WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 3, 2020

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am 12539: Yip!
	♥ 9:02am TDK60: Mornin' DJ Joe. It's August. Just sayin' ..
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Marley P. Dogg: Yip, yip, yip, .... yip of earl, yip, yip, yip
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG and fellow yip yips!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am The Oscar: Mornin'! God I love a good soul intro monologue.
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am YETI BOB: I don't think this affair is going to turn out well...
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Strandlund: Yip Yip Yip...Boing Boing Boing!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am Krys O.: Greetings!
	9:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ....after boing boing happy happy she get all where is this relationship going - as usual...
	9:07am allie: yip yip yip yip... yep!, it's a hippy!.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am YETI BOB: Also a bit confused by the title. What kind of horn does this guy play? Or is he, like, the devil?
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy happy!
	9:08am John in Phoenixville: Good morning and happy August, Joe McG!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08am PKNY: "Wings Upon Your Horn"...woah, Loretta Lynn went all in on the euphemisms when writing this one!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09am Brian in UK: Hey Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09am YETI BOB: Probably a baritone sax.... can't hang wings on a small horn.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09am PKNY: Oops, I mean double entendre, me fail english.
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am sydnius: Both are correct
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am LastWhiteRhino: Joe, you're killing me with this Tami Lynn selection .
	♥ 9:10am Joe McG: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the show. Hope your Monday morning doesn't find you with your wings on someone's horns.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12am Brian in UK: A single ententre is enough for me.
	9:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not that there's anything wrong with that...
	9:13am David in London: Hello all you groovy Yippers. Hey Joe. TDK, Yeti Bob, Rev.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13am ratso: Good Morning, Joe, yippers.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15am YETI BOB: Good afternoon (in London), David! How was the weekend?
	🎸 ♥ 9:15am LastWhiteRhino: Love is a many SPLENDA thang !
	♥ 9:16am Joe McG: @LWR: Do you mean it's artificial and poisonous? :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:16am LastWhiteRhino: Joe...ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16am PaulRobeson1920: That aspartame
	🎸 ♥ 9:17am PaulRobeson1920: GiveS rats cancer
	9:18am fm Mike: Wow. This is one heck of an album. Thank you for introducing us to this Joe! And morning everybody
	🎸 ♥ 9:18am PaulRobeson1920: I love love lol and even heartbreak has its ups downs and stuff
	♥ 9:19am TDK60: These are '72 tracks. (Is Gaylord Fields aware? awake?) / Hello David in London.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19am PaulRobeson1920: This Song about heartbreak is wow good
	♥ 9:19am Joe McG: Sure, fm Mike! It's an old favorite, I try not to trot it out too often.
	9:20am David in London: Yeti Bob, good thanks man. Lots of time outside in the sunshine. And a Saturday evening barbecue even. Yourself?
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am Marley P. Dogg: Anyone do anything fun this weekend?
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am YETI BOB: @D(iL): Similar - had a few friends over for an outdoor barbecue - lamb skewers with fresh eggplant & cherry tomatoes from the garden, which were really good. And then went out with my wife (who is a very good sport!) for a kayak trip on the Chicago river yesterday - still exploring and trying to find the best spots to launch a boat. Got caught in the rain, and had to paddle through an "aeration station" which was like really turbulent and wild rapids. Urban kayaking is an adventure! @Marley - yes :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:25am Brian in UK: @MPD cemented in a post and fitted a gate to the chicken run.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am Marley P. Dogg: You guys had much more exciting weekends than me
	9:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ....yesterday's coffee tastes like refrigerator...which is not quite my cat's breath smells like cat food but something like that...
	9:28am kpx: well I avoided taking anything with aspartame in it. but I did weaked and had some soda with some good old-fashioned high fructose corn syrup.
	9:28am dano59: I went tubing on Cayuga Lake and stuck around late into the evening playing guitars on the beach. Perfect summer night.
	9:29am David in London: Yeti Bob, fresh garden veg is the best. I’m not quite as convinced by the aeration station passage though. Yikes. Still, it’s a good title for your next concept album....
	♥ 9:30am TDK60: Had a visit from my brother. We walked in a park. Last night, I watched that film on Scott Walker.
	9:31am Bloom: where is this Say A Little Prayer cover from?
	♥ 9:31am Joe McG: @Bloom: It's on her Soundcloud page.
	9:32am dano59: Excelkent one-two
	🎸 ♥ 9:33am The Oscar: Oof, something about the lyrics to "Don't Make Me Over" just hits me like a ton of bricks every single time. So good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33am YETI BOB: Oh, it was terrifying and I'd rather not repeat the experience! We didn't know about it in advance. If I had looked it up I would have read: "The Devon aeration station presents a hazard. When operating, three blowers force air into injectors on both sides of the channel. Do not paddle in the aerated water. It reduces the buoyancy of both boats and people and the currents can result in conditions equal to Class 3 whitewater. Paddlers are advised to turn around and head back the way they came before reaching this station." But we (foolishly) did it anyway, and survived. I had to paddle with all my strength to fight the machines.
	9:33am dano59: Excellent Bacharach one-two, joe i mean!
	♥ 9:34am TDK60: Bloom, it's a Bacharach/David tune, first done by Dionne Warwick I think.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34am Webhamster Henry: Hi Joe and Diskwasher enthusiasts! My pal Alec Cumming just did a Bacharach show over on WPKN, there's an archive fans can hear. He did the liner notes on the 3-CD Bachrach set. archives.wpkn.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:34am Brian in UK: Joe, here is a Lianne La Havas interview you might want to see. www.theguardian.com...
	9:34am John in Phoenixville: I get chills with those low strings in the intro before Dionne starts singing. Then the chills don’t let up for the entire song!
	🎸 ♥ 9:35am YETI BOB: "All Kinds of People Love Burt Bacharach" by Jim O'Rourke is a really fun album. Especially if you grew up with these songs.
	9:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: On TV Dionne said Bacharach gave a tune to someone else & got her upset & said 'don't make me over' cause that was the slang in her hood - & Bacharach riffed on it...
	🎸 ♥ 9:42am Webhamster Henry: You'll want to see this live Belgian 1964 Dionne W. club show. www.youtube.com...
	9:42am allie: So, Don't Make me over = Don't pass me over?
	♥ 9:44am Joe McG: @allie: Or maybe "don't try to make me into what I'm not." @Henry: Many thanks!
	9:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...get the impression it's like - don't do me over mofo...in the song seems like don't change me now you got me??
	♥ 9:45am TDK60: I'm not sure but I don't think anyone successfully escaped from Alcatraz. Most drowned or were shot.
	9:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Seriously in those 1960s shows its like there's all these trendy boys - & Dionne is this elegant grownup...
	🎸 ♥ 9:46am YETI BOB: @TDK60: Clint Eastwood escaped from Alcatraz!
	9:47am 2020 is but a blip: Pip Blom backwards is Molb Pip. Surfer Blood backwards is 1968. It's a hit!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48am melinda: Nice tunes
	♥ 9:48am TDK60: Yeti: Ah, now I know.
	♥ 9:49am Joe McG: @TDK: I'm not sure if anyone was actually eaten by sharks like in this song, but I'd be curious.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am gilmour: Good morning Joe; wonderful to be listening.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am gilmour: Oh, and hello to my fellow peanuts.
	9:51am allie: @Joe McG & RRN63, Got it!. don't do me wrong, or don't try to change me.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am gilmour: Shark death in Maine last week; sad.
	♥ 9:52am Joe McG: @gilmour: Oh yeah, I saw that. Maybe not the best song to play today, oops.
	9:53am GListener MW: That IS always sad when sharks die. :<
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am gilmour: maybe, but it's always something, Joe
	9:55am GListener MW: This track’s reminding me of “Forget About Dre” by Easy Dre.
	♥ 9:55am Joe McG: True enough! :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:56am YETI BOB: I thought "Lonataka Records" had to be a New Jersey label (Lonataka Brook & park in Morristown) - but no, it's based in L.A. Maybe run by an NJ expat?
	9:58am GListener MW: Robert Hazard!!! Amazing
	🎸 ♥ 9:58am YETI BOB: Also - it's "Loantaka", not "Lonataka" :)
	♥ 9:59am Joe McG: Thanks, Bob! I had it written two ways and I went with the more musical-sounding one!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am gilmour: "Evan Taylor is a record producer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and independent label owner, he also owns a studio in Downtown L.A.’s flower district. Growing-up in Madison, New Jersey,[...]"
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Ken From Hyde Park: While we're on the subject, the Surfer Blood / Pip Blom entry says 2002, but I suspect that's 2020?
	10:01am Rick A.: This is a great song from a great film which connects old fashioned stage musical with new wave/punk attitude, thanks for playing, Joe!
	♥ 10:02am Joe McG: @Ken: Thanks, Ken. You guys are keeping me honest today.
	10:02am Bill W: STARSTRUCK is my fave '80s film musical, not that there's a ton of competition... btw it is on the Criterion Channel this month.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02am The Oscar: I like this Jo Kennedy, but she should really drop out and support Ed Markey.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02am YETI BOB: @gilmour: Good find! As they say, you can take the boy out of New Jersey, but you can't take New Jersey out of the boy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Keepin' the "Accu" in "Accu-playlist"!
	♥ 10:03am Joe McG: @Ken: Maybe I should switch to Joe B.'s "Inaccuplaylist"!
	♥ 10:04am TDK60: Pete T. Just started his autobiography.
	♥ 10:04am Joe McG: @Bill W: Thanks for that news, Bill. Everyone who hasn't seen "Starstruck" should see it, it's great.
	10:04am Bill W: (re the '80s musical... PURPLE RAIN has great performance scenes of course, but is kinda deadly when the music stops.)
	10:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Nose Identity Idol
	10:07am sphere: hullo. Pete sounds a bit like Richard Thompson on this one.
	10:07am Really Lisa: Curious, what did the guys in the English Beat (The Beat) think of this rendition? Crowd sourcing here, instead of der Google. Also, hello all.
	10:07am Rick A.: I never understood the mania over Purple Rain in the summer of 1984. I know Prince is talented singer, songwriter, guitarist producer. However, the film is not really that interesting. I guess it has an intriguing look, dark palette. However, as he proved with Under the Cherry Moon, Prince is not a great actor. There is always Pennies from Heaven as a polarizing 80s musical.
	♥ 10:09am Joe McG: @ReallyLisa: I wonder if anyone ever asked Dave Wakeling that question? I'd be curious myself/ @TDK60: I was amazed by how boring PT's book was considering how interesting he is.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Mike Sin: I should revisit this live Townshend LP. Back in the '80s, when I was smart as hell and knew it all, I could not stand the version of "Barefootin'"
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am YETI BOB: @ReallyLisa: There's a nice story on the Wikipedia article about the song. Basically, Pete Townshend called up Dave Wakeling to ask him how to play the song - it's in an unusual tuning
	10:09am Rick A.: Really Lisa, I saw the English Beat a few years ago at the Highline Ballroom, partly at Joe's recommendation. Dave Wakeling talked up the Townshend version, saying how much he appreciated his version.
	10:09am sphere: I think Purple Rain was more an act of self-mythmaking than actual fiction, and since Prince obviously thought he was godlike, that vibe really blew people away.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am YETI BOB: quoting from Wikipedia: "I got a phone call at 11 in the morning, and somebody gave me the phone and said, “It’s Pete Townshend for you.” And I said, “Of course it is, he phones about this time every Saturday doesn’t he?” [Laughs.] I thought it was somebody making a joke. I picked up very sarcastically, 'Oh, hello Pete.' And he said, 'Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour, and we’re trying to work out your song 'Save It For Later,' but we can’t work out the tuning.' They presumed it was DADGAD as well, and couldn’t make it work, and so I had to explain that I’d made a mistake and it was not DADGAD, it was DADAAD. And he laughed and said, 'Oh, thank heavens for that! We've been breaking our fingers trying to get our hands around these chords.'"
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Hughie Considine: I saw the English Beat without Ranking Roger and just couldn't get into it. Obviously spoiled from having seen them in their prime.
	♥ 10:10am Joe McG: @Rick A and Yeti Bob: Great info!
	10:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'ma be blunt: Prince is/was the most broadly Talented artist I can think of as both Musician & Performer... but I never felt I needed anything by him. I feel like MTV ruined him. He was caught up in his identity crises & I wish he'd just been an Artist & gone deep. ...So how arrogant is that ??
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am Mike Sin: re: Townshend's autobio The only rock-star autobio a bit more boring than that one was Clapton's. What these guys think it very interesting about themselves varies widely from what I think makes them interesting.
	10:11am Really Lisa: A wealth of knowledge here, thanks Rick A and Yeti Bob!
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am YETI BOB: "I'm sitting here with David Gilmour".... love it!
	10:12am Rick A.: Sphere, you have a point. It helped that Prince did not have much dialogue to reinforce the silent mystical prophet vibe. I didn't really buy it then and I don't buy it now though the guy is talented.
	10:12am Bill W: The PENNIES FROM HEAVEN film is not bad, but I think it pales alongside the original BBC series with Bob Hoskins (if you don't mind super-bummers).
	10:12am Rachel Bo Bachel: This madalitso band is beautiful!
	♥ 10:13am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx for Pete Beat anecdote. Iggy the raconteur.
	10:14am wizard frog: woa, didn't recognise iggy pop's voice
	10:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Midwestern like Pidge??
	🎸 ♥ 10:15am waters7: Hey Joe, thanks for making me feel young and old simultaneously.
	♥ 10:15am ifeelfatnsassy: Dusty up in here...
	10:16am The Butterman: Iggy as Sam Elliot.
	10:16am Rick A.: The Blues Brothers is probably my favorite 80s musical. I was only 14 and the film taught me who John Lee Hooker and Elmore James are among others. Given my love of Robert Altman's work, I really like Popeye, another polarizing musical. It has an awkward pace, sometimes too frenetic and other times borderline catatonic though Altman created perhaps the most authentically animated world with live action actors.
	♥ 10:16am Joe McG: @waters7: Ha ha ha, you're welcome!
	🎸 ♥ 10:17am The Oscar: Pauline Kael wrote that Prince is shot in Purple Rain the way Joseph von Sternberg shot Marlene Dietrich, which I think is probably the perfect key to why it's so popular/compelling.
	10:17am Rachel Bo Bachel: Loved that Iggy story. Reminded me of that Jimmy Stewart poem about his dog that he read on Johnny Carson
	10:17am allie: @Yeti Bob, yeah but is it thee David gilmour?
	🎸 ♥ 10:18am gilmour: great story; sounds like my kids, though: DADAAD!
	♥ 10:19am Joe McG: @RBR: Ooh, I remember that!
	♥ 10:19am Glorious Estephonic: Beautiful Show @Joe McG ! Hi Rachel Bo Bachel !
	🎸 ♥ 10:19am PaulRobeson1920: Dogs are great, aren't they? Friendly dogs are my favorite, right after cadaver dogs and ice cream dogs and shaggy dogs
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am Jason from Houston: THIS SONG... TOO EARLY TO CRY.
	10:20am Toothgrinder Tom: @sphere I assumed that was Richard Thompson.
	10:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Still want Townshend, Richard Thompson & Bob Mould in a room together.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am pantz: I could listen to the Paris, Texas soundtrack all day.
	10:21am Rachel Bo Bachel: Estephonic! <3 <3 <3
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: This song actually gives me shivers on my arms.
	♥ 10:22am Lixiviated Life: oh, hi joe!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am pantz: Paris, Texas was a sad movie but the dirty deal Harry got in Wild At Heart by the hands of Diane Ladd was much sadder to me.
	10:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: All into Ali Farka & Buena Vista - but somehow haven't got Ry Cooder in my soul yet. Ignorance I presume.
	10:23am Toothgrinder Tom: People do seem to have very special feelings about their dogs.
	♥ 10:23am TDK60: Ry is a treasure.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24am Jason from Houston: <3 <3 <3
	♥ 10:25am mariano: Heya Joe and all. pantz: I want to go Buffalo hunting!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am pantz: @mariano dirty deeds
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am Brian in UK: @Rev, agree. Put him alongside Lyle Lovett, great performers but somehow do not move me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29am PaulRobeson1920: This “El Bulevar de la Desilusion” Sounds like The Doors performing in the style of Tropicalia
	🎸 ♥ 10:29am YETI BOB: @RevRab: "A Meeting By The River" is a really good Ry Cooder record (collab with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt), I listened to that one over and over back in the 90s.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30am PaulRobeson1920: Oh yes
	10:30am Toothgrinder Tom: When the Flintstones came out, nobody watched it but those few who did all started bands.
	♥ 10:30am mariano: Fred Flintstone's Spanish name was Pablo Picapiedra ("rock picker" as with a pickaxe).
	🎸 ♥ 10:31am ratso: in the Pixies' song Crackity Jones, they name-check Paco Picopiedra.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31am YETI BOB: "La Alondra de la Frontera" (or "The Lark of the Border" in English).
	10:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeti oh yeah! Recorded in Santa Barbara when I was there btw... Good point yeah... I'm all into Gittar & ain't nobody say Ry ain't awesome so ...his albums are laidback from what I can tell - so I haven't had requisite patience I think...
	🎸 ♥ 10:32am YETI BOB: (I don't know all this stuff, I just look it up.)
	10:33am sphere: For me, the best part of the Blues Brothers was the segment featuring John Lee Hooker. It felt so real, so much like a gig that he might have played back in the late 40s.
	10:34am allie: but he operated a dinosaur. what's Spanish for that?.
	10:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Toothgrinder for the win.
	10:34am Dean: A Meeting by the River is one of many superb recordings engineered by Kavi Alexander, whose Water Lily Acoustics label famously uses Tim de Paravacini's tube gear. Kavi lives and works in Santa Barbara, hence the venue.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35am pantz: If we're doing movie recommendations, I nominate "Blue Ruin" . If you like tension-filled revenge movies (a la "Oldboy") you'll love this one.
	10:36am Dean: Cooder's Jazz and Bop 'til You Drop are both great albums.
	10:36am U know better <3: New rule : if you can't pronounce it, don't play it. There are too many resources available to us today to learn the proper translation of a word, name, person, place, or thing. It reads as privileged and can be seen as a disrespect to the artist, especially when being read by said white dude playing a song dug from the crates to the city of New York!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am Marley P. Dogg: Can we hear some Hooters next!
	10:37am Really Lisa: Oohh, thanks @pantz.. Oldboy was watch-two-times worthy!
	10:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx Dean
	10:39am John in Phoenixville: I also grew up with Robert Hazard on WMMR, Joe! But I missed it this morning because I was on a call. Will catch up in the archives.
	10:39am wizard frog: I really didn't get Wild at Heart when I first watched it month or so ago. Will try Blue Ruin though.
	10:39am Palakaloo: And now for something completely different.
	10:40am Dingdingding: Harry Dean in my mind's eye will always be as in Repo Man
	10:40am allie: Whale on those rib bones
	10:41am Stashu not signed in but who cares: llama Serenade always makes me go crazy thank you Joe
	10:42am Dingdingding: Got the llama fever and the alpaca flu
	10:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ' I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. ' - David Lynch
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: Hi, Stashu!! :)
	10:45am Colleen: Cyndi Layper!! Blue Angel!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45am Brian in UK: Thought Wim Wender's cinematographer, Robby Muller really helped make his films atmospheric. Kings of the Road might be my favourite and one of the best beginnings to a film.
	10:45am Toothgrinder Tom: Harry Dean Stanton was good in ‘Alien,’ too.
	10:45am Colleen: Lovin it!! Thanks Joe!!
	♥ 10:45am adampsyche: thanks for the show, Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45am efd: Between this Blue Angel song and the demo of "Money Changes Everything" that Matt Fiveash played on Saturday it's been a big few days for vintage Cyndi Lauper on WFMU!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46am YETI BOB: RevRab1163: I don't expect life to make sense, but I expect movies to make more sense than the junk Lynch churns out. Sure, just tack the ending of a different movie onto an unrelated, unfinished TV pilot. Nobody will care, right?
	♥ 10:47am Joe McG: @efd: And of course the Robert Hazard connection! @admpsy: My pleasure! @Colleen: You bet!
	♥ 10:47am mariano: I hadn't heard Cyndi Lauper in years, then a couple of years ago a cousin of mine played a video of a concert she gave in 2012 where she sang a lot of American standards, and man, what a voice. She was just belting 'em out.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47am tim from champaign (now washington): My avatar was Cyndi's manager!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47am efd: I just saw Robert Hazard on the playlist after I posted! Was stuck in meetings before and missed it. :(
	🎸 ♥ 10:48am tim from champaign (now washington): Hi Joe and fellow McGaskites!
	♥ 10:48am mariano: tim FC: That's right, Capt. Lou Albano.
	♥ 10:48am Joe McG: @efd: Do you know the RCA LP? Is it really so bad?
	10:49am P-90: Thumbs up for Vintage Cyndi. And The Jelly Beans.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49am efd: I don't know it enough to have an opinion, Joe.
	10:50am Dingdingding: Captain Lou! it's charisma, it's pandemonium! 9,8,24563, sound off!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50am tim from champaign (now washington): Cyndi helped Wendy Richter win the belt from The Fabulous Moolah. In retrospect: that wasn't right. The belt should have been buried with Moolah.
	10:50am allie: Yo Joe, time to go. bye yo'all.
	♥ 10:51am Listener Baby: Good morning, Baby Joe. Good morning all. Everybody hanging tough?
	♥ 10:51am Joe McG: @efd: I never see it around to try it out. It must have laid a pretty big egg to be so scarce. I mean in the wild. There are probably 500 copies on Discogs for $3.
	♥ 10:52am Joe McG: Bye, allie. Hello, Baby! (Sung like Ruth Etting)
	🎸 ♥ 10:54am WoodsOfNH: Speaking of Lynch, I really enjoy his daily weather reports. Also, that Rabbit series managed to be both hilarious and creepy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55am WoodsOfNH: Wow, this is like a sister tune to The Great Atomic Power.
	10:55am MplsCoco: Good morning Joe!
	10:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I has coffee & will now do bad chickenpickin'...
	🎸 ♥ 10:56am YETI BOB: @JoeMcG: No joke: 109 For Sale from $0.86. (Last comment, bye everyone! See y'all later)
	♥ 10:56am Mark Hurst: Loving this Single File, Joe
	🎸 ♥ 10:56am Brian in UK: Ages since I have heard Dave Mason's The Lonely One' with Stevie Wonder on harmonica.
	♥ 10:57am Roberto: Diggin' the Dave Mason!
	♥ 10:57am mariano: Bye YETI, allie.
	♥ 10:57am Joe McG: Hey Coco! Hey, Mark Hurst! Looking forward to the show tonight as always.
	♥ 10:57am TDK60: This was a fine album this Mason is from - Alone Together.
	♥ 10:58am Mark Hurst: Thanks. I have some choice words for those hearings last week.
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Mason did the Acoustic on Jimi's Watchtower & Hendrix rode him pretty hard reportedly...
	♥ 10:59am Joe McG: @TDK: I like the color of the vinyl. It's cool! And the fold out of him in the top hat is also cool.
	♥ 11:00am Roberto: BREWWWWWSSSSSS
	11:00am Rachel Bo Bachel: GOD BLESS YOU JOE for playing this!!!!!! (Tunnel of Love!
	🎸 ♥ 11:00am WoodsOfNH: Tunnel of Love, my least favorite Bruce record.
	♥ 11:00am Carmichael: Heya Joe and acolytes. Whoops, my Springsteen muting circuit just kicked in.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00am tim from champaign (now washington): I forgot this Bruce song started out like a Madonna song.
	11:01am Rachel Bo Bachel: Woods it’s worth revisiting!!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am WoodsOfNH: ...and it finishes like a Phil Collins song.
	11:01am Rachel Bo Bachel: Woods nooo lol
	♥ 11:02am Roberto: I recall my Bruce-lovin' college friends reacting to this record with a collective "WTF"
	♥ 11:02am Jeff Golick: 1987 didn't sound all that great.
	11:02am (another) Patrick in Hoboken: Brings back the gaudy mid-1980s!
	11:02am Rachel Bo Bachel: It’s very “80s” it’s true, but the songwriting is so solid, and I’d say “mature” compared to say “the wild the innocent and the East Street shuffle”
	♥ 11:02am TDK60: Joe, one of those old geetar albums with an all-star cast. LA musicians.
	♥ 11:03am mariano: The theme of my life the last few days has been the 80s. I found a trove of 80s Letterman shows online and now Tunnel of Love. I'd so much rather be there right now.
	♥ 11:03am Roberto: And not just to the music but the album cover asl well.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am WoodsOfNH: @Roberto Exactly my reaction. Peoples' love of this album has always puzzled me.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am WoodsOfNH: Good lyrics cannot rise above musical cheeze-wiz.
	11:04am Rachel Bo Bachel: Roberto it didn’t speak to me until my mid thirties when I had kids, and now it really really does. Which is funny because that’s when my dad, in his mid-30s, played it for us when it came out and we were little... cycle of life baby!!!
	♥ 11:04am drew: Please tell me something from Pat Boone's In a Metal Mood is up next . . .
	🎸 ♥ 11:05am tim from champaign (now washington): On top of being a great DJ, Joe is also excellent at stirring the pot!
	♥ 11:05am Jeff Golick: It's been over 30 years. I don't think even nostalgia is going to help save that sound.
	11:06am SueAdynamo: I automatically started howling along with Bruce. that goes waaaay back in my head.
	11:06am Rachel Bo Bachel: Woods even brilliant disguise?? You are beeakin’ my heart!
	11:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: [...not in Jersey - big '?' over head...]
	11:06am Rachel Bo Bachel: Omg me too Joe! Wall of death too. Why is that??
	♥ 11:06am Roberto: This was well before I had any idea I would end up marrying a Bruce-o-phile.
	11:07am Marc Francis: "Tunnel Of Love" is still one of my favourites!
	🎸 ♥ 11:07am WoodsOfNH: @Rachel I hate the entire record and don't own it anymore. I've heard most of them done solo and I like them that way but this record I just can't stand.
	♥ 11:07am Jeff Golick: Rollercoaster...of love?
	11:07am P-90: Another home run Single File this week!
	♥ 11:07am Hubig Pie: Oh, that be my fav Dire Straits LP
	♥ 11:08am mariano: Jeff: Yeah, that very 80s-sounding production. So many songs where the drums sounded like they were recorded in an airplane hangar.
	11:08am TVP: Thought of one: Palisades Park by Freddy Cannon
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoater"
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am 12539: The Hollies' carousel song.
	🎸 ♥ 11:09am PaulRobeson1920: “I can’t respect a man who is unable to spell word 7 different ways” - 1810’s quote (before the standardized dictionary) I suppose the same goes for pronunciation! The mad power of Language! Hahahaaa the more the merrier!
	🎸 ♥ 11:09am tim from champaign (now washington): ESG's My Love For You! Great rollercoaster song. Also, Dirtbombs' Cedar Point '76.
	11:09am robfoto: Roller Coaster by the Sea, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
	11:09am Ian: Ferris Wheel, by the Everly Brothers. Which was surely the inspiration for R &LT’s Wall of Death. (And RT filched the melody for the B-side Living in Luxury.)
	♥ 11:09am TDK60: Ferris Wheel - Donovan.
	11:09am dano59: On the Boardwalk - Uncle Floyd Wild Blly's Circus Story
	11:10am Really Lisa: Oooh Joe, Donovan's Ferris Wheel!! TDK by a few second!
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Andrew_in_WI: How about Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love?"
	♥ 11:10am Mark Hurst: "She's a Beauty" by The Tubes (I remember the video involves a tunnel-of-love ride)
	11:10am john from LA: Funnel of Love? Wanda Jackson and the cramps...funnel cake of love
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Ken From Hyde Park: Meghan's intro to her Underwater Theme Park show. "... They're all here. They're all real. They're all alive." Creepy!
	11:11am Dean: "Love Rollercoaster," Ohio Players
	🎸 ♥ 11:11am The Oscar: I suppose "Helter Skelter" technically counts...
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am Hughie Considine: "Rollercoaster Ride" - Dear Nora
	11:13am Rachel Bo Bachel: Sugar mountain by Neil Young!
	11:13am P-90: Is “Under the Boardwalk” sufficiently amusement park-related?
	♥ 11:13am Alvy Singer: Lakeside Park by Rush
	♥ 11:13am Carmichael: Did someone mention Palisades Park?
	11:14am Dean: "Stukas over Disneyland," The Dickies
	♥ 11:14am TDK60: I got to Palisades Pk. a few times as a young-un.
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What about Juniper's Dragon ride toon? C'mon. Ramones 'I Love Her So' - on the coaster & around again...
	11:14am Ian: Oops -wrong song for Living in a Luxury. It’s another EB tune from same period.
	11:14am dano59: Sharon - David Bromberg Wonder Wheel - Dan Zanes Bozo - JoeJo I'm sure Joe Ely / Flatlanders have a couple Also the Colorblind James Experience
	11:15am Brendan: Lakeside Park or Carnies
	🎸 ♥ 11:15am 12539: Belle & Sebastian, Rollercoaster Ride
	11:16am :::: Maybe more of a playground feature than amusement park ride, but "Seesaw" by Don Covay
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...good list coming together here!...
	♥ 11:16am slugluv1313: greetings, Joe and Skeleton Crew and everyone! THANKS SO MUCH for Bruce's "Tunnel of Love" (i believe there are other songs with that title? Dire Straits, etc.) -- the video featured Coney Island Sideshow performers (pretty sure i have a copy of that on VHS lurking about!) -- and, there is a documentary in the works (FINALLY!) about Michael "Tattoo Mike" Wilson: vimeo.com...
	11:16am Dean: A stretch, but "Ride my Seesaw," The Moody Blues
	🎸 ♥ 11:16am ratso: Rollercoaster by The Shazam
	♥ 11:16am slugluv1313: @ P-90 -- i was wondering about "Under the Boardwalk too!
	♥ 11:16am Carmichael: Amanda, Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World.
	♥ 11:17am Alvy Singer: The Beach Boys "Amusement Parks USA"
	♥ 11:17am slugluv1313: and The Ramones' "Rockaway Beach"
	♥ 11:17am Joe McG: Wow, you guys have a lot of great suggestions, thanks!
	11:18am Earth Walker: The Voice ! The Music ! Thanks Joe !
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am Hughie Considine: Four-year-old Annie Ross's version of "Loch Lomond" on "Our Gang Follies of 1938" is pure joy. If you haven't heard it, you should!
	♥ 11:19am Joe McG: @Hughie: I haven't and I will!
	11:21am P-90: Is “It’s a Small World” too Disneyland-specific? I know there are Jazz, Steel Pan, and even Metal covers of it. And if there was ever a song the Ramones SHOULD have covered (or did they?)...
	11:21am Stillwell Coney Islander: Rip Annie Ross. Twisted is a great song that she wrote.
	11:23am Rachel Bo Bachel: 12539 good one!
	11:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hearin' it P-90!
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am tim from champaign (now washington): Hey, what happened to Dire Straits? I'm not complaining here....
	11:25am Dean: "Continental Circus World," Gong
	♥ 11:26am Joe McG: @tim: The library doesn't have a copy of "Making Movies" and I didn't think to bring my copy. :(
	♥ 11:26am slugluv1313: Walter Egan also had a song called "Tunnel of Love"
	11:26am Ian: Correction: Thompson filched Living in Luxury’s tune from The Facts of Life by the Everlys. Same album as a Ferris Wheel (Gone Gone Gone).
	🎸 ♥ 11:26am WoodsOfNH: @Joe McG Check your inbox.
	🎸 ♥ 11:30am Ken From Hyde Park: At this rate of song collection, you'll have enough to fill a marathon premium CD, Joe. <wink>
	♥ 11:30am Joe McG: @Woods: Thanks for whatever you sent! I can't really go in there until after the show, though, too many balls to juggle already. We have to get Three Chord Joe up and running soon....
	🎸 ♥ 11:31am WoodsOfNH: @Joe McG: Yay, technology! Anyway, I'll spoil the surprise: it's a solo version of Tunnel of Love
	11:31am Dean: Two days in a row Walter Egan shows up among the comments. That's cool.
	♥ 11:31am Joe McG: @Woods: You rock!
	11:32am MplsCoco: ❤️ this
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am tim from champaign (now washington): Hahaha - I was thinking that this is a chopped and screwed DOn't Change by INXS and sure enough, it is.
	11:32am Rachel Bo Bachel: Did we already say carnival of sorts by REM? Not sure the lyrics really fit the bill...
	🎸 ♥ 11:33am Hughie Considine: This slo-mo cover of a rip-roaring song puts me in mind of the excellent, toned-down cover of Underworld's "Born Slippy" by Holy Sons.
	🎸 ♥ 11:33am efd: @tim just had the exact same reaction!
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am Ken From Hyde Park: I believe "Big Dipper" from Jethro Tull refers to a British roller coaster.
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am tim from champaign (now washington): @efd - ha! In recent times when I've caught INXS' hits in passing, I've surprised myself in thinking that they were pretty solid.
	11:36am Rachel Bo Bachel: @woods I hear you man. My husband also has a hard time w/ all the synths etc on there. Fair enough ;)
	♥ 11:37am xtrakrispy: @hughie - where might I find that Holy Son's cover of Born Slippy. A simple search hasn't yielded it yet. Still looking...
	🎸 ♥ 11:37am Mike Sin: Zachary Cale is one talented gent.
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am WoodsOfNH: @Rachael Yeah. I really took an instant dislike to the sound. Synths, percussion, the overuse of the danged clave on several tracks. On the other hand, I just listened to a solo electric piano version of the song and really liked it.
	🎸 ♥ 11:39am Hughie Considine: @xtrakrispy, that is odd! I feel like I heard it on WFMU but couldn't google it. I have an MP3. I can send it to you via email. It's stunning.
	🎸 ♥ 11:40am WoodsOfNH: I'm also one of those people who don't process the lyrics up front. On a lot of music I have to actively try to listen to them or they sort of don't exist.
	11:40am listener monica: yeah yeah yeah!
	11:41am listener monica: long time no hear. hi joe! i mostly don't know what day it is anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 11:42am WoodsOfNH: Ha, somebody on Matt Elliott's Bandcamp page referred to him as the king of sad bastard music. Really like this.
	🎸 ♥ 11:43am WoodsOfNH: @listener monica It's last Thursday
	🎸 ♥ 11:43am tim from champaign (now washington): @WoodsOfNH - I'm exactly the same way!
	♥ 11:44am Joe McG: Hang in there, monica! @Woods: I'll have to read these lyrics in case you can't hear past his sepulchral vocals.
	♥ 11:44am xtrakrispy: Thanks @hughie. It's turning out to be a hard one to find! I worked the original Underworld version at TVT back in the day. If you can send it to xtrakrispy at yahoo that would be cool!
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am Ken From Hyde Park: @listener monica - Matt Warwick was the DJ on Wake 'n' Bake this morning, so I presume it must be Blorbsday today.
	11:45am Dean: "Hot Fun in the Summertime," Sly & the Family Stone (refers to the county fair) "Saturday in the Park," Chicago "Fun House," The Stooges
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am WoodsOfNH: This show is really making my Bandcamp list grow.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Hughie Considine: Happy to oblige, @xtra!
	11:47am Rachel Bo Bachel: @woods yay re: solo version of overproduced stuff!
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...some lovely stuff to jam to all coffeed up this has been...
	11:49am Brendan: @Joe Here’s a very nice version of The Cuckoo By The Osborne Brothers. https://youtu.be/HiYKMBsWZfM
	♥ 11:50am Joe McG: @Brendan: Weird! I almost brought the Osborne Bros. this week! Maybe next week will be bluegrass time. Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 11:52am WoodsOfNH: I'd forgotten this but on the same Tubes record containing She's A Beauty there's a song called "Theme Park"
	♥ 11:52am mariano: Thanks Joe, bye everyone!
	11:52am Niko, Copenhagen: Hey Joe. I had some things to do, but I simply could not shut off the radio. So I ended up cooking up a chicken dinner wiht my son. While listening. You pick good songs and you serve them in the right order. That's all I have to say. Thanks. From Denmark. A more or less socialist country...
	11:52am Brendan: @Joe That particular album is fantastic with beautiful harmonies.
	11:52am Rick A.: Sairie sounds eerily similar to Meg Baird and Espers. I guess it's a psych folk thing and I mostly understand.
	🎸 ♥ 11:53am McGroovey: Good show. I was in a mood for Muzik this morning.
	🎸 ♥ 11:53am 12539: Thanks, Joe! Stay well!
	♥ 11:53am Joe McG: Thanks. Niko, I hope the chicken dinner turned out great! I loved Copenhagen when I visited there. And thanks to for everyone for listening and commenting today. Have a great week and I'll see you next time.
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am gilmour: thanks very much, joe; wonderful show
	♥ 11:54am Mark Hurst: Thanks, Joe! Great show.
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks Joe!!!!
	11:54am Dean: "Amusement Park," 50 Cent
	11:55am Rick A.: Thank you, Joe, this show is one of my favorites on FMU, not to be missed.
	♥ 11:55am TDK60: Thanks Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Stevel: Joe and all skeletons: Got my swag on Friday. Thank you SOOOO much for keeping up with that, amongst your other duties. You are all very appreciated!
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. All hail the mighty Full Sturgeon Moon!
	11:55am P-90: Nice “Apache”
	11:55am Joe B: pat irwin rules!
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am gilmour: never noticed how pompeiian sky your background color is before
	11:55am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe you are the consummate gentleman and host and we love ya!!!
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am McGroovey: The Night the Carousel Burned Down (Todd Rundgren).
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Hughie Considine: This show has made me happy - thanks Joe!
	11:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Whut Rachel says.
	♥ 11:57am spodiodi: thanks, Joe! (caught the last few)
	11:57am Brendan: What a show! Thanks Joe
	♥ 11:57am slugluv1313: fantastic show, Joe -- thanks so much! until next time -- be well, stay COOL everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 11:58am PaulRobeson1920: She Loves you yeah, yeah, yeah! Great program! Thanks Joe and ya’ll
	11:59am Earth Walker: Another excellent show Joe !
	12:00pm P-90: Thanks Joe McG!
	🎸 ♥ 12:33pm Brian in UK: Late entry. The Skeleton and the Roundabout by the Idle Race. Thanks Joe.
	5:57pm Mark in Toronto: Wall of Death by the Hellcats, off Cherry Mansion, 1988. friends of Tav Falco
	🎸 ♥ 3:13pm woodyk: I'm catching up on the show today and really enjoyed it! Hearing Cancion Mixteca was a real treat. I remember watching Paris, Texas some time in the eighties and I think that was my introduction to Ry Cooder. Good to hear this again!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 3, 2020

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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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August 3, 2020: Learning to Live With What You Can't Rise Above

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Tami Lynn	a) Monologue: Introduction to a Love Affair; b) Wings Upon Your Horn	Love Is Here and Now You're Gone	Cotillion	1972	LP			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Tami Lynn	a) Monologue: Hoping; b) Love Is Here and Now You're Gone	Love Is Here and Now You're Gone	Cotillion	1972	LP			0:08:03 (Pop-up)
Tami Lynn	a) Monologue: Final Attempt; b) Can't Last Much Longer	Love Is Here and Now You're Gone	Cotillion	1972	LP			0:12:35 (Pop-up)
Tami Lynn	a) Monologue: The Next Time; b) That's Understanding	Love Is Here and Now You're Gone	Cotillion	1972	LP	..and now she's gone, R.I.P.		0:16:20 (Pop-up)
Mavis Staples	I Have Learned to Do Without You	Only for the Lonely	Volt	1972	LP			0:19:38 (Pop-up)
Angela Muñoz	Top Down "Top Down" by "Angela Muñoz"	Introspection	Linear Labs	2020	CD		*	0:23:47 (Pop-up)
Lianne La Havas	Say a Little Prayer	No Album	Lianne La Havas	2016	MP3	live at The New Parish, Oakland, 2/9/16		0:29:12 (Pop-up)
Dionne Warwick	Don't Make Me Over	Presenting Dionne Warwick	Scepter	1963	LP			0:30:11 (Pop-up)

Surfer Blood	Summer Trope "Summer Trope" by "Surfer Blood"	Carefree Theatre	Kanine	2020	MP3		*	0:42:21 (Pop-up)
Surfer Blood Featuring Pip Blom	Summer Trope	Hard Boiled EP	Persona Non Grata	2020	MP3		*	0:44:51 (Pop-up)
Jess Cornelius	Body Memory "Body Memory" by "Jess Cornelius"	Distance	Loantaka	2020	MP3		*	0:47:44 (Pop-up)
Easy Love	Forget About Love "Forget About Love" by "Easy Love"	Wander Feeler	Loantaka	2020	MP3		*	0:51:46 (Pop-up)
Robert Hazard	Chain Reaction "Chain Reaction" by "Robert Hazard"	Robert Hazard EP	RHA	1982	EP			0:54:52 (Pop-up)
Jo Kennedy	Body and Soul "Body and Soul" by "Jo Kennedy"	Starstruck Oriiginal Motion Picture Soundtrack	A&M	1983	LP			0:58:47 (Pop-up)
Pete Townshend	Save It for Later "Save It for Later" by "Pete Townshend"	Deep End - Live!	Atco	1986	LP			1:02:27 (Pop-up)
Madalitso Band	Chikondi Cholawa "Chikondi Cholawa" by "Madalitso Band"	Wasalala	Les Disques Bongo Joe	2019	LP			1:06:38 (Pop-up)
Iggy Pop	Bedtime Story "Bedtime Story" by "Iggy Pop"	No Album	No Album	2020	MP3	recorded for the New Museum a couple of months ago	*	1:11:45 (Pop-up)
John Hiatt	My Dog and Me "My Dog and Me" by "John Hiatt"	Inside the Tiki Bar	Vanguard	2001	CD			1:14:36 (Pop-up)
Ry Cooder	Cancion Mixteca "Cancion Mixteca" by "Ry Cooder"	Paris, Texas - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Warner Bros.	1985	LP	with Harry Dean Stanton		1:17:55 (Pop-up)
Lydia Mendoza	Mal Hombre "Mal Hombre" by "Lydia Mendoza"	The Best of Lydia Mendoza	Arhoolie	2008	CD	From 1934		1:22:06 (Pop-up)
Los Picapiedra	El Bulevar de la Desilusion	Kabwlú	Vampisoul	2020	MP3	From 1965	*	1:25:33 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s all in a row
Martin Denny	Llama Serenade "Llama Serenade" by "Martin Denny"	single	Liberty	1959	45			1:37:32 (Pop-up)
Marie Laforêt	El Polo "El Polo" by "Marie Laforêt"	single	Festival	1968	45	accompagnée par Los Incas		1:39:55 (Pop-up)
Blue Angel	I Had a Love "I Had a Love" by "Blue Angel"	single	Polydor	1980	45			1:43:03 (Pop-up)
The Jelly Beans	I Wanna Love Him So Bad	single	Red Bird	1964	45			1:45:46 (Pop-up)
Tyrone Davis	I Wish It Was Me "I Wish It Was Me" by "Tyrone Davis"	single	Dakar	1973	45			1:48:27 (Pop-up)
Brush Arbor	Brush Arbor Meeting "Brush Arbor Meeting" by "Brush Arbor"	single	Capitol	1973	45	"Interpolating I'll Fly Away and Old Time Religion"		1:51:53 (Pop-up)
Dave Mason	Only You Know and I Know	single	Blue Thumb	1970	45			1:54:27 (Pop-up)
Bruce Springsteen	Tunnel of Love "Tunnel of Love" by "Bruce Springsteen"	single	Columbia	1987	45			1:58:29 (Pop-up)

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross	I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got	Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing Ellington	Columbia	1961	LP	with the Ike Isaacs Trio		2:16:33 (Pop-up)
Annie Ross	Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying	Annie by Candlelight	Jazz Track	2009	CD	From 1956		2:19:42 (Pop-up)
Gia Margaret	Ash "Ash" by "Gia Margaret"	Mia Gargaret	Orindal	2020	LP		*	2:24:58 (Pop-up)
TJO	Don't Change "Don't Change" by "TJO"	Songs for Peacock	Orindal	2020	LP		*	2:28:01 (Pop-up)
Zachary Cale	False Spring "False Spring" by "Zachary Cale"	False Spring	All Hands Electric	2020	LP		*	2:34:13 (Pop-up)
Matt Elliott	Farewell to All We Know	Farewell to All We Know	Ici D'Ailleurs	2020	CD		*	2:36:06 (Pop-up)
Cinder Well	The Cuckoo "The Cuckoo" by "Cinder Well"	No Summer	Free Dirt	2020	CD		*	2:43:33 (Pop-up)
Sairie	Silent O'Moyle "Silent O'Moyle" by "Sairie"	The Trembling Earth EP	Sairie	2020	CD-R		*	2:46:03 (Pop-up)
Pat Irwin and J. Walter Hawkes	Apache	Wide Open Sky	Pat Irwin Music	2020	CD		*	2:50:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am 12539: Yip!
	♥ 9:02am TDK60: Mornin' DJ Joe. It's August. Just sayin' ..
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Marley P. Dogg: Yip, yip, yip, .... yip of earl, yip, yip, yip
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG and fellow yip yips!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am The Oscar: Mornin'! God I love a good soul intro monologue.
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am YETI BOB: I don't think this affair is going to turn out well...
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Strandlund: Yip Yip Yip...Boing Boing Boing!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am Krys O.: Greetings!
	9:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ....after boing boing happy happy she get all where is this relationship going - as usual...
	9:07am allie: yip yip yip yip... yep!, it's a hippy!.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am YETI BOB: Also a bit confused by the title. What kind of horn does this guy play? Or is he, like, the devil?
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy happy!
	9:08am John in Phoenixville: Good morning and happy August, Joe McG!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08am PKNY: "Wings Upon Your Horn"...woah, Loretta Lynn went all in on the euphemisms when writing this one!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09am Brian in UK: Hey Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09am YETI BOB: Probably a baritone sax.... can't hang wings on a small horn.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09am PKNY: Oops, I mean double entendre, me fail english.
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am sydnius: Both are correct
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am LastWhiteRhino: Joe, you're killing me with this Tami Lynn selection .
	♥ 9:10am Joe McG: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the show. Hope your Monday morning doesn't find you with your wings on someone's horns.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12am Brian in UK: A single ententre is enough for me.
	9:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not that there's anything wrong with that...
	9:13am David in London: Hello all you groovy Yippers. Hey Joe. TDK, Yeti Bob, Rev.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13am ratso: Good Morning, Joe, yippers.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15am YETI BOB: Good afternoon (in London), David! How was the weekend?
	🎸 ♥ 9:15am LastWhiteRhino: Love is a many SPLENDA thang !
	♥ 9:16am Joe McG: @LWR: Do you mean it's artificial and poisonous? :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:16am LastWhiteRhino: Joe...ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16am PaulRobeson1920: That aspartame
	🎸 ♥ 9:17am PaulRobeson1920: GiveS rats cancer
	9:18am fm Mike: Wow. This is one heck of an album. Thank you for introducing us to this Joe! And morning everybody
	🎸 ♥ 9:18am PaulRobeson1920: I love love lol and even heartbreak has its ups downs and stuff
	♥ 9:19am TDK60: These are '72 tracks. (Is Gaylord Fields aware? awake?) / Hello David in London.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19am PaulRobeson1920: This Song about heartbreak is wow good
	♥ 9:19am Joe McG: Sure, fm Mike! It's an old favorite, I try not to trot it out too often.
	9:20am David in London: Yeti Bob, good thanks man. Lots of time outside in the sunshine. And a Saturday evening barbecue even. Yourself?
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am Marley P. Dogg: Anyone do anything fun this weekend?
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am YETI BOB: @D(iL): Similar - had a few friends over for an outdoor barbecue - lamb skewers with fresh eggplant & cherry tomatoes from the garden, which were really good. And then went out with my wife (who is a very good sport!) for a kayak trip on the Chicago river yesterday - still exploring and trying to find the best spots to launch a boat. Got caught in the rain, and had to paddle through an "aeration station" which was like really turbulent and wild rapids. Urban kayaking is an adventure! @Marley - yes :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:25am Brian in UK: @MPD cemented in a post and fitted a gate to the chicken run.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am Marley P. Dogg: You guys had much more exciting weekends than me
	9:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ....yesterday's coffee tastes like refrigerator...which is not quite my cat's breath smells like cat food but something like that...
	9:28am kpx: well I avoided taking anything with aspartame in it. but I did weaked and had some soda with some good old-fashioned high fructose corn syrup.
	9:28am dano59: I went tubing on Cayuga Lake and stuck around late into the evening playing guitars on the beach. Perfect summer night.
	9:29am David in London: Yeti Bob, fresh garden veg is the best. I’m not quite as convinced by the aeration station passage though. Yikes. Still, it’s a good title for your next concept album....
	♥ 9:30am TDK60: Had a visit from my brother. We walked in a park. Last night, I watched that film on Scott Walker.
	9:31am Bloom: where is this Say A Little Prayer cover from?
	♥ 9:31am Joe McG: @Bloom: It's on her Soundcloud page.
	9:32am dano59: Excelkent one-two
	🎸 ♥ 9:33am The Oscar: Oof, something about the lyrics to "Don't Make Me Over" just hits me like a ton of bricks every single time. So good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33am YETI BOB: Oh, it was terrifying and I'd rather not repeat the experience! We didn't know about it in advance. If I had looked it up I would have read: "The Devon aeration station presents a hazard. When operating, three blowers force air into injectors on both sides of the channel. Do not paddle in the aerated water. It reduces the buoyancy of both boats and people and the currents can result in conditions equal to Class 3 whitewater. Paddlers are advised to turn around and head back the way they came before reaching this station." But we (foolishly) did it anyway, and survived. I had to paddle with all my strength to fight the machines.
	9:33am dano59: Excellent Bacharach one-two, joe i mean!
	♥ 9:34am TDK60: Bloom, it's a Bacharach/David tune, first done by Dionne Warwick I think.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34am Webhamster Henry: Hi Joe and Diskwasher enthusiasts! My pal Alec Cumming just did a Bacharach show over on WPKN, there's an archive fans can hear. He did the liner notes on the 3-CD Bachrach set. archives.wpkn.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:34am Brian in UK: Joe, here is a Lianne La Havas interview you might want to see. www.theguardian.com...
	9:34am John in Phoenixville: I get chills with those low strings in the intro before Dionne starts singing. Then the chills don’t let up for the entire song!
	🎸 ♥ 9:35am YETI BOB: "All Kinds of People Love Burt Bacharach" by Jim O'Rourke is a really fun album. Especially if you grew up with these songs.
	9:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: On TV Dionne said Bacharach gave a tune to someone else & got her upset & said 'don't make me over' cause that was the slang in her hood - & Bacharach riffed on it...
	🎸 ♥ 9:42am Webhamster Henry: You'll want to see this live Belgian 1964 Dionne W. club show. www.youtube.com...
	9:42am allie: So, Don't Make me over = Don't pass me over?
	♥ 9:44am Joe McG: @allie: Or maybe "don't try to make me into what I'm not." @Henry: Many thanks!
	9:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...get the impression it's like - don't do me over mofo...in the song seems like don't change me now you got me??
	♥ 9:45am TDK60: I'm not sure but I don't think anyone successfully escaped from Alcatraz. Most drowned or were shot.
	9:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Seriously in those 1960s shows its like there's all these trendy boys - & Dionne is this elegant grownup...
	🎸 ♥ 9:46am YETI BOB: @TDK60: Clint Eastwood escaped from Alcatraz!
	9:47am 2020 is but a blip: Pip Blom backwards is Molb Pip. Surfer Blood backwards is 1968. It's a hit!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48am melinda: Nice tunes
	♥ 9:48am TDK60: Yeti: Ah, now I know.
	♥ 9:49am Joe McG: @TDK: I'm not sure if anyone was actually eaten by sharks like in this song, but I'd be curious.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am gilmour: Good morning Joe; wonderful to be listening.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am gilmour: Oh, and hello to my fellow peanuts.
	9:51am allie: @Joe McG & RRN63, Got it!. don't do me wrong, or don't try to change me.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am gilmour: Shark death in Maine last week; sad.
	♥ 9:52am Joe McG: @gilmour: Oh yeah, I saw that. Maybe not the best song to play today, oops.
	9:53am GListener MW: That IS always sad when sharks die. :<
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am gilmour: maybe, but it's always something, Joe
	9:55am GListener MW: This track’s reminding me of “Forget About Dre” by Easy Dre.
	♥ 9:55am Joe McG: True enough! :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:56am YETI BOB: I thought "Lonataka Records" had to be a New Jersey label (Lonataka Brook & park in Morristown) - but no, it's based in L.A. Maybe run by an NJ expat?
	9:58am GListener MW: Robert Hazard!!! Amazing
	🎸 ♥ 9:58am YETI BOB: Also - it's "Loantaka", not "Lonataka" :)
	♥ 9:59am Joe McG: Thanks, Bob! I had it written two ways and I went with the more musical-sounding one!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am gilmour: "Evan Taylor is a record producer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and independent label owner, he also owns a studio in Downtown L.A.’s flower district. Growing-up in Madison, New Jersey,[...]"
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Ken From Hyde Park: While we're on the subject, the Surfer Blood / Pip Blom entry says 2002, but I suspect that's 2020?
	10:01am Rick A.: This is a great song from a great film which connects old fashioned stage musical with new wave/punk attitude, thanks for playing, Joe!
	♥ 10:02am Joe McG: @Ken: Thanks, Ken. You guys are keeping me honest today.
	10:02am Bill W: STARSTRUCK is my fave '80s film musical, not that there's a ton of competition... btw it is on the Criterion Channel this month.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02am The Oscar: I like this Jo Kennedy, but she should really drop out and support Ed Markey.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02am YETI BOB: @gilmour: Good find! As they say, you can take the boy out of New Jersey, but you can't take New Jersey out of the boy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Keepin' the "Accu" in "Accu-playlist"!
	♥ 10:03am Joe McG: @Ken: Maybe I should switch to Joe B.'s "Inaccuplaylist"!
	♥ 10:04am TDK60: Pete T. Just started his autobiography.
	♥ 10:04am Joe McG: @Bill W: Thanks for that news, Bill. Everyone who hasn't seen "Starstruck" should see it, it's great.
	10:04am Bill W: (re the '80s musical... PURPLE RAIN has great performance scenes of course, but is kinda deadly when the music stops.)
	10:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Nose Identity Idol
	10:07am sphere: hullo. Pete sounds a bit like Richard Thompson on this one.
	10:07am Really Lisa: Curious, what did the guys in the English Beat (The Beat) think of this rendition? Crowd sourcing here, instead of der Google. Also, hello all.
	10:07am Rick A.: I never understood the mania over Purple Rain in the summer of 1984. I know Prince is talented singer, songwriter, guitarist producer. However, the film is not really that interesting. I guess it has an intriguing look, dark palette. However, as he proved with Under the Cherry Moon, Prince is not a great actor. There is always Pennies from Heaven as a polarizing 80s musical.
	♥ 10:09am Joe McG: @ReallyLisa: I wonder if anyone ever asked Dave Wakeling that question? I'd be curious myself/ @TDK60: I was amazed by how boring PT's book was considering how interesting he is.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Mike Sin: I should revisit this live Townshend LP. Back in the '80s, when I was smart as hell and knew it all, I could not stand the version of "Barefootin'"
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am YETI BOB: @ReallyLisa: There's a nice story on the Wikipedia article about the song. Basically, Pete Townshend called up Dave Wakeling to ask him how to play the song - it's in an unusual tuning
	10:09am Rick A.: Really Lisa, I saw the English Beat a few years ago at the Highline Ballroom, partly at Joe's recommendation. Dave Wakeling talked up the Townshend version, saying how much he appreciated his version.
	10:09am sphere: I think Purple Rain was more an act of self-mythmaking than actual fiction, and since Prince obviously thought he was godlike, that vibe really blew people away.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am YETI BOB: quoting from Wikipedia: "I got a phone call at 11 in the morning, and somebody gave me the phone and said, “It’s Pete Townshend for you.” And I said, “Of course it is, he phones about this time every Saturday doesn’t he?” [Laughs.] I thought it was somebody making a joke. I picked up very sarcastically, 'Oh, hello Pete.' And he said, 'Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour, and we’re trying to work out your song 'Save It For Later,' but we can’t work out the tuning.' They presumed it was DADGAD as well, and couldn’t make it work, and so I had to explain that I’d made a mistake and it was not DADGAD, it was DADAAD. And he laughed and said, 'Oh, thank heavens for that! We've been breaking our fingers trying to get our hands around these chords.'"
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Hughie Considine: I saw the English Beat without Ranking Roger and just couldn't get into it. Obviously spoiled from having seen them in their prime.
	♥ 10:10am Joe McG: @Rick A and Yeti Bob: Great info!
	10:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'ma be blunt: Prince is/was the most broadly Talented artist I can think of as both Musician & Performer... but I never felt I needed anything by him. I feel like MTV ruined him. He was caught up in his identity crises & I wish he'd just been an Artist & gone deep. ...So how arrogant is that ??
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am Mike Sin: re: Townshend's autobio The only rock-star autobio a bit more boring than that one was Clapton's. What these guys think it very interesting about themselves varies widely from what I think makes them interesting.
	10:11am Really Lisa: A wealth of knowledge here, thanks Rick A and Yeti Bob!
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am YETI BOB: "I'm sitting here with David Gilmour".... love it!
	10:12am Rick A.: Sphere, you have a point. It helped that Prince did not have much dialogue to reinforce the silent mystical prophet vibe. I didn't really buy it then and I don't buy it now though the guy is talented.
	10:12am Bill W: The PENNIES FROM HEAVEN film is not bad, but I think it pales alongside the original BBC series with Bob Hoskins (if you don't mind super-bummers).
	10:12am Rachel Bo Bachel: This madalitso band is beautiful!
	♥ 10:13am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx for Pete Beat anecdote. Iggy the raconteur.
	10:14am wizard frog: woa, didn't recognise iggy pop's voice
	10:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Midwestern like Pidge??
	🎸 ♥ 10:15am waters7: Hey Joe, thanks for making me feel young and old simultaneously.
	♥ 10:15am ifeelfatnsassy: Dusty up in here...
	10:16am The Butterman: Iggy as Sam Elliot.
	10:16am Rick A.: The Blues Brothers is probably my favorite 80s musical. I was only 14 and the film taught me who John Lee Hooker and Elmore James are among others. Given my love of Robert Altman's work, I really like Popeye, another polarizing musical. It has an awkward pace, sometimes too frenetic and other times borderline catatonic though Altman created perhaps the most authentically animated world with live action actors.
	♥ 10:16am Joe McG: @waters7: Ha ha ha, you're welcome!
	🎸 ♥ 10:17am The Oscar: Pauline Kael wrote that Prince is shot in Purple Rain the way Joseph von Sternberg shot Marlene Dietrich, which I think is probably the perfect key to why it's so popular/compelling.
	10:17am Rachel Bo Bachel: Loved that Iggy story. Reminded me of that Jimmy Stewart poem about his dog that he read on Johnny Carson
	10:17am allie: @Yeti Bob, yeah but is it thee David gilmour?
	🎸 ♥ 10:18am gilmour: great story; sounds like my kids, though: DADAAD!
	♥ 10:19am Joe McG: @RBR: Ooh, I remember that!
	♥ 10:19am Glorious Estephonic: Beautiful Show @Joe McG ! Hi Rachel Bo Bachel !
	🎸 ♥ 10:19am PaulRobeson1920: Dogs are great, aren't they? Friendly dogs are my favorite, right after cadaver dogs and ice cream dogs and shaggy dogs
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am Jason from Houston: THIS SONG... TOO EARLY TO CRY.
	10:20am Toothgrinder Tom: @sphere I assumed that was Richard Thompson.
	10:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Still want Townshend, Richard Thompson & Bob Mould in a room together.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am pantz: I could listen to the Paris, Texas soundtrack all day.
	10:21am Rachel Bo Bachel: Estephonic! <3 <3 <3
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: This song actually gives me shivers on my arms.
	♥ 10:22am Lixiviated Life: oh, hi joe!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am pantz: Paris, Texas was a sad movie but the dirty deal Harry got in Wild At Heart by the hands of Diane Ladd was much sadder to me.
	10:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: All into Ali Farka & Buena Vista - but somehow haven't got Ry Cooder in my soul yet. Ignorance I presume.
	10:23am Toothgrinder Tom: People do seem to have very special feelings about their dogs.
	♥ 10:23am TDK60: Ry is a treasure.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24am Jason from Houston: <3 <3 <3
	♥ 10:25am mariano: Heya Joe and all. pantz: I want to go Buffalo hunting!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am pantz: @mariano dirty deeds
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am Brian in UK: @Rev, agree. Put him alongside Lyle Lovett, great performers but somehow do not move me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29am PaulRobeson1920: This “El Bulevar de la Desilusion” Sounds like The Doors performing in the style of Tropicalia
	🎸 ♥ 10:29am YETI BOB: @RevRab: "A Meeting By The River" is a really good Ry Cooder record (collab with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt), I listened to that one over and over back in the 90s.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30am PaulRobeson1920: Oh yes
	10:30am Toothgrinder Tom: When the Flintstones came out, nobody watched it but those few who did all started bands.
	♥ 10:30am mariano: Fred Flintstone's Spanish name was Pablo Picapiedra ("rock picker" as with a pickaxe).
	🎸 ♥ 10:31am ratso: in the Pixies' song Crackity Jones, they name-check Paco Picopiedra.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31am YETI BOB: "La Alondra de la Frontera" (or "The Lark of the Border" in English).
	10:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeti oh yeah! Recorded in Santa Barbara when I was there btw... Good point yeah... I'm all into Gittar & ain't nobody say Ry ain't awesome so ...his albums are laidback from what I can tell - so I haven't had requisite patience I think...
	🎸 ♥ 10:32am YETI BOB: (I don't know all this stuff, I just look it up.)
	10:33am sphere: For me, the best part of the Blues Brothers was the segment featuring John Lee Hooker. It felt so real, so much like a gig that he might have played back in the late 40s.
	10:34am allie: but he operated a dinosaur. what's Spanish for that?.
	10:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Toothgrinder for the win.
	10:34am Dean: A Meeting by the River is one of many superb recordings engineered by Kavi Alexander, whose Water Lily Acoustics label famously uses Tim de Paravacini's tube gear. Kavi lives and works in Santa Barbara, hence the venue.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35am pantz: If we're doing movie recommendations, I nominate "Blue Ruin" . If you like tension-filled revenge movies (a la "Oldboy") you'll love this one.
	10:36am Dean: Cooder's Jazz and Bop 'til You Drop are both great albums.
	10:36am U know better <3: New rule : if you can't pronounce it, don't play it. There are too many resources available to us today to learn the proper translation of a word, name, person, place, or thing. It reads as privileged and can be seen as a disrespect to the artist, especially when being read by said white dude playing a song dug from the crates to the city of New York!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am Marley P. Dogg: Can we hear some Hooters next!
	10:37am Really Lisa: Oohh, thanks @pantz.. Oldboy was watch-two-times worthy!
	10:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx Dean
	10:39am John in Phoenixville: I also grew up with Robert Hazard on WMMR, Joe! But I missed it this morning because I was on a call. Will catch up in the archives.
	10:39am wizard frog: I really didn't get Wild at Heart when I first watched it month or so ago. Will try Blue Ruin though.
	10:39am Palakaloo: And now for something completely different.
	10:40am Dingdingding: Harry Dean in my mind's eye will always be as in Repo Man
	10:40am allie: Whale on those rib bones
	10:41am Stashu not signed in but who cares: llama Serenade always makes me go crazy thank you Joe
	10:42am Dingdingding: Got the llama fever and the alpaca flu
	10:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ' I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. ' - David Lynch
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: Hi, Stashu!! :)
	10:45am Colleen: Cyndi Layper!! Blue Angel!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45am Brian in UK: Thought Wim Wender's cinematographer, Robby Muller really helped make his films atmospheric. Kings of the Road might be my favourite and one of the best beginnings to a film.
	10:45am Toothgrinder Tom: Harry Dean Stanton was good in ‘Alien,’ too.
	10:45am Colleen: Lovin it!! Thanks Joe!!
	♥ 10:45am adampsyche: thanks for the show, Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45am efd: Between this Blue Angel song and the demo of "Money Changes Everything" that Matt Fiveash played on Saturday it's been a big few days for vintage Cyndi Lauper on WFMU!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46am YETI BOB: RevRab1163: I don't expect life to make sense, but I expect movies to make more sense than the junk Lynch churns out. Sure, just tack the ending of a different movie onto an unrelated, unfinished TV pilot. Nobody will care, right?
	♥ 10:47am Joe McG: @efd: And of course the Robert Hazard connection! @admpsy: My pleasure! @Colleen: You bet!
	♥ 10:47am mariano: I hadn't heard Cyndi Lauper in years, then a couple of years ago a cousin of mine played a video of a concert she gave in 2012 where she sang a lot of American standards, and man, what a voice. She was just belting 'em out.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47am tim from champaign (now washington): My avatar was Cyndi's manager!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47am efd: I just saw Robert Hazard on the playlist after I posted! Was stuck in meetings before and missed it. :(
	🎸 ♥ 10:48am tim from champaign (now washington): Hi Joe and fellow McGaskites!
	♥ 10:48am mariano: tim FC: That's right, Capt. Lou Albano.
	♥ 10:48am Joe McG: @efd: Do you know the RCA LP? Is it really so bad?
	10:49am P-90: Thumbs up for Vintage Cyndi. And The Jelly Beans.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49am efd: I don't know it enough to have an opinion, Joe.
	10:50am Dingdingding: Captain Lou! it's charisma, it's pandemonium! 9,8,24563, sound off!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50am tim from champaign (now washington): Cyndi helped Wendy Richter win the belt from The Fabulous Moolah. In retrospect: that wasn't right. The belt should have been buried with Moolah.
	10:50am allie: Yo Joe, time to go. bye yo'all.
	♥ 10:51am Listener Baby: Good morning, Baby Joe. Good morning all. Everybody hanging tough?
	♥ 10:51am Joe McG: @efd: I never see it around to try it out. It must have laid a pretty big egg to be so scarce. I mean in the wild. There are probably 500 copies on Discogs for $3.
	♥ 10:52am Joe McG: Bye, allie. Hello, Baby! (Sung like Ruth Etting)
	🎸 ♥ 10:54am WoodsOfNH: Speaking of Lynch, I really enjoy his daily weather reports. Also, that Rabbit series managed to be both hilarious and creepy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55am WoodsOfNH: Wow, this is like a sister tune to The Great Atomic Power.
	10:55am MplsCoco: Good morning Joe!
	10:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I has coffee & will now do bad chickenpickin'...
	🎸 ♥ 10:56am YETI BOB: @JoeMcG: No joke: 109 For Sale from $0.86. (Last comment, bye everyone! See y'all later)
	♥ 10:56am Mark Hurst: Loving this Single File, Joe
	🎸 ♥ 10:56am Brian in UK: Ages since I have heard Dave Mason's The Lonely One' with Stevie Wonder on harmonica.
	♥ 10:57am Roberto: Diggin' the Dave Mason!
	♥ 10:57am mariano: Bye YETI, allie.
	♥ 10:57am Joe McG: Hey Coco! Hey, Mark Hurst! Looking forward to the show tonight as always.
	♥ 10:57am TDK60: This was a fine album this Mason is from - Alone Together.
	♥ 10:58am Mark Hurst: Thanks. I have some choice words for those hearings last week.
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Mason did the Acoustic on Jimi's Watchtower & Hendrix rode him pretty hard reportedly...
	♥ 10:59am Joe McG: @TDK: I like the color of the vinyl. It's cool! And the fold out of him in the top hat is also cool.
	♥ 11:00am Roberto: BREWWWWWSSSSSS
	11:00am Rachel Bo Bachel: GOD BLESS YOU JOE for playing this!!!!!! (Tunnel of Love!
	🎸 ♥ 11:00am WoodsOfNH: Tunnel of Love, my least favorite Bruce record.
	♥ 11:00am Carmichael: Heya Joe and acolytes. Whoops, my Springsteen muting circuit just kicked in.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00am tim from champaign (now washington): I forgot this Bruce song started out like a Madonna song.
	11:01am Rachel Bo Bachel: Woods it’s worth revisiting!!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am WoodsOfNH: ...and it finishes like a Phil Collins song.
	11:01am Rachel Bo Bachel: Woods nooo lol
	♥ 11:02am Roberto: I recall my Bruce-lovin' college friends reacting to this record with a collective "WTF"
	♥ 11:02am Jeff Golick: 1987 didn't sound all that great.
	11:02am (another) Patrick in Hoboken: Brings back the gaudy mid-1980s!
	11:02am Rachel Bo Bachel: It’s very “80s” it’s true, but the songwriting is so solid, and I’d say “mature” compared to say “the wild the innocent and the East Street shuffle”
	♥ 11:02am TDK60: Joe, one of those old geetar albums with an all-star cast. LA musicians.
	♥ 11:03am mariano: The theme of my life the last few days has been the 80s. I found a trove of 80s Letterman shows online and now Tunnel of Love. I'd so much rather be there right now.
	♥ 11:03am Roberto: And not just to the music but the album cover asl well.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am WoodsOfNH: @Roberto Exactly my reaction. Peoples' love of this album has always puzzled me.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am WoodsOfNH: Good lyrics cannot rise above musical cheeze-wiz.
	11:04am Rachel Bo Bachel: Roberto it didn’t speak to me until my mid thirties when I had kids, and now it really really does. Which is funny because that’s when my dad, in his mid-30s, played it for us when it came out and we were little... cycle of life baby!!!
	♥ 11:04am drew: Please tell me something from Pat Boone's In a Metal Mood is up next . . .
	🎸 ♥ 11:05am tim from champaign (now washington): On top of being a great DJ, Joe is also excellent at stirring the pot!
	♥ 11:05am Jeff Golick: It's been over 30 years. I don't think even nostalgia is going to help save that sound.
	11:06am SueAdynamo: I automatically started howling along with Bruce. that goes waaaay back in my head.
	11:06am Rachel Bo Bachel: Woods even brilliant disguise?? You are beeakin’ my heart!
	11:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: [...not in Jersey - big '?' over head...]
	11:06am Rachel Bo Bachel: Omg me too Joe! Wall of death too. Why is that??
	♥ 11:06am Roberto: This was well before I had any idea I would end up marrying a Bruce-o-phile.
	11:07am Marc Francis: "Tunnel Of Love" is still one of my favourites!
	🎸 ♥ 11:07am WoodsOfNH: @Rachel I hate the entire record and don't own it anymore. I've heard most of them done solo and I like them that way but this record I just can't stand.
	♥ 11:07am Jeff Golick: Rollercoaster...of love?
	11:07am P-90: Another home run Single File this week!
	♥ 11:07am Hubig Pie: Oh, that be my fav Dire Straits LP
	♥ 11:08am mariano: Jeff: Yeah, that very 80s-sounding production. So many songs where the drums sounded like they were recorded in an airplane hangar.
	11:08am TVP: Thought of one: Palisades Park by Freddy Cannon
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoater"
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am 12539: The Hollies' carousel song.
	🎸 ♥ 11:09am PaulRobeson1920: “I can’t respect a man who is unable to spell word 7 different ways” - 1810’s quote (before the standardized dictionary) I suppose the same goes for pronunciation! The mad power of Language! Hahahaaa the more the merrier!
	🎸 ♥ 11:09am tim from champaign (now washington): ESG's My Love For You! Great rollercoaster song. Also, Dirtbombs' Cedar Point '76.
	11:09am robfoto: Roller Coaster by the Sea, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
	11:09am Ian: Ferris Wheel, by the Everly Brothers. Which was surely the inspiration for R &LT’s Wall of Death. (And RT filched the melody for the B-side Living in Luxury.)
	♥ 11:09am TDK60: Ferris Wheel - Donovan.
	11:09am dano59: On the Boardwalk - Uncle Floyd Wild Blly's Circus Story
	11:10am Really Lisa: Oooh Joe, Donovan's Ferris Wheel!! TDK by a few second!
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Andrew_in_WI: How about Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love?"
	♥ 11:10am Mark Hurst: "She's a Beauty" by The Tubes (I remember the video involves a tunnel-of-love ride)
	11:10am john from LA: Funnel of Love? Wanda Jackson and the cramps...funnel cake of love
	🎸 ♥ 11:10am Ken From Hyde Park: Meghan's intro to her Underwater Theme Park show. "... They're all here. They're all real. They're all alive." Creepy!
	11:11am Dean: "Love Rollercoaster," Ohio Players
	🎸 ♥ 11:11am The Oscar: I suppose "Helter Skelter" technically counts...
	🎸 ♥ 11:13am Hughie Considine: "Rollercoaster Ride" - Dear Nora
	11:13am Rachel Bo Bachel: Sugar mountain by Neil Young!
	11:13am P-90: Is “Under the Boardwalk” sufficiently amusement park-related?
	♥ 11:13am Alvy Singer: Lakeside Park by Rush
	♥ 11:13am Carmichael: Did someone mention Palisades Park?
	11:14am Dean: "Stukas over Disneyland," The Dickies
	♥ 11:14am TDK60: I got to Palisades Pk. a few times as a young-un.
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What about Juniper's Dragon ride toon? C'mon. Ramones 'I Love Her So' - on the coaster & around again...
	11:14am Ian: Oops -wrong song for Living in a Luxury. It’s another EB tune from same period.
	11:14am dano59: Sharon - David Bromberg Wonder Wheel - Dan Zanes Bozo - JoeJo I'm sure Joe Ely / Flatlanders have a couple Also the Colorblind James Experience
	11:15am Brendan: Lakeside Park or Carnies
	🎸 ♥ 11:15am 12539: Belle & Sebastian, Rollercoaster Ride
	11:16am :::: Maybe more of a playground feature than amusement park ride, but "Seesaw" by Don Covay
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...good list coming together here!...
	♥ 11:16am slugluv1313: greetings, Joe and Skeleton Crew and everyone! THANKS SO MUCH for Bruce's "Tunnel of Love" (i believe there are other songs with that title? Dire Straits, etc.) -- the video featured Coney Island Sideshow performers (pretty sure i have a copy of that on VHS lurking about!) -- and, there is a documentary in the works (FINALLY!) about Michael "Tattoo Mike" Wilson: vimeo.com...
	11:16am Dean: A stretch, but "Ride my Seesaw," The Moody Blues
	🎸 ♥ 11:16am ratso: Rollercoaster by The Shazam
	♥ 11:16am slugluv1313: @ P-90 -- i was wondering about "Under the Boardwalk too!
	♥ 11:16am Carmichael: Amanda, Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World.
	♥ 11:17am Alvy Singer: The Beach Boys "Amusement Parks USA"
	♥ 11:17am slugluv1313: and The Ramones' "Rockaway Beach"
	♥ 11:17am Joe McG: Wow, you guys have a lot of great suggestions, thanks!
	11:18am Earth Walker: The Voice ! The Music ! Thanks Joe !
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am Hughie Considine: Four-year-old Annie Ross's version of "Loch Lomond" on "Our Gang Follies of 1938" is pure joy. If you haven't heard it, you should!
	♥ 11:19am Joe McG: @Hughie: I haven't and I will!
	11:21am P-90: Is “It’s a Small World” too Disneyland-specific? I know there are Jazz, Steel Pan, and even Metal covers of it. And if there was ever a song the Ramones SHOULD have covered (or did they?)...
	11:21am Stillwell Coney Islander: Rip Annie Ross. Twisted is a great song that she wrote.
	11:23am Rachel Bo Bachel: 12539 good one!
	11:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hearin' it P-90!
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am tim from champaign (now washington): Hey, what happened to Dire Straits? I'm not complaining here....
	11:25am Dean: "Continental Circus World," Gong
	♥ 11:26am Joe McG: @tim: The library doesn't have a copy of "Making Movies" and I didn't think to bring my copy. :(
	♥ 11:26am slugluv1313: Walter Egan also had a song called "Tunnel of Love"
	11:26am Ian: Correction: Thompson filched Living in Luxury’s tune from The Facts of Life by the Everlys. Same album as a Ferris Wheel (Gone Gone Gone).
	🎸 ♥ 11:26am WoodsOfNH: @Joe McG Check your inbox.
	🎸 ♥ 11:30am Ken From Hyde Park: At this rate of song collection, you'll have enough to fill a marathon premium CD, Joe. <wink>
	♥ 11:30am Joe McG: @Woods: Thanks for whatever you sent! I can't really go in there until after the show, though, too many balls to juggle already. We have to get Three Chord Joe up and running soon....
	🎸 ♥ 11:31am WoodsOfNH: @Joe McG: Yay, technology! Anyway, I'll spoil the surprise: it's a solo version of Tunnel of Love
	11:31am Dean: Two days in a row Walter Egan shows up among the comments. That's cool.
	♥ 11:31am Joe McG: @Woods: You rock!
	11:32am MplsCoco: ❤️ this
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am tim from champaign (now washington): Hahaha - I was thinking that this is a chopped and screwed DOn't Change by INXS and sure enough, it is.
	11:32am Rachel Bo Bachel: Did we already say carnival of sorts by REM? Not sure the lyrics really fit the bill...
	🎸 ♥ 11:33am Hughie Considine: This slo-mo cover of a rip-roaring song puts me in mind of the excellent, toned-down cover of Underworld's "Born Slippy" by Holy Sons.
	🎸 ♥ 11:33am efd: @tim just had the exact same reaction!
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am Ken From Hyde Park: I believe "Big Dipper" from Jethro Tull refers to a British roller coaster.
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am tim from champaign (now washington): @efd - ha! In recent times when I've caught INXS' hits in passing, I've surprised myself in thinking that they were pretty solid.
	11:36am Rachel Bo Bachel: @woods I hear you man. My husband also has a hard time w/ all the synths etc on there. Fair enough ;)
	♥ 11:37am xtrakrispy: @hughie - where might I find that Holy Son's cover of Born Slippy. A simple search hasn't yielded it yet. Still looking...
	🎸 ♥ 11:37am Mike Sin: Zachary Cale is one talented gent.
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am WoodsOfNH: @Rachael Yeah. I really took an instant dislike to the sound. Synths, percussion, the overuse of the danged clave on several tracks. On the other hand, I just listened to a solo electric piano version of the song and really liked it.
	🎸 ♥ 11:39am Hughie Considine: @xtrakrispy, that is odd! I feel like I heard it on WFMU but couldn't google it. I have an MP3. I can send it to you via email. It's stunning.
	🎸 ♥ 11:40am WoodsOfNH: I'm also one of those people who don't process the lyrics up front. On a lot of music I have to actively try to listen to them or they sort of don't exist.
	11:40am listener monica: yeah yeah yeah!
	11:41am listener monica: long time no hear. hi joe! i mostly don't know what day it is anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 11:42am WoodsOfNH: Ha, somebody on Matt Elliott's Bandcamp page referred to him as the king of sad bastard music. Really like this.
	🎸 ♥ 11:43am WoodsOfNH: @listener monica It's last Thursday
	🎸 ♥ 11:43am tim from champaign (now washington): @WoodsOfNH - I'm exactly the same way!
	♥ 11:44am Joe McG: Hang in there, monica! @Woods: I'll have to read these lyrics in case you can't hear past his sepulchral vocals.
	♥ 11:44am xtrakrispy: Thanks @hughie. It's turning out to be a hard one to find! I worked the original Underworld version at TVT back in the day. If you can send it to xtrakrispy at yahoo that would be cool!
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am Ken From Hyde Park: @listener monica - Matt Warwick was the DJ on Wake 'n' Bake this morning, so I presume it must be Blorbsday today.
	11:45am Dean: "Hot Fun in the Summertime," Sly & the Family Stone (refers to the county fair) "Saturday in the Park," Chicago "Fun House," The Stooges
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am WoodsOfNH: This show is really making my Bandcamp list grow.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Hughie Considine: Happy to oblige, @xtra!
	11:47am Rachel Bo Bachel: @woods yay re: solo version of overproduced stuff!
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...some lovely stuff to jam to all coffeed up this has been...
	11:49am Brendan: @Joe Here’s a very nice version of The Cuckoo By The Osborne Brothers. https://youtu.be/HiYKMBsWZfM
	♥ 11:50am Joe McG: @Brendan: Weird! I almost brought the Osborne Bros. this week! Maybe next week will be bluegrass time. Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 11:52am WoodsOfNH: I'd forgotten this but on the same Tubes record containing She's A Beauty there's a song called "Theme Park"
	♥ 11:52am mariano: Thanks Joe, bye everyone!
	11:52am Niko, Copenhagen: Hey Joe. I had some things to do, but I simply could not shut off the radio. So I ended up cooking up a chicken dinner wiht my son. While listening. You pick good songs and you serve them in the right order. That's all I have to say. Thanks. From Denmark. A more or less socialist country...
	11:52am Brendan: @Joe That particular album is fantastic with beautiful harmonies.
	11:52am Rick A.: Sairie sounds eerily similar to Meg Baird and Espers. I guess it's a psych folk thing and I mostly understand.
	🎸 ♥ 11:53am McGroovey: Good show. I was in a mood for Muzik this morning.
	🎸 ♥ 11:53am 12539: Thanks, Joe! Stay well!
	♥ 11:53am Joe McG: Thanks. Niko, I hope the chicken dinner turned out great! I loved Copenhagen when I visited there. And thanks to for everyone for listening and commenting today. Have a great week and I'll see you next time.
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am gilmour: thanks very much, joe; wonderful show
	♥ 11:54am Mark Hurst: Thanks, Joe! Great show.
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks Joe!!!!
	11:54am Dean: "Amusement Park," 50 Cent
	11:55am Rick A.: Thank you, Joe, this show is one of my favorites on FMU, not to be missed.
	♥ 11:55am TDK60: Thanks Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Stevel: Joe and all skeletons: Got my swag on Friday. Thank you SOOOO much for keeping up with that, amongst your other duties. You are all very appreciated!
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Joe. All hail the mighty Full Sturgeon Moon!
	11:55am P-90: Nice “Apache”
	11:55am Joe B: pat irwin rules!
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am gilmour: never noticed how pompeiian sky your background color is before
	11:55am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe you are the consummate gentleman and host and we love ya!!!
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am McGroovey: The Night the Carousel Burned Down (Todd Rundgren).
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Hughie Considine: This show has made me happy - thanks Joe!
	11:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Whut Rachel says.
	♥ 11:57am spodiodi: thanks, Joe! (caught the last few)
	11:57am Brendan: What a show! Thanks Joe
	♥ 11:57am slugluv1313: fantastic show, Joe -- thanks so much! until next time -- be well, stay COOL everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 11:58am PaulRobeson1920: She Loves you yeah, yeah, yeah! Great program! Thanks Joe and ya’ll
	11:59am Earth Walker: Another excellent show Joe !
	12:00pm P-90: Thanks Joe McG!
	🎸 ♥ 12:33pm Brian in UK: Late entry. The Skeleton and the Roundabout by the Idle Race. Thanks Joe.
	5:57pm Mark in Toronto: Wall of Death by the Hellcats, off Cherry Mansion, 1988. friends of Tav Falco
	🎸 ♥ 3:13pm woodyk: I'm catching up on the show today and really enjoyed it! Hearing Cancion Mixteca was a real treat. I remember watching Paris, Texas some time in the eighties and I think that was my introduction to Ry Cooder. Good to hear this again!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 3, 2020

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