WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from July 12, 2019

Listener comments!
	12:01pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, UM and everyone!
	12:01pm dan: Good afternoon.
	12:04pm chresti: Hi dinks!
	12:04pm Jeff Golick: "They're sure ok." Great bumper sticker material. HDT, on the other hand, much more than ok!
	12:05pm Alex In Illinois: Devo is frim Akron!
	12:05pm Dominick: Piersall !!
	🛒 12:06pm Phillippe Bastille: I think Chrissie Hynde is too
	12:10pm listener james from westwood: "Lifestyle." Okay, Steve.
	12:13pm dan: Play Harry Caray singing Take Me Out To The Ballgame at that game.
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: Hello everyone!
	12:15pm PsychopathJimFields: Celebrating the greatest promotion in sports history!
	12:16pm PsychopathJimFields: Blow it up!!!!!
	12:17pm Uncle Michael: Great guitar solo, Donna!
	12:19pm Listener Gregory: Is this disco? It sounds like a human drummer.
	12:19pm dan: "Ring My Bell" should be the name of some basement porno.
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: Lots and lots of human drummers in disco. Drum machines came into vogue in the early '80s.
	12:22pm Listener Gregory: My problems with disco relate primarily to the incessant, robotic bass drum in some songs.
	12:23pm Lewis: As with many genres, the stuff that stands the test of time can be quite good (even with robotic bass lines... ;-) )
	🛒 12:24pm CHUCK ROAST: Please, no Rick Dees.
	12:24pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I loved both disco & "rock" back in the day. Disco has a LOT of stone jams.
	12:26pm Listener Gregory: 20 years later, I realized that I liked some disco songs. Like every genre, some truly awful songs were hits. I think I overgeneralized from those. Have to leave now, but recommend the Sonny Rollins song "Disco Monk," which alternates disco sections with free playing.
	12:26pm PsychopathJimFields: Still painful to listen to.
	12:27pm Uncle Michael: Don't hurt yourself, Jim.
	12:28pm dan: There's a concert on YouTube of Chic performing in Tokyo in 1996. The sad part is that less than 12 hours later, Bernard Edwards was dead of untreated pneumonia.
	12:30pm Marie: I love this song. Hi UM and all!
	12:31pm Uncle Michael: Hey, hey!
	12:32pm doctorjazz: YEAH!!!
	12:32pm βrian: @Listener Gregory: Agreed. The bass line seemed to clinical and utterly dispiriting.
	12:33pm dan: It seems that every famous disco song winds up in a commercial for either a car, a computer or an appliance.
	12:33pm βrian: "so clinical"
	12:37pm βrian: Let's go pogo.
	12:40pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Homogenized disco lead to Kiss doing I Was Made For Loving You.
	12:46pm dan: Commercial radio sucks balls. It's all the same hundred songs on a continuous loop.
	🛒 12:48pm CHUCK ROAST: Mmmmmmm...Paul Rodgers
	🛒 12:51pm Franco Twinkie: Here come the jesters one two three? Man, I need more coffee before I can face this.
	12:51pm listener james from westwood: All this music is from the year I turned 10, 40 diggity-damn years ago, and I am HERE FOR IT, rock and disco and all their four-on-the-floor offspring.
	12:51pm Jeff Golick: Had this Supertramp 45. It's possible to draw a line from this sax solo to my jazz love. Unlikely, but possible.
	12:52pm dan: Supertramp's "The Logical Song" meets The Simpsons and Futurama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPLCQiIeXUM
	12:55pm βrian: It was not a good time for bass rock & roll singers.
	12:56pm dan: A Kansas song I've never heard before because my local classic rock station thinks that "Carry On My Wayward Son". "Point Of Know Return" and "Dust In The Wind" are the only songs Kansas ever made.
	12:56pm Uncle Michael: Welcome to all who have joined the party...
	12:58pm Henry: soundtrack of my my 15th year!
	12:59pm Hopey Sockmonkey: 1979 is my very favorite year for college radio.
	🛒 1:00pm Franco Twinkie: Disco was for me was curious and baffling back round noise. This stuff, Kansas, Bad Company ect. and the guys who would drill this into your head at the stop lights from their Pontiac Firebird....a completely different level of annoying.
	1:01pm βrian: @Hopey: That's when I discovered WCBN.
	1:01pm dan: It's a shame that the Sgt Pepper film derailed Peter Frampton's career for the next 10 years.
	1:01pm doctorjazz: So, I actually liked disco, have a pile of 12 inch singles (Many played here). Soul had died out at that point, most of that style of singing went to disco. (Liked punk/New Wave too...seemed you had to take sides then...)
	1:05pm βrian: I once owned a Gato Barbieri album.
	1:08pm Doug Schulkind: Darn it, Hopey Sockmonkey! I started in college radio on January 1, 1980. Missed it by THAT much!
	🛒 1:09pm CHUCK ROAST: Bought my first (and only) bar in 1979
	1:11pm The Oscar: Afternoon! Was going to comment earlier, but I got sidetracked with my pet theory that The Mask did for the swing revival what Saturday Night Fever did for disco.
	1:11pm dan: I love The Bee Gees.
	1:11pm Roberto: Boo the Bee Gess? Boo you, I say!
	1:12pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Is he saying Go Home?
	1:13pm The Oscar: Tough not to think of Jon Wurster's "_____ Sucks" bit.
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: CO-HO!
	1:14pm Jeff Golick: Hard not to hear this as the progenitor of "lock her up."
	1:14pm βrian: The Bee Gees are fine ... on paper.
	1:15pm Hopey Sockmonkey: @Jeff Golick I was thinking the same thing!
	1:15pm dan: Robin Gibb at the age of 17 had that mature choir boy voice. Still had it until the end of his life.
	🛒 1:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I say we take these Disco rekkids to the stadium & have a riot !! ...Who's w/ me - ?! ...No no don't stop him...psychotic - but on a roll...
	🛒 1:17pm Franco Twinkie: That was abnormal behavior orchesrtated by a sociopath with a messiah complex.
	1:17pm David D: Hisco Disco Time?
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: You give him too much credit, Franco
	🛒 1:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Eh it's just good dancey Funk. I ain't in HighSchool anymore...
	1:21pm dan: I was about to ask if you were gonna play Tata Vega. Glad to see you are. I saw her perform with Elton John and she was fantastic.
	1:29pm Roberto: I recall a popular t-shirt in those days was one that said "Disco Sucks -- Try Led Zeppelin"
	1:30pm The Oscar: I'm too young to have experienced the rise and fall of disco, but my impression is that it was kind of like country music today. The lame stuff is SO bad and SO inescapable that a lot of casual listeners don't know the real stuff even exists.
	1:32pm Uncle Michael: Yeah, I don't think the country stations here are playing Kacey Musgraves and Sturgill Simpson.
	1:32pm Doug Schulkind: That's a master's thesis, The Oscar. Get that thing published!
	1:33pm dan: Inky Dinky Wang Dang Doo
	1:34pm David D: I missed the beginning - was that a reference to the Disco Demolition game?
	1:35pm David D: I mean did Jimmy Piersall talk about the event?
	1:36pm Uncle Michael: David, this whole show is a reference to that game. He's about to...big time.
	1:36pm David D: Oh okay, great!
	🛒 1:38pm Franco Twinkie: Good point, Oscar. But I'll add this before I go deal with my loony mother. It's always easy to dismiss other peoples mindless pleasure and give your own to much importance. Music should be about pleasure. If it isn't, maybe you should spent your leisure time reading about politics.
	1:40pm Michael 98145: { @FT, indeed! }
	1:41pm The Oscar: @Franco Oh, no argument here-- that's just my feeling on why there was so much backlash, when so much of the music was so damn great.
	1:46pm Jeff Golick: What is the obsession with having stuff "shoved down our throats." Just keep your mouth closed, dude.
	1:50pm dan: Disco brought out the best and worst in everyone.
	1:50pm Henry: sounds like an SCTV routine!
	1:50pm βrian: So did the Tigers win?
	1:50pm Uncle Michael: I don't mean 'happy' in the modern sense...
	1:51pm David D: Such madness.
	1:52pm The Oscar: @Henry I was thinking that too, right down to "blow up real good!"
	1:52pm Henry: @Oscar, yep!
	1:52pm David D: Didn't they also have something like a 10 cent beer night as well?
	1:54pm dan: @David D I’ve heard about that. Some guy thought that if you give cheap beer to a rowdy baseball crowd, nothing bad would happen. Yeah right!!!!
	1:54pm spodiodi: Diamond Dave in the house
	1:55pm spodiodi: aloha, UM, hinksters and dinksters
	1:55pm spodiodi: i grew up in a big "disco sucks" neighborhood
	1:56pm spodiodi: Don't think I've ever heard VH on WFMU before. nice topping to the riot
	1:56pm Uncle Michael: I'm sure the disco-doesn't-suck kids kept their heads down.
	1:57pm spodiodi: pretty much
	1:58pm dan: @spodiodi I’ve never heard Billy Joel performed on Hinky Dinky Time.
	1:58pm mark: 10 cent beer night and Disco Demolition night were separate terrible promotional ideas, both of which ended in the games being forfeited.
	1:58pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Hey, it's the KISS tune!
	🛒 1:59pm Franco Twinkie: I love this! Steve Dahl's moment of glory. Just in case you thought this cultural moment were are suffering through right now is an all time low, oh no! It's an American tradition that goes back to the discovery of beer.
	2:00pm Joe: Piersal & Gleason segueing to Van Halen was inspired.
	2:01pm Dean: Or tea, Franco.
	2:01pm Roberto: it wouldn't be 1979 without ELO.
	🛒 2:01pm CHUCK ROAST: I think disco was a necessary evil.
	2:02pm Uncle Michael: I'm just a wonder bread kid. No underground scene was still an underground scene by the time it got to me.
	2:03pm chresti: Lipps Inc's Funky Town, I like.
	2:03pm dan: Who has seen ELO in the last few years in concert ? Jeff Lynne still sounds amazing.
	2:04pm Dean: Saw 'em three times. Last time might have been '79, no later.
	🛒 2:05pm Franco Twinkie: Dean! Where the hell have you been? Your insightful observations would have been on point.....ABOUT AN HOUR AGO!
	2:05pm davefromtoronto: elo kiddies!
	2:05pm Jeff Golick: @chresti: I often pass a joint called Pizza Town on my commute, and as I result I hear "Funky Town" in my head much more than I'd like, albeit with slightly different lyrics.
	2:06pm dan: I see this set is disco/rock/pop hybrid songs
	2:06pm Roberto: Judging by the number of gold stars on the playlist, I'd say 1979 was a good year for my kind of music.
	2:07pm Dean: I know, Franco. My apologies. Was paying the orthodontist for my kid's braces. Goddammit.
	2:09pm Uncle Michael: Doing chores to pay off the bill?
	2:10pm dan: Just realized this was Pink Floyd
	2:10pm dan: The complete chart for July 14 1979 https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1979-07-14
	2:10pm davefromtoronto: yeah but what's the name of the game?
	🛒 2:11pm Franco Twinkie: Dean, Just kidding. I have to go deal with that lovable nutcase, my mom. I wish I could hang. Peace out, bro.
	2:12pm Dean: Might have to nudge the kid to shoplift a bit more, deal a little more coke.
	2:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: Good afternoon, my Sharona!
	2:15pm The Oscar: I dunno-- I developed a KISS allergy during my record store years, but I actually kinda like that one.
	2:17pm Dean: Only learned a couple days ago that an L.A. band, Yächtley Crëw, covers Toto, Orleans, etc. "The Titans of Soft Rock."
	2:17pm Henry: 79 was a pretty good year for Molly Hatchet.... just sayin....
	2:18pm Dean: '79, first Saxon LP
	2:19pm davefromtoronto: the humanity!
	2:22pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I had to track down the Japanese import of this album because at the time there were no plans to release it in the US.
	2:23pm Uncle Michael: So did I. I still have both versions.
	2:25pm Dean: Bought the Japanese version the day it arrived at the store where I was working. Never picked up the domestic issue.
	2:27pm Dean: My Parallel Lines is a picture disc, a gift.
	2:28pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Dean, I totally remember that pressing! Picture discs were another fad of that period.
	2:29pm Henry: oh yeah
	2:30pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I'm getting very warm & fuzzy vibes from this set. 1979 was such a great year musically for me.
	2:31pm Dean: A fad, absolutely. Seems like every major release had to have a picture disc issue. Then there was Devo's first album, which was released in the UK (perhaps before the domestic release) on five or six different colors of vinyl. Buddy of mine acquired 'em all.
	🛒 2:33pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): better late than never to the hinky dinky roller rink!
	2:35pm Uncle Michael: Hey you! Come here! Get up!
	2:36pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I still have so many picture disc 45s from the UK.
	2:37pm Henry: you're killin' it, Unc
	2:38pm dan: Joe Jackson is amazing both on record and the stage.
	2:38pm chresti: Wont you take me to..Pizza Town! @Jeff
	2:41pm dan: Graham Maby is up there with the top rock bassists.
	2:41pm Hopey Sockmonkey: That last set was incredible!
	2:42pm Ken From Hyde Park: What year was that Disco Star Wars tune popular?
	2:44pm The Oscar: I was going to say, anyone who still thinks disco sucks clearly doesn't listen to Duane Train.
	2:44pm βrian: My nightstand makes me feel guilty that way.
	2:45pm dan: @Hopey I wholeheartedly agree.
	🛒 2:45pm Brian in UK: Thanks Uncle.
	2:46pm The Oscar: SEXY WALLS.
	2:47pm Uncle Michael: Going long today. I'm sorry for disrupting all of your schedules.
	2:48pm βrian: I had the impression that the whole disco fad had passed by 1979. I guess not.
	2:48pm Michael 98145: woof moo uses only the most sophisticated research tools
	2:50pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Thank you for this show UM, it has been an illuminating and wonderful trip.
	2:50pm Joe: @The Oscar Can you believe it?
	2:51pm Uncle Michael: Yep..."will it blend".
	2:51pm Dean: Nice coincidence: I was wondering what, if anything, Richard Meltzer had written about disco. Ran a search. The first result I viewed was a tribute posted by Bonomo shortly after Meltzer turned 70. No mention of disco, though.
	2:52pm Uncle Michael: nice
	2:52pm The Oscar: I want to research Sexy Walls, but I'm at work and fear the search results.
	2:52pm dan: You’ve outdone yourself UM. One of the best shows you’ve done.
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: Coming next, a yuuuuge "rock" hit from the week in question....I apologize insincerely.
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, dan.
	2:54pm Hopey Sockmonkey: @The Oscar haha, I'm sure your IT department would love it.
	2:56pm Pedro in Arlington: You've outdone yourself with this deep dive into such a tremendous American historical event, UM.
	2:57pm Uncle Michael: It was a lot of fun to put together.
	2:57pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Didn't Zappa's Dancin' Fool come out in 79?
	2:58pm spodiodi: good fun. tyvm, UM
	2:58pm Uncle Michael: I believe so.
	2:59pm Uncle Michael: Still two records left to play....
	2:59pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, UM—a welcome flashback!
	3:00pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Thank you thank you for the Sylvester!
	3:02pm Uncle Michael: He's singing to a man...and a woman is his rival. I love that. No wonder Dahl was upset.
	3:05pm spodiodi: \m/ windmills \m/
	3:05pm Joe: Forgot Long Live Rock was a '79 single until I did the Billboard research.
	🛒 3:06pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): i'mi'm ten years old again, i'm even eating hot dogs for lunch!
	3:06pm Joe: @Uncle Michael Yep on Sylvester!
	🛒 3:09pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): i know it's only rock and roll but it's still rock and roll to me
	3:10pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Be it dead or alive.
	3:10pm Jeff Golick: Thank ye.
	3:11pm David D: Thanks!
	3:11pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, everyone!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from July 12, 2019

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
Jimmy Piersall	Jimmy Sets The Lineups	n/a	n/a	1979	0:04:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Loleatta Holloway	Love Sensation (Copycat Re-take)	Disco Demolition Night Riot E.P. (Disco Funk Re-takes)	Listen Like Thieves	2013	0:06:27 (Pop-up)
Girlband	Disco Demolition Night "Disco Demolition Night" by "Girlband"	The Letdown	Briercrest	2017	0:11:19 (Pop-up)
Donna Summer	Hot Stuff "Hot Stuff" by "Donna Summer"	single (b/w Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart)	Casablanca	1979	0:13:09 (Pop-up)
Anita Ward	Ring My Bell "Ring My Bell" by "Anita Ward"	single (b/w If I Could Feel That Old Feeling Agai)	Juana	1979	0:16:52 (Pop-up)
Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions	Boogie Wonderland	single (b/w Boogie Wonderland (Instrumental))	ARC	1979	0:20:18 (Pop-up)
Chic	Good Times "Good Times" by "Chic"	single (b/w A Warm Summer Night)	Atlantic	1979	0:25:03 (Pop-up)
Patrick Hernandez	Born To Be Alive	single (b/w Too Many People)	Columbia	1979	0:28:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chic	Sao Paulo (Copycat Re-take) "Sao Paulo (Copycat Re-take)" by "Chic"	Disco Demolition Night Riot E.P. (Disco Funk Re-takes)	Listen Like Thieves	2013	0:32:01 (Pop-up)
Dan Epstein	Portrait Of A Music Journalist As A Young Man	n/a	n/a	1979	0:40:35 (Pop-up)
Bad Company	Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy	single (b/w Crazy Circles)	Swan Song	1979	0:45:43 (Pop-up)
Supertramp	The Logical Song "The Logical Song" by "Supertramp"	single (b/w Just Another Nervous Wreck)	A&M	1979	0:48:55 (Pop-up)
Kansas	People Of The South Wind "People Of The South Wind" by "Kansas"	single (b/w Stay Out Of Trouble)	Kirshner	1979	0:52:37 (Pop-up)
Peter Frampton	I Can't Stand It No More	single (b/w May I Baby)	A&M	1979	0:56:08 (Pop-up)
Candido	Jingo "Jingo" by "Candido"	single (b-side to Dancin' And Prancin')	Salsoul	1979	0:59:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mike T	Do It Anyway (Copycat Re-take)	Disco Demolition Night Riot E.P. (Disco Funk Re-takes)	Listen Like Thieves	2013	1:03:28 (Pop-up)
Steve Dahl	Do You Think I'm Funny?	n/a	n/a	1979	1:09:16 (Pop-up)
Bunny Sigler	By The Way You Dance (I Knew It Was You)	single (b/w Glad To Be Your Lover)	Gold Mind	1979	1:12:45 (Pop-up)
Tata Vega	I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby	single (b/w Music In My Heart)	Tamla	1979	1:19:35 (Pop-up)
Change	Angel In My Pocket "Angel In My Pocket" by "Change"	single (b-side to Searching)	WEA	1980	1:23:47 (Pop-up)
Shalamar	Right In The Socket "Right In The Socket" by "Shalamar"	single (b/w Girl)	RCA Victor	1979	1:29:50 (Pop-up)
Peter Brown	Crank It Up (Funk Town) Pt. 1	single (b/w Crank It Up (Funk Town) Pt. 2)	Drive	1979	1:33:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gaz	Sing Sing (Copycat Re-take) "Sing Sing (Copycat Re-take)" by "Gaz"	Disco Demolition Night Riot E.P. (Disco Funk Re-takes)	Listen Like Thieves	2013	1:38:31 (Pop-up)
Steve Dahl	Blowed Up Real Good "Blowed Up Real Good" by "Steve Dahl"	n/a	n/a	1979	1:44:18 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Peirsall & Bill Gleason	Disco Demolition Play By Play	n/a	n/a	1979	1:46:52 (Pop-up)
Van Halen	Dance The Night Away "Dance The Night Away" by "Van Halen"	single (b/w Outta Love Again)	Warner Bros.	1979	1:53:00 (Pop-up)
KISS	I Was Made For Lovin' You "I Was Made For Lovin' You" by "KISS"	single (b/w Hard Times)	Casablanca	1979	1:55:57 (Pop-up)
Electric Light Orchestra	Shine A Little Love	single (b/w Jungle)	Jet	1979	1:59:51 (Pop-up)
ABBA	Does Your Mother Know "Does Your Mother Know" by "ABBA"	single (b/w Kisses Of Fire)	Atlantic	1979	2:03:51 (Pop-up)
Rosebud [Disco]	Have A Cigar [Edit]	single (b/w Money)	Warner Bros.	1977/79	2:06:59 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Orchestra Internationale	Chella’lla (Copycat Re-take)	Disco Demolition Night Riot E.P. (Disco Funk Re-takes)	Listen Like Thieves	2013	2:11:18 (Pop-up)
The News	Disco Demolition Report "Disco Demolition Report" by "The News"	n/a	n/a	1979	2:15:55 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick	I Want You To Want Me (Live)	single (b/w Clock Strikes Ten (Live))	Epic	1979	2:20:54 (Pop-up)
Blondie	One Way Or Another "One Way Or Another" by "Blondie"	single (b/w Just Go Away)	Chrysalis	1979	2:24:19 (Pop-up)
The Cars	Let's Go "Let's Go" by "The Cars"	single (b/w That's It)	Elektra	1979	2:27:49 (Pop-up)
Patti Smith Group	So You Want to Be (A Rock 'N' Roll Star)	single (b/w 5-4-3-2-1)	Arista	1979	2:31:18 (Pop-up)
Joe Jackson	On Your Radio "On Your Radio" by "Joe Jackson"	I'm The Man	A&M	1979	2:35:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Walter Murphy	Fifth Of Beethoven (Copycat Re-take)	Disco Demolition Night Riot E.P. (Disco Funk Re-takes)	Listen Like Thieves	2013	2:39:29 (Pop-up)
Joe Bonomo	Billboard Magazine Archeology	n/a	n/a	1979	2:44:17 (Pop-up)
Billy Thorpe	Children Of The Sun "Children Of The Sun" by "Billy Thorpe"	single (b/w Wrapped In The Chains Of Your Love)	Capricorn	1979	2:48:45 (Pop-up)
Journey	Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'	single (b/w Daydream)	Columbia	1979	2:55:23 (Pop-up)
Sylvester	I (Who Have Nothing) "I (Who Have Nothing)" by "Sylvester"	single (b/w I Need Somebody To Love Tonight)	Fantasy	1979	2:58:59 (Pop-up)
The Who	Long Live Rock "Long Live Rock" by "The Who"	single (b/w My Wife)	MCA	1979	3:03:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues)	Blue Horizon	1968	3:07:07 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:01pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, UM and everyone!
	12:01pm dan: Good afternoon.
	12:04pm chresti: Hi dinks!
	12:04pm Jeff Golick: "They're sure ok." Great bumper sticker material. HDT, on the other hand, much more than ok!
	12:05pm Alex In Illinois: Devo is frim Akron!
	12:05pm Dominick: Piersall !!
	🛒 12:06pm Phillippe Bastille: I think Chrissie Hynde is too
	12:10pm listener james from westwood: "Lifestyle." Okay, Steve.
	12:13pm dan: Play Harry Caray singing Take Me Out To The Ballgame at that game.
	12:14pm Uncle Michael: Hello everyone!
	12:15pm PsychopathJimFields: Celebrating the greatest promotion in sports history!
	12:16pm PsychopathJimFields: Blow it up!!!!!
	12:17pm Uncle Michael: Great guitar solo, Donna!
	12:19pm Listener Gregory: Is this disco? It sounds like a human drummer.
	12:19pm dan: "Ring My Bell" should be the name of some basement porno.
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: Lots and lots of human drummers in disco. Drum machines came into vogue in the early '80s.
	12:22pm Listener Gregory: My problems with disco relate primarily to the incessant, robotic bass drum in some songs.
	12:23pm Lewis: As with many genres, the stuff that stands the test of time can be quite good (even with robotic bass lines... ;-) )
	🛒 12:24pm CHUCK ROAST: Please, no Rick Dees.
	12:24pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I loved both disco & "rock" back in the day. Disco has a LOT of stone jams.
	12:26pm Listener Gregory: 20 years later, I realized that I liked some disco songs. Like every genre, some truly awful songs were hits. I think I overgeneralized from those. Have to leave now, but recommend the Sonny Rollins song "Disco Monk," which alternates disco sections with free playing.
	12:26pm PsychopathJimFields: Still painful to listen to.
	12:27pm Uncle Michael: Don't hurt yourself, Jim.
	12:28pm dan: There's a concert on YouTube of Chic performing in Tokyo in 1996. The sad part is that less than 12 hours later, Bernard Edwards was dead of untreated pneumonia.
	12:30pm Marie: I love this song. Hi UM and all!
	12:31pm Uncle Michael: Hey, hey!
	12:32pm doctorjazz: YEAH!!!
	12:32pm βrian: @Listener Gregory: Agreed. The bass line seemed to clinical and utterly dispiriting.
	12:33pm dan: It seems that every famous disco song winds up in a commercial for either a car, a computer or an appliance.
	12:33pm βrian: "so clinical"
	12:37pm βrian: Let's go pogo.
	12:40pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Homogenized disco lead to Kiss doing I Was Made For Loving You.
	12:46pm dan: Commercial radio sucks balls. It's all the same hundred songs on a continuous loop.
	🛒 12:48pm CHUCK ROAST: Mmmmmmm...Paul Rodgers
	🛒 12:51pm Franco Twinkie: Here come the jesters one two three? Man, I need more coffee before I can face this.
	12:51pm listener james from westwood: All this music is from the year I turned 10, 40 diggity-damn years ago, and I am HERE FOR IT, rock and disco and all their four-on-the-floor offspring.
	12:51pm Jeff Golick: Had this Supertramp 45. It's possible to draw a line from this sax solo to my jazz love. Unlikely, but possible.
	12:52pm dan: Supertramp's "The Logical Song" meets The Simpsons and Futurama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPLCQiIeXUM
	12:55pm βrian: It was not a good time for bass rock & roll singers.
	12:56pm dan: A Kansas song I've never heard before because my local classic rock station thinks that "Carry On My Wayward Son". "Point Of Know Return" and "Dust In The Wind" are the only songs Kansas ever made.
	12:56pm Uncle Michael: Welcome to all who have joined the party...
	12:58pm Henry: soundtrack of my my 15th year!
	12:59pm Hopey Sockmonkey: 1979 is my very favorite year for college radio.
	🛒 1:00pm Franco Twinkie: Disco was for me was curious and baffling back round noise. This stuff, Kansas, Bad Company ect. and the guys who would drill this into your head at the stop lights from their Pontiac Firebird....a completely different level of annoying.
	1:01pm βrian: @Hopey: That's when I discovered WCBN.
	1:01pm dan: It's a shame that the Sgt Pepper film derailed Peter Frampton's career for the next 10 years.
	1:01pm doctorjazz: So, I actually liked disco, have a pile of 12 inch singles (Many played here). Soul had died out at that point, most of that style of singing went to disco. (Liked punk/New Wave too...seemed you had to take sides then...)
	1:05pm βrian: I once owned a Gato Barbieri album.
	1:08pm Doug Schulkind: Darn it, Hopey Sockmonkey! I started in college radio on January 1, 1980. Missed it by THAT much!
	🛒 1:09pm CHUCK ROAST: Bought my first (and only) bar in 1979
	1:11pm The Oscar: Afternoon! Was going to comment earlier, but I got sidetracked with my pet theory that The Mask did for the swing revival what Saturday Night Fever did for disco.
	1:11pm dan: I love The Bee Gees.
	1:11pm Roberto: Boo the Bee Gess? Boo you, I say!
	1:12pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Is he saying Go Home?
	1:13pm The Oscar: Tough not to think of Jon Wurster's "_____ Sucks" bit.
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: CO-HO!
	1:14pm Jeff Golick: Hard not to hear this as the progenitor of "lock her up."
	1:14pm βrian: The Bee Gees are fine ... on paper.
	1:15pm Hopey Sockmonkey: @Jeff Golick I was thinking the same thing!
	1:15pm dan: Robin Gibb at the age of 17 had that mature choir boy voice. Still had it until the end of his life.
	🛒 1:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I say we take these Disco rekkids to the stadium & have a riot !! ...Who's w/ me - ?! ...No no don't stop him...psychotic - but on a roll...
	🛒 1:17pm Franco Twinkie: That was abnormal behavior orchesrtated by a sociopath with a messiah complex.
	1:17pm David D: Hisco Disco Time?
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: You give him too much credit, Franco
	🛒 1:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Eh it's just good dancey Funk. I ain't in HighSchool anymore...
	1:21pm dan: I was about to ask if you were gonna play Tata Vega. Glad to see you are. I saw her perform with Elton John and she was fantastic.
	1:29pm Roberto: I recall a popular t-shirt in those days was one that said "Disco Sucks -- Try Led Zeppelin"
	1:30pm The Oscar: I'm too young to have experienced the rise and fall of disco, but my impression is that it was kind of like country music today. The lame stuff is SO bad and SO inescapable that a lot of casual listeners don't know the real stuff even exists.
	1:32pm Uncle Michael: Yeah, I don't think the country stations here are playing Kacey Musgraves and Sturgill Simpson.
	1:32pm Doug Schulkind: That's a master's thesis, The Oscar. Get that thing published!
	1:33pm dan: Inky Dinky Wang Dang Doo
	1:34pm David D: I missed the beginning - was that a reference to the Disco Demolition game?
	1:35pm David D: I mean did Jimmy Piersall talk about the event?
	1:36pm Uncle Michael: David, this whole show is a reference to that game. He's about to...big time.
	1:36pm David D: Oh okay, great!
	🛒 1:38pm Franco Twinkie: Good point, Oscar. But I'll add this before I go deal with my loony mother. It's always easy to dismiss other peoples mindless pleasure and give your own to much importance. Music should be about pleasure. If it isn't, maybe you should spent your leisure time reading about politics.
	1:40pm Michael 98145: { @FT, indeed! }
	1:41pm The Oscar: @Franco Oh, no argument here-- that's just my feeling on why there was so much backlash, when so much of the music was so damn great.
	1:46pm Jeff Golick: What is the obsession with having stuff "shoved down our throats." Just keep your mouth closed, dude.
	1:50pm dan: Disco brought out the best and worst in everyone.
	1:50pm Henry: sounds like an SCTV routine!
	1:50pm βrian: So did the Tigers win?
	1:50pm Uncle Michael: I don't mean 'happy' in the modern sense...
	1:51pm David D: Such madness.
	1:52pm The Oscar: @Henry I was thinking that too, right down to "blow up real good!"
	1:52pm Henry: @Oscar, yep!
	1:52pm David D: Didn't they also have something like a 10 cent beer night as well?
	1:54pm dan: @David D I’ve heard about that. Some guy thought that if you give cheap beer to a rowdy baseball crowd, nothing bad would happen. Yeah right!!!!
	1:54pm spodiodi: Diamond Dave in the house
	1:55pm spodiodi: aloha, UM, hinksters and dinksters
	1:55pm spodiodi: i grew up in a big "disco sucks" neighborhood
	1:56pm spodiodi: Don't think I've ever heard VH on WFMU before. nice topping to the riot
	1:56pm Uncle Michael: I'm sure the disco-doesn't-suck kids kept their heads down.
	1:57pm spodiodi: pretty much
	1:58pm dan: @spodiodi I’ve never heard Billy Joel performed on Hinky Dinky Time.
	1:58pm mark: 10 cent beer night and Disco Demolition night were separate terrible promotional ideas, both of which ended in the games being forfeited.
	1:58pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Hey, it's the KISS tune!
	🛒 1:59pm Franco Twinkie: I love this! Steve Dahl's moment of glory. Just in case you thought this cultural moment were are suffering through right now is an all time low, oh no! It's an American tradition that goes back to the discovery of beer.
	2:00pm Joe: Piersal & Gleason segueing to Van Halen was inspired.
	2:01pm Dean: Or tea, Franco.
	2:01pm Roberto: it wouldn't be 1979 without ELO.
	🛒 2:01pm CHUCK ROAST: I think disco was a necessary evil.
	2:02pm Uncle Michael: I'm just a wonder bread kid. No underground scene was still an underground scene by the time it got to me.
	2:03pm chresti: Lipps Inc's Funky Town, I like.
	2:03pm dan: Who has seen ELO in the last few years in concert ? Jeff Lynne still sounds amazing.
	2:04pm Dean: Saw 'em three times. Last time might have been '79, no later.
	🛒 2:05pm Franco Twinkie: Dean! Where the hell have you been? Your insightful observations would have been on point.....ABOUT AN HOUR AGO!
	2:05pm davefromtoronto: elo kiddies!
	2:05pm Jeff Golick: @chresti: I often pass a joint called Pizza Town on my commute, and as I result I hear "Funky Town" in my head much more than I'd like, albeit with slightly different lyrics.
	2:06pm dan: I see this set is disco/rock/pop hybrid songs
	2:06pm Roberto: Judging by the number of gold stars on the playlist, I'd say 1979 was a good year for my kind of music.
	2:07pm Dean: I know, Franco. My apologies. Was paying the orthodontist for my kid's braces. Goddammit.
	2:09pm Uncle Michael: Doing chores to pay off the bill?
	2:10pm dan: Just realized this was Pink Floyd
	2:10pm dan: The complete chart for July 14 1979 https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1979-07-14
	2:10pm davefromtoronto: yeah but what's the name of the game?
	🛒 2:11pm Franco Twinkie: Dean, Just kidding. I have to go deal with that lovable nutcase, my mom. I wish I could hang. Peace out, bro.
	2:12pm Dean: Might have to nudge the kid to shoplift a bit more, deal a little more coke.
	2:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: Good afternoon, my Sharona!
	2:15pm The Oscar: I dunno-- I developed a KISS allergy during my record store years, but I actually kinda like that one.
	2:17pm Dean: Only learned a couple days ago that an L.A. band, Yächtley Crëw, covers Toto, Orleans, etc. "The Titans of Soft Rock."
	2:17pm Henry: 79 was a pretty good year for Molly Hatchet.... just sayin....
	2:18pm Dean: '79, first Saxon LP
	2:19pm davefromtoronto: the humanity!
	2:22pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I had to track down the Japanese import of this album because at the time there were no plans to release it in the US.
	2:23pm Uncle Michael: So did I. I still have both versions.
	2:25pm Dean: Bought the Japanese version the day it arrived at the store where I was working. Never picked up the domestic issue.
	2:27pm Dean: My Parallel Lines is a picture disc, a gift.
	2:28pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Dean, I totally remember that pressing! Picture discs were another fad of that period.
	2:29pm Henry: oh yeah
	2:30pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I'm getting very warm & fuzzy vibes from this set. 1979 was such a great year musically for me.
	2:31pm Dean: A fad, absolutely. Seems like every major release had to have a picture disc issue. Then there was Devo's first album, which was released in the UK (perhaps before the domestic release) on five or six different colors of vinyl. Buddy of mine acquired 'em all.
	🛒 2:33pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): better late than never to the hinky dinky roller rink!
	2:35pm Uncle Michael: Hey you! Come here! Get up!
	2:36pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I still have so many picture disc 45s from the UK.
	2:37pm Henry: you're killin' it, Unc
	2:38pm dan: Joe Jackson is amazing both on record and the stage.
	2:38pm chresti: Wont you take me to..Pizza Town! @Jeff
	2:41pm dan: Graham Maby is up there with the top rock bassists.
	2:41pm Hopey Sockmonkey: That last set was incredible!
	2:42pm Ken From Hyde Park: What year was that Disco Star Wars tune popular?
	2:44pm The Oscar: I was going to say, anyone who still thinks disco sucks clearly doesn't listen to Duane Train.
	2:44pm βrian: My nightstand makes me feel guilty that way.
	2:45pm dan: @Hopey I wholeheartedly agree.
	🛒 2:45pm Brian in UK: Thanks Uncle.
	2:46pm The Oscar: SEXY WALLS.
	2:47pm Uncle Michael: Going long today. I'm sorry for disrupting all of your schedules.
	2:48pm βrian: I had the impression that the whole disco fad had passed by 1979. I guess not.
	2:48pm Michael 98145: woof moo uses only the most sophisticated research tools
	2:50pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Thank you for this show UM, it has been an illuminating and wonderful trip.
	2:50pm Joe: @The Oscar Can you believe it?
	2:51pm Uncle Michael: Yep..."will it blend".
	2:51pm Dean: Nice coincidence: I was wondering what, if anything, Richard Meltzer had written about disco. Ran a search. The first result I viewed was a tribute posted by Bonomo shortly after Meltzer turned 70. No mention of disco, though.
	2:52pm Uncle Michael: nice
	2:52pm The Oscar: I want to research Sexy Walls, but I'm at work and fear the search results.
	2:52pm dan: You’ve outdone yourself UM. One of the best shows you’ve done.
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: Coming next, a yuuuuge "rock" hit from the week in question....I apologize insincerely.
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, dan.
	2:54pm Hopey Sockmonkey: @The Oscar haha, I'm sure your IT department would love it.
	2:56pm Pedro in Arlington: You've outdone yourself with this deep dive into such a tremendous American historical event, UM.
	2:57pm Uncle Michael: It was a lot of fun to put together.
	2:57pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Didn't Zappa's Dancin' Fool come out in 79?
	2:58pm spodiodi: good fun. tyvm, UM
	2:58pm Uncle Michael: I believe so.
	2:59pm Uncle Michael: Still two records left to play....
	2:59pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, UM—a welcome flashback!
	3:00pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Thank you thank you for the Sylvester!
	3:02pm Uncle Michael: He's singing to a man...and a woman is his rival. I love that. No wonder Dahl was upset.
	3:05pm spodiodi: \m/ windmills \m/
	3:05pm Joe: Forgot Long Live Rock was a '79 single until I did the Billboard research.
	🛒 3:06pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): i'mi'm ten years old again, i'm even eating hot dogs for lunch!
	3:06pm Joe: @Uncle Michael Yep on Sylvester!
	🛒 3:09pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): i know it's only rock and roll but it's still rock and roll to me
	3:10pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Be it dead or alive.
	3:10pm Jeff Golick: Thank ye.
	3:11pm David D: Thanks!
	3:11pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, everyone!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from July 12, 2019

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