WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from March 6, 2014

Listener comments!
	9:03am DCE: good morning
	9:04am HEAT: good morning Joe and all!
	9:04am Cheri Pi: Aliens, in da House
	9:04am tim: Barry, we hardly knew ya!
	👻 9:05am Ken From Hyde Park: Just bounced in...boing, boing, boing!
	9:06am pierre: Bonjour Joe McG and Trouble !
	9:06am Joe McG: Good mornin', everybody! Thanks for dropping by for my big marathon shoe. Let's make the moolah! 1-800-968-9368, wfmu.org
	9:07am Alessia: Smooooth.
	9:07am Guido (Cologne): Guten TZAG everyone! Good morning Joe!
	9:08am common: yip yip!
	9:09am Alessia: @Danne, don't know if you are still there but thank you for the link I'm downloading it :)
	9:09am earrie: The second show is for the stereo.
	9:10am Caryn: Heh, kinda loved that "I don't give a fat..." bit. A lesson in how to avoid using swears while at the same time making crystal clear that a swear is implied.
	9:12am SeanG: Mekons 4evah
	9:12am common: were i a millionare, fmu would not have to worry.
	9:13am Caryn: Mekons!
	9:14am Joe McG: I'm conflicted about using the Mekons to raise money, but maybe they would understand!
	9:15am SeanG: haha good one Joe!
	9:16am Caryn: Well, it's not as if you are using them in some unseemly way, you're just playing their music! ;)
	9:16am Cheri Pi: Dentists!
	9:18am Caryn: Man, women are sneaky! They blind you with science, then they dazzle you with basil...
	9:18am KevinfromBayRidge: Good Morning all. Joe, i'm sure sure they wouldn't. Especially since they probably get more play on FMU than anywhere else!
	9:19am Cecile: this isn't the version from Brave Words is it?
	9:20am Cecile: no, Martin's voice is pretty shot.
	9:20am tim: @common: Very nice sentiment, but if wfmu didn't have to worry, there would certainly not be this collective effort, this furtive groping for traction, this hive-like empathy we create during the marathon, and enjoy throughout the year... Please don't let that stop you from becoming a millionaire benefactor, of course. WE'RE ALL WFMU.
	9:20am Tim 07030: Don't think they'd mind, Joe, here's an article Sally Timms wrote a while back proposing rock and roll patronage. Plus, as she mentions, The Mekons used to beg for money from the stage! articles.chicagotribune.com...
	9:20am Joe McG: Nope, Cecile--the new LP is live!
	9:21am EzSezz: WFMU is the Mekons of radio stations. Without the Sheffield accents.
	9:21am Cecile: He sounds worn. And not in a cool Billie Holiday way. Hmmmm.
	9:21am Cecile: band is great, though.
	9:21am earrie: Traction and/or, when faced with ice, a running sliding wheee.
	9:22am common: @tim: well put. and no worries about me being a millionare. hey trouble!
	9:22am HEAT: Good morning Trouble!!!
	9:22am Caryn: Of course, The Mekon might not feel so benevolent towards WFMU, but he's evil, so who cares? www.mohaps.com...
	9:22am DCE: what about us not-quite people people?
	9:22am Alessia: Ciao Trouble! It's nice a nice combo to hear.
	9:23am Cheri Pi: Troubs & Joe! Together again??
	👻 9:23am Ken From Hyde Park: Why doesn't WFMU just borrow a bunch of money? Pay it off whenever. It's the American way.
	9:24am Holly in NC: Running to a job where I'll be working sans internet, but I think someone needs to pledge to keep Tesla in clover so he leaves the stacks (& Joe's yogurt) alone! Have a great morning, everyone!
	9:24am Cecile: I believe WFMU is carrying quite a bit of debt. And DJs have to take time off work, which is tough. Or they're working, which is tougher.
	9:24am Cheri Pi: I have to go to fundraising bootcamp for the University next week, Im taking some lessons from Woof-Moo to keep the fundraiser weird.
	9:25am common: nice cheri!
	9:25am Cecile: I am all about people sponsoring artists and musicians by buying their stuff, but actual patronage makes me a bit nervous.
	9:27am Michele: Y3K pledge!!!! Yes!!!! Go Joe!
	9:28am Cheri Pi: We're trying to raise over a Billion dollars. wish me luck
	9:28am Caryn: @Cecile: I think as long as the patron or the patronned don't try to change the art or music to better "please" the patron, it's okay.
	9:28am pierre: FRED !
	9:28am Cheri Pi: FRED!
	9:30am Cheri Pi: What WE said.
	9:30am Cecile: Yes, that is great - in theory! We have many classical composer bios to show us what happens when the process goes amok.
	9:31am Cheri Pi: Joe'll have some rules that's for sure. I learned a lot parenting BT, I was way too lenient and look what happened there.
	9:31am Joe McG: @Cheri: The guy's out of control. But I don't think I should pay for the sins of the first son! :)
	9:32am Caryn: @Cecile: Agreed. There's plenty of historical examples of patronage gone awry (usually because one or both parties have ulterior motives for the arrangement). But luckily there are good examples too, like Nica.
	9:33am Cecile: Just take her to Spumoni Palace once in a while like Dave Mandl does his mom, and it will all be good.
	9:33am Cheri Pi: To hell with it, I'm going to spoil you rotten then
	9:34am Cecile: Joe, who did the artwork for your premiums? it's quite great.
	9:35am Joe McG: @Cheri: I'm spoiling right back. @Cecile: Faye did one and Tim L. did the other. I'll talk about it soon!
	9:35am Guido (Cologne): ... i missed something important ?!?
	9:35am Caryn: After Bosco's passing, choosing a new adoptee is more emotionally taxing.
	9:36am Cecile: Caryn, you have to adopt Duane.
	9:36am Cecile: Nobody does that who listens to this station. "Nilsson sings Newman!"
	9:37am Caryn: @Cecile: Is he still available? Surely he's been scooped up already.
	9:37am Cecile: Yeah, but I want Baltimore. Put it on the next one.
	9:38am Cecile: I don't think so, Caryn. Take a look!
	9:38am Cecile: I can totally believe it!
	9:39am Cecile: No, it's early U2! WHen they were mysterious, swirling, and pretty good.
	9:39am Cecile: when the Edge was the focus of the band and not Bobo.
	9:40am Roberto: Come back, Charlie!
	9:45am still b/p: "Most experts believe only a few people in history have ever self-actualized -- like Plato, Gandhi, Einstein, maybe Bono." -- from the play Becky's New Car
	9:45am Joe McG: @Cecile: "Baltimore" was so close, but just didn't make it. I hope you'll like it, anyway!
	9:45am Alessia: Bonobo
	9:45am KP: Joe did you know Randy Newman's 12 songs album is practically a Byrds record, Gene
	9:46am Cecile: I will, Joe! Here's the 1981 U2 that swayed us all. And then, as the YouTube commenter put it, it seems like we were tricked. www.youtube.com...
	9:47am Cecile: AWESOME NEW WAVE DANCING
	9:48am Joe McG: Saboten from Japan, 1982: get in the running now! This is expensive and hard to get, so it's win-win. $15 pledge gets you in the running!
	9:49am Guido (Cologne): Japanese accent German! How cute!
	9:49am Alessia: I like this! <3
	9:49am bobdoesthings: this is sweeeet.
	9:51am common: @cecile: bobo!!!! man, that's one of the best things i've read in a long time. i love the unforgettable fire. fuckin eno. but bobo....ooofa.
	9:51am Caryn: Man, young Adam Clayton always makes me snicker. That hair!
	9:51am Sam: J'adore Puffy!
	9:52am Cecile: It's pretty frizztastic. dig that Steve Lillywhite production. choice.
	9:52am common: @caryn: lovely adam fro.
	9:53am Cecile: and the edge with hair!
	9:54am Caryn: I mean, Edge has big hair too, but the platinum blondness of Adam's, coupled with the glasses, just takes his hair over the edge into "are we sure that's not a white clown wig" territory.
	9:54am Cecile: It is pretty spectacular - plus those specs!
	9:56am Alessia: I want to be in the running too!
	9:58am Andrew Waterloo: Good morning lurkers and pledgers.
	9:58am Katy: I didn't know what 'band-aids' were for years.. in the uk we call them 'plasters' :)
	9:58am P-90: @Cecile: for what one more opinion is worth: you are 100% correct about the early vs. later U2 The other thing about the I Will Follow vid: you can see a choreographer was hired to give Bono the then-contemporary "MTV style" moves, he looks like he can't take them seriously, keeps forgetting to do them and is being cued from off-camera to go back to his little Go-Go's dance
	9:59am donpappy: Em Records does great reissues, including a wild album of Japanese folk tunes done with animal sounds.
	10:00am Cecile: He seems kinda drunk, and not lip-synching really well on that. Which makes me laugh.
	10:00am Matt F: I can hear Belock laughing in the background!
	10:00am pierre: @Trouble and Joe : Hahahahahahaha… you two are making burst out loud of laughing
	10:01am SeanG: this bed music is super funky
	👻 10:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Trouble should feel well at home this morning. She was in this time slot a few years ago.
	10:03am Trouble: joe belock assures us he is laughing at us not with us...
	10:03am Joe McG: @Ken: Good memory, Ken! That's right!
	10:05am Peanut Gallery: When I first volunteered to be a DJ at the USMA radio station WKDT, 10 watts at 90.1, they trained me on using using the mike + turntables + gear by handing me a Cactus LP to play. "Coming up next, a track from Hot and Sweaty..." I have never listened to them since.
	10:06am P-90: @PeaGall: Ha ha!
	10:07am MD: Give Give Give....The Family Must Live!!!!
	10:08am MD: " Can not kill the family...Battery is found in me!"
	10:10am βrian: Since it's unseemly to name things after donors, I suggest you name them after their pets.
	10:10am common: joe, were you just doing the chrisopher guest synchronized swimming thing? i know you, i know you. so funny!
	10:11am van: I live in the archives, really
	10:14am Joe McG: @common: You heard it! I know you, I know you....
	10:14am van: This is really nice!
	10:14am earrie: @common ha !
	10:16am Cecile: this is pretty tough-sounding. and the bass player is awesome.
	10:17am DCE: ooh sweet cover
	10:17am V Priceless: Hey Joe! Great show! Keep up the fine work!
	10:18am Cecile: Joe, do you have Dusty Springfield doing any Randy Newman songs on your comp?
	10:19am Joe McG: @Cecile: No, I figure everyone knows those. But i considered it very seriously!
	10:20am Cecile: that's cool.
	10:20am van: That has some good trombone.
	10:21am Ike: Foreign listeners NOTE: Our stupid U.S. Daylight Saving Time hits us early this Sunday morning! WFMU will be thrown off by an hour for you, unless yr country also springs forward an hour for spring. May affect the marathon finale for you.
	10:22am P-90: She not only caught the essence of Randy, she caught it in the "Newman's Own" label style
	10:22am Cecile: exactly!
	10:23am DCE: @ Ike, the most dreaded weekend in America
	10:24am Joe McG: Randy fans among you will note the burning cornfield!
	10:25am Alessia: @Cecile and P-90 give us some cool songs titles. That Interests me.
	10:26am Cecile: for whom, Alessia?
	10:28am Cecile: if they are hairless, they need them. Also, chihuahuas need em in the winter.
	10:29am DCE: oh there's the playlist! hiding out there in the corner.
	10:29am Alessia: Some Newman's ones sung by Dusty, what do you recommend?
	10:29am Cecile: danke schoen?
	10:29am van: Danke
	10:30am Cecile: Oh, you can't go wrong with "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore" or "I Think It's Going To Rain Today."
	10:31am Guido (Cologne): "Thank you" in German: Vielen Dank (pronounce "feelen dunk" ... "lots of thanks")
	10:31am Cecile: just because I got you to say "pumice" instead of "poo-mice?"
	10:32am Andrew Waterloo: A sweater that covers a house is called a cozy.
	10:32am Alessia: Merci Cecile! I'll listen to those with pleasure, I love Dusty.
	10:33am mariano: @Guido: I'm still feelen dunk from last night!
	10:33am Mike East: swag question: does getting both of Joe's premium CD's count as one premium or two? I'm sorry if this has been covered fifty times already.
	10:34am Kevlicki: It appears cassettes are quite a trend
	10:34am Andrew Waterloo: @Mike it's two check marks on the brochure.
	10:34am Cecile: Alessia, Jerry Butler also does different, but killer versions of those songs as well.
	10:35am Kevlicki: Glad I still have my Walkman, and a dual cassette deck!
	10:36am Andrew Waterloo: I've never gotten around to buying a cassette deck.
	10:36am Mike East: @Andrew, that's what I saw...the banner at the top of the playlist got me confused...that leads me to believe $75 gets you both.
	10:36am Joe McG: New prize: Emily! Pledges of $15 or more in the running!
	10:36am P-90: @Andrew: I thought a sweater that covers a teapot is called a "cozy", and a sweater that covers a house is called a "fumigation tent"
	10:36am Cecile: This is the selecter!
	10:37am Caryn: On My Radio!
	10:37am Peanut Gallery: I select you!
	10:38am Cecile: P-90, excellent!
	10:39am Cheri Pi: SELECTOR! I have this LP :)
	10:39am bibi: hi joe & gaskoes (casse-cou for francophones) ! nice selector track to get in this not same not old show.
	10:40am Alessia: I need to starclick this.
	10:40am Alessia: Hi Bibiiii! Ca va?
	10:41am Joe McG: Sorry for the confusion, guys! Every premium is $75. I just happen to have two! The text is not quite worded correctly.
	10:41am bibi: is this impromptu flanger original to the Fox track ?!
	10:42am Guido (Cologne): some 100 years ago i had this on cassette! OMG ... the flanging!!!
	10:42am bibi: hi alessia ! hey didnt manage to catch any wfmuer at the centre barbara gig last friday :(
	10:44am bibi: yeah i agree trouble, working material is boring. excluding maybe transmitters ?
	10:44am Alessia: I wasn't there, was it cool? We got our tickets to Julianna Barwick yesterday, yay!
	10:44am Guido (Cologne): Dutch band! www.discogs.com...
	10:45am Mike East: no problem, Joe. I was just double checking...I want both of them, but there's just so many DJ premiums that I'm having trouble choosing, as usual. This will take some serious deliberation.
	10:45am common: @ joe & earrie: was away for a bit, but Gooood! Hee hee!!!
	10:46am Guido (Cologne): THE PREMIUM TEXT on top of playlist IS ENTIRELY WRONG then
	10:46am Mike East: aw damn...I forgot I have to pick a prize warehouse item too! decisions decisions....
	10:47am van: Ha, I happen to have on my desk right now, a CD titled "Double Trouble" from the 2012 marathon. Pure coincidence.
	10:48am Caryn: Herbie Armstrong from Fox is such a sweetheart. Can't help smiling charmingly all the time.
	10:49am bibi: "we're talking superrare". trouble, pay i (ab)use your daily poetry for my band's lyrics ?
	10:50am bibi: sorry "May i" ?
	10:52am βrian: When the cow lifts its tail, it should spread some wealth.
	10:53am Kevlicki: Brian Is that a euphemism?
	10:54am βrian: Not if you're a tomato plant.
	10:54am Trouble: everything's for the taking ,here at wfmu, bibi!
	10:54am sugarwolf: The son of Fox's singer was/is a WFMU fan. I hope he's pledging!!
	10:54am Joe McG: @Guido: Yes, entirely wrong, I'm afraid! My last-minute fault, sorry, guys!
	10:54am Joe McG: @sugarwolf: I hope so!
	10:57am common: hells yea, cochise!
	10:57am V Priceless: Cochise - is that the band w/Mick Grabham who went on to play w/Procol Harum?
	11:00am P-90: Freedom of Toilet Paper!
	11:03am Alessia: Why do I never win?!
	11:04am DCE: keep playing, Alessia!
	11:04am Mike East: You must not want it enough, Alessia
	11:04am Guido (Cologne): The Europeans must support Americans in order to save their own culture and rescue them from dullness!
	11:05am P-90: Guys, give Alessia a prize already, c'mon! quit screwin' around
	11:06am Alessia: I'm not very lucky at games I guess.. Well I'm very lucky with love so that's fine.
	11:07am DCE: all Dolly tracks get an automatic clicky-star!
	11:07am Joe McG: Oh, Alessia, I really want you to have a prize!!
	11:07am Alessia: Ahahah! Thank you P-90 I appreciate! :)
	11:08am P-90: @Alessia: So, how do you feel about Dolly Parton? -One of our American treasures, some would say a pair of our American treasures
	11:09am Mike East: saw an interview this week with Frank Zappa who said he liked Dolly Parton in spite of her "treasures" cuz he thinks she has a great voice.
	11:09am Alessia: P-90 I literally LOVE Dolly Parton, Jolene is one of the most beautiful songs ever! A pair because she's very busted right?
	11:09am mariano: @Guido: yes, the cultural symbiosis of the last century has been one of humanity's saving graces. @P-90: Dolly has a great sense of humor about herself. Once on Letterman she read a top 10 list, "Top 10 Complaints About Being Dolly Parton." Number one was: "Nobody notices I have a great ass too!"
	11:09am bibi: do you know dolly was called after dolly parton ? because cloned from mammal cells. seriously.
	11:10am Caryn: Alessia, don't mind. This is my 54th attempt at winning something this Marathon. Here's hoping, because I adore Dolly!
	11:11am Alessia: But to me, your REAL american treasure remains Lee Hazlewood <3
	11:11am the impost subsumes the transaction: eject! eject!
	11:12am Mike East: CD meth lab! hahaha!
	11:12am DCE: play that surface noise, Joe!
	11:12am Guido (Cologne): ON WFMU YOU NEVER KNOW: Does the CD skip or is it intentional?
	11:12am Alessia: @Caryn so good luck to you too! :)
	11:13am βrian: Ooh, Trouble, ça me donne des frissons quand tu parles français !
	11:13am Caryn: @Guido: too true! @Alessia: here's hoping one of us Dolly lovers gets it!
	11:14am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: Morning Joe and Trouble! Les Sans Coulettes rocks by the way.
	11:14am Caryn: Oh, Trouble, saying Finnish words with a Swedish accent... It's fun.
	11:15am Trouble: caryn, i'l take it! anything's better than an american accent!
	11:16am Cecile: Alessia, pledge just before the drawing. That can help. Also, for two whole years I won nothing. THen it turned around.
	11:16am P-90: @Mike East: yeah, every "serious," WFMU-ready musician has weighed in on their respect for Dolly, as vocalist, songwriter, producer (Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is another that comes to mind)
	11:16am Alessia: @Joe why don't you go with some Juliette Greco (especially Deshabillé moi) or Serge Gainsbourg too? They're awesome!
	11:16am pierre: I like "Fleur de Lune"
	11:17am Cecile: Speak FInnish like you're speaking Japanese: BAH-bah-bah-bah. Punch the first syllable.
	11:17am Trouble: chills, brian! that would be a bad thing considering you are in the north country...
	11:17am Caryn: @Trouble: well, see, 6 % of the Finnish population are Swedish-speakers, so you can just say that's what you're going for. A lot of the big artists, writers and classical composers came from Swedish-speaking families.
	11:17am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: whoops I meant culottes...
	11:18am pierre: for you french amateurs over there, I warmly recommend the high in the sky compilation : V/A MOBILISATION GENERALE – PROTEST AND SPIRIT JAZZ FROM FRANCE 1970-1976 on the Born Bad Label
	11:18am Cecile: hey, have you ever heard Dolly do Mule Skinner BLues? It's ridiculously great, and also she was the first woman to do it.
	11:18am βrian: Quelle culotte, Jennique !
	11:19am Alessia: Dolly you are giving me chills over her.
	11:19am Joe McG: @Cecile: I played it a few weeks ago! :)
	11:20am Alessia: here*
	11:21am Cecile: yeah, well, I missed it. hahaha
	11:22am mariano: @Alessia: it's ok, I get chills over her too!
	11:23am Alessia: Uhahuahuahauha! That came out a bit ambiguous I know!
	11:23am Gaylord Fields: I've recently been heavy into Dolly's mid-Sixties non-country, girl-group-leaning Monument sides, such as Don't Drop Out (practically a Shangri-Las song), Busy Signal, and especially I've Known You All My Life, an particularly obscure Goffin-King tune.
	11:23am Trouble: pierre i agree 100 %. je l'adore!
	11:24am nickybones: Jesus, can't believe this is the first time I'm tuning into this show! Great stuff, Joe.
	11:25am northguineahills: It wasn't until well into the 20th century that the middle and upper classes spoke Finnish as their first language at home as opposed to Swedish, depending on their political bent. (If I remember my history somewhat hazily)
	11:26am mariano: Another great country voice FMU has turned me onto is Bobbie Gentry, especially "Fancy," which seems like a perfect balance of country and funk, weird as it may sound.
	11:26am Kevlicki: Joe, what's playing in the background?
	11:26am Rick from SC: yeay for Parsippany and Boonton
	11:27am Gaylord Fields: I have a short list of artists who are unjustly ignored when people discuss the great songwriters of popular music. Dolly tops that list, and Keith Richards is not far behind.
	11:27am fred: Hello Joe and pledgers. I hope this break in meetings and emergencies at work lasts into Diane's show
	11:28am glenn: eddy grant should also be on that list, gaylord.
	11:28am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: @Gaylord - I think people under appreciate the singing voice of Jimi Hendrix.
	11:29am pierre: @ glenn : agree
	11:29am Cecile: I am a big fan of Tobin Sprout. His songs are actually good outside of the confines of GBV fandom. Yes, eddy grant!
	11:30am Ralphine: Eddy Grant of Electric Avenue fame?
	11:30am KP: It's all in the cards
	11:31am βrian: I'm surprised Gomez hasn't phoned in a pledge.
	11:31am Alessia: Caryn let's hug and grieve together. Next year will be our year!
	11:31am Gaylord Fields: @Ralphine: That would be Eddy Grant of The Equals fame. But yes, Electric Ave., too.
	11:31am Cecile: Colin Moulding, too. Most of the few XTC/Dukes of the Stratosphear songs I like are written by him. Ralphine, he was also a member of the Equals, and had many solo LPs before Electric Ave.
	11:31am Ralphine: Electric Avenue is the only song of his I know.
	11:32am Cecile: Jinx, Gaylord. Alessia, his "living on the frontline" is a pretty great song that presages Electric Avenue, and I think is a little better.
	11:32am pierre: @ Gaylord : I love the Equals…
	11:33am Gaylord Fields: @Cecile: I was just going to say Colin Moulding. but then I responded to Ralphine's Eddy Grant query. Colin writes only a couple of songs per LP, and they're always the most memorable ones.
	11:33am glenn: actually, no. the odds are not 50/50.
	11:33am P-90: Finally, some respect for Caucasian roots music
	11:33am Caryn: @Alessia: yep, let's put on Jolene at home and weep as we sing along. Still have money for 3 pledges left. Here's hoping my winning percentage improves significantly.
	11:33am Cecile: If you pledge to Duane, you get a crazy fantastic version of the Equals's Funky Like a Train.
	11:34am Alessia: @Cecile I'm very tempted to ask you for a mix, you seem to have lot of things to teach!
	11:34am Cecile: on his live tracks premium, that is
	11:35am Joe McG: @glenn: You're right about that, but well, chances are pretty good!
	11:35am pierre: Cecile is knowledge pit !
	11:35am Ralphine: I'm hoping my Mega Millions lottery winning percentage improves significantly. Right now, it's 0%.
	11:35am Cecile: Thanks, but check out Gaylord's show and premiums - he is our sensei. I am but a grasshopper.
	11:35am Gaylord Fields: @Cecile: Double jinx! @Ralphine: Start with their big hit, Baby Come Back, and then move on to Police on My Back (covered famously by the Clash), and then run, don't walk, to my favorite Equals song, I Get So Excited! (Exclamation mark mine, and well-deserved!)
	11:36am Alessia: Jolene Jolene Joleeene I'm begging of you please don't take my priiiiize.
	11:36am Cecile: hahahaha, Gaylord. great minds...do something that I forgot...
	11:37am Caryn: @ngh: early decades of the 20th century, yes. For a long time, there was no proper, codified written Finnish. As Finnish nationalism and calls for independence arose, Finn-Swede writers and politicians started writing in Finnish, creating a written language.
	11:37am Ralphine: OK, Mr. Fields, and thanks. I've heard Police on My Back. Just didn't know it was him.
	11:37am Cecile: Yup, Caryn. That's when the Kalevala came back big time, right?
	11:39am northguineahills: Soul Jazz Recs released a nice album from the Anchiskhati choir about 6 years back.
	11:39am Cecile: this also kind of parallels the Hmong written language in the latter part of the 20th century. It had never been written down until then.
	11:40am Cecile: I learned this because I wrote a grant proposal for an agency that was trying to get funds for Hmong literacy.
	11:40am Gaylord Fields: Yes! The Cedars are one of my top 25 Lebanese freakbeat bands of the '60s!
	11:40am Caryn: @Cecile: well, that's when it was compiled. Lönnrot and others travelled and transcribed different local storytellers' stories, and then compiled them into one epic.
	11:41am Guido (Cologne): Equals song "I Can See But You Don't Know" or so ... great garagy track.
	11:42am Cecile: Yeah, that's right - what I remember from ethnomusicology class. Also from growing up in the UP.
	11:43am Andrew Waterloo: Yooper?
	11:43am van: Thanks ya'll. Gotta run. tschüß!
	11:43am Ralphine: The Equals' gravelly voices seem like kind of an odd mix with that poppy music.
	11:43am Cecile: SNL Truman Capote voice "You have a top 25 Lebanese freakbeat bands of the '60s list?
	11:43am Cecile: Ralphine, it grows on you. And look up the live version of funky like a train.
	11:44am βrian: Juliette Binoche!
	11:44am Gaylord Fields: @Cecile @ Caryn: I've always been impressed with Sequoyah singlehandedly devising a writing system for Cherokee. It's a gorgeous alphabet that takes its cues from Roman/Cyrillic and goes somewhere breathtaking. I wonder if it's on Google Translate.
	11:44am Cecile: Yep, Andrew! From Houghton. Across the bridge from Suomi College, er, Finlandia University.
	11:45am PJ: Hi Joe - is the 3 Colors box the DVD or the Blu Ray version?
	11:45am Cecile: I bet it is somewhere, Gaylord. I'm intrigued about trying to learn Maori online. THe resources are there...
	11:45am βrian: Saying Yah to UP, then.
	11:46am Cecile: hahahahah, right on.
	11:46am Gaylord Fields: @Cecile: I'm being a bit cheeky. The Cedars and the Sea-ders alternate on that list until it's full.
	11:47am Cecile: when Suomi changed their name, their initials because FU. My sister gave my dad a hat from there, and he didn't take it off for a week. And he giggled the whole time he had it on. He's 80 going on 9.
	11:47am Caryn: I wonder if the relatively recent development of grammatical Finnish or the small size of the Finnish-speaking world population is the reason Finns are fascinated with languages like Latin and Esperanto?
	11:48am Cecile: Calling a Lebanese band the Cedars is like calling a Canadian hockey team the Maple Leafs or an American football team The Eagles.
	11:48am bibi: the finno-ougrian languages are loners... which is their charm too.
	11:48am glenn: For example, even the 50/50 coin toss really isn’t 50/50 — it’s closer to 51/49, biased toward whatever side was up when the coin was thrown into the air. But more incredibly, as reported by Science News, spinning a penny, in this case one with the Lincoln Memorial on the back, gives even more pronounced odds — the penny will land tails side up roughly 80 percent of the time. The reason: the side with Lincoln’s head on it is a bit heavier than the flip side, causing the coin’s center of mass to lie slightly toward heads. The spinning coin tends to fall toward the heavier side more often, leading to a pronounced number of extra “tails” results when it finally comes to rest. And that's also why russian roulette isn't so risky - the chamber with the shell in it will land on the bottom 99 times out of 100.
	11:49am Caryn: @Cecile: that's a fantastic story! And exactly how a dad should be.
	11:50am Cecile: Caryn, most of the Finnish people I've known who are language-oriented are really good at it. Maybe it's because every other language is a piece of cake. :D Yeah, he has his moments. hahaha
	11:50am earrie: Coin flip, meet random number generator. Odd? Even? ding.
	11:51am Andrew Waterloo: No Hulu+ in Canada :(
	11:52am mariano: @glenn: thanks, I'll feel much safer now when I play Russian roulette :)
	11:52am Ralphine: Thanks for the penny-flipping information, Glenn. I'm going to put it to good use.
	11:52am Cecile: You have Ed the Sock.
	11:52am Andrew Waterloo: Canada doesn't have pennies either :(
	11:53am glenn: did she just say hearty is diane's co host? man. that's gonna be ......interesting.
	11:53am Cecile: I think Fabio and Diane is a match that could work.
	11:53am glenn: well, we don't MAKE pennies anymore. there are still lots of them out there.
	11:54am Alessia: You are almost there Joe!
	11:54am Joe McG: Last chance to get in the running for the grand prize as well as the Three Colors trilogy on DVD!
	11:55am Andrew Waterloo: yah, it's nice not getting them anymore. It was kind of funny that when I exchanged all my pennies what I got back was rounded up.
	11:55am Andrew Waterloo: I'm crossing all my fingers and eyebrows for this one.
	11:56am the impost subsumes the transaction: kerln
	11:56am bobdoesthings: paypal just called me to make sure the multiple mini pledges werent fraudulent.. haha
	11:56am Wilfried: Trouble & Joe, please take my card out of the drawing, I already know these movies.
	11:57am Alessia: I salute you all, gotta go to my french lesson. Thanks for the very pleasant afternoon everybody!
	11:57am Guido (Cologne): @the impost subsumes the transaction Interesting attempt!
	👻 12:00pm 12539: Thanks Joe (and Trouble too)!
	12:00pm probablyjohn: follow up question: what about coffee, then?

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from March 6, 2014

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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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March 6, 2014: 2014 Marathon Show #2 with Special Co-host Trouble!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Barry White	Your Sweetness Is My Weakness					0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Mekons	Millionaire "Millionaire" by "The Mekons"	I [Heart] Mekons				0:08:57 (Pop-up)
The Dentists	She Dazzled Me with Basil					0:13:15 (Pop-up)
The Chills	Wet Blanket "Wet Blanket" by "The Chills"	Somewhere Beautiful	Fire	CD	Don't be one--pledge to WFMU! This is our first prize today, get in the running!	0:16:01 (Pop-up)
The Chills	Night of Chill Blue "Night of Chill Blue" by "The Chills"	Somewhere Beautiful			We're going to give this away super soon, so get in the running now!	0:28:30 (Pop-up)
Jackie deShannon	Did He Call Today, Mama?	Newman's Loaned			one of my new premiums! $75 or more gets you one	0:31:36 (Pop-up)
The Match	Free and Easy "Free and Easy" by "The Match"	It's a Sunshine Day			my other new premium!	0:42:06 (Pop-up)
Saboten	The Snake Charmer's Song "The Snake Charmer's Song" by "Saboten"	Floor et Satie	Em	LP		0:45:43 (Pop-up)
Puffy	Love So Pure "Love So Pure" by "Puffy"	Spike				0:48:16 (Pop-up)
Saboten	Miniature Garden "Miniature Garden" by "Saboten"	Floor et Satie			About to give it away!	0:59:59 (Pop-up)
Kim Jung mi	The Wind "The Wind" by "Kim Jung mi"	Now	Lion	CD	The next prize...I LOVE this record. $15 or more gets you in the running	1:11:25 (Pop-up)
Eternity's Children	Just One Smile	Newman's Loaned			one of my premiums!	1:14:08 (Pop-up)
Kim Jung Mi	Blow Spring Breeze "Blow Spring Breeze" by "Kim Jung Mi"	Now			We're about to give this away!	1:21:26 (Pop-up)
The Charter Members	All the World's Kings	It's a Sunshine Day				1:23:14 (Pop-up)
The Selector	On My Radio "On My Radio" by "The Selector"			45		1:33:57 (Pop-up)
Fox	Only You Can "Only You Can" by "Fox"			45		1:36:59 (Pop-up)
Emily	My Mother's House "My Mother's House" by "Emily"	Emily	RPM	CD		1:49:28 (Pop-up)
Cochise	Love's Made a Fool of You	Do the 45: Songs from the Single File: Joe McGasko's 2010 WFMU Marathon Premium			a track from my grand prize	1:53:16 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton	Lonely Comin' Down "Lonely Comin' Down" by "Dolly Parton"	Fairest of Them All; My Favorite Songwriter, Porter Wagoner	The Omni Recording Corporation	CD		2:04:13 (Pop-up)
Nino and April	Alone Alone "Alone Alone" by "Nino and April"	It's a Sunshine Day				2:06:41 (Pop-up)
Françoise Hardy	Fleur de Lune "Fleur de Lune" by "Françoise Hardy"	Soleil				2:12:06 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton	Down from Dover "Down from Dover" by "Dolly Parton"	Fairest of Them All; My Favorite Songwriter, Porter Wagoner			$15 or more for this fantastic prize!	2:15:00 (Pop-up)
Johnny Cash	My Old Kentucky Home "My Old Kentucky Home" by "Johnny Cash"	Newman's Loaned				2:18:45 (Pop-up)
Musa	Chechen Balalaika Melody "Chechen Balalaika Melody" by "Musa"	Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus	Living Music Dupli-Cation	LP	The current prize!	2:31:56 (Pop-up)
Anchiskhati Choir Trio	Adila-Ali Pasha	Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus				2:33:15 (Pop-up)
Lola and Grastia	Garmon and Daira	Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus				2:35:08 (Pop-up)
The Cedars	For Your Information "For Your Information" by "The Cedars"					2:36:51 (Pop-up)
The Incredible Fog	The Sun's Gone Down	It's a Sunshine Day				2:51:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am DCE: good morning
	9:04am HEAT: good morning Joe and all!
	9:04am Cheri Pi: Aliens, in da House
	9:04am tim: Barry, we hardly knew ya!
	👻 9:05am Ken From Hyde Park: Just bounced in...boing, boing, boing!
	9:06am pierre: Bonjour Joe McG and Trouble !
	9:06am Joe McG: Good mornin', everybody! Thanks for dropping by for my big marathon shoe. Let's make the moolah! 1-800-968-9368, wfmu.org
	9:07am Alessia: Smooooth.
	9:07am Guido (Cologne): Guten TZAG everyone! Good morning Joe!
	9:08am common: yip yip!
	9:09am Alessia: @Danne, don't know if you are still there but thank you for the link I'm downloading it :)
	9:09am earrie: The second show is for the stereo.
	9:10am Caryn: Heh, kinda loved that "I don't give a fat..." bit. A lesson in how to avoid using swears while at the same time making crystal clear that a swear is implied.
	9:12am SeanG: Mekons 4evah
	9:12am common: were i a millionare, fmu would not have to worry.
	9:13am Caryn: Mekons!
	9:14am Joe McG: I'm conflicted about using the Mekons to raise money, but maybe they would understand!
	9:15am SeanG: haha good one Joe!
	9:16am Caryn: Well, it's not as if you are using them in some unseemly way, you're just playing their music! ;)
	9:16am Cheri Pi: Dentists!
	9:18am Caryn: Man, women are sneaky! They blind you with science, then they dazzle you with basil...
	9:18am KevinfromBayRidge: Good Morning all. Joe, i'm sure sure they wouldn't. Especially since they probably get more play on FMU than anywhere else!
	9:19am Cecile: this isn't the version from Brave Words is it?
	9:20am Cecile: no, Martin's voice is pretty shot.
	9:20am tim: @common: Very nice sentiment, but if wfmu didn't have to worry, there would certainly not be this collective effort, this furtive groping for traction, this hive-like empathy we create during the marathon, and enjoy throughout the year... Please don't let that stop you from becoming a millionaire benefactor, of course. WE'RE ALL WFMU.
	9:20am Tim 07030: Don't think they'd mind, Joe, here's an article Sally Timms wrote a while back proposing rock and roll patronage. Plus, as she mentions, The Mekons used to beg for money from the stage! articles.chicagotribune.com...
	9:20am Joe McG: Nope, Cecile--the new LP is live!
	9:21am EzSezz: WFMU is the Mekons of radio stations. Without the Sheffield accents.
	9:21am Cecile: He sounds worn. And not in a cool Billie Holiday way. Hmmmm.
	9:21am Cecile: band is great, though.
	9:21am earrie: Traction and/or, when faced with ice, a running sliding wheee.
	9:22am common: @tim: well put. and no worries about me being a millionare. hey trouble!
	9:22am HEAT: Good morning Trouble!!!
	9:22am Caryn: Of course, The Mekon might not feel so benevolent towards WFMU, but he's evil, so who cares? www.mohaps.com...
	9:22am DCE: what about us not-quite people people?
	9:22am Alessia: Ciao Trouble! It's nice a nice combo to hear.
	9:23am Cheri Pi: Troubs & Joe! Together again??
	👻 9:23am Ken From Hyde Park: Why doesn't WFMU just borrow a bunch of money? Pay it off whenever. It's the American way.
	9:24am Holly in NC: Running to a job where I'll be working sans internet, but I think someone needs to pledge to keep Tesla in clover so he leaves the stacks (& Joe's yogurt) alone! Have a great morning, everyone!
	9:24am Cecile: I believe WFMU is carrying quite a bit of debt. And DJs have to take time off work, which is tough. Or they're working, which is tougher.
	9:24am Cheri Pi: I have to go to fundraising bootcamp for the University next week, Im taking some lessons from Woof-Moo to keep the fundraiser weird.
	9:25am common: nice cheri!
	9:25am Cecile: I am all about people sponsoring artists and musicians by buying their stuff, but actual patronage makes me a bit nervous.
	9:27am Michele: Y3K pledge!!!! Yes!!!! Go Joe!
	9:28am Cheri Pi: We're trying to raise over a Billion dollars. wish me luck
	9:28am Caryn: @Cecile: I think as long as the patron or the patronned don't try to change the art or music to better "please" the patron, it's okay.
	9:28am pierre: FRED !
	9:28am Cheri Pi: FRED!
	9:30am Cheri Pi: What WE said.
	9:30am Cecile: Yes, that is great - in theory! We have many classical composer bios to show us what happens when the process goes amok.
	9:31am Cheri Pi: Joe'll have some rules that's for sure. I learned a lot parenting BT, I was way too lenient and look what happened there.
	9:31am Joe McG: @Cheri: The guy's out of control. But I don't think I should pay for the sins of the first son! :)
	9:32am Caryn: @Cecile: Agreed. There's plenty of historical examples of patronage gone awry (usually because one or both parties have ulterior motives for the arrangement). But luckily there are good examples too, like Nica.
	9:33am Cecile: Just take her to Spumoni Palace once in a while like Dave Mandl does his mom, and it will all be good.
	9:33am Cheri Pi: To hell with it, I'm going to spoil you rotten then
	9:34am Cecile: Joe, who did the artwork for your premiums? it's quite great.
	9:35am Joe McG: @Cheri: I'm spoiling right back. @Cecile: Faye did one and Tim L. did the other. I'll talk about it soon!
	9:35am Guido (Cologne): ... i missed something important ?!?
	9:35am Caryn: After Bosco's passing, choosing a new adoptee is more emotionally taxing.
	9:36am Cecile: Caryn, you have to adopt Duane.
	9:36am Cecile: Nobody does that who listens to this station. "Nilsson sings Newman!"
	9:37am Caryn: @Cecile: Is he still available? Surely he's been scooped up already.
	9:37am Cecile: Yeah, but I want Baltimore. Put it on the next one.
	9:38am Cecile: I don't think so, Caryn. Take a look!
	9:38am Cecile: I can totally believe it!
	9:39am Cecile: No, it's early U2! WHen they were mysterious, swirling, and pretty good.
	9:39am Cecile: when the Edge was the focus of the band and not Bobo.
	9:40am Roberto: Come back, Charlie!
	9:45am still b/p: "Most experts believe only a few people in history have ever self-actualized -- like Plato, Gandhi, Einstein, maybe Bono." -- from the play Becky's New Car
	9:45am Joe McG: @Cecile: "Baltimore" was so close, but just didn't make it. I hope you'll like it, anyway!
	9:45am Alessia: Bonobo
	9:45am KP: Joe did you know Randy Newman's 12 songs album is practically a Byrds record, Gene
	9:46am Cecile: I will, Joe! Here's the 1981 U2 that swayed us all. And then, as the YouTube commenter put it, it seems like we were tricked. www.youtube.com...
	9:47am Cecile: AWESOME NEW WAVE DANCING
	9:48am Joe McG: Saboten from Japan, 1982: get in the running now! This is expensive and hard to get, so it's win-win. $15 pledge gets you in the running!
	9:49am Guido (Cologne): Japanese accent German! How cute!
	9:49am Alessia: I like this! <3
	9:49am bobdoesthings: this is sweeeet.
	9:51am common: @cecile: bobo!!!! man, that's one of the best things i've read in a long time. i love the unforgettable fire. fuckin eno. but bobo....ooofa.
	9:51am Caryn: Man, young Adam Clayton always makes me snicker. That hair!
	9:51am Sam: J'adore Puffy!
	9:52am Cecile: It's pretty frizztastic. dig that Steve Lillywhite production. choice.
	9:52am common: @caryn: lovely adam fro.
	9:53am Cecile: and the edge with hair!
	9:54am Caryn: I mean, Edge has big hair too, but the platinum blondness of Adam's, coupled with the glasses, just takes his hair over the edge into "are we sure that's not a white clown wig" territory.
	9:54am Cecile: It is pretty spectacular - plus those specs!
	9:56am Alessia: I want to be in the running too!
	9:58am Andrew Waterloo: Good morning lurkers and pledgers.
	9:58am Katy: I didn't know what 'band-aids' were for years.. in the uk we call them 'plasters' :)
	9:58am P-90: @Cecile: for what one more opinion is worth: you are 100% correct about the early vs. later U2 The other thing about the I Will Follow vid: you can see a choreographer was hired to give Bono the then-contemporary "MTV style" moves, he looks like he can't take them seriously, keeps forgetting to do them and is being cued from off-camera to go back to his little Go-Go's dance
	9:59am donpappy: Em Records does great reissues, including a wild album of Japanese folk tunes done with animal sounds.
	10:00am Cecile: He seems kinda drunk, and not lip-synching really well on that. Which makes me laugh.
	10:00am Matt F: I can hear Belock laughing in the background!
	10:00am pierre: @Trouble and Joe : Hahahahahahaha… you two are making burst out loud of laughing
	10:01am SeanG: this bed music is super funky
	👻 10:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Trouble should feel well at home this morning. She was in this time slot a few years ago.
	10:03am Trouble: joe belock assures us he is laughing at us not with us...
	10:03am Joe McG: @Ken: Good memory, Ken! That's right!
	10:05am Peanut Gallery: When I first volunteered to be a DJ at the USMA radio station WKDT, 10 watts at 90.1, they trained me on using using the mike + turntables + gear by handing me a Cactus LP to play. "Coming up next, a track from Hot and Sweaty..." I have never listened to them since.
	10:06am P-90: @PeaGall: Ha ha!
	10:07am MD: Give Give Give....The Family Must Live!!!!
	10:08am MD: " Can not kill the family...Battery is found in me!"
	10:10am βrian: Since it's unseemly to name things after donors, I suggest you name them after their pets.
	10:10am common: joe, were you just doing the chrisopher guest synchronized swimming thing? i know you, i know you. so funny!
	10:11am van: I live in the archives, really
	10:14am Joe McG: @common: You heard it! I know you, I know you....
	10:14am van: This is really nice!
	10:14am earrie: @common ha !
	10:16am Cecile: this is pretty tough-sounding. and the bass player is awesome.
	10:17am DCE: ooh sweet cover
	10:17am V Priceless: Hey Joe! Great show! Keep up the fine work!
	10:18am Cecile: Joe, do you have Dusty Springfield doing any Randy Newman songs on your comp?
	10:19am Joe McG: @Cecile: No, I figure everyone knows those. But i considered it very seriously!
	10:20am Cecile: that's cool.
	10:20am van: That has some good trombone.
	10:21am Ike: Foreign listeners NOTE: Our stupid U.S. Daylight Saving Time hits us early this Sunday morning! WFMU will be thrown off by an hour for you, unless yr country also springs forward an hour for spring. May affect the marathon finale for you.
	10:22am P-90: She not only caught the essence of Randy, she caught it in the "Newman's Own" label style
	10:22am Cecile: exactly!
	10:23am DCE: @ Ike, the most dreaded weekend in America
	10:24am Joe McG: Randy fans among you will note the burning cornfield!
	10:25am Alessia: @Cecile and P-90 give us some cool songs titles. That Interests me.
	10:26am Cecile: for whom, Alessia?
	10:28am Cecile: if they are hairless, they need them. Also, chihuahuas need em in the winter.
	10:29am DCE: oh there's the playlist! hiding out there in the corner.
	10:29am Alessia: Some Newman's ones sung by Dusty, what do you recommend?
	10:29am Cecile: danke schoen?
	10:29am van: Danke
	10:30am Cecile: Oh, you can't go wrong with "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore" or "I Think It's Going To Rain Today."
	10:31am Guido (Cologne): "Thank you" in German: Vielen Dank (pronounce "feelen dunk" ... "lots of thanks")
	10:31am Cecile: just because I got you to say "pumice" instead of "poo-mice?"
	10:32am Andrew Waterloo: A sweater that covers a house is called a cozy.
	10:32am Alessia: Merci Cecile! I'll listen to those with pleasure, I love Dusty.
	10:33am mariano: @Guido: I'm still feelen dunk from last night!
	10:33am Mike East: swag question: does getting both of Joe's premium CD's count as one premium or two? I'm sorry if this has been covered fifty times already.
	10:34am Kevlicki: It appears cassettes are quite a trend
	10:34am Andrew Waterloo: @Mike it's two check marks on the brochure.
	10:34am Cecile: Alessia, Jerry Butler also does different, but killer versions of those songs as well.
	10:35am Kevlicki: Glad I still have my Walkman, and a dual cassette deck!
	10:36am Andrew Waterloo: I've never gotten around to buying a cassette deck.
	10:36am Mike East: @Andrew, that's what I saw...the banner at the top of the playlist got me confused...that leads me to believe $75 gets you both.
	10:36am Joe McG: New prize: Emily! Pledges of $15 or more in the running!
	10:36am P-90: @Andrew: I thought a sweater that covers a teapot is called a "cozy", and a sweater that covers a house is called a "fumigation tent"
	10:36am Cecile: This is the selecter!
	10:37am Caryn: On My Radio!
	10:37am Peanut Gallery: I select you!
	10:38am Cecile: P-90, excellent!
	10:39am Cheri Pi: SELECTOR! I have this LP :)
	10:39am bibi: hi joe & gaskoes (casse-cou for francophones) ! nice selector track to get in this not same not old show.
	10:40am Alessia: I need to starclick this.
	10:40am Alessia: Hi Bibiiii! Ca va?
	10:41am Joe McG: Sorry for the confusion, guys! Every premium is $75. I just happen to have two! The text is not quite worded correctly.
	10:41am bibi: is this impromptu flanger original to the Fox track ?!
	10:42am Guido (Cologne): some 100 years ago i had this on cassette! OMG ... the flanging!!!
	10:42am bibi: hi alessia ! hey didnt manage to catch any wfmuer at the centre barbara gig last friday :(
	10:44am bibi: yeah i agree trouble, working material is boring. excluding maybe transmitters ?
	10:44am Alessia: I wasn't there, was it cool? We got our tickets to Julianna Barwick yesterday, yay!
	10:44am Guido (Cologne): Dutch band! www.discogs.com...
	10:45am Mike East: no problem, Joe. I was just double checking...I want both of them, but there's just so many DJ premiums that I'm having trouble choosing, as usual. This will take some serious deliberation.
	10:45am common: @ joe & earrie: was away for a bit, but Gooood! Hee hee!!!
	10:46am Guido (Cologne): THE PREMIUM TEXT on top of playlist IS ENTIRELY WRONG then
	10:46am Mike East: aw damn...I forgot I have to pick a prize warehouse item too! decisions decisions....
	10:47am van: Ha, I happen to have on my desk right now, a CD titled "Double Trouble" from the 2012 marathon. Pure coincidence.
	10:48am Caryn: Herbie Armstrong from Fox is such a sweetheart. Can't help smiling charmingly all the time.
	10:49am bibi: "we're talking superrare". trouble, pay i (ab)use your daily poetry for my band's lyrics ?
	10:50am bibi: sorry "May i" ?
	10:52am βrian: When the cow lifts its tail, it should spread some wealth.
	10:53am Kevlicki: Brian Is that a euphemism?
	10:54am βrian: Not if you're a tomato plant.
	10:54am Trouble: everything's for the taking ,here at wfmu, bibi!
	10:54am sugarwolf: The son of Fox's singer was/is a WFMU fan. I hope he's pledging!!
	10:54am Joe McG: @Guido: Yes, entirely wrong, I'm afraid! My last-minute fault, sorry, guys!
	10:54am Joe McG: @sugarwolf: I hope so!
	10:57am common: hells yea, cochise!
	10:57am V Priceless: Cochise - is that the band w/Mick Grabham who went on to play w/Procol Harum?
	11:00am P-90: Freedom of Toilet Paper!
	11:03am Alessia: Why do I never win?!
	11:04am DCE: keep playing, Alessia!
	11:04am Mike East: You must not want it enough, Alessia
	11:04am Guido (Cologne): The Europeans must support Americans in order to save their own culture and rescue them from dullness!
	11:05am P-90: Guys, give Alessia a prize already, c'mon! quit screwin' around
	11:06am Alessia: I'm not very lucky at games I guess.. Well I'm very lucky with love so that's fine.
	11:07am DCE: all Dolly tracks get an automatic clicky-star!
	11:07am Joe McG: Oh, Alessia, I really want you to have a prize!!
	11:07am Alessia: Ahahah! Thank you P-90 I appreciate! :)
	11:08am P-90: @Alessia: So, how do you feel about Dolly Parton? -One of our American treasures, some would say a pair of our American treasures
	11:09am Mike East: saw an interview this week with Frank Zappa who said he liked Dolly Parton in spite of her "treasures" cuz he thinks she has a great voice.
	11:09am Alessia: P-90 I literally LOVE Dolly Parton, Jolene is one of the most beautiful songs ever! A pair because she's very busted right?
	11:09am mariano: @Guido: yes, the cultural symbiosis of the last century has been one of humanity's saving graces. @P-90: Dolly has a great sense of humor about herself. Once on Letterman she read a top 10 list, "Top 10 Complaints About Being Dolly Parton." Number one was: "Nobody notices I have a great ass too!"
	11:09am bibi: do you know dolly was called after dolly parton ? because cloned from mammal cells. seriously.
	11:10am Caryn: Alessia, don't mind. This is my 54th attempt at winning something this Marathon. Here's hoping, because I adore Dolly!
	11:11am Alessia: But to me, your REAL american treasure remains Lee Hazlewood <3
	11:11am the impost subsumes the transaction: eject! eject!
	11:12am Mike East: CD meth lab! hahaha!
	11:12am DCE: play that surface noise, Joe!
	11:12am Guido (Cologne): ON WFMU YOU NEVER KNOW: Does the CD skip or is it intentional?
	11:12am Alessia: @Caryn so good luck to you too! :)
	11:13am βrian: Ooh, Trouble, ça me donne des frissons quand tu parles français !
	11:13am Caryn: @Guido: too true! @Alessia: here's hoping one of us Dolly lovers gets it!
	11:14am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: Morning Joe and Trouble! Les Sans Coulettes rocks by the way.
	11:14am Caryn: Oh, Trouble, saying Finnish words with a Swedish accent... It's fun.
	11:15am Trouble: caryn, i'l take it! anything's better than an american accent!
	11:16am Cecile: Alessia, pledge just before the drawing. That can help. Also, for two whole years I won nothing. THen it turned around.
	11:16am P-90: @Mike East: yeah, every "serious," WFMU-ready musician has weighed in on their respect for Dolly, as vocalist, songwriter, producer (Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is another that comes to mind)
	11:16am Alessia: @Joe why don't you go with some Juliette Greco (especially Deshabillé moi) or Serge Gainsbourg too? They're awesome!
	11:16am pierre: I like "Fleur de Lune"
	11:17am Cecile: Speak FInnish like you're speaking Japanese: BAH-bah-bah-bah. Punch the first syllable.
	11:17am Trouble: chills, brian! that would be a bad thing considering you are in the north country...
	11:17am Caryn: @Trouble: well, see, 6 % of the Finnish population are Swedish-speakers, so you can just say that's what you're going for. A lot of the big artists, writers and classical composers came from Swedish-speaking families.
	11:17am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: whoops I meant culottes...
	11:18am pierre: for you french amateurs over there, I warmly recommend the high in the sky compilation : V/A MOBILISATION GENERALE – PROTEST AND SPIRIT JAZZ FROM FRANCE 1970-1976 on the Born Bad Label
	11:18am Cecile: hey, have you ever heard Dolly do Mule Skinner BLues? It's ridiculously great, and also she was the first woman to do it.
	11:18am βrian: Quelle culotte, Jennique !
	11:19am Alessia: Dolly you are giving me chills over her.
	11:19am Joe McG: @Cecile: I played it a few weeks ago! :)
	11:20am Alessia: here*
	11:21am Cecile: yeah, well, I missed it. hahaha
	11:22am mariano: @Alessia: it's ok, I get chills over her too!
	11:23am Alessia: Uhahuahuahauha! That came out a bit ambiguous I know!
	11:23am Gaylord Fields: I've recently been heavy into Dolly's mid-Sixties non-country, girl-group-leaning Monument sides, such as Don't Drop Out (practically a Shangri-Las song), Busy Signal, and especially I've Known You All My Life, an particularly obscure Goffin-King tune.
	11:23am Trouble: pierre i agree 100 %. je l'adore!
	11:24am nickybones: Jesus, can't believe this is the first time I'm tuning into this show! Great stuff, Joe.
	11:25am northguineahills: It wasn't until well into the 20th century that the middle and upper classes spoke Finnish as their first language at home as opposed to Swedish, depending on their political bent. (If I remember my history somewhat hazily)
	11:26am mariano: Another great country voice FMU has turned me onto is Bobbie Gentry, especially "Fancy," which seems like a perfect balance of country and funk, weird as it may sound.
	11:26am Kevlicki: Joe, what's playing in the background?
	11:26am Rick from SC: yeay for Parsippany and Boonton
	11:27am Gaylord Fields: I have a short list of artists who are unjustly ignored when people discuss the great songwriters of popular music. Dolly tops that list, and Keith Richards is not far behind.
	11:27am fred: Hello Joe and pledgers. I hope this break in meetings and emergencies at work lasts into Diane's show
	11:28am glenn: eddy grant should also be on that list, gaylord.
	11:28am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ: @Gaylord - I think people under appreciate the singing voice of Jimi Hendrix.
	11:29am pierre: @ glenn : agree
	11:29am Cecile: I am a big fan of Tobin Sprout. His songs are actually good outside of the confines of GBV fandom. Yes, eddy grant!
	11:30am Ralphine: Eddy Grant of Electric Avenue fame?
	11:30am KP: It's all in the cards
	11:31am βrian: I'm surprised Gomez hasn't phoned in a pledge.
	11:31am Alessia: Caryn let's hug and grieve together. Next year will be our year!
	11:31am Gaylord Fields: @Ralphine: That would be Eddy Grant of The Equals fame. But yes, Electric Ave., too.
	11:31am Cecile: Colin Moulding, too. Most of the few XTC/Dukes of the Stratosphear songs I like are written by him. Ralphine, he was also a member of the Equals, and had many solo LPs before Electric Ave.
	11:31am Ralphine: Electric Avenue is the only song of his I know.
	11:32am Cecile: Jinx, Gaylord. Alessia, his "living on the frontline" is a pretty great song that presages Electric Avenue, and I think is a little better.
	11:32am pierre: @ Gaylord : I love the Equals…
	11:33am Gaylord Fields: @Cecile: I was just going to say Colin Moulding. but then I responded to Ralphine's Eddy Grant query. Colin writes only a couple of songs per LP, and they're always the most memorable ones.
	11:33am glenn: actually, no. the odds are not 50/50.
	11:33am P-90: Finally, some respect for Caucasian roots music
	11:33am Caryn: @Alessia: yep, let's put on Jolene at home and weep as we sing along. Still have money for 3 pledges left. Here's hoping my winning percentage improves significantly.
	11:33am Cecile: If you pledge to Duane, you get a crazy fantastic version of the Equals's Funky Like a Train.
	11:34am Alessia: @Cecile I'm very tempted to ask you for a mix, you seem to have lot of things to teach!
	11:34am Cecile: on his live tracks premium, that is
	11:35am Joe McG: @glenn: You're right about that, but well, chances are pretty good!
	11:35am pierre: Cecile is knowledge pit !
	11:35am Ralphine: I'm hoping my Mega Millions lottery winning percentage improves significantly. Right now, it's 0%.
	11:35am Cecile: Thanks, but check out Gaylord's show and premiums - he is our sensei. I am but a grasshopper.
	11:35am Gaylord Fields: @Cecile: Double jinx! @Ralphine: Start with their big hit, Baby Come Back, and then move on to Police on My Back (covered famously by the Clash), and then run, don't walk, to my favorite Equals song, I Get So Excited! (Exclamation mark mine, and well-deserved!)
	11:36am Alessia: Jolene Jolene Joleeene I'm begging of you please don't take my priiiiize.
	11:36am Cecile: hahahaha, Gaylord. great minds...do something that I forgot...
	11:37am Caryn: @ngh: early decades of the 20th century, yes. For a long time, there was no proper, codified written Finnish. As Finnish nationalism and calls for independence arose, Finn-Swede writers and politicians started writing in Finnish, creating a written language.
	11:37am Ralphine: OK, Mr. Fields, and thanks. I've heard Police on My Back. Just didn't know it was him.
	11:37am Cecile: Yup, Caryn. That's when the Kalevala came back big time, right?
	11:39am northguineahills: Soul Jazz Recs released a nice album from the Anchiskhati choir about 6 years back.
	11:39am Cecile: this also kind of parallels the Hmong written language in the latter part of the 20th century. It had never been written down until then.
	11:40am Cecile: I learned this because I wrote a grant proposal for an agency that was trying to get funds for Hmong literacy.
	11:40am Gaylord Fields: Yes! The Cedars are one of my top 25 Lebanese freakbeat bands of the '60s!
	11:40am Caryn: @Cecile: well, that's when it was compiled. Lönnrot and others travelled and transcribed different local storytellers' stories, and then compiled them into one epic.
	11:41am Guido (Cologne): Equals song "I Can See But You Don't Know" or so ... great garagy track.
	11:42am Cecile: Yeah, that's right - what I remember from ethnomusicology class. Also from growing up in the UP.
	11:43am Andrew Waterloo: Yooper?
	11:43am van: Thanks ya'll. Gotta run. tschüß!
	11:43am Ralphine: The Equals' gravelly voices seem like kind of an odd mix with that poppy music.
	11:43am Cecile: SNL Truman Capote voice "You have a top 25 Lebanese freakbeat bands of the '60s list?
	11:43am Cecile: Ralphine, it grows on you. And look up the live version of funky like a train.
	11:44am βrian: Juliette Binoche!
	11:44am Gaylord Fields: @Cecile @ Caryn: I've always been impressed with Sequoyah singlehandedly devising a writing system for Cherokee. It's a gorgeous alphabet that takes its cues from Roman/Cyrillic and goes somewhere breathtaking. I wonder if it's on Google Translate.
	11:44am Cecile: Yep, Andrew! From Houghton. Across the bridge from Suomi College, er, Finlandia University.
	11:45am PJ: Hi Joe - is the 3 Colors box the DVD or the Blu Ray version?
	11:45am Cecile: I bet it is somewhere, Gaylord. I'm intrigued about trying to learn Maori online. THe resources are there...
	11:45am βrian: Saying Yah to UP, then.
	11:46am Cecile: hahahahah, right on.
	11:46am Gaylord Fields: @Cecile: I'm being a bit cheeky. The Cedars and the Sea-ders alternate on that list until it's full.
	11:47am Cecile: when Suomi changed their name, their initials because FU. My sister gave my dad a hat from there, and he didn't take it off for a week. And he giggled the whole time he had it on. He's 80 going on 9.
	11:47am Caryn: I wonder if the relatively recent development of grammatical Finnish or the small size of the Finnish-speaking world population is the reason Finns are fascinated with languages like Latin and Esperanto?
	11:48am Cecile: Calling a Lebanese band the Cedars is like calling a Canadian hockey team the Maple Leafs or an American football team The Eagles.
	11:48am bibi: the finno-ougrian languages are loners... which is their charm too.
	11:48am glenn: For example, even the 50/50 coin toss really isn’t 50/50 — it’s closer to 51/49, biased toward whatever side was up when the coin was thrown into the air. But more incredibly, as reported by Science News, spinning a penny, in this case one with the Lincoln Memorial on the back, gives even more pronounced odds — the penny will land tails side up roughly 80 percent of the time. The reason: the side with Lincoln’s head on it is a bit heavier than the flip side, causing the coin’s center of mass to lie slightly toward heads. The spinning coin tends to fall toward the heavier side more often, leading to a pronounced number of extra “tails” results when it finally comes to rest. And that's also why russian roulette isn't so risky - the chamber with the shell in it will land on the bottom 99 times out of 100.
	11:49am Caryn: @Cecile: that's a fantastic story! And exactly how a dad should be.
	11:50am Cecile: Caryn, most of the Finnish people I've known who are language-oriented are really good at it. Maybe it's because every other language is a piece of cake. :D Yeah, he has his moments. hahaha
	11:50am earrie: Coin flip, meet random number generator. Odd? Even? ding.
	11:51am Andrew Waterloo: No Hulu+ in Canada :(
	11:52am mariano: @glenn: thanks, I'll feel much safer now when I play Russian roulette :)
	11:52am Ralphine: Thanks for the penny-flipping information, Glenn. I'm going to put it to good use.
	11:52am Cecile: You have Ed the Sock.
	11:52am Andrew Waterloo: Canada doesn't have pennies either :(
	11:53am glenn: did she just say hearty is diane's co host? man. that's gonna be ......interesting.
	11:53am Cecile: I think Fabio and Diane is a match that could work.
	11:53am glenn: well, we don't MAKE pennies anymore. there are still lots of them out there.
	11:54am Alessia: You are almost there Joe!
	11:54am Joe McG: Last chance to get in the running for the grand prize as well as the Three Colors trilogy on DVD!
	11:55am Andrew Waterloo: yah, it's nice not getting them anymore. It was kind of funny that when I exchanged all my pennies what I got back was rounded up.
	11:55am Andrew Waterloo: I'm crossing all my fingers and eyebrows for this one.
	11:56am the impost subsumes the transaction: kerln
	11:56am bobdoesthings: paypal just called me to make sure the multiple mini pledges werent fraudulent.. haha
	11:56am Wilfried: Trouble & Joe, please take my card out of the drawing, I already know these movies.
	11:57am Alessia: I salute you all, gotta go to my french lesson. Thanks for the very pleasant afternoon everybody!
	11:57am Guido (Cologne): @the impost subsumes the transaction Interesting attempt!
	👻 12:00pm 12539: Thanks Joe (and Trouble too)!
	12:00pm probablyjohn: follow up question: what about coffee, then?

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from March 6, 2014

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