WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 16, 2020

Listener comments!
	11:00am Listener Baby: Have a great show, Baby and Jupe. Hope all is great over there. PS. What taste treats are instore for you today? Me, I've having Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel.
	11:00am Frank In Queens: Hey now!!!!!!!
	11:01am Frank In Queens: Baby!
	11:01am clarke: whew - getting thru that brutallllly long version of Never Ending Story...WHEW.
	11:01am Listener Baby: Hi Frank!
	11:01am Frank In Queens: Clarke!
	11:02am clarke: hey ya'll!!!
	11:02am Handy Haversack: Hey, Michael, everyone! How are the Shelle Gamers this week?
	11:02am Listener Baby: Clarke!
	11:02am Frank In Queens: I had a feeling this would be the opener.
	11:02am clarke: my goodness, what is this pho??? in the PHO-to?
	11:03am clarke: get the hit out of the way
	11:03am TDK60: Hello.
	11:03am clarke: kinda like the Trick opening with Surrender
	11:04am Frank In Queens: Now now clarke, they're all hits!
	11:04am Michael Shelley: Paella - from the recipe on the bag of rice!
	11:04am Listener John from NJ: hello, all!
	11:04am clarke: truth!
	11:05am clarke: dang. that's a good bag of rice!
	11:07am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Michael & all!
	11:07am Michael Shelley: Soy chicken & sausage, real sea creatures
	11:07am clarke: Baby - the night you and i were in the same venue, carlene carter sat on my lap!! (this was when NRBQ played at long beach)
	11:08am dano59: Cowgirl
	11:08am Handy Haversack: London Underground napkin in the lower left?
	11:09am nardo: I just had to google Paul Carrack after the second song started.
	11:11am clarke: okay frank - you getting the new book AND soundtrack? i did not pull the trigger. yet.
	11:11am dano59: Ace / Mechanic, that's Paul, right? How Long is ... huge
	11:11am Frank In Queens: The "EAT"?
	11:12am Michael Shelley: HH - dish towel -gift of a listener !
	11:12am nardo: Didn't realize he was a guest. Looking forward to this one. Thank Michael!
	11:12am phat: tuned in. don't have to work today. gonna make some brunch and clean. I'm really kind of excited about Carrack.
	11:13am Handy Haversack: Spot of class! Very mice, Michael S. I made cacio e pepe last Saturday from a friend's recipe -- worked out pretty well! Four ingredients! (I guess five if you count water.)
	11:13am clarke: EAT paella!!!
	11:13am Handy Haversack: *Er, very "nice"! ^^
	11:14am clarke: very MICE!!! verti mise!!
	11:15am Frank In Queens: To answer your question clarke, yes, of course!
	11:15am clarke: of course.
	11:15am Greg from ZONE 5: $1 well spent.
	11:16am Michael Shelley: HH - good eyes, by the way GZ5 - I was thrilled
	11:16am clarke: i find myself very conservative with ze cashe.
	11:17am Earth Walker: 1 buck That song is to cool
	11:17am clarke: The Treasurer seems to have unlimited fundage...hmmmm.....
	11:18am fezaffe: Knock on wood.
	11:18am clarke: the song was Never Ending Story!!!
	11:18am Frank In Queens: No, not unlimited. But I do have a Pollard budget for all new releases.
	11:20am clarke: that is starting to get exponential. i was implying of some improprieties with the fanclub funds. now, i am not.
	11:20am Frank In Queens: No no, my dealings with the funds of the NGFC are on the level!
	11:21am clarke: norm would be pleased
	11:22am Frank In Queens: I feel an obligation to serve his legions of fans. I couldn't possibly bring myself to dupe them.
	11:22am Listener Baby: Raise your hand if you ever saw Ace?
	11:22am clarke: hey now!!
	11:23am clarke: no ace, just you.
	11:23am clarke: (this is a line from Stand By Me, but serves dual purpose)
	11:24am Handy Haversack: Seven cents, Vern?
	11:24am Squints In Plymouth: Little Gordie Crusher.
	11:24am clarke: verno!!!
	11:26am morphe': Little by Little.. Read: IceBerg Slim
	11:26am clarke: hey - just had a brainstorm. do ya'll think that hal blaine played the Bongo Feet?!?
	11:26am TDK60: Glad you had a sparsely attended Sandy Hook.
	11:27am Greg from ZONE 5: STAR TAVERN. Best pizza in the state. Jealous.
	11:28am clarke: frank is the treasurer of the No Cavity Club too!
	11:28am Steve from Dunwoody: "No cavity flow" means fluid mechanics.
	11:29am Squints In Plymouth: How are the onion rings?
	11:29am Brian in New Orleans: LOVE the family show.....one small silver lining in all this. Thanks from New Orleans
	11:29am Frank In Queens: Clarke, no joke, I've never had a cavity!
	11:30am Handy Haversack: What town, Greg? I missed a beat there. I want the best pizza in the state! This AMAZING Mexican diner in our neighborhood has reopened -- ordered delivery from it yesterday. So, so good.
	11:30am clarke: i did see Ace on don kirschnah's raack concoit
	11:31am clarke: frank - i have never had a cavity, either. truth!
	11:31am Frank In Queens: Cheers, clarke!
	11:31am Handy Haversack: Also in the no cavity club.
	11:31am clarke: maybe that could be our band name
	11:32am juniper: no cavity club!!
	11:32am clarke: we'd get a lot of the celibate crowd
	11:32am morphe': morphe': Little by Little.. Read: IceBerg Slim and Donald Goines..... and Chester Himes... It should not be called "Black Lit" but it is LIT and Baldwin - especially - IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK.. taught it for 20 yeqars .. glad the film was made ... it is almost true to form .. the endings differ... read the book
	11:33am clarke: speaking of Danny Amis (los strait), i was listening to The Raybeats, just yesterday.
	11:34am minnowchief: We were at this show! Quite simply, magical. I have a short video of the room during a song that I’ll try to find and post on FB.
	11:34am Pedro in Arlington: The neighbors crank up lawnmowers and those awful blowers on Saturday. I give them WFMU.
	11:34am Frank In Queens: Keep it up Juniper! It really becomes a badge of honor the older you get. And people get VERY envious as well!
	11:35am clarke: i want a sticker!!
	11:35am Frank In Queens: I want an f'in billboard!
	11:36am Listener Baby: They sure did. They were under powered as most opening bands are. Saw them 10/82 open for the god awful (that night) Kinks.
	11:36am Ed From Jersey City: But do they have antibodies for cavities?
	11:36am Handy Haversack: Yeah -- I smoked for twenty-five years, drink, lived wrong, and still somehow have never had a cavity. Last time I asked a dentist about, he said, "Some people just have strong teeth." Heh. @morphe': Kate just finished reading _Beale Street_ a few weeks back.
	11:36am clarke: i feel your pain Pedro!! on fridays we got duelling leaf-blowers - try recording 12string acoustic to THAT. don't get me staaaahted.
	11:37am Cat: Loving the show. Great new Townson tune! Always Better With You
	11:39am clarke: noiseless mouse has not arrived yet - must we dispute the purchase??
	11:40am Frank In Queens: I'd rather be surrounded by the sound of lawnmowers and leaf blowers once a week than the smell of cigarettes several times a day, every day.
	11:40am morphe': Handy - taught it 20 years... was difficulut for the students because the pasages jump - I gave them page break indicators so they knew "now" or "flashback" Baldwin wrote that near Nice where EarthWalker lives....
	11:41am Michael Shelley: '82 - ????? baby????
	11:41am Hughie Considine: Funny how certain phrases just sound good in a pop song -- "just a little" for example.
	11:41am clarke: agreed, but the leaf-blowers are nearly EVERY day in this (otherwise very nice 'hood)
	11:42am Frank In Queens: Ah! I'd still take that trade, but then again, I'm not tracking 12-string acoustic.
	11:42am clarke: parenthetical misplacing. very mice!!
	11:43am Lizardner Dave 2: I saw Paul Carrack as part of Roger Waters's band on the Radio KAOS tour in the late 1980s
	11:43am Handy Haversack: Frank, are you on the ground floor? We are and get smokers outside the windows, too.
	11:43am clarke: well, i have or am discovering that you have to pick your windows for acoustic instruments, here
	11:44am Listener Baby: Baby. Yes. I looked it up. Maybe 1980? I'll look again.
	11:45am clarke: and, re: cigarettes: i discovered after about 25 years of playing in smoky clubs that i am allergic to cig smoke! i just thought i was getting sick all the time, ha ha. not that funny.
	11:46am Frank In Queens: Handy, yes on the 1st floor of a 2 family house. To my right, both floors are occupied by smokers and also 2 doors down on my left, which somehow still manages to waft into my open windows.
	11:47am clarke: ouch!!
	11:47am clarke: no wonder you need new windows!!
	11:47am TDK60: Frank, you could get a leaf blower to blow away the cig smoke!
	11:47am Michael Shelley: I am in the never smoked a cigarette club
	11:48am clarke: 555555
	11:48am clarke: well, i have never actually SMOKED one, but we've been going to clubs for decades!!
	11:49am Handy Haversack: clarke, send leaf blowers to Queens! Sometimes the smell of cigarettes make me nostalgic and craving. Sometimes it's annoying. But I know Kate doesn't like it. I quit ... just over four years ago. Still think about it all the damn time!
	11:49am Frank In Queens: It's brutal! And one of them smokes the stalest smelling cigarettes imaginable! My uncle used to smoke Tareyton's in the 80s, and they smell EXACTLY like that!
	11:49am Frank In Queens: Me too, Michael!
	11:49am myron feld: Smoked one cigarette in 1973, have had countless cavities, root canals and implants since then. Draw your own conclusions.
	11:49am Hughie Considine: Always loved this Squeeze track. Is Paul doing something notable here?
	11:49am Frank In Queens: Well, tobacco anyway...
	11:50am Frank In Queens: TDK60, not a terrible idea...
	11:50am Michael Shelley: he's Just singing great harmony
	11:50am clarke: i have never smoked ANYthing - except a turkey
	11:50am TDK60: Handy, keep at it. I used to smoke, thankfully quit a long time ago.
	11:51am clarke: and the hammond organ, right?
	11:51am Hughie Considine: sounds like Tillbrook and Difford ...
	11:51am Hughie Considine: but I defer to your ears
	11:52am clarke: without Gilson?? nah.
	11:52am TDK60: Handy, when I first quit cigz, I chewed gum for 6 months, till my jaws were friggin' exhausted.
	11:52am phat: they could sell out a week here in Nebraska, I bet, too.
	11:52am Hughie Considine: Amazing how Squeeze recovered from John Cale's sabotage on the first LP.
	11:52am clarke: the City Of Industry. wow.
	11:53am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Greetings, Michael and WFMU folx one and all!
	11:53am Hughie Considine: Stewart Copeland could fill in for Gilson?
	11:53am DG: OMG, DO NOT send leafblowers to Queens! Here in the NE part of the borough (which may as well be the 'burbs, no subways, you have to take a bus to the 7 train) they are practically non-stop, 7 days a week. It's either the endless landscaping crews who stand there for an hour blowing leaves around (even if there aren't any) or the apparently-deaf homeowners who have their own blowers or lawnmowers, & start doing their own lawns at 8:30 on a weekend. It's like half the neighborhood is deaf...I don't know how people deal with the noise (& our development still has those guys come every week...for some reason during this time that's still an "essential service").
	11:54am DG: HC: Yeah, I love Squeeze & I don't even have that album...but I didn't think the songs were as good (w/some exceptions). How do you think Cale ruined it?
	11:54am clarke: my theory is that today's society is a Leaf-Blower Society: as long as _____ isn't in MY space!!
	11:54am Handy Haversack: Thanks, TDK. Yeah -- I'm firm. Mainly because I can NEVER go through that again. Quitting was a nightmare.
	11:54am Hughie Considine: This is one of the primo Paul Carrack moments, even if it's sort of "Tempted 2.0" - I guess if the song is that good it can absorb any number of permutations.
	11:55am morphe': Handy - the Magpie is in a stand off with a massive pigeon??Never saw a pigeon stand its ground - except our CLAY!!!!! it has been 2 minutes///
	11:56am Hughie Considine: @DG, I came across a list of LPs that were sort of destroyed from within. Cale chucked out all their songs and told them to write new ones. I mean, crazy shit like that.
	11:56am clarke: stewart copeland could NOT fill in for Gilson!!! no one could.
	11:57am Listener Baby: @Baby. Twas 1980. My bad.
	11:57am clarke: speaking of Diff & Til, one of the most disappointing albums EVER is their duet record. ouch!!
	11:59am Handy Haversack: PigeonStrong, morphe'!
	12:01pm Hughie Considine: Trying to imagine Joe Cocker as a child and failing...
	12:01pm clarke: gosh - you know, i must've seen Ace open for The Kinks, too. i might've arrived late. i saw The Kinks several times around that time (and other times)
	12:02pm Listener Baby: @Clarke. Agree 100% yuck! I saw that tour too. Boring!!!!!! I most remember the did Band of Gold.
	12:02pm Squints In Plymouth: The Freda Payne number?
	12:03pm clarke: well, EVERY Kinks show i saw was great - REALLY! 26 times!!
	12:03pm Michael Shelley: Baby at that venue on Vine St.?
	12:03pm Hughie Considine: Coolest attic ever over at the Carracks...
	12:03pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Yeah, what a great story!
	12:07pm davefromtoronto: michael shelly is the best interviewer ever!
	12:09pm clarke: very mice!!
	12:09pm Listener Baby: @Squints. The very same.
	12:09pm Squints In Plymouth: wow. that must have been neat.
	12:09pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Yep, it's still fresh. How long can How Long be so fresh?!
	12:09pm Listener Baby: @Baby. Yes. The Palace. I was in the front.
	12:10pm Hughie Considine: "How Long" is actually written from the perspective of mouse in the midst in of rocky relationship.
	12:11pm Hughie Considine: I cracked myself up so much I forgot to edit the above. My apologies.
	12:12pm clarke: Perspective Of Mouse -- the new album by No Cavity Club on k-tel records and tapes!!
	12:13pm Hughie Considine: Sign me up, @clarke.
	12:14pm clarke: antithesis
	12:18pm DG: Yeah, the Difford & Tilbrook album was disappointing & pretty dull, although I thought "Hope Fell Down" was great & some soul/R&B singer could've had a hit w/it. "Man for All Seasons" is good too, but the rest of the album is this weird mix of experimental, disco, R&B...I don't know what they were trying to do. I saw them at the Ritz when it came out, don't remember it being that great (although yeah, I think they did do "Band of Gold"!).
	12:18pm clarke: did not know about roxy
	12:22pm listener 126464: Squeeze played at Creation in West Orange for Argybargy tour
	12:28pm phat: this interview is amazing.
	12:28pm TDK60: Interesting, phat, all the different angles.
	12:29pm clarke: people actually tell me that howard stern is a good interviewer - HAH
	12:30pm Frank In Queens: He is...
	12:30pm Michael Shelley: Howard is excellent
	12:31pm smevvyk: This may be one of my top-10 interviews in years and years of listening to the show regularly including fascinating, funny and inspiring interviews.
	12:31pm clarke: i suppose stern is decent if you don't know anything about anything
	12:31pm Michael Shelley: speaking of.. this week I signed up for free 90 days of Sirius radio
	12:31pm clarke: and you like gossipy stuff
	12:32pm clarke: 90 days is about how long before you get sorta bored
	12:32pm kpx: Chiming in late, now let's see. oh yeah!. I wonder if the kinks still abides. Oops!. I hope someone doesn't get too upset, for not!.
	12:32pm Frank In Queens: Well, I mean, if you rely on Howard Stern to give you in depth musical knowledge and analysis, sure, you're going to be disappointed.
	12:33pm Frank In Queens: But we don't, do we? That's why we listen to WFMU.
	12:33pm clarke: this is why MS is the BEST in the world!
	12:33pm clarke: sirius!!
	12:34pm Michael Shelley: Howard is naturally curious... and asks some tough questions, and for some reason, people really open up to him.
	12:35pm clarke: i could say the same about you
	12:35pm Frank In Queens: Michael's interviews are typically and consistently excellent. I especially enjoy the conversational tone they take on. The questioning never seems rigid. It always seems to ebb and flow with where the subject goes with their answers.
	12:36pm clarke: PHIL not paul - but it would be PAUL not phil if i was doin' it. but i got him doin' it.
	12:36pm Squints In Plymouth: Heh. He said "Paul" Collins was the guy. I'd heartily agree.
	12:37pm clarke: (another nrbq ref)
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: Paul Collins... never far from the front of my mind
	12:37pm clarke: and rightly SO!!!
	12:38pm paul: Lot of Pauls out there.
	12:39pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): we are fascinated!
	12:40pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): HA HA! FELDER!
	12:40pm Squints In Plymouth: "We let Mister Felder try to sing that song."
	12:41pm Pedro in Arlington: Biden needs to put Carrack on the ticket. Guaranteed victory.
	12:42pm clarke: Hold On Loosely!!!
	12:43pm Handy Haversack: Felder!
	12:43pm kpx: I have, you don't!, so you can't!.
	12:44pm clarke: ummmm sure you can use my song>>>>>
	12:45pm Handy Haversack: Was just reading in Liz Phair's memoir about Howard Stern slagging her off for her performance of "Winter Wonderland" at a Rockefeller Center tree-lighting ceremony -- when she had a 103F fever. Not very mice!
	12:45pm ledzeppelinsucks: 4 hour Flexi Disc fest on KFJC 89.7 Los Altos Hills from 2PM PDT to 6PM PDT Wed May 20, 2020.
	12:45pm Hughie Considine: I saw Ringo and his All-Starr band a few years ago and had to sit through versions of Toto songs. I left humming "Africa." Just didn't sit right.
	12:46pm Michael Shelley: Since Ringo gave up changing the band every year, it's a bit lame.
	12:46pm clarke: really want to read that Liz Phair book - keep forgetting
	12:46pm Joe B: Greg Lake was also in that version of the Ringo band!
	12:47pm ledzeppelinsucks: I talked to John Haggerty formerly of Naked Raygun and currently of Pegboy and he said something mean about Liz Phair.
	12:47pm Santos L Halper: Great interview Michael, thanks!
	12:47pm clarke: and really don't want to have Africa in my head - thanks hughie!!
	12:48pm Hughie Considine: Don't think of pink elephants either!
	12:48pm clarke: hmm.. Pegboy still around?
	12:49pm Michael Shelley: some amazing years: en.wikipedia.org...
	12:49pm clarke: the pink elephants miss the rains...
	12:51pm clarke: @hughie - there have been a few new postings of XTC live shows - i highly recommend the one from some fest in holland (?) - they are KILLING it and the crowd could not care less.
	12:53pm ledzeppelinsucks: Pegboy scheduled to play Memorial Weekend in Chicago. Maybe they will be selling bio suits at merch. https://do312.com/artists/pegboy
	12:54pm paul: Sounds like he could be from Liverpool.
	12:55pm clarke: uhmhaw.
	12:56pm Ross T.: "Don't see why they should have to suffer for my art...."
	12:56pm clarke: one interview that comes to mind (and still haunts me) is the Emmitt Rhodes one.. yipe.
	12:56pm clarke: but still one of the best interviews ever
	12:57pm clarke: how long has THIS been going on?
	12:57pm Richard: Really interesting, fun interview. Thanks!
	12:57pm Frank In Queens: Paul, Sheffield is in that neck of the woods. It's the Northern accent.
	12:58pm Corey: These interviews are really striking a chord in COVID times. Nice to escape for a little while. Great interview and show, Michael! Be well all.
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Excellent work Michael!
	12:58pm listener 126464: Thank you Michael!
	12:58pm Handy Haversack: That interview, again, was great, Michael. Thanks! Corey says it really well!
	12:58pm Earth Walker: Such an enjoyable interview ! Thanks
	12:58pm paul: That makes sense. Thanks, Frank.
	12:58pm clarke: done and DONE. i am outta here....danke!
	12:58pm davefromtoronto: talk about a timeless tune.
	12:58pm Hughie Considine: @Clarke, I've seen that live XTC stuff and yes, they are a monster!
	12:59pm radioronan: When Groove Approved came out they had the record release party at a studio in SF (Hyde St? maybe) with Carrack doing tracks on piano. However the same night Virgin was hosting the debut of an up and coming rnr'er named Lenny Kravitz at DNA. In order to make sure everyone went to both, Capitol paid for everyone to be shuttled between the 2 performances. It was a great night. Great interview, Michael.
	12:59pm Hughie Considine: Great stuff as always, @Michael.
	12:59pm Ciggy: Love both Emitt Rhodes interviews (maybe Michael interviewed him more than two times?).
	12:59pm clarke: so weird the myth that they were not good live. adios all.
	12:59pm Michael Shelley: thanks, folks!
	1:00pm clarke: no ace just you!
	1:01pm kpx: Ha Ha Ha, got the feeling you've been cheated! CYSAPOS!
	1:01pm paul: sonny charles
	1:01pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Michael & Juniper & Ruth!
	1:02pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, MS and Juniper -- and Ruth!
	1:02pm Frank In Queens: Cheers Michael!
	1:03pm davefromtoronto: my brow just lowered at the sound of that intro...
	11:51am Really Lisa: What a great interview!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 16, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Squeeze	Tempted "Tempted" by "Squeeze"
Carlene Carter And Paul Carrack	Oh How Happy
Johnny Horton	I'm a One Woman Man
Erma Franklin	Baby, What You Want Me To Do?
Ray Barretto	A Deeper Shade Of Soul
Paul Carrack	Lesson In Love "Lesson In Love" by "Paul Carrack"
Dusty Springfield	Little By Little
Nick Lowe And Los Straitjackets	You Inspire Me
Greg Townson	We Tied One On "We Tied One On" by "Greg Townson"
Paul Carrack	A Little Unkind "A Little Unkind" by "Paul Carrack"
John Perrin	The Beatles Have Got To Go
Paul Carrack	Always Better With You
Squeeze	Someone Else's Heart "Someone Else's Heart" by "Squeeze"
Paul Carrack	I Need You "I Need You" by "Paul Carrack"
Paul Carrack	Interview "Interview" by "Paul Carrack"
Ace	How Long "How Long" by "Ace"

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CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

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CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

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Listener comments!
	11:00am Listener Baby: Have a great show, Baby and Jupe. Hope all is great over there. PS. What taste treats are instore for you today? Me, I've having Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel.
	11:00am Frank In Queens: Hey now!!!!!!!
	11:01am Frank In Queens: Baby!
	11:01am clarke: whew - getting thru that brutallllly long version of Never Ending Story...WHEW.
	11:01am Listener Baby: Hi Frank!
	11:01am Frank In Queens: Clarke!
	11:02am clarke: hey ya'll!!!
	11:02am Handy Haversack: Hey, Michael, everyone! How are the Shelle Gamers this week?
	11:02am Listener Baby: Clarke!
	11:02am Frank In Queens: I had a feeling this would be the opener.
	11:02am clarke: my goodness, what is this pho??? in the PHO-to?
	11:03am clarke: get the hit out of the way
	11:03am TDK60: Hello.
	11:03am clarke: kinda like the Trick opening with Surrender
	11:04am Frank In Queens: Now now clarke, they're all hits!
	11:04am Michael Shelley: Paella - from the recipe on the bag of rice!
	11:04am Listener John from NJ: hello, all!
	11:04am clarke: truth!
	11:05am clarke: dang. that's a good bag of rice!
	11:07am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Michael & all!
	11:07am Michael Shelley: Soy chicken & sausage, real sea creatures
	11:07am clarke: Baby - the night you and i were in the same venue, carlene carter sat on my lap!! (this was when NRBQ played at long beach)
	11:08am dano59: Cowgirl
	11:08am Handy Haversack: London Underground napkin in the lower left?
	11:09am nardo: I just had to google Paul Carrack after the second song started.
	11:11am clarke: okay frank - you getting the new book AND soundtrack? i did not pull the trigger. yet.
	11:11am dano59: Ace / Mechanic, that's Paul, right? How Long is ... huge
	11:11am Frank In Queens: The "EAT"?
	11:12am Michael Shelley: HH - dish towel -gift of a listener !
	11:12am nardo: Didn't realize he was a guest. Looking forward to this one. Thank Michael!
	11:12am phat: tuned in. don't have to work today. gonna make some brunch and clean. I'm really kind of excited about Carrack.
	11:13am Handy Haversack: Spot of class! Very mice, Michael S. I made cacio e pepe last Saturday from a friend's recipe -- worked out pretty well! Four ingredients! (I guess five if you count water.)
	11:13am clarke: EAT paella!!!
	11:13am Handy Haversack: *Er, very "nice"! ^^
	11:14am clarke: very MICE!!! verti mise!!
	11:15am Frank In Queens: To answer your question clarke, yes, of course!
	11:15am clarke: of course.
	11:15am Greg from ZONE 5: $1 well spent.
	11:16am Michael Shelley: HH - good eyes, by the way GZ5 - I was thrilled
	11:16am clarke: i find myself very conservative with ze cashe.
	11:17am Earth Walker: 1 buck That song is to cool
	11:17am clarke: The Treasurer seems to have unlimited fundage...hmmmm.....
	11:18am fezaffe: Knock on wood.
	11:18am clarke: the song was Never Ending Story!!!
	11:18am Frank In Queens: No, not unlimited. But I do have a Pollard budget for all new releases.
	11:20am clarke: that is starting to get exponential. i was implying of some improprieties with the fanclub funds. now, i am not.
	11:20am Frank In Queens: No no, my dealings with the funds of the NGFC are on the level!
	11:21am clarke: norm would be pleased
	11:22am Frank In Queens: I feel an obligation to serve his legions of fans. I couldn't possibly bring myself to dupe them.
	11:22am Listener Baby: Raise your hand if you ever saw Ace?
	11:22am clarke: hey now!!
	11:23am clarke: no ace, just you.
	11:23am clarke: (this is a line from Stand By Me, but serves dual purpose)
	11:24am Handy Haversack: Seven cents, Vern?
	11:24am Squints In Plymouth: Little Gordie Crusher.
	11:24am clarke: verno!!!
	11:26am morphe': Little by Little.. Read: IceBerg Slim
	11:26am clarke: hey - just had a brainstorm. do ya'll think that hal blaine played the Bongo Feet?!?
	11:26am TDK60: Glad you had a sparsely attended Sandy Hook.
	11:27am Greg from ZONE 5: STAR TAVERN. Best pizza in the state. Jealous.
	11:28am clarke: frank is the treasurer of the No Cavity Club too!
	11:28am Steve from Dunwoody: "No cavity flow" means fluid mechanics.
	11:29am Squints In Plymouth: How are the onion rings?
	11:29am Brian in New Orleans: LOVE the family show.....one small silver lining in all this. Thanks from New Orleans
	11:29am Frank In Queens: Clarke, no joke, I've never had a cavity!
	11:30am Handy Haversack: What town, Greg? I missed a beat there. I want the best pizza in the state! This AMAZING Mexican diner in our neighborhood has reopened -- ordered delivery from it yesterday. So, so good.
	11:30am clarke: i did see Ace on don kirschnah's raack concoit
	11:31am clarke: frank - i have never had a cavity, either. truth!
	11:31am Frank In Queens: Cheers, clarke!
	11:31am Handy Haversack: Also in the no cavity club.
	11:31am clarke: maybe that could be our band name
	11:32am juniper: no cavity club!!
	11:32am clarke: we'd get a lot of the celibate crowd
	11:32am morphe': morphe': Little by Little.. Read: IceBerg Slim and Donald Goines..... and Chester Himes... It should not be called "Black Lit" but it is LIT and Baldwin - especially - IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK.. taught it for 20 yeqars .. glad the film was made ... it is almost true to form .. the endings differ... read the book
	11:33am clarke: speaking of Danny Amis (los strait), i was listening to The Raybeats, just yesterday.
	11:34am minnowchief: We were at this show! Quite simply, magical. I have a short video of the room during a song that I’ll try to find and post on FB.
	11:34am Pedro in Arlington: The neighbors crank up lawnmowers and those awful blowers on Saturday. I give them WFMU.
	11:34am Frank In Queens: Keep it up Juniper! It really becomes a badge of honor the older you get. And people get VERY envious as well!
	11:35am clarke: i want a sticker!!
	11:35am Frank In Queens: I want an f'in billboard!
	11:36am Listener Baby: They sure did. They were under powered as most opening bands are. Saw them 10/82 open for the god awful (that night) Kinks.
	11:36am Ed From Jersey City: But do they have antibodies for cavities?
	11:36am Handy Haversack: Yeah -- I smoked for twenty-five years, drink, lived wrong, and still somehow have never had a cavity. Last time I asked a dentist about, he said, "Some people just have strong teeth." Heh. @morphe': Kate just finished reading _Beale Street_ a few weeks back.
	11:36am clarke: i feel your pain Pedro!! on fridays we got duelling leaf-blowers - try recording 12string acoustic to THAT. don't get me staaaahted.
	11:37am Cat: Loving the show. Great new Townson tune! Always Better With You
	11:39am clarke: noiseless mouse has not arrived yet - must we dispute the purchase??
	11:40am Frank In Queens: I'd rather be surrounded by the sound of lawnmowers and leaf blowers once a week than the smell of cigarettes several times a day, every day.
	11:40am morphe': Handy - taught it 20 years... was difficulut for the students because the pasages jump - I gave them page break indicators so they knew "now" or "flashback" Baldwin wrote that near Nice where EarthWalker lives....
	11:41am Michael Shelley: '82 - ????? baby????
	11:41am Hughie Considine: Funny how certain phrases just sound good in a pop song -- "just a little" for example.
	11:41am clarke: agreed, but the leaf-blowers are nearly EVERY day in this (otherwise very nice 'hood)
	11:42am Frank In Queens: Ah! I'd still take that trade, but then again, I'm not tracking 12-string acoustic.
	11:42am clarke: parenthetical misplacing. very mice!!
	11:43am Lizardner Dave 2: I saw Paul Carrack as part of Roger Waters's band on the Radio KAOS tour in the late 1980s
	11:43am Handy Haversack: Frank, are you on the ground floor? We are and get smokers outside the windows, too.
	11:43am clarke: well, i have or am discovering that you have to pick your windows for acoustic instruments, here
	11:44am Listener Baby: Baby. Yes. I looked it up. Maybe 1980? I'll look again.
	11:45am clarke: and, re: cigarettes: i discovered after about 25 years of playing in smoky clubs that i am allergic to cig smoke! i just thought i was getting sick all the time, ha ha. not that funny.
	11:46am Frank In Queens: Handy, yes on the 1st floor of a 2 family house. To my right, both floors are occupied by smokers and also 2 doors down on my left, which somehow still manages to waft into my open windows.
	11:47am clarke: ouch!!
	11:47am clarke: no wonder you need new windows!!
	11:47am TDK60: Frank, you could get a leaf blower to blow away the cig smoke!
	11:47am Michael Shelley: I am in the never smoked a cigarette club
	11:48am clarke: 555555
	11:48am clarke: well, i have never actually SMOKED one, but we've been going to clubs for decades!!
	11:49am Handy Haversack: clarke, send leaf blowers to Queens! Sometimes the smell of cigarettes make me nostalgic and craving. Sometimes it's annoying. But I know Kate doesn't like it. I quit ... just over four years ago. Still think about it all the damn time!
	11:49am Frank In Queens: It's brutal! And one of them smokes the stalest smelling cigarettes imaginable! My uncle used to smoke Tareyton's in the 80s, and they smell EXACTLY like that!
	11:49am Frank In Queens: Me too, Michael!
	11:49am myron feld: Smoked one cigarette in 1973, have had countless cavities, root canals and implants since then. Draw your own conclusions.
	11:49am Hughie Considine: Always loved this Squeeze track. Is Paul doing something notable here?
	11:49am Frank In Queens: Well, tobacco anyway...
	11:50am Frank In Queens: TDK60, not a terrible idea...
	11:50am Michael Shelley: he's Just singing great harmony
	11:50am clarke: i have never smoked ANYthing - except a turkey
	11:50am TDK60: Handy, keep at it. I used to smoke, thankfully quit a long time ago.
	11:51am clarke: and the hammond organ, right?
	11:51am Hughie Considine: sounds like Tillbrook and Difford ...
	11:51am Hughie Considine: but I defer to your ears
	11:52am clarke: without Gilson?? nah.
	11:52am TDK60: Handy, when I first quit cigz, I chewed gum for 6 months, till my jaws were friggin' exhausted.
	11:52am phat: they could sell out a week here in Nebraska, I bet, too.
	11:52am Hughie Considine: Amazing how Squeeze recovered from John Cale's sabotage on the first LP.
	11:52am clarke: the City Of Industry. wow.
	11:53am Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Greetings, Michael and WFMU folx one and all!
	11:53am Hughie Considine: Stewart Copeland could fill in for Gilson?
	11:53am DG: OMG, DO NOT send leafblowers to Queens! Here in the NE part of the borough (which may as well be the 'burbs, no subways, you have to take a bus to the 7 train) they are practically non-stop, 7 days a week. It's either the endless landscaping crews who stand there for an hour blowing leaves around (even if there aren't any) or the apparently-deaf homeowners who have their own blowers or lawnmowers, & start doing their own lawns at 8:30 on a weekend. It's like half the neighborhood is deaf...I don't know how people deal with the noise (& our development still has those guys come every week...for some reason during this time that's still an "essential service").
	11:54am DG: HC: Yeah, I love Squeeze & I don't even have that album...but I didn't think the songs were as good (w/some exceptions). How do you think Cale ruined it?
	11:54am clarke: my theory is that today's society is a Leaf-Blower Society: as long as _____ isn't in MY space!!
	11:54am Handy Haversack: Thanks, TDK. Yeah -- I'm firm. Mainly because I can NEVER go through that again. Quitting was a nightmare.
	11:54am Hughie Considine: This is one of the primo Paul Carrack moments, even if it's sort of "Tempted 2.0" - I guess if the song is that good it can absorb any number of permutations.
	11:55am morphe': Handy - the Magpie is in a stand off with a massive pigeon??Never saw a pigeon stand its ground - except our CLAY!!!!! it has been 2 minutes///
	11:56am Hughie Considine: @DG, I came across a list of LPs that were sort of destroyed from within. Cale chucked out all their songs and told them to write new ones. I mean, crazy shit like that.
	11:56am clarke: stewart copeland could NOT fill in for Gilson!!! no one could.
	11:57am Listener Baby: @Baby. Twas 1980. My bad.
	11:57am clarke: speaking of Diff & Til, one of the most disappointing albums EVER is their duet record. ouch!!
	11:59am Handy Haversack: PigeonStrong, morphe'!
	12:01pm Hughie Considine: Trying to imagine Joe Cocker as a child and failing...
	12:01pm clarke: gosh - you know, i must've seen Ace open for The Kinks, too. i might've arrived late. i saw The Kinks several times around that time (and other times)
	12:02pm Listener Baby: @Clarke. Agree 100% yuck! I saw that tour too. Boring!!!!!! I most remember the did Band of Gold.
	12:02pm Squints In Plymouth: The Freda Payne number?
	12:03pm clarke: well, EVERY Kinks show i saw was great - REALLY! 26 times!!
	12:03pm Michael Shelley: Baby at that venue on Vine St.?
	12:03pm Hughie Considine: Coolest attic ever over at the Carracks...
	12:03pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Yeah, what a great story!
	12:07pm davefromtoronto: michael shelly is the best interviewer ever!
	12:09pm clarke: very mice!!
	12:09pm Listener Baby: @Squints. The very same.
	12:09pm Squints In Plymouth: wow. that must have been neat.
	12:09pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Yep, it's still fresh. How long can How Long be so fresh?!
	12:09pm Listener Baby: @Baby. Yes. The Palace. I was in the front.
	12:10pm Hughie Considine: "How Long" is actually written from the perspective of mouse in the midst in of rocky relationship.
	12:11pm Hughie Considine: I cracked myself up so much I forgot to edit the above. My apologies.
	12:12pm clarke: Perspective Of Mouse -- the new album by No Cavity Club on k-tel records and tapes!!
	12:13pm Hughie Considine: Sign me up, @clarke.
	12:14pm clarke: antithesis
	12:18pm DG: Yeah, the Difford & Tilbrook album was disappointing & pretty dull, although I thought "Hope Fell Down" was great & some soul/R&B singer could've had a hit w/it. "Man for All Seasons" is good too, but the rest of the album is this weird mix of experimental, disco, R&B...I don't know what they were trying to do. I saw them at the Ritz when it came out, don't remember it being that great (although yeah, I think they did do "Band of Gold"!).
	12:18pm clarke: did not know about roxy
	12:22pm listener 126464: Squeeze played at Creation in West Orange for Argybargy tour
	12:28pm phat: this interview is amazing.
	12:28pm TDK60: Interesting, phat, all the different angles.
	12:29pm clarke: people actually tell me that howard stern is a good interviewer - HAH
	12:30pm Frank In Queens: He is...
	12:30pm Michael Shelley: Howard is excellent
	12:31pm smevvyk: This may be one of my top-10 interviews in years and years of listening to the show regularly including fascinating, funny and inspiring interviews.
	12:31pm clarke: i suppose stern is decent if you don't know anything about anything
	12:31pm Michael Shelley: speaking of.. this week I signed up for free 90 days of Sirius radio
	12:31pm clarke: and you like gossipy stuff
	12:32pm clarke: 90 days is about how long before you get sorta bored
	12:32pm kpx: Chiming in late, now let's see. oh yeah!. I wonder if the kinks still abides. Oops!. I hope someone doesn't get too upset, for not!.
	12:32pm Frank In Queens: Well, I mean, if you rely on Howard Stern to give you in depth musical knowledge and analysis, sure, you're going to be disappointed.
	12:33pm Frank In Queens: But we don't, do we? That's why we listen to WFMU.
	12:33pm clarke: this is why MS is the BEST in the world!
	12:33pm clarke: sirius!!
	12:34pm Michael Shelley: Howard is naturally curious... and asks some tough questions, and for some reason, people really open up to him.
	12:35pm clarke: i could say the same about you
	12:35pm Frank In Queens: Michael's interviews are typically and consistently excellent. I especially enjoy the conversational tone they take on. The questioning never seems rigid. It always seems to ebb and flow with where the subject goes with their answers.
	12:36pm clarke: PHIL not paul - but it would be PAUL not phil if i was doin' it. but i got him doin' it.
	12:36pm Squints In Plymouth: Heh. He said "Paul" Collins was the guy. I'd heartily agree.
	12:37pm clarke: (another nrbq ref)
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: Paul Collins... never far from the front of my mind
	12:37pm clarke: and rightly SO!!!
	12:38pm paul: Lot of Pauls out there.
	12:39pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): we are fascinated!
	12:40pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): HA HA! FELDER!
	12:40pm Squints In Plymouth: "We let Mister Felder try to sing that song."
	12:41pm Pedro in Arlington: Biden needs to put Carrack on the ticket. Guaranteed victory.
	12:42pm clarke: Hold On Loosely!!!
	12:43pm Handy Haversack: Felder!
	12:43pm kpx: I have, you don't!, so you can't!.
	12:44pm clarke: ummmm sure you can use my song>>>>>
	12:45pm Handy Haversack: Was just reading in Liz Phair's memoir about Howard Stern slagging her off for her performance of "Winter Wonderland" at a Rockefeller Center tree-lighting ceremony -- when she had a 103F fever. Not very mice!
	12:45pm ledzeppelinsucks: 4 hour Flexi Disc fest on KFJC 89.7 Los Altos Hills from 2PM PDT to 6PM PDT Wed May 20, 2020.
	12:45pm Hughie Considine: I saw Ringo and his All-Starr band a few years ago and had to sit through versions of Toto songs. I left humming "Africa." Just didn't sit right.
	12:46pm Michael Shelley: Since Ringo gave up changing the band every year, it's a bit lame.
	12:46pm clarke: really want to read that Liz Phair book - keep forgetting
	12:46pm Joe B: Greg Lake was also in that version of the Ringo band!
	12:47pm ledzeppelinsucks: I talked to John Haggerty formerly of Naked Raygun and currently of Pegboy and he said something mean about Liz Phair.
	12:47pm Santos L Halper: Great interview Michael, thanks!
	12:47pm clarke: and really don't want to have Africa in my head - thanks hughie!!
	12:48pm Hughie Considine: Don't think of pink elephants either!
	12:48pm clarke: hmm.. Pegboy still around?
	12:49pm Michael Shelley: some amazing years: en.wikipedia.org...
	12:49pm clarke: the pink elephants miss the rains...
	12:51pm clarke: @hughie - there have been a few new postings of XTC live shows - i highly recommend the one from some fest in holland (?) - they are KILLING it and the crowd could not care less.
	12:53pm ledzeppelinsucks: Pegboy scheduled to play Memorial Weekend in Chicago. Maybe they will be selling bio suits at merch. https://do312.com/artists/pegboy
	12:54pm paul: Sounds like he could be from Liverpool.
	12:55pm clarke: uhmhaw.
	12:56pm Ross T.: "Don't see why they should have to suffer for my art...."
	12:56pm clarke: one interview that comes to mind (and still haunts me) is the Emmitt Rhodes one.. yipe.
	12:56pm clarke: but still one of the best interviews ever
	12:57pm clarke: how long has THIS been going on?
	12:57pm Richard: Really interesting, fun interview. Thanks!
	12:57pm Frank In Queens: Paul, Sheffield is in that neck of the woods. It's the Northern accent.
	12:58pm Corey: These interviews are really striking a chord in COVID times. Nice to escape for a little while. Great interview and show, Michael! Be well all.
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Excellent work Michael!
	12:58pm listener 126464: Thank you Michael!
	12:58pm Handy Haversack: That interview, again, was great, Michael. Thanks! Corey says it really well!
	12:58pm Earth Walker: Such an enjoyable interview ! Thanks
	12:58pm paul: That makes sense. Thanks, Frank.
	12:58pm clarke: done and DONE. i am outta here....danke!
	12:58pm davefromtoronto: talk about a timeless tune.
	12:58pm Hughie Considine: @Clarke, I've seen that live XTC stuff and yes, they are a monster!
	12:59pm radioronan: When Groove Approved came out they had the record release party at a studio in SF (Hyde St? maybe) with Carrack doing tracks on piano. However the same night Virgin was hosting the debut of an up and coming rnr'er named Lenny Kravitz at DNA. In order to make sure everyone went to both, Capitol paid for everyone to be shuttled between the 2 performances. It was a great night. Great interview, Michael.
	12:59pm Hughie Considine: Great stuff as always, @Michael.
	12:59pm Ciggy: Love both Emitt Rhodes interviews (maybe Michael interviewed him more than two times?).
	12:59pm clarke: so weird the myth that they were not good live. adios all.
	12:59pm Michael Shelley: thanks, folks!
	1:00pm clarke: no ace just you!
	1:01pm kpx: Ha Ha Ha, got the feeling you've been cheated! CYSAPOS!
	1:01pm paul: sonny charles
	1:01pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Michael & Juniper & Ruth!
	1:02pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, MS and Juniper -- and Ruth!
	1:02pm Frank In Queens: Cheers Michael!
	1:03pm davefromtoronto: my brow just lowered at the sound of that intro...
	11:51am Really Lisa: What a great interview!

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