WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from October 9, 2017

Listener comments!
	9:03am annie: hey joe!!! good morning!
	9:04am annie: so..... are you playing music?
	👻 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Ah, yes. A good day for a Yip sync contest! Yip! Yip!
	👻 9:04am Threemoons: Happy Monday Joe, WFMU Peeps, fellow YipYips! Joe, I gotta say, hearing the YipYips before I head out on Monday is the BEST thing about my Monday AMs! Never change them.....yipyipyipyipyip...
	9:05am pantz: Yooooo JOE!
	9:05am annie: my player is busted, all i hear is ... not this..
	👻 9:06am Threemoons: I still have the skit from Sesame Street burned into my mind...when the YipYips attempt to communicate with a phone...a big black hulking Bakelite thing with an actual handpiece....yipyipyipyipyip....
	9:06am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe!
	9:07am Sem Chumbo: Hello and good morning, Joe, McGaskoes, curious first-time listeners.
	9:07am V Priceless: top o the mornin', Joe!
	9:08am The Oscar: Morning Joe! Got my replacement t-shirt-- thanks again!
	9:09am Davee: Hi Joe great way to start the show - it's perfect for today, for me anyway. thank you.
	9:10am annie: have to listen through tune-in.. the pop-up sin't functioning... i missed the yipyips!! all went well with the payment(s) joe, many thanks for your attention!!
	9:10am zopa: aw nuts! i thought it was going to be a set of body parts songs...
	👻 9:12am Threemoons: Annie--try clearing your cache and restarting the browser--a bad Javascript loop can make it not work. My popup is fine here; using Chrome on a Windows 10 deck. Yipyipyipyipyip....
	9:12am Phillio: Good morning, Joe! Got anything by Chris Connor?
	9:12am Nick K (Killer): Damn that's so good this morning...
	9:13am Nick K (Killer): Great songs Joe..
	👻 9:13am Threemoons: Nice set this AM. Got any Nina Simone in there? :D
	9:13am annie: i got it threemoons...my cache clears automatically..frefox is a bum these days..
	👻 9:14am Threemoons: Annie--I gave up on FF a while ago when it became bloated beyond belief. I still use Thunderbird for my email but I really like the seamlessless of Chrome. Anyway, glad you were able to finally tune in! :D
	9:16am annie: .... i had some question marks going on with myself and what i was hearing.. all i heard was a delayed play of clay pigeon show. (i avoid Chrome, i just hate google)
	👻 9:16am Brian in UK: Hey Monica are you filling-in for Joe? Ha Ha.
	9:17am BnowB: HI Joe McGasko- Great show. Doris Day recording made me miss my 78 Victrola; not sure why. ☮
	9:17am steveo: Good morning Mr. Monday. Gosh look at that playlist; I wish I could be here at 9.
	9:18am Davee: I miss Monica's spot on Sunday evenings
	👻 9:20am doctorjazz: Nice Blossom; hi all! (pretty set).
	9:20am Joe McG: Good Monday, all. Taking it slow and rainy this morning.
	9:20am pantz: Hey Joe, I'd like to donate more but I'm stretched pretty thin. Would you take some old baseball cards? Got a Nolan Ryan rookie in Fair condition.
	👻 9:20am Ken From Hyde Park: Monica is filling in for Sheila this Friday, so we get to hear some of her selections very soon.
	9:21am Davis: lovely set. is kitty kallen coming up?
	9:21am steveo: Hey Joe, I pledged to your show on Monday before the official marathon start; I'm not sure it's showing up in your tally.
	9:22am Nate K.: I wish the weather would come around to this music. This is nearly perfect October music.
	9:23am Nate K.: The sky and the rain are spot on, but yeesh 75 at 9:00 am. Yes, I'm discussing the weather...
	9:23am steveo: MUCHO HUMIDITO
	9:23am annie: ... we expectd tails of hurricane Nate this morning.. seems to have skipped west of asheville
	9:24am Joe McG: @pantz: ha ha! Sure. @steveo: I'm going to try to move those Monday pledges if I can. Thanks for the pledge! We hadn't quite gotten underway with the drive yet last week. Hey Nate!
	9:25am Dennis Diken: Lee Wiley indeed! can Sylvia Syms be far behind?
	9:26am steveo: Cool; I wish I had been more patient. Thanks to you for being here.
	9:26am Davee: I am loving this show . . . Dixie, Blossom, Doris and Anita!
	9:26am Donathon McCloud: Love Anita - Happy Birthday John Lennon
	9:27am queems: this is really doing it for me today
	9:27am Joe McG: Phillio, Davis, Dennis: All great suggestions! We have no Chris O'Connor or Kitty Kallen in our library and I didn't bring any. :( @Dennis: Thanks for the presentos!
	9:28am Phillio: Ah, I love Anita O'Day's stuff. The clip of her singing "Tea For Two" in Jazz on a Summer's Day features some of the best phrasing I've heard.
	9:29am Phillio: Sass is always nice.. such a great voice.
	9:30am melinda: Nice set here!
	9:31am Stay Frosty: You're killing it with this set Joe. You the man...
	9:31am pantz: She had a great interview on Fresh Air about a month ago. Apparently she was smashed out of her gourd for that Jazz on a Summer Day clip.
	9:32am The Oscar: As a kid, I had a big compendium of the unexplained, which included the various legends surrounding this song. It sufficiently scared the shit out of me, to the point that I was in my 20s before I worked up the nerve to listen to it.
	9:32am Todd-o-phonic Todd: Thanks for helping us start the week on such an upbeat note, Joe.
	9:32am annie: holy moley..... this is an amazing rendition!! any background on this?
	9:33am Joe McG: @Todd: Ha ha ha!!
	9:33am rbrt: love this Gloomy sunday
	9:33am Irene Trudel: Joe, do we have to start worrying about you? All breakup songs, glorious gloom and doom!
	9:33am Marc15: The Hungarian Suicide Song
	9:35am Nick K (Killer): I want to crack open a bottle of wine
	9:35am Davee: Ahhhh! That's all I have to say!
	9:35am Doug Werewolf: Claudia - good pick
	9:35am Schnipp: What an amazing opening set. Thank you! Music for divorcees to date by.
	9:36am Davee: Joe - you have the correct voice for this style of music.
	9:36am Itzall Ablurr: Don't do it, Claudia!!!
	9:36am annie: i just want to crawl into a dark bar and sit at a table with a rye whiskey on some ice.
	9:37am joe: A rapscallion I say
	9:39am melinda: It's been warm, damp and grey here, too. I used to hate unseasonably warm days but I've finally acquiesced.
	9:40am Nick K (Killer): Yum Whiskey
	9:41am Vincent Nifigance: Play it, i want to be slain.
	9:41am Listener MW: I've never heard this version of Gloomy Sunday!! Beautiful - thanks, Joe. If you're a fan/collector of that tune (as I am), check out the version by a Canadian songwriter named Danny Michel -- probably my favorite modern cover of it
	9:42am Davee: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
	9:43am Dennis Diken: Doris Day totally rules, criminally underrated. one of the great American vocalists (IMHO)
	9:44am melinda: Nice interpretation!
	9:45am ?: Not aware of any song titled doris day.
	👻 9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: "We interrupt this edition of Surface Noise to bring you an old episode of Seven Second Delay. Stay tuned to WFMU."
	9:46am Will: Nice, reasonable LP copies of Doris's Day Dreams now available online at (cannot name site)!
	9:46am BnowB: WFMU will never die, we going Black! ♥
	9:47am Joe McG: @Irene: I'm OK! :) @Davee: Thanks! @MW: Thanks for the recommendation! @9:45: Too bad!
	9:48am futurescamp: Such a perfect set of rainy morning music, thanks Joe!
	9:50am Listener MW: This "Hail Mary" song... so Lou. very Reed. Much wow!!
	9:53am steveo: /me kneels
	9:54am Joe McG: @steveo: Go for it!
	9:54am βrian: Deep blue skies over the isthmus today. Light like the south of France. Good listening weather.
	9:54am steveo: fantastic guitarring
	9:55am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Wow that version was so cool I HAD to kneel.
	9:56am BnowB: That was one of the best SPB on Guitar I've never heard before now. aces
	9:57am steveo: well put bnow
	9:58am BriJet: Good morning!!! meow!
	9:59am Tomophobic Tom from Detroit: Yay!!!!
	👻 9:59am doctorjazz: Mats, Cool! Like this version!
	10:00am D. Werewolf: Great version of Kiss Me on the Bus.
	10:01am John in Bklyn: Morning Joe! Wow, the "new" Mats sounds better that I thought!
	10:03am steveo: so glad we could be your first time, joe
	10:04am queems: best station id reading yet
	10:04am bnowb: New Station Id.. Is wordy... lol that was funny
	10:05am BronwynB: good morning joe and everyone!
	10:05am Joe McG: I'll get it down, I just need some practice. It's nice to say "in New York City," though. We finally made the big town.
	10:06am bnowb: Its amazing Joe :)
	10:06am steveo: sort of unfair there's no transmitter in jersey city though right?
	👻 10:06am Ken From Hyde Park: Is it possible to put up WFMU transmitters in faraway places like London and Paris? Then the station ID will get nice and fancy!
	10:07am annie: gotta book, yo.. cab coming to take me home.. catchya in the archives.. thanks for all the wonderful things you do joe!!
	10:07am steveo: is this a reissues set? this isaac hayes is fangroovytastic.
	10:07am Cooh John: A gray day with Surface Noise. At least I don't have to work.
	10:09am Cooh John: how much of New York City can get WFMU?
	10:09am BronwynB: i can confirm that central brooklyn gets it loud and clear
	10:10am steveo: pirates wreck it in my part of brooklyn -- crown heights
	10:11am steveo: what's 'central'? like, midwood area?
	10:12am βrian: @steveo: How do they choose their frequencies?
	10:13am Vincent Nifigance: No one writes good Karate songs no more.
	👻 10:14am Brian in UK: We are still Kung Fu fighting over here.
	10:14am steveo: they chose it (i'm told) because it was emtpy, until recently. hopefully fmu is interfering back at em and they'll go elsewhere
	10:15am wild neil: peace all. my wife and i are really enjoy this as we wind up our weekend at Chautauqua Institute.
	10:15am Mark Hurst: @Bronwyn, are you getting the signal in Brooklyn at 91.9FM? (as opposed to 91.1FM?)
	10:16am βrian: Thank Bob for streaming.
	👻 10:19am Brian in UK: Did anyone heard Lloyd Price interviewed on Michael Shelley's show. 84 years and sounded like a man half his age. Wonderful. www.wfmu.org...
	10:22am steveo: here's an alleged coverage map for 91.9 radio-locator.com... (I think the freq is different because for a while it was attempted to use it as a 90.1 booster, but now has it's own freq)
	10:25am Joe McG: @Brian: Great stuff! Wish I'd been here to meet him!
	10:26am melinda: I ripped my side view mirror off backing into my parking spot just now. I hate it when that happens.
	10:27am βrian: I did that with my bike once.
	10:28am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Tell Station Manager Ken that there is lots of signal bleed on 91.1 from 90.9 and 91.3 in the vicinity of I-78 and the GSP in Union. It appears to be a pair of Creole-language stations are breaking into our signal.
	10:28am Cooh John: The Lloyd Price interview was a fantastic behind the scenes look at the history of rock and roll. Sad he was drafted because he got whites and blacks to intermingle.
	👻 10:30am Ken From Hyde Park: I tore off one of my car's mirrors while backing into my garage. Was able to snap it all back together again, though.
	10:34am rbrt: 45 time!
	10:34am βrian: Cars have ballooned in width, but old garages have not.
	10:35am Krys O.: Thanks for the Sparks!
	👻 10:35am tadpoles: Brilliant Joe...it's Spark's Week!
	10:35am holland oats: psyched for sparks tomorrow night!
	10:35am Schnipp: "A bowl of chow mein"? May as well reference rotary dials and handwritten letters.
	10:37am Derek in Atlantic City: First concert I ever went to was Sparks.
	10:39am holland oats: what year?
	10:40am steveo: watch you mirror, Dee Mullins!
	10:40am glenn: harlan howard ?
	10:41am Joe McG: @glenn: Nope, it's a Lee Emerson song. But it sounds like it could be!
	10:42am Nate K.: So happy to see this Arthur Alexander stuff back in print.
	10:42am Nate K.: But, you're playing an OG 45. Nice!
	10:43am Joe McG: @Nate: Me, too, it's such good stuff.
	10:45am Summer and Michael: Great show, Joe! Loving that Dead Rock West track. Recalls Linda & Richard Thompson a little to our ears...
	10:46am Joe McG: Thanks, S&M! Yes, they have a very nice blend.
	10:46am queems: girl run
	10:49am BronwynB: It is indeed Sparks week! I'm going to the signing at Rough Trade tonight and the show on Wednesday! I'm so nervous about the signing, I know I'll only have two seconds but I feel like I should say something, they are my second favorite band after all!!
	10:53am BronwynB: @schnipp: is chow mein old fashioned?
	10:54am Listener Alexandra: Good morning, Joe! Just did my pledging for the morning :-)
	10:55am Joe McG: @Alex: Ain't you nice! Thanks! :)
	👻 10:56am Webhamster Henry: It's 1900 yesterday, and we're going to party like it's 1999.
	10:56am Listener Alexandra: Just doin' my part, Joe :-)
	10:57am Schnipp: @bronwyn Oui Si. Although I've still got a soft spot for it (like typewriters and aerograms). It's the analog of "Chinese" food (invented here; unknown there).
	10:58am glenn: i love john mcgeoch.
	10:58am Schnipp: @bronwyn -- and your first favorite is...?
	10:59am glenn: i also love yamaha s.g.'s.
	10:59am Stevel: Magazine stood out dramatically, back in the day. Still damned good.
	11:00am BronwynB: @schnipp: the beach boys. its ironic because i really do not like LA (no offense to anyone who likes it) but both my favorite bands are from there (and one is emblematic of southern california)
	11:01am BronwynB: oooo new york city!! we are fancy now
	11:01am Dean: It's okay not to like LA. I lived there for 40 years or so, largely not liking it, before I learned to like it. Then I moved away.
	11:02am joe: The list of bands that Wiki lists as associated with Magazine. WOW! Buzzcocks The Freshies St. Louis Union The Speedometors Visage Siouxsie and the Banshees Ultravox Neo John Foxx Amazorblades Pete Shelley The Birthday Party Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Chameleons Swing Out Sister The Durutti Column Ludus The Mekons The Armoury Show Public Image Ltd Luxuria The Cure Apollo 440
	11:02am BronwynB: @dean: that's an interesting trajectory. i lived there for 4 months and tried to like it but really we hated each other on sight. so i came back.
	11:03am briania: Shot by Both Sides is the same song as the Buzzcocks' Lipstick. But better.
	11:03am Dean: @BronwynB: If you'd stuck it out another 39 years and eight months, you'd have fallen for it.
	11:04am BronwynB: hahaha maybe!
	11:06am glenn: pete shelley wrote the music for both songs, so no real surprise.
	11:07am joe: There is one uphappy person in North Carolina when Sparks goes to NYC. :(
	11:07am Stevel: If you have any interest in the Replacements, check out Bob Mehr. He's a top-notch guy.
	11:08am Jeff: "1900 Yesterday" is one of those songs I'd completely forgotten existed yet realized when I heard it again that I know it by heart. It's always a curious experience when that happens.
	👻 11:08am Webhamster Henry: You should check out Tetris - it's excellent!
	11:08am joe: Yeah but I bet you were a Pong animal Joe
	11:08am pantz: PONG?! C'mon Joe. You never played Donkey Kong or nuthin?
	11:09am βrian: I would visit L.A. for a restaurant/food tour, but that's about it.
	11:10am Mark Hurst: King of Kong
	11:10am Dean: @βrian: Record stores and book stores, too.
	11:10am John in Bklyn: Was that King of Kong?
	11:10am davefromtoronto: king of kong
	11:10am joe: King Of Kong
	11:10am table_for_one: a fistful of quarters!
	11:10am ɨkɛ: Donkey Kong is too hard. Q*Bert is better!!!
	11:11am John in Bklyn: I liked Asteroids and Pleides. Frogger?
	11:11am Jeff: The playlist has turned into a discussion of The Joy of Kong. The Zipless Kong?
	11:11am The Oscar: Some years ago, a friend and I went to one of the arcades in King of Kong on what turned out to be the weekend of the World Video Game Championships-- pretty much everyone from that movie except the two "leads" were there, just doing their thing. It was pretty mindblowing.
	11:12am JtotheK: As others said -- Movie was 'The King of Kong'. I took my wife to it in the theater (for Valentine's Day, I think?) and believe in hindsight that decision to be questionable.
	11:12am βrian: Ok, bookstores, too, then. I leave the record stuff to others.
	👻 11:12am Ken From Hyde Park: I like Q*Bert, but I keep jumping in the wrong direction. I like watching Galaga and Joust, too.
	11:13am Sem Chumbo: Day now complete. Cowsills, thank you, Joe.
	11:13am John in Bklyn: Galaga! Wow, forgot about that one.
	11:13am Brendan: Hey Joe and people
	11:14am glenn: isn't galaga essentially galaxians?
	11:14am Itzall Ablurr: Not trying to stir the pot, just curious- what is the "mean" age of most people who played those games on the regular? 50s? 40s? Other?
	11:14am Brendan: A 2x4 is neither 2 nor 4 . Discuss.
	11:15am glenn: i'm too old for all that video game nonsense. give me a good pinball machine any day.
	11:15am Itzall Ablurr: Brendan- is that due to the metric system? Kidding. Close enough is good enough, hence, "2x4"
	11:15am Dean: Such a supple wrist.
	11:17am John in Bklyn: @Itzall I'm mid 50s and was into the arcade video game thing for about a year, maybe. I had ATARI Pong on TV in the 70s!
	11:17am joe: Here is a list of some documentires of the sub culture of competative video gaming I've seen a few and most are good. Chasing Ghosts is my favorite but that is probably becuase it is the time period of video games I most identify with. heavy.com...
	11:17am holland oats: randy newman before his voice changed
	11:17am Jeff: I used to check out videogames every few years just to see what the current readily-available state of the art in realtime computer rendering and animation had gotten to be. I'd usually say, "Wow, how 'bout that!" and then pretty much instantly lose interest. Computer games and I have for some reason never connected as a thing to actually do.
	11:17am Joe McG: @joe: Wow, I had no idea there were so many!
	11:17am Sem Chumbo: I get such a Randy Newman vibe from this Larry Norm.
	11:18am queems: what in the elton john
	11:18am Sem Chumbo: Norman No more, you know what, for me.
	11:18am melinda: Atari pong was the only TV video game I remember playing.
	11:19am Brendan: This sounds like something off Madman
	👻 11:19am tadpoles: Larry Norman sounds a lot like Kevin Coyne.
	👻 11:19am Threemoons: bwahahaahaaa crappy firewall at crappy temp gig is down again so here I am again! Hello again fellow YipYips....
	11:20am joe: @Joe yeah I think part of it is that the folks that are involved in the culture are also the folks that take advantage of how cheap and easy it is to produce "film" so they did to be projects of fun more then anything else.
	11:20am holland oats: jesus fished because we floundered, oofah
	11:20am Itzall Ablurr: queems, I believe he was sometimes AKA, Larry "elton'schlong" Norman.
	11:20am glenn: no, it's because when wood is sold to the sawmills, it's sold in board foot measure - 1 board foot = 1" x 12" x12" [a measure of volume]. it's sold in 1/4 inch increments. so, a 2x4 originally starts out as a piece that is 8/4 thick by 4 " wide, and is then milled down to 1 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. you asked.
	11:20am Joe McG: @tadpoles: You're right! I never noticed.
	11:21am joe: For you Pinball lovers try Special When Lit and Tilt the battle to save pinballe
	11:23am joe: @Joe and as you mentinoed you have a thing for sub cultures try Carpet Racers a filem about the competative indoor RC car racing circut.
	11:23am glenn: and when i think of the number of full 2" by whatever width fir studs, joists, rafters etc., i've thrown out over the years, i kinda want to punch myself.
	11:23am John in Bklyn: Hippies were really into Jesus.
	11:25am ⓘⓚⓔ: I can't believe that Audible got Barcade to open a branch in Newark near Broad St. Station. I didn't think anybody would go there, but so far it seems really busy. They have Donkey Kong AND Q*Bert AND Joust!
	11:25am Itzall Ablurr: glenn, I get that but sadly, you just can't keep everything- believe me my garage is proof of that. I trashed so much (60s era) knotty pine tongue 'n groove panelling a few years ago and it still haunts me.
	11:25am The Oscar: @Glenn There's a deleted scene from TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME in which Jack Nance explains this issue to Joan Chen at length. I kind of wish it made the final cut.
	11:26am pantz: Day By Day!
	👻 11:27am tadpoles: Just reading Wiki Joe...they both died at age 60. Oi!
	11:28am steveo: i'm hearing the light over here, joe, if not seeing it!
	11:29am melinda: Nice Jesus tunes.
	11:29am steveo: some of my favorite paintings are jesusy, too, though I'm not at all jesusy myself
	11:29am davefromtoronto: jesus, what a great set!
	11:29am Brendan: I take it there wont be any Black Sabbath in this set
	11:30am Joe McG: @dave: ha ha ha @Brendan: Someone told me they did a Christian song or two, but I don't know what they are!
	11:31am dgg: I don't have a lot of interest in god, but I sure love me some christian music
	11:31am glenn: i could probably fill 100 40 yard dumpsters with all the usable wood i've thrown out in 35 years.
	11:31am Schnipp: @IKE Does Barcade have alcohol? Pinball or only video? Christ -- I'm into my 6th hour of FMU this morning. Go in peace.
	11:32am Brendan: They always seemed liturgical to me
	11:32am glenn: is that scene on youtube, oscar?
	👻 11:32am Threemoons: Schnipp--yep, a full bar with pretty good stuff.
	11:32am queems: apparently they used to do a better job of masquerading jesus songs as regular songs
	11:33am melinda: This Jesus music goes nicely with the rain.
	11:33am Number Six: "He Is" by Ghost would be a nice fit for this set.
	11:33am glenn: and whatever happened to joan chen anyway? she was a bit of a thing, from what i remember.
	11:34am queems: wait maybe not
	11:34am The Oscar: @glenn 'Tis! youtu.be...
	👻 11:34am tadpoles: Hopefully Joe we're gearing up for "Number 1 in Heaven"?....or even the brilliant "What The Hell Is It This Time?" I know ...Sparksentric..
	11:34am steveo: Myrrh Records
	11:35am Cooh John: Just looking at pinball machines on craigslist last night. Nice musical detour, Joe.
	11:35am Itzall Ablurr: What? No Louvin Bros?!?
	11:35am Brendan: Surface noise in full force
	11:35am steveo: No More Frankincense for Me
	11:35am Dean: You want an Easter song? Handel's Messiah.
	11:35am Joe McG: Sorry about the fuzz on the needle on 2nd Acts. Maybe I'll try again!
	11:35am pantz: Ain't no foxes in an athiest hole.
	11:36am βrian: What kills me is when people toss out perfectly salvageable wood windows, to replace them with windows that even last 20 years.
	11:36am Brian C.: I know I shouldn't judge, but "Easter Song" is awful in just about every single way. Who would've ever played this song so much to beat the record up like that? Ugh
	11:37am joe: I must have a copy of Jason Elbogen's 2011 premium
	11:38am The Oscar: @glenn Last I heard from her she was vocally disappointed she didn't get into the new Peaks (despite last being seen as a talking drawer pull). Don't know the last thing I saw her in...
	11:38am davefromtoronto: it's so strange to think of these songs being made with total seriousness. compelling yet disturbing at the same time...
	11:38am Joe McG: @Brian C.: You might like "The Devil's Lost Again" from that LP better.
	11:39am glenn: hee hee. mr. mibbler's glasses are awesome.
	11:41am still b/p: Huh. While the Jesus playlist was upon us here, I was just takin' care of details regarding minor participation in a movie about 19th century folks awaiting the Rapture.
	11:41am Brian C.: @Joe, maybe so, I don't hate Jesus rock categorically, but pretty please don't play that tune again
	11:41am glenn: yeah, i flat out refuse to remove old windows. if they want to do that, they can hire somebody else.
	11:41am The Oscar: It's funny-- I've never been much of a folkie, and I'm definitely not a religious type, but I LOVE all this spooky private press stuff. Reminds me of Numero's "Wayfaring Strangers" comps.
	👻 11:41am Webhamster Henry: As you can see, WFMU Marathon Premia are motherlodes of musical goodness! Pledge today, folks!
	11:43am queems: this song needs more christ
	11:43am Itzall Ablurr: glenn, my house was built in 1939, still has the original (leak like a sieve) windows. No glass left, but the wood's solid! Haha. I have thought about replacing them, but you've made me reconsider.
	11:44am Jeff: How did a song from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" turn into a weird insipid Jesus-y song?
	11:44am John in Bklyn: Sounds like Barry Obama!
	11:44am pantz: Thanks for the Chick Tract approved set, Joe!
	11:45am queems: so fuckin groovy
	11:45am davefromtoronto: william shatner should've done this one.
	11:45am Brendan: Oh Joe your voice is changed
	11:46am Jeff: Brother John Rydgren sounds like the upcoming movies phone tape guy!
	11:46am glenn: reconsider it. basic carpentry skills, youtube and time solve a lot of problems.
	11:46am The Oscar: This guy has a total '70s trailer voice. I just keep expecting the title and rating.
	11:46am Joe McG: I've let the cat out of the bag on my source for my "Groovin'" bed music.
	11:46am John in Bklyn: He said "hope"! Wouldn't that have been a great Inauguration speech in 2009?
	11:49am Joe McG: @John: I would've paid attention!
	11:49am melinda: I think I have this premium. I need to listen to it more.
	11:49am Itzall Ablurr: I AM- those bitches have been around for over 70 years, no way I could find any new ones that would last like that.
	11:51am glenn: and this may be of interest - restoringross.com...
	11:51am davefromtoronto: hey jesus!
	11:52am Ike: @Schnipp, heaps of alcohol, and 4 or 5 pinball machines at the Newark location plus the evil Baby Pac Man (fusion of video and pinball; the worst of both worlds, as both sections are incredibly hard, yet also boring).
	11:52am The Oscar: Oh man-- I remember this song from the O.G. 365 Days Project! I honestly think it's kind of a great song.
	👻 11:52am Brian in UK: We are moving soon from an Edwardian house (100 years young) with sash cord windows that rattle but ventilate well. Sash cords are a work of art. Thinking of a Seventeenth century place, something not too old.
	11:53am glenn: there was a pac man pinball machine? doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose?
	11:53am John in Bklyn: "Acid head"! haha
	11:54am Itzall Ablurr: Dear Larry, why SHOULD the devil have all the good music?!?
	11:54am joe: I see Satan being more of a cigarillo type of guy
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for keeping me and Jesus company today, everybody. Have a very holy week! See you with singles next week.
	11:55am steveo: thanks for the show, Joe!
	11:56am Brendan: Thx Joe
	11:56am ChrisB.: The class has ended, go in peace.
	11:56am John in Bklyn: Thanks for helping us accept dusty Jesus 45s into our lives, Joe!
	11:56am melinda: Thanks Joe!
	11:56am pantz: That single set of footprints in the sand? That's when you were carrying us, Joe.
	11:57am Sem Chumbo: Thanks, Joe, been some good fun. See ya later.
	11:57am queems: great show!
	11:57am northguineahills: Well, I felt we were listening to Micah's show! Thanks Joe!
	11:57am glenn: i came for the polka, i stayed for the god rock.
	11:57am BronwynB: thanks for playing easter song. what a banger!
	👻 11:58am tadpoles: You don't hear them referred to as "Jesus Freaks" anymore. Great show thanks Joe.
	11:58am listener monica: larry norman was in one of the Blob movies
	11:59am glenn: no, now they're called republicans.
	11:59am Dennis Diken: Hal Blaine on that last Larry Norman track!
	11:59am joe: Can't wait for your Singles Going Steady show.
	11:59am Ike: @Glenn@11:53, it was a fusion -- video PLUS pinball. When your Baby Pac Man goes down the bottom exits on the video part, you play pinball to win extra lives or something. An interesting idea, horrible execution....
	11:59am V Priceless: thanx Joe!
	12:00pm Dean: Wait. Was that LSD song Norman's dig at the Mormon church?

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from October 9, 2017

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

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October 9, 2017: Coming Before You with Joyful Songs

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Claudia Thompson	Body and Soul "Body and Soul" by "Claudia Thompson"	Goodbye to Love	Modern Harmonic	2016	LP	From 1959		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Julie London	Nobody's Heart "Nobody's Heart" by "Julie London"	London By Night	Liberty	1983	LP	From 1958		0:04:52 (Pop-up)
Doris Day	When Your Lover Has Gone	Day Dreams	Columbia	1955	LP			0:07:03 (Pop-up)
Jackie Kral	Lose Me Now "Lose Me Now" by "Jackie Kral"	Like Sing – Songs by Dory and André Previn	Columbia	1963	LP			0:10:56 (Pop-up)
Blossom Dearie	I Walk a Little Faster	Blossom Dearie	Verve/Universal	2003	CD	From 1957		0:13:36 (Pop-up)
Lee Wiley	(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance with You	Night in Manhattan with Lee Wiley	Columbia	1955	LP			0:17:47 (Pop-up)
Anita O'Day	Anita's Blues "Anita's Blues" by "Anita O'Day"	Finest Hour	Verve/UMG	2000	CD	From 1954		0:21:04 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan	Lover Man "Lover Man" by "Sarah Vaughan"	The Definitive Sarah Vaughan	Verve/UMG	2000	CD	From 1954		0:24:32 (Pop-up)
Claudia Thompson	Gloomy Sunday "Gloomy Sunday" by "Claudia Thompson"	Goodbye to Love	Modern Harmonic	2016	LP	my new favorite old album		0:27:46 (Pop-up)

Arthur Vint & Associates	The Good, The Bad & the Ugly	Death Rides a Horse	Ropeadope	2017	CD		*	0:41:21 (Pop-up)
Simon Joyner	Hail Mary "Hail Mary" by "Simon Joyner"	Step into the Earthquake	Shrimper	2017	CD		*	0:44:26 (Pop-up)
The Weather Station	Black Flies "Black Flies" by "The Weather Station"	The Weather Station	Paradise of Bachelors	2017	CD		*	0:48:02 (Pop-up)
Bill Orcutt	Star Spangled Banner "Star Spangled Banner" by "Bill Orcutt"	Bill Orcutt	Palilalia	2017	LP		*	0:50:29 (Pop-up)
Dead Rock West	Waiting Patiently "Waiting Patiently" by "Dead Rock West"	More Love	Omnivore Recordings	2017	CD		*	0:52:47 (Pop-up)
The Replacements	Kiss Me on the Bus	For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986	Sire/Rhino	2017	CD	Feb 4th, 1986 in Hoboken, NJ	*	0:56:41 (Pop-up)
Gillian Hills	Rentre Sans Moi "Rentre Sans Moi" by "Gillian Hills"	Zou Bisou Bisou: The Yé-Yé Years 1960-1965	Ace International	2017	CD	From 1965	*	0:59:23 (Pop-up)
Isaac Hayes	You Made Me So Very Happy	Isaac Hayes: The Spirit of Memphis 1962-1976	Craft/Stax	2017	CD	From 1970	*	1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Mr. Clean and the Cleansers	Karate	Feeling Nice Vol. 4	Tramp	2017	CD	circa 1966, but hard to tell; parts one and two combined, apparently!	*	1:07:09 (Pop-up)
Travis Wammack	It's Karate Time "It's Karate Time" by "Travis Wammack"	Sounds of the Unexpected	Ace	2017	CD	From 1967	*	1:11:11 (Pop-up)
Hungry March Band	Push It "Push It" by "Hungry March Band"	Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias	Hungry March Band	2007	CD	playing at Montgomery Hall this Thursday as part of HONK! NYC		1:13:38 (Pop-up)
Ikebe Shakedown	Assassin "Assassin" by "Ikebe Shakedown"	The Way Home	Colemine	2017	CD		*	1:17:16 (Pop-up)
The Undisputed Truth	Love and Happiness	Nothing But the Truth	Kent Soul	2017	CD	From 1973	*	1:21:05 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45 r.p.m. records in an orderly row
Sparks	I Predict "I Predict" by "Sparks"	single	Atlantic	1982	45			1:32:16 (Pop-up)
The Shirelles	Not for All the Money in the World	single	Scepter	1963	45			1:34:44 (Pop-up)
Dee Mullins	Parking for Cheaters "Parking for Cheaters" by "Dee Mullins"	single	SSS International	1968	45			1:37:06 (Pop-up)
Arthur Alexander	I'm Comin' Home "I'm Comin' Home" by "Arthur Alexander"	single	Warner Bros.	1972	45			1:39:29 (Pop-up)
Billy Shields	I Was a Boy (When You Needed a Man)	single	Harbour	1969	45			1:41:17 (Pop-up)
Family	It's Only a Movie "It's Only a Movie" by "Family"	single	United Artists	1973	45			1:44:17 (Pop-up)
Prefab Sprout	Walk On "Walk On" by "Prefab Sprout"	single	Kitchenware	1983	45			1:48:11 (Pop-up)
Liz Damon's Orient Express	1900 Yesterday	single	White Whale	1970	45			1:50:54 (Pop-up)
Magazine	Shot by Both Sides "Shot by Both Sides" by "Magazine"	single	Virgin	1978	45			1:53:43 (Pop-up)

The Cowsills	II x II "II x II" by "The Cowsills"	II x II	MGM	1969	LP			2:09:33 (Pop-up)
The Holy Ghost Reception Committee #9	The Magic Ice Cube	Songs for Liturgical Worship	Void	2001	LP	From 1968		2:12:28 (Pop-up)
Larry Norman	No More L.S.D. for Me	Street Level	One Way	1972	LP			2:14:46 (Pop-up)
The Brethren	My God and I "My God and I" by "The Brethren"	The Brethren	New Life	1972	LP			2:19:54 (Pop-up)
The Trees	Jesus He Knows "Jesus He Knows" by "The Trees"	The Christ Tree	Pomegranate	1975	LP			2:24:35 (Pop-up)
The Last Days	His Love Is Real "His Love Is Real" by "The Last Days"	Get Born Anew: Tony Coulter's 2005 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2005	CD-R	From 1972		2:27:18 (Pop-up)
The 2nd Chapter of Acts	Easter Song	The 2nd Chapter of Acts* with footnotes	Myrrh	1974	LP			2:30:57 (Pop-up)
All Saved Freak Band	100th Psalm "100th Psalm" by "All Saved Freak Band"	Good God(s)! Judeo-Christian Psychedelic Funk from the 1970s: Jason Elbogen's 2011 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2011	CD-R	From 1976		2:34:12 (Pop-up)
Judy MacKenzie	Sally Brown "Sally Brown" by "Judy MacKenzie"	Resurrection: The Amplified Bible of Heavenly Grooves	Trunk	2001	CD	From 1971		2:37:03 (Pop-up)
Brother John Rydgren	Groovin' on a Saturday Night	Silhouette Segments	The Omni Recording Corporation	2012	CD	From 1968		2:41:14 (Pop-up)
Donna Nelson	Call Out to Jesus "Call Out to Jesus" by "Donna Nelson"	Music of Mind Control Favorites 2016: Micah's 2016 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2016	CD-R	From 2005, I think		2:44:10 (Pop-up)
Larry Norman	Nothing Really Changes/Postlude	Upon This Rock	Impact	1970	LP			2:49:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am annie: hey joe!!! good morning!
	9:04am annie: so..... are you playing music?
	👻 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Ah, yes. A good day for a Yip sync contest! Yip! Yip!
	👻 9:04am Threemoons: Happy Monday Joe, WFMU Peeps, fellow YipYips! Joe, I gotta say, hearing the YipYips before I head out on Monday is the BEST thing about my Monday AMs! Never change them.....yipyipyipyipyip...
	9:05am pantz: Yooooo JOE!
	9:05am annie: my player is busted, all i hear is ... not this..
	👻 9:06am Threemoons: I still have the skit from Sesame Street burned into my mind...when the YipYips attempt to communicate with a phone...a big black hulking Bakelite thing with an actual handpiece....yipyipyipyipyip....
	9:06am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe!
	9:07am Sem Chumbo: Hello and good morning, Joe, McGaskoes, curious first-time listeners.
	9:07am V Priceless: top o the mornin', Joe!
	9:08am The Oscar: Morning Joe! Got my replacement t-shirt-- thanks again!
	9:09am Davee: Hi Joe great way to start the show - it's perfect for today, for me anyway. thank you.
	9:10am annie: have to listen through tune-in.. the pop-up sin't functioning... i missed the yipyips!! all went well with the payment(s) joe, many thanks for your attention!!
	9:10am zopa: aw nuts! i thought it was going to be a set of body parts songs...
	👻 9:12am Threemoons: Annie--try clearing your cache and restarting the browser--a bad Javascript loop can make it not work. My popup is fine here; using Chrome on a Windows 10 deck. Yipyipyipyipyip....
	9:12am Phillio: Good morning, Joe! Got anything by Chris Connor?
	9:12am Nick K (Killer): Damn that's so good this morning...
	9:13am Nick K (Killer): Great songs Joe..
	👻 9:13am Threemoons: Nice set this AM. Got any Nina Simone in there? :D
	9:13am annie: i got it threemoons...my cache clears automatically..frefox is a bum these days..
	👻 9:14am Threemoons: Annie--I gave up on FF a while ago when it became bloated beyond belief. I still use Thunderbird for my email but I really like the seamlessless of Chrome. Anyway, glad you were able to finally tune in! :D
	9:16am annie: .... i had some question marks going on with myself and what i was hearing.. all i heard was a delayed play of clay pigeon show. (i avoid Chrome, i just hate google)
	👻 9:16am Brian in UK: Hey Monica are you filling-in for Joe? Ha Ha.
	9:17am BnowB: HI Joe McGasko- Great show. Doris Day recording made me miss my 78 Victrola; not sure why. ☮
	9:17am steveo: Good morning Mr. Monday. Gosh look at that playlist; I wish I could be here at 9.
	9:18am Davee: I miss Monica's spot on Sunday evenings
	👻 9:20am doctorjazz: Nice Blossom; hi all! (pretty set).
	9:20am Joe McG: Good Monday, all. Taking it slow and rainy this morning.
	9:20am pantz: Hey Joe, I'd like to donate more but I'm stretched pretty thin. Would you take some old baseball cards? Got a Nolan Ryan rookie in Fair condition.
	👻 9:20am Ken From Hyde Park: Monica is filling in for Sheila this Friday, so we get to hear some of her selections very soon.
	9:21am Davis: lovely set. is kitty kallen coming up?
	9:21am steveo: Hey Joe, I pledged to your show on Monday before the official marathon start; I'm not sure it's showing up in your tally.
	9:22am Nate K.: I wish the weather would come around to this music. This is nearly perfect October music.
	9:23am Nate K.: The sky and the rain are spot on, but yeesh 75 at 9:00 am. Yes, I'm discussing the weather...
	9:23am steveo: MUCHO HUMIDITO
	9:23am annie: ... we expectd tails of hurricane Nate this morning.. seems to have skipped west of asheville
	9:24am Joe McG: @pantz: ha ha! Sure. @steveo: I'm going to try to move those Monday pledges if I can. Thanks for the pledge! We hadn't quite gotten underway with the drive yet last week. Hey Nate!
	9:25am Dennis Diken: Lee Wiley indeed! can Sylvia Syms be far behind?
	9:26am steveo: Cool; I wish I had been more patient. Thanks to you for being here.
	9:26am Davee: I am loving this show . . . Dixie, Blossom, Doris and Anita!
	9:26am Donathon McCloud: Love Anita - Happy Birthday John Lennon
	9:27am queems: this is really doing it for me today
	9:27am Joe McG: Phillio, Davis, Dennis: All great suggestions! We have no Chris O'Connor or Kitty Kallen in our library and I didn't bring any. :( @Dennis: Thanks for the presentos!
	9:28am Phillio: Ah, I love Anita O'Day's stuff. The clip of her singing "Tea For Two" in Jazz on a Summer's Day features some of the best phrasing I've heard.
	9:29am Phillio: Sass is always nice.. such a great voice.
	9:30am melinda: Nice set here!
	9:31am Stay Frosty: You're killing it with this set Joe. You the man...
	9:31am pantz: She had a great interview on Fresh Air about a month ago. Apparently she was smashed out of her gourd for that Jazz on a Summer Day clip.
	9:32am The Oscar: As a kid, I had a big compendium of the unexplained, which included the various legends surrounding this song. It sufficiently scared the shit out of me, to the point that I was in my 20s before I worked up the nerve to listen to it.
	9:32am Todd-o-phonic Todd: Thanks for helping us start the week on such an upbeat note, Joe.
	9:32am annie: holy moley..... this is an amazing rendition!! any background on this?
	9:33am Joe McG: @Todd: Ha ha ha!!
	9:33am rbrt: love this Gloomy sunday
	9:33am Irene Trudel: Joe, do we have to start worrying about you? All breakup songs, glorious gloom and doom!
	9:33am Marc15: The Hungarian Suicide Song
	9:35am Nick K (Killer): I want to crack open a bottle of wine
	9:35am Davee: Ahhhh! That's all I have to say!
	9:35am Doug Werewolf: Claudia - good pick
	9:35am Schnipp: What an amazing opening set. Thank you! Music for divorcees to date by.
	9:36am Davee: Joe - you have the correct voice for this style of music.
	9:36am Itzall Ablurr: Don't do it, Claudia!!!
	9:36am annie: i just want to crawl into a dark bar and sit at a table with a rye whiskey on some ice.
	9:37am joe: A rapscallion I say
	9:39am melinda: It's been warm, damp and grey here, too. I used to hate unseasonably warm days but I've finally acquiesced.
	9:40am Nick K (Killer): Yum Whiskey
	9:41am Vincent Nifigance: Play it, i want to be slain.
	9:41am Listener MW: I've never heard this version of Gloomy Sunday!! Beautiful - thanks, Joe. If you're a fan/collector of that tune (as I am), check out the version by a Canadian songwriter named Danny Michel -- probably my favorite modern cover of it
	9:42am Davee: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
	9:43am Dennis Diken: Doris Day totally rules, criminally underrated. one of the great American vocalists (IMHO)
	9:44am melinda: Nice interpretation!
	9:45am ?: Not aware of any song titled doris day.
	👻 9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: "We interrupt this edition of Surface Noise to bring you an old episode of Seven Second Delay. Stay tuned to WFMU."
	9:46am Will: Nice, reasonable LP copies of Doris's Day Dreams now available online at (cannot name site)!
	9:46am BnowB: WFMU will never die, we going Black! ♥
	9:47am Joe McG: @Irene: I'm OK! :) @Davee: Thanks! @MW: Thanks for the recommendation! @9:45: Too bad!
	9:48am futurescamp: Such a perfect set of rainy morning music, thanks Joe!
	9:50am Listener MW: This "Hail Mary" song... so Lou. very Reed. Much wow!!
	9:53am steveo: /me kneels
	9:54am Joe McG: @steveo: Go for it!
	9:54am βrian: Deep blue skies over the isthmus today. Light like the south of France. Good listening weather.
	9:54am steveo: fantastic guitarring
	9:55am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Wow that version was so cool I HAD to kneel.
	9:56am BnowB: That was one of the best SPB on Guitar I've never heard before now. aces
	9:57am steveo: well put bnow
	9:58am BriJet: Good morning!!! meow!
	9:59am Tomophobic Tom from Detroit: Yay!!!!
	👻 9:59am doctorjazz: Mats, Cool! Like this version!
	10:00am D. Werewolf: Great version of Kiss Me on the Bus.
	10:01am John in Bklyn: Morning Joe! Wow, the "new" Mats sounds better that I thought!
	10:03am steveo: so glad we could be your first time, joe
	10:04am queems: best station id reading yet
	10:04am bnowb: New Station Id.. Is wordy... lol that was funny
	10:05am BronwynB: good morning joe and everyone!
	10:05am Joe McG: I'll get it down, I just need some practice. It's nice to say "in New York City," though. We finally made the big town.
	10:06am bnowb: Its amazing Joe :)
	10:06am steveo: sort of unfair there's no transmitter in jersey city though right?
	👻 10:06am Ken From Hyde Park: Is it possible to put up WFMU transmitters in faraway places like London and Paris? Then the station ID will get nice and fancy!
	10:07am annie: gotta book, yo.. cab coming to take me home.. catchya in the archives.. thanks for all the wonderful things you do joe!!
	10:07am steveo: is this a reissues set? this isaac hayes is fangroovytastic.
	10:07am Cooh John: A gray day with Surface Noise. At least I don't have to work.
	10:09am Cooh John: how much of New York City can get WFMU?
	10:09am BronwynB: i can confirm that central brooklyn gets it loud and clear
	10:10am steveo: pirates wreck it in my part of brooklyn -- crown heights
	10:11am steveo: what's 'central'? like, midwood area?
	10:12am βrian: @steveo: How do they choose their frequencies?
	10:13am Vincent Nifigance: No one writes good Karate songs no more.
	👻 10:14am Brian in UK: We are still Kung Fu fighting over here.
	10:14am steveo: they chose it (i'm told) because it was emtpy, until recently. hopefully fmu is interfering back at em and they'll go elsewhere
	10:15am wild neil: peace all. my wife and i are really enjoy this as we wind up our weekend at Chautauqua Institute.
	10:15am Mark Hurst: @Bronwyn, are you getting the signal in Brooklyn at 91.9FM? (as opposed to 91.1FM?)
	10:16am βrian: Thank Bob for streaming.
	👻 10:19am Brian in UK: Did anyone heard Lloyd Price interviewed on Michael Shelley's show. 84 years and sounded like a man half his age. Wonderful. www.wfmu.org...
	10:22am steveo: here's an alleged coverage map for 91.9 radio-locator.com... (I think the freq is different because for a while it was attempted to use it as a 90.1 booster, but now has it's own freq)
	10:25am Joe McG: @Brian: Great stuff! Wish I'd been here to meet him!
	10:26am melinda: I ripped my side view mirror off backing into my parking spot just now. I hate it when that happens.
	10:27am βrian: I did that with my bike once.
	10:28am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Tell Station Manager Ken that there is lots of signal bleed on 91.1 from 90.9 and 91.3 in the vicinity of I-78 and the GSP in Union. It appears to be a pair of Creole-language stations are breaking into our signal.
	10:28am Cooh John: The Lloyd Price interview was a fantastic behind the scenes look at the history of rock and roll. Sad he was drafted because he got whites and blacks to intermingle.
	👻 10:30am Ken From Hyde Park: I tore off one of my car's mirrors while backing into my garage. Was able to snap it all back together again, though.
	10:34am rbrt: 45 time!
	10:34am βrian: Cars have ballooned in width, but old garages have not.
	10:35am Krys O.: Thanks for the Sparks!
	👻 10:35am tadpoles: Brilliant Joe...it's Spark's Week!
	10:35am holland oats: psyched for sparks tomorrow night!
	10:35am Schnipp: "A bowl of chow mein"? May as well reference rotary dials and handwritten letters.
	10:37am Derek in Atlantic City: First concert I ever went to was Sparks.
	10:39am holland oats: what year?
	10:40am steveo: watch you mirror, Dee Mullins!
	10:40am glenn: harlan howard ?
	10:41am Joe McG: @glenn: Nope, it's a Lee Emerson song. But it sounds like it could be!
	10:42am Nate K.: So happy to see this Arthur Alexander stuff back in print.
	10:42am Nate K.: But, you're playing an OG 45. Nice!
	10:43am Joe McG: @Nate: Me, too, it's such good stuff.
	10:45am Summer and Michael: Great show, Joe! Loving that Dead Rock West track. Recalls Linda & Richard Thompson a little to our ears...
	10:46am Joe McG: Thanks, S&M! Yes, they have a very nice blend.
	10:46am queems: girl run
	10:49am BronwynB: It is indeed Sparks week! I'm going to the signing at Rough Trade tonight and the show on Wednesday! I'm so nervous about the signing, I know I'll only have two seconds but I feel like I should say something, they are my second favorite band after all!!
	10:53am BronwynB: @schnipp: is chow mein old fashioned?
	10:54am Listener Alexandra: Good morning, Joe! Just did my pledging for the morning :-)
	10:55am Joe McG: @Alex: Ain't you nice! Thanks! :)
	👻 10:56am Webhamster Henry: It's 1900 yesterday, and we're going to party like it's 1999.
	10:56am Listener Alexandra: Just doin' my part, Joe :-)
	10:57am Schnipp: @bronwyn Oui Si. Although I've still got a soft spot for it (like typewriters and aerograms). It's the analog of "Chinese" food (invented here; unknown there).
	10:58am glenn: i love john mcgeoch.
	10:58am Schnipp: @bronwyn -- and your first favorite is...?
	10:59am glenn: i also love yamaha s.g.'s.
	10:59am Stevel: Magazine stood out dramatically, back in the day. Still damned good.
	11:00am BronwynB: @schnipp: the beach boys. its ironic because i really do not like LA (no offense to anyone who likes it) but both my favorite bands are from there (and one is emblematic of southern california)
	11:01am BronwynB: oooo new york city!! we are fancy now
	11:01am Dean: It's okay not to like LA. I lived there for 40 years or so, largely not liking it, before I learned to like it. Then I moved away.
	11:02am joe: The list of bands that Wiki lists as associated with Magazine. WOW! Buzzcocks The Freshies St. Louis Union The Speedometors Visage Siouxsie and the Banshees Ultravox Neo John Foxx Amazorblades Pete Shelley The Birthday Party Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Chameleons Swing Out Sister The Durutti Column Ludus The Mekons The Armoury Show Public Image Ltd Luxuria The Cure Apollo 440
	11:02am BronwynB: @dean: that's an interesting trajectory. i lived there for 4 months and tried to like it but really we hated each other on sight. so i came back.
	11:03am briania: Shot by Both Sides is the same song as the Buzzcocks' Lipstick. But better.
	11:03am Dean: @BronwynB: If you'd stuck it out another 39 years and eight months, you'd have fallen for it.
	11:04am BronwynB: hahaha maybe!
	11:06am glenn: pete shelley wrote the music for both songs, so no real surprise.
	11:07am joe: There is one uphappy person in North Carolina when Sparks goes to NYC. :(
	11:07am Stevel: If you have any interest in the Replacements, check out Bob Mehr. He's a top-notch guy.
	11:08am Jeff: "1900 Yesterday" is one of those songs I'd completely forgotten existed yet realized when I heard it again that I know it by heart. It's always a curious experience when that happens.
	👻 11:08am Webhamster Henry: You should check out Tetris - it's excellent!
	11:08am joe: Yeah but I bet you were a Pong animal Joe
	11:08am pantz: PONG?! C'mon Joe. You never played Donkey Kong or nuthin?
	11:09am βrian: I would visit L.A. for a restaurant/food tour, but that's about it.
	11:10am Mark Hurst: King of Kong
	11:10am Dean: @βrian: Record stores and book stores, too.
	11:10am John in Bklyn: Was that King of Kong?
	11:10am davefromtoronto: king of kong
	11:10am joe: King Of Kong
	11:10am table_for_one: a fistful of quarters!
	11:10am ɨkɛ: Donkey Kong is too hard. Q*Bert is better!!!
	11:11am John in Bklyn: I liked Asteroids and Pleides. Frogger?
	11:11am Jeff: The playlist has turned into a discussion of The Joy of Kong. The Zipless Kong?
	11:11am The Oscar: Some years ago, a friend and I went to one of the arcades in King of Kong on what turned out to be the weekend of the World Video Game Championships-- pretty much everyone from that movie except the two "leads" were there, just doing their thing. It was pretty mindblowing.
	11:12am JtotheK: As others said -- Movie was 'The King of Kong'. I took my wife to it in the theater (for Valentine's Day, I think?) and believe in hindsight that decision to be questionable.
	11:12am βrian: Ok, bookstores, too, then. I leave the record stuff to others.
	👻 11:12am Ken From Hyde Park: I like Q*Bert, but I keep jumping in the wrong direction. I like watching Galaga and Joust, too.
	11:13am Sem Chumbo: Day now complete. Cowsills, thank you, Joe.
	11:13am John in Bklyn: Galaga! Wow, forgot about that one.
	11:13am Brendan: Hey Joe and people
	11:14am glenn: isn't galaga essentially galaxians?
	11:14am Itzall Ablurr: Not trying to stir the pot, just curious- what is the "mean" age of most people who played those games on the regular? 50s? 40s? Other?
	11:14am Brendan: A 2x4 is neither 2 nor 4 . Discuss.
	11:15am glenn: i'm too old for all that video game nonsense. give me a good pinball machine any day.
	11:15am Itzall Ablurr: Brendan- is that due to the metric system? Kidding. Close enough is good enough, hence, "2x4"
	11:15am Dean: Such a supple wrist.
	11:17am John in Bklyn: @Itzall I'm mid 50s and was into the arcade video game thing for about a year, maybe. I had ATARI Pong on TV in the 70s!
	11:17am joe: Here is a list of some documentires of the sub culture of competative video gaming I've seen a few and most are good. Chasing Ghosts is my favorite but that is probably becuase it is the time period of video games I most identify with. heavy.com...
	11:17am holland oats: randy newman before his voice changed
	11:17am Jeff: I used to check out videogames every few years just to see what the current readily-available state of the art in realtime computer rendering and animation had gotten to be. I'd usually say, "Wow, how 'bout that!" and then pretty much instantly lose interest. Computer games and I have for some reason never connected as a thing to actually do.
	11:17am Joe McG: @joe: Wow, I had no idea there were so many!
	11:17am Sem Chumbo: I get such a Randy Newman vibe from this Larry Norm.
	11:18am queems: what in the elton john
	11:18am Sem Chumbo: Norman No more, you know what, for me.
	11:18am melinda: Atari pong was the only TV video game I remember playing.
	11:19am Brendan: This sounds like something off Madman
	👻 11:19am tadpoles: Larry Norman sounds a lot like Kevin Coyne.
	👻 11:19am Threemoons: bwahahaahaaa crappy firewall at crappy temp gig is down again so here I am again! Hello again fellow YipYips....
	11:20am joe: @Joe yeah I think part of it is that the folks that are involved in the culture are also the folks that take advantage of how cheap and easy it is to produce "film" so they did to be projects of fun more then anything else.
	11:20am holland oats: jesus fished because we floundered, oofah
	11:20am Itzall Ablurr: queems, I believe he was sometimes AKA, Larry "elton'schlong" Norman.
	11:20am glenn: no, it's because when wood is sold to the sawmills, it's sold in board foot measure - 1 board foot = 1" x 12" x12" [a measure of volume]. it's sold in 1/4 inch increments. so, a 2x4 originally starts out as a piece that is 8/4 thick by 4 " wide, and is then milled down to 1 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. you asked.
	11:20am Joe McG: @tadpoles: You're right! I never noticed.
	11:21am joe: For you Pinball lovers try Special When Lit and Tilt the battle to save pinballe
	11:23am joe: @Joe and as you mentinoed you have a thing for sub cultures try Carpet Racers a filem about the competative indoor RC car racing circut.
	11:23am glenn: and when i think of the number of full 2" by whatever width fir studs, joists, rafters etc., i've thrown out over the years, i kinda want to punch myself.
	11:23am John in Bklyn: Hippies were really into Jesus.
	11:25am ⓘⓚⓔ: I can't believe that Audible got Barcade to open a branch in Newark near Broad St. Station. I didn't think anybody would go there, but so far it seems really busy. They have Donkey Kong AND Q*Bert AND Joust!
	11:25am Itzall Ablurr: glenn, I get that but sadly, you just can't keep everything- believe me my garage is proof of that. I trashed so much (60s era) knotty pine tongue 'n groove panelling a few years ago and it still haunts me.
	11:25am The Oscar: @Glenn There's a deleted scene from TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME in which Jack Nance explains this issue to Joan Chen at length. I kind of wish it made the final cut.
	11:26am pantz: Day By Day!
	👻 11:27am tadpoles: Just reading Wiki Joe...they both died at age 60. Oi!
	11:28am steveo: i'm hearing the light over here, joe, if not seeing it!
	11:29am melinda: Nice Jesus tunes.
	11:29am steveo: some of my favorite paintings are jesusy, too, though I'm not at all jesusy myself
	11:29am davefromtoronto: jesus, what a great set!
	11:29am Brendan: I take it there wont be any Black Sabbath in this set
	11:30am Joe McG: @dave: ha ha ha @Brendan: Someone told me they did a Christian song or two, but I don't know what they are!
	11:31am dgg: I don't have a lot of interest in god, but I sure love me some christian music
	11:31am glenn: i could probably fill 100 40 yard dumpsters with all the usable wood i've thrown out in 35 years.
	11:31am Schnipp: @IKE Does Barcade have alcohol? Pinball or only video? Christ -- I'm into my 6th hour of FMU this morning. Go in peace.
	11:32am Brendan: They always seemed liturgical to me
	11:32am glenn: is that scene on youtube, oscar?
	👻 11:32am Threemoons: Schnipp--yep, a full bar with pretty good stuff.
	11:32am queems: apparently they used to do a better job of masquerading jesus songs as regular songs
	11:33am melinda: This Jesus music goes nicely with the rain.
	11:33am Number Six: "He Is" by Ghost would be a nice fit for this set.
	11:33am glenn: and whatever happened to joan chen anyway? she was a bit of a thing, from what i remember.
	11:34am queems: wait maybe not
	11:34am The Oscar: @glenn 'Tis! youtu.be...
	👻 11:34am tadpoles: Hopefully Joe we're gearing up for "Number 1 in Heaven"?....or even the brilliant "What The Hell Is It This Time?" I know ...Sparksentric..
	11:34am steveo: Myrrh Records
	11:35am Cooh John: Just looking at pinball machines on craigslist last night. Nice musical detour, Joe.
	11:35am Itzall Ablurr: What? No Louvin Bros?!?
	11:35am Brendan: Surface noise in full force
	11:35am steveo: No More Frankincense for Me
	11:35am Dean: You want an Easter song? Handel's Messiah.
	11:35am Joe McG: Sorry about the fuzz on the needle on 2nd Acts. Maybe I'll try again!
	11:35am pantz: Ain't no foxes in an athiest hole.
	11:36am βrian: What kills me is when people toss out perfectly salvageable wood windows, to replace them with windows that even last 20 years.
	11:36am Brian C.: I know I shouldn't judge, but "Easter Song" is awful in just about every single way. Who would've ever played this song so much to beat the record up like that? Ugh
	11:37am joe: I must have a copy of Jason Elbogen's 2011 premium
	11:38am The Oscar: @glenn Last I heard from her she was vocally disappointed she didn't get into the new Peaks (despite last being seen as a talking drawer pull). Don't know the last thing I saw her in...
	11:38am davefromtoronto: it's so strange to think of these songs being made with total seriousness. compelling yet disturbing at the same time...
	11:38am Joe McG: @Brian C.: You might like "The Devil's Lost Again" from that LP better.
	11:39am glenn: hee hee. mr. mibbler's glasses are awesome.
	11:41am still b/p: Huh. While the Jesus playlist was upon us here, I was just takin' care of details regarding minor participation in a movie about 19th century folks awaiting the Rapture.
	11:41am Brian C.: @Joe, maybe so, I don't hate Jesus rock categorically, but pretty please don't play that tune again
	11:41am glenn: yeah, i flat out refuse to remove old windows. if they want to do that, they can hire somebody else.
	11:41am The Oscar: It's funny-- I've never been much of a folkie, and I'm definitely not a religious type, but I LOVE all this spooky private press stuff. Reminds me of Numero's "Wayfaring Strangers" comps.
	👻 11:41am Webhamster Henry: As you can see, WFMU Marathon Premia are motherlodes of musical goodness! Pledge today, folks!
	11:43am queems: this song needs more christ
	11:43am Itzall Ablurr: glenn, my house was built in 1939, still has the original (leak like a sieve) windows. No glass left, but the wood's solid! Haha. I have thought about replacing them, but you've made me reconsider.
	11:44am Jeff: How did a song from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" turn into a weird insipid Jesus-y song?
	11:44am John in Bklyn: Sounds like Barry Obama!
	11:44am pantz: Thanks for the Chick Tract approved set, Joe!
	11:45am queems: so fuckin groovy
	11:45am davefromtoronto: william shatner should've done this one.
	11:45am Brendan: Oh Joe your voice is changed
	11:46am Jeff: Brother John Rydgren sounds like the upcoming movies phone tape guy!
	11:46am glenn: reconsider it. basic carpentry skills, youtube and time solve a lot of problems.
	11:46am The Oscar: This guy has a total '70s trailer voice. I just keep expecting the title and rating.
	11:46am Joe McG: I've let the cat out of the bag on my source for my "Groovin'" bed music.
	11:46am John in Bklyn: He said "hope"! Wouldn't that have been a great Inauguration speech in 2009?
	11:49am Joe McG: @John: I would've paid attention!
	11:49am melinda: I think I have this premium. I need to listen to it more.
	11:49am Itzall Ablurr: I AM- those bitches have been around for over 70 years, no way I could find any new ones that would last like that.
	11:51am glenn: and this may be of interest - restoringross.com...
	11:51am davefromtoronto: hey jesus!
	11:52am Ike: @Schnipp, heaps of alcohol, and 4 or 5 pinball machines at the Newark location plus the evil Baby Pac Man (fusion of video and pinball; the worst of both worlds, as both sections are incredibly hard, yet also boring).
	11:52am The Oscar: Oh man-- I remember this song from the O.G. 365 Days Project! I honestly think it's kind of a great song.
	👻 11:52am Brian in UK: We are moving soon from an Edwardian house (100 years young) with sash cord windows that rattle but ventilate well. Sash cords are a work of art. Thinking of a Seventeenth century place, something not too old.
	11:53am glenn: there was a pac man pinball machine? doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose?
	11:53am John in Bklyn: "Acid head"! haha
	11:54am Itzall Ablurr: Dear Larry, why SHOULD the devil have all the good music?!?
	11:54am joe: I see Satan being more of a cigarillo type of guy
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for keeping me and Jesus company today, everybody. Have a very holy week! See you with singles next week.
	11:55am steveo: thanks for the show, Joe!
	11:56am Brendan: Thx Joe
	11:56am ChrisB.: The class has ended, go in peace.
	11:56am John in Bklyn: Thanks for helping us accept dusty Jesus 45s into our lives, Joe!
	11:56am melinda: Thanks Joe!
	11:56am pantz: That single set of footprints in the sand? That's when you were carrying us, Joe.
	11:57am Sem Chumbo: Thanks, Joe, been some good fun. See ya later.
	11:57am queems: great show!
	11:57am northguineahills: Well, I felt we were listening to Micah's show! Thanks Joe!
	11:57am glenn: i came for the polka, i stayed for the god rock.
	11:57am BronwynB: thanks for playing easter song. what a banger!
	👻 11:58am tadpoles: You don't hear them referred to as "Jesus Freaks" anymore. Great show thanks Joe.
	11:58am listener monica: larry norman was in one of the Blob movies
	11:59am glenn: no, now they're called republicans.
	11:59am Dennis Diken: Hal Blaine on that last Larry Norman track!
	11:59am joe: Can't wait for your Singles Going Steady show.
	11:59am Ike: @Glenn@11:53, it was a fusion -- video PLUS pinball. When your Baby Pac Man goes down the bottom exits on the video part, you play pinball to win extra lives or something. An interesting idea, horrible execution....
	11:59am V Priceless: thanx Joe!
	12:00pm Dean: Wait. Was that LSD song Norman's dig at the Mormon church?

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from October 9, 2017

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