WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 23, 2024

Listener comments!
	9:01am newton: YIP YIP YIP
	9:02am duke: Merry Yip Yip
	👻 9:02am bradford: Good morning Joe & greetings fellow Yippers!
	9:02am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Here for the holiday yipping and boinging. Good morning Joe McG and noisy ones.
	9:03am Triple G: A Merry Surface Noise to you & yours, hi Joe & all
	9:03am Glistener MW: merry YIP-mas, Joe! 📻
	👻 9:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Winter Winds" by "Fotheringay" This matches my mood perfectly. Thanks Joe.
	9:05am ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): Was this show significantly louder than Todd's, or just me?
	9:05am JG: ↳ Song: "Winter Winds" by "Fotheringay" Sandy best singer ever
	9:05am StringOFperils: Heart and solstice
	9:05am listener james from westwood: Frozen northeastern NJ greetings, Joe and all!
	9:06am still b/p: Remember that in the original scene, after the Martians found radio music they liked, they went beyond "Yip yip yip yip" to "Happy happy boing boing." See whut'm sayin'?
	9:09am PC77: Sandy sounds like an angel RIP
	👻 9:10am Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Brädmarsch" by "The Rheingans Sisters" Hi Surface Noisers! Tasteful Jew's Harp here.
	9:10am Handy Haversack: The Yips will keep us warm! Morning, Joe and all.
	👻 9:10am Ken From Hyde Park: Good news! The temperature here has reached the Old Codger's phone number. Or possibly Alan's number of degrees. That would be 6.
	9:11am Daybreak!: Thunder dumpling, I think you might be right.
	9:12am clarke: happy happy happy boing boing boing boing
	9:16am Mike W.: Love this show of this show I love
	9:17am he's Crafty: Hi Joe McG , Hi everybody on this fine fine Monday! 🥰❤
	9:18am G: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" This was on the UK pop charts in maybe 72 or 73, when I lived there.
	9:18am Joe McG: Good Monday, all! Hope you're all staying warm.
	9:18am Woo: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" love this
	👻 9:19am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG and friends! Happy winter!
	9:19am PC77: Haven't heard Gaudete in a long time- lovely! Merry Christmas!
	9:20am fm Mike: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" I'm digging this Irish theme! Does the 5 gallons of Irish blood in me good 😍🇮🇪🇮🇪
	9:21am still b/p: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" Interesting how that had a flavor similar to cantu a tenòre groups of Sardinia.
	9:22am Rachel Bo Bachel: Omg this song is creepy 🩸
	9:22am clarke: nice guitar
	9:23am greg g: Morning Joe and Surface Noise Dwellers!
	👻 9:23am Bob Tankenstein: Good morning noisers.
	9:23am Emily: Gorgeous and sad. I’m not worthy
	9:25am Mike W.: Ah yes. I bet my dog we’d hear Frost & Fire this set. [to dog] You owe me so much money!
	9:26am clarke: Horselips! where's hughie??
	👻 9:26am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Do'n oiche ud i mbeithil" by "Horslips" Excuse me but did someone mention Horslips?
	9:26am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @9:26 did someone mention hughie??
	9:27am clarke: anglish!!
	👻 9:27am Hughie Considine: A bracing chilly morning to one and all!
	9:28am fm Mike: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" Holy s#it, that's Gaeilge!!!
	9:28am BillfromRockTavern: Good morning Joe. Love your British, Irish folk sets . Perfect for a cold Christmas Eve Eve.
	9:29am G: It's Festivus, but I have no grievances with this set.
	9:29am greg g: Is that the Rebel Rebel riff in that horslips tune?
	9:30am ßizco ßey: Happy Christmas
	9:38am ßizco ßey: Ghost of Christmas past is Santa Muerte
	9:39am clarke: from threshold to transom the door to the holidaze is open.
	9:39am greg g: I am the worlds forgotten Christmas ghost
	9:40am johnk77: nice set selecter just realized today that drummer Gerry Conway died earlier in 2024 founding member of Fotheringay he worked with many artists going back to Alexis Korner
	👻 9:41am tim: Hey Joe! Happy holidays - the established a heathen too!
	9:41am clarke: ↳ johnk77 @9:40 yes RIP Jerry - he died the same week as several other drummers oddly.
	👻 9:41am tim: Hi everyone!
	👻 9:41am Dan S: ↳ G @9:29 Happy Festivus, everyone!
	9:41am clarke: timothy!!
	9:41am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Joe, this was a great set for Christmas. Thank you for avoiding the FM radio Christmas faves.... they're triggering.
	9:42am Handy Haversack: ↳ tim @9:41 Tim! clarke!
	9:42am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:42 at least it's an ethos!
	👻 9:42am tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:42 Handy Claws!
	9:44am johnk77: ↳ clarke @9:41 Gerry was a good guy and a heck of a live drummer worked with him briefly in the 1970s doing sound for Consenting Adults a band produced by Mike Chapman
	9:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe my mom grew up Catholic and converted to Judaism, and her line is underneath we are all just pagan!
	9:45am clarke: ↳ johnk77 @9:44 wow, you worked with chapman?? damn! kudos!
	9:45am Mxter Baba: hey, Joe and folx! I tuned in after the set was done, however I’m intrigued and will go back and listen in the archives
	9:46am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @9:44 My good friend had this exchange with his corner-store guy this weekend: "Thanks, man. Happy holidays." "There's only one holiday! Christmas! Merry Christmas!" "Bro, it's all made up."
	9:46am Rachel Bo Bachel: Someone told me that there is an old tradition to tell ghost stories on Christmas, and that’s where Charles Dickens got the inspiration for A Christmas Carol. Does anyone know anything about that? Explains the spookiness of some of these old songs 🕯️
	👻 9:46am tim: A few years ago my kids' mom put on a video (vhs tape) from the mid 80s of her family opening presents on xmas morning. A typical commercial radio station was was playing in the background and it was NOT playing Christmas music. I forgot that xmas music used to not be ubiquitous.
	9:47am patrick321: Hey Joe and all
	9:47am johnk77: ↳ clarke @9:45 a friend of mine worked at dreamland records got to meet mike & nicky several times dreamland offices were right up the street from the whiskey
	9:48am clarke: ↳ johnk77 @9:47 wow!! legends!
	9:49am Mxter Baba: Here in Portland we can go sit on Krampus’s lap
	9:50am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @9:46 www.theguardian.com...
	9:51am Borg9: What's the link between Steeleye Span and Steely Dan? Is there a third? Are they yin and yang?
	9:51am clarke: that mic brush kinda sounded like shoveling snow - which just makes me shiver thinking about that.
	9:51am Bobby: Not working is the best part of my odd holiday!
	9:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Bobby @9:51 SRSLY U GUYS
	9:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Bobby @9:51 We're gonna go record shopping and eat a pizza today. On a Monday! O brave new world!
	9:53am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:52 say hello to jack!
	9:53am chresti: Morning Joe and surfies!
	9:53am Mxter Baba: ↳ Borg9 @9:51 I think they have a cousin—Stylish Jan
	9:53am Bobby: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:52 That’s a real holiday. Say hey to Marty!
	9:54am Mxter Baba: ↳ chresti @9:53 chrestikinskins!
	9:54am Handy Haversack: ↳ Bobby @9:53 You know it!
	9:55am chresti: Holiday starts today after 1:30PM PST
	9:55am still b/p: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @9:46 Tangent 'n trivia: Years ago, when wondering what the hell Andy Williams was singing about in It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, when he mentions "scary ghost stories," I realized, "Oh, the Dickens ghosts." I didn't otherwise have any sense of familiar Christmas traditions that involved telling ghost stories.
	👻 9:55am tim: ↳ Song: "Easy Window" by "The Green Child" Mikey Young - the mastering magician and Eddy Current guitarist?
	👻 9:55am tim: ↳ Song: "Easy Window" by "The Green Child" I like the Tusk vibe on this.
	9:56am Mxter Baba: ↳ tim @9:55 totally!
	9:56am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy that rules!!!
	9:57am clarke: ↳ tim @9:55 why don't you ask him if he's going to stay?
	9:57am chresti: Yule time has plenty of ghosts
	👻 9:58am Brian in UK: Hey Joe.
	👻 9:58am tim: ↳ clarke @9:57 But what if he says "no"?
	9:58am Joe McG: ↳ tim @9:55 I'm thinking yes, but I haven't done me research!
	9:58am clarke: ↳ tim @9:58 just tell me that you love me.!
	👻 10:00am tim: ↳ Joe McG @9:58 That's what I'm thinking too.
	👻 10:02am doctorjazz: Hello Joe, listeners, Streamers, WFMU-folks!
	10:03am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy are you going to any YLT Hanukkah shows this year?
	10:03am clarke: ↳ tim @10:00 like eddy from Supression Ring??
	10:04am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:03 The tickets are app-only, and we don't use apps, so we never get tix -- and I always forget until it's too late to try to coordinate with someone to see if we can go along with them. Next year in YLT-land!
	10:05am morphe': ↳ Song: "Button Man" by "Hot Tubs Time Machine" Thought he was saying "Bottom Man" ... "Where are ya going ??? Where have ya been??? We speculate...."
	10:05am clarke: say what you will about the tenets of ticketmaster... at least it's an ethos!
	10:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...odd that I happen to know from working in a bearing factoring near here that passing metal parts thru a magnetism detector is testing for eddy current...
	10:06am seedfriend: Kim Gordon vibes
	10:06am clarke: Rev!!!
	10:07am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe is your family originally from Ireland? I’m half :)
	10:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:06 *factory
	👻 10:07am tim: ↳ Song: "Button Man" by "Hot Tubs Time Machine" I'm very jingoistic in that I think the greatest rock music comes from the midwest. With hat in hand, I'm going to declare that the greatest rock music comes from Australia. The evidence is all there.
	10:08am clarke: but not midwest australia
	10:08am Rachel Bo Bachel: I LOVE that you don’t use apps, handy!! Do you have flip phones? I want to start a Luddite club!
	10:08am PaulRobeson1924: Sounds a bit like Flat Earth Man! Morninggggg
	10:08am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "Things You Left Behind" by "The Nails" Flat!
	10:09am clarke: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:08 handy doesn't do phones.
	10:09am Joe McG: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:07 No, I'm a mix of Slovak, Polish, and Dutch. My "Mc" is a gift from Ellis Island to my family.
	10:09am Harry Corvair: ↳ Song: "Things You Left Behind" by "The Nails" So, these guys have more than one song? Digging it - reminiscent of Wall of Voodoo from about the same time.
	10:09am listener 126464: ↳ Song: "Judy, Judy" by "Anthony Moore" Nice!
	10:09am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy land line?? Football phone???
	👻 10:10am Hughie Considine: ↳ Harry Corvair @10:09 Surprisin, eh? Yeah, it's a pretty good LP, but nothing could ever top "88 Liines." Perhaps in the same way that nothing could ever top "Mexican Radio."
	10:10am clarke: ↳ Harry Corvair @10:09 def a ridgeway vibe
	10:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Judy, Judy" by "Anthony Moore" Was it this before 'Judy get down' ?...
	10:11am Joe McG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:10 I think it's an 80s remake!
	10:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:10 ...or after...
	10:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:11 ...same bits but less controversial than 'get down' maybe...
	10:12am Rachel Bo Bachel: It’s nice that you appreciate the music anyway, Joe! Maybe in a past life ;) ☘️
	👻 10:12am tim: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:08 Rachel - Did you hear Mark Hurst's conversation with the Brooklyn HS Luddite Club? www.wfmu.org...
	10:12am clarke: a john cale mid-period bass sound
	👻 10:14am tim: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:10 Hughie - My local library purchased your book! I don't have it in hand yet but they're usually pretty quick with their acquisitions.
	10:14am HesperusWrecked: ↳ clarke @10:12 Funny, the first time I heard “Judy Get Down” on the radio I thought it was John Cale.
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo Cleveland ! ...we are JohnCale MidPeriod BassSound ! ...under your seats are all those Albums you never actually listened to all the way...
	10:14am clarke: ↳ tim @10:14 that's cool!
	👻 10:15am tim: ↳ Song: "At Last I Am Free" by "Elizabeth Fraser" Oh man! So cool! I'm taking that this is a nod to Robert Wyatt's Chic cover.
	10:15am clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:14 have no Fear!
	10:16am Noir Lover: ↳ Song: "At Last I Am Free" by "Elizabeth Fraser" Wasn't a version of this the last song on Duane's last show?
	10:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @10:15 ...around Xmas ...Fear may really be a man's best friend...
	10:17am clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:16 been a while for that listen. maybe so.
	10:18am Rachel Bo Bachel: Tim no but I read about them and the girl who started it and we somehow got in touch! She is awesome! Gives me hope for the future!!! I do think adults could use a club like that too though- the problem is we are all so busy… I’m at least going to work on making one at my kids’ school. But I didn’t know Handy was so committed- I’m always looking for people who are passionate about pushing back against smart phones! (Meanwhile, I am using one… I guess the selfish motivation is I recognize the need for a support group for some of us to figure out how to extricate ourselves from these blasted things and the death grip they have on our lives!)
	10:18am patrick321: RIP Alfa Anderson (12/17) who sang "At Last..." w Chic
	👻 10:19am tim: ↳ Noir Lover @10:16 Knowing Duane, it could have been Chic or Robert Wyatt or Elizabeth Frazier.
	10:19am Joe McG: ↳ patrick321 @10:18 So sad, didn't know. :(
	10:20am common: joe, all
	10:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @10:17 Well - I refer to the perennial classic 'F*ck Christmas' by LeeVing & co. But nevermind...
	10:24am clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:24 i am certainly nearing saturation-level on xmas tunes, already.
	10:25am The Oscar: ↳ Song: "Things You Left Behind" by "The Nails" Also RIP Marc Campbell of the Nails :(
	👻 10:26am doctorjazz: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:04 Went to see YLT Chanukah show 2 years ago. They're hit and miss, some have GREAT guests, not my night, wound up being an endless guitar cutting contest. I left before it ended (add the packed, standing venue, which I hate, much respiratory viruses/flu/COVID going around, and I'm fine missing it).
	10:26am clarke: ↳ The Oscar @10:25 it is getting so that every set anyone plays is a memorial.
	👻 10:26am tim: ↳ Song: "Ain't No Sunshine" by "Hot 8 Brass Band" Yes! Good one, Joe!
	👻 10:26am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @10:24 I've been hanging out in these parts all weekend so the Xmas music I've been hearing has been pretty darn good. I had never heard "Santa Claus Ain't a Hippie" until Rex's show on Sat.
	👻 10:26am doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @10:26 (I know I'm a minority opinion here...)
	10:27am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:26 true, but still...
	10:27am Noir Lover: Has Pat Boone tried
	10:29am newton: Hughie, I just got back from town and the post office, got your book! Looks great!
	10:30am clarke: ↳ newton @10:29 i do like the cover and graphics!!
	10:30am Rachel Bo Bachel: I think anachronism has to do with time periods, like if you had a microwave in a film set in the Victorian era
	👻 10:31am Hughie Considine: ↳ newton @10:29 That is awesome! Truly appreciate you taking a chance on an unknown author. Hope you dig!
	10:31am clarke: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:30 that's what i was thinking, too. out of time.
	👻 10:32am Hughie Considine: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:30 Sort of like a major continuity error.
	10:32am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:32 speaking of....
	10:32am Rachel Bo Bachel: Clarke I thought someone else would type it; such a bunch of smarties up in here 🤓
	10:34am xangoir: checking in from Rhode Island. This is a special treat from the Cowsills
	10:34am clarke: to be faiyah, most of the cowsills kinda back-pedaled on the christian thang.
	10:35am morphe': ↳ Song: "At Last I Am Free" by "Elizabeth Fraser" www.theguardian.com... and obit: www.rollingstone.com...
	10:36am Jim the Poet: Happy 666!
	👻 10:36am tim: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:18 I'm right there with you, Rachel. I have a smart phone and try to do my best with keeping it simple. Recently I needed to get hearing aids. When the audiologist was making his recommendations about the kind I needed. He said it connects to a blue tooth app on my phone and went on and on about all the cool stuff blue tooth can do. After I bit I interrupted and said "I just want to hear other people talk again. I don't need all of that". The audiologist was "Oh sure. but with blue tooth you can....". Finally I interrupted again and basically said "Look, man, I'm not going to use blue tooth. I want to hear and not have it dependent on an app." Ai yai yai!!!
	10:36am Joe McG: A nice little apocalyptic song for the holidays!
	👻 10:37am Hughie Considine: The Coweill father was abusive. Maybe he pushed them to keep up their clean image by being Bible thumpers?
	10:37am chris_in_space: Incredible show as usual, @Joe
	10:37am Paul: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... Can also be found on 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Cowsills
	10:37am clarke: ↳ tim @10:36 but, at the same time, it really helps with fidelity for music-listeners.
	👻 10:38am tim: ↳ tim @10:36 My anti blue toothism isn't on principle but primarily because WIFI is not universal and it also sounds like a pain in the ass - haha!
	10:38am Joe McG: ↳ chris_in_space @10:37 Happy holidays, Chris!
	10:38am KWilde: Irwin played this last week!
	👻 10:38am Dan S: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... That one's definitely in "Music of Mind Control" territory.
	10:39am Joe McG: ↳ Paul @10:37 Wow, nice to know! Usually these hits collections avoid the "II x II" album like the plague.
	10:39am Marylou62: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... Wowsa! Never heard that before.
	10:39am Paul: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:37 Bud was a bad man.
	👻 10:39am Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Lady Eleanor" by "Lindisfarne" Ah Alan Hull, still sounds good. Departed too early, sure he had many more songs to come out.
	10:39am clarke: ↳ Joe McG @10:39 well, the cowsils also avoid that album, too, ha ha ha.
	👻 10:39am Hughie Considine: I own the Fotheringay and Lindisfarne LPs, both the direct result of listening to this show.
	👻 10:40am tim: ↳ clarke @10:37 I'm sure it does. I don't care though. It's like wearing "smart glasses". I just want to see. I don't want to mess with a bunch of shit just to function - haha!
	10:40am clarke: ↳ tim @10:40 i TOTALLY get what you are saying. i think the bar has been raised for 'regular' hearing aids, as well, tho!
	👻 10:41am egould: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... That was an adventure. Morning Joe McG.
	10:41am johnk77: my non-prescription hearing assist requires bluetooth to function which is a minor hassle but the improvement in my ability to hear is wonderful wearandhear.com
	10:41am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "Lady Eleanor" by "Lindisfarne" Good one
	10:41am Joe McG: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:39 Wow, nice to hear, Hughie!
	10:41am he's Crafty: ↳ Song: "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters" ⭐🥰❤‍🔥
	10:41am ßizco ßey: If I send my magic toenail to WFMU, will they consecrate it in a mojo bag and send it back to me?
	10:42am Triple G: This 45 sounds great
	10:42am Joe McG: ↳ ßizco ßey @10:41 Jim the Poet will.
	10:42am Ian Anderson: If they started here, how did they get to the neutron dance?
	10:43am common: ↳ Song: "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters" my childhood!
	👻 10:43am tim: ↳ Song: "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters" There are soooo many male DJs I want to hear sing this at Hoof'n'Mouth.
	👻 10:43am pgalub: Hey Joe and everyone. Uh oh, is it Clapton time? ;)
	10:43am Jim the Poet: I got a really sweaty hand
	10:43am clarke: hello peter!
	👻 10:43am tim: ↳ johnk77 @10:41 That's cool. I'm glad it works for you.
	10:44am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters" This is a good one too!!
	👻 10:44am pgalub: ↳ clarke @10:43 Hey clarke!
	👻 10:44am John L: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... I first heard this from a cover by Job's Daughters; it's members of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. I think it's from a comp that came with an issue of either Forced Exposure or Chemical Imbalance.
	10:44am Joe McG: ↳ pgalub @10:43 He WISHES the Pointer Sisters were singing about him! :)
	10:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: Tim it’s like you really have to fight against it or it takes over! Good for you :) I hope you found something that helps! For me adding analog stuff helps- timers, radios, land lines, wristwatches, etc.- to replace anything to replace all the things we use the smart phones for with an old-school technology and have one less reason to pick them up. And yet I still get sucked in 😩 I tried a flip phone this year and it was kind of a disaster in terms of being in touch with people. Working on the 2.0 version for 2025… but it would be nice to be in touch with people doing the same battle to see what has been helpful for them; there seems to be very few of us!
	10:45am clarke: ↳ Joe McG @10:44 who DID write Slow Hand??
	👻 10:46am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Blue Mist" by "Allen Lowe & The Constant Sorrow O... Love Allen Lowe-he was a guest on Dave Sewelson's show Music for a Free World (on the Drummer Stream) about a month ago. wfmu.org...
	10:46am ßizco ßey: Eric Clapton
	👻 10:46am tim: ↳ clarke @10:45 Wasn't it Conway Twitty or someone similar?
	10:46am clarke: ↳ tim @10:46 he covered it.
	10:47am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:08 K8 has a Light Phone, which has a touch screen but no internet. It's not even backlit -- no using it at concerts! No camera, no maps. Just phone, text, and music. I just have the landline.
	10:47am Joe McG: Says here that Michael Clarke and John Bettis wrote it.
	👻 10:47am Dan S: ↳ Jim the Poet @10:43 Sweaty and slow are not mutually exclusive.
	👻 10:47am doctorjazz: ↳ johnk77 @10:41 All the alte kockers here (old farts). I have bluetooth hearing aids as well-lets me listen to WFMU without other folks knowing sometimes, not a bad thing...
	👻 10:47am egould: ↳ clarke @10:45 From wiki: The song, written by Michael Clark and John Bettis, was released by the Planet label in May 1981 as the lead single from Black & White.
	10:47am clarke: ↳ Joe McG @10:47 no relation! ; ]
	10:47am Rachel Bo Bachel: Running upstairs to discipline my unruly children- Joe thank you for your wonderful show and Merry Christmas! Tim Luddites unite!!! 💪
	10:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:18 If he were here, listener Ike would surely link to Internet Addicts Anonymous, which was featured on Techtonic and seems like a pretty good org. www.wfmu.org...
	10:49am ßizco ßey: Do what I do and walk around with a parabolic microphone and headphones to suss out the voices in the night
	10:49am Jim the Poet: Are they the Fine Middle-Aged Cannibals now
	10:49am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy I might get the Light Phone eventually; didn’t want to spend the big bucks but it might be worth it. You guys rule!!! Xoxx
	👻 10:50am tim: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:44 I hear you. I appreciate the ease of texting and sharing photos with friends and family since I'm not on social media. The school district my kids are in has this crappy proprietary app for teachers to stay in touch with parents. I always forget to check it - hahaha!
	10:50am Joe McG: ↳ Jim the Poet @10:49 They ate each other long ago.
	10:51am clarke: ↳ Joe McG @10:50 occupational hazard
	10:51am SeanG: Pointer Sisters rule
	10:51am still b/p: Cannibalism keeps you young, as long as you eat young folks. Like the lab mice that were reenergized by young-mouse-blood transfusion.
	10:52am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Jim the Poet @10:36 Spicy and sweet! images.leafly.com... Happy
	10:52am clarke: ↳ Song: "Ginny" by "The Duprees" heard this many times, but never knew the spelling!
	10:53am Andres: ↳ Song: "Johnny Come Home" by "Fine Young Cannibals" Their overplayed hit does not take away from how great this one is.
	10:54am clarke: m-m-m-mel
	👻 10:55am egould: ↳ Song: "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back" by "Mel T... Hahaha!
	👻 10:56am tim: This is what I'm talking about! Screw indoor plumbing! New fangled technology always fails you!
	10:57am clarke: ↳ tim @10:56 off the grid from off the grid.
	👻 10:57am tim: ↳ clarke @10:57 Damn straight! ;)
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Memories Are Made of This" by "Dean Martin" ...Elvis ? Bing ?? ...oh Deano...
	10:58am traven: ↳ Song: "Memories Are Made of This" by "Dean Martin" Dino!
	👻 10:58am tim: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:58 I was thinking a little Elvis too.
	10:59am clarke: ↳ tim @10:58 elvis was a huge dino fan!
	10:59am still b/p: Talking the other day about Dean playing like he was drunk on his TV show, not in a broad "drunk" act, but as if he'd actually had a few, as per his reputation. She asked, "Was he actually drunk?" Well, bit of an act, but depends on which stories you believe.
	10:59am jessicaiscool: omg i thought that was elvis lol
	👻 11:00am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Hey all...shaking off the cobwebs...
	11:01am The Oscar: ↳ Song: "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back" by "Mel T... It's an answer song to "Breakin' the Toilet!"
	11:01am Jim the Poet: Maybe we're all Elvis?
	11:02am SeanG: hey clarke RIP Slim Dunlap bummer right
	11:02am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning gang!
	11:02am eric from lake hiawatha: Thanks for the FYC!!!
	11:02am clarke: ↳ SeanG @11:02 yes, RIP lovely fellow, but he had been fighting things for a while. so kind-of a bit of a relief, actually.
	11:03am still b/p: ↳ Jim the Poet @11:01 Everybody's got Elvis in them! Everybody except one person that is... Yeah, one person! The evil opposite of Elvis The Anti-Elvis Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in 'em Lemme tell ya Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him -- Elvis Is Everywhere, Mojo Nixon And Skip Roper
	👻 11:05am tim: Monica's fill ins are a real treat!
	11:08am clarke: ah this is fun!!! cool!
	👻 11:09am tim: Great idea, Joe!
	11:09am efd: In the All-Night Café is the name of Stuart David's book.
	11:09am clarke: good concept, joe!
	11:09am Joe McG: ↳ efd @11:09 Ah yes, thanks, Evan!
	11:10am newton: This such a great record
	11:10am wendy del formaggio: Good morning, Joe (and friends)! What a great idea: programming a set to recreate a mix tape you read in a book. I love this multi-media approach. Happy various holidays to you!
	11:10am StringOFperils: Phil Moxham....this early Rough Trade stuff was so refreshing...still pure as pure can be . Love this always.
	11:11am Burrito: Seems like winter aconite is also a type of flower and is one of the earliest bulbs to bloom in the springtime.
	👻 11:12am pgalub: Ah, love those Blue Aeroplanes!
	👻 11:14am tim: ↳ Song: "Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind" by "Felt" I LOVE Felt!
	👻 11:15am egould: Cool program concept Joe.
	11:16am Joe McG: I'm finding it kind of interesting listening to these tracks and thinking about Belle and Sebastian to come.
	11:16am Danny in Poughkeepsie: Hi Joe
	11:16am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ Song: "Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind" by "Felt" Speaking of Felt, has anyone been able to find Lawrence Of Belgravia? I've been wanting it forever (not on PAL! - the english DVD that won't play here)
	11:17am clarke: ↳ tim @11:14 me too!
	👻 11:17am tim: ↳ Joe McG @11:16 Agreed!
	11:18am StringOFperils: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:16 I should run that question by Criterion. They've been putting up quite a bit of material like that....worth a shot
	11:18am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ StringOFperils @11:18 I actually wrote too soon and it's on friggin Amazon
	11:19am StringOFperils: Ugh. Oh well...at least it's somewhere.
	11:19am Tim in Woodstock: Loving the Felt and the Felt-ish sounding records!
	11:20am Savage in Brooklyn: Man, I love Tracey Thorn's voice.
	11:20am listener james from westwood: Thought that was her!
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:18 i wish i liked Go-Cart Mozart a bit better. love Felt
	11:21am Tim in Woodstock: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:16 I think its on Amazon and possibly Apple TV now
	11:21am Tim in Woodstock: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:20 swoon
	11:22am SeanG: any go-betweens coming up
	11:22am Tim in Woodstock: Banger by the Weather Prophets!
	11:22am newton: so nice to hear peter astor
	11:23am Joe McG: ↳ SeanG @11:22 You've peeked at the book, haven't you? ;)
	👻 11:24am egould: ↳ Song: "Almost Prayed" by "The Weather Prophets" Love this song. Love this comp. Necessary listening for anyone not familiar with it.
	11:24am clarke: ↳ egould @11:24 yes, i must check it!
	11:26am B R M: ↳ Song: "Oomingmak" by "Cocteau Twins" A perfect record... love hearing this.
	11:28am Artie: ↳ Tim in Woodstock @11:21 Yes to both of these, and rips floating about in the aether.
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:20 hay.
	11:30am HesperusWrecked: ↳ Song: "Oomingmak" by "Cocteau Twins" The melody near the beginning of this song always reminded me of the old Armour Hot Dogs commercial—"fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks." You can sing it along and it fits right in.
	11:30am hifivicky: really looooove what you're doing this morning, Joe. just fantastic. the whole show. tysm. 👏 👏 👏 🎶💃💕
	11:32am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ clarke @11:20 Agree! Don't like Go-Cart much but overjoyed I got to see Felt in Camden; it was their last ever show
	11:32am Ryan Sterlingvirtue: great show today. thanks.
	11:32am Joe McG: ↳ hifivicky @11:30 Your DJ for this last hour is Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian, so I can't claim any credit! :)
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:32 it's too bad about that unexplainable quality drop..
	👻 11:33am pgalub: ↳ Song: "Brighter" by "The Railway Children" Great set Joe! I remember catching these guys at littlefield. Possibly the same weekend as Even As We Speak and The Chills. Or possibly The Close Lobsters. Anyway, good times.
	11:33am Bobby: Thanks Joe and Stuart!
	11:33am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ Joe McG @11:32 Stuart is so charming in concert - he shows his travel photos he takes on tour sometimes. He's also a marathon runner!!
	👻 11:33am Hughie Considine: ↳ HesperusWrecked @11:30 I have heard that too! Who knew Cocteau Twins had such diverse influences.
	👻 11:34am tadpoles: ↳ Joe McG @11:32 Thank him for YMG "Salad Days"....from a perfect album that never dates. Cheers
	11:34am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ clarke @11:33 fuq yeah it is
	11:34am michael from somerville: killer show today, Joe! thanks for keeping me grounded while I’m at work.
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:34 it always makes me wonder if Felt was such a monocracy! ???
	👻 11:35am tim: I think it's just the greatest listening/reading to musicians who are also music fans talk about music they love or their influences.
	11:36am Ryan Sterlingvirtue: tell stuart I said hi, it was good seeing him in brussels this summer.
	11:36am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ clarke @11:35 I'm gonna guess not! So many times the "right hand man" leaves the band and the sound completely changes. Mick Harvey leaving the Bad Seeds comes to mind.
	11:36am clarke: ↳ tim @11:35 you ever read Love Is A Mixtape? pretty good and sad.
	👻 11:36am egould: ↳ Song: "Outdoor Miner" by "Wire" What if we wrote a song for Squeeze?
	11:36am J&E in Ithaca NY: Love this Wire tune:) first heard spun at Uncle Joes Bar in JC , DJ battle Chris Ward and Mike Longo :) Halcyon Days !
	11:36am Savage in Brooklyn: Any fans of The Ideal Copy here? I feel like that record gets kind of a bad rap by a lot of Wire fans. And hey, Clarke.
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:36 well, you are right but, cave found another right hand man that was worthy (warren)
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:36 hey, i never was a fan of Ideal Copy, but i saw that tour at maxwell's.
	👻 11:38am Hughie Considine: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:36 I dig that record. "Ahead" is Wire at its most New Order, and what could be wrong with that? I like the follow-up, A Bell Is a Cup... as well, though not as much.
	👻 11:38am tim: ↳ clarke @11:36 I haven't.
	11:38am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ clarke @11:37 Not saying Warren not worthy, but noticeably Mick had more to do with the Bad Seeds sound than I at least realized
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:38 i think you'd dig it - Rob Shefflield
	11:39am katharsis: Hellos. Catching the tail end on the go. Merry happys radio friends
	👻 11:39am pgalub: ↳ Song: "Afterglow" by "The Servants" Very go-betweens. Digging.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:38 i think mick's "problem" was that he thought too much of his input. he may have been right? the world may never know.
	11:40am dreamyandseedy: this recreation is great! click-starring a lot! thank you joe
	11:41am Joe McG: ↳ pgalub @11:33 I was there, I think!
	11:42am Jeff formerly from Rahway: ↳ Song: "High Expectation" by "Stereolab" This song is a delight.
	👻 11:42am tim: ↳ Song: "High Expectation" by "Stereolab" This is the most current in context to when the tape was made.
	11:42am Stupefaction: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:36 I love The Ideal Copy. If I'm not mistaken, the US tour for that was the first time I saw Wire. It was at the Cat Club in Manhattan and they made me feel like I was levitating. Incredible.
	👻 11:42am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @11:42 I still love Stereolab. This has aged really well IMO
	11:43am Joe McG: BTW, if you haven't read Stuart David's book, it's a very good chronicle of how a band gets together, written with a lot of charm, even if you don't care for Belle and Sebastian as a band. If you do like them like I do, then you will REALLY love it.
	11:44am Ryan Sterlingvirtue: out all the people nick cave has worked with, nick himself had the least to do with their sound lol
	11:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Stuart was a good steward for not only Stuart...
	11:46am Savage in Brooklyn: ↳ Stupefaction @11:42 I like the whole record, but I think Ahead is great.
	👻 11:46am tim: ↳ Song: "Savage Sea" by "The Pop Group" Cool Pop Group choice. That is a band I'd take a time machine to go see.
	👻 11:46am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Savage Sea" by "The Pop Group" Anyone who picked up this LP expecting something light and bouncy was in for a surprise.
	👻 11:47am egould: ↳ Song: "Streets of Your Town" by "The Go-Betweens" This is the good stuff here.
	👻 11:47am pgalub: Boom!
	11:47am common: outstanding show today, joe! took me to so many different times in my life
	11:47am Jeff Golick: What a blissful set. Thanks, Joe!
	11:47am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Streets of Your Town" by "The Go-Betweens" While in your town, they should get some quality pints!
	11:47am geoff: Really enjoying this set Joe. Merry Christmas!
	👻 11:48am doctorjazz: Don't know Nick Cave/Bad Seeds well, but have been watching Peaky Blinders, the theme they do is fabulous!
	11:48am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:47 QP's~
	11:49am patrick321: Quite a nice mixtape, unsurprisingly I suppose.
	👻 11:49am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Joe McG @11:43 B&S was always just a bit too twee for me, but I'm enjoying this mix! (Actually the latest B&S was a nice surprise, seemed like they were rocking out a bit more.)
	👻 11:49am tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:47 A-ha! You are correct, Handy!
	👻 11:49am Karl: ↳ Song: "Streets of Your Town" by "The Go-Betweens" Oh I like this
	👻 11:50am doctorjazz: Almost the end, slow day at the office, nice office company, thanks Joe, Happy Healthy all!
	👻 11:50am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:47 Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y Quality P-I-N-T-S (pause) Pints!
	11:51am HesperusWrecked: Most of this set reminds me of commuting to work in the 80’s before I owned a CD player. I had so many of these same albums on cassette and I would sit on the bus and Path and MTA and be content. Fantastic set.
	11:51am ratso: Thanks, Joe, for another great show!
	11:52am patrick321: Thanks Joe!
	11:52am hifivicky: tindersticks, even! I actually hate calling out one artist, bc this whole show from the start has been a cavalcade of riches.
	11:53am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Joe! A fine, fine winter's morning of radio. Much appreciated!
	11:53am GeoSinPhilly: A lot of good reaction to this set. I guess you've already got 45 minutes of next week's show planned with Side B.
	11:53am Bobby: I was aware of the book but have not read it. Ordered a copy during this uplifting set. Thanks Joe!
	👻 11:53am Karl: I miss mixtapes
	👻 11:53am tim: Thank you, Joe! I'd really like to hear another mix tape recreation if the opportunity arises.
	👻 11:54am DjLorraine: Thanks for a year of Monday morning company Joe McGasko
	👻 11:54am egould: Thanks, Joe McG. Happy Holidays!
	11:54am Joe McG: Tindersticks marks the end of the mix-tape side. Appending a B&S Xmas song to end the show!
	11:55am clarke: thnx joseph mtthew
	11:55am Bobby: ↳ Karl @11:53 Send me a tape Karl!
	👻 11:56am tadpoles: ↳ Joe McG @11:54 So good to hear Peely's voice. Great show thanks Joe and Happy Holidays! Cheers
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, all! Have a merry holiday! See you next Monday.
	👻 11:56am bradford: Thanks as always Joe. Have a great holiday!
	11:56am hifivicky: whoever rec'd Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield, yessss it is a beautiful, sad, wonderful book. he also recently released a book about Taylor Swift that is awesome, whether or not yre a swifty haha
	11:57am clarke: ↳ hifivicky @11:56 good read
	11:57am geoff: Think I remember hearing this B&S at the time (if it’s the session where they did “Little Donkey”)
	11:58am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Thanks for spinning Joe!
	11:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JoeMcG ~
	👻 11:58am Brian in UK: Good to hear John Peel's voice. Thanks JOE.
	11:58am he's Crafty: Thanks Joe, Thanks Stuart, Thanks everybody! Great show, great sets, great fun!🥰
	11:58am TerrDE: Merry Christmas Joe
	12:00pm Planet Ø Tyler: Thanks Joe!
	👻 12:00pm Hughie Considine: Thanks for another fine show, DJ Joe!
	12:00pm Garrity: Happy Holidays, Joe & all!
	12:01pm Artie: Thanks, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 23, 2024

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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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December 23, 2024: The Quiver Within the Shiver

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Fotheringay	Winter Winds "Winter Winds" by "Fotheringay"	Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay	Universal/Island	2015	CD	alternate take, 1970		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Janice Burns and Jon Doran	Green Grows the Holly	Great Joy to the New	Wylam	2024	MP3		*	0:04:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Rheingans Sisters	Brädmarsch	Start Close In	Rheingans Sisters	2024	MP3		*	0:07:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eliza Carthy	The Trees They Do Grow High	No Wasted Joy	Hem Hem	2024	MP3			0:09:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Landless	Blackwaterside "Blackwaterside" by "Landless"	Lúireach	Glitterbeat	2024	MP3		*	0:12:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Steeleye Span	Gaudete "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span"	The Harvest of Gold: The English Folk Almanac	Deja Vu Retro Gold	2003	CD	live in 1974		0:15:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cooper and Toller	There Is a Fountain of Christ's Blood	Year's End	Hear the Din Music	2024	MP3		*	0:18:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Watersons	Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand	Frost & Fire: A Calendar of Ceremonial Folk Songs	Topic	1965	LP			0:22:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Horslips	Do'n oiche ud i mbeithil	Drive the Cold Winter Away	Horslips	1975	LP	"That Night in Bethlehem"		0:24:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Albion Dance Band	On Christmas Night All Christians Sing	The Prospect Before Us	Hannibal/Rykodisc	1993	CD	From 1976		0:27:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jackie Oates and John Spiers	Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending	A Midwinter's Night	Needle Pin	2024	MP3		*	0:31:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Steve Ashley	The Spirit of Christmas	Electric Muse: The Journey from Folk into Rock	Island	1975	LP			0:35:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

The Green Child	Easy Window "Easy Window" by "The Green Child"	Look Familiar	Hobbies Galore/Upset the Rhythm	2024	LP		*	0:52:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
La Femme	Yeah Baby "Yeah Baby" by "La Femme"	Rock Machine	Born Bad	2024	LP		*	0:55:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hot Tubs Time Machine	Button Man "Button Man" by "Hot Tubs Time Machine"	Food & Ruins	Spoilsport	2024	MP3		*	0:58:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Nails	Things You Left Behind "Things You Left Behind" by "The Nails"	Dangerous Dreams	RCA	1986	LP			1:03:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Anthony Moore	Judy, Judy "Judy, Judy" by "Anthony Moore"	Home of the Demo	Drag City	2024	MP3	80s sometime	*	1:07:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elizabeth Fraser	At Last I Am Free	Rough Trade 25	Rough Trade	2003	CD			1:10:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Allen Lowe & The Constant Sorrow Orchestra`	Blue Mist	Louis Armstrong's America Volume 1	ESP-Disk'	2024	CD		*	1:15:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hot 8 Brass Band	Ain't No Sunshine	Big Tuba	Tru Thoughts	2024	MP3	instrumental version	*	1:19:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s played in a row for about a half-hour
The Cowsills	The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-Six-Six)	single	MGM	1969	45			1:33:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lindisfarne	Lady Eleanor "Lady Eleanor" by "Lindisfarne"	single	Elektra	1971	45			1:36:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pointer Sisters	Slow Hand "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters"	single	Planet	1981	45			1:39:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lorna Bennett	It Hurt's to Want It So Bad	single	Harry J	1973	45	that's how the label reads		1:43:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fine Young Cannibals	Johnny Come Home	single	London	1985	45			1:46:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Duprees	Ginny "Ginny" by "The Duprees"	single	Co-Ed	1962	45			1:50:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mel Tillis	Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back	single	RIC	1965	45			1:52:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dean Martin	Memories Are Made of This	single	Capitol	1955	45	#1 in December of 1955		1:55:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Recreating Side A of the mix-tape "Winter Aconite," Stuart Murdoch to Stuart David, 1995
Young Marble Giants	Salad Days "Salad Days" by "Young Marble Giants"	Colossal Youth	Rough Trade	1980	LP			2:07:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Aeroplanes	Veils of Colour	friendloverplane	Restless	1986	LP			2:11:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Felt	Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind	Forever Breathes the Lonely Word	Creation	1998	CD	From 1986		2:12:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Everything But the Girl	Ballad of the Sad Times	Love Not Money	Sire	1985	LP			2:17:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Weather Prophets	Almost Prayed	Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop 1980-1989	Cherry Red	2013	CD	From 1986		2:20:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cocteau Twins	Oomingmak "Oomingmak" by "Cocteau Twins"	Victorialand	4AD	1986	LP			2:23:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Josef K	Sorry for Laughing "Sorry for Laughing" by "Josef K"	Entomology	Domino	2006	CD	From 1981		2:25:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Railway Children	Brighter "Brighter" by "The Railway Children"	12" single	Factory	1987	12"			2:29:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wire	Outdoor Miner "Outdoor Miner" by "Wire"	Chairs Missing	EMI/Harvest	1994	CD	From 1978		2:33:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Servants	Afterglow "Afterglow" by "The Servants"	Youth Club Disco	Captured Tracks	2011	LP	From 1989		2:35:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stereolab	High Expectation "High Expectation" by "Stereolab"	Switched On	Too Pure	1992	LP			2:38:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Pop Group	Savage Sea "Savage Sea" by "The Pop Group"	Y	Radarscope	1979	LP			2:42:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Go-Betweens	Streets of Your Town	Bellavista Terrace: Best of the Go-Betweens	Beggars Banquet	1999	CD	From 1988		2:45:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	City Sickness "City Sickness" by "Tindersticks"	Working for the Man	Island	2004	CD	From 1993		2:48:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Belle and Sebastian	I Took Some Time for Christmas	No Album	No Label	2002	MP3	live on John Peel, 18 December 2002		2:52:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am newton: YIP YIP YIP
	9:02am duke: Merry Yip Yip
	👻 9:02am bradford: Good morning Joe & greetings fellow Yippers!
	9:02am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Here for the holiday yipping and boinging. Good morning Joe McG and noisy ones.
	9:03am Triple G: A Merry Surface Noise to you & yours, hi Joe & all
	9:03am Glistener MW: merry YIP-mas, Joe! 📻
	👻 9:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Winter Winds" by "Fotheringay" This matches my mood perfectly. Thanks Joe.
	9:05am ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): Was this show significantly louder than Todd's, or just me?
	9:05am JG: ↳ Song: "Winter Winds" by "Fotheringay" Sandy best singer ever
	9:05am StringOFperils: Heart and solstice
	9:05am listener james from westwood: Frozen northeastern NJ greetings, Joe and all!
	9:06am still b/p: Remember that in the original scene, after the Martians found radio music they liked, they went beyond "Yip yip yip yip" to "Happy happy boing boing." See whut'm sayin'?
	9:09am PC77: Sandy sounds like an angel RIP
	👻 9:10am Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Brädmarsch" by "The Rheingans Sisters" Hi Surface Noisers! Tasteful Jew's Harp here.
	9:10am Handy Haversack: The Yips will keep us warm! Morning, Joe and all.
	👻 9:10am Ken From Hyde Park: Good news! The temperature here has reached the Old Codger's phone number. Or possibly Alan's number of degrees. That would be 6.
	9:11am Daybreak!: Thunder dumpling, I think you might be right.
	9:12am clarke: happy happy happy boing boing boing boing
	9:16am Mike W.: Love this show of this show I love
	9:17am he's Crafty: Hi Joe McG , Hi everybody on this fine fine Monday! 🥰❤
	9:18am G: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" This was on the UK pop charts in maybe 72 or 73, when I lived there.
	9:18am Joe McG: Good Monday, all! Hope you're all staying warm.
	9:18am Woo: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" love this
	👻 9:19am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG and friends! Happy winter!
	9:19am PC77: Haven't heard Gaudete in a long time- lovely! Merry Christmas!
	9:20am fm Mike: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" I'm digging this Irish theme! Does the 5 gallons of Irish blood in me good 😍🇮🇪🇮🇪
	9:21am still b/p: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" Interesting how that had a flavor similar to cantu a tenòre groups of Sardinia.
	9:22am Rachel Bo Bachel: Omg this song is creepy 🩸
	9:22am clarke: nice guitar
	9:23am greg g: Morning Joe and Surface Noise Dwellers!
	👻 9:23am Bob Tankenstein: Good morning noisers.
	9:23am Emily: Gorgeous and sad. I’m not worthy
	9:25am Mike W.: Ah yes. I bet my dog we’d hear Frost & Fire this set. [to dog] You owe me so much money!
	9:26am clarke: Horselips! where's hughie??
	👻 9:26am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Do'n oiche ud i mbeithil" by "Horslips" Excuse me but did someone mention Horslips?
	9:26am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @9:26 did someone mention hughie??
	9:27am clarke: anglish!!
	👻 9:27am Hughie Considine: A bracing chilly morning to one and all!
	9:28am fm Mike: ↳ Song: "Gaudete" by "Steeleye Span" Holy s#it, that's Gaeilge!!!
	9:28am BillfromRockTavern: Good morning Joe. Love your British, Irish folk sets . Perfect for a cold Christmas Eve Eve.
	9:29am G: It's Festivus, but I have no grievances with this set.
	9:29am greg g: Is that the Rebel Rebel riff in that horslips tune?
	9:30am ßizco ßey: Happy Christmas
	9:38am ßizco ßey: Ghost of Christmas past is Santa Muerte
	9:39am clarke: from threshold to transom the door to the holidaze is open.
	9:39am greg g: I am the worlds forgotten Christmas ghost
	9:40am johnk77: nice set selecter just realized today that drummer Gerry Conway died earlier in 2024 founding member of Fotheringay he worked with many artists going back to Alexis Korner
	👻 9:41am tim: Hey Joe! Happy holidays - the established a heathen too!
	9:41am clarke: ↳ johnk77 @9:40 yes RIP Jerry - he died the same week as several other drummers oddly.
	👻 9:41am tim: Hi everyone!
	👻 9:41am Dan S: ↳ G @9:29 Happy Festivus, everyone!
	9:41am clarke: timothy!!
	9:41am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Joe, this was a great set for Christmas. Thank you for avoiding the FM radio Christmas faves.... they're triggering.
	9:42am Handy Haversack: ↳ tim @9:41 Tim! clarke!
	9:42am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:42 at least it's an ethos!
	👻 9:42am tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:42 Handy Claws!
	9:44am johnk77: ↳ clarke @9:41 Gerry was a good guy and a heck of a live drummer worked with him briefly in the 1970s doing sound for Consenting Adults a band produced by Mike Chapman
	9:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe my mom grew up Catholic and converted to Judaism, and her line is underneath we are all just pagan!
	9:45am clarke: ↳ johnk77 @9:44 wow, you worked with chapman?? damn! kudos!
	9:45am Mxter Baba: hey, Joe and folx! I tuned in after the set was done, however I’m intrigued and will go back and listen in the archives
	9:46am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @9:44 My good friend had this exchange with his corner-store guy this weekend: "Thanks, man. Happy holidays." "There's only one holiday! Christmas! Merry Christmas!" "Bro, it's all made up."
	9:46am Rachel Bo Bachel: Someone told me that there is an old tradition to tell ghost stories on Christmas, and that’s where Charles Dickens got the inspiration for A Christmas Carol. Does anyone know anything about that? Explains the spookiness of some of these old songs 🕯️
	👻 9:46am tim: A few years ago my kids' mom put on a video (vhs tape) from the mid 80s of her family opening presents on xmas morning. A typical commercial radio station was was playing in the background and it was NOT playing Christmas music. I forgot that xmas music used to not be ubiquitous.
	9:47am patrick321: Hey Joe and all
	9:47am johnk77: ↳ clarke @9:45 a friend of mine worked at dreamland records got to meet mike & nicky several times dreamland offices were right up the street from the whiskey
	9:48am clarke: ↳ johnk77 @9:47 wow!! legends!
	9:49am Mxter Baba: Here in Portland we can go sit on Krampus’s lap
	9:50am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @9:46 www.theguardian.com...
	9:51am Borg9: What's the link between Steeleye Span and Steely Dan? Is there a third? Are they yin and yang?
	9:51am clarke: that mic brush kinda sounded like shoveling snow - which just makes me shiver thinking about that.
	9:51am Bobby: Not working is the best part of my odd holiday!
	9:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Bobby @9:51 SRSLY U GUYS
	9:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Bobby @9:51 We're gonna go record shopping and eat a pizza today. On a Monday! O brave new world!
	9:53am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:52 say hello to jack!
	9:53am chresti: Morning Joe and surfies!
	9:53am Mxter Baba: ↳ Borg9 @9:51 I think they have a cousin—Stylish Jan
	9:53am Bobby: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:52 That’s a real holiday. Say hey to Marty!
	9:54am Mxter Baba: ↳ chresti @9:53 chrestikinskins!
	9:54am Handy Haversack: ↳ Bobby @9:53 You know it!
	9:55am chresti: Holiday starts today after 1:30PM PST
	9:55am still b/p: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @9:46 Tangent 'n trivia: Years ago, when wondering what the hell Andy Williams was singing about in It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, when he mentions "scary ghost stories," I realized, "Oh, the Dickens ghosts." I didn't otherwise have any sense of familiar Christmas traditions that involved telling ghost stories.
	👻 9:55am tim: ↳ Song: "Easy Window" by "The Green Child" Mikey Young - the mastering magician and Eddy Current guitarist?
	👻 9:55am tim: ↳ Song: "Easy Window" by "The Green Child" I like the Tusk vibe on this.
	9:56am Mxter Baba: ↳ tim @9:55 totally!
	9:56am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy that rules!!!
	9:57am clarke: ↳ tim @9:55 why don't you ask him if he's going to stay?
	9:57am chresti: Yule time has plenty of ghosts
	👻 9:58am Brian in UK: Hey Joe.
	👻 9:58am tim: ↳ clarke @9:57 But what if he says "no"?
	9:58am Joe McG: ↳ tim @9:55 I'm thinking yes, but I haven't done me research!
	9:58am clarke: ↳ tim @9:58 just tell me that you love me.!
	👻 10:00am tim: ↳ Joe McG @9:58 That's what I'm thinking too.
	👻 10:02am doctorjazz: Hello Joe, listeners, Streamers, WFMU-folks!
	10:03am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy are you going to any YLT Hanukkah shows this year?
	10:03am clarke: ↳ tim @10:00 like eddy from Supression Ring??
	10:04am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:03 The tickets are app-only, and we don't use apps, so we never get tix -- and I always forget until it's too late to try to coordinate with someone to see if we can go along with them. Next year in YLT-land!
	10:05am morphe': ↳ Song: "Button Man" by "Hot Tubs Time Machine" Thought he was saying "Bottom Man" ... "Where are ya going ??? Where have ya been??? We speculate...."
	10:05am clarke: say what you will about the tenets of ticketmaster... at least it's an ethos!
	10:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...odd that I happen to know from working in a bearing factoring near here that passing metal parts thru a magnetism detector is testing for eddy current...
	10:06am seedfriend: Kim Gordon vibes
	10:06am clarke: Rev!!!
	10:07am Rachel Bo Bachel: Joe is your family originally from Ireland? I’m half :)
	10:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:06 *factory
	👻 10:07am tim: ↳ Song: "Button Man" by "Hot Tubs Time Machine" I'm very jingoistic in that I think the greatest rock music comes from the midwest. With hat in hand, I'm going to declare that the greatest rock music comes from Australia. The evidence is all there.
	10:08am clarke: but not midwest australia
	10:08am Rachel Bo Bachel: I LOVE that you don’t use apps, handy!! Do you have flip phones? I want to start a Luddite club!
	10:08am PaulRobeson1924: Sounds a bit like Flat Earth Man! Morninggggg
	10:08am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "Things You Left Behind" by "The Nails" Flat!
	10:09am clarke: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:08 handy doesn't do phones.
	10:09am Joe McG: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:07 No, I'm a mix of Slovak, Polish, and Dutch. My "Mc" is a gift from Ellis Island to my family.
	10:09am Harry Corvair: ↳ Song: "Things You Left Behind" by "The Nails" So, these guys have more than one song? Digging it - reminiscent of Wall of Voodoo from about the same time.
	10:09am listener 126464: ↳ Song: "Judy, Judy" by "Anthony Moore" Nice!
	10:09am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy land line?? Football phone???
	👻 10:10am Hughie Considine: ↳ Harry Corvair @10:09 Surprisin, eh? Yeah, it's a pretty good LP, but nothing could ever top "88 Liines." Perhaps in the same way that nothing could ever top "Mexican Radio."
	10:10am clarke: ↳ Harry Corvair @10:09 def a ridgeway vibe
	10:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Judy, Judy" by "Anthony Moore" Was it this before 'Judy get down' ?...
	10:11am Joe McG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:10 I think it's an 80s remake!
	10:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:10 ...or after...
	10:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:11 ...same bits but less controversial than 'get down' maybe...
	10:12am Rachel Bo Bachel: It’s nice that you appreciate the music anyway, Joe! Maybe in a past life ;) ☘️
	👻 10:12am tim: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:08 Rachel - Did you hear Mark Hurst's conversation with the Brooklyn HS Luddite Club? www.wfmu.org...
	10:12am clarke: a john cale mid-period bass sound
	👻 10:14am tim: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:10 Hughie - My local library purchased your book! I don't have it in hand yet but they're usually pretty quick with their acquisitions.
	10:14am HesperusWrecked: ↳ clarke @10:12 Funny, the first time I heard “Judy Get Down” on the radio I thought it was John Cale.
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo Cleveland ! ...we are JohnCale MidPeriod BassSound ! ...under your seats are all those Albums you never actually listened to all the way...
	10:14am clarke: ↳ tim @10:14 that's cool!
	👻 10:15am tim: ↳ Song: "At Last I Am Free" by "Elizabeth Fraser" Oh man! So cool! I'm taking that this is a nod to Robert Wyatt's Chic cover.
	10:15am clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:14 have no Fear!
	10:16am Noir Lover: ↳ Song: "At Last I Am Free" by "Elizabeth Fraser" Wasn't a version of this the last song on Duane's last show?
	10:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @10:15 ...around Xmas ...Fear may really be a man's best friend...
	10:17am clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:16 been a while for that listen. maybe so.
	10:18am Rachel Bo Bachel: Tim no but I read about them and the girl who started it and we somehow got in touch! She is awesome! Gives me hope for the future!!! I do think adults could use a club like that too though- the problem is we are all so busy… I’m at least going to work on making one at my kids’ school. But I didn’t know Handy was so committed- I’m always looking for people who are passionate about pushing back against smart phones! (Meanwhile, I am using one… I guess the selfish motivation is I recognize the need for a support group for some of us to figure out how to extricate ourselves from these blasted things and the death grip they have on our lives!)
	10:18am patrick321: RIP Alfa Anderson (12/17) who sang "At Last..." w Chic
	👻 10:19am tim: ↳ Noir Lover @10:16 Knowing Duane, it could have been Chic or Robert Wyatt or Elizabeth Frazier.
	10:19am Joe McG: ↳ patrick321 @10:18 So sad, didn't know. :(
	10:20am common: joe, all
	10:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @10:17 Well - I refer to the perennial classic 'F*ck Christmas' by LeeVing & co. But nevermind...
	10:24am clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:24 i am certainly nearing saturation-level on xmas tunes, already.
	10:25am The Oscar: ↳ Song: "Things You Left Behind" by "The Nails" Also RIP Marc Campbell of the Nails :(
	👻 10:26am doctorjazz: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:04 Went to see YLT Chanukah show 2 years ago. They're hit and miss, some have GREAT guests, not my night, wound up being an endless guitar cutting contest. I left before it ended (add the packed, standing venue, which I hate, much respiratory viruses/flu/COVID going around, and I'm fine missing it).
	10:26am clarke: ↳ The Oscar @10:25 it is getting so that every set anyone plays is a memorial.
	👻 10:26am tim: ↳ Song: "Ain't No Sunshine" by "Hot 8 Brass Band" Yes! Good one, Joe!
	👻 10:26am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @10:24 I've been hanging out in these parts all weekend so the Xmas music I've been hearing has been pretty darn good. I had never heard "Santa Claus Ain't a Hippie" until Rex's show on Sat.
	👻 10:26am doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @10:26 (I know I'm a minority opinion here...)
	10:27am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:26 true, but still...
	10:27am Noir Lover: Has Pat Boone tried
	10:29am newton: Hughie, I just got back from town and the post office, got your book! Looks great!
	10:30am clarke: ↳ newton @10:29 i do like the cover and graphics!!
	10:30am Rachel Bo Bachel: I think anachronism has to do with time periods, like if you had a microwave in a film set in the Victorian era
	👻 10:31am Hughie Considine: ↳ newton @10:29 That is awesome! Truly appreciate you taking a chance on an unknown author. Hope you dig!
	10:31am clarke: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:30 that's what i was thinking, too. out of time.
	👻 10:32am Hughie Considine: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:30 Sort of like a major continuity error.
	10:32am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:32 speaking of....
	10:32am Rachel Bo Bachel: Clarke I thought someone else would type it; such a bunch of smarties up in here 🤓
	10:34am xangoir: checking in from Rhode Island. This is a special treat from the Cowsills
	10:34am clarke: to be faiyah, most of the cowsills kinda back-pedaled on the christian thang.
	10:35am morphe': ↳ Song: "At Last I Am Free" by "Elizabeth Fraser" www.theguardian.com... and obit: www.rollingstone.com...
	10:36am Jim the Poet: Happy 666!
	👻 10:36am tim: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:18 I'm right there with you, Rachel. I have a smart phone and try to do my best with keeping it simple. Recently I needed to get hearing aids. When the audiologist was making his recommendations about the kind I needed. He said it connects to a blue tooth app on my phone and went on and on about all the cool stuff blue tooth can do. After I bit I interrupted and said "I just want to hear other people talk again. I don't need all of that". The audiologist was "Oh sure. but with blue tooth you can....". Finally I interrupted again and basically said "Look, man, I'm not going to use blue tooth. I want to hear and not have it dependent on an app." Ai yai yai!!!
	10:36am Joe McG: A nice little apocalyptic song for the holidays!
	👻 10:37am Hughie Considine: The Coweill father was abusive. Maybe he pushed them to keep up their clean image by being Bible thumpers?
	10:37am chris_in_space: Incredible show as usual, @Joe
	10:37am Paul: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... Can also be found on 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Cowsills
	10:37am clarke: ↳ tim @10:36 but, at the same time, it really helps with fidelity for music-listeners.
	👻 10:38am tim: ↳ tim @10:36 My anti blue toothism isn't on principle but primarily because WIFI is not universal and it also sounds like a pain in the ass - haha!
	10:38am Joe McG: ↳ chris_in_space @10:37 Happy holidays, Chris!
	10:38am KWilde: Irwin played this last week!
	👻 10:38am Dan S: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... That one's definitely in "Music of Mind Control" territory.
	10:39am Joe McG: ↳ Paul @10:37 Wow, nice to know! Usually these hits collections avoid the "II x II" album like the plague.
	10:39am Marylou62: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... Wowsa! Never heard that before.
	10:39am Paul: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:37 Bud was a bad man.
	👻 10:39am Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Lady Eleanor" by "Lindisfarne" Ah Alan Hull, still sounds good. Departed too early, sure he had many more songs to come out.
	10:39am clarke: ↳ Joe McG @10:39 well, the cowsils also avoid that album, too, ha ha ha.
	👻 10:39am Hughie Considine: I own the Fotheringay and Lindisfarne LPs, both the direct result of listening to this show.
	👻 10:40am tim: ↳ clarke @10:37 I'm sure it does. I don't care though. It's like wearing "smart glasses". I just want to see. I don't want to mess with a bunch of shit just to function - haha!
	10:40am clarke: ↳ tim @10:40 i TOTALLY get what you are saying. i think the bar has been raised for 'regular' hearing aids, as well, tho!
	👻 10:41am egould: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... That was an adventure. Morning Joe McG.
	10:41am johnk77: my non-prescription hearing assist requires bluetooth to function which is a minor hassle but the improvement in my ability to hear is wonderful wearandhear.com
	10:41am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "Lady Eleanor" by "Lindisfarne" Good one
	10:41am Joe McG: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:39 Wow, nice to hear, Hughie!
	10:41am he's Crafty: ↳ Song: "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters" ⭐🥰❤‍🔥
	10:41am ßizco ßey: If I send my magic toenail to WFMU, will they consecrate it in a mojo bag and send it back to me?
	10:42am Triple G: This 45 sounds great
	10:42am Joe McG: ↳ ßizco ßey @10:41 Jim the Poet will.
	10:42am Ian Anderson: If they started here, how did they get to the neutron dance?
	10:43am common: ↳ Song: "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters" my childhood!
	👻 10:43am tim: ↳ Song: "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters" There are soooo many male DJs I want to hear sing this at Hoof'n'Mouth.
	👻 10:43am pgalub: Hey Joe and everyone. Uh oh, is it Clapton time? ;)
	10:43am Jim the Poet: I got a really sweaty hand
	10:43am clarke: hello peter!
	👻 10:43am tim: ↳ johnk77 @10:41 That's cool. I'm glad it works for you.
	10:44am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters" This is a good one too!!
	👻 10:44am pgalub: ↳ clarke @10:43 Hey clarke!
	👻 10:44am John L: ↳ Song: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-S... I first heard this from a cover by Job's Daughters; it's members of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. I think it's from a comp that came with an issue of either Forced Exposure or Chemical Imbalance.
	10:44am Joe McG: ↳ pgalub @10:43 He WISHES the Pointer Sisters were singing about him! :)
	10:44am Rachel Bo Bachel: Tim it’s like you really have to fight against it or it takes over! Good for you :) I hope you found something that helps! For me adding analog stuff helps- timers, radios, land lines, wristwatches, etc.- to replace anything to replace all the things we use the smart phones for with an old-school technology and have one less reason to pick them up. And yet I still get sucked in 😩 I tried a flip phone this year and it was kind of a disaster in terms of being in touch with people. Working on the 2.0 version for 2025… but it would be nice to be in touch with people doing the same battle to see what has been helpful for them; there seems to be very few of us!
	10:45am clarke: ↳ Joe McG @10:44 who DID write Slow Hand??
	👻 10:46am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Blue Mist" by "Allen Lowe & The Constant Sorrow O... Love Allen Lowe-he was a guest on Dave Sewelson's show Music for a Free World (on the Drummer Stream) about a month ago. wfmu.org...
	10:46am ßizco ßey: Eric Clapton
	👻 10:46am tim: ↳ clarke @10:45 Wasn't it Conway Twitty or someone similar?
	10:46am clarke: ↳ tim @10:46 he covered it.
	10:47am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:08 K8 has a Light Phone, which has a touch screen but no internet. It's not even backlit -- no using it at concerts! No camera, no maps. Just phone, text, and music. I just have the landline.
	10:47am Joe McG: Says here that Michael Clarke and John Bettis wrote it.
	👻 10:47am Dan S: ↳ Jim the Poet @10:43 Sweaty and slow are not mutually exclusive.
	👻 10:47am doctorjazz: ↳ johnk77 @10:41 All the alte kockers here (old farts). I have bluetooth hearing aids as well-lets me listen to WFMU without other folks knowing sometimes, not a bad thing...
	👻 10:47am egould: ↳ clarke @10:45 From wiki: The song, written by Michael Clark and John Bettis, was released by the Planet label in May 1981 as the lead single from Black & White.
	10:47am clarke: ↳ Joe McG @10:47 no relation! ; ]
	10:47am Rachel Bo Bachel: Running upstairs to discipline my unruly children- Joe thank you for your wonderful show and Merry Christmas! Tim Luddites unite!!! 💪
	10:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:18 If he were here, listener Ike would surely link to Internet Addicts Anonymous, which was featured on Techtonic and seems like a pretty good org. www.wfmu.org...
	10:49am ßizco ßey: Do what I do and walk around with a parabolic microphone and headphones to suss out the voices in the night
	10:49am Jim the Poet: Are they the Fine Middle-Aged Cannibals now
	10:49am Rachel Bo Bachel: Handy I might get the Light Phone eventually; didn’t want to spend the big bucks but it might be worth it. You guys rule!!! Xoxx
	👻 10:50am tim: ↳ Rachel Bo Bachel @10:44 I hear you. I appreciate the ease of texting and sharing photos with friends and family since I'm not on social media. The school district my kids are in has this crappy proprietary app for teachers to stay in touch with parents. I always forget to check it - hahaha!
	10:50am Joe McG: ↳ Jim the Poet @10:49 They ate each other long ago.
	10:51am clarke: ↳ Joe McG @10:50 occupational hazard
	10:51am SeanG: Pointer Sisters rule
	10:51am still b/p: Cannibalism keeps you young, as long as you eat young folks. Like the lab mice that were reenergized by young-mouse-blood transfusion.
	10:52am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Jim the Poet @10:36 Spicy and sweet! images.leafly.com... Happy
	10:52am clarke: ↳ Song: "Ginny" by "The Duprees" heard this many times, but never knew the spelling!
	10:53am Andres: ↳ Song: "Johnny Come Home" by "Fine Young Cannibals" Their overplayed hit does not take away from how great this one is.
	10:54am clarke: m-m-m-mel
	👻 10:55am egould: ↳ Song: "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back" by "Mel T... Hahaha!
	👻 10:56am tim: This is what I'm talking about! Screw indoor plumbing! New fangled technology always fails you!
	10:57am clarke: ↳ tim @10:56 off the grid from off the grid.
	👻 10:57am tim: ↳ clarke @10:57 Damn straight! ;)
	10:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Memories Are Made of This" by "Dean Martin" ...Elvis ? Bing ?? ...oh Deano...
	10:58am traven: ↳ Song: "Memories Are Made of This" by "Dean Martin" Dino!
	👻 10:58am tim: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:58 I was thinking a little Elvis too.
	10:59am clarke: ↳ tim @10:58 elvis was a huge dino fan!
	10:59am still b/p: Talking the other day about Dean playing like he was drunk on his TV show, not in a broad "drunk" act, but as if he'd actually had a few, as per his reputation. She asked, "Was he actually drunk?" Well, bit of an act, but depends on which stories you believe.
	10:59am jessicaiscool: omg i thought that was elvis lol
	👻 11:00am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Hey all...shaking off the cobwebs...
	11:01am The Oscar: ↳ Song: "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back" by "Mel T... It's an answer song to "Breakin' the Toilet!"
	11:01am Jim the Poet: Maybe we're all Elvis?
	11:02am SeanG: hey clarke RIP Slim Dunlap bummer right
	11:02am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning gang!
	11:02am eric from lake hiawatha: Thanks for the FYC!!!
	11:02am clarke: ↳ SeanG @11:02 yes, RIP lovely fellow, but he had been fighting things for a while. so kind-of a bit of a relief, actually.
	11:03am still b/p: ↳ Jim the Poet @11:01 Everybody's got Elvis in them! Everybody except one person that is... Yeah, one person! The evil opposite of Elvis The Anti-Elvis Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in 'em Lemme tell ya Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him -- Elvis Is Everywhere, Mojo Nixon And Skip Roper
	👻 11:05am tim: Monica's fill ins are a real treat!
	11:08am clarke: ah this is fun!!! cool!
	👻 11:09am tim: Great idea, Joe!
	11:09am efd: In the All-Night Café is the name of Stuart David's book.
	11:09am clarke: good concept, joe!
	11:09am Joe McG: ↳ efd @11:09 Ah yes, thanks, Evan!
	11:10am newton: This such a great record
	11:10am wendy del formaggio: Good morning, Joe (and friends)! What a great idea: programming a set to recreate a mix tape you read in a book. I love this multi-media approach. Happy various holidays to you!
	11:10am StringOFperils: Phil Moxham....this early Rough Trade stuff was so refreshing...still pure as pure can be . Love this always.
	11:11am Burrito: Seems like winter aconite is also a type of flower and is one of the earliest bulbs to bloom in the springtime.
	👻 11:12am pgalub: Ah, love those Blue Aeroplanes!
	👻 11:14am tim: ↳ Song: "Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind" by "Felt" I LOVE Felt!
	👻 11:15am egould: Cool program concept Joe.
	11:16am Joe McG: I'm finding it kind of interesting listening to these tracks and thinking about Belle and Sebastian to come.
	11:16am Danny in Poughkeepsie: Hi Joe
	11:16am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ Song: "Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind" by "Felt" Speaking of Felt, has anyone been able to find Lawrence Of Belgravia? I've been wanting it forever (not on PAL! - the english DVD that won't play here)
	11:17am clarke: ↳ tim @11:14 me too!
	👻 11:17am tim: ↳ Joe McG @11:16 Agreed!
	11:18am StringOFperils: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:16 I should run that question by Criterion. They've been putting up quite a bit of material like that....worth a shot
	11:18am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ StringOFperils @11:18 I actually wrote too soon and it's on friggin Amazon
	11:19am StringOFperils: Ugh. Oh well...at least it's somewhere.
	11:19am Tim in Woodstock: Loving the Felt and the Felt-ish sounding records!
	11:20am Savage in Brooklyn: Man, I love Tracey Thorn's voice.
	11:20am listener james from westwood: Thought that was her!
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:18 i wish i liked Go-Cart Mozart a bit better. love Felt
	11:21am Tim in Woodstock: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:16 I think its on Amazon and possibly Apple TV now
	11:21am Tim in Woodstock: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:20 swoon
	11:22am SeanG: any go-betweens coming up
	11:22am Tim in Woodstock: Banger by the Weather Prophets!
	11:22am newton: so nice to hear peter astor
	11:23am Joe McG: ↳ SeanG @11:22 You've peeked at the book, haven't you? ;)
	👻 11:24am egould: ↳ Song: "Almost Prayed" by "The Weather Prophets" Love this song. Love this comp. Necessary listening for anyone not familiar with it.
	11:24am clarke: ↳ egould @11:24 yes, i must check it!
	11:26am B R M: ↳ Song: "Oomingmak" by "Cocteau Twins" A perfect record... love hearing this.
	11:28am Artie: ↳ Tim in Woodstock @11:21 Yes to both of these, and rips floating about in the aether.
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:20 hay.
	11:30am HesperusWrecked: ↳ Song: "Oomingmak" by "Cocteau Twins" The melody near the beginning of this song always reminded me of the old Armour Hot Dogs commercial—"fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks." You can sing it along and it fits right in.
	11:30am hifivicky: really looooove what you're doing this morning, Joe. just fantastic. the whole show. tysm. 👏 👏 👏 🎶💃💕
	11:32am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ clarke @11:20 Agree! Don't like Go-Cart much but overjoyed I got to see Felt in Camden; it was their last ever show
	11:32am Ryan Sterlingvirtue: great show today. thanks.
	11:32am Joe McG: ↳ hifivicky @11:30 Your DJ for this last hour is Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian, so I can't claim any credit! :)
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:32 it's too bad about that unexplainable quality drop..
	👻 11:33am pgalub: ↳ Song: "Brighter" by "The Railway Children" Great set Joe! I remember catching these guys at littlefield. Possibly the same weekend as Even As We Speak and The Chills. Or possibly The Close Lobsters. Anyway, good times.
	11:33am Bobby: Thanks Joe and Stuart!
	11:33am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ Joe McG @11:32 Stuart is so charming in concert - he shows his travel photos he takes on tour sometimes. He's also a marathon runner!!
	👻 11:33am Hughie Considine: ↳ HesperusWrecked @11:30 I have heard that too! Who knew Cocteau Twins had such diverse influences.
	👻 11:34am tadpoles: ↳ Joe McG @11:32 Thank him for YMG "Salad Days"....from a perfect album that never dates. Cheers
	11:34am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ clarke @11:33 fuq yeah it is
	11:34am michael from somerville: killer show today, Joe! thanks for keeping me grounded while I’m at work.
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:34 it always makes me wonder if Felt was such a monocracy! ???
	👻 11:35am tim: I think it's just the greatest listening/reading to musicians who are also music fans talk about music they love or their influences.
	11:36am Ryan Sterlingvirtue: tell stuart I said hi, it was good seeing him in brussels this summer.
	11:36am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ clarke @11:35 I'm gonna guess not! So many times the "right hand man" leaves the band and the sound completely changes. Mick Harvey leaving the Bad Seeds comes to mind.
	11:36am clarke: ↳ tim @11:35 you ever read Love Is A Mixtape? pretty good and sad.
	👻 11:36am egould: ↳ Song: "Outdoor Miner" by "Wire" What if we wrote a song for Squeeze?
	11:36am J&E in Ithaca NY: Love this Wire tune:) first heard spun at Uncle Joes Bar in JC , DJ battle Chris Ward and Mike Longo :) Halcyon Days !
	11:36am Savage in Brooklyn: Any fans of The Ideal Copy here? I feel like that record gets kind of a bad rap by a lot of Wire fans. And hey, Clarke.
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:36 well, you are right but, cave found another right hand man that was worthy (warren)
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:36 hey, i never was a fan of Ideal Copy, but i saw that tour at maxwell's.
	👻 11:38am Hughie Considine: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:36 I dig that record. "Ahead" is Wire at its most New Order, and what could be wrong with that? I like the follow-up, A Bell Is a Cup... as well, though not as much.
	👻 11:38am tim: ↳ clarke @11:36 I haven't.
	11:38am Planet Ø Tyler: ↳ clarke @11:37 Not saying Warren not worthy, but noticeably Mick had more to do with the Bad Seeds sound than I at least realized
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:38 i think you'd dig it - Rob Shefflield
	11:39am katharsis: Hellos. Catching the tail end on the go. Merry happys radio friends
	👻 11:39am pgalub: ↳ Song: "Afterglow" by "The Servants" Very go-betweens. Digging.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Planet Ø Tyler @11:38 i think mick's "problem" was that he thought too much of his input. he may have been right? the world may never know.
	11:40am dreamyandseedy: this recreation is great! click-starring a lot! thank you joe
	11:41am Joe McG: ↳ pgalub @11:33 I was there, I think!
	11:42am Jeff formerly from Rahway: ↳ Song: "High Expectation" by "Stereolab" This song is a delight.
	👻 11:42am tim: ↳ Song: "High Expectation" by "Stereolab" This is the most current in context to when the tape was made.
	11:42am Stupefaction: ↳ Savage in Brooklyn @11:36 I love The Ideal Copy. If I'm not mistaken, the US tour for that was the first time I saw Wire. It was at the Cat Club in Manhattan and they made me feel like I was levitating. Incredible.
	👻 11:42am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @11:42 I still love Stereolab. This has aged really well IMO
	11:43am Joe McG: BTW, if you haven't read Stuart David's book, it's a very good chronicle of how a band gets together, written with a lot of charm, even if you don't care for Belle and Sebastian as a band. If you do like them like I do, then you will REALLY love it.
	11:44am Ryan Sterlingvirtue: out all the people nick cave has worked with, nick himself had the least to do with their sound lol
	11:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Stuart was a good steward for not only Stuart...
	11:46am Savage in Brooklyn: ↳ Stupefaction @11:42 I like the whole record, but I think Ahead is great.
	👻 11:46am tim: ↳ Song: "Savage Sea" by "The Pop Group" Cool Pop Group choice. That is a band I'd take a time machine to go see.
	👻 11:46am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Savage Sea" by "The Pop Group" Anyone who picked up this LP expecting something light and bouncy was in for a surprise.
	👻 11:47am egould: ↳ Song: "Streets of Your Town" by "The Go-Betweens" This is the good stuff here.
	👻 11:47am pgalub: Boom!
	11:47am common: outstanding show today, joe! took me to so many different times in my life
	11:47am Jeff Golick: What a blissful set. Thanks, Joe!
	11:47am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Streets of Your Town" by "The Go-Betweens" While in your town, they should get some quality pints!
	11:47am geoff: Really enjoying this set Joe. Merry Christmas!
	👻 11:48am doctorjazz: Don't know Nick Cave/Bad Seeds well, but have been watching Peaky Blinders, the theme they do is fabulous!
	11:48am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:47 QP's~
	11:49am patrick321: Quite a nice mixtape, unsurprisingly I suppose.
	👻 11:49am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Joe McG @11:43 B&S was always just a bit too twee for me, but I'm enjoying this mix! (Actually the latest B&S was a nice surprise, seemed like they were rocking out a bit more.)
	👻 11:49am tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:47 A-ha! You are correct, Handy!
	👻 11:49am Karl: ↳ Song: "Streets of Your Town" by "The Go-Betweens" Oh I like this
	👻 11:50am doctorjazz: Almost the end, slow day at the office, nice office company, thanks Joe, Happy Healthy all!
	👻 11:50am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:47 Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y Quality P-I-N-T-S (pause) Pints!
	11:51am HesperusWrecked: Most of this set reminds me of commuting to work in the 80’s before I owned a CD player. I had so many of these same albums on cassette and I would sit on the bus and Path and MTA and be content. Fantastic set.
	11:51am ratso: Thanks, Joe, for another great show!
	11:52am patrick321: Thanks Joe!
	11:52am hifivicky: tindersticks, even! I actually hate calling out one artist, bc this whole show from the start has been a cavalcade of riches.
	11:53am Handy Haversack: Thanks, Joe! A fine, fine winter's morning of radio. Much appreciated!
	11:53am GeoSinPhilly: A lot of good reaction to this set. I guess you've already got 45 minutes of next week's show planned with Side B.
	11:53am Bobby: I was aware of the book but have not read it. Ordered a copy during this uplifting set. Thanks Joe!
	👻 11:53am Karl: I miss mixtapes
	👻 11:53am tim: Thank you, Joe! I'd really like to hear another mix tape recreation if the opportunity arises.
	👻 11:54am DjLorraine: Thanks for a year of Monday morning company Joe McGasko
	👻 11:54am egould: Thanks, Joe McG. Happy Holidays!
	11:54am Joe McG: Tindersticks marks the end of the mix-tape side. Appending a B&S Xmas song to end the show!
	11:55am clarke: thnx joseph mtthew
	11:55am Bobby: ↳ Karl @11:53 Send me a tape Karl!
	👻 11:56am tadpoles: ↳ Joe McG @11:54 So good to hear Peely's voice. Great show thanks Joe and Happy Holidays! Cheers
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, all! Have a merry holiday! See you next Monday.
	👻 11:56am bradford: Thanks as always Joe. Have a great holiday!
	11:56am hifivicky: whoever rec'd Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield, yessss it is a beautiful, sad, wonderful book. he also recently released a book about Taylor Swift that is awesome, whether or not yre a swifty haha
	11:57am clarke: ↳ hifivicky @11:56 good read
	11:57am geoff: Think I remember hearing this B&S at the time (if it’s the session where they did “Little Donkey”)
	11:58am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Thanks for spinning Joe!
	11:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JoeMcG ~
	👻 11:58am Brian in UK: Good to hear John Peel's voice. Thanks JOE.
	11:58am he's Crafty: Thanks Joe, Thanks Stuart, Thanks everybody! Great show, great sets, great fun!🥰
	11:58am TerrDE: Merry Christmas Joe
	12:00pm Planet Ø Tyler: Thanks Joe!
	👻 12:00pm Hughie Considine: Thanks for another fine show, DJ Joe!
	12:00pm Garrity: Happy Holidays, Joe & all!
	12:01pm Artie: Thanks, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from December 23, 2024

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