WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 19, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:02am pantz: Morning Joe. Let's get this Monday started.
	9:03am fred: Good morning Joe and listeners
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Heh...after listening to the Yips several hundred times, I finally got the gag. They're averse to human music, but attracted to the between-station whistling noise (I don't know what's the sniglet for that sound, though). Boing boing!
	9:05am Brendan: Surfacing for another week
	9:08am annie: ack!! i missed the yipyip!! good morning everyone!
	9:10am SeanG: morning folks!
	9:12am Sem Chumbo: Hello to you, Joe, and McGasko-listeners around the free-form world.
	9:12am Guido from Cologne: hello Joe!
	9:12am melinda: good morning
	9:12am Joe McG: Good morning, radio friends, I hope your Monday is off to a swell beginning. @Ken: That moment when something kicks in, nothing like it!
	9:13am Bronwyn Bishop: Happy Monday Joe and everyone!
	9:15am KP: Sounding great over cold, crisp air, Joe
	9:15am V Priceless: mornin' Joe and all!
	👻 9:15am Brian in UK: Hey Joe Ken from HP. Guess you got down off the roof. I sent you a song link on Mayuko's show. At 1:56. Hope you like it. wfmu.org...
	9:16am Cheri Pi: Good morning
	👻 9:17am Brian in UK: Joe crappy, classic Monday. Threats of strikes from baggage handlers, postal workers and Santa threatening to work to rule.
	👻 9:18am Brian in UK: No, architects threatening to work to rule. Ta Da.
	9:23am Brendan: Nice chords
	👻 9:29am doctorjazz: Hey all, happy Monday!
	9:31am foofs: This Rocks & Waves record is so lovely. I'm glad the hipper WFMU DJs are playing trax from it, cos it costs $25 and you can't even get it on CD.
	9:33am annie: @Ken in Hyde Park- i'm sure there must be a modern version of that book... i betcha!
	👻 9:34am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, @Brian. All is well. I will give that a listen in the near future.
	👻 9:38am Brian in UK: Guess with maybe more LPs appearing in the new bin you have to make more effort than just flipping through CD tracks.
	9:42am MD: SANTA!!!!
	9:43am annie: any pagan stuff?
	9:43am MD: WE MUST COUNTER $ATAN WITH SANTA!!!
	9:43am ChrisB.: Fair enough, Joe. Something for everyone.
	👻 9:48am Brian in UK: Mining the pop seam.
	👻 9:48am doctorjazz: Power Pop, making me smile (the Seams and the Tuns tracks, which I walked in to)
	9:48am Joe McG: Thanks, Brian! I only caught Mayuko's first hour and so I missed the link.
	👻 9:48am doctorjazz: Power Pop, making me smile (the Seams and the Tuns tracks, which I walked in to)
	9:49am Andrew Waterloo: Tuns has an amazing rhythm section.
	9:50am Uncle Michael: The Tuns record is goooood.
	9:50am pantz: This is some great stuff, Joe.
	9:51am Joe McG: Some very nice new pop records here this December!
	9:52am Andrew Waterloo: Tuns is a Canadian super group with members of Inbreds, Sloan, and Superfriendz
	9:55am Andrew Waterloo: Wow, this to me is a return to 90s Canadian indie.
	9:55am JakeGould: Hey!
	9:56am βrian: -9℉ last night. Our furnace was working overtime. MPLS was due to get truly cold.
	10:01am pantz: This was live? Damn, the Bangles were tight.
	10:01am Joe McG: @Brian: Chilly!
	10:05am βrian: And now Zsa Zsa Gabor. Criminy!
	👻 10:09am Brian in UK: Charlie used to have a great Saturday night show on Radio London playing 'world music' a sad loss to music. He started radio ping pong. Good fun. Lovely man. Good 220m runner. Useless fact.
	10:11am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe and all!
	👻 10:12am Brian in UK: Here is Charlie's obit by another quality music writer Richard Williams. www.theguardian.com...
	10:13am djsheilab: Woah....this Togo soul record. Heavy! Morning Joe McG + everyone!
	10:14am Joe McG: Hi, Sheila B, happy Monday to you! And you too, Greg!
	10:17am Greg from ZONE 5: Sweet pierogi hangover
	10:18am Ike: Wait, did somebody say that Santa is threatening to strike? What's he demanding, expensive specialized animal handlers to help him with the ornery reindeer?
	10:18am Joe McG: @Greg: Ha ha! I'm still in a coma.
	10:20am βrian: How would Peter Sellers pronounce the name of this group?
	10:25am JakeGould: She's got the music in her.
	10:25am JakeGould: And it sounds great!
	10:27am Sem Chumbo: I've long wanted to be a Pressure Cooker, just to get close to Thelma, who, I have heard, has considerable music in her.
	10:29am Walt: @βrian: Fünke
	10:29am Walt: ... or Fünkes for the plural
	10:30am Bronwyn Bishop: I'm feeling Christmas music! :D
	10:31am Sem Chumbo: OK, Joe, cross the Rubricon. Let's hear Xmas music, for good or ill.
	10:33am βrian: That must be the Red River of Script, Sem.
	10:34am SeanG: yeah dude
	10:35am Joe McG: OK, here we go!
	10:36am Greg from ZONE 5: YES! SHRED IT!
	10:36am JakeGould: Santa is shredding! Or at least one of his helpers is.
	10:37am βrian: Look, a brand new B&W Polaroid camera!
	10:38am pantz: The Free Design definitely have a distinctive sound.
	10:38am Joe McG: @Brian: Ha ha ha!
	10:38am pantz: Reminds me of the Up WIth People superbowl halftime shows back in the 70's-80's.
	10:39am KP: Yes, pantz, a distinctive Carpenters sound!
	10:39am KP: Merry Christmas, Joe Mc!
	10:40am annie: well, just wave that FD tune over my coffee, no need to add any more sugar
	10:40am Bronwyn Bishop: oh dear god i love this
	10:40am Joe McG: Thanks, KP, to you, too!
	10:41am JakeGould: Happy Birthday Baby Jesus!
	10:41am Bronwyn Bishop: its like little marcy with an actual child (?)
	👻 10:41am Brian in UK: This record is on SALEM.
	10:41am pantz: "It's Shake and Bake and I helped!"
	10:42am Mick: This is amazing
	10:42am V Priceless: abowie, baby Jesus, abowie!
	10:43am Sem Chumbo: This one could clear a mall in five minutes flat.
	👻 10:43am Ken From Hyde Park: Single File Christmas! Sweet!
	10:43am Dennis Diken: digging the show Joe! love that Free Design cut. Merry Christmas everyone!
	10:43am Joe McG: @Sem: Ha ha ha!
	10:43am JakeGould: Barry Gordon is one annoyingly chipper little shit.
	10:44am ChrisB.: From the mawkish to the manic. This single file has everything!
	10:44am Whosondephone: What the EFFF?
	10:44am Joe McG: @Jake: He would go on to star on TV's "Fish"!
	10:44am annie: oh, geez, now i want to sing along!... i refuse to be jolly!
	10:44am Greg from ZONE 5: But how do you feel about Christmas?
	10:45am βrian: There's corn in my ear.
	10:45am JakeGould: All of those little orphans in Aleppo make me feel sad. Tell me Barry Gordon is under a pile of rubble and man...
	10:46am annie: sounds like darla strait(?) from the little rascals.
	10:47am pantz: Now I've heard it all. A Christmas Chimpanzee?
	10:47am JakeGould: I like this Christmas monkey song.
	10:47am Joe McG: I'd like to send the Alice Martin out to Dave the Spazz.
	10:48am annie: this is eclectic enough... yes, joe, i was thinking about that!!
	10:48am Bronwyn Bishop: incredible
	10:48am Sem Chumbo: You're pulling our legs, Joe. Crabs for Xmas.hahaha
	10:50am Greg from ZONE 5: Philly Boy Roy?
	10:50am melinda: Thanks for playing happy Birthday Jesus. It's one of my favorites from A John Waters Christmas.
	10:51am Barney Grubbs: What's the pluperfect subjunctive of crab?
	10:52am Joe McG: @melinda: I was very happy to find this single for $1.
	10:53am Faye: this segment needs to be saved & podcasted as the most truly WFMU-eque Christmas mix you could possibly achieve. HILARIOUS!
	10:53am βrian: A single for a single.
	10:53am Sem Chumbo: @BarneyG: here you go. www.verbix.com...
	10:54am annie: well, joe, you passed the test! this was great!
	10:54am Joe McG: @Faye: I very much enjoyed your show last night! (Heard almost the whole thing for a change....)
	👻 10:56am Brian in UK: Far and wide. Is that a description of Santa?
	10:56am JakeGould: I like Bill Withers.
	10:57am Barney Grubbs: @Sem, I guess that's why the joke's about scrod & not crab
	10:57am Sem Chumbo: heh.
	10:59am pantz: Don't let the Fox & Friends learn about this song. They'll foam at the mouth.
	11:01am βrian: Let there be no crabs in the codpiece.
	👻 11:01am Brian in UK: We seem to have lost our sense of humour. The youngest track is 25 years old.
	11:03am βrian: Sometimes it takes 25 years to get the joke.
	11:04am Mick: Truly, you have saved Christmas
	11:12am sugarwolf: What is so wrong about Jews singing and writing Christmas songs, they're all mostly about a Jewish guy.
	11:12am annie: tamar!!!! yay
	11:13am sugarwolf: What annie said!!!
	11:14am Sem Chumbo: Yes, fraser and debolt. Great!
	11:15am annie: as much as i love the regular DJs, i love this flip to the older DJs just as much, a christmas present in itself.
	11:16am Joe McG: @sugarwolf: Ha ha, so true!
	11:16am Joe McG: Yes, annie, it's such a pleasure to have Tamar on the air at anytime.
	11:17am βrian: A lot of us atheists and Spaghetti Monster followers are huge fans of liturgical music, too.
	11:21am Rev. Turnip Druid: what βrian said. This atheist is a huge fan of the Turkish Adhan + various sincere adaptations of churchy stuff by modern composers...
	11:21am Rev. Turnip Druid: Just got here. Probably missing all context for that comment, but what the hell...
	11:25am Joe McG: I'm not particularly religious these days, but I still love the passion of so many kinds of religious and spiritual music.
	11:26am Cee Dubbles: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, or BOTH? Maybe Mitsuwa?
	11:27am SeanG: zimmy!
	👻 11:27am tadpoles: Am looking forward to People Like Us too...excellent.
	11:27am Joe McG: @CD: If you're in Edgewater, do them all in a row!
	11:27am melinda: When Little Cindy was singing a customer asked "is this Christian radio?" and I said "no it's WFMU". Frequently confused, I'm sure.
	11:28am Ashamedd & Out of practice: embarrassed to say lissening to Trouble from Thursday.
	11:29am Joe McG: @melinda: Ha ha!
	11:30am JakeGould: There is nothing wrong with Jews singing/writing Christmas songs, but still... If you ain't Christian (practicing or otherwise) this can be the most tedious time of the year. Tired of being on the receiving end of "So what do you do?" conversations. Anyway! Joe's selections are spot on today.
	👻 11:32am Brian in UK: Hildegarde of Bingen rules. (sounds like some arcane game)
	11:32am Joe McG: @Jake: It's not even "2016," as we both know, so these Christians really are pushy. Hang tough, Jake.
	👻 11:34am Brian in UK: Moving into Harry Smith territory.
	11:34am northguineahills: Hedy West's voice sounds familiar somehow...
	11:34am annie: i love the folk motif of the devil taking the evil wife to hell and he brings her back when she gets downright mean.
	11:35am annie: ngh, i was immediatly reminded of anna mcgarrigle
	11:35am Listner Alexandra: Gorgeous stuff today, Joe!
	11:36am sugarwolf: Someone put a keep Christ on Christmas magnet on their locker at work and I am not really sure what to think about it.
	11:36am upsetter5001: Never cared for Dalton but " Green Rock Road" has some serious feeling!
	11:36am JakeGould: Yeah, 5776 so us Jews are celebrating the Quincentennial of this great nation's independence. Also, this Santa in front of a picture of Mecca in Middle Eastern store kinda sums up the awkwardness. https://instagram.com/p/BOLMdSCgGJM/
	11:36am melinda: Green Rocky Road is one of my favorite folk songs
	11:36am sugarwolf: I prefer to keep Saturn in Saturnalia.
	11:36am northguineahills: I hear that too, annie.
	11:37am ChrisB.: Let's all remember to Keep Chris in Christmas!
	11:37am annie: and Han in Hannukah
	11:38am northguineahills: My sister-in-law's family is Muslim, and their xmas decor rival's any one else's in suburbia...
	11:38am Dean: Fuck Christmas.
	11:38am MenfussMike: i am OBSESSED with Karen Dalton
	11:38am Uncle Michael: Love Marty so much...
	11:39am JakeGould: Keep Han in Hanukkah is funny! Nice one Annie. But we should also keep the Chew in the 8 days of Chewbacca.
	11:39am βrian: And the Bach in Bacchanalia, of course.
	11:39am βrian: @Dean: Are you referring the the illustrated guide?
	11:40am Rev. Turnip Druid: Great thing about being midway up an apartment building in a narrow dense street is ... no point in setting up xmas lights & such, since the neighbors' windows are right there. "Passive outsourcing" you might call it.
	👻 11:41am Brian in UK: We had a card from our neighbour. He is part of a group Muslims for Peace. We are all the same colour under the skin. Peaceful 2017 everyone. Joe, thank you for the wonderful musical guidance, year long.
	11:41am Barney Grubbs: keep the christ in "jesus christ, not this shit again"
	11:41am βrian: @JakeGould: By some miracle, the spittoon never overflowed.
	11:42am Joe McG: @BrianUK: Thanks, sir! Sorry no Xmas CD this year, I got very lazy. Next year!
	11:43am sugarwolf: I finally saw the Star Wars Holiday Special, and oooooohhhh noooooooo.
	11:44am annie: that bill murray christamas from last year was actually pretty damn good
	11:45am pantz: Something tells me Mr Fromholz was a big fan of Paul Williams
	11:46am annie: oh christ, this is going to make me cry..and i was doing so well..
	11:46am Joe McG: @pantz: He's one of that Texas posse that Lyle Lovett covered on his "Here's the Texas songwriters I love" album, the name of which escapes me.
	11:47am pantz: @Joe Interesting. I'll have to explore.
	11:47am JakeGould: @sugarwolf: But you got to see Chewbacca's family.
	11:48am βrian: Can't mistake that L.A. twang.
	11:48am Bronwyn Bishop: Gillian Welch's parents composed the music for the Star Wars Holiday Special. I was planning on sharing that fact anyway as soon as she started singing, and then discovered you guys were already talking about it. Huh.
	11:48am Parq: I dunno why, but somehow, these songs are bringing me down.
	11:49am Joe McG: @Bronwyn: Ha ha! @Parq: Ha ha ha!
	👻 11:50am Brian in UK: Jeez this sounds like Diana Jones.
	11:50am βrian: Joe's Ballast for the Soul.
	11:51am Bronwyn Bishop: Terry Allen!!!
	👻 11:51am Ken From Hyde Park: I, for one, am looking forward to listener Lyle's Christmas story where the tour bus broke down and the band spent the night in a manger behind the local Denny's.
	👻 11:52am Brian in UK: Joe, Killing it now. Truckload of Art is a belter.
	11:53am Sem Chumbo: Lovely morning of spins, Joe. Thanks so much. See you and all next time, if the Fates allow.
	11:53am annie: i'm in absolute heaven
	👻 11:53am Brian in UK: See you Sem.
	👻 11:54am Brian in UK: You might called this show a roller coaster ride.
	11:55am annie: yep^
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks so much for listening and commenting today and all year long. Let's hope that 2017 holds something good for us. Happy holidays, everyone! See you in the new year!
	11:56am Sem Chumbo: @BiUK, later!
	11:56am annie: <3
	11:57am Dean: Ran off for coffee. @βrian: Like others above, I don't have a religious bone in my body, yet I appreciate Christmas music. But the holiday just sucks.
	11:57am Brendan: Thank Joe for today and all the year(s).
	11:58am melinda: Thanks Joe!
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joe!
	11:58am βrian: Heh, I'm no fan of Christmas music, but I do appreciate the excuse to cook.
	11:59am Mick: Happy Holidays Joe & all! Here's to 2017
	👻 12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: May all your surfaces be noisy in 2017!
	12:00pm northguineahills: Thanks Joe!
	3:11pm Passaic River Blues: Sorry to have missed Joe live this morning. I pray to Black Santa every night to deliver us from evil.

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 19, 2016

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

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Gunn-Truscinski Duo	Wythe Raag (excerpt) / Outro	Sand City	Three Lobed	2010	CD			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Roy Montgomery	Riding "Riding" by "Roy Montgomery"	RMHQ	Grapefruit	2016	CD		*	0:10:54 (Pop-up)
Robert Quine	Seven Mood Clips (excerpt)	Robert Quine / Richard Hell	The Sound of White Columns	2016	LP	From 1995	*	0:21:15 (Pop-up)
Rob Noyes	Golden Week "Golden Week" by "Rob Noyes"	The Feudal Spirit	Poon Village	2016	LP		*	0:24:58 (Pop-up)
Rocks & Waves Song Circle	II (We Trust In Defeat)	Songs I-V	Bongo Joe/Sing a Song Fighter	2016	LP		*	0:28:38 (Pop-up)

Ultimate Painting	Monday Morning, Somewhere Central	Dusk	Trouble in Mind	2016	CD		*	0:43:52 (Pop-up)
The Seams	Remembrance Day "Remembrance Day" by "The Seams"	Meet the Seams	Hand Drawn Dracula	2016	CD		*	0:46:11 (Pop-up)
Tuns	Throw It All Away "Throw It All Away" by "Tuns"	Tuns	Royal Mountain	2016	CD		*	0:47:26 (Pop-up)
Eyelids	Slow It Goes "Slow It Goes" by "Eyelids"	single	Jealous Butcher	2016	45		*	0:49:59 (Pop-up)
Pezband	Waiting in Line "Waiting in Line" by "Pezband"	Women & Politics	Common Market Media/Frodis	2016	EP	From 1982	*	0:53:52 (Pop-up)
The Strand	Second Waiting "Second Waiting" by "The Strand"	Seconds Waiting	Dig!	2016	LP	From 1983	*	0:57:08 (Pop-up)
The Bangles	Tell Me "Tell Me" by "The Bangles"	Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!	Omnivore Recordings	2016	CD	live in 1984	*	0:59:39 (Pop-up)
Jimme Shelter	Achin' in My Heart "Achin' in My Heart" by "Jimme Shelter"	Rhythm on the Radio: Oval Records Singles 1974-1987	Ace	2016	CD	From 1975	*	1:02:15 (Pop-up)

Akofa Akoussah	I Tcho Tchass "I Tcho Tchass" by "Akofa Akoussah"	Togo Soul 70	Hot Casa	2016	CD	"Jazz Dance"	*	1:11:20 (Pop-up)
Winslow Six	Roshi "Roshi" by "Winslow Six"	Sri Lanka: The Golden Era of Sinhalese & Tamil Folk-pop Music	Akuphone	2016	CD	From 1974	*	1:14:26 (Pop-up)
Funkees	Slipping into Darkness "Slipping into Darkness" by "Funkees"	Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 2 (1972-1977)	Now-Again	2016	CD	From 1973	*	1:17:40 (Pop-up)
Evinha	Esperar Pra Ver "Esperar Pra Ver" by "Evinha"	Mr Bongo Record Club Volume One	Mr Bongo	2016	CD	From 1971	*	1:21:54 (Pop-up)
Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker	I've Got the Music in Me	I've Got the Music in Me	Sheffield Labs	1975	LP			1:24:07 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of random Xmas records in a row!
The Chambers Brothers	Merry Christmas, Happy New Year	single	Columbia	1969	45			1:31:35 (Pop-up)
Rotary Connection	Silent Night Chant	single	Cadet Concept	1968	45			1:34:06 (Pop-up)
The Free Design	Christmas Is the Day	single	Project 3	1970	45			1:36:39 (Pop-up)
Little Cindy	Happy Birthday Jesus	single	Salem	1959	45			1:40:12 (Pop-up)
Barry Gordon	I Like Christmas (I Like It, I Like It)	single	MGM	1956	45			1:42:27 (Pop-up)
Alice Martin	Charlie, The Christmas Chimpanzee	single	Kontention	1970	45			1:45:00 (Pop-up)
David DeBoy	Crabs for Christmas "Crabs for Christmas" by "David DeBoy"	single	Outrageous	1981	45			1:47:32 (Pop-up)
63 Monroe	White Christmas "White Christmas" by "63 Monroe"	single	Savvy	1984	45			1:50:56 (Pop-up)
The Browns Featuring Jim Edward Brown	Greenwillow Christmas (Carol)	single	RCA Victor	1960	45			1:53:21 (Pop-up)
Bill Withers	The Gift of Giving "The Gift of Giving" by "Bill Withers"	single	Sussex	1972	45			1:55:22 (Pop-up)
Charles Bevel	Black Santa Claus "Black Santa Claus" by "Charles Bevel"	single	A&M/Collectables	1992	45	From 1973		1:57:52 (Pop-up)
Emmylou Harris	Light of the Stable	single	Reprise	1975	45	with Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Neil Young		2:00:56 (Pop-up)

Fraser & DeBolt	Zero ± 22 and Holding (Flight of the Light Air Force)	single	Roaratorio	2016	7"	From 1971	*	2:15:24 (Pop-up)
The Band	Where Do We Go from Here?	Cahoots	Capitol	1971	LP			2:22:46 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	Dusty Old Fairgrounds "Dusty Old Fairgrounds" by "Bob Dylan"	Visions of Johanna	Berkeley	1972	LP	From 1963		2:26:36 (Pop-up)
Hedy West	The Wife Wrapt in Werther's Skin	Old Times & Hard Times	Folk-Legacy	1967	LP			2:31:46 (Pop-up)
Karen Dalton	Green Rocky Road "Green Rocky Road" by "Karen Dalton"	Green Rocky Road: The Loop Tapes Volume Two	Megaphone Music	2008	CD	From 1963		2:35:05 (Pop-up)
Marty Robbins	The Little Rosewood Casket	Just Me and My Guitar	Bear Family	1983	LP	From 1959		2:38:27 (Pop-up)
Steven Fromholz	Hobo Bob "Hobo Bob" by "Steven Fromholz"	A Rumor in My Own Time	Capitol	1976	LP			2:41:16 (Pop-up)
Eddy Arnold	(Jim) I Wore a Tie Today	Cattle Call	RCA Victor	1963	LP			2:45:06 (Pop-up)
Gillian Welch	Orphan Girl "Orphan Girl" by "Gillian Welch"	Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg	Acony	2016	CD	demo version, 1996	*	2:47:46 (Pop-up)
Terry Allen	High Plains Jamboree "High Plains Jamboree" by "Terry Allen"	Lubbock (On Everything)	Paradise of Bachelors	2016	CD	From 1979	*	2:51:07 (Pop-up)
C. Strøm	All Over the World "All Over the World" by "C. Strøm"	Home Sweet Home	C. Strøm	2016	MP3		*	2:54:38 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am pantz: Morning Joe. Let's get this Monday started.
	9:03am fred: Good morning Joe and listeners
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Heh...after listening to the Yips several hundred times, I finally got the gag. They're averse to human music, but attracted to the between-station whistling noise (I don't know what's the sniglet for that sound, though). Boing boing!
	9:05am Brendan: Surfacing for another week
	9:08am annie: ack!! i missed the yipyip!! good morning everyone!
	9:10am SeanG: morning folks!
	9:12am Sem Chumbo: Hello to you, Joe, and McGasko-listeners around the free-form world.
	9:12am Guido from Cologne: hello Joe!
	9:12am melinda: good morning
	9:12am Joe McG: Good morning, radio friends, I hope your Monday is off to a swell beginning. @Ken: That moment when something kicks in, nothing like it!
	9:13am Bronwyn Bishop: Happy Monday Joe and everyone!
	9:15am KP: Sounding great over cold, crisp air, Joe
	9:15am V Priceless: mornin' Joe and all!
	👻 9:15am Brian in UK: Hey Joe Ken from HP. Guess you got down off the roof. I sent you a song link on Mayuko's show. At 1:56. Hope you like it. wfmu.org...
	9:16am Cheri Pi: Good morning
	👻 9:17am Brian in UK: Joe crappy, classic Monday. Threats of strikes from baggage handlers, postal workers and Santa threatening to work to rule.
	👻 9:18am Brian in UK: No, architects threatening to work to rule. Ta Da.
	9:23am Brendan: Nice chords
	👻 9:29am doctorjazz: Hey all, happy Monday!
	9:31am foofs: This Rocks & Waves record is so lovely. I'm glad the hipper WFMU DJs are playing trax from it, cos it costs $25 and you can't even get it on CD.
	9:33am annie: @Ken in Hyde Park- i'm sure there must be a modern version of that book... i betcha!
	👻 9:34am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, @Brian. All is well. I will give that a listen in the near future.
	👻 9:38am Brian in UK: Guess with maybe more LPs appearing in the new bin you have to make more effort than just flipping through CD tracks.
	9:42am MD: SANTA!!!!
	9:43am annie: any pagan stuff?
	9:43am MD: WE MUST COUNTER $ATAN WITH SANTA!!!
	9:43am ChrisB.: Fair enough, Joe. Something for everyone.
	👻 9:48am Brian in UK: Mining the pop seam.
	👻 9:48am doctorjazz: Power Pop, making me smile (the Seams and the Tuns tracks, which I walked in to)
	9:48am Joe McG: Thanks, Brian! I only caught Mayuko's first hour and so I missed the link.
	👻 9:48am doctorjazz: Power Pop, making me smile (the Seams and the Tuns tracks, which I walked in to)
	9:49am Andrew Waterloo: Tuns has an amazing rhythm section.
	9:50am Uncle Michael: The Tuns record is goooood.
	9:50am pantz: This is some great stuff, Joe.
	9:51am Joe McG: Some very nice new pop records here this December!
	9:52am Andrew Waterloo: Tuns is a Canadian super group with members of Inbreds, Sloan, and Superfriendz
	9:55am Andrew Waterloo: Wow, this to me is a return to 90s Canadian indie.
	9:55am JakeGould: Hey!
	9:56am βrian: -9℉ last night. Our furnace was working overtime. MPLS was due to get truly cold.
	10:01am pantz: This was live? Damn, the Bangles were tight.
	10:01am Joe McG: @Brian: Chilly!
	10:05am βrian: And now Zsa Zsa Gabor. Criminy!
	👻 10:09am Brian in UK: Charlie used to have a great Saturday night show on Radio London playing 'world music' a sad loss to music. He started radio ping pong. Good fun. Lovely man. Good 220m runner. Useless fact.
	10:11am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe and all!
	👻 10:12am Brian in UK: Here is Charlie's obit by another quality music writer Richard Williams. www.theguardian.com...
	10:13am djsheilab: Woah....this Togo soul record. Heavy! Morning Joe McG + everyone!
	10:14am Joe McG: Hi, Sheila B, happy Monday to you! And you too, Greg!
	10:17am Greg from ZONE 5: Sweet pierogi hangover
	10:18am Ike: Wait, did somebody say that Santa is threatening to strike? What's he demanding, expensive specialized animal handlers to help him with the ornery reindeer?
	10:18am Joe McG: @Greg: Ha ha! I'm still in a coma.
	10:20am βrian: How would Peter Sellers pronounce the name of this group?
	10:25am JakeGould: She's got the music in her.
	10:25am JakeGould: And it sounds great!
	10:27am Sem Chumbo: I've long wanted to be a Pressure Cooker, just to get close to Thelma, who, I have heard, has considerable music in her.
	10:29am Walt: @βrian: Fünke
	10:29am Walt: ... or Fünkes for the plural
	10:30am Bronwyn Bishop: I'm feeling Christmas music! :D
	10:31am Sem Chumbo: OK, Joe, cross the Rubricon. Let's hear Xmas music, for good or ill.
	10:33am βrian: That must be the Red River of Script, Sem.
	10:34am SeanG: yeah dude
	10:35am Joe McG: OK, here we go!
	10:36am Greg from ZONE 5: YES! SHRED IT!
	10:36am JakeGould: Santa is shredding! Or at least one of his helpers is.
	10:37am βrian: Look, a brand new B&W Polaroid camera!
	10:38am pantz: The Free Design definitely have a distinctive sound.
	10:38am Joe McG: @Brian: Ha ha ha!
	10:38am pantz: Reminds me of the Up WIth People superbowl halftime shows back in the 70's-80's.
	10:39am KP: Yes, pantz, a distinctive Carpenters sound!
	10:39am KP: Merry Christmas, Joe Mc!
	10:40am annie: well, just wave that FD tune over my coffee, no need to add any more sugar
	10:40am Bronwyn Bishop: oh dear god i love this
	10:40am Joe McG: Thanks, KP, to you, too!
	10:41am JakeGould: Happy Birthday Baby Jesus!
	10:41am Bronwyn Bishop: its like little marcy with an actual child (?)
	👻 10:41am Brian in UK: This record is on SALEM.
	10:41am pantz: "It's Shake and Bake and I helped!"
	10:42am Mick: This is amazing
	10:42am V Priceless: abowie, baby Jesus, abowie!
	10:43am Sem Chumbo: This one could clear a mall in five minutes flat.
	👻 10:43am Ken From Hyde Park: Single File Christmas! Sweet!
	10:43am Dennis Diken: digging the show Joe! love that Free Design cut. Merry Christmas everyone!
	10:43am Joe McG: @Sem: Ha ha ha!
	10:43am JakeGould: Barry Gordon is one annoyingly chipper little shit.
	10:44am ChrisB.: From the mawkish to the manic. This single file has everything!
	10:44am Whosondephone: What the EFFF?
	10:44am Joe McG: @Jake: He would go on to star on TV's "Fish"!
	10:44am annie: oh, geez, now i want to sing along!... i refuse to be jolly!
	10:44am Greg from ZONE 5: But how do you feel about Christmas?
	10:45am βrian: There's corn in my ear.
	10:45am JakeGould: All of those little orphans in Aleppo make me feel sad. Tell me Barry Gordon is under a pile of rubble and man...
	10:46am annie: sounds like darla strait(?) from the little rascals.
	10:47am pantz: Now I've heard it all. A Christmas Chimpanzee?
	10:47am JakeGould: I like this Christmas monkey song.
	10:47am Joe McG: I'd like to send the Alice Martin out to Dave the Spazz.
	10:48am annie: this is eclectic enough... yes, joe, i was thinking about that!!
	10:48am Bronwyn Bishop: incredible
	10:48am Sem Chumbo: You're pulling our legs, Joe. Crabs for Xmas.hahaha
	10:50am Greg from ZONE 5: Philly Boy Roy?
	10:50am melinda: Thanks for playing happy Birthday Jesus. It's one of my favorites from A John Waters Christmas.
	10:51am Barney Grubbs: What's the pluperfect subjunctive of crab?
	10:52am Joe McG: @melinda: I was very happy to find this single for $1.
	10:53am Faye: this segment needs to be saved & podcasted as the most truly WFMU-eque Christmas mix you could possibly achieve. HILARIOUS!
	10:53am βrian: A single for a single.
	10:53am Sem Chumbo: @BarneyG: here you go. www.verbix.com...
	10:54am annie: well, joe, you passed the test! this was great!
	10:54am Joe McG: @Faye: I very much enjoyed your show last night! (Heard almost the whole thing for a change....)
	👻 10:56am Brian in UK: Far and wide. Is that a description of Santa?
	10:56am JakeGould: I like Bill Withers.
	10:57am Barney Grubbs: @Sem, I guess that's why the joke's about scrod & not crab
	10:57am Sem Chumbo: heh.
	10:59am pantz: Don't let the Fox & Friends learn about this song. They'll foam at the mouth.
	11:01am βrian: Let there be no crabs in the codpiece.
	👻 11:01am Brian in UK: We seem to have lost our sense of humour. The youngest track is 25 years old.
	11:03am βrian: Sometimes it takes 25 years to get the joke.
	11:04am Mick: Truly, you have saved Christmas
	11:12am sugarwolf: What is so wrong about Jews singing and writing Christmas songs, they're all mostly about a Jewish guy.
	11:12am annie: tamar!!!! yay
	11:13am sugarwolf: What annie said!!!
	11:14am Sem Chumbo: Yes, fraser and debolt. Great!
	11:15am annie: as much as i love the regular DJs, i love this flip to the older DJs just as much, a christmas present in itself.
	11:16am Joe McG: @sugarwolf: Ha ha, so true!
	11:16am Joe McG: Yes, annie, it's such a pleasure to have Tamar on the air at anytime.
	11:17am βrian: A lot of us atheists and Spaghetti Monster followers are huge fans of liturgical music, too.
	11:21am Rev. Turnip Druid: what βrian said. This atheist is a huge fan of the Turkish Adhan + various sincere adaptations of churchy stuff by modern composers...
	11:21am Rev. Turnip Druid: Just got here. Probably missing all context for that comment, but what the hell...
	11:25am Joe McG: I'm not particularly religious these days, but I still love the passion of so many kinds of religious and spiritual music.
	11:26am Cee Dubbles: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, or BOTH? Maybe Mitsuwa?
	11:27am SeanG: zimmy!
	👻 11:27am tadpoles: Am looking forward to People Like Us too...excellent.
	11:27am Joe McG: @CD: If you're in Edgewater, do them all in a row!
	11:27am melinda: When Little Cindy was singing a customer asked "is this Christian radio?" and I said "no it's WFMU". Frequently confused, I'm sure.
	11:28am Ashamedd & Out of practice: embarrassed to say lissening to Trouble from Thursday.
	11:29am Joe McG: @melinda: Ha ha!
	11:30am JakeGould: There is nothing wrong with Jews singing/writing Christmas songs, but still... If you ain't Christian (practicing or otherwise) this can be the most tedious time of the year. Tired of being on the receiving end of "So what do you do?" conversations. Anyway! Joe's selections are spot on today.
	👻 11:32am Brian in UK: Hildegarde of Bingen rules. (sounds like some arcane game)
	11:32am Joe McG: @Jake: It's not even "2016," as we both know, so these Christians really are pushy. Hang tough, Jake.
	👻 11:34am Brian in UK: Moving into Harry Smith territory.
	11:34am northguineahills: Hedy West's voice sounds familiar somehow...
	11:34am annie: i love the folk motif of the devil taking the evil wife to hell and he brings her back when she gets downright mean.
	11:35am annie: ngh, i was immediatly reminded of anna mcgarrigle
	11:35am Listner Alexandra: Gorgeous stuff today, Joe!
	11:36am sugarwolf: Someone put a keep Christ on Christmas magnet on their locker at work and I am not really sure what to think about it.
	11:36am upsetter5001: Never cared for Dalton but " Green Rock Road" has some serious feeling!
	11:36am JakeGould: Yeah, 5776 so us Jews are celebrating the Quincentennial of this great nation's independence. Also, this Santa in front of a picture of Mecca in Middle Eastern store kinda sums up the awkwardness. https://instagram.com/p/BOLMdSCgGJM/
	11:36am melinda: Green Rocky Road is one of my favorite folk songs
	11:36am sugarwolf: I prefer to keep Saturn in Saturnalia.
	11:36am northguineahills: I hear that too, annie.
	11:37am ChrisB.: Let's all remember to Keep Chris in Christmas!
	11:37am annie: and Han in Hannukah
	11:38am northguineahills: My sister-in-law's family is Muslim, and their xmas decor rival's any one else's in suburbia...
	11:38am Dean: Fuck Christmas.
	11:38am MenfussMike: i am OBSESSED with Karen Dalton
	11:38am Uncle Michael: Love Marty so much...
	11:39am JakeGould: Keep Han in Hanukkah is funny! Nice one Annie. But we should also keep the Chew in the 8 days of Chewbacca.
	11:39am βrian: And the Bach in Bacchanalia, of course.
	11:39am βrian: @Dean: Are you referring the the illustrated guide?
	11:40am Rev. Turnip Druid: Great thing about being midway up an apartment building in a narrow dense street is ... no point in setting up xmas lights & such, since the neighbors' windows are right there. "Passive outsourcing" you might call it.
	👻 11:41am Brian in UK: We had a card from our neighbour. He is part of a group Muslims for Peace. We are all the same colour under the skin. Peaceful 2017 everyone. Joe, thank you for the wonderful musical guidance, year long.
	11:41am Barney Grubbs: keep the christ in "jesus christ, not this shit again"
	11:41am βrian: @JakeGould: By some miracle, the spittoon never overflowed.
	11:42am Joe McG: @BrianUK: Thanks, sir! Sorry no Xmas CD this year, I got very lazy. Next year!
	11:43am sugarwolf: I finally saw the Star Wars Holiday Special, and oooooohhhh noooooooo.
	11:44am annie: that bill murray christamas from last year was actually pretty damn good
	11:45am pantz: Something tells me Mr Fromholz was a big fan of Paul Williams
	11:46am annie: oh christ, this is going to make me cry..and i was doing so well..
	11:46am Joe McG: @pantz: He's one of that Texas posse that Lyle Lovett covered on his "Here's the Texas songwriters I love" album, the name of which escapes me.
	11:47am pantz: @Joe Interesting. I'll have to explore.
	11:47am JakeGould: @sugarwolf: But you got to see Chewbacca's family.
	11:48am βrian: Can't mistake that L.A. twang.
	11:48am Bronwyn Bishop: Gillian Welch's parents composed the music for the Star Wars Holiday Special. I was planning on sharing that fact anyway as soon as she started singing, and then discovered you guys were already talking about it. Huh.
	11:48am Parq: I dunno why, but somehow, these songs are bringing me down.
	11:49am Joe McG: @Bronwyn: Ha ha! @Parq: Ha ha ha!
	👻 11:50am Brian in UK: Jeez this sounds like Diana Jones.
	11:50am βrian: Joe's Ballast for the Soul.
	11:51am Bronwyn Bishop: Terry Allen!!!
	👻 11:51am Ken From Hyde Park: I, for one, am looking forward to listener Lyle's Christmas story where the tour bus broke down and the band spent the night in a manger behind the local Denny's.
	👻 11:52am Brian in UK: Joe, Killing it now. Truckload of Art is a belter.
	11:53am Sem Chumbo: Lovely morning of spins, Joe. Thanks so much. See you and all next time, if the Fates allow.
	11:53am annie: i'm in absolute heaven
	👻 11:53am Brian in UK: See you Sem.
	👻 11:54am Brian in UK: You might called this show a roller coaster ride.
	11:55am annie: yep^
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks so much for listening and commenting today and all year long. Let's hope that 2017 holds something good for us. Happy holidays, everyone! See you in the new year!
	11:56am Sem Chumbo: @BiUK, later!
	11:56am annie: <3
	11:57am Dean: Ran off for coffee. @βrian: Like others above, I don't have a religious bone in my body, yet I appreciate Christmas music. But the holiday just sucks.
	11:57am Brendan: Thank Joe for today and all the year(s).
	11:58am melinda: Thanks Joe!
	11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joe!
	11:58am βrian: Heh, I'm no fan of Christmas music, but I do appreciate the excuse to cook.
	11:59am Mick: Happy Holidays Joe & all! Here's to 2017
	👻 12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: May all your surfaces be noisy in 2017!
	12:00pm northguineahills: Thanks Joe!
	3:11pm Passaic River Blues: Sorry to have missed Joe live this morning. I pray to Black Santa every night to deliver us from evil.

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