WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from December 30, 2016

Listener comments!
	12:03pm duke: Everyday is a special day
	12:03pm listener james from westwood: Howdy, UM and all!!
	12:03pm Uncle Michael: Duke!
	12:04pm melinda: Ya!
	12:05pm doctorjazz: That's the best "GREETINGS" I've heard in a bit! GREETINGS to you and the Dinkers!
	🛒 12:05pm Brian in UK: Hello Uncle. Hoping for some Umajets or Chris Von Sneidern.
	12:06pm doctorjazz: I thought Power Pop was created in the 90's... I'll go with Badfinger, though!
	12:06pm holland oats: This the power pop show? V PSYCHED
	🛒 12:06pm Brian in UK: It's all POP.
	12:06pm 23 Wolves: Hails Unc! I just put this Badfinger song on a mix CD for my gal...man, it sounds tasty!
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: James! Melinda! Doctor! Brian! Holland! 23W!
	12:09pm V Priceless: Hey Uncle M! Rock!
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: VP!
	12:10pm 67tele: Hey all
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: Tele!
	12:12pm 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.
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Coelacanth!
	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.
	12:15pm Scraps: How bout the Headboys, Shape of things to come? But it's going to be all good!
	12:15pm 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!
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: still b/p! Scraps!
	12:16pm Scraps: Unc Michael!
	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?
	12:17pm coelacanth: hahaha! melinda! that's hard to imagine but, okay!
	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.
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: annie!
	12:20pm melinda: Coel they're just coelecanth figures, but action figures sounds more exciting.
	12:21pm Uncle Michael: I want a blobfish action figure.
	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?
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: Well, it's not '70s.
	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
	12:23pm 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!
	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.
	12:30pm Scraps: Are you apologizing in advance for playing the Plimsouls, the Nerves, and the Beat all three? ;-)
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: NOT ALL THREE! But the apology in advance was for something else.
	12:33pm Scraps: Ah! (Thinking...)
	12:35pm Scraps: (I'm just reveling.)
	12:35pm Cubs Suck: Are you going to play Love is Like Oxygen by Sweet?
	12:36pm Scraps: Little Willie! little Willie!
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: Did someone ask a question? It came through all garbled.
	12:37pm efd: I didn't see anything.
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: Another choice from Sweet, Scraps.
	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?
	12:41pm Scraps: There's two great choices from Sweet that we haven't mentioned, but I'll wait and seeeeee
	12:41pm 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
	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!
	12:45pm efd: I'm just going to issue a blanket "Yeah, [artist name]!!" for every song on this show.
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: I like Hudson-Ford a lot. I think they'll factor into a set in a couple of weeks.
	12:45pm 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?
	12:46pm Uncle Michael: Evan, you mean this music is in your wheelhouse? Henry!
	12:46pm 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.
	12:47pm Scraps: Ahhhhhh!
	12:47pm Glenn L: BCR!!!
	12:48pm Uncle Michael: Rich! Glenn!
	12:48pm doctorjazz: No, not Sweet (just kidding)
	12:48pm efd: This music occupies many floors of my wheelhouse, as you well know. :)
	12:49pm 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!
	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.
	12:50pm Scraps: That's my favorite Sweet. Takes me back, 14 years old, my 45s, jumping up and down in my room
	12:51pm Mike East: aww...I just taught Big Star's 13 to my daughter. She's got a great voice.
	12:54pm SeanG: great show UM!
	12:54pm 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.?
	1:05pm doctorjazz: Like this cover by The Quick-fun show!
	1:05pm Uncle Michael: sure
	1:07pm SeanG: WWOOOOO!
	1:07pm listener james from westwood: turning the Groovies WAAAAAAY UP
	1:11pm Parq: Boarding in mid flight. Hope you guys haven't eaten all the peanuts.
	1:12pm Uncle Michael: It's snack mix. Sorry.
	1:15pm doctorjazz: This was a part of the 70's I missed as well, so many tunes I don't know, cool stuff!
	1:16pm efd: OK, Piper deserve their own separate comment so Yeah, Piper!
	🛒 1:17pm 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.
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: Thank ya, Brian! Next set? Hmmm....
	1:27pm doctorjazz: Makes me wonder where a music obsessed person like me was that decade.
	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.
	1:30pm doctorjazz: Must have been stuck on punk and disco, who knew there was another way?
	1:33pm doctorjazz: Now I just love this stuff.
	1:34pm doctorjazz: Before that, Dead and other hippie stuff.
	1:35pm SeanG: any girl power pop coming up?
	1:36pm Uncle Michael: That's a very good question, Sean. Yes. One.
	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?
	🛒 1:42pm Brian in UK: @still b/p over here the only real outlet apart from live, was John Peel's show.
	1:47pm efd: The Pop, one of the many "The + 1-Syllable Word" bands of the late '70s/early '80s.
	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.
	1:47pm efd: all of which led up to The The, of course
	🛒 1:48pm Brian in UK: Started with The Who.
	1:48pm efd: oh Starz get their own comment too. Yeah, Starz!
	1:52pm efd: is this Utopia song the reason for the advance apology?
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Yes.
	1:53pm Doug Schulkind: ...where there are no guilty pleasures, but plenty of sheepish grins.
	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..."
	1:54pm Uncle Michael: she has a point
	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
	1:54pm Parq: Evan Davies, you come out of there! I know perfectly well that's you hiding in Kansas!
	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
	1:59pm Rich in Washington: it's not officially a Venn diagram until the circles intersect. Just sayin'.
	1:59pm Uncle Michael: heh
	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!)
	2:00pm Uncle Michael: I was certain Fotomaker was EFD comment-worthy. Oh, well.
	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.
	2:01pm efd: On the borderline of the blanket coverage from my earlier comment.
	2:01pm doctorjazz: Ahh, Daddy's Alright (a friend played this coming out at his kids bat mitzvah).
	2:02pm Uncle Michael: ah.
	2:03pm efd: If I hadn't just made an exception for Starz I wopuld have made an exception for Fotomaker. It was that close.
	2:03pm Uncle Michael: How many lifelines do you get?
	2:05pm 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.
	2:10pm Uncle Michael: You said a mouthful, Dean.
	2:11pm 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.
	2:12pm 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!
	2:14pm Uncle Michael: How's the kid doing?
	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...
	2:16pm holland oats: that kid on drums omg
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: Glad to hear it. I want all the way back to Halfnelson looking for the right song...but no.
	2:18pm 23 Wolves: Fantastic show today, thanks as always....also really loved the longform Devil Doll a few weeks ago! HDTwUM is TOPS!!!
	2:19pm Uncle Michael: I expect the Twigs to experience Strypes-like backlash. Too much attention, too fast.
	2:19pm efd: oh man, I love this Richard Lloyd album.
	2:19pm 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
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: Matthew Sweet probably does too.
	2:21pm 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.
	2:23pm holland oats: and...
	2:24pm Uncle Michael: tap, tap, tap...
	2:24pm holland oats: (beat me)
	2:24pm holland oats: Michael's not playing Shoes just to spite me.
	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."
	2:25pm holland oats: i'm brazen
	2:26pm Uncle Michael: La Merde
	2:27pm Dean: It's da shit.
	2:30pm Parq: Loads of fun. Happy New Year, UM, and all.
	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.
	2:31pm holland oats: Make it right Michael.
	2:32pm ?: @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?
	2:33pm Uncle Michael: Gotta be John!
	2:34pm holland oats: great book
	2:34pm efd: I was thinking the same thing, UM!
	2:35pm Uncle Michael: which same thing?
	2:36pm Dean: Was just thinking "Rubinoos"!
	2:36pm Dean: (But I think efd was thinking "John.")
	2:36pm doctorjazz: Great Rubinoos track
	2:37pm Dean: Another Berserkeley contender: Earthquake's live "Ma Ma Ma Belle."
	2:38pm Parq: Sorry, when I posted gooobye, I thought it was 2:57. This Rubinoos track is my all-time powerpop favorite.
	2:38pm holland oats: get onna my cloud
	2:38pm 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?
	2:39pm efd: That Rubinoos song was known among my college friends as "Hey you, get offa my boyfriend"
	🛒 2:42pm Brian in UK: Thanks, Uncle. If it aint Stiff it worth a ....
	2:42pm 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.
	2:45pm Uncle Michael: hope you saved one, efd
	2:47pm 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
	2:50pm efd: I do not disagree.
	2:52pm holland oats: OK Michael we can be friends again
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: whew!
	2:53pm efd: This Elektra version always sounds weird to me.
	2:53pm holland oats: just stop texting me
	2:53pm holland oats: yeah sounds sped up a bit right?
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: stalk, stalk, stalk...
	2:54pm holland oats: zionist (that's a shoes joke)
	2:55pm efd: oh Bram Tchaikovsky gets his own comment too.
	2:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks for the great tunes to usher in 2017 UM!
	2:55pm Uncle Michael: how about one last song with a lady on it?
	2:56pm 67tele: can the Vapors be far behind?
	2:56pm holland oats: hmmm
	2:56pm holland oats: motels?
	2:56pm Dean: Billie Holiday?
	2:56pm 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?"
	2:57pm efd: (I allowed as how I did indeed like rock 'n' roll.)
	2:58pm holland oats: waitresses?
	2:59pm Dean: In a way, "Born to Run" is power pop. In a way.
	2:59pm holland oats: don't know this one. well played as always Michael. happy new year everybody! life is good no matter what they tweet.
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: This is Annie Lennox singing.
	3:00pm still b/p: Maybe it was a an Olivier/Curtis ,"Do you eat oysters? Do you eat snails?" kind of thing.
	3:01pm 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!
	3:02pm efd: Great show Uncle Michael! Happy New Year to you and all listeners and commenteers!
	3:02pm listener james from westwood: Delightful stuff, UM! Thanks so much, and have a safe and fun New Year's!
	3:04pm 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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December 30, 2016: SPECIAL ('70s power pop): P is for: POWER.

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Badfinger	No Matter What "No Matter What" by "Badfinger"	single (b/w Carry On Till Tomorrow) (Apple - 1970)	0:02:38 (Pop-up)
Crabby Appleton	Go Back "Go Back" by "Crabby Appleton"	Crabby Appleton (Elektra - 1970)	0:05:30 (Pop-up)
Emitt Rhodes	Really Wanted You "Really Wanted You" by "Emitt Rhodes"	single (b/w Love Will Stone You) (Probe - 1971)	0:08:32 (Pop-up)
Michel Pagliaro	Lovin' You Ain't Easy	single (b/w She Moves Light) (Pye - 1971)	0:11:07 (Pop-up)
Todd Rundgren	Couldn't I Just Tell You	single (b/w Wolfman Jack) (Bearville - 1972)	0:13:41 (Pop-up)
The Raspberries	Go All The Way "Go All The Way" by "The Raspberries"	single (b/w With You In My Life) (Capitol - 1972)	0:17:10 (Pop-up)
Big Star	In The Street (Alternate Mix)	single (b/w When My Baby's Beside Me) (Ardent - 1972)	0:20:27 (Pop-up)

Hot Dogs	Let Me Look at the Sun "Let Me Look at the Sun" by "Hot Dogs"	Say What You Mean (Ardent - 1973)	0:28:09 (Pop-up)
Blue	Look Around "Look Around" by "Blue"	Blue (RSO - 1973)	0:30:32 (Pop-up)
Blue Ash	Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her)	single (b/w Dusty Old Fairgrounds) (Mercury - 1973)	0:34:37 (Pop-up)
The Hudson Brothers	So You Are a Star	single (b/w Ma Ma Ma Baby) (Casablanca - 1974)	0:37:39 (Pop-up)
The Bay City Rollers	Money Honey "Money Honey" by "The Bay City Rollers"	single (b/w Maryanne) (Bell - 1975)	0:41:17 (Pop-up)
Sweet	Fox On The Run "Fox On The Run" by "Sweet"	single (b/w Miss Demeanor) (RCA Victor - 1975)	0:44:28 (Pop-up)

Artful Dodger	Wayside "Wayside" by "Artful Dodger"	Think Think (EP) (Columbia - 1975)	0:53:49 (Pop-up)
Milk 'N' Cookies	(Dee, Dee You're) Stuck On A Star	Milk 'N' Cookies (Island - 1975)	0:59:28 (Pop-up)
The Quick	It Won't Be Long "It Won't Be Long" by "The Quick"	Mondo Deco (Mercury - 1976)	1:01:10 (Pop-up)
Flamin' Groovies	Shake Some Action	Shake Some Action (Sire - 1976)	1:03:59 (Pop-up)
The Nerves	When You Find Out "When You Find Out" by "The Nerves"	The Nerves (EP) (The Nerves - 1976)	1:08:33 (Pop-up)
Piper	Can't Wait "Can't Wait" by "Piper"	single (b/w Blues For The Common Man) (A&M - 1977)	1:10:31 (Pop-up)

Van Duren	Chemical Fire "Chemical Fire" by "Van Duren"	Are You Serious? (Big Sound - 1977)	1:16:34 (Pop-up)
Pezband	Baby It's Cold Outside "Baby It's Cold Outside" by "Pezband"	single (b/w Princess Mary) (Passport - 1977)	1:19:38 (Pop-up)
The Boys	You Make Me Shake "You Make Me Shake" by "The Boys"	single (b/w We're Too Young) (Outrage - 1977)	1:22:23 (Pop-up)
The Real Kids	All Kindsa Girls "All Kindsa Girls" by "The Real Kids"	single (b/w Taxi Boys) (Red Star - 1977)	1:24:55 (Pop-up)
The Scruffs	Frozen Girls "Frozen Girls" by "The Scruffs"	Wanna Meet The Scruffs? (Power Play - 1977)	1:28:54 (Pop-up)
Tommy Hoehn	Hey Polarity "Hey Polarity" by "Tommy Hoehn"	single (b/w Spacebreak) (Power Play - 1977)	1:31:54 (Pop-up)
Radio Stars	Don't Waste My Time "Don't Waste My Time" by "Radio Stars"	Songs for Swinging Lovers (Chiswick - 1977)	1:35:25 (Pop-up)

The Pop	You Oughta Know "You Oughta Know" by "The Pop"	The Pop (Automatic - 1977)	1:41:42 (Pop-up)
Starz	Cherry Baby "Cherry Baby" by "Starz"	single (b/w Rock Six Times) (Capitol - 1977)	1:45:23 (Pop-up)
Utopia	Love in Action "Love in Action" by "Utopia"	Oops! Wrong Planet (Bearsville - 1977)	1:49:03 (Pop-up)
The Paley Brothers	Down The Line "Down The Line" by "The Paley Brothers"	The Paley Brothers (Sire - 1978)	1:52:22 (Pop-up)
Fotomaker	Where Have You Been All My Life	Fotomaker (Atlantic - 1978)	1:54:58 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick	Surrender "Surrender" by "Cheap Trick"	Heaven Tonight (Epic - 1978)	1:58:27 (Pop-up)

20/20	Giving It All "Giving It All" by "20/20"	single (b/w Under The Freeway) (Bomp! - 1978)	2:06:18 (Pop-up)
The Only Ones	It's The Truth "It's The Truth" by "The Only Ones"	The Only Ones (CBS - 1978)	2:09:00 (Pop-up)
The Diodes	Tired Of Waking Up Tired	Released (CBS - 1979)	2:11:03 (Pop-up)
Ian North	She Kills Me "She Kills Me" by "Ian North"	Neo (Aura - 1979)	2:13:51 (Pop-up)
Richard Lloyd	Number Nine "Number Nine" by "Richard Lloyd"	Alchemy (Elektra - 1979)	2:16:19 (Pop-up)
Off Broadway	Hang On For Love "Hang On For Love" by "Off Broadway"	On (Atlantic - 1979)	2:19:02 (Pop-up)
The Jags	Back Of My Hand "Back Of My Hand" by "The Jags"	single (b/w Double Vision) (Island - 1979)	2:23:05 (Pop-up)

The Records	Affection Rejected "Affection Rejected" by "The Records"	Shades In Bed (Virgin - 1979)	2:29:00 (Pop-up)
The Rubinoos	I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend	Back To The Drawing Board (Berserkley - 1979)	2:32:45 (Pop-up)
The Beat	Rock and Roll Girl "Rock and Roll Girl" by "The Beat"	The Beat (Columbia - 1979)	2:35:59 (Pop-up)
Pointed Sticks	Out of Luck "Out of Luck" by "Pointed Sticks"	single (b/w What Do You Want Me To Do?) (Stiff - 1979)	2:38:09 (Pop-up)
The Toms	Hook "Hook" by "The Toms"	The Toms (Black Sheep - 1979)	2:40:38 (Pop-up)
Nick Gilder	Got To Get Out "Got To Get Out" by "Nick Gilder"	single (b-side to (You Really) Rock Me) (Chrysalis - 1979)	2:44:19 (Pop-up)

Shoes	Tomorrow Night "Tomorrow Night" by "Shoes"	single (b/w Now And Then) (Elektra - 1979)	2:49:15 (Pop-up)
Bram Tchaikovsky	Girl Of My Dreams	Strange Man, Changed Man (Radar - 1979)	2:51:55 (Pop-up)
The Tourists	Blind Among The Flowers	single (b/w He Who Laughs Last) (Logo - 1979)	2:55:53 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) (Blue Horizon - 1968)	2:59:19 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:03pm duke: Everyday is a special day
	12:03pm listener james from westwood: Howdy, UM and all!!
	12:03pm Uncle Michael: Duke!
	12:04pm melinda: Ya!
	12:05pm doctorjazz: That's the best "GREETINGS" I've heard in a bit! GREETINGS to you and the Dinkers!
	🛒 12:05pm Brian in UK: Hello Uncle. Hoping for some Umajets or Chris Von Sneidern.
	12:06pm doctorjazz: I thought Power Pop was created in the 90's... I'll go with Badfinger, though!
	12:06pm holland oats: This the power pop show? V PSYCHED
	🛒 12:06pm Brian in UK: It's all POP.
	12:06pm 23 Wolves: Hails Unc! I just put this Badfinger song on a mix CD for my gal...man, it sounds tasty!
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: James! Melinda! Doctor! Brian! Holland! 23W!
	12:09pm V Priceless: Hey Uncle M! Rock!
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: VP!
	12:10pm 67tele: Hey all
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: Tele!
	12:12pm 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.
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Coelacanth!
	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.
	12:15pm Scraps: How bout the Headboys, Shape of things to come? But it's going to be all good!
	12:15pm 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!
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: still b/p! Scraps!
	12:16pm Scraps: Unc Michael!
	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?
	12:17pm coelacanth: hahaha! melinda! that's hard to imagine but, okay!
	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.
	12:18pm Uncle Michael: annie!
	12:20pm melinda: Coel they're just coelecanth figures, but action figures sounds more exciting.
	12:21pm Uncle Michael: I want a blobfish action figure.
	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?
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: Well, it's not '70s.
	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
	12:23pm 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!
	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.
	12:30pm Scraps: Are you apologizing in advance for playing the Plimsouls, the Nerves, and the Beat all three? ;-)
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: NOT ALL THREE! But the apology in advance was for something else.
	12:33pm Scraps: Ah! (Thinking...)
	12:35pm Scraps: (I'm just reveling.)
	12:35pm Cubs Suck: Are you going to play Love is Like Oxygen by Sweet?
	12:36pm Scraps: Little Willie! little Willie!
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: Did someone ask a question? It came through all garbled.
	12:37pm efd: I didn't see anything.
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: Another choice from Sweet, Scraps.
	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?
	12:41pm Scraps: There's two great choices from Sweet that we haven't mentioned, but I'll wait and seeeeee
	12:41pm 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
	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!
	12:45pm efd: I'm just going to issue a blanket "Yeah, [artist name]!!" for every song on this show.
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: I like Hudson-Ford a lot. I think they'll factor into a set in a couple of weeks.
	12:45pm 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?
	12:46pm Uncle Michael: Evan, you mean this music is in your wheelhouse? Henry!
	12:46pm 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.
	12:47pm Scraps: Ahhhhhh!
	12:47pm Glenn L: BCR!!!
	12:48pm Uncle Michael: Rich! Glenn!
	12:48pm doctorjazz: No, not Sweet (just kidding)
	12:48pm efd: This music occupies many floors of my wheelhouse, as you well know. :)
	12:49pm 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!
	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.
	12:50pm Scraps: That's my favorite Sweet. Takes me back, 14 years old, my 45s, jumping up and down in my room
	12:51pm Mike East: aww...I just taught Big Star's 13 to my daughter. She's got a great voice.
	12:54pm SeanG: great show UM!
	12:54pm 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.?
	1:05pm doctorjazz: Like this cover by The Quick-fun show!
	1:05pm Uncle Michael: sure
	1:07pm SeanG: WWOOOOO!
	1:07pm listener james from westwood: turning the Groovies WAAAAAAY UP
	1:11pm Parq: Boarding in mid flight. Hope you guys haven't eaten all the peanuts.
	1:12pm Uncle Michael: It's snack mix. Sorry.
	1:15pm doctorjazz: This was a part of the 70's I missed as well, so many tunes I don't know, cool stuff!
	1:16pm efd: OK, Piper deserve their own separate comment so Yeah, Piper!
	🛒 1:17pm 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.
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: Thank ya, Brian! Next set? Hmmm....
	1:27pm doctorjazz: Makes me wonder where a music obsessed person like me was that decade.
	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.
	1:30pm doctorjazz: Must have been stuck on punk and disco, who knew there was another way?
	1:33pm doctorjazz: Now I just love this stuff.
	1:34pm doctorjazz: Before that, Dead and other hippie stuff.
	1:35pm SeanG: any girl power pop coming up?
	1:36pm Uncle Michael: That's a very good question, Sean. Yes. One.
	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?
	🛒 1:42pm Brian in UK: @still b/p over here the only real outlet apart from live, was John Peel's show.
	1:47pm efd: The Pop, one of the many "The + 1-Syllable Word" bands of the late '70s/early '80s.
	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.
	1:47pm efd: all of which led up to The The, of course
	🛒 1:48pm Brian in UK: Started with The Who.
	1:48pm efd: oh Starz get their own comment too. Yeah, Starz!
	1:52pm efd: is this Utopia song the reason for the advance apology?
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Yes.
	1:53pm Doug Schulkind: ...where there are no guilty pleasures, but plenty of sheepish grins.
	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..."
	1:54pm Uncle Michael: she has a point
	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
	1:54pm Parq: Evan Davies, you come out of there! I know perfectly well that's you hiding in Kansas!
	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
	1:59pm Rich in Washington: it's not officially a Venn diagram until the circles intersect. Just sayin'.
	1:59pm Uncle Michael: heh
	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!)
	2:00pm Uncle Michael: I was certain Fotomaker was EFD comment-worthy. Oh, well.
	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.
	2:01pm efd: On the borderline of the blanket coverage from my earlier comment.
	2:01pm doctorjazz: Ahh, Daddy's Alright (a friend played this coming out at his kids bat mitzvah).
	2:02pm Uncle Michael: ah.
	2:03pm efd: If I hadn't just made an exception for Starz I wopuld have made an exception for Fotomaker. It was that close.
	2:03pm Uncle Michael: How many lifelines do you get?
	2:05pm 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.
	2:10pm Uncle Michael: You said a mouthful, Dean.
	2:11pm 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.
	2:12pm 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!
	2:14pm Uncle Michael: How's the kid doing?
	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...
	2:16pm holland oats: that kid on drums omg
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: Glad to hear it. I want all the way back to Halfnelson looking for the right song...but no.
	2:18pm 23 Wolves: Fantastic show today, thanks as always....also really loved the longform Devil Doll a few weeks ago! HDTwUM is TOPS!!!
	2:19pm Uncle Michael: I expect the Twigs to experience Strypes-like backlash. Too much attention, too fast.
	2:19pm efd: oh man, I love this Richard Lloyd album.
	2:19pm 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
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: Matthew Sweet probably does too.
	2:21pm 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.
	2:23pm holland oats: and...
	2:24pm Uncle Michael: tap, tap, tap...
	2:24pm holland oats: (beat me)
	2:24pm holland oats: Michael's not playing Shoes just to spite me.
	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."
	2:25pm holland oats: i'm brazen
	2:26pm Uncle Michael: La Merde
	2:27pm Dean: It's da shit.
	2:30pm Parq: Loads of fun. Happy New Year, UM, and all.
	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.
	2:31pm holland oats: Make it right Michael.
	2:32pm ?: @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?
	2:33pm Uncle Michael: Gotta be John!
	2:34pm holland oats: great book
	2:34pm efd: I was thinking the same thing, UM!
	2:35pm Uncle Michael: which same thing?
	2:36pm Dean: Was just thinking "Rubinoos"!
	2:36pm Dean: (But I think efd was thinking "John.")
	2:36pm doctorjazz: Great Rubinoos track
	2:37pm Dean: Another Berserkeley contender: Earthquake's live "Ma Ma Ma Belle."
	2:38pm Parq: Sorry, when I posted gooobye, I thought it was 2:57. This Rubinoos track is my all-time powerpop favorite.
	2:38pm holland oats: get onna my cloud
	2:38pm 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?
	2:39pm efd: That Rubinoos song was known among my college friends as "Hey you, get offa my boyfriend"
	🛒 2:42pm Brian in UK: Thanks, Uncle. If it aint Stiff it worth a ....
	2:42pm 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.
	2:45pm Uncle Michael: hope you saved one, efd
	2:47pm 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
	2:50pm efd: I do not disagree.
	2:52pm holland oats: OK Michael we can be friends again
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: whew!
	2:53pm efd: This Elektra version always sounds weird to me.
	2:53pm holland oats: just stop texting me
	2:53pm holland oats: yeah sounds sped up a bit right?
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: stalk, stalk, stalk...
	2:54pm holland oats: zionist (that's a shoes joke)
	2:55pm efd: oh Bram Tchaikovsky gets his own comment too.
	2:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks for the great tunes to usher in 2017 UM!
	2:55pm Uncle Michael: how about one last song with a lady on it?
	2:56pm 67tele: can the Vapors be far behind?
	2:56pm holland oats: hmmm
	2:56pm holland oats: motels?
	2:56pm Dean: Billie Holiday?
	2:56pm 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?"
	2:57pm efd: (I allowed as how I did indeed like rock 'n' roll.)
	2:58pm holland oats: waitresses?
	2:59pm Dean: In a way, "Born to Run" is power pop. In a way.
	2:59pm holland oats: don't know this one. well played as always Michael. happy new year everybody! life is good no matter what they tweet.
	3:00pm Uncle Michael: This is Annie Lennox singing.
	3:00pm still b/p: Maybe it was a an Olivier/Curtis ,"Do you eat oysters? Do you eat snails?" kind of thing.
	3:01pm 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!
	3:02pm efd: Great show Uncle Michael! Happy New Year to you and all listeners and commenteers!
	3:02pm listener james from westwood: Delightful stuff, UM! Thanks so much, and have a safe and fun New Year's!
	3:04pm 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

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from December 30, 2016

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