WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 21, 2017

Listener comments!
	9:04am themutante: Let's be havin' you, Joe!
	9:04am Cheri Pi: Belated YipYips!
	9:05am themutante: Nice starter.
	9:06am annie: yar i is!
	9:08am Sem Chumbo: Hello, Joe, McGaskoes. Welders goggles affixed, ready to stare the Sun down.
	9:08am pantz: Take us right into The Rapture, Joe.
	9:09am The Oscar: Morning all! Checking in one more time before heading off to Denmark for a week!
	9:09am John in Bklyn: Hiya, Joe! Great spooky eclipse background.
	9:11am annie: sem, i have a small #9 panel for my viewing. might just hold it to the lens of the camera.. i'm hoping to get some nice leaf-shots, too.. of course my PLANS always miss the mark of the reality.. maybe i'll just practice my sun-gazing.
	9:11am themutante: Damn, smooth start.
	9:11am Joe McG: Don't stare into the eclipse. You'll GO BLIND! Good morning, everyone!
	9:13am Vincent Nifigance: Don't stare into the eclipse while masturbating, you'll go blind.
	9:14am The Oscar: @Vincent That's actually an urban myth, but if you cover your eyes, your palms will turn hairy.
	9:15am themutante: Don't stare into the eclipes while masturbating and finger-blasting yourself, you'll go blind and not give a flying...
	9:15am John in Bklyn: Even some welding goggles aren't safe to use for viewing. Ask your pharmacist if a welder's helmet is right for you.
	9:16am themutante: Woops! (sp)
	9:16am steveo: Yep yep.
	9:16am annie: i'm wondering how soon in advance the critters will go into hiding.. my cat hid under the couch for 5 hours for the last one in '83.
	9:16am themutante: Noooope!
	9:18am Vincent Nifigance: Learning alot today, thanks gang!
	9:18am themutante: Aint that the Cat that's on the terrorism watchlist?
	9:19am John in Bklyn: The Catholic Church considers Eclipse Staring to be a form a self abuse and therefore a no-no in the eyes of God. Ask your pharmacist (or Pope) if you want to be sure.
	9:19am themutante: Wrongly, of course.
	👻 9:20am Webhamster Henry: The animated version of MoonShadow is great! www.youtube.com...
	9:20am John in Bklyn: He blew up Billboard's Top 10 in the 70s but was never apprehended.
	9:21am steveo: Been listening to Moonshadow since before I could speak...
	9:21am themutante: Ha! Brilliant @JinB
	9:23am Brendan: Hey Joe and totalitarians from a lake near ( now) sunny Sweetwater Tenn.. Any Sunwatchers on the playlist today?
	9:23am themutante: Do love a concept mix.
	9:24am John in Bklyn: @mutante Looks like we're both riding the comment boards right up until Eclipse Time! haha
	9:24am themutante: I'm from Scotland, what's a sun?
	9:24am thatpatsmith: Lovely set!
	9:25am themutante: Right there with you bud. @JinB
	9:25am coelacanth∅: dig that crazy fuzz guitar! - hi Joe and all
	9:25am annie: pet-sitting for some people out there today brendan and all i got is a lousy teeshirt. i'm in asheville, so we get ~98%
	9:25am themutante: We had a little over a week of summer back in May.
	9:26am Joe McG: @themutante: I figure, how many times in this life am I going to have a chance to do an "eclipse" set on the day of my show? Had to!
	9:26am steveo: nice -- had my left headphone off talking to some people, when I finally put it back on: SUPERFUZZ
	9:26am Sem Chumbo: Hope the proposed picture-taking goes well,@ annie
	9:27am themutante: Another one in 7 years, not sure what day that falls on thought @Joe
	9:28am themutante: Beta Band - Very nice!
	9:30am themutante: Alexa, stop cutting out the music. She gets the blame for everything.
	9:30am melinda: Hi Joe
	9:31am Joe McG: Hey, melinda!
	9:31am annie: hope so, too, semm... i still am on a lerning curve with the new camera; i'll fidget with it today.
	9:33am themutante: The band made kinda famous by High Fidelity. Book or movie, you choose.
	9:33am KP: This song is throwing shade on the eclipse
	9:33am John in Bklyn: X!!! Thanks, Joe!! One of my Desert Island Disks!
	9:34am Brendan: @annie good luck with the critters today. Hopefully they don't freak
	9:34am Roberto: This X was the theme song for early '83 L.A.
	9:35am John in Bklyn: Poor little critter in the road... Don't worry, they'll be O.K.
	9:35am JakeGould: Hey!
	9:36am steveo: even the bed is sky related!
	9:37am annie: the cat'll just hide, as is his wont, but th dogs might just sleep.. i'm going to pay attention; i bet in about an hour they'll beging to feel the convergence.. this is cool.
	9:38am themutante: He better have a somethin'.
	9:38am melinda: I'm hoping to find some interesting shadows to stare at.
	9:39am annie: yes melinda!! there are small trees in the front yard here, so i'll be out there mostly. we have high light cloud-cover here right now.
	9:40am themutante: Why did they even say 'pizza pie'? They're Scottish we don't say pie, ever!
	9:41am steveo: that's amore!
	9:41am themutante: RAPTURE!!!!
	9:42am kimzilla: I like your pronunciation of E-cliipse!
	9:42am themutante: analogy?
	👻 9:43am tadpoles: Celestial Joe?
	9:43am John in Bklyn: The moon is colluding with the Russians! It's the Jared Kushner of astronomy.
	9:45am themutante: Is that the front page of Breitbart? @JinB Ha!
	9:45am themutante: Bannon reigning down from the skies.
	9:48am paul: "Total Eclipse" by Klaus Nomi, please
	9:49am The Oscar: @paul That's been on my mind too-- I'll be pretty shocked if no one plays it today!
	9:50am paul: :)
	9:51am themutante: No sarcasm in this track at all. Think it only got worse as well.
	9:52am steveo: Wikipedia, re Moonshadow: "When Yusuf appeared on The Chris Isaak Hour in 2009, he said of this song: "I was on a holiday in Spain. I was a kid from the West End (of London) - bright lights, et cetera. I never got to see the moon on its own in the dark, there were always streetlamps. So there I was on the edge of the water on a beautiful night with the moon glowing, and suddenly I looked down and saw my shadow. I thought that was so cool, I'd never seen it before."
	9:52am Guido from Cologne: Good Morning Joe! Happy Eclipse! Southern Mark Smith: is this intented as an assault?
	9:53am BnowB: lol@mutant so sarcastic reminds me of the band "sammy" and "laptop" singer Jesse Hartman quite the forgotten genius.
	9:54am BnowB: fun fact- the guitar player for the band "sammy" went on to design dre beat headphones. That record does have a sick sound. out of print but you can find some stuff.
	9:55am BnowB: upload.wikimedia.org...
	9:56am BnowB: www.discogs.com...
	9:56am themutante: I'll need to look into him and his bands. You done stumped me.
	9:57am Joe McG: @kimzilla: Thx! :) @Guido: I think it's not entirely favorable an assessment. :)
	9:57am Birdie Hall: EAT YRSELF FITTER!
	9:57am BnowB: Yea cool shit. I like power pop with a caddy vibe. lol
	9:57am themutante: Cheers, @BnowB. Need to do some more research on those bands.
	9:57am BnowB: I have that Ken CD
	9:58am BnowB: cheers ;) didn't mean to go on so much COFFEEEEEEEE weird Energies.. NO sun.. Punk rock ... razors , go ho nite O ... whats a computer
	9:58am medson: Show sounds amazing. Great songs.
	9:59am BnowB: The Fall Eat Y'self Fitter is SICK
	9:59am John in Bklyn: One of The Fall's best!! There's a funny video for this tune on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCOt6wbm80
	9:59am dan in wisconsin: MES!
	9:59am themutante: Love this!
	10:00am John in Bklyn: This whole record is great!
	10:01am Joe McG: Except for "Repetition," this is my favorite Fall song. "What's a computer?!"
	10:02am themutante: The Fall have such a canon, it's hard to know where to begin. The start is the obvious answer, I guess.
	10:02am JakeGould: What does eating oneself fitter have to do with an eclipse?
	10:02am themutante: We are off the eclipse lark right now, it was just the first set.
	10:04am Joe McG: The new reissue of "PbyL" has liners by our own Brian Turner, btw.
	10:05am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning all!
	10:05am The Oscar: Whoa-- hadn't heard this Monks yet!
	10:06am John in Bklyn: Thanks, Joe. I'll check it out!
	10:06am BnowB: The Bob Seger System 2 + 2 = ? Awesome!
	10:06am dan in wisconsin: I started with "Grotesque-After the Gram" and proceeded to listen to everything before and after because I have a serious Fall addiction.
	10:06am themutante: Powerful, Brian Turner!
	10:07am BnowB: white stripes lick.. jack white lick
	👻 10:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Today: a total eclipse of the heart!
	10:08am steveo: why didn't classic rock radio ever tell me about this song?
	10:08am themutante: Yeah!
	10:11am Joe McG: @steveo: I like "Night Moves," too, but the early Seger System stuff is killer diller.
	10:11am annie: re: superstitions about eclipses: the great scene from Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which, i believe, was written by Mark Twain, a visionary in his own right.
	10:12am BnowB: "ah surely!! ... yea.. surely! " - love when i hear that word used well
	10:14am BnowB: I love this track. by the duke... i could weep. Real Men Cry! (but just a little) hehe
	10:15am melinda: Going back a few songs, I heard I Love to Read All British Mail.
	10:16am Ike: No, Duke, no! There was never any perfect lost era of the past! The past was crap! Nostalgia kills. You just want to be a kid again, don't you, Duke? Crying is cool, though. Get some therapy, man! You can cry in the shrink's office about your lost childhood. LOL.
	10:16am steveo: Joe, It's hard to even know if I like Night Moves, I've heard it so many times. I wasn't even aware of the System, so, as usual, thanks for the education.
	10:17am Sem Chumbo: Yes @annie, great scene especially if you saw it in a Classic Comic!
	10:17am annie: both, actually, sem.... one of my favorite stories
	10:17am themutante: Great track.
	10:18am John in Bklyn: This sounds like the sermon Byrne copped for Once in a Lifetime!
	10:18am BnowB: everyday should be this day.. these sentiments... is it too late to be kind today?
	👻 10:18am tadpoles: Loved the Monks following the Fall Joe. Watching the doc on the Monks all I could think about was..these guys sound like the Fall!
	10:21am themutante: Love the Gil. Can't have enough of him. I find his live recordings cast shade on the studio ones. Black Wax is a must watch if you haven't seen it.
	10:21am Joe McG: @BnowB: I wonder! @tadpoles: Am I mistaken or didn't the Fall cover a Monks tune?
	👻 10:22am Ken From Hyde Park: Watching old home movies with my mom this morning. Footage of her at a rodeo. Makes me wonder if there are rodeo video games nowadays.
	10:23am John in Bklyn: Gil Scott saved me from jumping off the roof of my building on election night.
	10:24am Joe McG: @John: His records are such a comfort even though the man is gone.
	10:25am themutante: Damn, @JinB! That's a hardcore endorsement right there.
	10:26am pantz: If you're an alt-right, I've heard all that eye protection for the solar eclipse is fake news perpetrated by ANTIFA and CNN. Go ahead and stare directly into the eclipse and show those liberals what for!
	10:27am themutante: Well played @pantz I heard that too. Always be looking out for fellow man.
	10:29am melinda: Turn around, fried-eyes!
	10:29am John in Bklyn: Absolutely, Joe!
	10:29am coelacanth∅: pantz Haha! yesterday when some selfish tourists tried to "inadvertently" get in front of me on line at the café, while talking about eye protection for this event, i said "don't such a wuss. just look at it!"
	10:30am themutante: Black Wax, as I mentioned earlier, really turned me on to Gil.
	10:33am The Oscar: I want to say they covered either "I Hate You" or "Monk Time?" Or maybe a medley?
	10:33am Guido from Cologne: BLACK MONK TIME was 1966! So 1967 is post :-)
	👻 10:33am tadpoles: Can't remember either Joe but the Fall do great covers of Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love" and the Move's "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" - excellent!
	10:33am themutante: If audio cuttings fall on the floor of The Jazz Butcher's shop they get flung into the final product.
	10:33am pantz: First they start a war on Christmas and now a war on the Sun. It's our right as Americans to star directly into the Sun without the gub'ment telling us to wear "protective eyewear".
	10:34am BnowB: food glorious food i no eat but coffee and cheeba and... wfmu
	10:34am melinda: With all the talk about bogus eclipse eyewear, I don't know who to trust.
	10:34am annie: right on pantz!
	10:35am themutante: Preach, Pantz!
	10:36am Joe McG: Thanks, Guido, I KNEW you'd know offhand.
	👻 10:36am Ken From Hyde Park: @pantz - And when they're waiting in line at the emergency room, they need to make it clear they don't want Obamacare paying for their treatment.
	10:36am dan in wisconsin: The Fall do a great cover of R. Dean Taylor's "There's a Ghost in My House" also.
	10:37am BnowB: without glasses you mine as well sit on sofa and watch it on tv. no no .. no i will at least go out, even in the rain, to feel it. To feel the sun go away; 70% a Feeeeeeeeling..
	10:37am The Oscar: I remember absconding with my dad's copy of the Nuggets box set and listening to it driving to high school. When I hit "Complication" by the Monks, I was so stunned that I just kept skipping back to the beginning and listening to it again (and this was BEFORE I knew about their look or their story!). I must've listened to that song 15 times that day, at least.
	10:38am coelacanth∅: Sweet Miriam Makeba!
	10:38am annie: mama miriam!
	10:39am Matt F: Weird! Was just thinking about pulling Pata Pata to play this week. Not kidding!
	10:39am jillydg: Never enough Pa-Ta!
	10:39am Joe McG: @MattF: Saw Angelique Kidjo cover this a couple of weeks ago to pandemonium!
	10:39am annie: i love this song, yes, can never get too much..
	10:40am BnowB: I want a coconut.
	10:40am jillydg: I was there Joe, and pandeminc!
	10:41am BnowB: ahh stewart and his beats :)
	10:41am Parq: Try and imagine a time when you could turn on AM radio any old time of day and hear that Miriam Makeba single, and you get some idea of how long ago the 60s was.
	10:41am Joe McG: @jillydg: Wasn't it great?
	👻 10:42am doctorjazz: Aww, missed Pata Pata, love that song
	10:42am V Priceless: hey Joe! Nice call with The Police - I kinda miss those knuckleheads...lotsa great tunes
	10:43am Joe McG: @VP: Often their lyrics are lacking, but their tunes are snappy and so is their playing.
	10:44am The Oscar: At the record store I used to work at, we arrived one morning to find a MASSIVE box of vintage Police pins and buttons that someone had left for us. As the one who had to create eBay listings for each one, I got VERY good at recognizing which iconography matched which albums/singles. It took the better part of a year to go through them all.
	10:44am annie: agreed parq
	10:45am Joe McG: @TheOscar: Sounds like fun!
	10:45am Joe McG: Did anyone ever see Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"? I heard about it a lot but never watched it.
	10:46am themutante: Just that new version @Joe
	10:46am Rev. Turnip Druid: Watched it religiously, every week.
	10:46am Rev. Turnip Druid: ...by which I mean I watched it secularly.
	10:46am Beast of Boonton: Yes, Cosmos was on channel 13
	10:46am Greg from ZONE 5: LOVE THIS!
	10:46am The Oscar: @Joe It was! (Though surprisingly difficult to describe in an auction heading a badge for The Police shaped like a police badge)
	10:47am melinda: I like vintage space themes
	10:47am dan in wisconsin: If you like this, Vangelis's Blade Runner soundtrack is unbelievable.
	10:47am The Oscar: I think I saw clips from it in school. Always been curious to watch it all, but the DVD is so expensive.
	10:48am Listener Alexandra: Beautiful show so far, Joe...been up since the Jazz Butcher :-)
	10:49am melinda: I watched Cosmos but don't remember much. Except that me and my classmates thought Carl was sort of goofy. I appreciated him more as I got older and read some of his books.
	10:49am Sem Chumbo: whiplash, Joe! The Police to Vangelis to Patsy. Is this a mind control experiment, 'cause I really like it :-D
	10:49am dan in wisconsin: Gotta make sure it's the "Esper Edition" though....
	10:49am Joe McG: I'd like to see it sometime, I'll have to see if it's on the Internet.
	10:49am annie: damn, i always come in too early on...."wonderin'"
	10:51am Joe McG: @Sem: I like "Single File" since it gives me an excuse to throw curveballs at you. :) @Alex: Howdy!
	10:51am Rev. Turnip Druid: Cosmos & In Search Of... were the best of television. Also, what melinda said. Sagan wasn't respected amongst us kids at the time due to his goofy speech inflections. We'd all practice the perfect delivery of "BILLIONS and BILLIONS..."
	10:51am melinda: @joe it's gotta be there somewhere
	10:52am Guido from Cologne: Monks Hamburg 1967 purchased and CD about to be burned.
	10:53am Brian C.: Hey JMcG, thanks for giving the 'new" Monks some airplay, I just purchased the EP Saturday. Love Eddie's bass!
	10:53am The Oscar: @Rev My girlfriend got me the complete series of In Search Of for Christmas a couple of years back, and it's one of my most treasured DVD sets. The Salem Witch episode (about the witches in Salem in the '70s, not the trials) is my favorite.
	10:54am The Oscar: Also ERIC!!
	10:54am themutante: Thanks for reminding me of Cosmos, I'm watching that tonight. R-ga Haha ARGH!
	10:54am KP: Anything else would be Wreckless
	10:54am Ike: I don't know why, but I want a version of "Crazy" honked by angry geese.
	10:55am Joe McG: @Brian: Yeah, it sounds great!
	10:56am jillydg: Yes Joe so fantastic. That whole performance. I had revisited Stop Making Sense on a big screen upstate NY the week before and was poised to go nuts. (Folks, SMS is playing at BAM this month. HIGHLY recommend re-seeing it big.)
	10:56am themutante: I'm sorry for the pirate impression. Yep, that's what it was supposed to be.
	10:57am themutante: Money, money, money... MONEY! 49-1
	10:58am PKNY: My man in the Escorts is laying down a seriously heavy rap!
	10:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Wait, where are they usually making love that they have to sit down and say "Let's do this at home occasionally."?
	10:59am themutante: Ha! @Greg
	10:59am V Priceless: MOTT!
	10:59am Joe McG: @Greg: Precisely! :)
	10:59am PKNY: @Greg -my thoughts exactly...and the Interwebs is coming up empty with lyrics...this is much more important than an eclipse!
	11:00am themutante: I'm having fun, but I happen to be slightly drunk. Good tunes are always a bonus.
	11:01am Greg from ZONE 5: "Girl, you know I love making love to you at the library, and at Christmas Mass and at Six Flags…"
	11:02am PKNY: The Escorts dude reminded me of my hero: Smoove B from the Onion --> www.theonion.com...
	11:02am V Priceless: this just reminded me to pre-order the late great Overend Watts' solo album!
	11:02am Joe McG: @Greg: Don't forget the Shop Rite.
	11:02am Joe McG: @VP: Didn't know there was one! Intrigued!
	11:02am PKNY: @Joe - only in the frozen food section, get it right!
	11:04am V Priceless: @Joe: www.angelair.co.uk...
	11:04am themutante: Powerful half hour of 45's!
	11:04am Greg from ZONE 5: The one on Marin Blvd? I love making love there. Great set, Joey!
	11:06am paul: The Mamas and Papas did that on Creque Alley
	11:08am themutante: Van-jealous?
	11:08am themutante: Van-gelous, surely?
	11:11am themutante: Live on tape...
	11:12am themutante: Channeling my Hank Kingsley.
	11:15am melinda: That was a great doc about Joe Strummer
	11:16am Mayuko: Good morning Joe!
	11:17am Joe McG: @Greg: That's the spot! Thanks, Greggy! @paul: They made love there? ;) @melinda: I agree! Even if you're not a Clash person, it's a really interesting portrait of a fellow who seems like a pretty decent guy.
	11:17am Joe McG: Hi, Mayuko! (Got you this time. :) ha ha)
	11:18am Carmichael: Heya Joe and individual people.
	11:18am KevinfromBayRidge: Hello Surfactants . @Greg-I'm not near a Shoprite. Will a Krogers do? In Hilton Head-98% totality this afternoon(but probably cloudy). Great show, Joe!
	11:19am annie: hey carm!!!
	11:19am Brian C.: Love the Clash tune, never heard it before, need to find that doc
	11:21am Brian C.: Was Mick Jones still in the Clash in '84?
	11:21am JakeGould: @BnowB: Thanks for reminding me of “Sammy” and mentioning the “Beats” connection. Luke Wood is a fella!
	11:21am paul: @Joe, LOL. Creque Alley was autobiographical like the Mott song.
	11:23am jess: how about some Mescaleros?
	11:24am Joe McG: @paul: I know, I'm just joshing you. :) I think that would be a great WFMU premium, bands singing about themselves.
	11:24am BnowB: @jake... cool :) glad you enjoyed the trivia cool music sammy great power pop band
	11:25am BnowB: saganseries.com free sample.. looking for free. its on some pay sites... hulu not netflix
	11:26am JakeGould: Yeah, but when you say, “fun fact- the guitar player for the band "sammy" went on to design dre beat headphones.” That is a wild misrepresentation. Luke Wood is the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Beats by Dre. He’s a “suit” in jeans and a t-shirt.
	11:27am medson: Wow this song randomly played yesterday on my iTunes. NICE.
	11:28am Parq: Joe Strummer's birthday, is it? A chain bookstore has an annual 50% off sale for Criterion Collection releases, and I bought Mystery Train. Just watched it this past weekend. Gets better every time I see it, and Joe is a big reason why.
	11:28am Joe McG: @medson: Cool! @Parq: Great movie!
	11:29am Carmichael: Oh hey, Annie. I was busy reading all the comments. Are you still in Asheville?
	11:29am paul: @Joe, I agree. Ballad of John and Yoko, 10th Avenue Freeze Out.....
	11:29am JakeGould: “Mystery Train” is a beautiful film. Period.
	11:31am BnowB: ahh it is on netflix www.netflix.com...
	11:33am BnowB: Jake Mould lol yea your right when you put it that way. he a real player and his music is so opposite to the max. It laughs at all that. Wild right :) one for us creeps in jeans and a T-shirt
	11:33am Marc Francis: Damn. That Faith Healer song is great!
	11:34am Joe McG: Next song goes out to Annie (and her aeroplane).
	11:34am BnowB: richman areoplane?
	11:35am BnowB: never mind Astral-Plane lol
	11:36am Parq: The Aeroplanes track has that 80s power pop backbeat that always just kills me.
	11:40am Joe McG: @Parq: It sure was big then. This comp has it in spades!
	11:44am paul: Same as the Blue Aeroplanes?
	11:44am annie: yes, carm, i am..... 98% totality, too..
	11:47am JakeGould: NYC/NJ is still only 70% or so totality. No need for glasses since it’s gonna be dim but not completely dark. And please, do not follow my advice… I’m just some guy who has typed words on a computer.
	👻 11:49am doctorjazz: My understanding is that even if we're not fully total, you shouldn't look directly at it.
	👻 11:50am tadpoles: I thought the Post Office did a neat job with their heat sensitive Eclipse stamps. Thanks for your show today Joe. Very neat.
	11:50am steveo: but what if the moon moons extra???
	11:51am annie: yeah, joe, thanks for the show!! always glad to listen..
	11:52am BnowB: Amazing show joe, thank you kindly young man! Have a good afternoon without the sun. Salutè
	11:52am Sem Chumbo: Personally, I am gonna take advice of an ostrich pal of mine and bury my head in the sand. Sounds easy enough. Thanks, Joe, McGaskoes, been a blue tongue time today. Later
	11:52am JakeGould: It’s not magic. You shouldn’t look directly in the sun to begin with. And in the case of a total eclipse, the darkness expands your pupils and if you stare, you run the risk of piles of sun pouring into your eyeballs when the moon moves away. Like if you go to the eye doctor and they give you those eyedrops to expand your pupils and you can’t eb in drect sunlight? Same thing.
	11:53am paul: Use your phone's selfie feature.
	11:53am JakeGould: And again, don’t follow my advice.
	11:54am BnowB: so no telescope direct in Georgia sun 100%? ha
	11:54am steveo: mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
	11:55am JakeGould: @paul: Yeah, your phone is reflective glass. Reflected light in your eyes can still cause damage.
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting everyone~! Have yourself a nice eclipse. Bright side: If you go blind, you can still listen to FMU.
	11:55am BnowB: perfect solution. magnifying glass off a mirror?
	11:56am JakeGould: @Joe: Thanks for the show!
	11:56am paul: Really? I did not know that.
	11:56am steveo: thanks, Joe!
	👻 11:56am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:56am medson: Thanks for a great show Joe.
	11:57am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks Joe! Great stuff today.
	11:57am BnowB: cheers @medson
	11:57am paul: 5-star show
	11:58am dan in wisconsin: Agreed, thanks Joe!
	11:58am Parq: Fine show. I'm not gonna look at it either. I have friends in two states travelling to neighboring states so they can be there for it. So they can stand in a huge crowd not looking at it?

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 21, 2017

View Joe McG's profile

A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

<-- Previous playlist | Back to Surface Noise with Joe McGasko playlists | Next playlist -->

August 21, 2017: Moonblock

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Photo by Irene Trudel, 8.21.17

(* = new)

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Colleen	Eclipse "Eclipse" by "Colleen"	Captain of None	Thrill Jockey	2015	CD			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Cul de Sac	The Moon Scolds the Morning Star	Ecim	Northeastern	1993	CD			0:05:54 (Pop-up)
Skull Eclipses Featuring Mary Lattimore	Totality Piece		Skull Eclipses	2017	MP3	this is supposed to be played during the actual eclipse, so come back to it later	*	0:10:20 (Pop-up)
João Gilberto	Eclipse "Eclipse" by "João Gilberto"	João Voz e Violao	Verve	2000	CD			0:12:59 (Pop-up)
Cat Stevens	Moonshadow "Moonshadow" by "Cat Stevens"	Teaser & the Firecat	Island	1971	LP			0:15:58 (Pop-up)
Tony, Caro & John	Eclipse of the Moon	All on the First Day	Shadoks Music	2002	CD	From 1972		0:18:47 (Pop-up)
Dug Dug's	Eclipse "Eclipse" by "Dug Dug's"	Dug Dug's	BMG Mexico	1997	CD	From 1971		0:21:41 (Pop-up)
The Beta Band	Eclipse "Eclipse" by "The Beta Band"	Hot Shots II	Astrelwerks	2001	CD			0:24:23 (Pop-up)
X	Under the Big Black Sun "Under the Big Black Sun" by "X"	Under the Big Black Sun	Elektra	1982	LP			0:30:54 (Pop-up)

The Stevens	Grandstands "Grandstands" by "The Stevens"	Good	Chapter Music	2017	CD		*	0:42:21 (Pop-up)
The Containers	My Turn to Win "My Turn to Win" by "The Containers"	Self-Contained	Manufactured Recordings	2017	LP	From 1979	*	0:43:49 (Pop-up)
The Beach Bullies	(I Love to Eat on) British Rail	We Rule the Universe	Manufactured Recordings	2015	LP	From 1981		0:46:27 (Pop-up)
The Jazz Butcher	Southern Mark Smith (Big Return)	The Wasted Years	Fire	2017	CD	From 1985	*	0:49:10 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Eat Y'self Fitter "Eat Y'self Fitter" by "The Fall"	Perverted by Language	Superior Viaduct	2017	LP	From 1983	*	0:54:01 (Pop-up)
The Monks	I'm Watching You "I'm Watching You" by "The Monks"	Hamburg Recordings 1967	Third Man	2017	EP		*	1:00:44 (Pop-up)
The Bob Seger System	2 + 2 = ? "2 + 2 = ?" by "The Bob Seger System"	single	Third Man	2017	45	From 1968	*	1:03:59 (Pop-up)
Duke Edwards and the Young Ones	Is It Too Late?	Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power	Soul Jazz	2017	CD	From 1968	*	1:07:11 (Pop-up)
Gil Scott-Heron	Save the Children	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	BGP/Ace	2017	CD	From 1971	*	1:16:41 (Pop-up)
Charles Colbert	Slow Down World "Slow Down World" by "Charles Colbert"	Mainstream Modern Soul 2 1969-1976	Kent Soul	2017	CD	previously unreleased	*	1:21:10 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s lined up in a tidy row
The Drifters	I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing	single	Atlantic	1965	45			1:33:24 (Pop-up)
Miriam Makeba	Pata Pata "Pata Pata" by "Miriam Makeba"	single	Reprise	1967	45			1:35:43 (Pop-up)
The Police	Spirits in the Material World	single	A&M	1981	45			1:38:41 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Alpha (The Comet Theme from "Cosmos")	single	RCA	1981	45	From 1976		1:41:36 (Pop-up)
Patsy Cline	Crazy "Crazy" by "Patsy Cline"	single	Decca	1961	45			1:45:22 (Pop-up)
Wayne & Merlin	She's Gotta Be Mine	single	RCA	1969	45			1:48:04 (Pop-up)
Wreckless Eric	Take the Cash (K.A.S.H.)	single	Stiff	1978	45			1:50:33 (Pop-up)
The Escorts	Let's Make Love (At Home Sometimes)	single	Alithia	1974	45			1:54:42 (Pop-up)
Mott the Hoople	Saturday Gig "Saturday Gig" by "Mott the Hoople"	single	CBS	1974	45	they sing "gigs," but for some reason the label says "gig"		1:57:13 (Pop-up)

The Clash	(In the) Pouring Rain "(In the) Pouring Rain" by "The Clash"	The Future Is Unwritten: Music from the Julien Temple Film	Legacy	2007	CD	live in 1984; happy birthday to Joe Strummer, whatever campfire he may be sitting around		2:13:45 (Pop-up)
The Mekons	Still Waiting "Still Waiting" by "The Mekons"	12" single	Sin	2017	12"	Thanks again to Listener Tim for importing this from Mekonville	*	2:17:53 (Pop-up)
Billy Bragg	Walk Away Renee "Walk Away Renee" by "Billy Bragg"	Reaching to the Converted	Rhino	1999	CD	From 1986		2:21:52 (Pop-up)
Jack Cooper	Gynn Square "Gynn Square" by "Jack Cooper"	Sandgrown	Trouble in Mind	2017	CD		*	2:24:18 (Pop-up)
Faith Healer	2nd Time "2nd Time" by "Faith Healer"	Try	Mint	2017	CD		*	2:27:26 (Pop-up)
Terry	Glory "Glory" by "Terry"	Remember	Upset! The Rhythm	2017	LP		*	2:30:27 (Pop-up)
Annie & the Aeroplanes	A Million Zillion Miles	C88	Cherry Red	2017	CD	From 1988	*	2:32:27 (Pop-up)
Guided By Voices	Pearly Gates Smoke Machine	How Do You Spell Heaven	Guided By Voices, Inc.	2017	CD		*	2:35:17 (Pop-up)
Original Mirrors	Sharp Words "Sharp Words" by "Original Mirrors"	Original Mirrors	Mercury	1980	LP			2:39:18 (Pop-up)
Delicate Steve Featuring Ra Ra Riot	The Big Ship	ENOugh: Garbage Time's 2017 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2017	CD-R	From 2012	*	2:43:44 (Pop-up)
Judy Mayhan	Dream Goin' By "Dream Goin' By" by "Judy Mayhan"	Moments	Atco	1970	LP			2:47:32 (Pop-up)
Ithaca	Story of Our Time/Beneath the Sky	Milk of the Tree: An Anthology of Female Vocal Folk and Singer-Songwriters 1966-1973	Grapefruit	2017	CD	From 1973	*	2:51:19 (Pop-up)

RSS feeds for Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed

| E-mail Joe McGasko | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Surface Noise with Joe McGasko |

Listener comments!
	9:04am themutante: Let's be havin' you, Joe!
	9:04am Cheri Pi: Belated YipYips!
	9:05am themutante: Nice starter.
	9:06am annie: yar i is!
	9:08am Sem Chumbo: Hello, Joe, McGaskoes. Welders goggles affixed, ready to stare the Sun down.
	9:08am pantz: Take us right into The Rapture, Joe.
	9:09am The Oscar: Morning all! Checking in one more time before heading off to Denmark for a week!
	9:09am John in Bklyn: Hiya, Joe! Great spooky eclipse background.
	9:11am annie: sem, i have a small #9 panel for my viewing. might just hold it to the lens of the camera.. i'm hoping to get some nice leaf-shots, too.. of course my PLANS always miss the mark of the reality.. maybe i'll just practice my sun-gazing.
	9:11am themutante: Damn, smooth start.
	9:11am Joe McG: Don't stare into the eclipse. You'll GO BLIND! Good morning, everyone!
	9:13am Vincent Nifigance: Don't stare into the eclipse while masturbating, you'll go blind.
	9:14am The Oscar: @Vincent That's actually an urban myth, but if you cover your eyes, your palms will turn hairy.
	9:15am themutante: Don't stare into the eclipes while masturbating and finger-blasting yourself, you'll go blind and not give a flying...
	9:15am John in Bklyn: Even some welding goggles aren't safe to use for viewing. Ask your pharmacist if a welder's helmet is right for you.
	9:16am themutante: Woops! (sp)
	9:16am steveo: Yep yep.
	9:16am annie: i'm wondering how soon in advance the critters will go into hiding.. my cat hid under the couch for 5 hours for the last one in '83.
	9:16am themutante: Noooope!
	9:18am Vincent Nifigance: Learning alot today, thanks gang!
	9:18am themutante: Aint that the Cat that's on the terrorism watchlist?
	9:19am John in Bklyn: The Catholic Church considers Eclipse Staring to be a form a self abuse and therefore a no-no in the eyes of God. Ask your pharmacist (or Pope) if you want to be sure.
	9:19am themutante: Wrongly, of course.
	👻 9:20am Webhamster Henry: The animated version of MoonShadow is great! www.youtube.com...
	9:20am John in Bklyn: He blew up Billboard's Top 10 in the 70s but was never apprehended.
	9:21am steveo: Been listening to Moonshadow since before I could speak...
	9:21am themutante: Ha! Brilliant @JinB
	9:23am Brendan: Hey Joe and totalitarians from a lake near ( now) sunny Sweetwater Tenn.. Any Sunwatchers on the playlist today?
	9:23am themutante: Do love a concept mix.
	9:24am John in Bklyn: @mutante Looks like we're both riding the comment boards right up until Eclipse Time! haha
	9:24am themutante: I'm from Scotland, what's a sun?
	9:24am thatpatsmith: Lovely set!
	9:25am themutante: Right there with you bud. @JinB
	9:25am coelacanth∅: dig that crazy fuzz guitar! - hi Joe and all
	9:25am annie: pet-sitting for some people out there today brendan and all i got is a lousy teeshirt. i'm in asheville, so we get ~98%
	9:25am themutante: We had a little over a week of summer back in May.
	9:26am Joe McG: @themutante: I figure, how many times in this life am I going to have a chance to do an "eclipse" set on the day of my show? Had to!
	9:26am steveo: nice -- had my left headphone off talking to some people, when I finally put it back on: SUPERFUZZ
	9:26am Sem Chumbo: Hope the proposed picture-taking goes well,@ annie
	9:27am themutante: Another one in 7 years, not sure what day that falls on thought @Joe
	9:28am themutante: Beta Band - Very nice!
	9:30am themutante: Alexa, stop cutting out the music. She gets the blame for everything.
	9:30am melinda: Hi Joe
	9:31am Joe McG: Hey, melinda!
	9:31am annie: hope so, too, semm... i still am on a lerning curve with the new camera; i'll fidget with it today.
	9:33am themutante: The band made kinda famous by High Fidelity. Book or movie, you choose.
	9:33am KP: This song is throwing shade on the eclipse
	9:33am John in Bklyn: X!!! Thanks, Joe!! One of my Desert Island Disks!
	9:34am Brendan: @annie good luck with the critters today. Hopefully they don't freak
	9:34am Roberto: This X was the theme song for early '83 L.A.
	9:35am John in Bklyn: Poor little critter in the road... Don't worry, they'll be O.K.
	9:35am JakeGould: Hey!
	9:36am steveo: even the bed is sky related!
	9:37am annie: the cat'll just hide, as is his wont, but th dogs might just sleep.. i'm going to pay attention; i bet in about an hour they'll beging to feel the convergence.. this is cool.
	9:38am themutante: He better have a somethin'.
	9:38am melinda: I'm hoping to find some interesting shadows to stare at.
	9:39am annie: yes melinda!! there are small trees in the front yard here, so i'll be out there mostly. we have high light cloud-cover here right now.
	9:40am themutante: Why did they even say 'pizza pie'? They're Scottish we don't say pie, ever!
	9:41am steveo: that's amore!
	9:41am themutante: RAPTURE!!!!
	9:42am kimzilla: I like your pronunciation of E-cliipse!
	9:42am themutante: analogy?
	👻 9:43am tadpoles: Celestial Joe?
	9:43am John in Bklyn: The moon is colluding with the Russians! It's the Jared Kushner of astronomy.
	9:45am themutante: Is that the front page of Breitbart? @JinB Ha!
	9:45am themutante: Bannon reigning down from the skies.
	9:48am paul: "Total Eclipse" by Klaus Nomi, please
	9:49am The Oscar: @paul That's been on my mind too-- I'll be pretty shocked if no one plays it today!
	9:50am paul: :)
	9:51am themutante: No sarcasm in this track at all. Think it only got worse as well.
	9:52am steveo: Wikipedia, re Moonshadow: "When Yusuf appeared on The Chris Isaak Hour in 2009, he said of this song: "I was on a holiday in Spain. I was a kid from the West End (of London) - bright lights, et cetera. I never got to see the moon on its own in the dark, there were always streetlamps. So there I was on the edge of the water on a beautiful night with the moon glowing, and suddenly I looked down and saw my shadow. I thought that was so cool, I'd never seen it before."
	9:52am Guido from Cologne: Good Morning Joe! Happy Eclipse! Southern Mark Smith: is this intented as an assault?
	9:53am BnowB: lol@mutant so sarcastic reminds me of the band "sammy" and "laptop" singer Jesse Hartman quite the forgotten genius.
	9:54am BnowB: fun fact- the guitar player for the band "sammy" went on to design dre beat headphones. That record does have a sick sound. out of print but you can find some stuff.
	9:55am BnowB: upload.wikimedia.org...
	9:56am BnowB: www.discogs.com...
	9:56am themutante: I'll need to look into him and his bands. You done stumped me.
	9:57am Joe McG: @kimzilla: Thx! :) @Guido: I think it's not entirely favorable an assessment. :)
	9:57am Birdie Hall: EAT YRSELF FITTER!
	9:57am BnowB: Yea cool shit. I like power pop with a caddy vibe. lol
	9:57am themutante: Cheers, @BnowB. Need to do some more research on those bands.
	9:57am BnowB: I have that Ken CD
	9:58am BnowB: cheers ;) didn't mean to go on so much COFFEEEEEEEE weird Energies.. NO sun.. Punk rock ... razors , go ho nite O ... whats a computer
	9:58am medson: Show sounds amazing. Great songs.
	9:59am BnowB: The Fall Eat Y'self Fitter is SICK
	9:59am John in Bklyn: One of The Fall's best!! There's a funny video for this tune on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCOt6wbm80
	9:59am dan in wisconsin: MES!
	9:59am themutante: Love this!
	10:00am John in Bklyn: This whole record is great!
	10:01am Joe McG: Except for "Repetition," this is my favorite Fall song. "What's a computer?!"
	10:02am themutante: The Fall have such a canon, it's hard to know where to begin. The start is the obvious answer, I guess.
	10:02am JakeGould: What does eating oneself fitter have to do with an eclipse?
	10:02am themutante: We are off the eclipse lark right now, it was just the first set.
	10:04am Joe McG: The new reissue of "PbyL" has liners by our own Brian Turner, btw.
	10:05am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning all!
	10:05am The Oscar: Whoa-- hadn't heard this Monks yet!
	10:06am John in Bklyn: Thanks, Joe. I'll check it out!
	10:06am BnowB: The Bob Seger System 2 + 2 = ? Awesome!
	10:06am dan in wisconsin: I started with "Grotesque-After the Gram" and proceeded to listen to everything before and after because I have a serious Fall addiction.
	10:06am themutante: Powerful, Brian Turner!
	10:07am BnowB: white stripes lick.. jack white lick
	👻 10:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Today: a total eclipse of the heart!
	10:08am steveo: why didn't classic rock radio ever tell me about this song?
	10:08am themutante: Yeah!
	10:11am Joe McG: @steveo: I like "Night Moves," too, but the early Seger System stuff is killer diller.
	10:11am annie: re: superstitions about eclipses: the great scene from Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which, i believe, was written by Mark Twain, a visionary in his own right.
	10:12am BnowB: "ah surely!! ... yea.. surely! " - love when i hear that word used well
	10:14am BnowB: I love this track. by the duke... i could weep. Real Men Cry! (but just a little) hehe
	10:15am melinda: Going back a few songs, I heard I Love to Read All British Mail.
	10:16am Ike: No, Duke, no! There was never any perfect lost era of the past! The past was crap! Nostalgia kills. You just want to be a kid again, don't you, Duke? Crying is cool, though. Get some therapy, man! You can cry in the shrink's office about your lost childhood. LOL.
	10:16am steveo: Joe, It's hard to even know if I like Night Moves, I've heard it so many times. I wasn't even aware of the System, so, as usual, thanks for the education.
	10:17am Sem Chumbo: Yes @annie, great scene especially if you saw it in a Classic Comic!
	10:17am annie: both, actually, sem.... one of my favorite stories
	10:17am themutante: Great track.
	10:18am John in Bklyn: This sounds like the sermon Byrne copped for Once in a Lifetime!
	10:18am BnowB: everyday should be this day.. these sentiments... is it too late to be kind today?
	👻 10:18am tadpoles: Loved the Monks following the Fall Joe. Watching the doc on the Monks all I could think about was..these guys sound like the Fall!
	10:21am themutante: Love the Gil. Can't have enough of him. I find his live recordings cast shade on the studio ones. Black Wax is a must watch if you haven't seen it.
	10:21am Joe McG: @BnowB: I wonder! @tadpoles: Am I mistaken or didn't the Fall cover a Monks tune?
	👻 10:22am Ken From Hyde Park: Watching old home movies with my mom this morning. Footage of her at a rodeo. Makes me wonder if there are rodeo video games nowadays.
	10:23am John in Bklyn: Gil Scott saved me from jumping off the roof of my building on election night.
	10:24am Joe McG: @John: His records are such a comfort even though the man is gone.
	10:25am themutante: Damn, @JinB! That's a hardcore endorsement right there.
	10:26am pantz: If you're an alt-right, I've heard all that eye protection for the solar eclipse is fake news perpetrated by ANTIFA and CNN. Go ahead and stare directly into the eclipse and show those liberals what for!
	10:27am themutante: Well played @pantz I heard that too. Always be looking out for fellow man.
	10:29am melinda: Turn around, fried-eyes!
	10:29am John in Bklyn: Absolutely, Joe!
	10:29am coelacanth∅: pantz Haha! yesterday when some selfish tourists tried to "inadvertently" get in front of me on line at the café, while talking about eye protection for this event, i said "don't such a wuss. just look at it!"
	10:30am themutante: Black Wax, as I mentioned earlier, really turned me on to Gil.
	10:33am The Oscar: I want to say they covered either "I Hate You" or "Monk Time?" Or maybe a medley?
	10:33am Guido from Cologne: BLACK MONK TIME was 1966! So 1967 is post :-)
	👻 10:33am tadpoles: Can't remember either Joe but the Fall do great covers of Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love" and the Move's "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" - excellent!
	10:33am themutante: If audio cuttings fall on the floor of The Jazz Butcher's shop they get flung into the final product.
	10:33am pantz: First they start a war on Christmas and now a war on the Sun. It's our right as Americans to star directly into the Sun without the gub'ment telling us to wear "protective eyewear".
	10:34am BnowB: food glorious food i no eat but coffee and cheeba and... wfmu
	10:34am melinda: With all the talk about bogus eclipse eyewear, I don't know who to trust.
	10:34am annie: right on pantz!
	10:35am themutante: Preach, Pantz!
	10:36am Joe McG: Thanks, Guido, I KNEW you'd know offhand.
	👻 10:36am Ken From Hyde Park: @pantz - And when they're waiting in line at the emergency room, they need to make it clear they don't want Obamacare paying for their treatment.
	10:36am dan in wisconsin: The Fall do a great cover of R. Dean Taylor's "There's a Ghost in My House" also.
	10:37am BnowB: without glasses you mine as well sit on sofa and watch it on tv. no no .. no i will at least go out, even in the rain, to feel it. To feel the sun go away; 70% a Feeeeeeeeling..
	10:37am The Oscar: I remember absconding with my dad's copy of the Nuggets box set and listening to it driving to high school. When I hit "Complication" by the Monks, I was so stunned that I just kept skipping back to the beginning and listening to it again (and this was BEFORE I knew about their look or their story!). I must've listened to that song 15 times that day, at least.
	10:38am coelacanth∅: Sweet Miriam Makeba!
	10:38am annie: mama miriam!
	10:39am Matt F: Weird! Was just thinking about pulling Pata Pata to play this week. Not kidding!
	10:39am jillydg: Never enough Pa-Ta!
	10:39am Joe McG: @MattF: Saw Angelique Kidjo cover this a couple of weeks ago to pandemonium!
	10:39am annie: i love this song, yes, can never get too much..
	10:40am BnowB: I want a coconut.
	10:40am jillydg: I was there Joe, and pandeminc!
	10:41am BnowB: ahh stewart and his beats :)
	10:41am Parq: Try and imagine a time when you could turn on AM radio any old time of day and hear that Miriam Makeba single, and you get some idea of how long ago the 60s was.
	10:41am Joe McG: @jillydg: Wasn't it great?
	👻 10:42am doctorjazz: Aww, missed Pata Pata, love that song
	10:42am V Priceless: hey Joe! Nice call with The Police - I kinda miss those knuckleheads...lotsa great tunes
	10:43am Joe McG: @VP: Often their lyrics are lacking, but their tunes are snappy and so is their playing.
	10:44am The Oscar: At the record store I used to work at, we arrived one morning to find a MASSIVE box of vintage Police pins and buttons that someone had left for us. As the one who had to create eBay listings for each one, I got VERY good at recognizing which iconography matched which albums/singles. It took the better part of a year to go through them all.
	10:44am annie: agreed parq
	10:45am Joe McG: @TheOscar: Sounds like fun!
	10:45am Joe McG: Did anyone ever see Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"? I heard about it a lot but never watched it.
	10:46am themutante: Just that new version @Joe
	10:46am Rev. Turnip Druid: Watched it religiously, every week.
	10:46am Rev. Turnip Druid: ...by which I mean I watched it secularly.
	10:46am Beast of Boonton: Yes, Cosmos was on channel 13
	10:46am Greg from ZONE 5: LOVE THIS!
	10:46am The Oscar: @Joe It was! (Though surprisingly difficult to describe in an auction heading a badge for The Police shaped like a police badge)
	10:47am melinda: I like vintage space themes
	10:47am dan in wisconsin: If you like this, Vangelis's Blade Runner soundtrack is unbelievable.
	10:47am The Oscar: I think I saw clips from it in school. Always been curious to watch it all, but the DVD is so expensive.
	10:48am Listener Alexandra: Beautiful show so far, Joe...been up since the Jazz Butcher :-)
	10:49am melinda: I watched Cosmos but don't remember much. Except that me and my classmates thought Carl was sort of goofy. I appreciated him more as I got older and read some of his books.
	10:49am Sem Chumbo: whiplash, Joe! The Police to Vangelis to Patsy. Is this a mind control experiment, 'cause I really like it :-D
	10:49am dan in wisconsin: Gotta make sure it's the "Esper Edition" though....
	10:49am Joe McG: I'd like to see it sometime, I'll have to see if it's on the Internet.
	10:49am annie: damn, i always come in too early on...."wonderin'"
	10:51am Joe McG: @Sem: I like "Single File" since it gives me an excuse to throw curveballs at you. :) @Alex: Howdy!
	10:51am Rev. Turnip Druid: Cosmos & In Search Of... were the best of television. Also, what melinda said. Sagan wasn't respected amongst us kids at the time due to his goofy speech inflections. We'd all practice the perfect delivery of "BILLIONS and BILLIONS..."
	10:51am melinda: @joe it's gotta be there somewhere
	10:52am Guido from Cologne: Monks Hamburg 1967 purchased and CD about to be burned.
	10:53am Brian C.: Hey JMcG, thanks for giving the 'new" Monks some airplay, I just purchased the EP Saturday. Love Eddie's bass!
	10:53am The Oscar: @Rev My girlfriend got me the complete series of In Search Of for Christmas a couple of years back, and it's one of my most treasured DVD sets. The Salem Witch episode (about the witches in Salem in the '70s, not the trials) is my favorite.
	10:54am The Oscar: Also ERIC!!
	10:54am themutante: Thanks for reminding me of Cosmos, I'm watching that tonight. R-ga Haha ARGH!
	10:54am KP: Anything else would be Wreckless
	10:54am Ike: I don't know why, but I want a version of "Crazy" honked by angry geese.
	10:55am Joe McG: @Brian: Yeah, it sounds great!
	10:56am jillydg: Yes Joe so fantastic. That whole performance. I had revisited Stop Making Sense on a big screen upstate NY the week before and was poised to go nuts. (Folks, SMS is playing at BAM this month. HIGHLY recommend re-seeing it big.)
	10:56am themutante: I'm sorry for the pirate impression. Yep, that's what it was supposed to be.
	10:57am themutante: Money, money, money... MONEY! 49-1
	10:58am PKNY: My man in the Escorts is laying down a seriously heavy rap!
	10:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Wait, where are they usually making love that they have to sit down and say "Let's do this at home occasionally."?
	10:59am themutante: Ha! @Greg
	10:59am V Priceless: MOTT!
	10:59am Joe McG: @Greg: Precisely! :)
	10:59am PKNY: @Greg -my thoughts exactly...and the Interwebs is coming up empty with lyrics...this is much more important than an eclipse!
	11:00am themutante: I'm having fun, but I happen to be slightly drunk. Good tunes are always a bonus.
	11:01am Greg from ZONE 5: "Girl, you know I love making love to you at the library, and at Christmas Mass and at Six Flags…"
	11:02am PKNY: The Escorts dude reminded me of my hero: Smoove B from the Onion --> www.theonion.com...
	11:02am V Priceless: this just reminded me to pre-order the late great Overend Watts' solo album!
	11:02am Joe McG: @Greg: Don't forget the Shop Rite.
	11:02am Joe McG: @VP: Didn't know there was one! Intrigued!
	11:02am PKNY: @Joe - only in the frozen food section, get it right!
	11:04am V Priceless: @Joe: www.angelair.co.uk...
	11:04am themutante: Powerful half hour of 45's!
	11:04am Greg from ZONE 5: The one on Marin Blvd? I love making love there. Great set, Joey!
	11:06am paul: The Mamas and Papas did that on Creque Alley
	11:08am themutante: Van-jealous?
	11:08am themutante: Van-gelous, surely?
	11:11am themutante: Live on tape...
	11:12am themutante: Channeling my Hank Kingsley.
	11:15am melinda: That was a great doc about Joe Strummer
	11:16am Mayuko: Good morning Joe!
	11:17am Joe McG: @Greg: That's the spot! Thanks, Greggy! @paul: They made love there? ;) @melinda: I agree! Even if you're not a Clash person, it's a really interesting portrait of a fellow who seems like a pretty decent guy.
	11:17am Joe McG: Hi, Mayuko! (Got you this time. :) ha ha)
	11:18am Carmichael: Heya Joe and individual people.
	11:18am KevinfromBayRidge: Hello Surfactants . @Greg-I'm not near a Shoprite. Will a Krogers do? In Hilton Head-98% totality this afternoon(but probably cloudy). Great show, Joe!
	11:19am annie: hey carm!!!
	11:19am Brian C.: Love the Clash tune, never heard it before, need to find that doc
	11:21am Brian C.: Was Mick Jones still in the Clash in '84?
	11:21am JakeGould: @BnowB: Thanks for reminding me of “Sammy” and mentioning the “Beats” connection. Luke Wood is a fella!
	11:21am paul: @Joe, LOL. Creque Alley was autobiographical like the Mott song.
	11:23am jess: how about some Mescaleros?
	11:24am Joe McG: @paul: I know, I'm just joshing you. :) I think that would be a great WFMU premium, bands singing about themselves.
	11:24am BnowB: @jake... cool :) glad you enjoyed the trivia cool music sammy great power pop band
	11:25am BnowB: saganseries.com free sample.. looking for free. its on some pay sites... hulu not netflix
	11:26am JakeGould: Yeah, but when you say, “fun fact- the guitar player for the band "sammy" went on to design dre beat headphones.” That is a wild misrepresentation. Luke Wood is the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Beats by Dre. He’s a “suit” in jeans and a t-shirt.
	11:27am medson: Wow this song randomly played yesterday on my iTunes. NICE.
	11:28am Parq: Joe Strummer's birthday, is it? A chain bookstore has an annual 50% off sale for Criterion Collection releases, and I bought Mystery Train. Just watched it this past weekend. Gets better every time I see it, and Joe is a big reason why.
	11:28am Joe McG: @medson: Cool! @Parq: Great movie!
	11:29am Carmichael: Oh hey, Annie. I was busy reading all the comments. Are you still in Asheville?
	11:29am paul: @Joe, I agree. Ballad of John and Yoko, 10th Avenue Freeze Out.....
	11:29am JakeGould: “Mystery Train” is a beautiful film. Period.
	11:31am BnowB: ahh it is on netflix www.netflix.com...
	11:33am BnowB: Jake Mould lol yea your right when you put it that way. he a real player and his music is so opposite to the max. It laughs at all that. Wild right :) one for us creeps in jeans and a T-shirt
	11:33am Marc Francis: Damn. That Faith Healer song is great!
	11:34am Joe McG: Next song goes out to Annie (and her aeroplane).
	11:34am BnowB: richman areoplane?
	11:35am BnowB: never mind Astral-Plane lol
	11:36am Parq: The Aeroplanes track has that 80s power pop backbeat that always just kills me.
	11:40am Joe McG: @Parq: It sure was big then. This comp has it in spades!
	11:44am paul: Same as the Blue Aeroplanes?
	11:44am annie: yes, carm, i am..... 98% totality, too..
	11:47am JakeGould: NYC/NJ is still only 70% or so totality. No need for glasses since it’s gonna be dim but not completely dark. And please, do not follow my advice… I’m just some guy who has typed words on a computer.
	👻 11:49am doctorjazz: My understanding is that even if we're not fully total, you shouldn't look directly at it.
	👻 11:50am tadpoles: I thought the Post Office did a neat job with their heat sensitive Eclipse stamps. Thanks for your show today Joe. Very neat.
	11:50am steveo: but what if the moon moons extra???
	11:51am annie: yeah, joe, thanks for the show!! always glad to listen..
	11:52am BnowB: Amazing show joe, thank you kindly young man! Have a good afternoon without the sun. Salutè
	11:52am Sem Chumbo: Personally, I am gonna take advice of an ostrich pal of mine and bury my head in the sand. Sounds easy enough. Thanks, Joe, McGaskoes, been a blue tongue time today. Later
	11:52am JakeGould: It’s not magic. You shouldn’t look directly in the sun to begin with. And in the case of a total eclipse, the darkness expands your pupils and if you stare, you run the risk of piles of sun pouring into your eyeballs when the moon moves away. Like if you go to the eye doctor and they give you those eyedrops to expand your pupils and you can’t eb in drect sunlight? Same thing.
	11:53am paul: Use your phone's selfie feature.
	11:53am JakeGould: And again, don’t follow my advice.
	11:54am BnowB: so no telescope direct in Georgia sun 100%? ha
	11:54am steveo: mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
	11:55am JakeGould: @paul: Yeah, your phone is reflective glass. Reflected light in your eyes can still cause damage.
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for listening and commenting everyone~! Have yourself a nice eclipse. Bright side: If you go blind, you can still listen to FMU.
	11:55am BnowB: perfect solution. magnifying glass off a mirror?
	11:56am JakeGould: @Joe: Thanks for the show!
	11:56am paul: Really? I did not know that.
	11:56am steveo: thanks, Joe!
	👻 11:56am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	11:56am medson: Thanks for a great show Joe.
	11:57am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks Joe! Great stuff today.
	11:57am BnowB: cheers @medson
	11:57am paul: 5-star show
	11:58am dan in wisconsin: Agreed, thanks Joe!
	11:58am Parq: Fine show. I'm not gonna look at it either. I have friends in two states travelling to neighboring states so they can be there for it. So they can stand in a huge crowd not looking at it?

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 21, 2017

Listener comments!

(C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2024 by Ken Garson