WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 3, 2018

Listener comments!
	9:02am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Hey!
	👻 9:02am queems: hey joe & all
	👻 9:02am 12539: Yippee!
	9:02am Losermom: My favorite Sesame Street segment.
	9:02am Colleen: Hi Joe!
	👻 9:02am queems: oh mannnnn
	👻 9:03am NotARealDoctor: Yikes, Linda Lee! I wish I could've gotten the ball out, but his throat was so tight I could do anything but move it up and down
	👻 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Turn you clocks back to 1970 now as we enjoy a rock 'n' roll classic. Yip yip!
	9:04am MplsCoco: Good morning Joe!! Way to start it off! ❤️
	9:04am The Oscar: I just realized I have absolutely no idea what "25 or 6 to 4" means. Anybody?
	9:04am pantz: Say what you will about this tune but that driving drum beat is pretty great.
	9:05am Diezel Tea: Good morning to y'all, and good evening for the rest of us wrapping up their work days.
	9:05am Steiner in Whately: Man, those horns
	9:05am Diezel Tea: Man, that wah!
	9:06am kevlicki: I once snuck into a Hall and Oates and Chicago concert, in Port Jervis. Something to do for shots and giggles twenty years ago
	9:06am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe et al!
	9:06am Vincent Nifigance: Cooking.
	9:06am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I snuck into a Dead show in the 80's, Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
	9:06am Planet Tyler: McGasko snagged the best intro
	9:07am kevlicki: Morning Joe
	9:07am pp: Terry Kath great guitar and singer
	👻 9:07am queems: going in for the kill first thing today, huh
	9:08am Davee: Hi Joe - enjoying the Nazareth this morning!
	9:08am medson: Good Morning Joe and everyone.
	9:09am melinda: Wow, I knew this sounded familiar yet strangely different!
	👻 9:09am 12539: Nice choices Clay! - er, I mean Joe.
	9:09am Krys O.: Did you know there is an WFMU connection to Nazareth? The late station manager Bruce Longstreet worked for them. Can't recall in what capacity though.
	9:09am agillyo: @the Oscar think I remember seeing in a doc that the song was written shortly before 4 AM in a state of delirium, hence the title. In any case, it’s what I needed to hear this morning!
	9:10am Joe McG: Joe McGasko reporting from Jersey City, NJ!
	9:11am dale: CHILLIWACK! LOVe this song.....
	9:12am Miles: at ease , McGasko
	9:12am Davee: Good music in the seventies.
	9:12am Diezel Tea: @Krys O - ah ha, so that explains that seeming anomalous pick))
	9:12am dale: this and gone gone gone are admittedly the only chilliwack songs i know.
	👻 9:12am karlward: What was a typical day like for you in 1976?
	9:13am dale: i was a senior in high school 42 years ago today.
	9:14am The Oscar: @dale You have me beat-- I only really know the SCTV version of "Gone Gone Gone."
	9:14am Krys O.: There was a Chilliwack album in the mid-80s. We listened to it at the Crazy Eddie store I worked at.
	9:15am dale: i'll have to look that up oscar.
	9:16am Sem: Missed Chilliwack? Dang. Hello, Joe, McGaskoes, and Surface Noise enthusiasts. That just about covers everybody.
	9:16am Krys O.: I was 13 in 1976 with all of that awkwardness.
	👻 9:17am Ken From Hyde Park: I've long since lost my Crazy Eddie T-shirt, but I still have a Crazy Eddie wallet downstairs.
	9:17am The Oscar: @dale IIRC, it's pretty much just Moranis, Levy, and Candy as a gawky high school band covering it in its entirety. Each of their characterizations is PERFECT.
	9:17am Sem: 20,000 miles, that's way more than 7 miles high.
	9:17am dale: whenever i listen to fly at night i always have to follow it up lake shore drive by aliotta haynes and jeremiah
	9:17am melinda: I would have been attending kindergarten today in 1976.
	9:17am MplsCoco: Joe... I'm sensing a flying theme. Where ya headed?
	9:19am dale: here it is: www.youtube.com...
	9:20am Joe McG: @MplsCoco: There IS something that these all have in common.
	9:20am Sem: Place names, I think.
	9:20am pantz: Planes, Trains and Horses?
	9:21am pp: just looked up Chilliwack Fly by Night on YouTube and up next they had listed 25 or 6 to 4. This can only mean that Joe McG is an algorithm :)
	9:21am MplsCoco: Hmmmmmm
	9:21am The Oscar: I think Sem's right-- all the band names are cities!
	9:22am Joe McG: @Sem: Ding ding ding! @pp: Ha ha ha. I don't really exist.
	9:27am dale: pp - you have your computer set up to allow it to listen?
	9:28am Itzall Ablurr: Haha, just clicked the thumbnail image for "Houston" and it took me to Amazon to buy Whitney Houston's "I'll be your baby tonight". Sorry wrong number? Good morning Joe.
	9:28am emily: where you going, Joe? Oh, just read the playlist! Doh!
	9:28am Agent Peter: Now I'm sorry I thanked you last week for not playing Boston...
	9:29am Joe McG: @Agent Peter: I told you I'd play them. :)
	9:29am pp: the Chilliwack/SCTV connection, this was great https://youtu.be/ZaHfWqmC18A
	9:29am Roberto: "Tangle in your hair, yeah yeah yeah yeah"
	9:30am Vincent Nifigance: A whistlestop tour through Rock Country.
	9:30am trouble: awesome segue!!!
	9:30am Diezel Tea: TIL one of the members of Boston was of Armenian heritage.))
	9:31am dale: I hope it's not listening. I did watch the Chicago video a month ago, so that may be more likely :)
	9:31am Itzall Ablurr: I, umm... loved Boston. They hit at just the right time for a teenage dude and at first seemed like a weird, out of nowhere mashup of Kiss, Styx, Journey et. al. but kind of clawed their way in to being just BOSTON. Hey, it was the 70s!
	👻 9:32am Ken From Hyde Park: City names and cool album covers, that's the theme!
	9:33am Itzall Ablurr: Hoping to hear something from Berlin.
	9:34am The Oscar: I had a college professor who was a longtime DJ at WFNX in Boston, and he recalled how everyone in town was baffled when this huge arena rock band appeared out of nowhere. It wasn't until later that they realized it was essentially a studio project that suddenly blew up.
	9:35am Joe McG: @trouble: Paris is the band featuring your fave, Bob Welch! ;)
	9:36am Listener Scott: Great theme, but please no Asia Joe
	9:36am Joe McG: @Scott: They don't qualify. For anything! :)
	9:36am Itzall Ablurr: Listener Scott, you know what you just did, right?!? haha.
	9:37am Vincent Nifigance: Something from Neil Buchanan's band Marseille, surely.
	9:37am Sem: haha, Joe. Unheard cover!
	9:37am Parq: Ooh, look, Mommy and Daddy are wrestling!
	9:37am Listener Scott: whew!
	9:38am northguineahills: What, no Danzig???!!!
	9:38am Joe McG: @Parq: They have my Kiss records out!
	9:38am dale: gotta go do stuff . keep disco dancing kids.
	9:38am Listener Scott: @Itzall Ablurr, I don't know what came over me, it must've been the heat, or something, of the moment.
	9:39am Joe McG: @ngh: Oh gawd, I hadn't thought of that!
	9:40am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Kansas? You know, I think John Wetton from King Crimson Red sang for Asia, but I never really liked them much.
	👻 9:40am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, just come down from the loftspace. Laying mineral wool for extra insulation. Gloves, mask and knee pads. Everyone is wearing them this season.
	👻 9:41am Brian in UK: I am as hot as these gals but in a different way.
	9:42am Listener Scott: I believe Sleater-Kinney qualifies, btw
	9:43am pp: I accidentally signed as "dale" in this thread. I'm sorry dale, I will stop commenting now :)
	9:43am Sem: Shearing a mineral, now that's gotta be a rare occupational skill.
	9:44am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Mineral wool is a more fire resistant insulation than fiberglass.
	9:46am northguineahills: I believe there is a Brooklyn....
	9:47am pantz: There's definitely a Berlin.
	9:49am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Was Warsaw Joy Division?
	9:49am The Oscar: Did Chevy Chase ever record a single?
	9:49am steveo: good morning -- sounding good.
	9:49am Joe McG: @Oscar: Ha ha ha!
	9:49am northguineahills: Yes, WN!
	👻 9:50am Ken From Hyde Park: Bands like L.A. Guns and Saigon Kick don't qualify, do they?
	👻 9:51am Brian in UK: @Sem ever tried knitting with the stuff?
	9:52am steveo: i saw sleater-kinney once at 2 in the afternoon at irving plaza but i didn't sneak in
	9:53am Itzall Ablurr: Heck to the yeah.
	9:53am Ike: Kansas doesn't count because they're not called Kansas City. Right?
	9:54am steveo: i love this song. it seems so bleak though, right?
	9:55am Itzall Ablurr: steveo, of course! That's why it's good, in my opinion.
	9:55am βrian: On the ride in to work, our bus kept scraping its top against the cloud ceiling. Not exactly an expansive feelingl
	👻 9:55am Ken From Hyde Park: This is pretty impressive if you just got the idea when Clay Pigeon played "Galveston" just over an hour ago. Procuring all these albums in such a short amount of time, I mean.
	9:56am Itzall Ablurr: (chair dancing)!!!
	9:58am Sem: @BiUK: alas, all thumbs. Long story: genetic dead-end.
	10:00am Ike: You didn't play anything by Truth or Consequences, Intercourse, or Accident! For shame! (J/K, I have no idea if such bands actually exist.)
	👻 10:00am Brian in UK: @Sem good for hitch hiking. If anyone does that anymore.
	10:01am Vincent Nifigance: HA!!
	10:02am lukavino: sleazy disco outfits wearing sleazy disco outfits.
	10:04am Sem: Ha! Brian. Well observed.
	10:05am The Oscar: I grew up near a town called Athol, which I always thought would be a great name to shout from a stage.
	10:05am βrian: Chicago ll was the one after the great fire.
	10:05am steveo: it looks like Calexico is in California and abuts a city in Mexico called Mexicali. Nice.
	10:06am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I've been to Truth or Consequences. It is near Elephant Butte lake. Why would there be strange panties in my laundry? My wife found these and I have no explanation. I do not have a mistress. My wife and I go to the YMCA sometimes and use the locker rooms there. My niece visited this summer, but they are not hers. I guess Queen is not a valid option for band names that are locations? Real NM town names: Weed and Claunch.
	👻 10:06am Ken From Hyde Park: Good thing they dropped "Transit Authority" from their name, hereby qualifying them to be on the playlist today.
	10:06am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: >Discuss<
	10:07am Joe McG: @Ken: Quite a relief!
	10:07am βrian: Well, there's your band name: strange panties.
	10:08am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Brian-LOL! Literally, I laughed out loud! Good thing I wasn't drinking milk.
	10:08am Daybreak, the Human: I very much appreciated being able to hear from people who love there cities and town while I graded for an hour. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE THOUGHT AND EFFORT! Sorry to shout, but it’s easy to wing things which is what I and many of us do most of the time. But sometimes, we can make ourselves and everyone else a little special by putting ourselves out there through our thought and effort! Thanks again Joe!
	10:09am Joe McG: Thanks, Daybreak, nice sentiments! Give the kiddies good grades.
	10:09am pantz: There's a small park south of Cincinnati called Big Bone Lick. I chuckle every time I pass it on the hwy, but my sense of humor never left middle school.
	10:09am βrian: Apparently, there was a band name Gotham. Does that qualify? en.wikipedia.org...
	10:09am The Oscar: @Brian Too bad they wouldn't be eligible for today's show, unless there's a Strange Panties, Minnesota.
	10:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe and all!
	10:10am steveo: maybe the panties came from elephant butte!
	10:11am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Seriously though, what are strange panties doing in my laundry. What does Occam's Razor say about this?
	10:11am βrian: ... and there are any number of Thompsonvilles out there.
	10:11am northguineahills: I'm a geographer, and never heard of the town of Richard Thompson....
	10:12am David in London: @Joe McG - A couple of weeks ago I said I would report back about the Heaven 17 gig I was shortly due to attend. Happily they were excellent, more full-on than I had anticipated, and Glen Gregory’s voice is still bold and strong. They even threw in a couple of early Human League numbers, such as Being Boiled, which HL don’t do themselves anymore. So all in all, far from being over the hill as yet...
	10:12am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: There is a Jim Thorpe, PA I think.
	10:12am Joe McG: @ngh: It's near Sandy Denny.
	10:12am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Heron Oblivion is epic.
	10:13am northguineahills: @WN: I would get my wife's dedicates in my laundry all the time. Curious, as I used to drop it off all the time....
	10:13am βrian: Ardeidae Obliviata
	10:14am mb: Howdy Joe and listeners
	10:14am steveo: @ngh could be a combined effort from Richard City, TN and Thompsonville, MI?
	10:14am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @NGH-she says they are NOT HERS. Too BIG. Somebody is messing with us I think, but not sure how.
	10:15am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Steveo- Do the locals call it Dick Town?
	10:15am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: The PANTIES are TOO BIG. My wife is a size S. She is 5'2" and about 120 lbs.
	10:15am steveo: never been!
	10:16am βrian: "Oh, no they're not too big at all ... Oh, you mean for you."
	10:17am steveo: enjoying the oblivion! (new to me!)
	10:17am northguineahills: That works for me, steveo. @WN: sometime our laundry bags in the closet would vomit on each other, so, some articles of clothing would be put in the wrong bag. (I've only gotten a random sock here and there from a laundromat that wasn't mine).
	10:17am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Heh!
	10:21am Joe McG: @David: So cool to hear that Heaven 17 still has it! Thanks for the concert report. That should be a regular feature of the show: The Concert Report!
	10:23am βrian: One might do cheese pairings with various bands.
	10:23am Brendan: Good morning . Great Heron Oblivion . Although they never seem oblivious to me. On the other hand I was raking leaves Saturday and a hawk perched on the fence not 5 meters away watching me.
	10:26am Joe McG: @Brendan: You're lucky he didn't eat you.
	10:27am βrian: I wonder if the hawk thought you might stir up some mice.
	10:28am Johnzon: isn't there a Big Panties Ontario?
	10:29am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: My wife is a size large in Poland, but here she is small. I guess American girls have big butts compared to the rest of the world. Poland, anyway.
	10:32am Sem: @Johnzon, probably not, but there IS a Big Johnzon.
	10:34am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning Joe and friends
	10:35am Krys O.: Oh, yeah! Love this tune!
	10:36am steveo: is there anything better than the sounds of a 60-year-old record???
	10:37am ChrisB.: Once saw Lee Allen AND Red Tyler share the stage with The Blasters inn Hollywood, ca. 1984.
	10:38am Listener Alexandra: Good morning, Joe! Greetings from the other size of 92103!
	10:38am Joe McG: @steveo: Not much! @ChrisB: Jealous!
	10:38am Brendan: @brian I thought the same thing. Like in the spring when i’m hoeing the garden (walking down the rows with my ‘ho ) there’s usually a robin nearby waiting to grab the worms.
	10:38am Krys O.: I bet that's Charlie McCoy on harmonica.
	10:39am MplsCoco: Joe "you're a real Jim dandy."
	10:40am northguineahills: @WN: My wife is brown mestizo Mexi, but has Euro blood, so, she's somehow 5'9", so she is very tall for Mexicanas.
	10:41am Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Joe McG! I just tuned in and it's nice to be here. I just scrolled up to look at your playlist that I missed. Very clever what you did with that first set. :-)
	10:42am Granny Spicy Tuna: I was an ungrateful adolescent who didn't appreciate Madness enough at the time because they weren't Boy George.
	10:43am Evan From Seattle: absolutely love Air Miami! great pick Joe!
	10:43am Marc Francis: Hot damn! That Madness song was a CHUUUUUUUUUNE!
	👻 10:44am tim from champaign: For a second I thought,"How come I never heard this Unrest song before", then it all made sense when the playlist was updated.
	👻 10:46am Brian in UK: @GST Culture Club played recently overhere.
	10:46am cluebucket: smashing singles :-)
	10:47am Joe McG: @Alex: Hope the new pad is swell! @Wendy: It had to be done! @Evan: Thanks! Gllad you liked it.
	👻 10:47am Brian in UK: Del Shannon & Lou Christie, do not hear them much anymore.
	10:47am Listener Alexandra: I'm currently being stared at by a greyhound, so I'd say the new place is definitely livelier!
	10:47am Granny Spicy Tuna: BiUK: i finally saw Culture Club a couple of years ago, in Oakland CA. It fulfilled all of my adolescent dreams, except i didn't get to party with them…
	10:48am Krys O.: YES!!!! Had this on a Kate Bush mix tape from a co-worker in the 80s.
	10:49am melinda: I like that there is a group called Huddersfield Transit Authority, and that they covered Runaway.
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: @GST they probably were all in bed by midnight.
	10:49am Joe McG: @melinda: Me, too! I wonder if they were making fun of Chicago.
	10:50am Joe McG: @Brian in UK: Where is Huddersfield?
	10:50am Colleen: @Granny Spicy....I tried to fulfill that same adolescent dream this summer and failed! They were sold out! Which made me sadly happy that they were still "That cool"
	10:51am Roberto: I don't think I was aware of this Kate Bush single. Thanks for the enlightenment, Joe!
	10:53am Granny Spicy Tuna: Colleen; don't give up the dream. Even to this cynical weirdo, the show transported me to an MTV wonderland of delight!
	👻 10:54am Hughie Considine: Interesting cover! What it lacks in Garfunkularity it makes up with strings...kinda
	10:54am pantz: "Yes, I can hear you Clem Fandango!"
	10:54am Joe McG: You bet, Roberto! One of my fave Xmas singles ever.
	👻 10:54am Brian in UK: Joe, it is in Yorkshire formerly quite an indutrial area.
	👻 10:55am Brian in UK: Such a posh voice for an S&G song.
	10:55am Joe McG: @Brian: Thanks!
	👻 10:56am karlward: TAMMI!
	👻 10:57am Brian in UK: Joe, they say 'you can tell a Yorkshire man, but not much'.
	10:57am melinda: I saw fliers for the Psychadelic Furs a few years ago but couldn't go, adolescent dreams deferred.
	10:57am Krys O.: @pantz - I too thought of Matt Berry.
	10:58am pantz: @Krys O glad I'm not the only one. Underrated singer too, he is.
	11:00am johnk77: @melinda if u do ever get a chance to hang with the Furs Tim Butler is the Fur most fun to have a chat and a drink with:>
	11:01am Brendan: If Marvin and Tammi ever got together and had a kid, he/ she would have been a force of nature as well as capable of singing solo duets.
	👻 11:01am karlward: Hmm Autechre?
	👻 11:01am karlward: Oh that was not Autechre, just a needle against paper. Carry on.
	👻 11:02am Hughie Considine: I had a few beers with Richards Butler at the Telephone Bar on 2nd Ave in NYC during his Love Spit Love phase. Completely charming, low-key, not at all rock star-ish.
	11:04am johnk77: @hughie agreed both Butlers remarkably real Tim was the band's rep to the party in the eighties
	11:06am ɨkɛ: Wow, those are dopey lyrics. It sounds so much better when Kate Bush obscures the meaning with her singing style.
	11:06am the Canterbury wood-elf: Sorry to be a Brit pronunciation pedant, Joe, but "Charing" rhymes with the first bit of "larynx", rather than "sparring". Loved that second set by the way...
	👻 11:06am Brian in UK: That is why I have never got Kate Bush.
	11:07am The Oscar: Could be a reference to the British tradition of ghost stories at Christmas? Also, I'm pretty delighted that there exists a Christmas song with the line "Inside Oscar's mind."
	11:07am Morphe: Thanks Joe.... Gotta go... Til...
	11:07am Evan From Seattle: I don't think I've ever heard a version of Runaway I haven't liked.
	11:08am the Canterbury wood-elf: Oscar Wilde's funeral was on 3rd December 1900 (he died in November)...that's all i could find.
	11:09am john l: what is this bed music please?
	👻 11:09am Brian in UK: Oblique Dorian Grey reference. Makes as much sense as any thing else.
	👻 11:10am Hughie Considine: @john, i guess the Butlers are among the rare rock brothers who could stand each other.
	👻 11:11am Hughie Considine: @John l: bed music is a loop of Kevin Ayers made by DJ Joe.
	11:11am Brendan: Kate pays tribute to her hero, Oscar Wilde, who died in Paris the same month as the single was released, eighty years earlier.
	11:11am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Kate Bush was hot. I think she traded on that. I think she was trained to sing Opera too. My 15 year old son finds Chrome "unlistenabl". Oh well, I guess I stretched his musical Overton Window a bit with that run through of the CD in the car. Heh! He's all "Led Zeppelin this" and "10CC that". Although he did ask for Mr. Bungle for Christmas (California!). He heard about it from some dude on the internet.
	11:12am john l: Thanks Hughie!
	11:12am Joe McG: @Canterbury: No problem! Thanks for the assistance. :)
	👻 11:12am Hughie Considine: @the canterrbury wood-elf: what is the proper pronunciation of "pedant" ?
	👻 11:14am tim from champaign: I love how the music that Ira the K plays when he DJs or in this case recommends sounds like his band. Not in an egotistical way but more like he's giving the listeners a glimpse of how his ear works. Whether it's a boogaloo jam or 60s folk pop, it all makes sense.
	11:15am northguineahills: @WN: Don't worry, when I was 15, I didn't listen to music that wasn't top 40. It take a year later to have that revelation.
	11:18am steveo: We took a car trip for Thanksgiving and driving back my 12-year-old kept asking me to check to see if WFMU was back in range yet. I've never been prouder.
	11:20am johnk77: @hughie smart observation in the eighties the Butlers did not always hang together offstage but i never saw battling unlike Zanes, Davies, etc.
	👻 11:21am Brian in UK: @Hughie two syllables ped ant.
	11:22am Listening Out There: The New Age are here...
	11:22am Krys O.: @pantz: I agree and I have an autographed copy of his latest Television Themes cd.
	👻 11:23am Brian in UK: There is a column in a newspaper over here called pedants corner. Now do you hyphenate the s in pedants before or after it.
	11:24am pantz: @Krys O Jealous! That album is great
	11:25am brick layer: i didnt want that boat ride to end
	11:25am βrian: You mean apostrophize?
	11:25am Sem: Neither, I think, Brian. It is a corner (of the paper) in which you find more than one pendant, yes?
	11:26am Phillippe Bastille: @pantz @Krys We use the "Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango" in my family when someone has forgotten to do something and another family member reminds them. Always afraid I'm going to use it on a conference call when one of the attendees asks "can you hear me?"
	11:26am βrian: With pendants, it all depends.
	11:27am Sem: Consider "The Sports Page."
	11:27am johnk77: @joemcg another great show;> in jersey news FBI is at the home of Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam
	11:28am pantz: That's great @Phillippe! The fact that they are intentionally trying to drive Toast crazy makes it even more appropriate in that case.
	👻 11:28am Hughie Considine: Thanks @Brian. @johnk And the Everlys, and the Gallaghers. It's a really deep phenomenon. Then of course you have the rare brother duos who are total equals, like the Maels. And the D'Addario brothers of the Lemon Twigs, who seem poised to bring brother rock forward.
	👻 11:28am Brian in UK: @βrian yes you are correct but not with a zed.
	11:29am Phillippe Bastille: Another one we use whenever someone texts us at the grocery store for an additional item is "Ok Columbo". We watch too much tv
	👻 11:29am Hughie Considine: @Brian, I tend to go with Pedants Corner, as in: a corner for pedants, just like Publishers Weekly is a weekly for publishers.
	👻 11:29am Brian in UK: Did not know that there was such a word.
	11:29am βrian: I see no zed!
	11:30am steveo: umlaut + tuba = clickystar
	11:31am Wendy del Formaggio: Yesterday I missed Tuba Christmas because I had a radio station meeting to go to. I'm sad, but this Ursula Bogner is cheering me up.
	11:31am melinda: The first time I heard someone use the word "pedant" it made me laugh, I had only heard people use "pedantic".
	👻 11:31am Brian in UK: I am starting to over-hyphenate.
	11:32am Rich in Washington: Did I miss a Kate Bush argument?
	👻 11:32am Brian in UK: Better than pederast.
	11:33am Rich in Washington: I kept pronouncing it 'pendantic', until I heard the root word come into common usage recently.
	11:33am Listening Out There: Pedant's = One pedant, Pedants' = Multiple pedants...not to be pedantic, o' course... :)
	👻 11:34am Brian in UK: @Sem think that you are correct. Now a pendentive is a wonderful thing.
	11:34am melinda: I like this set.
	11:34am βrian: A local couple was pondering marriage vs civil union. In the end, they decided to get hyphenated.
	11:34am Asheville Jon: love this Moog
	11:37am Granny Spicy Tuna: Anything Moog = clicky star. I got to shake Robert Moog's hand at the Asheville airport, but as my friends simply introduced him as their "friend, Bob," i didn't realize who he was until he was gone. Probably for the best, i would have made an embarrassment of myself.
	11:37am Mike Sin: Been enjoying the show very much! Of curse, I loved that version of the Paul Simon track by the band Toast!
	11:37am Listening Out There: In his latest show, Irwin played a Jean-Jacques Perrey and, in the comments, said he got copies of a recording from JJP's daughter. Joe, were you lucky enough to get one of those copies? (If not, maybe you need to have a word with Irwin...)
	11:38am Asheville Jon: nice GST. i go past the Moog facility on a regular basis
	11:39am johnk77: @hughie yes i only met the Maels a few times but wish i had gotten to know them better the guys in their then backing band Gleaming Spires were very cool i was told the Maels got on well from their earliest years
	11:40am Joe McG: @Mike Sin: Me, too, Mike!
	11:40am Sem: pendentive: BiUK, always ready to follow a tangent. Did you pick up that word whilst visiting Turkey?
	11:40am steveo: Liz Berg did a Moog tribute in 2005 after he passed away. wfmu.org...
	11:41am Rich in Washington: Robert Moog was the first famous person I ever sent a fan email to out of the blue in the early days of the modern web and a month or so later, I got a nice email back from what I am really sure was actually him. I wish I bronzed it or something.
	11:42am steveo: add this fantastic set here to list!
	👻 11:42am tim from champaign: I had a feeling this set was leading up to Young Marble Giants. Way to go, Joe!
	11:42am Sem: ...and have now learned the origin of "squinch" into the bargain. A good day, and scarcely half-over.
	11:44am Krys O.: Was lucky enough to be with a group of folks having lunch with Bob Moog about 20 years ago.
	11:44am Guido from Cologne: Love this "electric" section!
	👻 11:45am Brian in UK: Sem, no I have been trying to learn somethings about architecture.
	👻 11:45am Hughie Considine: @john77, you keep some good company. Sparks are among my very favorites. Seeing them by chance on TV late one night during the mid-70s was my Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
	11:47am johnk77: @hughie just working for a living recently retired after 42 years in "entertainment" biz
	11:47am Granny Spicy Tuna: steveo: oooh, that looks good, thanks!
	11:48am Brendan: @Joe - you’re all over the map today - that is to say , great show. I hope you do a theremin set one day.
	👻 11:48am tim from champaign: Roy!
	11:49am annie: whew!!! seconds to spare! guess i'll be digging the archive..hi everyone!
	11:49am Granny Spicy Tuna: My dream team: Moog + Theremin + Sitar (maybe a harpsichord and a jaw harp and a singing saw to round it out?)
	11:49am Asheville Jon: hey Annie
	11:49am Joe McG: @Krys O: Wow! Moog lunch!! @johnk77: Thanks, John! @Brendan: Not a bad idea! Bryce ended his show last week with "The Swan."
	11:50am northguineahills: Ceylon prefers to go by Sri Lanka these days....
	👻 11:50am Brian in UK: Sem, having written that it did make the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul possible, turning a square shape into a round dome. That is one stunning building.
	11:51am Sem: Ah, this is what led me to a possible Turkish connection:The first experimentation with pendentives was made in Roman dome construction beginning in the 2nd–3rd century AD,[3] while full development of the form was achieved in the 6th-century Eastern Roman Hagia Sophia at Constantinople." via wikithingy.
	11:51am Tom P: What was Roy Orbison thinking?
	11:52am Asheville Jon: this is the most fawked up Roy song i've ever heard.
	11:52am Asheville Jon: i'm not complaining, just pointing it out
	11:53am Joe McG: I think this song is incredible! :) Seven minutes and not even a chorus! What a brave single for 1969.
	11:53am Sem: Hope to get there before much longer, BiUK. Thanks, Joe. Been extra good fun. See you and all sometime again soon.
	11:53am Listening Out There: Speaking of Roy Orbison, what's the general opinion on hologram performers? www.rollingstone.com...
	11:53am βrian: Henceforth, when anyone says "Consider the squinch," Sem will come to mind.
	11:53am đ¢ ÞäŦ: this is not making me feel too good about Roy..
	11:53am Mick: I am agog.
	👻 11:54am Hughie Considine: @john, ah yes, that business: "a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs."
	11:54am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everyone! See you next week for more radio fun. Welcome to December! Hopefully it will be magic again. :)
	11:54am Mick: I think this "American Dream in Crisis" record may be worth looking into.
	11:54am Asheville Jon: does one need to be tripping to get this song? :)
	👻 11:54am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	👻 11:54am Brian in UK: This must have been around MacArthur Park time.
	11:55am The Oscar: Holy cow-- who wrote this one?? I'd listen to a whole Roy album like this.
	11:55am Listening Out There: ...hologrammatic appearances also planned for Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston www.theguardian.com...
	👻 11:55am Brian in UK: Great mix as ever, Joe.
	👻 11:55am Hughie Considine: What they said, @Joe!
	11:56am Jeff Moore: My Lord, I didn't realize this was Roy Orbison until he hit that high note at the end!
	11:56am steveo: thanks, Joe!
	👻 11:56am tim from champaign: Man, that was Roy Orbison's Frankie Teardrop.
	11:56am Listening Out There: Great program today, Joe. Thanks!
	11:56am Asheville Jon: don't forget the ABBA "reunion" with holograms
	11:56am TheLoneliestMonk: Hey Joe: too damn busy at work today to talk. loved the old school Bim & Clover!
	👻 11:57am Hughie Considine: nice one @tim
	11:58am northguineahills: happy thanks, Joe!
	11:58am Krys O.: Roy was forward thinking and Tupper Saussy of Neon Philharmonic was an abstract gent.
	11:59am Krys O.: Thanks!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 3, 2018

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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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Mon. Feb 10th, 9am - Noon: Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies (More info...)
Cowboy Junkies are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year with a tour that comes to the tri-state area in mid-February. On today's show, Joe talks to Michael Timmins, the band's guitarist and main songwriter, about the band's beginnings in Toronto, their continuously creative career, the glory and stigma of the great cover tune, and their most recent album, Such Ferocious Beauty.

December 3, 2018: Dropping Down in My Parachute

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Chicago	25 or 6 to 4 "25 or 6 to 4" by "Chicago"	Chicago	Rhino	2002	CD	From 1970		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Nazareth	This Flight Tonight "This Flight Tonight" by "Nazareth"	Loud 'N' Proud	A&M	1973	LP			0:06:46 (Pop-up)
Chilliwack	Fly at Night "Fly at Night" by "Chilliwack"	single	Mushroom	1976	45			0:10:08 (Pop-up)
Taos	20,000 Miles in the Air (Again)	Taos	Mercury	1970	LP			0:13:32 (Pop-up)
Calexico	All the Pretty Horses "All the Pretty Horses" by "Calexico"	Aerocalexico	Our Soil, Our Strength	2001	CD			0:16:21 (Pop-up)
Portland	Reborn "Reborn" by "Portland"	Portland - Gary Ogan & Bill Lamb	Elektra	1972	LP			0:20:15 (Pop-up)
Houston	All My Life "All My Life" by "Houston"	Houston	SSS International	1970	LP			0:23:28 (Pop-up)
Boston	Peace of Mind "Peace of Mind" by "Boston"	Boston	Epic	1985	CD	From 1976		0:26:34 (Pop-up)
Paris	Red Rain "Red Rain" by "Paris"	Paris	Capitol	1976	LP			0:31:25 (Pop-up)
Saint Tropez	Je T'aime "Je T'aime" by "Saint Tropez"	Je T'aime	Butterfly	1977	LP			0:34:48 (Pop-up)
New York City	Quick, Fast, In a Hurry	I'm Doin' Fine Now	Chelsea	1973	LP			0:41:22 (Pop-up)
London	Handcuffed "Handcuffed" by "London"	single	MCA	1977	45			0:43:52 (Pop-up)
Warsaw	At a Later Date "At a Later Date" by "Warsaw"	unreleased	No Label	1977	MP3	recorded 18 July 1977		0:45:45 (Pop-up)
Beirut	As Needed "As Needed" by "Beirut"	No No No	4AD	2015	CD			0:48:55 (Pop-up)
Berlin	The Metro "The Metro" by "Berlin"	I Get Around: Therese's 2011 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2011	CD-R	From 1982		0:52:19 (Pop-up)

Richard Thompson	The Storm Won't Come	13 Rivers	New West	2018	CD		*	1:05:19 (Pop-up)
Heron Oblivion	Beneath Fields "Beneath Fields" by "Heron Oblivion"	Heron Oblivion	Sub Pop	2016	CD	playing Monty Hall this Thursday!		1:10:53 (Pop-up)
The Mountain Movers	Heavenly Forest	Pink Skies	Trouble in Mind	2018	LP	on the bill with Heron Oblivion!	*	1:18:19 (Pop-up)
Opal	Lullabye "Lullabye" by "Opal"	Early Recordings	Serpent	1989	LP			1:22:56 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s played in a neat orderly row
Lee Allen	Walkin' with Mr. Lee "Walkin' with Mr. Lee" by "Lee Allen"	single	Ember	1957	45			1:34:14 (Pop-up)
Peggy Little	Sugarman "Sugarman" by "Peggy Little"	single	Epic	1973	45			1:36:13 (Pop-up)
Madness	The Sun and The Rain "The Sun and The Rain" by "Madness"	single	Stiff	1983	45			1:38:30 (Pop-up)
Air Miami	Airplane Rider "Airplane Rider" by "Air Miami"	single	Teen Beat	1994	45			1:41:57 (Pop-up)
Huddersfield Transit Authority	Runaway	single	Decca	1972	45			1:43:54 (Pop-up)
Kate Bush	December Will Be Magic Again	single	EMI	1980	45			1:46:49 (Pop-up)
Toast	Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall	single	Jamie	1970	45			1:51:43 (Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell	Keep On Lovin' Me Honey	single	Tamla	1968	45			1:55:04 (Pop-up)
Bim & Clover	Sweet Heart "Sweet Heart" by "Bim & Clover"	single	Dawn	1975	45			1:57:41 (Pop-up)

Test	White Cities "White Cities" by "Test"	Milk in My Language	Auditorium	2002	CD			2:10:22 (Pop-up)
The Vegetable Orchestra	Bamako "Bamako" by "The Vegetable Orchestra"	Green Album	Transacoustic Research	2018	CD		*	2:14:01 (Pop-up)
Erik Griswold	Shinkansen "Shinkansen" by "Erik Griswold"	Yokohama Flowers	Room40	2018	CD		*	2:16:45 (Pop-up)
Takao	Boat "Boat" by "Takao"	Stealth	Em	2018	CD		*	2:19:24 (Pop-up)
IXNA	Galleo "Galleo" by "IXNA"	Knotpop	Concentric Circles	2018	CD	From 1981	*	2:23:42 (Pop-up)
Ursula Bogner	Begleitung Für Tuba	Recordings 1969-1988	Faitiche	2018	CD		*	2:28:06 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey	Ballet Intersidéral	Moog Sensations	Pulp Flavor	2001	LP	From 1971		2:30:59 (Pop-up)
Don the Tiger	Nueva Danza Gallinacea	Matanzas	Crammed Discs	2018	CD		*	2:33:51 (Pop-up)
Personal Bandana	Hollow Soft "Hollow Soft" by "Personal Bandana"	Personal Bandana [sic]	Personal Bandana	2018	CD-R		*	2:35:51 (Pop-up)
Young Marble Giants	Clicktalk "Clicktalk" by "Young Marble Giants"	Colossal Youth	Rough Trade	1990	CD	actually on the "Test Card" EP, 1981		2:40:44 (Pop-up)
Wild Havana	Phased "Phased" by "Wild Havana"	Wild Havana	Mental Experience	2018	CD	From 1977	*	2:42:20 (Pop-up)
K. Leimer	Ceylon "Ceylon" by "K. Leimer"	A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975 - 1983)	RVNG Intl	2014	CD	From 1983		2:44:41 (Pop-up)
Roy Orbison	Southbound Jericho Parkway	Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present State of the Union: The American Dream in Crisis 1967-1973	Ace	2018	CD	From 1969	*	2:47:59 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Hey!
	👻 9:02am queems: hey joe & all
	👻 9:02am 12539: Yippee!
	9:02am Losermom: My favorite Sesame Street segment.
	9:02am Colleen: Hi Joe!
	👻 9:02am queems: oh mannnnn
	👻 9:03am NotARealDoctor: Yikes, Linda Lee! I wish I could've gotten the ball out, but his throat was so tight I could do anything but move it up and down
	👻 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Turn you clocks back to 1970 now as we enjoy a rock 'n' roll classic. Yip yip!
	9:04am MplsCoco: Good morning Joe!! Way to start it off! ❤️
	9:04am The Oscar: I just realized I have absolutely no idea what "25 or 6 to 4" means. Anybody?
	9:04am pantz: Say what you will about this tune but that driving drum beat is pretty great.
	9:05am Diezel Tea: Good morning to y'all, and good evening for the rest of us wrapping up their work days.
	9:05am Steiner in Whately: Man, those horns
	9:05am Diezel Tea: Man, that wah!
	9:06am kevlicki: I once snuck into a Hall and Oates and Chicago concert, in Port Jervis. Something to do for shots and giggles twenty years ago
	9:06am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe et al!
	9:06am Vincent Nifigance: Cooking.
	9:06am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I snuck into a Dead show in the 80's, Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
	9:06am Planet Tyler: McGasko snagged the best intro
	9:07am kevlicki: Morning Joe
	9:07am pp: Terry Kath great guitar and singer
	👻 9:07am queems: going in for the kill first thing today, huh
	9:08am Davee: Hi Joe - enjoying the Nazareth this morning!
	9:08am medson: Good Morning Joe and everyone.
	9:09am melinda: Wow, I knew this sounded familiar yet strangely different!
	👻 9:09am 12539: Nice choices Clay! - er, I mean Joe.
	9:09am Krys O.: Did you know there is an WFMU connection to Nazareth? The late station manager Bruce Longstreet worked for them. Can't recall in what capacity though.
	9:09am agillyo: @the Oscar think I remember seeing in a doc that the song was written shortly before 4 AM in a state of delirium, hence the title. In any case, it’s what I needed to hear this morning!
	9:10am Joe McG: Joe McGasko reporting from Jersey City, NJ!
	9:11am dale: CHILLIWACK! LOVe this song.....
	9:12am Miles: at ease , McGasko
	9:12am Davee: Good music in the seventies.
	9:12am Diezel Tea: @Krys O - ah ha, so that explains that seeming anomalous pick))
	9:12am dale: this and gone gone gone are admittedly the only chilliwack songs i know.
	👻 9:12am karlward: What was a typical day like for you in 1976?
	9:13am dale: i was a senior in high school 42 years ago today.
	9:14am The Oscar: @dale You have me beat-- I only really know the SCTV version of "Gone Gone Gone."
	9:14am Krys O.: There was a Chilliwack album in the mid-80s. We listened to it at the Crazy Eddie store I worked at.
	9:15am dale: i'll have to look that up oscar.
	9:16am Sem: Missed Chilliwack? Dang. Hello, Joe, McGaskoes, and Surface Noise enthusiasts. That just about covers everybody.
	9:16am Krys O.: I was 13 in 1976 with all of that awkwardness.
	👻 9:17am Ken From Hyde Park: I've long since lost my Crazy Eddie T-shirt, but I still have a Crazy Eddie wallet downstairs.
	9:17am The Oscar: @dale IIRC, it's pretty much just Moranis, Levy, and Candy as a gawky high school band covering it in its entirety. Each of their characterizations is PERFECT.
	9:17am Sem: 20,000 miles, that's way more than 7 miles high.
	9:17am dale: whenever i listen to fly at night i always have to follow it up lake shore drive by aliotta haynes and jeremiah
	9:17am melinda: I would have been attending kindergarten today in 1976.
	9:17am MplsCoco: Joe... I'm sensing a flying theme. Where ya headed?
	9:19am dale: here it is: www.youtube.com...
	9:20am Joe McG: @MplsCoco: There IS something that these all have in common.
	9:20am Sem: Place names, I think.
	9:20am pantz: Planes, Trains and Horses?
	9:21am pp: just looked up Chilliwack Fly by Night on YouTube and up next they had listed 25 or 6 to 4. This can only mean that Joe McG is an algorithm :)
	9:21am MplsCoco: Hmmmmmm
	9:21am The Oscar: I think Sem's right-- all the band names are cities!
	9:22am Joe McG: @Sem: Ding ding ding! @pp: Ha ha ha. I don't really exist.
	9:27am dale: pp - you have your computer set up to allow it to listen?
	9:28am Itzall Ablurr: Haha, just clicked the thumbnail image for "Houston" and it took me to Amazon to buy Whitney Houston's "I'll be your baby tonight". Sorry wrong number? Good morning Joe.
	9:28am emily: where you going, Joe? Oh, just read the playlist! Doh!
	9:28am Agent Peter: Now I'm sorry I thanked you last week for not playing Boston...
	9:29am Joe McG: @Agent Peter: I told you I'd play them. :)
	9:29am pp: the Chilliwack/SCTV connection, this was great https://youtu.be/ZaHfWqmC18A
	9:29am Roberto: "Tangle in your hair, yeah yeah yeah yeah"
	9:30am Vincent Nifigance: A whistlestop tour through Rock Country.
	9:30am trouble: awesome segue!!!
	9:30am Diezel Tea: TIL one of the members of Boston was of Armenian heritage.))
	9:31am dale: I hope it's not listening. I did watch the Chicago video a month ago, so that may be more likely :)
	9:31am Itzall Ablurr: I, umm... loved Boston. They hit at just the right time for a teenage dude and at first seemed like a weird, out of nowhere mashup of Kiss, Styx, Journey et. al. but kind of clawed their way in to being just BOSTON. Hey, it was the 70s!
	👻 9:32am Ken From Hyde Park: City names and cool album covers, that's the theme!
	9:33am Itzall Ablurr: Hoping to hear something from Berlin.
	9:34am The Oscar: I had a college professor who was a longtime DJ at WFNX in Boston, and he recalled how everyone in town was baffled when this huge arena rock band appeared out of nowhere. It wasn't until later that they realized it was essentially a studio project that suddenly blew up.
	9:35am Joe McG: @trouble: Paris is the band featuring your fave, Bob Welch! ;)
	9:36am Listener Scott: Great theme, but please no Asia Joe
	9:36am Joe McG: @Scott: They don't qualify. For anything! :)
	9:36am Itzall Ablurr: Listener Scott, you know what you just did, right?!? haha.
	9:37am Vincent Nifigance: Something from Neil Buchanan's band Marseille, surely.
	9:37am Sem: haha, Joe. Unheard cover!
	9:37am Parq: Ooh, look, Mommy and Daddy are wrestling!
	9:37am Listener Scott: whew!
	9:38am northguineahills: What, no Danzig???!!!
	9:38am Joe McG: @Parq: They have my Kiss records out!
	9:38am dale: gotta go do stuff . keep disco dancing kids.
	9:38am Listener Scott: @Itzall Ablurr, I don't know what came over me, it must've been the heat, or something, of the moment.
	9:39am Joe McG: @ngh: Oh gawd, I hadn't thought of that!
	9:40am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Kansas? You know, I think John Wetton from King Crimson Red sang for Asia, but I never really liked them much.
	👻 9:40am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, just come down from the loftspace. Laying mineral wool for extra insulation. Gloves, mask and knee pads. Everyone is wearing them this season.
	👻 9:41am Brian in UK: I am as hot as these gals but in a different way.
	9:42am Listener Scott: I believe Sleater-Kinney qualifies, btw
	9:43am pp: I accidentally signed as "dale" in this thread. I'm sorry dale, I will stop commenting now :)
	9:43am Sem: Shearing a mineral, now that's gotta be a rare occupational skill.
	9:44am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Mineral wool is a more fire resistant insulation than fiberglass.
	9:46am northguineahills: I believe there is a Brooklyn....
	9:47am pantz: There's definitely a Berlin.
	9:49am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Was Warsaw Joy Division?
	9:49am The Oscar: Did Chevy Chase ever record a single?
	9:49am steveo: good morning -- sounding good.
	9:49am Joe McG: @Oscar: Ha ha ha!
	9:49am northguineahills: Yes, WN!
	👻 9:50am Ken From Hyde Park: Bands like L.A. Guns and Saigon Kick don't qualify, do they?
	👻 9:51am Brian in UK: @Sem ever tried knitting with the stuff?
	9:52am steveo: i saw sleater-kinney once at 2 in the afternoon at irving plaza but i didn't sneak in
	9:53am Itzall Ablurr: Heck to the yeah.
	9:53am Ike: Kansas doesn't count because they're not called Kansas City. Right?
	9:54am steveo: i love this song. it seems so bleak though, right?
	9:55am Itzall Ablurr: steveo, of course! That's why it's good, in my opinion.
	9:55am βrian: On the ride in to work, our bus kept scraping its top against the cloud ceiling. Not exactly an expansive feelingl
	👻 9:55am Ken From Hyde Park: This is pretty impressive if you just got the idea when Clay Pigeon played "Galveston" just over an hour ago. Procuring all these albums in such a short amount of time, I mean.
	9:56am Itzall Ablurr: (chair dancing)!!!
	9:58am Sem: @BiUK: alas, all thumbs. Long story: genetic dead-end.
	10:00am Ike: You didn't play anything by Truth or Consequences, Intercourse, or Accident! For shame! (J/K, I have no idea if such bands actually exist.)
	👻 10:00am Brian in UK: @Sem good for hitch hiking. If anyone does that anymore.
	10:01am Vincent Nifigance: HA!!
	10:02am lukavino: sleazy disco outfits wearing sleazy disco outfits.
	10:04am Sem: Ha! Brian. Well observed.
	10:05am The Oscar: I grew up near a town called Athol, which I always thought would be a great name to shout from a stage.
	10:05am βrian: Chicago ll was the one after the great fire.
	10:05am steveo: it looks like Calexico is in California and abuts a city in Mexico called Mexicali. Nice.
	10:06am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I've been to Truth or Consequences. It is near Elephant Butte lake. Why would there be strange panties in my laundry? My wife found these and I have no explanation. I do not have a mistress. My wife and I go to the YMCA sometimes and use the locker rooms there. My niece visited this summer, but they are not hers. I guess Queen is not a valid option for band names that are locations? Real NM town names: Weed and Claunch.
	👻 10:06am Ken From Hyde Park: Good thing they dropped "Transit Authority" from their name, hereby qualifying them to be on the playlist today.
	10:06am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: >Discuss<
	10:07am Joe McG: @Ken: Quite a relief!
	10:07am βrian: Well, there's your band name: strange panties.
	10:08am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Brian-LOL! Literally, I laughed out loud! Good thing I wasn't drinking milk.
	10:08am Daybreak, the Human: I very much appreciated being able to hear from people who love there cities and town while I graded for an hour. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE THOUGHT AND EFFORT! Sorry to shout, but it’s easy to wing things which is what I and many of us do most of the time. But sometimes, we can make ourselves and everyone else a little special by putting ourselves out there through our thought and effort! Thanks again Joe!
	10:09am Joe McG: Thanks, Daybreak, nice sentiments! Give the kiddies good grades.
	10:09am pantz: There's a small park south of Cincinnati called Big Bone Lick. I chuckle every time I pass it on the hwy, but my sense of humor never left middle school.
	10:09am βrian: Apparently, there was a band name Gotham. Does that qualify? en.wikipedia.org...
	10:09am The Oscar: @Brian Too bad they wouldn't be eligible for today's show, unless there's a Strange Panties, Minnesota.
	10:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe and all!
	10:10am steveo: maybe the panties came from elephant butte!
	10:11am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Seriously though, what are strange panties doing in my laundry. What does Occam's Razor say about this?
	10:11am βrian: ... and there are any number of Thompsonvilles out there.
	10:11am northguineahills: I'm a geographer, and never heard of the town of Richard Thompson....
	10:12am David in London: @Joe McG - A couple of weeks ago I said I would report back about the Heaven 17 gig I was shortly due to attend. Happily they were excellent, more full-on than I had anticipated, and Glen Gregory’s voice is still bold and strong. They even threw in a couple of early Human League numbers, such as Being Boiled, which HL don’t do themselves anymore. So all in all, far from being over the hill as yet...
	10:12am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: There is a Jim Thorpe, PA I think.
	10:12am Joe McG: @ngh: It's near Sandy Denny.
	10:12am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Heron Oblivion is epic.
	10:13am northguineahills: @WN: I would get my wife's dedicates in my laundry all the time. Curious, as I used to drop it off all the time....
	10:13am βrian: Ardeidae Obliviata
	10:14am mb: Howdy Joe and listeners
	10:14am steveo: @ngh could be a combined effort from Richard City, TN and Thompsonville, MI?
	10:14am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @NGH-she says they are NOT HERS. Too BIG. Somebody is messing with us I think, but not sure how.
	10:15am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Steveo- Do the locals call it Dick Town?
	10:15am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: The PANTIES are TOO BIG. My wife is a size S. She is 5'2" and about 120 lbs.
	10:15am steveo: never been!
	10:16am βrian: "Oh, no they're not too big at all ... Oh, you mean for you."
	10:17am steveo: enjoying the oblivion! (new to me!)
	10:17am northguineahills: That works for me, steveo. @WN: sometime our laundry bags in the closet would vomit on each other, so, some articles of clothing would be put in the wrong bag. (I've only gotten a random sock here and there from a laundromat that wasn't mine).
	10:17am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Heh!
	10:21am Joe McG: @David: So cool to hear that Heaven 17 still has it! Thanks for the concert report. That should be a regular feature of the show: The Concert Report!
	10:23am βrian: One might do cheese pairings with various bands.
	10:23am Brendan: Good morning . Great Heron Oblivion . Although they never seem oblivious to me. On the other hand I was raking leaves Saturday and a hawk perched on the fence not 5 meters away watching me.
	10:26am Joe McG: @Brendan: You're lucky he didn't eat you.
	10:27am βrian: I wonder if the hawk thought you might stir up some mice.
	10:28am Johnzon: isn't there a Big Panties Ontario?
	10:29am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: My wife is a size large in Poland, but here she is small. I guess American girls have big butts compared to the rest of the world. Poland, anyway.
	10:32am Sem: @Johnzon, probably not, but there IS a Big Johnzon.
	10:34am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning Joe and friends
	10:35am Krys O.: Oh, yeah! Love this tune!
	10:36am steveo: is there anything better than the sounds of a 60-year-old record???
	10:37am ChrisB.: Once saw Lee Allen AND Red Tyler share the stage with The Blasters inn Hollywood, ca. 1984.
	10:38am Listener Alexandra: Good morning, Joe! Greetings from the other size of 92103!
	10:38am Joe McG: @steveo: Not much! @ChrisB: Jealous!
	10:38am Brendan: @brian I thought the same thing. Like in the spring when i’m hoeing the garden (walking down the rows with my ‘ho ) there’s usually a robin nearby waiting to grab the worms.
	10:38am Krys O.: I bet that's Charlie McCoy on harmonica.
	10:39am MplsCoco: Joe "you're a real Jim dandy."
	10:40am northguineahills: @WN: My wife is brown mestizo Mexi, but has Euro blood, so, she's somehow 5'9", so she is very tall for Mexicanas.
	10:41am Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Joe McG! I just tuned in and it's nice to be here. I just scrolled up to look at your playlist that I missed. Very clever what you did with that first set. :-)
	10:42am Granny Spicy Tuna: I was an ungrateful adolescent who didn't appreciate Madness enough at the time because they weren't Boy George.
	10:43am Evan From Seattle: absolutely love Air Miami! great pick Joe!
	10:43am Marc Francis: Hot damn! That Madness song was a CHUUUUUUUUUNE!
	👻 10:44am tim from champaign: For a second I thought,"How come I never heard this Unrest song before", then it all made sense when the playlist was updated.
	👻 10:46am Brian in UK: @GST Culture Club played recently overhere.
	10:46am cluebucket: smashing singles :-)
	10:47am Joe McG: @Alex: Hope the new pad is swell! @Wendy: It had to be done! @Evan: Thanks! Gllad you liked it.
	👻 10:47am Brian in UK: Del Shannon & Lou Christie, do not hear them much anymore.
	10:47am Listener Alexandra: I'm currently being stared at by a greyhound, so I'd say the new place is definitely livelier!
	10:47am Granny Spicy Tuna: BiUK: i finally saw Culture Club a couple of years ago, in Oakland CA. It fulfilled all of my adolescent dreams, except i didn't get to party with them…
	10:48am Krys O.: YES!!!! Had this on a Kate Bush mix tape from a co-worker in the 80s.
	10:49am melinda: I like that there is a group called Huddersfield Transit Authority, and that they covered Runaway.
	👻 10:49am Brian in UK: @GST they probably were all in bed by midnight.
	10:49am Joe McG: @melinda: Me, too! I wonder if they were making fun of Chicago.
	10:50am Joe McG: @Brian in UK: Where is Huddersfield?
	10:50am Colleen: @Granny Spicy....I tried to fulfill that same adolescent dream this summer and failed! They were sold out! Which made me sadly happy that they were still "That cool"
	10:51am Roberto: I don't think I was aware of this Kate Bush single. Thanks for the enlightenment, Joe!
	10:53am Granny Spicy Tuna: Colleen; don't give up the dream. Even to this cynical weirdo, the show transported me to an MTV wonderland of delight!
	👻 10:54am Hughie Considine: Interesting cover! What it lacks in Garfunkularity it makes up with strings...kinda
	10:54am pantz: "Yes, I can hear you Clem Fandango!"
	10:54am Joe McG: You bet, Roberto! One of my fave Xmas singles ever.
	👻 10:54am Brian in UK: Joe, it is in Yorkshire formerly quite an indutrial area.
	👻 10:55am Brian in UK: Such a posh voice for an S&G song.
	10:55am Joe McG: @Brian: Thanks!
	👻 10:56am karlward: TAMMI!
	👻 10:57am Brian in UK: Joe, they say 'you can tell a Yorkshire man, but not much'.
	10:57am melinda: I saw fliers for the Psychadelic Furs a few years ago but couldn't go, adolescent dreams deferred.
	10:57am Krys O.: @pantz - I too thought of Matt Berry.
	10:58am pantz: @Krys O glad I'm not the only one. Underrated singer too, he is.
	11:00am johnk77: @melinda if u do ever get a chance to hang with the Furs Tim Butler is the Fur most fun to have a chat and a drink with:>
	11:01am Brendan: If Marvin and Tammi ever got together and had a kid, he/ she would have been a force of nature as well as capable of singing solo duets.
	👻 11:01am karlward: Hmm Autechre?
	👻 11:01am karlward: Oh that was not Autechre, just a needle against paper. Carry on.
	👻 11:02am Hughie Considine: I had a few beers with Richards Butler at the Telephone Bar on 2nd Ave in NYC during his Love Spit Love phase. Completely charming, low-key, not at all rock star-ish.
	11:04am johnk77: @hughie agreed both Butlers remarkably real Tim was the band's rep to the party in the eighties
	11:06am ɨkɛ: Wow, those are dopey lyrics. It sounds so much better when Kate Bush obscures the meaning with her singing style.
	11:06am the Canterbury wood-elf: Sorry to be a Brit pronunciation pedant, Joe, but "Charing" rhymes with the first bit of "larynx", rather than "sparring". Loved that second set by the way...
	👻 11:06am Brian in UK: That is why I have never got Kate Bush.
	11:07am The Oscar: Could be a reference to the British tradition of ghost stories at Christmas? Also, I'm pretty delighted that there exists a Christmas song with the line "Inside Oscar's mind."
	11:07am Morphe: Thanks Joe.... Gotta go... Til...
	11:07am Evan From Seattle: I don't think I've ever heard a version of Runaway I haven't liked.
	11:08am the Canterbury wood-elf: Oscar Wilde's funeral was on 3rd December 1900 (he died in November)...that's all i could find.
	11:09am john l: what is this bed music please?
	👻 11:09am Brian in UK: Oblique Dorian Grey reference. Makes as much sense as any thing else.
	👻 11:10am Hughie Considine: @john, i guess the Butlers are among the rare rock brothers who could stand each other.
	👻 11:11am Hughie Considine: @John l: bed music is a loop of Kevin Ayers made by DJ Joe.
	11:11am Brendan: Kate pays tribute to her hero, Oscar Wilde, who died in Paris the same month as the single was released, eighty years earlier.
	11:11am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Kate Bush was hot. I think she traded on that. I think she was trained to sing Opera too. My 15 year old son finds Chrome "unlistenabl". Oh well, I guess I stretched his musical Overton Window a bit with that run through of the CD in the car. Heh! He's all "Led Zeppelin this" and "10CC that". Although he did ask for Mr. Bungle for Christmas (California!). He heard about it from some dude on the internet.
	11:12am john l: Thanks Hughie!
	11:12am Joe McG: @Canterbury: No problem! Thanks for the assistance. :)
	👻 11:12am Hughie Considine: @the canterrbury wood-elf: what is the proper pronunciation of "pedant" ?
	👻 11:14am tim from champaign: I love how the music that Ira the K plays when he DJs or in this case recommends sounds like his band. Not in an egotistical way but more like he's giving the listeners a glimpse of how his ear works. Whether it's a boogaloo jam or 60s folk pop, it all makes sense.
	11:15am northguineahills: @WN: Don't worry, when I was 15, I didn't listen to music that wasn't top 40. It take a year later to have that revelation.
	11:18am steveo: We took a car trip for Thanksgiving and driving back my 12-year-old kept asking me to check to see if WFMU was back in range yet. I've never been prouder.
	11:20am johnk77: @hughie smart observation in the eighties the Butlers did not always hang together offstage but i never saw battling unlike Zanes, Davies, etc.
	👻 11:21am Brian in UK: @Hughie two syllables ped ant.
	11:22am Listening Out There: The New Age are here...
	11:22am Krys O.: @pantz: I agree and I have an autographed copy of his latest Television Themes cd.
	👻 11:23am Brian in UK: There is a column in a newspaper over here called pedants corner. Now do you hyphenate the s in pedants before or after it.
	11:24am pantz: @Krys O Jealous! That album is great
	11:25am brick layer: i didnt want that boat ride to end
	11:25am βrian: You mean apostrophize?
	11:25am Sem: Neither, I think, Brian. It is a corner (of the paper) in which you find more than one pendant, yes?
	11:26am Phillippe Bastille: @pantz @Krys We use the "Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango" in my family when someone has forgotten to do something and another family member reminds them. Always afraid I'm going to use it on a conference call when one of the attendees asks "can you hear me?"
	11:26am βrian: With pendants, it all depends.
	11:27am Sem: Consider "The Sports Page."
	11:27am johnk77: @joemcg another great show;> in jersey news FBI is at the home of Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam
	11:28am pantz: That's great @Phillippe! The fact that they are intentionally trying to drive Toast crazy makes it even more appropriate in that case.
	👻 11:28am Hughie Considine: Thanks @Brian. @johnk And the Everlys, and the Gallaghers. It's a really deep phenomenon. Then of course you have the rare brother duos who are total equals, like the Maels. And the D'Addario brothers of the Lemon Twigs, who seem poised to bring brother rock forward.
	👻 11:28am Brian in UK: @βrian yes you are correct but not with a zed.
	11:29am Phillippe Bastille: Another one we use whenever someone texts us at the grocery store for an additional item is "Ok Columbo". We watch too much tv
	👻 11:29am Hughie Considine: @Brian, I tend to go with Pedants Corner, as in: a corner for pedants, just like Publishers Weekly is a weekly for publishers.
	👻 11:29am Brian in UK: Did not know that there was such a word.
	11:29am βrian: I see no zed!
	11:30am steveo: umlaut + tuba = clickystar
	11:31am Wendy del Formaggio: Yesterday I missed Tuba Christmas because I had a radio station meeting to go to. I'm sad, but this Ursula Bogner is cheering me up.
	11:31am melinda: The first time I heard someone use the word "pedant" it made me laugh, I had only heard people use "pedantic".
	👻 11:31am Brian in UK: I am starting to over-hyphenate.
	11:32am Rich in Washington: Did I miss a Kate Bush argument?
	👻 11:32am Brian in UK: Better than pederast.
	11:33am Rich in Washington: I kept pronouncing it 'pendantic', until I heard the root word come into common usage recently.
	11:33am Listening Out There: Pedant's = One pedant, Pedants' = Multiple pedants...not to be pedantic, o' course... :)
	👻 11:34am Brian in UK: @Sem think that you are correct. Now a pendentive is a wonderful thing.
	11:34am melinda: I like this set.
	11:34am βrian: A local couple was pondering marriage vs civil union. In the end, they decided to get hyphenated.
	11:34am Asheville Jon: love this Moog
	11:37am Granny Spicy Tuna: Anything Moog = clicky star. I got to shake Robert Moog's hand at the Asheville airport, but as my friends simply introduced him as their "friend, Bob," i didn't realize who he was until he was gone. Probably for the best, i would have made an embarrassment of myself.
	11:37am Mike Sin: Been enjoying the show very much! Of curse, I loved that version of the Paul Simon track by the band Toast!
	11:37am Listening Out There: In his latest show, Irwin played a Jean-Jacques Perrey and, in the comments, said he got copies of a recording from JJP's daughter. Joe, were you lucky enough to get one of those copies? (If not, maybe you need to have a word with Irwin...)
	11:38am Asheville Jon: nice GST. i go past the Moog facility on a regular basis
	11:39am johnk77: @hughie yes i only met the Maels a few times but wish i had gotten to know them better the guys in their then backing band Gleaming Spires were very cool i was told the Maels got on well from their earliest years
	11:40am Joe McG: @Mike Sin: Me, too, Mike!
	11:40am Sem: pendentive: BiUK, always ready to follow a tangent. Did you pick up that word whilst visiting Turkey?
	11:40am steveo: Liz Berg did a Moog tribute in 2005 after he passed away. wfmu.org...
	11:41am Rich in Washington: Robert Moog was the first famous person I ever sent a fan email to out of the blue in the early days of the modern web and a month or so later, I got a nice email back from what I am really sure was actually him. I wish I bronzed it or something.
	11:42am steveo: add this fantastic set here to list!
	👻 11:42am tim from champaign: I had a feeling this set was leading up to Young Marble Giants. Way to go, Joe!
	11:42am Sem: ...and have now learned the origin of "squinch" into the bargain. A good day, and scarcely half-over.
	11:44am Krys O.: Was lucky enough to be with a group of folks having lunch with Bob Moog about 20 years ago.
	11:44am Guido from Cologne: Love this "electric" section!
	👻 11:45am Brian in UK: Sem, no I have been trying to learn somethings about architecture.
	👻 11:45am Hughie Considine: @john77, you keep some good company. Sparks are among my very favorites. Seeing them by chance on TV late one night during the mid-70s was my Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
	11:47am johnk77: @hughie just working for a living recently retired after 42 years in "entertainment" biz
	11:47am Granny Spicy Tuna: steveo: oooh, that looks good, thanks!
	11:48am Brendan: @Joe - you’re all over the map today - that is to say , great show. I hope you do a theremin set one day.
	👻 11:48am tim from champaign: Roy!
	11:49am annie: whew!!! seconds to spare! guess i'll be digging the archive..hi everyone!
	11:49am Granny Spicy Tuna: My dream team: Moog + Theremin + Sitar (maybe a harpsichord and a jaw harp and a singing saw to round it out?)
	11:49am Asheville Jon: hey Annie
	11:49am Joe McG: @Krys O: Wow! Moog lunch!! @johnk77: Thanks, John! @Brendan: Not a bad idea! Bryce ended his show last week with "The Swan."
	11:50am northguineahills: Ceylon prefers to go by Sri Lanka these days....
	👻 11:50am Brian in UK: Sem, having written that it did make the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul possible, turning a square shape into a round dome. That is one stunning building.
	11:51am Sem: Ah, this is what led me to a possible Turkish connection:The first experimentation with pendentives was made in Roman dome construction beginning in the 2nd–3rd century AD,[3] while full development of the form was achieved in the 6th-century Eastern Roman Hagia Sophia at Constantinople." via wikithingy.
	11:51am Tom P: What was Roy Orbison thinking?
	11:52am Asheville Jon: this is the most fawked up Roy song i've ever heard.
	11:52am Asheville Jon: i'm not complaining, just pointing it out
	11:53am Joe McG: I think this song is incredible! :) Seven minutes and not even a chorus! What a brave single for 1969.
	11:53am Sem: Hope to get there before much longer, BiUK. Thanks, Joe. Been extra good fun. See you and all sometime again soon.
	11:53am Listening Out There: Speaking of Roy Orbison, what's the general opinion on hologram performers? www.rollingstone.com...
	11:53am βrian: Henceforth, when anyone says "Consider the squinch," Sem will come to mind.
	11:53am đ¢ ÞäŦ: this is not making me feel too good about Roy..
	11:53am Mick: I am agog.
	👻 11:54am Hughie Considine: @john, ah yes, that business: "a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs."
	11:54am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting, everyone! See you next week for more radio fun. Welcome to December! Hopefully it will be magic again. :)
	11:54am Mick: I think this "American Dream in Crisis" record may be worth looking into.
	11:54am Asheville Jon: does one need to be tripping to get this song? :)
	👻 11:54am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	👻 11:54am Brian in UK: This must have been around MacArthur Park time.
	11:55am The Oscar: Holy cow-- who wrote this one?? I'd listen to a whole Roy album like this.
	11:55am Listening Out There: ...hologrammatic appearances also planned for Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston www.theguardian.com...
	👻 11:55am Brian in UK: Great mix as ever, Joe.
	👻 11:55am Hughie Considine: What they said, @Joe!
	11:56am Jeff Moore: My Lord, I didn't realize this was Roy Orbison until he hit that high note at the end!
	11:56am steveo: thanks, Joe!
	👻 11:56am tim from champaign: Man, that was Roy Orbison's Frankie Teardrop.
	11:56am Listening Out There: Great program today, Joe. Thanks!
	11:56am Asheville Jon: don't forget the ABBA "reunion" with holograms
	11:56am TheLoneliestMonk: Hey Joe: too damn busy at work today to talk. loved the old school Bim & Clover!
	👻 11:57am Hughie Considine: nice one @tim
	11:58am northguineahills: happy thanks, Joe!
	11:58am Krys O.: Roy was forward thinking and Tupper Saussy of Neon Philharmonic was an abstract gent.
	11:59am Krys O.: Thanks!

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