WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 28, 2019

Listener comments!
	9:02am Sem: Hello, Joe.
	9:02am VincentNifigance: Hey Joe.
	9:03am Linda Lee: good morning dear Joe!
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: What the yip?
	9:03am pantz: No one knows what the nose knows. Speak beak!
	👻 9:03am queems: good morning joe!
	9:04am Krys O.: Hello, Joe!
	9:04am Linda Lee: i love this record officially.
	9:05am Linda Lee: what a nice opener for the morgen.
	9:05am steveo: greetings o with what balm dost thou pliest mine ears
	9:05am TDK60: Exercise, cosmic comrades, now!
	9:06am Joe McG: Welcome, everyone! Slow and easy start today. With robots.
	9:07am Granny Spicy Tuna: this is lovely
	9:11am steveo: sunshine for the ears
	9:12am TDK60: ..alright Joe, in the studio there in WFMU Towers; as long as your robots aren't armed, and you have robot insurance.
	👻 9:13am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. We have sunshine. No lollipops or rainbows though.
	9:13am BLCKDGRD: Might be too late and you might not even be a fan, but today Robert Wyatt's 74th, your favorite solo or Soft Machine?
	9:16am melinda: I like the robot start.
	9:16am Joe McG: @BLCK: Wow, that's a worthy thing to celebrate! Wish I'd known. I'll see if I can't motivate myself down to the library...
	9:16am Granny Spicy Tuna: And all watched over by machines of loving grace
	9:18am TDK60: BLCKDGRD: ah, Robert W.'s b.day. Saw him w/Soft Machine (which proves I'm "up there") and his solo stuff is great.
	9:19am Joe McG: @TDK: Wow! I'd like to hear about that sometime. Agree! Love me some Matching Mole, too.
	9:19am TDK60: Joe, you need an eager librarian there at this very moment.
	9:20am steveo: was not aware of that poem, thank you Granny
	9:21am TDK60: ..how about now? Café Au Go Go on Bleecker St., summer 1971. Folky Eric Andersen opened!
	9:22am Granny Spicy Tuna: steveo: Richard Brautigan's birthday is on Wednesday. He was the poet in residence at Cal Tech in 1967.
	9:22am The Oscar: Mornin'!
	👻 9:24am Brian in UK: I like trout but never gone in for the fishing much.
	9:25am Granny Spicy Tuna: Brian in the UK, my clock made from the black watermelon never wakes me up in time for fishing
	9:25am steveo: @granny nice
	👻 9:26am b!!!: This set is great!
	9:28am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe & everybody!
	9:28am Granny Spicy Tuna: I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace. Richard Brautigan (1967, while poet-in-residence at Cal Tech)
	9:29am Joe McG: @b!!!: Turning the show over to the robots for the first set! They're doing pretty good.
	9:30am pantz: This one sounds like the soundtrack to an 8 bit Pink Panther game.
	👻 9:31am Brian in UK: Been the longest time since reading Mr B.
	9:31am Roberto: ALL HAIL OUR WFMU ROBOT OVERLORDS
	9:32am zpulpa: These robots are soothing my under slept nerves and setting a beat for my deepening breath broken by sips of coffee. Goodmorning friends! Goodmorning Joe!
	👻 9:33am Webhamster Henry: We are the robots.
	9:33am TDK60: ..all these 2018 releases from the '80s/'70s, huh.
	9:33am VincentNifigance: @SpicyGrannyTuna You brought the Brautigan, and you're in SF too! Thanks!
	9:33am TomDash: Hey Joe - great set! Big fan of this Drama LP - first turned onto it by Tony Coulter on his Canadian special last fall. Very glad they reissued it cause the originals are pricey!!!
	9:34am zpulpa: Yup yup, today May be the day I embrace the robotic and let the program do the work..work ... work... work...
	9:36am steveo: these are the aliens i hope i get abducted by (klaus weiss)
	👻 9:38am b!!!: Polysics would go good with this Les Robots.
	9:39am TDK60: Do Les Robots dress up, a la The Mummies?
	9:41am steveo: @tdk here's a photo from their bandcamp f4.bcbits.com...
	9:43am Irene Trudel: Hearing all these old electronic sounds reminds me that WFMU's twitter featured a post from Laughing Squid about Kraftwerk's 1st TV appearance: laughingsquid.com...
	9:43am steveo: les robots from netherlands
	9:45am dropped one: I'm terribly sorry, has anyone got a bucket and spade? I didnt make it to the bathroom in time; theres poo everywhere.
	9:45am steveo: yay my name was on the radeeohhhhh
	9:46am Irene Trudel: BTW, great set first set Joe! And Granny Spicy Tuna, thanks for the Brautigan poem. I hadn't thought about him for a while.
	9:47am yippie: revenge
	9:47am David Colangelo: Hi joe...remember Pat Metheny won a Grammy w a robot band...
	9:48am TDK60: ..thanks steveo.
	9:49am Jonathan Yoesting: Eugene Oregon is cool but it's not actually the capitol of Oregon. Salem is the capital of OR USA...or?
	👻 9:50am Ken From Hyde Park: I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords. S.A.M. from Wake & Bake is also onboard.
	9:50am steveo: voetvolk from belgium -- super set loved every minute
	9:52am Joe McG: @jonathan: You are correct, sir! Thanks for reminding me. Thanks, Irene, nice to see you!
	9:54am melinda: love the synth
	9:54am dropped one: no poo poo scoop?
	9:54am TDK60: Irene - will have to check out that early Kraftwerk..
	10:08am dropped one: anyone else enjoying this Conti?
	10:09am dropped one: i heard the albun yesterday
	10:10am Joe McG: @dropped one: I think it's great!
	10:11am TheLoneliestMonk: is "juan wauters" john waters latino salsa alter ego?
	10:12am dropped one: he's dead
	10:14am Joe McG: Who's dead?
	10:14am Mike tp: entered the show with bossa Nova....
	10:18am βrian: This is balm for a cold Monday morning.
	10:21am dropped one: jon waters
	10:21am хtina: great show, joe! thoroughly enjoying everything this am
	10:22am Joe McG: Thanks, xtina! Nice to see you, Brian.
	10:26am annie: well,yar i is!
	10:28am TDK60: ..thank the goddesses for interesting compilations.
	10:28am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I saw a $10.99 watermelon for sale at Longo's in Burlington, Ontario yesterday. A gallon or organic milk=$10.00. Wow. Aldis is far far cheaper in USA.
	10:30am TheLoneliestMonk: nope! john waters is very much alive, and i still wanna read his hitchhiking book www.barnesandnoble.com...
	10:31am Andres: Juan Wauters is great y es uruguayo!
	10:32am βrian: Ooh, boy. We have -28 °F predicted for Wednesday night.
	👻 10:33am karlward: Joe! Joe! Do the hustle! It's not the bus stop this time!
	10:33am TDK60: Loneliest Monk: I could write a hitchhiking short story...or even longer.
	10:34am davefromtoronto: sounds like the love boat theme and shaft combined
	10:35am melinda: I like the hustle, recalls 70s TV themes
	10:35am Joe McG: @dave: ha ha ha. Maybe that's why I love it so much. Sounds like Barry White to me!
	10:35am Andres: Listen, Juan Wauters is from Uruguay and Candombe is the style of music played a lot here and he surley played since he was a bou
	10:35am Joe McG: @Adnres: Thanks for the info, Andres!
	10:36am Greg from ZONE 5: Doing a very modest hustle at my desk right now…
	10:36am davefromtoronto: yes all of those!
	10:38am steveo: wow wow picked a baaad time to go get a cup of tea
	10:38am Joe McG: @Greg: Love it!
	10:38am melinda: @dave totally
	10:39am Colleen: I always enjoy your show Joe!
	10:39am TheLoneliestMonk: @JM gonna be any joe bataan in this block?
	👻 10:40am karlward: TheLoneliestMonk: "Subway Joe!" I think technically that song could fit into Story Corner too.
	10:40am Joe McG: Thanks, Colleen! :)
	10:41am Joe McG: @Monk: I wish I had a Joe Bataan 45!
	10:42am Listener Alexandra: Top of the morning to you Joe!
	10:42am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac are they considered rare, i have no idea?
	10:42am Joe McG: Hey Alex! @Monk: I never see 'em. I think people snatch 'em up.
	10:43am Joe McG: @karl: Yes, wish I'd thought of it! I'll include that in a future edition.
	👻 10:43am tim from champaign: Hi everyone! Joe, this Boys is hitting the spot. Perfect.
	👻 10:44am Brian in UK: Is NEMS the same as North End Music Shops that were owned by Brian Epstein's family?
	10:44am Listener Alexandra: This set is remarkably good "plant watering" music so far--my philodendrons love it!
	10:44am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac @karl i tried to get the slackers to cover 'subway joe' at one time. vic loves puerto rican boogaloo!
	10:45am Krys O.: Always loved this INXS song.
	10:45am Cheri Pi: :) :) :) Good morning Joe
	10:45am Joe McG: @Brian: Maybe! "Marketed by RCA" it says on the sleeve.
	10:45am melinda: Always liked The One Thing
	10:46am Joe McG: Hi, Cheri! :) :) :)
	10:47am TheLoneliestMonk: rex shared a jpg of an old NOLA studios 45 he had in his collection over the weekend. my old man used to rehearse/record there
	10:47am steveo: 8th WFMU playlist appearance, but all 5 clickystars are from today (INXS)
	10:49am TDK60: Brian: I have a b&w photo somewhere of one of the NEMS shop windows: rock posters, stereos, turntables, along with TVs and kitchen/laundry appliances! hee. Oh> here 'tis: st33.wordpress.com...
	10:49am Joe McG: @steveo: Time for the INXS re-evaluation. :)
	10:50am steveo: finally!
	10:51am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: The opening chords of this Silk 45 led us to believe that you were about to spring the Bay City Rollers on us, Joe. Similar production sound, maybe? Anyway, great show as ever. Good morning!
	10:51am passiflora:
	👻 10:52am tim from champaign: Joe - I'm thinking this might be the top Single File yet. Keep it coming!
	10:52am Aaron working in Newark: Knocking it out of the park today Joe!
	10:53am Joe McG: Wow, tim, thanks. It could very well get a lot worse! Thanks, Aaron!
	👻 10:54am Brian in UK: Was Midge Ure in Slik?
	10:55am Joe McG: @Brian: He was!
	👻 10:56am Brian in UK: @TDK60 surprised that it was still a going concern into the 70s. Love the quote 'I worked at Nems in 1962 and sold post card size pictures of the Beatles for 1/6'
	10:58am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Folk Implosion sounds like 1995 for sure. They sound a little like Sonic Youth.
	10:58am TheLoneliestMonk: @tim so, would you say you're a singlephile of single file?
	10:59am Tardigrade: Heck Yeah! I've been on an everything Lou Eric or Jason kick lately... so this is just right.
	👻 11:00am Hughie Considine: I spoke with John Davis of Folk Implosion last year. The residuals from "Natural One" have continued to sustain him over the years. Kind of the tail end of when this kind of thing could happen.
	👻 11:01am tim from champaign: @LoneliestMonk - Ha! I think the math works out.
	👻 11:04am Hughie Considine: Sandoz was the company that manufactured weapons-grade LSD.
	11:04am melinda: I thought Sandoz was a pharma company
	11:04am ?: Sandoz was the drug company name
	11:05am danjoseph: Midge Ure did not found Ultravox - he replaced the band's original vocalist John Foxx....just sayin'!
	11:06am elf: i don't think Ultravox ever charted in the USA.
	11:06am βrian: Do you say pentagon or pentagun?
	👻 11:06am Hughie Considine: Ultravox did a kicking cover of Eno's "Kings Lead Hat."
	11:06am melinda: I taped The One Thing off the radio back then, still expect to hear Madness "Our House" after it.
	👻 11:09am Hughie Considine: @melinda, I have tapes like that, for sure. Very hard to dislodge those fast segues from the mind.
	11:11am steveo: amazing!
	11:11am tak: this is touching
	👻 11:11am Hughie Considine: i'm plotzing over here.
	11:11am The Oscar: Funny-- the company I work for makes training documents for pharmaceutical companies, and Sandoz is one of our clients. Had no idea about their history!
	11:12am βrian: The Univac just doesn't have the memory to sustain love.
	👻 11:12am Webhamster Henry: Yeah Univac! WFMU-TV did a funny series of UNIVAC commercials. www.youtube.com...
	11:12am Mark Hurst: This is fantastic. Poor XF-1 humanoid!
	👻 11:13am Brian in UK: As we all know Kings Lead Hat is an anagram of Talking Heads.
	11:13am SueAdynamo: This guy seems overly concerned with the sex life of robots.
	11:13am Boomer: This dude one of the Allman Bros?
	👻 11:14am Webhamster Henry: I must obligatorially repost this chestnut: www.wfmu.org...
	11:14am Crudbringer: he's the Allman _FATHER_.
	11:14am chresti: Hello from downtown LA
	👻 11:14am karlward: Grandaddy in the house.
	11:14am Succboi: How do I delet my comments?
	11:15am βrian: Evil giants who spend to much time sitting often develop humanoids.
	11:15am tak: you are online... FOREVER
	11:16am βrian: "too much time," that is.
	👻 11:16am Hughie Considine: Dang it -- "Dance of the Uncle Sam Humanoids" by BeBop Deluxe is an instrumental.
	11:18am melinda: Hi chresti
	11:21am melinda: I liked Yellow Hair
	11:23am pantz: Why was Bob Lind so elusive?
	11:24am Joe McG: @pantz: Ha ha!
	👻 11:24am Hughie Considine: He was deathly afraid of being ensnared in nets of wonder.
	11:25am melinda: This sounds like something Peter Paul n Mary did. Polly-Von?
	11:29am Krys O.: Yes, Jack Thackray! The Happy Misanthrope!
	11:30am steveo: And if I sinned, I sinned in self-defence.
	11:31am βrian: My virtue has been filched!
	👻 11:32am Webhamster Henry: I sang the Irish Ballad last year in a little show, accompanied by Brian Dewan.
	11:33am melinda: I remember my aunt playing the piano and singing this when I was little.
	11:34am The Oscar: Tom Lehrer lived down the street from the record store I used to work at, and we'd see him walking down the street all the time. I was always tempted to say hi, but I know he would have hated it. He's getting up there, but I still see him around Cambridge. (Also, yay Tom Lehrer!)
	👻 11:35am Webhamster Henry: Prof. Lehrer is 90! This song creeped me out when I was a tot.
	11:35am Carmichael: Heya Joe. Tuning in just in time for Planxty!
	11:39am Barney Grubbs: Planxty always makes me think of the Pogues' Planxty Noel Hill (en.wikipedia.org...) & their beef
	👻 11:39am Hughie Considine: oh man, Joe, I was going to say Jake Thackery sounded a lot like Ed McCurdy. Well chosen! Ed McCurdy's "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" was sung by throngs as they tore down the Berlin Wall.
	11:41am Joe McG: @Hughie: Cool info! @Barney: What was the beef?
	11:43am хtina: just dug out my old ed mccurdy dalliance albums out of storage yesterday...need to give em a re-listen.
	👻 11:44am tim from champaign: This is a cautionary tale!
	11:45am TDK60: Wikip. says that Elektra Folk Sampler was the first-ever sampler LP.
	11:46am Joe McG: @TDK: Wow, really? More evidence of the genius of Jac Holzman.
	11:47am TDK60: ..wow, haven't heard the bearded ones in ages. "Fright" a good-un,
	👻 11:48am Brian in UK: He noticed no shadow did he cast. Love that line.
	👻 11:48am Hughie Considine: That Elektra Folk Sampler was totally seminal for me. Track 1, "Josie" by Ed McCurdy is also a great story song, based on "Frankie & Johnny."
	11:49am Joe McG: @Hughie: I just got my copy last year, but it's a thoroughly great collection and for 1956 the fidelity is astonishing.
	11:50am Barney Grubbs: @Joe: Allegedly Noel Hill of Planxty described the Pogues' music as "a terrible abortion" during a radio panel with them, so they recorded a traditional track in response
	11:51am Joe McG: @Barney: How funny! That's what trad people said about Planxty in the early 70s!
	11:52am Sem: What a morning, Joe. Thanks for the soundtrack to a day-before presentation preparation, kept us sane here. See you and all next time round the block.
	11:53am TDK60: Barney: I have known folks of acoustic, folkloric purity. I'm a sinner.
	👻 11:53am Hughie Considine: It really is @Joe. And it does my heart good to know I'm not alone in loving that LP. So many good ones. Alan Arkin's "Crawdad Song" is sublime.
	11:53am Joe McG: Thanks, Sem! And thanks everyone for listening and commenting today. I hope you had fun! See you next week.
	👻 11:54am Brian in UK: Great selections, Joe.
	11:54am steveo: super show! thanks Joe!
	11:55am TheLoneliestMonk: later joe, have a good week
	👻 11:56am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:56am annie: thanks joe!!!
	11:56am Barney Grubbs: @Joe: It should be in here somewhere, but it's way too long to find the spot right now: www.youtube.com...
	11:56am steveo: and the triangle fell in love with the wood block from this talkover bed
	👻 11:57am Hughie Considine: and the lamb ran away with the crown
	11:59am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 28, 2019

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New
Komischer Läufer	Phase IV - Morgen	The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-83 - Volume Four	Unknown Capability Recordings	2018	LP
Voetvolk	Tracing Meridians "Tracing Meridians" by "Voetvolk"	The Sea Within	Rotkat	2018	LP		*
Nathan Griffith	Great Moves "Great Moves" by "Nathan Griffith"	Switched-On Eugene	The Numero Group	2018	CD	From 1984	*
Colin Potter	The Long Road "The Long Road" by "Colin Potter"	The Where House?	Dark Entries	2018	LP	From 1982	*
Michele Mercure	Ghosts Before Breakfast	Beside Herself	RVNG Intl.	2018	CD	From 1984	*
Process Blue	Blind Curve "Blind Curve" by "Process Blue"	Process Blue	Dark Entries	2018	LP	From 1982	*
John Krocker	N2 "N2" by "John Krocker"	Monolog	Dark Entries	2018	LP	1981-82	*
Drama	Electronic Pink Panther "Electronic Pink Panther" by "Drama"	Loneliness	Dark Entries	2018	LP	From 1979	*
Klaus Weiss	Journal / Time Signals / Scoria	Time Signals	Trunk	2018	LP	From 1978
Les Robots	Do the Robot! "Do the Robot!" by "Les Robots"	single	Spazz	2018	45		*

L'Eclair	Taishi-Koto, Pt. 2 "Taishi-Koto, Pt. 2" by "L'Eclair"	Polymood	Beyond Beyond Is Beyond	2018	LP		*
Morricone Youth	Eva Kant "Eva Kant" by "Morricone Youth"	Danger: Diabolik: Original Re-score	Country Club	2018	LP		*
Cosmic Analog Ensemble	L'Elephant Funambule	Une Vie Cent Detours	My Bags	2018	LP		*
Ivan 'Mamão' Conti	Que Legal "Que Legal" by "Ivan 'Mamão' Conti"	Poison Fruit	Far Out Recordings	2019	CD		*
Juan Wauters	Camdombe "Camdombe" by "Juan Wauters"	La Onda de Juan Pablo	Captured Tracks	2019	MP3		*
Los Bilbao	Zelenita del Año 2000	Andina: The Sound of the Peruvian Andes - Huayno, Carnaval, & Cubmia 1968 to 1978	Tiger's Milk	2018	LP		*
Groupe Dago	Réveil Créole "Réveil Créole" by "Groupe Dago"	Oté Maloya - The Birth of Electric Maloya on Réunion Island 1975-1986	Strut	2018	LP	From 1978	*
Vytas Brenner	Agua Clara "Agua Clara" by "Vytas Brenner"	Venezuela 70, Vol. 2 - Cosmic Visions of a Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock in the 1970s & Beyond	Soul Jazz	2018	CD	From 1974

Single File: a stack of 45 r.p.m. records lined up all in a row
The Salsoul Orchestra	Salsoul Hustle	single	Salsoul	1975	45
Vin Cardinal	Season of the Witch "Season of the Witch" by "Vin Cardinal"	single	A&M	1970	45
Susan Christie	Take Me As You Find Me	single	Columbia	1966	45
The Boys	First Time "First Time" by "The Boys"	single	NEMS	1977	45
INXS	The One Thing "The One Thing" by "INXS"	single	Atco	1982	45
Slik	Forever and Ever "Forever and Ever" by "Slik"	single	EMI	1976	45
Eric Burdon and the Animals	A Girl Named Sandoz	single	MGM	1967	45
Linda Gail Lewis	I Wanna Be a Sensuous Woman	single	Mercury	1974	45
Folk Implosion	Mood Swing "Mood Swing" by "Folk Implosion"	single	The Communion Lable	1995	45
Steve Alaimo	I Do "I Do" by "Steve Alaimo"	single	Atco	1968	45
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Story Corner: Songs That Tell Stories "Story Corner: Songs That Tell Stories"
Sheldon Allman	Univac and the Humanoid	Folk Songs for the 21st Century	Modern Harmonic	2017	LP	From 1960
Grandaddy	Jed the Humanoid "Jed the Humanoid" by "Grandaddy"	The Sophtware Slump	Merge	2000	CD
Tia Blake	Yellow Hair "Yellow Hair" by "Tia Blake"	Paris and Montreal Demos, 1973-1976	Southern Folklife Collection/Yep Roc	2018	EP	From 1976	*
Bob Lind	The Swan "The Swan" by "Bob Lind"	The Elusive Bob Lind	Verve Folkways	1966	LP
Bobbie Gentry	Refractions "Refractions" by "Bobbie Gentry"	The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters	UMC	2018	CD	demo from 1968	*
Jake Thackray	The Lodger "The Lodger" by "Jake Thackray"	The Very Best of Jake Thackray	EMI	2003	CD	From 1967
Tom Lehrer	The Irish Ballad "The Irish Ballad" by "Tom Lehrer"	Songs by Tom Lehrer	Lehrer	1953	10"
Planxty	The Jolly Beggar "The Jolly Beggar" by "Planxty"	Planxty	Polydor	1973	LP	Thanks to Listener Lee from Dublin!
Ed McCurdy	Robin Hood and the Bold Pedlar	Elektra New Folk Sampler	Elektra	1956	LP
Jonathan Kelly	Ballad of Cursed Anna	Twice Around the Houses	RCA	1972	LP
The Band	Daniel and the Sacred Harp	Stage Fright	Capitol	1970	LP
Jeannie C. Riley	We Were Raised on Love	Country Girl	Planation	1970	LP
The Stonemans	The Three-Cent Opera	It's All in the Family	MGM	1968	LP

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Listener comments!
	9:02am Sem: Hello, Joe.
	9:02am VincentNifigance: Hey Joe.
	9:03am Linda Lee: good morning dear Joe!
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: What the yip?
	9:03am pantz: No one knows what the nose knows. Speak beak!
	👻 9:03am queems: good morning joe!
	9:04am Krys O.: Hello, Joe!
	9:04am Linda Lee: i love this record officially.
	9:05am Linda Lee: what a nice opener for the morgen.
	9:05am steveo: greetings o with what balm dost thou pliest mine ears
	9:05am TDK60: Exercise, cosmic comrades, now!
	9:06am Joe McG: Welcome, everyone! Slow and easy start today. With robots.
	9:07am Granny Spicy Tuna: this is lovely
	9:11am steveo: sunshine for the ears
	9:12am TDK60: ..alright Joe, in the studio there in WFMU Towers; as long as your robots aren't armed, and you have robot insurance.
	👻 9:13am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. We have sunshine. No lollipops or rainbows though.
	9:13am BLCKDGRD: Might be too late and you might not even be a fan, but today Robert Wyatt's 74th, your favorite solo or Soft Machine?
	9:16am melinda: I like the robot start.
	9:16am Joe McG: @BLCK: Wow, that's a worthy thing to celebrate! Wish I'd known. I'll see if I can't motivate myself down to the library...
	9:16am Granny Spicy Tuna: And all watched over by machines of loving grace
	9:18am TDK60: BLCKDGRD: ah, Robert W.'s b.day. Saw him w/Soft Machine (which proves I'm "up there") and his solo stuff is great.
	9:19am Joe McG: @TDK: Wow! I'd like to hear about that sometime. Agree! Love me some Matching Mole, too.
	9:19am TDK60: Joe, you need an eager librarian there at this very moment.
	9:20am steveo: was not aware of that poem, thank you Granny
	9:21am TDK60: ..how about now? Café Au Go Go on Bleecker St., summer 1971. Folky Eric Andersen opened!
	9:22am Granny Spicy Tuna: steveo: Richard Brautigan's birthday is on Wednesday. He was the poet in residence at Cal Tech in 1967.
	9:22am The Oscar: Mornin'!
	👻 9:24am Brian in UK: I like trout but never gone in for the fishing much.
	9:25am Granny Spicy Tuna: Brian in the UK, my clock made from the black watermelon never wakes me up in time for fishing
	9:25am steveo: @granny nice
	👻 9:26am b!!!: This set is great!
	9:28am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe & everybody!
	9:28am Granny Spicy Tuna: I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace. Richard Brautigan (1967, while poet-in-residence at Cal Tech)
	9:29am Joe McG: @b!!!: Turning the show over to the robots for the first set! They're doing pretty good.
	9:30am pantz: This one sounds like the soundtrack to an 8 bit Pink Panther game.
	👻 9:31am Brian in UK: Been the longest time since reading Mr B.
	9:31am Roberto: ALL HAIL OUR WFMU ROBOT OVERLORDS
	9:32am zpulpa: These robots are soothing my under slept nerves and setting a beat for my deepening breath broken by sips of coffee. Goodmorning friends! Goodmorning Joe!
	👻 9:33am Webhamster Henry: We are the robots.
	9:33am TDK60: ..all these 2018 releases from the '80s/'70s, huh.
	9:33am VincentNifigance: @SpicyGrannyTuna You brought the Brautigan, and you're in SF too! Thanks!
	9:33am TomDash: Hey Joe - great set! Big fan of this Drama LP - first turned onto it by Tony Coulter on his Canadian special last fall. Very glad they reissued it cause the originals are pricey!!!
	9:34am zpulpa: Yup yup, today May be the day I embrace the robotic and let the program do the work..work ... work... work...
	9:36am steveo: these are the aliens i hope i get abducted by (klaus weiss)
	👻 9:38am b!!!: Polysics would go good with this Les Robots.
	9:39am TDK60: Do Les Robots dress up, a la The Mummies?
	9:41am steveo: @tdk here's a photo from their bandcamp f4.bcbits.com...
	9:43am Irene Trudel: Hearing all these old electronic sounds reminds me that WFMU's twitter featured a post from Laughing Squid about Kraftwerk's 1st TV appearance: laughingsquid.com...
	9:43am steveo: les robots from netherlands
	9:45am dropped one: I'm terribly sorry, has anyone got a bucket and spade? I didnt make it to the bathroom in time; theres poo everywhere.
	9:45am steveo: yay my name was on the radeeohhhhh
	9:46am Irene Trudel: BTW, great set first set Joe! And Granny Spicy Tuna, thanks for the Brautigan poem. I hadn't thought about him for a while.
	9:47am yippie: revenge
	9:47am David Colangelo: Hi joe...remember Pat Metheny won a Grammy w a robot band...
	9:48am TDK60: ..thanks steveo.
	9:49am Jonathan Yoesting: Eugene Oregon is cool but it's not actually the capitol of Oregon. Salem is the capital of OR USA...or?
	👻 9:50am Ken From Hyde Park: I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords. S.A.M. from Wake & Bake is also onboard.
	9:50am steveo: voetvolk from belgium -- super set loved every minute
	9:52am Joe McG: @jonathan: You are correct, sir! Thanks for reminding me. Thanks, Irene, nice to see you!
	9:54am melinda: love the synth
	9:54am dropped one: no poo poo scoop?
	9:54am TDK60: Irene - will have to check out that early Kraftwerk..
	10:08am dropped one: anyone else enjoying this Conti?
	10:09am dropped one: i heard the albun yesterday
	10:10am Joe McG: @dropped one: I think it's great!
	10:11am TheLoneliestMonk: is "juan wauters" john waters latino salsa alter ego?
	10:12am dropped one: he's dead
	10:14am Joe McG: Who's dead?
	10:14am Mike tp: entered the show with bossa Nova....
	10:18am βrian: This is balm for a cold Monday morning.
	10:21am dropped one: jon waters
	10:21am хtina: great show, joe! thoroughly enjoying everything this am
	10:22am Joe McG: Thanks, xtina! Nice to see you, Brian.
	10:26am annie: well,yar i is!
	10:28am TDK60: ..thank the goddesses for interesting compilations.
	10:28am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I saw a $10.99 watermelon for sale at Longo's in Burlington, Ontario yesterday. A gallon or organic milk=$10.00. Wow. Aldis is far far cheaper in USA.
	10:30am TheLoneliestMonk: nope! john waters is very much alive, and i still wanna read his hitchhiking book www.barnesandnoble.com...
	10:31am Andres: Juan Wauters is great y es uruguayo!
	10:32am βrian: Ooh, boy. We have -28 °F predicted for Wednesday night.
	👻 10:33am karlward: Joe! Joe! Do the hustle! It's not the bus stop this time!
	10:33am TDK60: Loneliest Monk: I could write a hitchhiking short story...or even longer.
	10:34am davefromtoronto: sounds like the love boat theme and shaft combined
	10:35am melinda: I like the hustle, recalls 70s TV themes
	10:35am Joe McG: @dave: ha ha ha. Maybe that's why I love it so much. Sounds like Barry White to me!
	10:35am Andres: Listen, Juan Wauters is from Uruguay and Candombe is the style of music played a lot here and he surley played since he was a bou
	10:35am Joe McG: @Adnres: Thanks for the info, Andres!
	10:36am Greg from ZONE 5: Doing a very modest hustle at my desk right now…
	10:36am davefromtoronto: yes all of those!
	10:38am steveo: wow wow picked a baaad time to go get a cup of tea
	10:38am Joe McG: @Greg: Love it!
	10:38am melinda: @dave totally
	10:39am Colleen: I always enjoy your show Joe!
	10:39am TheLoneliestMonk: @JM gonna be any joe bataan in this block?
	👻 10:40am karlward: TheLoneliestMonk: "Subway Joe!" I think technically that song could fit into Story Corner too.
	10:40am Joe McG: Thanks, Colleen! :)
	10:41am Joe McG: @Monk: I wish I had a Joe Bataan 45!
	10:42am Listener Alexandra: Top of the morning to you Joe!
	10:42am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac are they considered rare, i have no idea?
	10:42am Joe McG: Hey Alex! @Monk: I never see 'em. I think people snatch 'em up.
	10:43am Joe McG: @karl: Yes, wish I'd thought of it! I'll include that in a future edition.
	👻 10:43am tim from champaign: Hi everyone! Joe, this Boys is hitting the spot. Perfect.
	👻 10:44am Brian in UK: Is NEMS the same as North End Music Shops that were owned by Brian Epstein's family?
	10:44am Listener Alexandra: This set is remarkably good "plant watering" music so far--my philodendrons love it!
	10:44am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac @karl i tried to get the slackers to cover 'subway joe' at one time. vic loves puerto rican boogaloo!
	10:45am Krys O.: Always loved this INXS song.
	10:45am Cheri Pi: :) :) :) Good morning Joe
	10:45am Joe McG: @Brian: Maybe! "Marketed by RCA" it says on the sleeve.
	10:45am melinda: Always liked The One Thing
	10:46am Joe McG: Hi, Cheri! :) :) :)
	10:47am TheLoneliestMonk: rex shared a jpg of an old NOLA studios 45 he had in his collection over the weekend. my old man used to rehearse/record there
	10:47am steveo: 8th WFMU playlist appearance, but all 5 clickystars are from today (INXS)
	10:49am TDK60: Brian: I have a b&w photo somewhere of one of the NEMS shop windows: rock posters, stereos, turntables, along with TVs and kitchen/laundry appliances! hee. Oh> here 'tis: st33.wordpress.com...
	10:49am Joe McG: @steveo: Time for the INXS re-evaluation. :)
	10:50am steveo: finally!
	10:51am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: The opening chords of this Silk 45 led us to believe that you were about to spring the Bay City Rollers on us, Joe. Similar production sound, maybe? Anyway, great show as ever. Good morning!
	10:51am passiflora:
	👻 10:52am tim from champaign: Joe - I'm thinking this might be the top Single File yet. Keep it coming!
	10:52am Aaron working in Newark: Knocking it out of the park today Joe!
	10:53am Joe McG: Wow, tim, thanks. It could very well get a lot worse! Thanks, Aaron!
	👻 10:54am Brian in UK: Was Midge Ure in Slik?
	10:55am Joe McG: @Brian: He was!
	👻 10:56am Brian in UK: @TDK60 surprised that it was still a going concern into the 70s. Love the quote 'I worked at Nems in 1962 and sold post card size pictures of the Beatles for 1/6'
	10:58am Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Folk Implosion sounds like 1995 for sure. They sound a little like Sonic Youth.
	10:58am TheLoneliestMonk: @tim so, would you say you're a singlephile of single file?
	10:59am Tardigrade: Heck Yeah! I've been on an everything Lou Eric or Jason kick lately... so this is just right.
	👻 11:00am Hughie Considine: I spoke with John Davis of Folk Implosion last year. The residuals from "Natural One" have continued to sustain him over the years. Kind of the tail end of when this kind of thing could happen.
	👻 11:01am tim from champaign: @LoneliestMonk - Ha! I think the math works out.
	👻 11:04am Hughie Considine: Sandoz was the company that manufactured weapons-grade LSD.
	11:04am melinda: I thought Sandoz was a pharma company
	11:04am ?: Sandoz was the drug company name
	11:05am danjoseph: Midge Ure did not found Ultravox - he replaced the band's original vocalist John Foxx....just sayin'!
	11:06am elf: i don't think Ultravox ever charted in the USA.
	11:06am βrian: Do you say pentagon or pentagun?
	👻 11:06am Hughie Considine: Ultravox did a kicking cover of Eno's "Kings Lead Hat."
	11:06am melinda: I taped The One Thing off the radio back then, still expect to hear Madness "Our House" after it.
	👻 11:09am Hughie Considine: @melinda, I have tapes like that, for sure. Very hard to dislodge those fast segues from the mind.
	11:11am steveo: amazing!
	11:11am tak: this is touching
	👻 11:11am Hughie Considine: i'm plotzing over here.
	11:11am The Oscar: Funny-- the company I work for makes training documents for pharmaceutical companies, and Sandoz is one of our clients. Had no idea about their history!
	11:12am βrian: The Univac just doesn't have the memory to sustain love.
	👻 11:12am Webhamster Henry: Yeah Univac! WFMU-TV did a funny series of UNIVAC commercials. www.youtube.com...
	11:12am Mark Hurst: This is fantastic. Poor XF-1 humanoid!
	👻 11:13am Brian in UK: As we all know Kings Lead Hat is an anagram of Talking Heads.
	11:13am SueAdynamo: This guy seems overly concerned with the sex life of robots.
	11:13am Boomer: This dude one of the Allman Bros?
	👻 11:14am Webhamster Henry: I must obligatorially repost this chestnut: www.wfmu.org...
	11:14am Crudbringer: he's the Allman _FATHER_.
	11:14am chresti: Hello from downtown LA
	👻 11:14am karlward: Grandaddy in the house.
	11:14am Succboi: How do I delet my comments?
	11:15am βrian: Evil giants who spend to much time sitting often develop humanoids.
	11:15am tak: you are online... FOREVER
	11:16am βrian: "too much time," that is.
	👻 11:16am Hughie Considine: Dang it -- "Dance of the Uncle Sam Humanoids" by BeBop Deluxe is an instrumental.
	11:18am melinda: Hi chresti
	11:21am melinda: I liked Yellow Hair
	11:23am pantz: Why was Bob Lind so elusive?
	11:24am Joe McG: @pantz: Ha ha!
	👻 11:24am Hughie Considine: He was deathly afraid of being ensnared in nets of wonder.
	11:25am melinda: This sounds like something Peter Paul n Mary did. Polly-Von?
	11:29am Krys O.: Yes, Jack Thackray! The Happy Misanthrope!
	11:30am steveo: And if I sinned, I sinned in self-defence.
	11:31am βrian: My virtue has been filched!
	👻 11:32am Webhamster Henry: I sang the Irish Ballad last year in a little show, accompanied by Brian Dewan.
	11:33am melinda: I remember my aunt playing the piano and singing this when I was little.
	11:34am The Oscar: Tom Lehrer lived down the street from the record store I used to work at, and we'd see him walking down the street all the time. I was always tempted to say hi, but I know he would have hated it. He's getting up there, but I still see him around Cambridge. (Also, yay Tom Lehrer!)
	👻 11:35am Webhamster Henry: Prof. Lehrer is 90! This song creeped me out when I was a tot.
	11:35am Carmichael: Heya Joe. Tuning in just in time for Planxty!
	11:39am Barney Grubbs: Planxty always makes me think of the Pogues' Planxty Noel Hill (en.wikipedia.org...) & their beef
	👻 11:39am Hughie Considine: oh man, Joe, I was going to say Jake Thackery sounded a lot like Ed McCurdy. Well chosen! Ed McCurdy's "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" was sung by throngs as they tore down the Berlin Wall.
	11:41am Joe McG: @Hughie: Cool info! @Barney: What was the beef?
	11:43am хtina: just dug out my old ed mccurdy dalliance albums out of storage yesterday...need to give em a re-listen.
	👻 11:44am tim from champaign: This is a cautionary tale!
	11:45am TDK60: Wikip. says that Elektra Folk Sampler was the first-ever sampler LP.
	11:46am Joe McG: @TDK: Wow, really? More evidence of the genius of Jac Holzman.
	11:47am TDK60: ..wow, haven't heard the bearded ones in ages. "Fright" a good-un,
	👻 11:48am Brian in UK: He noticed no shadow did he cast. Love that line.
	👻 11:48am Hughie Considine: That Elektra Folk Sampler was totally seminal for me. Track 1, "Josie" by Ed McCurdy is also a great story song, based on "Frankie & Johnny."
	11:49am Joe McG: @Hughie: I just got my copy last year, but it's a thoroughly great collection and for 1956 the fidelity is astonishing.
	11:50am Barney Grubbs: @Joe: Allegedly Noel Hill of Planxty described the Pogues' music as "a terrible abortion" during a radio panel with them, so they recorded a traditional track in response
	11:51am Joe McG: @Barney: How funny! That's what trad people said about Planxty in the early 70s!
	11:52am Sem: What a morning, Joe. Thanks for the soundtrack to a day-before presentation preparation, kept us sane here. See you and all next time round the block.
	11:53am TDK60: Barney: I have known folks of acoustic, folkloric purity. I'm a sinner.
	👻 11:53am Hughie Considine: It really is @Joe. And it does my heart good to know I'm not alone in loving that LP. So many good ones. Alan Arkin's "Crawdad Song" is sublime.
	11:53am Joe McG: Thanks, Sem! And thanks everyone for listening and commenting today. I hope you had fun! See you next week.
	👻 11:54am Brian in UK: Great selections, Joe.
	11:54am steveo: super show! thanks Joe!
	11:55am TheLoneliestMonk: later joe, have a good week
	👻 11:56am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:56am annie: thanks joe!!!
	11:56am Barney Grubbs: @Joe: It should be in here somewhere, but it's way too long to find the spot right now: www.youtube.com...
	11:56am steveo: and the triangle fell in love with the wood block from this talkover bed
	👻 11:57am Hughie Considine: and the lamb ran away with the crown
	11:59am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joe!

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