WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from December 4, 2021

Listener comments!
	10:27am Listener Baby: It's eleven o'clock and time for lunch Bum-de-dum, de-dum When the sun beats down, and I lie on the bench I can always hear The Michael Shelley Show.
	11:00am Handy Haversack: Michael! Baby! Shellegamers!
	11:00am common: Ello
	11:01am Mister Dobalina: How do you do this Michael/Mike thing, week after week. AMAZING!
	11:01am Frank In Queens: Hey now! Listening at the office this morning.
	11:01am clarke: hey nowwww howdy, then!!
	11:01am Handy Haversack: I'm gonna speak Italian to Mike ...
	11:02am Squints: ok then hey HEY hey now
	11:03am Will the Sound Guy: Hi Michael and all!!!!
	11:03am clarke: tryin'a double screen as liverpool is live
	11:03am Greg from ZONE 5: Michael & all!
	11:04am Bootsie: Courtney is absolutely one of my FAVE current artists.
	11:07am Mister Dobalina: I like my pop, very cold & extra bubbly.
	11:07am yippie: is David Peel in the Beatles documentary?
	11:08am Eddy in Australia: clarke! quick live check-in to see how you're doing. when i caught up on last week's show i read that you'd had an op
	11:08am Corey: Morning Michael and listeners!
	11:09am clarke: EIA = thanks!! doing pretty good - on the mend, thanks! haven't heard from ye in a while!
	11:09am Baja Joe: Hello Michael. Saw the Beatles mini-saga. Worth spending the time watching, though I don't think I'll be revisiting any time soon. Learned a lot about their "process." Good stuff overall.
	11:09am Peter Horvath: Ahoy from Highland Park NJ, home of the Band-Aid
	11:12am Cooh John: Good morning Michael and #1ers.
	11:12am Frank In Queens: Get Back was fantastic. Loved it. I admit that I’ll probably only watch it again once more in my life at most, but it was wonderful to be able to witness a huge chunk of time the The Beatles spent working (and playing) as they were nearing the end of their collective existence. In fact, should the supposed 18 hour director’s cut ever become available, I’d watch it.
	11:12am Eddy in Australia: Yeah, the (summer) time difference is such that I can't listen live anymore so now I play the archive on Sunday morning. Saw You Am I earlier tonight so I'm up later than usual.
	11:13am Eddy in Australia: Feel better, buddy!
	11:13am clarke: i figured the time-change would screw it. thanks, mate!!!
	11:14am Frank In Queens: Eddy, how was the YAI show? I’m a massive fan.
	11:15am clarke: wait~ eddy went to you am i???
	11:16am Eddy in Australia: Frank: I didn't know that! They were pretty good but it was a weird setlist, toploaded with new stuff and some odd deep cuts.
	11:16am Handy Haversack: Semi-relatedly, Frank, the Amyl and the Sniffers show that we might have managed a meet-up before has been COVID canceled, I'm afraid. I was really looking forward to it. Hey, Eddy!
	11:17am Eddy in Australia: Rusty was a powerhouse as usual.
	11:17am clarke: was gonna say, Frank, my album of the year is between You Am I and It IS Them!
	11:17am Handy Haversack: Todd-o-phonic Todd is taking the SAT?! Finally!
	11:18am clarke: ha ha ha ha
	11:18am Eddy in Australia: Hey Handy! I saw that the Amyl show was cancelled - or has it just been postponed? They're a fun night out.
	11:18am Mister Dobalina: ToPT is a pretty clever guy, any bets on what his potential score might be?
	11:19am clarke: gotta listen to IIT a bit more to find out
	11:19am jmd: He'll get POW-POW-POW out of 1600.
	11:19am Frank In Queens: Eddy, interesting. I think their latest has been the best in awhile (Davy’s songs are really fab), but I think they haven’t had a GREAT one since Convicts. But love the idea of obscure deep cuts.
	11:19am Handy Haversack: The note I got from the venue said canceled and refunded. They are playing here in May, but the only ticket-delivery method for that show is by app, and I don't have a smartphone, so I guess I'm a double loser.
	11:20am Listener Baby: Have not watched a second of Get Back. Can’t seem to sit my ass down. I need to chop it in to little pieces, and nibble at it.
	11:20am Frank In Queens: Rusty is a great drummer!
	11:20am clarke: love the new one - A LOT
	11:21am Eddy in Australia: Loving the love for YAI. Now if we could only get Michael to play 'em! Mikey?
	11:21am Frank In Queens: @Handy, yeah I heard about the cancellation. I didn’t have ix but I know a lot of other folks who did are super bummed out about it. But I guess the May shows are a saving grace.
	11:22am Handy Haversack: For some people, Frank. There's literally only one ticket-delivery method for that show, and I can't use it.
	11:23am clarke: they finally made an 'album', eddy!
	11:23am Cooh John: Remember listening to this on a console stereo.
	11:23am Frank In Queens: Ah, that sucks Handy.
	11:25am ?: Handy: I am also phoneless. There's a little blurb on the Live Nation Website somewhere that if you don't have access to a phone, or your screen is cracked, that you can go to the box office and get admitted. I've done that twice and gotten in both times, although it was a little complicated at the Fillmore Philly.
	11:25am Baja Joe: Red Kross is just simply fabulous.
	11:25am clarke: superior guitar solo
	11:26am Eddy in Australia: Clarke: You mean the latest LP? You don't rate previous ones? Frank: They also covered I Wanna Be Your Dog tonight - first time I've heard 'em play it.
	11:26am Montmaster J: Get Back was better than I expected and my expectations were high. We watched the roof top concert again last night.....just incredible. We had it cranked. Pure joy. I would definitely watch the director's cut.
	11:27am clarke: i think they finally learned how to sequence and put songs together, etc. i love their records, but this one's an 'album'
	11:28am Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael, Baby, Frank, Handy, Bagpipe & the Butt Sniffers, Greg, Peter, all!!
	11:28am Handy Haversack: Hey, Jack! How did you know!
	11:28am Eddy in Australia: Mmm, interesting. I'll admit I haven't listened to the new one enough but I think Hi Fi Way is close to perfect.
	11:29am clarke: will re-listen Eddy, for sure!
	11:30am Hoboken Jack: Handy, I found out the hard way!!
	11:30am Squints: The Wonder Who, I think the called themselves.
	11:30am Squints: The 4 Seasons always had a bitchin' drum sound. Especially for its time.
	11:31am dr.doppler: Def a banger
	11:31am Eddy in Australia: BTW I thought Davey's songs off the new album came off really well tonight.
	11:31am Mailman Tom: Oogie!
	11:31am Listener Baby: Somebody is wrong. He’s eating an apple, holding a pen, and wearing headphones.
	11:31am Handy Haversack: Were they on acorns at the time?
	11:31am Mister Dobalina: Wing?
	11:31am Hughie Considine: I already have the wicked gleam of Chuck Barris eying the gong ...
	11:31am James in ATL: Terrible. 2 minute mute.
	11:31am common: This is the weirdest song from my childhood ever
	11:31am Juke Joint Jonny: Objectively a great record.
	11:31am Roger: HA, love this!
	11:31am Frank In Queens: @Eddy, nice! @clarke, I like the flow on Hourly Daily and #4. To me, those are good “albums”. Otherwise, I get it. I think the earlier albums suffer from the common mistake of the CD era, which is “we have all this extra time on this new format, let’s use it”, when a good 40 min is all you really need for a single album.
	11:31am Montmaster J: I remember the Nightmares' version being pretty good.
	11:31am Brian in New Orleans: OMG ...Horrible!!!!!...LOL
	11:31am Shira: So weird. It's a hit!
	11:32am KWilde: Love this wacky version!
	11:32am Hughie Considine: the "why babe"s are the icing on the cake
	11:32am tim from washington: My daughter just asked if Elmo’s singing.
	11:32am McGroovey: I pronounce it weirdly good.
	11:32am mazudog: what... this is AMAZING
	11:32am TimG: Love 4 Seasins; love the song. This version is horribly bad
	11:32am listener monica: I don't know if you're allowed to judge a novelty record as good or bad
	11:32am phat in Lincoln: I just want to know who decided this should be done.
	11:32am Brian in New Orleans: Chipmunks on LSD laced acorns...and not in a good way...
	11:33am Shira: It does sound like Elmo. Perfect for my household. We love pop music and Elmo.
	11:33am Erin in TO: I like the weirdness of this just because I like weird, but I don't think it's good
	11:33am Jordon: Not my favorite.
	11:33am SecretSquirrel: The problem isn't Frankie's falsetto, it's the key. If it'd been about a fifth down it wouldn't sound so ludicrous.
	11:33am Everyone Everwhere: Terrible!
	11:33am Frank In Queens: I put my hatred of The 4 Seasons aside and was objective about this record, and I still came to the conclusion that it’s terrible.
	11:33am Juke Joint Jonny: Every Bob Dylan vocal sounds like a novelty record to me.
	11:33am Hughie Considine: But now I'm Chuck Barris having succumbed to the record's weird charms .... music is truly transformative (why Babe why Babe?)
	11:34am ratty: TRAVESTY
	11:35am Eddy in Australia: Frank: Agree about the flow of #4 even though it's not a personal favourite. Love HD but feel it meanders in the back half.
	11:35am Hoboken Jack: I dig it and was just reading up: Valli wasn't happy with his vocals so switched to a "joke" falsetto to lighten the mood in the studio. An exec loved it and wanted to release it as a single.
	11:35am JohnEBGood: I'll have to go with the 2 listeners. Reminded me of Chipmunk Punk.
	11:35am Kman: Have to vote thumbs down - the voice is just too much
	11:35am clarke: but the interviews with john cale and jon richman make it better than you are saying
	11:37am Kman: By the way, my daughter is taking the SAT's now as well!
	11:37am DavidL: Wow. Fascinating, yes. Good, nope. I may be nuts, but I think I heard the bleed of a normal-register lead vocal take at a couple points. Like a guide or first take recorded with the band tracks maybe? Which could indicate that the falsetto was a “hey, why don’t we try this?” overdub. Who knows… will have to give another listen.
	11:37am Handy Haversack: When do we get the six-hour documentary that's just what members of the Foo Fighters think about stuff.
	11:38am Frank In Queens: Eddy, maybe after “Raffles” but it picks up after Dead Letter Chorus. I first heard the album without Heavy Comfort, so perhaps that’s how I still hear the album in my memory.
	11:38am gf2002: A hot take on "Get Back". As a diehard Beatles obsessive I love seeing the footage and hearing that audio without all the crew's slates and cues as the bootlegs featured. But judging from reactions it seems like there is a bit of a whitewash of the actual history and what happened especially at Twickenham for those first 3 weeks before Harrison bailed out. According to Lennon, Harrison, and George Martin among others, the sessions were miserable. The band only recorded in the evening, and here they were showing up at 10am or whatever to try to make music. It was only after George Harrison called Billy Preston in and demanded that the sessions move to Apple's studios that things got back on track, and you can see everyone's mood increase dramatically, even though there were issues with "Magic Alex's" equipment at Apple before they could actually record. It's important for fans to know the whole story and not just the McCartney version and suggesting how much fun the whole thing was. Shortly after the rooftop concert they called to ask George Martin (and Geoff Emerick) to come back and do an album like they used to do, that speaks volumes.
	11:38am gd0: Was/am a fan of the Four Seasons hit singles. DTT isn't one of them. Even as a kid, it was obvious to me that DTT was the 4S, and that it was also a bad joke. A real bad joke. And I'm not one to think of Dylan as a sacred cow. Just a wrong turn, nothing more, nothing less.
	11:39am Juke Joint Jonny: I want to know what Flea has to say about every comment Dave Grohl has made in every documentary.
	11:39am jg: TCB!
	11:39am Handy Haversack: JJJ: Now that's infotainment!
	11:39am Hughie Considine: I was puzzled by the response among some working musicians who scoffed at the idea that watching Paul pull a song out of thin air was miraculous -- because, they said, this is how songs are written, and always have been, with fleeting ideas that just come to you. It's an everyday occurrence, the public just never witnessed it. I don't see how that negates the miracle part, and the response struck me as almost bizarre.
	11:40am Baja Joe: Played for my nephew Led Zeppelin's "How Many More Times" loud in my car during a road trip. Before this ride, he never thought much about the band. Created an instant Led Zep fan. Mission accomplished. Next mission, expose him to all the great blues artists Led Zep "borrowed" from.
	11:40am TimG: Luckily in Chico we have Jonathan living here and his “question/answer” afterwards
	11:41am RichardN: that don't think twice cover is firmly lodged in my head now. I'd say it's near the pop end of the novelty/pop spectrum.
	11:42am Eddy in Australia: Frank/Clarke: You guys know your stuff so your insights have been a great coda to the show. You made my night! See you next time ...
	11:42am nightengale: wow I wonder what kind of music he would be writing if he was still alive?!!!
	11:43am Hughie Considine: @Juke Joint Jimmy, the Grohl/Flea collaboration would end with the two of them jamming on the roof of Elvis Costello's flat in a cheeky homage to the finale of Get Back.
	11:43am Kent: I remember laughing at this version when it came on the radio. Can you believe it reached #12 on Billboard?! Were they trying to be funny, or were they being passive aggressive because the counter culture music was crushing them???
	11:43am clarke: Eddy - take 'er ezy!!!
	11:44am gf2002: George Harrison was very passive aggressive during those sessions. He had just been in the US hanging out with Dylan, The Band, and other notable artists at the end of '68, and was being respected and asked for his opinions, and got energized to write new songs and do different things on the guitar. Then he shows up at an airplane hangar with cameras rolling and is instructed how to play and has his songs openly mocked on camera. When the tensions got to be too much, he bailed out and brought Billy Preston into the mix just as he had brought Clapton into the White Album sessions which immediately got the others back on track instead of arguing and sniping at each other
	11:46am clarke: i have't seen Get Back, yet - but, george was having real issues with being paul's "little brother" for a while, by then. it just came to a head when he insisted on trying his brand-new Wah pedal on EVERY song!
	11:46am clarke: and luckily was talked out of having wah on every song!!
	11:48am clarke: and i theorize that billy preston had a lot to do with saying Uh, nix the wah, dude!
	11:50am gf2002: How about that scene where George's maroon Les Paul "Lucy" falls off the drum riser? I'm amazed the headstock didn't break off!
	11:51am clarke: haven't seen it, but gibsons are tough!
	11:51am clarke: Bobby Elliott!!!!!!
	11:52am gf2002: @clarke Except the SG's lol...
	11:52am P-90: Agreed, the Hollies have a great SOUND
	11:52am JOFF: Thres a song i co-came up w/ BRUNO (and the Outrageous Methods of Presentation) called 'Rockumentary Roladex' about the same old talkin headsalways on the music docs - incl. a refrain that just goes 'DaveGrohlagainDaveGrohlagainDaveGrohlagainDaveGrohlagain...'!!!!
	11:54am Listener Baby: @Joff. Add Elvis C, Bono, and you’ve got a hit!
	11:54am Frank In Queens: Went on a Hollies binge about a month ago. Great band!
	11:54am McGroovey: I wish I could have heard the Hollies during the brief period a few years ago when Carl Wayne of the Move was with them. He had to go and die on them.
	11:55am Michael Shelley: & the guy from Sonic Youth (zzzzzzz)
	11:55am clarke: YES - liverpool just scored in the last min!!! whooo hooo toppermost!!
	11:56am JOFF: BABY, Bono already in there, gotta add Elvis tho'!!'
	11:56am gf2002: Scott Ian from Anthrax has to be in that Rolodex too
	11:57am McGroovey: Liverpool is a suburb of Syracuse, NY! (Or were you referring to some other Liverpool?)
	11:57am JOFF: BTW - i love that Daryll-Ann song, funny sounding vocals notwithsatanding! PLUS - that Wonder Who song might be one of THE best Dylan covers of all time ever!!!!
	11:58am Larry O: That was definitely a WTF. weird WFMU humor
	12:00pm Juke Joint Jonny: Liverpool, NY home of Heid's. There's another Liverpool?
	12:01pm Listener Baby: In my line of work, we have the same exact problem as rock docs. Same dude, gets asked to speak for hundreds of people. Time after time. It is my conclusion that journalists are just as lazy as everybody else.
	12:02pm McGroovey: Stop & Think It Over is one of the best songs ever. This is a song I've never heard a bad cover of.
	12:02pm Hoboken Jack: Nice cover by Borges! Oh hello McGroove.
	12:03pm McGroovey: Fancy seeing you here, Jack!
	12:03pm Hoboken Jack: McGroove, wait till you hear the version by The Wonder Who. #callback
	12:03pm McGroovey: That was a fine segue! 10 points out of 10!
	12:04pm Frank In Queens: @McGroovey, 💯% agree!
	12:04pm Handy Haversack: Exactly, Baby.
	12:05pm Jonathan Quinn (guy that went to Moscow): Hello from Nazarè, Portugal
	12:05pm McGroovey: I hope tonight's Yo La Tengo show is not better than tonight's Eyelids/Dream Syndicate show.
	12:06pm Cooh John: Thanks for the Hank Marr. Cbus strikes again.
	12:06pm clarke: frank, have the Isles turned the tide around??
	12:07pm McGroovey: @JQ Hello from New Jersey. But why TF did you go to Moscow? I did that a couple times. The second time to be sure I wasn't wrong about the first time.
	12:07pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, I have been trying to avoid eggs and dairy M-Th. I took National Psycopathy Carnival Week off and then had an emergency eggplant parm when we thought the kittens were dying last week. Sure am better with tofu than I used to be.
	12:08pm JG: Thanks Michael for mentioning the new Elvis box set. I was unaware of it. I just listened to the track of Gordon Lightfoot's Early morning Rain. The version he did after the audience had left the amphitheater in Aloha form Hawaii has always been the most beautiful to me, more so than a previous studio release. Version on this new set may change my mind. It is gorgeous. He was an awesome singer. Duh.
	12:08pm happymaan: Hope your kittens are okay Handy!
	12:08pm Hoboken Jack: The Varsese Sarabande bubblegum compilation with this Splits number on it is unreasonably priced on Discogs!
	12:08pm clarke: what was wrong with kittens, handy??
	12:09pm Frank In Queens: @clarke, Isles are still reeling, but regulars have begun returning to the line-up. They’ve got to turn it around soon or the season is a bust. They need to be at .500 by the end if the year or it’s over.
	12:09pm Greg from ZONE 5: Love love love The Queers' cover of IEBABILWY
	12:09pm McGroovey: I was off dairy and meat (doctor's orders), but I finally had had enough oat milk, and I had to start having a teaspoon of cream in my coffee this week, and today I broke down and had actual milk on my breakfast cereal...
	12:11pm Handy Haversack: Correction: thought Goblin was dying. Bugbear has been fine. clarke, Goblin ate SOMEthing that lodged in him. Vomiting, congestion, lassitude, pain. We thought there might need to be emergency ultrasound and surgery, but it started moving after a couple of days. I think he's almost entirely recovered. His energy is finally back today (I have the scratches to prove it!). He's still sniffly, so I won't be fully relaxed until that goes away, but he's doing so much better. We really thought things might get really bad. And Bugbear finally seems to be getting over his "nonrecognition aggression," too.
	12:12pm Frank In Queens: @Handy, glad to hear that Goblin is on the mend!
	12:12pm clarke: dang!! whew.
	12:13pm Michael Shelley: an emergency eggplant parm once in a while is understandable
	12:14pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Frank, clarke, Happymaan! We think it might have been soil from Rosy Palm, our one plant. She is currently banished to a high shelf. Goblin might been weaned too soon -- I think he has a touch of pica!
	12:16pm BeatleMania: Hey Michael, late comment to your Get Back comments on air earlier. Got me thinking about what Pseu Braun said on her show Thursday and how young Juniper “gets it”: it’s really a musicians movie. Check her out for the details. She motivated me to start watching and BOOM it was nine hours later and I only wanted MORE. Two quick takes: new respect for Sir Paul and a better understanding of WHY George wanted out. Whilst the director (Orson Welles alleged kid I forget his name) was discussing the Libyan excursion w the lads you can plainly see that when Paul talks (endlessly really) or John talks it’s rapt attention. But once George starts chiming in the guy simply blows him off and just talks over them.
	12:17pm Crei6hton: Afternoon WFMU!
	12:18pm BeatleMania: And you could tell from the close ups George had had it halfway through part one. See you in the clubs
	12:18pm Michael Shelley: Michael Lindsay Hogg's on camera moments added nothing
	12:19pm BeatleMania: Yep
	12:19pm ?: Cheapest tickets for the Holies are $161 🙊
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: I guess that decides that
	12:20pm phat in Lincoln: Just started listening to a podcast that's probably been mentioned here, The History of Rock Music in 500 songs. The Sister Rosetta Tharpe episode was entertaining.
	12:21pm clarke: LG's!!!
	12:22pm Frank In Queens: @Michael, MLH was consistently annoying throughout.
	12:22pm gf2002: That guitar solo on Sister Rosetta's song, wow! You just don't hear solos like that anymore, where there is actual space in between the notes.
	12:22pm ?: Oh! Tickets are $60 at the theater's site. That's a bit better.
	12:24pm happymaan: Michael, I'm planning on getting tickets to see Weird Al at that cavern/cave venue in Tennessee
	12:25pm Michael Shelley: @gf2002 - that's SRT on a gold top Les Paul
	12:27pm suzyhotrod: Hey Michael, Just walked in the door so I'm not sure if you talked about Conan Obrien's podcast. Its interview-based, but his reading of commercials is sometimes the funniest part of the episodes. I don't really do podcasts, and I enjoy that one so much, it has me laughing out loud on the subway. PS: I love your Nancy doll
	12:27pm Hughie Considine: My podcast, “I Am the Fly,” is a music-saturated narrative (read non-interview) podcast about friendship, family, AM radio, drugs, celebrity, and mixtapes. It’s about Tenafly NJ in the '70s, NYC in the '80s + the final throes of the 20th century. iamthefly.org + yr major podcast platforms.
	12:27pm RichardN: Heavyweight is the best This American Life type show going right now. the last few eps have made me tear up a bit... the hosts name is escaping me, but it is really good. And Office Hours with Tim Heidecker is very funny.
	12:28pm DG: I had the odd experience of seeing BOTH Ringo and Keith Richards play "I Wanna Be your Man" in a 4-month period.
	12:29pm mazudog: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghosts-in-the-burbs/id1097650785
	12:29pm gf2002: Those original goldtops with the P-90's had serious twang factor! Sister Rosetta was amazing
	12:31pm Baja Joe: Ahhh, the great Bill Withers.
	12:31pm Frank In Queens: File Bill Withers under “Singers You Could Listen To Singing The Phonebook”.
	12:32pm Frank In Queens: Oh! I caught that “dry oatmeal” earlier 😂
	12:33pm G: @Frank: "I know, I know, I know, I know..."
	12:33pm Edward: Just karaoke’d this one last night.
	12:34pm DavidL: History of the English Language Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-english-podcast/id538608536 140 episodes = lots of driving/cooking time. And no ad copy.
	12:34pm egould310: Buzzcocks are the best.
	12:34pm phat in Lincoln: I'd listen to Pete Shelley sing the phone book.
	12:35pm common: Pete. The best
	12:35pm phat in Lincoln: Listen to those drums!!
	12:36pm clarke: he doesn't DO!!!
	12:37pm Hoboken Jack: Pete is the best; Pete Best is second best.
	12:37pm Handy Haversack: This music -- it SPEAKS to me!
	12:37pm gf2002: Fender made a serious push to get a Beatles endorsement and sent them all that brand new gear that showed up in the Get Back film. That included George's rosewood Telecaster which was custom built and flown over to him personally, unless I'm mistaken they bought a seat for the guitar to fly it over to George personally. Then George gave it away to Delaney Bramlett within that same year...
	12:37pm clarke: shaggy just stands in the corner picking his ass.
	12:37pm egould310: 4H and FFA getting a shout out. Hilarious. Chug a lug indeed.
	12:38pm PatrickMC: Show me that you're mine
	12:39pm gf2002: There is a GREAT scene in Get Back where George brings a new Stylophone into the Apple studio and Billy Preston starts jamming on it
	12:39pm chris dot com: bizarre, Vaughn played a reggae version of Gimme Little Sign this morning on footsteps of reggae
	12:40pm Listener John from NJ: @JukeJ0intJphnny: I grew up in the REAL Liverp00l -- are y0u fr0m there? I was there 2 weeks ago f0r 1st time in >20 years. And Heids still r0cks!! I've heard st0ries ab0ut an0ther Liverp00l -- it's in Sc0tland 0r Ireland 0r s0meplace and is fam0us f0r the big beetles & 0ther insects they have there, but I d0n't believe th0se st0ries are true.
	12:40pm Peter Horvath: Hey thanks Michael!
	12:40pm Michael Shelley: Thank you Peter - for the #1
	12:40pm Glistener MW: Peter Horvath probably doesn’t want to go to the Movies, because he’s seen Too Many of them.
	12:41pm clarke: peter do you have a youtube page??
	12:41pm evancuts: Old topic by now but saw Graham Nash at one of the Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows a couple of years ago and he sounded great. But I'm guessing he might not be touring with the Hollies.
	12:41pm BeatleMania: I love Bill Burr podcasts and his commercial reads are the best. Although American football bores me to tears I listen to his takes simply for all the enthusiasm and knowledge he has for it. But I can’t stand his Thursday entr’acte with the gambling blowhard. Gotta draw the line somewhere. Skip to the classic that follows fast. Outside your wheelhouse isn’t always bad eh. Good Fender b/g gf2002 thx
	12:42pm PatrickMC: He wants to be alone
	12:43pm Juke Joint Jonny: This swings
	12:44pm Mister Dobalina: I remember when I used to record songs off the radio on to cassettes.
	12:46pm phat in Lincoln: I always think about checking out all those Mayall records, but I never do.
	12:47pm Baby: Those boys are always looking for my approval.
	12:47pm clarke: it's a terrible deal.
	12:47pm gf2002: I saw John Mayall live in '92 at a Penn's Landing blues fest in Philly, his guitarist was Coco Montoya at that time. Mayall was more known for blues harp and being like an apprenticeship for British blues guitarists in the 60's. The ultimate Mayall album to grab is "Bluesbreakers" aka The Beano Album from '66 with Eric Clapton playing some amazing blues guitar on a sunburst Les Paul. Mayall also had a live album from '69 or so that showcased his harp playing
	12:48pm Peter Horvath: Hey Clarke- https://youtube.com/user/misterhorvath
	12:48pm clarke: thanks pedro!!!
	12:49pm Frank In Queens: @gf A Hard Road has Peter Green on it and Mick Taylor was on at least one of the late 60s Mayall albums.
	12:49pm clarke: subscribed!!
	12:50pm Mike Sin: Love this Otis Clay version!
	12:50pm Mailman Tom: I saw John Mayall perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1969
	12:50pm clarke: these bad guys aren't so bad, once you look at it... some of these guys JUST want to re-make the world...
	12:51pm Mister Dobalina: I've never seen John Mayall, but I will be seeing Ivan Julian tomorrow at City Winery.
	12:52pm clarke: who is ivan playing with??
	12:52pm miketp: OTIS MY MAN.HIS big song trying to live my life without you has been a favorite of mine since bob porter wbgo portraits in blu e show.take care MICHAEL AND ALL.
	12:52pm gf2002: @Frank, yes that's right! It was like an apprenticeship for young British blues guitarists to play in Mayall's "Bluesbreakers" before joining bigger bands, apparently Mayall had the largest or one of the largest collections of American blues records in the UK at that time in the 60's and musicians used to go to his place to listen and learn. He could play a good blues harp! I like that element of his records better than the vocals.
	12:53pm Mister Dobalina: Not sure, but I think Vernon Reid will be there.
	12:53pm DG: A few years ago we went to see Buddy Guy do one of those free summer shows downtown (NYC) & Mayall was the opening act. I knew some of his albums but thought he was mostly a slow-blues playing guy. Turned out he had a young band & was great, did a varied set, played keys & was actually better than Guy, who seemed to be more into seeing how profane he could be.
	12:53pm drr: I wish I were near enough to try to win the Lemon Twigs tickets. Fantastic band. Find their YouTube appearance on Jimmy Kimmel of all places, it's remarkable.
	12:53pm JG: I love all the gear in Get Back. Lennon epiphone hollow body. Paul's Hofner bass. Cool stuff
	12:54pm Michael Shelley: I wish him well, I wish a lot of people well
	12:54pm clarke: they would be doing better if it weren't for these meddlesome kids - okay!!
	12:54pm McGroovey: This Lemon Twigs song sounds like a lost Roy Wood single. (That's a good thing, by the way)
	12:55pm onthetrain: Mike thanks for making my Saturday sunny and filled with #1 hits.
	12:56pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael! Stay on top, Number Ones!
	12:57pm radioronan: Thanks Michael!
	12:57pm Hoboken Jack: Thank you, Michael!! Anybody coming to YLT this weekend, come upstairs and say hi!
	12:57pm Mister Dobalina: Good stuff, Mike.
	12:57pm clarke: fred just drives.
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael! Helped pass the final 2 hours at work.
	12:58pm Michael Shelley: a to b
	12:58pm clarke: fred and daphne just porking away
	12:59pm Corey: Thanks for the great show Michael! Chasing a toddler for most of it, but enjoyable all the same. Take care all!
	12:59pm clarke: asta la vista, baby!! good nite.
	1:01pm BeatleMania: Thx always enjoy the trip
	9:43am Bob: Day late as usual. Loved every second of Get Back but agree that it was a whitewash. How come Paul didn't reverse the songwriting credits on the film as he's done elsewhere? Weird. The famous guitar argument between Paul and George was included but seemed toned down given the audio mx and camera shot choice. Jackson (or whoever) made an obvious choice to redeem Yoko and that's fine with me. There was lots of footage of them working without Yoko in the shot and her "singing" bits were clearly showing the humor and experimentation of it. Jackson could obviously have cut it in a completely different way. Loved it all. And I don't know if the 4 Seasons record is great or terrible but I hate it. Cheers.
	6:13pm Greg in Portland OR: Love the show.

Michael Shelley: Playlist from December 4, 2021

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Tony Hazzard	How She's Making Out
Courtney Barnett	Elevator Operator
Mel Tillis	Tupelo County Jail "Tupelo County Jail" by "Mel Tillis"
Jimmy Hughes	A Shot of Rhythm And Blues
Ken Sharp	Hellcat "Hellcat" by "Ken Sharp"
Cat Stevens	I'm Gonna Be King "I'm Gonna Be King" by "Cat Stevens"
Johnny Wright	Mama's Little Jewel
Lightnin' Hopkins	Hear Me Talking
Dorothy Ashby	Love Is Blue "Love Is Blue" by "Dorothy Ashby"
Redd Kross	Stay Away From Downtown
Wonder Who?, The	Don't Think Twice It's All Right
Elvis Presley	That's What You Get For Loving Me (takes 7 & 8)
Peggy Scott And Jo Jo Benson	Sugarmaker
Daryll-Ann	I Could Never Love You
Hollies, The	Here I Go Again "Here I Go Again" by "Hollies, The"
Wynn Stewart	I'm Gonna Kill You "I'm Gonna Kill You" by "Wynn Stewart"
Hank Marr	Marsanova "Marsanova" by "Hank Marr"
Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles	Stop And Think It Over
Hollies, The	Here I Go Again (again)
Banana Splits, The	I Enjoy Being a Boy (In Love With You)
Jon Reid	Dream Of Love "Dream Of Love" by "Jon Reid"
Roy Acuff Jr.	Turn That Frown Upside Down
Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band	Express Yourself
Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air
Liquor Giants, The	Caroline "Caroline" by "Liquor Giants, The"
Beatles, The	I Wanna Be Your Man "I Wanna Be Your Man" by "Beatles, The"
Jimmie Lloyd	I Got A Rocket In My Pocket
Bill Withers	Better Off Dead "Better Off Dead" by "Bill Withers"
Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen In Love? "Ever Fallen In Love?" by "Buzzcocks"
Swingin' Blue Jeans, The	Chug-A-Lug
Memphis Black	Gimme Little Sign "Gimme Little Sign" by "Memphis Black"
Peter Horvath	Alone With You "Alone With You" by "Peter Horvath"
John Mayall	Crocodile Walk "Crocodile Walk" by "John Mayall"
Cactus Blossoms, The	Hey Baby "Hey Baby" by "Cactus Blossoms, The"
Otis Clay	She's About A Mover "She's About A Mover" by "Otis Clay"
Lemon Twigs, The	Live In Favor Of Tomorrow
NRBQ	L-O-N-E Lone-ly "L-O-N-E Lone-ly" by "NRBQ"
Mike Francesa	Ryan In Eastchester

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CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

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

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

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CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

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

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

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

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

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

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

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

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

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

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

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

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

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

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

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

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

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

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

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

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

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

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

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

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

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CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

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CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

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CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

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

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CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

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CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

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CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

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

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

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

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

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

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

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

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

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

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

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

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

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

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

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

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

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

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

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

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

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

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

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

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

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

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

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

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

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

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

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

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

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

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

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

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

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

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

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

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Listener comments!
	10:27am Listener Baby: It's eleven o'clock and time for lunch Bum-de-dum, de-dum When the sun beats down, and I lie on the bench I can always hear The Michael Shelley Show.
	11:00am Handy Haversack: Michael! Baby! Shellegamers!
	11:00am common: Ello
	11:01am Mister Dobalina: How do you do this Michael/Mike thing, week after week. AMAZING!
	11:01am Frank In Queens: Hey now! Listening at the office this morning.
	11:01am clarke: hey nowwww howdy, then!!
	11:01am Handy Haversack: I'm gonna speak Italian to Mike ...
	11:02am Squints: ok then hey HEY hey now
	11:03am Will the Sound Guy: Hi Michael and all!!!!
	11:03am clarke: tryin'a double screen as liverpool is live
	11:03am Greg from ZONE 5: Michael & all!
	11:04am Bootsie: Courtney is absolutely one of my FAVE current artists.
	11:07am Mister Dobalina: I like my pop, very cold & extra bubbly.
	11:07am yippie: is David Peel in the Beatles documentary?
	11:08am Eddy in Australia: clarke! quick live check-in to see how you're doing. when i caught up on last week's show i read that you'd had an op
	11:08am Corey: Morning Michael and listeners!
	11:09am clarke: EIA = thanks!! doing pretty good - on the mend, thanks! haven't heard from ye in a while!
	11:09am Baja Joe: Hello Michael. Saw the Beatles mini-saga. Worth spending the time watching, though I don't think I'll be revisiting any time soon. Learned a lot about their "process." Good stuff overall.
	11:09am Peter Horvath: Ahoy from Highland Park NJ, home of the Band-Aid
	11:12am Cooh John: Good morning Michael and #1ers.
	11:12am Frank In Queens: Get Back was fantastic. Loved it. I admit that I’ll probably only watch it again once more in my life at most, but it was wonderful to be able to witness a huge chunk of time the The Beatles spent working (and playing) as they were nearing the end of their collective existence. In fact, should the supposed 18 hour director’s cut ever become available, I’d watch it.
	11:12am Eddy in Australia: Yeah, the (summer) time difference is such that I can't listen live anymore so now I play the archive on Sunday morning. Saw You Am I earlier tonight so I'm up later than usual.
	11:13am Eddy in Australia: Feel better, buddy!
	11:13am clarke: i figured the time-change would screw it. thanks, mate!!!
	11:14am Frank In Queens: Eddy, how was the YAI show? I’m a massive fan.
	11:15am clarke: wait~ eddy went to you am i???
	11:16am Eddy in Australia: Frank: I didn't know that! They were pretty good but it was a weird setlist, toploaded with new stuff and some odd deep cuts.
	11:16am Handy Haversack: Semi-relatedly, Frank, the Amyl and the Sniffers show that we might have managed a meet-up before has been COVID canceled, I'm afraid. I was really looking forward to it. Hey, Eddy!
	11:17am Eddy in Australia: Rusty was a powerhouse as usual.
	11:17am clarke: was gonna say, Frank, my album of the year is between You Am I and It IS Them!
	11:17am Handy Haversack: Todd-o-phonic Todd is taking the SAT?! Finally!
	11:18am clarke: ha ha ha ha
	11:18am Eddy in Australia: Hey Handy! I saw that the Amyl show was cancelled - or has it just been postponed? They're a fun night out.
	11:18am Mister Dobalina: ToPT is a pretty clever guy, any bets on what his potential score might be?
	11:19am clarke: gotta listen to IIT a bit more to find out
	11:19am jmd: He'll get POW-POW-POW out of 1600.
	11:19am Frank In Queens: Eddy, interesting. I think their latest has been the best in awhile (Davy’s songs are really fab), but I think they haven’t had a GREAT one since Convicts. But love the idea of obscure deep cuts.
	11:19am Handy Haversack: The note I got from the venue said canceled and refunded. They are playing here in May, but the only ticket-delivery method for that show is by app, and I don't have a smartphone, so I guess I'm a double loser.
	11:20am Listener Baby: Have not watched a second of Get Back. Can’t seem to sit my ass down. I need to chop it in to little pieces, and nibble at it.
	11:20am Frank In Queens: Rusty is a great drummer!
	11:20am clarke: love the new one - A LOT
	11:21am Eddy in Australia: Loving the love for YAI. Now if we could only get Michael to play 'em! Mikey?
	11:21am Frank In Queens: @Handy, yeah I heard about the cancellation. I didn’t have ix but I know a lot of other folks who did are super bummed out about it. But I guess the May shows are a saving grace.
	11:22am Handy Haversack: For some people, Frank. There's literally only one ticket-delivery method for that show, and I can't use it.
	11:23am clarke: they finally made an 'album', eddy!
	11:23am Cooh John: Remember listening to this on a console stereo.
	11:23am Frank In Queens: Ah, that sucks Handy.
	11:25am ?: Handy: I am also phoneless. There's a little blurb on the Live Nation Website somewhere that if you don't have access to a phone, or your screen is cracked, that you can go to the box office and get admitted. I've done that twice and gotten in both times, although it was a little complicated at the Fillmore Philly.
	11:25am Baja Joe: Red Kross is just simply fabulous.
	11:25am clarke: superior guitar solo
	11:26am Eddy in Australia: Clarke: You mean the latest LP? You don't rate previous ones? Frank: They also covered I Wanna Be Your Dog tonight - first time I've heard 'em play it.
	11:26am Montmaster J: Get Back was better than I expected and my expectations were high. We watched the roof top concert again last night.....just incredible. We had it cranked. Pure joy. I would definitely watch the director's cut.
	11:27am clarke: i think they finally learned how to sequence and put songs together, etc. i love their records, but this one's an 'album'
	11:28am Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael, Baby, Frank, Handy, Bagpipe & the Butt Sniffers, Greg, Peter, all!!
	11:28am Handy Haversack: Hey, Jack! How did you know!
	11:28am Eddy in Australia: Mmm, interesting. I'll admit I haven't listened to the new one enough but I think Hi Fi Way is close to perfect.
	11:29am clarke: will re-listen Eddy, for sure!
	11:30am Hoboken Jack: Handy, I found out the hard way!!
	11:30am Squints: The Wonder Who, I think the called themselves.
	11:30am Squints: The 4 Seasons always had a bitchin' drum sound. Especially for its time.
	11:31am dr.doppler: Def a banger
	11:31am Eddy in Australia: BTW I thought Davey's songs off the new album came off really well tonight.
	11:31am Mailman Tom: Oogie!
	11:31am Listener Baby: Somebody is wrong. He’s eating an apple, holding a pen, and wearing headphones.
	11:31am Handy Haversack: Were they on acorns at the time?
	11:31am Mister Dobalina: Wing?
	11:31am Hughie Considine: I already have the wicked gleam of Chuck Barris eying the gong ...
	11:31am James in ATL: Terrible. 2 minute mute.
	11:31am common: This is the weirdest song from my childhood ever
	11:31am Juke Joint Jonny: Objectively a great record.
	11:31am Roger: HA, love this!
	11:31am Frank In Queens: @Eddy, nice! @clarke, I like the flow on Hourly Daily and #4. To me, those are good “albums”. Otherwise, I get it. I think the earlier albums suffer from the common mistake of the CD era, which is “we have all this extra time on this new format, let’s use it”, when a good 40 min is all you really need for a single album.
	11:31am Montmaster J: I remember the Nightmares' version being pretty good.
	11:31am Brian in New Orleans: OMG ...Horrible!!!!!...LOL
	11:31am Shira: So weird. It's a hit!
	11:32am KWilde: Love this wacky version!
	11:32am Hughie Considine: the "why babe"s are the icing on the cake
	11:32am tim from washington: My daughter just asked if Elmo’s singing.
	11:32am McGroovey: I pronounce it weirdly good.
	11:32am mazudog: what... this is AMAZING
	11:32am TimG: Love 4 Seasins; love the song. This version is horribly bad
	11:32am listener monica: I don't know if you're allowed to judge a novelty record as good or bad
	11:32am phat in Lincoln: I just want to know who decided this should be done.
	11:32am Brian in New Orleans: Chipmunks on LSD laced acorns...and not in a good way...
	11:33am Shira: It does sound like Elmo. Perfect for my household. We love pop music and Elmo.
	11:33am Erin in TO: I like the weirdness of this just because I like weird, but I don't think it's good
	11:33am Jordon: Not my favorite.
	11:33am SecretSquirrel: The problem isn't Frankie's falsetto, it's the key. If it'd been about a fifth down it wouldn't sound so ludicrous.
	11:33am Everyone Everwhere: Terrible!
	11:33am Frank In Queens: I put my hatred of The 4 Seasons aside and was objective about this record, and I still came to the conclusion that it’s terrible.
	11:33am Juke Joint Jonny: Every Bob Dylan vocal sounds like a novelty record to me.
	11:33am Hughie Considine: But now I'm Chuck Barris having succumbed to the record's weird charms .... music is truly transformative (why Babe why Babe?)
	11:34am ratty: TRAVESTY
	11:35am Eddy in Australia: Frank: Agree about the flow of #4 even though it's not a personal favourite. Love HD but feel it meanders in the back half.
	11:35am Hoboken Jack: I dig it and was just reading up: Valli wasn't happy with his vocals so switched to a "joke" falsetto to lighten the mood in the studio. An exec loved it and wanted to release it as a single.
	11:35am JohnEBGood: I'll have to go with the 2 listeners. Reminded me of Chipmunk Punk.
	11:35am Kman: Have to vote thumbs down - the voice is just too much
	11:35am clarke: but the interviews with john cale and jon richman make it better than you are saying
	11:37am Kman: By the way, my daughter is taking the SAT's now as well!
	11:37am DavidL: Wow. Fascinating, yes. Good, nope. I may be nuts, but I think I heard the bleed of a normal-register lead vocal take at a couple points. Like a guide or first take recorded with the band tracks maybe? Which could indicate that the falsetto was a “hey, why don’t we try this?” overdub. Who knows… will have to give another listen.
	11:37am Handy Haversack: When do we get the six-hour documentary that's just what members of the Foo Fighters think about stuff.
	11:38am Frank In Queens: Eddy, maybe after “Raffles” but it picks up after Dead Letter Chorus. I first heard the album without Heavy Comfort, so perhaps that’s how I still hear the album in my memory.
	11:38am gf2002: A hot take on "Get Back". As a diehard Beatles obsessive I love seeing the footage and hearing that audio without all the crew's slates and cues as the bootlegs featured. But judging from reactions it seems like there is a bit of a whitewash of the actual history and what happened especially at Twickenham for those first 3 weeks before Harrison bailed out. According to Lennon, Harrison, and George Martin among others, the sessions were miserable. The band only recorded in the evening, and here they were showing up at 10am or whatever to try to make music. It was only after George Harrison called Billy Preston in and demanded that the sessions move to Apple's studios that things got back on track, and you can see everyone's mood increase dramatically, even though there were issues with "Magic Alex's" equipment at Apple before they could actually record. It's important for fans to know the whole story and not just the McCartney version and suggesting how much fun the whole thing was. Shortly after the rooftop concert they called to ask George Martin (and Geoff Emerick) to come back and do an album like they used to do, that speaks volumes.
	11:38am gd0: Was/am a fan of the Four Seasons hit singles. DTT isn't one of them. Even as a kid, it was obvious to me that DTT was the 4S, and that it was also a bad joke. A real bad joke. And I'm not one to think of Dylan as a sacred cow. Just a wrong turn, nothing more, nothing less.
	11:39am Juke Joint Jonny: I want to know what Flea has to say about every comment Dave Grohl has made in every documentary.
	11:39am jg: TCB!
	11:39am Handy Haversack: JJJ: Now that's infotainment!
	11:39am Hughie Considine: I was puzzled by the response among some working musicians who scoffed at the idea that watching Paul pull a song out of thin air was miraculous -- because, they said, this is how songs are written, and always have been, with fleeting ideas that just come to you. It's an everyday occurrence, the public just never witnessed it. I don't see how that negates the miracle part, and the response struck me as almost bizarre.
	11:40am Baja Joe: Played for my nephew Led Zeppelin's "How Many More Times" loud in my car during a road trip. Before this ride, he never thought much about the band. Created an instant Led Zep fan. Mission accomplished. Next mission, expose him to all the great blues artists Led Zep "borrowed" from.
	11:40am TimG: Luckily in Chico we have Jonathan living here and his “question/answer” afterwards
	11:41am RichardN: that don't think twice cover is firmly lodged in my head now. I'd say it's near the pop end of the novelty/pop spectrum.
	11:42am Eddy in Australia: Frank/Clarke: You guys know your stuff so your insights have been a great coda to the show. You made my night! See you next time ...
	11:42am nightengale: wow I wonder what kind of music he would be writing if he was still alive?!!!
	11:43am Hughie Considine: @Juke Joint Jimmy, the Grohl/Flea collaboration would end with the two of them jamming on the roof of Elvis Costello's flat in a cheeky homage to the finale of Get Back.
	11:43am Kent: I remember laughing at this version when it came on the radio. Can you believe it reached #12 on Billboard?! Were they trying to be funny, or were they being passive aggressive because the counter culture music was crushing them???
	11:43am clarke: Eddy - take 'er ezy!!!
	11:44am gf2002: George Harrison was very passive aggressive during those sessions. He had just been in the US hanging out with Dylan, The Band, and other notable artists at the end of '68, and was being respected and asked for his opinions, and got energized to write new songs and do different things on the guitar. Then he shows up at an airplane hangar with cameras rolling and is instructed how to play and has his songs openly mocked on camera. When the tensions got to be too much, he bailed out and brought Billy Preston into the mix just as he had brought Clapton into the White Album sessions which immediately got the others back on track instead of arguing and sniping at each other
	11:46am clarke: i have't seen Get Back, yet - but, george was having real issues with being paul's "little brother" for a while, by then. it just came to a head when he insisted on trying his brand-new Wah pedal on EVERY song!
	11:46am clarke: and luckily was talked out of having wah on every song!!
	11:48am clarke: and i theorize that billy preston had a lot to do with saying Uh, nix the wah, dude!
	11:50am gf2002: How about that scene where George's maroon Les Paul "Lucy" falls off the drum riser? I'm amazed the headstock didn't break off!
	11:51am clarke: haven't seen it, but gibsons are tough!
	11:51am clarke: Bobby Elliott!!!!!!
	11:52am gf2002: @clarke Except the SG's lol...
	11:52am P-90: Agreed, the Hollies have a great SOUND
	11:52am JOFF: Thres a song i co-came up w/ BRUNO (and the Outrageous Methods of Presentation) called 'Rockumentary Roladex' about the same old talkin headsalways on the music docs - incl. a refrain that just goes 'DaveGrohlagainDaveGrohlagainDaveGrohlagainDaveGrohlagain...'!!!!
	11:54am Listener Baby: @Joff. Add Elvis C, Bono, and you’ve got a hit!
	11:54am Frank In Queens: Went on a Hollies binge about a month ago. Great band!
	11:54am McGroovey: I wish I could have heard the Hollies during the brief period a few years ago when Carl Wayne of the Move was with them. He had to go and die on them.
	11:55am Michael Shelley: & the guy from Sonic Youth (zzzzzzz)
	11:55am clarke: YES - liverpool just scored in the last min!!! whooo hooo toppermost!!
	11:56am JOFF: BABY, Bono already in there, gotta add Elvis tho'!!'
	11:56am gf2002: Scott Ian from Anthrax has to be in that Rolodex too
	11:57am McGroovey: Liverpool is a suburb of Syracuse, NY! (Or were you referring to some other Liverpool?)
	11:57am JOFF: BTW - i love that Daryll-Ann song, funny sounding vocals notwithsatanding! PLUS - that Wonder Who song might be one of THE best Dylan covers of all time ever!!!!
	11:58am Larry O: That was definitely a WTF. weird WFMU humor
	12:00pm Juke Joint Jonny: Liverpool, NY home of Heid's. There's another Liverpool?
	12:01pm Listener Baby: In my line of work, we have the same exact problem as rock docs. Same dude, gets asked to speak for hundreds of people. Time after time. It is my conclusion that journalists are just as lazy as everybody else.
	12:02pm McGroovey: Stop & Think It Over is one of the best songs ever. This is a song I've never heard a bad cover of.
	12:02pm Hoboken Jack: Nice cover by Borges! Oh hello McGroove.
	12:03pm McGroovey: Fancy seeing you here, Jack!
	12:03pm Hoboken Jack: McGroove, wait till you hear the version by The Wonder Who. #callback
	12:03pm McGroovey: That was a fine segue! 10 points out of 10!
	12:04pm Frank In Queens: @McGroovey, 💯% agree!
	12:04pm Handy Haversack: Exactly, Baby.
	12:05pm Jonathan Quinn (guy that went to Moscow): Hello from Nazarè, Portugal
	12:05pm McGroovey: I hope tonight's Yo La Tengo show is not better than tonight's Eyelids/Dream Syndicate show.
	12:06pm Cooh John: Thanks for the Hank Marr. Cbus strikes again.
	12:06pm clarke: frank, have the Isles turned the tide around??
	12:07pm McGroovey: @JQ Hello from New Jersey. But why TF did you go to Moscow? I did that a couple times. The second time to be sure I wasn't wrong about the first time.
	12:07pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, I have been trying to avoid eggs and dairy M-Th. I took National Psycopathy Carnival Week off and then had an emergency eggplant parm when we thought the kittens were dying last week. Sure am better with tofu than I used to be.
	12:08pm JG: Thanks Michael for mentioning the new Elvis box set. I was unaware of it. I just listened to the track of Gordon Lightfoot's Early morning Rain. The version he did after the audience had left the amphitheater in Aloha form Hawaii has always been the most beautiful to me, more so than a previous studio release. Version on this new set may change my mind. It is gorgeous. He was an awesome singer. Duh.
	12:08pm happymaan: Hope your kittens are okay Handy!
	12:08pm Hoboken Jack: The Varsese Sarabande bubblegum compilation with this Splits number on it is unreasonably priced on Discogs!
	12:08pm clarke: what was wrong with kittens, handy??
	12:09pm Frank In Queens: @clarke, Isles are still reeling, but regulars have begun returning to the line-up. They’ve got to turn it around soon or the season is a bust. They need to be at .500 by the end if the year or it’s over.
	12:09pm Greg from ZONE 5: Love love love The Queers' cover of IEBABILWY
	12:09pm McGroovey: I was off dairy and meat (doctor's orders), but I finally had had enough oat milk, and I had to start having a teaspoon of cream in my coffee this week, and today I broke down and had actual milk on my breakfast cereal...
	12:11pm Handy Haversack: Correction: thought Goblin was dying. Bugbear has been fine. clarke, Goblin ate SOMEthing that lodged in him. Vomiting, congestion, lassitude, pain. We thought there might need to be emergency ultrasound and surgery, but it started moving after a couple of days. I think he's almost entirely recovered. His energy is finally back today (I have the scratches to prove it!). He's still sniffly, so I won't be fully relaxed until that goes away, but he's doing so much better. We really thought things might get really bad. And Bugbear finally seems to be getting over his "nonrecognition aggression," too.
	12:12pm Frank In Queens: @Handy, glad to hear that Goblin is on the mend!
	12:12pm clarke: dang!! whew.
	12:13pm Michael Shelley: an emergency eggplant parm once in a while is understandable
	12:14pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Frank, clarke, Happymaan! We think it might have been soil from Rosy Palm, our one plant. She is currently banished to a high shelf. Goblin might been weaned too soon -- I think he has a touch of pica!
	12:16pm BeatleMania: Hey Michael, late comment to your Get Back comments on air earlier. Got me thinking about what Pseu Braun said on her show Thursday and how young Juniper “gets it”: it’s really a musicians movie. Check her out for the details. She motivated me to start watching and BOOM it was nine hours later and I only wanted MORE. Two quick takes: new respect for Sir Paul and a better understanding of WHY George wanted out. Whilst the director (Orson Welles alleged kid I forget his name) was discussing the Libyan excursion w the lads you can plainly see that when Paul talks (endlessly really) or John talks it’s rapt attention. But once George starts chiming in the guy simply blows him off and just talks over them.
	12:17pm Crei6hton: Afternoon WFMU!
	12:18pm BeatleMania: And you could tell from the close ups George had had it halfway through part one. See you in the clubs
	12:18pm Michael Shelley: Michael Lindsay Hogg's on camera moments added nothing
	12:19pm BeatleMania: Yep
	12:19pm ?: Cheapest tickets for the Holies are $161 🙊
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: I guess that decides that
	12:20pm phat in Lincoln: Just started listening to a podcast that's probably been mentioned here, The History of Rock Music in 500 songs. The Sister Rosetta Tharpe episode was entertaining.
	12:21pm clarke: LG's!!!
	12:22pm Frank In Queens: @Michael, MLH was consistently annoying throughout.
	12:22pm gf2002: That guitar solo on Sister Rosetta's song, wow! You just don't hear solos like that anymore, where there is actual space in between the notes.
	12:22pm ?: Oh! Tickets are $60 at the theater's site. That's a bit better.
	12:24pm happymaan: Michael, I'm planning on getting tickets to see Weird Al at that cavern/cave venue in Tennessee
	12:25pm Michael Shelley: @gf2002 - that's SRT on a gold top Les Paul
	12:27pm suzyhotrod: Hey Michael, Just walked in the door so I'm not sure if you talked about Conan Obrien's podcast. Its interview-based, but his reading of commercials is sometimes the funniest part of the episodes. I don't really do podcasts, and I enjoy that one so much, it has me laughing out loud on the subway. PS: I love your Nancy doll
	12:27pm Hughie Considine: My podcast, “I Am the Fly,” is a music-saturated narrative (read non-interview) podcast about friendship, family, AM radio, drugs, celebrity, and mixtapes. It’s about Tenafly NJ in the '70s, NYC in the '80s + the final throes of the 20th century. iamthefly.org + yr major podcast platforms.
	12:27pm RichardN: Heavyweight is the best This American Life type show going right now. the last few eps have made me tear up a bit... the hosts name is escaping me, but it is really good. And Office Hours with Tim Heidecker is very funny.
	12:28pm DG: I had the odd experience of seeing BOTH Ringo and Keith Richards play "I Wanna Be your Man" in a 4-month period.
	12:29pm mazudog: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghosts-in-the-burbs/id1097650785
	12:29pm gf2002: Those original goldtops with the P-90's had serious twang factor! Sister Rosetta was amazing
	12:31pm Baja Joe: Ahhh, the great Bill Withers.
	12:31pm Frank In Queens: File Bill Withers under “Singers You Could Listen To Singing The Phonebook”.
	12:32pm Frank In Queens: Oh! I caught that “dry oatmeal” earlier 😂
	12:33pm G: @Frank: "I know, I know, I know, I know..."
	12:33pm Edward: Just karaoke’d this one last night.
	12:34pm DavidL: History of the English Language Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-english-podcast/id538608536 140 episodes = lots of driving/cooking time. And no ad copy.
	12:34pm egould310: Buzzcocks are the best.
	12:34pm phat in Lincoln: I'd listen to Pete Shelley sing the phone book.
	12:35pm common: Pete. The best
	12:35pm phat in Lincoln: Listen to those drums!!
	12:36pm clarke: he doesn't DO!!!
	12:37pm Hoboken Jack: Pete is the best; Pete Best is second best.
	12:37pm Handy Haversack: This music -- it SPEAKS to me!
	12:37pm gf2002: Fender made a serious push to get a Beatles endorsement and sent them all that brand new gear that showed up in the Get Back film. That included George's rosewood Telecaster which was custom built and flown over to him personally, unless I'm mistaken they bought a seat for the guitar to fly it over to George personally. Then George gave it away to Delaney Bramlett within that same year...
	12:37pm clarke: shaggy just stands in the corner picking his ass.
	12:37pm egould310: 4H and FFA getting a shout out. Hilarious. Chug a lug indeed.
	12:38pm PatrickMC: Show me that you're mine
	12:39pm gf2002: There is a GREAT scene in Get Back where George brings a new Stylophone into the Apple studio and Billy Preston starts jamming on it
	12:39pm chris dot com: bizarre, Vaughn played a reggae version of Gimme Little Sign this morning on footsteps of reggae
	12:40pm Listener John from NJ: @JukeJ0intJphnny: I grew up in the REAL Liverp00l -- are y0u fr0m there? I was there 2 weeks ago f0r 1st time in >20 years. And Heids still r0cks!! I've heard st0ries ab0ut an0ther Liverp00l -- it's in Sc0tland 0r Ireland 0r s0meplace and is fam0us f0r the big beetles & 0ther insects they have there, but I d0n't believe th0se st0ries are true.
	12:40pm Peter Horvath: Hey thanks Michael!
	12:40pm Michael Shelley: Thank you Peter - for the #1
	12:40pm Glistener MW: Peter Horvath probably doesn’t want to go to the Movies, because he’s seen Too Many of them.
	12:41pm clarke: peter do you have a youtube page??
	12:41pm evancuts: Old topic by now but saw Graham Nash at one of the Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows a couple of years ago and he sounded great. But I'm guessing he might not be touring with the Hollies.
	12:41pm BeatleMania: I love Bill Burr podcasts and his commercial reads are the best. Although American football bores me to tears I listen to his takes simply for all the enthusiasm and knowledge he has for it. But I can’t stand his Thursday entr’acte with the gambling blowhard. Gotta draw the line somewhere. Skip to the classic that follows fast. Outside your wheelhouse isn’t always bad eh. Good Fender b/g gf2002 thx
	12:42pm PatrickMC: He wants to be alone
	12:43pm Juke Joint Jonny: This swings
	12:44pm Mister Dobalina: I remember when I used to record songs off the radio on to cassettes.
	12:46pm phat in Lincoln: I always think about checking out all those Mayall records, but I never do.
	12:47pm Baby: Those boys are always looking for my approval.
	12:47pm clarke: it's a terrible deal.
	12:47pm gf2002: I saw John Mayall live in '92 at a Penn's Landing blues fest in Philly, his guitarist was Coco Montoya at that time. Mayall was more known for blues harp and being like an apprenticeship for British blues guitarists in the 60's. The ultimate Mayall album to grab is "Bluesbreakers" aka The Beano Album from '66 with Eric Clapton playing some amazing blues guitar on a sunburst Les Paul. Mayall also had a live album from '69 or so that showcased his harp playing
	12:48pm Peter Horvath: Hey Clarke- https://youtube.com/user/misterhorvath
	12:48pm clarke: thanks pedro!!!
	12:49pm Frank In Queens: @gf A Hard Road has Peter Green on it and Mick Taylor was on at least one of the late 60s Mayall albums.
	12:49pm clarke: subscribed!!
	12:50pm Mike Sin: Love this Otis Clay version!
	12:50pm Mailman Tom: I saw John Mayall perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1969
	12:50pm clarke: these bad guys aren't so bad, once you look at it... some of these guys JUST want to re-make the world...
	12:51pm Mister Dobalina: I've never seen John Mayall, but I will be seeing Ivan Julian tomorrow at City Winery.
	12:52pm clarke: who is ivan playing with??
	12:52pm miketp: OTIS MY MAN.HIS big song trying to live my life without you has been a favorite of mine since bob porter wbgo portraits in blu e show.take care MICHAEL AND ALL.
	12:52pm gf2002: @Frank, yes that's right! It was like an apprenticeship for young British blues guitarists to play in Mayall's "Bluesbreakers" before joining bigger bands, apparently Mayall had the largest or one of the largest collections of American blues records in the UK at that time in the 60's and musicians used to go to his place to listen and learn. He could play a good blues harp! I like that element of his records better than the vocals.
	12:53pm Mister Dobalina: Not sure, but I think Vernon Reid will be there.
	12:53pm DG: A few years ago we went to see Buddy Guy do one of those free summer shows downtown (NYC) & Mayall was the opening act. I knew some of his albums but thought he was mostly a slow-blues playing guy. Turned out he had a young band & was great, did a varied set, played keys & was actually better than Guy, who seemed to be more into seeing how profane he could be.
	12:53pm drr: I wish I were near enough to try to win the Lemon Twigs tickets. Fantastic band. Find their YouTube appearance on Jimmy Kimmel of all places, it's remarkable.
	12:53pm JG: I love all the gear in Get Back. Lennon epiphone hollow body. Paul's Hofner bass. Cool stuff
	12:54pm Michael Shelley: I wish him well, I wish a lot of people well
	12:54pm clarke: they would be doing better if it weren't for these meddlesome kids - okay!!
	12:54pm McGroovey: This Lemon Twigs song sounds like a lost Roy Wood single. (That's a good thing, by the way)
	12:55pm onthetrain: Mike thanks for making my Saturday sunny and filled with #1 hits.
	12:56pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael! Stay on top, Number Ones!
	12:57pm radioronan: Thanks Michael!
	12:57pm Hoboken Jack: Thank you, Michael!! Anybody coming to YLT this weekend, come upstairs and say hi!
	12:57pm Mister Dobalina: Good stuff, Mike.
	12:57pm clarke: fred just drives.
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael! Helped pass the final 2 hours at work.
	12:58pm Michael Shelley: a to b
	12:58pm clarke: fred and daphne just porking away
	12:59pm Corey: Thanks for the great show Michael! Chasing a toddler for most of it, but enjoyable all the same. Take care all!
	12:59pm clarke: asta la vista, baby!! good nite.
	1:01pm BeatleMania: Thx always enjoy the trip
	9:43am Bob: Day late as usual. Loved every second of Get Back but agree that it was a whitewash. How come Paul didn't reverse the songwriting credits on the film as he's done elsewhere? Weird. The famous guitar argument between Paul and George was included but seemed toned down given the audio mx and camera shot choice. Jackson (or whoever) made an obvious choice to redeem Yoko and that's fine with me. There was lots of footage of them working without Yoko in the shot and her "singing" bits were clearly showing the humor and experimentation of it. Jackson could obviously have cut it in a completely different way. Loved it all. And I don't know if the 4 Seasons record is great or terrible but I hate it. Cheers.
	6:13pm Greg in Portland OR: Love the show.

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