WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from September 11, 2020

Listener comments!
	12:01pm dan: Good afternoon everyone.
	12:01pm Doug Schulkind: Don't worry, your shopping cart has been thoroughly sanitized after every use.
	12:02pm Jeff Golick: I would love to, just once, give someone the slip.
	12:03pm Really Lisa: Hi Uncle Michael, all.
	12:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Cleanup in Aisle 84!
	12:03pm KWilde: Greetings Rudy Poops!
	12:04pm Uncle Michael: dan! Doug! Jeff! Lisa! Ken! KWilde!
	12:04pm SeanG: Hey UM!
	12:05pm spodiodi: Back to The Future! aloha, Uncle Michael and totally awesome chatsters!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: Sean!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: spodi!
	12:05pm Roberto: Woot! I just had major oral surgery AND I just turned 55! Time to get this party starty!
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: Roberto!
	12:06pm dan: @Roberto I had the 2nd of my two annual dentist appointments on the 1st of this month. So far so good.
	12:06pm spodiodi: happy Roberthday!
	12:07pm Roberto: Thanks, spodi!
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: Welcome to my aural surgery. Have a seat and grab a magazine.
	12:08pm dan: @UM It's usually old issues of Time Magazine at my dentist or barber shop strewn on the tables.
	12:08pm dan: ...Either that or New York Magazine
	12:08pm Goyim in the AM: Hi UM and all! Greetings from my new ohGodIWillNeverFinishUnpackingThat'sItWe'reNeverMovingAgainWeDieHere place.
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: Goyim!
	12:14pm dan: Is this the beginning of your 1980s series UM?
	12:16pm Goyim in the AM: My late, occasionally lamented older brother wrote obscene lyrics to this one that he liked to sing at high volume.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: nope
	🛒 12:19pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Hi Uncle Michael and gang. My brain insist on hearing this as 'He's a robot'
	12:19pm Doug Schulkind: These Boys are Soft.
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: Lizzie! Maybe he was a robot mover.
	12:20pm Jeff Golick: I also heard "robot." Underwater Moonlight, such such such a good record. Spent a lot of time staring at this LP, back when that was a thing I did on the regular.
	12:24pm Artie: Total upgrade from semi-precious status.
	12:24pm Uncle Michael: You're my infinity stone, Artie.
	12:25pm dan: Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds need to reform Rockpile. I'd see them live in a heartbeat.
	12:26pm Artie: WHICH ONE, UM?
	🛒 12:26pm Alvy Singer: Hi Uncle Michael. Excellent start to the show. It is helping me get through the boredom of client billing.
	🛒 12:26pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: 80s are my favorite musical decade AND I got my swag yesterday!
	12:26pm Uncle Michael: I'll bet a kidney against that happening, dan.
	12:26pm Uncle Michael: Alvy! thanks
	12:26pm northguineahills: comments board has been escaping me all day....
	12:27pm Artie: Agreed @dan - A real shame they didn't last a few albums longer.
	12:28pm Roberto: Gut shabbos to y'all too!
	12:28pm dan: @Artie And while they're at it, they need Paul Carrack on keyboards. He always makes things even better than they are.
	🛒 12:30pm Brian in UK: Uncle.
	12:32pm dan: Best summer for my sister, her boyfriend popped the question and she accepted.
	12:33pm Uncle Michael: BiUK!
	12:33pm Listening Out There: We Are the ADs....
	🛒 12:34pm Alvy Singer: @Uncle Michael-I agree with you about The Records first record. Teenarama being a favorite track.
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: L.O.T.!
	12:41pm Pedro in Arlington: OK, Uncle Mike. You've even got me nostalgic for Ronald Reagan.
	12:42pm dan: Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford are the new wave version of Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards, John/Taupin or even Brooker/Reid of Procol Harum.
	12:42pm Uncle Michael: Pedro!
	12:42pm dan: @Pedro Reagan wasn't president in the 1980 calendar year.
	12:42pm rw: Pulling Muscles for Michelle. Good morning!
	12:42pm spodiodi: yeah, loove this Squeeze track
	12:43pm rw: Happy '80s!!
	12:43pm Listening Out There: Jealous of you, UM, since Topeka has good air quality. The usual cool, crisp, fresh Pacific Northwest is (cough, cough) not so good right now...
	12:43pm Lizardner Dave 2: 1980. I was in the 8th grade.
	12:43pm Uncle Michael: rw! Dave!
	12:44pm Pedro in Arlington: But no one will ever make a documentary called "Ronald Reagan: Rock n' Roll President." @dan Correct but the year these guys get elected ain't no dose of sunshine, either. 2016 anyone?
	12:45pm cuspidor: i'm in for Greg Kihn
	12:46pm Uncle Michael: cuspidor!
	12:48pm Roberto: It's hard to believe with all that's happened in the last 40 years, but Reagan's election in 1980 was largely greeted with the same incredulity as tRump's in 2016.
	12:49pm minnowchief: Longtime listener, first time to chatter, Artie adjacent. Whole house air play!
	12:49pm Uncle Michael: minnow! Welcome!
	🛒 12:51pm KevinfromBayRidge: Howdy from the road. Heading back from Cape Cod. Next stop.. White Clam Pie in West haven CT!
	🛒 12:51pm Alvy Singer: I wonder if a track by The Shoes might make it on to the show today?
	12:51pm Uncle Michael: Kevin!
	12:52pm dan: Any Joe Jackson, XTC, Tears For Fears on later?
	12:53pm spodiodi: you can keep the tears for fears and double the xtc :D
	🛒 12:53pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey 'dere! Looks like I missed a lot of fun already!
	12:54pm Uncle Michael: Phillippe! Lots more to come...
	12:55pm Jeff Golick: Listened the hell out of this dB's.
	12:55pm spodiodi: PtotheB!
	🛒 12:55pm Phillippe Bastille: Episode's already clicky starred
	12:55pm dan: @UM I'll take that as a yes on all 3.
	🛒 12:56pm Phillippe Bastille: Spodiodi!
	12:56pm Goyim in the AM: As my father, a former actor, likes to say of RR, "I knew that sunuvabitch was no good when he just the head of my union."
	12:56pm βrian: Stands for databases, in my book.
	12:57pm Michael 98145: Well, hello. Hard to find the typewriter with all this smoke ...
	12:57pm northguineahills: I've been to the 80's!
	12:57pm spodiodi: man, i love that squeeze song. and i love cheap trick
	12:58pm James in ATL: Great set! Love that 80's PowerPop.
	12:59pm Listener Scott: I'm having my fun right here UM
	1:00pm spodiodi: Uncle "Friday Fun" Michael knows what time it is
	1:01pm spodiodi: what Scott said
	1:01pm Jeff Golick: Feels like efd should be showing up about now.
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: βrian! ngh! James! Scott!
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: Jeff, he must be in a meeting.
	🛒 1:04pm Brian in UK: Was the Sinceros drummer called Bob Irwin? (no relation)
	🛒 1:05pm Phillippe Bastille: This show is like the soundtrack to that dream I have about that first apartment after college
	1:05pm dan: This Hawks song sounds like a precursor to The Animals comeback song from 1983, "The Night".
	1:06pm Uncle Michael: Michael! (sorry, I missed yoy coming in)
	1:07pm Uncle Michael: Alvy, yes.
	1:08pm Ira: I remember that Plymouth commercial very well. It was the kind of ad that only works on radio. There were some ads for Sacramento tomato juice around that time (plops when you pour it) that were also for radio alone and I am having fun
	1:08pm efd: good gravy! I was indeed in a meeting, and then lost track of the time.
	1:08pm Uncle Michael: Ira!
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: Evan!
	1:09pm efd: can you just go back and start over?
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: sure!
	1:09pm efd: great, thanks
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: just as soon as it rolls around in the archives...
	1:13pm spodiodi: Plimsouls yeah!
	1:14pm spodiodi: another important song for me. thanks um
	1:14pm Goyim in the AM: You and Nicholas Cage both!
	1:15pm spodiodi: GooGo Dolls version is also ok
	1:15pm spodiodi: don't get me started on Nicholas Cage :)
	1:16pm spodiodi: onetruegod www.reddit.com...
	1:21pm Goyim in the AM: Valley Girl is a genuinely good movie, and the Plimsouls were a big part of that.
	1:22pm Uncle Michael: It's a good movie but it's a terrible punk movie.
	1:23pm Roberto: The people don't know bupkis!
	1:23pm Uncle Michael: co-rrect!
	1:24pm spodiodi: ignorance is bliss
	1:25pm Pedro in Arlington: Dumb question: What stations that would have played this set in 1981-1982?
	1:25pm spodiodi: college radio?
	1:28pm Listener Scott: WLIR played most of these at one point, but not often.
	1:28pm Goyim in the AM: "It's a good movie but it's a terrible punk movie." That is correct. Another State of Mind it ain't.
	1:29pm Goyim in the AM: Pedro: WHFS in the DC/Maryland area was also all over this stuff (at the time -- it broke bad later.)
	1:29pm spodiodi: it's better than When Peggy Sue Got Married
	1:30pm spodiodi: WHFS ftw! Damian was my fave DJ -- knew WHFS before WFMU, and wow, did i love it
	1:30pm dan: E.G. Daily aka the voice of Tommy Pickles on Rugrats
	1:31pm spodiodi: James Brown, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Rolling Stones, Dr Demento (WHFS would play crazy freeform before i knew it had a name)
	1:31pm Goyim in the AM: WHFS up until the early 90s was definitely a gateway drug for a lot of WFMU listeners.
	1:32pm spodiodi: i guess i listened in the late 80s
	1:33pm Pedro in Arlington: Thanks Uncle Mike. Yeah @Listener Scott, WLIR might have worked the Plimsouls in because of the movie but they seemed to lean more toward the likes of Thompson Twins and Duran Duran if I'm remembering right. Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel when those acts hit the jackpot.
	1:33pm northguineahills: Marshall Crenshaw has always been hit or miss w/ me, this is hit....
	1:34pm Goyim in the AM: I started listening around '80 or so, and stayed tuned until they had largely starting stinking up the joint in the more tightly formatted Alternative vein.
	🛒 1:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Love this Unproduced gurl ! ...Missed Million Miles : I'm playing that all the time lately. I don't learn a lot of songs ...well I haven't totally learned it ...[looks around] ...I thot I had a point here...
	1:37pm spodiodi: 85 ot 86ish ish to 89 for me, with heavier listening toward the end of that
	1:37pm Listener Scott: Yeah @Pedro, by the mid-80s WLIR was far more about Duran Duran/Depeche Mode/Cure, but in the early 80s they played a lot more of this power pop, and still played it occasionally even when the Thompson Twins and Flock of Seagulls dominated.
	1:38pm Uncle Michael: Rev!
	1:41pm spodiodi: then it was on to WKDU and WXPN for a couple of years, for me
	1:42pm spodiodi: Pinkees are new to me and sound great
	1:43pm Really Lisa: Heard the Beatles in that Pinkees.
	🛒 1:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: My 80s was always different than the Mainstream's ...& my 80s now is different than my 80s ...in the 80s... I knew the Bunnymen a tiny bit - but no one was distributing the Teardrop Explodes to me on small-town New England then... Which underscores that it was the decade of massive changes & phases in my life if I pause to consider. Early REM is inseparable from Leaving Home & Alt ~ Indie emerging - no space between them for me. & now my head is all steeped in Children of Nuggets... & Power Pop podcasts...
	🛒 1:43pm Phillippe Bastille: @Spodiodi I was an HFS guy back then as well -- also WAYE and WGTB until they went away/were sent away. The Einsteins started WRNR affter they sold HFS. It's still going, but I don't know if any Einsteins are involved anymore. Pat Sajak was trying to buy it a while back.
	1:44pm Goyim in the AM: I left Annapolis in '94 for graduate school in Boston and was a WZBC regular at school, but I found WFMU on a drive home back to Maryland and that was that.
	1:45pm Uncle Michael: The time I saw Utopia in SoCal in the '80s remains one of the best shows I ever attended.
	1:45pm dan: Saw Todd Rundgren at the now defunct BB Kings in 2011. Kasim Sulton was on bass and The Tubes' Praire Prince was on drums. Great concert.
	1:46pm spodiodi: Pat Sajak! the ed grimley in me is going gaga. cool to know, PB! that and WRNR are new to me
	1:47pm Uncle Michael: First synth on today's show? Mebbe.
	1:47pm spodiodi: cool, Goyim. i think i had a spell of being my own DJ for a few years. i think it was 1997 or 98 when i discovered WFMU on the interjam (w00t)
	1:48pm northguineahills: Considering I missed the last half of the American 80s in Japan, and the first half I was in pre-school/elementary school.... It took the 90s for for me to learn about the cultural contexts and constructs.
	1:48pm spodiodi: more synths!
	1:49pm Listener Scott: Speaking of E.G Daily in Valley Girl...
	1:50pm Listener Scott: www.youtube.com...
	1:50pm Creebie: Anyone remember WHTG 106.3 Eatontown in the late '80's? Switched over to that when I moved to Chelsea and couldn't pick up WLIR/WDRE anymore. Remember they had Love & Rockets, Mojo Nixon and Paul Kelly & the Messengers in heavy rotation (for some reason only those stuck in my memory).
	1:51pm spodiodi: i wonder if most radio stations keep archives. i'd like to get my hands on the time i got to dj on WKDU (friend who had a slot let me spin a few. take THAT, FCC)
	1:52pm spodiodi: i mean pre-internet archives. i imagine so, but getting my hands on any that old might be tricky
	🛒 1:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...speaking of early REM orbit...
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Creebie!
	1:52pm Jeff Golick: Counting the "mix tape jams" I've used from this playlist, and now using my toes...
	🛒 1:52pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: So many clicky stars today
	1:53pm Really Lisa: Creebie, yes! Same issue w/LIR-DRE in North Jersey.
	1:53pm spodiodi: ha, Jeff Golick :)
	1:53pm Pedro in Arlington: Some of the records I won from WLIR by being the right caller in the summer of 1983: Talking Heads-Speaking in Tongues, Peter Gabriel-Plays Live, Kajagoogoo-Too Shy 12-inch, Billy Idol-White Wedding 12-inch, Midnight Oil-10,9,8..., Downtown Hempstead was lovely.
	1:54pm dan: Every Word Means No is the theme of my childhood.
	1:55pm spodiodi: UM, was it difficult to narrow the selections down today?
	1:57pm northguineahills: "I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties." (James Murphy, 2002)
	1:57pm spodiodi: LCD soundsystem ftw
	1:58pm Artie: WHFS in the '77 to '82 years exposed me to much of this that was otherwise absent on the DC airwaves. WDCU and WPFW filling in with other material. Primed me for WUVT once I'd moved to Blacksburg VA.
	1:59pm Roberto: LUCCAASSSSSSS!!
	🛒 1:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: HOODOOZ
	🛒 2:00pm Phillippe Bastille: love this <3
	2:00pm Uncle Michael: mix tape, Jeff?
	2:00pm Jeff Golick: One of my fave/most memorable 80s concert-going experiences: Hoodoo Gurus opening for The Bangles, possibly at The Spectrum in Boston.
	🛒 2:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I mean - we're all Children of Nuggets.
	2:03pm johnk77: great work selecter bonnie hayes rocks live
	🛒 2:03pm Phillippe Bastille: @spodiodi Sajak is kind of a big deal around here. The Sajaks have (had?) their name on one of the hospital buildings. His wife is from around here. They have a big house on the Severn River on the Severna Park side.
	2:03pm Jeff Golick: It's like a DJ premium, @UM, only on a cassette. (I'm 100% sure I put "Cynical Girl" on more than one mix tape.)
	2:04pm spodiodi: PB, i had no idea.
	2:04pm Uncle Michael: I was asking if you ever mix-taped that Hoodoo's track.
	2:04pm spodiodi: Children of Eno, Children of Nuggets -- were they sweet on each other? ;)
	🛒 2:05pm Phillippe Bastille: @Goyim 1:31 where were you at in Annapolis? I've lived in Crownsville and am now in Cape St. Claire
	🛒 2:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: SMITHEREENS
	2:06pm dan: Rockabilly Power Pop.
	🛒 2:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: .. the east coast Flamin Groovies U.S. American dedicated Rawk'n'Roll band...
	2:08pm northguineahills: If we ever have an wfmu meetup, we should all make tee-shirts w/ our avatars so we can recognize each other....
	2:08pm spodiodi: i'm going to need a few shirts
	2:08pm Goyim in the AM: @Phillippe: Grew up just outside of the city limits, by Sherwood Forest (across the highway from what was then Rudy's and what is now the Ramshead Roadhouse). Went to and was graduated from St. John's College.
	🛒 2:09pm Phillippe Bastille: @spodiodi I had a friend who was DJing at RNR when Sajak was "shopping". Pat definitely bought the AM license that shared the same facility (WNAV), never did hear how the FM part worked out. It's mostly staffed now by guys who worked at HFS post-sale, like Rob Timm and Bob Waugh.
	2:09pm Jeff Golick: Oh! Just joshing, @UM. I don't think so -- I favored "Kamakaze Pilot" for tapes.
	2:09pm Goyim in the AM: A lot of old school Annapolis heads hold Sajak responsible for Annapolis becoming a huge White Flight destination. Not a fan.
	2:10pm Creebie: Over/under for how many of these bands played Maxwells. I'm going with 55%. If you weigh it by # of times, much higher. Saw Robyn at least 5x there.
	🛒 2:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hitchcock is one of those very few Artists who go one step further - & actually give you a different perspective on the World - like a painter. A Genius of our time I'm tellin' ya!
	2:12pm dan: I thought Robyn Hitchcock was the name of a Lilith Fair type female singer.
	2:12pm Goyim in the AM: RNR is a listenable station for patchouli wearers these days -- entirely too much Dave Matthews and Mumford & Sons, but others a pleasant freeformish experience. Owned by a big local company that lets them do their thing.
	2:12pm spodiodi: i lived in Deale on and off . had no idea Sajak was such a player
	🛒 2:12pm Phillippe Bastille: @Goyim nice! We poked around in Sherwood Forest when we bought our current place. We wanted something on the water, and there wasn't anything there that was in shitty enough condition to be in our price range. Wound up in what really should have been a tear-down on the Little Magothy. We were in Arden on the Severn back in the 90s
	2:13pm johnk77: i thought the old ritz now webster hall was more fun for the eighties bands at the time
	🛒 2:13pm Phillippe Bastille: @Goyim that's a pretty apt assessment of RNR
	2:14pm spodiodi: patchouli makes me break out in hives. will avoid RNR
	2:14pm Goyim in the AM: My working class roots require me to quickly emphasize: BY Sherwood Forest, not IN Sherwood. My family's been in the area since the 50s.
	🛒 2:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Haven't learned to play Trains yet ...but oh yeah that's happening.
	2:15pm Power Papi: "The Trains" just might be the best power pop song of all time
	🛒 2:15pm Phillippe Bastille: @spodiodi Deale is really nice -- I have a friend down there. I did see a recent chart, however, that was showing which pieces of shoreline will be going first if climate changes on its current pace. Deale and Shadyside are the first to go on the Bay
	2:15pm Rich in Washington: Hi Uncle Michael! Hi everybody!
	2:16pm johnk77: rip kim
	🛒 2:16pm Phillippe Bastille: @Goyim Gotcha. Same type background for me. I grew up in Brooklyn Park, so basically anywhere else in the county was a step up.
	2:17pm dan: The Pandoras sounds like several Pat Benatars.
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: Aloha, Rich!
	2:18pm spodiodi: PB, no doubt. my family's place was right on an inlet, and often very wet. i considered buying the place and living there, but the double-edged sword of being on the water is no joke these days. i imagined building something on piers that would eventually be in the water. i had to let it go. lots of good memories
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: Papi!
	2:25pm Pedro in Arlington: I attended the 1994 HFStival at RFK. I can't remember a single act. Wiki tells me I saw Counting Crows and James. I remember disliking James when HFS played their one song. Even the name of the band seemed bad.
	2:25pm minnowchief: Stopped me in my tracks with Game Theory. Dang, it’s been a very long time.
	🛒 2:25pm Phillippe Bastille: @spodiodi We're lucky because we have some decent elevation from the river. We have a cellar/basement and don't even have to carry flood insurance.
	🛒 2:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Didn't know the 1st thing about Game Theory til it was obituary time. :(
	2:26pm spodiodi: rock n roll, PB!
	🛒 2:27pm Phillippe Bastille: I never made the HFStival. I was still too bitter about the sale
	2:27pm minnowchief: I stumbled across Lolita Nation in a bargain bin back in the day.
	🛒 2:29pm Phillippe Bastille: do you ever get back in the area, spodiodi?
	2:29pm northguineahills: I believe YLT has been many, many different genres.
	2:30pm northguineahills: I mean, they've done Krautrock, shoegaze, spiritual free jazz, outsider folk, noise and the list goes on....
	2:30pm dan: I'm hoping one of the last songs is Howard Jones' "Everlasting Love", a great end to the 1980s Power Pop.
	2:33pm johnk77: scott from game theory wrote an interesting book music:what happened?
	2:35pm spodiodi: PB, not for anything fun in a while... my dad passed away spring of 19 (after being sick a few years). been dealing with that, messy estate stuff and related fallout since. i'm still dealing with it. mostly remotely, thankfully. don't have much family left there... have a cousin and aunt on the eastern shore, and an uncle and aunt in Huntingtown . too many people dying ovr the past 10 years
	2:36pm spodiodi: That Bangles Cover reminds me of Less Than Zero more than anything else
	2:36pm spodiodi: <3
	2:37pm spodiodi: Julian gives great head, and is dead
	2:38pm Creebie: Redd Kross at Maxwell's - Summer '87 (hotter than hell - the entire room was a sweatbox; at the end of the amazing show, everyone, band included ended up hanging out on the street to cool off).
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: It's ok, Iron Man beat the shit out of Ultron.
	🛒 2:39pm Phillippe Bastille: @Spodiodi ah, sorry to hear about that. Give a hollar if you do get back, we can try to get a little area meet-up together
	2:40pm spodiodi: right-on, PB! you're high on my list of people i'd dare to meet
	🛒 2:41pm Phillippe Bastille: ha, that's a great way of putting it!
	2:41pm spodiodi: :D
	2:41pm Doug Schulkind: Done with my work calls. Ready to settle into enjoying the rest of my least favorite decade of music (which is more a relative-to-the-other-decades thing than a I-just-hate-the-'80s thing).
	2:41pm spodiodi: I.R.S. rekkids ftw
	🛒 2:42pm Phillippe Bastille: Doug, you missed an entire HFS/RNR discussion!
	2:43pm goyim in the am: I don’t think I’ve heard this Restless Sleepers song since it was new but I know every freaking word. Sounds like a hip Jackson Browne in a good way.
	2:43pm northguineahills: Ok. off to work, thanks, UM!
	2:44pm Uncle Michael: yw, ngh...take care!
	2:44pm Uncle Michael: well-described, goyim
	2:44pm Power Papi: rip Jim Ellison
	🛒 2:44pm Phillippe Bastille: later ngh
	2:45pm Doug Schulkind: @Phillippe Bastille Damnit! I hate missing entire HFS/RNR discussions.
	2:45pm spodiodi: mind yo noodle, ngh!
	2:46pm dan: Lou Reed doppleganger.
	2:47pm Jeff Golick: :)
	2:47pm northguineahills: The feelies, gracias, y'alls!
	2:47pm Doug Schulkind: I grew up with WHFS. It was originally located in my hometown suburb of Bethesda, MD. Pretty much stopped listening in high school when I gravitated to WPFW, the Pacifica station in D.C. That was the station that sparked in me the desire to think of radio as a thing you do and not just listen to.
	🛒 2:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: General Lee Mavers
	2:49pm dan: Scratch that Howard Jones prediction, the last song will be XTC's "The Mayor of Simpleton".
	2:51pm spodiodi: Simpleton squeaking in from 1989 (i guessed it was a couple of years later, then checked)
	🛒 2:53pm Phillippe Bastille: @Doug yep, I listened to PFW when I was in the neighborhood. I lived just outside of Baltimore but commuted to College Park. We had WCVT up there, which was Towson's station when students still ran it.
	2:54pm Really Lisa: Or Pixies? coupla pixies from 1989..
	🛒 2:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ! - digging Someloves.
	2:55pm minnowchief: Thanks, Uncle Michael! This has been super fun.
	2:55pm spodiodi: i wouldn't mind a little PIL
	2:56pm dan: Am I good or what?
	2:56pm spodiodi: thanks, UM! such great fun. Orange and Lemmings ftw!
	2:56pm spodiodi: dan gold star
	🛒 2:56pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: The sublime Mayor!
	2:56pm Roberto: Wow, dan FTW!
	2:57pm Really Lisa: Well done. Thanks, Uncle Michael. Peace and safe wknd all.
	🛒 2:57pm Alvy Singer: Fun romp through the 80's Uncle Michael.
	🛒 2:57pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Not a cough in a carload UM! Well done
	2:57pm dan: Perfect end to an amazing show UM. One of the best in awhile.
	2:57pm Uncle Michael: I had fun today and I hope you all did too!
	2:58pm spodiodi: BIG fun, UM
	🛒 2:58pm Phillippe Bastille: It was fabulous, UM! Thank you! Bye all!
	2:58pm Jeff Golick: POP goes the POWER POP show! Thanks for the jangly run thru the big hair era, @UM!
	2:58pm Creebie: Fun time machine this PM, thanks!
	2:59pm efd: great show, UM! I was listening but not commenting.
	2:59pm Listener Jim F: Thinking of FXO hearing this...RIP
	3:01pm spodiodi: he made too many enemies :\|
	3:01pm efd: "Small Hair Music From The Big Hair Era" - now that's a marathon premium right there!
	3:01pm dan: Do you mean Donald Trumpkinhead?
	3:02pm goyim in the am: Good show, UM!!!
	3:02pm otto: cheers Uncle M
	3:03pm Lizardner Dave 2: Thanks UM! Have a great weekend!
	3:03pm goyim in the am: @Doug: I’ve mentioned on your playlist how much PFW meant to me. What a station.
	3:04pm burke: ciao thanks
	3:04pm Uncle Michael: buh-bye!
	3:04pm KWilde: Thanks UM!
	🛒 3:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Righteous UM Thank You

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from September 11, 2020

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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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September 11, 2020: Show #364 SPECIAL ('80s power pop): "They probably meant The '80s."

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
Dirty Looks	Let Go "Let Go" by "Dirty Looks"	Dirty Looks	Stiff	1980	0:02:31 (Pop-up)
Split Enz	I Got You "I Got You" by "Split Enz"	True Colours	Mushroom	1980	0:09:45 (Pop-up)
The Shivvers	Teen Line "Teen Line" by "The Shivvers"	single (b/w When I Was Younger)	Fliptop	1980	0:10:14 (Pop-up)
The Records	Hearts In Her Eyes "Hearts In Her Eyes" by "The Records"	Crashes	Virgin	1980	0:12:36 (Pop-up)
Nikki & The Corvettes	He's A Mover	Nikki And The Corvettes	BOMP!	1980	0:15:54 (Pop-up)
The Soft Boys	Positive Vibrations	Underwater Moonlight	Armageddon	1980	0:18:10 (Pop-up)
Phil Seymour	Precious To Me "Precious To Me" by "Phil Seymour"	single (b/w Baby It's You)	The Boardwalk Entertainment Co	1980	0:21:10 (Pop-up)
Rockpile	Teacher Teacher "Teacher Teacher" by "Rockpile"	Seconds Of Pleasure	F-Beat	1980	0:23:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Keith Mansfield	Cyclotron "Cyclotron" by "Keith Mansfield"	KPM 1366 - Jingles And Programme Cues Vol. 8	KPM	1986	0:26:26 (Pop-up)

The Barracudas	Summer Fun "Summer Fun" by "The Barracudas"	single (b/w Chevy Baby)	Wipe Out	1980	0:30:58 (Pop-up)
The Kings	Switchin' To Glide / This Beat Goes On	Switchin' To Glide / This Beat Goes On	Elektra	1980	0:34:00 (Pop-up)
Squeeze	Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)	Argybargy	A&M	1980	0:39:38 (Pop-up)
Greg Kihn Band	The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'em)	single (b/w When The Music Starts)	Beserkeley	1981	0:43:33 (Pop-up)
20/20	Nuclear Boy "Nuclear Boy" by "20/20"	Look Out!	Portrait	1981	0:46:15 (Pop-up)
The Sinceros	Memory Lane "Memory Lane" by "The Sinceros"	Pet Rock	Columbia	1981	0:49:31 (Pop-up)
The dB's	Big Brown Eyes "Big Brown Eyes" by "The dB's"	Stands for Decibels	Albion	1981	0:52:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Keith Mansfield	Kinetics "Kinetics" by "Keith Mansfield"	KPM 1366 - Jingles And Programme Cues Vol. 8	KPM	1986	0:54:11 (Pop-up)

Michael Guthrie Band	Sorry About That	Direct Hits	EAR	1981	0:58:58 (Pop-up)
Hawks	It's All Right, It's O.K "It's All Right, It's O.K" by "Hawks"	Hawks	Columbia	1981	1:02:46 (Pop-up)
Shoes	She Satisfies "She Satisfies" by "Shoes"	Tongue Twister	Elektra	1981	1:06:45 (Pop-up)
The Numbers	Big Beat "Big Beat" by "The Numbers"	single (b/w Telephone)	Deluxe	1982	1:09:41 (Pop-up)
The Plimsouls	A Million Miles Away	single (b/w I'll Get Lucky)	Shaky City	1982	1:12:28 (Pop-up)
Little Girls	The Earthquake Song "The Earthquake Song" by "Little Girls"	The Podolor-Cooper Sessions	Valley Pop	1982	1:16:01 (Pop-up)
Tommy Keene	Back to Zero Now "Back to Zero Now" by "Tommy Keene"	single (b/w Mr. Roland)	Avenue	1982	1:18:28 (Pop-up)
The Monroes	What Do All the People Know	The Monroes	Alfa Records Inc.	1982	1:21:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Keith Mansfield	Micropops "Micropops" by "Keith Mansfield"	KPM 1366 - Jingles And Programme Cues Vol. 8	KPM	1986	1:25:25 (Pop-up)

Marshall Crenshaw	Cynical Girl (live bonus track)	Marshall Crenshaw	Warner Bros.	1982	1:31:11 (Pop-up)
Josie Cotton	He Could Be The One "He Could Be The One" by "Josie Cotton"	single (b/w Systematic Way)	Elektra	1982	1:33:52 (Pop-up)
The SpongeTones	She Goes Out With Everybody	single (b-side to Here I Go Again)	Ripete	1982	1:36:27 (Pop-up)
Pinkees	Girl In A Million "Girl In A Million" by "Pinkees"	Pinkees	Creole	1982	1:38:49 (Pop-up)
Utopia	Say Yeah "Say Yeah" by "Utopia"	Utopia	Network	1982	1:42:05 (Pop-up)
The Gymslips	Big Sister (It's Probably Better)	Big Sister (EP)	Abstract	1983	1:45:04 (Pop-up)
Bonnie Hayes With The Wild Combo	Girls Like Me	single (b/w Dum Fun)	Big Time	1983	1:47:19 (Pop-up)
Let's Active	Every Word Means No "Every Word Means No" by "Let's Active"	Afoot (EP)	I.R.S.	1983	1:50:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Keith Mansfield	Positive Feedback	KPM 1366 - Jingles And Programme Cues Vol. 8	KPM	1986	1:53:02 (Pop-up)

The Hoodoo Gurus	I Want You Back "I Want You Back" by "The Hoodoo Gurus"	single (b/w Who Do You Love? (Live)) Big Time 1984	Big Time	1984	1:58:02 (Pop-up)
Candy	American Kix "American Kix" by "Candy"	Whatever Happened To Fun...	Mercury	1985	2:01:05 (Pop-up)
The Smithereens	Crazy Mixed-Up Kid	Especially For You	Enigma	1986	2:05:09 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians	Heaven	Fegmania	Slash	1985	2:07:05 (Pop-up)
The Nashville Ramblers	The Trains	American Heart & Soul (VA Comp)	Hi Lo	1986	2:11:41 (Pop-up)
The Pandoras	I Didn't Cry "I Didn't Cry" by "The Pandoras"	Stop Pretending	Rhino	1986	2:14:44 (Pop-up)
The Go-Betweens	Spring Rain "Spring Rain" by "The Go-Betweens"	Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express	Beggars Banquet	1986	2:17:42 (Pop-up)
Game Theory	Erica's Word "Erica's Word" by "Game Theory"	single (b/w Couldn't I Just Tell You)	Big Time	1986	2:20:39 (Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	The Cone of Silence "The Cone of Silence" by "Yo La Tengo"	Ride the Tiger	Coyote	1986	2:24:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Keith Mansfield	Teamwork "Teamwork" by "Keith Mansfield"	KPM 1366 - Jingles And Programme Cues Vol. 8	KPM	1986	2:27:09 (Pop-up)

The Bangles	A Hazy Shade Of Winter	Less Than Zero (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Def Jam	1987	2:31:26 (Pop-up)
Redd Kross	Peach Kelli Pop "Peach Kelli Pop" by "Redd Kross"	Neurotica	Big Time	1987	2:34:20 (Pop-up)
Reckless Sleepers	If We Never Meet Again	single (b/w When You Get That Look)	I.R.S.	1988	2:38:12 (Pop-up)
Material Issue	The Girl Who Never Falls In Love	single (b-side to Renee Remains The Same)	Big Block	1988	2:42:07 (Pop-up)
The Feelies	It's Only Life "It's Only Life" by "The Feelies"	Only Life	A&M	1988	2:45:01 (Pop-up)
The La's	There She Goes "There She Goes" by "The La's"	single (b-side to Come In, Come Out)	Go! Discs	1988	2:47:57 (Pop-up)
Someloves	Melt "Melt" by "Someloves"	Something Or Other	Mushroom	1989	2:50:27 (Pop-up)
XTC	Mayor Of Simpleton "Mayor Of Simpleton" by "XTC"	Oranges and Lemons	Virgin	1989	2:55:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues)	Blue Horizon	1968	2:58:52 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:01pm dan: Good afternoon everyone.
	12:01pm Doug Schulkind: Don't worry, your shopping cart has been thoroughly sanitized after every use.
	12:02pm Jeff Golick: I would love to, just once, give someone the slip.
	12:03pm Really Lisa: Hi Uncle Michael, all.
	12:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Cleanup in Aisle 84!
	12:03pm KWilde: Greetings Rudy Poops!
	12:04pm Uncle Michael: dan! Doug! Jeff! Lisa! Ken! KWilde!
	12:04pm SeanG: Hey UM!
	12:05pm spodiodi: Back to The Future! aloha, Uncle Michael and totally awesome chatsters!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: Sean!
	12:05pm Uncle Michael: spodi!
	12:05pm Roberto: Woot! I just had major oral surgery AND I just turned 55! Time to get this party starty!
	12:06pm Uncle Michael: Roberto!
	12:06pm dan: @Roberto I had the 2nd of my two annual dentist appointments on the 1st of this month. So far so good.
	12:06pm spodiodi: happy Roberthday!
	12:07pm Roberto: Thanks, spodi!
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: Welcome to my aural surgery. Have a seat and grab a magazine.
	12:08pm dan: @UM It's usually old issues of Time Magazine at my dentist or barber shop strewn on the tables.
	12:08pm dan: ...Either that or New York Magazine
	12:08pm Goyim in the AM: Hi UM and all! Greetings from my new ohGodIWillNeverFinishUnpackingThat'sItWe'reNeverMovingAgainWeDieHere place.
	12:09pm Uncle Michael: Goyim!
	12:14pm dan: Is this the beginning of your 1980s series UM?
	12:16pm Goyim in the AM: My late, occasionally lamented older brother wrote obscene lyrics to this one that he liked to sing at high volume.
	12:16pm Uncle Michael: nope
	🛒 12:19pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Hi Uncle Michael and gang. My brain insist on hearing this as 'He's a robot'
	12:19pm Doug Schulkind: These Boys are Soft.
	12:20pm Uncle Michael: Lizzie! Maybe he was a robot mover.
	12:20pm Jeff Golick: I also heard "robot." Underwater Moonlight, such such such a good record. Spent a lot of time staring at this LP, back when that was a thing I did on the regular.
	12:24pm Artie: Total upgrade from semi-precious status.
	12:24pm Uncle Michael: You're my infinity stone, Artie.
	12:25pm dan: Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds need to reform Rockpile. I'd see them live in a heartbeat.
	12:26pm Artie: WHICH ONE, UM?
	🛒 12:26pm Alvy Singer: Hi Uncle Michael. Excellent start to the show. It is helping me get through the boredom of client billing.
	🛒 12:26pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: 80s are my favorite musical decade AND I got my swag yesterday!
	12:26pm Uncle Michael: I'll bet a kidney against that happening, dan.
	12:26pm Uncle Michael: Alvy! thanks
	12:26pm northguineahills: comments board has been escaping me all day....
	12:27pm Artie: Agreed @dan - A real shame they didn't last a few albums longer.
	12:28pm Roberto: Gut shabbos to y'all too!
	12:28pm dan: @Artie And while they're at it, they need Paul Carrack on keyboards. He always makes things even better than they are.
	🛒 12:30pm Brian in UK: Uncle.
	12:32pm dan: Best summer for my sister, her boyfriend popped the question and she accepted.
	12:33pm Uncle Michael: BiUK!
	12:33pm Listening Out There: We Are the ADs....
	🛒 12:34pm Alvy Singer: @Uncle Michael-I agree with you about The Records first record. Teenarama being a favorite track.
	12:36pm Uncle Michael: L.O.T.!
	12:41pm Pedro in Arlington: OK, Uncle Mike. You've even got me nostalgic for Ronald Reagan.
	12:42pm dan: Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford are the new wave version of Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards, John/Taupin or even Brooker/Reid of Procol Harum.
	12:42pm Uncle Michael: Pedro!
	12:42pm dan: @Pedro Reagan wasn't president in the 1980 calendar year.
	12:42pm rw: Pulling Muscles for Michelle. Good morning!
	12:42pm spodiodi: yeah, loove this Squeeze track
	12:43pm rw: Happy '80s!!
	12:43pm Listening Out There: Jealous of you, UM, since Topeka has good air quality. The usual cool, crisp, fresh Pacific Northwest is (cough, cough) not so good right now...
	12:43pm Lizardner Dave 2: 1980. I was in the 8th grade.
	12:43pm Uncle Michael: rw! Dave!
	12:44pm Pedro in Arlington: But no one will ever make a documentary called "Ronald Reagan: Rock n' Roll President." @dan Correct but the year these guys get elected ain't no dose of sunshine, either. 2016 anyone?
	12:45pm cuspidor: i'm in for Greg Kihn
	12:46pm Uncle Michael: cuspidor!
	12:48pm Roberto: It's hard to believe with all that's happened in the last 40 years, but Reagan's election in 1980 was largely greeted with the same incredulity as tRump's in 2016.
	12:49pm minnowchief: Longtime listener, first time to chatter, Artie adjacent. Whole house air play!
	12:49pm Uncle Michael: minnow! Welcome!
	🛒 12:51pm KevinfromBayRidge: Howdy from the road. Heading back from Cape Cod. Next stop.. White Clam Pie in West haven CT!
	🛒 12:51pm Alvy Singer: I wonder if a track by The Shoes might make it on to the show today?
	12:51pm Uncle Michael: Kevin!
	12:52pm dan: Any Joe Jackson, XTC, Tears For Fears on later?
	12:53pm spodiodi: you can keep the tears for fears and double the xtc :D
	🛒 12:53pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey 'dere! Looks like I missed a lot of fun already!
	12:54pm Uncle Michael: Phillippe! Lots more to come...
	12:55pm Jeff Golick: Listened the hell out of this dB's.
	12:55pm spodiodi: PtotheB!
	🛒 12:55pm Phillippe Bastille: Episode's already clicky starred
	12:55pm dan: @UM I'll take that as a yes on all 3.
	🛒 12:56pm Phillippe Bastille: Spodiodi!
	12:56pm Goyim in the AM: As my father, a former actor, likes to say of RR, "I knew that sunuvabitch was no good when he just the head of my union."
	12:56pm βrian: Stands for databases, in my book.
	12:57pm Michael 98145: Well, hello. Hard to find the typewriter with all this smoke ...
	12:57pm northguineahills: I've been to the 80's!
	12:57pm spodiodi: man, i love that squeeze song. and i love cheap trick
	12:58pm James in ATL: Great set! Love that 80's PowerPop.
	12:59pm Listener Scott: I'm having my fun right here UM
	1:00pm spodiodi: Uncle "Friday Fun" Michael knows what time it is
	1:01pm spodiodi: what Scott said
	1:01pm Jeff Golick: Feels like efd should be showing up about now.
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: βrian! ngh! James! Scott!
	1:01pm Uncle Michael: Jeff, he must be in a meeting.
	🛒 1:04pm Brian in UK: Was the Sinceros drummer called Bob Irwin? (no relation)
	🛒 1:05pm Phillippe Bastille: This show is like the soundtrack to that dream I have about that first apartment after college
	1:05pm dan: This Hawks song sounds like a precursor to The Animals comeback song from 1983, "The Night".
	1:06pm Uncle Michael: Michael! (sorry, I missed yoy coming in)
	1:07pm Uncle Michael: Alvy, yes.
	1:08pm Ira: I remember that Plymouth commercial very well. It was the kind of ad that only works on radio. There were some ads for Sacramento tomato juice around that time (plops when you pour it) that were also for radio alone and I am having fun
	1:08pm efd: good gravy! I was indeed in a meeting, and then lost track of the time.
	1:08pm Uncle Michael: Ira!
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: Evan!
	1:09pm efd: can you just go back and start over?
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: sure!
	1:09pm efd: great, thanks
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: just as soon as it rolls around in the archives...
	1:13pm spodiodi: Plimsouls yeah!
	1:14pm spodiodi: another important song for me. thanks um
	1:14pm Goyim in the AM: You and Nicholas Cage both!
	1:15pm spodiodi: GooGo Dolls version is also ok
	1:15pm spodiodi: don't get me started on Nicholas Cage :)
	1:16pm spodiodi: onetruegod www.reddit.com...
	1:21pm Goyim in the AM: Valley Girl is a genuinely good movie, and the Plimsouls were a big part of that.
	1:22pm Uncle Michael: It's a good movie but it's a terrible punk movie.
	1:23pm Roberto: The people don't know bupkis!
	1:23pm Uncle Michael: co-rrect!
	1:24pm spodiodi: ignorance is bliss
	1:25pm Pedro in Arlington: Dumb question: What stations that would have played this set in 1981-1982?
	1:25pm spodiodi: college radio?
	1:28pm Listener Scott: WLIR played most of these at one point, but not often.
	1:28pm Goyim in the AM: "It's a good movie but it's a terrible punk movie." That is correct. Another State of Mind it ain't.
	1:29pm Goyim in the AM: Pedro: WHFS in the DC/Maryland area was also all over this stuff (at the time -- it broke bad later.)
	1:29pm spodiodi: it's better than When Peggy Sue Got Married
	1:30pm spodiodi: WHFS ftw! Damian was my fave DJ -- knew WHFS before WFMU, and wow, did i love it
	1:30pm dan: E.G. Daily aka the voice of Tommy Pickles on Rugrats
	1:31pm spodiodi: James Brown, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Rolling Stones, Dr Demento (WHFS would play crazy freeform before i knew it had a name)
	1:31pm Goyim in the AM: WHFS up until the early 90s was definitely a gateway drug for a lot of WFMU listeners.
	1:32pm spodiodi: i guess i listened in the late 80s
	1:33pm Pedro in Arlington: Thanks Uncle Mike. Yeah @Listener Scott, WLIR might have worked the Plimsouls in because of the movie but they seemed to lean more toward the likes of Thompson Twins and Duran Duran if I'm remembering right. Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel when those acts hit the jackpot.
	1:33pm northguineahills: Marshall Crenshaw has always been hit or miss w/ me, this is hit....
	1:34pm Goyim in the AM: I started listening around '80 or so, and stayed tuned until they had largely starting stinking up the joint in the more tightly formatted Alternative vein.
	🛒 1:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Love this Unproduced gurl ! ...Missed Million Miles : I'm playing that all the time lately. I don't learn a lot of songs ...well I haven't totally learned it ...[looks around] ...I thot I had a point here...
	1:37pm spodiodi: 85 ot 86ish ish to 89 for me, with heavier listening toward the end of that
	1:37pm Listener Scott: Yeah @Pedro, by the mid-80s WLIR was far more about Duran Duran/Depeche Mode/Cure, but in the early 80s they played a lot more of this power pop, and still played it occasionally even when the Thompson Twins and Flock of Seagulls dominated.
	1:38pm Uncle Michael: Rev!
	1:41pm spodiodi: then it was on to WKDU and WXPN for a couple of years, for me
	1:42pm spodiodi: Pinkees are new to me and sound great
	1:43pm Really Lisa: Heard the Beatles in that Pinkees.
	🛒 1:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: My 80s was always different than the Mainstream's ...& my 80s now is different than my 80s ...in the 80s... I knew the Bunnymen a tiny bit - but no one was distributing the Teardrop Explodes to me on small-town New England then... Which underscores that it was the decade of massive changes & phases in my life if I pause to consider. Early REM is inseparable from Leaving Home & Alt ~ Indie emerging - no space between them for me. & now my head is all steeped in Children of Nuggets... & Power Pop podcasts...
	🛒 1:43pm Phillippe Bastille: @Spodiodi I was an HFS guy back then as well -- also WAYE and WGTB until they went away/were sent away. The Einsteins started WRNR affter they sold HFS. It's still going, but I don't know if any Einsteins are involved anymore. Pat Sajak was trying to buy it a while back.
	1:44pm Goyim in the AM: I left Annapolis in '94 for graduate school in Boston and was a WZBC regular at school, but I found WFMU on a drive home back to Maryland and that was that.
	1:45pm Uncle Michael: The time I saw Utopia in SoCal in the '80s remains one of the best shows I ever attended.
	1:45pm dan: Saw Todd Rundgren at the now defunct BB Kings in 2011. Kasim Sulton was on bass and The Tubes' Praire Prince was on drums. Great concert.
	1:46pm spodiodi: Pat Sajak! the ed grimley in me is going gaga. cool to know, PB! that and WRNR are new to me
	1:47pm Uncle Michael: First synth on today's show? Mebbe.
	1:47pm spodiodi: cool, Goyim. i think i had a spell of being my own DJ for a few years. i think it was 1997 or 98 when i discovered WFMU on the interjam (w00t)
	1:48pm northguineahills: Considering I missed the last half of the American 80s in Japan, and the first half I was in pre-school/elementary school.... It took the 90s for for me to learn about the cultural contexts and constructs.
	1:48pm spodiodi: more synths!
	1:49pm Listener Scott: Speaking of E.G Daily in Valley Girl...
	1:50pm Listener Scott: www.youtube.com...
	1:50pm Creebie: Anyone remember WHTG 106.3 Eatontown in the late '80's? Switched over to that when I moved to Chelsea and couldn't pick up WLIR/WDRE anymore. Remember they had Love & Rockets, Mojo Nixon and Paul Kelly & the Messengers in heavy rotation (for some reason only those stuck in my memory).
	1:51pm spodiodi: i wonder if most radio stations keep archives. i'd like to get my hands on the time i got to dj on WKDU (friend who had a slot let me spin a few. take THAT, FCC)
	1:52pm spodiodi: i mean pre-internet archives. i imagine so, but getting my hands on any that old might be tricky
	🛒 1:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...speaking of early REM orbit...
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Creebie!
	1:52pm Jeff Golick: Counting the "mix tape jams" I've used from this playlist, and now using my toes...
	🛒 1:52pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: So many clicky stars today
	1:53pm Really Lisa: Creebie, yes! Same issue w/LIR-DRE in North Jersey.
	1:53pm spodiodi: ha, Jeff Golick :)
	1:53pm Pedro in Arlington: Some of the records I won from WLIR by being the right caller in the summer of 1983: Talking Heads-Speaking in Tongues, Peter Gabriel-Plays Live, Kajagoogoo-Too Shy 12-inch, Billy Idol-White Wedding 12-inch, Midnight Oil-10,9,8..., Downtown Hempstead was lovely.
	1:54pm dan: Every Word Means No is the theme of my childhood.
	1:55pm spodiodi: UM, was it difficult to narrow the selections down today?
	1:57pm northguineahills: "I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties." (James Murphy, 2002)
	1:57pm spodiodi: LCD soundsystem ftw
	1:58pm Artie: WHFS in the '77 to '82 years exposed me to much of this that was otherwise absent on the DC airwaves. WDCU and WPFW filling in with other material. Primed me for WUVT once I'd moved to Blacksburg VA.
	1:59pm Roberto: LUCCAASSSSSSS!!
	🛒 1:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: HOODOOZ
	🛒 2:00pm Phillippe Bastille: love this <3
	2:00pm Uncle Michael: mix tape, Jeff?
	2:00pm Jeff Golick: One of my fave/most memorable 80s concert-going experiences: Hoodoo Gurus opening for The Bangles, possibly at The Spectrum in Boston.
	🛒 2:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I mean - we're all Children of Nuggets.
	2:03pm johnk77: great work selecter bonnie hayes rocks live
	🛒 2:03pm Phillippe Bastille: @spodiodi Sajak is kind of a big deal around here. The Sajaks have (had?) their name on one of the hospital buildings. His wife is from around here. They have a big house on the Severn River on the Severna Park side.
	2:03pm Jeff Golick: It's like a DJ premium, @UM, only on a cassette. (I'm 100% sure I put "Cynical Girl" on more than one mix tape.)
	2:04pm spodiodi: PB, i had no idea.
	2:04pm Uncle Michael: I was asking if you ever mix-taped that Hoodoo's track.
	2:04pm spodiodi: Children of Eno, Children of Nuggets -- were they sweet on each other? ;)
	🛒 2:05pm Phillippe Bastille: @Goyim 1:31 where were you at in Annapolis? I've lived in Crownsville and am now in Cape St. Claire
	🛒 2:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: SMITHEREENS
	2:06pm dan: Rockabilly Power Pop.
	🛒 2:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: .. the east coast Flamin Groovies U.S. American dedicated Rawk'n'Roll band...
	2:08pm northguineahills: If we ever have an wfmu meetup, we should all make tee-shirts w/ our avatars so we can recognize each other....
	2:08pm spodiodi: i'm going to need a few shirts
	2:08pm Goyim in the AM: @Phillippe: Grew up just outside of the city limits, by Sherwood Forest (across the highway from what was then Rudy's and what is now the Ramshead Roadhouse). Went to and was graduated from St. John's College.
	🛒 2:09pm Phillippe Bastille: @spodiodi I had a friend who was DJing at RNR when Sajak was "shopping". Pat definitely bought the AM license that shared the same facility (WNAV), never did hear how the FM part worked out. It's mostly staffed now by guys who worked at HFS post-sale, like Rob Timm and Bob Waugh.
	2:09pm Jeff Golick: Oh! Just joshing, @UM. I don't think so -- I favored "Kamakaze Pilot" for tapes.
	2:09pm Goyim in the AM: A lot of old school Annapolis heads hold Sajak responsible for Annapolis becoming a huge White Flight destination. Not a fan.
	2:10pm Creebie: Over/under for how many of these bands played Maxwells. I'm going with 55%. If you weigh it by # of times, much higher. Saw Robyn at least 5x there.
	🛒 2:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hitchcock is one of those very few Artists who go one step further - & actually give you a different perspective on the World - like a painter. A Genius of our time I'm tellin' ya!
	2:12pm dan: I thought Robyn Hitchcock was the name of a Lilith Fair type female singer.
	2:12pm Goyim in the AM: RNR is a listenable station for patchouli wearers these days -- entirely too much Dave Matthews and Mumford & Sons, but others a pleasant freeformish experience. Owned by a big local company that lets them do their thing.
	2:12pm spodiodi: i lived in Deale on and off . had no idea Sajak was such a player
	🛒 2:12pm Phillippe Bastille: @Goyim nice! We poked around in Sherwood Forest when we bought our current place. We wanted something on the water, and there wasn't anything there that was in shitty enough condition to be in our price range. Wound up in what really should have been a tear-down on the Little Magothy. We were in Arden on the Severn back in the 90s
	2:13pm johnk77: i thought the old ritz now webster hall was more fun for the eighties bands at the time
	🛒 2:13pm Phillippe Bastille: @Goyim that's a pretty apt assessment of RNR
	2:14pm spodiodi: patchouli makes me break out in hives. will avoid RNR
	2:14pm Goyim in the AM: My working class roots require me to quickly emphasize: BY Sherwood Forest, not IN Sherwood. My family's been in the area since the 50s.
	🛒 2:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Haven't learned to play Trains yet ...but oh yeah that's happening.
	2:15pm Power Papi: "The Trains" just might be the best power pop song of all time
	🛒 2:15pm Phillippe Bastille: @spodiodi Deale is really nice -- I have a friend down there. I did see a recent chart, however, that was showing which pieces of shoreline will be going first if climate changes on its current pace. Deale and Shadyside are the first to go on the Bay
	2:15pm Rich in Washington: Hi Uncle Michael! Hi everybody!
	2:16pm johnk77: rip kim
	🛒 2:16pm Phillippe Bastille: @Goyim Gotcha. Same type background for me. I grew up in Brooklyn Park, so basically anywhere else in the county was a step up.
	2:17pm dan: The Pandoras sounds like several Pat Benatars.
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: Aloha, Rich!
	2:18pm spodiodi: PB, no doubt. my family's place was right on an inlet, and often very wet. i considered buying the place and living there, but the double-edged sword of being on the water is no joke these days. i imagined building something on piers that would eventually be in the water. i had to let it go. lots of good memories
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: Papi!
	2:25pm Pedro in Arlington: I attended the 1994 HFStival at RFK. I can't remember a single act. Wiki tells me I saw Counting Crows and James. I remember disliking James when HFS played their one song. Even the name of the band seemed bad.
	2:25pm minnowchief: Stopped me in my tracks with Game Theory. Dang, it’s been a very long time.
	🛒 2:25pm Phillippe Bastille: @spodiodi We're lucky because we have some decent elevation from the river. We have a cellar/basement and don't even have to carry flood insurance.
	🛒 2:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Didn't know the 1st thing about Game Theory til it was obituary time. :(
	2:26pm spodiodi: rock n roll, PB!
	🛒 2:27pm Phillippe Bastille: I never made the HFStival. I was still too bitter about the sale
	2:27pm minnowchief: I stumbled across Lolita Nation in a bargain bin back in the day.
	🛒 2:29pm Phillippe Bastille: do you ever get back in the area, spodiodi?
	2:29pm northguineahills: I believe YLT has been many, many different genres.
	2:30pm northguineahills: I mean, they've done Krautrock, shoegaze, spiritual free jazz, outsider folk, noise and the list goes on....
	2:30pm dan: I'm hoping one of the last songs is Howard Jones' "Everlasting Love", a great end to the 1980s Power Pop.
	2:33pm johnk77: scott from game theory wrote an interesting book music:what happened?
	2:35pm spodiodi: PB, not for anything fun in a while... my dad passed away spring of 19 (after being sick a few years). been dealing with that, messy estate stuff and related fallout since. i'm still dealing with it. mostly remotely, thankfully. don't have much family left there... have a cousin and aunt on the eastern shore, and an uncle and aunt in Huntingtown . too many people dying ovr the past 10 years
	2:36pm spodiodi: That Bangles Cover reminds me of Less Than Zero more than anything else
	2:36pm spodiodi: <3
	2:37pm spodiodi: Julian gives great head, and is dead
	2:38pm Creebie: Redd Kross at Maxwell's - Summer '87 (hotter than hell - the entire room was a sweatbox; at the end of the amazing show, everyone, band included ended up hanging out on the street to cool off).
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: It's ok, Iron Man beat the shit out of Ultron.
	🛒 2:39pm Phillippe Bastille: @Spodiodi ah, sorry to hear about that. Give a hollar if you do get back, we can try to get a little area meet-up together
	2:40pm spodiodi: right-on, PB! you're high on my list of people i'd dare to meet
	🛒 2:41pm Phillippe Bastille: ha, that's a great way of putting it!
	2:41pm spodiodi: :D
	2:41pm Doug Schulkind: Done with my work calls. Ready to settle into enjoying the rest of my least favorite decade of music (which is more a relative-to-the-other-decades thing than a I-just-hate-the-'80s thing).
	2:41pm spodiodi: I.R.S. rekkids ftw
	🛒 2:42pm Phillippe Bastille: Doug, you missed an entire HFS/RNR discussion!
	2:43pm goyim in the am: I don’t think I’ve heard this Restless Sleepers song since it was new but I know every freaking word. Sounds like a hip Jackson Browne in a good way.
	2:43pm northguineahills: Ok. off to work, thanks, UM!
	2:44pm Uncle Michael: yw, ngh...take care!
	2:44pm Uncle Michael: well-described, goyim
	2:44pm Power Papi: rip Jim Ellison
	🛒 2:44pm Phillippe Bastille: later ngh
	2:45pm Doug Schulkind: @Phillippe Bastille Damnit! I hate missing entire HFS/RNR discussions.
	2:45pm spodiodi: mind yo noodle, ngh!
	2:46pm dan: Lou Reed doppleganger.
	2:47pm Jeff Golick: :)
	2:47pm northguineahills: The feelies, gracias, y'alls!
	2:47pm Doug Schulkind: I grew up with WHFS. It was originally located in my hometown suburb of Bethesda, MD. Pretty much stopped listening in high school when I gravitated to WPFW, the Pacifica station in D.C. That was the station that sparked in me the desire to think of radio as a thing you do and not just listen to.
	🛒 2:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: General Lee Mavers
	2:49pm dan: Scratch that Howard Jones prediction, the last song will be XTC's "The Mayor of Simpleton".
	2:51pm spodiodi: Simpleton squeaking in from 1989 (i guessed it was a couple of years later, then checked)
	🛒 2:53pm Phillippe Bastille: @Doug yep, I listened to PFW when I was in the neighborhood. I lived just outside of Baltimore but commuted to College Park. We had WCVT up there, which was Towson's station when students still ran it.
	2:54pm Really Lisa: Or Pixies? coupla pixies from 1989..
	🛒 2:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ! - digging Someloves.
	2:55pm minnowchief: Thanks, Uncle Michael! This has been super fun.
	2:55pm spodiodi: i wouldn't mind a little PIL
	2:56pm dan: Am I good or what?
	2:56pm spodiodi: thanks, UM! such great fun. Orange and Lemmings ftw!
	2:56pm spodiodi: dan gold star
	🛒 2:56pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: The sublime Mayor!
	2:56pm Roberto: Wow, dan FTW!
	2:57pm Really Lisa: Well done. Thanks, Uncle Michael. Peace and safe wknd all.
	🛒 2:57pm Alvy Singer: Fun romp through the 80's Uncle Michael.
	🛒 2:57pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Not a cough in a carload UM! Well done
	2:57pm dan: Perfect end to an amazing show UM. One of the best in awhile.
	2:57pm Uncle Michael: I had fun today and I hope you all did too!
	2:58pm spodiodi: BIG fun, UM
	🛒 2:58pm Phillippe Bastille: It was fabulous, UM! Thank you! Bye all!
	2:58pm Jeff Golick: POP goes the POWER POP show! Thanks for the jangly run thru the big hair era, @UM!
	2:58pm Creebie: Fun time machine this PM, thanks!
	2:59pm efd: great show, UM! I was listening but not commenting.
	2:59pm Listener Jim F: Thinking of FXO hearing this...RIP
	3:01pm spodiodi: he made too many enemies :\|
	3:01pm efd: "Small Hair Music From The Big Hair Era" - now that's a marathon premium right there!
	3:01pm dan: Do you mean Donald Trumpkinhead?
	3:02pm goyim in the am: Good show, UM!!!
	3:02pm otto: cheers Uncle M
	3:03pm Lizardner Dave 2: Thanks UM! Have a great weekend!
	3:03pm goyim in the am: @Doug: I’ve mentioned on your playlist how much PFW meant to me. What a station.
	3:04pm burke: ciao thanks
	3:04pm Uncle Michael: buh-bye!
	3:04pm KWilde: Thanks UM!
	🛒 3:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Righteous UM Thank You

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from September 11, 2020

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