WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from June 7, 2025

Listener comments!
	10:27am Listener Baby: Baby: More Songs About Chimps and School
	10:28am Listener Baby: Or just an Sh*t-Ton of EC songs will suffice. Either one, really.
	11:01am clarke: hey now... GOOD TIMES!!!
	♥ 11:01am McGroovey: I'm a gigantic fayan.
	♥ 11:01am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now. #getbusyliving
	11:02am Scott from Boston: Good morning!
	11:02am clarke: the small circle of friends has, once again, assembled
	♥ 11:02am Frank In Queens: Well, HEY NOW!
	11:02am clarke: he shoots he scores!
	11:03am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "The Drifter" by "Roger Nichols and the Small Circ... This band really changed directions when they reformed as an Orange County punk band.
	♥ 11:03am Hughie Considine: What's all this then?
	11:03am greg g: Morning Michael and All!!
	11:04am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:03 marching up and down the square!!
	♥ 11:04am luca: gm sneaky ichibans
	11:04am Bob: Good morning, everybody. And a preemptive Clarke greeting too.
	11:05am clarke: hello bob.
	♥ 11:05am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:04 He's just a square. Give'im a break!
	♥ 11:05am pgalub: Hey Michael, clarke, and everyone.
	11:06am clarke: pedro and mcG!! mornin'!
	11:06am Einstraus: It's a sunny Saturday morning in Vancouver, BC. Canada - Hi Michael and all
	♥ 11:06am Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael, Baby, PEEEEEEETE, McGroove, Clarke, Frank, all!
	11:06am clarke: jack!!!
	♥ 11:07am McGroovey: Once upon a time, I was as reformed as an Orange County punk band.
	11:07am Listener Baby: Jack!!
	11:07am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:07 then you moved to East Orange
	11:07am Listener Baby: Yes, as The Circle Jerks, they weren’t quite as good, IMHO
	♥ 11:07am pgalub: JAAAAACK!!
	♥ 11:08am Stevie Jay: Ook ook
	♥ 11:08am Pedro in Arlington: All these years later and only yesterday did I learn that Cheap Trick and KISS were the subjects of View-Master sets. Oy the prices now. ebay.us...
	♥ 11:08am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:07 Then Mineola. Mineola oranges are the best.
	11:09am clarke: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:08 i wonder if henry fonda did the ads for THOSE?
	11:09am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:08 oranger and oranger
	11:10am Einstraus: My playlist isn't updating..... Strange
	♥ 11:10am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Einstraus @11:10 Michael is likely passed out on the studio floor
	♥ 11:10am Hughie Considine: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:08 I just listened to a very long interview with Gene Simmons on Rick Rubin's podcast. It was much more interesting than I expected it to be.
	♥ 11:10am JOE FROM DC: Not seeing any updates. Good evening everyone!
	11:10am Bob: I visited a great record store in Grand Rapids last week called Vertigo. Check it out if you get there. Really decent prices. I'm still jazzed about getting a NM white label promo of Holland with the lyric insert and a mint copy of Brian's weirdo fairytale ep. $8.99!
	♥ 11:11am Christina Ginger: Good morning!
	11:11am johnk77: comments are updating playlist stuck at roger nichols
	♥ 11:11am McGroovey: ↳ Einstraus @11:10 Same
	11:11am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:11 good day, madam!!
	♥ 11:11am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:11 Hey Christina!
	11:12am Listener Baby: Christina!
	♥ 11:12am Christina Ginger: Hi Clarke and Jack!
	♥ 11:12am McGroovey: Well, at least the comments are updating. And Michael only plays two songs at a time, mostly.
	11:12am Listener Baby: Baby. How many fingers am I hold up?
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:10 he's pretty eloquent and really smart. also: he signed Shoes!
	11:13am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	11:13am Einstraus: Michael woke up! the playlist is back
	11:13am Cal in Dothan: Morning friends!
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:12 hay, i enjoy reading of your exploits!!
	11:15am clarke: ↳ Song: "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" by "Pernice Brot... yes!!!
	♥ 11:15am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:13 Hahahhaa, happy to entertain.
	♥ 11:15am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:13 Indeed. He made a claim that shocked me but I had a hard time refuting. He said no other New York band besides Kiss had ever become truly successful in the financial sense. True NY bands, like the VU, the Ramones, the Dolls, etc., being examples.
	11:15am clarke: and the hits just keep on coming!
	♥ 11:16am Pedro in Arlington: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:10 He was selling the pricey opportunity to pretend you were his roadie for a day. Maybe you could ask about the View-Master set. I'm sure he's sick of questions about the blood in the comic book ink.
	11:16am Bob: ↳ clarke @11:15 This is your number one-est song of the day. So perfect. Shut the show down now
	11:16am johnk77: playlist back in effect:>
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:15 hmm. yeah.
	♥ 11:17am Jack McGuire: ↳ Song: "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" by "Pernice Brot... What a CORKER of a smasheroo.
	11:17am Austin in Bushwick: Nice show today
	11:18am clarke: it's all working out guys! and gal!
	♥ 11:18am Hughie Considine: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:16 He was very savvy on the merchandising front.
	11:19am clarke: it's blast-furnace time in the crescent city
	♥ 11:19am Christina Ginger: Say Pokémon like Bob Marley would Michael.
	11:19am Scott from Boston: Not sure how you don’t know Pokémon, Michael… Do you have a daughter? Maybe it’s different with boys? I know all about it and I’m way old to
	♥ 11:20am Frank In Queens: Pokey Man? i.etsystatic.com...
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:19 ha ha ha
	11:20am Listener Baby: My parking lot at the winery was a “Pokémon Gymnasium” and people would be sitting in their cars at all hours, right outside my back door. Totally bizarre.
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:20 do that here - you melt.
	♥ 11:22am Garrity: G'mornin, Michael and everyone!
	11:22am Listener Baby: Yeah. It’s not hot in Paso Robles, Ca.
	♥ 11:22am Frank In Queens: ↳ Scott from Boston @11:19 I've heard it's different for girls...
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:22 i need to be there!
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:22 paso ropa!!
	♥ 11:23am Jack McGuire: Telecaster? Al Anderson.
	11:24am Michael Shelley: ↳ Scott from Boston @11:19 In some ways, we kept the kid sheltered... or busy with other stuff
	♥ 11:24am Christina Ginger: They should license this song for the commercial for the growing hose.
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:24 coiling rope!
	♥ 11:24am DJ Johnny Cool: I think this was all recorded at soundchecks. There's no crowd sounds at all.
	11:27am HopeWithFeathers: For listeners in DC: Redd is playing tonight with Dave Chappell, another master of the telecaster, at Hank Dietles, the roadhouse music venue in Rockville.
	11:28am clarke: don't go back to rockville!
	♥ 11:30am Stevie Jay: ↳ Song: "Rocket In My Pocket" by "Twangbangers, The" I have a version of this song by Lou Ann Barton. I'm thinking it's more appropriate for a male vocal on this song.
	11:31am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Let's Fall In Love" by "Billy Stewart" Billy S could do a Jesus Jones song then. Or perhaps a Creed ditty?
	11:31am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning gang!
	11:32am clarke: hello gregory!
	11:32am Cooh John: I think I have heard another version of this song.
	♥ 11:32am myron feld: ↳ Stevie Jay @11:30 I love Lou Ann's version, along with NRBQ's, The Cramps' and everyone else's. But Jimmy Lloyd overrules them all.
	11:33am HopeWithFeathers: Yeah, REM put that in a song but this music venue is worth checking out for great local acts. touring artists like Big Sandy and Joey Stompanato — and Redd — occasionally play there too.
	11:33am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Let's Fall In Love" by "Billy Stewart" But I think a Bush cover would be most appropriate
	♥ 11:33am Montmaster J: For $1000 USD, I will compose a one-of-a-kind piano piece, crafted with care and imagination just for you. From Steve Nieve's website.
	♥ 11:33am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:32 Love the Q's 1977 cover.
	11:33am Scott from Boston: Let’s face it Juniper ended in a way better position than my kids… So I think you did something right!
	11:35am Scott from Boston: Why did I skip the lemon twigs concert this year??!?!?!
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @11:33 i need to find an ATM!
	♥ 11:35am Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @11:35 Haha!
	11:36am clarke: dig Brower
	♥ 11:36am slocker: Happy Anniversary my guy. Seeing the Lemon Twigs is a great way to spend it.
	♥ 11:37am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:31 Hello Greg!
	11:37am TimG: As always, we almost always agree on music, almost always disagree on film. Hmmmm
	11:38am Todd in RVA: Re; Brower - clearly Micheal doesn't listen to Todd-a-Phonic Todd's show!! Haha!
	♥ 11:38am James in ATL: Brower - Where Is The Magic? Sounds like Big Star.
	♥ 11:39am egould: ↳ Song: "Now It's Time (To Get Serious)" by "Brower" Brower often played on Three Chord Monte and Todd-o-Phonic's show.
	♥ 11:39am Hoboken Jack: ↳ slocker @11:36 Good late morning, Slocker!
	11:40am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Now It's Time (To Get Serious)" by "Brower" All of our favorites, shake well..
	11:40am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Now It's Time (To Get Serious)" by "Brower" Wow they must have listened to a lot of Beach Boys "Love You" and "15 Big Ones"!
	11:40am Jeff: Browser has played live on Todd-O-Phonic’s show a few months ago, I think. They also opened for Those Pretty Wrongs a couple of years ago at Union Pool (a show that Todd DJd at).
	11:41am clarke: folks, went to see the new wes anderson film on opening night! i find it BRILLIANT - but, too brilliant for most people. what shocked me is that the movie is hilarious - i was laughing from a few seconds in, thru the whole Film - yet, none of the other 20 or so people in there even chuckled the WHOLE TIME!!
	11:41am Michael Shelley: ↳ myron feld @11:32 N.B.V.
	11:41am Jeff: Sorry - “Brower” autocorrected to “Browser”
	11:41am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Gifts" by "Lemon Twigs, The" Did they do this one, Baby?
	♥ 11:44am prof.fuzz: howdy
	♥ 11:44am egould: ↳ clarke @11:41 That happened to me once as well. Then, when I woke up in the ER they told me that I hadn't been in a movie theater.
	11:45am wally: Don't tell Pseu Braun about that song lol
	11:45am clarke: ↳ egould @11:44 i was beginning to feel like the deniro character in the remake of Cape Fear!!
	11:45am clarke: FuZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
	11:45am wally: Very hooky.
	♥ 11:45am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:41 But you were laughing like DeNiro's Max Cady in the remake of Cape Fear. It was unsettling.
	♥ 11:46am prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @11:45 ClarkEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
	11:46am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:45 not quite that level - but the flick is funny as hell.
	♥ 11:46am Hughie Considine: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:45 This was discussed in a previous email. Great minds ... laugh alike.
	11:46am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "She's Out There" by "Honeybus" Sublime
	11:47am Ralph: Them backing vocals remind of The Pretty Things.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:46 mitchum seethes more.
	11:48am listener phat in lincoln: Hey all
	11:48am Jeremy: Honeybus after Lemon Twigs!! This is my day indeed. Thanks Michael. One small correction: Pete Dello's solo LP is Into Your Ears. Story is the record Honeybus put out after he left. But my favorite Honeybus LP --Recital-- was never released until recenly, and Dello is still in the band at that point.
	11:48am clarke: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:48 hey groovy people!
	♥ 11:48am Squints: Where's my damned macaroons?
	11:49am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:48 in the truck with the...
	♥ 11:49am McGroovey: A healthy breakfast does not include macaroons.
	11:49am listener phat in lincoln: @clarke what'd you think of Phoenician Scheme?
	♥ 11:49am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:47 And Mitchum could fade into the crowd, while DeNiro's Cady would cause anxiety just through his physical presence.
	11:49am clarke: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:49 see above. love!
	11:50am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:49 ha ha, right!
	11:51am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Sugar Moon" by "Bobby Helms" Come on, Baby. They can stay. Have a heart. PS. Sounds like it was recorded on the same day as JBR
	11:52am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Sugar Moon" by "Bobby Helms" I was going to guess Hank Garland on guitar on this one
	11:52am clarke: ya'll want gravy on them bis-kits?
	♥ 11:52am Hughie Considine: I got an Arlo Guthrie vibe.
	11:52am Bob: Has anyone watched Project Q? I dig the British crime stuff but the first episode has me on the fence
	11:54am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:52 i am into the recent wave of brit crime, but not seen, yet. and, now i am not so sure i will.
	11:54am listener phat in lincoln: @clarke we enjoyed it!
	11:54am Raina: You're on fire today! Must be the Quick Chek cofee. Happy Annivers!
	11:55am clarke: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:54 i'm actually going back - there's too much stuff to see.
	11:55am Listener Baby: This also rules!
	11:55am Bob: ↳ clarke @11:54 No, it's an interesting setup. I'm just not instantly sure what is going on. Probably a good sign really.
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:55 i will await your further delvings
	11:57am Giant man in PVD: Were you an art handler by any chance?
	11:59am clarke: i was a snake-handler one fall.
	12:00pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Giant man in PVD @11:57 no
	♥ 12:01pm pgalub: ↳ Song: "Delia Gone" by "Nassau String Band" I remember watching Johnny Cash video of this on MTV. Bizarre
	12:03pm Scott from Boston: This band is so good and loved this new single! Originally heard this on bubblegum OD
	12:05pm Jeremy: I picked up the Tchotchke LP and I love it! The bass player also does fantastic design work for the Lemon Twigs.
	12:05pm wAlly: very catchy. !!!!!
	12:06pm clarke: steady clap ALL the way thru
	12:07pm Listener Baby: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:03 BGOD a terrific show, BTW
	12:11pm Scott from Boston: Play good good morning Listener!!
	12:12pm clarke: G G Sq
	♥ 12:15pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Door" by "Brower" This song would sound good in the Halls of Shambala.
	12:16pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Door" by "Brower" You’ve convinced me
	12:16pm George Kopp: Didn't Brower open for NRBQ at White Eagle a few years ago?? Looking at you Hoboken Jack.
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:15 ya ya ya ya - ya ya!
	12:16pm Michael Shelley: ↳ George Kopp @12:16 YES!
	12:18pm clarke: urban darwinism
	♥ 12:18pm Stevie Jay: Hopefully you have access to the Attractions "solo" album "Mad About the Wrong Boy" for next week. Lots of great stuff on there.
	12:18pm Listener Baby: Would love to know of keyboard players Steve himself admires?
	12:18pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Montmaster J @11:33 How much to remove background vocals?
	12:18pm Mr. Jones: I hope you ask him about his work with Marc Ribot, both in Elvis’ “Imitations” and on his solo work.
	12:19pm George Kopp: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:16 Thought so, they were impressive! Reminded me of Sweet.
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Stevie Jay @12:18 WIll do!
	♥ 12:19pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:16 3 Dog Night was actually one of the bands Gene Simmons mentioned where everyone knew the song but no one knew who was in the band. He and his pals were determined to be remembered.
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: ↳ George Kopp @12:19 YES - SWEET!
	♥ 12:19pm Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: ↳ Song: "Monkey To Man" by "Elvis Costello" This is the second Elvis Costello classic I've heard today on your show!
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:19 you mean floyd on drums?
	♥ 12:20pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Monkey To Man" by "Elvis Costello" this has gotta be a favorite for New Orleans fans
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:20 at least one of them.
	♥ 12:21pm Montmaster J: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:18 Well, you can ask...but it's kind of a sweet offer...he says the track will be customized for you after a chat. Kind of a audio Cameo....
	♥ 12:22pm Dano59: ↳ Stevie Jay @12:18 and Steve's "Theme Music from Outline of A Hairdo" ... and with EC, for me, his playing on 'Strict Time' is aces.
	12:22pm Bob: I assume you’ve tried to get EC on the show. Is he really that tough a get? He seems to love to talk music and himself. He’s a guy who still obsessively record shops from what I know. He always hits Encore in Ann Arbor when he plays here.
	12:23pm clarke: u were not here on April 1st, 2015?
	12:23pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "The Brady Bunch" by "Roger Nichols and the Small ... Wow. This like that Rubinoos version of That Thing You Do. If you get my drift.
	♥ 12:24pm Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @12:23 Now that is institutional memory!
	12:24pm You: Michael, your show is always about an alternate universe
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @12:24 i probably got the year wrong (i usually do)
	12:25pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:23 exactly
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I Haven't Got The Nerve" by "Left Banke, The" lookovsky!!!!!!
	12:25pm Michael Shelley: ↳ You @12:24 this is true
	12:26pm clarke: i thought it was about you.
	♥ 12:26pm drr: ok, I'm here. I have a few comments but I need to browse the message board to make sure they haven't been made.
	♥ 12:26pm Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @11:41 Definitely on the list...will probably venture to the theater...
	♥ 12:27pm Squints: ↳ Song: "You Don't Want My Love" by "Roger Miller" My pop loved Roger Miller. And I am my father's son.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @12:26 there's just too much to take in in one viewing.
	12:27pm Listener Baby: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:25 PS. Rubinoos tune WAY closer to a bullseye than BB Theme. Not that it matters. Could not image BB with that as its theme song. Just can’t.
	♥ 12:28pm DaveMiß: ↳ Song: "You Don't Want My Love" by "Roger Miller" Shower song in the refrain for dure
	♥ 12:28pm drr: ↳ George Kopp @12:16 Brower has been opening shows for Lemon Twigs, a fact I'm sure was discussed earlier.
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ Song: "You Don't Want My Love" by "Roger Miller" the numberest one of ones
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:28 twas! how goes??
	♥ 12:28pm DaveMiß: Hello Nola peeps Drr & Clarke
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ DaveMiß @12:28 MISS!!! (i'm mister nusbaum!)
	♥ 12:30pm Hoboken Jack: I'm a math genius but as there's no $1 offer on the table this time....
	12:30pm Mr. Jones: Re: alternate TV themes I’m more convinced than ever, Gordon Lightfoot should have sung “Gilligan’s Island”
	♥ 12:31pm DaveMiß: ↳ clarke @12:28 Howdy M Shelley!
	♥ 12:31pm drr: ↳ clarke @11:41 This reminds me of when I saw Waiting For Guffman on opening night in NYC. Nobody laughed and at the end I heard people apologizing to their dates and saying "what the hell was that?" like they hadn't just been witness to a comic masterpiece. Like, do you just go to any movie?
	♥ 12:32pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ George Kopp @12:16 Hey George!! Didn't want to pile on the "we all know Brower already" parade, haha
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:31 man, i have no idea what was going on in that theater.
	♥ 12:32pm egould: ↳ Listener Baby @12:23 Rubinoos were supposed to open for the Minus 5 tonight. But for some reason canceled. But still, the Minus 5 should be fun.
	♥ 12:33pm Montmaster J: ↳ drr @12:31 we had the same experience seeing Poor Things...which was hysterical
	12:33pm pottybear: GP is playing tonight in Novato, CA
	12:33pm Bob: Oh man, that’s a drag about Bob. Fantastic musician. The special sauce of the Brinsleys
	12:33pm clarke: RIP Bob Andrews - saw him once at the Neutral Ground
	♥ 12:33pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Mess With Love" by "Rumour, The" Also check out the burly bass sound here.
	12:34pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Mess With Love" by "Rumour, The" There She Goes. A version, but not the version known to the world as one of the great songs ever written.
	♥ 12:34pm drr: Hey Dave Miß!
	12:34pm clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @12:33 yes, similar experience, there, but this new film is hilarious.
	♥ 12:35pm listener phat in Lincoln: Just sitting in my car, getting ready to go to work...
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: ↳ DaveMiß @12:31 Hi Yo!
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:35 have a good one!!
	♥ 12:36pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:28 Doing good. I gotta drive a wheelbarrow across town later (I'm gonna put it in my truck, I'm not pushing it over there) but other than that dreadful thing shadowing my day, I'm pretty OK.
	12:36pm Bob: Those Rumor records are still dollar bin classics
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:35 put down the pokey man
	12:37pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:36 hold the phone... what truck? you got goldie back???
	♥ 12:38pm Hubig Pie: ↳ drr @12:31 The audience didn't appreciate the auditions for Red, White and Blaine? The Raging Bull dialogue? The Remains of the Day lunchbox?
	♥ 12:39pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:37 I say "truck", but it's an XTerra. It goes in the same Haynes/Chilton manual as a Nissan truck though.
	♥ 12:39pm Eddy in Australia: RIP Lakeside Lounge. I miss that joint.
	♥ 12:39pm Hoboken Jack: Oh no, more Roger Nichols, prepare for the playlist to freeze again
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:38 this was at the Prytania Theater, i don't get what people thought the movie was?
	12:40pm clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:39 i'm going to listen to Roumours
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @12:39 i miss Lakeside - and we miss YOU!! hey mate!
	♥ 12:41pm drr: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:38 Man, I know. They were missing some kind of cultural literacy, I guess. They seemed to take it at face value, so they thought "these performers are not good, and the plot about Guffman wasn't gripping enough.
	♥ 12:41pm Eddy in Australia: ↳ clarke @12:41 Hey bud!
	♥ 12:41pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ egould @12:32 Undisclosed illness, I read. I wonder if Todd will have more info.
	♥ 12:42pm Micheal: ↳ Song: "I Kept On Loving You" by "Carpenters, The" What Flaming Lips intro sounds like this?!
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @12:41 yer up late, mate!
	♥ 12:43pm Eddy in Australia: ↳ clarke @12:42 French Open final just finished. Thought I'd tune in for the home stretch.
	♥ 12:43pm egould: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:41 I figured something like that. Blech.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @12:43 dimmies, mate!
	♥ 12:44pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" by "... Thanks to the Spinners, 12:45 has always had a special glow.
	12:44pm Listener Baby: Eddy!
	12:44pm DG: That Rumour track was also recorded by Nick Lowe, a few years later, on the mixed-but-sometimes enjoyable "Abominable Showman" album.
	12:44pm clarke: ↳ Song: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" by "... my oh my
	♥ 12:44pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" by "... A perfect bridge
	♥ 12:45pm Eddy in Australia: ↳ Listener Baby @12:44 Baaaby!
	♥ 12:45pm listener phat in Lincoln: I think that's the bridge, anyway, lol.
	♥ 12:45pm Hughie Considine: And of course "Ghetto Child" was the basis for the chorus in Elvis Costello's "Alison," pre-Steve Nieve.
	12:45pm Bob: ↳ DG @12:44 The original Brinsley Schwarz version has been reissued a few times too. On the recent box even
	♥ 12:46pm drr: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:38 I remember the trailer was just Christopher Guest practicing ridiculous dances while wearing his jeans backwards. That was about it. We died laughing. Anyway, years pass and some film of David Byrne rehearsing for Stop Making Sense surfaces...and it's the same ridiculous dances. Pants on forwards though. Christopher Guest must have seen this somehow, back before there was YouTube.
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:46 when did you get a truck?
	12:47pm Bob: The most underrated Los Lobos record
	12:47pm gB: Nailed it in Games People Play, Michael! Halfway decent DJ-ing at its best.
	12:48pm DG: ↳ drr @12:31 That's hysterical....by that time Guest & co. were known (it was more than a decade after Spinal Tap) so I wonder what they expected. Some people are just clueless, or lazy...& don't bother to actually READ about a movie before they see it. That said, I saw Spinal Tap the weekend if opened (I already knew what it was) & some co. was handing out questionaires as we were leaving, asking how we heard about the movie, did we like it, etc. They probably didn't know how to market it (I remember a story that they showed it, blind, to a test audience whose reaction was "why didn't you make a movie about a GOOD band?").
	♥ 12:48pm DJ Johnny Cool: Lobos is one of the best live bands ever.
	♥ 12:48pm Hubig Pie: ↳ drr @12:46 That goofy dance was comedy gold.
	12:48pm Listener Baby: ↳ Eddy in Australia @12:45 Are you always lurking? Or, where ya been?
	♥ 12:48pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:47 Right after I sold Goldie! I think you've seen it, it's a rugged, manly SUV, black in color. It has strong guards over the taillights so I can parallel park without a worry.
	12:49pm Bob: ↳ DJ Johnny Cool @12:48 I won a pair of free X/Lobos tickets for Detroit. Psyched. They always kill it.
	12:49pm listener phat in lincoln: @Bob there's a badly rated Los Lobos band?
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:48 i last saw you in a sedan. hmm.
	12:49pm listener phat in lincoln: @Bob hoping to see them in KC.
	12:50pm listener phat in lincoln: @listener phat in lincoln album...
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:48 i do recall the black SUV, now.
	♥ 12:51pm egould: ↳ Song: "I Only Want To Be With You" by "Bay City Rollers,... Speaking of bubblegum…
	12:52pm Scott from Boston: I remember watching the Bay City Rollers on Saturday morning over my grandparents house religiously… still love them
	12:52pm Jeremy: ↳ Song: "Spit Out The Bubblegum" by "Jay Gonzalez" This is great! This bubblegum is on the nose
	12:53pm listener phat in lincoln: Alright, I'm off to clock in. Have a good Saturday!
	♥ 12:53pm egould: Thanks Michael. Very numero uno.
	12:54pm DG: I first heard of Keltner (as I'm sure many here did) from the liner notes of my Lennon, Harrison & Starr albums...but he's played with everyone from Streisand to Pink Floyd. He'd be a a great guest, don't know if I ever heard him interviewed. Saw him on tour w/both George & Ringo, & about 20 years ago I went to a Simon & Garfunkel reunion show & was surprised to see him on drums for that too.
	12:54pm Scott from Boston: Adios Micheal!
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Garden Party" by "Bob Dylan" bob doin ricky!
	12:55pm Michael Shelley: ↳ DJ Johnny Cool @12:48 is or were?
	12:56pm Michael Shelley: ↳ gB @12:47 Thank you!
	♥ 12:56pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:55 Ballad o' Ricky Bobby Pt. 2
	12:56pm DG: ↳ DJ Johnny Cool @12:48 Absolutely. They can play anything....saw them about 30 years ago & they did a version of "Crossroads" you'd swear was Cream.
	12:56pm Bob: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @12:49 Some of the 90’s things got a little jammy for me. Certainly not bad. The Neighborhood seems to get overlooked a little is all.
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:54 keltner was AMAZING with ry cooder (and jim dickinson and flaco)
	12:57pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Garden Party" by "Bob Dylan" The video of this performance is well worth looking up on YouTube. Bob not only sounds great but is clearly enjoying himself.
	12:57pm Bob: Bob is singing pretty great these days really
	12:57pm clarke: rope moved. i'm off to lyman.
	♥ 12:58pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:55 Bob doin' Ricky doin' Frankie doin' Elvis.
	♥ 12:58pm DJ Johnny Cool: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:55 Still are! I've seen 'em about 30 times.
	♥ 12:58pm Eddy in Australia: ↳ Listener Baby @12:48 Not lurking, unable to listen live anymore.
	♥ 12:58pm radioronan: Thanks Michael...cheers y'all!
	12:58pm jg: So cool , Dylan doing this. And kind of meta
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:58 good nite.
	♥ 12:59pm Hughie Considine: thanks for more Saturday morning magic, Michael!
	12:59pm KWilde: Good show Michael!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from June 7, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Roger Nichols and the Small Circle of Friends	The Drifter
Elvis Costello And The Attractions	Sneaky Feelings (1977 Soundcheck)
Laura Cantrell	Big Wheel "Big Wheel" by "Laura Cantrell"
Barbara Lewis	Don't Forget About Me
Toni Iordache	Sarba De La Medgidia
Pernice Brothers	Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)
Richie Allen And The Pacific Surfers	Surfer's Slide
Twangbangers, The	Rocket In My Pocket
Billy Stewart	Let's Fall In Love "Let's Fall In Love" by "Billy Stewart"
Brower	Now It's Time (To Get Serious)
Lemon Twigs, The	Gifts "Gifts" by "Lemon Twigs, The"
Honeybus	She's Out There "She's Out There" by "Honeybus"
Bobby Helms	Sugar Moon "Sugar Moon" by "Bobby Helms"
Nassau String Band	Delia Gone "Delia Gone" by "Nassau String Band"
Tchotchke	Did You Hear? "Did You Hear?" by "Tchotchke"
Chicks, The	Can You Hear My Heartbeat?
Del Reeves	Honky Tonk Man "Honky Tonk Man" by "Del Reeves"
George Jackson	If You Ain't Here "If You Ain't Here" by "George Jackson"
Brower	Door "Door" by "Brower"
Elvis Costello	Monkey To Man "Monkey To Man" by "Elvis Costello"
Roger Nichols and the Small Circle of Friends	The Brady Bunch
Left Banke, The	I Haven't Got The Nerve
Roger Miller	You Don't Want My Love
Luther Davis	You Can Be A Star "You Can Be A Star" by "Luther Davis"
Rumour, The	Mess With Love "Mess With Love" by "Rumour, The"
Carpenters, The	I Kept On Loving You
Spinners, The	They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)
Los Lobos	Deep Dark Hole "Deep Dark Hole" by "Los Lobos"
Jay Gonzalez	Spit Out The Bubblegum
Bay City Rollers, The	I Only Want To Be With You
Bob Dylan	Garden Party "Garden Party" by "Bob Dylan"

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

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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

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

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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"

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Listener comments!
	10:27am Listener Baby: Baby: More Songs About Chimps and School
	10:28am Listener Baby: Or just an Sh*t-Ton of EC songs will suffice. Either one, really.
	11:01am clarke: hey now... GOOD TIMES!!!
	♥ 11:01am McGroovey: I'm a gigantic fayan.
	♥ 11:01am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now. #getbusyliving
	11:02am Scott from Boston: Good morning!
	11:02am clarke: the small circle of friends has, once again, assembled
	♥ 11:02am Frank In Queens: Well, HEY NOW!
	11:02am clarke: he shoots he scores!
	11:03am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "The Drifter" by "Roger Nichols and the Small Circ... This band really changed directions when they reformed as an Orange County punk band.
	♥ 11:03am Hughie Considine: What's all this then?
	11:03am greg g: Morning Michael and All!!
	11:04am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:03 marching up and down the square!!
	♥ 11:04am luca: gm sneaky ichibans
	11:04am Bob: Good morning, everybody. And a preemptive Clarke greeting too.
	11:05am clarke: hello bob.
	♥ 11:05am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:04 He's just a square. Give'im a break!
	♥ 11:05am pgalub: Hey Michael, clarke, and everyone.
	11:06am clarke: pedro and mcG!! mornin'!
	11:06am Einstraus: It's a sunny Saturday morning in Vancouver, BC. Canada - Hi Michael and all
	♥ 11:06am Hoboken Jack: Hello Michael, Baby, PEEEEEEETE, McGroove, Clarke, Frank, all!
	11:06am clarke: jack!!!
	♥ 11:07am McGroovey: Once upon a time, I was as reformed as an Orange County punk band.
	11:07am Listener Baby: Jack!!
	11:07am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:07 then you moved to East Orange
	11:07am Listener Baby: Yes, as The Circle Jerks, they weren’t quite as good, IMHO
	♥ 11:07am pgalub: JAAAAACK!!
	♥ 11:08am Stevie Jay: Ook ook
	♥ 11:08am Pedro in Arlington: All these years later and only yesterday did I learn that Cheap Trick and KISS were the subjects of View-Master sets. Oy the prices now. ebay.us...
	♥ 11:08am McGroovey: ↳ clarke @11:07 Then Mineola. Mineola oranges are the best.
	11:09am clarke: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:08 i wonder if henry fonda did the ads for THOSE?
	11:09am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:08 oranger and oranger
	11:10am Einstraus: My playlist isn't updating..... Strange
	♥ 11:10am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Einstraus @11:10 Michael is likely passed out on the studio floor
	♥ 11:10am Hughie Considine: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:08 I just listened to a very long interview with Gene Simmons on Rick Rubin's podcast. It was much more interesting than I expected it to be.
	♥ 11:10am JOE FROM DC: Not seeing any updates. Good evening everyone!
	11:10am Bob: I visited a great record store in Grand Rapids last week called Vertigo. Check it out if you get there. Really decent prices. I'm still jazzed about getting a NM white label promo of Holland with the lyric insert and a mint copy of Brian's weirdo fairytale ep. $8.99!
	♥ 11:11am Christina Ginger: Good morning!
	11:11am johnk77: comments are updating playlist stuck at roger nichols
	♥ 11:11am McGroovey: ↳ Einstraus @11:10 Same
	11:11am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:11 good day, madam!!
	♥ 11:11am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:11 Hey Christina!
	11:12am Listener Baby: Christina!
	♥ 11:12am Christina Ginger: Hi Clarke and Jack!
	♥ 11:12am McGroovey: Well, at least the comments are updating. And Michael only plays two songs at a time, mostly.
	11:12am Listener Baby: Baby. How many fingers am I hold up?
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:10 he's pretty eloquent and really smart. also: he signed Shoes!
	11:13am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	11:13am Einstraus: Michael woke up! the playlist is back
	11:13am Cal in Dothan: Morning friends!
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:12 hay, i enjoy reading of your exploits!!
	11:15am clarke: ↳ Song: "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" by "Pernice Brot... yes!!!
	♥ 11:15am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:13 Hahahhaa, happy to entertain.
	♥ 11:15am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:13 Indeed. He made a claim that shocked me but I had a hard time refuting. He said no other New York band besides Kiss had ever become truly successful in the financial sense. True NY bands, like the VU, the Ramones, the Dolls, etc., being examples.
	11:15am clarke: and the hits just keep on coming!
	♥ 11:16am Pedro in Arlington: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:10 He was selling the pricey opportunity to pretend you were his roadie for a day. Maybe you could ask about the View-Master set. I'm sure he's sick of questions about the blood in the comic book ink.
	11:16am Bob: ↳ clarke @11:15 This is your number one-est song of the day. So perfect. Shut the show down now
	11:16am johnk77: playlist back in effect:>
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:15 hmm. yeah.
	♥ 11:17am Jack McGuire: ↳ Song: "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" by "Pernice Brot... What a CORKER of a smasheroo.
	11:17am Austin in Bushwick: Nice show today
	11:18am clarke: it's all working out guys! and gal!
	♥ 11:18am Hughie Considine: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:16 He was very savvy on the merchandising front.
	11:19am clarke: it's blast-furnace time in the crescent city
	♥ 11:19am Christina Ginger: Say Pokémon like Bob Marley would Michael.
	11:19am Scott from Boston: Not sure how you don’t know Pokémon, Michael… Do you have a daughter? Maybe it’s different with boys? I know all about it and I’m way old to
	♥ 11:20am Frank In Queens: Pokey Man? i.etsystatic.com...
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:19 ha ha ha
	11:20am Listener Baby: My parking lot at the winery was a “Pokémon Gymnasium” and people would be sitting in their cars at all hours, right outside my back door. Totally bizarre.
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:20 do that here - you melt.
	♥ 11:22am Garrity: G'mornin, Michael and everyone!
	11:22am Listener Baby: Yeah. It’s not hot in Paso Robles, Ca.
	♥ 11:22am Frank In Queens: ↳ Scott from Boston @11:19 I've heard it's different for girls...
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:22 i need to be there!
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:22 paso ropa!!
	♥ 11:23am Jack McGuire: Telecaster? Al Anderson.
	11:24am Michael Shelley: ↳ Scott from Boston @11:19 In some ways, we kept the kid sheltered... or busy with other stuff
	♥ 11:24am Christina Ginger: They should license this song for the commercial for the growing hose.
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:24 coiling rope!
	♥ 11:24am DJ Johnny Cool: I think this was all recorded at soundchecks. There's no crowd sounds at all.
	11:27am HopeWithFeathers: For listeners in DC: Redd is playing tonight with Dave Chappell, another master of the telecaster, at Hank Dietles, the roadhouse music venue in Rockville.
	11:28am clarke: don't go back to rockville!
	♥ 11:30am Stevie Jay: ↳ Song: "Rocket In My Pocket" by "Twangbangers, The" I have a version of this song by Lou Ann Barton. I'm thinking it's more appropriate for a male vocal on this song.
	11:31am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Let's Fall In Love" by "Billy Stewart" Billy S could do a Jesus Jones song then. Or perhaps a Creed ditty?
	11:31am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning gang!
	11:32am clarke: hello gregory!
	11:32am Cooh John: I think I have heard another version of this song.
	♥ 11:32am myron feld: ↳ Stevie Jay @11:30 I love Lou Ann's version, along with NRBQ's, The Cramps' and everyone else's. But Jimmy Lloyd overrules them all.
	11:33am HopeWithFeathers: Yeah, REM put that in a song but this music venue is worth checking out for great local acts. touring artists like Big Sandy and Joey Stompanato — and Redd — occasionally play there too.
	11:33am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Let's Fall In Love" by "Billy Stewart" But I think a Bush cover would be most appropriate
	♥ 11:33am Montmaster J: For $1000 USD, I will compose a one-of-a-kind piano piece, crafted with care and imagination just for you. From Steve Nieve's website.
	♥ 11:33am Squints: ↳ myron feld @11:32 Love the Q's 1977 cover.
	11:33am Scott from Boston: Let’s face it Juniper ended in a way better position than my kids… So I think you did something right!
	11:35am Scott from Boston: Why did I skip the lemon twigs concert this year??!?!?!
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @11:33 i need to find an ATM!
	♥ 11:35am Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @11:35 Haha!
	11:36am clarke: dig Brower
	♥ 11:36am slocker: Happy Anniversary my guy. Seeing the Lemon Twigs is a great way to spend it.
	♥ 11:37am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:31 Hello Greg!
	11:37am TimG: As always, we almost always agree on music, almost always disagree on film. Hmmmm
	11:38am Todd in RVA: Re; Brower - clearly Micheal doesn't listen to Todd-a-Phonic Todd's show!! Haha!
	♥ 11:38am James in ATL: Brower - Where Is The Magic? Sounds like Big Star.
	♥ 11:39am egould: ↳ Song: "Now It's Time (To Get Serious)" by "Brower" Brower often played on Three Chord Monte and Todd-o-Phonic's show.
	♥ 11:39am Hoboken Jack: ↳ slocker @11:36 Good late morning, Slocker!
	11:40am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Now It's Time (To Get Serious)" by "Brower" All of our favorites, shake well..
	11:40am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Now It's Time (To Get Serious)" by "Brower" Wow they must have listened to a lot of Beach Boys "Love You" and "15 Big Ones"!
	11:40am Jeff: Browser has played live on Todd-O-Phonic’s show a few months ago, I think. They also opened for Those Pretty Wrongs a couple of years ago at Union Pool (a show that Todd DJd at).
	11:41am clarke: folks, went to see the new wes anderson film on opening night! i find it BRILLIANT - but, too brilliant for most people. what shocked me is that the movie is hilarious - i was laughing from a few seconds in, thru the whole Film - yet, none of the other 20 or so people in there even chuckled the WHOLE TIME!!
	11:41am Michael Shelley: ↳ myron feld @11:32 N.B.V.
	11:41am Jeff: Sorry - “Brower” autocorrected to “Browser”
	11:41am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Gifts" by "Lemon Twigs, The" Did they do this one, Baby?
	♥ 11:44am prof.fuzz: howdy
	♥ 11:44am egould: ↳ clarke @11:41 That happened to me once as well. Then, when I woke up in the ER they told me that I hadn't been in a movie theater.
	11:45am wally: Don't tell Pseu Braun about that song lol
	11:45am clarke: ↳ egould @11:44 i was beginning to feel like the deniro character in the remake of Cape Fear!!
	11:45am clarke: FuZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
	11:45am wally: Very hooky.
	♥ 11:45am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:41 But you were laughing like DeNiro's Max Cady in the remake of Cape Fear. It was unsettling.
	♥ 11:46am prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @11:45 ClarkEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
	11:46am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:45 not quite that level - but the flick is funny as hell.
	♥ 11:46am Hughie Considine: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:45 This was discussed in a previous email. Great minds ... laugh alike.
	11:46am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "She's Out There" by "Honeybus" Sublime
	11:47am Ralph: Them backing vocals remind of The Pretty Things.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:46 mitchum seethes more.
	11:48am listener phat in lincoln: Hey all
	11:48am Jeremy: Honeybus after Lemon Twigs!! This is my day indeed. Thanks Michael. One small correction: Pete Dello's solo LP is Into Your Ears. Story is the record Honeybus put out after he left. But my favorite Honeybus LP --Recital-- was never released until recenly, and Dello is still in the band at that point.
	11:48am clarke: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:48 hey groovy people!
	♥ 11:48am Squints: Where's my damned macaroons?
	11:49am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:48 in the truck with the...
	♥ 11:49am McGroovey: A healthy breakfast does not include macaroons.
	11:49am listener phat in lincoln: @clarke what'd you think of Phoenician Scheme?
	♥ 11:49am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:47 And Mitchum could fade into the crowd, while DeNiro's Cady would cause anxiety just through his physical presence.
	11:49am clarke: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:49 see above. love!
	11:50am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:49 ha ha, right!
	11:51am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Sugar Moon" by "Bobby Helms" Come on, Baby. They can stay. Have a heart. PS. Sounds like it was recorded on the same day as JBR
	11:52am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Sugar Moon" by "Bobby Helms" I was going to guess Hank Garland on guitar on this one
	11:52am clarke: ya'll want gravy on them bis-kits?
	♥ 11:52am Hughie Considine: I got an Arlo Guthrie vibe.
	11:52am Bob: Has anyone watched Project Q? I dig the British crime stuff but the first episode has me on the fence
	11:54am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:52 i am into the recent wave of brit crime, but not seen, yet. and, now i am not so sure i will.
	11:54am listener phat in lincoln: @clarke we enjoyed it!
	11:54am Raina: You're on fire today! Must be the Quick Chek cofee. Happy Annivers!
	11:55am clarke: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:54 i'm actually going back - there's too much stuff to see.
	11:55am Listener Baby: This also rules!
	11:55am Bob: ↳ clarke @11:54 No, it's an interesting setup. I'm just not instantly sure what is going on. Probably a good sign really.
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:55 i will await your further delvings
	11:57am Giant man in PVD: Were you an art handler by any chance?
	11:59am clarke: i was a snake-handler one fall.
	12:00pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Giant man in PVD @11:57 no
	♥ 12:01pm pgalub: ↳ Song: "Delia Gone" by "Nassau String Band" I remember watching Johnny Cash video of this on MTV. Bizarre
	12:03pm Scott from Boston: This band is so good and loved this new single! Originally heard this on bubblegum OD
	12:05pm Jeremy: I picked up the Tchotchke LP and I love it! The bass player also does fantastic design work for the Lemon Twigs.
	12:05pm wAlly: very catchy. !!!!!
	12:06pm clarke: steady clap ALL the way thru
	12:07pm Listener Baby: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:03 BGOD a terrific show, BTW
	12:11pm Scott from Boston: Play good good morning Listener!!
	12:12pm clarke: G G Sq
	♥ 12:15pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Door" by "Brower" This song would sound good in the Halls of Shambala.
	12:16pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Door" by "Brower" You’ve convinced me
	12:16pm George Kopp: Didn't Brower open for NRBQ at White Eagle a few years ago?? Looking at you Hoboken Jack.
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:15 ya ya ya ya - ya ya!
	12:16pm Michael Shelley: ↳ George Kopp @12:16 YES!
	12:18pm clarke: urban darwinism
	♥ 12:18pm Stevie Jay: Hopefully you have access to the Attractions "solo" album "Mad About the Wrong Boy" for next week. Lots of great stuff on there.
	12:18pm Listener Baby: Would love to know of keyboard players Steve himself admires?
	12:18pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Montmaster J @11:33 How much to remove background vocals?
	12:18pm Mr. Jones: I hope you ask him about his work with Marc Ribot, both in Elvis’ “Imitations” and on his solo work.
	12:19pm George Kopp: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:16 Thought so, they were impressive! Reminded me of Sweet.
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Stevie Jay @12:18 WIll do!
	♥ 12:19pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:16 3 Dog Night was actually one of the bands Gene Simmons mentioned where everyone knew the song but no one knew who was in the band. He and his pals were determined to be remembered.
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: ↳ George Kopp @12:19 YES - SWEET!
	♥ 12:19pm Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: ↳ Song: "Monkey To Man" by "Elvis Costello" This is the second Elvis Costello classic I've heard today on your show!
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:19 you mean floyd on drums?
	♥ 12:20pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Monkey To Man" by "Elvis Costello" this has gotta be a favorite for New Orleans fans
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:20 at least one of them.
	♥ 12:21pm Montmaster J: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:18 Well, you can ask...but it's kind of a sweet offer...he says the track will be customized for you after a chat. Kind of a audio Cameo....
	♥ 12:22pm Dano59: ↳ Stevie Jay @12:18 and Steve's "Theme Music from Outline of A Hairdo" ... and with EC, for me, his playing on 'Strict Time' is aces.
	12:22pm Bob: I assume you’ve tried to get EC on the show. Is he really that tough a get? He seems to love to talk music and himself. He’s a guy who still obsessively record shops from what I know. He always hits Encore in Ann Arbor when he plays here.
	12:23pm clarke: u were not here on April 1st, 2015?
	12:23pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "The Brady Bunch" by "Roger Nichols and the Small ... Wow. This like that Rubinoos version of That Thing You Do. If you get my drift.
	♥ 12:24pm Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @12:23 Now that is institutional memory!
	12:24pm You: Michael, your show is always about an alternate universe
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @12:24 i probably got the year wrong (i usually do)
	12:25pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:23 exactly
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I Haven't Got The Nerve" by "Left Banke, The" lookovsky!!!!!!
	12:25pm Michael Shelley: ↳ You @12:24 this is true
	12:26pm clarke: i thought it was about you.
	♥ 12:26pm drr: ok, I'm here. I have a few comments but I need to browse the message board to make sure they haven't been made.
	♥ 12:26pm Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @11:41 Definitely on the list...will probably venture to the theater...
	♥ 12:27pm Squints: ↳ Song: "You Don't Want My Love" by "Roger Miller" My pop loved Roger Miller. And I am my father's son.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @12:26 there's just too much to take in in one viewing.
	12:27pm Listener Baby: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:25 PS. Rubinoos tune WAY closer to a bullseye than BB Theme. Not that it matters. Could not image BB with that as its theme song. Just can’t.
	♥ 12:28pm DaveMiß: ↳ Song: "You Don't Want My Love" by "Roger Miller" Shower song in the refrain for dure
	♥ 12:28pm drr: ↳ George Kopp @12:16 Brower has been opening shows for Lemon Twigs, a fact I'm sure was discussed earlier.
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ Song: "You Don't Want My Love" by "Roger Miller" the numberest one of ones
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:28 twas! how goes??
	♥ 12:28pm DaveMiß: Hello Nola peeps Drr & Clarke
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ DaveMiß @12:28 MISS!!! (i'm mister nusbaum!)
	♥ 12:30pm Hoboken Jack: I'm a math genius but as there's no $1 offer on the table this time....
	12:30pm Mr. Jones: Re: alternate TV themes I’m more convinced than ever, Gordon Lightfoot should have sung “Gilligan’s Island”
	♥ 12:31pm DaveMiß: ↳ clarke @12:28 Howdy M Shelley!
	♥ 12:31pm drr: ↳ clarke @11:41 This reminds me of when I saw Waiting For Guffman on opening night in NYC. Nobody laughed and at the end I heard people apologizing to their dates and saying "what the hell was that?" like they hadn't just been witness to a comic masterpiece. Like, do you just go to any movie?
	♥ 12:32pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ George Kopp @12:16 Hey George!! Didn't want to pile on the "we all know Brower already" parade, haha
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:31 man, i have no idea what was going on in that theater.
	♥ 12:32pm egould: ↳ Listener Baby @12:23 Rubinoos were supposed to open for the Minus 5 tonight. But for some reason canceled. But still, the Minus 5 should be fun.
	♥ 12:33pm Montmaster J: ↳ drr @12:31 we had the same experience seeing Poor Things...which was hysterical
	12:33pm pottybear: GP is playing tonight in Novato, CA
	12:33pm Bob: Oh man, that’s a drag about Bob. Fantastic musician. The special sauce of the Brinsleys
	12:33pm clarke: RIP Bob Andrews - saw him once at the Neutral Ground
	♥ 12:33pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Mess With Love" by "Rumour, The" Also check out the burly bass sound here.
	12:34pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Mess With Love" by "Rumour, The" There She Goes. A version, but not the version known to the world as one of the great songs ever written.
	♥ 12:34pm drr: Hey Dave Miß!
	12:34pm clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @12:33 yes, similar experience, there, but this new film is hilarious.
	♥ 12:35pm listener phat in Lincoln: Just sitting in my car, getting ready to go to work...
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: ↳ DaveMiß @12:31 Hi Yo!
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:35 have a good one!!
	♥ 12:36pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:28 Doing good. I gotta drive a wheelbarrow across town later (I'm gonna put it in my truck, I'm not pushing it over there) but other than that dreadful thing shadowing my day, I'm pretty OK.
	12:36pm Bob: Those Rumor records are still dollar bin classics
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:35 put down the pokey man
	12:37pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:36 hold the phone... what truck? you got goldie back???
	♥ 12:38pm Hubig Pie: ↳ drr @12:31 The audience didn't appreciate the auditions for Red, White and Blaine? The Raging Bull dialogue? The Remains of the Day lunchbox?
	♥ 12:39pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:37 I say "truck", but it's an XTerra. It goes in the same Haynes/Chilton manual as a Nissan truck though.
	♥ 12:39pm Eddy in Australia: RIP Lakeside Lounge. I miss that joint.
	♥ 12:39pm Hoboken Jack: Oh no, more Roger Nichols, prepare for the playlist to freeze again
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:38 this was at the Prytania Theater, i don't get what people thought the movie was?
	12:40pm clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:39 i'm going to listen to Roumours
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @12:39 i miss Lakeside - and we miss YOU!! hey mate!
	♥ 12:41pm drr: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:38 Man, I know. They were missing some kind of cultural literacy, I guess. They seemed to take it at face value, so they thought "these performers are not good, and the plot about Guffman wasn't gripping enough.
	♥ 12:41pm Eddy in Australia: ↳ clarke @12:41 Hey bud!
	♥ 12:41pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ egould @12:32 Undisclosed illness, I read. I wonder if Todd will have more info.
	♥ 12:42pm Micheal: ↳ Song: "I Kept On Loving You" by "Carpenters, The" What Flaming Lips intro sounds like this?!
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @12:41 yer up late, mate!
	♥ 12:43pm Eddy in Australia: ↳ clarke @12:42 French Open final just finished. Thought I'd tune in for the home stretch.
	♥ 12:43pm egould: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:41 I figured something like that. Blech.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @12:43 dimmies, mate!
	♥ 12:44pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" by "... Thanks to the Spinners, 12:45 has always had a special glow.
	12:44pm Listener Baby: Eddy!
	12:44pm DG: That Rumour track was also recorded by Nick Lowe, a few years later, on the mixed-but-sometimes enjoyable "Abominable Showman" album.
	12:44pm clarke: ↳ Song: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" by "... my oh my
	♥ 12:44pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" by "... A perfect bridge
	♥ 12:45pm Eddy in Australia: ↳ Listener Baby @12:44 Baaaby!
	♥ 12:45pm listener phat in Lincoln: I think that's the bridge, anyway, lol.
	♥ 12:45pm Hughie Considine: And of course "Ghetto Child" was the basis for the chorus in Elvis Costello's "Alison," pre-Steve Nieve.
	12:45pm Bob: ↳ DG @12:44 The original Brinsley Schwarz version has been reissued a few times too. On the recent box even
	♥ 12:46pm drr: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:38 I remember the trailer was just Christopher Guest practicing ridiculous dances while wearing his jeans backwards. That was about it. We died laughing. Anyway, years pass and some film of David Byrne rehearsing for Stop Making Sense surfaces...and it's the same ridiculous dances. Pants on forwards though. Christopher Guest must have seen this somehow, back before there was YouTube.
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:46 when did you get a truck?
	12:47pm Bob: The most underrated Los Lobos record
	12:47pm gB: Nailed it in Games People Play, Michael! Halfway decent DJ-ing at its best.
	12:48pm DG: ↳ drr @12:31 That's hysterical....by that time Guest & co. were known (it was more than a decade after Spinal Tap) so I wonder what they expected. Some people are just clueless, or lazy...& don't bother to actually READ about a movie before they see it. That said, I saw Spinal Tap the weekend if opened (I already knew what it was) & some co. was handing out questionaires as we were leaving, asking how we heard about the movie, did we like it, etc. They probably didn't know how to market it (I remember a story that they showed it, blind, to a test audience whose reaction was "why didn't you make a movie about a GOOD band?").
	♥ 12:48pm DJ Johnny Cool: Lobos is one of the best live bands ever.
	♥ 12:48pm Hubig Pie: ↳ drr @12:46 That goofy dance was comedy gold.
	12:48pm Listener Baby: ↳ Eddy in Australia @12:45 Are you always lurking? Or, where ya been?
	♥ 12:48pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:47 Right after I sold Goldie! I think you've seen it, it's a rugged, manly SUV, black in color. It has strong guards over the taillights so I can parallel park without a worry.
	12:49pm Bob: ↳ DJ Johnny Cool @12:48 I won a pair of free X/Lobos tickets for Detroit. Psyched. They always kill it.
	12:49pm listener phat in lincoln: @Bob there's a badly rated Los Lobos band?
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:48 i last saw you in a sedan. hmm.
	12:49pm listener phat in lincoln: @Bob hoping to see them in KC.
	12:50pm listener phat in lincoln: @listener phat in lincoln album...
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:48 i do recall the black SUV, now.
	♥ 12:51pm egould: ↳ Song: "I Only Want To Be With You" by "Bay City Rollers,... Speaking of bubblegum…
	12:52pm Scott from Boston: I remember watching the Bay City Rollers on Saturday morning over my grandparents house religiously… still love them
	12:52pm Jeremy: ↳ Song: "Spit Out The Bubblegum" by "Jay Gonzalez" This is great! This bubblegum is on the nose
	12:53pm listener phat in lincoln: Alright, I'm off to clock in. Have a good Saturday!
	♥ 12:53pm egould: Thanks Michael. Very numero uno.
	12:54pm DG: I first heard of Keltner (as I'm sure many here did) from the liner notes of my Lennon, Harrison & Starr albums...but he's played with everyone from Streisand to Pink Floyd. He'd be a a great guest, don't know if I ever heard him interviewed. Saw him on tour w/both George & Ringo, & about 20 years ago I went to a Simon & Garfunkel reunion show & was surprised to see him on drums for that too.
	12:54pm Scott from Boston: Adios Micheal!
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Garden Party" by "Bob Dylan" bob doin ricky!
	12:55pm Michael Shelley: ↳ DJ Johnny Cool @12:48 is or were?
	12:56pm Michael Shelley: ↳ gB @12:47 Thank you!
	♥ 12:56pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:55 Ballad o' Ricky Bobby Pt. 2
	12:56pm DG: ↳ DJ Johnny Cool @12:48 Absolutely. They can play anything....saw them about 30 years ago & they did a version of "Crossroads" you'd swear was Cream.
	12:56pm Bob: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @12:49 Some of the 90’s things got a little jammy for me. Certainly not bad. The Neighborhood seems to get overlooked a little is all.
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ DG @12:54 keltner was AMAZING with ry cooder (and jim dickinson and flaco)
	12:57pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Garden Party" by "Bob Dylan" The video of this performance is well worth looking up on YouTube. Bob not only sounds great but is clearly enjoying himself.
	12:57pm Bob: Bob is singing pretty great these days really
	12:57pm clarke: rope moved. i'm off to lyman.
	♥ 12:58pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:55 Bob doin' Ricky doin' Frankie doin' Elvis.
	♥ 12:58pm DJ Johnny Cool: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:55 Still are! I've seen 'em about 30 times.
	♥ 12:58pm Eddy in Australia: ↳ Listener Baby @12:48 Not lurking, unable to listen live anymore.
	♥ 12:58pm radioronan: Thanks Michael...cheers y'all!
	12:58pm jg: So cool , Dylan doing this. And kind of meta
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:58 good nite.
	♥ 12:59pm Hughie Considine: thanks for more Saturday morning magic, Michael!
	12:59pm KWilde: Good show Michael!

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