WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from July 30, 2022

Michael Shelley: Playlist from July 30, 2022

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July 30, 2022: Won't Make It Hard For You

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Fools Face	Won't Make It Hard For You
Gants, The	Summertime Blues "Summertime Blues" by "Gants, The"
Osborne Brothers, The	Tennessee Hound Dog
Esther Phillips	As Tears Go By "As Tears Go By" by "Esther Phillips"
Dinah Washington	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
She And Him	Good To My Baby "Good To My Baby" by "She And Him"
Del Shannon	Mind Over Matter "Mind Over Matter" by "Del Shannon"
Tom T. Hall	Ode To A Half Pound Of Ground Round
Barbara Lynn	Club A-Go-Go "Club A-Go-Go" by "Barbara Lynn"
NRBQ	That Makes Me A Fool "That Makes Me A Fool" by "NRBQ"
Night Hawks, The	Jitterbug Joe "Jitterbug Joe" by "Night Hawks, The"
Ernest Tubb	Thirty Days "Thirty Days" by "Ernest Tubb"
Roger Collins	Promised Land "Promised Land" by "Roger Collins"
Shirley Ann Lee	There's A Light "There's A Light" by "Shirley Ann Lee"
Robbie Fulks	Angela "Angela" by "Robbie Fulks"
Robbie Fulks	Fountains Of Wayne Hotline
Country Store	To Love You "To Love You" by "Country Store"
Dan Penn	The Puppet "The Puppet" by "Dan Penn"
Charley Crockett	I'm Just A Clown
Ruby and the Romantics	Hurting Each Other
Rubinoos, The	That Thing You Do "That Thing You Do" by "Rubinoos, The"
Honeybus	She's Out There "She's Out There" by "Honeybus"
NRBQ And Carl Perkins	Sorry Charlie
Shuggie Otis	Ice Cold Daydream "Ice Cold Daydream" by "Shuggie Otis"
La Nueva Banda De Santisteban	Manias Se Maria
dB's, The	Neverland "Neverland" by "dB's, The"
Bruce Springsteen	Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Beach Boys, The	Our Sweet Love "Our Sweet Love" by "Beach Boys, The"
Merle Travis	The World is Waiting For The Sunrise
Mighty Sam	I Need A Lot Of Lovin'
Explorers Club, The	Run Run Run "Run Run Run" by "Explorers Club, The"
Fireballs, The	Lies "Lies" by "Fireballs, The"
Cheap Trick	How Are You? "How Are You?" by "Cheap Trick"
	Hot Bagels "Hot Bagels"

CLICK HERE for the Radio & Broadcasting History site with archives of British music mags from the 60's

CLICK HERE for Beatle Novelty Records on YouTube

CLICK HERE for a free download of the book "Our time is now : A farandole of Jonathan Richman songs"

CLICK HERE for incredible video footage of Croton-on-Hudson Battle of the Bands 1967

CLICK HERE for The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HERE for The 100 Most Lost Songs of All

CLICK HERE for a million dollar guitar

CLICK HERE for The Herman Cain Award

CLICK HERE for a video of yo yo master Kenny Strauss

CLICK HERE for a pricing strategy consultant's look at how much Mike Love pays Brother Records INC. for the right to tour as The Beach Boys

CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for Margaret's Granola Recipe

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley
CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

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

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

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

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

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

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HEREfor "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

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

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

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

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:23am Listener Baby: Hey Oy! Morning! Baby, what say you?
	♥ 11:00am Michael Shelley: When I open my mouth it is a recipe for trouble, so I try to say as little as possible.
	11:01am clarke: hey nowwww
	11:01am rx scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: Wise call as always, Michael! Morning, Number Ones! Engage!
	11:02am rx scabin: @Michael Shelley sometimes it is a recipe for apple cake.
	♥ 11:02am Listener Baby: Noted.
	11:02am clarke: what we've got here... is failure to communicate.
	11:03am Cooh John: Hello Michael, Handy, and all #1ers.
	♥ 11:03am Listener Baby: Tripwires guy?
	11:03am phat in lincoln: Morning all
	11:04am Hamish: Good afternoon Michael and global listeners. It's 4.04 in sunny Scotland.
	♥ 11:04am Listener Baby: Pezz Band guy?
	11:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not TheRaspberries. Okay brain?? Once & for all...
	11:04am morphe': FM Mike - yes that is the Madrid American Cereal Restaurant .. never been nor will .. I pass it on my way to the fruit/Veg Mkt Barcelo... Filled mostly with adults??? and also seems to do Birthday Parties of teens and young folks..
	11:04am Dennis: Aloha all!
	♥ 11:04am Listener Baby: Noted.
	11:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I can smell those tubes now...
	11:06am clarke: hey Rev! at the end of last week's chat, you posted that link to the Bowie/Hutch podcast - THANKS!! it is fascinating!!
	11:07am Alex B: Fools Face reminded me of the Kids from CAPER!
	11:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Right ? Imagine a period of Boowie we don't really hear about... I got goosebumps seeing the trailer for the 'Moonage Daydream' doc - hope it's good...
	11:07am clarke: what's wrong with the world? PEOPLE.
	11:07am David Watts: summertime blues is my soundtrack to the summer in Oregon these days. hot and smoky
	♥ 11:08am Handy Haversack: I bet this one would also sound pretty great slowed down to the next speed.
	♥ 11:09am Listener Baby: Big Jim Slade Hound dog.
	11:09am clarke: good point HH - and more like a hound dog voice
	11:09am Frank In Queens: Hey NOW!
	11:10am clarke: howdy sir!
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...' paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology '... - E.O. Wilson
	♥ 11:10am HyperDose: Still reeling over the choco taco news
	11:10am Frank In Queens: Hittin that post!
	♥ 11:10am Christina Ginger: Good morning!
	11:11am clarke: Bagpipe's voice, however, doesn't have that hound dog cartoon voice.
	♥ 11:11am Handy Haversack: More of a tauntaun, really, clarke.
	♥ 11:11am Dano59: I'd give Oldham the same benefit of doubt i'd give Spector. More, even - he didn't slap his name on everything.
	11:11am clarke: hiya Christina!! Miss Low!
	11:12am Bob: Good morning, Clarke and everyone! Beautiful Ann Arborish day. I got some ridiculous cheese from the farmers market and it’s a raw milk red alert Saturday
	11:12am clarke: cheezy sattaday Bob!!! niiiice!
	♥ 11:14am Listener Baby: Could it be that she had the best voice of them all?
	11:14am clarke: could be!
	11:15am Ciggy: Nestlé announced a chocolate shortage this coming Halloween. https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2022/07/29/Hershey-warns-of-trouble-ahead-in-meeting-Halloween-treats
	11:15am HungryFreak: They asked me how I knew Her brassiere was blue
	♥ 11:17am HyperDose: "When a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your eyes" Timeless 💔
	♥ 11:17am Handy Haversack: Run him through the echo machine, MS!
	♥ 11:19am Hughie Considine: I would so love to be at this sale...
	11:20am Frank In Queens: Order “Al Fresco” at Taco Bell to make the veggie stuff vegan.
	11:20am ledzeppelinsucks: Taco Bell is an MSG disaster area.
	11:20am ?: The Oregon L.P.'s, very funny!!!
	11:21am clarke: wasn't Al Fresco in The Godfather?
	11:21am Mister Dobalina: Was Matt talking on a walkie talkie potato? I could barely recognize his voice. Oh well.
	11:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Probly well known to all it may concern : Beans with rice makes a complete set of proteins. Or with any grain !
	♥ 11:22am HyperDose: @ledzeppelinsucks Hey that's my crunchwrap supreme you're talking about!
	♥ 11:22am Handy Haversack: I know! Football cell phone? He sounded like a Little League dad!
	11:22am Frank In Queens: Ledzep: it’s not ideal, but I’m glad there are options there.
	11:23am Bob: I heard that current NRBQ drummer John Perrin and Joey Spampinato end up playing on the same track on that Shim record
	11:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Something About The Beatles' podcast on Paul & BrianWilson @ 80 : somethingaboutthebeatles.com...
	♥ 11:24am Michael Shelley: John Perrin on the new Juniper lp!
	♥ 11:26am HyperDose: Roanoke is food insecure? We've gotta do something, gang!
	11:27am PatrickMC: Tom T for President
	♥ 11:28am Hughie Considine: Now that's a story-song...
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PetSounds / Smile era BBoys on Psychdelic Psoul : podcasts.apple.com...
	♥ 11:32am Handy Haversack: Frank, are you saying the TB staff will know what I mean if I say "make it al fresco"? I won't be arrested or nothing?
	♥ 11:33am HyperDose: @Handy Don't tell me you like your extra firm tofu well done...eek! 🙈
	♥ 11:34am McGroovey: I want to take a bike ride today, but I also wait to go to the dollar sale. I guess that means I should take a bike ride TO the dollar sale.
	♥ 11:35am steveo: That's contemporary wow that's amazing great song
	11:36am Frank In Queens: @Handy, it worked for me the one time I did it.
	11:36am clarke: howdy McG!
	♥ 11:36am Hughie Considine: "It's such a beautiful day. Why go to a dark, stuffy restaurant? Let's dine el fresco!" -- Max Bialystock, the Producers
	11:37am Moammar: BARE-a-boo. Off-season home of Ringling Brothers.
	11:39am John Cozz: THE TROUBADOR
	11:40am clarke: worldwide hoodoo
	♥ 11:41am Hughie Considine: "a cross charge" - you don't hear that too much these days...
	11:41am PatrickMC: Ppl talk about a lot more about Chuck's guitar than his incredible lyrics
	♥ 11:42am Michael Shelley: The BEST lyrics
	11:42am Moammar: Always wise to bypass Rock Hill.
	11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: True ! Some ChuckBerry is full protoRap. & Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' owes @ least as much to Berry as to Kerouac & Ginsberg (whom I adore).
	♥ 11:43am drr: Maybe the best song about America.
	11:44am sluggobeast: Guitar reminds me of John Cippolina.
	11:44am Bob: Back in the USA should replace the Star Spangled Banner as our national anthem. It's better and easier to sing too!
	♥ 11:44am Dano59: Roger Collins passes the Almost Dave Edmunds test here
	11:45am Slaboch: I transferred this Shirley Ann Lee song 15 years ago and it still slays me every time I hear it. Great show!
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...which means Berry is a crucial link in the chain from old traditions of AfricanAmerican 'Signifying' & oral recitation & Rawk & then HipHop... As Lennon said on the Mike Douglas show - if you needed another name for Rock'n'Roll you could call it ChuckBerry (tho John may have just been reading the intro handed to him)...
	11:47am clarke: or free bird.
	11:49am b0b0bob: not to be confused with Shirley and Lee
	♥ 11:49am Dano59: right on, @RevR. Honor the synthesists, the alchemists.
	11:50am SecretSquirrel: The greatest song Adam Schlesinger never wrote!
	♥ 11:50am Michael Shelley: Slaboch - it's a treasure - thanks!
	11:51am Tim G: I also requested this tune (coupla yrs back) but he didn't play it for me (sad emoji)
	11:52am SecretSquirrel: (Angela, that is)
	11:53am phat in lincoln: This Robbie Fulks is hilarious
	11:53am PatrickMC: Lots of country influences in Chuck's stuff too. It's not like Tubb had to change much of anything in 30 Days
	11:53am clarke: this is where Angela was generated.
	11:53am phat in lincoln: (Angela, that is)
	11:54am SecretSquirrel: #greatminds
	♥ 11:55am Montmaster J: I love it but it makes me sad....
	11:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: In a simpler world - punching an antivaxer would bring Adam Schlesinger back.
	11:56am clarke: oh... THAT gerald.
	♥ 11:56am Handy Haversack: I like your worldbuilding, Rev Rab.
	11:56am PatrickMC: BTW, that Lennon stint on Mike Douglas is truly great/awful. He and Yoko do not improve Chuck but it is epic.
	11:56am Todd-o-phonic Todd: This is the most Michael Shelley song ever.
	♥ 11:56am Montmaster J: @RRNov63 100%
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: This is not that world Handy.
	11:57am phat in lincoln: "Oh, that Gerald"
	11:57am Mister Dobalina: @ToPT 100%
	♥ 11:57am happymaan: I love this song!
	♥ 11:58am drr: I always have to ride the volume on FOW hotline, but I love it.
	♥ 11:58am McGroovey: Fountains Of Wayne Hotline is the best the best meta-song ever.
	11:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Genius about Genius @ making something seem Simple.
	11:58am SecretSquirrel: Yer right abt that, Todd!
	11:58am phat in lincoln: @Todd-o-phonic Todd yes!
	11:58am bd: fow hotline is one of the best things ive ever heard. i laughed i cried. realy.
	11:59am clarke: and the bathrooms are open to the public - after those choco-tacos!!
	12:00pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: "Nightshift" is a GREAT song!
	12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...cannot hear the words 'Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds' & not think MST3K ...also too bad the Joe Frank monologues were just too Existential to fit in... Vocal very JohnSebastian to my brain...
	12:03pm Bob: Holy cow. I haven't heard or remembered this song in 45 years. Mind blown. And I'm with Todd on Nightshift.
	12:04pm phat in lincoln: This Country Store kinda sounds like someone doesn't give a damn. Like, the drummer sounds like he wants to be elsewhere.
	♥ 12:05pm Michael Shelley: agree - sounds like bored Hal Blaine - maybe was a "demo" session
	12:06pm phat in lincoln: This version of Puppet is amazing. When did it become Your Puppet?
	12:07pm phat in lincoln: You're right, though, that Country Store was almost there. It definitely would have fit on the radio in the 70s.
	12:07pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: Charley Crockett opening for Willie Nelson in Central Park on 9/20.
	12:07pm Mister Dobalina: Gonna hafta clicky star fav this one.
	12:08pm phat in lincoln: I need to see Charlie Crocket
	12:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Shoulda been Elvis deeper cut / B-Side sounds about right.
	♥ 12:08pm Michael Shelley: Good double bill!
	12:08pm phat in lincoln: @Todd-o-phonic Todd hot damn.
	12:09pm Mister Dobalina: August 13th & 14th, he'll be close by if you want to see him live.
	♥ 12:09pm Hughie Considine: The Dan Penn original says 'the puppet' but the better known version by the Purify bros says 'your puppet.'
	12:10pm phat in lincoln: John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett are playing here soon and I'm debating spending the $80
	12:10pm Mister Dobalina: Wait, Buffalo is not near by. My bad.
	12:10pm phat in lincoln: @Mister Dobalina yeah, I think he's gonna be here in Lincoln, actually
	12:11pm clarke: phat - have friends who JUST saw Hiatt in annapolis and said it was "wonderful"!!
	12:11pm phat in lincoln: Omaha.
	12:12pm phat in lincoln: @clarke I should go to that. It's just down the street from me.
	12:13pm Bob: I saw Lyle two weeks ago and it was incredible. 14 piece band. full horn and gospel vocal group. Leland Sklar and Russ Kunkel on drums. He has to be losing his ass transporting a band like that. Go see it is my point.
	12:13pm clarke: they sent me a short vid of a song, the band Hiatt has is SMOKIN'!
	12:13pm PatrickMC: Brother Richard knew a hit record
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hurting wigkey : en.wikipedia.org... (Hadda know Writers...)
	12:14pm Joe B: great version by Ruby
	12:15pm phat in lincoln: @Bob yeah, he was just in Omaha with that band and I couldn't make it. I don't know if this show is with the band. I wanna see Sklar.
	♥ 12:15pm Frank Zaatar: Hey, Squirrel! Glad we can all chill in the Michael Shelliness.
	♥ 12:16pm McGroovey: This is a great song, but it sounds more seventies than sixties.
	♥ 12:16pm Frank Zaatar: Dig the secret Help! allusion in this song.
	♥ 12:16pm Listener Baby: You’d better be Karen Carpenter to sing that song after Ruby. Sheesh, she’s amazing.
	♥ 12:16pm Dano59: Tom Hanks must have had a brief for the bands - he's said he was very inspired by a story of an early Beatles tour where Ringo had to be temporarily replaced.
	12:17pm gf2002: Cool song, but the hook wasn't as strong as Adam's, it glued the whole movie together. Thanks for playing that!
	12:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Makes me ache for Beatles 1st arriving in the USA - era when I was born. Which is a weird phenomenon if you think about it.
	♥ 12:17pm Frank Zaatar: What I like about You is a great song, but I don't understand why they left Ruby behind.
	12:18pm clarke: 9/10
	♥ 12:18pm Listener Baby: @Frankz an excellent question.
	12:21pm pottybear: Sweet Corn and I are going to see them tomorrow.
	12:21pm gf2002: A song I worked on and wrote the intro hook (uncredited...) almost made it to the movie. They needed a "Motown" sound for one of the scenes with a girl group, so we recreated the Motown setup with a whole room of musicians and recorded it live except the lead vocal. It was fun. Played a Tele through Fender Bandmaster head and cab. The song got used in other films later though. But it would have been cool if Hanks chose it.
	♥ 12:22pm Dano59: Saw Lyle with Large Band several times way back when. Incl. Champ Hood et al. Once with Francine Reed guesting. He (just?) played a small Geneva NY theater.
	♥ 12:23pm Listener Baby: Re: NRBQ drummers. Top 5 NRBQ drum performance by Conrad, on Waiting On My Sweetie Pie. Give that a listen. Whew!
	12:23pm Bob: When I had Carl Perkins sign my copy of Boppin,' he said "I sure do luv them boys. You see them and tell them Carl says hullo'
	12:23pm clarke: 7/10
	♥ 12:24pm prof.fuzz: howdy y'all
	♥ 12:24pm Dano59: Much as I love Tommy the cat, the Bobby Lloyd-era Q is fantastic.
	12:24pm clarke: FuZZZZZZZZ
	♥ 12:26pm prof.fuzz: hey clarkEEEEEE
	12:26pm clarke: ya'll had any rain up there in dallas?? (what's it to you, friendo?)
	12:26pm rx scabin: The band on this.
	12:27pm Moammar: Torn between naming my next child Zigaboo or Shuggie.
	12:27pm phat in lincoln: Stereo!
	12:28pm Bob: That Love In Outer Space live track from the Omnivore box set has BLH on drums. It's one of the best Q tracks of the last twenty years, or ever.
	12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Zigaboo & Shuggie as Middle Name scans ...reisit the temptation to do it the other way around as too many would...
	12:30pm clarke: yesss!
	♥ 12:30pm prof.fuzz: @clarke: we had some thunder and a couple of dark clouds yesterday, but no rain.
	12:31pm clarke: drats. we are in monsoon mode, here.
	12:32pm clarke: also, i was quoting No Country For Old Men
	♥ 12:34pm Mailman Tom: I wouldn't pay $5 to see him!
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Crapitalism is absolutely not Predatory - & that is your final Memo...
	♥ 12:36pm drr: why does this Springsteen sound like Magnetic Fields??
	12:36pm Bob: Bruce needs Gary, Max and Roy as a band. THAT"S ALL.
	♥ 12:36pm yerfriendpaul: Pass the guitar sauce
	♥ 12:36pm G: @drr: yup
	♥ 12:36pm Dano59: good point, @drr.
	12:37pm sonnyspop: The Bruce song that non-Bruce fans like. A little Beauty and Sadness to it.
	12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...let's go all the way back to Jon Landau mixing the MC5's 'Back In The USA' that thin...
	12:37pm phat in lincoln: @drr lol. That's it!
	♥ 12:37pm drr: ha ha: I'm not the only one: www.vulture.com...
	♥ 12:37pm Hughie Considine: More glockenspiel!
	12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: drr - it's only true.
	♥ 12:37pm Dano59: I hear Chuck Prophet too
	♥ 12:38pm JeremyB: Ha ha ha, you nailed it- I went to see the bleachers last week (my friend is in the band, not my kind of music) - Springsteen came out for a song and you just heard screams for the next 10 minutes
	12:38pm gf2002: Where's the castanets?
	♥ 12:38pm Pedro in Arlington: He doesn't even have to make a new record. Just remix Born in the USA and get all the 80s glop off. Good lord, those drums. Go for it, Mike.
	12:38pm jg: Magic and the album after that one are two of Bruce’s best
	12:38pm phat in lincoln: Hell of a bridge, though, which, come to think of it, is a Springsteen deal.
	12:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Srsly - here's this icon of bringing it Live as Poet of the Everyman ...can we just stop Producing like it's 1980s MTV ...he can for sure do it.
	12:39pm EG_Astro: reminds me of the magnetic fields
	♥ 12:39pm Michael Shelley: WOULD LOVE TO REMIX BITUSA! Just to make the snare sound like a snare!
	♥ 12:40pm DavidL: Is it just me or does it sound like The Boss finally went in for autotune...?
	12:40pm phat in lincoln: If this were produced like a Magnetic Fields record...
	12:40pm patrick321: Hey Mike and all. Surprised tho after your intro that you’d play this one which strikes me as a hugely cynical piece of songwriting. La dada dadada. I’m sure it’s a big crowd pleaser (one of many many) but I’m shaking my head.
	12:40pm phat in lincoln: @DavidL he did something. His voice sounds a bit odd. Could just be age.
	♥ 12:40pm Hughie Considine: Little Early Burly could not be reached for comment.
	♥ 12:41pm Dano59: Mitchell Cohen posted about the absurd 'verified resale' MSG tix - $7158 (plus fees) for obstructed-view nosebleed seats: "Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny."
	♥ 12:41pm drr: Early Burly the Uber driver?
	12:42pm gf2002: Bruce was crooning on that one. I refuse to call him "The Boss" unless it's sarcasm...
	♥ 12:42pm Dano59: Arthur Baker got his shot at that, Michael. Totally '80s
	♥ 12:42pm Pedro in Arlington: No crime in remixing. Yoko did it with Double Fantasy. John would have been all for it. Give REM credit: They prevented 80s issues at the time.
	12:42pm clarke: here comes today's rain, dave!
	♥ 12:42pm G: About monsoon in New Orleans: Mary Ellen has lived here since the 80s, and says it's the rainiest summer she's seen. The bougainvillea and elephant ears are growing like crazy, what with the sun, heat, and all the rain. I just had to trim some off the bougainvillea for most an hour -- two big city trashcans full. That's more than the volume of the entire bougainvillea was when I put it in, April 2018. And what I trimmed was all new growth since March. It never grew like this in 20 or 21. It was taking over the whole driveway, and leaving the nearby lemon trees in the shade.
	♥ 12:43pm G: @clarke: What day did it rain like 4-5 separate times? Weds, I think maybe.
	12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: REM survived the Arena & even HITS pretty well. & rather than flog it too hard too long - in fact Stopped.
	12:44pm clarke: yeah, i think wed? i can 2nd that elephant ears growth spurt. wow.
	♥ 12:45pm Hughie Considine: To me, REM kind of limped to the end. Without Bill Berry, they really lost something special.
	12:45pm SecretSquirrel: Hey Frankz! Catch you on the flipside
	12:45pm gf2002: Nice Merle track! Carl Perkins did a killer version of this one on that '85 cable special with George Harrison, Clapton, Dave Edmunds, etc
	12:46pm Peter: Maybelle Carter *Carter Scratch".
	12:46pm clarke: they got jack-knifed hughie
	12:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Here in woodlands North NewEngland - borderline drought. Nothing wonky with Climate to see here ...move along move along... ...& oh - it's +100 in London & Seattle...
	♥ 12:46pm Michael Shelley: patrick321: all the songs are run through a computer program, which has a VERY sophisticated algorithm - so I can assure you, that song is a #1 hit!
	12:46pm Bob: But I think REM couldn't even stand their own records anymore. That's why they stopped. Buck likes good records too much.
	12:47pm Peter: @hughie- Yes. Proof that sometimes the drummer - does-matter.
	12:47pm gf2002: REM got lost a bit after they signed what was called the biggest record label deal in music history or something. And losing Berry obviously didn't help
	12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Like the story one day backstage Stipe just said - you'll understand if I say I need to stop this for a while - another member said how about forever - & that was the extent of it.
	♥ 12:48pm Michael Shelley: Tambourine is so important
	♥ 12:49pm Dano59: Bill wrote, and played other instruments, and sang all those high harmonies with R.E.M.
	12:49pm clarke: there's NOTHING 'wrong' with joey waronker - he's as special of a drummer as bill, really. my 'complaint' would be that pete buck decided to completely change his guitar style after the first five albums.
	12:49pm gf2002: Noel Gallagher called it pretty accurately about Stipe, which started a bit of a feud. He said if you're complaining and moping around about how much of a drag it is to be a rock star, then quit.
	♥ 12:49pm drr: G, clarke: I tried to drive to Carrollton Avenue yesterday, what a disaster.
	12:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Have said often - first got the 2009 Beatles Remasters - felt like tambourines & cowbells & claves six inches from my face all the time !!
	12:50pm HungryFreak: "Tambourine is so important" - Michelle Phillips 1967
	12:50pm phat in lincoln: I believe the opening chords from this Explorers Club was from the old Thames Productions theme.
	12:50pm clarke: DRR: omg it is POURING in the LGD right Nah!
	12:50pm Mister Dobalina: Pre-Rex greatness!
	♥ 12:50pm drr: gf2002: yeah, somebody tell Kurt Cobain.
	♥ 12:50pm Frank Zaatar: I think we should remix every 80s record. I might listen to Marshall Crenshaw more often. Hell, I might even like the Style Council.
	♥ 12:50pm Hubig Pie: I thot the bass player was the harmony guy in REM. Automatic for the People was a gem of a record, pretty down hill after that
	12:50pm rx scabin: Thank you, Michael. Fab show as usual.
	♥ 12:51pm Hughie Considine: I think the disappointing reception of Monster had to take some wind out of their collective sails. They tried to change it up, go bigger, rock harder, and it just didn't come off. And heaps of those CDs didn't get bought.
	12:51pm SecretSquirrel: A propos of nothing, wondering if FrankZ and I are the only siblings on the board today
	♥ 12:52pm Dano59: I'd def like to hear all of Lone Justice's production improved.
	12:52pm phat in lincoln: "If you don't like having your picture taken, you have no business being a star." --Little Richard
	♥ 12:52pm drr: clarke: Raining pretty good in L9W too.
	♥ 12:52pm Frank Zaatar: Wait, we're siblings? The DNA test came through?
	♥ 12:52pm Hughie Considine: Come on, the reclusive star is a well established type of star.
	♥ 12:52pm Creature Boy: Heard a track last night , it might've been from a Merle Travis & Joe Maphis duet type album. Or was it Chet Atkins doubling up w one of them?The song was called Ike Everly Guitar or something like that.Yeah the Everly Brothers "Silver Haired Daddy" contributed to that very same guitar style and influenced all of them
	12:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Like 'Monster' as a reaction to the Cobain era (who they knew & Buck used his Fender on it even). Seems Monster was everywhere - even were it not a - Monster ??...
	12:52pm clarke: cats and bagpipes!!
	♥ 12:53pm drr: The WFMU Auto playlist and New Orleans Weather Channel.
	12:53pm Bob: I think the Style Council records hold up better than ever. I'll take the SC over the Jam. Yeah, I said it!
	12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well ...makes me realize been too long since I heard Knickerbockers. Give it that...
	♥ 12:53pm McGroovey: Eighties record: it's that relentless, annoying snare with the gated reverb. Unfortunately, that was probably how it was often originally laid down on the multitracks.
	♥ 12:53pm Pedro in Arlington: The last two REM albums are worth revisiting. The had figured it out and decided "enough." The irony of Born in the USA is that it followed Nebraska and Bruce didn't realize less is more.
	12:53pm clarke: strongly disagree, Bob!
	♥ 12:54pm Dano59: hey, I still root for 'New Adventures' and all of Peter's solo & collab. projects. I don't need to defend 'Monster' - that was a fave!
	♥ 12:54pm Hughie Considine: haha..Monster was big, just not as big as Warner Bros wanted it to be...
	12:54pm phat in lincoln: Cheap Trick do ELO. Lol.
	12:54pm Bob: Clarke, I know.
	12:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Seeing as LittleRichard went from a Supernova but two shades less flambouyant than Esquirita to a Renunciate Preacher...
	12:54pm phat in lincoln: Great show Michael
	♥ 12:55pm Hughie Considine: They did this for a few LPs..."Voices" is my favorite Cheap Trick/ELO thing.
	♥ 12:55pm Creature Boy: Yeah where is my Knickerbockers Lies LP? it's here's somewheres....CRASH!!
	12:55pm phat in lincoln: @Revolution Rabbit Nov63 he was a complex character. Lol.
	♥ 12:55pm radioronan: Thanks Michael!
	12:55pm phat in lincoln: @Hughie Considine yes. I just don't think I'd actually noticed it before, which is funny.
	12:56pm patrick321: @Mike I’m at the supermarket so my commenting is way behind schedule. I can’t argue that the song isn’t great. Maybe he should’ve given it to somebody else.
	♥ 12:56pm Hughie Considine: It's a great hybrid, @phat!
	12:56pm rx scabin: Stipe is good with The Golden Palominos. Anton Fier asked him if he could not sing a little more clearly.
	♥ 12:57pm Pedro in Arlington: Next time you're in a thrift store, go to the CDs and take the "Monster" challenge. Bet you'll see that orange case even with your glasses off. Not a bad record. Just inevitable resistance by then.
	12:57pm SecretSquirrel: Didn’t mean to break it to you this way, FrankZ
	♥ 12:57pm Frank Zaatar: My bro and I agree--great show, Michael.
	12:57pm HungryFreak: @rx scabin yah that's a great Palominos record, arent they all.
	12:57pm Mister Dobalina: A shmear...
	♥ 12:57pm drr: R.E.M. went from being my favorite band to releasing "Green". Talk about falling off a cliff.
	♥ 12:58pm Dano59: when Michael started enunciating is when their troubles really began
	12:58pm clarke: anyone ever get the feelin' they been choco'd?? good nite.
	12:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I don't find any fault with Monster. Rather like it. Good writing & sound.
	12:58pm HungryFreak: @drr Holy shit! You fell off a cliff?
	♥ 12:58pm steveo: Can confirm. Had a bagel with eggs yesterday for a late breakfast
	♥ 12:58pm drr: "folded-ass ice cream cone"!
	12:58pm Bob: Monster was a classic "hit" record that was actually bought by WEA and dumped in to stores to soundscan. Total fraud.
	♥ 12:59pm steveo: Enjoyed today's show a lot Thank you
	12:59pm Mister Dobalina: I miss H & H fresh blueberry bagels.
	♥ 12:59pm drr: HungryFreak: I was trying to throw my copy of Green off but my hand got stuck on the hype sticker.
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Why aren't people buying CDs ?? We only keep them $16 ...$5000 for the good seats...
	12:59pm SecretSquirrel: And yes Michael Shelley, fab show from intro to “haw, haw”
	12:59pm clarke: send us a canoe down here!!
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	♥ 1:00pm drr: good night everybody
	1:01pm rx scabin: Good afternoon, Rex and Everyone. Clay P. called me rex the other day.
	♥ 1:20pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, MS!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Fools Face	Won't Make It Hard For You
Gants, The	Summertime Blues "Summertime Blues" by "Gants, The"
Osborne Brothers, The	Tennessee Hound Dog
Esther Phillips	As Tears Go By "As Tears Go By" by "Esther Phillips"
Dinah Washington	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
She And Him	Good To My Baby "Good To My Baby" by "She And Him"
Del Shannon	Mind Over Matter "Mind Over Matter" by "Del Shannon"
Tom T. Hall	Ode To A Half Pound Of Ground Round
Barbara Lynn	Club A-Go-Go "Club A-Go-Go" by "Barbara Lynn"
NRBQ	That Makes Me A Fool "That Makes Me A Fool" by "NRBQ"
Night Hawks, The	Jitterbug Joe "Jitterbug Joe" by "Night Hawks, The"
Ernest Tubb	Thirty Days "Thirty Days" by "Ernest Tubb"
Roger Collins	Promised Land "Promised Land" by "Roger Collins"
Shirley Ann Lee	There's A Light "There's A Light" by "Shirley Ann Lee"
Robbie Fulks	Angela "Angela" by "Robbie Fulks"
Robbie Fulks	Fountains Of Wayne Hotline
Country Store	To Love You "To Love You" by "Country Store"
Dan Penn	The Puppet "The Puppet" by "Dan Penn"
Charley Crockett	I'm Just A Clown
Ruby and the Romantics	Hurting Each Other
Rubinoos, The	That Thing You Do "That Thing You Do" by "Rubinoos, The"
Honeybus	She's Out There "She's Out There" by "Honeybus"
NRBQ And Carl Perkins	Sorry Charlie
Shuggie Otis	Ice Cold Daydream "Ice Cold Daydream" by "Shuggie Otis"
La Nueva Banda De Santisteban	Manias Se Maria
dB's, The	Neverland "Neverland" by "dB's, The"
Bruce Springsteen	Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Beach Boys, The	Our Sweet Love "Our Sweet Love" by "Beach Boys, The"
Merle Travis	The World is Waiting For The Sunrise
Mighty Sam	I Need A Lot Of Lovin'
Explorers Club, The	Run Run Run "Run Run Run" by "Explorers Club, The"
Fireballs, The	Lies "Lies" by "Fireballs, The"
Cheap Trick	How Are You? "How Are You?" by "Cheap Trick"
	Hot Bagels "Hot Bagels"

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:23am Listener Baby: Hey Oy! Morning! Baby, what say you?
	♥ 11:00am Michael Shelley: When I open my mouth it is a recipe for trouble, so I try to say as little as possible.
	11:01am clarke: hey nowwww
	11:01am rx scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: Wise call as always, Michael! Morning, Number Ones! Engage!
	11:02am rx scabin: @Michael Shelley sometimes it is a recipe for apple cake.
	♥ 11:02am Listener Baby: Noted.
	11:02am clarke: what we've got here... is failure to communicate.
	11:03am Cooh John: Hello Michael, Handy, and all #1ers.
	♥ 11:03am Listener Baby: Tripwires guy?
	11:03am phat in lincoln: Morning all
	11:04am Hamish: Good afternoon Michael and global listeners. It's 4.04 in sunny Scotland.
	♥ 11:04am Listener Baby: Pezz Band guy?
	11:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not TheRaspberries. Okay brain?? Once & for all...
	11:04am morphe': FM Mike - yes that is the Madrid American Cereal Restaurant .. never been nor will .. I pass it on my way to the fruit/Veg Mkt Barcelo... Filled mostly with adults??? and also seems to do Birthday Parties of teens and young folks..
	11:04am Dennis: Aloha all!
	♥ 11:04am Listener Baby: Noted.
	11:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I can smell those tubes now...
	11:06am clarke: hey Rev! at the end of last week's chat, you posted that link to the Bowie/Hutch podcast - THANKS!! it is fascinating!!
	11:07am Alex B: Fools Face reminded me of the Kids from CAPER!
	11:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Right ? Imagine a period of Boowie we don't really hear about... I got goosebumps seeing the trailer for the 'Moonage Daydream' doc - hope it's good...
	11:07am clarke: what's wrong with the world? PEOPLE.
	11:07am David Watts: summertime blues is my soundtrack to the summer in Oregon these days. hot and smoky
	♥ 11:08am Handy Haversack: I bet this one would also sound pretty great slowed down to the next speed.
	♥ 11:09am Listener Baby: Big Jim Slade Hound dog.
	11:09am clarke: good point HH - and more like a hound dog voice
	11:09am Frank In Queens: Hey NOW!
	11:10am clarke: howdy sir!
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...' paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology '... - E.O. Wilson
	♥ 11:10am HyperDose: Still reeling over the choco taco news
	11:10am Frank In Queens: Hittin that post!
	♥ 11:10am Christina Ginger: Good morning!
	11:11am clarke: Bagpipe's voice, however, doesn't have that hound dog cartoon voice.
	♥ 11:11am Handy Haversack: More of a tauntaun, really, clarke.
	♥ 11:11am Dano59: I'd give Oldham the same benefit of doubt i'd give Spector. More, even - he didn't slap his name on everything.
	11:11am clarke: hiya Christina!! Miss Low!
	11:12am Bob: Good morning, Clarke and everyone! Beautiful Ann Arborish day. I got some ridiculous cheese from the farmers market and it’s a raw milk red alert Saturday
	11:12am clarke: cheezy sattaday Bob!!! niiiice!
	♥ 11:14am Listener Baby: Could it be that she had the best voice of them all?
	11:14am clarke: could be!
	11:15am Ciggy: Nestlé announced a chocolate shortage this coming Halloween. https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2022/07/29/Hershey-warns-of-trouble-ahead-in-meeting-Halloween-treats
	11:15am HungryFreak: They asked me how I knew Her brassiere was blue
	♥ 11:17am HyperDose: "When a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your eyes" Timeless 💔
	♥ 11:17am Handy Haversack: Run him through the echo machine, MS!
	♥ 11:19am Hughie Considine: I would so love to be at this sale...
	11:20am Frank In Queens: Order “Al Fresco” at Taco Bell to make the veggie stuff vegan.
	11:20am ledzeppelinsucks: Taco Bell is an MSG disaster area.
	11:20am ?: The Oregon L.P.'s, very funny!!!
	11:21am clarke: wasn't Al Fresco in The Godfather?
	11:21am Mister Dobalina: Was Matt talking on a walkie talkie potato? I could barely recognize his voice. Oh well.
	11:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Probly well known to all it may concern : Beans with rice makes a complete set of proteins. Or with any grain !
	♥ 11:22am HyperDose: @ledzeppelinsucks Hey that's my crunchwrap supreme you're talking about!
	♥ 11:22am Handy Haversack: I know! Football cell phone? He sounded like a Little League dad!
	11:22am Frank In Queens: Ledzep: it’s not ideal, but I’m glad there are options there.
	11:23am Bob: I heard that current NRBQ drummer John Perrin and Joey Spampinato end up playing on the same track on that Shim record
	11:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Something About The Beatles' podcast on Paul & BrianWilson @ 80 : somethingaboutthebeatles.com...
	♥ 11:24am Michael Shelley: John Perrin on the new Juniper lp!
	♥ 11:26am HyperDose: Roanoke is food insecure? We've gotta do something, gang!
	11:27am PatrickMC: Tom T for President
	♥ 11:28am Hughie Considine: Now that's a story-song...
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PetSounds / Smile era BBoys on Psychdelic Psoul : podcasts.apple.com...
	♥ 11:32am Handy Haversack: Frank, are you saying the TB staff will know what I mean if I say "make it al fresco"? I won't be arrested or nothing?
	♥ 11:33am HyperDose: @Handy Don't tell me you like your extra firm tofu well done...eek! 🙈
	♥ 11:34am McGroovey: I want to take a bike ride today, but I also wait to go to the dollar sale. I guess that means I should take a bike ride TO the dollar sale.
	♥ 11:35am steveo: That's contemporary wow that's amazing great song
	11:36am Frank In Queens: @Handy, it worked for me the one time I did it.
	11:36am clarke: howdy McG!
	♥ 11:36am Hughie Considine: "It's such a beautiful day. Why go to a dark, stuffy restaurant? Let's dine el fresco!" -- Max Bialystock, the Producers
	11:37am Moammar: BARE-a-boo. Off-season home of Ringling Brothers.
	11:39am John Cozz: THE TROUBADOR
	11:40am clarke: worldwide hoodoo
	♥ 11:41am Hughie Considine: "a cross charge" - you don't hear that too much these days...
	11:41am PatrickMC: Ppl talk about a lot more about Chuck's guitar than his incredible lyrics
	♥ 11:42am Michael Shelley: The BEST lyrics
	11:42am Moammar: Always wise to bypass Rock Hill.
	11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: True ! Some ChuckBerry is full protoRap. & Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' owes @ least as much to Berry as to Kerouac & Ginsberg (whom I adore).
	♥ 11:43am drr: Maybe the best song about America.
	11:44am sluggobeast: Guitar reminds me of John Cippolina.
	11:44am Bob: Back in the USA should replace the Star Spangled Banner as our national anthem. It's better and easier to sing too!
	♥ 11:44am Dano59: Roger Collins passes the Almost Dave Edmunds test here
	11:45am Slaboch: I transferred this Shirley Ann Lee song 15 years ago and it still slays me every time I hear it. Great show!
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...which means Berry is a crucial link in the chain from old traditions of AfricanAmerican 'Signifying' & oral recitation & Rawk & then HipHop... As Lennon said on the Mike Douglas show - if you needed another name for Rock'n'Roll you could call it ChuckBerry (tho John may have just been reading the intro handed to him)...
	11:47am clarke: or free bird.
	11:49am b0b0bob: not to be confused with Shirley and Lee
	♥ 11:49am Dano59: right on, @RevR. Honor the synthesists, the alchemists.
	11:50am SecretSquirrel: The greatest song Adam Schlesinger never wrote!
	♥ 11:50am Michael Shelley: Slaboch - it's a treasure - thanks!
	11:51am Tim G: I also requested this tune (coupla yrs back) but he didn't play it for me (sad emoji)
	11:52am SecretSquirrel: (Angela, that is)
	11:53am phat in lincoln: This Robbie Fulks is hilarious
	11:53am PatrickMC: Lots of country influences in Chuck's stuff too. It's not like Tubb had to change much of anything in 30 Days
	11:53am clarke: this is where Angela was generated.
	11:53am phat in lincoln: (Angela, that is)
	11:54am SecretSquirrel: #greatminds
	♥ 11:55am Montmaster J: I love it but it makes me sad....
	11:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: In a simpler world - punching an antivaxer would bring Adam Schlesinger back.
	11:56am clarke: oh... THAT gerald.
	♥ 11:56am Handy Haversack: I like your worldbuilding, Rev Rab.
	11:56am PatrickMC: BTW, that Lennon stint on Mike Douglas is truly great/awful. He and Yoko do not improve Chuck but it is epic.
	11:56am Todd-o-phonic Todd: This is the most Michael Shelley song ever.
	♥ 11:56am Montmaster J: @RRNov63 100%
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: This is not that world Handy.
	11:57am phat in lincoln: "Oh, that Gerald"
	11:57am Mister Dobalina: @ToPT 100%
	♥ 11:57am happymaan: I love this song!
	♥ 11:58am drr: I always have to ride the volume on FOW hotline, but I love it.
	♥ 11:58am McGroovey: Fountains Of Wayne Hotline is the best the best meta-song ever.
	11:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Genius about Genius @ making something seem Simple.
	11:58am SecretSquirrel: Yer right abt that, Todd!
	11:58am phat in lincoln: @Todd-o-phonic Todd yes!
	11:58am bd: fow hotline is one of the best things ive ever heard. i laughed i cried. realy.
	11:59am clarke: and the bathrooms are open to the public - after those choco-tacos!!
	12:00pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: "Nightshift" is a GREAT song!
	12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...cannot hear the words 'Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds' & not think MST3K ...also too bad the Joe Frank monologues were just too Existential to fit in... Vocal very JohnSebastian to my brain...
	12:03pm Bob: Holy cow. I haven't heard or remembered this song in 45 years. Mind blown. And I'm with Todd on Nightshift.
	12:04pm phat in lincoln: This Country Store kinda sounds like someone doesn't give a damn. Like, the drummer sounds like he wants to be elsewhere.
	♥ 12:05pm Michael Shelley: agree - sounds like bored Hal Blaine - maybe was a "demo" session
	12:06pm phat in lincoln: This version of Puppet is amazing. When did it become Your Puppet?
	12:07pm phat in lincoln: You're right, though, that Country Store was almost there. It definitely would have fit on the radio in the 70s.
	12:07pm Todd-o-phonic Todd: Charley Crockett opening for Willie Nelson in Central Park on 9/20.
	12:07pm Mister Dobalina: Gonna hafta clicky star fav this one.
	12:08pm phat in lincoln: I need to see Charlie Crocket
	12:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Shoulda been Elvis deeper cut / B-Side sounds about right.
	♥ 12:08pm Michael Shelley: Good double bill!
	12:08pm phat in lincoln: @Todd-o-phonic Todd hot damn.
	12:09pm Mister Dobalina: August 13th & 14th, he'll be close by if you want to see him live.
	♥ 12:09pm Hughie Considine: The Dan Penn original says 'the puppet' but the better known version by the Purify bros says 'your puppet.'
	12:10pm phat in lincoln: John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett are playing here soon and I'm debating spending the $80
	12:10pm Mister Dobalina: Wait, Buffalo is not near by. My bad.
	12:10pm phat in lincoln: @Mister Dobalina yeah, I think he's gonna be here in Lincoln, actually
	12:11pm clarke: phat - have friends who JUST saw Hiatt in annapolis and said it was "wonderful"!!
	12:11pm phat in lincoln: Omaha.
	12:12pm phat in lincoln: @clarke I should go to that. It's just down the street from me.
	12:13pm Bob: I saw Lyle two weeks ago and it was incredible. 14 piece band. full horn and gospel vocal group. Leland Sklar and Russ Kunkel on drums. He has to be losing his ass transporting a band like that. Go see it is my point.
	12:13pm clarke: they sent me a short vid of a song, the band Hiatt has is SMOKIN'!
	12:13pm PatrickMC: Brother Richard knew a hit record
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hurting wigkey : en.wikipedia.org... (Hadda know Writers...)
	12:14pm Joe B: great version by Ruby
	12:15pm phat in lincoln: @Bob yeah, he was just in Omaha with that band and I couldn't make it. I don't know if this show is with the band. I wanna see Sklar.
	♥ 12:15pm Frank Zaatar: Hey, Squirrel! Glad we can all chill in the Michael Shelliness.
	♥ 12:16pm McGroovey: This is a great song, but it sounds more seventies than sixties.
	♥ 12:16pm Frank Zaatar: Dig the secret Help! allusion in this song.
	♥ 12:16pm Listener Baby: You’d better be Karen Carpenter to sing that song after Ruby. Sheesh, she’s amazing.
	♥ 12:16pm Dano59: Tom Hanks must have had a brief for the bands - he's said he was very inspired by a story of an early Beatles tour where Ringo had to be temporarily replaced.
	12:17pm gf2002: Cool song, but the hook wasn't as strong as Adam's, it glued the whole movie together. Thanks for playing that!
	12:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Makes me ache for Beatles 1st arriving in the USA - era when I was born. Which is a weird phenomenon if you think about it.
	♥ 12:17pm Frank Zaatar: What I like about You is a great song, but I don't understand why they left Ruby behind.
	12:18pm clarke: 9/10
	♥ 12:18pm Listener Baby: @Frankz an excellent question.
	12:21pm pottybear: Sweet Corn and I are going to see them tomorrow.
	12:21pm gf2002: A song I worked on and wrote the intro hook (uncredited...) almost made it to the movie. They needed a "Motown" sound for one of the scenes with a girl group, so we recreated the Motown setup with a whole room of musicians and recorded it live except the lead vocal. It was fun. Played a Tele through Fender Bandmaster head and cab. The song got used in other films later though. But it would have been cool if Hanks chose it.
	♥ 12:22pm Dano59: Saw Lyle with Large Band several times way back when. Incl. Champ Hood et al. Once with Francine Reed guesting. He (just?) played a small Geneva NY theater.
	♥ 12:23pm Listener Baby: Re: NRBQ drummers. Top 5 NRBQ drum performance by Conrad, on Waiting On My Sweetie Pie. Give that a listen. Whew!
	12:23pm Bob: When I had Carl Perkins sign my copy of Boppin,' he said "I sure do luv them boys. You see them and tell them Carl says hullo'
	12:23pm clarke: 7/10
	♥ 12:24pm prof.fuzz: howdy y'all
	♥ 12:24pm Dano59: Much as I love Tommy the cat, the Bobby Lloyd-era Q is fantastic.
	12:24pm clarke: FuZZZZZZZZ
	♥ 12:26pm prof.fuzz: hey clarkEEEEEE
	12:26pm clarke: ya'll had any rain up there in dallas?? (what's it to you, friendo?)
	12:26pm rx scabin: The band on this.
	12:27pm Moammar: Torn between naming my next child Zigaboo or Shuggie.
	12:27pm phat in lincoln: Stereo!
	12:28pm Bob: That Love In Outer Space live track from the Omnivore box set has BLH on drums. It's one of the best Q tracks of the last twenty years, or ever.
	12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Zigaboo & Shuggie as Middle Name scans ...reisit the temptation to do it the other way around as too many would...
	12:30pm clarke: yesss!
	♥ 12:30pm prof.fuzz: @clarke: we had some thunder and a couple of dark clouds yesterday, but no rain.
	12:31pm clarke: drats. we are in monsoon mode, here.
	12:32pm clarke: also, i was quoting No Country For Old Men
	♥ 12:34pm Mailman Tom: I wouldn't pay $5 to see him!
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Crapitalism is absolutely not Predatory - & that is your final Memo...
	♥ 12:36pm drr: why does this Springsteen sound like Magnetic Fields??
	12:36pm Bob: Bruce needs Gary, Max and Roy as a band. THAT"S ALL.
	♥ 12:36pm yerfriendpaul: Pass the guitar sauce
	♥ 12:36pm G: @drr: yup
	♥ 12:36pm Dano59: good point, @drr.
	12:37pm sonnyspop: The Bruce song that non-Bruce fans like. A little Beauty and Sadness to it.
	12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...let's go all the way back to Jon Landau mixing the MC5's 'Back In The USA' that thin...
	12:37pm phat in lincoln: @drr lol. That's it!
	♥ 12:37pm drr: ha ha: I'm not the only one: www.vulture.com...
	♥ 12:37pm Hughie Considine: More glockenspiel!
	12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: drr - it's only true.
	♥ 12:37pm Dano59: I hear Chuck Prophet too
	♥ 12:38pm JeremyB: Ha ha ha, you nailed it- I went to see the bleachers last week (my friend is in the band, not my kind of music) - Springsteen came out for a song and you just heard screams for the next 10 minutes
	12:38pm gf2002: Where's the castanets?
	♥ 12:38pm Pedro in Arlington: He doesn't even have to make a new record. Just remix Born in the USA and get all the 80s glop off. Good lord, those drums. Go for it, Mike.
	12:38pm jg: Magic and the album after that one are two of Bruce’s best
	12:38pm phat in lincoln: Hell of a bridge, though, which, come to think of it, is a Springsteen deal.
	12:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Srsly - here's this icon of bringing it Live as Poet of the Everyman ...can we just stop Producing like it's 1980s MTV ...he can for sure do it.
	12:39pm EG_Astro: reminds me of the magnetic fields
	♥ 12:39pm Michael Shelley: WOULD LOVE TO REMIX BITUSA! Just to make the snare sound like a snare!
	♥ 12:40pm DavidL: Is it just me or does it sound like The Boss finally went in for autotune...?
	12:40pm phat in lincoln: If this were produced like a Magnetic Fields record...
	12:40pm patrick321: Hey Mike and all. Surprised tho after your intro that you’d play this one which strikes me as a hugely cynical piece of songwriting. La dada dadada. I’m sure it’s a big crowd pleaser (one of many many) but I’m shaking my head.
	12:40pm phat in lincoln: @DavidL he did something. His voice sounds a bit odd. Could just be age.
	♥ 12:40pm Hughie Considine: Little Early Burly could not be reached for comment.
	♥ 12:41pm Dano59: Mitchell Cohen posted about the absurd 'verified resale' MSG tix - $7158 (plus fees) for obstructed-view nosebleed seats: "Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny."
	♥ 12:41pm drr: Early Burly the Uber driver?
	12:42pm gf2002: Bruce was crooning on that one. I refuse to call him "The Boss" unless it's sarcasm...
	♥ 12:42pm Dano59: Arthur Baker got his shot at that, Michael. Totally '80s
	♥ 12:42pm Pedro in Arlington: No crime in remixing. Yoko did it with Double Fantasy. John would have been all for it. Give REM credit: They prevented 80s issues at the time.
	12:42pm clarke: here comes today's rain, dave!
	♥ 12:42pm G: About monsoon in New Orleans: Mary Ellen has lived here since the 80s, and says it's the rainiest summer she's seen. The bougainvillea and elephant ears are growing like crazy, what with the sun, heat, and all the rain. I just had to trim some off the bougainvillea for most an hour -- two big city trashcans full. That's more than the volume of the entire bougainvillea was when I put it in, April 2018. And what I trimmed was all new growth since March. It never grew like this in 20 or 21. It was taking over the whole driveway, and leaving the nearby lemon trees in the shade.
	♥ 12:43pm G: @clarke: What day did it rain like 4-5 separate times? Weds, I think maybe.
	12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: REM survived the Arena & even HITS pretty well. & rather than flog it too hard too long - in fact Stopped.
	12:44pm clarke: yeah, i think wed? i can 2nd that elephant ears growth spurt. wow.
	♥ 12:45pm Hughie Considine: To me, REM kind of limped to the end. Without Bill Berry, they really lost something special.
	12:45pm SecretSquirrel: Hey Frankz! Catch you on the flipside
	12:45pm gf2002: Nice Merle track! Carl Perkins did a killer version of this one on that '85 cable special with George Harrison, Clapton, Dave Edmunds, etc
	12:46pm Peter: Maybelle Carter *Carter Scratch".
	12:46pm clarke: they got jack-knifed hughie
	12:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Here in woodlands North NewEngland - borderline drought. Nothing wonky with Climate to see here ...move along move along... ...& oh - it's +100 in London & Seattle...
	♥ 12:46pm Michael Shelley: patrick321: all the songs are run through a computer program, which has a VERY sophisticated algorithm - so I can assure you, that song is a #1 hit!
	12:46pm Bob: But I think REM couldn't even stand their own records anymore. That's why they stopped. Buck likes good records too much.
	12:47pm Peter: @hughie- Yes. Proof that sometimes the drummer - does-matter.
	12:47pm gf2002: REM got lost a bit after they signed what was called the biggest record label deal in music history or something. And losing Berry obviously didn't help
	12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Like the story one day backstage Stipe just said - you'll understand if I say I need to stop this for a while - another member said how about forever - & that was the extent of it.
	♥ 12:48pm Michael Shelley: Tambourine is so important
	♥ 12:49pm Dano59: Bill wrote, and played other instruments, and sang all those high harmonies with R.E.M.
	12:49pm clarke: there's NOTHING 'wrong' with joey waronker - he's as special of a drummer as bill, really. my 'complaint' would be that pete buck decided to completely change his guitar style after the first five albums.
	12:49pm gf2002: Noel Gallagher called it pretty accurately about Stipe, which started a bit of a feud. He said if you're complaining and moping around about how much of a drag it is to be a rock star, then quit.
	♥ 12:49pm drr: G, clarke: I tried to drive to Carrollton Avenue yesterday, what a disaster.
	12:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Have said often - first got the 2009 Beatles Remasters - felt like tambourines & cowbells & claves six inches from my face all the time !!
	12:50pm HungryFreak: "Tambourine is so important" - Michelle Phillips 1967
	12:50pm phat in lincoln: I believe the opening chords from this Explorers Club was from the old Thames Productions theme.
	12:50pm clarke: DRR: omg it is POURING in the LGD right Nah!
	12:50pm Mister Dobalina: Pre-Rex greatness!
	♥ 12:50pm drr: gf2002: yeah, somebody tell Kurt Cobain.
	♥ 12:50pm Frank Zaatar: I think we should remix every 80s record. I might listen to Marshall Crenshaw more often. Hell, I might even like the Style Council.
	♥ 12:50pm Hubig Pie: I thot the bass player was the harmony guy in REM. Automatic for the People was a gem of a record, pretty down hill after that
	12:50pm rx scabin: Thank you, Michael. Fab show as usual.
	♥ 12:51pm Hughie Considine: I think the disappointing reception of Monster had to take some wind out of their collective sails. They tried to change it up, go bigger, rock harder, and it just didn't come off. And heaps of those CDs didn't get bought.
	12:51pm SecretSquirrel: A propos of nothing, wondering if FrankZ and I are the only siblings on the board today
	♥ 12:52pm Dano59: I'd def like to hear all of Lone Justice's production improved.
	12:52pm phat in lincoln: "If you don't like having your picture taken, you have no business being a star." --Little Richard
	♥ 12:52pm drr: clarke: Raining pretty good in L9W too.
	♥ 12:52pm Frank Zaatar: Wait, we're siblings? The DNA test came through?
	♥ 12:52pm Hughie Considine: Come on, the reclusive star is a well established type of star.
	♥ 12:52pm Creature Boy: Heard a track last night , it might've been from a Merle Travis & Joe Maphis duet type album. Or was it Chet Atkins doubling up w one of them?The song was called Ike Everly Guitar or something like that.Yeah the Everly Brothers "Silver Haired Daddy" contributed to that very same guitar style and influenced all of them
	12:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Like 'Monster' as a reaction to the Cobain era (who they knew & Buck used his Fender on it even). Seems Monster was everywhere - even were it not a - Monster ??...
	12:52pm clarke: cats and bagpipes!!
	♥ 12:53pm drr: The WFMU Auto playlist and New Orleans Weather Channel.
	12:53pm Bob: I think the Style Council records hold up better than ever. I'll take the SC over the Jam. Yeah, I said it!
	12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well ...makes me realize been too long since I heard Knickerbockers. Give it that...
	♥ 12:53pm McGroovey: Eighties record: it's that relentless, annoying snare with the gated reverb. Unfortunately, that was probably how it was often originally laid down on the multitracks.
	♥ 12:53pm Pedro in Arlington: The last two REM albums are worth revisiting. The had figured it out and decided "enough." The irony of Born in the USA is that it followed Nebraska and Bruce didn't realize less is more.
	12:53pm clarke: strongly disagree, Bob!
	♥ 12:54pm Dano59: hey, I still root for 'New Adventures' and all of Peter's solo & collab. projects. I don't need to defend 'Monster' - that was a fave!
	♥ 12:54pm Hughie Considine: haha..Monster was big, just not as big as Warner Bros wanted it to be...
	12:54pm phat in lincoln: Cheap Trick do ELO. Lol.
	12:54pm Bob: Clarke, I know.
	12:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Seeing as LittleRichard went from a Supernova but two shades less flambouyant than Esquirita to a Renunciate Preacher...
	12:54pm phat in lincoln: Great show Michael
	♥ 12:55pm Hughie Considine: They did this for a few LPs..."Voices" is my favorite Cheap Trick/ELO thing.
	♥ 12:55pm Creature Boy: Yeah where is my Knickerbockers Lies LP? it's here's somewheres....CRASH!!
	12:55pm phat in lincoln: @Revolution Rabbit Nov63 he was a complex character. Lol.
	♥ 12:55pm radioronan: Thanks Michael!
	12:55pm phat in lincoln: @Hughie Considine yes. I just don't think I'd actually noticed it before, which is funny.
	12:56pm patrick321: @Mike I’m at the supermarket so my commenting is way behind schedule. I can’t argue that the song isn’t great. Maybe he should’ve given it to somebody else.
	♥ 12:56pm Hughie Considine: It's a great hybrid, @phat!
	12:56pm rx scabin: Stipe is good with The Golden Palominos. Anton Fier asked him if he could not sing a little more clearly.
	♥ 12:57pm Pedro in Arlington: Next time you're in a thrift store, go to the CDs and take the "Monster" challenge. Bet you'll see that orange case even with your glasses off. Not a bad record. Just inevitable resistance by then.
	12:57pm SecretSquirrel: Didn’t mean to break it to you this way, FrankZ
	♥ 12:57pm Frank Zaatar: My bro and I agree--great show, Michael.
	12:57pm HungryFreak: @rx scabin yah that's a great Palominos record, arent they all.
	12:57pm Mister Dobalina: A shmear...
	♥ 12:57pm drr: R.E.M. went from being my favorite band to releasing "Green". Talk about falling off a cliff.
	♥ 12:58pm Dano59: when Michael started enunciating is when their troubles really began
	12:58pm clarke: anyone ever get the feelin' they been choco'd?? good nite.
	12:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I don't find any fault with Monster. Rather like it. Good writing & sound.
	12:58pm HungryFreak: @drr Holy shit! You fell off a cliff?
	♥ 12:58pm steveo: Can confirm. Had a bagel with eggs yesterday for a late breakfast
	♥ 12:58pm drr: "folded-ass ice cream cone"!
	12:58pm Bob: Monster was a classic "hit" record that was actually bought by WEA and dumped in to stores to soundscan. Total fraud.
	♥ 12:59pm steveo: Enjoyed today's show a lot Thank you
	12:59pm Mister Dobalina: I miss H & H fresh blueberry bagels.
	♥ 12:59pm drr: HungryFreak: I was trying to throw my copy of Green off but my hand got stuck on the hype sticker.
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Why aren't people buying CDs ?? We only keep them $16 ...$5000 for the good seats...
	12:59pm SecretSquirrel: And yes Michael Shelley, fab show from intro to “haw, haw”
	12:59pm clarke: send us a canoe down here!!
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	♥ 1:00pm drr: good night everybody
	1:01pm rx scabin: Good afternoon, Rex and Everyone. Clay P. called me rex the other day.
	♥ 1:20pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, MS!

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