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Favoriting April 18, 2020: Waiting For The End Of The World

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Elvis Costello and the Attractions  Waiting For The End Of The World (live)   Favoriting
Harry Nilsson  So You Think You've Got Troubles   Favoriting
Freddie Hart  The Human Rat Race   Favoriting
Aaron Neville  Space Man   Favoriting
Slim Gaillard And His Peruvians  Soony Roony (Song Of Yxabat)   Favoriting
Beat, The  Rock And Roll Girl   Favoriting
Buffalo Springfield  Go and Say Goodbye   Favoriting
Rusty and Doug Kershaw  Hey Mae   Favoriting
Jimmy McCracklin  She Felt Too Good   Favoriting
Camera Obscura  French Navy   Favoriting
Jackie Lomax  You Make It With Me   Favoriting
Hank Locklin  Followed Closely By My Teardrops   Favoriting
Eddie Clearwater  Real Good Time   Favoriting
Formulars Dance Band, The  Never Never Let Me Down   Favoriting
Rami And The Reliables  When I Was 26 And You Were 29   Favoriting
Jerry Cole & The Stingers  Hey Little Girl   Favoriting
Jack Butwell  12 Bar Blues   Favoriting
Erma Franklin  I Don't Want No Mama's Boy   Favoriting
Jonathan Richman  New Teller   Favoriting
Fireballs, The  Say I Am (What I Am)   Favoriting
Chris Scruggs  Talk Of The Town   Favoriting
Bo Diddley  The London Stomp   Favoriting
Sonny Boy Williamson  I'm Trying To Make London My Home   Favoriting
Kid Gulliver  Forget About Him   Favoriting
Carter-Lewis & The Southernaires  Somebody Told My Girl   Favoriting
Ray Liberto Jr.  Riot In Cell Block #9   Favoriting
Ray Sharpe  Mary Jane   Favoriting
Badfinger  Day After Day   Favoriting
Dukes of Stratosphear, The  Vanishing Girl   Favoriting
Hermans Hermits  Don't Try To Hurt Me   Favoriting
Dave Rich  Ain't it Fine   Favoriting
Ben E. King  Let The Water Run Down   Favoriting
Scotty  Draw Your Breaks   Favoriting
Big Star  Thirteen   Favoriting
Goodtime Singers, The  Come On Train   Favoriting
Gosdin Brothers, The  Bowling Green   Favoriting
Checkmates, The  Black Pearl   Favoriting
Fountains of Wayne  Richie and Ruben   Favoriting
ABC News  Italian Beatniks   Favoriting

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The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

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

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for Martin Mull's "Soundstage: 60 Minutes to Kill" from 1975

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for a detailed look at cymbals in 1920s jazz

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to hear from the amazing Bob Washington, the voice of K-Tel

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story

CLICK HERE for Ock TV

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

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CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version


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Listener comments!

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Listener Baby:

We are all hanging tough, right? We all have our heads up high, right? Good.. That's what I thought. Hope all my brothers and sisters in that there Tri-State area are doing okay. Let's do this!
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

Doing it!
  11:00am
Martinibomb:

Hey Michael it's yer pal Eric K. been helping ya with the remote stuff.
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WR:

Cute opening.
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Marley P. Dogg:

Morning fellow shelleyites
  11:01am
clarke:

good mernin' superchieftains!!
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Handy Haversack:

Hey, Michael! Hey, Shelle Gamers! Happiest of Saturdays to you! Gonna be cooking and listening for a bit!
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Michael Shelley:

ERIC - next week... look out! YOU have been a huge help! THX x 1000
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WR:

@Martinibomb you doing the good work.
  11:02am
Sparkmouthnun:

This version of "WFTEOTW" is so damned good.
  11:02am
Daybreak and the Smokey Room:

Physics Juniper?
Yikes!
Virtual Instruction Physics???
Triple Yikes!!!
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Pedro in Arlington:

No. 1 Saturday radio.
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Roger:

@martinibomb!
I sing you!
so that you are no longer unsung. Thank you for helping us all!
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jmd:

Alright! Nice start, good morning all.
  11:03am
Daybreak and the Smokey Room:

What’s cookin’ in the Handy Kitchen?
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:04am
Roger:

Who will come first, the Lord, or the Lorax?
  11:05am
clarke:

hey now this is a family show
  11:05am
Daybreak and the Smokey Room:

@Martinibomb says,
“Time to make the doughnuts...”
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

And another huzzah for Martinibomb!
  11:07am
Martinibomb:

Hah gee wiz I'm blushing a little and it's just text chat thanks everyone!
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Handy Haversack:

@Daybreak: Brunch Totchos!
  11:07am
Daybreak and the Smokey Room:

Jezz, and I thought that we had troubles...
  11:07am
Martinibomb:

I wish Harry Nilsson had been a guest on the Muppet Show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09am
Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

Martinibomb: wow, yeah, he was kinda like a muppet
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

Coconut woulda been a perfect tune for them!
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GeorgeSimian:

Martinibomb: Are you sure he wasn't? Kind of remember Lime in the Coconut on there
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Michael Shelley:

My Old Desk
  11:10am
Martinibomb:

Oh I remember Lime in the Coconut - that's as close as we got
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Michael Shelley:

videosift.com...
  11:10am
clarke:

Wayne Everett is blowing my mind, kinda. i am always surprised when someone makes an album that is SO good and i completely missed it.
  11:11am
clarke:

the title of the album i refer to is KingsQueens
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GeorgeSimian:

I guess just the song. I googled it...

"Coconut" was performed in episode 410 of The Muppet Show by Kermit, who was in a hospital bed with a "twisted flipper." In the skit, the nurse, doctor, and hospital room all become gradually wilder until Kermit finally hides under the covers. When he re-emerges, the entire room is a jungle, the nurse has a painted face, and the doctor is a Witch Doctor. At the end of the skit everything returns abruptly to normal.
  11:12am
Martinibomb:

Yeh I loved that skit. It always stuck out in my head. I just wish they'd had him as a musical guest.
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StringOFperils:

Happy Saturday. Cheers everyone. Drink 'em bowl up !
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Roger:

Michael, I miss your smiling face and stripedy shirts!
  11:14am
clarke:

Yxabat?
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Juke Joint Jonny:

This is my absolute fave Slim Gaillard band name.
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Hughie Considine:

"Coconut" also has the distinction of being a one-chord song that charted. There are not many -- "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" is another.
  11:15am
Sean:

Andy Kaufman's act?
  11:15am
Daybreak and the Smokey Room:

Well I’ll be a Tasmanian Devils uncle!
Slim sounded like a Tasmanian Devil!
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

Michael Shelley: thanks for that link! And thanks for that fine Slim Gaillard!
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listener 126464:

Michael, it's up there!
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Hughie Considine:

Yes! What a track. Thanks to the legendary WPIX-FM for playing this a whole lot!
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Michael Shelley:

Roger.... June 2021?????
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suzyhotrod:

Rock and roll girl!! Yay!!
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Squints In Plymouth:

Picked up those first two PCBeat records on a CD 2fer. Those both really stand up. I was mildly taken aback at how many songs made it on to my phone.
  11:17am
Jay:

It doesn't get any better than R&R Girl by Paul Collins' Beat!!!
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listener 126464:

PIX Penthouse Party!
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Frank In Queens:

Let me tell you, there's nothing better than being with a Rock and Roll Girl.
  11:19am
clarke:

Treasurer inna house!
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Michael Shelley:

That (BEAT) album defines that sound for me.
  11:19am
Sean:

I think I read that Stills or Crosby made it pretty far into the Monkees casting but they chose Peter Tork because his teeth were better.
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Listener Baby:

They were just a great live band too.
  11:20am
Tyler H:

Wow, I haven't heard Go and Say Goodbye since probably the early 1980s!
  11:20am
clarke:

stills (crosby not in BS)
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Squints In Plymouth:

Stills's story is they wouldn't buy his songs for the Prefabs so he recommended his buddy Peter.
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Juke Joint Jonny:

Rusty and Doug is so in the groove for me this rainy Saturday
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Juke Joint Jonny:

Superior chicken scratching
  11:23am
clarke:

shealy
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GeorgeSimian:

Jimmy McCracklin!! My favorite!
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Brian in New Orleans:

Checking in from a locked down New Orleans ...So Grateful for WFMU more than ever!!!
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Michael Shelley:

Clarke & Brian - what's the report from New Orleans? How are people surviving with out hot beignets?
  11:26am
clarke:

i think everyone is taking it a lot rougher than i am! it has been a perilous few weeks, family-wise, but so far so okay
  11:26am
P-90:

The underrated Camera Obscura
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Handy Haversack:

Tots are in ... now to -cho them up ... !
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Brian in New Orleans:

Cafe Du Monde is closedand honestly I am surprised at how many New Orleanians are masked and gloved
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Hoboken Jack:

Michael, Suzy, Handy, 126464, everybody! Stay safe, stay rockin'!
  11:27am
clarke:

as is the "norm", orleanians never take anything very seriously - hence the spread
  11:28am
clarke:

THEN things got serious, of course, later
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Brian in New Orleans:

i respectfully disagree Clarke.... No one is really out any more and most are masked
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Michael Shelley:

Brian & Clarke - do you guys know each other?
  11:29am
clarke:

in the beginning there were parties etc - right down the block from me was a gathering of 180 people with a band!! you can disagree all you wanna
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Brian in New Orleans:

but yes "We don't run from hurricanes...we drink them"
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Handy Haversack:

Hey, Jack!
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Brian in New Orleans:

i do not know Clarke
  11:30am
clarke:

i don't know clarke either
  11:30am
Joe R.:

Had the good fortune to hear Camera Obscura do that song live while on a cruise ship with a bunch of people in nautical dress and boy does last summer seem like an alternate universe
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Brian in New Orleans:

i am right off St Claude in the 9th ward
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Baja Joe:

Digging the sweet sounds here in Staten Island
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Handy Haversack:

Love rainy days -- the signal is much stronger on the hardest working boom box in Brooklyn (in the bathroom).
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Brian in New Orleans:

@ Micheal Shelley thanks for keeping at it!! I'm starting my day in my studio
  11:32am
clarke:

hey memphis is a party town too (not as much) but they took the lockdown a LOT more seriously - and hence, less deaths
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Frank In Queens:

Make a list beforehand!
  11:34am
clarke:

truth frank!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Afternoon, Michael and all! I bought mint M&Ms and 3 bags of Bugles, because fuck it.
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Juke Joint Jonny:

Science tells us people poop ten times as much when they are quarantined.
  11:34am
mike east:

Lack of tortillas totally ruined my plans for bean burritos last Monday
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Michael Shelley:

had a well organized list - grocery, produce, frozen, dairy...
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listener 126464:

Jack, you too.
  11:35am
Jeff:

People wiping their butts with tortillas
  11:35am
clarke:

ever shoot canned cheez into the bugles - whoa man
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Baja Joe:

OMG, yes, I had to hunt down corn tortillas and found them in a bodega. Happened to be one of two bodegas where I get my Mexican food supplies.
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Michael Shelley:

BUGLES!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

They were only a BUCK!
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suzyhotrod:

Classic flavor Frank’s Hot Sauce is completely sold out in hood. They still make bugles? Those are MSG gold
  11:36am
clarke:

ranch bugles?
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jake6573:

Fresh fish counter was closed at fairway e86. Threw a package of frozen hailibut in the wagon ( 2 tiny pieces in the bag). Got home looked at the receipt, $24.00 for the package. WHAT !
  11:36am
clarke:

well... frank is HERE...ask him!!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

@suzy: Yes! Hard to find regular Frank's. I visited my folks on Easter so I went to the Shop Rite in the 'burbs. Bought two big plastic jugs of Frank's.
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Baja Joe:

Started watching Bosch on Prime. Didn't think I would enjoy it. I started off agreeing with my initial bad opinion, and now I'm kind of hooked. On season one and reached episode 5 in one binge session.
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Michael Shelley:

Greg - you have to put them on your fingers, as caps, and eat them that way!
  11:38am
clarke:

these are all 1st World Problems (which is also a GREAT song by Weird Al Yankovic)
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Frank In Queens:

There's a special ingredient in the Classic flavor that I've been having trouble getting a supply of due to high demand. Sorry folks! Please enjoy my other flavors in the meantime.
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Richard:

I'm never quite sure what to do with a check after depositing it via photo. Fortunately, I get electronic transfers a lot more frequently than I get physical checks.
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McGroovey:

I forgot how much I like Camera Obscura. I never remember to listen to them.

I guess it could be easier to lock down in New Orleans and Memphis, since there are probably no tourists and other partiers in town.

I've been arguing on Facebook with a Trumpist New Orelans in-law of my wife about how Trump is [not] saving America.
  11:38am
scott:

You were also describing Starland Vocal Band
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Corey:

Morning Michael and everybody! Tortillas hard to find in Michigan too. Bought a large tub of shortening on my last supermarket sweep for tortilla production.
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Michael Shelley:

HALIBUT always expensive - but so good. Hop you enjoyed it. How;d you cook it?
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Squints In Plymouth:

Yeah, if they'da dropped those backing vocals just a wee lower in the mix...
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Oh, of course. Making vampire fangs is also acceptable.
  11:38am
P-90:

That guitar tone
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Nice business opportunity for Taco Bell. Pick up a meal #9 at the drive-through window — a five-pack of tortillas and a large Mountain Dew.
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Juke Joint Jonny:

Queens would stand still without tortillas, Not a problem out here, thankfully.
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McGroovey:

Bosch is great. I just noticed there's another season up. I guess we'll start watching it after we finish Crazy Ex-Girlfriend [mini-review: season 4 has jumped the shark; seasons 1-3 were fantastic].
  11:41am
clarke:

thanks for the Bosch news!!
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Listener Baby:

If one isn't watching Better Call Saul, I can't help you.
  11:41am
scott:

...might also like Billy Bob's 'Goliath'.
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clarke:

truly the best, Baby
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spacecowboy:

Mcgroovey - i love the name - almost as good as mclovin - who if he knew about fmu would be listening
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Frank In Queens:

What are you going to do after Monday, Baby?
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Michael Shelley:

I have 4 Saul's in the can - need to catch up!
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Listener Baby:

Yikes. I hadn't thought of that. Ozark might fill in. But barely.
  11:43am
clarke:

things get real (w/o spoiling)
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Listener Baby:

P90 Talk about tone!
  11:45am
clarke:

gain struct-CHAH!
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Frank In Queens:

I don't know what we're going to wind up watching in Saul's place either. It's been occupying our Monday's this whole time. Gotta find something else.
  11:45am
GListener MW:

God I love those “WAKE UP” Nigeria compilations
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McGroovey:

I deposited checks online a couple times, but one time it didn't take. The credit union's banking app always says there's an error, so there's no way to know whether the deposit took until you check the balance in a couple days. The second time, it hadn't registered, and there was nothing I could do about it. It was a $30 check from my mom that I didn't want to take anyway, so I didn't go through the hassle of doing anything about it. But I don't do the online photo deposit thing anymore.
  11:46am
clarke:

are you into Belgravia?
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Listener Baby:

Every character in Saul, is better than the next. I could not be better.
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Frank In Queens:

Don't know that one, clarke.
  11:47am
clarke:

a decent historical romp
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Frank In Queens:

I've been watching Dispatches From Elsewhere as well, but I don't know how much longer that's running for.
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Frank In Queens:

Which period?
  11:48am
clarke:

nothing's going to be as good as Saul -- i wonder if they are stretching out the tale for yet another season???? (w/o spoiling)
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StringOFperils:

This Rami and the Reliables really nails the Arthur Alexander feel. Great stuff !!
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Michael Shelley:

RAMI: audiopostcards.bandcamp.com
  11:49am
clarke:

Belgravia is about london, around 1840-ish
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Listener Baby:

@Clarke. There will be one more after this one.
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Listener John from NJ:

Hello all!
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Frank In Queens:

Saul? Yes, there's one more season coming. Assuming they'll be able to actually shoot it.
  11:50am
clarke:

ahhhh - without spoiling
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Michael Shelley:

Love the - two mics on the drums - sound
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Listener Baby:

Two? One, maybe??
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Listener Baby:

Nah. Two seems right. Had my headphones off.
  11:51am
clarke:

i was SO looking fwd to Fargo season 4 but they pushed it back - even though there were episodes in the can!! ???
  11:52am
Jeremy:

Love that Formulars song. Great show today.
  11:53am
clarke:

seems like they would get a lot more audience by showing what they got NOW
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Michael Shelley:

Not sure you can say Butwell on the radio
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Michael Shelley:

Thanks Jeremy!
  11:54am
clarke:

or "jack"
  11:56am
gene sculatti:

Michael, Erma total No. 1 hit! Never heard it before. Thanx for spinning.
  11:57am
clarke:

one of my favorite characters on Saul is the camera guy: "it's an extension of his mind"
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Dean:

Maybe my favorite JR tune.
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StringOFperils:

Love this old Beserkely record....great band an guitar on this. A fave.
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Lizardner Dave 2:

I can't hear Jonathan Richman anymore without thinking of Jeff Tweedy's impersonation of him saying he wanted to play his set at Solid Sound without monitors because he was afraid of scaring the bugs.
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Listener Baby:

@Clarke. Dead on. So easy to make shots like that pretentious. The shots are characters themselves.
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jmd:

Robbie Fulks does an excellent imitation of JR as well.
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Listener Baby:

I saw JR open for Wilco. He sang at least half his songs in spanish.
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Hughie Considine:

My extremely tolerant mother-in-law only voiced irritation about one song on the CD mixes I made for my kids, which they used to listen to over and over: "Ice Cream Man."
  12:01pm
clarke:

hah - that reminds me of seeing joey spampinato at some sound check and claiming that the monitor in front of him "sounds like there's a peanut in there"
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Squints In Plymouth:

This Fireballs thing sounds very Raidersy. Would love to have heard a Mark Lindsay take on this in his more wild man days.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

After Adam died I was digging all around for that "Fountains of Wayne Hotline" song I've heard you play. And I'm digging and digging and I can't find it…perhaps because I thought it was a FoW song (I found it eventually.)
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Michael Shelley:

this comment board has made me laugh or smile more times in the past 1 hr then in the last few days combined - THANKS all!
  12:01pm
paul:

Did Tommy James record this?
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Frank In Queens:

Hey now!
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Michael Shelley:

PAUL - indeed
  12:02pm
clarke:

THAT is a classic greg!
  12:02pm
paul:

Thought so. Thanks!
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Baja Joe:

Thank you Michael for playing my version of the station ID. Loved that it came after a Jonathan Richman tune.
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Mailman Tom:

I recall buying the first Jonathan Richman album on cassette tape. I was so upset by it because it sounded like he was making fun of music. I smashed it using a hammer! I've since upgraded my opinion of his music. LOL
  12:05pm
clarke:

he's still making fun of music - but it is great
  12:05pm
Dean:

G-I-R-L F-R-E-N
  12:06pm
clarke:

High Tea is something different to some
  12:06pm
clarke:

probably Bo Diddley inclusive
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Handy Haversack:

For months, HP Sauce has been on the shopping list. And we finally went to the store that actually carries it on our last Quarantine Food Scurry -- and they only had the fruit flavor.
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Michael Shelley:

Me & Jonathan: www.michaelshelley.net...
  12:07pm
cloonmore:

Bo Diddley is all-time greatest #1 hitmaker. Michael, your early mention of buying bootlegs at Harvey Sound instantly transported me back 40 years ago and my favorite place to hang out in White Plains when i was 17. Lots of discs bought there. thanks for the great show.
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Hughie Considine:

@gene, that Erma Franklin track was included on the recent "Honeybeat - Groovy 60s Girl Pop" collection.
  12:09pm
Fendibull:

Thanks for the Rock and Roll and Blues Mike. Followed you on twitter before I realized there was a chat here.
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clarke:

sonny I or II??
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spacecowboy:

crap i missed the fireballs
  12:10pm
clarke:

ah it is I
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StringOFperils:

I spent the whole summer of 1972 behind the middle school until I could make a Marine Band sound like this.
  12:14pm
Fendibull:

brings back good 90's Powerpop here. Thank you and RIP Adam schlesinger
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Handy Haversack:

Brunch Totchos were a hit!

Though now I am kicking myself for not having Bugles for an appetizer. Thanks, Greg!
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jake6573:

@michael Shelley, defrosted on countertop, salt, pepper, garlic powder, threw in oven @450 for 10 mins. Fish had no flavor, hit it with some Franks Hot Sauce. That helped.
  12:16pm
clarke:

Treasurer saves the day AGAIN!
  12:16pm
Larry O:

Definitely a number 1 song! Strange, but now that I’m single again, songs like this are relevant again
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StringOFperils:

Much neophyte love-for-show happening here.
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Doug in JC:

Listen to him showing off!
  12:19pm
Fendibull:

Thanks for the Carter Lewis, I got it from Jimmy Page's compilation album: This Guitar Kills. Great Album for Led Zeppelin fans who's into 60's music.
  12:19pm
Dean:

The falcon nest atop the Berkeley campanile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ghtsndkf4

If you walk about 1/3 mile due NW from here, you'll arrive a coffee shop that was formerly Rather Ripped Records, a Beserkly Records hub. Cover of the first Greg Kihn shows him in front of the store window.
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Doug in JC:

There's a falcon nest across the street from WFMU but they don't seem to be using it this year
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Hughie Considine:

In the fantastic A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs podcast, the narrator consistently refers to Mike Stoller's surname as rhyming with "stah-ler" -- I always thought it rhymed with "bowler." Who's right?
  12:23pm
Larry O:

Beach Boys did a great version - “Student Demonstration Time”
  12:24pm
clarke:

i've always been of the bowler school
  12:24pm
Martinibomb:

Adding this Ray Sharpe track to my karaoke set list. Damn!
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Cat:

Mary Jane riff sounds a tad like Paperback Writer
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spacecowboy:

first time hearing this show - it is fantastic
  12:26pm
sonnyspop:

Ahhh! So soothing.
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spacecowboy:

ill go so far as to call it groovey
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steveo:

besides being a #1 hit, was this also a billboard #1?
  12:26pm
sonnyspop:

Day After Day, that is.
  12:26pm
Fendibull:

Yeah, the the first sight I thought it was paperback Writer.
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spacecowboy:

now i dont even mind staying inside--- listening by computer
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Handy Haversack:

Hey, Doug in JC! I owe you an e-mail!
  12:27pm
Tyler H:

This song has always just screamed "McCartney"!
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Jeezy:

See, THIS is the version of "Day After Day" I recall being a hit when I was a little kid... but when I go on Spotify I hear a different singer?!
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Ciggy:

Badfinger is the 1st band I saw live! Lincoln H.S. Yonkers, NY
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Jeezy:

The whole band Badfinger screamed McCartney!
  12:28pm
clarke:

that might be Joey Molland's Badfinger (this is pete ham's voice here)
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SeanG:

THE DUKES!!!!!!!!
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

You are a careful shopper?!!? I can't believe it. It's not as if you have discussed the cost of goods on this show before.
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Listener Baby:

I turned my 16 year old to The Dukes. She dug them.
  12:29pm
sonnyspop:

A double punch of ahhhh with Vanishing Girl. Hand to heart.
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Jeezy:

XTC had the most amazing rhythm section from like 1980-1984. It's really amazing if you listen closely...
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StringOFperils:

Like the greatest Hollies record that the Hollies never made.
  12:30pm
yerfriendpaul:

The Dukes!!!
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Jimmy Wipper:

Burning Shed is giving away a free Andy Partridge demo from the "bubblegum record" that he never released.

burningshed.com...
  12:31pm
Ralphus:

Don't understand why FMU doesn't play more XTC... or any for that matter
  12:31pm
clarke:

whippah!!!
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Doug in JC:

@Handy Hey! Take your time
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Michael Shelley:

11 pages of search results for XTC: wfmu.org...
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Jimmy Wipper:

Hey Clarke!
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Doug in JC:

Get his ass Michael!
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Jeezy:

@Ralphus, it's an interesting question. I once joked with Gaylord that FMU prefers bands that SOUND LIKE bands like the Beatles and XTC over those actual bands, haha... But he had valid responses...
  12:33pm
clarke:

you must be talking to the news dept!!
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Jeezy:

Oh wow.... Michael knocked us out the box, @Ralphus!
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Michael Shelley:

NOT meant in that way - just informing!
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Jimmy Wipper:

Who told you that, Clarke? Your FRIENDS?!?
  12:34pm
Suzie:

Hi MS! Listening in SF...
  12:34pm
clarke:

BOOM!
  12:35pm
clarke:

you sound drunk!
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Jeezy:

Haha, thanks Michael!
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Jimmy Wipper:

But I WON!
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Listener Baby:

RE: XTC.. Ween is the band FMU neglects. IMNHO
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Jeezy:

Careful, Listener Baby.... Michael can bring that up!
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Gaylord Fields:

@Jeezy: I hope my response was to send you this (scroll to bottom of next page, and then to the following one): wfmu.org...
  12:36pm
SeanG:

just heard Ween this morning-- on double dip recess
  12:36pm
plasticguitarman:

Anybody hearing a hint of that song by The Spinners
I’ll Be Around - in Vanishing Girl?
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Handy Haversack:

@Listener Baby: Clay Pigeon definitely plays some Ween. Roger and Amanda played one tune this morning. -- But there are lots of songs from Ween I'd love to hear!
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Michael Shelley:

SIX PAGES of ween:
wfmu.org...
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Listener Baby:

@Jeezy. I dare him!!
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Gaylord Fields:

I think my actual response was that, as a freeform DJ on a freeform station, any potential playlist is chosen from literally every song ever recorded, rather than a few hundred, or at more generous stations, a few thousand.
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Hughie Considine:

DJ Pseu Braun is an XTC devotee, side projects and all!
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Handy Haversack:

No fair using history, Michael!
  12:39pm
clarke:

james - you missed the opening tune of the show
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Listener Baby:

To be fair, many Ween songs can not be played.
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StringOFperils:

a HOLY record. (BOws down.)
  12:40pm
Dean:

Apple 1841, "Day After Day," was released in Nov. '71. Through Dec., Billboard predicted it would climb the charts. On Dec. 18, '71, it reached 35 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. By Christmas it had climbed to 31. On New Years Day '72 it was at 30, just behind the New Seekers' "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." "Let It Be" was then at 15. By Jan. 15, it climbed to 19, just ahead of "Let It Be" at 20. Made it to 10 on Jan. 29. ("American Pie" was topping the EL chart at this point.)
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Michael Shelley:

G- You dont think of FMU as "the Beatles station" so that post is really interesting
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Mailman Tom:

The Harder They Come is the best Reggae album ever made.
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Jeezy:

Yes, @Gaylord! The sheer number of possible songs is a factor...
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Michael Shelley:

Hi Suzie - and Hi to John!
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Jimmy Wipper:

WFMU needs to play a double shot of Stinkfinger!
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Gaylord Fields:

Also, my personal Beatles tally takes into account that I've been doing a regular playlist for only 8 of my 28 years on WFMU.
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clarke:

BOOM!!
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Listener Baby:

Last I was at FMU, I think you all had two/three Ween CDs in the Library.
  12:41pm
Bob a:

Can hardly make out a word Scotty’s saying, but I like it.
  12:43pm
Dean:

By Feb. 26, '72, "Day After Day" had dropped to 27. Nilsson's "Without You" was no. 1.
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

Ralphus don't attack us!
  12:43pm
Ralphus:

OK Mr. Shelley, I stand corrected.
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Gaylord Fields:

@Michael: I recall once there being some quizzical reactions from some quarters at WFMU when it was revealed internally that the Beatles are among the most played artists at WFMU.
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Handy Haversack:

Gonna be a real shock when Rex goes all Beatles, Ween, and XTC on Fool's Paradise today.

(I just checked with the dog -- it's Saturday!)
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Joe B:

greetings Michael and all!
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Michael Shelley:

Forward and fiaca
Menacle and den gosaca
stevecotler.com...
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Dennis Diken:

great show, Mikey!!
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Hughie Considine:

What they said about "Paint It Black" -- one of pop music's great mysteries...
  12:44pm
SeanG:

hey Joe B.!!
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Hubig Pie:

"Without you " written by members of Badfinger
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Handy Haversack:

Hey, Joe!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Gaylord! Dennis! Belock!
More stars than there are in the heavens!
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StringOFperils:

thx loads for the Scotty lyrics schloarly thingie.
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StringOFperils:

misspells scholarly....ha ha
  12:46pm
clarke:

stars after stars after staaaaaahs
  12:46pm
vertual:

Really enjoying the show Michael. Not a clunker in the bunch. Thanks for another great Saturday start.
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spacecowboy:

good one
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Jeezy:

I wanna talk more about XTC's rhythm section. I have developed this argument only recently. As great as say, Black Sea is, they had even better albums to come, of course. However, by Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead their rhythms had been greatly simplified, versus the almost African grooves on some stuff from 80-84. Thoughts?!
  12:47pm
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Yeah, nothin but number one hits today!
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juan:

Thanks for the link on the begin of Draw your Brakes lyrics. Always wondered about that. Also that is one of my very favorite songs for one of my favorite albums.
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spacecowboy:

this is good one - sounds like Kentucky rain a little bit
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spacecowboy:

good stuff
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Gaylord Fields:

@Greg: Count yourself among us!
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Ronald:

What the heck is going on? I never felt so bad and Michael is playing some of my favorite songs! Badfinger Big Star. Thanks! Not that I’m feeling any better...
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Uncle Michael:

Right up there with the Everly's version.
  12:49pm
Dean:

Wow, the review in the March 8, '72, issue of Variety of Badfinger's NY debut at Carnegie Hall! "Badfinger, sounding at times like the old Beatles, were a smash at Carnegie Hall, Wednesday (1), their first N.Y. concert. The Ron Delsener promotion grossed $15,000, a sellout at a $6 top. Short sets by Michael Gately and Al Kooper also scored." Four paragraphs follow.
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Michael Shelley:

Ralphus: as a teen I remember calling Vin Scelsa at WNEW and telling him he didnt play enough Jonathan Richman - and he YELLED at me!
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Jeezy:

@Michael... Could Vin really yell? It always sounds like he was too busy choking on his own neck to raise his voice...
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spacecowboy:

just relaxing inside diggin the grooviness music - screw the virus
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Greg from ZONE 5:

@Gaylord: I consider myself more of a gas giant.
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Michael Shelley:

Jeezy - always surprised Colin Moulding want asked to play on more non XTC sessions - he's SO SO SO good & unique
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Listener Baby:

Baby. Gonna say that was almost 18 years ago. Remember, I could go. Flaat on my back.
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Gaylord Fields:

@Hughie Considine: Mystery solved — they were discussing if the title is correct with or without the comma.
  12:51pm
SeanG:

@jeezy their early stuff was spazztic and ska and reggae influenced, then they changed little by little and got more beach boys influenced...
  12:52pm
DG:

Not sure if Sonny Charles was quite correct. My Phil Spector Greatest Hits double-vinyl album lists Spector, Irwin Levine & Toni Wine (a woman) as the writers. (Of course, Phil could've just claimed writing credit, but in that case it's a man & woman---not sure of the background of Ms. Wine).
  12:53pm
clarke:

@gaylord: ha ha ha ha!!
  12:54pm
Dennis Diken:

I had the great pleasure of playing and hanging with Sonny Charles for a couple weeks in Florence, AL in ‘16. nice man, class act
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Gaylord Fields:

@DG: Wine and Levine are both Jewish, and Phil typically changed one chord and three words and took a co-songwriting credit.
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Hughie Considine:

@Gaylord ... yes -- I can rest easier now! (However, the answer is no comma. I mean, if Mick left a little caesura before "black," possibly, but that comma came from a Decca marketing department functionary, possibly named Nigel.
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Handy Haversack:

Ahhhhh. What a great show today, Michael! Thanks so much -- and to your BOARD OPS Skeleton in JC!
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Gaylord Fields:

@clarke: Thanks! Hope you're well, pal!
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Corey:

Thanks for the great show, Michael! Had things almost feeling like a Saturday of old. Be well everybody!
  12:55pm
clarke:

we're only making plans for.....
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Hughie Considine:

@Jeezy, XTC hired Dave Mattacks for Nonsuch ... different kind of player than Terry Chambers.
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StringOFperils:

Bongo incursion !
  12:57pm
clarke:

things are good NOW!!! we'll take it - thnx for reel-y good shew MS!!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Thanks Michael & Ruth!
And one final item of note: every episode of MST3K is on YouTube for free.
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listener 126464:

Michael that was real nice thanks.
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Jeezy:

Ah, thanks all! Yes, Terry Chambers was a genius...
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Hughie Considine:

This was the place to be today. Thanks, Michael and all who listen!
  12:57pm
sonnyspop:

Great show, Michael.
  12:57pm
KWilde:

Thanks Michael!
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Handy Haversack:

Mitchell! (@Greg)
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James in ATL:

Great show! Thanks Michael!
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Daybreak and the Smokey Room:

Ruth in the Booth!
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Micheal:

Thanks, Michael!! Wonderful show!
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Richard:

Fun show! Thanks, all.
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Hubig Pie:

Club MST3k is a happy place
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clarke:

ever get the feeling....
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vertual:

with 2 minutes of bonus board pre-rex interlude
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listener 126464:

ha ha ha
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Sonny Rickles:

Yes, great show!Thanks, Mike!
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Handy Haversack:

These Italian beatniks sure can strum ...
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Michael Shelley:

THANKS ALL!
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