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Options April 24, 2014: Polka Party

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments New Approx. start time
Air  Radian   Options 10,000 Hz Legend  Astralwerks/Source  2001  CD      0:00:00 (Pop‑up)
Kenny Graham  Soho at Dawn   Options The Small World of Sammy Lee Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  Trunk  2013  CD  From 1963  *   0:09:27 (Pop‑up)
Isaac Hayes  Ellie's Love Theme   Options Shaft - Music from the Soundtrack  MGM  1971  LP      0:12:16 (Pop‑up)
Gary Burton  Fleurette Africaine   Options Lofty Fake Anagram  One Way  1996  CD  From 1968    0:15:21 (Pop‑up)
RockFire Funk Express  RockFire Funk Express   Options   Third Man  2014  45  recorded 1973  *   0:18:57 (Pop‑up)
Tanger Trio & Ensemble Mondaine  Cabrio Rimshot   Options Tanger Trio & Ensemble Mondaine  Series Aphonos  2014  CD    *   0:22:32 (Pop‑up)
Residual Echoes  Gunoru Tarang   Options   Casual Acid Tea  2013  45    *   0:26:01 (Pop‑up)
Ramases  You're the Only One (Part I)   Options Complete Discography  Titan Recordings  2014  CD  previously unreleased version from '71  *   0:30:11 (Pop‑up)
 
Cali Giraffes  All My Life   Options   Fin  2014  CD    *   0:40:12 (Pop‑up)
Milk 'N' Cookies  Not Enough Girls in the World   Options   Captured Tracks  2014  45  From 1974  *   0:42:04 (Pop‑up)
Buster  Beautiful Child   Options Glam-O-Rama: 16 Glitter Associated Junkshop Finds from the 70s  Kiss Kiss  2013  LP  From 1976  *   0:45:44 (Pop‑up)
1-800-Band  Diver Blue   Options Diver Blue  Almost Ready  2014  EP    *   0:48:17 (Pop‑up)
Dwight Twilley  10,000 American Scuba Divers Dancin'   Options Scuba Diver  EMI America  1982  LP      0:51:39 (Pop‑up)
Chuck Hammer  Love Is Inconvenient   Options Twisted Nerve: John Allen's 2008 WFMU Marathon Premium  WFMU  2008  CD-R  early 80s    0:54:42 (Pop‑up)
The Wellingtons  So Lonely   Options Keeping Up with the Wellingtons  Reverberation  2006  CD      0:58:13 (Pop‑up)
Ami Onuki  Be Someone Tonight   Options solosolo  Epic/Sony Japan  1999  CD      1:00:44 (Pop‑up)
Bok Bok  Come Back to Me   Options   Captured Tracks  2014  45  From 1980, with Buzzcocks and Fall dudes  *   1:03:58 (Pop‑up)
 
Kelis  Breakfast   Options Food  Ninja Tune  2014  CD    *   1:10:47 (Pop‑up)
Prince  It's Gonna Be Lonely   Options Prince  Warner Brothers  1979  LP      1:14:58 (Pop‑up)
David Foreman  If It Takes All Night   Options David Foreman  Arista  1976  LP      1:20:25 (Pop‑up)
Twilight Nuages  LIfe Goes On, Love Goes On   Options Twlight Nuages  Folk Evaluation  2014  LP  From 1977  *   1:24:49 (Pop‑up)
 
 
Single Fire: a bunch of HOT 45s in a row
Candy and the Kisses  The 81   Options   Cameo  1964  45      1:34:10 (Pop‑up)
Chapuseaux y Damiron with Sylvia de Grasso  Tequila   Options   Puchito  1958?  45      1:36:34 (Pop‑up)
Calvin Arnold  (I'm Your) Friendly Neighborhood Freak (Part 1)   Options   IX Chains  1975  45      1:38:46 (Pop‑up)
Etta James  Stop the Wedding   Options   Argo  1962  45      1:41:43 (Pop‑up)
The J. Geils Band  I Do   Options   EMI America  1982  45      1:44:21 (Pop‑up)
Jerry Jaye  Honky Tonk Women Love Red Neck Men   Options   Hi  1976  45      1:47:27 (Pop‑up)
Don Nix  Going Down   Options   Elektra  1972  45      1:49:59 (Pop‑up)
Edith Nylon  Waldorf   Options   CBS  1979  45      1:53:51 (Pop‑up)
Richie Havens  I'm Not in Love   Options   A&M  1976  45      1:56:19 (Pop‑up)
 
 
POLKA!
Charles Magnante  Tic Toc Polka   Options Polka Party  Grand Award  1958  LP      2:11:42 (Pop‑up)
Big Ben Boden and His Polka Band  Hosa Dyna Polka   Options Polish Picnic  Coral  1959  LP      2:13:49 (Pop‑up)
Ray Henry and His Orchestra  What a Goof   Options Polka Session with Ray  Dana  1960  LP      2:15:42 (Pop‑up)
Walter Ostanek and Band  Irene   Options Gay Continental Dance Party  Arc  1963  LP  his first LP of 97!    2:17:49 (Pop‑up)
Jolly Stan Lee Orchestra  Pobili Się Dwaj Górale / Hej, Hej, Hej   Options Sing Along with Staś Vol. 2  Chicago Polkas  late 50s  LP      2:20:01 (Pop‑up)
George Poole and His Polka Dots  Cherry Polka   Options Polka Party  Tops  1957  LP  a lot of polka albums are called "Polka Party"    2:22:55 (Pop‑up)
Stanley Wosloski and the Polka Boys  Mexican Hat Dance   Options It's Polka Time  Coronet  late 50s  LP      2:25:31 (Pop‑up)
Gene Wisniewski and His Harmony Bells Orchestra  Whistle Stop Polka   Options Open the Door  Dana  1957  LP      2:27:39 (Pop‑up)
Stan Wolowic and the Polka Chips  All the Girls Want Me   Options Stan Wolowic and the Polka Chips  ABC-Paramount  1959  LP  it helps to be named "Stan" if you want to play polkas    2:30:36 (Pop‑up)
Johnnie Bomba and His Orchestra  Brokenhearted   Options Chop Suey Polka  Dana  1957  LP      2:33:13 (Pop‑up)
Frank Wojnarowski and His Orchestra  Cium, Cium   Options Ferry Boat Polka  Dana  1957  LP      2:35:49 (Pop‑up)
 
Brother James Anderson  I'm Tired My Soul Needs Restin'   Options Sun Record Company Vol. 1  Org Music/Sun Entertainment  2014  LP  From 1967  *   2:46:07 (Pop‑up)
The Prisonaires  Just Walkin' in the Rain   Options   Sun/Third Man  2014  45  From 1954, I think  *   2:48:35 (Pop‑up)
Gabor Szabo  Dear Prudence   Options 1969  DCC Jazz  1998  CD  From 19, uh, 69    2:50:57 (Pop‑up)
Nilsson  That Is All   Options That's the Way It Is  RCA  2013  CD  From 1976    2:54:00 (Pop‑up)
Bob Dylan  Farewell   Options Inside Llewyn Davis Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  Nonsuch  2013  CD  previously unreleased    2:56:36 (Pop‑up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02am common:

boing yip
Avatar 9:02am Alessia:

Joeeeee! <3
Avatar ♥ 9:02am duke:

radio radio Good morning everyone
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03am Guido from Cologne:

Tuned in ... hi Joe!
Avatar 9:04am doca:

Just came from Mars and tuned in too, hi Joe! And Guido!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04am DCE:

mernin' Joe
Avatar ♥ 9:07am Joe McG:

Good morning, friends! I hope you are feeling snappy today.
Avatar 9:08am doca:

@Joe: what is snappy?
Avatar ♥ 9:09am KP:

good morning joe. Snappy & sappy
  🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:09am 12539:

Snap snap!
Avatar ♥ 9:09am Joe McG:

@doca: Full of pep! Or ready to snap, one or the other.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09am DCE:

god I am whatever the opposite of snappy is today...three Titan IPAs did me in last night
Avatar ♥ 9:10am KP:

Snap it pal
Avatar 9:11am doca:

@Joe: what is pep? haha googled it and got it here
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:11am common:

@dce: i'm with you.
Avatar ♥ 9:11am Joe McG:

@DCE: Don't worry, we're taking it slow this morning!
Avatar 9:12am doca:

People talk about the German language, but I feel English really has a word for everything. And it's worse because the words are smaller, you can't just guess seeing what a part of it means
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14am northguineahills:

Nothing like the yip yips going boing boing to put a spring in my morning step.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15am Bonesy Maroney:

This is exactly what I needed this morning!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15am northguineahills:

got a pumpernickel bagel w/ whitefish salad. oh happy!
Avatar ♥ 9:16am Joe McG:

@doca: English has a lot of words for a lot of things, but there are still many things you can say in other languages much more easily.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17am TR In MI:

Dreamy vibes coming from these... dreamy vibes. Nice way to start the day.
Avatar 9:17am doca:

@Joe: that's true.

By the way, this is one of my favorite songs ever. It always makes me feel cozy.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17am Guido from Cologne:

German is notorious for lengthy composites and complex grammar, isn't it?
Avatar 9:19am doca:

@Guido: yeah, but the words are like hieroglyphs, you can just decompose them and get the meaning
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20am DCE:

@ngh, sorry, that doesn't sound appealing right now!
Avatar 9:23am dc pat:

23 minutes late!!
Avatar 9:24am fred von helsing:

@doca finnish assembles compound words the same way as german and it does wonders for general scientific literacy. it's not a "globe" it's an "earthball".
Avatar 9:25am doca:

@fred: haha love that non-abstract figurative way of thinking
Avatar ♥ 9:25am Sem Chumbo:

@FVH: hahaha.
Morning', Joe and all earthball dwellers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25am braveness23:

Bigmouth23 Strikes Again! Morning everyone!
Avatar ♥ 9:28am Joe McG:

@dcpat: Oh no, you missed the part of the show where I killed them softly with my song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:31am common:

are you the only one, joe? thought so.
Avatar 9:32am Parq:

And indeed you are.
Avatar 9:32am dc pat:

DAMMIT, Joe! Hey, while I have your attention, got any Mekons on you?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32am DCE:

Joe, do you fall asleep to this tune every night?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:32am Michele:

JOE YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE!!!!
Avatar ♥ 9:33am Sem Chumbo:

Shameful self promotion. That's the spirit.
Avatar 9:33am dc pat:

this tune is hilarious!
  🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:33am 12539:

I can't wait for Part II.
  9:34am Brendan:

Hi joe good morn.
  9:36am ?:

Just got here, looks like i missed a nice set... looking forward to the next
  🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:36am 12539:

There's nothing obscure about the fact that your show used to feature 78 rpm records.
Avatar 9:38am Alessia:

Joe they don't mention this on the doc about Death, do they?
Avatar ♥ 9:42am Joe McG:

@Alessia: I don't remember them mentioning it, actually. Anybody know for sure?
Avatar ♥ 9:42am Joe McG:

MICHELE! @12539: I guess not, but I'm never sure who remembers that!
Avatar 9:43am Alessia:

They could have gone back to it when the publisher was requiring it, it's not a bad name. Well...it's a starclick anyway.
Avatar 9:45am Cheri Pi:

Add one more girl, CP signing in
Avatar ♥ 9:48am Joe McG:

@CP: Hello, mon lovely adoptive parent!
  9:51am Chapel Hillian:

Anyone else hear shades of Mark Mothersbaugh in the 1-800 singer? I also hear some "Come Back Johnny"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:51am mariano:

Good morning, all!
Avatar 9:52am Cheri Pi:

Son!!
  9:54am Irene:

Eow, I'd forgotten how great Dwight Twilley was. Great set overall, Joe!
Avatar ♥ 9:56am Joe McG:

Hi, Irene! Thanks! :)
Avatar 10:03am Cecile:

hola!!!!
Avatar ♥ 10:05am Joe McG:

Heya, Cecile!
Avatar ♥ 10:05am βrian:

Good morning. Velvet crêpe skies over the isthmus today.
Avatar 10:05am Cecile:

I love me some Dwight Twilley.
You know what's a great buried powerpop song by someone you wouldn't expect?

Heaven Sent from INXS. From Welcome to Wherever You are.
Avatar 10:05am doca:

Hi, Cecile!
Avatar ♥ 10:06am ChrisB.:

The drummer in Bok Bok seems to be finding plenty to do.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:06am Karen in Sleepy Hollow:

Hey Joe, missed you at the station yesterday. Next time I'm only coming in if you're working.
Avatar 10:07am Cecile:

hey doca!
  10:08am Brendan:

Nice jazz flute in the bed music!
Avatar 10:08am Cecile:

I also realized that I knew the song "Shark" from the Great Lost Dwight Twilley Record.
Avatar ♥ 10:09am βrian:

I'm imagining something similar to clogging with those scuba divers...
(I missed the track.)
Avatar 10:10am Cecile:

Keh-LICE
Avatar ♥ 10:11am Joe McG:

@Cecile: Oops! I also mispronounce "Chimera."
Avatar 10:12am Cecile:

No big.

Oh, dude better spill some coffee on Kelis soon. She sounds too happy.
Avatar ♥ 10:14am Joe McG:

@Cecile: That's 'cause she kicked Nas to the curb.
Avatar 10:14am Cheri Pi:

Cecile! I've been missing you
Avatar 10:15am Cecile:

I know. But he inspired some great stuff from her. hahahhah. I'm glad she's happier, though.
Avatar 10:15am Cecile:

It has been hell week this week. School drama. Work drama. Over both.
Avatar 10:16am Cecile:

I still want to have "I HATE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW" as my iphone ringtone when I finally cave and get one 10 years from now.
Avatar ♥ 10:16am kirk from beer city usa:

nice to be greeted by Prince upon tuning in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:16am common:

@cecile: for me too. i'm taking tomorrow off.
Avatar ♥ 10:17am Joe McG:

Hey, kirk!
Avatar 10:17am doca:

@Cecile: have you seen that Numero Group box on Minneapolis soul? I guess it answers my question of how Prince came from Mppls.
Avatar ♥ 10:18am kirk from beer city usa:

hi joe! I'm gonna have to dig out this record later...
Avatar 10:19am Cheri Pi:

LOL- I was worried that you were in rhubarb-hab. glad your back and made it through hell week!
Avatar 10:19am Cecile:

i haven't seen the box, but I have M&M's CD.
It doesn't get much press, but there is a really thriving artistic African-American community here. I used to work at the bus agency, and we'd do Black History Month events and people who were like file clerks and bus drivers would perform -great singers, tight jazz funk bands.
Avatar 10:19am Cecile:

You know it's a tough week when I completely miss BT and Duane.
Avatar ♥ 10:21am Joe McG:

@kirk: It's a good one, forgotten in the wake of "Dirty Mind."
Avatar 10:22am doca:

Oh and yesterday Duane was awesome. Though week indeed.
Avatar 10:24am Cecile:

which is the one where he's riding the winged horse?

dammit, I'll have to listen on archives, doca.
Avatar ♥ 10:24am βrian:

Had the first strawberry-rhubarb pie of the season. (Had to use frozen fruit from last year. Still, spectacular!)
Avatar 10:24am doca:

I miss Bryce's show, it just doesn't sound the same listening from the archives. Fortunately I was able to catch last one.
Avatar 10:25am Cecile:

YUM. can't wait for the rhubarb!
Avatar 10:25am doca:

@Cecile: Duane played this Black Sabbath remix, it was hell soundcloud.com...
Avatar 10:28am Cecile:

these harmonies are ridiculous.
Avatar 10:29am Cheri Pi:

βrian so jealous!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:29am mariano:

@doca: Yes, that Clanet Paravan is sublime!
  10:29am harvey wallbanger:

Song goes on
Avatar 10:29am Cheri Pi:

they really mean it.
Avatar 10:30am Cheri Pi:

these harmonies go on.
Avatar 10:30am doca:

Speaking of German things, rhubarb always reminds of that Rhabarberbarbarabarbarenbartbierbar video:
www.youtube.com...
  10:31am corky:

Love life goes on song
Avatar 10:31am dc pat:

..or they're trying to talk themselves into it...
Avatar 10:32am doca:

Someone should give a Nobel in services made to music to Irwin
Avatar 10:33am Cecile:

ITA, doca.
Even though I have Irwin issues, he has done a hell of a job bringing people back from obscurity.
Avatar 10:33am Cheri Pi:

that's cute doca :)
Avatar ♥ 10:33am βrian:

Raspberries and mangos with yoghurt and home-made granola for me.
  10:33am Brendan:

Three alarm fiber
Avatar 10:33am dc pat:

ha @doca, that's nuts. I love German...
  10:34am Brendan:

Leave the fan on
  10:34am 67tele:

Rip's Big Bowl?
Avatar ♥ 10:34am βrian:

(I really could talk about food 24/7...)
Avatar 10:34am dc pat:

^what Cecile said (about Irwin).
Avatar ♥ 10:34am Joe McG:

@Brendan: Ha ha ha! What is that damn stuff called??
Avatar 10:35am doca:

@Cecile: Yeah, I'm not an usual listener of his show, but all the places I've seen his name associated with, it's obscure good music worth three lives at least.
Avatar ♥ 10:36am Rev. Turnip Druid:

PEOPLE. PEOPLE. JOE.
JOE AND PEOPLE.
Avatar 10:37am Cheri Pi:

As a person, this greeting applies to me. PAPS!
Avatar 10:37am dc pat:

I'm dc pat and I approve of this Tequila song.
  10:38am Brendan:

I wonder if robots eat sos or brillo pads w/ milk instead of shredded wheat cereal. They look to be constructed exactly the same one metal , one wheat. One may be frosted with sugar, the other with blue or pink soap. Discuss.
Avatar ♥ 10:38am βrian:

Tequila infused turnips, for example ...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:38am Ken From Hyde Park:

Calling Pee Wee Herman!
Avatar 10:39am Cheri Pi:

yesterday Mr CP said that Tequila is the only alcohol that also acts as a stimulant, I knew it
contained the Crazy-Maker enzyme.
Avatar 10:39am Cecile:

Bender drinks alcohol. Lots of it.
Avatar 10:40am Cheri Pi:

haha. this song.
Avatar ♥ 10:40am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Technically I think Absinthe has stimulant properties as well. But that's splitting hairs. I'll have whatever ye got.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:41am Ken From Hyde Park:

How about Four Loko? What's in that stuff?
Avatar 10:41am Cheri Pi:

leave those glamor shots for the young kids. I'm crazy enough without the hard stuff.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:41am Brian in UK:

Hey Joe & forty five freaks.

Waiter, bring me a crocodile sandwich and make it snappy.
Avatar 10:41am Cecile:

Both tequila and sake don't affect me the way other liquors do. I get a buzz, but it takes a long time to take hold.

One drunk Greek guy once told me "TEQUILA IS NOT LIKE AN ALCOOOHOLS. IT IS LIKE A DRUG!"
I buy that, since i would end up walking my wasted girlfriends home after 2 margaritas.
  10:41am Brendan:

http://m.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/engine-2-rips-big-bowl-original-cereal
Avatar ♥ 10:42am Joe McG:

@Brendan: Rip's Big Bowl!!!!
  10:42am ?:

in highschool, i was once told by a dubious source that jagermeister contained opioids... yick.
Avatar 10:42am Cheri Pi:

4 loko used to be tons of caffeine and sweetened fortified booze until the feds shut that recipe down. DJ Marty McSorely is the resident 4 Loko xpert.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:43am Brian in UK:

@βrian my wife just made a batch of rhubarb & vanilla jam with this years first pulling of rhubarb.
Avatar 10:43am Cecile:

No, Jager just TASTES like it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:43am mariano:

@?: Same story I heard throughout high school. Supposedly the European stuff still had it, but not the US version.
Avatar 10:43am Cheri Pi:

Brian UK, can you email me some of that jam?
Avatar ♥ 10:44am Rev. Turnip Druid:

[snif snif] ... I thought I caught a whiff of rhubarb.
Avatar 10:44am Faye:

MC
GASK
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Avatar 10:44am doca:

I like Jägermeister.
Avatar 10:44am earrie:

@ Brian in UK
Rhubarb and vanilla jam. Your wife is the best.
Avatar 10:44am Cheri Pi:

man, if I got married again I would have to insist on playing this song before hand while everyone was settling in to their seats
Avatar ♥ 10:44am βrian:

The first time I had really schmancy sake, I was flabbergasted. It was like mountain spring water with a warm kiss.
Avatar ♥ 10:44am Joe McG:

F-A-Y-E!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:45am Brian in UK:

@Cheri Pi check your in box.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:45am mariano:

Live J Geils!!! Yes! I had this album, been years! Remember the video?
Avatar 10:45am Cheri Pi:

Jägermeister is one of the few liquors I can do a shot of without throwing it right back up.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:45am Brian in UK:

@earrie you are right, she is the best.
Avatar 10:46am Cheri Pi:

HEY FAYE!! I love the unfiltered sake. it's like drinkinig mochi.
Avatar ♥ 10:46am βrian:

@B in UK: Clearly, you live south of the isthmus. Climactically, anyway. We're a good month out still.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:46am mariano:

J Geils "I Do" live: www.youtube.com...
Memories of jr high!
Avatar 10:46am Cecile:

"let down your hair!!!"
Avatar 10:47am doca:

Monday I drank a shot of a pansy(? - amor perfeito in Portuguese) liquor and it was great.
Avatar ♥ 10:47am βrian:

@Cheri Pi: .... note to self ...
Avatar 10:47am dc pat:

I wonder if there's any science behind that tequila claim. Personally I'll stick with the bourbon and Irish whiskey...although I have been known to drink half a bottle of Jagermeister while driving around all night in Deleware looking for a hotel that was not fully booked....
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:47am Guido from Cologne:

There are much better herbal liqueurs than Jägermeister.
Avatar ♥ 10:48am βrian:

But mochi kills far more people, I hear. Usually around the New Year. Choking hazard, don't you know.
Avatar 10:48am Cecile:

I had a caprinha once and it tasted like lime and a live electric wire.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:48am Brian in UK:

Mezcal for me, luckily it is too far away to get regularly. It has recently become popular in London with those trendy folks.

@βrian so many things are early this year. Blossoms especially.
Avatar 10:48am Cheri Pi:

Mochi is the great equalizer.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:49am Brian in UK:

Limoncello anyone. Sneaky little drink.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:49am mariano:

@dc pat: I'm an Irish man myself. Give me a Jameson's neat and a crisp English cider back (or two or three) any day and I'm set.
Avatar 10:49am doca:

@Cecile: caipirinha is great, though it tastes just like that. Maybe it was just too strong of the cachaça wasn't that good.
Avatar 10:50am doca:

I never had sake
Avatar ♥ 10:50am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Lived for nearly a decade in Tucson, AZ -- since coming back to DC I haven't had much tequila or mezcal - The selection is wretched out here.
Avatar 10:50am dc pat:

I went on a mochi bender once. I can believe it's a dangerous food...
  10:50am Brendan:

Theres a Whole Paycheck a couple blocks from me where I'm goona grab some lunch . I'll try the Rips joe. Thanks.
Avatar 10:50am Cecile:

It was delicious, I loved it. But it put me on my ass.
Avatar ♥ 10:50am Rev. Turnip Druid:

southern AZ will make an agave-booze snob out of anyone in no time.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:51am Brian in UK:

@mariano jam-a-sons?
  10:51am mr hinky:

Im goin down
Avatar 10:51am dc pat:

right on @mariano. Personally, I'll chase my Jamesons with a big, fat, strong, dark stout.
Avatar 10:51am Cecile:

doca, hot sake is good with a meal.
But the cold sake is the primo stuff. Sake gets heated to hide the taste of lesser sake.
Avatar ♥ 10:51am βrian:

Mezcal came into vogue here about 7-8 years ago. Some is *very* good, but usually too expensive for mere mortals. New "old" brands started popping up like mushrooms.
Avatar ♥ 10:52am ChrisB.:

So Jeff Beck copped this from Don Nix, eh? Sly boots.
Avatar 10:52am dc pat:

jeeze, going out tonight but I'm getting thirsty now...
Avatar 10:52am doca:

Gotta lunch, see you later all! Great show, Joe
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:52am Guido from Cologne:

@Brian
Limoncello is great with lemon ice cream!
That's where i know it from.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:52am Brian in UK:

@mariano I was drinking that last Saturday at Mike Watts' gig. Both were excellent.
Avatar ♥ 10:52am Rev. Turnip Druid:

What Pat said (10:51). Except I'll swap out the Jameson for a Bushmill's -- but hell, it's all serviceable.
Avatar 10:53am doca:

@Cecile: didn't know that, next time I go to São Paulo I get one good from the Japanese neighborhood
Avatar 10:53am awkward jack:

@hinky: Freddie King version of Goin Down is searing...
Avatar 10:53am Cecile:

Brian, you might do better importing it yourself or having friends bring it back with them from other countries.

I know 2 places that makes killer limoncello. So good.
Avatar 10:54am Cecile:

doca, they'll steer you right.
Avatar 10:55am Cheri Pi:

make limoncello yourself if you can, super easy, cheap and delicous www.foodnetwork.com...
Avatar 10:55am dc pat:

This Edith Nylon song is my new fav song.
Avatar 10:55am Cecile:

mezcal, at least in some circles, used to be the ugly stepsister to tequila. And tequila wasn't held in high esteem. That has definitely changed in Minneapolis and the midwest.
Avatar ♥ 10:55am βrian:

A chef I knew made limoncello, so he could control the bitterness/sweet balance. So concentrated one had to drink it sitting down. But wow. Turned one's blood to lemon oil.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:55am Brian in UK:

@Guido from Cologne that reminds me, our ice cream maker has broken.

@Cecile, our daughter went there twice recently, nice. Since split with boyfriend so no more visits.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:55am mariano:

@Brian in UK: You saw Mike Watt? Jealous, with or without Jam-a-sons!
Avatar 10:55am Cheri Pi:

Cold sake = a must. forget the price and party hard.
Avatar 10:56am Cecile:

aw. bummer, Brian.
Avatar 10:56am Cheri Pi:

I bet limoncello would be great made with meyer lemons.
Avatar 10:56am Cecile:

YES, the great cover from Richie.
Avatar 10:57am dc pat:

yeah, my problem with all this primo booze is I can't afford any of it. That's why I just stick with cheaper bourbon and Jamesons.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:57am Guido from Cologne:

... quite new here in the neighbourhood: a local destillery produces some kind of Limoncello called "kleiner Italiener" (little Italian ... after some 50ies schlager).

Quite decent stuff ...
Avatar 10:57am Cheri Pi:

Oh man! I love Easy Action's version of this song.
Avatar ♥ 10:57am βrian:

What would happen if one's finger accidentally leaned on the platter?
Avatar ♥ 10:58am Sem Chumbo:

Oh, well. My morning fix of Mr. Havens. That voice is to kill for.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:58am Brian in UK:

@mariano last night of two month tour. The trio were tops. He looked knacked at the end. Understandably so.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58am DCE:

not my fave tune but Richie's voice is always amazing
Avatar 10:59am Cheri Pi:

Brannon's voice is amazing too...
Avatar 10:59am Cecile:

A2D, cheri.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:00am Brian in UK:

Now in Sri Lanka the drink is Arrack brewed from coconuts. Loverly.
Avatar 11:00am dc pat:

I love this tune. 10cc's version is probably the weirdest song to be played repeatedly on AM radio (back in the 70's)
Avatar ♥ 11:00am βrian:

Isn't it about meyer season, too? I think I now have a plan.
Avatar 11:01am dc pat:

that's something I don't know about. What's the DEAL with meyer lemons?
Avatar 11:01am Cecile:

ITA, dcp.
Avatar 11:01am Cheri Pi:

We have meyers now in our stores
Avatar 11:01am Cheri Pi:

what Cecile said about what P@ said.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01am DCE:

que es "meyers"?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:01am Guido from Cologne:

One anecdote from Hamburg in the 70ies:
meeteing at a party some dentist offered Richie Havens special treatment ...
then the manager became aware and totatally upset:
"dare you ever fix Richies teeth, his and my careers will be ruined!" ...
... hehe ... music biz .. voice and health.
Avatar 11:02am Cecile:

they are so tasty.

They are more fragarant that regulat lemons. More juice, too.
Avatar 11:02am Cecile:

Guido, that's why Barbara Streisand never got plastic surgery for her nose.
Avatar 11:03am dc pat:

oh. so I should buy those instead of stupid old regular lemons when I see them?
Avatar 11:04am Cecile:

meyer lemons have less acid, so not neccessarily.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:04am Brian in UK:

Are they waxed or unwaxed?
Avatar 11:05am dc pat:

k, got it, hanx
Avatar ♥ 11:05am βrian:

The deep, oily frangrance of good meyers is hypnotic. Dense almond/lemon cake with a drizzle of the juice. Ecstasy!
Avatar ♥ 11:05am βrian:

Never waxed. The peel is the thing.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:05am Brian in UK:

Joe that Calvin Arnold is a DOUBLE BRACKETED title.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:06am Carmichael:

Heyo Joe and morning people.
Avatar 11:06am Cheri Pi:

I'm not sure, but buy them anyway and just dunk them in very hot water and give a good scrub.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:06am Greg from Bloomfield:

Morning Joe + Commenters!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:07am Guido from Cologne:

Must run!
Loved this!
See you!
Avatar 11:07am Cheri Pi:

buy Meyer lemons!! They're only around for a while and they taste so fantastic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:07am mariano:

I love extreme metal band names! What's the one Diane K's been playing? Enbilulugugal or something like that?
Tschuess, Guido!
Avatar 11:09am dc pat:

@Pi: OK, ok!
  11:09am Dean:

Renting a house here in Berkeley a few years ago, we had a Meyer lemon tree in the backyard. I used them almost daily. There was also a Gravenstein apple tree, the fruit of which was perfect for a buttery, cinnamon-y tart.
Avatar 11:10am Cecile:

POLKA!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11am DCE:

is this going to rival the shock of "Point of No Return"??
Avatar 11:11am Cecile:

I love me some polka.
Avatar 11:11am Cheri Pi:

Mother McGasko!
  🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:11am 12539:

Polkabrate!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11am DCE:

ha, good call Cecile!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:11am Brian in UK:

@Joe Clem's drumming is as crisp as the cut of your jib!!!
Avatar 11:11am Parq:

Polka time!
Avatar ♥ 11:11am kirk from beer city usa:

I raided Mom's record collection many years ago. Didn't find much... Whipped Cream and Other Delights, a bunch of Bill Cosby LPs.
Avatar 11:12am Cheri Pi:

Dean that sounds like pure bliss
Avatar ♥ 11:12am Sem Chumbo:

Where are those cabbage rolls? They were just here...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:12am Greg from Bloomfield:

Like Sunday morning at Grandma's. I have a sudden desire to go to Mass and eat pancakes...
Avatar 11:12am Cecile:

We used to have polka radio shows and TV shows where I grew up.
If you go to polka conventions, they have a polka mass. hahhahahah. church might actually be fun with that.
Avatar 11:12am Kurt Gottschalk:

what about those of us who enjoy being horrified?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:12am DCE:

I've been raiding mom's record collection since I was in single digits...mom was into psych and prog, though
Avatar ♥ 11:12am kirk from beer city usa:

Dad's was better: Willie, Waylon, Johnny. Also Bill Withers and Ray Charles.
Avatar 11:13am Cecile:

Sem, I have the coffee. Yum! Yum! Yum!
Avatar ♥ 11:13am βrian:

Polka in homeopathic doses is good for you, but beware ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:13am Carmichael:

A quick comments review shows a love of tequila and cachasa. You folks are crazy. I've had both. Cachasa causes hallucinations, and tequila is a good furniture-throwing alcohol.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:13am Karen in Sleepy Hollow:

If only I could drink beer at work! And now i need a pretzel.
Avatar ♥ 11:13am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Polka is pretty damned happy, I'll grant that.

But I've always thought of classic Bhangra as the happiest music in the universe. (not the modern DJ perversion of it, but the old-timey acoustic stuff). . . .. short of that, Polka will do nicely.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13am DCE:

that is until the 80s destroyed her ability to judge right from wrong
  🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:13am 12539:

Joe, did you have keilbasa for Easter?
Avatar 11:13am dc pat:

I'm going to see Clem Burke play drums tonight. psyched.
Avatar ♥ 11:14am Joe McG:

@12539: Sure did!
Avatar 11:15am dc pat:

@Rev: totally agree on the Bhangra....
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:15am Carmichael:

Is this the Schmenge Brothers??
Avatar 11:16am Cheri Pi:

I scored some Readers' Digest fat box sets from my grandmothers phonograph collection :/
Avatar ♥ 11:16am Jeff:

And then, just to slide things smoothly in a slightly odder direction, time for great dance band and team of musicological explorers Brave Combo next...
Avatar ♥ 11:16am βrian:

I'm with you on Cachaça. And grappa strikes fear into my heart.
  11:16am nardo:

It's time for Polka Varieties with your host, Joe Schmenge!
Avatar 11:16am Cecile:

My mom liked the Carpenters and Ferrante and Teicher. My dad liked Charley Pride and Glen Campbell. But we had Mom's dad's Hank Williams 10 inches. And my aunt Sigri's "conucopia of sound" (TM Dad) of Mantovani, 3 Suns and Martin Denny.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17am DCE:

and now it's the time of day when I click boxes for hours on end
Avatar 11:17am Cecile:

when I brought 3 Dog Night and War and 10cc into our home it was like a bomb went off.
Avatar ♥ 11:17am Joe McG:

@nardo: An-na one, an-na two...
Avatar ♥ 11:18am βrian:

My most beloved cat was The Goof. Damn, I miss her.
Avatar 11:18am Cecile:

I hope you have "In Heaven There Is No Beer..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:18am Carmichael:

@Cecile: 3 Suns, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, anything tiki or cha-cha from the 60s. They accentuate the Bill Cosby, Herb Alpert and Baja Marimba Band albums wonderfully.
  11:18am Dean:

One part polka, two parts Slivovitz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGeDZC7n5o

My mom's record collection included the LP with Burt Bacharach's "Mexican Divorce," my vote for best pop song of all time.
Avatar 11:19am Cecile:

Joe, are you familiar with the Tamburitzians?
Avatar ♥ 11:19am βrian:

This really calls for some bandoneon music, you know?
Avatar ♥ 11:19am Jeff:

@Cecile: Ferrante and Teicher got pretty wonderfully weird sometimes... Four-handed prepared piano sounding like it was underwater...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:20am mariano:

@kirk: Some of those old Cosby albums are a scream! This Ostanek is the same song they were using in European Vacation during the part in Bavaria where Chevy Chase was in lederhosen doing a traditional, dance that led to a fight, no?
Avatar ♥ 11:20am Joe McG:

@Cecile: I am! And, no, no "In Heaven There Is No Beer." This is WFMU, after all. We go obscure!
Avatar 11:20am Cecile:

they did, Jeff!
Avatar 11:21am Cecile:

The "Tammies" can bring it. I saw them a couple of times back in the day.

Joe, just because it's known doesn't mean it's not great!
  11:21am Brendan:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmx5CI9Hxk4
Avatar ♥ 11:21am Jeff:

The tune for that Tic Toc Polka sounded an awful lot like that for "In Heaven..."
Avatar 11:22am Cecile:

Carm, oh yes. Lots of Herb Alpert and Baja Marimba Band.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:23am mariano:

There's a great pic of Ferrante and Teicher where they look like a couple of 60s English gangsters played by Michael Caine and Oliver Reed: ecx.images-amazon.com...
Avatar ♥ 11:23am βrian:

Bandoneon:
youtu.be...
Avatar 11:23am Cecile:

the most thankless job in music. Polka drummer.
Avatar 11:24am Cecile:

hahhahahah.
They also look like twin Jemaine Clements.
Avatar 11:24am Cecile:

Or Stephen Fry and Jemaine Clement. hahahahah
Avatar 11:25am Sean D. Daily:

Holy cow, true believers! I love this polka from the Stan Lee Orchestra! 'Nuff said!
Avatar ♥ 11:26am Sem Chumbo:

@Cedcile at 11:13: Oh,the Smengy (sp) Brothers. Hilarious!
Avatar 11:27am V Priceless:

Hey Joe, gang! Suddenly I feel the urge for schnitzel!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:27am mariano:

@Cecile: Haha! To me it looks like I've just accidentally walked in on them in mid-smooch, and now they're trying to decide how to dispose of my body! Not that I have that many fantasies of being dismembered by piano duos, mind you!
Avatar ♥ 11:27am Sem Chumbo:

Cecile: no "d" (sp)
Avatar 11:28am Cecile:

I need some sauerkraut tacos stat.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:28am Brian in UK:

@mariano listen to Bill Mac on Saturday at silly o'clock. Cosby is not forgotten, YOU GUNKY.
Avatar ♥ 11:28am βrian:

schnitzel? Geusenheit!
  11:29am mark in toronto:

has anyone ever written a sad polka song?
Avatar 11:29am Cecile:

brian, *cos voice* riggggggggggggggght.
Avatar 11:29am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

Is the music where people dance and go up to their partner and slap them in the face?
Avatar ♥ 11:30am Rev. Turnip Druid:

I see potential in a goth-polka movement.
Avatar ♥ 11:30am Rev. Turnip Druid:

...or BLACK POLKA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:31am mariano:

@Brian: Thanks for the tip, I will do that! Far as sad polkas, I've wondered from time to time if it's possible to write a tragic limerick.
Avatar ♥ 11:31am βrian:

My tuning is wandering ...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:31am Brian in UK:

@Cecile that's the Noah sketch? What's a cubitt. Russell does not do that in the film, it might have been fun if he did.
Avatar ♥ 11:32am Joe McG:

@Mark: One sad polka coming up...
  11:32am nardo:

The actual host for Polka Varieties ~ Polka Varieties Paul Wilcox: http://youtu.be/iiMmQHJHXB0
Avatar 11:32am Cheri Pi:

True Power Polka.
Avatar 11:32am V Priceless:

that Noah flick was filmed right down the road from me here on the Isle of Long....
Avatar 11:32am dc pat:

GOOD GOD! Stupid daily meeting and I'm missing a WHOLE FREAKIN SET OF POLKA!!! DAAAMMMMMMMIIIITTTTT.
Avatar 11:32am Sean D. Daily:

@ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: We can only hope it is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:32am mariano:

Black Polka! Great one! Imagine the vocals!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:32am Brian in UK:

Theremin Polka anyone?
Avatar 11:32am Cecile:

Brian, yeah, it is.
The Noah movie seems like it would be better if it was a Cosby comedy routine.

Iced Mirth, Cheri.
  11:33am Brendan:

My affection for Polka is rather limited to girls in Polka dot bikinis circa 1960s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:33am mariano:

I think when polka is sad they call it klezmer...
Avatar 11:34am dc pat:

ok, so sad polka = klezmer?
Avatar ♥ 11:34am βrian:

Yep. I love sauer kraut, but I can't eat a bushel of it.
Avatar 11:34am dc pat:

@mariano!
  11:34am mark in toronto:

So mournful. thanks Joe
Avatar ♥ 11:34am Joe McG:

OK, just one more and then we return you to your regularly scheduled programming...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:34am mariano:

@dc pat: Jinx!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:35am Brian in UK:

I just got the 'Polka Chips'
Avatar 11:35am dc pat:

I'm German and I hate sauerkraut. You can keep most German food actually except dumplings, spaetzel, stuff like that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:36am Carmichael:

@Cecile: Oh, and don't forget the Dukes of Dixieland. Authentic fake New Orleans pseudo ragtime jazz from LA studio musicians.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:36am Brian in UK:

Is there a Barnacle Bill in the house?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:36am KK:

Vielen dank Joe fur diesen Polkas! I've got this going in my office right now (as if my coworkers didn't my tastes were bizarre enough)
Avatar 11:37am V Priceless:

insert "Hey!" as needed!
Avatar 11:37am dc pat:

HEY!
Avatar ♥ 11:37am Joe McG:

@KK: Ha ha ha! Some Polish soul music will do them good!
Avatar 11:38am Cecile:

This has been a great polka set, Joe. Keep 'em coming.
Avatar ♥ 11:38am βrian:

The operative word there is "some."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:39am Carmichael:

Bobby Bittman did a great Polish song medley on the Sammy Maudlin show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:39am mariano:

There's a good low-budget documentary on this polka band leader/con artist called The Man Who Would Be Polka King: www.imdb.com...

Used to be on Netflix streaming, but apparently not anymore.
Avatar 11:40am Cecile:

It's 1,000,000% true!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:40am Mike East:

120 HS students from god knows where filing past my office making a great cacauphony. help!
Avatar 11:40am dc pat:

best set ever. Johnstown, PA use to have a great folkfest. Could always catch some great polka there. They fucked it up though and nobody goes anymore.
  Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:40am BarbR:

Totally digging the polka set! Grew up taking Polish folk dancing classes, and listening to my Dad's polka albums. Brings back great memories. :-)
Avatar 11:40am V Priceless:

haha...Bobby Bittman..."gimmie a dee dee dee, and a da da da..and whatever the hell else you wanna throw in there!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:41am KK:

whoops excuse my ignorance, Polish indeed :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:42am mariano:

@Carmichael: Oh man, I'm am SCTV fanatic. All those guys are so underrated, Eugene Levy is always typecast as the nerdy dad type now, which is odd, because so many of his characters had that barely-contained explosive rage, like Bittman.
Avatar ♥ 11:42am βrian:

Nobody goes anymore? Because it's too crowded?
  11:43am dr neil tyson degrasse:

Polka hole in the space time continuum
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:44am Carmichael:

Bobby was making the move from comedic brilliance to dramatic Ack-tore. His remake of On the Waterfront was a thing of beauty.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:44am Mike East:

can't tell you how much I'd rather be voluteering at wfmu than working today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:44am common:

got my swag this week. thanks volunteers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:45am mariano:

@Carmichael: Absolutely! And remember when Bittmann has his kid brother (Rick Moranis, another underrated genius) on Maudlin, who completely screwed up his act, and they get into this screaming match in Yiddish? Absolutely brilliant.
Avatar 11:46am V Priceless:

@ Carmichael....I'm thinking of the band-leader/song writer character Martin Short played....wasn't that Bittman? Been a while...and mind is going...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:46am Mike East:

Rick Moranis is goddamn hilarious
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:46am Carmichael:

@mariano: Skip Bittman.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:47am Rich in Washington:

Record Store Day has become Black Friday. The only thing more pathetic than watching people fighting over a blender at Walmart is watching newbie vinyl fanatic hipsters fight over a limited edition REO Speedwagon reissue.
Avatar ♥ 11:47am βrian:

Speaking of hand made, I always marvelled at notion of hand made potato chips. I mean, that oil is hot! The attrition rate must be remarkable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47am DCE:

haha, I agree, Rich...I stayed home
Avatar 11:48am Cecile:

I went one year, got a bunch of stuff and figured I would do more good shopping the other 364 days of the year.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:48am Rich in Washington:

Record stores get plenty of my dough over the remaining 364 days.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:48am mariano:

@Carmichael: Yes!
@V Priceless: I know who you mean, brilliant character too, the old Broadway hack. Used to appear on Billy Crystal's sendup of the Joe Franklin show, as I recall, but maybe he was on SCTV too.
Skip Bittman: www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:48am Rich in Washington:

@Cecile: JINX!
Avatar ♥ 11:49am βrian:

We're way ahead of you. We have reel-to-reel days around here.
  11:49am Brendan:

Yosh and Stan Schmege polka:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nGsvZrJxMTA
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:50am Carmichael:

That was Jackie Rogers Jr., the albino tin-pan alley type actor and formerly one of The Seven Little Rogers, a family act.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:50am Rich in Washington:

I sure appreciate SCTV more now that I understand all the old timey show biz and TV comedy references
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:50am Brian in UK:

Looks like Paul Weller is no fan of RSD.
www.independent.co.uk...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:51am Rich in Washington:

I also loved Short's grown up, long-in-the-tooth child actor Rusty.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:52am Brian in UK:

Crackin' show, Joe. What's new.
Avatar 11:52am V Priceless:

@ mariano and Carmichael - Yes!! Haha! Thanks for the refresher!
Avatar ♥ 11:52am Sem Chumbo:

Dear Prudence AND Gabor! Love his touch w/ these tunes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:52am Rich in Washington:

@BitUK: yes. That article nailed it. The limited edition, greedy grabber mentality made it even more annoying for me. Most record store owners I know feel obliged to participate in some way but it's generally a pain for them.
Avatar 11:54am V Priceless:

alas I failed to score the Devo Live at Max's '77 vinyl....maybe there's still hope!
Avatar ♥ 11:54am βrian:

An emerging trend is MP3s encoded as B&W pixel regions on VHS tape. Only the die-hards appreciate the transcoded visual background hiss of these paintstakingly re-mastered versions.
Avatar 11:55am Parq:

Besides, the FMU record fair is just weeks away. Gotta save my dimes for that!
Avatar ♥ 11:56am Joe McG:

Thanks for listening and commenting, everybody! Have a happy week full of polka!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:56am Brian in UK:

Joe, well thanks for making me late for dog walking, AGAIN.

@Parq yeah just rub it in (Record Fair)
Avatar ♥ 11:56am βrian:

I love Nilsson's rendition of "Marry Me a Little."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:57am mariano:

Thanks Joe, and bye everyone! Great listenin' and gabbin'!
  11:57am Brendan:

So long Joe
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:58am KK:

thanks~~
  🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:59am 12539:

Thanks, Joe!
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