WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 20, 2013

Listener comments!
	12:09am sweet cheri: greetings & g'morning joe, tell me what do you like about 2013 so far?
	12:10am Holly in NC: Hi Joe, glad you're back! Am listening via phone so can't sign in & play w the nifty friend stuff, bummer. But can listen w great enjoyment ;-)
	12:12am sweet cheri: cause the reason i asked is cause i'm really happy! can't ask for anything more!!
	12:13am sweet cheri: hi there holly,
	♥ 12:15am Joe McGasko: Hey, all! Nice to be back.
	♥ 12:16am Joe McG: Ugh, it put my whole name in. That's better.
	♥ 12:17am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'll edit! (OK?)
	♥ 12:17am G: That's what I said when I felt a hole in the toe. "Darn my socks."
	♥ 12:18am G: 64 whole K of RAM, K.? HOLY. CRAP.
	♥ 12:18am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): You couldn't actually access all 64K of RAM at once.
	♥ 12:19am G: awwwwwwwwww :)
	♥ 12:19am Joe McG: Thanks, Kenzo!
	12:21am sweet cheri: joe ,please give us a sample of what you'll be playing during the "single file" segment..
	♥ 12:22am G: I feel cleaner and brighter already. And funkier. That, too. Funkier.
	♥ 12:23am Joe McG: @G: Ha ha! I forgot that I wrote that. Welcome to my Friendship Hoo-Hah!
	♥ 12:26am G: Yeah, I gots ta research me up a set o' them avatar whozits. I don't think I can stare at the same one all the time...
	12:27am KP: Hi, Joe.
	12:36am sweet cheri: well g'night all,, joe i'm going to listen to the rest of the show,,see you soon! it's great to have you back.
	♥ 12:37am Joe McG: @G: I look forward to your little picture. Hey, KP! Nice picture!
	12:38am sweet cheri: hi & g'night kp sorry i can't stay,
	12:38am KP: Thanks!
	12:40am Destroit: Nice to have you back Joe. Hello everyone.
	12:41am Holly in NC: Joe, as I believe I'vd mentioned before, you are the only person EVER who plays Diana Ross songs tnat I actually like.
	♥ 12:43am Joe McG: Hey, Destroit! @Holly: Thanks! It's hard to screw up Bill Withers songs, but Diana does a really great version of that one.
	12:48am sweet cheri: i just have to say this, joe great tunes this morning! kp you look like a knockout!!
	12:50am sweet cheri: well i really got to head out now,, night all!
	12:57am Holly in NC: Curious... I just went & signed in on computer, but am now back in bed typing on phone...do I show as connected to the wfmu family or not?
	12:58am listener mark: Hello Joe Hi everybody
	♥ 12:58am Joe McG: @Holly: I see you, but I don't see the little picture yet...did you pick one?
	♥ 12:59am Joe McG: Hey, Listener Mark!
	1:02am Holly in NC: Yes, I have a wee picture & twitter & links & favorites & friends & lions & tigers &... but I guess only works on computer, not mobile app
	1:03am KP: Great song, Camera Obscura. sums it all up.
	♥ 1:03am Joe McG: Ha ha! Lions and tigers much more important to have anyway.
	1:04am KP: Lions and tigers and ... hmm, i forget.
	♥ 1:11am Joe McG: BEARS!
	♥ 1:11am G: As kids in the 60s going home from school we chanted, "Lions and tigers and bears, oh shit!"
	♥ 1:12am G: I'll get you yet, my pretty.
	1:13am KP: Oh ...
	1:14am KP: my, this Dando Shaft is very damn good.
	♥ 1:14am Joe McG: Even as a kid it made me mad that the "good" fairy put those shoes on her.
	1:17am KP: Never thought of that way. The Good Fairy was an enabler.
	♥ 1:17am G: Good Fairies are known manipulators :)
	♥ 1:18am Joe McG: She used Dorothy as a tool to off her nasty sister. I think it's a pretty mean trick. What, the Good Fairy was too busy to do her own dirty work?
	♥ 1:19am G: And your little dog, too!
	1:19am KP: Think i will follow above lede and get more comfortable. Peeps are coming soon.
	♥ 1:19am Matt from Springfield: Great folk, you folks! Hey Joe! Love your avatar! And everyone else! Who's your avatar, KP? :)
	♥ 1:20am Joe McG: Hey, Matt! Do you recognize him?
	♥ 1:22am Matt from Springfield: Someone with a tuning harmonica? It's kind of small. I DO recognize Harold & Maude (and Ms. MILLIE!!) on your page!
	1:22am Holly in NC: Everyone should read the whole Oz series - well, the Baum originals. Brilliant. Ozma in Oz, the 3rd, is my favorite, most days. The Melvins', too ;-)
	1:22am KP: Me and it's a very recent shot.
	♥ 1:24am Joe McG: @Matt: It's Ned Sparks. If you get a chance, catch him in some old movie clips. In my head, that's how I speak.
	♥ 1:25am Matt from Springfield: Ah, didn't recognize this guy, but now I want to see some of his older movies. Canadian, to boot! en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 1:26am Nardo: I joined the society. I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this site everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name on a social media site - that makes people. I'm on the internet! Things are going to start happening to me now.
	♥ 1:27am Joe McG: Congratulations, Nardo, you are now an official Person (TM).
	♥ 1:28am Matt from Springfield: Welcome to the Society, Nardo Wuar!
	♥ 1:30am G: Things are starting to happen to you now. You're being teased. :)
	1:30am KP: I just dropped out.
	♥ 1:31am G: Deviant :)
	♥ 1:32am Matt from Springfield: @G: I noticed your "pseudonymous" comments made while signed in the past couple weeks (and my own! and Parq's, it turns out). Make sure you leave a separate, unsigned browser open for using fake handles! ;)
	♥ 1:34am G: I didn't know how posting was going to work till after they activated it post-beta. :-) Fear not, I learn fast. I scoped out how things work on the morning of day one. :)
	1:34am KP: I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
	♥ 1:36am Joe McG: Avatar fun!
	♥ 1:36am Matt from Springfield: I myself am glad it just went back retro-actively to the start of Beta testing, and not ever since I signed this email address to my handle! :0 ;)
	♥ 1:44am Joe McG: My favorite part of this is the fact that there's happy little stars all over everything.
	♥ 1:46am G: Look out, I see spots! The lines on the road just look like dots!
	♥ 1:46am Matt from Springfield: Like The Manhattans, you can tell the world what your Shining Stars are.
	1:47am Mark_M: I did not hear the entire remark, Joe, sorry. (moving from car to home...) But you remarked about the Utopia song doing a tribute (you didn't use that word, but the sentiment was along those lines) to the Beatles. Check out the album 'Nazz Nazz' (or listen to it again, specifically for this aspect) where one can find Mr. Runtgren paying homage to several artists of the day (Electric Flag, Beatles, etc.) One of my all-time favorite albums... Good stuff tonight. As always. Thanks Mark
	♥ 1:48am Joe McG: @Matt: I haven't figured out the favorites part of this yet, but that's okay. It took me about a year to figure out how to use Facebook.
	♥ 1:50am G: CotB: Haven't heard this in 40 years. CKLW
	♥ 1:51am Matt from Springfield: So THAT'S why they're the Chairmen of the Board! Chairman of their baby's board! Makes sense..
	♥ 1:52am Joe McG: @MarK: Yes, Todd made a habit of paying tribute to people he liked. As I recall, he also did a note-for-note recreation of "Good Vibrations" at some point.
	1:53am KP: Matt, I didn't see your tiny smiley face on my iPhone but one day recently I got my hair cut and had a passport pic taken and sent it in. According to mrs. KP I did it in wrong order.
	♥ 1:58am Matt from Springfield: @KP: It's like my informal rule, of getting your hair cut 1-2 weeks before something important - definitely not the day before! Or, did Mrs. KP just prefer the long shaggy look on you? :)
	♥ 1:58am G: wiki: "When Holland/Dozier/Holland left Motown in 1967 to establish their own Invictus/Hot Wax group of record labels, they teamed [their main performing talent together] as the new company's flagship act, under the appropriate name "Chairmen of the Board"."
	♥ 2:00am Matt from Springfield: @G: Cool. They also had Freda Payne under Invictus, I remember.
	♥ 2:02am Matt from Springfield: Nervous Norvus' "Transfusion" sounds like some industrial noise -- "Leader of the Pack" and "Dead Man's Curve" use the same "screeching" effect. Probably the same FX record, and both were from '64.
	♥ 2:03am Matt from Springfield: @Joe: I thought the prob w/ "Dance Your Ass Off" was a live recording. Sounded like one, so I thought maybe there were problems when recorded.
	♥ 2:10am Joe McG: @Matt: Maybe you're right! I did hear crowd noise, although I thought that was the usual "we're having a party in the studio" vibe. I have to look that one up. I think you're TOTALLY right about the car effect. It was on "Transfusion" and a million others, too.
	♥ 2:15am Matt from Springfield: The 50s "Teen-Age" (WITH hyphen, mind you!) introduced car crash melodrama into pop music, and since Norvus may have been the first, everyone else used that more primitive effect until a better sample was produced for the 60s-70s.
	♥ 2:17am Joe McG: Except Blondie, who used the exact same sample! Maybe they did it on purpose. Their tribute to Nervous Norvus!
	♥ 2:18am Matt from Springfield: @Joe: Do you remember the "stereo novelty" records from the early days of stereo in the 50s? Like a ping pong ball bouncing from one channel to another? Apparently the train at the end of "Caroline No" was taken from one of those records, which featured recordings of trains. It was compressed to mono for the song; and even the stereo remix of the song decades later! But I would agree with that artistically - the point is to have a railroad crossing and dogs barking. Don't think too much into it.
	♥ 2:20am Matt from Springfield: I didn't hear the effect too well, hafta listen again for it! :) But Nervous Norvus inspired lasting tributes...Dr. Demento took that name after someone called him "demented" for playing "Transfusion" on his first ever radio show! :D
	♥ 2:21am Joe McG: @Matt: Those barking dogs are real, though, aren't they?
	♥ 2:27am Matt from Springfield: Banana and Louie, Brian's dogs at the time! Blew a supersonic dog whistle to get them to bark. Along with the end of Sgt. Pepper's, those experimental pop albums had really grating endings for dogs' ears!
	♥ 2:28am Joe McG: @Matt: Great trivia! Banana and Louie should be the name of a band.
	♥ 2:29am Matt from Springfield: Now, in terms of "real" vs. not sound fx, I am also at liberty to disclose that the "seagull" sounds at the start of "Tomorrow Never Knows" is a very sped up tape of Paul McC laughing. But even if you knew that already, there is NO limit to musical trivia and useless knowledge when you're a DJ! ;)
	♥ 2:31am Matt from Springfield: But just as I feared, there is at least one, and perhaps more bands calling themselves "Banana and Louie"! But I too would like a "real" band who tours and plays gigs and releases albums, not just making a webpage! By that standard everything is a band already!
	2:31am Josephteilhard: avatars! wow...
	2:32am tomB: but the seagulls from "Walking in the Sand Remember" were actually taped by Shadow Morton on the beach, n'est-ce pas?
	♥ 2:33am Joe McG: @TomB: Is that right? I believe he would!
	♥ 2:34am Matt from Springfield: @tomB: I would guess so. That was before the tape experiment craze, and the beach and seagulls sound pretty ambient on that song.
	2:34am Josephteilhard: and now?
	2:35am josephteilhard: this works?
	♥ 2:36am Joe McG: You're all red now!
	♥ 2:36am Matt from Springfield: NOW you're good-to-go, Joseph!
	♥ 2:38am Matt from Springfield: Oooh! Very math-prog like, I'm diggin' this.
	♥ 2:43am Joe McG: This song is exactly 11 minutes and 11 seconds.
	2:43am Droll: Ditto MfS.
	♥ 2:44am Joe McG: More importantly, it turns into disco.
	♥ 2:45am Matt from Springfield: @Joe: Spooooky!?! @Droll: Glad you agree! And I'm pleased this is a brand new release, they're bringing the unusual rhythms and long spacey tracks back.
	♥ 2:55am Matt from Springfield: Go Flamingos!!
	♥ 2:55am Joe McG: Goodnight, all, thanks for listening!
	2:55am Droll: Damn you for catching that miscue. That was going to be fun!
	♥ 2:56am Joe McG: Haha! Show's not quite over....
	♥ 2:56am Matt from Springfield: Nice choice of good night doo-wop! Thanks Joe! Have a pleasant [and/or valley] Sunday, everyone!
	♥ 2:57am Matt from Springfield: It goes without saying...and pleasant DREAMS, too!
	2:58am Droll: Yeah! Big endiiiiiinnnnnnnnnngggg
	8:39am Holly in NC: I just want to be red

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 20, 2013

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January 20, 2013: I Watch You Like a Television

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Ken Nordine	What Time Is It? "What Time Is It?" by "Ken Nordine"	The Best of Word Jazz Vol. 1	Rhino/Word Beat	1990	CD	From 1957		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Dusko Goykovich	Bosna Calling "Bosna Calling" by "Dusko Goykovich"	Fetén: Rare Jazz Recordings from Spain 1961-1974	VampiSoul	2012	CD	From 1971	*	0:06:29 (Pop-up)
Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society	Darn My Socks	Whispers from the Archive	Porter	2012	CD		*	0:11:49 (Pop-up)
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	52nd Street Theme	Dizzy Gillespie: RCA Vintage Series	RCA Victor	1966	LP	From 1946		0:20:42 (Pop-up)
The Cats and the Fiddle	We Cats Will Swing for You	I Miss You So	RCA	1976	LP	From 1939		0:23:53 (Pop-up)

Diana Ross	The Same Love That Made Me Laugh	Baby It's Me	Motown	1977	LP			0:33:10 (Pop-up)
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley	Toffie "Toffie" by "Gyedu-Blay Ambolley"	Simigwa	Voodoo Funk / Academy	2012	CD	From 1975	*	0:37:10 (Pop-up)
Asha Puthli	You've Got to Tell Her	She Loves to Hear the Music	CBS	1975	LP			0:43:24 (Pop-up)
Fontella Bass	Free "Free" by "Fontella Bass"	To Be Free	Fuel 2000	2000	CD	From 1972		0:47:45 (Pop-up)
Candy McKenzie	Sky at Night "Sky at Night" by "Candy McKenzie"	Lee "Scratch" Perry Presents Candy McKenzie	Trojan / Sanctuary	2012	CD	From 1977	*	0:51:38 (Pop-up)
Camera Obscura	Suspended from Class	Underachievers Please Try Harder	Merge	2003	CD			0:56:11 (Pop-up)
Slumber Party	Everyone Else I Know	Psychedelicate	Kill Rock Stars	2001	CD			0:59:56 (Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	I'll Be Around "I'll Be Around" by "Yo La Tengo"	Fade	Matador	2013	CD		*	1:03:51 (Pop-up)
Dando Shaft	Rain "Rain" by "Dando Shaft"	An Evening with Dando Shaft	RPM	2002	CD	From 1970		1:08:05 (Pop-up)
Tony, Caro, & John	Sally Free and Easy	Blue Clouds	Drag City/Galactic Zoo/Gaarden	2012	LP	From 1977	*	1:13:10 (Pop-up)
Ergo Phizmiz	Lafcadio "Lafcadio" by "Ergo Phizmiz"	Eleven Songs	Care in the Community	2013	CD		*	1:17:32 (Pop-up)
Sandra Gee	I Can't Get Him Out of My Mind	Action! The Songs of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart	Ace	2012	CD	From 1965	*	1:22:46 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row...
Utopia	I Just Want to Touch You "I Just Want to Touch You" by "Utopia"		Bearsville	1980	45			1:29:41 (Pop-up)
The Castaways	Sam "Sam" by "The Castaways"		Soma	1965	45			1:31:48 (Pop-up)
Clout	Substitute "Substitute" by "Clout"		Carrere	1978	45			1:34:07 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Newman	Carry On "Carry On" by "Jimmy Newman"		Dot	1958	45			1:37:22 (Pop-up)
Hamilton Bohannon	Dance Your Ass Off		Dakar	1976	45			1:39:36 (Pop-up)
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles	I Don't Blame You at All		Tamla	1971	45			1:43:24 (Pop-up)
Chairmen of the Board	Chairman of the Board		Invictus	1971	45			1:46:37 (Pop-up)
Ann Peebles	Breaking Up Somebody's Home		Hi	1971	45			1:49:25 (Pop-up)
Blondie	Susie and Jeffrey "Susie and Jeffrey" by "Blondie"		Chysalis	1980	45			1:51:54 (Pop-up)

Pharoah Overlord	Suntio "Suntio" by "Pharoah Overlord"	Black Tar Prophecies Vol. 5	Kemado	2012	LP		*	2:07:01 (Pop-up)
Agitation Free	First Communication	2nd	HID	2012	LP	From 1973	*	2:17:41 (Pop-up)
Joshua Abrams	A Lucky Stone "A Lucky Stone" by "Joshua Abrams"	Natural Information	Eremite	2010	LP			2:25:49 (Pop-up)
Expe	Formura "Formura" by "Expe"	Emeralda	Wonderyou	2012	CD		*	2:34:18 (Pop-up)
Aiko Shimada	Mezame (Morning Part 1)	Blue Marble	Tzadik	2001	CD			2:45:17 (Pop-up)
The Flamingos	I Really Don't Want to Know	Flamingos: Chess Rock 'n' Rhythm Series	Chess	1976	LP	From 1955		2:49:36 (Pop-up)
Jesse Belvin	Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams)		Modern	1956	45			2:52:30 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:09am sweet cheri: greetings & g'morning joe, tell me what do you like about 2013 so far?
	12:10am Holly in NC: Hi Joe, glad you're back! Am listening via phone so can't sign in & play w the nifty friend stuff, bummer. But can listen w great enjoyment ;-)
	12:12am sweet cheri: cause the reason i asked is cause i'm really happy! can't ask for anything more!!
	12:13am sweet cheri: hi there holly,
	♥ 12:15am Joe McGasko: Hey, all! Nice to be back.
	♥ 12:16am Joe McG: Ugh, it put my whole name in. That's better.
	♥ 12:17am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'll edit! (OK?)
	♥ 12:17am G: That's what I said when I felt a hole in the toe. "Darn my socks."
	♥ 12:18am G: 64 whole K of RAM, K.? HOLY. CRAP.
	♥ 12:18am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): You couldn't actually access all 64K of RAM at once.
	♥ 12:19am G: awwwwwwwwww :)
	♥ 12:19am Joe McG: Thanks, Kenzo!
	12:21am sweet cheri: joe ,please give us a sample of what you'll be playing during the "single file" segment..
	♥ 12:22am G: I feel cleaner and brighter already. And funkier. That, too. Funkier.
	♥ 12:23am Joe McG: @G: Ha ha! I forgot that I wrote that. Welcome to my Friendship Hoo-Hah!
	♥ 12:26am G: Yeah, I gots ta research me up a set o' them avatar whozits. I don't think I can stare at the same one all the time...
	12:27am KP: Hi, Joe.
	12:36am sweet cheri: well g'night all,, joe i'm going to listen to the rest of the show,,see you soon! it's great to have you back.
	♥ 12:37am Joe McG: @G: I look forward to your little picture. Hey, KP! Nice picture!
	12:38am sweet cheri: hi & g'night kp sorry i can't stay,
	12:38am KP: Thanks!
	12:40am Destroit: Nice to have you back Joe. Hello everyone.
	12:41am Holly in NC: Joe, as I believe I'vd mentioned before, you are the only person EVER who plays Diana Ross songs tnat I actually like.
	♥ 12:43am Joe McG: Hey, Destroit! @Holly: Thanks! It's hard to screw up Bill Withers songs, but Diana does a really great version of that one.
	12:48am sweet cheri: i just have to say this, joe great tunes this morning! kp you look like a knockout!!
	12:50am sweet cheri: well i really got to head out now,, night all!
	12:57am Holly in NC: Curious... I just went & signed in on computer, but am now back in bed typing on phone...do I show as connected to the wfmu family or not?
	12:58am listener mark: Hello Joe Hi everybody
	♥ 12:58am Joe McG: @Holly: I see you, but I don't see the little picture yet...did you pick one?
	♥ 12:59am Joe McG: Hey, Listener Mark!
	1:02am Holly in NC: Yes, I have a wee picture & twitter & links & favorites & friends & lions & tigers &... but I guess only works on computer, not mobile app
	1:03am KP: Great song, Camera Obscura. sums it all up.
	♥ 1:03am Joe McG: Ha ha! Lions and tigers much more important to have anyway.
	1:04am KP: Lions and tigers and ... hmm, i forget.
	♥ 1:11am Joe McG: BEARS!
	♥ 1:11am G: As kids in the 60s going home from school we chanted, "Lions and tigers and bears, oh shit!"
	♥ 1:12am G: I'll get you yet, my pretty.
	1:13am KP: Oh ...
	1:14am KP: my, this Dando Shaft is very damn good.
	♥ 1:14am Joe McG: Even as a kid it made me mad that the "good" fairy put those shoes on her.
	1:17am KP: Never thought of that way. The Good Fairy was an enabler.
	♥ 1:17am G: Good Fairies are known manipulators :)
	♥ 1:18am Joe McG: She used Dorothy as a tool to off her nasty sister. I think it's a pretty mean trick. What, the Good Fairy was too busy to do her own dirty work?
	♥ 1:19am G: And your little dog, too!
	1:19am KP: Think i will follow above lede and get more comfortable. Peeps are coming soon.
	♥ 1:19am Matt from Springfield: Great folk, you folks! Hey Joe! Love your avatar! And everyone else! Who's your avatar, KP? :)
	♥ 1:20am Joe McG: Hey, Matt! Do you recognize him?
	♥ 1:22am Matt from Springfield: Someone with a tuning harmonica? It's kind of small. I DO recognize Harold & Maude (and Ms. MILLIE!!) on your page!
	1:22am Holly in NC: Everyone should read the whole Oz series - well, the Baum originals. Brilliant. Ozma in Oz, the 3rd, is my favorite, most days. The Melvins', too ;-)
	1:22am KP: Me and it's a very recent shot.
	♥ 1:24am Joe McG: @Matt: It's Ned Sparks. If you get a chance, catch him in some old movie clips. In my head, that's how I speak.
	♥ 1:25am Matt from Springfield: Ah, didn't recognize this guy, but now I want to see some of his older movies. Canadian, to boot! en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 1:26am Nardo: I joined the society. I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this site everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name on a social media site - that makes people. I'm on the internet! Things are going to start happening to me now.
	♥ 1:27am Joe McG: Congratulations, Nardo, you are now an official Person (TM).
	♥ 1:28am Matt from Springfield: Welcome to the Society, Nardo Wuar!
	♥ 1:30am G: Things are starting to happen to you now. You're being teased. :)
	1:30am KP: I just dropped out.
	♥ 1:31am G: Deviant :)
	♥ 1:32am Matt from Springfield: @G: I noticed your "pseudonymous" comments made while signed in the past couple weeks (and my own! and Parq's, it turns out). Make sure you leave a separate, unsigned browser open for using fake handles! ;)
	♥ 1:34am G: I didn't know how posting was going to work till after they activated it post-beta. :-) Fear not, I learn fast. I scoped out how things work on the morning of day one. :)
	1:34am KP: I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
	♥ 1:36am Joe McG: Avatar fun!
	♥ 1:36am Matt from Springfield: I myself am glad it just went back retro-actively to the start of Beta testing, and not ever since I signed this email address to my handle! :0 ;)
	♥ 1:44am Joe McG: My favorite part of this is the fact that there's happy little stars all over everything.
	♥ 1:46am G: Look out, I see spots! The lines on the road just look like dots!
	♥ 1:46am Matt from Springfield: Like The Manhattans, you can tell the world what your Shining Stars are.
	1:47am Mark_M: I did not hear the entire remark, Joe, sorry. (moving from car to home...) But you remarked about the Utopia song doing a tribute (you didn't use that word, but the sentiment was along those lines) to the Beatles. Check out the album 'Nazz Nazz' (or listen to it again, specifically for this aspect) where one can find Mr. Runtgren paying homage to several artists of the day (Electric Flag, Beatles, etc.) One of my all-time favorite albums... Good stuff tonight. As always. Thanks Mark
	♥ 1:48am Joe McG: @Matt: I haven't figured out the favorites part of this yet, but that's okay. It took me about a year to figure out how to use Facebook.
	♥ 1:50am G: CotB: Haven't heard this in 40 years. CKLW
	♥ 1:51am Matt from Springfield: So THAT'S why they're the Chairmen of the Board! Chairman of their baby's board! Makes sense..
	♥ 1:52am Joe McG: @MarK: Yes, Todd made a habit of paying tribute to people he liked. As I recall, he also did a note-for-note recreation of "Good Vibrations" at some point.
	1:53am KP: Matt, I didn't see your tiny smiley face on my iPhone but one day recently I got my hair cut and had a passport pic taken and sent it in. According to mrs. KP I did it in wrong order.
	♥ 1:58am Matt from Springfield: @KP: It's like my informal rule, of getting your hair cut 1-2 weeks before something important - definitely not the day before! Or, did Mrs. KP just prefer the long shaggy look on you? :)
	♥ 1:58am G: wiki: "When Holland/Dozier/Holland left Motown in 1967 to establish their own Invictus/Hot Wax group of record labels, they teamed [their main performing talent together] as the new company's flagship act, under the appropriate name "Chairmen of the Board"."
	♥ 2:00am Matt from Springfield: @G: Cool. They also had Freda Payne under Invictus, I remember.
	♥ 2:02am Matt from Springfield: Nervous Norvus' "Transfusion" sounds like some industrial noise -- "Leader of the Pack" and "Dead Man's Curve" use the same "screeching" effect. Probably the same FX record, and both were from '64.
	♥ 2:03am Matt from Springfield: @Joe: I thought the prob w/ "Dance Your Ass Off" was a live recording. Sounded like one, so I thought maybe there were problems when recorded.
	♥ 2:10am Joe McG: @Matt: Maybe you're right! I did hear crowd noise, although I thought that was the usual "we're having a party in the studio" vibe. I have to look that one up. I think you're TOTALLY right about the car effect. It was on "Transfusion" and a million others, too.
	♥ 2:15am Matt from Springfield: The 50s "Teen-Age" (WITH hyphen, mind you!) introduced car crash melodrama into pop music, and since Norvus may have been the first, everyone else used that more primitive effect until a better sample was produced for the 60s-70s.
	♥ 2:17am Joe McG: Except Blondie, who used the exact same sample! Maybe they did it on purpose. Their tribute to Nervous Norvus!
	♥ 2:18am Matt from Springfield: @Joe: Do you remember the "stereo novelty" records from the early days of stereo in the 50s? Like a ping pong ball bouncing from one channel to another? Apparently the train at the end of "Caroline No" was taken from one of those records, which featured recordings of trains. It was compressed to mono for the song; and even the stereo remix of the song decades later! But I would agree with that artistically - the point is to have a railroad crossing and dogs barking. Don't think too much into it.
	♥ 2:20am Matt from Springfield: I didn't hear the effect too well, hafta listen again for it! :) But Nervous Norvus inspired lasting tributes...Dr. Demento took that name after someone called him "demented" for playing "Transfusion" on his first ever radio show! :D
	♥ 2:21am Joe McG: @Matt: Those barking dogs are real, though, aren't they?
	♥ 2:27am Matt from Springfield: Banana and Louie, Brian's dogs at the time! Blew a supersonic dog whistle to get them to bark. Along with the end of Sgt. Pepper's, those experimental pop albums had really grating endings for dogs' ears!
	♥ 2:28am Joe McG: @Matt: Great trivia! Banana and Louie should be the name of a band.
	♥ 2:29am Matt from Springfield: Now, in terms of "real" vs. not sound fx, I am also at liberty to disclose that the "seagull" sounds at the start of "Tomorrow Never Knows" is a very sped up tape of Paul McC laughing. But even if you knew that already, there is NO limit to musical trivia and useless knowledge when you're a DJ! ;)
	♥ 2:31am Matt from Springfield: But just as I feared, there is at least one, and perhaps more bands calling themselves "Banana and Louie"! But I too would like a "real" band who tours and plays gigs and releases albums, not just making a webpage! By that standard everything is a band already!
	2:31am Josephteilhard: avatars! wow...
	2:32am tomB: but the seagulls from "Walking in the Sand Remember" were actually taped by Shadow Morton on the beach, n'est-ce pas?
	♥ 2:33am Joe McG: @TomB: Is that right? I believe he would!
	♥ 2:34am Matt from Springfield: @tomB: I would guess so. That was before the tape experiment craze, and the beach and seagulls sound pretty ambient on that song.
	2:34am Josephteilhard: and now?
	2:35am josephteilhard: this works?
	♥ 2:36am Joe McG: You're all red now!
	♥ 2:36am Matt from Springfield: NOW you're good-to-go, Joseph!
	♥ 2:38am Matt from Springfield: Oooh! Very math-prog like, I'm diggin' this.
	♥ 2:43am Joe McG: This song is exactly 11 minutes and 11 seconds.
	2:43am Droll: Ditto MfS.
	♥ 2:44am Joe McG: More importantly, it turns into disco.
	♥ 2:45am Matt from Springfield: @Joe: Spooooky!?! @Droll: Glad you agree! And I'm pleased this is a brand new release, they're bringing the unusual rhythms and long spacey tracks back.
	♥ 2:55am Matt from Springfield: Go Flamingos!!
	♥ 2:55am Joe McG: Goodnight, all, thanks for listening!
	2:55am Droll: Damn you for catching that miscue. That was going to be fun!
	♥ 2:56am Joe McG: Haha! Show's not quite over....
	♥ 2:56am Matt from Springfield: Nice choice of good night doo-wop! Thanks Joe! Have a pleasant [and/or valley] Sunday, everyone!
	♥ 2:57am Matt from Springfield: It goes without saying...and pleasant DREAMS, too!
	2:58am Droll: Yeah! Big endiiiiiinnnnnnnnnngggg
	8:39am Holly in NC: I just want to be red

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 20, 2013

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