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Favoriting August 12, 2023: At Least They Tried

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Amy Winehouse  Rehab (demo)   Favoriting
Beach Boys, The  God Only Knows ("live")   Favoriting
Dennis J. Leise  Ain't What It Used To Be   Favoriting
Olympics, The  Same Old Thing   Favoriting
Sister Rosetta Tharpe  Come By Here   Favoriting
Ben Vaughn  When The Paragons Meet The Jesters (recorded for WFMU)   Favoriting
Fountains Of Wayne  Red Dragon Tattoo   Favoriting
Spiders, The  Baby Doll   Favoriting
Charlie Pride  The Last Thing On My Mind   Favoriting
Ted Taylor  Need You Home   Favoriting
Knack, The  Heartbeat   Favoriting
High Numbers, The  Here 'Tis   Favoriting
Al Casey  Surfin' Hootenanny   Favoriting
Mike And The Moonpies  Roadcrew   Favoriting
Shirley And Lee  Rock All Night   Favoriting
Ken Nordine  Flesh   Favoriting
Mitch Easter  Rock and Roll Love Letter   Favoriting
Mouse  All For You   Favoriting
Ken Lightner  The Corner Of Love   Favoriting
Etta James  I Got You Babe   Favoriting
News, The  The Kids Are Dancing   Favoriting
Leonard Nimoy  Highly Illogical   Favoriting
Stonewall Jackson  I'm Gonna Find You   Favoriting
Peaches And Herb  Two Little Kids   Favoriting
Pioneers, The  I Need Your Sweet Inspiration   Favoriting
Bug Club, The  Only In Love   Favoriting
Joe South  Hush   Favoriting
Rip Chords, The  Summer U. S. A.   Favoriting
Dallas Frazier  Wearin' That Loved On Look   Favoriting
Homer Banks  Grandpa's Will (demo)   Favoriting
They Might Be Giants  Erase   Favoriting
Racket Squad  Laura Lee   Favoriting
Bats, The  You Will Now, Won't You   Favoriting
G.L. Crockett  Watch My 32   Favoriting
Tripwires, The  Me Neither   Favoriting
Queers, The  Something In My Heart   Favoriting
WAKY Radio, Louisville  Farrah Faucet Poster News   Favoriting
Nice Lady  Thanks You   Favoriting

CLICK HERE for an assortment of Wrecking Crew AFM union contracts

CLICK HERE for 20+ gigabytes of sound effects from the USC Sound Effects Library

CLICK HERE for Armstrong's 1954 catalog, featuring spectacular mid-century linoleum, rug, and wall tile designs

CLICK HERE for The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE for Michael Shelley's appearance on the Finding Favorites podcast where he discusses WFMU, NRBQ, Nancy & road food

CLICK HERE for The Beatles Sorter (1200 choice decision game takes an hour)

CLICK HERE for The Beatles & The Butcher - The Story of The 'Yesterday & Today' Album

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 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 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 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 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 HERE for 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 HERE for "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 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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Baby? Barbara?
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~Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz~
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Michael, listeners, hello
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well hey now
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hey now
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↳ Song: "Rehab (demo)" by "Amy Winehouse"
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RIP Amy😢
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my eyes don't see so good.
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Morning, Michael and all.
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pure!
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Greg, I think I caught a glimpse of you last night but didn't get close enough to say hi. HI.
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "God Only Knows ("live")" by "Beach Boys, The"
Nice segue
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Christina Ginger:

Good morning!
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Don Gorden:

Yo Mike , good morning !!, what happened to EVERYBODY LOVES DOLLY ???
  11:07am
Bob:

I saw JD McPherson out at Bell's Brewery in Kalamazoo in the other night. John Perrin on drums. A good time was had. I'm told some exciting NRBQ product is coming
  11:08am
clarke:

wow kalamazoo~
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Bob Barth:

Carl's voice was one-of-a-kind
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob @11:07
The KZ!

When K8 and I worked for Arbor Brewing in Ann Arbor, the staff party was always at Bell's. I boycotted it because the kitchen staff wasn't invited and hung out with them in the metropark instead, which was a much better party.
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Baja Joe:

Good morning Michael and everyone listening
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Listener Baby:

↳ Michael Shelley @10:58
Are any of us ever really free, Baby?
  11:10am
Bob:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:09
You worked for Matt & Renee? That would explain it. A couple of real dickbags.
  11:11am
clarke:

technical terms.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Ain't What It Used To Be" by "Dennis J. Leise"
Makes me think of BillHaley & the Comets - who we used to think about as being before Elvis ...but are never recalled anymore...
  11:12am
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @11:09
punk back on campus??
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:09
Handy Roolz OK
  11:13am
clarke:

and, we can assume Juniper is nearing campus life, as well??
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'American Graffiti' Half Century about now reportedly.
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Mister Dobalina:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, such an amazing gem in the rough!!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob @11:10
HA! I sure did, and you are NOT WRONG.
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Mister Dobalina:

But, I'm pretty sure that is not her cover album, showing up on the pop up player.
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "Come By Here" by "Sister Rosetta Tharpe"
O Jesus come by here
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob @11:10
Oh, man, we are in stitches over here.
  11:16am
Todd from RVA:

Good Morning Michael!! Hey going to see The Association today. Looks to be 3-4 of the original members. Can you play one of your fave tracks from them to get me in the mood?
  11:17am
rx scabin:

Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
  11:17am
clarke:

rx how goes??
  11:19am
clarke:

the accapella was GREAT!!!
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Roger:

Ben + Vaughn = Venn
  11:20am
clarke:

↳ Song: "When The Paragons Meet The Jesters (recorded for ...
but so is THIS!!
  11:21am
rx scabin:

@clarke not bad. It is mrs. scabin's birthday, and we are celebrating by having a delicious sandwich from a superb Italian deli and ice cream made at the parlor (Yummies) in our town and sitting on our porch later. A perfect day. How are you?
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McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Red Dragon Tattoo" by "Fountains Of Wayne"
I don't listen to Fountains of Wayne enough.
  11:22am
rx scabin:

@clarke I suppose I could have said, Great. How are you?
  11:22am
clarke:

↳ rx scabin @11:21
outstanding, sir!!
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Baja Joe:

↳ Song: "Red Dragon Tattoo" by "Fountains Of Wayne"
Nice!
  11:22am
clarke:

we like the detes!!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ rx scabin @11:21
Happy birthday, Mrs. Scabin!
  11:23am
clarke:

↳ rx scabin @11:22
no one can!
  11:24am
clarke:

my eyes is all screwy.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "When The Paragons Meet The Jesters (recorded for ...
This is the cover ?! :
cdn2.albumoftheyear.org...
Not quite what I imagined ! ...more like the Village People ready to do a West Side Story dance routine ...so to speak...
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StuartR:

↳ McGroovey @11:21
Me neither
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @11:22
I woke up earlier than usual because I had a headache, so I got up and had my morning coffee, but now the headache is mostly gone, but I probably can't sleep now because I've already had coffee.

(That could make a decent white-boy-blues song, if there is such a thing.)
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Bill in W.O.:

↳ McGroovey @11:21
I still find it hard to enjoy them as I should since Adam Schlesinger died, and even as much as I love this it still kinda hurts.
  11:25am
clarke:

↳ McGroovey @11:25
see Weird Al's First World Problems
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Bill in W.O. @11:25
Speaking of Covid.
Geez what Songmaking Genius.
  11:26am
clarke:

no bevvies on the lp's!!
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Frank In Queens:

ON TOP of one of my fave LPs?! Surely you jest....
  11:27am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:26
right-o mate. he shoots - he scores!
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ Song: "Red Dragon Tattoo" by "Fountains Of Wayne"
Greetings fellow nerds...Damn I miss Adam Schlesinger. :(
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:24
...& I love motorcycle clothes as it happens...
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:27
hi clarke
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Listener Baby:

Barbie = Thumbs way up from the woman folk here at casa Baby.
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Christina Ginger:

I saw Barbie and was pleasantly surprised. I think it’s a visually pleasing, make-you-think film.
  11:28am
clarke:

were you on the road, last few weeks?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Baby Doll" by "Spiders, The"
Always wanted to do a ClapTrack on something.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Baby Doll" by "Spiders, The"
This is amazing
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:28
Nope, just dealing with stuff.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:29
...like TheBeatles or Stooges...
  11:29am
clarke:

baby....
BAAABAAAY!!!
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McGroovey:

↳ Bill in W.O. @11:25
I actually made a podcast after he died, with a couple hours of covers of FoW songs, and songs by Adam S that were recorded by others. I really hadn't paid a lot of close attention to him or them until he died, and I went down a YouTube rabbit hole one night.

www.mixcloud.com...
  11:30am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:29
stuff sux!!
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Listener Baby:

‘Ello Clarke
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:30
I agree wholeheartedly. This stuff especially.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "The Last Thing On My Mind" by "Charlie Pride"
Missing the first half hour of Michael Shelley's show was the last thing on my mind...
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "The Last Thing On My Mind" by "Charlie Pride"
It's not the leaving of Liverpool that pains me...
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "The Last Thing On My Mind" by "Charlie Pride"
There sure are a lot of versions of this.
  11:31am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:30
damn - sorry!! hope there is a movie catch-up to come??
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Hughie Considine:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:31
Maybe Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox will take a crack at it.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Hi all
  11:31am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:30
mawnin' suh!!
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @11:29
...except that I just discovered that it won't play from that link anymore. Maybe I need to pay them money or something. Typical.
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Handy Haversack:

Found a live Charley Pride album for $4 in Michigan on this trip.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:31
There has definitely been time for that.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:31
They should!
  11:32am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:31
late riser!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:31
Good day, my man!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Schlesinger alone has long made me wanna punch a Covid Denier
...I'm a better Buddhist I don't think about it (not that being punched by me matters a great deal)...
  11:32am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:32
well....
WE'RE WAITING!!!
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Hughie Considine:

I always love the Shelley comments board because in general the topic is music!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:32
"Desire is suffering!" is a great thing to shout as you punch a fascist in the nose.
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McGroovey:

This might be the working link now. But don't listen now.

www.mixcloud.com...
  11:34am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:32
and movies??
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:32
Yes, very much yes.
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Bill in W.O.:

↳ McGroovey @11:29
Cool. Will check it out.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:34
Music, movies, food...the stuff of life. No one talking about their dodgy wi-fi connectivity...I'm just grousing now...
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drr:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:33
I thought it was movies.
  11:35am
clarke:

if Squints was not absent - we'd have a crew, here!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @11:09
profound
  11:35am
clarke:

↳ drr @11:35
i got a little list from this week.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Heartbeat" by "Knack, The"
This is now my favorite Knack song.
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Listener Baby:

Knack drummer always made himself known.
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "Heartbeat" by "Knack, The"
The Knack did one thing well
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Heartbeat" by "Knack, The"
BuddyHolly - had the knack ?
...invented it...
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yerfriendpaul:

Hey Michael, everyone!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ clarke @11:13
She reports the 21st! Yikes!
  11:36am
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @11:36
you seen tha vid of him explaining his playing on My Sharona?? YT
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Listener Baby:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:35
Feeling that way right now.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:35
My wife and son and I watched "Arrival" the other night. Horrible Hollywood claptrap of the lowest order (ordure).
  11:37am
clarke:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:36
outstanding!!!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:35
Speaking of, Tim is doing another PURE MICHIGAN Drop-In tonight" wfmu.org...
  11:37am
ojai John:

Bruce Gary on drums?
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Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Heartbeat" by "Knack, The"
This has a Fleetwood Mac vibe.
  11:37am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:37
right-O - thanks for reminder!!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:37
Even better link: wfmu.org...
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Michael Shelley:

↳ clarke @11:19
right!?
  11:38am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:37
yer a good man, charlie brown!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:38
We're gonna go see a couple of bands at 3 but hopefully will be back in time.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Here 'Tis" by "High Numbers, The"
...KeithMoon gonna explode any second now...
  11:39am
clarke:

pure!
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "Here 'Tis" by "High Numbers, The"
Now if these lads only stuck with this
  11:39am
?:

Where is Michael?
  11:40am
clarke:

yesterday, the HIGH in nyc was the low for the day in nola. phew.
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @11:33
Never mind. Other ones play, so maybe it's disable for having more than 3 songs by the same artist or something.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ PatrickMC @11:39
TheWho in prime just grab my adrenals & squeeze. It's a chemical reaction me & them...
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Don't let me leave the house today
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @11:40
It's mostly been a pretty mild summer in NYC this year. Most of the rest of the country has been in hell.
  11:42am
gf2002:

↳ Song: "Surfin' Hootenanny" by "Al Casey"
I wonder if Lee H put Al's amp in his famous empty water tank for this cut, it kind of sounds like it
  11:42am
Bob:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:16
It's obviously of no interest to anyone else here but the stories abound. There's nobody they didn't screw over. And helped put Flint water famous Rick Snyder in the governors chair. Scum.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Roadcrew" by "Mike And The Moonpies"
I need to learn that riff.
  11:44am
clarke:

↳ McGroovey @11:42
honestly, it is atypical here - high pressure most of the summer (which keeps the storms away, so far!!), and a BREEZE in the mornings!! unhoid of.
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Frank In Queens:

I believe the other two High Numbers recordings (Here 'Tis and Leaving Here) first appeared on the 30 Years Of Maximum R&B box set in 1994.
  11:45am
clarke:

↳ Bob @11:42
interest!!!
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Bob Barth:

REEEEEMIIIIXXXX!
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Handy Haversack:

Mike? Moonpies? You guys OK?
  11:45am
Folksnake:

LOVE IT
  11:45am
clarke:

↳ Song: "Roadcrew" by "Mike And The Moonpies"
that was impressive.
  11:45am
Bob:

Did everyone get past the hype and see Oppenheimer? I thought it was probably a masterpiece
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Frank In Queens:

And while of course while I love the 60s Who, I cannot wait until the new Who's Next box comes out.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Roadcrew" by "Mike And The Moonpies"
Digging the PHYSC mix Baby
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob @11:42
Yeah, no fun to work for either. But there were some good folk working there otherwise. I also worked at the Red Hawk on ... State?
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PatrickMC:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:41
I totally get that. I just cant get past the white blues bombast at times
  11:46am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:45
MovieTime??
  11:46am
Bob:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:45
Still a good meal
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:46
Sure, but I gotta think because it's been awhile. I'll start with last night's feature, which was Bogdanovich's Targets.
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "Rock All Night" by "Shirley And Lee"
Shirley has one of the great rock n roll voices
  11:47am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:45
whoah - i think i ate at Red Hawk.
  11:47am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:47
karloff!! yes!!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob @11:46
Real professional outfit, that. I eventually had to choose between the two and stuck with Arbor because the manager there would let me pick my schedule (closing the tap room Fri. and Sat.).
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "Rock All Night" by "Shirley And Lee"
(Pre-clicked) Shirley & Lee ALL DAY!
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PatrickMC:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:36
Amy Adams? Liked it!
  11:49am
Cooh John:

Hello Michael and #1ers.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:47
We liked it. Earlier this week we watched Stormy Weather which featured Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, and the famous routine by the Nicholas Brothers.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ PatrickMC @11:48
It's not hard spending time in the company of Amy Adams, but I dunno...I just didn't believe a word of the dialogue. It's not how humans talk, I thought.
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drr:

Earl Palmer has a great bit in his (incredible) book Back Beat about Shirley and Lee.He said Shirley sang "so sharp it would cut you!" But Lee always sang flat, so it evened out.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Flesh" by "Ken Nordine"
Ken sounded particularly charged up on this one...
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:49
Yeah, I hated that movie. The original short story is fantastic, though.
  11:51am
clarke:

Richard Fleischer Week, here: The Clay Pigeon (1949), Trapped (1948), The Narrow Margin (1949)
  11:51am
Bob:

That Colors album is a big fave. A cut off that works great in any playlist, party or other spin
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "Rock and Roll Love Letter" by "Mitch Easter"
Roller show!
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Hughie Considine:

Now "Targets," there's a movie. The white bread serial killer is perfectly cast.
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McGroovey:

↳ Bill in W.O. @11:34
I don't thing it'll play from MixCloud anymore. Other episodes do play, so they disabled it. But I think I found my backup on a hard drive. I'm waiting for a big zip file of the Audacity project to unzip now...

If you're interested, I can share it some other way.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @11:36
For sure - but he had the goods!
  11:52am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:49
have you watched any Bogdanovich flims from after Paper Moon? i like.
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McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Rock and Roll Love Letter" by "Mitch Easter"
This is groovy.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:52
Just watched "Picture Show" with my kid and it was as devastating as ever.
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PatrickMC:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:49
Hmm, saw it so long ago can't recall the dialogue, but I usually cut some slack to sci fi movies in that dept. Thought the story was great tho
  11:54am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:36
i will not be seeking that out. ha ha.
  11:54am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:53
it sure IS - stands up well!!
  11:54am
dymphnite:

Was listening while doing yard work but meant to comment that Rehab was on point!
  11:55am
swivs:

I naively thought The Records wrote Rock and Roll Love Letter. Now I must find alllllll the versions.
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GR60:

In 90's I used see Peter Bogdanovich at the NY Sports Club on the UWS. He worked out in jeans, a button down shirt and top siders. Classic.
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McGroovey:

I'm tired, and I want to take a nap, but I also want more coffee.

#whiteboyblues
  11:56am
clarke:

↳ GR60 @11:55
i am a fan of the man.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:52
Sure. We've seen Nickelodeon which we liked enough even if it was imperfect, Saint Jack which i love, They All Laughed which was ok/meh, Mask which was pretty decent, Noises Off which i liked, The Thing Called Love which was ok, and Cat's Meow which I remember liking.
  11:56am
clarke:

↳ GR60 @11:55
what no ascot??
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Mitch Easter covering Rock n Roll Love Letter is peak #1 hits.
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drr:

I'm glad we're talking about P.B., cause I got a book called "Peter Bogdanovich's Movie Of The Week" recently. It's 52 essays on classic movies, with a suggestion to watch one every week.
Pretty sure he just dictated this book, it's full of chatty stories like "I was talking to Orson Welles the other day and he said early Lewis and Martin were so funny you'd piss your pants". The suggestions are great, though, and this week I watched one: Alfred's Hitchcock's amazing, wonderful North By Northwest. A top 5 movie for me.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:51
Were these on the TCM site? I feel like I've seen these listed somewhere recently.
  11:57am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:56
forgot he did Mask!
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Hubig Pie:

Nicholas Bros jumps and leg splits were on full display in Sun Valley Serenade along with some vintage ski equipment.
  11:58am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:57
some on youtube and some on Internet Archive
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:52
Twas quite good. Bogdanovich was surely shot out of a cannon with his early releases.
  11:59am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:58
also, while you were 'away' i recommended another Fleischer film (later one) called The Last Run
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Frank In Queens:

↳ drr @11:57
Cool, I'll have to seek this out.
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drr:

↳ Hubig Pie @11:58
Sun Valley Serenade: I think that's the movie that introduced Chattanooga Choo Choo (a song I've heard a million times, more even than Rocky Top). Am I right?
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Hubig Pie @11:58
I'm not really a song and dance guy when it comes to movies, but those guys are astounding.
  12:00pm
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:58
my gosh - What's Up Doc? and Paper Moon?? faggeddaboudit.
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Hughie Considine:

On the Bogdanovich tip, the series on Polly Platt in "You Must Remember This" podcast was revelatory.
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Handy Haversack:

Es la verdad.
  12:00pm
clarke:

↳ drr @11:59
yer not wrong, walter.
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PatrickMC:

A word of farewell and godspeed to William Friedkin, Bogdanovich's very worthy contemporary.
  12:01pm
rx scabin:

Thank you Michael and Everyone. I must go. It is time to get the Birthday Sandwich.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:58
True, and like most things shot out of a cannon, eventually you hit the ground.
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Frank In Queens:

Also finally had the time to watch Wages Of Fear, which was brilliant. And now in the wake of William Friedkin's death, I'm trying to track down Sorcerer.
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Hubig Pie:

↳ drr @11:59
Correct-amundo. It's what the Nicholas Bros and Dorothy Dandridge danced too
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "I Got You Babe" by "Etta James"
Where's Sonny
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clarke:

↳ drr @11:57
marty landau!
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Bob:

Bogdanovich did that epic Tom Petty doc too. It's not exactly a great movie for the average filmgoer but if you're a Petty fan, it's just a joy.
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clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @12:01
yeah Sorcerer is proving difficult - but DRR has a dvd...
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JG:

This sonny and Cher cover is awesome
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Bob @12:02
Yeah, I'm way behind on the music docs, but that's surely on my list.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "I Got You Babe" by "Etta James"
#1 HIT!
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McGroovey:

↳ rx scabin @12:01
I'm curious what your superb deli is.

I don't know where the best places to eat are in Rochester anymore. I know a few, but some of my favorites are gone. I moved out 20 years ago.
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drr:

I had a great movie week:
Ronin (caper/counter-terrorism flick with DeNiro, very good)
Sorcerer (Friedkin's redo of The Wages Of Fear, terrific)
North By Northwest (movies don't get much better)
King Lear (BBC TV 1982 production with Michael Hordern and Brenda Blethyn; marvelous, Regan and Goneril make you want to boo and throw stuff at the stage/screen)
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Bob:

↳ Frank In Queens @12:02
There might be different cuts but the long version is on Tubi, I think
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Hubig Pie:

What's Up Doc is pure joy. Ms. Streisand never looked so lovely.
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clarke:

↳ drr @12:03
summer in nola!!
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clarke:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:04
not a babs fan, by any means, but this Film is brilliant!!
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McGroovey:

↳ drr @12:03
Those are good.

I used to see lots of movies before children came. Now we're out of the habit.
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Bob:

↳ drr @12:03
Ronin is so much better than other heist flicks that are more celebrated. Like the vastly pretentious Heat
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "The Kids Are Dancing" by "News, The"
Winsome
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drr:

↳ clarke @12:02
landau: "call it my woman's intuition".

I don't have Sorcerer on DVD, I used a modern technique called BitTorrent to get a copy.
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GR60:

Watched Blood Simple last night. Still amazing, and timeless.
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clarke:

↳ drr @12:05
ha ha / rats!!
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drr:

↳ Bob @12:05
Boy you said it.
I was so excited when I read about Heat, so I got a copy---and realized I had seen t before and forgot it completely.
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clarke:

↳ GR60 @12:05
was thinking about that flick the other day - need re-watch. which cut you watch??
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Mr. Jones:

↳ GR60 @12:05
Where did you see Blood Simple?
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Hoboken Jack:

Good afternoon, rockers!!
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Bob:

↳ drr @12:06
But that blue filter. Genius.
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clarke:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:07
good day, sir!
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GR60:

HBO Max
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:04
#1 hit movie
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GR60:

or whatever it's called now
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egould:

↳ Song: "Highly Illogical" by "Leonard Nimoy"
Spock was half human, after all.
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clarke:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:07
how Embarrassing, jack!!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "Highly Illogical" by "Leonard Nimoy"
Tune in to hear this again when I fill in for Marty tonite!😂
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:07
Hey, Jack.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Highly Illogical" by "Leonard Nimoy"
But of course
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Bob:

The Oak Ridge Boys formula for gold
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BillfromRockTavern:

Did I hear you say the Leonard Nimoy record is over $30. I was in another room doing dishes.
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "I'm Gonna Find You" by "Stonewall Jackson"
Precursor to Every Breath You Take
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clarke:

↳ Song: "I'm Gonna Find You" by "Stonewall Jackson"
diggin' the snare sound!
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egould:

Speaking of Star Trek, Commander Riker was a Number 1 hit….
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clarke:

↳ clarke @12:12
and the hi-hat. (he's givin' me the high hat!!)
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clarke:

↳ Song: "Two Little Kids" by "Peaches And Herb"
dang! ne'er heard!!
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McGroovey:

↳ BillfromRockTavern @12:11
Well, actually, new records are pushing $30 now. Inflation.
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clarke:

↳ Song: "Two Little Kids" by "Peaches And Herb"
as Squints might say: GGY!!
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:14
this is a point i was hoping to assail: i have been priced out of record-buying!
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Don Gorden:

Yo Mike whip me up some Charlie Crocket
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clarke:

loving up. together.
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "I Need Your Sweet Inspiration" by "Pioneers, The"
Some songs just better as blue beat
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:14
i went to Peaches on magazine st, when Candy-O was in town - there were some SINGLE new albums for $50 !!!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "Only In Love" by "Bug Club, The"
The Bug Club! Coming back to town in November! 11/17 at the new Knitting Factory thing.
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clarke:

↳ clarke @12:19
of course, Euclid is more down to earth than that.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @12:19
We got six albums in Michigan -- and would have doubled the cost if I hadn't talked myself out of the New Adventures in Hi-Fi deluxe reissue.
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drr:

Well, Peaches is ridiculous. "Funk" Davies took a picture of a used .38 Special album (not even Wild-Eyed Southern Boys) with a $40 price tag plastered on the sleeve.
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @12:15
I remember in the early '90, looking for copies of a couple of Neil Young LPs that were out of print at the time. I felt lucky to find them for about $10 each, when decent copies of in-print (on CD) LPs were $2-5.

$10 was about the price of a new LP at the time.

According to my inflation calculator. $10 in 1990 is $24 now. $30 now was $13 in 1990.
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clarke:

↳ Song: "Hush" by "Joe South"
was going to mention joe south when you played that ben vaughn specialty!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ drr @12:20
Good lord
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PatrickMC:

↳ Song: "Hush" by "Joe South"
Joe South!
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clarke:

↳ drr @12:20
yes, but i DID manage to find a David Kilgour i didn't have for 12$
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McGroovey:

↳ drr @12:20
Yeah, I only buy used CDs at Peaches.
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JG:

This deep Purple cover is awesome
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drr:

↳ clarke @12:22
They had no idea what it was.
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Bob:

↳ clarke @12:13
Clear as mud.
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Nutley Sam:

I never heard a "Hush" I didn't like.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:20
OK, five records.
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:20
and granted, we were spoiled by thrift store prices for the 00's, etc.
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McGroovey:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:19
I have to buy me a ticket! They were fantastic at Union Pool, as Handy and I and others raved at the time.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:22
All Kilgour LPs are great. "Here Comes the Cars" was my intro -- still perhaps my fave.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ McGroovey @12:24
Seems like they never stop touring. All over the place, those guys.
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Nutley Sam:

Any female-fronted versions of "Hush?" Juniper?
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:25
agree with that assessment - this one was the purple one: Bobbie's A Girl
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gf2002:

If you want to know the real value of vinyl records especially good titles from the 60's and 70's, try to sell them to a dealer. They'll offer less than a buck a piece then the same albums often show up for 20-30 in the shop for the kids under 20 to buy. I get commerce and paying the bills but it's hilarious just the same
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @12:19
Record pressers regret scrapping most of their pressing machines in the '90s, but their regrets must certainly be assuaged by the prices they can command now that pressing capacity is limited.
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:27
yes - and yes, GF - sad.
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drr:

"Your party was a three-day romp": finally. I've been wondering about that since about 1999.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:27
It's a good 'n. Was lucky to see the Clean at Cat's Cradle five or so years ago. In the back room, where all the legends play!
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:28
damn son! never Clean'd.
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gf2002:

The trendy thing now is cassettes. No joke. Taylor Swift is selling cassettes of certain albums for 20 bucks a pop. I wonder how the kids play them
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clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:29
went down a Fleischer rabbit hole this week - read above!
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clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:29
also, MS during an airbreak was talking about cassettes.
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McGroovey:

And of course, CDs are much cheaper now than they were in early '90s. A new CD was $13-17 (in then-dollars). New CDs tend to be $8-12 now (in now-dollars). $12 now was about $5 in 1990, which was the price of a used CD they had too many used copies of.
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John L:

↳ gf2002 @12:29
They still make new boom boxes that play cds and cassettes. I've noticed quite a few musicians on Bandcamp that only sell their music on cassette and download.
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:31
are new cd players still being manufactured??
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Handy Haversack:

↳ John L @12:32
Cassette is the cheapest option these days, I think. We are certainly buying new tapes still. Sometimes I just can't do $30 for an LP plus $10 for shipping.
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Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Erase" by "They Might Be Giants"
YEAHHHHH!!!! You played my ID! very cool Michael!
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John L:

↳ clarke @12:32
I use my blu-ray player for cds.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ John L @12:33
Same. Well, DVD player. I don't think we ever made it all the way to blu-ray.
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Hughie Considine:

i'm seeing used CDs for $5 a pop for clean remastered versions of quality stuff of all genres, $3 for less cool items. They sure sound good in the car.
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clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:33
yeah, what is going on is that you have to absolutely LOVE the album to buy it - there is no speculation, anymore, sadly.
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Michael Shelley:

Juniper albums = equal sales of cd & lps...
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I have a friend who runs a cassette only label.
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Frank In Queens:

The true value of anything is what someone is willing to pay for it. When you sell your collection to dealers, you're essentially paying for the convenience of them taking it all off your hands in one fell swoop. If you want to get what it's truly worth, you gotta sell it piece by piece, which depending on the size of your collection can be both time consuming and inconvenient.

The moral of the story is to not sell your records! Play them, enjoy them, and cherish them!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:34
I'm reluctant to shell out for a new LP right out of the gate unless it's like YLT.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @12:34
But boy when you see someone selling a new LP for $15, it sure is a thrill!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Frank In Queens @12:35
well put.
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McGroovey:

↳ gf2002 @12:29
I'm guessing that this is partly because a cassette can be made quicker and cheaper than a vinyl LP, and CDs (even quicker and cheaper to make) are un-cool.

And in real life, face it, you probably play the mp3 download, not the LP or cassette anyway. They could sell you a Taylor Swift chunk of wood, and it would sound exactly the same as a cassette.
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clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @12:35
or find a "curator", like me - it is working well!
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gf2002:

↳ clarke @12:29
Three classics! The Narrow Margin is one of my favorites, people talk about the fight scene aboard a train in From Russia With Love as one of the best, but Narrow Margin had it down years prior. Love The Clay Pigeon too, I have to rewatch Trapped very soon! I'm overdue for a Noir marathon. Great recommendations!
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @12:36
Good to hear!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:35
Or $18!

theexbats.bandcamp.com...
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luka:

pretty sure it was “mr. stretch guy”
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Webhamster Henry:

I just got a Blu-ray/DVD reader for my computer, and there are lots of discounted media out there! and : doesn't fill up my disk drives.

I usually get some kind of physical media when ordering from Bandcamp, both to give them a little more money ad to help them clear out that big box of physical media in the closet.
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clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:36
Trapped is the weakest of them - but still dece.
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dano59:

Michael The Ronettes!
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Bob:

I've harped on this enough but I don't get paying thirty bucks for a reissue on labels like Yep-Roc and they sound like second generation cassettes...not cool. I also picked up that beautiful looking Velvet Crush vinyl edition of Teenage Symphonies and it just sounds like crap.
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Hughie Considine:

I was just in Brooklyn and the most I paid for a record was 25 for a used copy of Emit Rhodes's The American Dream and 30-something for Transit Byzantium by Bill Fox. At least they were both Shelley classics.
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McGroovey:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:34
Yeah, I still buy CDs, because they're cheaper. When CDs started replacing LPs, I kept buying LPs, because they were cheaper, unless I could find a used CD, because a lot of LP pressings sounded horrible in the 1990s anyway. And I only bought a CD player when the Joy Division Substance comp came out, and the CD had twice as many songs...
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clarke:

↳ Bob @12:38
i love that album, that's sad to hear about the pressing. i know pressing plants are, uhh, hard-pressed atm, but, still...
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:39
Where did you shop? You were probably in the neighborhood! We're approaching record-store saturation here.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Bob @12:38
Gotta agree. I have the Nick Lowe Brentford Trilogy records on CD, and those are enough for me right now. If it was a different label reissuing those titles, I might've considered picking them up.
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Bob:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:39
Big letdown. I love it too.
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drr:

↳ clarke @12:39
i bet the issue is mastering more than pressing.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:39
Academy, Captured Tracks, and the Record Grouch. Greenpoint, baby! I love it.
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John L:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:34
I don't upgrade all of my dvds to Bluray unless there are great extras or if the original dvd didn't look that great, but I've updated a few. I get films from overseas companies and many of them only make blu-rays. I do stream, but sometimes they picture is unwatchable. I just bought a blu-ray for Born To Win (1971) because the streaming version and old dvd version both looked like mud.
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gf2002:

In the late 90's there was a scene especially among underground punk and hardcore bands where they were still releasing on cassettes, total DIY. Then cassette players stopped being manufactured widely, CD's became cheaper to make, etc. But about ten years ago there was a buzz that cassettes were coming back in underground circles, and now it's mainstream and teenagers I know are fascinated by them. It's crazy, but for people releasing music still very cost effective. I still like CD's too.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:40
We are a block from Record Grouch. Next time around, send up a flare!
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clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @12:40
i understand yep roc uses an inferior pressing plant.
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drr:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:40
Record Grouch financed my move to New Orleans.
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dano59:

I’m on the road to the Adirondacks but I had to weigh in on the original band for I could hear music
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clarke:

↳ drr @12:40
no - been hearing bad pressing stories galore.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "Laura Lee" by "Racket Squad"
Mama Tried is an excellent venue. Highly recommended.

But IFF anyone is looking more north Brooklyn, we'll be seeing Discreet Charms (heavy FMU connection) and Famous Logs in History at 18th Ward this afternoon.
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Webhamster Henry:

↳ gf2002 @12:40
I just got the cassette for Wobbly's new Additional Kids release!
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Michael Shelley:

The real loss is that singles are no longer an affordable way to get one song/one b side to the public.
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drr:

↳ clarke @12:42
Oh. the only thing I have on YR is the Pure Pop For Now People reissue. I think it sounds OK; it's on, like, 360 gram vinyl.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ drr @12:41
Wow! He (the grouch?) was great. We talked about the LPs I purchased just like it should be. Great place.
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clarke:

↳ dano59 @12:41
good place to be!!
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McGroovey:

↳ gf2002 @12:40
My teenage daughter buys used cassettes and CDs in thrift stores, because they're cheap. She buys things she's never heard of if she likes the cover. Yes, she's a future music hoarder.

I point to my wall of records and say "someday this will all me yours!", and she smiles.
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Bob:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:42
Totally. Seven bucks for a single that also won't sound very good. Third Man stuff is good.
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @12:43
*be
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:43
Rarely is mine the only WFMU shirt in that place.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:41
I will do that!
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egould:

↳ Song: "Laura Lee" by "Racket Squad"
Damn that was good!
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @12:41
I don't know the details, but based on the YR vinyl I do own, this seems to check out. They're not the only ones though. Plenty of labels are getting their stuff pressed at crappy plants. It's really just the lack of quality control that's the issue. I know the demand is high and that the plants are slammed and probably working around the clock, but jeez, even the slightest effort to improve the pressing quality would go a long way in 2023.

In my experience, off-center pressings are the biggest blight on vinyl today.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I hadda play some Gittar & I miss everything...
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:44
I had a few happy fellow-FMU sightings while in town -- a nice gal on Rockaway Beach with an FMU trucker hat being the most memorable.
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clarke:

MS - while i TOTALLY agree with what you are saying about singles -- at the same time, anyone can hear ANYthing immediately, these days - which is unreal!!
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gf2002:

I've heard a lot of complaints especially regarding deluxe box sets about the quality of the pressings on new vinyl. And the pressing plants are backed up like mad with demand, I forget what the turnaround time is for short runs but it's very long. I think the demand overshot the actual capability of people who can run and maintain the equipment. I have to think a lot of the craftsmen who ran the equipment and knew how to do it are gone by now and it's hard to run the presses to meet demand today
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Nutley Sam:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:42
Famous Logs and Racket Squad are related by marriage. You can do both!
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Frank In Queens:

Buyers would also rather buy LPs over singles.
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Barefoot Jimmy G:

So glad you are a part of my Saturday afternoon, Michael. Thanks!
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clarke:

understood, but frank makes the point of QC issues. they are just okaying shitty product.
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Don Gorden:

I gotta tell you Mike , I've been listing to you and Rex for the last ten years now, relatively a new comer to WFMU, I just love you guys, never a dull show , as far as I'm concerned even the guest hosts are great.
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PatrickMC:

The real tragedy is the loss of the cereal box cutout 45. And its cool cat successor, the flexidisc.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:46
Well, I'm holding you to it -- next time, I'll buy you a drink or a coffee. We can point admiringly at each other's FMU gear.
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Kent:

Hey Michael, the Ronettes originally sang I Can Hear Music. Reached #100 on Billboard in October 1966! For such a well-known group, such a short-lived hit career.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Nutley Sam @12:47
The world is rich!
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clarke:

i don't if it is a question of not being able to get a test-pressing?? i'm afraid to try, atm.
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Akiva:

I know the hat it’s like 15 minutes walk from my house. Never been there myself but mt parents have. Everything they’ve said seems to echo your sentiment
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Handy Haversack:

OK, going to take a quick shower and then get some groceries. Many thanks, Michael! Great show.

Later on, Number One pals!
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Don Gorden:

Thank Mike
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drr:

↳ PatrickMC @12:49
I've hung on to the EvaTone Soundsheet demo package I got from their Southeast rep in 1985.
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gf2002:

I miss the cereal box records! I still have one from The Monkees and some old Mad magazine flexi-discs. And Guitar Player magazine used to do the flexis too
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:49
You're on -- looking at late September. as a possibility Will surely have the requisite duds on hand.
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clarke:

↳ PatrickMC @12:49
you have hit upon It!!
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McGroovey:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:46
Are you the Hugh I checked in at the door at Monty Hall last night? (My daughter and I were the ticket-takers)
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drr:

↳ gf2002 @12:50
"It's A Super-Spectacular Day"? "Makin' Out"?
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drr:

↳ gf2002 @12:50
Are there cereal-box CDs? If not, why not?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:44
...well that's appropriate... :
nationaldaycalendar.com...
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clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:50
lest we not forget the flexi's that came with Bucketfull Of Brains fanzine!!
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PatrickMC:

↳ drr @12:50
I still have a J5 cereal box 45 and a New Order flexidisc. All bases covered.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ McGroovey @12:51
I am not -- and perhaps this moniker thing is a little silly at this point. My name is David. Hughie Considine was a character in one episode of "Room 222."
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listener phat in Lincoln:

www.solid-merch.com...
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jmd:

↳ Song: "Me Neither" by "Tripwires, The"
heck yes!
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:53
BUSTED!!!
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egould:

Michael, you assembled today’s show with the skill and artistry of a master sushi chef. Arigato gozaimasu!
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Hughie Considine:

I feel somehow cleansed.
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McGroovey:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:53
Well, the Hugh from last night seemed like a fine fellow. And our next door neighbor when I was a kid was named Hugh, and he was a fine fellow. So, Hugh=good fellow, in my experience.
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:53
i thought it was the brother of tim and tom considine!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:53
ARMY OF DAVE
...one night about 2 A.M. all we Daves shall Rise
...& Dave will most definitely then Be Home mammajammaz...
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Bob Barth @12:33
THANKS TO YOU!
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Hubig Pie:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:53
He wasn't that guy with the big red afro was he ?
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @12:49
As far as I know, test pressings are readily available should you choose to want them pressed. But I don't know if they measure anything more than the sound quality of the pressing. I think a lot of the other issues occur during the pressing run of the album. For instance, I've had off-center pressings that I've exchanged for another copy that was pressed well. Same with non-fill.
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:54
now that you have outed yourself, let me praise your podcast I Am The Fly - which every good boy deserves to listen to!!
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gf2002:

↳ drr @12:51
I don't have that but somewhere in a box of junk I know I have the Graduation Day record, which is cardboard and it's Alfred's face. I remember having to put coins on it on the record player because it never played right!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ McGroovey @12:54
It's a good-time name! David's kinda boring.
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clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @12:55
yeah, but can you "stop the presses" if u don't like the test, anymore??
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

HYOO - From the Germanic name Hugo, derived from the Old Frankish element hugi, Old High German hugu meaning "mind, thought, spirit" (Proto-Germanic * hugiz ).
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @12:56
I believe so, otherwise what's the point of them?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:55
Thanks, Clarke. I'll drop in my podcast here. Please give a whirl! www.iamthefly.org
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McGroovey:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:56
Yeah, there are lots of Davids, for sure, but most Davids I've known have also been fine fellows.

I just googled your podcast. Cool.
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clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @12:56
that's what i was wondering.
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:56
like Barq's Root Beer (it's not root beer!): IT'S GOOD!!
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DJ Johnny Cool:

These are the Daves I know I know, these are the Daves I know.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ McGroovey @12:57
Good to hear - hope you dig.
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clarke:

The Daves - love em!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:57
It's better than bad/ it's good
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luka:

thank u 4 the no. 1s
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Great stuff today, MS!
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @12:57
I believe they do the test pressings after the plates are created. If you don't like the sound of the test pressings, they gotta re-plate and try again.
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ScottinDenver:

I believe this is the definition of power cord.
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Peter Horvath:

Have a great Saturday, #1’ers
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clarke:

thnx monsieur shelley!!
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clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @12:59
but then you get further back in the line, nowdays.
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DG:

That's troubling about the Nick Lowe reissues. Wanted to get the full/official version of "Jesus of Cool" just to get all the extra stuff, now I'm re-thinking it. Is the sound OK?
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @12:59
Well, yeah.
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clarke:

my eyes - not so good. good nite. plonk!
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Hughie Considine:

That was swell - thanks, Michael!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ MS ~
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Bob Barth:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:54
I don't know if you heard that interview but he was great. So much fun.
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