WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from October 19, 2024

Listener comments!
	11:00am Scott from Boston: Love Mike Shelley!
	11:00am clarke: hey now. he was great.
	11:01am Squints: ok, then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am clarke: wow. distorto madness!!
	11:03am clarke: it was not detrimental, actually.
	11:03am clarke: yer still undefeated!!!
	11:05am egould: You saved music, Michael! Yayyyy!!!!
	11:05am Squints: Turntable One remains the Van Wyck of radio programming.
	11:05am clarke: i hope Baby is one with nature!
	11:05am Ciggy: Good Saturday morning Michael
	11:06am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Wack Wack" by "Ventures, The" The characteristic funk of the Ventures.
	11:06am clarke: that's wack
	11:06am Listener Baby: Baby
	11:07am drr: I'm OUTSIDE, painting, the weather in tropical Louisiana is incredible, feels like the world is air conditioned.
	11:07am gf2002: Back to back fuzz! Make it a triple play with a Davie Allen & The Arrows
	11:07am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!!
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:06 dude - you did NOT get mauled by bears!!! kudos! (if so)
	11:07am clarke: ↳ drr @11:07 what are you painting??
	11:08am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:07 your Magpies got sucker punched in the first half - not watching now, tho
	11:08am Squints: ↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens" When, again, one goes to clicky-star a song only to find that... well, HEY now.
	11:09am Squints: ↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens" NICE Belmonts callback there.
	11:09am drr: ↳ clarke @11:07 A girl forest wizard with magenta hair and a staff topped with a big green gem. The usual stuff.
	11:10am clarke: ↳ drr @11:09 and, i thought it was the house! ha ha.
	11:10am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:07 I’m in one piece
	11:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Michael & all!
	11:11am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:10 this is a plus!
	11:11am Frank In Queens: @clarke, i left the house before kickoff. Still time left to go!
	11:11am clarke: HELLO GREGORY!!
	11:12am drr: ↳ Song: "Dancing Senorita" by "Oscar (Slim) Wills And His ... His Heartbreakers, to distinuish them from Johnny Thunders' ones, or that other guy's.
	11:12am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:11 well, despite having possession for most of the half - the one time brighton got the ball they score.
	11:12am Frank In Queens: @clarke big match too
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:11 yer other team is doing well, tho - subway series intact.
	11:13am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The" !!!!
	11:13am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ clarke @11:11 I'm here apparently!
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:13 how was yer trip???
	11:14am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The" Was waiting to hear how they handled the original's tape delay on this instrumental...they didn't.
	11:14am Frank In Queens: @clarke forced the series back to LA and facing a bullpen game tomorrow night. Hopefully they didn’t use up all their hits last night.
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:13 there was conjecture...
	11:14am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:14 Lovely. And as expected
	11:15am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:14 i have no dog in the hunt, but this is some most exciting baseball!!
	11:15am myron feld: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:14 And thankfully they managed to issue fewer than 7 walks...I think
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:14 very good, sir!!
	11:16am d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA: ↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The" Hi Mike! Some trivia! The Lemon Pipers were essentially a guy named Bill Bartlet. Bill was also Ram Jam, that band that played "Black Betty". One of my childhood friends is his nephew. Bill plays in bands in Cincinnati, drives a rural mail route, and cashes royalty checks.
	11:17am Frank In Queens: @myron and limited their Ks
	11:19am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:17 where yat son??
	11:19am myron feld: ↳ d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA @11:16 I'm going to Cincinnati soon -- do you know the names of any bands Bill plays with?
	11:19am Montmaster J: ↳ myron feld @11:15 Maybe they've used up all the walks...cause they were killing them. Looking forward to tomorrow!
	11:20am Moammar: ↳ Montmaster J @11:19 Mets in seven. So it is written, so shall it be.
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @11:19 it ought to be a(nother) thriller!
	11:20am Frank In Queens: @clarke on the train headed out to the Island
	11:21am Moammar: Great to see McNeill in the lineup -- and Alvy act like himself again. And two triples!
	11:21am Montmaster J: ↳ Moammar @11:20 I'm down Moammar!
	11:21am myron feld: ↳ Moammar @11:20 From your lips to Rob Manfred's ears
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:20 noice, mate!!
	11:21am Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @11:20 Yes! Should be!
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:20 big family doin's on the island?
	11:22am Frank In Queens: @clarke hanging out with fam before the fame tonight
	11:22am Frank In Queens: Thanks for the Mayall
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:22 good times!
	11:23am clarke: the fame game!
	11:23am Frank In Queens: @clarke nothing bug. Just a visit.
	11:23am Frank In Queens: er, big
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:23 but, i'm sure there will be good food!
	11:25am Frank In Queens: @clarke homemade minestrone!
	11:25am Frank In Queens: A Bovember preview
	11:25am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:25 oh my!!
	11:29am clarke: steam roller is right
	11:29am listener phat in lincoln: Happy Rocktober!
	11:29am David Watts: Looking for a love in the heart of the city!
	11:30am clarke: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:29 no, you won!
	11:30am Todd E: Rockpile — one of the greatest live R&R bands! Where is this track from?
	11:30am clarke: the band of the weak is journey
	11:32am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:30 "They said I won!"
	11:32am clarke: i think i'm drunk
	11:33am Cooh John: Good morning Michael and #1ers.
	11:34am egould: Benzedrine is fun. Maybe too much fun.
	11:34am myron feld: ↳ Song: "Caffein, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)"... i'm already up to two of these today.
	11:34am Frank In Queens: I’ve never smoked cigarettes….
	11:34am clarke: the denizens of Uzzle Street!!
	11:34am wenzo: Howdeee
	11:34am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:30 Do I win a pair of Haggar slacks?
	11:34am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Caffein, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)"... No / Yes / No for me.
	11:35am drr: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:34 If you can manage to get addicted to them, they're incredible. But you gotta get through the first two or three.
	11:35am listener phat in Lincoln: I don't miss booze, but I miss cigarettes.
	11:36am Jersey Plaid: Nick Lowe, a rocker who as relevant today as he was wayyyy back, outstanding!
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:34 Havent I seen you drinking COKE?
	11:38am Frank In Queens: Ciggies always seemed like a cheap petty high. Do real drugs, that’s what I say!
	11:38am clarke: @Frank - your neighbors have smoked enough for you!
	11:39am Michael Shelley: My parents all smoked, I never liked the smell - and never tried 'em - lucky
	11:40am Frank In Queens: @clarke too f’in right!
	11:40am Andres: ↳ Song: "Bewitched" by "Johnny Organ" Good morning. Loving this vibe!
	11:40am Frank In Queens: Ok kids catch you all later! Thanks Michael!
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:40 dat suckx
	11:40am Squints: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:38 Have fun but stay clear of the needle.
	11:41am Ciggy: Coffee & Carbona
	11:41am gf2002: The Beatles wouldn't have become The Beatles without discovering uppers in Hamburg
	11:42am Ike: Aren’t uppers kinda the same thing as meth, though?
	11:43am Andres: Coffee and a butt was the hit my friends were after mid morning. I stuck with the coffee.
	11:43am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:37 Oh GOD yes. I'm addicted to Coke (with a capital "C") But it has way less caffeine than coffee. Doesn't send me into the danger zone.
	11:43am drr: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:38 It's not even a high. It's the addiction without the high. But satisfying an addiction feels as good as any high. And you can do it forty times a day if you want to. That's the fun of cigarettes. (They're horrible.)
	11:44am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:43 but the amount of sodium!!! yikes!
	11:44am gf2002: I watched a fascinating documentary on YouTube last week about The Beatles in Hamburg, where they went around to all the places where they played and where they bunked during their times there, and it was great to put a moving image to a lot of those places like The Indra, The Kaiserkeller, the old movie house where they slept, etc. and all the surrounding streets. Very cool.
	11:45am clarke: i used to drink like a smokestack!! (uhhhh...)
	11:45am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ clarke @11:44 Oh yeah, I'm certainly not arguing for its health benefits.
	11:46am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:44 i have seen that, it is very good
	11:46am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:45 when i stopped drinking cokes, i had a headache for two weeks!
	11:46am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:44 Sodium is a preservative. My story. Sticking to same.
	11:46am Ike: ↳ Andres @11:43 For a sec, I thought you meant coffee and actual butts in mid-morning. I’d prefer that! They’re rounder and less smoky. (ducks)
	11:48am egould: If you’re a fan of the Attractions or the Buzzcocks, thank benzedrine.
	11:48am clarke: rounded edges!! lest we not forget
	11:48am Squints: ↳ drr @11:43 Best legal rush available comes thirty seconds after tucking the Copenhagen between the cheek and the gum. Bingabongadabing, real quick. Then over. Can't do that no more or She Of The Big Brown Eyes won't kiss me.
	11:48am Matt in Nebraska: I doubt we'd have those Rockpile "Fool Too Long" takes without the assistance of some kind of 'magic powder'. One's too many and a 100 ain't enough.
	11:49am clarke: four guys wearin' sweaters.. singin' like boids!!
	11:49am Squints: Turntable One makes George Joneses of us all. "You win again."
	11:49am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:46 One of the most interesting parts of that film is how they explained how popular The Beatles really were in Hamburg and how they along with Tony Sheridan and others brought real rock and roll into the region when German pop music at that time was leaning more to the light pop similar to Pat Boone's style. Of all the Beatle books I've read, I never got that sense of how popular they became because they were playing loud in-your-face rock and roll and it was a new experience for the people going to those clubs.
	11:49am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ egould @11:48 So THAT explains it. What about Clem Burke?
	11:50am Mr. Jones: One of the few REM tunes not sung by Stipe. I read that he wasn't really into recording it at all. #heresay
	11:50am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:49 also that huge theater where they recorded with sheridan was mind-blowing too.
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:50 Near Wild Heaven!!
	11:51am wenzo: That must have felt great when a cover of their song became a hit 20 years later
	11:52am Squints: ↳ Song: "Superman" by "Clique, The" This is a song for which there might be no bad versions. But the R.E.M. cover kills 'em all.
	11:52am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:50 Yes! The image in my mind of where they cut those tracks was nothing like the building they showed in that documentary. It reminded me of the Capitol tower in LA or something in scope and I pictured some spare room with blankets hung on the walls or something similar
	11:53am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:52 ikr???
	11:53am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson" I got that. I get jokes ;)
	11:53am clarke: ↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson" wait? a cover?? original??
	11:54am egould: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:49 Cocaine. Still “up”; but of a different quality.
	11:54am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson" Junior Brown nailed this one...
	11:54am Squints: ↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson" Dink Daugherty. Punchin' speeders.
	11:54am clarke: i had no idee that junior's was a cover??? mind blown.
	11:55am Squints: G. G. Y.
	11:55am clarke: g g Sq
	11:55am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Funky Miracle" by "Meters, The" Do it, Zig.
	11:56am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ egould @11:54 Nobody can play the drum part of "Dreaming" without a little help.
	11:56am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:54 And Junior stayed very true to the original's guitar solo too, very close. But Junior added those banjo rolls to his solo which upped it a few notches
	11:56am clarke: there's a street uptown, here, called Valence - it is neville central - all the nevilles lived near the same block. i saw the Meters at a street party, once. before the albums, etc. unreal.
	11:56am drr: ↳ Squints @11:54 Is that a Clay Pigeon character, or some other reference I've missed?
	11:57am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:56 i beg to differ!
	11:58am drr: "Pink tea for the ladies, and zu-zu crackers for the men!"
	11:58am sharon: Milk Duds for the ladies! Love Lou Mitchells.
	11:58am Squints: ↳ drr @11:56 Yep. Couldn't resist.
	11:59am yippie: last month i went to a ramen shop in tokyo where all the girls got a free scoop of ice cream and the guys got free nothing. the ramen was a bit heavy.
	11:59am clarke: ↳ Song: "Hell-Oh Sixty" by "Amy Rigby" i'm ever-impressed with Wreckless production!!
	11:59am Listener Baby: Eric bought a compressor.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:59 'e prolly traded fer et!!
	12:01pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:00 Init’
	12:01pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:59 indeed
	12:01pm clarke: roight??
	12:01pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @11:49 Isn't that what happened here, too? There wasn't much going on in the US post-Elvis and pre-Beatles. When the Beatles happened, they didn't just change music; they changed the world. Probably more right place, right time than anything else, tho.
	12:01pm ledzeppelinsucks: Salernos Pizza 1201 2 Grand in Chicago is entertaining. The barely ambulatory waitress pushes a steel industrial cart to serve dishes. CPD enters in groups and walks behind the bar to help themselves in uniform. White beans are the best.
	12:02pm gf2002: He had magic dust And this would get the reindeer off, man? Got them off, are you kidding, man? They flew all the way around the world!
	12:02pm clarke: cheech and dipthong
	12:03pm Marie in Chicago: Top o' the morning to ya', Michael and All! I ate at Lou Mitchell's once a long time ago. All I remember was that it's a really nice interior.
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Earn Enough For Us" by "XTC" oh my, yes! !
	12:04pm Scott from Boston: The drums seem very upfront… Or maybe they always work??
	12:04pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Earn Enough For Us" by "XTC" Tracked with no drums. Crazy!
	12:05pm Michael Shelley: CHECK THE COASTERS: www.michaelshelley.net...
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:04 the drums always sounded pretty good on the cd. i think there is better bass reproduction going on, tho
	12:05pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:04 maybe a machine kick?
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:04 thats right, they took the tracks to prairie in SF.. mitchell's diner
	12:06pm Scott from Boston: Thank you, Clarke!
	12:07pm clarke: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:06 i have not listened to that cd in a long while tho!
	12:07pm Ciggy: ↳ Song: "Back Of My Hand" by "Jags, The" A WPIX-fm Classic
	12:09pm Scott from Boston: This jags song should’ve been a number hit!
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:09 charts schmarts!! i think it was in england, no??
	12:09pm Squints: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:09 Shoulda been all the damned numbers.
	12:10pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:09 on the back of your...???
	12:11pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:10 It was absolutely Number One in Toledo.
	12:11pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:01 I agree The Beatles had the great X-Factor that can't be planned or plotted out, and that was their timing, They appeared at exactly the right time especially in the US, and they pulled the plug when the time was right. But the Hamburg years have been written about often and until watching this documentary and hearing from people who were there beyond the usual talking heads it gave a sense that the young Beatles were far more influential and popular in Hamburg than has been reported before. It was a great take on the whole Beatles tale.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:11 still ain't made my mind up..
	12:12pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:11 you HAVE read mark lewisohn's book, right??
	12:12pm Hughie Considine: Can't believe I missed my promo! One o them days...
	12:13pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:12 dude, it was RIGHT HERE!!
	12:13pm egould: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:12 You did a very nice job.
	12:13pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:12 life is good!!
	12:13pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:12 It's on my list, haven't made it through that one yet. But the other stacks of the Beatle books I've read before the Lewisohn book are my reference haha
	12:13pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman" love it!
	12:14pm Hughie Considine: ↳ egould @12:13 Thanks, man! Twas a labor of love.
	12:14pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman" Pleased to report that Jonathan was great last weekend at WEH. (Last couple times I saw him were so-so)
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:13 oh my god. better and bigger than the bible! i said it!
	12:14pm egould: ↳ clarke @12:14 Don’t you blaspheme in this house!
	12:15pm Moammar: ↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman" This is the best Jonathan album. "Rocking and Romance."
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman" i will admit i was pretty 'against' jonathan's career-shift around this time, but still... it's freaking great!
	12:16pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:14 It is now toward the top of my list! I've been meaning to dig in but just haven't had the chance yet. I'm currently working through "When They Were Boys" by Larry Kane which is a decent read so far
	12:16pm Sheldon Kay: I saw Johnathan Richman both nights last weekend. Great show
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:16 lewisohn puts all other writers to SHAME!! i just hope he can finish volume two!!! in our lifetime!
	12:17pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:15 It's true -- there are some purists who didn't appreciate the extreme turn away from VU inspiration.
	12:18pm SeaCreature: That was a great version of the modern lovers with Beth and Ellie singing backup. Boston good times.
	12:18pm egould: Time to put on my earbuds and head down to the grocery store. Think I’ll make a pot roast on this chilly rainy Seattle day.
	12:18pm onthetrain: Rock the casbah , now Mike did you own the “watch” ?
	12:18pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:17 i went to see them "blind" -- not what i expectorated..
	12:18pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Topper: Great drummer? Or THE GREATEST DRUMMER?!
	12:18pm Michael Shelley: ↳ onthetrain @12:18 ?
	12:18pm egould: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Lasers! Pew pew pewwww!
	12:19pm Hughie Considine: ↳ egould @12:18 Pot roast is good chilly weather food. Happy roasting.
	12:19pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:11 I might have to watch that doc. Not that I don't know enough about the Beatles at this point, LOL. Hell, I lived through it. I remember exactly what I was doing the day they first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. (I was like 7, and I was helping Dad wallpaper my bro's bedroom that day, LOL.)
	12:19pm tadpoles: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Listening on headphones and it sounds great. The Soft Cell 12"ers from the 80's are also magnificent! Cheers
	12:19pm Matt in Nebraska: I listened to the audio book version of the Mark Lewisohn book while I worked. It's almost 44 hours long! Hopefully, the 2nd volume will be out sooner than later.
	12:19pm StringOFperils: Yeeeah, this mix will get you positive feedback!
	12:19pm clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @12:18 one of! but, i am not sure topper is on this??"
	12:19pm Squints: ↳ SeaCreature @12:18 I never don't tear up a little at that version of "That Summer Feeling."
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @12:14 I heard reports tha he was relatively down to earth
	12:20pm onthetrain: From the album version there was the moment when Joe strummers watch alarm goes off and it made it to it the cut . You can sort or hear it in this version .
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:19 that book should be READ!
	12:20pm Michael Shelley: ↳ onthetrain @12:20 did not know that!
	12:20pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Topper is the entire rhythm section on this track, drums bass and piano...incredible groove!
	12:21pm SeaCreature: ↳ Squints @12:19 Too right.
	12:21pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Bathroom break?
	12:21pm egould: ↳ clarke @12:19 He wrote it. Recorded the drums and piano parts solo. Then the other blokes completed it.
	12:21pm onthetrain: Mike https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/e3pfa/does_anyone_else_notice_that_strange_electronic/
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ egould @12:21 didn't know dis.
	12:22pm gf2002: I've heard it was Mick Jones' watch but either way it's a cool effect...like Mal's alarm clock on Day In The Life haha
	12:22pm clarke: this show has exposed some mental lapses...
	12:22pm GeoSinPhilly: ↳ Song: "Funk Cold Medina" by "Tone-Loc" That one sounds GREAT.
	12:23pm gf2002: ↳ egould @12:21 Bass too
	12:23pm Cooh John: 80's night revisted
	12:23pm egould: I had both the Clash and Tone-Loc 12”.
	12:24pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:21 awww man!
	12:24pm drr: Could Young M.C. be next?
	12:25pm Listener Baby: Kiss and Foreigner? Right?
	12:25pm egould: ↳ gf2002 @12:23 Thanks. I wasn’t sure if he recorded the bass. Makes sense, though. And then the other guys gave Topper an ultimatum, get of the horse or you’re out of the band. I think he was fired shortly thereafter.
	12:26pm gf2002: I'm thinking MARRS "Pump Up The Volume" was spun often as well. Which is a great track BTW
	12:26pm Moammar: ↳ drr @12:24 Yes, apparently.
	12:26pm Matt in Nebraska: ↳ clarke @12:20 Am I being shamed for listening to an audio book? I listened while I worked as a custodian at an elementary school. I'm sorry. The narrator is good.
	12:26pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: This show is taking me back to college parties
	12:26pm Listener Baby: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:24 Just plain’ which you, Baby
	12:26pm Matty No Times: What's up WFMU! Killer show as usual!
	12:26pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:13 In my storage, I have a "collector's" edition of the NY Times that's actually just every page of the NY Times that the Beatles ever appeared on. Because it's the full page, you get an idea of everything else that was going on in the world at the time. Just bits and pieces of the world in 1964, 65, etc. It's kind of what makes newspapers better than articles on the 'net, but that's another topic.
	12:26pm James in ATL: ↳ drr @12:24 Nice job!
	12:26pm Matty No Times: Im always gonna get up for Bust A Move
	12:26pm drr: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Thought so.
	12:26pm clarke: ↳ egould @12:25 hence my confusion - thought he was already gone by that time
	12:27pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Goddamn this rocks.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:26 sometime you should read it.
	12:28pm gf2002: ↳ egould @12:25 And Topper had lyrics written for it too but Strummer threw them out and wrote the ones we know. Hearing that track and realizing most of the instruments are just one guy overdubbing the parts is amazing. What a groove!
	12:28pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Clearing a space in my office so I can do the Running Man.
	12:28pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:25 musta been back in the wild west days when people just sampled whatever they felt like it...
	12:28pm drr: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Don't get cocky and try to karaoke this, unless you are in incredible pulmonary health you will be laying on the floor by the end.
	12:29pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Flea on bass...killer line
	12:29pm Matt in Nebraska: ↳ clarke @12:27 Sometime you should listen to it.
	12:29pm Matty No Times: ↳ drr @12:28 oof ive def made that mistake before
	12:29pm egould: ↳ drr @12:28 Hahaha!
	12:29pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" serious kick drum on this!
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:29 my ears are busy
	12:30pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Frosh week a guy in my dorm blasted this on a loop seemingly in the hallway at 7am all week long. Slightly traumatic but still funky.
	12:30pm clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:29 sample.
	12:30pm James in ATL: I have a friend that was a record exec and we once went to dinner with Young MC, was super nice. He warned us that he shared the bill with Milli Vanilli and they didn't really sing their songs. This was a few months before it became common knowledge.
	12:30pm Scott from Boston: Why do I love this? Bill Wyman tune so much!🤣
	12:31pm Congrats EFD! Keep the great music going!: This song has the sleaziest one liner ever.
	12:31pm Scott from Boston: That smooth operator
	12:31pm Listener Baby: Written for Ian Dury
	12:32pm drr: ↳ Song: "(Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star" by "Bill Wyman" This reminds me of a 12" I had as part of a marriage, Captain Sensible's idiotic and enjoyable "Wot?"
	12:32pm Scott from Boston: Wow, I can really hear that… Great bit of info!
	12:33pm Andres: ↳ Listener Baby @12:31 Can’t not hear it now!
	12:33pm gf2002: Speaking of Clash...was the DJ'ing at the time when Mick Jones with Big Audio Dynamite had the hit "Rush"? That track was a real banger as the kids like to say, loaded with samples
	12:33pm Squints: ↳ drr @12:32 Some days -- well, kind of a lot of days -- I think "Wot?" is the greatest record ever made.
	12:33pm drr: ↳ Squints @12:33 I say wot?
	12:34pm egould: ↳ drr @12:32 Idiotic and enjoyable. Carve it into my headstone.
	12:34pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: ↳ Squints @12:33 You’re not wrong.
	12:34pm Listener Baby: Had this 12” No idea where it went. I worsted this song back then.
	12:34pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" oh my, yes.
	12:35pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" Top tune from top tunesmiths.
	12:35pm Listener Baby: Is yours shaped like a coin purse, Baby. And did you steal mine?
	12:35pm Matty No Times: fuckin love this song
	12:35pm Matt in Nebraska: ↳ clarke @12:29 The narrator is great. If your ears can find the time, I highly recommend it.
	12:35pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:34 in your worsted suit??
	12:36pm Listener Baby: ↳ Listener Baby @12:34 Worshiped
	12:36pm drr: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" never heard this, very good.
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" A little distortion at the top end
	12:36pm Johnny Staten Island: Micheal your show is so on point today. Great sets all day
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:35 no & no
	12:36pm Hughie Considine: What a bridge
	12:36pm Listener Baby: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:36 Damn
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:36 in your worshipped suit??
	12:37pm Hughie Considine: or, meandering path...
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:35 I assume by "yours" you mean my record sleeve?
	12:37pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:26 That's the best way to really dig in and research music, especially the legendary artists from the 60's, to put them into context with what was going on around the music. I do the same with broadcast radio airchecks from the 60's, where you hear what an hour of top-40 radio sounded like in the 60's and also get the news reports and ads, it creates a time machine where the music becomes part of a much bigger picture.
	12:37pm Billybob: ↳ James in ATL @12:30 What I never understood was why that Milli Vanilli Grammy wasn't just transferred over to the guys who actually sang on the record. Were they not pretty enough for a Grammy or something?
	12:38pm Squints: ↳ Billybob @12:37 If somebody told me that was a thing I'd totally believe it.
	12:38pm clarke: threefur!!
	12:38pm Hughie Considine: Colin Moulding, man ...
	12:38pm egould: I’m in XTC ecstasy!
	12:39pm clarke: guy could f'n PLAY
	12:39pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC" From that rare time when MTV was playing XTC in regular rotation
	12:39pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:38 wish he'd play on more sessions
	12:39pm drr: ↳ Billybob @12:26 This reminds me of the argument against getting rid of card catalogs--with digital search you find what you were looking for and that's it. With the context of a card catalog you also find out about things you didn't know to look for.
	12:40pm egould: ↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC" Jangle jangle jangle!
	12:40pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:37 I'm guessing you've delved into that 77 Music Radio website? The site itself is kind of a mess, but you can listen to some interesting old stuff from WABC in the 60s and 70s.
	12:40pm DRATSUM: You know, XTC never grew on me and I don’t know why. Even when it’s upbeat, it makes me feel sad.
	12:40pm drr: ↳ drr @12:39 Librarians hated that argument, for the most part.
	12:41pm drr: ↳ DRATSUM @12:40 XTC has so many good songs, but I hate "Living Through Another Cuba" so much it kinda cancels out.
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:40 what is your most convenient branch?
	12:41pm Jersey Plaid: Nick Lowe and now XTC, outstanding
	12:41pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:37 The music industry overcompensated in their "punishment" after the lid was blown off their dirty little secrets. There was another dance track that was huge at the same time where they had a supermodel pictured as the singer while the real female singer was kept anonymous. I think it was Technotronic featuring Felly. A total marketing sham.
	12:42pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:41 Alvar or Martin Luther King. MLK is closer but Alvar is a little easier to park.
	12:43pm Matty No Times: nah never heard it
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:42 uhh, the MLK that used to be Melpomene Street?? that don't make sense??
	12:43pm Billybob: ↳ drr @12:39 I don't think I've done that in 30 years, but yes, absolutely!
	12:43pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC" From XTC Song Stories (a fave): "Andy came up with the bell-sounding "collegiate" bass line but it was so fast it would blur if it sounded to bassy," he says. Colin invented the rest of the bass line itself, which is one of the finest and fastest on any XTC track. But if the playing was complex, the song was not. "I was rather embarrassed by its simplicity," says Andy.
	12:44pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" Can't beat Mr. Mister on the drums? Can you?
	12:44pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:42 i don't know where that MLK is?
	12:44pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe" Sounds HUGE in Studio A
	12:44pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:44 Nice
	12:45pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe" When I ax ya to 'splain....
	12:45pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:40 Yes! Very cool site. I have a bit of a collection of old broadcasts on CDR's traded and bought from various sources, my favorites are 93 KHJ from LA, Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, Roger Christian, a great on air team. I also have a few hours of Dan Ingram and "The Hern" on WABC from the 60's, great radio!
	12:45pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe" SO good
	12:46pm Listener Baby: ↳ drr @12:41 A: Respectfully, that’s pretty a harsh mind set. B: I 100% agree. Their attempt at Dub, gone very wrong.
	12:46pm egould: This outro, though!
	12:46pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:45 ax=splain
	12:46pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:46 it would have been okay at a minute or less
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:46 an interlude
	12:47pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:46 But would it have been?
	12:47pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:44 It's in a junior high school on Claiborne, in the Lower Nine. It's a nice branch. Kinda full of junior high kids using the computers after school.
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:47 wow, nevah hoid of it!
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:47 yer Vols got a bit of a tussle, today
	12:48pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:48 Bama?
	12:49pm egould: Thanks Michael!
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:48 yessir.
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village" keltner?
	12:51pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:45 Wow, nice. I always thought it'd be great to have a radio station that just plays full days' broadcasts from random dates in history...news, promos, commercials, call-ins, etc. I guess recordings of broadcasts like that aren't as available as you'd think they'd be.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Billybob @12:51 to go back further in time, check out Antioch Broadcast Radio sometime
	12:52pm drr: i don't wanna spend this much time with "Haunted House".
	12:53pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:41 Well, hell...I'd never heard of the Wrecking Crew until maybe 20 years ago. At first, I thought "cool". Then, after thinking about it, I felt a tad defrauded.
	12:53pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village" I get it. Needs to be faster, though, like Jumpin' Gene Simmons.
	12:53pm annette: side note for NRBQ fans. you probably remember Jon Blickens at Wild weekends. sadly passed recently. wish him peace
	12:54pm Billybob: ↳ clarke @12:52 Thanks for the tip!
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ annette @12:53 RIP John. damn.
	12:54pm drr: ↳ Squints @12:53 I like Jerry Lee's drunken-sounding version where he doesn't bother rhyming.
	12:55pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ... Stolen bass line.
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Billybob @12:54 it broadcasts mostly from 30's and 40's but is awesome
	12:55pm KevinfromBayRidge: ↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village" Love Roy Buchanan's cover of this.
	12:55pm Mr. Jones: ↳ drr @12:54 oh "White Lines?"
	12:55pm drr: I couldn't count the number of times "something like a phenomenon" just appears in my headspace.
	12:55pm Listener Baby: Always felt was singing directly to me. Not that I did any drugs.
	12:55pm egould: Gettin’ higher baby!
	12:56pm drr: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:55 heh, no; "Haunted House". JLL would have crushed "White Lines" though.
	12:56pm Cosmic: Freebase!
	12:56pm clarke: baby.
	12:56pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:51 It depends on the station and the city, but yes they can be hard to find especially unscoped/unedited broadcasts with complete songs because they would actually chop out the song and just leave the DJ talk and ads to use as demos. A lot of the best ones were either recorded by the DJ's themselves or the stations, and if they leaked out they came from the DJ or their family. The ones recorded off-air by a random listener are usually poor quality but still fascinating. Check out this site: https://www.reelradio.com/
	12:56pm clarke: this is the news dept.
	12:57pm Raina: Wow so retro clubdays today. I Like!!
	12:57pm Squints: ↳ drr @12:54 The Killer's on the short list of guys who can say "the words are whatever I want 'em to be."
	12:57pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ... Anyone know if the horns are sampled. And from what? Pretty brilliantly done.
	12:58pm Hubig Pie: ↳ drr @12:55 Original was "Slip in and out of phenomenon" I think.
	12:58pm tonyb: Didn’t get much sleep during the Reagan years. 🥱
	12:58pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ... This led me to the "original version" released as "Cavern" by Liquid Liquid, which is one of my favorite grooves of all time.
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:57 it sounds like a Fairlight system to me
	12:58pm drr: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:58 yeah, I thought I might have it wrong!
	12:58pm Squints: ↳ drr @12:54 This would have been an awesome NRBQ impromptu cover back in the days when they had The Box.
	12:58pm clarke: ah ha ha. good night.
	12:59pm Raina: ↳ tonyb @12:58 I hear you same here!
	12:59pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:58 Before all that?
	12:59pm drr: ↳ Squints @12:58 yes!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from October 19, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
JD McPherson	That’s What a Love Song Does to You
Ventures, The	Wack Wack "Wack Wack" by "Ventures, The"
Gary Owens	Direct Sun Light "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens"
Oscar (Slim) Wills And His Heartbreakers	Dancing Senorita
Living Percussion, The	Green Tambourine
Nick Lowe	Fool Too Long "Fool Too Long" by "Nick Lowe"
John Mayall	Crocodile Walk "Crocodile Walk" by "John Mayall"
Johnny Russell	I'm Stayin' "I'm Stayin'" by "Johnny Russell"
Bo Diddley	Here Tis "Here Tis" by "Bo Diddley"
Rockpile	Fool Too Long (live) "Fool Too Long (live)" by "Rockpile"
Gainsborough Gallery, The	Dreams In A Boxcar
Bud Brewer	Caffein, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)
Patty Drew	Sufferer "Sufferer" by "Patty Drew"
Johnny Organ	Bewitched "Bewitched" by "Johnny Organ"
Rockpile	Fool Too Long "Fool Too Long" by "Rockpile"
Clique, The	Superman "Superman" by "Clique, The"
Red Simpson	Highway Patrol "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson"
Meters, The	Funky Miracle "Funky Miracle" by "Meters, The"
Amy Rigby	Hell-Oh Sixty "Hell-Oh Sixty" by "Amy Rigby"
XTC	Earn Enough For Us "Earn Enough For Us" by "XTC"
Jags, The	Back Of My Hand "Back Of My Hand" by "Jags, The"
Elvis Costello	High Fidelity "High Fidelity" by "Elvis Costello"
Jonathan Richman	I'm Just Beginning To Live
Clash, The	Mustapha Dance "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The"
Tone-Loc	Funk Cold Medina "Funk Cold Medina" by "Tone-Loc"
Young MC	Bust A Move "Bust A Move" by "Young MC"
Bill Wyman	(Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star
XTC	Love On a Farmboy's Wages "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC"
XTC	Mayor of Simpleton "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC"
Nick Lowe	Cruel to Be Kind "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe"
Johnny Cash	Without Love "Without Love" by "Johnny Cash"
Little Village	Haunted House "Haunted House" by "Little Village"
Grandmaster And Melle Mel	White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

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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

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

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!
	11:00am Scott from Boston: Love Mike Shelley!
	11:00am clarke: hey now. he was great.
	11:01am Squints: ok, then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am clarke: wow. distorto madness!!
	11:03am clarke: it was not detrimental, actually.
	11:03am clarke: yer still undefeated!!!
	11:05am egould: You saved music, Michael! Yayyyy!!!!
	11:05am Squints: Turntable One remains the Van Wyck of radio programming.
	11:05am clarke: i hope Baby is one with nature!
	11:05am Ciggy: Good Saturday morning Michael
	11:06am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Wack Wack" by "Ventures, The" The characteristic funk of the Ventures.
	11:06am clarke: that's wack
	11:06am Listener Baby: Baby
	11:07am drr: I'm OUTSIDE, painting, the weather in tropical Louisiana is incredible, feels like the world is air conditioned.
	11:07am gf2002: Back to back fuzz! Make it a triple play with a Davie Allen & The Arrows
	11:07am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!!
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:06 dude - you did NOT get mauled by bears!!! kudos! (if so)
	11:07am clarke: ↳ drr @11:07 what are you painting??
	11:08am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:07 your Magpies got sucker punched in the first half - not watching now, tho
	11:08am Squints: ↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens" When, again, one goes to clicky-star a song only to find that... well, HEY now.
	11:09am Squints: ↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens" NICE Belmonts callback there.
	11:09am drr: ↳ clarke @11:07 A girl forest wizard with magenta hair and a staff topped with a big green gem. The usual stuff.
	11:10am clarke: ↳ drr @11:09 and, i thought it was the house! ha ha.
	11:10am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:07 I’m in one piece
	11:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Michael & all!
	11:11am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:10 this is a plus!
	11:11am Frank In Queens: @clarke, i left the house before kickoff. Still time left to go!
	11:11am clarke: HELLO GREGORY!!
	11:12am drr: ↳ Song: "Dancing Senorita" by "Oscar (Slim) Wills And His ... His Heartbreakers, to distinuish them from Johnny Thunders' ones, or that other guy's.
	11:12am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:11 well, despite having possession for most of the half - the one time brighton got the ball they score.
	11:12am Frank In Queens: @clarke big match too
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:11 yer other team is doing well, tho - subway series intact.
	11:13am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The" !!!!
	11:13am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ clarke @11:11 I'm here apparently!
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:13 how was yer trip???
	11:14am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The" Was waiting to hear how they handled the original's tape delay on this instrumental...they didn't.
	11:14am Frank In Queens: @clarke forced the series back to LA and facing a bullpen game tomorrow night. Hopefully they didn’t use up all their hits last night.
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:13 there was conjecture...
	11:14am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:14 Lovely. And as expected
	11:15am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:14 i have no dog in the hunt, but this is some most exciting baseball!!
	11:15am myron feld: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:14 And thankfully they managed to issue fewer than 7 walks...I think
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:14 very good, sir!!
	11:16am d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA: ↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The" Hi Mike! Some trivia! The Lemon Pipers were essentially a guy named Bill Bartlet. Bill was also Ram Jam, that band that played "Black Betty". One of my childhood friends is his nephew. Bill plays in bands in Cincinnati, drives a rural mail route, and cashes royalty checks.
	11:17am Frank In Queens: @myron and limited their Ks
	11:19am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:17 where yat son??
	11:19am myron feld: ↳ d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA @11:16 I'm going to Cincinnati soon -- do you know the names of any bands Bill plays with?
	11:19am Montmaster J: ↳ myron feld @11:15 Maybe they've used up all the walks...cause they were killing them. Looking forward to tomorrow!
	11:20am Moammar: ↳ Montmaster J @11:19 Mets in seven. So it is written, so shall it be.
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Montmaster J @11:19 it ought to be a(nother) thriller!
	11:20am Frank In Queens: @clarke on the train headed out to the Island
	11:21am Moammar: Great to see McNeill in the lineup -- and Alvy act like himself again. And two triples!
	11:21am Montmaster J: ↳ Moammar @11:20 I'm down Moammar!
	11:21am myron feld: ↳ Moammar @11:20 From your lips to Rob Manfred's ears
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:20 noice, mate!!
	11:21am Montmaster J: ↳ clarke @11:20 Yes! Should be!
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:20 big family doin's on the island?
	11:22am Frank In Queens: @clarke hanging out with fam before the fame tonight
	11:22am Frank In Queens: Thanks for the Mayall
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:22 good times!
	11:23am clarke: the fame game!
	11:23am Frank In Queens: @clarke nothing bug. Just a visit.
	11:23am Frank In Queens: er, big
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:23 but, i'm sure there will be good food!
	11:25am Frank In Queens: @clarke homemade minestrone!
	11:25am Frank In Queens: A Bovember preview
	11:25am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:25 oh my!!
	11:29am clarke: steam roller is right
	11:29am listener phat in lincoln: Happy Rocktober!
	11:29am David Watts: Looking for a love in the heart of the city!
	11:30am clarke: ↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:29 no, you won!
	11:30am Todd E: Rockpile — one of the greatest live R&R bands! Where is this track from?
	11:30am clarke: the band of the weak is journey
	11:32am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:30 "They said I won!"
	11:32am clarke: i think i'm drunk
	11:33am Cooh John: Good morning Michael and #1ers.
	11:34am egould: Benzedrine is fun. Maybe too much fun.
	11:34am myron feld: ↳ Song: "Caffein, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)"... i'm already up to two of these today.
	11:34am Frank In Queens: I’ve never smoked cigarettes….
	11:34am clarke: the denizens of Uzzle Street!!
	11:34am wenzo: Howdeee
	11:34am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:30 Do I win a pair of Haggar slacks?
	11:34am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Caffein, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)"... No / Yes / No for me.
	11:35am drr: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:34 If you can manage to get addicted to them, they're incredible. But you gotta get through the first two or three.
	11:35am listener phat in Lincoln: I don't miss booze, but I miss cigarettes.
	11:36am Jersey Plaid: Nick Lowe, a rocker who as relevant today as he was wayyyy back, outstanding!
	11:37am Michael Shelley: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:34 Havent I seen you drinking COKE?
	11:38am Frank In Queens: Ciggies always seemed like a cheap petty high. Do real drugs, that’s what I say!
	11:38am clarke: @Frank - your neighbors have smoked enough for you!
	11:39am Michael Shelley: My parents all smoked, I never liked the smell - and never tried 'em - lucky
	11:40am Frank In Queens: @clarke too f’in right!
	11:40am Andres: ↳ Song: "Bewitched" by "Johnny Organ" Good morning. Loving this vibe!
	11:40am Frank In Queens: Ok kids catch you all later! Thanks Michael!
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:40 dat suckx
	11:40am Squints: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:38 Have fun but stay clear of the needle.
	11:41am Ciggy: Coffee & Carbona
	11:41am gf2002: The Beatles wouldn't have become The Beatles without discovering uppers in Hamburg
	11:42am Ike: Aren’t uppers kinda the same thing as meth, though?
	11:43am Andres: Coffee and a butt was the hit my friends were after mid morning. I stuck with the coffee.
	11:43am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:37 Oh GOD yes. I'm addicted to Coke (with a capital "C") But it has way less caffeine than coffee. Doesn't send me into the danger zone.
	11:43am drr: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:38 It's not even a high. It's the addiction without the high. But satisfying an addiction feels as good as any high. And you can do it forty times a day if you want to. That's the fun of cigarettes. (They're horrible.)
	11:44am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:43 but the amount of sodium!!! yikes!
	11:44am gf2002: I watched a fascinating documentary on YouTube last week about The Beatles in Hamburg, where they went around to all the places where they played and where they bunked during their times there, and it was great to put a moving image to a lot of those places like The Indra, The Kaiserkeller, the old movie house where they slept, etc. and all the surrounding streets. Very cool.
	11:45am clarke: i used to drink like a smokestack!! (uhhhh...)
	11:45am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ clarke @11:44 Oh yeah, I'm certainly not arguing for its health benefits.
	11:46am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:44 i have seen that, it is very good
	11:46am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:45 when i stopped drinking cokes, i had a headache for two weeks!
	11:46am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:44 Sodium is a preservative. My story. Sticking to same.
	11:46am Ike: ↳ Andres @11:43 For a sec, I thought you meant coffee and actual butts in mid-morning. I’d prefer that! They’re rounder and less smoky. (ducks)
	11:48am egould: If you’re a fan of the Attractions or the Buzzcocks, thank benzedrine.
	11:48am clarke: rounded edges!! lest we not forget
	11:48am Squints: ↳ drr @11:43 Best legal rush available comes thirty seconds after tucking the Copenhagen between the cheek and the gum. Bingabongadabing, real quick. Then over. Can't do that no more or She Of The Big Brown Eyes won't kiss me.
	11:48am Matt in Nebraska: I doubt we'd have those Rockpile "Fool Too Long" takes without the assistance of some kind of 'magic powder'. One's too many and a 100 ain't enough.
	11:49am clarke: four guys wearin' sweaters.. singin' like boids!!
	11:49am Squints: Turntable One makes George Joneses of us all. "You win again."
	11:49am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:46 One of the most interesting parts of that film is how they explained how popular The Beatles really were in Hamburg and how they along with Tony Sheridan and others brought real rock and roll into the region when German pop music at that time was leaning more to the light pop similar to Pat Boone's style. Of all the Beatle books I've read, I never got that sense of how popular they became because they were playing loud in-your-face rock and roll and it was a new experience for the people going to those clubs.
	11:49am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ egould @11:48 So THAT explains it. What about Clem Burke?
	11:50am Mr. Jones: One of the few REM tunes not sung by Stipe. I read that he wasn't really into recording it at all. #heresay
	11:50am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:49 also that huge theater where they recorded with sheridan was mind-blowing too.
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:50 Near Wild Heaven!!
	11:51am wenzo: That must have felt great when a cover of their song became a hit 20 years later
	11:52am Squints: ↳ Song: "Superman" by "Clique, The" This is a song for which there might be no bad versions. But the R.E.M. cover kills 'em all.
	11:52am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:50 Yes! The image in my mind of where they cut those tracks was nothing like the building they showed in that documentary. It reminded me of the Capitol tower in LA or something in scope and I pictured some spare room with blankets hung on the walls or something similar
	11:53am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:52 ikr???
	11:53am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson" I got that. I get jokes ;)
	11:53am clarke: ↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson" wait? a cover?? original??
	11:54am egould: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:49 Cocaine. Still “up”; but of a different quality.
	11:54am gf2002: ↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson" Junior Brown nailed this one...
	11:54am Squints: ↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson" Dink Daugherty. Punchin' speeders.
	11:54am clarke: i had no idee that junior's was a cover??? mind blown.
	11:55am Squints: G. G. Y.
	11:55am clarke: g g Sq
	11:55am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Funky Miracle" by "Meters, The" Do it, Zig.
	11:56am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ egould @11:54 Nobody can play the drum part of "Dreaming" without a little help.
	11:56am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:54 And Junior stayed very true to the original's guitar solo too, very close. But Junior added those banjo rolls to his solo which upped it a few notches
	11:56am clarke: there's a street uptown, here, called Valence - it is neville central - all the nevilles lived near the same block. i saw the Meters at a street party, once. before the albums, etc. unreal.
	11:56am drr: ↳ Squints @11:54 Is that a Clay Pigeon character, or some other reference I've missed?
	11:57am clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:56 i beg to differ!
	11:58am drr: "Pink tea for the ladies, and zu-zu crackers for the men!"
	11:58am sharon: Milk Duds for the ladies! Love Lou Mitchells.
	11:58am Squints: ↳ drr @11:56 Yep. Couldn't resist.
	11:59am yippie: last month i went to a ramen shop in tokyo where all the girls got a free scoop of ice cream and the guys got free nothing. the ramen was a bit heavy.
	11:59am clarke: ↳ Song: "Hell-Oh Sixty" by "Amy Rigby" i'm ever-impressed with Wreckless production!!
	11:59am Listener Baby: Eric bought a compressor.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:59 'e prolly traded fer et!!
	12:01pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:00 Init’
	12:01pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:59 indeed
	12:01pm clarke: roight??
	12:01pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @11:49 Isn't that what happened here, too? There wasn't much going on in the US post-Elvis and pre-Beatles. When the Beatles happened, they didn't just change music; they changed the world. Probably more right place, right time than anything else, tho.
	12:01pm ledzeppelinsucks: Salernos Pizza 1201 2 Grand in Chicago is entertaining. The barely ambulatory waitress pushes a steel industrial cart to serve dishes. CPD enters in groups and walks behind the bar to help themselves in uniform. White beans are the best.
	12:02pm gf2002: He had magic dust And this would get the reindeer off, man? Got them off, are you kidding, man? They flew all the way around the world!
	12:02pm clarke: cheech and dipthong
	12:03pm Marie in Chicago: Top o' the morning to ya', Michael and All! I ate at Lou Mitchell's once a long time ago. All I remember was that it's a really nice interior.
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Earn Enough For Us" by "XTC" oh my, yes! !
	12:04pm Scott from Boston: The drums seem very upfront… Or maybe they always work??
	12:04pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Earn Enough For Us" by "XTC" Tracked with no drums. Crazy!
	12:05pm Michael Shelley: CHECK THE COASTERS: www.michaelshelley.net...
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:04 the drums always sounded pretty good on the cd. i think there is better bass reproduction going on, tho
	12:05pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:04 maybe a machine kick?
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:04 thats right, they took the tracks to prairie in SF.. mitchell's diner
	12:06pm Scott from Boston: Thank you, Clarke!
	12:07pm clarke: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:06 i have not listened to that cd in a long while tho!
	12:07pm Ciggy: ↳ Song: "Back Of My Hand" by "Jags, The" A WPIX-fm Classic
	12:09pm Scott from Boston: This jags song should’ve been a number hit!
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:09 charts schmarts!! i think it was in england, no??
	12:09pm Squints: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:09 Shoulda been all the damned numbers.
	12:10pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:09 on the back of your...???
	12:11pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:10 It was absolutely Number One in Toledo.
	12:11pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:01 I agree The Beatles had the great X-Factor that can't be planned or plotted out, and that was their timing, They appeared at exactly the right time especially in the US, and they pulled the plug when the time was right. But the Hamburg years have been written about often and until watching this documentary and hearing from people who were there beyond the usual talking heads it gave a sense that the young Beatles were far more influential and popular in Hamburg than has been reported before. It was a great take on the whole Beatles tale.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:11 still ain't made my mind up..
	12:12pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:11 you HAVE read mark lewisohn's book, right??
	12:12pm Hughie Considine: Can't believe I missed my promo! One o them days...
	12:13pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:12 dude, it was RIGHT HERE!!
	12:13pm egould: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:12 You did a very nice job.
	12:13pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:12 life is good!!
	12:13pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:12 It's on my list, haven't made it through that one yet. But the other stacks of the Beatle books I've read before the Lewisohn book are my reference haha
	12:13pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman" love it!
	12:14pm Hughie Considine: ↳ egould @12:13 Thanks, man! Twas a labor of love.
	12:14pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman" Pleased to report that Jonathan was great last weekend at WEH. (Last couple times I saw him were so-so)
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:13 oh my god. better and bigger than the bible! i said it!
	12:14pm egould: ↳ clarke @12:14 Don’t you blaspheme in this house!
	12:15pm Moammar: ↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman" This is the best Jonathan album. "Rocking and Romance."
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman" i will admit i was pretty 'against' jonathan's career-shift around this time, but still... it's freaking great!
	12:16pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:14 It is now toward the top of my list! I've been meaning to dig in but just haven't had the chance yet. I'm currently working through "When They Were Boys" by Larry Kane which is a decent read so far
	12:16pm Sheldon Kay: I saw Johnathan Richman both nights last weekend. Great show
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:16 lewisohn puts all other writers to SHAME!! i just hope he can finish volume two!!! in our lifetime!
	12:17pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:15 It's true -- there are some purists who didn't appreciate the extreme turn away from VU inspiration.
	12:18pm SeaCreature: That was a great version of the modern lovers with Beth and Ellie singing backup. Boston good times.
	12:18pm egould: Time to put on my earbuds and head down to the grocery store. Think I’ll make a pot roast on this chilly rainy Seattle day.
	12:18pm onthetrain: Rock the casbah , now Mike did you own the “watch” ?
	12:18pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:17 i went to see them "blind" -- not what i expectorated..
	12:18pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Topper: Great drummer? Or THE GREATEST DRUMMER?!
	12:18pm Michael Shelley: ↳ onthetrain @12:18 ?
	12:18pm egould: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Lasers! Pew pew pewwww!
	12:19pm Hughie Considine: ↳ egould @12:18 Pot roast is good chilly weather food. Happy roasting.
	12:19pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:11 I might have to watch that doc. Not that I don't know enough about the Beatles at this point, LOL. Hell, I lived through it. I remember exactly what I was doing the day they first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. (I was like 7, and I was helping Dad wallpaper my bro's bedroom that day, LOL.)
	12:19pm tadpoles: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Listening on headphones and it sounds great. The Soft Cell 12"ers from the 80's are also magnificent! Cheers
	12:19pm Matt in Nebraska: I listened to the audio book version of the Mark Lewisohn book while I worked. It's almost 44 hours long! Hopefully, the 2nd volume will be out sooner than later.
	12:19pm StringOFperils: Yeeeah, this mix will get you positive feedback!
	12:19pm clarke: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @12:18 one of! but, i am not sure topper is on this??"
	12:19pm Squints: ↳ SeaCreature @12:18 I never don't tear up a little at that version of "That Summer Feeling."
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @12:14 I heard reports tha he was relatively down to earth
	12:20pm onthetrain: From the album version there was the moment when Joe strummers watch alarm goes off and it made it to it the cut . You can sort or hear it in this version .
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:19 that book should be READ!
	12:20pm Michael Shelley: ↳ onthetrain @12:20 did not know that!
	12:20pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Topper is the entire rhythm section on this track, drums bass and piano...incredible groove!
	12:21pm SeaCreature: ↳ Squints @12:19 Too right.
	12:21pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The" Bathroom break?
	12:21pm egould: ↳ clarke @12:19 He wrote it. Recorded the drums and piano parts solo. Then the other blokes completed it.
	12:21pm onthetrain: Mike https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/e3pfa/does_anyone_else_notice_that_strange_electronic/
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ egould @12:21 didn't know dis.
	12:22pm gf2002: I've heard it was Mick Jones' watch but either way it's a cool effect...like Mal's alarm clock on Day In The Life haha
	12:22pm clarke: this show has exposed some mental lapses...
	12:22pm GeoSinPhilly: ↳ Song: "Funk Cold Medina" by "Tone-Loc" That one sounds GREAT.
	12:23pm gf2002: ↳ egould @12:21 Bass too
	12:23pm Cooh John: 80's night revisted
	12:23pm egould: I had both the Clash and Tone-Loc 12”.
	12:24pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:21 awww man!
	12:24pm drr: Could Young M.C. be next?
	12:25pm Listener Baby: Kiss and Foreigner? Right?
	12:25pm egould: ↳ gf2002 @12:23 Thanks. I wasn’t sure if he recorded the bass. Makes sense, though. And then the other guys gave Topper an ultimatum, get of the horse or you’re out of the band. I think he was fired shortly thereafter.
	12:26pm gf2002: I'm thinking MARRS "Pump Up The Volume" was spun often as well. Which is a great track BTW
	12:26pm Moammar: ↳ drr @12:24 Yes, apparently.
	12:26pm Matt in Nebraska: ↳ clarke @12:20 Am I being shamed for listening to an audio book? I listened while I worked as a custodian at an elementary school. I'm sorry. The narrator is good.
	12:26pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: This show is taking me back to college parties
	12:26pm Listener Baby: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:24 Just plain’ which you, Baby
	12:26pm Matty No Times: What's up WFMU! Killer show as usual!
	12:26pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:13 In my storage, I have a "collector's" edition of the NY Times that's actually just every page of the NY Times that the Beatles ever appeared on. Because it's the full page, you get an idea of everything else that was going on in the world at the time. Just bits and pieces of the world in 1964, 65, etc. It's kind of what makes newspapers better than articles on the 'net, but that's another topic.
	12:26pm James in ATL: ↳ drr @12:24 Nice job!
	12:26pm Matty No Times: Im always gonna get up for Bust A Move
	12:26pm drr: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Thought so.
	12:26pm clarke: ↳ egould @12:25 hence my confusion - thought he was already gone by that time
	12:27pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Goddamn this rocks.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:26 sometime you should read it.
	12:28pm gf2002: ↳ egould @12:25 And Topper had lyrics written for it too but Strummer threw them out and wrote the ones we know. Hearing that track and realizing most of the instruments are just one guy overdubbing the parts is amazing. What a groove!
	12:28pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Clearing a space in my office so I can do the Running Man.
	12:28pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:25 musta been back in the wild west days when people just sampled whatever they felt like it...
	12:28pm drr: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Don't get cocky and try to karaoke this, unless you are in incredible pulmonary health you will be laying on the floor by the end.
	12:29pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Flea on bass...killer line
	12:29pm Matt in Nebraska: ↳ clarke @12:27 Sometime you should listen to it.
	12:29pm Matty No Times: ↳ drr @12:28 oof ive def made that mistake before
	12:29pm egould: ↳ drr @12:28 Hahaha!
	12:29pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" serious kick drum on this!
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:29 my ears are busy
	12:30pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC" Frosh week a guy in my dorm blasted this on a loop seemingly in the hallway at 7am all week long. Slightly traumatic but still funky.
	12:30pm clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:29 sample.
	12:30pm James in ATL: I have a friend that was a record exec and we once went to dinner with Young MC, was super nice. He warned us that he shared the bill with Milli Vanilli and they didn't really sing their songs. This was a few months before it became common knowledge.
	12:30pm Scott from Boston: Why do I love this? Bill Wyman tune so much!🤣
	12:31pm Congrats EFD! Keep the great music going!: This song has the sleaziest one liner ever.
	12:31pm Scott from Boston: That smooth operator
	12:31pm Listener Baby: Written for Ian Dury
	12:32pm drr: ↳ Song: "(Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star" by "Bill Wyman" This reminds me of a 12" I had as part of a marriage, Captain Sensible's idiotic and enjoyable "Wot?"
	12:32pm Scott from Boston: Wow, I can really hear that… Great bit of info!
	12:33pm Andres: ↳ Listener Baby @12:31 Can’t not hear it now!
	12:33pm gf2002: Speaking of Clash...was the DJ'ing at the time when Mick Jones with Big Audio Dynamite had the hit "Rush"? That track was a real banger as the kids like to say, loaded with samples
	12:33pm Squints: ↳ drr @12:32 Some days -- well, kind of a lot of days -- I think "Wot?" is the greatest record ever made.
	12:33pm drr: ↳ Squints @12:33 I say wot?
	12:34pm egould: ↳ drr @12:32 Idiotic and enjoyable. Carve it into my headstone.
	12:34pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: ↳ Squints @12:33 You’re not wrong.
	12:34pm Listener Baby: Had this 12” No idea where it went. I worsted this song back then.
	12:34pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" oh my, yes.
	12:35pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" Top tune from top tunesmiths.
	12:35pm Listener Baby: Is yours shaped like a coin purse, Baby. And did you steal mine?
	12:35pm Matty No Times: fuckin love this song
	12:35pm Matt in Nebraska: ↳ clarke @12:29 The narrator is great. If your ears can find the time, I highly recommend it.
	12:35pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:34 in your worsted suit??
	12:36pm Listener Baby: ↳ Listener Baby @12:34 Worshiped
	12:36pm drr: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" never heard this, very good.
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" A little distortion at the top end
	12:36pm Johnny Staten Island: Micheal your show is so on point today. Great sets all day
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:35 no & no
	12:36pm Hughie Considine: What a bridge
	12:36pm Listener Baby: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:36 Damn
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:36 in your worshipped suit??
	12:37pm Hughie Considine: or, meandering path...
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:35 I assume by "yours" you mean my record sleeve?
	12:37pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:26 That's the best way to really dig in and research music, especially the legendary artists from the 60's, to put them into context with what was going on around the music. I do the same with broadcast radio airchecks from the 60's, where you hear what an hour of top-40 radio sounded like in the 60's and also get the news reports and ads, it creates a time machine where the music becomes part of a much bigger picture.
	12:37pm Billybob: ↳ James in ATL @12:30 What I never understood was why that Milli Vanilli Grammy wasn't just transferred over to the guys who actually sang on the record. Were they not pretty enough for a Grammy or something?
	12:38pm Squints: ↳ Billybob @12:37 If somebody told me that was a thing I'd totally believe it.
	12:38pm clarke: threefur!!
	12:38pm Hughie Considine: Colin Moulding, man ...
	12:38pm egould: I’m in XTC ecstasy!
	12:39pm clarke: guy could f'n PLAY
	12:39pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC" From that rare time when MTV was playing XTC in regular rotation
	12:39pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:38 wish he'd play on more sessions
	12:39pm drr: ↳ Billybob @12:26 This reminds me of the argument against getting rid of card catalogs--with digital search you find what you were looking for and that's it. With the context of a card catalog you also find out about things you didn't know to look for.
	12:40pm egould: ↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC" Jangle jangle jangle!
	12:40pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:37 I'm guessing you've delved into that 77 Music Radio website? The site itself is kind of a mess, but you can listen to some interesting old stuff from WABC in the 60s and 70s.
	12:40pm DRATSUM: You know, XTC never grew on me and I don’t know why. Even when it’s upbeat, it makes me feel sad.
	12:40pm drr: ↳ drr @12:39 Librarians hated that argument, for the most part.
	12:41pm drr: ↳ DRATSUM @12:40 XTC has so many good songs, but I hate "Living Through Another Cuba" so much it kinda cancels out.
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:40 what is your most convenient branch?
	12:41pm Jersey Plaid: Nick Lowe and now XTC, outstanding
	12:41pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:37 The music industry overcompensated in their "punishment" after the lid was blown off their dirty little secrets. There was another dance track that was huge at the same time where they had a supermodel pictured as the singer while the real female singer was kept anonymous. I think it was Technotronic featuring Felly. A total marketing sham.
	12:42pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:41 Alvar or Martin Luther King. MLK is closer but Alvar is a little easier to park.
	12:43pm Matty No Times: nah never heard it
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:42 uhh, the MLK that used to be Melpomene Street?? that don't make sense??
	12:43pm Billybob: ↳ drr @12:39 I don't think I've done that in 30 years, but yes, absolutely!
	12:43pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC" From XTC Song Stories (a fave): "Andy came up with the bell-sounding "collegiate" bass line but it was so fast it would blur if it sounded to bassy," he says. Colin invented the rest of the bass line itself, which is one of the finest and fastest on any XTC track. But if the playing was complex, the song was not. "I was rather embarrassed by its simplicity," says Andy.
	12:44pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC" Can't beat Mr. Mister on the drums? Can you?
	12:44pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:42 i don't know where that MLK is?
	12:44pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe" Sounds HUGE in Studio A
	12:44pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:44 Nice
	12:45pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe" When I ax ya to 'splain....
	12:45pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:40 Yes! Very cool site. I have a bit of a collection of old broadcasts on CDR's traded and bought from various sources, my favorites are 93 KHJ from LA, Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, Roger Christian, a great on air team. I also have a few hours of Dan Ingram and "The Hern" on WABC from the 60's, great radio!
	12:45pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe" SO good
	12:46pm Listener Baby: ↳ drr @12:41 A: Respectfully, that’s pretty a harsh mind set. B: I 100% agree. Their attempt at Dub, gone very wrong.
	12:46pm egould: This outro, though!
	12:46pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:45 ax=splain
	12:46pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:46 it would have been okay at a minute or less
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:46 an interlude
	12:47pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:46 But would it have been?
	12:47pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:44 It's in a junior high school on Claiborne, in the Lower Nine. It's a nice branch. Kinda full of junior high kids using the computers after school.
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:47 wow, nevah hoid of it!
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:47 yer Vols got a bit of a tussle, today
	12:48pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:48 Bama?
	12:49pm egould: Thanks Michael!
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:48 yessir.
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village" keltner?
	12:51pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:45 Wow, nice. I always thought it'd be great to have a radio station that just plays full days' broadcasts from random dates in history...news, promos, commercials, call-ins, etc. I guess recordings of broadcasts like that aren't as available as you'd think they'd be.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Billybob @12:51 to go back further in time, check out Antioch Broadcast Radio sometime
	12:52pm drr: i don't wanna spend this much time with "Haunted House".
	12:53pm Billybob: ↳ gf2002 @12:41 Well, hell...I'd never heard of the Wrecking Crew until maybe 20 years ago. At first, I thought "cool". Then, after thinking about it, I felt a tad defrauded.
	12:53pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village" I get it. Needs to be faster, though, like Jumpin' Gene Simmons.
	12:53pm annette: side note for NRBQ fans. you probably remember Jon Blickens at Wild weekends. sadly passed recently. wish him peace
	12:54pm Billybob: ↳ clarke @12:52 Thanks for the tip!
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ annette @12:53 RIP John. damn.
	12:54pm drr: ↳ Squints @12:53 I like Jerry Lee's drunken-sounding version where he doesn't bother rhyming.
	12:55pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ... Stolen bass line.
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Billybob @12:54 it broadcasts mostly from 30's and 40's but is awesome
	12:55pm KevinfromBayRidge: ↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village" Love Roy Buchanan's cover of this.
	12:55pm Mr. Jones: ↳ drr @12:54 oh "White Lines?"
	12:55pm drr: I couldn't count the number of times "something like a phenomenon" just appears in my headspace.
	12:55pm Listener Baby: Always felt was singing directly to me. Not that I did any drugs.
	12:55pm egould: Gettin’ higher baby!
	12:56pm drr: ↳ Mr. Jones @12:55 heh, no; "Haunted House". JLL would have crushed "White Lines" though.
	12:56pm Cosmic: Freebase!
	12:56pm clarke: baby.
	12:56pm gf2002: ↳ Billybob @12:51 It depends on the station and the city, but yes they can be hard to find especially unscoped/unedited broadcasts with complete songs because they would actually chop out the song and just leave the DJ talk and ads to use as demos. A lot of the best ones were either recorded by the DJ's themselves or the stations, and if they leaked out they came from the DJ or their family. The ones recorded off-air by a random listener are usually poor quality but still fascinating. Check out this site: https://www.reelradio.com/
	12:56pm clarke: this is the news dept.
	12:57pm Raina: Wow so retro clubdays today. I Like!!
	12:57pm Squints: ↳ drr @12:54 The Killer's on the short list of guys who can say "the words are whatever I want 'em to be."
	12:57pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ... Anyone know if the horns are sampled. And from what? Pretty brilliantly done.
	12:58pm Hubig Pie: ↳ drr @12:55 Original was "Slip in and out of phenomenon" I think.
	12:58pm tonyb: Didn’t get much sleep during the Reagan years. 🥱
	12:58pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ... This led me to the "original version" released as "Cavern" by Liquid Liquid, which is one of my favorite grooves of all time.
	12:58pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:57 it sounds like a Fairlight system to me
	12:58pm drr: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:58 yeah, I thought I might have it wrong!
	12:58pm Squints: ↳ drr @12:54 This would have been an awesome NRBQ impromptu cover back in the days when they had The Box.
	12:58pm clarke: ah ha ha. good night.
	12:59pm Raina: ↳ tonyb @12:58 I hear you same here!
	12:59pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:58 Before all that?
	12:59pm drr: ↳ Squints @12:58 yes!

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