	9:43am PaulRobeson1920: But John your 40 years dead. I never died says he
	9:44am Karl Liber: Black Rider Hamburg Alice Copenhagen Got confused....
	👻 9:44am Webhamster Henry: <In a Paul Robeson voice>
	9:44am Morgan: @oscar thats a great tip! it’s never been released on dvd
	9:44am Rich in Washington: We owe a debt of gratitude to Waits' partner Kathleen Brennan for turning him onto avant garde artists and musicians - something he's acknowledge numerous times over the years.
	9:44am ike p: greetings, thanks, and good morning all! from the other end of the spectrum, i could've named 5 tom waits songs before this show and i'm definitely getting more from learning his music here than on my own i'm sure
	9:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Think 'Step Right Up' made me laugh & I was a fan. Beefheart I knew early because I had an older sibling into Musics. Some Jazz too. Later I learned of the Beats & became immersed in that verbal & philosophical connection... Harry Partch I probly only knew from photos till FMU & Irwin...
	9:45am Matt Fiveash: My intro was seeing Down By Law in the theater as a teen, that opening sequence with the dolly shots of New Orleans shotgun houses with Jockey Full of Bourbon playing. That really set me off...
	9:45am VincentNifigance: @David (in London) You should check his interview with Gay Byrne on the Late Late Show from the early 80s. Very interesting and awkward!
	9:45am melinda: @Yeti yes, Jockey Full of Bourbon in particular for me
	9:46am Emily Ebird: This morning’s Tom Wait’s show is an absolute Deeelite. THANK YOU, Joe!
	👻 9:46am Webhamster Henry: Tom is big on homemade and junky instruments. He wrote the intro to "Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones"
	9:46am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @melinda @YETI BOB: That was the tune he opened the show with in Boston.
	9:46am Morgan: brechtian even
	9:47am PaulRobeson1920: Happy B Day Tom!
	9:48am Morgan: John Lurie is in Down By Law too. thats a treat
	9:48am steveo: RANDOM PULL RULES!!!
	9:48am Crei6hton: Morning WFMU
	9:48am Phillippe Bastille: Howdy
	9:48am Handy Haversack: Seems not impossible that Tom Waits might hear this show, Joe. Happy birthday, Tom Waits!
	9:48am Krys O.: @Granny: It was so nice to see Ralph and the other band members in the Big Time movie. TCM aired it earlier this year.
	👻 9:49am YETI BOB: @Morgan: I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
	9:49am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Handy That Ubuweb book! Cripes, now I've gone down the People Like Us rabbit hole.
	9:49am non: i ♥ Joe McGasko
	👻 9:50am YETI BOB: I have a crush on Juana Molina
	9:50am Joe McG: @non: Aw, shucks, love you guys, too.
	👻 9:50am Ken From Hyde Park: The 2005 Robots animated movie used Tom's 1983 "Underground" track.
	9:50am Handy Haversack: I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream!!! Woods, that's fantastic! I shared your enjoyment with the acquiring editor and his assistant -- we rarely get to hear about our books bringing actual joy, so it's a treat!
	9:51am Morgan: @yeti bob lol and roberto benigni
	9:52am Roberto: I read that title as "Carajo de Espejo" at first.
	9:53am medson: Good morning Joe and everyone. Hope all is well
	9:53am Joe McG: @Roberto: Explain the difference to me, Roberto!
	9:54am Roberto: Face + "jo" = shite
	9:54am listener Rey: Hi Joe and everyone. Tom Waits work was so diverse. Really enjoyed that set this morning
	9:54am Joe McG: @Roberto: Whoa!
	👻 9:56am YETI BOB: Google Translate translates it as "Mirror F*ck" which is pretty funny
	9:57am Joe McG: I wish I knew the words. "Mirror Face" is an intriguing concept. Do we like that face in there or do we not? Mine is certainly looking more haggard these days.
	9:58am Morgan: slang is so treacherous! living languages are sneaky
	9:59am xtrakrispy: Tom Waits is good friends with Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch is a known listener of WFMU. Not at all impossible for Tom to check out the show.
	👻 9:59am YETI BOB: Thanks Crammed Discs for releasing Juana Molina's record on LP! Just ordered myself a copy. And thanks Joe for this awesome music, I like this Meridian Brothers track a lot
	10:01am melinda: Fans of Waits/Jarmusch/Lurie should see Fishing With John, if you haven't already
	👻 10:01am captain beef fart: Ugh missed Tom Waits because werk. Looking forward to the archive.
	10:02am Hubig Pie: I'm a good egg. That opening pan of Down by Law showed the Desire housing projects. All demolished after Katrina
	10:02am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @melinda Fishing With John is freaking hilarious!
	👻 10:02am YETI BOB: And it's on red vinyl. and the expected arrival date is Dec 25. Merry Christmas to Me!
	👻 10:05am Brian in UK: @YETI BOB, shame you could not walk round the corner to your local record shop; long gone I guess.
	10:06am Jnorton34328: @captain beef fart there is that four letter word WORK
	👻 10:07am YETI BOB: @Brian in UK: Not true at all. I have both Reckless Records and Dusty Groove in walking distance from my house. (And I used to also have Permanent Records before they moved to LA). But none of those shops have ARNMAL so I ordered it from Juana Molina's Bandcamp.
	10:07am Woo: @YETI BOB do you live near a Reckless Records? One thing I miss about going downtown to work is browsing at Reckless on Madison during my lunch hour.
	👻 10:08am YETI BOB: @Woo: Yeah I'm not far from Wicker Park.
	10:09am Rachel Bo Bachel: Fun show so far Joe! Happy Birthday Tom Waits!
	👻 10:09am YETI BOB: The shops are good for browsing, and for unloading used vinyl. But when I'm looking for something very specific I often have to order it.
	10:10am Jnorton34328: @Rachel morning
	10:10am Joe McG: "I get no signal/From your output" is a great line.
	10:10am Handy Haversack: Fishing with John was great! Tom Waits was so whiny in his episode. Rache!
	10:11am Joe McG: Tom did look sick and green for the whole show! Hi, RBR, happy belated!
	10:11am Jnorton34328: @Handy tom waits is such a treasure
	10:12am MplsCoco: Good morning Joe!
	10:13am Joe McG: Good morning, Coco! And all of your other folks. Pretend I'm Sheila B. and I can type super fast and thank you all individually! I wish I could type faster!
	10:15am βrian: "To be or not to be Sheila B."
	10:16am Rachel Bo Bachel: Hi Jnorton! Hiya handy! Joe, gee, thanks! :D The big 3-8. How old are You? I thought you were maybe my age but then you said you went to a show at BAM in 1993, when I was 11. Maybe you were a precocious 11-year-old?? Then again I guess I could see you as a young Max Fisher type ;D
	10:17am Rachel Bo Bachel: (Albeit probably less angsty)
	10:17am Jnorton34328: @Brian that is the question:)
	10:19am Handy Haversack: Rache, he wrote a hit play!
	👻 10:21am Brian in UK: Is Theremin Man, a Super Hero? No contact, very appropriate in this modern age.
	10:22am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy that is the line I was thinking of too hee hee! One of the favorite movies of our household for sure :)
	10:25am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: Pac Man Fever next?
	10:26am David (in London): I sincerely hope that they were dressed head-to-toe in silver lame when they recorded this.
	👻 10:26am Brian in UK: Joe, was one of your Premiums along these lines?
	10:26am Walter Reed & Sons Piano Tuners: I remember Chicken Man! "Chicken MAN! He's everywhere! He's everywhere!"
	10:27am Joe McG: @Brian: Indeed it was!
	10:27am Handy Haversack: David, it's the only way to generate that tone!
	👻 10:29am Brian in UK: OUTA SPACE, OUTTA SIGHT!
	10:30am iiibeat: Solaris is the name of a most excellent Russian film from the 1970's by Andrei Tarkovsky!
	10:31am Roberto: No it means Mirror Shite lol
	10:33am Hubig Pie: In the vacuum of space, the only thing that can save you is silver lame
	10:34am David (in London): Great choice Joe. I went to the same school as Dury. The teachers certainly remembered him...
	10:35am davefromtoronto: no such luck...
	10:35am Joe McG: Wow, David, cool! I like his paintings a lot. @dave: Ha! I know the feeling.
	10:36am Roberto: I think Ian Dury got more airplay on the Dr. Demento show than anywhere else in the U.S.
	10:36am efd: I have always been too abashed to play this song on my show. Bravo, Joe!
	👻 10:36am Brian in UK: Without Chaz Jankel I feel that he would not have got the airplay.
	10:37am Joe McG: @efd: Ha! You're a sweet guy, Evan.
	10:37am andy the painter: “what happens next is private” ow!
	10:38am luka: who wouldn't want to get it on with that voice first thing in the morning.
	10:38am Mairzy Doats: A fave memory- supermarket in suburban Virginia, late 80's- random mom & child doing the call & response from "Wot"...
	👻 10:38am Brian in UK: First track on New Boots....?
	👻 10:38am 12539: What does efd have against sex with people who are awake?!
	10:39am davefromtoronto: it's more like "wake up and take the dog out in the freezing cold..."
	10:39am Blacktooth: Ian Dury: proof that you don't need to be a model to enjoy sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. In fact, you can be a sweaty troll. It's all attitude, baby....
	10:39am Bill D: I have a copy of Spasticus Artisticus on 12"45 . Hypothetically, would that qualify for single file?
	10:40am Joe McG: @BillD: Jealous, Bill, I've never run across it and I want it!
	10:40am listener Rey: I missed parts 1 &2
	👻 10:40am YETI BOB: timeless
	👻 10:40am Brian in UK: Wake Up! on Stiff. Where else!!
	10:40am Joe McG: There should be an Ian Dury Guide for non-British listeners.
	10:40am Listener Baby: Good morning Joe. Good morning all!
	10:41am luka: i just realized i'd never looked at a picture of Ian Dury and i just kind of always assumed he looked like UK reggae legend Judge Dread for some reason??
	10:41am Bill D .: EFD, what about Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick?
	10:41am Steve from Dunwoody: Mairzy Doats -- "Say Captain" -- that's Captain Sensible, author of my fave Xmas song, Christmas Catalogue.
	10:42am ratso: My first exposure to Ian Dury was with this one. A friend came into the cafeteria in high school and said "I heard this cool song, and have no idea who does it!" When plied for more info, all he could "remember" was that it went something like "duh-duh, chapter 3. duh-duh, chapter 3." Took us a month to figure it out.
	10:43am Roberto: Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll was his big hit on Dr. D circa 1981.
	👻 10:43am Brian in UK: Love the fact that he never tried an American drawl like say Jagger.
	10:43am David (in London): Joe, "coming out of chokey" means leaving prison. "slap & tickle" means sexual congress.
	10:44am davefromtoronto: i saw a doc on him on Kanopy that was pretty good.
	10:45am Joe McG: @David: This is exactly what I need. His East End lingo is sometimes impenetrable.
	👻 10:45am Brian in UK: Trunchbull in Matilda mentions chokey.
	10:45am Hubig Pie: Chokey cuz it rhymes with pokey?
	10:45am Joe McG: Ian was also a randy bugger, in case I didn't mention it.
	10:45am Mairzy Doats: @ Steve from Dunwoody, LOL I kind of file them both in the same corner in my mind
	10:48am GeorgeSimian: That You're More Than Fair song was killer
	👻 10:48am Brian in UK: Was it a Health & Efficiency mag?
	👻 10:49am Ken From Hyde Park: Ian Dury's birthday is May 12, 1942 and he died of colorectal cancer on March 27, 2000. Don't put off your colonoscopy tests, yippies.
	👻 10:50am YETI BOB: @Brian: Thanks, you just gave me new insight into a This Heat record I've owned since 1980
	10:51am Joe McG: Good reminder, Ken! :)
	10:52am Mike W: hit me with your single file
	10:53am mariano: 'Morning Joe McG, Crew, everyone. Hey David - very interesting about the English prison slang. In the States there's an older term, "the pokey" as well as a couple of archaic, Spanish-derived terms like hoosegow (juzgado) and calaboose (calaboso). Tom Waits' "Walking Spanish" is a compendium of 20s and 30s US prison slang.
	10:53am ?: Toms B-day whew! When I hear a block of an artist always assume they died. carry on
	10:54am davefromtoronto: i expected him to look like alexei sayle.
	10:55am luka: @dave that's fair, too. dr. martin's boots!!
	10:55am David (in London): Yeti Bob, I'll send you something which will explain it even further if you like. Hey mariano.
	10:56am Handy Haversack: Even Jesus wanted just a little more time, Mariano.
	👻 10:57am YETI BOB: Here's a song about the sunshine / Dedicated to the sunshine ... one of my all-time-favorite tracks. Yes please, David!
	👻 10:57am Brian in UK: Two mentions of Coltrane, will there be a third?
	10:57am Steve from Dunwoody: Winter of 79/80, I was an engineer lieutenant at Fort Ord CA and our company was picked to exchange places for a month with a Royal Engr squadron in N. Yorkshire. Hmm, Monterey CA or Ripon England in February? Great fun, though. First bus off the plane and the radio is playing Rhythm Stick. I was the only one bouncing as none of my troops knew the tune.
	10:58am Lizardner Dave !: JONESY!!!
	10:58am listener 126464: all I want for my birthday is another birthday
	10:58am Steve from Dunwoody: MY PLAN! OK Ian. No one knows my plan.
	👻 10:59am YETI BOB: Back to the East End lingo topic - there are actually some Ian Dury annotations on genius.com (former Rap Genius) - where you can learn that "Razzle was a British men’s magazine", if it's not obvious from context
	👻 10:59am Brian in UK: Joe, great single file. Stand by your beds.
	11:00am David (in London): Your "gaff" is generally your home. But can also be applied to where you are: office, shop etc.
	11:00am Hubig Pie: Small world Steve from D. I was stationed at Presidio of Monterey in '79
	11:00am David (in London): Yeti Bob - "raz mag" became a generic term for a pornographic magazine.
	11:01am luka: big tune right here though.
	11:01am Rich in Washington: OH NO! Don't tell me Ian Dury's dead! ;)
	11:01am steveo: he's fine, he just eloped with Tom Waits
	11:02am Rich in Washington: <haven't been able to listen to the last half hour or so on my commute because my phone wouldn't cooperate>
	👻 11:02am Brian in UK: This single file proves that rumours of Ian Dury's demise are greatly exaggerate.
	11:02am steveo: *where "fine" = died 20 years ago
	👻 11:02am YETI BOB: @D(il): I see. Please continue the edifying explanations.
	11:03am dale: many moons ago there was a great mojo article about how all the stiff artists touring together would try to outdo each other musically. elvis costello and nick lowe were really writing powerhouses. others enjoyed the party more.
	11:03am B. from Detroit: I will ENDLESSLY grateful for you introduceing me to this British horny weirdo. I’m gonna have to share him with everyone I know. You don’t know how happy this made me today.
	11:03am mariano: Handy: one of my favorite lines in any song. David: The history of English slang is so interesting. Especially when you bring in things like Polari and other cants, as I've seen them called sometimes.
	11:04am Rich in Washington: That Stiff documentary is really worth tracking down and watching. So good.
	11:04am Joe McG: @Rich: Ha ha ha @B.: WOW, that makes ME so happy. Yes, he's a wonderful weirdo. Start with "New Boots and Panties!!" and go from there. Much to discover!
	👻 11:04am YETI BOB: I love the German/French mashups: Je t'adore, ich liebe dich. Das ist gut, c'est fantastique. C'est si bon, mm? Ist es nicht?
	11:04am Phillippe Bastille: Oh man, I remember dancing to this.
	11:04am P-90: Another diverting and uplifting Single File. Thanks @Joe McG.
	11:05am David (in London): "Two fat persons, click click click", means when the number 88 comes up in bingo.
	11:05am Steve from Dunwoody: @Hubig It is a small world. I lived in beautiful Marina CA with 3 other LTs in an old farmhouse next to the ice rink. Maybe you came to one of our large parties?! I was a baby at Presidio of Monterey in 1956 as my dad was learning German at DLI. All the best!
	👻 11:06am YETI BOB: D(iL): In the USA we call that "Double Snowman"
	11:06am mariano: "Punk" has a really interesting history too, from its original Elizabethan meaning of "prostitute," to its adoption in American prisons as a term replaced later by "bitch," to its general meaning of young male delinquent. That's why in older films you'll hear stuff like "I'm nobody's punk!" David: Always had you pegged for a bingo hustler ;)
	11:07am Phillippe Bastille: @YB or, in my case, my best golf score (damn windmill)
	11:07am P-90: “Two Fat Persons” doesn’t mean double eights in Dominoes?
	11:07am Handy Haversack: Pocket 8s "the snowmen" in Texas Hold 'Em. Great set, Joe!
	👻 11:08am YETI BOB: @D(iL): Actually we don't - I just thought it would be fun to try to teach you some totally made-up American slang. But "Double nickels" is real.
	👻 11:08am YETI BOB: @HH: Haha, I was just trying to make something up. Didn't know about the snowmen in poker.
	👻 11:09am YETI BOB: It sort of suggests itself, I guess.
	11:10am Handy Haversack: Many hole-card combos have names in poker. I love "walking back to Houston" for Ace-King. And of course "Jack-King Off."
	👻 11:10am Brian in UK: Guess you all know of the Stiff T-shirt. 'If It Aint Stiff, It Aint Worth a F...'
	11:10am Spankyflop: Ian's son Baxter has done some decent stuff too. Very much followed in his dad's footsteps.
	11:10am Phillippe Bastille: Double nickels in a double nickel Chevy Bel Air was about the best you could do
	11:12am Hubig Pie: @Steve from D, I was a young spazzed out AF recruit trying to learn the Arabic language and didn't get invited to any house parties.
	11:12am egould310: Just got my October fund drive swag on Friday. Some good looking t-shirts, and a great sticker. Thanks to the WFMU crew for all your efforts.
	11:13am mariano: There's also US diner slang, which aside from "86" I don't think I've ever heard used in real life. I suspect it was only ever used by figures in Edward Hopper paintings and 30s screwball comedies. en.wikipedia.org...
	11:13am David (in London): For me, 'double nickels' brings one thing to mind: The Minutemen. And that's a good thing for sure.
	11:13am Handy Haversack: Hooray! Thanks, Joe -- that was fantabulous! Hope to see you at the karaoke party! Dog's taking me for my walk. I will catch up with some of you at the Next Joe Up's. Excellent good news, Joe!
	11:14am mariano: Take care, Handy!
	11:15am David (in London): TTFN Handy.
	👻 11:15am Brian in UK: David in London, I saw Mike Watt at the Lexington about four years ago, did you ever get to see him?
	👻 11:16am Brian in UK: Joan's first album is tops.
	11:18am P-90: I cherish the floperoos.
	👻 11:19am tim from champaign (now washington): Who you callin' 'rube', city slicker!
	11:20am David (in London): Brian, sadly I didn't make that Lexington show, Luckily I saw him with Firehose back in the 80s, then more recently with J Mascis & The Fog and twice with The Stooges. Can't complain about that really. He was never less than amazing.
	11:21am Mister Dobalina: Pretty cool song!
	11:22am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	11:22am steveo: good song; did he say the colors are colorful?
	11:22am mariano: Wow, David, lucky. Never got to see Firehose.
	11:23am Brendan: @Joe. Sounds mighty good to me. Would make a good accompaniment for reasonably priced beer at any self-respecting honky-tonk.
	11:23am Joe McG: I know it's a bit late for the Bandcamp deal, but check out Rube on Bandcamp, they're great.
	11:23am Rachel Bo Bachel: Great song and song title!
	11:24am Dennis Diken: hey Joe and all, duckin' in and out today, just wanted to say hey! have a ball!
	11:26am Joe McG: Thanks for stoppin' by, Dennis, always great to see you. Heard you play on Todd's show this morning!
	11:26am Rachel Bo Bachel: “Luftmensch” is a cool term too- my mother-in-law speaks Yiddish and she calls ppl that sometimes
	11:27am egould310: I saw Mike Watt, George Hurley, Nels Cline, and Thurston Moore at the Alligator Lounge in Santa Monica, CA back in 1996? Two hours of improvised noisy guitar free-form awesomeness. Plus I took three hits of acid and the music was creating amazing visuals.
	11:28am Rachel Bo Bachel: Dennis and Todd played “Denis” by Blondie, maybe for you!!
	11:28am paul: Nick Lowe's "Christmas at the Airport" would fit into this set nicely.
	11:30am Joe McG: @paul: Great suggestion! Our Xmas music is still in the basement, though! :)
	11:30am Dennis Diken: @Rachel & Joe - ha! was that it? missed ol' Todd today
	👻 11:30am tim from champaign (now washington): @Paul - and Purple Mountains' "Margaritas at the Mall".
	11:32am mariano: egould310: I saw George Hurley as part of the short-lived Vida in SF around the same time, a group that also included Dez Cadena and Tom Troccoli. Was good to see them, but it definitely felt like a side project.
	11:32am Rachel Bo Bachel: Dennis he also played “behind the wall of sleep” :) a favorite on Wake beautiful!
	11:33am Joe McG: @paul: Hey, I found a Xmas-related song I brought with me that I'll play next. @Dennis: Yes, "Behind the Wall of Sleep" was the one I heard!
	11:33am Rachel Bo Bachel: Todd is back on Wednesday AM i think- I bet he’d be stoked if you stopped in!
	11:33am David (in London): egould310: I salute your pre-gig preparation there.
	👻 11:33am Brian in UK: If you like this set, then Gina Bacon's Someday Matinee show on Saturday, Drummer Stream is the place for you.
	11:34am egould310: I saw Vida. Thanksgiving Day 1993. They played in Tony Lombardo’s garage in Lakewood.
	👻 11:35am tim from champaign (now washington): @mariano - I missed a mid-90s Red Krayola show for some reason I can't remember. I was even more bummed when my friend who went told me that George Hurley was drumming with them.
	11:35am Kevin-san: great show today, Joe. Enjoyed the Ian Dury set, was lucky enough to see him live a few times in the UK, what a blast he was in person
	11:35am KWilde: @ Brian - yes Gina does a great show!
	11:36am David (in London): Ah, kevin-san. Hello. I shared the RGS connection earlier.
	11:36am Joe McG: @Kevin: Oh, that is lucky. I never had the chance.
	11:37am Phillippe Bastille: Ben Platt did an amazing cover of this in The Politician
	11:37am Dennis Diken: i gotta get up earlier...
	11:38am Jason from Houston: Just finished my annual reading of John Graves' Goodbye to a River.
	11:38am patrick321: Hi Joe! This is a nice cover. I'm partial to Tracey Thorn's version.
	11:38am xtrakrispy: Thinking of Starz: Sheer Mag’s logo is very reminiscent of the Starz logo.
	11:39am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	👻 11:40am tim from champaign (now washington): @Dennis - are there plans for Ronnie to play shows post pandemic?
	11:40am gorp: great set joe! perfect for today (for me anyway)
	11:40am Yes: thank you for prine
	👻 11:40am Brian in UK: This set is putting me in mind of Chip Taylor's 70s albums for no particular reason.
	11:41am βrian: Damn, I was sure he meant Rome, New York.
	11:41am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	11:42am KWilde: Sad that I'll never get to see John Prine again
	11:42am paul: Thanks, @Joe!
	11:43am Kevin-san: Hi David! I saw you also explained Slap & tickle, good work!
	11:43am paul: @Tim, I'll have to track that one down.
	11:44am mariano: timFC: Yeah, if anything, it was great to see Hurley at the drums.
	11:44am Dennis Diken: @Tim, haven't heard but I know she loves to play live
	11:44am David (in London): kevin, you might almost call me a Cockney Translator... (Apologies to Smiley Culture).
	11:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: Dennis me too I keep just catching the last 20mins! Joe awesome show thanks for what you do!! <3
	11:45am KWilde: The last time I saw JP Elizabeth Cook opened the show
	11:46am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	11:46am Jason from Houston: So fine...
	👻 11:47am tim from champaign (now washington): @Dennis - that's great! My partner and I had tickets for her Edmonds, WA show in May '19. We were so bummed when she had to cancel.
	11:48am PizzaWolf: such a good song
	11:48am dano59: Ooooh . I love Beth. Nice pairing with Prine, Joe.
	11:48am Morgan: well this is my introduction to Elizabeth Cook
	11:48am judy from croton: Joe, your show is, once again, helping me through a difficult time. Through it; not around it, over, or under it.
	11:50am Joe McG: Oh, I'm so glad to hear that, judy. Hang in there, we'll make it.
	11:50am Krys O.: Thanks, Joe!
	11:50am βrian: Frat-boy hazing == Baby poop.
	11:51am P-90: Clickey-Star for rhyming “mod” with “God,”. then “rod” with “God,” in the same verse...
	11:51am mariano: Thank you Joe, bye all!
	11:52am hoeg: OK now i'm sobbing in the kitchen, thanks Joe that was great
	11:53am Jason from Houston: ꒰ ⌯•̩̩̩́ ˑ̫ •̩̩̩̀⌯꒱
	11:53am Joe B: great show Joe!
	11:54am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everyone! It's been a pleasure. See you next week for the Random Pull Special!
	11:54am David (in London): Great show today Joe, thanks.
	👻 11:54am LastWhiteRhino: Take care Joe. I'm looking forward to the Stashu/McGasko duet. I'm sure it will be EPIC.
	11:54am listener 126464: Thanks Joe McG.
	👻 11:54am 12539: Today's show had it all. Thanks, Joe! Be well everyone.
	11:55am βrian: Irene is ready to radiate via the Drummer Stream: wfmu.org...
	11:55am Yes: excellent . thank you
	11:55am Phillippe Bastille: Thanks Joe!
	11:55am thriftstoreleather: beautiful set! thank u Joe
	11:56am JG: Thanks Joe, your show always helps ease the Monday suck fest of the workworld reaity
	👻 11:56am Brian in UK: Joe. Great sets today.
	👻 11:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. In other birthday news, DJ Stork Club celebrated Dave Brubeck's 100th yesterday and Irene mentioned she may play some more on her show set to radiate momentarily.
	11:57am Hubig Pie: Death on the highway songs is a special show just waiting to happen
	11:58am paul: Hubig....would that include The Carroll County Accident?
	👻 11:58am Ken From Hyde Park: Haha, a dude on the school bus years ago used the phrase "Wake up and die right." It is indeed due for a comeback, along with "Shoot a mile!"
	👻 11:59am nortonjutland: as always; perfect show Joe!
	12:42pm P-90: LOVE that Brinkley impression! Well-written bit too.

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 7, 2020

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