WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from May 16, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: good morning joe!
	9:04am pantz: Yo Joe! Good morning.
	9:04am melinda: hi Joe & Annie & pantz!
	9:04am SHAGALOV: MORNING!
	👻 9:08am doctorjazz: Hi all!
	9:08am Cheri Pi: Bonjour
	9:09am pantz: Morning, melinda, Dr Jazz, and future Noisemakers.
	9:10am Sem Chumbo: ANOTHER top hole show on the Fun 91! Hiya, Joe, and Clam McGasko.
	9:11am Marcel M: G´morning.
	9:11am Pete L: I really like your show Mr. Joe McGasko, but now that I've heard that intro quite a few times, well, HHHMMMMMMMM.......timed it....... I have really have mostly positives otherwise! Thank you.!!
	9:12am annie: i'm addicted to the opener, pete.
	9:12am Marcel M: Raaadiooooooo OH!
	9:14am PKNY: Dear Mary, I've just ripped of "A White Shade of Pale".
	9:14am PKNY: And oh yeah, good TZAG Joe and everybody!
	👻 9:18am doctorjazz: My, a mellow, folksy start to this Monday Morning!
	9:18am Joe McG: Good morning, everyone! Sorry you hate my theme, Pete. Somes likes it, somes doesn't.
	9:19am melinda: I like the mellow folksy too.
	9:23am fred: Good morning Joe and all. I love the opening theme
	9:24am KP: Hi ya, Joe.
	9:25am pantz: This is perfect music for a chilly Monday morning. Makes me yearn for my camping days.
	9:25am northguineahills: I need these sounds this morning, thanks!
	9:25am Uncle Michael: <-Tries to imagine the point of criticizing the theme...fails.
	9:32am northguineahills: Isn't Scott the CD cleaner upper expert?
	9:32am Polyus: Lighter fluid?
	👻 9:33am tadpoles: Try "Goo Gone" Joe. Let a little sit for a couple of minutes. I use it to get stickers off LP jackets without damage. Cheers
	9:34am Brendan: Hi Joe good morning. I feel your tape pain. Getting rid of tape , hmmm. Didn't Nixon recommend the fireplace?
	9:35am Polyus: Lighter fluid was what I used to use for getting price tags off. But yeah, Goo Gone does the same thing.
	9:35am paul: Dude, where's my premium?
	9:35am SSS: Yes yes Joe...you are right to be cautious...to prevent what is called crazing, which are small cracks developing in plastics from exposure to improper or non compatible solvents, test on an expendable CD. Also beware of the circumference of the disk, which is a seal between the two halves of the thing. Test on an expendable one! Goo Gone will surely cause crazing in my opinion.
	9:37am Joe McG: Thanks for all of your suggestions, guys! @Paul: We're starting to send out stuff this week, Paul. It's a long process here at volunteer-staffed WFMU.
	9:38am Brendan: Yea! Squirt the CD with lighter fluid , ignite it and hump it against an amplifier ala Hendrix until it emits feedback.
	9:38am SSS: I am an industrial designer, and for a time worked for a guy in Mount Vernon building CD mastering machines, from the glass masters right thru the pressings. He even had a digital to tape studio...neat stuff.
	9:38am paul: Cool. Much appreciated, Joe.
	9:38am annie: Goof Off, too. painters use it
	9:41am Brendan: On a serious note perhaps low heat to warm the adhesive and then a straight lift, Followed by rubbing alcohol.
	9:43am Joe McG: I've never set fire to a CD, but I have put one through the paper shredder.
	9:43am SSS: Here is a non solvent possibility...try olive oil...let it sit a bit and rub gently...(always rub anything gently)
	9:46am Joe McG: @SSS: That's always my policy!
	9:46am annie: lifted from a young FB friend's post: "Listening to Bob Dylan play the harmonica is kind of like replacing your ear buds with a nail gun."
	9:48am Joe McG: @annie: Aw, take it easy on ol' Bob, Annie! He's got a new album of standards coming out any day now.
	9:48am V Priceless: Dang, I forgot about this! Senior moment! Hey Joe!
	9:50am Uncle Michael: Joe @9:48; Thanks for the warning!
	9:50am Joe McG: @UM: My public service for the morning.
	9:51am pantz: I feel like a The Free Design song is coming up any second now.
	9:52am fred: A friend of mine is a huge Dylan fan. She actually likes his Xmas record. Go figure
	9:53am Joe McG: @fred: The effrontery of it is kind of genius, you have to admit.
	9:53am annie: oh, joe, this is a kid from my son's generation who said that, 33yrs old.
	10:00am fred: Maybe next Dylan could form an all-star band with Tom Waits and Shane MacGowan
	10:02am coelacanth: good morning Joe and all
	10:02am Listener Scott: Quick! More solvent!
	10:02am Joe McG: So, how DO you feel about skipping CDs?
	10:02am Henry: y-y-y-y-y-y-yeah!
	10:02am MattZ: jeezo
	10:02am Stevel: New art form.
	10:02am Ike: This program is much more avant-garde than usual today! Did Liz's talkover music rebel against you because you're not Liz?
	10:03am Ernst: Gotta love scratched discs
	10:03am foofs: Break it down!
	10:03am northguineahills: That's some Yasonao Tone wounded cd shiiit!
	10:03am John McGreivey: I love the CD sticking. Love the ones that don't, also.
	10:03am Ear Hammer: This is the day the CDs revolted.
	10:04am jamesie: dadada==dada!
	10:04am Scott Williams: Joe, 12" EP is in the vinyl library!
	10:04am Scott Williams: (tho this remix is pretty fab!)
	10:04am jamesie: like it.
	10:04am Ear Hammer: They say if you "lick" the CD it temporarily stops the skipping. It's gross but has a 70% success rate!
	10:05am fred: Is Nat Roe filling in?
	10:05am John Mcgreivey: Very Plunderphonics.
	10:05am foofs: This is a long piss, Joe!
	10:06am joe: So this is coming back around to that point where it is actually interesting.
	10:06am kevlicki: Free form radio!
	10:07am rsj: i feel like i too had a cup of coffee and a bong hit just now
	10:07am kevlicki: Just put a minidisc in, superior format to CD...
	10:08am Alex: Can someone recommend some software to listen to this great radio? I've listened to some songs and now Launderette (excerpt)" by Vivien Goldman stuck and some parts of it freeze sometimes, and the song starts over and over again. I have a stable internet connection. What to do?(
	10:08am Joe McG: Scott Williams with the solution: Play vinyl whenever possible. TO WFMU DJS: FINGERPRINTS ALSO AFFECT CD PLAY NOT JUST VINYL SO STOP HANDLING THEM LIKE THEY ARE PLATES.
	10:08am Brendan: You you are obligated to this now: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7PlLhyCFV5I Followed by https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s94hKnfF4QA
	10:08am kevlicki: Ike, I had a similar reaction. I thought joe was going to talk over it, cos that's my wfmu reference for this tracks info! Glad you "stuck" to it joe. It's a great tune
	10:09am joe: I would think fingerprints are more of an issue for CDs
	10:09am Jeff Golick: So don't use them to eat food, is what you're saying?
	10:10am Joe McG: @Jeff: Ha ha! Not good for scooping up taco leavings.
	10:10am foofs: I like to lick Heinz Vegetable Soup off my copy of Royal Trux's 'Sweet Sixteen'.
	10:10am coelacanth: smooth transition to the record, by the way.
	10:11am uli: songs forandby machine unlearning
	10:13am Todd-o-phonic: A little late to today's party, but loving that Landlines LP.
	10:13am Joe McG: Hey, Todd! It's a purty good one!
	10:14am Ike: You guys are hilarious. @Fred, I almost made a similar comment. I was going to say Bryce, but you're right, Nat Roe makes more sense.
	10:15am MD: Monday!!!
	10:16am fred: @Ike: Bryce's CDs never skip
	10:16am pantz: I love this Sweet Jane. Who woulda thunk it!
	10:17am Joe McG: @fred: He likes all the notes, in any order!
	10:17am Alex: What a great sick rendition of VU
	10:19am fred: This is probably the first time "Nat Roe makes more sense" was uttered without any irony
	10:20am βrian: Cornflower skies over the isthmus today. Things are quiet in this declining college town.
	10:20am Brendan: That Maher Shalal was perfect as is this ... freeform, like this station
	10:22am Joe McG: @Brian: That's a wonderful picture you just painted.
	👻 10:22am doctorjazz: That Sweet Jane was great. (CD's do get dirty and scratch, as we've noted). As for Software for listening to FMU on line, is it for a phone? I usually use the pop up (it locks up periodically), for my phone use Neutron (it's an Android phone), haven't had playback issues with it and it sounds better than the direct link on the app (I go to the site and play the 128k MP3). From the Geek end of things...
	10:26am melinda: Don't hear Terry Allen too often. Nice.
	10:28am Alex: No, I'm on PC, but thanks for your reply, I was concerned about my android too. Listening to it using pop up is not the best options, but I will use it for the time being, thank you!
	10:28am Joe McG: @melinda: Glad to see this reissue!
	10:30am melinda: Good pairing w/Joe Ely, too.
	10:32am βrian: "'No puedo, no puedo,' was all she ever said to me."
	10:34am Kurt Gottschalk: if there's a fingerprint then the dj can be id'd.
	10:34am βrian: Re reading the CDs, you're doing the right thing. As with movies, skip the trailers until afterward.
	10:38am Joe McG: @Kurt: Ha ha ha!
	10:39am βrian: Alex, I use iTunes which isn't particularly well designed. But just for playing mp3 streams, it works fine.
	10:42am Uncle Michael: I'll plug the use of Tunein Radio for WFMU. It works great for me, and I spent months working with them to get our listings and shcedule beaten into some kind of shape.
	10:44am 542: wfmu whites only
	10:45am northguineahills: Huh, I don't think I've heard anything from Marshall Crenshaw I've liked. Glad to be proven wrong.
	👻 10:46am doctorjazz: My office PC only has Windows Media Player, and I can't add anything to the PC (the player won't play the 128 files). Pretty much leaves me with the pop-up here. At home the player I like is JRiver, though I mostly stream from an iPad to a Bluetooth speaker (DeepBlue2) (more geekiness...)
	10:46am Marc Francis: Loving it Joe!!!! My Surface Noise birthday show!!!!
	10:46am Joe McG: Happy birthday, Marc!
	10:47am Brendan: I use the WFMU app but I'll second that - the TuneIn app is good and the TuneIn Pro lets you record streams.
	10:47am Marc Francis: Thank you!
	10:51am Joe McG: Next up: Something for all of you Bob Dylan fans.
	10:52am fred: The pop-up player is pretty good, especially for archives. I'm stuck with the bloated iTunes at work, which is why I don't listen as much as I used to from there
	10:52am Jim Devoid: I have to admit that I discovered Plastic Bertrand by watching early 00's Scooby Doo with my kid...
	👻 10:53am doctorjazz: Happy Birthday @Marc! Mine is in 2 days (celebrating it at the dentist...)
	10:54am βrian: Strangely, I found myself singing "Ça Plane Pour Moi" last night as I chopped onions.
	10:54am MattZ: Am I the only Bob Dylan fan who doesn't like Desire? (this does sound great on 45 though)
	10:54am paul: 1975 was a good year for Bob.
	10:55am annie: i generally use the pop-up for fmu, including the archives. OZ has an embedded player, too. most other stations i use TuneIn. if a station HAS a player i use it until it kicks out, then i switch to tune-in. only issue i have is that Firefox kicks me off the internet now and then and i have to reboot the whole shebang. the Ipod has been relegated to the sewing room stereo system.
	10:56am Marc Francis: Thanks @doctorjazz! Keep your head up dentist wise!!!!!
	10:59am coelacanth: MattZ, no. i do consider desire his last tolerable album, but i only like a few tracks on it. (just the year prior he did blood on the tracks so there was still hope, after all.)
	11:02am MattZ: coelacanth- i dont know, it just sounds like a giant cheesefest to me. I like cheesefests as much as the next guy, but desire never worked for me. And I think there are plenty of tolerable albums post-Desire, but probably not until Oh Mercy. I know that's a cliche at this point, but if you subscribe to the general theory, then I stop at BOTT, not Desire. Anyway, carry on everyone.
	11:07am melinda: Did someone else cover Western Union Desperate?
	11:11am V Priceless: UPPER CRUST! WOO!
	11:11am fred: A coworker was part of Jarre's China tour in the 80's. He keeps bringing that up, so I suffer from Jarre fatigue
	11:12am paul: @coelacanth, BOTT was released in 1975
	11:12am coelacanth: Matt, we're nearly on the same page. i did use the word "tolerable"! -and i know that could be because of familiarity, as i bought it upon release. i was quite young and every album was an investment, so i tried hard to like it (+ there was lots of hype about it at the time.) looking at the track list now, i don't even recognise most of them. i still like "isis" though.
	11:15am coelacanth: paul, yes. desire was '76. (each recorded the previous year.)
	11:15am Brendan: I wonder if Matty Grove was derivative of Shady Grove or vice versa?
	11:15am paul: Disregard my last comment. Thought Desire was from 1975, too.
	11:16am wild neil: Fairport Convention...a song about adultery? cool...they are interesting...kinda prog folk like pentangle?
	11:16am fred: @coelacanth: you should be more careful, really. Saying "I still like Isis" might bring unwanted attention
	11:16am Joe McG: @Brendan: I'd think vice versa, but same roots!
	11:16am paul: No love for Infidels?
	11:19am Brendan: Yea Joe I thought I heard Shady Grove in the tune, and it originates from the much older Matty Groves
	11:19am coelacanth: fred, i know. that sucks! ...a regular poster here said once that it's a shame they ruined a perfectly good goddess.
	11:20am KP: Richard Thompson bending and twisting
	11:23am coelacanth: paul, i can't say i know "infidels". i've heard it, and didn't like it at that time; but things change. i've never heard "oh mercy" either. i'd thoroughly lost interest in Dylan by then. who knows? maybe i'd like one or both of them now.
	11:23am coelacanth: this song's beautiful.
	11:23am Woodchipper: Wow - though this intro was "Small Blue Thing" by Suzanne Vega...! VEeeerrrryyy. simila...Hmmm......
	11:24am audrey: i agree ^
	11:24am northguineahills: Matty Groves is a very old English folk song. Cecil Sharp gathered a few versions, and the Lomaxes found a few versions in Appalachia.
	👻 11:25am doctorjazz: Nice bookends to the show, more folk rock now, been enjoying it.
	11:26am Sem Chumbo: Oh, boy. Steeleye Span, following Fairport. Joe, you closet folkie, you.
	11:27am fred: A few years ago, my wire transfer to the station was held up because I had bought a record from Yair Yona's band. If that's security, we"re in deep shit
	11:27am Joe McG: @Sem: It's funny, but whenever I play Fairport, I get requests for Steeleye, so I thought, what the hell, today I'm going to take care of that!
	👻 11:27am doctorjazz: Richard Thompson did a nice guest spot on the Joan Baez Public TV tribute/fund raiser, played some nice acoustic lead and Joan did one of his songs with him (She never Could Resist a Winding Road, if I remember correctly)
	11:28am annie: steeleye span played as intro to procol harem way back in the early 70s in cleveland. I WAS THERE!! been a fan ever since. 3 encores they did, compared to PH's one
	11:28am Joe McG: @doctorjazz: Was this recently, doc?
	11:29am paul: Give Infidels another shot. And Love and Theft. It's all subjective I know.
	11:32am wild neil: im having deja vu!
	👻 11:32am doctorjazz: I saw the Special this past week. You know how they do their fundraisers holding these concerts hostage...
	11:33am northguineahills: It's hard to find the Trees on any medium, I only have them on a cdr comp.
	👻 11:34am doctorjazz: I also saw Jackson Browne on the show, as well as Paul Simon (who has lost a step, at least on the show, seemed to play a step behind everyone), Judy Collins was also on.
	11:35am Joe McG: @ngh: I think I got a CD copy of "On the Shore" through Amazon for about 10 bucks a few years ago. Maybe still available?
	11:35am coelacanth: paul, it's decided! i lost track of Bowie during a phase that i disliked; only to decide -2 days before he died - that i need to check out some of his stuff that i'd ignored all those years.
	11:35am Mike East: Joan Baez rehearsed with us for that concert I think. I wonder if Richard Thompson was in the studio and I missed him.
	👻 11:36am doctorjazz: Joan Baez was great, by the way... Still looks and sounds young! Still has that activist spirit.
	11:36am Carmichael: I love Trees (Celia Humphris). Lady Margaret was 1st put on paper in 1776. I bought this LP when it came out in 1970.
	11:36am wild neil: Trees are heavy!
	11:36am Rich in Washington: wow. That sounds like slide bass on this track.
	11:36am Joe McG: @MEast: If you ever see Thompson, tell him I'd like to have him on the show.
	11:36am annie: good little quaker that she(Joan) is!
	👻 11:37am doctorjazz: www.richardthompson-music.com...
	11:37am Mike East: will do, Joe ;)
	11:38am coelacanth: i Love this set!
	👻 11:38am doctorjazz: You can invite him (RT) to my house for dinner while you're at it :)
	👻 11:38am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Missed Lord Rockingham's XI There's a moose loose around this hooose.
	11:39am Sem Chumbo: Don't hear the sackbut much these days.
	11:39am Brendan: The Thistle and Surface Noise show!
	11:40am Joe McG: @Brian: Ha ha, my favorite line! @Sem: More sackbut!
	👻 11:41am Brian in UK: What about Gryphon?
	11:42am wild neil: Sackbut featured a lot on early ren stuff right?
	11:42am βrian: I would guess Lord Rockingham's amp goes to "ullven."
	11:42am V Priceless: Joe! You are a mind-reader! Yay!
	11:43am melinda: Good one, Brendan! I'm enjoying this set too,
	👻 11:43am Brian in UK: Everyone stick a finger in their ears.
	11:43am Joe McG: @VP: I was disappointed that the BBK's show was sold out by the time I knew about it. Were they good?
	11:43am TimBk: Great set to read Game of Thrones reviews to! Might need some mead and mutton for lunch.
	11:44am βrian: A nice little chewn.
	11:44am Michael 98145: Steeleye Span was in heavy rotation in my head for several years.
	11:44am Brendan: And go tinga linga lou
	11:45am V Priceless: @ Joe: wow - I did not realize it was sold out! Yes, they were amazingly fabulous!
	11:45am fred: @coelacanth: you like Isis but don't like infidels? You're going to end up on a no-fly list, man
	11:46am Scraps deSelby: I worked with Heather of The Young Tradition at Tor Books. She was XXXXXX, not in a good way. (I don't want to defend a lawsuit)
	11:46am melinda: Nice to hear the Farinas.
	11:47am Joe McG: @Scraps: Sorry to hear that! I love her singing.
	11:47am coelacanth: haha! fred, that's okay. next time i travel overseas i'll walk. i need the exercise anyway.
	11:50am Joe McG: @VP: Most sorry to miss them!
	11:51am northguineahills: @Timbk: Doing exactly the same thing.
	11:52am chris: Victoria sounds a sensible, if lonely, bird.
	11:52am Sem Chumbo: Thanks, Joe. Been a swell three hours, See you, and all, a little further down the road.
	11:53am Will: Boy, thanks for playing all 8 minutes of "Long Lankin," to my mind the pinnacle of the entire British trad folk-rock mountain.
	11:54am Joe McG: You bet, Will. Thanks for stopping by, Sem. And thanks to everyone who listened and commented today. I hope you all have a nice week!
	11:54am melinda: Aaah...Fairest of the Seasons.
	11:55am northguineahills: Folkal Point, new to me! Thanks Joe!
	11:55am Brendan: Thanks Joe!
	11:56am melinda: This song is like a warm bath.
	11:56am βrian: Yes, Thanks. Off to the food carts now.
	11:56am V Priceless: Thanks, Joe! Super show, as usual!
	11:56am coelacanth: it's noon. i need to get my sackbut outside. Thanks Joe! ciao y'all.
	👻 11:56am Brian in UK: Off to polish my bodkin. Have a great week.
	👻 11:57am doctorjazz: Great show! Thanks, Joe!
	11:58am melinda: @ngh: I learned of Folkal Point from the Dust on the Nettles anthology, which I highly recommend.
	11:58am coelacanth: haha! BrianUK you take such good care of yourself!
	11:59am Irene Trudel: Lovely last hour, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from May 16, 2016

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

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(* = new)

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New
Gimmer Nicholson	Millenial Harbinger	Christopher Idylls	Light in the Attic	2015	LP	From 1969
Joe Weaver and Friends	We've Got All the Time in the World	The Wind in the Spumoni Trees	Branco	2016	CD	From 1971	*
The Steve Miller Band	Dear Mary "Dear Mary" by "The Steve Miller Band"	Sailor	Capitol	1968	LP
The Family of Apostolic	Saigon Girls	The Family of Apostolic	Future Days/Vanguard	2016	CD	From 1968	*
Beau	Everything's Possible "Everything's Possible" by "Beau"	An Original Thought	Cherry Red	2016	MP3		*
Bert Jansch	If You're Thinking 'Bout Me	From the Outside	Earth	2016	CD	From 1985	*
Sandy Denny	The Last Thing on My Mind	The Original Sandy Denny	Trojan	2001	CD	From 1967

Donna Loren	It's Gotta Be "It's Gotta Be" by "Donna Loren"	These Are the Good Times	Now Sounds	2014	CD	with the Beau Brummels, 1965
Petula Clark	Heart "Heart" by "Petula Clark"	Scratch My Back! Pye Beat Girls 1963-1968	Ace	2016	CD	From 1965	*
The Remains	Thank You "Thank You" by "The Remains"	Barry and the Remains	Epic Legacy	1991	CD	From 1966
The Green Pajamas	Jennifer "Jennifer" by "The Green Pajamas"	Indian Winter: A Collection of Singles and Unreleased Songs 1985-1996	Get Hip	1996	CD	From 1985
Landlines	Post Modern Time "Post Modern Time" by "Landlines"	Problems 24/7	Eggy	2016	LP		*
Lame Drivers	Other Side "Other Side" by "Lame Drivers"	Chosen Era	Bleeding Gold	2016	MP3	bonus track	*
Spinning Coin	Albany "Albany" by "Spinning Coin"	single	Geographic/Domino	2016	CD		*
Rexy	Perfect Day "Perfect Day" by "Rexy"	Running Out of Time	Lucky Number	2015	CD	From 1978
Vivien Goldman	Launderette (excerpt)	Resolutionary	Staubgold	2016	CD	From 1981	*
Vivien Goldman	Launderette "Launderette" by "Vivien Goldman"	single	99	1981	12"
The Dancing Cigarettes	Burn in Heaven	Dance Dogs Dance	Magnetic South	2016	LP		*
Maher Shalal Hash Baz	Dulce Juana	Hello New York	OSR	2016	LP		*
Mendrugo	Velluda "Velluda" by "Mendrugo"	More Amor	Fire	2016	CD		*
Terry Allen	There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California	Juarez	Paradise of Bachelors	2016	CD	From 1975	*
Joe Ely	She Never Spoke Spanish to Me	Joe Ely	MCA	1977	LP

Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row "Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row"
The Staple Singers	Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom)	single	Stax	1970	45
Lord Rockingham's XI	Hoot's Mon "Hoot's Mon" by "Lord Rockingham's XI"	single	London	1958	45
Marshall Crenshaw	Jungle Rock "Jungle Rock" by "Marshall Crenshaw"	single	Warner Bros.	1983	45
Trix	C'est La Vie "C'est La Vie" by "Trix"	single	Baby	1981	45
Plastic Bertrand	Hit 78 "Hit 78" by "Plastic Bertrand"	single	Sire	1979	45
Bob Dylan	Mozambique "Mozambique" by "Bob Dylan"	single	Columbia	1975	45
Chris Gantry	Nashville Memoirs No. 1	single	RCA Victor	1966	45	Thanks, Todd-O-Phonic Todd!
Mary Lou Lord	Western Union Desperate	single	Kill Rock Stars	1993	45	I bought this off of Scott McDowell at the Record Fair--thanks, Scott!
Benny Troy	The Girl with San Francisco in Her Eyes	single	Ampex	1970	45

Fairport Convention	Matty Groves "Matty Groves" by "Fairport Convention"	Moat on the Ledge - Live at Broughton Castle	Stony Plain	1982	LP	live 1981 reunion show
Steeleye Span	Long Lankin "Long Lankin" by "Steeleye Span"	Commoners Crown	Chrysalis	1975	LP
Trees	Lady Margaret "Lady Margaret" by "Trees"	The Garden of Jane Delawney	BGO	1993	CD	From 1970
The Young Tradition	The Agincourt Carol	Galleries	Vanguard	1968	LP
Strawbs	Pieces of 79 and 15 "Pieces of 79 and 15" by "Strawbs"	Early Strawbs	A&M	1974	LP	From 1969
Richard and Mimi Fariña	The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood	Memories	Vanguard	1968	LP
Folkal Point	Victoria Dines Alone	Folkal Point	Zeitgeist	2016	CD	From 1972	*
Nico	The Fairest of the Seasons "The Fairest of the Seasons" by "Nico"	Chelsea Girl	Polygram	1988	CD	From 1967

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Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: good morning joe!
	9:04am pantz: Yo Joe! Good morning.
	9:04am melinda: hi Joe & Annie & pantz!
	9:04am SHAGALOV: MORNING!
	👻 9:08am doctorjazz: Hi all!
	9:08am Cheri Pi: Bonjour
	9:09am pantz: Morning, melinda, Dr Jazz, and future Noisemakers.
	9:10am Sem Chumbo: ANOTHER top hole show on the Fun 91! Hiya, Joe, and Clam McGasko.
	9:11am Marcel M: G´morning.
	9:11am Pete L: I really like your show Mr. Joe McGasko, but now that I've heard that intro quite a few times, well, HHHMMMMMMMM.......timed it....... I have really have mostly positives otherwise! Thank you.!!
	9:12am annie: i'm addicted to the opener, pete.
	9:12am Marcel M: Raaadiooooooo OH!
	9:14am PKNY: Dear Mary, I've just ripped of "A White Shade of Pale".
	9:14am PKNY: And oh yeah, good TZAG Joe and everybody!
	👻 9:18am doctorjazz: My, a mellow, folksy start to this Monday Morning!
	9:18am Joe McG: Good morning, everyone! Sorry you hate my theme, Pete. Somes likes it, somes doesn't.
	9:19am melinda: I like the mellow folksy too.
	9:23am fred: Good morning Joe and all. I love the opening theme
	9:24am KP: Hi ya, Joe.
	9:25am pantz: This is perfect music for a chilly Monday morning. Makes me yearn for my camping days.
	9:25am northguineahills: I need these sounds this morning, thanks!
	9:25am Uncle Michael: <-Tries to imagine the point of criticizing the theme...fails.
	9:32am northguineahills: Isn't Scott the CD cleaner upper expert?
	9:32am Polyus: Lighter fluid?
	👻 9:33am tadpoles: Try "Goo Gone" Joe. Let a little sit for a couple of minutes. I use it to get stickers off LP jackets without damage. Cheers
	9:34am Brendan: Hi Joe good morning. I feel your tape pain. Getting rid of tape , hmmm. Didn't Nixon recommend the fireplace?
	9:35am Polyus: Lighter fluid was what I used to use for getting price tags off. But yeah, Goo Gone does the same thing.
	9:35am paul: Dude, where's my premium?
	9:35am SSS: Yes yes Joe...you are right to be cautious...to prevent what is called crazing, which are small cracks developing in plastics from exposure to improper or non compatible solvents, test on an expendable CD. Also beware of the circumference of the disk, which is a seal between the two halves of the thing. Test on an expendable one! Goo Gone will surely cause crazing in my opinion.
	9:37am Joe McG: Thanks for all of your suggestions, guys! @Paul: We're starting to send out stuff this week, Paul. It's a long process here at volunteer-staffed WFMU.
	9:38am Brendan: Yea! Squirt the CD with lighter fluid , ignite it and hump it against an amplifier ala Hendrix until it emits feedback.
	9:38am SSS: I am an industrial designer, and for a time worked for a guy in Mount Vernon building CD mastering machines, from the glass masters right thru the pressings. He even had a digital to tape studio...neat stuff.
	9:38am paul: Cool. Much appreciated, Joe.
	9:38am annie: Goof Off, too. painters use it
	9:41am Brendan: On a serious note perhaps low heat to warm the adhesive and then a straight lift, Followed by rubbing alcohol.
	9:43am Joe McG: I've never set fire to a CD, but I have put one through the paper shredder.
	9:43am SSS: Here is a non solvent possibility...try olive oil...let it sit a bit and rub gently...(always rub anything gently)
	9:46am Joe McG: @SSS: That's always my policy!
	9:46am annie: lifted from a young FB friend's post: "Listening to Bob Dylan play the harmonica is kind of like replacing your ear buds with a nail gun."
	9:48am Joe McG: @annie: Aw, take it easy on ol' Bob, Annie! He's got a new album of standards coming out any day now.
	9:48am V Priceless: Dang, I forgot about this! Senior moment! Hey Joe!
	9:50am Uncle Michael: Joe @9:48; Thanks for the warning!
	9:50am Joe McG: @UM: My public service for the morning.
	9:51am pantz: I feel like a The Free Design song is coming up any second now.
	9:52am fred: A friend of mine is a huge Dylan fan. She actually likes his Xmas record. Go figure
	9:53am Joe McG: @fred: The effrontery of it is kind of genius, you have to admit.
	9:53am annie: oh, joe, this is a kid from my son's generation who said that, 33yrs old.
	10:00am fred: Maybe next Dylan could form an all-star band with Tom Waits and Shane MacGowan
	10:02am coelacanth: good morning Joe and all
	10:02am Listener Scott: Quick! More solvent!
	10:02am Joe McG: So, how DO you feel about skipping CDs?
	10:02am Henry: y-y-y-y-y-y-yeah!
	10:02am MattZ: jeezo
	10:02am Stevel: New art form.
	10:02am Ike: This program is much more avant-garde than usual today! Did Liz's talkover music rebel against you because you're not Liz?
	10:03am Ernst: Gotta love scratched discs
	10:03am foofs: Break it down!
	10:03am northguineahills: That's some Yasonao Tone wounded cd shiiit!
	10:03am John McGreivey: I love the CD sticking. Love the ones that don't, also.
	10:03am Ear Hammer: This is the day the CDs revolted.
	10:04am jamesie: dadada==dada!
	10:04am Scott Williams: Joe, 12" EP is in the vinyl library!
	10:04am Scott Williams: (tho this remix is pretty fab!)
	10:04am jamesie: like it.
	10:04am Ear Hammer: They say if you "lick" the CD it temporarily stops the skipping. It's gross but has a 70% success rate!
	10:05am fred: Is Nat Roe filling in?
	10:05am John Mcgreivey: Very Plunderphonics.
	10:05am foofs: This is a long piss, Joe!
	10:06am joe: So this is coming back around to that point where it is actually interesting.
	10:06am kevlicki: Free form radio!
	10:07am rsj: i feel like i too had a cup of coffee and a bong hit just now
	10:07am kevlicki: Just put a minidisc in, superior format to CD...
	10:08am Alex: Can someone recommend some software to listen to this great radio? I've listened to some songs and now Launderette (excerpt)" by Vivien Goldman stuck and some parts of it freeze sometimes, and the song starts over and over again. I have a stable internet connection. What to do?(
	10:08am Joe McG: Scott Williams with the solution: Play vinyl whenever possible. TO WFMU DJS: FINGERPRINTS ALSO AFFECT CD PLAY NOT JUST VINYL SO STOP HANDLING THEM LIKE THEY ARE PLATES.
	10:08am Brendan: You you are obligated to this now: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7PlLhyCFV5I Followed by https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s94hKnfF4QA
	10:08am kevlicki: Ike, I had a similar reaction. I thought joe was going to talk over it, cos that's my wfmu reference for this tracks info! Glad you "stuck" to it joe. It's a great tune
	10:09am joe: I would think fingerprints are more of an issue for CDs
	10:09am Jeff Golick: So don't use them to eat food, is what you're saying?
	10:10am Joe McG: @Jeff: Ha ha! Not good for scooping up taco leavings.
	10:10am foofs: I like to lick Heinz Vegetable Soup off my copy of Royal Trux's 'Sweet Sixteen'.
	10:10am coelacanth: smooth transition to the record, by the way.
	10:11am uli: songs forandby machine unlearning
	10:13am Todd-o-phonic: A little late to today's party, but loving that Landlines LP.
	10:13am Joe McG: Hey, Todd! It's a purty good one!
	10:14am Ike: You guys are hilarious. @Fred, I almost made a similar comment. I was going to say Bryce, but you're right, Nat Roe makes more sense.
	10:15am MD: Monday!!!
	10:16am fred: @Ike: Bryce's CDs never skip
	10:16am pantz: I love this Sweet Jane. Who woulda thunk it!
	10:17am Joe McG: @fred: He likes all the notes, in any order!
	10:17am Alex: What a great sick rendition of VU
	10:19am fred: This is probably the first time "Nat Roe makes more sense" was uttered without any irony
	10:20am βrian: Cornflower skies over the isthmus today. Things are quiet in this declining college town.
	10:20am Brendan: That Maher Shalal was perfect as is this ... freeform, like this station
	10:22am Joe McG: @Brian: That's a wonderful picture you just painted.
	👻 10:22am doctorjazz: That Sweet Jane was great. (CD's do get dirty and scratch, as we've noted). As for Software for listening to FMU on line, is it for a phone? I usually use the pop up (it locks up periodically), for my phone use Neutron (it's an Android phone), haven't had playback issues with it and it sounds better than the direct link on the app (I go to the site and play the 128k MP3). From the Geek end of things...
	10:26am melinda: Don't hear Terry Allen too often. Nice.
	10:28am Alex: No, I'm on PC, but thanks for your reply, I was concerned about my android too. Listening to it using pop up is not the best options, but I will use it for the time being, thank you!
	10:28am Joe McG: @melinda: Glad to see this reissue!
	10:30am melinda: Good pairing w/Joe Ely, too.
	10:32am βrian: "'No puedo, no puedo,' was all she ever said to me."
	10:34am Kurt Gottschalk: if there's a fingerprint then the dj can be id'd.
	10:34am βrian: Re reading the CDs, you're doing the right thing. As with movies, skip the trailers until afterward.
	10:38am Joe McG: @Kurt: Ha ha ha!
	10:39am βrian: Alex, I use iTunes which isn't particularly well designed. But just for playing mp3 streams, it works fine.
	10:42am Uncle Michael: I'll plug the use of Tunein Radio for WFMU. It works great for me, and I spent months working with them to get our listings and shcedule beaten into some kind of shape.
	10:44am 542: wfmu whites only
	10:45am northguineahills: Huh, I don't think I've heard anything from Marshall Crenshaw I've liked. Glad to be proven wrong.
	👻 10:46am doctorjazz: My office PC only has Windows Media Player, and I can't add anything to the PC (the player won't play the 128 files). Pretty much leaves me with the pop-up here. At home the player I like is JRiver, though I mostly stream from an iPad to a Bluetooth speaker (DeepBlue2) (more geekiness...)
	10:46am Marc Francis: Loving it Joe!!!! My Surface Noise birthday show!!!!
	10:46am Joe McG: Happy birthday, Marc!
	10:47am Brendan: I use the WFMU app but I'll second that - the TuneIn app is good and the TuneIn Pro lets you record streams.
	10:47am Marc Francis: Thank you!
	10:51am Joe McG: Next up: Something for all of you Bob Dylan fans.
	10:52am fred: The pop-up player is pretty good, especially for archives. I'm stuck with the bloated iTunes at work, which is why I don't listen as much as I used to from there
	10:52am Jim Devoid: I have to admit that I discovered Plastic Bertrand by watching early 00's Scooby Doo with my kid...
	👻 10:53am doctorjazz: Happy Birthday @Marc! Mine is in 2 days (celebrating it at the dentist...)
	10:54am βrian: Strangely, I found myself singing "Ça Plane Pour Moi" last night as I chopped onions.
	10:54am MattZ: Am I the only Bob Dylan fan who doesn't like Desire? (this does sound great on 45 though)
	10:54am paul: 1975 was a good year for Bob.
	10:55am annie: i generally use the pop-up for fmu, including the archives. OZ has an embedded player, too. most other stations i use TuneIn. if a station HAS a player i use it until it kicks out, then i switch to tune-in. only issue i have is that Firefox kicks me off the internet now and then and i have to reboot the whole shebang. the Ipod has been relegated to the sewing room stereo system.
	10:56am Marc Francis: Thanks @doctorjazz! Keep your head up dentist wise!!!!!
	10:59am coelacanth: MattZ, no. i do consider desire his last tolerable album, but i only like a few tracks on it. (just the year prior he did blood on the tracks so there was still hope, after all.)
	11:02am MattZ: coelacanth- i dont know, it just sounds like a giant cheesefest to me. I like cheesefests as much as the next guy, but desire never worked for me. And I think there are plenty of tolerable albums post-Desire, but probably not until Oh Mercy. I know that's a cliche at this point, but if you subscribe to the general theory, then I stop at BOTT, not Desire. Anyway, carry on everyone.
	11:07am melinda: Did someone else cover Western Union Desperate?
	11:11am V Priceless: UPPER CRUST! WOO!
	11:11am fred: A coworker was part of Jarre's China tour in the 80's. He keeps bringing that up, so I suffer from Jarre fatigue
	11:12am paul: @coelacanth, BOTT was released in 1975
	11:12am coelacanth: Matt, we're nearly on the same page. i did use the word "tolerable"! -and i know that could be because of familiarity, as i bought it upon release. i was quite young and every album was an investment, so i tried hard to like it (+ there was lots of hype about it at the time.) looking at the track list now, i don't even recognise most of them. i still like "isis" though.
	11:15am coelacanth: paul, yes. desire was '76. (each recorded the previous year.)
	11:15am Brendan: I wonder if Matty Grove was derivative of Shady Grove or vice versa?
	11:15am paul: Disregard my last comment. Thought Desire was from 1975, too.
	11:16am wild neil: Fairport Convention...a song about adultery? cool...they are interesting...kinda prog folk like pentangle?
	11:16am fred: @coelacanth: you should be more careful, really. Saying "I still like Isis" might bring unwanted attention
	11:16am Joe McG: @Brendan: I'd think vice versa, but same roots!
	11:16am paul: No love for Infidels?
	11:19am Brendan: Yea Joe I thought I heard Shady Grove in the tune, and it originates from the much older Matty Groves
	11:19am coelacanth: fred, i know. that sucks! ...a regular poster here said once that it's a shame they ruined a perfectly good goddess.
	11:20am KP: Richard Thompson bending and twisting
	11:23am coelacanth: paul, i can't say i know "infidels". i've heard it, and didn't like it at that time; but things change. i've never heard "oh mercy" either. i'd thoroughly lost interest in Dylan by then. who knows? maybe i'd like one or both of them now.
	11:23am coelacanth: this song's beautiful.
	11:23am Woodchipper: Wow - though this intro was "Small Blue Thing" by Suzanne Vega...! VEeeerrrryyy. simila...Hmmm......
	11:24am audrey: i agree ^
	11:24am northguineahills: Matty Groves is a very old English folk song. Cecil Sharp gathered a few versions, and the Lomaxes found a few versions in Appalachia.
	👻 11:25am doctorjazz: Nice bookends to the show, more folk rock now, been enjoying it.
	11:26am Sem Chumbo: Oh, boy. Steeleye Span, following Fairport. Joe, you closet folkie, you.
	11:27am fred: A few years ago, my wire transfer to the station was held up because I had bought a record from Yair Yona's band. If that's security, we"re in deep shit
	11:27am Joe McG: @Sem: It's funny, but whenever I play Fairport, I get requests for Steeleye, so I thought, what the hell, today I'm going to take care of that!
	👻 11:27am doctorjazz: Richard Thompson did a nice guest spot on the Joan Baez Public TV tribute/fund raiser, played some nice acoustic lead and Joan did one of his songs with him (She never Could Resist a Winding Road, if I remember correctly)
	11:28am annie: steeleye span played as intro to procol harem way back in the early 70s in cleveland. I WAS THERE!! been a fan ever since. 3 encores they did, compared to PH's one
	11:28am Joe McG: @doctorjazz: Was this recently, doc?
	11:29am paul: Give Infidels another shot. And Love and Theft. It's all subjective I know.
	11:32am wild neil: im having deja vu!
	👻 11:32am doctorjazz: I saw the Special this past week. You know how they do their fundraisers holding these concerts hostage...
	11:33am northguineahills: It's hard to find the Trees on any medium, I only have them on a cdr comp.
	👻 11:34am doctorjazz: I also saw Jackson Browne on the show, as well as Paul Simon (who has lost a step, at least on the show, seemed to play a step behind everyone), Judy Collins was also on.
	11:35am Joe McG: @ngh: I think I got a CD copy of "On the Shore" through Amazon for about 10 bucks a few years ago. Maybe still available?
	11:35am coelacanth: paul, it's decided! i lost track of Bowie during a phase that i disliked; only to decide -2 days before he died - that i need to check out some of his stuff that i'd ignored all those years.
	11:35am Mike East: Joan Baez rehearsed with us for that concert I think. I wonder if Richard Thompson was in the studio and I missed him.
	👻 11:36am doctorjazz: Joan Baez was great, by the way... Still looks and sounds young! Still has that activist spirit.
	11:36am Carmichael: I love Trees (Celia Humphris). Lady Margaret was 1st put on paper in 1776. I bought this LP when it came out in 1970.
	11:36am wild neil: Trees are heavy!
	11:36am Rich in Washington: wow. That sounds like slide bass on this track.
	11:36am Joe McG: @MEast: If you ever see Thompson, tell him I'd like to have him on the show.
	11:36am annie: good little quaker that she(Joan) is!
	👻 11:37am doctorjazz: www.richardthompson-music.com...
	11:37am Mike East: will do, Joe ;)
	11:38am coelacanth: i Love this set!
	👻 11:38am doctorjazz: You can invite him (RT) to my house for dinner while you're at it :)
	👻 11:38am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Missed Lord Rockingham's XI There's a moose loose around this hooose.
	11:39am Sem Chumbo: Don't hear the sackbut much these days.
	11:39am Brendan: The Thistle and Surface Noise show!
	11:40am Joe McG: @Brian: Ha ha, my favorite line! @Sem: More sackbut!
	👻 11:41am Brian in UK: What about Gryphon?
	11:42am wild neil: Sackbut featured a lot on early ren stuff right?
	11:42am βrian: I would guess Lord Rockingham's amp goes to "ullven."
	11:42am V Priceless: Joe! You are a mind-reader! Yay!
	11:43am melinda: Good one, Brendan! I'm enjoying this set too,
	👻 11:43am Brian in UK: Everyone stick a finger in their ears.
	11:43am Joe McG: @VP: I was disappointed that the BBK's show was sold out by the time I knew about it. Were they good?
	11:43am TimBk: Great set to read Game of Thrones reviews to! Might need some mead and mutton for lunch.
	11:44am βrian: A nice little chewn.
	11:44am Michael 98145: Steeleye Span was in heavy rotation in my head for several years.
	11:44am Brendan: And go tinga linga lou
	11:45am V Priceless: @ Joe: wow - I did not realize it was sold out! Yes, they were amazingly fabulous!
	11:45am fred: @coelacanth: you like Isis but don't like infidels? You're going to end up on a no-fly list, man
	11:46am Scraps deSelby: I worked with Heather of The Young Tradition at Tor Books. She was XXXXXX, not in a good way. (I don't want to defend a lawsuit)
	11:46am melinda: Nice to hear the Farinas.
	11:47am Joe McG: @Scraps: Sorry to hear that! I love her singing.
	11:47am coelacanth: haha! fred, that's okay. next time i travel overseas i'll walk. i need the exercise anyway.
	11:50am Joe McG: @VP: Most sorry to miss them!
	11:51am northguineahills: @Timbk: Doing exactly the same thing.
	11:52am chris: Victoria sounds a sensible, if lonely, bird.
	11:52am Sem Chumbo: Thanks, Joe. Been a swell three hours, See you, and all, a little further down the road.
	11:53am Will: Boy, thanks for playing all 8 minutes of "Long Lankin," to my mind the pinnacle of the entire British trad folk-rock mountain.
	11:54am Joe McG: You bet, Will. Thanks for stopping by, Sem. And thanks to everyone who listened and commented today. I hope you all have a nice week!
	11:54am melinda: Aaah...Fairest of the Seasons.
	11:55am northguineahills: Folkal Point, new to me! Thanks Joe!
	11:55am Brendan: Thanks Joe!
	11:56am melinda: This song is like a warm bath.
	11:56am βrian: Yes, Thanks. Off to the food carts now.
	11:56am V Priceless: Thanks, Joe! Super show, as usual!
	11:56am coelacanth: it's noon. i need to get my sackbut outside. Thanks Joe! ciao y'all.
	👻 11:56am Brian in UK: Off to polish my bodkin. Have a great week.
	👻 11:57am doctorjazz: Great show! Thanks, Joe!
	11:58am melinda: @ngh: I learned of Folkal Point from the Dust on the Nettles anthology, which I highly recommend.
	11:58am coelacanth: haha! BrianUK you take such good care of yourself!
	11:59am Irene Trudel: Lovely last hour, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from May 16, 2016

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