WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from September 21, 2019

Michael Shelley: Playlist from September 21, 2019

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September 21, 2019: There's No One Like You!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Redd Kross	There's No One Like You
Del Shannon	My Love Has Gone "My Love Has Gone" by "Del Shannon"
Country Cutups, The	Chug-A-Lug "Chug-A-Lug" by "Country Cutups, The"
Jackie Hairston	Monkey On My Back
Billy Taylor	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
Lemonheads, The	Being Around "Being Around" by "Lemonheads, The"
Brinsley Schwarz	(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
Flatt & Scruggs	Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Dean and Jean	Thread Your Needle "Thread Your Needle" by "Dean and Jean"
Rubinoos, The	Honey From The Honeycombs
Nancy Sinatra	The Last of the Secret Agents
Bill Carlisle	Monkey Business "Monkey Business" by "Bill Carlisle"
Joe Tex	Build Your Love (On A Solid Foundation)
Ernest Ranglin	Everybody's Talking
Explorers Club, The	The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
P.F. Sloan	The Sins of A Family "The Sins of A Family" by "P.F. Sloan"
Jerry Reed	High Time "High Time" by "Jerry Reed"
Clarence "Frogman" Henry	The Glory Of Love
Cars, The	Bye Bye Love "Bye Bye Love" by "Cars, The"
Cars, The	Let's Go "Let's Go" by "Cars, The"
Liverpool Five, The	If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Kenny Vaughan	Hot Like That "Hot Like That" by "Kenny Vaughan"
Chris Scruggs	Window "Window" by "Chris Scruggs"
Standells, The	Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White
Hank Thompson	Total Stranger "Total Stranger" by "Hank Thompson"
Z.Z. Hill	Where She Att "Where She Att" by "Z.Z. Hill"
Above, The	You Make It Real "You Make It Real" by "Above, The"
Ventures, The	A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
Billy Garner	Brand New Girl "Brand New Girl" by "Billy Garner"
Greg Townson	Girl From The North Country
Joe South	These Are Not My People
Oscar Aleman	Swinging On A Star "Swinging On A Star" by "Oscar Aleman"
Juan Wauters	Sanity Or Not "Sanity Or Not" by "Juan Wauters"
Yolks, The	Don't Cry Anymore "Don't Cry Anymore" by "Yolks, The"
New Piccadillys, The	I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys
Like, The	In The End "In The End" by "Like, The"
Coolies, The	Yeah I Don't Know "Yeah I Don't Know" by "Coolies, The"
Knack, The	That's What The Little Girls Do
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five	Safe, Sane and Single
News	Flight 214 "Flight 214" by "News"
CKLW	Jackpot w/ Patches the dog "Jackpot w/ Patches the dog" by "CKLW"
Wax Museum	Barker "Barker" by "Wax Museum"
Carvel	New Wave "New Wave" by "Carvel"
Little Brother	With Rocks & Fists

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CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE to hear a lovely short BBC radio piece where Nick Lowe talk about Fatback Louisiana USA by Tennessee Ernie Ford and Harlan County by Jim Ford

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CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis on the Please Kill Me website!

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CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

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CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

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CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

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CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

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CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

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CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then CLICK HERE to have a listen & decide for yourself
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CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

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CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE to see Michael Shelley get interviewed on a NJ public access TV show "Destination Montclair"

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CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

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CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
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CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

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CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

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CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

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CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

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CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

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CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

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CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

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CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

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CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

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Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.

Listener comments!
	11:02am Baby: BABy!!
	11:07am Frank In Queens: Greetings from the road!
	11:08am Geoffrey in Ottawa: I'm having a breakfast beer right now. Cheers!
	11:10am Bootsie: Cool version of this!
	11:15am clarke: BABY!!!!!
	11:15am northguineahills: It'd been about 20 years since I heard this Lemonheads....
	11:16am clarke: where ya't, frank???
	11:17am Jimmy Wipper: Well, it IS the International Day of Peace!
	11:18am Hughie Considine: "Being Around" contains one of rock's rare snot lyrics, right up there with "Aqualung" and that song on Forever Changes. I have a list somewhere.
	11:19am clarke: possible Today's Topic: what was your single of the summer?
	11:20am Roberto: Hughie, don't forget The Flaming Lips' "She Don't Use Jelly."
	11:20am Michael Shelley: BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!
	11:21am clarke: for me this would be a close tie between Layin' Pipe by The Fleshtones and GBV - Heavy Like The World
	11:22am clarke: and Boys! Boys! Boys! coming in a close 2nd!!
	11:24am Hughie Considine: Good one, @Roberto! One more: “I boogied on my finger and I wiped it on the wall…”
	11:26am lepson jooves: and of course the Weird Al song "Gotta Boogie"....
	11:28am Roberto: Oh durn, I didn't know Honey had passed last year. Rock In Peace.
	11:29am LB: That Rubinoos tune is pretty awesome
	11:29am Hughie Considine: Ha. It would be weird if Weird Al didn't have a song about snot.
	11:30am clarke: i have not seen the ken burns thang - but, although he usually does a FAB job, it is probably better for people who don't know much about the subject.
	11:31am clarke: AND un-earthing killer footage is burns' forte, as well
	11:32am clarke: older than bowie!!
	11:33am Hughie Considine: I'm excited for his next project: Ken Burns "Klezmer"
	11:34am Roberto: A Burns documentary? Excellent.
	11:34am clarke: hughie - single of the summah???
	11:35am Hughie Considine: @Roberto, I am joshing~
	11:36am Hughie Considine: @Clarke, I guess some people find his work reductive.
	11:38am Roberto: As am I, Hugheleh. I'm imagining C. Montgomery Burns's reaction to hearing that there's a Burns documentary.
	11:47am Hughie Considine: Only my mama calls me Hugheleh -- bless you, @Roberto! But seriously, Ken Burns has done a documentary on so many big topics, maybe he needs to narrow his scope a little: e.g., Ken Burns "New Wave of British Heavy Metal"
	11:48am clarke: anyone get this Lee Hazlewood collection that just came out?? i assume it is The Shit??
	11:48am Sid: Liking covers; depends on whether you heard the cover tune before the original (Beatles version of 'Twist & Shout' comes to mind. Love The Isleys, but heard the Fabs first).
	11:49am Michael Shelley: was just checking it out in the record library before the show - weird/good
	11:49am clarke: i don't know sid - i would like to think i have objectivity to figure out what kicks arse more.
	11:51am clarke: for moi - there are only RARE cases (VERY few!) when the cover is better than the original
	11:51am Third World Man: AAC Stream is struggling here in FLA
	11:52am Third World Man: won't work in the pop up had to use the direct stream URL
	11:53am clarke: the beatles version of Twist & Shout is a dead tie for me
	11:54am Sid: The version of a song I hear first is, for me, the original. Not always my favorite, but often, just by virtue of incumbency in my ears. If Pat Boone put out a song before an R&B artist, would it be the definitive version?
	11:54am clarke: pat boone never wrote a song in his life
	11:56am clarke: as a friend of mine once said: The Cars are just about perfect!!
	11:56am Dean: Which is the original of "Wild Horses"? The Burritos' or the Stones'? B came first, but...
	11:57am Third World Man: The Sunday's version of Wild Horses is the definitive for me.
	11:57am Sid: Used to listen to full Cars albums - worth turning the LP over. Revisited them this past week. First 2 + Shake It Up just as good as they were when they came out for me.
	11:58am Mikey: Bye bye love. A perfect song
	11:58am common: Ben orr
	11:58am longish: More platter, less chatter.
	11:59am clarke: i am "Door To Door" with the cars oevre! even solo works, New Cars, etc.
	11:59am Third World Man: I always had a hard time distinguishing Orr from Ric
	12:00pm Michael Shelley: longish: no
	12:00pm clarke: this is probably because orr was singing ric's songs!
	12:00pm Third World Man: I think orr sang in a slightly higher register.
	12:00pm Hughie Considine: Ben voice was a leading man -- Ric's was a character actor.
	12:01pm Sid: Even the 2011 Cars release was worthy (Move Like This).
	12:01pm Mary Gidge: I just told my husband I’ve had Bye Bye Love in my head for days. And here is is. The break is so pretty. (He asked, by the way, everly brothers?). Thanks you michael (I cant get family on board for whitewashed Ken Burns doc either)
	12:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Was reading up on The Cars this week. They joked that their first album should've been called a Greatest Hits album.
	12:02pm common: Agreed hughie
	12:02pm Hughie Considine: Elliott Easton's leads were just so damn tasty.
	12:02pm vertual: I'm about the same age, Michael. I always remember the cars on at the skating rinks and in any given Camaro.
	12:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Same : m.facebook.com...
	12:02pm clarke: a lot of bands could make that joke
	12:02pm Third World Man: Yep Ken, every song on that album received heavy radio play
	12:02pm Sid: Like The Ramones, hard to play just one.
	12:03pm common: This one!
	12:03pm ChrisB.: "I'd like a night light , baby!"
	12:03pm Third World Man: I love the way the drums are miked on this one. Left to right.
	12:04pm jmd: Don’t Cha Stop.
	12:04pm Midtown Man: Saturday at the office...can't stop pen drumming to these two gems by The Cars
	12:05pm Sid: When Candy-O came out, you realized they weren't just a one-album fluke. Some reviewers quipped that they had guts to not just quit after the first one.
	12:05pm Hughie Considine: Apparently the band soured quickly on the LP cover for the debut, even though it seemed to define them so well. It was all done pretty much without their input so they never felt it spoke for them.
	12:05pm Joe R.: @Ken - just saw that quote myself. That first record is so loaded, at least 6 out of those 9 songs got a lot of radio play back then.
	12:05pm Ross T.: Those first hits put the Cars right up there with say Paul Revere and the Raiders which to me is saying a hell of a lot. And I understand their influence goes way beyond that.
	12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Vargas redhead on Candy-O & Panama Red cannabis shall forever be one for me...
	12:06pm Third World Man: I hear Roxy Music in the Cars.
	12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Think so TWM !
	12:07pm Frank In Queens: What kind of donut?! You can’t nit tell us!
	12:08pm Third World Man: If you listen to early Queen, you can hear what RTB brought to queen in the vocal production dept.
	12:09pm Third World Man: When I was a kid I thought this song was the Stones
	12:09pm Hughie Considine: I had a Spanish teacher in high school who was way into his Mobile Fidelity Lab reissue of The Cars and had all of us listen to a particular cymbal hit on "I'm in Touch with Your World." The Cars rewarded that type of listener.
	12:11pm Frank In Queens: Thank you. I’m not at all surprised by your selection.
	12:12pm battleaxe: Kenny Vaughn looks at times like Ric Ocasek to me!
	12:13pm Third World Man: 48 yrs old here and I can just barely hear a 15k tone. onlinetonegenerator.com...
	12:14pm Ross T.: And linked to the Modern Lovers by their drummer the Cars were.
	12:14pm Third World Man: I can sense it more than I can hear it. damn
	12:15pm Sid: Well the hot guitar licks in the Vaughan tune make up for the Kardashian mention!
	12:16pm Jimmy Wipper: Uzzle speaks the truth! Run, don’t walk to see Marty Stuart!
	12:18pm Sid: Interesting generator site 3WM. Gonna have to find out how bad the tinnitus is limiting my frequency response.
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: Well the hot guitar licks in the Vaughan tune make up for the Kardashian mention! = YES
	12:20pm Third World Man: Sid I have slight tinnitus, and with that site you can find the perfect masking frequency for the tinnitus.
	12:20pm Third World Man: do you hear it all the time?
	12:22pm Sid: 3WM, the tinnitus is always in the background, but my brain can tune it out 99% of the time fortunately.
	12:24pm Third World Man: Try working out. Mine disappears completely with 30 minutes of cardio. The pitch becomes a deep hum. That is if it isn't true inner ear damage.
	12:24pm Sid: My nephew seems to have a more persistent tinnitus issue, so I'll forward the generator site URL to him too.
	12:25pm Third World Man: I think my tinnitus is stress related.
	12:25pm Hoboken Jack: Hello HP Ken! Michael, thank you for the pleasing tunes this midday.
	12:26pm Sid: Cardio as a tinnitus reduction agent - interesting; have to try that. Off to the treadmill after the show. I've had some level of tinnitus since I was born, probably genetic.
	12:27pm clarke: keepin' it REAL on the bass, mon!!
	12:28pm Third World Man: If it works the pitch will go down to a bass frequency
	12:28pm Third World Man: mine goes down from about 4k to 200hz
	12:29pm Michael Shelley: For me - as little headphone time as possible is the key - I had it real bad, and not its gone almost totally away
	12:30pm Third World Man: headphones...how about IEMs Michael?
	12:32pm Sid: Michael - yes, verrry loud LP playing through headphones probably degraded my hearing over time as a youth. I don't use headphones much these days.
	12:34pm Third World Man: I run my headphones through Isotope Ozone and cut the loud guitar frequencies ...Pete Townsend said headphones caused his tinnitus.
	12:35pm Michael Shelley: assume youve seen this michaelshelley.net...
	12:35pm Ross T.: Well we know Dylan liked the Byrds a lot.
	12:35pm Frank In Queens: Loving this cover/rip-off set.
	12:35pm jûjû killah: Dylan said his fave version of 'baby blue' was the elevators.
	12:36pm Hughie Considine: He was also partial to the Manfred Mann covers.
	12:37pm Sid: I have seen "Oh No Tinnitus!" Earplugs at the ready at concerts are a must these days.
	12:39pm Third World Man: That hits close to home, it was the worst when i first noticed it, then I learned to live with it. But still when it gets bad, usally after some stressful event, the cardio definitely shifts the pitch way down to something pleasant. I will be wearing plugs when I see the stones this fall.
	12:40pm Third World Man: too many grateful dead shows in my late teens and 20s.
	12:41pm Sid: Wear a hard hat when you see stones fall! :)
	12:42pm Third World Man: LOL. I have never seen them so better now than when they die.
	12:42pm Third World Man: Seen Macca a bunch of times.
	12:51pm clarke: fun stuff, here, SON!!! piece out. peeples!!
	12:52pm clarke: anyone ever get the feeling they've been......
	12:53pm CarB: You love The Muffs
	12:54pm clarke: who DOESN'T???????
	12:54pm Third World Man: Get the Knack was an almost perfect album.
	12:54pm listener 126464: one of The Coolies songs for song of summer. Thanks Michael. Get the Knack is on my desert isle list
	12:55pm Third World Man: I remember WSHE playing almost every tune on that album.
	12:55pm Sid: Got Get The Knack for $4.96 at Korvettes in Westchester.
	12:56pm Ross T.: WSHE in South Fla!
	12:56pm Third World Man: Davie Florida!
	12:56pm clarke: ....CHEATED?!?!?
	12:56pm Third World Man: I hung out at WSHE after school
	12:57pm Sid: "Safe, Sane and Single!" Yes, indeed!
	12:57pm Sid: Sum Ting Wong!
	12:58pm Ross T.: Yep -- there was a great soul/funk/R&B station just below too -- early mid 70s. Miss great radio -- WFMU notwithstanding!
	12:58pm Third World Man: 102.7 was the soul station. WSHE was 103.5
	12:59pm Ross T.: WCKO maybe?
	12:59pm Ross T.: Great era
	12:59pm Third World Man: WLVE 93.9 Love 94 Zeta 4 94.9
	12:59pm clarke: cheated.
	12:59pm Third World Man: Y100 is still 100.7

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Redd Kross	There's No One Like You
Del Shannon	My Love Has Gone "My Love Has Gone" by "Del Shannon"
Country Cutups, The	Chug-A-Lug "Chug-A-Lug" by "Country Cutups, The"
Jackie Hairston	Monkey On My Back
Billy Taylor	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
Lemonheads, The	Being Around "Being Around" by "Lemonheads, The"
Brinsley Schwarz	(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
Flatt & Scruggs	Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Dean and Jean	Thread Your Needle "Thread Your Needle" by "Dean and Jean"
Rubinoos, The	Honey From The Honeycombs
Nancy Sinatra	The Last of the Secret Agents
Bill Carlisle	Monkey Business "Monkey Business" by "Bill Carlisle"
Joe Tex	Build Your Love (On A Solid Foundation)
Ernest Ranglin	Everybody's Talking
Explorers Club, The	The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
P.F. Sloan	The Sins of A Family "The Sins of A Family" by "P.F. Sloan"
Jerry Reed	High Time "High Time" by "Jerry Reed"
Clarence "Frogman" Henry	The Glory Of Love
Cars, The	Bye Bye Love "Bye Bye Love" by "Cars, The"
Cars, The	Let's Go "Let's Go" by "Cars, The"
Liverpool Five, The	If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Kenny Vaughan	Hot Like That "Hot Like That" by "Kenny Vaughan"
Chris Scruggs	Window "Window" by "Chris Scruggs"
Standells, The	Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White
Hank Thompson	Total Stranger "Total Stranger" by "Hank Thompson"
Z.Z. Hill	Where She Att "Where She Att" by "Z.Z. Hill"
Above, The	You Make It Real "You Make It Real" by "Above, The"
Ventures, The	A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
Billy Garner	Brand New Girl "Brand New Girl" by "Billy Garner"
Greg Townson	Girl From The North Country
Joe South	These Are Not My People
Oscar Aleman	Swinging On A Star "Swinging On A Star" by "Oscar Aleman"
Juan Wauters	Sanity Or Not "Sanity Or Not" by "Juan Wauters"
Yolks, The	Don't Cry Anymore "Don't Cry Anymore" by "Yolks, The"
New Piccadillys, The	I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys
Like, The	In The End "In The End" by "Like, The"
Coolies, The	Yeah I Don't Know "Yeah I Don't Know" by "Coolies, The"
Knack, The	That's What The Little Girls Do
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five	Safe, Sane and Single
News	Flight 214 "Flight 214" by "News"
CKLW	Jackpot w/ Patches the dog "Jackpot w/ Patches the dog" by "CKLW"
Wax Museum	Barker "Barker" by "Wax Museum"
Carvel	New Wave "New Wave" by "Carvel"
Little Brother	With Rocks & Fists

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Listener comments!
	11:02am Baby: BABy!!
	11:07am Frank In Queens: Greetings from the road!
	11:08am Geoffrey in Ottawa: I'm having a breakfast beer right now. Cheers!
	11:10am Bootsie: Cool version of this!
	11:15am clarke: BABY!!!!!
	11:15am northguineahills: It'd been about 20 years since I heard this Lemonheads....
	11:16am clarke: where ya't, frank???
	11:17am Jimmy Wipper: Well, it IS the International Day of Peace!
	11:18am Hughie Considine: "Being Around" contains one of rock's rare snot lyrics, right up there with "Aqualung" and that song on Forever Changes. I have a list somewhere.
	11:19am clarke: possible Today's Topic: what was your single of the summer?
	11:20am Roberto: Hughie, don't forget The Flaming Lips' "She Don't Use Jelly."
	11:20am Michael Shelley: BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!
	11:21am clarke: for me this would be a close tie between Layin' Pipe by The Fleshtones and GBV - Heavy Like The World
	11:22am clarke: and Boys! Boys! Boys! coming in a close 2nd!!
	11:24am Hughie Considine: Good one, @Roberto! One more: “I boogied on my finger and I wiped it on the wall…”
	11:26am lepson jooves: and of course the Weird Al song "Gotta Boogie"....
	11:28am Roberto: Oh durn, I didn't know Honey had passed last year. Rock In Peace.
	11:29am LB: That Rubinoos tune is pretty awesome
	11:29am Hughie Considine: Ha. It would be weird if Weird Al didn't have a song about snot.
	11:30am clarke: i have not seen the ken burns thang - but, although he usually does a FAB job, it is probably better for people who don't know much about the subject.
	11:31am clarke: AND un-earthing killer footage is burns' forte, as well
	11:32am clarke: older than bowie!!
	11:33am Hughie Considine: I'm excited for his next project: Ken Burns "Klezmer"
	11:34am Roberto: A Burns documentary? Excellent.
	11:34am clarke: hughie - single of the summah???
	11:35am Hughie Considine: @Roberto, I am joshing~
	11:36am Hughie Considine: @Clarke, I guess some people find his work reductive.
	11:38am Roberto: As am I, Hugheleh. I'm imagining C. Montgomery Burns's reaction to hearing that there's a Burns documentary.
	11:47am Hughie Considine: Only my mama calls me Hugheleh -- bless you, @Roberto! But seriously, Ken Burns has done a documentary on so many big topics, maybe he needs to narrow his scope a little: e.g., Ken Burns "New Wave of British Heavy Metal"
	11:48am clarke: anyone get this Lee Hazlewood collection that just came out?? i assume it is The Shit??
	11:48am Sid: Liking covers; depends on whether you heard the cover tune before the original (Beatles version of 'Twist & Shout' comes to mind. Love The Isleys, but heard the Fabs first).
	11:49am Michael Shelley: was just checking it out in the record library before the show - weird/good
	11:49am clarke: i don't know sid - i would like to think i have objectivity to figure out what kicks arse more.
	11:51am clarke: for moi - there are only RARE cases (VERY few!) when the cover is better than the original
	11:51am Third World Man: AAC Stream is struggling here in FLA
	11:52am Third World Man: won't work in the pop up had to use the direct stream URL
	11:53am clarke: the beatles version of Twist & Shout is a dead tie for me
	11:54am Sid: The version of a song I hear first is, for me, the original. Not always my favorite, but often, just by virtue of incumbency in my ears. If Pat Boone put out a song before an R&B artist, would it be the definitive version?
	11:54am clarke: pat boone never wrote a song in his life
	11:56am clarke: as a friend of mine once said: The Cars are just about perfect!!
	11:56am Dean: Which is the original of "Wild Horses"? The Burritos' or the Stones'? B came first, but...
	11:57am Third World Man: The Sunday's version of Wild Horses is the definitive for me.
	11:57am Sid: Used to listen to full Cars albums - worth turning the LP over. Revisited them this past week. First 2 + Shake It Up just as good as they were when they came out for me.
	11:58am Mikey: Bye bye love. A perfect song
	11:58am common: Ben orr
	11:58am longish: More platter, less chatter.
	11:59am clarke: i am "Door To Door" with the cars oevre! even solo works, New Cars, etc.
	11:59am Third World Man: I always had a hard time distinguishing Orr from Ric
	12:00pm Michael Shelley: longish: no
	12:00pm clarke: this is probably because orr was singing ric's songs!
	12:00pm Third World Man: I think orr sang in a slightly higher register.
	12:00pm Hughie Considine: Ben voice was a leading man -- Ric's was a character actor.
	12:01pm Sid: Even the 2011 Cars release was worthy (Move Like This).
	12:01pm Mary Gidge: I just told my husband I’ve had Bye Bye Love in my head for days. And here is is. The break is so pretty. (He asked, by the way, everly brothers?). Thanks you michael (I cant get family on board for whitewashed Ken Burns doc either)
	12:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Was reading up on The Cars this week. They joked that their first album should've been called a Greatest Hits album.
	12:02pm common: Agreed hughie
	12:02pm Hughie Considine: Elliott Easton's leads were just so damn tasty.
	12:02pm vertual: I'm about the same age, Michael. I always remember the cars on at the skating rinks and in any given Camaro.
	12:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Same : m.facebook.com...
	12:02pm clarke: a lot of bands could make that joke
	12:02pm Third World Man: Yep Ken, every song on that album received heavy radio play
	12:02pm Sid: Like The Ramones, hard to play just one.
	12:03pm common: This one!
	12:03pm ChrisB.: "I'd like a night light , baby!"
	12:03pm Third World Man: I love the way the drums are miked on this one. Left to right.
	12:04pm jmd: Don’t Cha Stop.
	12:04pm Midtown Man: Saturday at the office...can't stop pen drumming to these two gems by The Cars
	12:05pm Sid: When Candy-O came out, you realized they weren't just a one-album fluke. Some reviewers quipped that they had guts to not just quit after the first one.
	12:05pm Hughie Considine: Apparently the band soured quickly on the LP cover for the debut, even though it seemed to define them so well. It was all done pretty much without their input so they never felt it spoke for them.
	12:05pm Joe R.: @Ken - just saw that quote myself. That first record is so loaded, at least 6 out of those 9 songs got a lot of radio play back then.
	12:05pm Ross T.: Those first hits put the Cars right up there with say Paul Revere and the Raiders which to me is saying a hell of a lot. And I understand their influence goes way beyond that.
	12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Vargas redhead on Candy-O & Panama Red cannabis shall forever be one for me...
	12:06pm Third World Man: I hear Roxy Music in the Cars.
	12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Think so TWM !
	12:07pm Frank In Queens: What kind of donut?! You can’t nit tell us!
	12:08pm Third World Man: If you listen to early Queen, you can hear what RTB brought to queen in the vocal production dept.
	12:09pm Third World Man: When I was a kid I thought this song was the Stones
	12:09pm Hughie Considine: I had a Spanish teacher in high school who was way into his Mobile Fidelity Lab reissue of The Cars and had all of us listen to a particular cymbal hit on "I'm in Touch with Your World." The Cars rewarded that type of listener.
	12:11pm Frank In Queens: Thank you. I’m not at all surprised by your selection.
	12:12pm battleaxe: Kenny Vaughn looks at times like Ric Ocasek to me!
	12:13pm Third World Man: 48 yrs old here and I can just barely hear a 15k tone. onlinetonegenerator.com...
	12:14pm Ross T.: And linked to the Modern Lovers by their drummer the Cars were.
	12:14pm Third World Man: I can sense it more than I can hear it. damn
	12:15pm Sid: Well the hot guitar licks in the Vaughan tune make up for the Kardashian mention!
	12:16pm Jimmy Wipper: Uzzle speaks the truth! Run, don’t walk to see Marty Stuart!
	12:18pm Sid: Interesting generator site 3WM. Gonna have to find out how bad the tinnitus is limiting my frequency response.
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: Well the hot guitar licks in the Vaughan tune make up for the Kardashian mention! = YES
	12:20pm Third World Man: Sid I have slight tinnitus, and with that site you can find the perfect masking frequency for the tinnitus.
	12:20pm Third World Man: do you hear it all the time?
	12:22pm Sid: 3WM, the tinnitus is always in the background, but my brain can tune it out 99% of the time fortunately.
	12:24pm Third World Man: Try working out. Mine disappears completely with 30 minutes of cardio. The pitch becomes a deep hum. That is if it isn't true inner ear damage.
	12:24pm Sid: My nephew seems to have a more persistent tinnitus issue, so I'll forward the generator site URL to him too.
	12:25pm Third World Man: I think my tinnitus is stress related.
	12:25pm Hoboken Jack: Hello HP Ken! Michael, thank you for the pleasing tunes this midday.
	12:26pm Sid: Cardio as a tinnitus reduction agent - interesting; have to try that. Off to the treadmill after the show. I've had some level of tinnitus since I was born, probably genetic.
	12:27pm clarke: keepin' it REAL on the bass, mon!!
	12:28pm Third World Man: If it works the pitch will go down to a bass frequency
	12:28pm Third World Man: mine goes down from about 4k to 200hz
	12:29pm Michael Shelley: For me - as little headphone time as possible is the key - I had it real bad, and not its gone almost totally away
	12:30pm Third World Man: headphones...how about IEMs Michael?
	12:32pm Sid: Michael - yes, verrry loud LP playing through headphones probably degraded my hearing over time as a youth. I don't use headphones much these days.
	12:34pm Third World Man: I run my headphones through Isotope Ozone and cut the loud guitar frequencies ...Pete Townsend said headphones caused his tinnitus.
	12:35pm Michael Shelley: assume youve seen this michaelshelley.net...
	12:35pm Ross T.: Well we know Dylan liked the Byrds a lot.
	12:35pm Frank In Queens: Loving this cover/rip-off set.
	12:35pm jûjû killah: Dylan said his fave version of 'baby blue' was the elevators.
	12:36pm Hughie Considine: He was also partial to the Manfred Mann covers.
	12:37pm Sid: I have seen "Oh No Tinnitus!" Earplugs at the ready at concerts are a must these days.
	12:39pm Third World Man: That hits close to home, it was the worst when i first noticed it, then I learned to live with it. But still when it gets bad, usally after some stressful event, the cardio definitely shifts the pitch way down to something pleasant. I will be wearing plugs when I see the stones this fall.
	12:40pm Third World Man: too many grateful dead shows in my late teens and 20s.
	12:41pm Sid: Wear a hard hat when you see stones fall! :)
	12:42pm Third World Man: LOL. I have never seen them so better now than when they die.
	12:42pm Third World Man: Seen Macca a bunch of times.
	12:51pm clarke: fun stuff, here, SON!!! piece out. peeples!!
	12:52pm clarke: anyone ever get the feeling they've been......
	12:53pm CarB: You love The Muffs
	12:54pm clarke: who DOESN'T???????
	12:54pm Third World Man: Get the Knack was an almost perfect album.
	12:54pm listener 126464: one of The Coolies songs for song of summer. Thanks Michael. Get the Knack is on my desert isle list
	12:55pm Third World Man: I remember WSHE playing almost every tune on that album.
	12:55pm Sid: Got Get The Knack for $4.96 at Korvettes in Westchester.
	12:56pm Ross T.: WSHE in South Fla!
	12:56pm Third World Man: Davie Florida!
	12:56pm clarke: ....CHEATED?!?!?
	12:56pm Third World Man: I hung out at WSHE after school
	12:57pm Sid: "Safe, Sane and Single!" Yes, indeed!
	12:57pm Sid: Sum Ting Wong!
	12:58pm Ross T.: Yep -- there was a great soul/funk/R&B station just below too -- early mid 70s. Miss great radio -- WFMU notwithstanding!
	12:58pm Third World Man: 102.7 was the soul station. WSHE was 103.5
	12:59pm Ross T.: WCKO maybe?
	12:59pm Ross T.: Great era
	12:59pm Third World Man: WLVE 93.9 Love 94 Zeta 4 94.9
	12:59pm clarke: cheated.
	12:59pm Third World Man: Y100 is still 100.7

Michael Shelley: Playlist from September 21, 2019

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