WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from May 24, 2021

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00am 12539: Boingggggg!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00am Handy Haversack: Morning Joe and Surface Tensions. Setting phasers on Yip.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG, Handy and friends!
	♥ 9:01am Baja Joe: Morning Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01am Threemoons: Morning Joe McG, fellow YipYips......
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Handy Haversack: Hey, Marley! Baja Joe, I thought we were going to get to meet last week at the station! Scott had forgotten you'd canceled because of your anniversary -- certainly a valid reason! See you next time!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Brian in UK: Hey Joe & early risers. Still raining over here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Hey all, did somebody mention the new summer schedule over the weekend or did I hallucinate after too much coffee?
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Ra-di-o! Did anyone catch the catchy Yip Yip remix that kicked off Billy Jam's show last Friday? www.wfmu.org... It was incredible!
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am Brian in UK: Joe, this is perfect soundtrack for watching the Giro d'Italia cycling race.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06am Krys O.: Greetings!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06am D Rok (in brooklyn): YES! Attacca Quartet! I'm friends with their Cellist, and am so excited to hear them on your show this morning. What a great start.
	♥ 9:07am TDK60: Good morning disc jockey Joe.
	♥ 9:07am northguineahills: Jim Pepper!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08am Krys O.: Hey, northguineahills! How are ya?
	9:08am Zetti: :)
	9:09am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from pow-wowed Tannersville!! happy monday Mr. JMcG and all.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09am Handy Haversack: Yes, Ken! That was so great! Heartfelt tribute to the great Joe McGasko!
	♥ 9:09am xindeed: Wow. This is amazing
	♥ 9:09am Joe McG: Welcome to the show, everyone. Hope you feel that spirit feel around your head that makes you glad you're not dead.
	9:09am bill: withitai
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am Hughie Considine: That's what I come here for, @Joe!
	9:10am MFlynn: Good morning Joe and everyone!
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: @Hughie: You're right, FMU is good for making you feel less dead.
	♥ 9:13am HyperDose: What a vibey first set. Peaks and valleys!
	♥ 9:13am joe mulligan: @Brian what stage are they at in the Giro? have they hit the dolomites yet?
	♥ 9:13am WaffleMix: This song dies make me feel less dead
	♥ 9:13am Yes: thank you for witchitai to. good morning all!
	♥ 9:13am WaffleMix: *does - some sort of Freudian slip?
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am Hughie Considine: I noticed that @Waffle :)
	9:14am Listener Bop Monroe: forgot what a great spaced out kitchen-sink jam that had!! thnx again 4 that!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am Brian in UK: joe mulligan. Stage 17 finishes in Cortina. Some 14% climbs and pouring rain.
	♥ 9:14am joe mulligan: @Handy are you stuffing swag this week? I might if theres still a slot this week. otherwise will set a day next week
	♥ 9:15am joe mulligan: @Brian that is pretty rugged! better have the right tires and pressure
	🎸 ♥ 9:15am Brian in UK: ....and legs!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16am Brian in UK: They are quite nuts is a strangely beautiful way.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18am Handy Haversack: joe mulligan: maybe? This week's a little complex for me. I had told Scott I could maybe come in this afternoon/evening, but I only let him know yesterday, so I'm not sure that's going to work. Otherwise ... maybe I could do Thursday early shift? Not sure what SW's sched. is, though.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am YETI BOB: Yeti Season? No, Duck Season!
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): It's fiddler crab season.
	9:21am Listener Bop Monroe: Elmer season!
	♥ 9:21am joe mulligan: @Handy yeah I reached out to Scott late last week and he said he had to wait for Michele to come back from vaca cause she had some people
	9:23am dano59: I feel trippy and somewhat less dead with this set, Joe. Was telling a DJ here in a bull session about the local radio wasteland that FMU has been a lifeline/resource these many months. Grazie.
	♥ 9:24am Joe McG: @dano59: So nice to hear! Folks have been really great over this past year.
	♥ 9:24am northguineahills: When I was in cub scout camp, one of my favorite pastimes was to fill a bucket w/ fiddler crabs, and then dump them back the lake shore
	9:24am dano59: @Handy are you allowed to share info on Kate's band re the custom 45s/preorder dealio?
	♥ 9:28am Hubig Pie: Yeti season is May to late June, when the monsoon crosses the Himalayas
	🎸 ♥ 9:30am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Damn, Tom Jones still sounds good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:30am Handy Haversack: Hey, dano59! That's really nice of you to ask! The final details and timing aren't totally set yet. I will happily share what I can when I learn it. Or follow them on Bandcamp and you'll definitely get an announcement. Link in my profile.
	9:31am Listener Bop Monroe: ...so Tom J gets the Johnny Cash treatment now... still has the pipes to carry the gravitas a-ok.
	♥ 9:31am Hubig Pie: I'm gaining wisdom while I'm putting on weight
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Brian in UK: This Tom Jones interview is worth a listen from last month. www.bbc.co.uk...
	9:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A good Nina Xs Roerta sort of Moanin' to you.
	♥ 9:35am Joe McG: @Brian: Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 9:35am Threemoons: Back after my team "touch base" call. Tunes on, fingers on keyboard, commence earning da dough.....
	♥ 9:36am Trouble: good morning joe! sounding fantastic today! No class for me, so i get to listen, yippee.
	♥ 9:37am Joe McG: Hi, Trouble! Congrats on your day off!
	♥ 9:37am Rev. Turnip Druid: wash that "base" thoroughly.
	9:37am Hells Kitch: This set is helping me ease into Monday and the workload....thanks Joe
	9:38am DJ Guin: morning Mister McGasko and Company.
	9:39am TerrDE: Brian Ferry should cover this
	9:39am DJ Guin: just checked the Obits - I am safe for another day.
	♥ 9:40am David (in London): Aha, afternoon Joe and all groovers here assembled. Arrived straight into Terry Callier, nice.
	♥ 9:43am Phillippe: Good morning (afternoon to you, DiL)
	♥ 9:44am David (in London): And in answer to Terry's question, the Icicle Works told us that Love is a Wonderful Colour. Hey Phillippe. How are you good sir?
	♥ 9:45am Phillippe: all good, David. You?
	🎸 ♥ 9:46am Handy Haversack: David, Phillippe, DJG, all: good Tuesdays for everyone!
	♥ 9:47am Phillippe: Well hey there Handy! How are things in Handyland?
	♥ 9:47am David (in London): Phillippe - I actually spent the weekend going out and having a social life! I'm still recovering from the shock. Hey Handy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:50am TonyR: Late for class again. Damnit!
	♥ 9:50am Mark Hurst: 'morning, Joe! And hi everyone
	🎸 ♥ 9:50am TonyR: At least I haven't arrived naked.
	♥ 9:51am Joe McG: @TonyR: Ha ha. If you had, I wouldn't have noticed! Hey Mark!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am Handy Haversack: Flowers blooming, white wind blowing, dog napping, Phillippe. All seems within tolerances! Hey, Mark Hurst!
	9:51am DJ Guin: I visited Raspberry Park yesterday...hot weather and bikinis..woo hoo.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am The Oscar: Mornin'! I'm not sure I've ever heard a bad version of "Taboo," but MAN what a good version of "Taboo."
	9:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Astrud Gilberto quietly toed over to David Lynch sitting in his Tiki Niche. ... 'Is today that day?' - she ventured. ...'I don't know as much as people think I know' - he said ...'I just pay better attention.'...
	♥ 9:52am Yes: :) this cover
	9:53am DJ Guin: @TonyR -- just ask Handy for his notes like the rest of us do
	♥ 9:53am Joe McG: Sorry about the clicks on this BRAND-NEW record that DJs have managed to destroy already.
	♥ 9:53am StringOFperils: Good morning! I was actually charmed by the 'virgin' scratch.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am TonyR: Great typo, @WaffleMix.
	♥ 9:54am David (in London): All that scratching is making me itch.
	♥ 9:54am TDK60: Ha! Joe, the Archives might tell us who needs a remedial DJ intro course. Hee.
	♥ 9:55am StringOFperils: Replacement records are part of the money-go-round too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am 12539: Waitaminute - did Joe just apologize for surface noise?!
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am Brian in UK: David, Bernal has sealed it today.
	9:55am Brendan: Good morning Joe and all. Nice set. I don’t drink coffee much, but if this were a cup, you made it just right.
	♥ 9:55am Joe McG: @12539: Ha ha, you caught me.
	♥ 9:55am Tank Top: That Kinks cover sounded great striped down to acoustic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56am Handy Haversack: It's a small list of suspects. And one of them is a notorious bad boy.
	♥ 9:56am Roberto: I wouldn't consider it an apology seeing as he blamed other DJs for it.
	♥ 9:57am Phillippe: @David social life??? (wide-eyed emoji)
	♥ 9:58am David (in London): I've got the world's dullest HR meeting now. But I'm going to be on mute, so I'm keeping listening to this and just going to nod periodically on screen. Back soon.
	9:58am TerrDE: Handy, wasn't Bruce fetching the records last show ?
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am Brian in UK: One of A girl called Eddy's earlier albums had a cover that looked like an old worn album sleeve. Perhaps Kass Richard's was deliberately crackly.
	♥ 9:59am Baja Joe: Here comes the sun!
	🎸 ♥ 10:00am TonyR: Huge U.S. Girls fan. Only know Meg by name, Thanks for pointing out who Kass is.
	♥ 10:00am Roberto: When and why did people start saying "good on ___" instead of "good for ___?" No me gusta, señor.
	♥ 10:01am Stanley: David - careful with them buttons.
	10:01am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I am under an arch with some chives listening to The Archies in the Archives.
	10:03am TheLonelyFlamingo: The opening set was beautiful
	♥ 10:03am TDK60: Roberto: Prepositional impropriety is on the rise. My advice? Give up now. Just go on the flow.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Webhamster Henry: Hi Surface Noise lovers! I'm glad we got to hear a little end groove crackle in this set.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Krys O.: @Roberto: I think Good on ya an Australian phrase.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Hughie Considine: @Roberto, I think this happened at around the same time that people started referring to the wearing of a particular item of clothing as "rocking" it.
	♥ 10:04am Roberto: TDK, I don't think I'll ever be able to go under the flow.
	10:04am Brendan: Thom is probably getting 80-year-old underwear thrown at him now
	♥ 10:05am TDK60: I'm just kiddin' Roberto. Actually, it ires me greatly. I pace the floor.
	🎸 ♥ 10:05am Krys O.: "Good on ya, mate!" www.grammarphobia.com...
	♥ 10:06am Roberto: "On accident" too. It twigger me.
	10:06am Rachel Bo Bachel: Omg I missed Witchi tai to??!!
	♥ 10:07am Roberto: I'll accept "good on ya" as long as it's uttered in a horrible fake Aussie accent.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Handy Haversack: Hey, Rachel!
	♥ 10:08am StringOFperils: @Roberto > Or "that looks good on ya", when admiring one's bad self in the mirror, wearing that new WFMU T-shirt.
	10:09am DJ Guin: On a Very Special Joe McGasko -- we learn the true meaning of Aldersgate Day.... Stay tuned
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): As opposed to Ducks Deluxe.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am BillyLundun: Is Ducks Unlimited operated in the USA?
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Hughie Considine: Ducks LLC is the American arm.
	10:10am davefromtoronto: not to be confused with "Ducks Unlimited" the conservation/hunting group? hi joe btw!
	♥ 10:11am Schmuck Owens: I hope the story corner includes the song stylings of andy breckman
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am BillyLundun: aha I always assumed it was Canadian
	10:11am Rick A: Yay, another story corner to come!
	10:11am davefromtoronto: it's american. i used to donate paintings for their fundraisers.
	♥ 10:11am Roberto: I suppose language is more subject to mutation than ever these days due to the constant communication between people all around the world via the WWW, text messaging, and so on.
	10:11am alan the painter: thank you thank you
	🎸 ♥ 10:12am D Rok (in brooklyn): Halluci Nation is a fairly recent name change. They used to go by A Tribe Called Red. I saw them play with Coco Rosie years ago at Webster Hall.
	10:12am Miss G: What a cute pop song to turn on the radio to!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12am TonyR: @Roberto: Me too! LOL!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12am BillyLundun: OH I missed Jim Pepper!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13am TonyR: If this wasn't in the "Sixteen Candles" film, it darn well should have been.
	10:14am Reno D: Hey Joe, to acknowledge to their ambush 87 years ago yesterday, you might wanna play The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde as a narrative selection. Merle Haggard, covered by Tammy Wynette and others.
	♥ 10:16am Joe McG: @Reno D: Geez, Reno, on top of it. Don't predict all of my other selections!
	🎸 ♥ 10:16am TonyR: Read too fast: "18 DC Bands Improve the Cure"
	🎸 ♥ 10:16am Threemoons: Loving this CURE cover.
	♥ 10:16am northguineahills: Haven't heard this Tuscadero
	10:16am Glistener MW: Tuscadero!! <3 and I never knew they did a cover of this!
	10:16am Rachel Bo Bachel: Hey Handu! Hey Reno D.! Joe we just tuned in but we are LOVIN’ everything so far <3
	10:16am Troymo: This Cure cover is nice way to wake up.
	10:17am MKUltra: this song has been covered into oblivion...
	10:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hm. Cure as Rawk. Good on ya.
	10:17am Rick A: I saw Tuscadero open up for Chapel Hill band Archers of Loaf right before Thanksgiving of 1996. They had a lot of energy live and were better than Archers that night, anyway.
	10:19am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy oops sorry for calling you “Handu” lol. Got three kids in here; a little distracted here!
	10:20am Rick A: Yay, the Wedding Present, another great live band! I saw them many times. They were my best friend's at the time favorite band.
	10:20am Miss G: On my 40th birthday a friend gave me every Wedding Present vinyl release, including rare 45s and 10 inches. But I reckon I don't have this!
	♥ 10:21am Joe McG: @Miss G: Jesus God, am I jealous!
	10:21am MKUltra: some serious Buzzcocks channeling going on there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21am Handy Haversack: Ha, no worries, Rachel! Digging the covers, Joe. Though they will spur a Cure dive at some point soon! Hi, Miss G! Your letter is the one that convinced the tax man, I bet!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am Joshie in Fleetwood Pennsylvania: Whoa. On my 40th, I just had some Senape's Pitza and some Guer's iced tea.
	♥ 10:23am joseloalter: I’m loving this show. Making everything that much better. Thank you!
	♥ 10:23am Joe McG: @Joshie: Wow, you're clearly one of my people. Although I was a Longo's partisan.
	10:23am Miss G: Joe McG, but see, you played what I don't have! I'll have to pull some of the 45s out later. The 10"s got destroyed in a flood. :-( HH, you were so great to help me edit, I would have procrastinated without you. I imagine it was the HUNDREDS of emails figure that scared the tax people!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24am McGroovey: Gosh. Ducks Ltd has a Tom McGreevy in the band. It sounds like it.
	♥ 10:26am Joe McG: Glad you're enjoying, joseloalter!
	10:27am andy the painter: mmmmm....driving, churning anthemic guitar instrumental.
	♥ 10:27am Blues Mandinga: Ea!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am TonyR: Wedding Pressent track is on a 2011 tribute CD. THose things don't usually enjoy a vinyl release, unless Wedding Pressent rolls that way.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31am TonyR: What's a good collective noun for '90s-issued tribute CDs? A BMG of tribute CDs?
	10:31am P-90: Killer set, Joe McG!
	10:31am Miss G: TonyR, ah yes I see the release date now. In 2011 I hit a different cough milestone so it was later than "the birthday present(s.)"
	🎸 ♥ 10:33am TonyR: Several 'Js have mentioned this passing. Few have dug up 45s.
	♥ 10:33am northguineahills: all genres, all geographies, all ethnicities, and all temporal periods....
	♥ 10:34am northguineahills: I didn't even know the Wedding Present was still together in 2011.
	♥ 10:34am Joe McG: @ngh: They're still together now and soundin' good!
	♥ 10:34am Stanley: The Staple Snigers! (sniggers)
	♥ 10:34am Roberto: Oh my. You might want to correct that typo ASAP, Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am Brian in UK: Who knew white boys could be so soulful.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am Jason from Houston: ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
	🎸 ♥ 10:35am TonyR: Yeah, the drumming really stars in this song.
	♥ 10:35am Roberto: That's better.
	10:36am Miss G: "I'm more a Stax girl myself” says Eve in "The Only Lovers Left Alive."
	🎸 ♥ 10:36am Brian in UK: Let him that is without typo cast the first vowel.
	10:36am MKUltra: I particularly like the snigging on this one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am Hughie Considine: After hearing Dennis Diken talk about Roger Hawkins with Michael Shelley, I'm still struck by how hard it is to put into words what makes a great drummer great beyond words like "groove," "feel," and such.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am Handy Haversack: It's Muphry's Law, Brian.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am TonyR: "I'd like to solve the playlist puzzle."
	10:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Typos for Type A's.
	♥ 10:37am Joe McG: It's too bad that Mavis calls out Barry but not Roger! @Hughie: Sorry I missed that conversation.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38am Handy Haversack: Specials!
	10:38am Reno D: @Joe, Hah! Sorry! Ooh, now my crystal ball is predicting songs from Jonathan Something. Stephen Sondheim. Zappa. Emmy Lou Harris. So many stories to be told!
	♥ 10:38am HyperDose: Pick it up! Pick it up! 👞🎶
	🎸 ♥ 10:39am Handy Haversack: Ahhhh, it had been TOO LONG since I heard this song! So great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39am TonyR: I hthink the kids these days like to say "bangin'", just not in reference to actual musicians.
	10:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hughie: A Drummer starts with Keeping Time - & then it's accents, playing with the time, expression... If Bass is taken for granted - it's nothing on Drums...
	10:40am P-90: “I’ll Take You There”: for decades, one of the two bass lines given young aspiring bass players by tutors to learn about “Funk.”
	🎸 ♥ 10:41am Matt Fiveash: the turntable gods robbed us of the best line in Nite Klub: "...and the beer tastes just like piss"!
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: @Matt: Sorry, Matt, wasn't sure I could leave that one in so I bleeped it!
	🎸 ♥ 10:42am TonyR: Can one express the excratory on radio?
	10:43am Listening Out There: Too much of radio is excratory. Present company excepted, of course....
	🎸 ♥ 10:43am Matt Fiveash: Joe- ah! thought it was just an inopportune skip. PS- That segment on Michael's show w/Dennis D talking about Roger Hawkins was really great, worth a trip to the archives...
	10:44am P-90: (*excretory).
	🎸 ♥ 10:44am Hughie Considine: @Revolution Rabbit, I recognize the complexity and artistry involved, I was talking about the ways we are able to express that in words beyond a basic few.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44am TonyR: Thanks, P-90. Can't blame the fingers for dum.
	♥ 10:44am Joe McG: @Matt: No, that was your overcautious selector. I will definitely go back to that archive.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46am Matt Fiveash: I'd guess that beer that tastes like piss is FCC-friendly, but maybe not actual piss. But better safe than sorry!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46am TonyR: I miss "Part 1/Part 2" singles.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Gobble gobble, Joe and folx!
	10:48am TerrDE: whats w the FCC fear ? Has FMU been targeted or something ?
	🎸 ♥ 10:48am Handy Haversack: "Piss Beer on the FCC" would be a good single for Single File. Someone record it!
	10:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hughie: Absolutely. But I chafe @ that somewhat. Can one describe how one rides a bike? Does anyone try much? Is there a reason to? &tc.
	10:49am DJ Guin: is a Zeppelin cover?
	♥ 10:50am Joe McG: @Guin: Jimmy Page on guitar.
	🎸 ♥ 10:50am Matt Fiveash: Hey Joe- if you get a chance while on-air, check yr email. If not, no biggie
	🎸 ♥ 10:50am TonyR: WFMU was once in a hot legal fight over parts of the FM band. They were (and remain) vulnerable to those with an interest in making trouble. DJs need to be clean teens.
	10:51am P-90: Gotta keep it “educational”
	♥ 10:51am chresti>Griffith Park: Hi Joe! Gathering! Listening...
	10:51am DJ Guin: @Joe McG -- any liner notes about Page's 14 yr old girlfriend on tambourine?
	♥ 10:51am Joe McG: @Matt: Oh, I wish I had the skill set for that, Matt, but I don't. Hope it's not bad news.
	10:52am Miss G: I can confirm in my hands that "Hot Dog" is not on Rhino's "The Best of The Ohio Express and other Bubblegum Smashes."
	🎸 ♥ 10:52am Handy Haversack: Well, to the extent I am capable of learning, I'm doing it! Hey, chresti!
	10:52am TerrDE: 14 ? She should have been w Donovan
	♥ 10:52am chresti>Griffith Park: Hi Handy!
	🎸 ♥ 10:53am Hughie Considine: @Rev, I see that. I write about music, about songs, and I've always found writing about a song's groove or beat a challenge because, yeah, often it just feels apt, or perfect, it just fits, and there's little else to say. But you want to say something incisive and the language eludes me.
	10:54am bo: bill nelson is super underrated! great track....
	🎸 ♥ 10:54am TonyR: Yes, never knew Nelson had a solo career.
	♥ 10:55am chresti>Griffith Park: I was 15 when I had my first guitar playing boyfriend.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55am Matt Fiveash: Joe McG No, not bad news! Or, well, maybe, depending how you feel about it: Doing a Bob Dylan 80th Bday special collab w/Honky Tonk Radio Girl this week but only just sent it to the upcoming events email, so sent to you directly in hopes that you'd be able to announce it. So I guess now I'm usurping your playlist to announce it here!
	10:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hughie: Zackly that. & can you 'teach' someone to ride a bike? Maybe by showing them...
	🎸 ♥ 10:56am Matt Fiveash: Here's the blurb: Bob Dylan's 80th Birthday Approximately Wednesday, May 26, 7 to 9 PM on Weekly World Blues and Honky Tonk Radio Girl Celebrating 80 years of America's Sweetheart, Matt Fiveash and Becky B team up for a 2-hour special examining what it was he done, through the lens of the blues and country music that he used as his raw materials. We'll hear blues & country artists covering Bob, blues & country songs that Bob covered, songs that Bob lifted from, and some choice cuts from Bobby Z himself, plus whatever else your opinionated hosts decide is appropriately Dylan-adjacent. Guaranteed 100% conventional-wisdom-free, sure to offend hardcore Dylan fans and too-cool-for-school detractors alike. Tune in, you will not die, it's not poison! WFMU is a tax deductible charity organization.
	♥ 10:56am Joe McG: Oh, that's great, Matt, I'll be sure to announce it. Thanks!
	10:56am Glistener MW: Always great to hear The Residents pop up on your show, Joe!
	10:56am JT: ooo, i missed the fire in cairo spelling lesson
	🎸 ♥ 10:56am The Oscar: Last I checked, one of our venues up here in Boston is set to reopen in August with a Residents show, which is a promising sign they're taking mask rules seriously.
	10:57am P-90: Now THAT’s “Destination Radio”
	🎸 ♥ 10:57am Matt Fiveash: Aw, thx Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57am Handy Haversack: Kick-ass, Matt!
	10:57am DJ Guin: Residents!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57am ChukAmok: Matt Fiveash comin' in hot with the PSA. Very clever, and informative!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58am TonyR: Nice idea for Dylan Trib this week. "Transpacific Sound Paradise" this past weekend was pretty mindblowing.
	10:58am rx scabin: One of my cats is loving the Residents.
	10:58am DJ Guin: i have imagined Dylan's genitals resemble that hangdog face of his...don't need to be proven wrong.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am TonyR: WHAT BBC America (on PBS) would do: "Here's old film of Bob Dylan. He's famous and now old."
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am tadpoles: Thanks for the Bill Nelson single Joe...not very often heard. Cheers.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am TonyR: What PBS would do: A super-expensive Martin Scorsese film.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am Handy Haversack: Gonna head out walking with the local hound. Thanks for the show, Joe! Great stuff, all up and down the set list. Later on, Yippers!
	11:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: they're sending e-mails to NewJersey the transmitter's breaking down anyone with any sense is an addict for the Sounds their fingers tying Comments to say Hello to Joe & they've all already read about Destination Radio...
	11:00am DJ Guin: Ken Burns: Bob Dylan - Freewheelin' and Immortal
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am TonyR: @DJ: I'm not yet sure you're telling a joke.
	11:01am DJ Guin: "Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man..can I suck your blood?"
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am TonyR: Voiceoers reading letters home from the Rolling Thunder tour.
	11:03am DJ Guin: Dylan could be a Highlander...killed George Harrison and Tom Petty, to date....
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am tadpoles: The surface noise has the beat! The Beat!
	11:03am DJ Guin: Prince never saw it coming
	11:04am paul: Maschito?
	11:04am Miss G: Oh no Joe McG "John Somebody" is my kryptonite!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am The Oscar: John Moschitta! A staple of my late '80s childhood.
	11:05am Glistener MW: “Typical Residents Style” would be a great name for a Residents album or compilation
	🎸 ♥ 11:05am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Be Bop Deluxe was the first real rock band I saw. Opened for Blue Oyster Cult.
	🎸 ♥ 11:06am Hughie Considine: Bill Nelson was the king of the flanger during his Be Bop Deluxe years. I don't think any player ever depended on it more than Nelson. He moved toward (un-flanged) synth sounds in the '80s over several solo LPs.
	11:07am Frank's Brain: Yay for Be Bop De Luxe!! Most underrated rock band - and guitarist - on the planet.
	🎸 ♥ 11:07am steveo: Alert the Spaz! photos.app.goo.gl...
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am steveo: Spazz*
	11:09am TerrDE: notice how the production on the 1950s single was so much better than now ? Engineers use equipment just because they can, not because it improves the music
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Matt Fiveash: Thanks Joe! Just like Tom Thumbs Up
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Jason from Houston: LOL
	11:12am DJ Guin: Songs about DiaperDon and Melania? Sweet.
	🎸 ♥ 11:12am TonyR: Tom Jones: born 7 June 1940
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am Hughie Considine: If there is no "Ballad of Michael J. Pollard," there should be.
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am The Oscar: I was sure you were going to go for Georgie Fame!
	11:13am P-90: Mel is cooler than Serge anyway
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am BillyLundun: Oh Mel
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Matt5 - great write up & even better idea. TerreDe: Wurd.
	11:14am DJ Guin: Pride of Passaic - Mr. Pollard was.
	♥ 11:14am Hopey Sockmonkey: Mel is cooler than anyone.
	♥ 11:14am Rich in Bristol: Key change!
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am BillyLundun: Oh man there are some choice rhymes on this Mel song
	11:15am Miss G: Oooh I love Mel Tormé so much. Maybe tonight I'll re-watch Jacques Tourneur's "The Fearmakers." He was so good in that.
	11:16am rx scabin: @WoodsOfNH I saw a show in that tour. The fans booed their first song heavily. B Nelson said "We will make you like us." First opener I saw to do an encore. Fabulous.
	♥ 11:16am sparkey: Remember that Clyde had been abused in prison and the crimespree was all about getting guns and money to attack that prison. Prisons destroy....
	♥ 11:17am Little Danny: Hi Joe, hi all!
	♥ 11:17am Barkevious Shabazz: Phenomenal Earle track.
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am TonyR: Hey HEY! No librul propaganda in the classroom, buddy! 'Murrica!
	11:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah love this album.
	11:19am Reno D: Nice, Joe. Very unexpected, Mel Torme. I’m sure Emma Parker and Cumie Barrow, the mothers Mel so thoughtfully acknowledged, would’ve been very touched.
	♥ 11:20am Doobois: Is "Biklly" a regional name?
	♥ 11:21am Joe McG: Boy oh boy, you guys are really picking on my typos today. I'll fix it.
	♥ 11:21am Doobois: Sorry, Joe. I'm just funnin'.
	11:23am Rachel Bo Bachel: Yayyy RT! Was thinking 1952 Vincent Black Lightning would sound so great in this set but not exactly about partners in crime. Unless you count complicity? Anyway yay!
	♥ 11:23am Joe McG: No problem, I'm certainly not my usual precise self today.
	♥ 11:23am David (in London): Back in the room. Man, that was one of the most tedious sessions of the year. Sheesh. When the HR consultant said "I would use the term...job", I had to stifle my desire to burst forth with a Beckettian belly-laugh of despair. Damn, I missed Bill Nelson and The Residents too.
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @rx scabin: I remember liking them but hey, I was like 15 and the whole experience was mind-blowing, including Blue Oyster Cult's insane laser show.
	11:24am Daybreak & the New Week Possibilities: Now I know why people were harassing you for the story set! This is so interesting and so much dark fun!
	♥ 11:25am Joe McG: Yeah, these couples are trouble. Real natural born killers! :)
	♥ 11:25am Asheville Jon: Joe, will you be playing Judas Priest "Breaking The Law"?
	🎸 ♥ 11:26am TonyR: "You could practically write a book about what happened to me, Mrs. Burnsides."
	♥ 11:26am Joe McG: @Ashville: Is it a story song? I admit I never listened to the verses very closely.
	♥ 11:27am Asheville Jon: hmm, not sure.....
	11:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...then he pulled out a 45 ...& then another ...& another...
	11:27am Miss G: DiL, last week Rob Brezsny quoted Beckett saying "dance first and think afterwards." So maybe Joe McG will give us something to dance to in this set. . .(although the ones you missed are perfect for that!)
	11:27am Dennis Diken: diggin’, Joe, thanks for the shoutout!
	♥ 11:28am Little Danny: Wow, this is gorgeous.
	🎸 ♥ 11:28am Beast of Boonton: A little ditty 'bout Jack & Diane
	♥ 11:29am David (in London): Miss G - Your sympathy helps salve the gaping HR wound. Thank you. I was just thinking about Jack & Diane, too.
	♥ 11:30am Joe McG: If Jack and Diane had stolen something or shot somebody, we'd have something there!
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gone : en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 11:30am TonyR: David -- are you now unemployed? :-/
	♥ 11:31am Asheville Jon: Me & My Uncle is a story song
	11:32am Reno D: Right you are, Sparkey.
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am TonyR: Overrated album, but "Nebraska" is one of Bruce's more successful actual artful STORIES.
	♥ 11:32am David (in London): TonyR - Gosh no, thankfully. Just the victim of the UK's 'Most Tedious Meeting 2021™'
	11:32am Rachel Bo Bachel: More yayyy!!! Do you like the version from “Live 1975-85” Joe? Beauuuutiful
	11:32am Rick A: On the tribute album to the album Nebraska, Chrissie Hynde and Adam Seymour do a great cover of this.
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am TonyR: @David: Great!
	11:33am Joe B: hey Joe! show sounding great!
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am TonyR: Chrissie Hynde (who I still adore) has a new Dylan covers album, and it's a little monotonous. TBF, though they're all individual plague-era recordings.
	11:34am DJ Guin: has Joe cued up "Ode to Billy Joel" or "The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald" yet??
	11:34am Blix: Steve Miller...Take the Money and Run! Billy Joe and Bobbi-Sue. I think they get away with it too, don't they?
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am tim from champaign (now washington): Hi Joe and everybody!
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am tim from champaign (now washington): @Joe - Jack and Diane stole our hearts in 1982. Does that count now?
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: <3 Les&Mary
	♥ 11:35am David (in London): Blix - Good shout there. I love that track. Hey Tim.
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am tim from champaign (now washington): Yo David!
	🎸 ♥ 11:36am TonyR: 40 years on, and "Jack and Diane" STILL has no story.
	11:36am DJ Guin: Where's Elvis Costello's "In the Ghetto"? Fits Joe's criteria.
	🎸 ♥ 11:37am Hughie Considine: I'm fond on "Josie" by Ed McCurdy from one of those Elektra Folk Samplers. Based on Frankie & Johnny."
	♥ 11:37am Joe McG: @tim: Ha! And our pocket money.
	11:39am DJ Guin: I am pretty certain "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" ends with some murderin' and thievin' of Don Drysdale
	♥ 11:40am David (in London): Ralph McTell did one called Bentley & Craig about the notorious 'Let Him Have It' case here in the 1950s. That might qualify. In the no-gun UK it still looms large in the folk memory.
	11:41am Miss G: I love this Carter Family song so much, thank you Joe McG!
	11:41am Lisboner Pascal (France): Hi Joe and listeners! Lovely to hear Carter Family, thanks for this. Café terraces open now in France, all are permanently occupied, life has exploded on the streets. Wassup DJ David!
	♥ 11:42am northguineahills: What Miss G said...
	♥ 11:42am Joe McG: @David: They were innocent, though, weren't they? Maybe I'm misremembering.
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: DJ Guin: ...we never did see a series conclusion did we...
	♥ 11:43am βrian: @Lisboner: Est-ce qu' on y fume ?
	11:44am Glorious Estephonic: Hi Joe and Everyone including Rachel Bo Bachel tuning in driving through North Carolina
	11:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: Lisboner Pascal: so good to hear! Thank you for that cheerful image!!! Be safe over there!
	11:44am DJ Guin: @RevRabbit63 -- Censors might have felt Granny's Possum Stew contained human flesh a bit too dark for the FCC
	♥ 11:44am David (in London): Joe, Craig was guilty, he murdered a bobby during a botched robbery. It was Bentley who was controversially convicted of 'joint enterprise', a conviction which was eventually quashed some years back. So, half and half really.
	11:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: ESTEPHONIC!!!!! I love youuuu! Happy trails!!!
	♥ 11:44am David (in London): Hey Pasc!
	🎸 ♥ 11:45am TonyR: "little girly holster"
	11:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: DJ Guin: Well I still haven't caught up with what they did to the Banana Splits...
	♥ 11:45am David (in London): Joe, hence the double entendre of 'Let him have it'. Did it mean 'Shoot him' or 'Let him have the gun'...
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am TonyR: "Let Him Have It": a heartbreaking movie.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am tim from champaign (now washington): This song is full of dirty deeds done dirt cheap!
	🎸 ♥ 11:48am tim from champaign (now washington): I was thinking I should revisit From The Inside. I think I'll consider this my revisit.
	♥ 11:48am David (in London): I do dirty deeds, but charge higher rates for a more premium service. Fully accredited, end of task reports etc.
	11:49am Lisboner Pascal (France): @βrian, yes you can, oh yes! Smoking is a national sport, second to making playfully cruel jokes to me about Brexit. When I went for my 2nd vaccine dose in Marseille, they refused to administer it until I agreed that France had the superior rugby team. And when asked 'Who is the greatest English football player?", I had to agree that it was, no, not Harry Kane or Alan Shearer... but Eric Cantona. Those familiar with '90s Manchester United will get this. He's a legend, quoting Shakespeare to us Brits. It's mental here in Arles, there are tonnes of tourists, but they're all French and polite and asking me where the cathedral is. It's hard to digest after the 'confinement' but it'll feel normal soon.
	11:49am DJ Guin: @RevRabbit - rumors involving the Splits were sold to Big Pharma to test thalidomide are abound
	11:49am Rick A: I looked up Marcy Levy and she co-wrote "Lay Down Sally" which is a staple of light rock radio. I don't think she gets credit when it's played.
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am TonyR: @DJ: They just couldn't write scripts where Granny described her secret ingredient ("Possum assholes").
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am Beast of Boonton: Alice sounds more like David Cassidy on this one
	♥ 11:50am northguineahills: Danks, Joe!
	♥ 11:50am βrian: @Lisboner: I would have asked, "What is rugby?"
	♥ 11:51am nathan: lol, i kinda like this Coop album. most of it sounds like Elton John
	♥ 11:51am Joe McG: @David: Ah! Next Story Corner for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am TonyR: Marianne Faithfull eventually got "Sister Morphine" money.
	♥ 11:51am Joe McG: @nathan: Bernie Taupin co-wrote the whole thing.
	11:51am Rick A: Ooh-Uh Cantona! Cantona was made somewhat famous to non-football fans by Ken Loach in "Looking for Eric".
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am tim from champaign (now washington): @David - Can you cut me a WFMU good buddy discount if I need your services?
	♥ 11:52am nathan: ...well damn, that all makes sense now
	♥ 11:52am βrian: Smoking is akin to plowing the field for corona virus.
	♥ 11:53am Joe McG: Well, hope you liked the stories today. Kinda gruesome ones! Thanks for listening and commenting, and I'll see you again on Memorial Day! Have a great week.
	♥ 11:53am David (in London): Pasc, just tell them that you think Jacques Brel is simply the best French singer ever... Then excuse yourself to buy un sandwich (a stab in the heart for the Académie Française).
	11:53am Lisboner Pascal (France): @βrian my English pride got in the way of your (wiser) answer -- we bloody invented the sport but as usual aren't so good at playing it
	♥ 11:54am David (in London): Tim, for you sir, of course. Mates' rates and extra discretion assured.
	11:54am Lisboner Pascal (France): @Rick is the Cantona film worth watching? It looked a bit dubious, also when Loach tries comedy I'm not sure... Waiting to be proved wrong
	11:55am TerrDE: Good Bye Joe, Hello Joe
	♥ 11:55am David (in London): (Oh ah) Cantona was superb as the French ambassador in Elizabeth.
	11:55am Lisboner Pascal (France): @David, red hot ideas! They're on the back-burner but I feel that could be arrestable. Like saying their coffee is deplorable. Which it is, but I wouldn't say it. Or their wine gives awful hangovers. I wouldn't say that either.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Handy Haversack: Nice to catch the end of "Romeo" on coming home! Thanks again, Joe.
	11:56am Rick A: I liked the Loach film. Unlike many of his films, it has a perhaps too happy ending. Still, the lead actor, not Cantona, is endearing.
	11:56am Lisboner Pascal (France): Cantona, has he ever not been splendid?
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks, Joe!!!!
	11:56am Miss G: Thanks for starting the week out great Joe! Everyone, have a good Monday! (DiL have a drink!) (not, as per The Rugburns, "a little crystal. . .meth.")
	11:56am Lisboner Pascal (France): Cheers Rick!
	♥ 11:56am David (in London): Monsieur, your terroir is simply merde.
	♥ 11:56am βrian: Just got back from across the pond where there were many roadside asparagus stands and not a few confederate battle flags. Ah, Michigan.
	♥ 11:57am Baja Joe: Hey, Pachuko!
	♥ 11:57am TDK60: Thanks, Joe.
	11:57am Rick A: Good luck surviving the tourists in France, Pascal. We're heading to the UK at the end of July.
	🎸 ♥ 11:58am TonyR: Fer cryin' out loud, "Hot Rod Lincoln" has more of a story than "Jack and Diane".
	11:58am Rick A: And thanks for another top notch show, as always, Joe.
	♥ 11:58am βrian: Irene is at the ready on the Drummer Stream: wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. You prove on a weekly basis that Garfield the cat does not know what he's talking about. As far as Mondays, I should say. His opinions on lasagna seem legit.
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What a treasure & a pleasure be this Program. I think ye DJ JoeMcG.
	♥ 11:59am David (in London): Thanks Joe. Great show.
	12:00pm Lisboner Pascal (France): Fair summary of Garfield there!
	🎸 ♥ 12:05pm 12539: Thanks Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from May 24, 2021

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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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May 24, 2021: World Full of Grey

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Attacca Quartet	Electric Pow Wow Drum	Real Life	Sony Classical	2021	MP3		*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jim Pepper	Witchitai-To (Chant) / Witchitai-To (Song)	Pepper's Pow Wow	Embryo	1971	LP			0:05:40 (Pop-up)
Marinero	Through the Fog "Through the Fog" by "Marinero"	Hella Love	Hardly Art	2021	CD		*	0:12:53 (Pop-up)
El Michels Affair (Feat. Piya Malik)	Zaharila	Yeti Season	Big Crown	2021	CD		*	0:16:02 (Pop-up)
Henri Salvador	Et des mandolines "Et des mandolines" by "Henri Salvador"	Homme Studio 1970-75	Born Bad	2021	LP	From 1974; "And Mandolins"	*	0:19:42 (Pop-up)
Mathieu Boogaerts	Annie "Annie" by "Mathieu Boogaerts"	En Anglais	Tôt Ou Tard	2021	MP3		*	0:22:03 (Pop-up)
Ted Barnes	Bath Time "Bath Time" by "Ted Barnes"	17 Postcards	Mornington	2021	MP3		*	0:24:32 (Pop-up)
Tom Jones	I'm Growing Old "I'm Growing Old" by "Tom Jones"	Surrounded By Time	EMI	2021	MP3		*	0:27:22 (Pop-up)
Lady Blackbird	Blackbird "Blackbird" by "Lady Blackbird"	Black Acid Soul	Foundation	2021	MP3		*	0:31:12 (Pop-up)
Oscar Brown Jr.	World Full of Grey	Between Heaven and Hell	Columbia	1962	LP			0:35:13 (Pop-up)
Terry Callier	What Color Is Love "What Color Is Love" by "Terry Callier"	What Color Is Love	Verve	2008	CD	From 1972		0:39:07 (Pop-up)
Rita Payés and Elisabeth Roma	Eu Desespero	Como La Piel	Rita Payés and Elisabeth Roma	2021	MP3	"I Despair"	*	0:43:04 (Pop-up)
Burt Blanca and the King Creoles	Taboo '69	single	Radio Martiko	2015	MP3	From 1969		0:47:48 (Pop-up)
Kass Richards	Strangers "Strangers" by "Kass Richards"	The Language Shadow	Good Cry/Feeding Tube	2021	LP		*	0:51:20 (Pop-up)

Ducks Ltd.	Get Bleak "Get Bleak" by "Ducks Ltd."	Get Bleak	Car Park	2021	MP3		*	1:09:08 (Pop-up)
Rita Chao	明天會帶來新希望 (I'm Into Something Good)	Sixteen Candles	Regal	1971	MP3			1:12:43 (Pop-up)
Tuscadero	Boys Don't Cry "Boys Don't Cry" by "Tuscadero"	Give Me the Cure: 18 DC Bands Interpret the Cure	Radiopaque/Corduroy	1995	CD			1:15:05 (Pop-up)
The Wedding Present	High "High" by "The Wedding Present"	Just Like Heaven - A Tribute to The Cure	American Laudromat	2011	CD			1:18:40 (Pop-up)
Luna	Fire in Cairo "Fire in Cairo" by "Luna"	A Sentimental Education	Double Feature	2017	LP			1:20:18 (Pop-up)
Unwed Sailor	Blitz "Blitz" by "Unwed Sailor"	Truth or Consequences	Spartan	2021	MP3		*	1:23:44 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour
The Staple Singers	I'll Take You There	single	Stax	1972	45	R.I.P. Roger Hawkins		1:33:57 (Pop-up)
The Specials Featuring Rico	Nite Klub	single	Two-Tone	1979	45			1:36:41 (Pop-up)
King Pleasure	Parker's Mood "Parker's Mood" by "King Pleasure"	single	Prestige	1953	45			1:39:42 (Pop-up)
Wynn Stewart	You Took Her Off My Hands	single	Capitol	1956	45			1:42:37 (Pop-up)
Ohio Players	Jive Turkey (Part 1)	single	Mercury	1974	45			1:45:25 (Pop-up)
Ohio Express	Hot Dog "Hot Dog" by "Ohio Express"	single	Super K	1970	45			1:48:27 (Pop-up)
Bill Nelson	Rooms with Brittle Views	single	Les Disques du Crépuscule	1980	45			1:51:41 (Pop-up)
The Residents	Hit the Road Jack "Hit the Road Jack" by "The Residents"	single	Ralph	1987	45			1:54:53 (Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye	Ain't That Peculiar "Ain't That Peculiar" by "Marvin Gaye"	single	Tamla	1965	45			1:58:51 (Pop-up)

Story Corner: Songs That Tell a Story / This time: Partners in Crime
Mel Tormé	A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde	The Mel Tormé Collection (1944-1985)	Rhino	1996	CD	From 1969		2:12:59 (Pop-up)
Steve Earle	Billy and Bonnie "Billy and Bonnie" by "Steve Earle"	I Feel Alright	Warner Bros.	1996	CD			2:15:27 (Pop-up)
Richard Thompson	Shane and Dixie "Shane and Dixie" by "Richard Thompson"	Mirror Blue	Capitol	1994	CD			2:18:41 (Pop-up)
John Hiatt	Trudy and Dave "Trudy and Dave" by "John Hiatt"	Slow Turning	A&M	1988	LP			2:22:39 (Pop-up)
Tia Blake	Betty and Dupree "Betty and Dupree" by "Tia Blake"	Paris and Montreal Demos, 1973–1976	Yep Roc	2018	EP			2:26:50 (Pop-up)
Bruce Springsteen	Nebraska "Nebraska" by "Bruce Springsteen"	Nebraska	Columbia	1982	LP			2:29:48 (Pop-up)
Les Paul and Mary Ford	Frankie and Johnny	Bye Bye Blues!	Capitol	1955	LP			2:34:07 (Pop-up)
Furry Lewis	Billy Lyons and Stack O' Lee	Blues Images Presents 18 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s Vol. 8	Blues Images	2010	CD	From 1927		2:36:45 (Pop-up)
The Carter Family	John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man	The Carter Family 1927–1934	JSP	2001	CD	From 1928		2:39:20 (Pop-up)
The Rugburns	The Ballad of Tommy and Marla	Taking the World by Donkey	Priority	1995	CD			2:42:16 (Pop-up)
Alice Cooper	Millie and Billie "Millie and Billie" by "Alice Cooper"	From the Inside	Warner Bros.	1978	LP	other vocal: Marcy Levy		2:46:18 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Romeo Is Bleeding "Romeo Is Bleeding" by "Tom Waits"	Blue Valentine	Elektra	1993	CD	From 1978		2:50:30 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00am 12539: Boingggggg!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00am Handy Haversack: Morning Joe and Surface Tensions. Setting phasers on Yip.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG, Handy and friends!
	♥ 9:01am Baja Joe: Morning Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01am Threemoons: Morning Joe McG, fellow YipYips......
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Handy Haversack: Hey, Marley! Baja Joe, I thought we were going to get to meet last week at the station! Scott had forgotten you'd canceled because of your anniversary -- certainly a valid reason! See you next time!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Brian in UK: Hey Joe & early risers. Still raining over here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Hey all, did somebody mention the new summer schedule over the weekend or did I hallucinate after too much coffee?
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Ra-di-o! Did anyone catch the catchy Yip Yip remix that kicked off Billy Jam's show last Friday? www.wfmu.org... It was incredible!
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am Brian in UK: Joe, this is perfect soundtrack for watching the Giro d'Italia cycling race.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06am Krys O.: Greetings!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06am D Rok (in brooklyn): YES! Attacca Quartet! I'm friends with their Cellist, and am so excited to hear them on your show this morning. What a great start.
	♥ 9:07am TDK60: Good morning disc jockey Joe.
	♥ 9:07am northguineahills: Jim Pepper!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08am Krys O.: Hey, northguineahills! How are ya?
	9:08am Zetti: :)
	9:09am Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from pow-wowed Tannersville!! happy monday Mr. JMcG and all.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09am Handy Haversack: Yes, Ken! That was so great! Heartfelt tribute to the great Joe McGasko!
	♥ 9:09am xindeed: Wow. This is amazing
	♥ 9:09am Joe McG: Welcome to the show, everyone. Hope you feel that spirit feel around your head that makes you glad you're not dead.
	9:09am bill: withitai
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am Hughie Considine: That's what I come here for, @Joe!
	9:10am MFlynn: Good morning Joe and everyone!
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: @Hughie: You're right, FMU is good for making you feel less dead.
	♥ 9:13am HyperDose: What a vibey first set. Peaks and valleys!
	♥ 9:13am joe mulligan: @Brian what stage are they at in the Giro? have they hit the dolomites yet?
	♥ 9:13am WaffleMix: This song dies make me feel less dead
	♥ 9:13am Yes: thank you for witchitai to. good morning all!
	♥ 9:13am WaffleMix: *does - some sort of Freudian slip?
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am Hughie Considine: I noticed that @Waffle :)
	9:14am Listener Bop Monroe: forgot what a great spaced out kitchen-sink jam that had!! thnx again 4 that!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am Brian in UK: joe mulligan. Stage 17 finishes in Cortina. Some 14% climbs and pouring rain.
	♥ 9:14am joe mulligan: @Handy are you stuffing swag this week? I might if theres still a slot this week. otherwise will set a day next week
	♥ 9:15am joe mulligan: @Brian that is pretty rugged! better have the right tires and pressure
	🎸 ♥ 9:15am Brian in UK: ....and legs!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16am Brian in UK: They are quite nuts is a strangely beautiful way.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18am Handy Haversack: joe mulligan: maybe? This week's a little complex for me. I had told Scott I could maybe come in this afternoon/evening, but I only let him know yesterday, so I'm not sure that's going to work. Otherwise ... maybe I could do Thursday early shift? Not sure what SW's sched. is, though.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am YETI BOB: Yeti Season? No, Duck Season!
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): It's fiddler crab season.
	9:21am Listener Bop Monroe: Elmer season!
	♥ 9:21am joe mulligan: @Handy yeah I reached out to Scott late last week and he said he had to wait for Michele to come back from vaca cause she had some people
	9:23am dano59: I feel trippy and somewhat less dead with this set, Joe. Was telling a DJ here in a bull session about the local radio wasteland that FMU has been a lifeline/resource these many months. Grazie.
	♥ 9:24am Joe McG: @dano59: So nice to hear! Folks have been really great over this past year.
	♥ 9:24am northguineahills: When I was in cub scout camp, one of my favorite pastimes was to fill a bucket w/ fiddler crabs, and then dump them back the lake shore
	9:24am dano59: @Handy are you allowed to share info on Kate's band re the custom 45s/preorder dealio?
	♥ 9:28am Hubig Pie: Yeti season is May to late June, when the monsoon crosses the Himalayas
	🎸 ♥ 9:30am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Damn, Tom Jones still sounds good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:30am Handy Haversack: Hey, dano59! That's really nice of you to ask! The final details and timing aren't totally set yet. I will happily share what I can when I learn it. Or follow them on Bandcamp and you'll definitely get an announcement. Link in my profile.
	9:31am Listener Bop Monroe: ...so Tom J gets the Johnny Cash treatment now... still has the pipes to carry the gravitas a-ok.
	♥ 9:31am Hubig Pie: I'm gaining wisdom while I'm putting on weight
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Brian in UK: This Tom Jones interview is worth a listen from last month. www.bbc.co.uk...
	9:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A good Nina Xs Roerta sort of Moanin' to you.
	♥ 9:35am Joe McG: @Brian: Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 9:35am Threemoons: Back after my team "touch base" call. Tunes on, fingers on keyboard, commence earning da dough.....
	♥ 9:36am Trouble: good morning joe! sounding fantastic today! No class for me, so i get to listen, yippee.
	♥ 9:37am Joe McG: Hi, Trouble! Congrats on your day off!
	♥ 9:37am Rev. Turnip Druid: wash that "base" thoroughly.
	9:37am Hells Kitch: This set is helping me ease into Monday and the workload....thanks Joe
	9:38am DJ Guin: morning Mister McGasko and Company.
	9:39am TerrDE: Brian Ferry should cover this
	9:39am DJ Guin: just checked the Obits - I am safe for another day.
	♥ 9:40am David (in London): Aha, afternoon Joe and all groovers here assembled. Arrived straight into Terry Callier, nice.
	♥ 9:43am Phillippe: Good morning (afternoon to you, DiL)
	♥ 9:44am David (in London): And in answer to Terry's question, the Icicle Works told us that Love is a Wonderful Colour. Hey Phillippe. How are you good sir?
	♥ 9:45am Phillippe: all good, David. You?
	🎸 ♥ 9:46am Handy Haversack: David, Phillippe, DJG, all: good Tuesdays for everyone!
	♥ 9:47am Phillippe: Well hey there Handy! How are things in Handyland?
	♥ 9:47am David (in London): Phillippe - I actually spent the weekend going out and having a social life! I'm still recovering from the shock. Hey Handy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:50am TonyR: Late for class again. Damnit!
	♥ 9:50am Mark Hurst: 'morning, Joe! And hi everyone
	🎸 ♥ 9:50am TonyR: At least I haven't arrived naked.
	♥ 9:51am Joe McG: @TonyR: Ha ha. If you had, I wouldn't have noticed! Hey Mark!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am Handy Haversack: Flowers blooming, white wind blowing, dog napping, Phillippe. All seems within tolerances! Hey, Mark Hurst!
	9:51am DJ Guin: I visited Raspberry Park yesterday...hot weather and bikinis..woo hoo.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am The Oscar: Mornin'! I'm not sure I've ever heard a bad version of "Taboo," but MAN what a good version of "Taboo."
	9:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Astrud Gilberto quietly toed over to David Lynch sitting in his Tiki Niche. ... 'Is today that day?' - she ventured. ...'I don't know as much as people think I know' - he said ...'I just pay better attention.'...
	♥ 9:52am Yes: :) this cover
	9:53am DJ Guin: @TonyR -- just ask Handy for his notes like the rest of us do
	♥ 9:53am Joe McG: Sorry about the clicks on this BRAND-NEW record that DJs have managed to destroy already.
	♥ 9:53am StringOFperils: Good morning! I was actually charmed by the 'virgin' scratch.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am TonyR: Great typo, @WaffleMix.
	♥ 9:54am David (in London): All that scratching is making me itch.
	♥ 9:54am TDK60: Ha! Joe, the Archives might tell us who needs a remedial DJ intro course. Hee.
	♥ 9:55am StringOFperils: Replacement records are part of the money-go-round too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am 12539: Waitaminute - did Joe just apologize for surface noise?!
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am Brian in UK: David, Bernal has sealed it today.
	9:55am Brendan: Good morning Joe and all. Nice set. I don’t drink coffee much, but if this were a cup, you made it just right.
	♥ 9:55am Joe McG: @12539: Ha ha, you caught me.
	♥ 9:55am Tank Top: That Kinks cover sounded great striped down to acoustic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56am Handy Haversack: It's a small list of suspects. And one of them is a notorious bad boy.
	♥ 9:56am Roberto: I wouldn't consider it an apology seeing as he blamed other DJs for it.
	♥ 9:57am Phillippe: @David social life??? (wide-eyed emoji)
	♥ 9:58am David (in London): I've got the world's dullest HR meeting now. But I'm going to be on mute, so I'm keeping listening to this and just going to nod periodically on screen. Back soon.
	9:58am TerrDE: Handy, wasn't Bruce fetching the records last show ?
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am Brian in UK: One of A girl called Eddy's earlier albums had a cover that looked like an old worn album sleeve. Perhaps Kass Richard's was deliberately crackly.
	♥ 9:59am Baja Joe: Here comes the sun!
	🎸 ♥ 10:00am TonyR: Huge U.S. Girls fan. Only know Meg by name, Thanks for pointing out who Kass is.
	♥ 10:00am Roberto: When and why did people start saying "good on ___" instead of "good for ___?" No me gusta, señor.
	♥ 10:01am Stanley: David - careful with them buttons.
	10:01am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I am under an arch with some chives listening to The Archies in the Archives.
	10:03am TheLonelyFlamingo: The opening set was beautiful
	♥ 10:03am TDK60: Roberto: Prepositional impropriety is on the rise. My advice? Give up now. Just go on the flow.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Webhamster Henry: Hi Surface Noise lovers! I'm glad we got to hear a little end groove crackle in this set.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Krys O.: @Roberto: I think Good on ya an Australian phrase.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Hughie Considine: @Roberto, I think this happened at around the same time that people started referring to the wearing of a particular item of clothing as "rocking" it.
	♥ 10:04am Roberto: TDK, I don't think I'll ever be able to go under the flow.
	10:04am Brendan: Thom is probably getting 80-year-old underwear thrown at him now
	♥ 10:05am TDK60: I'm just kiddin' Roberto. Actually, it ires me greatly. I pace the floor.
	🎸 ♥ 10:05am Krys O.: "Good on ya, mate!" www.grammarphobia.com...
	♥ 10:06am Roberto: "On accident" too. It twigger me.
	10:06am Rachel Bo Bachel: Omg I missed Witchi tai to??!!
	♥ 10:07am Roberto: I'll accept "good on ya" as long as it's uttered in a horrible fake Aussie accent.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Handy Haversack: Hey, Rachel!
	♥ 10:08am StringOFperils: @Roberto > Or "that looks good on ya", when admiring one's bad self in the mirror, wearing that new WFMU T-shirt.
	10:09am DJ Guin: On a Very Special Joe McGasko -- we learn the true meaning of Aldersgate Day.... Stay tuned
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): As opposed to Ducks Deluxe.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am BillyLundun: Is Ducks Unlimited operated in the USA?
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Hughie Considine: Ducks LLC is the American arm.
	10:10am davefromtoronto: not to be confused with "Ducks Unlimited" the conservation/hunting group? hi joe btw!
	♥ 10:11am Schmuck Owens: I hope the story corner includes the song stylings of andy breckman
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am BillyLundun: aha I always assumed it was Canadian
	10:11am Rick A: Yay, another story corner to come!
	10:11am davefromtoronto: it's american. i used to donate paintings for their fundraisers.
	♥ 10:11am Roberto: I suppose language is more subject to mutation than ever these days due to the constant communication between people all around the world via the WWW, text messaging, and so on.
	10:11am alan the painter: thank you thank you
	🎸 ♥ 10:12am D Rok (in brooklyn): Halluci Nation is a fairly recent name change. They used to go by A Tribe Called Red. I saw them play with Coco Rosie years ago at Webster Hall.
	10:12am Miss G: What a cute pop song to turn on the radio to!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12am TonyR: @Roberto: Me too! LOL!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12am BillyLundun: OH I missed Jim Pepper!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13am TonyR: If this wasn't in the "Sixteen Candles" film, it darn well should have been.
	10:14am Reno D: Hey Joe, to acknowledge to their ambush 87 years ago yesterday, you might wanna play The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde as a narrative selection. Merle Haggard, covered by Tammy Wynette and others.
	♥ 10:16am Joe McG: @Reno D: Geez, Reno, on top of it. Don't predict all of my other selections!
	🎸 ♥ 10:16am TonyR: Read too fast: "18 DC Bands Improve the Cure"
	🎸 ♥ 10:16am Threemoons: Loving this CURE cover.
	♥ 10:16am northguineahills: Haven't heard this Tuscadero
	10:16am Glistener MW: Tuscadero!! <3 and I never knew they did a cover of this!
	10:16am Rachel Bo Bachel: Hey Handu! Hey Reno D.! Joe we just tuned in but we are LOVIN’ everything so far <3
	10:16am Troymo: This Cure cover is nice way to wake up.
	10:17am MKUltra: this song has been covered into oblivion...
	10:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hm. Cure as Rawk. Good on ya.
	10:17am Rick A: I saw Tuscadero open up for Chapel Hill band Archers of Loaf right before Thanksgiving of 1996. They had a lot of energy live and were better than Archers that night, anyway.
	10:19am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy oops sorry for calling you “Handu” lol. Got three kids in here; a little distracted here!
	10:20am Rick A: Yay, the Wedding Present, another great live band! I saw them many times. They were my best friend's at the time favorite band.
	10:20am Miss G: On my 40th birthday a friend gave me every Wedding Present vinyl release, including rare 45s and 10 inches. But I reckon I don't have this!
	♥ 10:21am Joe McG: @Miss G: Jesus God, am I jealous!
	10:21am MKUltra: some serious Buzzcocks channeling going on there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21am Handy Haversack: Ha, no worries, Rachel! Digging the covers, Joe. Though they will spur a Cure dive at some point soon! Hi, Miss G! Your letter is the one that convinced the tax man, I bet!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am Joshie in Fleetwood Pennsylvania: Whoa. On my 40th, I just had some Senape's Pitza and some Guer's iced tea.
	♥ 10:23am joseloalter: I’m loving this show. Making everything that much better. Thank you!
	♥ 10:23am Joe McG: @Joshie: Wow, you're clearly one of my people. Although I was a Longo's partisan.
	10:23am Miss G: Joe McG, but see, you played what I don't have! I'll have to pull some of the 45s out later. The 10"s got destroyed in a flood. :-( HH, you were so great to help me edit, I would have procrastinated without you. I imagine it was the HUNDREDS of emails figure that scared the tax people!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24am McGroovey: Gosh. Ducks Ltd has a Tom McGreevy in the band. It sounds like it.
	♥ 10:26am Joe McG: Glad you're enjoying, joseloalter!
	10:27am andy the painter: mmmmm....driving, churning anthemic guitar instrumental.
	♥ 10:27am Blues Mandinga: Ea!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am TonyR: Wedding Pressent track is on a 2011 tribute CD. THose things don't usually enjoy a vinyl release, unless Wedding Pressent rolls that way.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31am TonyR: What's a good collective noun for '90s-issued tribute CDs? A BMG of tribute CDs?
	10:31am P-90: Killer set, Joe McG!
	10:31am Miss G: TonyR, ah yes I see the release date now. In 2011 I hit a different cough milestone so it was later than "the birthday present(s.)"
	🎸 ♥ 10:33am TonyR: Several 'Js have mentioned this passing. Few have dug up 45s.
	♥ 10:33am northguineahills: all genres, all geographies, all ethnicities, and all temporal periods....
	♥ 10:34am northguineahills: I didn't even know the Wedding Present was still together in 2011.
	♥ 10:34am Joe McG: @ngh: They're still together now and soundin' good!
	♥ 10:34am Stanley: The Staple Snigers! (sniggers)
	♥ 10:34am Roberto: Oh my. You might want to correct that typo ASAP, Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am Brian in UK: Who knew white boys could be so soulful.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am Jason from Houston: ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
	🎸 ♥ 10:35am TonyR: Yeah, the drumming really stars in this song.
	♥ 10:35am Roberto: That's better.
	10:36am Miss G: "I'm more a Stax girl myself” says Eve in "The Only Lovers Left Alive."
	🎸 ♥ 10:36am Brian in UK: Let him that is without typo cast the first vowel.
	10:36am MKUltra: I particularly like the snigging on this one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am Hughie Considine: After hearing Dennis Diken talk about Roger Hawkins with Michael Shelley, I'm still struck by how hard it is to put into words what makes a great drummer great beyond words like "groove," "feel," and such.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am Handy Haversack: It's Muphry's Law, Brian.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am TonyR: "I'd like to solve the playlist puzzle."
	10:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Typos for Type A's.
	♥ 10:37am Joe McG: It's too bad that Mavis calls out Barry but not Roger! @Hughie: Sorry I missed that conversation.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38am Handy Haversack: Specials!
	10:38am Reno D: @Joe, Hah! Sorry! Ooh, now my crystal ball is predicting songs from Jonathan Something. Stephen Sondheim. Zappa. Emmy Lou Harris. So many stories to be told!
	♥ 10:38am HyperDose: Pick it up! Pick it up! 👞🎶
	🎸 ♥ 10:39am Handy Haversack: Ahhhh, it had been TOO LONG since I heard this song! So great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39am TonyR: I hthink the kids these days like to say "bangin'", just not in reference to actual musicians.
	10:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hughie: A Drummer starts with Keeping Time - & then it's accents, playing with the time, expression... If Bass is taken for granted - it's nothing on Drums...
	10:40am P-90: “I’ll Take You There”: for decades, one of the two bass lines given young aspiring bass players by tutors to learn about “Funk.”
	🎸 ♥ 10:41am Matt Fiveash: the turntable gods robbed us of the best line in Nite Klub: "...and the beer tastes just like piss"!
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: @Matt: Sorry, Matt, wasn't sure I could leave that one in so I bleeped it!
	🎸 ♥ 10:42am TonyR: Can one express the excratory on radio?
	10:43am Listening Out There: Too much of radio is excratory. Present company excepted, of course....
	🎸 ♥ 10:43am Matt Fiveash: Joe- ah! thought it was just an inopportune skip. PS- That segment on Michael's show w/Dennis D talking about Roger Hawkins was really great, worth a trip to the archives...
	10:44am P-90: (*excretory).
	🎸 ♥ 10:44am Hughie Considine: @Revolution Rabbit, I recognize the complexity and artistry involved, I was talking about the ways we are able to express that in words beyond a basic few.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44am TonyR: Thanks, P-90. Can't blame the fingers for dum.
	♥ 10:44am Joe McG: @Matt: No, that was your overcautious selector. I will definitely go back to that archive.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46am Matt Fiveash: I'd guess that beer that tastes like piss is FCC-friendly, but maybe not actual piss. But better safe than sorry!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46am TonyR: I miss "Part 1/Part 2" singles.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Gobble gobble, Joe and folx!
	10:48am TerrDE: whats w the FCC fear ? Has FMU been targeted or something ?
	🎸 ♥ 10:48am Handy Haversack: "Piss Beer on the FCC" would be a good single for Single File. Someone record it!
	10:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hughie: Absolutely. But I chafe @ that somewhat. Can one describe how one rides a bike? Does anyone try much? Is there a reason to? &tc.
	10:49am DJ Guin: is a Zeppelin cover?
	♥ 10:50am Joe McG: @Guin: Jimmy Page on guitar.
	🎸 ♥ 10:50am Matt Fiveash: Hey Joe- if you get a chance while on-air, check yr email. If not, no biggie
	🎸 ♥ 10:50am TonyR: WFMU was once in a hot legal fight over parts of the FM band. They were (and remain) vulnerable to those with an interest in making trouble. DJs need to be clean teens.
	10:51am P-90: Gotta keep it “educational”
	♥ 10:51am chresti>Griffith Park: Hi Joe! Gathering! Listening...
	10:51am DJ Guin: @Joe McG -- any liner notes about Page's 14 yr old girlfriend on tambourine?
	♥ 10:51am Joe McG: @Matt: Oh, I wish I had the skill set for that, Matt, but I don't. Hope it's not bad news.
	10:52am Miss G: I can confirm in my hands that "Hot Dog" is not on Rhino's "The Best of The Ohio Express and other Bubblegum Smashes."
	🎸 ♥ 10:52am Handy Haversack: Well, to the extent I am capable of learning, I'm doing it! Hey, chresti!
	10:52am TerrDE: 14 ? She should have been w Donovan
	♥ 10:52am chresti>Griffith Park: Hi Handy!
	🎸 ♥ 10:53am Hughie Considine: @Rev, I see that. I write about music, about songs, and I've always found writing about a song's groove or beat a challenge because, yeah, often it just feels apt, or perfect, it just fits, and there's little else to say. But you want to say something incisive and the language eludes me.
	10:54am bo: bill nelson is super underrated! great track....
	🎸 ♥ 10:54am TonyR: Yes, never knew Nelson had a solo career.
	♥ 10:55am chresti>Griffith Park: I was 15 when I had my first guitar playing boyfriend.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55am Matt Fiveash: Joe McG No, not bad news! Or, well, maybe, depending how you feel about it: Doing a Bob Dylan 80th Bday special collab w/Honky Tonk Radio Girl this week but only just sent it to the upcoming events email, so sent to you directly in hopes that you'd be able to announce it. So I guess now I'm usurping your playlist to announce it here!
	10:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hughie: Zackly that. & can you 'teach' someone to ride a bike? Maybe by showing them...
	🎸 ♥ 10:56am Matt Fiveash: Here's the blurb: Bob Dylan's 80th Birthday Approximately Wednesday, May 26, 7 to 9 PM on Weekly World Blues and Honky Tonk Radio Girl Celebrating 80 years of America's Sweetheart, Matt Fiveash and Becky B team up for a 2-hour special examining what it was he done, through the lens of the blues and country music that he used as his raw materials. We'll hear blues & country artists covering Bob, blues & country songs that Bob covered, songs that Bob lifted from, and some choice cuts from Bobby Z himself, plus whatever else your opinionated hosts decide is appropriately Dylan-adjacent. Guaranteed 100% conventional-wisdom-free, sure to offend hardcore Dylan fans and too-cool-for-school detractors alike. Tune in, you will not die, it's not poison! WFMU is a tax deductible charity organization.
	♥ 10:56am Joe McG: Oh, that's great, Matt, I'll be sure to announce it. Thanks!
	10:56am Glistener MW: Always great to hear The Residents pop up on your show, Joe!
	10:56am JT: ooo, i missed the fire in cairo spelling lesson
	🎸 ♥ 10:56am The Oscar: Last I checked, one of our venues up here in Boston is set to reopen in August with a Residents show, which is a promising sign they're taking mask rules seriously.
	10:57am P-90: Now THAT’s “Destination Radio”
	🎸 ♥ 10:57am Matt Fiveash: Aw, thx Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57am Handy Haversack: Kick-ass, Matt!
	10:57am DJ Guin: Residents!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57am ChukAmok: Matt Fiveash comin' in hot with the PSA. Very clever, and informative!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58am TonyR: Nice idea for Dylan Trib this week. "Transpacific Sound Paradise" this past weekend was pretty mindblowing.
	10:58am rx scabin: One of my cats is loving the Residents.
	10:58am DJ Guin: i have imagined Dylan's genitals resemble that hangdog face of his...don't need to be proven wrong.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am TonyR: WHAT BBC America (on PBS) would do: "Here's old film of Bob Dylan. He's famous and now old."
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am tadpoles: Thanks for the Bill Nelson single Joe...not very often heard. Cheers.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am TonyR: What PBS would do: A super-expensive Martin Scorsese film.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am Handy Haversack: Gonna head out walking with the local hound. Thanks for the show, Joe! Great stuff, all up and down the set list. Later on, Yippers!
	11:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: they're sending e-mails to NewJersey the transmitter's breaking down anyone with any sense is an addict for the Sounds their fingers tying Comments to say Hello to Joe & they've all already read about Destination Radio...
	11:00am DJ Guin: Ken Burns: Bob Dylan - Freewheelin' and Immortal
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am TonyR: @DJ: I'm not yet sure you're telling a joke.
	11:01am DJ Guin: "Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man..can I suck your blood?"
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am TonyR: Voiceoers reading letters home from the Rolling Thunder tour.
	11:03am DJ Guin: Dylan could be a Highlander...killed George Harrison and Tom Petty, to date....
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am tadpoles: The surface noise has the beat! The Beat!
	11:03am DJ Guin: Prince never saw it coming
	11:04am paul: Maschito?
	11:04am Miss G: Oh no Joe McG "John Somebody" is my kryptonite!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am The Oscar: John Moschitta! A staple of my late '80s childhood.
	11:05am Glistener MW: “Typical Residents Style” would be a great name for a Residents album or compilation
	🎸 ♥ 11:05am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Be Bop Deluxe was the first real rock band I saw. Opened for Blue Oyster Cult.
	🎸 ♥ 11:06am Hughie Considine: Bill Nelson was the king of the flanger during his Be Bop Deluxe years. I don't think any player ever depended on it more than Nelson. He moved toward (un-flanged) synth sounds in the '80s over several solo LPs.
	11:07am Frank's Brain: Yay for Be Bop De Luxe!! Most underrated rock band - and guitarist - on the planet.
	🎸 ♥ 11:07am steveo: Alert the Spaz! photos.app.goo.gl...
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am steveo: Spazz*
	11:09am TerrDE: notice how the production on the 1950s single was so much better than now ? Engineers use equipment just because they can, not because it improves the music
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Matt Fiveash: Thanks Joe! Just like Tom Thumbs Up
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Jason from Houston: LOL
	11:12am DJ Guin: Songs about DiaperDon and Melania? Sweet.
	🎸 ♥ 11:12am TonyR: Tom Jones: born 7 June 1940
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am Hughie Considine: If there is no "Ballad of Michael J. Pollard," there should be.
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am The Oscar: I was sure you were going to go for Georgie Fame!
	11:13am P-90: Mel is cooler than Serge anyway
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am BillyLundun: Oh Mel
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Matt5 - great write up & even better idea. TerreDe: Wurd.
	11:14am DJ Guin: Pride of Passaic - Mr. Pollard was.
	♥ 11:14am Hopey Sockmonkey: Mel is cooler than anyone.
	♥ 11:14am Rich in Bristol: Key change!
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am BillyLundun: Oh man there are some choice rhymes on this Mel song
	11:15am Miss G: Oooh I love Mel Tormé so much. Maybe tonight I'll re-watch Jacques Tourneur's "The Fearmakers." He was so good in that.
	11:16am rx scabin: @WoodsOfNH I saw a show in that tour. The fans booed their first song heavily. B Nelson said "We will make you like us." First opener I saw to do an encore. Fabulous.
	♥ 11:16am sparkey: Remember that Clyde had been abused in prison and the crimespree was all about getting guns and money to attack that prison. Prisons destroy....
	♥ 11:17am Little Danny: Hi Joe, hi all!
	♥ 11:17am Barkevious Shabazz: Phenomenal Earle track.
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am TonyR: Hey HEY! No librul propaganda in the classroom, buddy! 'Murrica!
	11:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah love this album.
	11:19am Reno D: Nice, Joe. Very unexpected, Mel Torme. I’m sure Emma Parker and Cumie Barrow, the mothers Mel so thoughtfully acknowledged, would’ve been very touched.
	♥ 11:20am Doobois: Is "Biklly" a regional name?
	♥ 11:21am Joe McG: Boy oh boy, you guys are really picking on my typos today. I'll fix it.
	♥ 11:21am Doobois: Sorry, Joe. I'm just funnin'.
	11:23am Rachel Bo Bachel: Yayyy RT! Was thinking 1952 Vincent Black Lightning would sound so great in this set but not exactly about partners in crime. Unless you count complicity? Anyway yay!
	♥ 11:23am Joe McG: No problem, I'm certainly not my usual precise self today.
	♥ 11:23am David (in London): Back in the room. Man, that was one of the most tedious sessions of the year. Sheesh. When the HR consultant said "I would use the term...job", I had to stifle my desire to burst forth with a Beckettian belly-laugh of despair. Damn, I missed Bill Nelson and The Residents too.
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @rx scabin: I remember liking them but hey, I was like 15 and the whole experience was mind-blowing, including Blue Oyster Cult's insane laser show.
	11:24am Daybreak & the New Week Possibilities: Now I know why people were harassing you for the story set! This is so interesting and so much dark fun!
	♥ 11:25am Joe McG: Yeah, these couples are trouble. Real natural born killers! :)
	♥ 11:25am Asheville Jon: Joe, will you be playing Judas Priest "Breaking The Law"?
	🎸 ♥ 11:26am TonyR: "You could practically write a book about what happened to me, Mrs. Burnsides."
	♥ 11:26am Joe McG: @Ashville: Is it a story song? I admit I never listened to the verses very closely.
	♥ 11:27am Asheville Jon: hmm, not sure.....
	11:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...then he pulled out a 45 ...& then another ...& another...
	11:27am Miss G: DiL, last week Rob Brezsny quoted Beckett saying "dance first and think afterwards." So maybe Joe McG will give us something to dance to in this set. . .(although the ones you missed are perfect for that!)
	11:27am Dennis Diken: diggin’, Joe, thanks for the shoutout!
	♥ 11:28am Little Danny: Wow, this is gorgeous.
	🎸 ♥ 11:28am Beast of Boonton: A little ditty 'bout Jack & Diane
	♥ 11:29am David (in London): Miss G - Your sympathy helps salve the gaping HR wound. Thank you. I was just thinking about Jack & Diane, too.
	♥ 11:30am Joe McG: If Jack and Diane had stolen something or shot somebody, we'd have something there!
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gone : en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 11:30am TonyR: David -- are you now unemployed? :-/
	♥ 11:31am Asheville Jon: Me & My Uncle is a story song
	11:32am Reno D: Right you are, Sparkey.
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am TonyR: Overrated album, but "Nebraska" is one of Bruce's more successful actual artful STORIES.
	♥ 11:32am David (in London): TonyR - Gosh no, thankfully. Just the victim of the UK's 'Most Tedious Meeting 2021™'
	11:32am Rachel Bo Bachel: More yayyy!!! Do you like the version from “Live 1975-85” Joe? Beauuuutiful
	11:32am Rick A: On the tribute album to the album Nebraska, Chrissie Hynde and Adam Seymour do a great cover of this.
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am TonyR: @David: Great!
	11:33am Joe B: hey Joe! show sounding great!
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am TonyR: Chrissie Hynde (who I still adore) has a new Dylan covers album, and it's a little monotonous. TBF, though they're all individual plague-era recordings.
	11:34am DJ Guin: has Joe cued up "Ode to Billy Joel" or "The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald" yet??
	11:34am Blix: Steve Miller...Take the Money and Run! Billy Joe and Bobbi-Sue. I think they get away with it too, don't they?
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am tim from champaign (now washington): Hi Joe and everybody!
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am tim from champaign (now washington): @Joe - Jack and Diane stole our hearts in 1982. Does that count now?
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: <3 Les&Mary
	♥ 11:35am David (in London): Blix - Good shout there. I love that track. Hey Tim.
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am tim from champaign (now washington): Yo David!
	🎸 ♥ 11:36am TonyR: 40 years on, and "Jack and Diane" STILL has no story.
	11:36am DJ Guin: Where's Elvis Costello's "In the Ghetto"? Fits Joe's criteria.
	🎸 ♥ 11:37am Hughie Considine: I'm fond on "Josie" by Ed McCurdy from one of those Elektra Folk Samplers. Based on Frankie & Johnny."
	♥ 11:37am Joe McG: @tim: Ha! And our pocket money.
	11:39am DJ Guin: I am pretty certain "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" ends with some murderin' and thievin' of Don Drysdale
	♥ 11:40am David (in London): Ralph McTell did one called Bentley & Craig about the notorious 'Let Him Have It' case here in the 1950s. That might qualify. In the no-gun UK it still looms large in the folk memory.
	11:41am Miss G: I love this Carter Family song so much, thank you Joe McG!
	11:41am Lisboner Pascal (France): Hi Joe and listeners! Lovely to hear Carter Family, thanks for this. Café terraces open now in France, all are permanently occupied, life has exploded on the streets. Wassup DJ David!
	♥ 11:42am northguineahills: What Miss G said...
	♥ 11:42am Joe McG: @David: They were innocent, though, weren't they? Maybe I'm misremembering.
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: DJ Guin: ...we never did see a series conclusion did we...
	♥ 11:43am βrian: @Lisboner: Est-ce qu' on y fume ?
	11:44am Glorious Estephonic: Hi Joe and Everyone including Rachel Bo Bachel tuning in driving through North Carolina
	11:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: Lisboner Pascal: so good to hear! Thank you for that cheerful image!!! Be safe over there!
	11:44am DJ Guin: @RevRabbit63 -- Censors might have felt Granny's Possum Stew contained human flesh a bit too dark for the FCC
	♥ 11:44am David (in London): Joe, Craig was guilty, he murdered a bobby during a botched robbery. It was Bentley who was controversially convicted of 'joint enterprise', a conviction which was eventually quashed some years back. So, half and half really.
	11:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: ESTEPHONIC!!!!! I love youuuu! Happy trails!!!
	♥ 11:44am David (in London): Hey Pasc!
	🎸 ♥ 11:45am TonyR: "little girly holster"
	11:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: DJ Guin: Well I still haven't caught up with what they did to the Banana Splits...
	♥ 11:45am David (in London): Joe, hence the double entendre of 'Let him have it'. Did it mean 'Shoot him' or 'Let him have the gun'...
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am TonyR: "Let Him Have It": a heartbreaking movie.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am tim from champaign (now washington): This song is full of dirty deeds done dirt cheap!
	🎸 ♥ 11:48am tim from champaign (now washington): I was thinking I should revisit From The Inside. I think I'll consider this my revisit.
	♥ 11:48am David (in London): I do dirty deeds, but charge higher rates for a more premium service. Fully accredited, end of task reports etc.
	11:49am Lisboner Pascal (France): @βrian, yes you can, oh yes! Smoking is a national sport, second to making playfully cruel jokes to me about Brexit. When I went for my 2nd vaccine dose in Marseille, they refused to administer it until I agreed that France had the superior rugby team. And when asked 'Who is the greatest English football player?", I had to agree that it was, no, not Harry Kane or Alan Shearer... but Eric Cantona. Those familiar with '90s Manchester United will get this. He's a legend, quoting Shakespeare to us Brits. It's mental here in Arles, there are tonnes of tourists, but they're all French and polite and asking me where the cathedral is. It's hard to digest after the 'confinement' but it'll feel normal soon.
	11:49am DJ Guin: @RevRabbit - rumors involving the Splits were sold to Big Pharma to test thalidomide are abound
	11:49am Rick A: I looked up Marcy Levy and she co-wrote "Lay Down Sally" which is a staple of light rock radio. I don't think she gets credit when it's played.
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am TonyR: @DJ: They just couldn't write scripts where Granny described her secret ingredient ("Possum assholes").
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am Beast of Boonton: Alice sounds more like David Cassidy on this one
	♥ 11:50am northguineahills: Danks, Joe!
	♥ 11:50am βrian: @Lisboner: I would have asked, "What is rugby?"
	♥ 11:51am nathan: lol, i kinda like this Coop album. most of it sounds like Elton John
	♥ 11:51am Joe McG: @David: Ah! Next Story Corner for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am TonyR: Marianne Faithfull eventually got "Sister Morphine" money.
	♥ 11:51am Joe McG: @nathan: Bernie Taupin co-wrote the whole thing.
	11:51am Rick A: Ooh-Uh Cantona! Cantona was made somewhat famous to non-football fans by Ken Loach in "Looking for Eric".
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am tim from champaign (now washington): @David - Can you cut me a WFMU good buddy discount if I need your services?
	♥ 11:52am nathan: ...well damn, that all makes sense now
	♥ 11:52am βrian: Smoking is akin to plowing the field for corona virus.
	♥ 11:53am Joe McG: Well, hope you liked the stories today. Kinda gruesome ones! Thanks for listening and commenting, and I'll see you again on Memorial Day! Have a great week.
	♥ 11:53am David (in London): Pasc, just tell them that you think Jacques Brel is simply the best French singer ever... Then excuse yourself to buy un sandwich (a stab in the heart for the Académie Française).
	11:53am Lisboner Pascal (France): @βrian my English pride got in the way of your (wiser) answer -- we bloody invented the sport but as usual aren't so good at playing it
	♥ 11:54am David (in London): Tim, for you sir, of course. Mates' rates and extra discretion assured.
	11:54am Lisboner Pascal (France): @Rick is the Cantona film worth watching? It looked a bit dubious, also when Loach tries comedy I'm not sure... Waiting to be proved wrong
	11:55am TerrDE: Good Bye Joe, Hello Joe
	♥ 11:55am David (in London): (Oh ah) Cantona was superb as the French ambassador in Elizabeth.
	11:55am Lisboner Pascal (France): @David, red hot ideas! They're on the back-burner but I feel that could be arrestable. Like saying their coffee is deplorable. Which it is, but I wouldn't say it. Or their wine gives awful hangovers. I wouldn't say that either.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Handy Haversack: Nice to catch the end of "Romeo" on coming home! Thanks again, Joe.
	11:56am Rick A: I liked the Loach film. Unlike many of his films, it has a perhaps too happy ending. Still, the lead actor, not Cantona, is endearing.
	11:56am Lisboner Pascal (France): Cantona, has he ever not been splendid?
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks, Joe!!!!
	11:56am Miss G: Thanks for starting the week out great Joe! Everyone, have a good Monday! (DiL have a drink!) (not, as per The Rugburns, "a little crystal. . .meth.")
	11:56am Lisboner Pascal (France): Cheers Rick!
	♥ 11:56am David (in London): Monsieur, your terroir is simply merde.
	♥ 11:56am βrian: Just got back from across the pond where there were many roadside asparagus stands and not a few confederate battle flags. Ah, Michigan.
	♥ 11:57am Baja Joe: Hey, Pachuko!
	♥ 11:57am TDK60: Thanks, Joe.
	11:57am Rick A: Good luck surviving the tourists in France, Pascal. We're heading to the UK at the end of July.
	🎸 ♥ 11:58am TonyR: Fer cryin' out loud, "Hot Rod Lincoln" has more of a story than "Jack and Diane".
	11:58am Rick A: And thanks for another top notch show, as always, Joe.
	♥ 11:58am βrian: Irene is at the ready on the Drummer Stream: wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. You prove on a weekly basis that Garfield the cat does not know what he's talking about. As far as Mondays, I should say. His opinions on lasagna seem legit.
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What a treasure & a pleasure be this Program. I think ye DJ JoeMcG.
	♥ 11:59am David (in London): Thanks Joe. Great show.
	12:00pm Lisboner Pascal (France): Fair summary of Garfield there!
	🎸 ♥ 12:05pm 12539: Thanks Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from May 24, 2021

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