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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Favoriting December 30, 2016: SPECIAL ('70s power pop): P is for: POWER.

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Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Favoriting   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Badfinger  No Matter What   Favoriting single (b/w Carry On Till Tomorrow) (Apple - 1970)   0:02:38 (Pop-up)
Crabby Appleton  Go Back   Favoriting Crabby Appleton (Elektra - 1970)   0:05:30 (Pop-up)
Emitt Rhodes  Really Wanted You   Favoriting single (b/w Love Will Stone You) (Probe - 1971)   0:08:32 (Pop-up)
Michel Pagliaro  Lovin' You Ain't Easy   Favoriting single (b/w She Moves Light) (Pye - 1971)   0:11:07 (Pop-up)
Todd Rundgren  Couldn't I Just Tell You   Favoriting single (b/w Wolfman Jack) (Bearville - 1972)   0:13:41 (Pop-up)
The Raspberries  Go All The Way   Favoriting single (b/w With You In My Life) (Capitol - 1972)   0:17:10 (Pop-up)
Big Star  In The Street (Alternate Mix)   Favoriting single (b/w When My Baby's Beside Me) (Ardent - 1972)   0:20:27 (Pop-up)
 
Hot Dogs  Let Me Look at the Sun   Favoriting Say What You Mean (Ardent - 1973)   0:28:09 (Pop-up)
Blue  Look Around   Favoriting Blue (RSO - 1973)   0:30:32 (Pop-up)
Blue Ash  Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her)   Favoriting single (b/w Dusty Old Fairgrounds) (Mercury - 1973)   0:34:37 (Pop-up)
The Hudson Brothers  So You Are a Star   Favoriting single (b/w Ma Ma Ma Baby) (Casablanca - 1974)   0:37:39 (Pop-up)
The Bay City Rollers  Money Honey   Favoriting single (b/w Maryanne) (Bell - 1975)   0:41:17 (Pop-up)
Sweet  Fox On The Run   Favoriting single (b/w Miss Demeanor) (RCA Victor - 1975)   0:44:28 (Pop-up)
 
Artful Dodger  Wayside   Favoriting Think Think (EP) (Columbia - 1975)   0:53:49 (Pop-up)
Milk 'N' Cookies  (Dee, Dee You're) Stuck On A Star   Favoriting Milk 'N' Cookies (Island - 1975)   0:59:28 (Pop-up)
The Quick  It Won't Be Long   Favoriting Mondo Deco (Mercury - 1976)   1:01:10 (Pop-up)
Flamin' Groovies  Shake Some Action   Favoriting Shake Some Action (Sire - 1976)   1:03:59 (Pop-up)
The Nerves  When You Find Out   Favoriting The Nerves (EP) (The Nerves - 1976)   1:08:33 (Pop-up)
Piper  Can't Wait   Favoriting single (b/w Blues For The Common Man) (A&M - 1977)   1:10:31 (Pop-up)
 
Van Duren  Chemical Fire   Favoriting Are You Serious? (Big Sound - 1977)   1:16:34 (Pop-up)
Pezband  Baby It's Cold Outside   Favoriting single (b/w Princess Mary) (Passport - 1977)   1:19:38 (Pop-up)
The Boys  You Make Me Shake   Favoriting single (b/w We're Too Young) (Outrage - 1977)   1:22:23 (Pop-up)
The Real Kids  All Kindsa Girls   Favoriting single (b/w Taxi Boys) (Red Star - 1977)   1:24:55 (Pop-up)
The Scruffs  Frozen Girls   Favoriting Wanna Meet The Scruffs? (Power Play - 1977)   1:28:54 (Pop-up)
Tommy Hoehn  Hey Polarity   Favoriting single (b/w Spacebreak) (Power Play - 1977)   1:31:54 (Pop-up)
Radio Stars  Don't Waste My Time   Favoriting Songs for Swinging Lovers (Chiswick - 1977)   1:35:25 (Pop-up)
 
The Pop  You Oughta Know   Favoriting The Pop (Automatic - 1977)   1:41:42 (Pop-up)
Starz  Cherry Baby   Favoriting single (b/w Rock Six Times) (Capitol - 1977)   1:45:23 (Pop-up)
Utopia  Love in Action   Favoriting Oops! Wrong Planet (Bearsville - 1977)   1:49:03 (Pop-up)
The Paley Brothers  Down The Line   Favoriting The Paley Brothers (Sire - 1978)   1:52:22 (Pop-up)
Fotomaker  Where Have You Been All My Life   Favoriting Fotomaker (Atlantic - 1978)   1:54:58 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick  Surrender   Favoriting Heaven Tonight (Epic - 1978)   1:58:27 (Pop-up)
 
20/20  Giving It All   Favoriting single (b/w Under The Freeway) (Bomp! - 1978)   2:06:18 (Pop-up)
The Only Ones  It's The Truth   Favoriting The Only Ones (CBS - 1978)   2:09:00 (Pop-up)
The Diodes  Tired Of Waking Up Tired   Favoriting Released (CBS - 1979)   2:11:03 (Pop-up)
Ian North  She Kills Me   Favoriting Neo (Aura - 1979)   2:13:51 (Pop-up)
Richard Lloyd  Number Nine   Favoriting Alchemy (Elektra - 1979)   2:16:19 (Pop-up)
Off Broadway  Hang On For Love   Favoriting On (Atlantic - 1979)   2:19:02 (Pop-up)
The Jags  Back Of My Hand   Favoriting single (b/w Double Vision) (Island - 1979)   2:23:05 (Pop-up)
 
The Records  Affection Rejected   Favoriting Shades In Bed (Virgin - 1979)   2:29:00 (Pop-up)
The Rubinoos  I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend   Favoriting Back To The Drawing Board (Berserkley - 1979)   2:32:45 (Pop-up)
The Beat  Rock and Roll Girl   Favoriting The Beat (Columbia - 1979)   2:35:59 (Pop-up)
Pointed Sticks  Out of Luck   Favoriting single (b/w What Do You Want Me To Do?) (Stiff - 1979)   2:38:09 (Pop-up)
The Toms  Hook   Favoriting The Toms (Black Sheep - 1979)   2:40:38 (Pop-up)
Nick Gilder  Got To Get Out   Favoriting single (b-side to (You Really) Rock Me) (Chrysalis - 1979)   2:44:19 (Pop-up)
 
Shoes  Tomorrow Night   Favoriting single (b/w Now And Then) (Elektra - 1979)   2:49:15 (Pop-up)
Bram Tchaikovsky  Girl Of My Dreams   Favoriting Strange Man, Changed Man (Radar - 1979)   2:51:55 (Pop-up)
The Tourists  Blind Among The Flowers   Favoriting single (b/w He Who Laughs Last) (Logo - 1979)   2:55:53 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Fleetwood Mac 

Albatross   Favoriting

single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) (Blue Horizon - 1968)  

2:59:19 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 12:03pm
duke:

Everyday is a special day
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listener james from westwood:

Howdy, UM and all!!
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Uncle Michael:

Duke!
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melinda:

Ya!
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doctorjazz:

That's the best "GREETINGS" I've heard in a bit! GREETINGS to you and the Dinkers!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
Brian in UK:

Hello Uncle. Hoping for some Umajets or Chris Von Sneidern.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
doctorjazz:

I thought Power Pop was created in the 90's...
I'll go with Badfinger, though!
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holland oats:

This the power pop show? V PSYCHED
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Brian in UK:

It's all POP.
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23 Wolves:

Hails Unc! I just put this Badfinger song on a mix CD for my gal...man, it sounds tasty!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Uncle Michael:

James! Melinda! Doctor! Brian! Holland! 23W!
  12:09pm
V Priceless:

Hey Uncle M! Rock!
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Uncle Michael:

VP!
  12:10pm
67tele:

Hey all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
Uncle Michael:

Tele!
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coelacanth:

greetings Uncle M and Dinkies
i love that badfinger song. i never knew it was a big pop radio hit until about a year ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
Uncle Michael:

Coelacanth!
Avatar 12:14pm
still b/p:

I remember Crabby Appleton from Tom Terrific, but I didn't remember Crabby had his own theme song. And I don't remember at all the cartoon's other featured villains such as Isotope Feaney, The Meany, and Captain Kidney Bean.
Avatar 12:15pm
Scraps:

How bout the Headboys, Shape of things to come?

But it's going to be all good!
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melinda:

@coelecanth: I was at the cryptozoology museum gift shop yesterday buying a present for my mom, and I noticed that they had coelecanth action figures!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:

still b/p! Scraps!
Avatar 12:16pm
Scraps:

Unc Michael!
Avatar 12:17pm
annie:

.... whew, i made it! got my delivery of wine and pet food and she forgot to bring the eggs. damn, which pet should i cook first?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
coelacanth:

hahaha! melinda! that's hard to imagine but, okay!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Uncle Michael:

Gonna be a lot of great artists skipped over because the decade gets really crowded '77 to '79!

Maybe they're your requests for next week. More on that at the break.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Uncle Michael:

annie!
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melinda:

Coel they're just coelecanth figures, but action figures sounds more exciting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Uncle Michael:

I want a blobfish action figure.
Avatar 12:22pm
still b/p:

I bought a few family gifts at the Honey Exchange, which was fine, but the Crytpozoology Museum might've been much more fun...for me if not the gift recipients. I'm gonna walk to be bank shortly and will be just a few Bigfoot strides from that museum.
  12:22pm
67tele:

Does Kiss Me on the Bus make it into this category?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
Uncle Michael:

Well, it's not '70s.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
doctorjazz:

Everyone just wants to be Paul! (me too).
  12:23pm
67tele:

oh - i just tuned in; didnt know it was a decade thing
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efd:

very glad this show is happening on a day I'm not working. Happy post-holidays and pre-new year, Uncle Michael and crew!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Uncle Michael:

efd!
  12:25pm
melinda:

@b/p: it was hard not buying things for myself at the crypto museum. But I already got myself a Bigfoot air freshener, so there's that.
Avatar 12:30pm
Scraps:

Are you apologizing in advance for playing the Plimsouls, the Nerves, and the Beat all three?

;-)
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Uncle Michael:

NOT ALL THREE!

But the apology in advance was for something else.
Avatar 12:33pm
Scraps:

Ah! (Thinking...)
Avatar 12:35pm
Scraps:

(I'm just reveling.)
  12:35pm
Cubs Suck:

Are you going to play Love is Like Oxygen by Sweet?
Avatar 12:36pm
Scraps:

Little Willie! little Willie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Uncle Michael:

Did someone ask a question? It came through all garbled.
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efd:

I didn't see anything.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Uncle Michael:

Another choice from Sweet, Scraps.
Avatar 12:40pm
annie:

hehe, that's funny scraps, i was singing that song this morning. right out of the blue.
  12:40pm
67tele:

sure I'll pile on too: might we be hearing dwight twilley - im on fire sometime today?
  12:40pm
Cubs Suck:

How about something from the Knack?
Avatar 12:41pm
Scraps:

There's two great choices from Sweet that we haven't mentioned, but I'll wait and seeeeee
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Uncle Michael:

How about this power pop power ballad?
  12:42pm
Cubs Suck:

Never heard it. I prefer Hudson-Ford
  12:42pm
67tele:

i always though power ballad was a great term, kind of like an intense nap
Avatar 12:42pm
Scraps:

It's all good this show!
  12:43pm
Cubs Suck:

This sounds alot like Badfinger
  12:45pm
Cubs Suck:

Its about time to break out the roller skates!
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efd:

I'm just going to issue a blanket "Yeah, [artist name]!!" for every song on this show.
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Uncle Michael:

I like Hudson-Ford a lot. I think they'll factor into a set in a couple of weeks.
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Webhamster Henry:

Hi Michael! I probably have heard a lot of these, but never knew the names of them.
Will there be a little power-funk/pop spilling into this show?
  12:46pm
Cubs Suck:

How about playing some from the Tarney-Spencer band?
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Uncle Michael:

Evan, you mean this music is in your wheelhouse?

Henry!
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Rich in Washington:

I just now read that The Hudson Brothers came from Portland OR. I had no idea. I remember watching their variety shows on Saturday morning tv.
Avatar 12:47pm
Scraps:

Ahhhhhh!
  12:47pm
Glenn L:

BCR!!!
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Uncle Michael:

Rich! Glenn!
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doctorjazz:

No, not Sweet (just kidding)
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efd:

This music occupies many floors of my wheelhouse, as you well know. :)
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listener james from westwood:

Very often during this show, when I hear a new-to-me '70s track, I wish I'd lived in THAT '70s, where music like that was my predominant musical diet. Very glad therefore to have a whole SHOW of this music and this feeling!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
listener james from westwood:

The tracks that I do know from that time are all the sweeter in the context of those I don't. Bliss.
Avatar 12:50pm
Scraps:

That's my favorite Sweet. Takes me back, 14 years old, my 45s, jumping up and down in my room
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Mike East:

aww...I just taught Big Star's 13 to my daughter. She's got a great voice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
SeanG:

great show UM!
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efd:

you are correct about Blue Ash.
  12:54pm
holland oats:

Hudson Bros omg
  1:05pm
V Priceless:

Hey Uncle M: for request show, is it cool to list a couple tunes, just in case one works better than another, etc.?
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doctorjazz:

Like this cover by The Quick-fun show!
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Uncle Michael:

sure
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SeanG:

WWOOOOO!
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listener james from westwood:

turning the Groovies WAAAAAAY UP
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Parq:

Boarding in mid flight. Hope you guys haven't eaten all the peanuts.
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Uncle Michael:

It's snack mix. Sorry.
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doctorjazz:

This was a part of the 70's I missed as well, so many tunes I don't know, cool stuff!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:16pm
efd:

OK, Piper deserve their own separate comment so Yeah, Piper!
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Brian in UK:

Uncle, understand your take on it now. Weaving a well trod path. Nice work.
  1:18pm
holland oats:

My money's on Shoes next set.
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Uncle Michael:

Thank ya, Brian!

Next set? Hmmm....
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doctorjazz:

Makes me wonder where a music obsessed person like me was that decade.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
Uncle Michael:

I think a lot has to do age-calibrated radar. This was or wasn't on one's radar, dependent on whether it reflects one's own zeitgiest.
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doctorjazz:

Must have been stuck on punk and disco, who knew there was another way?
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doctorjazz:

Now I just love this stuff.
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doctorjazz:

Before that, Dead and other hippie stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm
SeanG:

any girl power pop coming up?
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Uncle Michael:

That's a very good question, Sean. Yes. One.
Avatar 1:40pm
still b/p:

I guess many of these were somewhere in the unheard territory between the music bundles of Top 40 playlists and album rock station playlist staples and habits. Where did you hear them back then Uncle Michael?
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Brian in UK:

@still b/p over here the only real outlet apart from live, was John Peel's show.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
efd:

The Pop, one of the many "The + 1-Syllable Word" bands of the late '70s/early '80s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Uncle Michael:

I didn't hear much that wasn't on the radio before '77, when I started hanging out in record stores. Before that, Badfinger and the Raspberries was about it.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
efd:

all of which led up to The The, of course
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Brian in UK:

Started with The Who.
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efd:

oh Starz get their own comment too. Yeah, Starz!
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efd:

is this Utopia song the reason for the advance apology?
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Uncle Michael:

Yes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm
Doug Schulkind:

...where there are no guilty pleasures, but plenty of sheepish grins.
Avatar 1:53pm
still b/p:

Speaking of album rock, a woman I know walked a few days ago into a brief casual conversation about a Yes song and offered her own funny big-view casual dismissal, immediately scoffing about Yes and ELP as she made a particular -- ahem -- jerking motion, and referring to fans/appreciators, she said, "Yeah, ...the boys...you know..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:54pm
Uncle Michael:

she has a point
Avatar 1:54pm
Scraps:

I remember hearing Cherry Baby once on the radio, and it was so frustrating tracking that 45 down as a 13-year-old kid
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Parq:

Evan Davies, you come out of there! I know perfectly well that's you hiding in Kansas!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:55pm
Uncle Michael:

the Venn diagram between young male music fanatics and young men that could get dates...picture it.
  1:55pm
67tele:

@b/p: so Yes was a no-no
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Rich in Washington:

it's not officially a Venn diagram until the circles intersect. Just sayin'.
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Uncle Michael:

heh
Avatar 2:00pm
Scraps:

My teenage big sister was so into Yes, and I hated them. And then I married a Yes fan (and black, too: female black Yes fan!)
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Uncle Michael:

I was certain Fotomaker was EFD comment-worthy. Oh, well.
Avatar 2:01pm
still b/p:

I know where the dismisser and others are coming from, and both groups leaned into the ridiculous. While I wasn't a consistent or focused fan of either band, two Yes concerts I saw were completely enjoyable, and both outfits were such a firm part of the early to mid-teen years soundtrack that it feels hasty and untoward, sorta unkind, to cast them as only wanky business.
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efd:

On the borderline of the blanket coverage from my earlier comment.
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doctorjazz:

Ahh, Daddy's Alright (a friend played this coming out at his kids bat mitzvah).
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Uncle Michael:

ah.
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efd:

If I hadn't just made an exception for Starz I wopuld have made an exception for Fotomaker. It was that close.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:03pm
Uncle Michael:

How many lifelines do you get?
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efd:

I'm playing it by ear.
  2:08pm
Dean:

If you're not into the Paley Bros., you just don't know that you are into the Paley Bros.
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Uncle Michael:

You said a mouthful, Dean.
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holland oats:

OT Fans of today's broadcast might want to check out "Do Hollywood" by The Lemon Twigs, a great album put out this year by a couple of Long Island teenagers.
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Uncle Michael:

That Lemon Twigs thing is AMAZING.
  2:14pm
Dean:

Missed an earful, though. Just returned from orthopedic check-up of daughter's broken arm. What a show!
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Uncle Michael:

How's the kid doing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:15pm
Uncle Michael:

I recommend that people expose themselves to Lemon Twigs on Youtube. They're fun as hell.
  2:16pm
Dean:

Superbly, thanks for asking. Kids are supernaturally resilient.

Wondering whether Sparks make the cut...
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holland oats:

that kid on drums omg
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:17pm
Uncle Michael:

Glad to hear it.

I want all the way back to Halfnelson looking for the right song...but no.
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23 Wolves:

Fantastic show today, thanks as always....also really loved the longform Devil Doll a few weeks ago! HDTwUM is TOPS!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:19pm
Uncle Michael:

I expect the Twigs to experience Strypes-like backlash. Too much attention, too fast.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 2:19pm
efd:

oh man, I love this Richard Lloyd album.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks 23W!
  2:20pm
67tele:

just finished reading Trouble Boys, the new Replacements book - in kind of a 70s pop related thing, Paul Westerberg's reaction to nirvana was "to me they sound like Boston with a hair up their ass". Book is filled with examples of his contrariness, but with lines like that you can see why he got away with it-mostly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:20pm
Uncle Michael:

Matthew Sweet probably does too.
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efd:

As well he should.
  2:21pm
Dean:

Dang. So much pop, so little etc.

Don't answer, 'cuz I'm just thinking out loud, but:

Piper
Pilot
Flamin' Groovies (Shake Some Action)
Bay City Rollers
???

Used to play this Lloyd album daily in the record store.
  2:22pm
Dean:

Oops, Piper already featured!
  2:22pm
Dean:

And Groovies. Read, Dean, read.
  2:23pm
Dean:

And Rollers. I'll shut up. Or just copy/paste your entire playlist to a comment.
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holland oats:

and...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:24pm
Uncle Michael:

tap, tap, tap...
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 2:24pm
holland oats:

(beat me)
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holland oats:

Michael's not playing Shoes just to spite me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:25pm
Uncle Michael:

patience
  2:25pm
Dean:

Here's one I know you would not already have played: Chicago Symphony Orchestra's "La Mer."
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 2:25pm
holland oats:

i'm brazen
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
Uncle Michael:

La Merde
  2:27pm
Dean:

It's da shit.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 2:30pm
Parq:

Loads of fun. Happy New Year, UM, and all.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 2:30pm
doctorjazz:

I walked in on it, and thought "Costello I don't know" right away.
  2:31pm
Dean:

If Costello is featured here, it has to be WSF'BPL&U. Has to be.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 2:31pm
holland oats:

Make it right Michael.
  2:32pm
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@67tele interesting
i have only read a few excerpts
of new mats book
is there a lot about
reegster + beebster
russ+gary eighties managers
of both mats + the del fuegos?
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Uncle Michael:

Gotta be John!
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holland oats:

great book
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efd:

I was thinking the same thing, UM!
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Uncle Michael:

which same thing?
  2:36pm
Dean:

Was just thinking "Rubinoos"!
  2:36pm
Dean:

(But I think efd was thinking "John.")
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doctorjazz:

Great Rubinoos track
  2:37pm
Dean:

Another Berserkeley contender: Earthquake's live "Ma Ma Ma Belle."
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Parq:

Sorry, when I posted gooobye, I thought it was 2:57. This Rubinoos track is my all-time powerpop favorite.
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holland oats:

get onna my cloud
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efd:

I was thinking that the unnamed commenteer at 2:32 was johnk77, which is how I interpreted your "gotta be John" comment.
  2:39pm
johnk77:

great show @um
sorry i forgot my handle
back in the day
some of this was my passion
and my career
got any svt?
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efd:

That Rubinoos song was known among my college friends as "Hey you, get offa my boyfriend"
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Brian in UK:

Thanks, Uncle.

If it aint Stiff it worth a ....
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Uncle Michael:

I think we're gonna make it!

I have some SVT 45s somewhere....
  2:43pm
johnk77:

per my lovely wife
paul collins still rocks
never met him back in the day
sad:<
did get to meet and work
w/the beats then manager
bill graham
also berserkley's
mathew king kaufmann
was a character
  2:43pm
67tele:

@?: Russ Riegel and Gary Hobbib? Oh yes they are in there.
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Uncle Michael:

hope you saved one, efd
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efd:

YEAH NICK GILDER BLANKET COMMENT EXCEPTION!!!!
  2:47pm
Dean:

Good lord, yes. Gilder! Saw him at The Whisky.
  2:49pm
johnk77:

@67tele
thanx
riegel escaped
my crspy memory
also
again thanx selecter
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efd:

I do not disagree.
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holland oats:

OK Michael we can be friends again
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Uncle Michael:

whew!
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efd:

This Elektra version always sounds weird to me.
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holland oats:

just stop texting me
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holland oats:

yeah sounds sped up a bit right?
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Uncle Michael:

stalk, stalk, stalk...
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holland oats:

zionist (that's a shoes joke)
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efd:

oh Bram Tchaikovsky gets his own comment too.
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doctorjazz:

Thanks for the great tunes to usher in 2017 UM!
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Uncle Michael:

how about one last song with a lady on it?
  2:56pm
67tele:

can the Vapors be far behind?
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holland oats:

hmmm
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holland oats:

motels?
  2:56pm
Dean:

Billie Holiday?
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efd:

Saw Bram Tchaikovsky at the great Hurrah! in NYC sometime around the time this album came out. I was standing up front and between the first couple of songs he leaned over from the stage right into my face and said "Do you like rock 'n' roll?"
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efd:

(I allowed as how I did indeed like rock 'n' roll.)
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holland oats:

waitresses?
  2:59pm
Dean:

In a way, "Born to Run" is power pop. In a way.
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holland oats:

don't know this one. well played as always Michael. happy new year everybody! life is good no matter what they tweet.
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Uncle Michael:

This is Annie Lennox singing.
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still b/p:

Maybe it was a an Olivier/Curtis ,"Do you eat oysters? Do you eat snails?" kind of thing.
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Uncle Michael:

best scene in cinema
  3:02pm
Dean:

Second best being "Candy-Gram for Mongo!"
  3:02pm
V Priceless:

Thanx Uncle M! Fun show! Cheers for a great '17!
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efd:

Great show Uncle Michael! Happy New Year to you and all listeners and commenteers!
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listener james from westwood:

Delightful stuff, UM! Thanks so much, and have a safe and fun New Year's!
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks everyone!
  12:03pm
Joe R.:

Here's a rare female-fronted power pop band - the Shivvers from Milwaukee. I've seen '79 as their start date so they might *just* squeeze in here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HQ0hpzuyc8
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