WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 25, 2024

Listener comments!
	10:57am Listener Baby: Yes indee dee
	11:01am clarke: very tough guys HEY NOWWWW!!
	11:01am Mister Dobalina: Mike, Mike, Mike, Michael !
	11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am clarke: here comes todd
	11:02am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning Michael & all!
	11:03am clarke: good way to start a saturday, rite cheer.
	11:05am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Foolin' Around" by "Lemon Twigs, The" Talk about a perfect follow-up! Morning, all!
	11:05am Listener Baby: Baby ain’t Foolin’ Around.
	11:05am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!
	11:05am clarke: mike ain't foolin' around, tudday.
	11:06am Scott from Boston: Todds sons
	11:06am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:06am Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael and the Shellegamers! Back from dog walkin'!
	11:07am clarke: you and rufus thomas!!
	11:07am GeoSinPhilly: My main impression of the Lemon Twigs is that they are VERY Todd.
	11:08am Squints: ↳ GeoSinPhilly @11:07 House act at the Todd Fellows Hall.
	11:09am Listener Baby: Don’t tell us, show us. That a boy!
	11:09am rx "rexy" scabin: A thunderstorm is coming in.
	11:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Mornin'.
	11:09am clarke: yes, it is.
	11:09am Hoboken Jack: Happy holiday weekend Michael, BABY, Handy, Clarke, Frank, Greg, everybody!
	11:10am clarke: jaaaaack.
	11:10am Handy Haversack: Hey hey, Jack!
	11:10am Listener Baby: Hi Jack!
	11:10am clarke: make mine fierce blue!!
	11:10am Joe B: greetings Michael and everyone
	11:10am Cooh John: Good morning Michael and #1ers. Have Linda's autograph from the tour.
	11:11am Squints: ↳ Song: "Who Cares?" by "Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis" Love this. And somehow I could hear Tom Jones absolutely rip this song up. I have to go look and see if he ever did.
	11:11am clarke: hopefully, my power stays on for the full show... one can dream!!!
	11:11am Corey: Good morning Michael and listeners! This RF/LGL still sounding spot on!
	11:11am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Joe B @11:10 Hey Joe! Looks like a good time at Baker Falls yesterday.
	11:12am listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all!
	11:12am clarke: G G Sq
	11:13am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:07 Lots of laziness going down in the Wild Kingdom right now, I tell you what.
	11:13am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:12 might be omaha bound!!
	11:13am Joe B: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:11 yes a fun night! any good shows tonight?
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:13 don't let it fool ya.
	11:14am Pedro in Arlington: Anyone watch the new Stax doc on MAX? Michael?
	11:14am Squints: ↳ Song: "Strange Things (Happening In My Heart)" by "Johnn... Tell 'em right NOW.
	11:15am Frank In Queens: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:09 Heya Jack
	11:16am Mr. Jones: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:14 I started watching it. Is there some beef between Booker T. & Steve Cropper?
	11:17am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:13 Woah! What fer?
	11:17am Scott from Boston: Shoot after that last bumper, I feel like a little more is expected from the show! Lol
	11:17am Moammar: The AI bumpers must be stopped.
	11:17am Webhamster Henry: Barry Manilow sings the Michael Shelley theme
	11:17am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:17 lsu baseball may be going to college world series. there's some hi-fallutin' talk going on... about a camper.
	11:18am myron feld: i love the "I'm very proud of you" tag at the end of that bumper.
	11:18am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:17 Ooooh. A camper. <pinky up> Fancy, SpongeBob.
	11:19am clarke: mcgear!!
	11:19am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:13 You might wanna re-route your trip. I wonder if anybody'd think you'd flipped if you went to LA via Omaha ...
	11:19am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:17 Oh nice
	11:19am Squints: Weren't there also (although possibly at different times) two different McCullochs who passed through the band?
	11:19am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:19 tis a long road to omaha, yet.
	11:20am Jimmy Wipper: We saw the McCartney exhibit here in Norfolk, and it was fantastic!
	11:20am P-90: Paul had a near total lock on Dennys at that time
	11:20am Squints: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:19 Probably doesn't even HAVE a garage.
	11:20am Michael Shelley: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:14 DIDNT hear of it till now!
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @11:20 WIPPAAAAH!!!! i think yer drunk!
	11:20am P-90: A near-Dennyopoly
	11:20am yippie: i saw that exhibit in brooklyn but i liked the japanese art in the next room more
	11:20am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Leave It" by "Mike McGear" The dreaded chorused sax. Yikes.
	11:20am Michael Shelley: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:16 I think so... but maybe more like sick of each other...
	11:21am Hughie Considine: ↳ P-90 @11:20 They could have brought Denny Doherty in for some backup vocals. Would have worked perfectly.
	11:21am Moammar: ↳ yippie @11:20 There's a Yoko Ono joke there somewhere.
	11:21am Listener Baby: Kinda sounds like Emitt.
	11:22am mrmikestandsir: No wonder people thought Emmett Rhodes had something to do with Paul McCartney
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:21 ha ha ha.
	11:22am Moammar: Dear lord, that sax sound is criminal.
	11:22am Hughie Considine: I just came across a Robert Christgau column where he absolutely shat on Denny Laine as a vocalist. Guy was often cruel.
	11:22am pgalub: Dennys
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:22 love laine's voice!
	11:23am Pedro in Arlington: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:20 Watched Episode 1 and it didn't have a problem implying Duck Dunn was on "Green Onions" even though they show the label with Lewie Steinberg's name on it. Probably won't watch the rest.
	11:23am Jimmy Wipper: ↳ clarke @11:20 Who told you, your friends?!?
	11:23am listener phat in Lincoln: I was gonna say, Emmitt Rhodes sounds more like this than Paul.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @11:23 the new dept
	11:23am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:19 Keep me posted!
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @11:23 the news dept
	11:24am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Yoooo good morning Michael Shelley!
	11:24am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Shades Of Blue" by "Shandels, The" A Shandel to the goyim!
	11:24am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Squints @11:19 Not only that, but Wings drummer Geoff Britton (a Briton) was replaced by Joe English (an American).
	11:26am TimG: STAX doc not perfect (but are any?) but excellent nevertheless. When you watch a doc about something you think you know a lot about and still learn ….that’s a sign
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:24 that's a bit harsh - even for you, Fields.
	11:26am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Sweet Little Sixteen" by "Jim and Jesse McReynolds" This is great!
	11:26am P-90: Berrybilly?
	11:27am Listener Baby: ↳ P-90 @11:26 Berrygrass?
	11:27am pgalub: ↳ Song: "Sweet Little Sixteen" by "Jim and Jesse McReynolds" A little "Surfin' USA"
	11:28am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Sweet Little Sixteen" by "Jim and Jesse McReynolds" "Frisco Bay" just sings so well...
	11:29am Listener Baby: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:24 Also. Two Mcollochs? Both guitar players. Jimmy and Hugh? Spelling?
	11:29am Christina Ginger: Good morning!
	11:29am clarke: ↳ pgalub @11:27 berry entertaining.
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:29 Hay!!
	11:29am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "The Buzz" by "Pretenders, The" Chrissie Hynde is certainly one of those singers who need to sing a single note before you know who's doing the singin'.
	11:30am Cooh John: Chrissy & Co! O-H.....
	11:32am johnk77: memphis had/has multiple recording scenes american recording also jim gaines started in memphis
	11:32am Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @11:29 I concede possibly different spellings.
	11:32am Hughie Considine: Being the Tom Hagen of WFMU would be pretty cool.
	11:32am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:29 Hi clarke!
	11:33am clarke: I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!!!!!
	11:33am Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @11:26 But it’s not a lie.
	11:33am Squints: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:32 Heh. "Why do you hurt me, Michael?"
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Song: "Young Fresh Fellows Theme" by "Young Fresh Fellows" yesssss!!!
	11:34am Jimmy Wipper: Love the Young Fresh Fellows!!!
	11:34am clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @11:34 and they love you!!
	11:34am Jeff formerly from Rahway: We played the hell out of the YFF at WVFI decades ago.
	11:34am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Song: "Young Fresh Fellows Theme" by "Young Fresh Fellows" Can't wait to see the YFF again!
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:34 most entertaining great drummer!! (tad).
	11:35am Mr. Jones: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:22 Scat singer?
	11:35am jmd: Just saw these guys last night. Great as ever.
	11:35am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Listener Baby @11:29 Henry McCullough/Jimmy McCulloch (both pronounced the same)
	11:36am Hoboken Jack: Hola Jeff, Christina, Gaylord!
	11:36am clarke: ↳ jmd @11:35 WOW - where was dat???
	11:36am Listener Baby: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:35 Henry! Right! He played that beauty of a solo on My Love.
	11:36am jmd: Here in Seattle.
	11:37am Hughie Considine: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:35 Yup - you should hear his version of "Anonymous Mr. Brown."
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:36 what a tone henry had! RIP
	11:37am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Listener Baby @11:36 A rare non-Paul-composed Wings solo. Henry killed it!
	11:38am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Anonymous Mr. Brown" by "Cats, The" Not sure what to think of this.
	11:39am Mr. Jones: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:37 Yah, Iv'e heard that one's really the shit!
	11:39am drr: These AI bumpers are driving me crazy.
	11:39am clarke: you don't wanna be here, right now!
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Geez I wish I could play BoojieWoojie pianerz.
	11:42am Tuned Out: Some serious Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Venn Diagram in that last one
	11:43am clarke: dang, the ride cymbal.
	11:44am listener phat in Lincoln: Frisco Bay
	11:44am Christopher John: Love it
	11:47am tonyb: I thought the film was pleasant enough also.
	11:47am rx "rexy" scabin: Not the same fire.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Song: "Soul City USA" by "Spencer Wiggins" now i'm thinking that was Earl Palmer on drooms, thar
	11:47am GeoSinPhilly: ↳ Song: "The Bigger They Come (The Harder They Fall)" by "... The title does make more sense that way.
	11:48am Jeff formerly from Rahway: You’re fortunate you had parents who listened to music. My mom & dad had a few Mantovani, Mitch Miller & Herb Alpert records but I don’t remember them ever playing them. Mom bought “You Light Up My Life” at Two Guys. I think she spun it once.
	11:49am clarke: here comes joey here comes al hare comes al here comes al
	11:50am clarke: HERE COMES TOMMY!!!
	11:50am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "Skeeter Davis & NRBQ" So much to unpack here.
	11:50am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "Skeeter Davis & NRBQ" Ah, I saw this on the NRBQ Facebook and wondered about it. This sounds great.
	11:51am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "Skeeter Davis & NRBQ" The most produced Q song I’ve ever heard.
	11:51am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @11:51 This is true.
	11:51am Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "Skeeter Davis & NRBQ" Glockenspiel, dammit!
	11:53am clarke: i was actually around nashville when the skeeter album was being recorded, but not privy enough, at the time, to be at the sessions.
	11:54am clarke: i saw the Q, live, during the time these sessions were going on - at 12th & Porter, and talked to al for a while, after. but, have no session stories.
	11:55am Hughie Considine: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:51 i would eagerly read a comprehensive history of glockenspiels in pop music.
	11:56am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "You Don't Know What You Got Till You Loose It" by... This is working!
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:55 or write one???
	11:57am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:56 uh oh ...
	11:57am P-90: THE Buddy Emmons
	11:57am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:57 transom work
	11:59am clarke: ↳ Song: "Neighbor's Daughter" by "Lee Dorsey" MISTAH DORSEY!
	11:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:57 It just .. might ... work
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 danny federici interviews are out there.
	12:01pm Squints: There were bands (J. Geils, Skynyrd) I ignored in high school because my bubba was into them. Then I got to college and thought to myself, You EEEjit."
	12:01pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @11:48 I have some Mantovani and Herb Alpert records myself I’m saving to play on a future show! Haha
	12:02pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss" This rocks
	12:02pm Scott from Boston: Ummm my teen Age dream
	12:02pm clarke: actually walked out on KISS show - regretting that now. in my defense, i was there to see Cheap Trick.
	12:02pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss" Undoubtedly my favorite Kiss song. That piano ... that chorus ... that spoken-word interval ...
	12:02pm Christina Ginger: Always a Christine and never a Christina. Sigh.
	12:02pm common: ↳ Song: "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss" thank you, michael!⚡️
	12:03pm Scott from Boston: The spoken word part might get him arrested
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss" what's hitting me right now is.. the maracas!!
	12:03pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:02 Soo many songs named Christine!
	12:03pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: If you were a suburban kid in the 70s, you couldn’t avoid Kiss. Never really a fan, but if I had to pick an album, it would have been Love Gun.
	12:03pm myron feld: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:02 Christina, Michael's brother's band The Student Teachers have a song called "Christina."
	12:03pm Cooh John: Into KISS since debut album. First person to go to one of their concerts in makeup. 🎸
	12:03pm Glistener MW: "This song is called 'Love Gun'. It's about Paul Stanley's dick!"
	12:03pm Hughie Considine: I saw these guys at Roosevelt Stadium! Sheesh.
	12:03pm evancuts: I remember this being one of the 45's you could win during the Bar Mitzvah circuit. Probably the last time I heard this song was when I was 13!
	12:04pm Bri The Beatnik: Kiss was almost my mom’s era, but definitely past my dad’s, he compares them to Van Halen
	12:04pm clarke: those maracas!!!!!
	12:06pm Mike in DC: Kiss is so gross even when they aren't leching after underage girls
	12:07pm Christina Ginger: ↳ myron feld @12:03 Filing this knowledge away….
	12:07pm Bri The Beatnik: It’s not memorial weekend until you hear Beach boys!
	12:07pm pgalub: ↳ Song: "I Went to Sleep" by "Beach Boys, The" Beautiful tune.
	12:07pm Webhamster Henry: My son was in a reading of a new play that is a kind of documentary of SMiLE!
	12:07pm marit: i like this one
	12:07pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Webhamster Henry @12:07 Cool!
	12:08pm JG: Looking forward to seeing the Beach Boys this week. Looking at Setlists and seems like its not just one set, but they mix it up and you get some different songs depending on what night you go
	12:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Bri The Beatnik @12:07 I don't know if it'll get developed further, but it might!
	12:08pm common: ↳ Bri The Beatnik @12:07 yea!
	12:08pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Webhamster Henry @12:08 It should be!
	12:08pm marit: Beach Boys, The - I Went to Sleep -
	12:08pm myron feld: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:07 Fair disclosure: it's a (mostly) instrumental. Nonetheless...
	12:11pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "I Went to Sleep" by "Beach Boys, The" My teenage McGroovey just said she's going to watch the Beach Boys doc on the bus on her way to DC tomorrow to play with the Hoboken HS marching band there. I guess I have to sign up for Disney+ so I can watch it (and the new Doctor Who).
	12:12pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Never Been In Love" by "Dave Edmunds" The EVER buoyant Terry Williams!
	12:12pm clarke: the kid is whhhiicked smaaahht
	12:13pm McGroovey: ↳ clarke @12:02 Kiss definitely was un-cool with me and my friends by the time we were cool teenagers. They were still an AM / top-40 thing, and we were too cool for top-40. 🤘
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ McGroovey @12:13 same. but, damn they were genius.
	12:14pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" Talk about should have been #1! Sheesh!
	12:14pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ McGroovey @12:13 Didn’t know they were a top 40 band, but then again, I wasn’t around to hear
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" SO yes!
	12:15pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ McGroovey @12:11 Does Teen McGroove know my trumpet pal Nina who I think will be on that same bus?
	12:15pm clarke: VERY yes!!!
	12:15pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" Lemon Twigs. Are you listening?
	12:15pm Joe B: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" hell yeah!
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" overdubbed hi-hat, of course
	12:16pm rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you, Michael and Everyone. I must go write a couple of letters of recommendation.
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:16 write one for me!!
	12:17pm Joe B: ↳ McGroovey @12:13 never was a fan as an uncool preteen
	12:17pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Shove It Up Your Heart" by "John Elgin" You owe my 5, Baby. Now maybe 4?
	12:17pm rx "rexy" scabin: @clarke sure. Send me your resume and any things you want me to highlight.
	12:18pm clarke: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:17 makin' noise in my room!!
	12:18pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ Joe B @12:17 What about your uncool niece?
	12:19pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Be A Man" by "Dynamic Adam And His Excitements" unheard classic!
	12:21pm DG: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:22 (sorry, just seeing your comment now) Christgau was even worse than that. His entire review of Cass Elliot's "Don't Call Me Mama Anymore" was "how about Fatso?" He also compared Carly Simon to a horse. How he still has a reputation as the "dean of rock critics" really says a lot abut the state of rock "criticism."
	12:22pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... I sang this in a Burt Bacharach Loser's Lounge way back when.
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... percussion clinic, today.
	12:22pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... The Platonic ideal of "#1 Hit"
	12:22pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... I saw Dione Warwick perform at the New York Festival for Peace in August 1970!
	12:22pm Cmurtha: A song whose message has aged like milk in the summer heat lol
	12:23pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @12:22 Joe B and I already got deep into Warwick's chart history on another messageboard, haha
	12:24pm common: ↳ DG @12:21 i disagree with almost every review ive read. if he hated it, i loved it
	12:24pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... One of the best songs ever!
	12:24pm Hughie Considine: ↳ DG @12:21 Pretty horrible, and not the only one of its kind. Amazing that this was tolerated at the Village Voice for so long.
	12:24pm clarke: very dynamic and, er, exciting.
	12:24pm Joe B: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:23 then came you has been in my head since then!
	12:24pm herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... Jimmy Webb did a b&n talk, said this song always amazed him. “The way the words and music fit each other” and he starts say/singing it
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ herb.nyc @12:24 a hal david disciple!
	12:25pm Joe B: ↳ common @12:24 even if christgau liked a record I liked, his take was somehow very annoying
	12:26pm DG: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:23 That's a dumb mistake...you'd think someone would've checked. Haven't seen the series yet, but will check it out anyway....although wasn't there just a Stax doc. on PBS a year or 2 ago? (may've been a theatrical film they picked up for American Masters or something)
	12:27pm DG: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:23 That's a dumb mistake...you'd think someone would've checked. Haven't seen the series yet, but will check it out anyway....although wasn't there just a Stax doc. on PBS a year or 2 ago? (may've been a theatrical film they picked up for American Masters or something)
	12:27pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:25 He gets into heaven just for his impression of Glen Campbell on the phone.
	12:28pm Hughie Considine: I recently looked at Christgau's "record guide" from the '70s, at the end of which is a long list of bands/acts that he lists under the heading "Who Cares?" They include AC/DC, the Grass Roots, Giorgio Moroder, Terry Reid, the Moody Blues, and the list goes on.
	12:28pm Joe B: ↳ DG @12:26 they didn't mention either bass player by name. but they showed generic studio session pics while they talked about green onions. and the pics were obviously from 4 or so years later. it was just an unnecessarily poor job on that segment
	12:28pm Scott from Boston: Is this the best song ever?
	12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Money Makes The Man" by "Sprague Brothers, The" Interesting way to take the Everly's 'Man With The Money' (I like TheWho's version) a little inside out... Works good.
	12:29pm DG: ↳ Joe B @12:25 Yep, same here. I remember agreeing with him a few times on some bands/artists (the Clash) but he was so cruel and verbose most of the time I could hardly read him...and this was when I was first getting into rock, as a teen...he was the rock critic for Newsday on L.I.
	12:29pm clarke: The Emmit Sprague Experience
	12:29pm Squints: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:28 <spiccoli voice> It is now.
	12:29pm DG: oops...sorry, don't know why my comment got posted 2x
	12:31pm Joe B: ↳ DG @12:29 and on that note, for me the opposite is true of ira robbins. i always appreciated his takedown of an artist or record I really dug. INXS comes to mind. he always made good points and/or was funny about it
	12:32pm Butch the sultan of queens: Greetings from del fest- In a word Superlative- Great set tons of fun Marty Stuart and del yea!
	12:33pm Askier21: Greetings from del fest Marty Stuart a great set -tons of fun. Marty with the mccourys plent good as well. Del yea!
	12:34pm Mike in DC: Kiss is so gross even when they aren't leching after underage girls
	12:34pm clarke: not a made-up woid in nola!!
	12:34pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Askier21 @12:33 Jealous!
	12:34pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Joe B @12:31 Very good point. My Trouser Press compendium holds up quite well (although Ira trashed Willie "Loco" Alexander, which really burned me up at the time.)
	12:34pm Baby: Oakland?
	12:37pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" by "Nick Lowe" goulding on drums, here??
	12:40pm common: ↳ Joe B @12:25 agreed!
	12:40pm Billybob: When I was a freshman in college, Kiss was something the high school kids liked. So I just never took them seriously. I did like Strutter, tho.
	12:40pm clarke: those handclaps at the end...
	12:40pm Ed From Jersey City: The bas playing is so great.
	12:41pm clarke: it IS a product of production!
	12:41pm McGroovey: Some great songs just don't sound like much without a band.
	12:41pm P-90: “Kale Caesar!”
	12:41pm clarke: carmen
	12:41pm Andy: I agree, Michael! Love the sound of any Nick Lowe!
	12:42pm clarke: i think nick lowe could pull off ANY song with just a guitar, tho.
	12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: One thing I think is ...being able to articulate your opinion well (to Write good) doesn't make that opinion any more valid or not. To just say 'I like this' - or 'I don't like this' - is a 100% legit statement. Taking one step outside that tho - & you're in the zone you have to support your assertions... I'm not sure just being scrappier about that makes you more worth paying attention to... & it's safe to say being contentious gets attention as a commercial Critic, tho... In other words, it's tricky stuff entering the realm of Objectivity with things as Subjective as the Musics. Which is not to say I don't aspire to it...
	12:42pm Joe B: ↳ Billybob @12:40 I like Kiss covers and bands influenced by Kiss but for some reason, I don't really care for them outside of 4 or 5 songs
	12:43pm McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @12:41 Like, for example, a marching band sounds like crap if it's only one person person walking down the street signing the trumpet line, "bop-bop-bop-boo-baaaa"
	12:43pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Get The Message" by "Cyrus Erie" Is this Wally singing?
	12:43pm Joe B: ↳ Song: "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" by "Nick Lowe" could be a great theme show - classic songs dismissed by their creators
	12:44pm Creature Boy: ↳ Song: "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" by "Nick Lowe" "36 Inches High" is My favorite Lowe song
	12:44pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:43 it is def wally on guitar.
	12:44pm clarke: 8/10
	12:44pm Moammar: Unexpected bongo feet!
	12:44pm Enflod: ↳ Song: "Get The Message" by "Cyrus Erie" A lot of bands from this scene remind me of the Who not because of the guitars but because of those high backing vocals
	12:44pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Creature Boy @12:44 written by Jim Ford
	12:45pm Squints: ↳ Creature Boy @12:44 My own favorite is "All Men Are Liars."
	12:45pm Joe B: ↳ Squints @12:43 eric carmen wrote it so I would think him singing
	12:45pm clarke: ↳ Joe B @12:45 and it sounds like him
	12:45pm drr: ↳ Squints @12:45 "Do you remember Rick Astley? He had a big fat hit; it was ghastly"
	12:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Enflod @12:44 Good point. Tho I think the Power in PowerPop is often the PowerChords.
	12:46pm johnk77: cyrus erie 1 of the most successful locally based rock bands in neohio late 1960s
	12:46pm McGroovey: ↳ Joe B @12:45 It sounds like Eric Carmen.
	12:46pm Barefoot Jimmy G: Michael, your set today is amazing!
	12:46pm clarke: although wally could sound like eric
	12:47pm clarke: wally was a great singer
	12:47pm johnk77: other local bands at that time james gang in kent choir in cleveland music explosion in mansfield
	12:48pm McGroovey: ↳ drr @12:45 Hey, m not ashamed to admit that I'm a Rick Astley fan. 🎶 Never gonna give you up,...
	12:48pm clarke: ouch, mcg
	12:48pm Enflod: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:45 True. Maybe power pop = power chords + harmonies? (I woudn't say Big Star is power pop btw)
	12:49pm Squints: ↳ McGroovey @12:48 Nice thing about Astley is he seems level-headed and good-humored about his place in pop history.
	12:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I mean - there's that little essay Lester Bangs wrote about Rawk Journalism. & he basically ...& very intelligently & articulately - says - just bullsh*t everybody.
	12:50pm Enflod: ↳ Squints @12:49 ANd he's a solid drummer! www.youtube.com...
	12:50pm John L: Steve Goulding doesn't get enough props. I've seen him countless times with the Mekons, a couple with Graham Parker and the Rumour and with Megan Reilly, among others, and he is always great. I never noticed his songwriting credit on the Lowe tune, though. Good to know.
	12:50pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:46 Sounded slightly lower register for Eric. Hence my question. Because heck, I don't know.
	12:50pm Hoboken Jack: I can't believe we got Rick-rolled by McGroove
	12:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Enflod @12:48 Tho then the Drums have to keep up ...& yer in that Arms Race that TheWho largely invented anyway...
	12:51pm Enflod: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:50 Arms and Throats Race
	12:51pm Squints: ↳ Enflod @12:50 I have seen that. What a sport.
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:50 i don't know either. all we got is ears. BIG EARS!!
	12:51pm Michael Shelley: ↳ John L @12:50 Juniper's Drummer!
	12:51pm Creature Boy: ↳ Song: "She's The One" by "Ramones" Didn't realize this was a UK single
	12:52pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:51 Big honkin' ears.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:52 cheap trick outtake??
	12:52pm Joe B: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:50 ha ha!
	12:53pm Joe B: nancy sinatra - born in jersey city!
	12:53pm P-90: Nancy + Lee was indeed an alchemical reaction
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ P-90 @12:53 i grew up thinking they were a couple
	12:54pm Hubig Pie: TCM has played the Nancy Sinatra TV special complete with the RC Cola commercials. It's pure golden entertainment.
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:54 you want a moon pie widdat??
	12:55pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:51 Was surprised to learn that Goulding was the drummer on The Cure's "Let's Go to Bed." The SG trivia is always "Watching the Detectives."
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:55 dude's amazing!
	12:56pm clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:55 also, check out bowie's appearance on johnny carson - goulding.
	12:56pm JG: ↳ Song: "Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" by "Nancy Sinatra" Good bye San Francisco , Hello Amsterdam
	12:57pm clarke: ahhh la la la la la!!! we been sam'd, again. good nite.
	12:57pm drr: ↳ McGroovey @12:48 Hey, somebody asked if Sam Ulano is the drummer featured in Taxi Driver , and I said it was. Well. I saw Taxi Driver last week, and it's not. At least not credited under this name.
	12:57pm JG: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:54 I caught that! it was cool
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ JG @12:56 an AMC ref - love it!
	12:58pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "SS Rhythm" by "Sam Ulano" Is this the guy outside the porn theatre in Taxi Driver?
	12:58pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:57 That was me, Dave -- thanks for the clarification. So many unhinged drummers!
	12:58pm Enflod: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:55 "Unlikely Drummers" is a fun game. My personal favorite is Ginger Baker playing with PIL
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	12:59pm clarke: rope moved. thnx MS!!
	12:59pm Squints: Thanks, Michael. Time to go move some rope.
	12:59pm drr: ↳ Enflod @12:58 Ginger Baker with Masters Of Reality...
	12:59pm myron feld: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:58 That was Gene Palma.
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Thanks Michael!
	1:15pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 25, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Todd Rundgren	Couldn't I Just Tell You
Lemon Twigs, The	Foolin' Around "Foolin' Around" by "Lemon Twigs, The"
Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis	Who Cares?
Johnnie Taylor	Strange Things (Happening In My Heart)
Antonio González (El Pescailla)	Sarandonga
Mike McGear	Leave It "Leave It" by "Mike McGear"
Shandels, The	Shades Of Blue "Shades Of Blue" by "Shandels, The"
Jim and Jesse McReynolds	Sweet Little Sixteen
Pretenders, The	The Buzz "The Buzz" by "Pretenders, The"
Young Fresh Fellows	Young Fresh Fellows Theme
Cats, The	Anonymous Mr. Brown "Anonymous Mr. Brown" by "Cats, The"
Ken Lindsey	I Got Loaded "I Got Loaded" by "Ken Lindsey"
Spencer Wiggins	Soul City USA "Soul City USA" by "Spencer Wiggins"
Jimmy Cliff	The Bigger They Come (The Harder They Fall)
Skeeter Davis & NRBQ	I Want You Bad
Skeeter Davis & NRBQ	You Don't Know What You Got Till You Loose It
Lee Dorsey	Neighbor's Daughter "Neighbor's Daughter" by "Lee Dorsey"
Kiss	Chirstine Sixteen "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss"
Beach Boys, The	I Went to Sleep "I Went to Sleep" by "Beach Boys, The"
P.P. Arnold	God Only Knows "God Only Knows" by "P.P. Arnold"
Dave Edmunds	Never Been In Love "Never Been In Love" by "Dave Edmunds"
Bobby Fuller Four, The	Take My Word
John Elgin	Shove It Up Your Heart
Dynamic Adam And His Excitements	Be A Man
Dionne Warwick	Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
Sprague Brothers, The	Money Makes The Man
Merry-Go-Round, The	Live "Live" by "Merry-Go-Round, The"
Little Jimmy Dickens	Stinky Passed The Hat Around
Hayes Ware	I Want To Bump "I Want To Bump" by "Hayes Ware"
Nick Lowe	I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
Cyrus Erie	Get The Message "Get The Message" by "Cyrus Erie"
Conway Twitty	Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
Ramones	She's The One "She's The One" by "Ramones"
Nancy Sinatra	Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham
Sam Ulano	SS Rhythm "SS Rhythm" by "Sam Ulano"

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Listener comments!
	10:57am Listener Baby: Yes indee dee
	11:01am clarke: very tough guys HEY NOWWWW!!
	11:01am Mister Dobalina: Mike, Mike, Mike, Michael !
	11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am clarke: here comes todd
	11:02am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning Michael & all!
	11:03am clarke: good way to start a saturday, rite cheer.
	11:05am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Foolin' Around" by "Lemon Twigs, The" Talk about a perfect follow-up! Morning, all!
	11:05am Listener Baby: Baby ain’t Foolin’ Around.
	11:05am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!
	11:05am clarke: mike ain't foolin' around, tudday.
	11:06am Scott from Boston: Todds sons
	11:06am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:06am Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael and the Shellegamers! Back from dog walkin'!
	11:07am clarke: you and rufus thomas!!
	11:07am GeoSinPhilly: My main impression of the Lemon Twigs is that they are VERY Todd.
	11:08am Squints: ↳ GeoSinPhilly @11:07 House act at the Todd Fellows Hall.
	11:09am Listener Baby: Don’t tell us, show us. That a boy!
	11:09am rx "rexy" scabin: A thunderstorm is coming in.
	11:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Mornin'.
	11:09am clarke: yes, it is.
	11:09am Hoboken Jack: Happy holiday weekend Michael, BABY, Handy, Clarke, Frank, Greg, everybody!
	11:10am clarke: jaaaaack.
	11:10am Handy Haversack: Hey hey, Jack!
	11:10am Listener Baby: Hi Jack!
	11:10am clarke: make mine fierce blue!!
	11:10am Joe B: greetings Michael and everyone
	11:10am Cooh John: Good morning Michael and #1ers. Have Linda's autograph from the tour.
	11:11am Squints: ↳ Song: "Who Cares?" by "Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis" Love this. And somehow I could hear Tom Jones absolutely rip this song up. I have to go look and see if he ever did.
	11:11am clarke: hopefully, my power stays on for the full show... one can dream!!!
	11:11am Corey: Good morning Michael and listeners! This RF/LGL still sounding spot on!
	11:11am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Joe B @11:10 Hey Joe! Looks like a good time at Baker Falls yesterday.
	11:12am listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all!
	11:12am clarke: G G Sq
	11:13am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:07 Lots of laziness going down in the Wild Kingdom right now, I tell you what.
	11:13am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:12 might be omaha bound!!
	11:13am Joe B: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:11 yes a fun night! any good shows tonight?
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:13 don't let it fool ya.
	11:14am Pedro in Arlington: Anyone watch the new Stax doc on MAX? Michael?
	11:14am Squints: ↳ Song: "Strange Things (Happening In My Heart)" by "Johnn... Tell 'em right NOW.
	11:15am Frank In Queens: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:09 Heya Jack
	11:16am Mr. Jones: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:14 I started watching it. Is there some beef between Booker T. & Steve Cropper?
	11:17am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:13 Woah! What fer?
	11:17am Scott from Boston: Shoot after that last bumper, I feel like a little more is expected from the show! Lol
	11:17am Moammar: The AI bumpers must be stopped.
	11:17am Webhamster Henry: Barry Manilow sings the Michael Shelley theme
	11:17am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:17 lsu baseball may be going to college world series. there's some hi-fallutin' talk going on... about a camper.
	11:18am myron feld: i love the "I'm very proud of you" tag at the end of that bumper.
	11:18am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:17 Ooooh. A camper. <pinky up> Fancy, SpongeBob.
	11:19am clarke: mcgear!!
	11:19am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:13 You might wanna re-route your trip. I wonder if anybody'd think you'd flipped if you went to LA via Omaha ...
	11:19am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:17 Oh nice
	11:19am Squints: Weren't there also (although possibly at different times) two different McCullochs who passed through the band?
	11:19am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:19 tis a long road to omaha, yet.
	11:20am Jimmy Wipper: We saw the McCartney exhibit here in Norfolk, and it was fantastic!
	11:20am P-90: Paul had a near total lock on Dennys at that time
	11:20am Squints: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:19 Probably doesn't even HAVE a garage.
	11:20am Michael Shelley: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:14 DIDNT hear of it till now!
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @11:20 WIPPAAAAH!!!! i think yer drunk!
	11:20am P-90: A near-Dennyopoly
	11:20am yippie: i saw that exhibit in brooklyn but i liked the japanese art in the next room more
	11:20am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Leave It" by "Mike McGear" The dreaded chorused sax. Yikes.
	11:20am Michael Shelley: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:16 I think so... but maybe more like sick of each other...
	11:21am Hughie Considine: ↳ P-90 @11:20 They could have brought Denny Doherty in for some backup vocals. Would have worked perfectly.
	11:21am Moammar: ↳ yippie @11:20 There's a Yoko Ono joke there somewhere.
	11:21am Listener Baby: Kinda sounds like Emitt.
	11:22am mrmikestandsir: No wonder people thought Emmett Rhodes had something to do with Paul McCartney
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:21 ha ha ha.
	11:22am Moammar: Dear lord, that sax sound is criminal.
	11:22am Hughie Considine: I just came across a Robert Christgau column where he absolutely shat on Denny Laine as a vocalist. Guy was often cruel.
	11:22am pgalub: Dennys
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:22 love laine's voice!
	11:23am Pedro in Arlington: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:20 Watched Episode 1 and it didn't have a problem implying Duck Dunn was on "Green Onions" even though they show the label with Lewie Steinberg's name on it. Probably won't watch the rest.
	11:23am Jimmy Wipper: ↳ clarke @11:20 Who told you, your friends?!?
	11:23am listener phat in Lincoln: I was gonna say, Emmitt Rhodes sounds more like this than Paul.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @11:23 the new dept
	11:23am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:19 Keep me posted!
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @11:23 the news dept
	11:24am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Yoooo good morning Michael Shelley!
	11:24am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Shades Of Blue" by "Shandels, The" A Shandel to the goyim!
	11:24am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Squints @11:19 Not only that, but Wings drummer Geoff Britton (a Briton) was replaced by Joe English (an American).
	11:26am TimG: STAX doc not perfect (but are any?) but excellent nevertheless. When you watch a doc about something you think you know a lot about and still learn ….that’s a sign
	11:26am clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:24 that's a bit harsh - even for you, Fields.
	11:26am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Sweet Little Sixteen" by "Jim and Jesse McReynolds" This is great!
	11:26am P-90: Berrybilly?
	11:27am Listener Baby: ↳ P-90 @11:26 Berrygrass?
	11:27am pgalub: ↳ Song: "Sweet Little Sixteen" by "Jim and Jesse McReynolds" A little "Surfin' USA"
	11:28am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Sweet Little Sixteen" by "Jim and Jesse McReynolds" "Frisco Bay" just sings so well...
	11:29am Listener Baby: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:24 Also. Two Mcollochs? Both guitar players. Jimmy and Hugh? Spelling?
	11:29am Christina Ginger: Good morning!
	11:29am clarke: ↳ pgalub @11:27 berry entertaining.
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:29 Hay!!
	11:29am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "The Buzz" by "Pretenders, The" Chrissie Hynde is certainly one of those singers who need to sing a single note before you know who's doing the singin'.
	11:30am Cooh John: Chrissy & Co! O-H.....
	11:32am johnk77: memphis had/has multiple recording scenes american recording also jim gaines started in memphis
	11:32am Squints: ↳ Listener Baby @11:29 I concede possibly different spellings.
	11:32am Hughie Considine: Being the Tom Hagen of WFMU would be pretty cool.
	11:32am Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @11:29 Hi clarke!
	11:33am clarke: I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!!!!!
	11:33am Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @11:26 But it’s not a lie.
	11:33am Squints: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:32 Heh. "Why do you hurt me, Michael?"
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Song: "Young Fresh Fellows Theme" by "Young Fresh Fellows" yesssss!!!
	11:34am Jimmy Wipper: Love the Young Fresh Fellows!!!
	11:34am clarke: ↳ Jimmy Wipper @11:34 and they love you!!
	11:34am Jeff formerly from Rahway: We played the hell out of the YFF at WVFI decades ago.
	11:34am Hoboken Jack: ↳ Song: "Young Fresh Fellows Theme" by "Young Fresh Fellows" Can't wait to see the YFF again!
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @11:34 most entertaining great drummer!! (tad).
	11:35am Mr. Jones: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:22 Scat singer?
	11:35am jmd: Just saw these guys last night. Great as ever.
	11:35am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Listener Baby @11:29 Henry McCullough/Jimmy McCulloch (both pronounced the same)
	11:36am Hoboken Jack: Hola Jeff, Christina, Gaylord!
	11:36am clarke: ↳ jmd @11:35 WOW - where was dat???
	11:36am Listener Baby: ↳ Gaylord Fields @11:35 Henry! Right! He played that beauty of a solo on My Love.
	11:36am jmd: Here in Seattle.
	11:37am Hughie Considine: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:35 Yup - you should hear his version of "Anonymous Mr. Brown."
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:36 what a tone henry had! RIP
	11:37am Gaylord Fields: ↳ Listener Baby @11:36 A rare non-Paul-composed Wings solo. Henry killed it!
	11:38am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Anonymous Mr. Brown" by "Cats, The" Not sure what to think of this.
	11:39am Mr. Jones: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:37 Yah, Iv'e heard that one's really the shit!
	11:39am drr: These AI bumpers are driving me crazy.
	11:39am clarke: you don't wanna be here, right now!
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Geez I wish I could play BoojieWoojie pianerz.
	11:42am Tuned Out: Some serious Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Venn Diagram in that last one
	11:43am clarke: dang, the ride cymbal.
	11:44am listener phat in Lincoln: Frisco Bay
	11:44am Christopher John: Love it
	11:47am tonyb: I thought the film was pleasant enough also.
	11:47am rx "rexy" scabin: Not the same fire.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Song: "Soul City USA" by "Spencer Wiggins" now i'm thinking that was Earl Palmer on drooms, thar
	11:47am GeoSinPhilly: ↳ Song: "The Bigger They Come (The Harder They Fall)" by "... The title does make more sense that way.
	11:48am Jeff formerly from Rahway: You’re fortunate you had parents who listened to music. My mom & dad had a few Mantovani, Mitch Miller & Herb Alpert records but I don’t remember them ever playing them. Mom bought “You Light Up My Life” at Two Guys. I think she spun it once.
	11:49am clarke: here comes joey here comes al hare comes al here comes al
	11:50am clarke: HERE COMES TOMMY!!!
	11:50am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "Skeeter Davis & NRBQ" So much to unpack here.
	11:50am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "Skeeter Davis & NRBQ" Ah, I saw this on the NRBQ Facebook and wondered about it. This sounds great.
	11:51am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "Skeeter Davis & NRBQ" The most produced Q song I’ve ever heard.
	11:51am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @11:51 This is true.
	11:51am Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "Skeeter Davis & NRBQ" Glockenspiel, dammit!
	11:53am clarke: i was actually around nashville when the skeeter album was being recorded, but not privy enough, at the time, to be at the sessions.
	11:54am clarke: i saw the Q, live, during the time these sessions were going on - at 12th & Porter, and talked to al for a while, after. but, have no session stories.
	11:55am Hughie Considine: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:51 i would eagerly read a comprehensive history of glockenspiels in pop music.
	11:56am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "You Don't Know What You Got Till You Loose It" by... This is working!
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:55 or write one???
	11:57am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:56 uh oh ...
	11:57am P-90: THE Buddy Emmons
	11:57am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:57 transom work
	11:59am clarke: ↳ Song: "Neighbor's Daughter" by "Lee Dorsey" MISTAH DORSEY!
	11:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:57 It just .. might ... work
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 danny federici interviews are out there.
	12:01pm Squints: There were bands (J. Geils, Skynyrd) I ignored in high school because my bubba was into them. Then I got to college and thought to myself, You EEEjit."
	12:01pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @11:48 I have some Mantovani and Herb Alpert records myself I’m saving to play on a future show! Haha
	12:02pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss" This rocks
	12:02pm Scott from Boston: Ummm my teen Age dream
	12:02pm clarke: actually walked out on KISS show - regretting that now. in my defense, i was there to see Cheap Trick.
	12:02pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss" Undoubtedly my favorite Kiss song. That piano ... that chorus ... that spoken-word interval ...
	12:02pm Christina Ginger: Always a Christine and never a Christina. Sigh.
	12:02pm common: ↳ Song: "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss" thank you, michael!⚡️
	12:03pm Scott from Boston: The spoken word part might get him arrested
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Chirstine Sixteen" by "Kiss" what's hitting me right now is.. the maracas!!
	12:03pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:02 Soo many songs named Christine!
	12:03pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: If you were a suburban kid in the 70s, you couldn’t avoid Kiss. Never really a fan, but if I had to pick an album, it would have been Love Gun.
	12:03pm myron feld: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:02 Christina, Michael's brother's band The Student Teachers have a song called "Christina."
	12:03pm Cooh John: Into KISS since debut album. First person to go to one of their concerts in makeup. 🎸
	12:03pm Glistener MW: "This song is called 'Love Gun'. It's about Paul Stanley's dick!"
	12:03pm Hughie Considine: I saw these guys at Roosevelt Stadium! Sheesh.
	12:03pm evancuts: I remember this being one of the 45's you could win during the Bar Mitzvah circuit. Probably the last time I heard this song was when I was 13!
	12:04pm Bri The Beatnik: Kiss was almost my mom’s era, but definitely past my dad’s, he compares them to Van Halen
	12:04pm clarke: those maracas!!!!!
	12:06pm Mike in DC: Kiss is so gross even when they aren't leching after underage girls
	12:07pm Christina Ginger: ↳ myron feld @12:03 Filing this knowledge away….
	12:07pm Bri The Beatnik: It’s not memorial weekend until you hear Beach boys!
	12:07pm pgalub: ↳ Song: "I Went to Sleep" by "Beach Boys, The" Beautiful tune.
	12:07pm Webhamster Henry: My son was in a reading of a new play that is a kind of documentary of SMiLE!
	12:07pm marit: i like this one
	12:07pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Webhamster Henry @12:07 Cool!
	12:08pm JG: Looking forward to seeing the Beach Boys this week. Looking at Setlists and seems like its not just one set, but they mix it up and you get some different songs depending on what night you go
	12:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Bri The Beatnik @12:07 I don't know if it'll get developed further, but it might!
	12:08pm common: ↳ Bri The Beatnik @12:07 yea!
	12:08pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ Webhamster Henry @12:08 It should be!
	12:08pm marit: Beach Boys, The - I Went to Sleep -
	12:08pm myron feld: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:07 Fair disclosure: it's a (mostly) instrumental. Nonetheless...
	12:11pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "I Went to Sleep" by "Beach Boys, The" My teenage McGroovey just said she's going to watch the Beach Boys doc on the bus on her way to DC tomorrow to play with the Hoboken HS marching band there. I guess I have to sign up for Disney+ so I can watch it (and the new Doctor Who).
	12:12pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Never Been In Love" by "Dave Edmunds" The EVER buoyant Terry Williams!
	12:12pm clarke: the kid is whhhiicked smaaahht
	12:13pm McGroovey: ↳ clarke @12:02 Kiss definitely was un-cool with me and my friends by the time we were cool teenagers. They were still an AM / top-40 thing, and we were too cool for top-40. 🤘
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ McGroovey @12:13 same. but, damn they were genius.
	12:14pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" Talk about should have been #1! Sheesh!
	12:14pm Bri The Beatnik: ↳ McGroovey @12:13 Didn’t know they were a top 40 band, but then again, I wasn’t around to hear
	12:14pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" SO yes!
	12:15pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ McGroovey @12:11 Does Teen McGroove know my trumpet pal Nina who I think will be on that same bus?
	12:15pm clarke: VERY yes!!!
	12:15pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" Lemon Twigs. Are you listening?
	12:15pm Joe B: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" hell yeah!
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Take My Word" by "Bobby Fuller Four, The" overdubbed hi-hat, of course
	12:16pm rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you, Michael and Everyone. I must go write a couple of letters of recommendation.
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:16 write one for me!!
	12:17pm Joe B: ↳ McGroovey @12:13 never was a fan as an uncool preteen
	12:17pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Shove It Up Your Heart" by "John Elgin" You owe my 5, Baby. Now maybe 4?
	12:17pm rx "rexy" scabin: @clarke sure. Send me your resume and any things you want me to highlight.
	12:18pm clarke: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:17 makin' noise in my room!!
	12:18pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ Joe B @12:17 What about your uncool niece?
	12:19pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Be A Man" by "Dynamic Adam And His Excitements" unheard classic!
	12:21pm DG: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:22 (sorry, just seeing your comment now) Christgau was even worse than that. His entire review of Cass Elliot's "Don't Call Me Mama Anymore" was "how about Fatso?" He also compared Carly Simon to a horse. How he still has a reputation as the "dean of rock critics" really says a lot abut the state of rock "criticism."
	12:22pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... I sang this in a Burt Bacharach Loser's Lounge way back when.
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... percussion clinic, today.
	12:22pm Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... The Platonic ideal of "#1 Hit"
	12:22pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... I saw Dione Warwick perform at the New York Festival for Peace in August 1970!
	12:22pm Cmurtha: A song whose message has aged like milk in the summer heat lol
	12:23pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @12:22 Joe B and I already got deep into Warwick's chart history on another messageboard, haha
	12:24pm common: ↳ DG @12:21 i disagree with almost every review ive read. if he hated it, i loved it
	12:24pm McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... One of the best songs ever!
	12:24pm Hughie Considine: ↳ DG @12:21 Pretty horrible, and not the only one of its kind. Amazing that this was tolerated at the Village Voice for so long.
	12:24pm clarke: very dynamic and, er, exciting.
	12:24pm Joe B: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:23 then came you has been in my head since then!
	12:24pm herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" by "Dionne Warw... Jimmy Webb did a b&n talk, said this song always amazed him. “The way the words and music fit each other” and he starts say/singing it
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ herb.nyc @12:24 a hal david disciple!
	12:25pm Joe B: ↳ common @12:24 even if christgau liked a record I liked, his take was somehow very annoying
	12:26pm DG: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:23 That's a dumb mistake...you'd think someone would've checked. Haven't seen the series yet, but will check it out anyway....although wasn't there just a Stax doc. on PBS a year or 2 ago? (may've been a theatrical film they picked up for American Masters or something)
	12:27pm DG: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:23 That's a dumb mistake...you'd think someone would've checked. Haven't seen the series yet, but will check it out anyway....although wasn't there just a Stax doc. on PBS a year or 2 ago? (may've been a theatrical film they picked up for American Masters or something)
	12:27pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:25 He gets into heaven just for his impression of Glen Campbell on the phone.
	12:28pm Hughie Considine: I recently looked at Christgau's "record guide" from the '70s, at the end of which is a long list of bands/acts that he lists under the heading "Who Cares?" They include AC/DC, the Grass Roots, Giorgio Moroder, Terry Reid, the Moody Blues, and the list goes on.
	12:28pm Joe B: ↳ DG @12:26 they didn't mention either bass player by name. but they showed generic studio session pics while they talked about green onions. and the pics were obviously from 4 or so years later. it was just an unnecessarily poor job on that segment
	12:28pm Scott from Boston: Is this the best song ever?
	12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Money Makes The Man" by "Sprague Brothers, The" Interesting way to take the Everly's 'Man With The Money' (I like TheWho's version) a little inside out... Works good.
	12:29pm DG: ↳ Joe B @12:25 Yep, same here. I remember agreeing with him a few times on some bands/artists (the Clash) but he was so cruel and verbose most of the time I could hardly read him...and this was when I was first getting into rock, as a teen...he was the rock critic for Newsday on L.I.
	12:29pm clarke: The Emmit Sprague Experience
	12:29pm Squints: ↳ Scott from Boston @12:28 <spiccoli voice> It is now.
	12:29pm DG: oops...sorry, don't know why my comment got posted 2x
	12:31pm Joe B: ↳ DG @12:29 and on that note, for me the opposite is true of ira robbins. i always appreciated his takedown of an artist or record I really dug. INXS comes to mind. he always made good points and/or was funny about it
	12:32pm Butch the sultan of queens: Greetings from del fest- In a word Superlative- Great set tons of fun Marty Stuart and del yea!
	12:33pm Askier21: Greetings from del fest Marty Stuart a great set -tons of fun. Marty with the mccourys plent good as well. Del yea!
	12:34pm Mike in DC: Kiss is so gross even when they aren't leching after underage girls
	12:34pm clarke: not a made-up woid in nola!!
	12:34pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Askier21 @12:33 Jealous!
	12:34pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Joe B @12:31 Very good point. My Trouser Press compendium holds up quite well (although Ira trashed Willie "Loco" Alexander, which really burned me up at the time.)
	12:34pm Baby: Oakland?
	12:37pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" by "Nick Lowe" goulding on drums, here??
	12:40pm common: ↳ Joe B @12:25 agreed!
	12:40pm Billybob: When I was a freshman in college, Kiss was something the high school kids liked. So I just never took them seriously. I did like Strutter, tho.
	12:40pm clarke: those handclaps at the end...
	12:40pm Ed From Jersey City: The bas playing is so great.
	12:41pm clarke: it IS a product of production!
	12:41pm McGroovey: Some great songs just don't sound like much without a band.
	12:41pm P-90: “Kale Caesar!”
	12:41pm clarke: carmen
	12:41pm Andy: I agree, Michael! Love the sound of any Nick Lowe!
	12:42pm clarke: i think nick lowe could pull off ANY song with just a guitar, tho.
	12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: One thing I think is ...being able to articulate your opinion well (to Write good) doesn't make that opinion any more valid or not. To just say 'I like this' - or 'I don't like this' - is a 100% legit statement. Taking one step outside that tho - & you're in the zone you have to support your assertions... I'm not sure just being scrappier about that makes you more worth paying attention to... & it's safe to say being contentious gets attention as a commercial Critic, tho... In other words, it's tricky stuff entering the realm of Objectivity with things as Subjective as the Musics. Which is not to say I don't aspire to it...
	12:42pm Joe B: ↳ Billybob @12:40 I like Kiss covers and bands influenced by Kiss but for some reason, I don't really care for them outside of 4 or 5 songs
	12:43pm McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @12:41 Like, for example, a marching band sounds like crap if it's only one person person walking down the street signing the trumpet line, "bop-bop-bop-boo-baaaa"
	12:43pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Get The Message" by "Cyrus Erie" Is this Wally singing?
	12:43pm Joe B: ↳ Song: "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" by "Nick Lowe" could be a great theme show - classic songs dismissed by their creators
	12:44pm Creature Boy: ↳ Song: "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" by "Nick Lowe" "36 Inches High" is My favorite Lowe song
	12:44pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:43 it is def wally on guitar.
	12:44pm clarke: 8/10
	12:44pm Moammar: Unexpected bongo feet!
	12:44pm Enflod: ↳ Song: "Get The Message" by "Cyrus Erie" A lot of bands from this scene remind me of the Who not because of the guitars but because of those high backing vocals
	12:44pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Creature Boy @12:44 written by Jim Ford
	12:45pm Squints: ↳ Creature Boy @12:44 My own favorite is "All Men Are Liars."
	12:45pm Joe B: ↳ Squints @12:43 eric carmen wrote it so I would think him singing
	12:45pm clarke: ↳ Joe B @12:45 and it sounds like him
	12:45pm drr: ↳ Squints @12:45 "Do you remember Rick Astley? He had a big fat hit; it was ghastly"
	12:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Enflod @12:44 Good point. Tho I think the Power in PowerPop is often the PowerChords.
	12:46pm johnk77: cyrus erie 1 of the most successful locally based rock bands in neohio late 1960s
	12:46pm McGroovey: ↳ Joe B @12:45 It sounds like Eric Carmen.
	12:46pm Barefoot Jimmy G: Michael, your set today is amazing!
	12:46pm clarke: although wally could sound like eric
	12:47pm clarke: wally was a great singer
	12:47pm johnk77: other local bands at that time james gang in kent choir in cleveland music explosion in mansfield
	12:48pm McGroovey: ↳ drr @12:45 Hey, m not ashamed to admit that I'm a Rick Astley fan. 🎶 Never gonna give you up,...
	12:48pm clarke: ouch, mcg
	12:48pm Enflod: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:45 True. Maybe power pop = power chords + harmonies? (I woudn't say Big Star is power pop btw)
	12:49pm Squints: ↳ McGroovey @12:48 Nice thing about Astley is he seems level-headed and good-humored about his place in pop history.
	12:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I mean - there's that little essay Lester Bangs wrote about Rawk Journalism. & he basically ...& very intelligently & articulately - says - just bullsh*t everybody.
	12:50pm Enflod: ↳ Squints @12:49 ANd he's a solid drummer! www.youtube.com...
	12:50pm John L: Steve Goulding doesn't get enough props. I've seen him countless times with the Mekons, a couple with Graham Parker and the Rumour and with Megan Reilly, among others, and he is always great. I never noticed his songwriting credit on the Lowe tune, though. Good to know.
	12:50pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:46 Sounded slightly lower register for Eric. Hence my question. Because heck, I don't know.
	12:50pm Hoboken Jack: I can't believe we got Rick-rolled by McGroove
	12:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Enflod @12:48 Tho then the Drums have to keep up ...& yer in that Arms Race that TheWho largely invented anyway...
	12:51pm Enflod: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:50 Arms and Throats Race
	12:51pm Squints: ↳ Enflod @12:50 I have seen that. What a sport.
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:50 i don't know either. all we got is ears. BIG EARS!!
	12:51pm Michael Shelley: ↳ John L @12:50 Juniper's Drummer!
	12:51pm Creature Boy: ↳ Song: "She's The One" by "Ramones" Didn't realize this was a UK single
	12:52pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:51 Big honkin' ears.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:52 cheap trick outtake??
	12:52pm Joe B: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:50 ha ha!
	12:53pm Joe B: nancy sinatra - born in jersey city!
	12:53pm P-90: Nancy + Lee was indeed an alchemical reaction
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ P-90 @12:53 i grew up thinking they were a couple
	12:54pm Hubig Pie: TCM has played the Nancy Sinatra TV special complete with the RC Cola commercials. It's pure golden entertainment.
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:54 you want a moon pie widdat??
	12:55pm Hoboken Jack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:51 Was surprised to learn that Goulding was the drummer on The Cure's "Let's Go to Bed." The SG trivia is always "Watching the Detectives."
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:55 dude's amazing!
	12:56pm clarke: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:55 also, check out bowie's appearance on johnny carson - goulding.
	12:56pm JG: ↳ Song: "Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" by "Nancy Sinatra" Good bye San Francisco , Hello Amsterdam
	12:57pm clarke: ahhh la la la la la!!! we been sam'd, again. good nite.
	12:57pm drr: ↳ McGroovey @12:48 Hey, somebody asked if Sam Ulano is the drummer featured in Taxi Driver , and I said it was. Well. I saw Taxi Driver last week, and it's not. At least not credited under this name.
	12:57pm JG: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:54 I caught that! it was cool
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ JG @12:56 an AMC ref - love it!
	12:58pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Song: "SS Rhythm" by "Sam Ulano" Is this the guy outside the porn theatre in Taxi Driver?
	12:58pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @12:57 That was me, Dave -- thanks for the clarification. So many unhinged drummers!
	12:58pm Enflod: ↳ Hoboken Jack @12:55 "Unlikely Drummers" is a fun game. My personal favorite is Ginger Baker playing with PIL
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	12:59pm clarke: rope moved. thnx MS!!
	12:59pm Squints: Thanks, Michael. Time to go move some rope.
	12:59pm drr: ↳ Enflod @12:58 Ginger Baker with Masters Of Reality...
	12:59pm myron feld: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:58 That was Gene Palma.
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Thanks Michael!
	1:15pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 25, 2024

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