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

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:02am annie: yay!
	♥ 9:03am Colin and Danie in Durham UK: Boing
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am karlward: What's the deal behind this rumor that the Yip Yip sketch is performed each Monday by the WFMU DJs, live, flawlessly?
	9:04am Vincent Nifigance: This is going to be a great day.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am The Oscar: Mornin'! Loving this already.
	♥ 9:05am Guido from Cologne: Good morning Joe!
	♥ 9:05am dale: i hope conway's hair is two feet tall in this tune
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am steveo: Good morning, Joe. Say it IS so!
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am steveo: Wow, Conway's really phoning this one in ;)
	9:06am themutante: Hello, Surface specimens!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06am pantz: Conway, you snake!
	9:07am Vincent Nifigance: Told you.
	♥ 9:07am dale: is 'can i still call him daddy' in the record crate?
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am karlward: I would listen to Loretta read Wikipedia.
	9:08am Blix: Hold the phone, I smell a DJ Premium being assembled...
	🎸 ♥ 9:08am melinda: I thought the first song was a humorous remix and then I saw the playlist.
	♥ 9:10am BronwynB: hello joe and everyone!
	9:10am themutante: This surface Noise got caught up in the tumbleweed.
	♥ 9:10am dale: i missed the telephony angle at first.
	♥ 9:11am dale: love this guy - sterling is new to me.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11am The Oscar: You don't hear the phrase "A boy that needs a whippin'" used sentimentally much anymore.
	♥ 9:12am annie: there's this cool thing going on, i'm chatting with b sweeny about radio in old deecee and then all this great country stuff comes on, i'm having a flashback!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:12am pantz: That's an Angel In The Morning guitar lick.
	♥ 9:13am dale: the oscar - ah, fond memories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13am steveo: love that key change
	9:14am davefromtoronto: this set is so phoney!
	9:14am Blix: "The crippled cowboy"... I wonder how long that lyric was rambling about in his head. That was very out there...and great.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am Ken From Hyde Park: DJ Joe is really phoning it in this morning.
	9:16am themutante: Pre-recorded, maybe?
	♥ 9:17am dale: one ringy dingy.....
	9:17am davefromtoronto: telephone line by ELO...in case you need any suggestions!
	🎸 ♥ 9:17am The Oscar: Ooh-- combination telephone country/teen death song!
	9:19am Will-X: We gonna get some Rupert Holmes "Answering Machine"?
	♥ 9:19am dale: this is pushing c.b. radio territory. breaker breaker - any takers?
	9:19am themutante: You're a bad sport @StationMgrKen
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am The Oscar: Over/under on "Sylvia's Mother?"
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am Krys O.: Skeeter Davis's He'll Have to Stay has a phone reference.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am Krys O.: Hey, Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 9:23am Listener Scott: Shirley is a man-owner
	🎸 ♥ 9:23am Ken From Hyde Park: "Put Your Sweet Lips a Little Closer" from Jim Reeves. See if it sets off the screaming goat alarm.
	♥ 9:23am Joe McG: Hello? Hello? Operator?
	♥ 9:23am dale: you never hear 'my old man' and 'my old lady' enough anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am Krys O.: Nice Shuttleworth avatar, Colin and Danie in Durham.
	9:24am thedunkel: Good Morning Joe! Good Morning my old men and my old ladies!
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am pantz: @Joe McG "Please deposit an additional 35 cents."
	♥ 9:24am Sem: Good morning, Joe, McGaskoes, people with old ladies, people with old mans.
	9:24am JFR: Tell your friend there with you, he'll have to go
	♥ 9:25am MD: NOISE DA NOISE! GOOD MORNING FREEFORM FIGHTERS!
	♥ 9:26am dale: jim croce - operator?
	9:26am JFR: Harry Dean Stanton does a devastating version: www.youtube.com...
	9:26am V Priceless: Hi Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 9:27am The Oscar: At this point, I assume any Rupert Holmes narrator is a cannibal, just to be on the safe side.
	9:27am David in London: Might we have ELO’s Telephone Line Joe..?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27am steveo: rupert holmes is hilarious
	9:27am themutante: ...
	9:27am themutante: ... --- ...
	🎸 ♥ 9:27am Ken From Hyde Park: "Hangin' on the Telephone" - The Nerves or Blondie version?
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am Krys O.: Love Unlimited's Walking in the Rain with the One I Love has a grand telephone section.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am PKNY: If I heard this song back when I had an answering machine, I'm sure I would have used the chorus as my away message.
	♥ 9:28am Roberto: My daughter sang a song from Holmes's "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" at her recital last year.
	♥ 9:28am dale: pina colada song makes me ill
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am The Oscar: "Where Ya Callin' From Charlie" by Arnold Stang also comes to mind.
	9:29am JFR: YES
	9:29am Muggins: 867-5309
	🎸 ♥ 9:29am PKNY: Though I did use A.O.D's "Paul's Not Home" as my message for quite a while, so there's that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:29am steveo: "In 1996, Holmes created the television series Remember WENN for American Movie Classics, writing the theme song and all 56 episodes of that series." (I missed that, somehow.)
	♥ 9:30am annie: damn, i'm melting.... this song still kills me
	🎸 ♥ 9:30am The Oscar: Bruce McCulloch had a pretty great Answering Machine song, too (on the same album as "Doors Fan")
	♥ 9:31am annie: it's only half an hour into the show and i may have to clicky-star it
	9:31am Blix: What's the Prince one where he plays the role of a girlfriend who telephones Vanity to tell her to back off?
	🎸 ♥ 9:31am steveo: epic set!
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Tim 07030: Hi Joe, great set!
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am melinda: @JFR I remember him opening a live performance with that one in the late 80s or early 90s!
	♥ 9:32am Lixiviated Life: Mr. McGasko, It sounds like you might have had a bad connection
	🎸 ♥ 9:34am Ken From Hyde Park: Sugarloaf: "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
	🎸 ♥ 9:39am The Oscar: I briefly lived with an engineering student in college. During the window when I was 21 and he wasn't, we had an arrangement: I would buy him alcohol in exchange for handmade electronic musical gear. The best of the lot was an old-fashioned telephone converted into a microphone (complete with distortion). I think I paid a bottle of Goldschlager for it.
	♥ 9:43am Joe McG: Thanks for the suggestions, folks!
	🎸 ♥ 9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: In the future, the songwriters will have lots of examples of people getting their break-ups via text message. <insert sad-face emoji>
	9:47am David in London: @Ken. The Box Tops will have to rewrite their classic as ‘My baby done send me a text message’...
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Does there exist a "we're through" emoji?
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am steveo:
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am Tim 07030: I'm bartending noon-4 Saturday at the Record Fair. Come early and get liquored up before (and while) Todd has all those good bands playing!
	9:55am Davee: Great show Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am pantz: This CM Andrews is beautiful. Do you know of band Freakwater, Joe?
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am steveo: haha emojipedia.org...
	♥ 9:58am βrian: Better yet: a we're-through-with-emoji emoji.
	♥ 9:58am annie: Steve Krinsky today!!! after the noisy guy
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am steveo: Record Fair schedule for artists we just heard. Sarah Shook and The Disarmers (3:45pm), Hurry (4:30pm) (Full schedule right here wfmu.org... )
	♥ 9:59am Joe McG: @annie: Ha ha, yes Steve will be in today!
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am Krys O.: Felicitations, Alexandra!
	10:00am David in London: Joe, it’s OK, I’m writing a sad song to help me get over the heartbreak.
	10:03am McGreivey: Well, that song was OK.
	♥ 10:03am Joe McG: @David: It will help!
	♥ 10:03am northguineahills: felicitaciones, Alexandra! Krys O always quicker then I!
	♥ 10:04am Joe McG: @pantz: Yes, they have some beautiful songs. Trouble always plays one in particular that gets me. @Alex: I think I played the song too early for you, but you'll hear it on the archive and read this later. Happy days!
	♥ 10:04am northguineahills: Is there a Chalky siting???
	♥ 10:05am annie: never thought i'd favorite a prince song
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am The Oscar: It really goes without saying, but god this is good.
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am Listener Scott: Great version of this. Surprised it never made its way out into the world before.
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am Krys O.: YES!!!
	♥ 10:07am Parq: I'm embarrassed to admit, I've gotten all this way and this is the first time I've actually heard the Prince original. Of course, I still couldn't help but picture Sinéad's face from her video.
	🎸 ♥ 10:08am Irene Trudel: Good band, Augustines. Several years ago, they came in to play live for Soundcheck on WNYC when it was a radio show. They were fairly loud when I was setting their mix up. Just before the show went live at 2pm, I happened to glance up at our studio POV cam. It was shaking a bit and I thought, "Wow, they're playing louder than I thought." I then realized we were in the middle of an earthquake!
	🎸 ♥ 10:08am The Oscar: @Parq You're not alone-- it just made it out of his vault this past weekend!
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Krys O.: @Parq: This original was in the vault until just recently. No one heard it before. Prince was highly selective with his releases. Some say almost too selective.
	♥ 10:09am Joe McG: @Irene: Great story, Irene!
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am steveo: love this track; sounds hammondy
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am The Oscar: I also didn't realize until after his death that his "Vault" of unreleased material was not a metaphor. They actually had trouble figuring out how to open up the lock.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Krys O.: Hey, Irene! That was the famous Richmond quake that was felt all the way up to almost Canada. I recall the doors in my office wobbling and my desk chair bouncing up and down.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am steveo: also, typo alert; "Delvon" with an L
	10:11am Brendan: Good morning Joe. Doubling down on Surface Noise . Had surgery last week and didn’t get to that show until yesterday in bed at home. Got me through the day. Speaking of, this Walk On By would be a great bed track.
	10:11am von woldonhoos: Devon, a nw favorite.
	10:11am KP: Good day, Joe!
	10:12am fleep: There's a fog upon L.A. ... greetings Joe and Surface People
	♥ 10:12am Joe McG: @steveo: Thanks for spotting that! @Brendan: Man, I hope you're feeling better! Surgery of any kind is rough. Glad I could help you through. Good bed idea! @KP: Hey, KP! Kickin' asses down in DC?
	10:13am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: Aloha salami Swamis!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15am steveo: definitely not too late to fave this episode now; what a great set of new twangy tunes
	🎸 ♥ 10:16am steveo: i mean early haha
	10:16am Listener Alexandra: Thanks, Joe :-)
	🎸 ♥ 10:17am Krys O.: Thanks for playing the Pearl Charles. A friend has been raving about her. Nice!
	🎸 ♥ 10:18am steveo: THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!!!
	♥ 10:19am Joe McG: My pleasure, Krys. Oh, good, Alexandra, you heard it! Congrats again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am steveo: (did anyone else hear that little bit in the Ebony Grandfather used by the Price is Right TV show???)
	10:21am Brendan: @steveo remember Bob Barker’s insanely long mic on Price is Right?
	🎸 ♥ 10:21am steveo: how could i forget it?
	10:21am Listener Alexandra: I'm a little slow this morning...and I'll enjoy listening to the archive later with the Mr. :)
	♥ 10:23am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe and all!
	♥ 10:25am annie: i guess i'll star this episode now, i have to leave the apt.. thanks joe!!
	♥ 10:25am Sem: Oh, this is some memory, Joe. Gracias.
	♥ 10:27am ♪ke: @steveo, yep, I was about to comment on it too!
	♥ 10:27am tom from Glasgow: mornin' Joe! hello pals
	♥ 10:28am Parq: Oscar and Krys: ohhh. Walking on my ears to the beat of pop culture, as usual. And they should have just gotten Uncle Fester to open that vault.
	10:28am mb: Hello Joe and those with their ears to the Surface
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am steveo: @ike oh good i haven't lost my mind!
	♥ 10:29am tom from Glasgow: dang, i missed that original Prince "Nothing Compares" and still haven't heard it yet. my prediction is: better than that live version with Rosie Gaines that was a B-side but still not as good as Sinead's
	♥ 10:35am Joe McG: @Tom: I think you are right on all counts.
	10:35am Brendan: Wreckless Eric and Delicate Steve cut a record together but they just cancelled each other out.
	10:36am Todd-o-phonic Todd: "Broken Doll" is such a genius song. Great show Joe!
	10:36am Davee: Love this section of the show, singly.
	10:37am themutante: Nailed it @tom
	🎸 ♥ 10:38am Tim 07030: My only problem with the Prince 'Nothing Compares..' is the cheesy sax solo. Why not a GUITAR solo I ask you, ghost of Prince?
	♥ 10:38am Joe McG: Thanks, Todd! Great show on Saturday!
	10:38am sonnyspop: Forgot about this great Kate Bush song. Thanks, Joe!
	10:38am olivia: Wow i really love this single!!!
	10:39am olivia: Hi joe!
	♥ 10:40am Joe McG: Hey, Olivia! :)
	♥ 10:40am Greg from ZONE 5: Olivia & Todd & Tom & Tim!
	🎸 ♥ 10:40am Hughie Considine: That's David Gilmour wailing behind Kate...
	🎸 ♥ 10:41am Krys O.: Tim 07030: Check here for background info on the demo: www.theguardian.com...
	♥ 10:42am Summer and Michael: Great show, as ever, Joe! This Marshall Crenshaw is one our favs of his. The "b" side of his first single, yes?
	10:43am rw: Such a great song. Good morning!
	♥ 10:45am Joe McG: @S&M: Yes, it's the B of "Someday, Someway," also an amazing song. @sonnyspop: Glad you enjoyed that one! I liked when she says "Yeah!" at the end.
	10:45am Lupek: Enjoying the show. Thanks!
	♥ 10:45am Sem: Four for four, Joe. Roll, Joe, Roll!
	♥ 10:49am Joe McG: @Sem: "Love Bug Crawl" put a stop to the streak! ;)
	♥ 10:49am queems: cool show today, joe mcg! was listening while driving
	♥ 10:50am Joe McG: @queems: Careful out there!
	♥ 10:50am !ke: Attention Mr. Edwards: This is the Earth Defense Corps reminding you not to be seduced by alien women who send bugs down your spine. Your love interests should not be behaving in such a fashion. That's a planetary security risk.
	♥ 10:51am Guido from Cologne: was "Inside - Looking Out" on any regulöar album?
	🎸 ♥ 10:51am The Oscar: "Love Bug Crawl" brings back fond memories of the summer I pretty much listened to nothing but the "Lux & Ivy's Favorites" mixes!
	♥ 10:51am queems: @joe now i'm driving my couch in the living room so it's all good. thanks though ;)
	10:53am r in va: Yay Aerosmith!
	10:54am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: Couches can be dangerous too... don't let it suck you in
	♥ 10:54am Joe McG: @Guido: Don't know! But I'd like to!
	♥ 10:54am βrian: "What is that infernal noise? You kids turn that down!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:54am Hughie Considine: Well this isn't something one usually hears on WFMU! Too bad...anyway, I ran into Steven Tyler early one morning on 8th Street in NYC, no one else around. I said "First concert I ever saw was you guys at Madison Square Garden in 1976." And without missing a beat, he goes, "And we blew your motherfuckin' mind, right?" All always love him for that.
	♥ 10:55am ɛɨk: @Queems, you're near Nutley, right? You can't pick up a Filipino pirate at 89.7, can you? Asking for a friend. (No rush.)
	♥ 10:56am queems: @ike let me check for you!
	10:56am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: I gotta go get some dollar store headphones so I can listen to these stone Cold jams at the grocery store without causing my fellow patrons to break out in a wild dance party! My new moon resolution is to only buy dollar store headphones because my dog will find a way to destroy every pair of headphones I ever own
	♥ 10:57am Joe McG: @Hughie: Great story! @own: Good luck on your quest!
	♥ 10:58am βrian: @OCJ: Maybe said dog just needs a personal pair of headphones.
	10:58am rw: Joe, that Aerosmith single, I kind of want to know who loaned it to whom.
	♥ 10:59am Joe McG: @rw: I bought it in 1978!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am The Oscar: Back when I worked in a Boston record store, we had a regular who was a full-time gravedigger/part-time roadie, who would give us the inside scoop behind the feud between Peter Wolf (also a regular) and Steven Tyler.
	10:59am r in va: Yep, not much Aerosmith on WFMU. If Bryce ever played something off of Rocks I will have heard it all.
	♥ 10:59am queems: @ike i slid down the dial a bit but i didn't hear anything that sounded like filipino pirate radio
	♥ 11:00am queems: honestly i'm a little disappointed
	11:01am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: She just destroyed a box of dental floss.., it's all over the "destruction zone"(area of my Dining room with the mattress she destroyed littered with whatever items from the recycling bin she's most recently destroyed.)
	11:01am rw: Thumbs up Joe!
	♥ 11:01am highlowe: Linda Hopkins! If only I could make a high pitch sound like that! Strange and great show! Thank you!
	♥ 11:01am queems: it didn't work
	11:01am themutante: Test?
	♥ 11:01am Brian C.: Nope -- didn't work again
	11:02am themutante: No!
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am Brian in UK: Hey Joe and funsters. Busy fighting brambles in the garden, brambles have it by a short head so far.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am Mick: still no sound...
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am The Oscar: This week's test sounded a lot like Kevin Ayers.
	11:02am asdf: Nope, it didn't work
	♥ 11:02am joe: Only your bed music
	♥ 11:02am Colleen: No buzzing here!...That was nice
	♥ 11:02am MD: NO
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am Listener Scott: If the test was bed music, then mission accomplished.
	11:02am Evan From Seattle: the emergency broadcast i hear nothing!
	11:02am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: What if I'm having a musical emergency and desperately need some jams right now?! Huh? Oh ok that wasn't so bad... I heard no sound! No ack aghkk!!
	♥ 11:02am Brian C.: And it's not like we'd ant to hear that god-awful sound twice
	11:02am djsheilab: Hey Joe! Seems like the EAS machine is kaput!
	♥ 11:02am Sebastian: no sound, heaven help us!
	♥ 11:02am MD: tHAT MEANS...NO EMERGENCYS ALL DAY! WHAT A GREAT MONDAY!!!
	11:03am clover: so sad we didn't hear the aaaaaaggggggytyyy
	♥ 11:03am queems: if there is an emergency we are all not going to know what it sounds like
	11:03am djsheilab: We were clearly all very excited about it!
	11:03am themutante: WFMU got a touch of the Hawaii alert problems.
	11:04am Evan From Seattle: i do think the bed music is a much more pleasant way to deliver the news of an actual emergency. I think it would help keep people calm in an alarming situation.
	11:04am Mr Chippy: @djsheilab Only Americans get excited about things like this. So, welcome...I guess.
	♥ 11:04am BennettCap: I'm listening on the stream. Did the emergency alert buzzer sound on the FM signals? That's where it is required by law.
	11:04am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: @brian she wants all the headphones and any other small chewable objects you have handy!
	♥ 11:05am ɛkɨ: @Queems, sorry! Prob. not the most opportune time to ask anyway! If it exists, it may only be on the air evenings and/or weekends, as many pirates are, in an attempt to avoid The Man. If you really want some piracy, check out Gems at 91.7. I hear they're a little more community-sounding and not just a bunch of ads for pricey Caribbean nightlife events and health fad scams.
	11:05am themutante: I was kinda hoping the alert would un-mute me.
	♥ 11:06am queems: @ike i need to get a radio that has the actual digital numbers on it because otherwise i'm just sliding the dial around and hoping i hit something. i'm definitely going to check out 91.7 though, if i can find it
	11:08am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: That's how I feel about life... I'm just slide around hoping I hit something good...
	11:09am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: *sliding
	11:09am themutante: Record on the turntable? That sounded like a cd getting loaded.
	🎸 ♥ 11:09am pantz: That's some sloppy Q, Sloppy Joe!
	11:10am FletcherNYC: Red sovine
	11:10am djsheilab: Haha! Thanks Mr. Chippy!
	11:10am themutante: Heyzeus Chrisite!
	11:10am themutante: PATCHES!!!
	🎸 ♥ 11:11am Ken From Hyde Park: No more EAS alerts until after the next marathon raises money to fix it.
	♥ 11:11am Sebastian: you need to get a new EAS, then everything will work again. I think you can get one over here: www.theradiosource.com...
	♥ 11:11am Devin B.: Yay Patches!
	♥ 11:11am Roberto: It's a long way from Strokin' to Patches.
	🎸 ♥ 11:11am The Oscar: I think you should just play "Patches" in the event of an emergency.
	♥ 11:12am northguineahills: hah, what Roberto said!
	11:12am Mr Chippy: It's nice to hear Patches when in the back of my mind I was expecting something like Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. Well done.
	♥ 11:13am ♪ke: Though when I've tuned in, Gems is mostly hip-hop, but I'm told it may have a variety of community things. I'm not sure about that. Could be bad info. Normally you shouldn't hear anything else of that sort between WNYE 91.5 (mostly foreign-language news etc.) and the commercial alt-rock station at 92.3. OK, enough piracy, back to work!
	11:14am V Priceless: Patches!!
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am The Oscar: YES. If you follow this with "Patches the Clown" by Deadbolt I will be a happy man.
	11:14am themutante: The lesser Patches.
	11:14am KP: MJ could not believe I had never heard "patches" until she played it for me. I doubt if anyone in NY ever had! Oddly, she knew if from England.
	11:14am FletcherNYC: Second Patches!
	🎸 ♥ 11:15am The Oscar: I always thought this one was remarkably dark, even for '50s/'60s death songs.
	11:16am Itzall Ablurr: Dear The Oscar, it sure was. And what about "Timothy", for God's sake. Don't tell ME it was about eating a goat!....
	♥ 11:16am βrian: Patches seems like a name for a pony.
	♥ 11:17am Joe McG: @TheOscar: "Patches the Clown" by Deadbolt sounds scary!
	🎸 ♥ 11:17am steveo: just the first four measures of this and i'm shivering already
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am Hughie Considine: "Choctaw Ridge" is just such a sumptuous mouthful.
	♥ 11:18am highlowe: ODE TO BILLIE JOE..one of the top songs of all time
	♥ 11:19am GeorgeSimian: Great show this morning!
	♥ 11:19am Carmichael: Heya 1st Joe of the day. Time to start the work day out here.
	🎸 ♥ 11:19am Hughie Considine: That mention of Carroll County puts one in mind of a different story song.
	11:20am davefromtoronto: good version but missing the gravitas of the other one.
	11:21am queems: choctaw ridge is a street in the town i grew up in
	♥ 11:21am Joe McG: @dave: You don't know how hard it is for me NOT to play Bobbie Gentry, but I thought I'd give you a less-heard version.
	♥ 11:21am highlowe: theme!
	♥ 11:22am highlowe: theme time
	🎸 ♥ 11:22am The Oscar: @Joe It's a six-minute surf rock song about a murderous alcoholic clown, complete with spoken verses by multiple characters. It's basically the "Bohemian Rhapsody" of psychobilly.
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am The Oscar: @queems I think my grandfather grew up in the same area! Don't recall the exact town, though.
	11:23am FletcherNYC: 2nd water death. 2nd Billie Joe
	♥ 11:24am GeorgeSimian: Joe Tex rules, so what's the problem?
	11:24am paul: Wasn't the movie Shakes the Clown about an alcoholic clown?
	♥ 11:24am Carmichael: Which Grassroots is this? Not the Rob Grill era, I hope.
	11:24am davefromtoronto: hey joe it's ALL GOOD on your show, brother!
	♥ 11:24am fred: I once saw a solo dance performance centered on Ode to Billie Joe
	♥ 11:25am medson: Hi there. Awesome show Joe. Been listening not able to check in
	11:26am rw: I'm confused. Maybe I wasn't listening closely enough. These are two songs about two different Billie Joes, right?
	♥ 11:27am northguineahills: Ha, I was just listening to this Johnny Cash on my commute this morning!
	11:27am rw: Three songs about two different Billie Joes....
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am The Oscar: Current score: Patches 2, Billy Joe 3
	♥ 11:27am βrian: Somehow, I thought it was "don't take your love to town."
	11:28am Cooh John: Billy Joe gots some stories.
	11:28am paul: Billy Joel 0
	♥ 11:28am Joe McG: Sheila B! Medson! @rw: We've got three Billie/Billy Joes at this point, but I'll leave it there.
	♥ 11:28am fred: @ngh: I did say hello to Lea Bertucci yesterday. She seemed to know who Aaron who moved to Florida is
	♥ 11:29am βrian: Ok, so I'm not crazy.
	♥ 11:30am BennettCap: Ruby!! Yes!!
	11:30am Cooh John: @Brian: That was Ruby by Kenny Rogers.
	♥ 11:30am Sem: Need me some Kenny Rogers Roasters lunch.
	11:30am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Joe your show is just what I needed to get through Monday morning. Thank you!!!
	♥ 11:31am Booz: I'm sorry I ever doubted your sheer audacity, Joe. I was just saying to myself, "He won't do the Nimoy. He won't."
	♥ 11:31am Greg from ZONE 5: "Don't take your Love Gun to town" –Paul Stanley
	♥ 11:31am Joe McG: @Jeff: You bet! @Booz: I may, I may. @Greg: Win!
	♥ 11:31am Booz: You should do the Nimoy.
	11:31am paul: You need to hear Walter Brennan's version of this. Seriously.
	♥ 11:31am GeorgeSimian: I took my gun and my love to town.
	11:32am Cooh John: Any of those places around, Sem?
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am Krys O.: Don Fleming wanted to record a cover of Ruby. Imagine that.
	♥ 11:32am medson: @greg from Z5 if they do they'll hear from Pauls Lawyer
	11:33am ?: kenny rodgers, right?
	♥ 11:33am Sem: Marty McSorley seems to know where they all are. Apparently there are some still in the Philippines.
	11:33am sim: Mr Joe! You should check out Charlie Sizemore's cover of Tom T Hall's "Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On". It's shootings, jail, all that... lemme see if I can find a copy online.
	11:33am themutante: Oh, America. Your love of guns is incurable.
	♥ 11:34am Joe McG: @Paul: It's a great one, I agree! @sim: I'd like to, I don't know it!
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am Ken From Hyde Park: Are we allowed to ride the Love Train into town?
	11:35am sim: here it is! https://youtu.be/-BfeC9_PpzA
	♥ 11:35am northguineahills: oh, cool, fred, thanks!
	♥ 11:35am Greg from ZONE 5: @medson: Both firearms and the concept of love were trademarked by KISS in the early 80s.
	♥ 11:38am annie: what'd i miss??
	♥ 11:39am annie: i saw that movie about the carter sisters, did i tell you that? it was pretty damn good...
	11:39am Will: Hearing Kaleidoscope UK on my radio, sunny Monday morning. Things are OK after all.
	11:41am listener monica: i liked that song a LOT.
	♥ 11:41am GeorgeSimian: That Blondie was great
	♥ 11:42am Joe McG: Anybody know any other airplane/airport story songs? There must be ones I can't remember.
	♥ 11:42am Carmichael: According to the website, there is a Kenny Rogers Roasters in Ontario, California. All the others are in the Far and Middle East.
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am Ken From Hyde Park: Does "YYZ" from Rush count as a story?
	♥ 11:44am Carmichael: Rick Derringer has an instrumental called The Airport Giveth and Taketh Away.
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am pantz: Snoopy and The Red Baron
	♥ 11:45am GeorgeSimian: Leavin on a Jet Plane Jet Airliner I'm sure you thought of those
	♥ 11:45am Carmichael: Comin' In From Los Angeleeezz ...
	11:45am mike: thought Kaliedoscope was Incredible String Band
	11:45am ?: peter, paul, and mary? Leaving on a jet plane?
	♥ 11:45am Joe McG: @pantz: Ha ha, of course! If I could only stand to play it. :) @George: I have to relisten to both to hear the stories!
	11:45am Vineshtein: What was that song you just played... where the lyric was "Nobody Knows where we are?" story of my life! was it by Syd Barrett or something!?
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Krys O.: @annie: Which movie is that about the Carter sisters?
	♥ 11:47am GeorgeSimian: Feel like you need to do a CB radio set
	🎸 ♥ 11:47am Krys O.: BTW, Sara and Maybelle were not sisters.
	11:47am Vineshtein: oh! I see it's Kaleidescope! Sorry!
	11:47am Corey: Lucky to get to listen to the show today at work. Will try to make it a regular thing. Thanks Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 11:47am The Oscar: @Joe "Ebony Eyes" by the Everly Brothers!
	♥ 11:48am Sem: @Carmichael: great! On my to-do list next time out there.
	♥ 11:48am Joe McG: After a couple of death songs, I thought we needed some JOJO!
	♥ 11:50am Jeff Moore: That was a different long black limousine from the one Grace Jones sang about.
	♥ 11:50am Joe McG: @Jeff: !
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am The Oscar: True fact: Asa Brebner, the second guitarist in this Modern Lovers lineup, played my parents' wedding :)
	11:51am Will: There is an incredible video of Kaleidoscope performing "Flight from Ashiya" on British TV.
	11:51am Listener Alexandra: I live for Story Corner!
	♥ 11:51am fred: Jojo? For a moment I thought (hoped) we'd be hearing Hijokaidan
	11:51am paul: @Jeff Pull up to the bumper
	11:53am rw: But this one's a death song too!
	♥ 11:54am Joe McG: @rw: Oops, you're right! ha ha. Well, it IS the End of the show.
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am pantz: Great God Almighty, y'all!!!
	11:55am rw: It was a bouncy up-beat death song though.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Hughie Considine: And it's familiar to millions from the version by the Dead!
	♥ 11:55am Joe McG: Well, I'm about done here. Stay tuned for Steve Krinsky filling in for Joe Belock today. Have a great week, everybody! See you next week with a LIVE set from Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Krys O.: Great show! Thanks, Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am pantz: Thanks Joe!!!
	11:56am rw: Thanks Joe! Have a good week! We're off to a good start.
	🎸 ♥ 11:57am Mick: Thanks for a super show, Joe! I needed it!
	🎸 ♥ 11:57am steveo: fantastic show; thanks!
	♥ 11:57am βrian: Well this was fun. Thanks, Joe.
	♥ 11:57am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, JMC!
	♥ 11:58am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 11:58am Ken From Hyde Park: "Flight of Icarus" from Iron Maiden, but that doesn't really fit, does it.
	11:59am FletcherNYC: Great show as always
	3:52pm John W: The Story Corner segment is inspired. The Patches medley followed up by Joe Tex's Ode to Billy Joe is genius. Thanks Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from April 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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April 23, 2018: Patch Me Through, Operator

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty	As Soon As I Hang Up the Phone	Country Partners	MCA	1974	LP			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Daddy & Tina	The Telephone Call "The Telephone Call" by "Daddy & Tina"	George & Tammy & Tina	Epic	1975	LP	George Jones and his daughter		0:05:04 (Pop-up)
Sterling Whipple	Silence on the Line	single	Epic	1976	45			0:07:11 (Pop-up)
Bobby Bare	Memphis, Tennessee "Memphis, Tennessee" by "Bobby Bare"	The Streets of Baltimore	RCA Victor	1966	LP			0:11:16 (Pop-up)
Paul Evans	Hello, This Is Joannie (The Telephone Answering Song)	single	Spring	1978	MP3			0:13:39 (Pop-up)
Driver 67	Car 67 "Car 67" by "Driver 67"	Quadraphonic! Starting with the '70s IV: Evan "Funk" Davies 2016 Premium	WFMU	2016	CD-R	From 1978		0:16:34 (Pop-up)
Shirley Brown	Woman to Woman "Woman to Woman" by "Shirley Brown"	Woman to Woman	Stax	1974	LP			0:19:45 (Pop-up)
Rupert Holmes	Answering Machine "Answering Machine" by "Rupert Holmes"	Partners in Crime	Infinity	1979	MP3			0:23:53 (Pop-up)
Jim Reeves	He'll Have to Go "He'll Have to Go" by "Jim Reeves"	The Best of Jim Reeves	RCA Victor	1964	LP	Watch this		0:26:59 (Pop-up)

Hurry	Time and Time Again "Time and Time Again" by "Hurry"	Every Little Thought	Lame-O	2018	CD	at the Record Fair this weekend	*	0:38:17 (Pop-up)
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers	Parting Words	Years	Bloodshot	2018	CD	also at the Record Fair this coming Saturday	*	0:40:47 (Pop-up)
Caitlin Canty	Basil Gone to Blossom	Motel Bouquet	Caitlin Canty	2018	CD		*	0:43:54 (Pop-up)
Refrigerator	High Desert Lows "High Desert Lows" by "Refrigerator"	High Desert Lows	Shrimper	2018	CD		*	0:46:55 (Pop-up)
Courtney Marie Andrews	Let the Good One Go	Honest Life	Mama Bird Recording Co.	2017	LP			0:50:32 (Pop-up)
Joshua Hedley	Counting All My Tears	Mr. Jukebox	Third Man	2018	CD		*	0:53:17 (Pop-up)
We Are Augustines	Chapel Song "Chapel Song" by "We Are Augustines"	Rise Ye Sunken Ships	Oxcart	2011	MP3	Happy marrying, Alexandra!		0:57:49 (Pop-up)
Prince	Nothing Compares 2 U "Nothing Compares 2 U" by "Prince"	single	Warner Bros.	2018	MP3	From 1984	*	1:00:55 (Pop-up)
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio	Walk On By	Close But No Cigar	Colemine	2018	CD	on the show live next week!	*	1:05:35 (Pop-up)
Pearl Charles	Beginner's Luck "Beginner's Luck" by "Pearl Charles"	Sleepless Dreamer	Kanine	2018	CD		*	1:09:48 (Pop-up)
The Ebony Godfather	Checkmate "Checkmate" by "The Ebony Godfather"	Southern Groove: Hotlanta, Aware & Clintone Funk Soul	BGP/Ace	2018	CD	From 1974	*	1:14:07 (Pop-up)
Bob Destiny	Wang Dang "Wang Dang" by "Bob Destiny"	Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World	Habibi Funk	2017	CD			1:17:45 (Pop-up)
Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar	Apache	Teen Beat 6	Ace	2018	CD	From 1960	*	1:22:19 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row "Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row"
Wreckless Eric	Broken Doll "Broken Doll" by "Wreckless Eric"	single	Stiff	1980	45	at the Record Fair this Saturday!		1:31:13 (Pop-up)
Kate Bush	Love and Anger "Love and Anger" by "Kate Bush"	single	EMI	1990	45			1:34:24 (Pop-up)
Marshall Crenshaw and the Handsome, Ruthless, Stupid Band	You're My Favorite Waste of Time	single	Warner Bros.	1982	45			1:38:59 (Pop-up)
Eddie Floyd	California Girl "California Girl" by "Eddie Floyd"	single	Stax	1970	45			1:41:39 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Edwards	Love Bug Crawl "Love Bug Crawl" by "Jimmy Edwards"	single	Mercury	1957	45			1:45:14 (Pop-up)
The Animals	Inside - Looking Out "Inside - Looking Out" by "The Animals"	single	MGM	1966	45			1:47:17 (Pop-up)
Aerosmith	S.O.S. "S.O.S." by "Aerosmith"	single	Columbia	1978	45	the other side was on Wake this morning		1:51:06 (Pop-up)
Linda Hopkins	It's In Your Blood "It's In Your Blood" by "Linda Hopkins"	single	Columbia	1977	45			1:53:49 (Pop-up)
The Motors	Crazy Alice "Crazy Alice" by "The Motors"	single	Virgin	1980	45			1:56:56 (Pop-up)

Story Corner: Songs That Tell a Story "Story Corner: Songs That Tell a Story"
Clarence Carter	Patches "Patches" by "Clarence Carter"	Patches	Atlantic	1970	LP			2:09:23 (Pop-up)
Dickie Lee	Patches "Patches" by "Dickie Lee"	Teenage Tragedies	Rhino	1984	LP	From 1962		2:11:58 (Pop-up)
Joe Tex	Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" by "Joe Tex"	Soul Country	Atlantic	1968	LP			2:15:02 (Pop-up)
The Grass Roots	Ballad of Billy Joe	Alotta Mileage	Dunhill-ABC	1973	LP			2:19:40 (Pop-up)
Johnny Cash	Don't Take Your Guns to Town	The Heart of Johnny Cash	Columbia	1968	LP	From 1958		2:24:37 (Pop-up)
The First Edition	Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town	The First Edition '69	Reprise	1969	LP			2:27:39 (Pop-up)
Jeannie C. Riley	Thin Ribbon of Smoke	Things Go Better with Love	Plantation	1969	LP			2:30:38 (Pop-up)
Blondie	Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)	Plastic Letters	Chrysalis	1977	LP			2:33:29 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope	Flight from Ashiya "Flight from Ashiya" by "Kaleidoscope"	Dive into Yesterday	Fontana/Mercury	1996	CD	From 1967; watch this		2:36:14 (Pop-up)
John Howard	Goodbye Suzie "Goodbye Suzie" by "John Howard"	Kid in a Big World	RPM	2003	CD	From 1974		2:38:51 (Pop-up)
O.C. Smith	Long Black Limousine "Long Black Limousine" by "O.C. Smith"	Hickory Holler Revisited	Columbia	1968	LP			2:43:13 (Pop-up)
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers	Shirin & Fahrad	It's Time for Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers	Upside	1986	LP			2:46:38 (Pop-up)
The Blasters	Samson and Delilah "Samson and Delilah" by "The Blasters"	Hard Line	Warner Bros.	1985	LP			2:51:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:02am annie: yay!
	♥ 9:03am Colin and Danie in Durham UK: Boing
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am karlward: What's the deal behind this rumor that the Yip Yip sketch is performed each Monday by the WFMU DJs, live, flawlessly?
	9:04am Vincent Nifigance: This is going to be a great day.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am The Oscar: Mornin'! Loving this already.
	♥ 9:05am Guido from Cologne: Good morning Joe!
	♥ 9:05am dale: i hope conway's hair is two feet tall in this tune
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am steveo: Good morning, Joe. Say it IS so!
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am steveo: Wow, Conway's really phoning this one in ;)
	9:06am themutante: Hello, Surface specimens!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06am pantz: Conway, you snake!
	9:07am Vincent Nifigance: Told you.
	♥ 9:07am dale: is 'can i still call him daddy' in the record crate?
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am karlward: I would listen to Loretta read Wikipedia.
	9:08am Blix: Hold the phone, I smell a DJ Premium being assembled...
	🎸 ♥ 9:08am melinda: I thought the first song was a humorous remix and then I saw the playlist.
	♥ 9:10am BronwynB: hello joe and everyone!
	9:10am themutante: This surface Noise got caught up in the tumbleweed.
	♥ 9:10am dale: i missed the telephony angle at first.
	♥ 9:11am dale: love this guy - sterling is new to me.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11am The Oscar: You don't hear the phrase "A boy that needs a whippin'" used sentimentally much anymore.
	♥ 9:12am annie: there's this cool thing going on, i'm chatting with b sweeny about radio in old deecee and then all this great country stuff comes on, i'm having a flashback!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:12am pantz: That's an Angel In The Morning guitar lick.
	♥ 9:13am dale: the oscar - ah, fond memories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13am steveo: love that key change
	9:14am davefromtoronto: this set is so phoney!
	9:14am Blix: "The crippled cowboy"... I wonder how long that lyric was rambling about in his head. That was very out there...and great.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am Ken From Hyde Park: DJ Joe is really phoning it in this morning.
	9:16am themutante: Pre-recorded, maybe?
	♥ 9:17am dale: one ringy dingy.....
	9:17am davefromtoronto: telephone line by ELO...in case you need any suggestions!
	🎸 ♥ 9:17am The Oscar: Ooh-- combination telephone country/teen death song!
	9:19am Will-X: We gonna get some Rupert Holmes "Answering Machine"?
	♥ 9:19am dale: this is pushing c.b. radio territory. breaker breaker - any takers?
	9:19am themutante: You're a bad sport @StationMgrKen
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am The Oscar: Over/under on "Sylvia's Mother?"
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am Krys O.: Skeeter Davis's He'll Have to Stay has a phone reference.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am Krys O.: Hey, Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 9:23am Listener Scott: Shirley is a man-owner
	🎸 ♥ 9:23am Ken From Hyde Park: "Put Your Sweet Lips a Little Closer" from Jim Reeves. See if it sets off the screaming goat alarm.
	♥ 9:23am Joe McG: Hello? Hello? Operator?
	♥ 9:23am dale: you never hear 'my old man' and 'my old lady' enough anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am Krys O.: Nice Shuttleworth avatar, Colin and Danie in Durham.
	9:24am thedunkel: Good Morning Joe! Good Morning my old men and my old ladies!
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am pantz: @Joe McG "Please deposit an additional 35 cents."
	♥ 9:24am Sem: Good morning, Joe, McGaskoes, people with old ladies, people with old mans.
	9:24am JFR: Tell your friend there with you, he'll have to go
	♥ 9:25am MD: NOISE DA NOISE! GOOD MORNING FREEFORM FIGHTERS!
	♥ 9:26am dale: jim croce - operator?
	9:26am JFR: Harry Dean Stanton does a devastating version: www.youtube.com...
	9:26am V Priceless: Hi Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 9:27am The Oscar: At this point, I assume any Rupert Holmes narrator is a cannibal, just to be on the safe side.
	9:27am David in London: Might we have ELO’s Telephone Line Joe..?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27am steveo: rupert holmes is hilarious
	9:27am themutante: ...
	9:27am themutante: ... --- ...
	🎸 ♥ 9:27am Ken From Hyde Park: "Hangin' on the Telephone" - The Nerves or Blondie version?
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am Krys O.: Love Unlimited's Walking in the Rain with the One I Love has a grand telephone section.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am PKNY: If I heard this song back when I had an answering machine, I'm sure I would have used the chorus as my away message.
	♥ 9:28am Roberto: My daughter sang a song from Holmes's "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" at her recital last year.
	♥ 9:28am dale: pina colada song makes me ill
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am The Oscar: "Where Ya Callin' From Charlie" by Arnold Stang also comes to mind.
	9:29am JFR: YES
	9:29am Muggins: 867-5309
	🎸 ♥ 9:29am PKNY: Though I did use A.O.D's "Paul's Not Home" as my message for quite a while, so there's that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:29am steveo: "In 1996, Holmes created the television series Remember WENN for American Movie Classics, writing the theme song and all 56 episodes of that series." (I missed that, somehow.)
	♥ 9:30am annie: damn, i'm melting.... this song still kills me
	🎸 ♥ 9:30am The Oscar: Bruce McCulloch had a pretty great Answering Machine song, too (on the same album as "Doors Fan")
	♥ 9:31am annie: it's only half an hour into the show and i may have to clicky-star it
	9:31am Blix: What's the Prince one where he plays the role of a girlfriend who telephones Vanity to tell her to back off?
	🎸 ♥ 9:31am steveo: epic set!
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Tim 07030: Hi Joe, great set!
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am melinda: @JFR I remember him opening a live performance with that one in the late 80s or early 90s!
	♥ 9:32am Lixiviated Life: Mr. McGasko, It sounds like you might have had a bad connection
	🎸 ♥ 9:34am Ken From Hyde Park: Sugarloaf: "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
	🎸 ♥ 9:39am The Oscar: I briefly lived with an engineering student in college. During the window when I was 21 and he wasn't, we had an arrangement: I would buy him alcohol in exchange for handmade electronic musical gear. The best of the lot was an old-fashioned telephone converted into a microphone (complete with distortion). I think I paid a bottle of Goldschlager for it.
	♥ 9:43am Joe McG: Thanks for the suggestions, folks!
	🎸 ♥ 9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: In the future, the songwriters will have lots of examples of people getting their break-ups via text message. <insert sad-face emoji>
	9:47am David in London: @Ken. The Box Tops will have to rewrite their classic as ‘My baby done send me a text message’...
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Does there exist a "we're through" emoji?
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am steveo:
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am Tim 07030: I'm bartending noon-4 Saturday at the Record Fair. Come early and get liquored up before (and while) Todd has all those good bands playing!
	9:55am Davee: Great show Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am pantz: This CM Andrews is beautiful. Do you know of band Freakwater, Joe?
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am steveo: haha emojipedia.org...
	♥ 9:58am βrian: Better yet: a we're-through-with-emoji emoji.
	♥ 9:58am annie: Steve Krinsky today!!! after the noisy guy
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am steveo: Record Fair schedule for artists we just heard. Sarah Shook and The Disarmers (3:45pm), Hurry (4:30pm) (Full schedule right here wfmu.org... )
	♥ 9:59am Joe McG: @annie: Ha ha, yes Steve will be in today!
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am Krys O.: Felicitations, Alexandra!
	10:00am David in London: Joe, it’s OK, I’m writing a sad song to help me get over the heartbreak.
	10:03am McGreivey: Well, that song was OK.
	♥ 10:03am Joe McG: @David: It will help!
	♥ 10:03am northguineahills: felicitaciones, Alexandra! Krys O always quicker then I!
	♥ 10:04am Joe McG: @pantz: Yes, they have some beautiful songs. Trouble always plays one in particular that gets me. @Alex: I think I played the song too early for you, but you'll hear it on the archive and read this later. Happy days!
	♥ 10:04am northguineahills: Is there a Chalky siting???
	♥ 10:05am annie: never thought i'd favorite a prince song
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am The Oscar: It really goes without saying, but god this is good.
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am Listener Scott: Great version of this. Surprised it never made its way out into the world before.
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am Krys O.: YES!!!
	♥ 10:07am Parq: I'm embarrassed to admit, I've gotten all this way and this is the first time I've actually heard the Prince original. Of course, I still couldn't help but picture Sinéad's face from her video.
	🎸 ♥ 10:08am Irene Trudel: Good band, Augustines. Several years ago, they came in to play live for Soundcheck on WNYC when it was a radio show. They were fairly loud when I was setting their mix up. Just before the show went live at 2pm, I happened to glance up at our studio POV cam. It was shaking a bit and I thought, "Wow, they're playing louder than I thought." I then realized we were in the middle of an earthquake!
	🎸 ♥ 10:08am The Oscar: @Parq You're not alone-- it just made it out of his vault this past weekend!
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Krys O.: @Parq: This original was in the vault until just recently. No one heard it before. Prince was highly selective with his releases. Some say almost too selective.
	♥ 10:09am Joe McG: @Irene: Great story, Irene!
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am steveo: love this track; sounds hammondy
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am The Oscar: I also didn't realize until after his death that his "Vault" of unreleased material was not a metaphor. They actually had trouble figuring out how to open up the lock.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Krys O.: Hey, Irene! That was the famous Richmond quake that was felt all the way up to almost Canada. I recall the doors in my office wobbling and my desk chair bouncing up and down.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am steveo: also, typo alert; "Delvon" with an L
	10:11am Brendan: Good morning Joe. Doubling down on Surface Noise . Had surgery last week and didn’t get to that show until yesterday in bed at home. Got me through the day. Speaking of, this Walk On By would be a great bed track.
	10:11am von woldonhoos: Devon, a nw favorite.
	10:11am KP: Good day, Joe!
	10:12am fleep: There's a fog upon L.A. ... greetings Joe and Surface People
	♥ 10:12am Joe McG: @steveo: Thanks for spotting that! @Brendan: Man, I hope you're feeling better! Surgery of any kind is rough. Glad I could help you through. Good bed idea! @KP: Hey, KP! Kickin' asses down in DC?
	10:13am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: Aloha salami Swamis!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15am steveo: definitely not too late to fave this episode now; what a great set of new twangy tunes
	🎸 ♥ 10:16am steveo: i mean early haha
	10:16am Listener Alexandra: Thanks, Joe :-)
	🎸 ♥ 10:17am Krys O.: Thanks for playing the Pearl Charles. A friend has been raving about her. Nice!
	🎸 ♥ 10:18am steveo: THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!!!
	♥ 10:19am Joe McG: My pleasure, Krys. Oh, good, Alexandra, you heard it! Congrats again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am steveo: (did anyone else hear that little bit in the Ebony Grandfather used by the Price is Right TV show???)
	10:21am Brendan: @steveo remember Bob Barker’s insanely long mic on Price is Right?
	🎸 ♥ 10:21am steveo: how could i forget it?
	10:21am Listener Alexandra: I'm a little slow this morning...and I'll enjoy listening to the archive later with the Mr. :)
	♥ 10:23am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Joe and all!
	♥ 10:25am annie: i guess i'll star this episode now, i have to leave the apt.. thanks joe!!
	♥ 10:25am Sem: Oh, this is some memory, Joe. Gracias.
	♥ 10:27am ♪ke: @steveo, yep, I was about to comment on it too!
	♥ 10:27am tom from Glasgow: mornin' Joe! hello pals
	♥ 10:28am Parq: Oscar and Krys: ohhh. Walking on my ears to the beat of pop culture, as usual. And they should have just gotten Uncle Fester to open that vault.
	10:28am mb: Hello Joe and those with their ears to the Surface
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am steveo: @ike oh good i haven't lost my mind!
	♥ 10:29am tom from Glasgow: dang, i missed that original Prince "Nothing Compares" and still haven't heard it yet. my prediction is: better than that live version with Rosie Gaines that was a B-side but still not as good as Sinead's
	♥ 10:35am Joe McG: @Tom: I think you are right on all counts.
	10:35am Brendan: Wreckless Eric and Delicate Steve cut a record together but they just cancelled each other out.
	10:36am Todd-o-phonic Todd: "Broken Doll" is such a genius song. Great show Joe!
	10:36am Davee: Love this section of the show, singly.
	10:37am themutante: Nailed it @tom
	🎸 ♥ 10:38am Tim 07030: My only problem with the Prince 'Nothing Compares..' is the cheesy sax solo. Why not a GUITAR solo I ask you, ghost of Prince?
	♥ 10:38am Joe McG: Thanks, Todd! Great show on Saturday!
	10:38am sonnyspop: Forgot about this great Kate Bush song. Thanks, Joe!
	10:38am olivia: Wow i really love this single!!!
	10:39am olivia: Hi joe!
	♥ 10:40am Joe McG: Hey, Olivia! :)
	♥ 10:40am Greg from ZONE 5: Olivia & Todd & Tom & Tim!
	🎸 ♥ 10:40am Hughie Considine: That's David Gilmour wailing behind Kate...
	🎸 ♥ 10:41am Krys O.: Tim 07030: Check here for background info on the demo: www.theguardian.com...
	♥ 10:42am Summer and Michael: Great show, as ever, Joe! This Marshall Crenshaw is one our favs of his. The "b" side of his first single, yes?
	10:43am rw: Such a great song. Good morning!
	♥ 10:45am Joe McG: @S&M: Yes, it's the B of "Someday, Someway," also an amazing song. @sonnyspop: Glad you enjoyed that one! I liked when she says "Yeah!" at the end.
	10:45am Lupek: Enjoying the show. Thanks!
	♥ 10:45am Sem: Four for four, Joe. Roll, Joe, Roll!
	♥ 10:49am Joe McG: @Sem: "Love Bug Crawl" put a stop to the streak! ;)
	♥ 10:49am queems: cool show today, joe mcg! was listening while driving
	♥ 10:50am Joe McG: @queems: Careful out there!
	♥ 10:50am !ke: Attention Mr. Edwards: This is the Earth Defense Corps reminding you not to be seduced by alien women who send bugs down your spine. Your love interests should not be behaving in such a fashion. That's a planetary security risk.
	♥ 10:51am Guido from Cologne: was "Inside - Looking Out" on any regulöar album?
	🎸 ♥ 10:51am The Oscar: "Love Bug Crawl" brings back fond memories of the summer I pretty much listened to nothing but the "Lux & Ivy's Favorites" mixes!
	♥ 10:51am queems: @joe now i'm driving my couch in the living room so it's all good. thanks though ;)
	10:53am r in va: Yay Aerosmith!
	10:54am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: Couches can be dangerous too... don't let it suck you in
	♥ 10:54am Joe McG: @Guido: Don't know! But I'd like to!
	♥ 10:54am βrian: "What is that infernal noise? You kids turn that down!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:54am Hughie Considine: Well this isn't something one usually hears on WFMU! Too bad...anyway, I ran into Steven Tyler early one morning on 8th Street in NYC, no one else around. I said "First concert I ever saw was you guys at Madison Square Garden in 1976." And without missing a beat, he goes, "And we blew your motherfuckin' mind, right?" All always love him for that.
	♥ 10:55am ɛɨk: @Queems, you're near Nutley, right? You can't pick up a Filipino pirate at 89.7, can you? Asking for a friend. (No rush.)
	♥ 10:56am queems: @ike let me check for you!
	10:56am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: I gotta go get some dollar store headphones so I can listen to these stone Cold jams at the grocery store without causing my fellow patrons to break out in a wild dance party! My new moon resolution is to only buy dollar store headphones because my dog will find a way to destroy every pair of headphones I ever own
	♥ 10:57am Joe McG: @Hughie: Great story! @own: Good luck on your quest!
	♥ 10:58am βrian: @OCJ: Maybe said dog just needs a personal pair of headphones.
	10:58am rw: Joe, that Aerosmith single, I kind of want to know who loaned it to whom.
	♥ 10:59am Joe McG: @rw: I bought it in 1978!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59am The Oscar: Back when I worked in a Boston record store, we had a regular who was a full-time gravedigger/part-time roadie, who would give us the inside scoop behind the feud between Peter Wolf (also a regular) and Steven Tyler.
	10:59am r in va: Yep, not much Aerosmith on WFMU. If Bryce ever played something off of Rocks I will have heard it all.
	♥ 10:59am queems: @ike i slid down the dial a bit but i didn't hear anything that sounded like filipino pirate radio
	♥ 11:00am queems: honestly i'm a little disappointed
	11:01am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: She just destroyed a box of dental floss.., it's all over the "destruction zone"(area of my Dining room with the mattress she destroyed littered with whatever items from the recycling bin she's most recently destroyed.)
	11:01am rw: Thumbs up Joe!
	♥ 11:01am highlowe: Linda Hopkins! If only I could make a high pitch sound like that! Strange and great show! Thank you!
	♥ 11:01am queems: it didn't work
	11:01am themutante: Test?
	♥ 11:01am Brian C.: Nope -- didn't work again
	11:02am themutante: No!
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am Brian in UK: Hey Joe and funsters. Busy fighting brambles in the garden, brambles have it by a short head so far.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am Mick: still no sound...
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am The Oscar: This week's test sounded a lot like Kevin Ayers.
	11:02am asdf: Nope, it didn't work
	♥ 11:02am joe: Only your bed music
	♥ 11:02am Colleen: No buzzing here!...That was nice
	♥ 11:02am MD: NO
	🎸 ♥ 11:02am Listener Scott: If the test was bed music, then mission accomplished.
	11:02am Evan From Seattle: the emergency broadcast i hear nothing!
	11:02am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: What if I'm having a musical emergency and desperately need some jams right now?! Huh? Oh ok that wasn't so bad... I heard no sound! No ack aghkk!!
	♥ 11:02am Brian C.: And it's not like we'd ant to hear that god-awful sound twice
	11:02am djsheilab: Hey Joe! Seems like the EAS machine is kaput!
	♥ 11:02am Sebastian: no sound, heaven help us!
	♥ 11:02am MD: tHAT MEANS...NO EMERGENCYS ALL DAY! WHAT A GREAT MONDAY!!!
	11:03am clover: so sad we didn't hear the aaaaaaggggggytyyy
	♥ 11:03am queems: if there is an emergency we are all not going to know what it sounds like
	11:03am djsheilab: We were clearly all very excited about it!
	11:03am themutante: WFMU got a touch of the Hawaii alert problems.
	11:04am Evan From Seattle: i do think the bed music is a much more pleasant way to deliver the news of an actual emergency. I think it would help keep people calm in an alarming situation.
	11:04am Mr Chippy: @djsheilab Only Americans get excited about things like this. So, welcome...I guess.
	♥ 11:04am BennettCap: I'm listening on the stream. Did the emergency alert buzzer sound on the FM signals? That's where it is required by law.
	11:04am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: @brian she wants all the headphones and any other small chewable objects you have handy!
	♥ 11:05am ɛkɨ: @Queems, sorry! Prob. not the most opportune time to ask anyway! If it exists, it may only be on the air evenings and/or weekends, as many pirates are, in an attempt to avoid The Man. If you really want some piracy, check out Gems at 91.7. I hear they're a little more community-sounding and not just a bunch of ads for pricey Caribbean nightlife events and health fad scams.
	11:05am themutante: I was kinda hoping the alert would un-mute me.
	♥ 11:06am queems: @ike i need to get a radio that has the actual digital numbers on it because otherwise i'm just sliding the dial around and hoping i hit something. i'm definitely going to check out 91.7 though, if i can find it
	11:08am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: That's how I feel about life... I'm just slide around hoping I hit something good...
	11:09am own crabapplesatellite Johnson: *sliding
	11:09am themutante: Record on the turntable? That sounded like a cd getting loaded.
	🎸 ♥ 11:09am pantz: That's some sloppy Q, Sloppy Joe!
	11:10am FletcherNYC: Red sovine
	11:10am djsheilab: Haha! Thanks Mr. Chippy!
	11:10am themutante: Heyzeus Chrisite!
	11:10am themutante: PATCHES!!!
	🎸 ♥ 11:11am Ken From Hyde Park: No more EAS alerts until after the next marathon raises money to fix it.
	♥ 11:11am Sebastian: you need to get a new EAS, then everything will work again. I think you can get one over here: www.theradiosource.com...
	♥ 11:11am Devin B.: Yay Patches!
	♥ 11:11am Roberto: It's a long way from Strokin' to Patches.
	🎸 ♥ 11:11am The Oscar: I think you should just play "Patches" in the event of an emergency.
	♥ 11:12am northguineahills: hah, what Roberto said!
	11:12am Mr Chippy: It's nice to hear Patches when in the back of my mind I was expecting something like Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. Well done.
	♥ 11:13am ♪ke: Though when I've tuned in, Gems is mostly hip-hop, but I'm told it may have a variety of community things. I'm not sure about that. Could be bad info. Normally you shouldn't hear anything else of that sort between WNYE 91.5 (mostly foreign-language news etc.) and the commercial alt-rock station at 92.3. OK, enough piracy, back to work!
	11:14am V Priceless: Patches!!
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am The Oscar: YES. If you follow this with "Patches the Clown" by Deadbolt I will be a happy man.
	11:14am themutante: The lesser Patches.
	11:14am KP: MJ could not believe I had never heard "patches" until she played it for me. I doubt if anyone in NY ever had! Oddly, she knew if from England.
	11:14am FletcherNYC: Second Patches!
	🎸 ♥ 11:15am The Oscar: I always thought this one was remarkably dark, even for '50s/'60s death songs.
	11:16am Itzall Ablurr: Dear The Oscar, it sure was. And what about "Timothy", for God's sake. Don't tell ME it was about eating a goat!....
	♥ 11:16am βrian: Patches seems like a name for a pony.
	♥ 11:17am Joe McG: @TheOscar: "Patches the Clown" by Deadbolt sounds scary!
	🎸 ♥ 11:17am steveo: just the first four measures of this and i'm shivering already
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am Hughie Considine: "Choctaw Ridge" is just such a sumptuous mouthful.
	♥ 11:18am highlowe: ODE TO BILLIE JOE..one of the top songs of all time
	♥ 11:19am GeorgeSimian: Great show this morning!
	♥ 11:19am Carmichael: Heya 1st Joe of the day. Time to start the work day out here.
	🎸 ♥ 11:19am Hughie Considine: That mention of Carroll County puts one in mind of a different story song.
	11:20am davefromtoronto: good version but missing the gravitas of the other one.
	11:21am queems: choctaw ridge is a street in the town i grew up in
	♥ 11:21am Joe McG: @dave: You don't know how hard it is for me NOT to play Bobbie Gentry, but I thought I'd give you a less-heard version.
	♥ 11:21am highlowe: theme!
	♥ 11:22am highlowe: theme time
	🎸 ♥ 11:22am The Oscar: @Joe It's a six-minute surf rock song about a murderous alcoholic clown, complete with spoken verses by multiple characters. It's basically the "Bohemian Rhapsody" of psychobilly.
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am The Oscar: @queems I think my grandfather grew up in the same area! Don't recall the exact town, though.
	11:23am FletcherNYC: 2nd water death. 2nd Billie Joe
	♥ 11:24am GeorgeSimian: Joe Tex rules, so what's the problem?
	11:24am paul: Wasn't the movie Shakes the Clown about an alcoholic clown?
	♥ 11:24am Carmichael: Which Grassroots is this? Not the Rob Grill era, I hope.
	11:24am davefromtoronto: hey joe it's ALL GOOD on your show, brother!
	♥ 11:24am fred: I once saw a solo dance performance centered on Ode to Billie Joe
	♥ 11:25am medson: Hi there. Awesome show Joe. Been listening not able to check in
	11:26am rw: I'm confused. Maybe I wasn't listening closely enough. These are two songs about two different Billie Joes, right?
	♥ 11:27am northguineahills: Ha, I was just listening to this Johnny Cash on my commute this morning!
	11:27am rw: Three songs about two different Billie Joes....
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am The Oscar: Current score: Patches 2, Billy Joe 3
	♥ 11:27am βrian: Somehow, I thought it was "don't take your love to town."
	11:28am Cooh John: Billy Joe gots some stories.
	11:28am paul: Billy Joel 0
	♥ 11:28am Joe McG: Sheila B! Medson! @rw: We've got three Billie/Billy Joes at this point, but I'll leave it there.
	♥ 11:28am fred: @ngh: I did say hello to Lea Bertucci yesterday. She seemed to know who Aaron who moved to Florida is
	♥ 11:29am βrian: Ok, so I'm not crazy.
	♥ 11:30am BennettCap: Ruby!! Yes!!
	11:30am Cooh John: @Brian: That was Ruby by Kenny Rogers.
	♥ 11:30am Sem: Need me some Kenny Rogers Roasters lunch.
	11:30am Jeff formerly from Rahway: Joe your show is just what I needed to get through Monday morning. Thank you!!!
	♥ 11:31am Booz: I'm sorry I ever doubted your sheer audacity, Joe. I was just saying to myself, "He won't do the Nimoy. He won't."
	♥ 11:31am Greg from ZONE 5: "Don't take your Love Gun to town" –Paul Stanley
	♥ 11:31am Joe McG: @Jeff: You bet! @Booz: I may, I may. @Greg: Win!
	♥ 11:31am Booz: You should do the Nimoy.
	11:31am paul: You need to hear Walter Brennan's version of this. Seriously.
	♥ 11:31am GeorgeSimian: I took my gun and my love to town.
	11:32am Cooh John: Any of those places around, Sem?
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am Krys O.: Don Fleming wanted to record a cover of Ruby. Imagine that.
	♥ 11:32am medson: @greg from Z5 if they do they'll hear from Pauls Lawyer
	11:33am ?: kenny rodgers, right?
	♥ 11:33am Sem: Marty McSorley seems to know where they all are. Apparently there are some still in the Philippines.
	11:33am sim: Mr Joe! You should check out Charlie Sizemore's cover of Tom T Hall's "Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On". It's shootings, jail, all that... lemme see if I can find a copy online.
	11:33am themutante: Oh, America. Your love of guns is incurable.
	♥ 11:34am Joe McG: @Paul: It's a great one, I agree! @sim: I'd like to, I don't know it!
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am Ken From Hyde Park: Are we allowed to ride the Love Train into town?
	11:35am sim: here it is! https://youtu.be/-BfeC9_PpzA
	♥ 11:35am northguineahills: oh, cool, fred, thanks!
	♥ 11:35am Greg from ZONE 5: @medson: Both firearms and the concept of love were trademarked by KISS in the early 80s.
	♥ 11:38am annie: what'd i miss??
	♥ 11:39am annie: i saw that movie about the carter sisters, did i tell you that? it was pretty damn good...
	11:39am Will: Hearing Kaleidoscope UK on my radio, sunny Monday morning. Things are OK after all.
	11:41am listener monica: i liked that song a LOT.
	♥ 11:41am GeorgeSimian: That Blondie was great
	♥ 11:42am Joe McG: Anybody know any other airplane/airport story songs? There must be ones I can't remember.
	♥ 11:42am Carmichael: According to the website, there is a Kenny Rogers Roasters in Ontario, California. All the others are in the Far and Middle East.
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am Ken From Hyde Park: Does "YYZ" from Rush count as a story?
	♥ 11:44am Carmichael: Rick Derringer has an instrumental called The Airport Giveth and Taketh Away.
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am pantz: Snoopy and The Red Baron
	♥ 11:45am GeorgeSimian: Leavin on a Jet Plane Jet Airliner I'm sure you thought of those
	♥ 11:45am Carmichael: Comin' In From Los Angeleeezz ...
	11:45am mike: thought Kaliedoscope was Incredible String Band
	11:45am ?: peter, paul, and mary? Leaving on a jet plane?
	♥ 11:45am Joe McG: @pantz: Ha ha, of course! If I could only stand to play it. :) @George: I have to relisten to both to hear the stories!
	11:45am Vineshtein: What was that song you just played... where the lyric was "Nobody Knows where we are?" story of my life! was it by Syd Barrett or something!?
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Krys O.: @annie: Which movie is that about the Carter sisters?
	♥ 11:47am GeorgeSimian: Feel like you need to do a CB radio set
	🎸 ♥ 11:47am Krys O.: BTW, Sara and Maybelle were not sisters.
	11:47am Vineshtein: oh! I see it's Kaleidescope! Sorry!
	11:47am Corey: Lucky to get to listen to the show today at work. Will try to make it a regular thing. Thanks Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 11:47am The Oscar: @Joe "Ebony Eyes" by the Everly Brothers!
	♥ 11:48am Sem: @Carmichael: great! On my to-do list next time out there.
	♥ 11:48am Joe McG: After a couple of death songs, I thought we needed some JOJO!
	♥ 11:50am Jeff Moore: That was a different long black limousine from the one Grace Jones sang about.
	♥ 11:50am Joe McG: @Jeff: !
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am The Oscar: True fact: Asa Brebner, the second guitarist in this Modern Lovers lineup, played my parents' wedding :)
	11:51am Will: There is an incredible video of Kaleidoscope performing "Flight from Ashiya" on British TV.
	11:51am Listener Alexandra: I live for Story Corner!
	♥ 11:51am fred: Jojo? For a moment I thought (hoped) we'd be hearing Hijokaidan
	11:51am paul: @Jeff Pull up to the bumper
	11:53am rw: But this one's a death song too!
	♥ 11:54am Joe McG: @rw: Oops, you're right! ha ha. Well, it IS the End of the show.
	🎸 ♥ 11:54am pantz: Great God Almighty, y'all!!!
	11:55am rw: It was a bouncy up-beat death song though.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Hughie Considine: And it's familiar to millions from the version by the Dead!
	♥ 11:55am Joe McG: Well, I'm about done here. Stay tuned for Steve Krinsky filling in for Joe Belock today. Have a great week, everybody! See you next week with a LIVE set from Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Krys O.: Great show! Thanks, Joe!
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am pantz: Thanks Joe!!!
	11:56am rw: Thanks Joe! Have a good week! We're off to a good start.
	🎸 ♥ 11:57am Mick: Thanks for a super show, Joe! I needed it!
	🎸 ♥ 11:57am steveo: fantastic show; thanks!
	♥ 11:57am βrian: Well this was fun. Thanks, Joe.
	♥ 11:57am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, JMC!
	♥ 11:58am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 11:58am Ken From Hyde Park: "Flight of Icarus" from Iron Maiden, but that doesn't really fit, does it.
	11:59am FletcherNYC: Great show as always
	3:52pm John W: The Story Corner segment is inspired. The Patches medley followed up by Joe Tex's Ode to Billy Joe is genius. Thanks Joe!

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

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