WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from July 23, 2018

Listener comments!
	9:03am Davee: Good morning Joe! Yip, yip!
	9:03am holland oats: nope
	👻 9:03am 12539: ¡Yip!
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Look! Radio! Yip yip yip yip!
	👻 9:03am queems: good morning mr. mcgasko!
	9:05am annie: rats, i missed the yipyips... firefox sucks...
	9:05am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe
	9:05am pantz: Wadda ya know, it's Joe! Yinz gonna play the hits, Joe?
	9:05am TheLoneliestMonk: did you like the munama-nuh guys too, joe?
	👻 9:05am queems: i'm really into this
	9:05am ike: I can dig it.
	9:05am TheLoneliestMonk: damn, this has a very tangerine dream vibe to it
	9:06am fred: Good morning Joe and Yipsters
	9:09am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe!
	9:10am The Oscar: Mornin' yippers!
	9:10am sinner: the Lord giveth; and the Lord taketh away.
	9:13am Joe McG: Good morning, radio friends, and welcome to Monday. Pardon the fuzzy needle.
	9:14am Diezel Tea: This Smoke Bellow is fire, as it were.))
	9:14am TDK60: DJ Jeff Conklin was talking about a ruined stylus last night; same one?
	👻 9:16am Ken From Hyde Park: That's a good DJ name: MC Pardon the Fuzzy Needle.
	👻 9:17am karlward: Dreamy.
	9:17am sinner: The older you get the fuzzier your needle gets....
	9:19am the illuminated void: Hi Joe haven't listened for a while. thanks for your public service ...digging the vibe great for the artwork working on
	9:19am ga01: Morning!
	9:20am Joe McG: @sinner: Life is just one long looking-forward-to. @illumined: This set is mostly blue and grey, I guess, if I were to paint it!
	9:22am TDK60: OK, who started "dream pop" Cocteau Twins? Or even Johnny Mathis?
	👻 9:22am queems: this set is making my anxiety better
	9:22am Cheri Pi: Ahhhh I used to have a cat called Pandora after this song. What a sweetie.
	9:22am TheLoneliestMonk: 'johnny thunders & the fuzzy needle' would be a damn fine band name!
	9:23am The Oscar: @TDK60 I'd vote for "I Only Have Eyes For You."
	9:23am Joe McG: @Cheri: How nice! @queems: I'm glad I'm soothing you today!
	👻 9:25am queems: holy crap the sky just burst open where i am
	9:25am jdaFromCologne: ha. i thought i was the only who bought that cd… :-)
	9:26am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac: do you have a well thought out 'single file' for us today?
	👻 9:26am Ken From Hyde Park: @Cheri Pi - I hope you had a good celebration yesterday for Pi Approximation Day (22/7).
	9:27am Joe McG: @TLM: No, it's not really thought out that much. That's what I like about it!
	👻 9:27am queems: i just bought this mary lattimore album
	👻 9:27am queems: so gorgeous
	9:27am Sem: Good morning, Joe, and hello, McGaskoes around the round world. Greets from the tropical shores of the Bay of Fundy.
	9:28am Irene Trudel: Lovely, drifty songs to start this rainy morning in NYC.
	9:29am Joe McG: @Sem: One of the 7 wonders of North America!
	9:29am fred: I'd love to see Mary Lattimore live
	9:30am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac: extemporaneous or not, i've been digging it this summer! good feature
	9:34am Lixiviated Life: Hey Joe! What-a-ya know?
	9:35am Krys O.: Ah, The Blue Nile were such a great band.
	9:37am Joe McG: @Krys: Trouble played them last week and they've been in my mind since.
	9:37am Diezel Tea: Yeah, digging on this Blue Nile. Another band without fmu I'd likely otherwise never discover.
	9:38am TDK60: The Blue Nile singer has such a great voice. What became of them?
	9:38am Diezel Tea: Hopefully not a drought struck them. That'd be tragic.
	9:39am Joe McG: @TDK60: The singer, Paul Buchanan, put out a solo LP a couple of years ago that I haven't heard.
	9:39am melinda: hi joe and all
	9:40am judy from croton: Setting a great mood, Joe. Too much; you’re the genuine article.
	9:41am Joe McG: Why, thanks, Judy! I don't know if it's "a" or "the" but it's one of them! Maybe "an." :)
	👻 9:43am queems: i love this guy's other project "whitest boy alive"
	9:44am jess: loving this set!
	👻 9:44am queems: i need to favorite this whole show for another rainy day
	9:48am pantz: Some Beautiful South would fit right in to this set.
	9:48am Joe McG: @jess: I'm glad. It's definitely a rainy vibe today.
	👻 9:49am tadpoles: #pantz...also The Pale Fountains.
	9:49am Listener Alexandra: So nice to wake up to the Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil back to back--it's a good morning already, Joe!
	9:50am Cheri Pi: Yes, PREFAB!
	9:52am Joe McG: Welcome, Alex! You're up early today for the West Coast.
	9:53am steveo: good morning, joe! thanks for existing!
	9:54am B: Ooooh Sweet Nothin'....
	9:55am tom: gus van sant doing mayo Thompson
	9:55am Joe McG: @steveo: Wow, that's such a swell thing to say. Thank YOU for existing!
	9:55am Panda Penguin: Good afternoon from London, everyone! I'm loving this set so far, Joe - been on a huge Blue Nile kick this week, so this is scratching me right where I itch. And again, thanks for the premium CD - it's been whupping my ass something fierce since it arrived, and I think my girlfriend has now stolen my copy.
	9:57am Joe McG: @panda: Excellent! High flattery is to have your premium stolen by a listener's girlfriend!
	9:57am Listener Alexandra: One more week of getting up when your show starts--you've made this early risin' month much more pleasant :-)
	9:59am steveo: ummm, you're welcome :)
	9:59am Davee: I almost thought that I was listening to Mr. Rogers - when the music 1st started I mean
	10:00am Davee: SINNER!!!!
	10:06am Stashu: Sinners need to take a nap. Think about what they did.
	10:07am themutante: Is Scott Walker's 'It's Raining Today' a little too on the nose?
	10:08am Joe McG: @mutante: A lovely song at any time!
	10:10am TDK60: Sounds like country/roots. Back in the '70s, we would say Southern Rock maybe, even if they were from Maine.
	10:10am Sem: Reminded of Allman Bros.. Wonderful stuff, JMcG.
	10:11am Joe McG: @Sem: I was hoping to have them on the show, but I couldn't make it work schedule-wise. Looking forward to the show, anyway!
	10:19am TDK60: Commented the other day that Sandy B. may have been one of the very first Freaky Folkers, way back in '65.
	10:21am northguineahills: Love that Sandy Bull. Howling Rain is a new nice find....
	👻 10:23am karlward: This is such a great version of such a great Neil Young song. I want to live on the beach. I want to be in a post modern radio interview where there is no interviewer. I want to get out of town.
	10:25am sinner: zzzzzzzzz.
	10:25am Joe McG: @karl: I agree! BTW, thanks for the 45! I haven't listened yet, but will!
	10:26am Stashu: Where's the borscht? Oh wait, this nice music will do!
	10:28am Greg from ZONE 5: Borscht = yuck
	10:29am Peter Horvath: Yes! Davey Woodward!
	10:29am Stashu: Greg are you trying to start a fight?
	10:29am steveo: lol
	10:29am Stashu: Eat your beets man! ;)
	10:30am Roberto: New Boz? Dang!
	10:32am Greg from ZONE 5: @Stashu: Behind the bleachers, bruh! 3 o'clock!
	10:34am Joe McG: Stashu, I would like some pierogi with my beats.
	10:34am lukavino: this Alice song rules. Flush the Fashion completely rules.
	10:35am lukavino: tbh, Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin, and Dada are all great, even if Alice doesn't remember recording them.
	10:35am northguineahills: Smashing Pumpkins covered this Alice....and what lukavino said,,,,,
	10:35am Stashu: Coming right up Joe! Nice show thank you for your radio service!
	10:36am melinda: Borscht is yum
	10:37am TDK60: I line up with the Borscht lovers; there, I've said it.
	10:37am ?: good morning, joe!
	10:37am Joe McG: @Stashu: I am a mere private in the WFMU Radio Army. :)
	10:37am steveo: that was weird; i thought this bowie was johnny cash at first
	10:38am Little Danny: Mornin' Joe, mornin' all. Thanks for playing the Joe Gaston!
	10:38am fred: @Greg: You try to make it seem like you're challenging Stashu to a fight, but I believe you're actually just planning to share a joint. And when the munchies hit, these beets won't look so bad
	10:38am trouble: oops, let's try again: good morning, joe!
	10:40am melinda: My aunt is not a Bowie fan as far as I know but I remember her singing this, I guess she liked the movie. Gasoleeeeen...
	10:40am pencil: The dream combo of Bowie/Moroder!
	10:40am Joe McG: @Trouble: Ah, you're the mystery woman! Good morning! @Danny: Great premium this year!
	10:40am northguineahills: I put out fire w/ gasoline before as a teenager. I knew it was possible, I just wanted to see if I could do it. (I was a dumb kid).
	10:42am Guido from Cologne: Weren'T they Jane And Barton?
	10:42am melinda: I like Danny's premium too.
	10:43am Guido from Cologne: this LP: www.discogs.com... never had a clue what it actually is
	10:43am steveo: beet salad?
	10:43am Joe McG: @Guido: Most of the time, but this 45 is billed as just Jane. I like that there will be salad. @steveo: Ha!
	10:44am Little Danny: Hey Melinda (thanks)
	10:44am pantz: DEANO!
	10:44am Greg from ZONE 5: Beets are my most hated of all foods. But I want to like them.
	10:45am Krys O.: YES! <3 Dean....
	10:45am Guido from Cologne: just see Owen Barton explained it on the original blurb: img.discogs.com...
	10:46am Goyim in the AM: CURSED KLEENEX COMMERCIAL. featuring "It's A Fine Day": www.youtube.com...
	10:46am Mark in Toronto: Look for fancy beets at the store, kind of a light orange colour, they taste much better.
	10:47am pantz: Deano for Beano: "Folks, when i've had a moon-size pizza pie, I reach for Beano."
	10:48am Joe McG: @pantz: Ha ha ha!
	10:48am JakeGould: Whose talking smack about beets?
	10:49am Krys O.: I'm Team Beets.
	10:49am Guido from Cologne: There were tons of jane & Baron in the cutout going for 1 Deutschmark somewhen in 1986 or so.
	10:50am bloumejune: Yes, the cursed song, we were so freaked out! (in Japan)
	10:50am Roberto: Some folks are askin' for a good ol'-fashioned beeting.
	10:51am Joe McG: I'm not playing any Beetles today.
	10:51am Roberto: Will you be playing The Beets? (Killer Tofu)
	10:52am JakeGould: What about Beet Happening?
	10:52am Joe McG: @Roberto and Jake: No, but maybe the English Beet.
	10:52am mb: Thx for the swag Joe McG and the volunteers who packed it! Hi all
	10:52am fred: Beetsie Boys?
	10:53am JakeGould: Time to tighten the Borscht belt.
	👻 10:54am karlward: How about some Texas Radio and the Big Beet?
	👻 10:55am karlward: Or X, "Woody Guthrie sang about B-E-E-T-S, not B-E-A-T-S!"
	10:55am Joe McG: @karl: If that don't beet all!
	10:55am pantz: Beet back ceaselessly into the past
	10:55am The Oscar: Beet Townshend?
	👻 10:56am karlward: Joe: beets me.
	10:56am fred: As Billy Jam would say: bring that beet back!
	10:56am Joe McG: @Oscar: Meaty Beety Big & Bouncy.
	10:56am JakeGould: The title of this track is wrong. It should be: “Midnight in Moscow (Eating Beets with My Gal)”
	👻 10:57am karlward: Just beet it, just beet it beet it.
	10:57am pantz: @OScar You Better, You Better, You Beet!
	10:58am fred: I wish Doug would join this playlist
	10:58am northguineahills: When I was patrol leader in the Boy Scouts, I changed the lyrics to, "I"m a schizophreniac, I Want to go home...."
	10:58am JakeGould: This title is wrong: “Second Chance (Learned How to Cook Beets So Please Try Them)”
	10:58am northguineahills: arrghh, missed Pentangle due to work.
	10:58am Joe McG: @fred: Doug is the King of the Pun.
	10:59am Roberto: Beet on the Brat.
	11:00am Joe McG: @Roberto: Beet on the Bratwurst.
	11:01am SeanG: ROY!!
	👻 11:01am karlward: I love this song. All beet jokes can be suspended while we listen to Roy to lay it down.
	11:02am Roberto: One could place beet-based sauerkraut on one's bratwurst. In my case it would be Tofurky bratwurst.
	11:02am JakeGould: Also these: “Once I Had a Sweetheart (Whose Favorite Food Was Beets)” “Lonesome and a Long Way from Home (Miss My Baby’s Beets)” “Detroit City (No Beets in this Town)” “It’s a Fine Day (To Drink Some Kvass)” “You Got It (Beets)”
	11:03am melinda: Beets need tangy flavors, that's why borscht is good. Without that they're kind of yucky.
	11:04am Roberto: Listening to this song in my friend's car while driving through Downtown L.A. in '89, I realized what a tremendous loss we had on our hands with Roy's passing a few months earlier.
	11:05am queems: i got in my car for a half hour and missed an entire conversation about beets
	👻 11:06am karlward: I really don't know if anything can beet that song.
	11:06am JakeGould: @queems: Don’t tell us that or we will beet you up!
	11:06am The Oscar: Funny, I think as a kid I always assumed "You Got It" was much older, when it was actually current. Meanwhile, I'm sure there were a lot of older songs I thought were current because my parents listened to them all the time.
	11:07am Krys O.: Jeff Lynne was a big fan of the Andalusian Cadence: the descending sequence. David Garland did a great show about all of the pop songs that used that sequence: www.wnyc.org...
	11:07am melinda: I liked the Wilburys back then.
	11:08am JakeGould: @KrysO: Slight tangent, but when blues musicians sing about “Yas Yas Yas” (like Blind Boy Fuller) that’s about the “Ass Ass Ass” right?
	11:09am Looms: Hi Joe and all! Jane is Jane Lancaster.
	11:09am The Oscar: Always meant to see the '80s Cat People. It's directed by Paul Schrader, so I imagine it's at the very least interestingly weird.
	11:11am queems: music of mind control is such a gem
	11:12am Aaron Working In Newark: Hello, great show today.
	11:13am The Oscar: Aw, Langley School!
	11:14am Joe McG: Thanks, Aaron! Glad you stopped by the other day!
	11:15am melinda: Yay Langley students!
	11:16am melinda: @queems agree. I always miss a chunk between work and home though.
	11:16am Joe McG: I'm just glad this ancient CD-R is playing! I can't find the Langley CD in our library. Worrisome!
	11:19am The Oscar: If you can't find the Langley Schools Music Project in the WFMU library, where CAN you find it?!
	11:19am Stevel: I am officially a WFMU listener, having identified The Space Lady by ear only.
	👻 11:20am tadpoles: # The Oscar....It's sitting in a tin can somewhere??
	11:20am Listener Scott: I sense a theme! Stories about countdowns? Gimme a second, I'll get it.
	11:20am jdaFromCologne: jetzt noch auf deutsch… :-)
	11:21am JakeGould: @JoeMcG: Wow! I actually saw that CD in a huge bin of $2 CDs this weekend but passed it up… If I only knew! Like some O’Henry tale I say.
	11:21am Mick: Langley Schools + Space Lady = Mood-lifting Tang
	11:21am fred: Seeing The Space Lady perform this song live was one of the highlights of my recent years. And she was so nice with everyone after the show
	11:21am The Oscar: Really hoping there's a spooky outsider cover of "Ashes to Ashes" to complete the hat trick.
	11:22am Joe McG: @Oscar: I thought about it, but there's no actual story in that song, just free associations.
	11:22am melinda: My app won't let me favorite the Space Lady, guess I'll have to write it down like in the old days.
	11:23am fred: @Listener Scott: I hope it doens't include Europe (I shouldn't give Joe any dreadful idea)
	11:25am pantz: I'm a little let down that you didn't choose the Shatner version, Joe.
	11:26am melinda: This is a great story corner.
	11:27am Joe McG: @pantz: I thought about it!
	11:27am Joe McG: (Thanks, Melinda!)
	11:30am pantz: You could redeem yourself with Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"
	11:32am fred: Kate! One of the best videos ever made too (though Experiment IV is close)
	11:32am Joe McG: @pantz: Ha ha ha. I'll save that for a future edition.
	11:32am TimBk: Kate Bush keeps getting better and better.
	11:32am The Oscar: The sun literally just came out at that specific line.
	11:33am Roberto: Hounds of Love = the quintessential soundtrack of Roberto's college years.
	11:33am Joe McG: @Oscar: That's beautiful!
	11:33am BLCKDGRD: Side two of Hounds of Love is by far and away my most listened to side of music in my life.
	11:34am BLCKDGRD: And her 60th birthday is a week from today - play more then!
	11:35am fred: True factoid: I first heard about Kate Bush in high school, hanging out with metalhead bikers. One was a huge fan
	11:35am Joe McG: @BLCK: Oh, nice to know! Happy 60, KB!
	11:35am Listener Robert: I'd never heard "Cloudbusting" before, but I've heard Neil Cicierega's mashup of it with...I forgot what.
	11:35am TimBk: 1st acid trip was in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina with some friends sitting across from some hippie earth mama in the dark playing this album and doing a light show with her cigarette. Transformative!
	11:36am Summer and Michael: Late rising to another great late set in your always stellar show, Mr McG. Sounding terrific. Happy Monday and... thanks!
	👻 11:36am karlward: But have you seen Skate Bush? No? Then: www.skatebush.com
	11:36am ben abs: Late to the comments board, but have been dutifully listening, lovely show Joe!
	11:37am Joe McG: Thanks, ben abs!
	11:37am Mark in Toronto: jda from Cologne, do you know Guido from Cologne?
	11:37am Listener Robert: I've also seen Poopy Lungstuffing's YouTubes of her doing Kate Bush.
	11:38am fred: Underplayed Prince track, thanks Joe
	11:39am Roberto: OK so Sign o' the Times was Roberto's quintessential senior year in college soundtrack, but for the experience as a whole, it's got to be Hounds of Love.
	11:41am Krys O.: Yes, the Last Poets with Jimi!
	11:42am Mick: Great Story Corner Joe!
	11:42am fred: @Roberto: Kate Bush and Prince pretty much sum up my high school years. Only New Order is missing
	11:42am Joe McG: Thanks, Mick! This is a long story, but it has a good ending!
	11:44am Krys O.: I have the Trilogy comp from Celluloid.
	11:49am BennettCap: That was da bomb, baby!
	👻 11:50am tadpoles: Story Corner every week please Joe.
	11:51am fred: Dolly! I get a lot of grief at work because I like her. My cowboy boots are probably not helping
	11:52am Krys O.: That's got to be Charlie McCoy on harmonica.
	👻 11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: Suzy Hotrod played on of Johnny Cash's many story songs last night: "One Piece at a Time."
	11:52am northguineahills: Dolly, auto-clicky!
	👻 11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: > played one of <
	11:53am Joe McG: @Ken: A classic!
	11:54am melinda: I like Richard Cory, didn't know Them did this.
	11:54am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, everybody! Have a fabulous week, and I'll see you next time!
	11:55am Krys O.: Thanks for another excellent show, Joe!
	11:56am TheLoneliestMonk: see ya, JoeMac!
	👻 11:57am 12539: ¡Thanks Joe!
	11:57am fred: Thanks Joe. I'm taking Mondays off until the end of next month, so I'll probably check in again
	11:58am Sem: Merci, Joe.
	11:58am steveo: thank you, Joe!
	11:58am Itzall Ablurr: Just checked in; your (Joe) comments board is INSANE! SO active.
	11:59am pantz: Thanks for the show, Joe.
	11:59am Krys O.: Wilhelm Reich was Kate's inspiration on that album.
	11:59am Little Danny: Great show Joe, thanks!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from July 23, 2018

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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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July 23, 2018: A Fine Day

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Forma	Crossings "Crossings" by "Forma"	Semblance	Kranky	2018	CD		*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Smoke Bellow	Feet First "Feet First" by "Smoke Bellow"	Isolation 3000	Ehse	2018	LP		*	0:08:25 (Pop-up)
Immersion	Microclimate "Microclimate" by "Immersion"	Sleepless	Swim~	2018	CD		*	0:12:24 (Pop-up)
Cocteau Twins	Pandora (for Cindy)	Treasure	4AD	1985	LP			0:16:30 (Pop-up)
This Mortal Coil	Another Day "Another Day" by "This Mortal Coil"	It'll End in Tears	4AD	1984	LP	vocal: Elizabeth Frazer		0:21:55 (Pop-up)
Mary Lattimore	Hello from the Edge of the Earth	Hundreds of Days	Ghostly International	2018	CD		*	0:24:55 (Pop-up)
Kelly Moran	Optimist "Optimist" by "Kelly Moran"	Optimist	Obsolete Units	2018	CD		*	0:28:21 (Pop-up)
The Blue Nile	Automobile Noise "Automobile Noise" by "The Blue Nile"	A Walk Across the Rooftops	A&M	1988	CD	From 1983		0:31:40 (Pop-up)
Everything But the Girl	Tender Blue	Everything But the Girl	Sire	1984	LP			0:36:10 (Pop-up)
Kings of Convenience	Misread "Misread" by "Kings of Convenience"	Riot on an Empty Street	Astralwerks	2004	CD			0:39:16 (Pop-up)
Astronauts, Etc.	Shut My Mouth "Shut My Mouth" by "Astronauts, Etc."	Living in Symbol	Company	2018	CD		*	0:42:18 (Pop-up)
Prefab Sprout	Life of Surprises "Life of Surprises" by "Prefab Sprout"	Protest Songs	Kitchenware	1989	LP	Recorded 1985		0:45:42 (Pop-up)
Gus Van Sant	Lost World "Lost World" by "Gus Van Sant"	CD single	Tim Kerr	1992	CD	Thanks, Jim Price!		0:49:44 (Pop-up)
Joe Gaston and the Crew	Without You	Out Where: Cool Blue Flame with Little Danny 2018 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2018	CD-R	prob. early '60s	*	0:53:17 (Pop-up)

Howlin Rain	Rainbow Trout "Rainbow Trout" by "Howlin Rain"	The Alligator Bride	Silver Current	2018	CD	playing Monty Hall this Friday!	*	1:05:33 (Pop-up)
Sandy Bull	Strat 1 "Strat 1" by "Sandy Bull"	Steel Tears/Endventions & Tributes	Omnivore Recordings	2018	CD	From 1996	*	1:09:18 (Pop-up)
Boz Scaggs	On the Beach "On the Beach" by "Boz Scaggs"	Out of the Blues	Concord	2018	CD		*	1:17:00 (Pop-up)
Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans	Caroline	Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans	Tapete	2018	CD		*	1:23:26 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s all played in a row
Alice Cooper	Clones (We're All) "Clones (We're All)" by "Alice Cooper"	single	Warner Bros.	1980	45			1:32:08 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Cat People (Putting Out Fire)	single	Backstreet	1982	45			1:34:53 (Pop-up)
Jane	It's a Fine Day "It's a Fine Day" by "Jane"	single	Cherry Red	1983	45			1:38:50 (Pop-up)
Dean Martin with the Jimmy Bowen Chorus and Orchestra	Detroit City	single	Reprise	1970	45			1:41:25 (Pop-up)
Earl Scruggs and the Earl Scruggs Revue	Lonesome and a Long Way from Home	single	Columbia	1972	45			1:45:11 (Pop-up)
The Pentangle	Once I Had a Sweetheart	single	Big T	1969	45			1:47:51 (Pop-up)
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen	Midnight in Moscow	single	Kapp	1962	45			1:52:25 (Pop-up)
Z.Z. Hill	Second Chance "Second Chance" by "Z.Z. Hill"	single	Mankind	1972	45			1:55:22 (Pop-up)
Roy Orbison	You Got It "You Got It" by "Roy Orbison"	single	Virgin	1989	45		*	1:59:09 (Pop-up)

Story Corner: Songs that tell stories "Story Corner: Songs that tell stories"
The Langley Schools Music Project	Space Oddity	The Incorrect Music Companion 2001	WFMU	2001	CD-R	From 1975		2:12:21 (Pop-up)
The Space Lady	Major Tom "Major Tom" by "The Space Lady"	The Space Lady's Greatest Hits	NightSchool	2013	CD			2:16:58 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	God Knows I'm Good "God Knows I'm Good" by "David Bowie"	Space Oddity	Ryko	1990	CD			2:22:07 (Pop-up)
Duncan Browne	The Death of Neil "The Death of Neil" by "Duncan Browne"	Give Me Take You	Sony Music Special Products	1991	CD	From 1969		2:25:31 (Pop-up)
Kate Bush	Cloudbusting "Cloudbusting" by "Kate Bush"	The Whole Story	EMI America	1986	LP	From 1985		2:30:34 (Pop-up)
Prince	The Ballad of Dorothy Parker	Sign 'O' the Times	Paisley Park / Warner Bros.	1987	LP			2:34:56 (Pop-up)
Lightnin' Rod with Jimi Hendrix	Doriella du Fontaine	12" single	Celluloid	1984	12"	From 1969		2:38:50 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton	Joshua "Joshua" by "Dolly Parton"	Joshua	RCA	1971	LP			2:47:37 (Pop-up)
Them	Richard Cory "Richard Cory" by "Them"	The World of Them	Decca	1970	LP	From 1965		2:51:06 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am Davee: Good morning Joe! Yip, yip!
	9:03am holland oats: nope
	👻 9:03am 12539: ¡Yip!
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Look! Radio! Yip yip yip yip!
	👻 9:03am queems: good morning mr. mcgasko!
	9:05am annie: rats, i missed the yipyips... firefox sucks...
	9:05am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe
	9:05am pantz: Wadda ya know, it's Joe! Yinz gonna play the hits, Joe?
	9:05am TheLoneliestMonk: did you like the munama-nuh guys too, joe?
	👻 9:05am queems: i'm really into this
	9:05am ike: I can dig it.
	9:05am TheLoneliestMonk: damn, this has a very tangerine dream vibe to it
	9:06am fred: Good morning Joe and Yipsters
	9:09am Krys O.: Howdy, Joe!
	9:10am The Oscar: Mornin' yippers!
	9:10am sinner: the Lord giveth; and the Lord taketh away.
	9:13am Joe McG: Good morning, radio friends, and welcome to Monday. Pardon the fuzzy needle.
	9:14am Diezel Tea: This Smoke Bellow is fire, as it were.))
	9:14am TDK60: DJ Jeff Conklin was talking about a ruined stylus last night; same one?
	👻 9:16am Ken From Hyde Park: That's a good DJ name: MC Pardon the Fuzzy Needle.
	👻 9:17am karlward: Dreamy.
	9:17am sinner: The older you get the fuzzier your needle gets....
	9:19am the illuminated void: Hi Joe haven't listened for a while. thanks for your public service ...digging the vibe great for the artwork working on
	9:19am ga01: Morning!
	9:20am Joe McG: @sinner: Life is just one long looking-forward-to. @illumined: This set is mostly blue and grey, I guess, if I were to paint it!
	9:22am TDK60: OK, who started "dream pop" Cocteau Twins? Or even Johnny Mathis?
	👻 9:22am queems: this set is making my anxiety better
	9:22am Cheri Pi: Ahhhh I used to have a cat called Pandora after this song. What a sweetie.
	9:22am TheLoneliestMonk: 'johnny thunders & the fuzzy needle' would be a damn fine band name!
	9:23am The Oscar: @TDK60 I'd vote for "I Only Have Eyes For You."
	9:23am Joe McG: @Cheri: How nice! @queems: I'm glad I'm soothing you today!
	👻 9:25am queems: holy crap the sky just burst open where i am
	9:25am jdaFromCologne: ha. i thought i was the only who bought that cd… :-)
	9:26am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac: do you have a well thought out 'single file' for us today?
	👻 9:26am Ken From Hyde Park: @Cheri Pi - I hope you had a good celebration yesterday for Pi Approximation Day (22/7).
	9:27am Joe McG: @TLM: No, it's not really thought out that much. That's what I like about it!
	👻 9:27am queems: i just bought this mary lattimore album
	👻 9:27am queems: so gorgeous
	9:27am Sem: Good morning, Joe, and hello, McGaskoes around the round world. Greets from the tropical shores of the Bay of Fundy.
	9:28am Irene Trudel: Lovely, drifty songs to start this rainy morning in NYC.
	9:29am Joe McG: @Sem: One of the 7 wonders of North America!
	9:29am fred: I'd love to see Mary Lattimore live
	9:30am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac: extemporaneous or not, i've been digging it this summer! good feature
	9:34am Lixiviated Life: Hey Joe! What-a-ya know?
	9:35am Krys O.: Ah, The Blue Nile were such a great band.
	9:37am Joe McG: @Krys: Trouble played them last week and they've been in my mind since.
	9:37am Diezel Tea: Yeah, digging on this Blue Nile. Another band without fmu I'd likely otherwise never discover.
	9:38am TDK60: The Blue Nile singer has such a great voice. What became of them?
	9:38am Diezel Tea: Hopefully not a drought struck them. That'd be tragic.
	9:39am Joe McG: @TDK60: The singer, Paul Buchanan, put out a solo LP a couple of years ago that I haven't heard.
	9:39am melinda: hi joe and all
	9:40am judy from croton: Setting a great mood, Joe. Too much; you’re the genuine article.
	9:41am Joe McG: Why, thanks, Judy! I don't know if it's "a" or "the" but it's one of them! Maybe "an." :)
	👻 9:43am queems: i love this guy's other project "whitest boy alive"
	9:44am jess: loving this set!
	👻 9:44am queems: i need to favorite this whole show for another rainy day
	9:48am pantz: Some Beautiful South would fit right in to this set.
	9:48am Joe McG: @jess: I'm glad. It's definitely a rainy vibe today.
	👻 9:49am tadpoles: #pantz...also The Pale Fountains.
	9:49am Listener Alexandra: So nice to wake up to the Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil back to back--it's a good morning already, Joe!
	9:50am Cheri Pi: Yes, PREFAB!
	9:52am Joe McG: Welcome, Alex! You're up early today for the West Coast.
	9:53am steveo: good morning, joe! thanks for existing!
	9:54am B: Ooooh Sweet Nothin'....
	9:55am tom: gus van sant doing mayo Thompson
	9:55am Joe McG: @steveo: Wow, that's such a swell thing to say. Thank YOU for existing!
	9:55am Panda Penguin: Good afternoon from London, everyone! I'm loving this set so far, Joe - been on a huge Blue Nile kick this week, so this is scratching me right where I itch. And again, thanks for the premium CD - it's been whupping my ass something fierce since it arrived, and I think my girlfriend has now stolen my copy.
	9:57am Joe McG: @panda: Excellent! High flattery is to have your premium stolen by a listener's girlfriend!
	9:57am Listener Alexandra: One more week of getting up when your show starts--you've made this early risin' month much more pleasant :-)
	9:59am steveo: ummm, you're welcome :)
	9:59am Davee: I almost thought that I was listening to Mr. Rogers - when the music 1st started I mean
	10:00am Davee: SINNER!!!!
	10:06am Stashu: Sinners need to take a nap. Think about what they did.
	10:07am themutante: Is Scott Walker's 'It's Raining Today' a little too on the nose?
	10:08am Joe McG: @mutante: A lovely song at any time!
	10:10am TDK60: Sounds like country/roots. Back in the '70s, we would say Southern Rock maybe, even if they were from Maine.
	10:10am Sem: Reminded of Allman Bros.. Wonderful stuff, JMcG.
	10:11am Joe McG: @Sem: I was hoping to have them on the show, but I couldn't make it work schedule-wise. Looking forward to the show, anyway!
	10:19am TDK60: Commented the other day that Sandy B. may have been one of the very first Freaky Folkers, way back in '65.
	10:21am northguineahills: Love that Sandy Bull. Howling Rain is a new nice find....
	👻 10:23am karlward: This is such a great version of such a great Neil Young song. I want to live on the beach. I want to be in a post modern radio interview where there is no interviewer. I want to get out of town.
	10:25am sinner: zzzzzzzzz.
	10:25am Joe McG: @karl: I agree! BTW, thanks for the 45! I haven't listened yet, but will!
	10:26am Stashu: Where's the borscht? Oh wait, this nice music will do!
	10:28am Greg from ZONE 5: Borscht = yuck
	10:29am Peter Horvath: Yes! Davey Woodward!
	10:29am Stashu: Greg are you trying to start a fight?
	10:29am steveo: lol
	10:29am Stashu: Eat your beets man! ;)
	10:30am Roberto: New Boz? Dang!
	10:32am Greg from ZONE 5: @Stashu: Behind the bleachers, bruh! 3 o'clock!
	10:34am Joe McG: Stashu, I would like some pierogi with my beats.
	10:34am lukavino: this Alice song rules. Flush the Fashion completely rules.
	10:35am lukavino: tbh, Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin, and Dada are all great, even if Alice doesn't remember recording them.
	10:35am northguineahills: Smashing Pumpkins covered this Alice....and what lukavino said,,,,,
	10:35am Stashu: Coming right up Joe! Nice show thank you for your radio service!
	10:36am melinda: Borscht is yum
	10:37am TDK60: I line up with the Borscht lovers; there, I've said it.
	10:37am ?: good morning, joe!
	10:37am Joe McG: @Stashu: I am a mere private in the WFMU Radio Army. :)
	10:37am steveo: that was weird; i thought this bowie was johnny cash at first
	10:38am Little Danny: Mornin' Joe, mornin' all. Thanks for playing the Joe Gaston!
	10:38am fred: @Greg: You try to make it seem like you're challenging Stashu to a fight, but I believe you're actually just planning to share a joint. And when the munchies hit, these beets won't look so bad
	10:38am trouble: oops, let's try again: good morning, joe!
	10:40am melinda: My aunt is not a Bowie fan as far as I know but I remember her singing this, I guess she liked the movie. Gasoleeeeen...
	10:40am pencil: The dream combo of Bowie/Moroder!
	10:40am Joe McG: @Trouble: Ah, you're the mystery woman! Good morning! @Danny: Great premium this year!
	10:40am northguineahills: I put out fire w/ gasoline before as a teenager. I knew it was possible, I just wanted to see if I could do it. (I was a dumb kid).
	10:42am Guido from Cologne: Weren'T they Jane And Barton?
	10:42am melinda: I like Danny's premium too.
	10:43am Guido from Cologne: this LP: www.discogs.com... never had a clue what it actually is
	10:43am steveo: beet salad?
	10:43am Joe McG: @Guido: Most of the time, but this 45 is billed as just Jane. I like that there will be salad. @steveo: Ha!
	10:44am Little Danny: Hey Melinda (thanks)
	10:44am pantz: DEANO!
	10:44am Greg from ZONE 5: Beets are my most hated of all foods. But I want to like them.
	10:45am Krys O.: YES! <3 Dean....
	10:45am Guido from Cologne: just see Owen Barton explained it on the original blurb: img.discogs.com...
	10:46am Goyim in the AM: CURSED KLEENEX COMMERCIAL. featuring "It's A Fine Day": www.youtube.com...
	10:46am Mark in Toronto: Look for fancy beets at the store, kind of a light orange colour, they taste much better.
	10:47am pantz: Deano for Beano: "Folks, when i've had a moon-size pizza pie, I reach for Beano."
	10:48am Joe McG: @pantz: Ha ha ha!
	10:48am JakeGould: Whose talking smack about beets?
	10:49am Krys O.: I'm Team Beets.
	10:49am Guido from Cologne: There were tons of jane & Baron in the cutout going for 1 Deutschmark somewhen in 1986 or so.
	10:50am bloumejune: Yes, the cursed song, we were so freaked out! (in Japan)
	10:50am Roberto: Some folks are askin' for a good ol'-fashioned beeting.
	10:51am Joe McG: I'm not playing any Beetles today.
	10:51am Roberto: Will you be playing The Beets? (Killer Tofu)
	10:52am JakeGould: What about Beet Happening?
	10:52am Joe McG: @Roberto and Jake: No, but maybe the English Beet.
	10:52am mb: Thx for the swag Joe McG and the volunteers who packed it! Hi all
	10:52am fred: Beetsie Boys?
	10:53am JakeGould: Time to tighten the Borscht belt.
	👻 10:54am karlward: How about some Texas Radio and the Big Beet?
	👻 10:55am karlward: Or X, "Woody Guthrie sang about B-E-E-T-S, not B-E-A-T-S!"
	10:55am Joe McG: @karl: If that don't beet all!
	10:55am pantz: Beet back ceaselessly into the past
	10:55am The Oscar: Beet Townshend?
	👻 10:56am karlward: Joe: beets me.
	10:56am fred: As Billy Jam would say: bring that beet back!
	10:56am Joe McG: @Oscar: Meaty Beety Big & Bouncy.
	10:56am JakeGould: The title of this track is wrong. It should be: “Midnight in Moscow (Eating Beets with My Gal)”
	👻 10:57am karlward: Just beet it, just beet it beet it.
	10:57am pantz: @OScar You Better, You Better, You Beet!
	10:58am fred: I wish Doug would join this playlist
	10:58am northguineahills: When I was patrol leader in the Boy Scouts, I changed the lyrics to, "I"m a schizophreniac, I Want to go home...."
	10:58am JakeGould: This title is wrong: “Second Chance (Learned How to Cook Beets So Please Try Them)”
	10:58am northguineahills: arrghh, missed Pentangle due to work.
	10:58am Joe McG: @fred: Doug is the King of the Pun.
	10:59am Roberto: Beet on the Brat.
	11:00am Joe McG: @Roberto: Beet on the Bratwurst.
	11:01am SeanG: ROY!!
	👻 11:01am karlward: I love this song. All beet jokes can be suspended while we listen to Roy to lay it down.
	11:02am Roberto: One could place beet-based sauerkraut on one's bratwurst. In my case it would be Tofurky bratwurst.
	11:02am JakeGould: Also these: “Once I Had a Sweetheart (Whose Favorite Food Was Beets)” “Lonesome and a Long Way from Home (Miss My Baby’s Beets)” “Detroit City (No Beets in this Town)” “It’s a Fine Day (To Drink Some Kvass)” “You Got It (Beets)”
	11:03am melinda: Beets need tangy flavors, that's why borscht is good. Without that they're kind of yucky.
	11:04am Roberto: Listening to this song in my friend's car while driving through Downtown L.A. in '89, I realized what a tremendous loss we had on our hands with Roy's passing a few months earlier.
	11:05am queems: i got in my car for a half hour and missed an entire conversation about beets
	👻 11:06am karlward: I really don't know if anything can beet that song.
	11:06am JakeGould: @queems: Don’t tell us that or we will beet you up!
	11:06am The Oscar: Funny, I think as a kid I always assumed "You Got It" was much older, when it was actually current. Meanwhile, I'm sure there were a lot of older songs I thought were current because my parents listened to them all the time.
	11:07am Krys O.: Jeff Lynne was a big fan of the Andalusian Cadence: the descending sequence. David Garland did a great show about all of the pop songs that used that sequence: www.wnyc.org...
	11:07am melinda: I liked the Wilburys back then.
	11:08am JakeGould: @KrysO: Slight tangent, but when blues musicians sing about “Yas Yas Yas” (like Blind Boy Fuller) that’s about the “Ass Ass Ass” right?
	11:09am Looms: Hi Joe and all! Jane is Jane Lancaster.
	11:09am The Oscar: Always meant to see the '80s Cat People. It's directed by Paul Schrader, so I imagine it's at the very least interestingly weird.
	11:11am queems: music of mind control is such a gem
	11:12am Aaron Working In Newark: Hello, great show today.
	11:13am The Oscar: Aw, Langley School!
	11:14am Joe McG: Thanks, Aaron! Glad you stopped by the other day!
	11:15am melinda: Yay Langley students!
	11:16am melinda: @queems agree. I always miss a chunk between work and home though.
	11:16am Joe McG: I'm just glad this ancient CD-R is playing! I can't find the Langley CD in our library. Worrisome!
	11:19am The Oscar: If you can't find the Langley Schools Music Project in the WFMU library, where CAN you find it?!
	11:19am Stevel: I am officially a WFMU listener, having identified The Space Lady by ear only.
	👻 11:20am tadpoles: # The Oscar....It's sitting in a tin can somewhere??
	11:20am Listener Scott: I sense a theme! Stories about countdowns? Gimme a second, I'll get it.
	11:20am jdaFromCologne: jetzt noch auf deutsch… :-)
	11:21am JakeGould: @JoeMcG: Wow! I actually saw that CD in a huge bin of $2 CDs this weekend but passed it up… If I only knew! Like some O’Henry tale I say.
	11:21am Mick: Langley Schools + Space Lady = Mood-lifting Tang
	11:21am fred: Seeing The Space Lady perform this song live was one of the highlights of my recent years. And she was so nice with everyone after the show
	11:21am The Oscar: Really hoping there's a spooky outsider cover of "Ashes to Ashes" to complete the hat trick.
	11:22am Joe McG: @Oscar: I thought about it, but there's no actual story in that song, just free associations.
	11:22am melinda: My app won't let me favorite the Space Lady, guess I'll have to write it down like in the old days.
	11:23am fred: @Listener Scott: I hope it doens't include Europe (I shouldn't give Joe any dreadful idea)
	11:25am pantz: I'm a little let down that you didn't choose the Shatner version, Joe.
	11:26am melinda: This is a great story corner.
	11:27am Joe McG: @pantz: I thought about it!
	11:27am Joe McG: (Thanks, Melinda!)
	11:30am pantz: You could redeem yourself with Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"
	11:32am fred: Kate! One of the best videos ever made too (though Experiment IV is close)
	11:32am Joe McG: @pantz: Ha ha ha. I'll save that for a future edition.
	11:32am TimBk: Kate Bush keeps getting better and better.
	11:32am The Oscar: The sun literally just came out at that specific line.
	11:33am Roberto: Hounds of Love = the quintessential soundtrack of Roberto's college years.
	11:33am Joe McG: @Oscar: That's beautiful!
	11:33am BLCKDGRD: Side two of Hounds of Love is by far and away my most listened to side of music in my life.
	11:34am BLCKDGRD: And her 60th birthday is a week from today - play more then!
	11:35am fred: True factoid: I first heard about Kate Bush in high school, hanging out with metalhead bikers. One was a huge fan
	11:35am Joe McG: @BLCK: Oh, nice to know! Happy 60, KB!
	11:35am Listener Robert: I'd never heard "Cloudbusting" before, but I've heard Neil Cicierega's mashup of it with...I forgot what.
	11:35am TimBk: 1st acid trip was in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina with some friends sitting across from some hippie earth mama in the dark playing this album and doing a light show with her cigarette. Transformative!
	11:36am Summer and Michael: Late rising to another great late set in your always stellar show, Mr McG. Sounding terrific. Happy Monday and... thanks!
	👻 11:36am karlward: But have you seen Skate Bush? No? Then: www.skatebush.com
	11:36am ben abs: Late to the comments board, but have been dutifully listening, lovely show Joe!
	11:37am Joe McG: Thanks, ben abs!
	11:37am Mark in Toronto: jda from Cologne, do you know Guido from Cologne?
	11:37am Listener Robert: I've also seen Poopy Lungstuffing's YouTubes of her doing Kate Bush.
	11:38am fred: Underplayed Prince track, thanks Joe
	11:39am Roberto: OK so Sign o' the Times was Roberto's quintessential senior year in college soundtrack, but for the experience as a whole, it's got to be Hounds of Love.
	11:41am Krys O.: Yes, the Last Poets with Jimi!
	11:42am Mick: Great Story Corner Joe!
	11:42am fred: @Roberto: Kate Bush and Prince pretty much sum up my high school years. Only New Order is missing
	11:42am Joe McG: Thanks, Mick! This is a long story, but it has a good ending!
	11:44am Krys O.: I have the Trilogy comp from Celluloid.
	11:49am BennettCap: That was da bomb, baby!
	👻 11:50am tadpoles: Story Corner every week please Joe.
	11:51am fred: Dolly! I get a lot of grief at work because I like her. My cowboy boots are probably not helping
	11:52am Krys O.: That's got to be Charlie McCoy on harmonica.
	👻 11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: Suzy Hotrod played on of Johnny Cash's many story songs last night: "One Piece at a Time."
	11:52am northguineahills: Dolly, auto-clicky!
	👻 11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: > played one of <
	11:53am Joe McG: @Ken: A classic!
	11:54am melinda: I like Richard Cory, didn't know Them did this.
	11:54am Joe McG: Thanks for listening, everybody! Have a fabulous week, and I'll see you next time!
	11:55am Krys O.: Thanks for another excellent show, Joe!
	11:56am TheLoneliestMonk: see ya, JoeMac!
	👻 11:57am 12539: ¡Thanks Joe!
	11:57am fred: Thanks Joe. I'm taking Mondays off until the end of next month, so I'll probably check in again
	11:58am Sem: Merci, Joe.
	11:58am steveo: thank you, Joe!
	11:58am Itzall Ablurr: Just checked in; your (Joe) comments board is INSANE! SO active.
	11:59am pantz: Thanks for the show, Joe.
	11:59am Krys O.: Wilhelm Reich was Kate's inspiration on that album.
	11:59am Little Danny: Great show Joe, thanks!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from July 23, 2018

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