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Artist | Track | Approx. start time |
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Zombies, The | This Will Be Our Year | |
Kinks, The | Better Things | 0:03:45 (Pop-up) |
Byrds, The | Your Gentle Way of Loving Me | 0:07:26 (Pop-up) |
Nina Simone | Come On Back Jack | 0:10:06 (Pop-up) |
Buddy Greco | The Lady Is A Tramp | 0:14:27 (Pop-up) |
Bread | Family Doctor | 0:18:55 (Pop-up) |
George Harrison | Awaiting On You All (early take) | 0:23:32 (Pop-up) |
Love | Alone Again Or | 0:26:14 (Pop-up) |
Marty Robbins | This Much A Man | 0:32:32 (Pop-up) |
Big Dee Irwin | Everybody's Got A Dance But Me | 0:38:29 (Pop-up) |
Muffs, The | Kids In America | 0:40:52 (Pop-up) |
PJ And Artie | Vamonos | 0:45:03 (Pop-up) |
Elvis Presley | Mystery Train / Tiger Man | 0:47:59 (Pop-up) |
Lee Dorsey | Games People Play | 0:55:11 (Pop-up) |
Os Mutantes | Bat Macumba | 0:58:45 (Pop-up) |
Jam, The | Start | 1:04:18 (Pop-up) |
Steve Lawrence | Walking Proud | 1:07:34 (Pop-up) |
Ronnie Dawson | Fire, Fire, Fire (demo) | 1:09:53 (Pop-up) |
Percy Mayfield | Never No More | 1:12:27 (Pop-up) |
Izaak Opatz | Got To Me Since | 1:14:52 (Pop-up) |
Twilights, The | Needle In A Haystack | 1:18:38 (Pop-up) |
Jimmy Caravan | Higher And Higher | 1:20:46 (Pop-up) |
Fats Domino | Kansas City | 1:23:01 (Pop-up) |
Jimmy Cliff | You Can Get It If You Really Want | 1:25:24 (Pop-up) |
Catbirds, The | I'm Only You | 1:30:10 (Pop-up) |
Los Shakers | Give Me | 1:36:11 (Pop-up) |
Nashville West | I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water | 1:41:07 (Pop-up) |
Tippie And The Clovers | Bossa Nova Baby | 1:43:31 (Pop-up) |
Cucumbers, The | Everything Goes | 1:46:46 (Pop-up) |
Clique, The | Superman | 1:51:36 (Pop-up) |
Outta Sites, The | Beautiful You | 1:54:11 (Pop-up) |
Alice | Lois' New Year's Bitching About Sherri's Floral | 1:56:26 (Pop-up) |
Juniper | May You Always | 1:57:14 (Pop-up) |
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CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs
CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio
CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019
CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll
CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab
CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds
CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"
CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den
CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"
CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"
CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"
CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio
The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse
CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio
CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"
CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"
CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer
CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs
CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project
CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper
CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.
CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast
CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "
CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!
CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981
CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!
CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air
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CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!
CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas
CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag
CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel
CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore
CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts
CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"
CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"
CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!
CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world
CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves
CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court
CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression
CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography
CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s
CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU
CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds
CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"
CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"
CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it
CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"
CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "
CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"
CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"
CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"
CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman
CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"
CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show
CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms
CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"
CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall
CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"
CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"
CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015
CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good
CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie
CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch
CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"
CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?
CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!
CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour
CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club
CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"
CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to
CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions
CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010
CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"
CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar
CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion
CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350
CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"
CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"
CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload
CLICK HERE for Gay Robot
CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research
CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)
CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing
CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!
CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years
CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman
CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"
CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse
CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"
CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.
CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?
CLICK HERE for optical illusions
CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work
CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill
CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"
CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off
CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show
CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU
CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut
CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of
CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"
CLICK HERE for a laugh
CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"
CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin
CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people
CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"
CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does
CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes
CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was
CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"
CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)
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
CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!
CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website
CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers
CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine
CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.
CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.
CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!
CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!
CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios
Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version
CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID
CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"
CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book
CLICK HEREfor "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"
CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.
CLICK HERE to point to your pointer
CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"
CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs
CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio
CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019
CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll
CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab
CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds
CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"
CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den
CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"
CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"
CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"
CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio
The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse
CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio
CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"
CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"
CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer
CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs
CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project
CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper
CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.
CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast
CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "
CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!
CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981
CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!
CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air
CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!
CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!
CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas
CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag
CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel
CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore
CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts
CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"
CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"
CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!
CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world
CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves
CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court
CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression
CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography
CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s
CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU
CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds
CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"
CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"
CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it
CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"
CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "
CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"
CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"
CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"
CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman
CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"
CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show
CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms
CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"
CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall
CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"
CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"
CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015
CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good
CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie
CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch
CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"
CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?
CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!
CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour
CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club
CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"
CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to
CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions
CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010
CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"
CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar
CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion
CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350
CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"
CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"
CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload
CLICK HERE for Gay Robot
CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research
CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)
CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing
CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!
CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years
CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman
CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"
CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse
CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"
CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.
CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?
CLICK HERE for optical illusions
CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work
CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill
CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"
CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off
CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show
CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU
CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut
CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of
CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"
CLICK HERE for a laugh
CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"
CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin
CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people
CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"
CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does
CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes
CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was
CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"
CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)
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
CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!
CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website
CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers
CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine
CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.
CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.
CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!
CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!
CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios
Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:
Squints:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
clarke:
Handy Haversack:
I think Janet will be much better off without ...
Geoffrey in Ottawa:
Frank In Queens:
clarke:
Handy Haversack:
myron feld:
Frank In Queens:
clarke:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
phat in lincoln:
Glistener MW:
Andres:
casey:
Handy Haversack:
clarke:
Glistener MW:
Jack McGuire:
SeanG:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Greg from ZONE 5:
Glistener MW:
myron feld:
clarke:
judy from croton:
Hughie Considine:
Bobobob dublon Plasticland:
Squints:
clarke:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
judy from croton:
Cat Stacker:
Handy Haversack:
John L:
judy from croton:
Cat Stacker:
Listener Baby:
judy from croton:
Lord Jimz:
Squints:
Layet Johnson:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
dk50b:
Dennis Diken:
Cat Stacker:
Listener Baby:
Frank In Queens:
jmd:
Squints:
Handy Haversack:
clarke:
?:
Eddy in Australia:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Baja Joe:
Alicja Uleeshuh:
Dennis Diken:
clarke:
Hoboken Jack:
Frank In Queens:
myron feld:
judy from croton:
Then we had kids and by the age 25, they discovered the dead. Now, a confluence of generations
Cat Stacker:
Squints:
JG:
Squints:
loquat:
dk50b:
Bambi Kino HQ:
Hughie Considine:
SeanG:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
A nice funny guy mostly despite the pills & the whole thing...
judy from croton:
Cat Stacker:
SeanG:
Listener Baby:
johnk77:
ronnie tutt worked for elvis
& jerry garcia
Michael Shelley:
phat in lincoln:
Bambi Kino HQ:
Squints:
"Who do you think I think I am?"
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
SeanG:
Squints:
JG:
Handy Haversack:
Frank In Queens:
Alicja Uleeshuh:
judy from croton:
myron feld:
Hughie Considine:
Listener Baby:
clarke:
judy from croton:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Michael Shelley:
www.amazon.com...
phat in lincoln:
teddy:
I don't but I will find it necessary to inform you that GET BACK is a really boring waste of time unless you're a nerd fan boy. Found footage, watching paint dry.
Normally I would keep my opinion to myself but you provoked me.
Happy New Year. Now go out and educate us on how bad all other things we like actually are.
Maybe you could keep your opinion to yourself rather than continue to spread bad vibes when lord knows we don't need them now
Frank In Queens:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Joe:
egould310:
Listener Baby:
judy from croton:
Handy Haversack:
Frank In Queens:
judy from croton:
Eddy in Australia:
teddy:
clarke:
Hughie Considine:
Frank In Queens:
Eddy in Australia:
clarke:
Handy Haversack:
Eddy in Australia:
clarke:
phat in lincoln:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Greg from ZONE 5:
Dennis Diken:
Eddy in Australia:
Michael Shelley:
Hughie Considine:
teddy:
bobobob dublon from Plasticland:
Listener Baby:
Frank In Queens:
dk50b:
Handy Haversack:
We had negronis with dinner but opened one bottle of proseco for efdisco New Year!
Greg, if he could just get the good Champagne leads ...
clarke:
Montmaster J:
DJ Johnny Cool:
Squints:
I enjoy the company.
Squints:
Eddy in Australia:
clarke:
Pedro in Arlington:
"What is this crappy music??"
Really liked "Power of the Dog" but you gotta be a Campion fan, i.e. "The Piano." Liked "Licorice Pizza" but expectations were too high. Tom Waits and Sean Penn are filler. "There Will Be Blood" remains the finest American film of the last 20 years. 2022 will be a No. 1 year with WFMU. Michael's talk is even better than the tunes.
DJ Johnny Cool:
Michael Shelley:
Squints:
Needs bongo feet, though.
Eddy in Australia:
Dennis Diken:
clarke:
teddy:
When Steve Cropper told you he wasn't getting vaccinated you could have spend a few seconds trying to straighten him out. Is he still living by the way?
phat in lincoln:
Squints:
mmmmmm, pierogiiiiii.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
clarke:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Dennis Diken:
myron feld:
www.foodandwine.com...
Hughie Considine:
teddy:
I'm not looking for agreement with my opinions.
I just can't stomach those who look to stand out by playing The Emperor's New Clothes
clarke:
Hughie Considine:
Dennis Diken:
DJ Johnny Cool:
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
clarke:
Squints:
It was probably a little too "how do you do, fellow kids" to go over in the actual day.
GR60:
Don Gorden:
Greg from ZONE 5:
phat in lincoln:
Michael Shelley:
AND " you could have spend a few seconds trying to straighten him out." is not coddling. AND my opinions about vaxing have been very clear on this show. Liar.
Dennis Diken:
Montmaster J:
Andres:
Eddy in Australia:
clarke:
Scheff is a MONSTER, dennis - just fantastic.
Squints:
Heck. Sometimes I've been the uncle.
HyperDose:
clarke:
teddy:
Dennis Diken:
Spinning Giant:
HNY, One & All!
clarke:
Andres:
Eddy in Australia:
Dennis Diken:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...then you know the AntiVaxxers would be on him for that. & you know it's true. MS let him know he had a different opinion & no one disrespected each other. Course - if someone wants to posit there cache of expertly dispatched Interviews up against Michael's record...
Squints:
Andres:
phat in lincoln:
Biba McLurex:
clarke:
Kotzwinkled:
clarke:
Eddy in Australia:
clarke:
ze Bongoe Feete
Pedro in Arlington:
Hubig Pie:
Eddy in Australia:
Squints:
Similarly with the more dour and doomy forms of metal. How they sing those lyrics without dissolving into giggles is beyond me.
But chacun a son gout. So long as I don't have to eat mushrooms, help yourself to all you want.
clarke:
Hubig Pie:
Eddy in Australia:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
clarke:
happymaan:
Frank In Queens:
Spinning Giant:
such a breath of fresh (and unexpectedly counterculture) air when it debuted on the govt-sanctioned tv mothership station up here in Canuckistan
i will look that one up!
Eddy in Australia:
Kotzwinkled:
clarke:
phat in lincoln:
clarke:
Catbirds are Go!!
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
clarke:
Michael Shelley:
Lord Jimz:
everyone go to the archives and listen to it now...
Glistener MW:
Pedro in Arlington:
Joe R.:
rx scabin:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Layet Johnson:
Frank In Queens:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Baja Joe:
Greg from ZONE 5:
Hubig Pie:
clarke:
Eddy in Australia:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Frank In Queens:
clarke:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- birthday of Alan Watts & John C. Lilly on the same day in 1915
...& Syd Barrett (later)...
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Squints:
Mister Dobalina:
Frank In Queens:
annette:
clarke:
Pedro in Arlington:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Spinning Giant:
and yes, let us pray ro an extended cold snap to get those rinks in shape...
my kids are jonesing to skate!!!
Frank In Queens:
clarke:
Michael Shelley:
Johnny Four Strings:
clarke:
phat in lincoln:
Frank In Queens:
Eddy in Australia:
Queens L. Bow:
Spinning Giant:
frikkin hilarity, right there! 😁
Michael Shelley:
www.youtube.com...
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
So - like pedal steel lever you can wear, kinda?
clarke:
Squints:
Michael Shelley:
www.youtube.com...
annette:
Andres:
Listener John from NJ:
clarke:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...this was not the Program to start that with...
Listener Baby:
clarke:
Hoboken Jack:
saltinwound.com...
Michael Shelley:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Eddy in Australia:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
clarke:
morphe':
Also, never go out on NYE ...
=
100% success at the age of 60 !!!
Glistener MW:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...Groundhog Day - & Chinese New Year more variable but usually quite close.
Halfway twixt Solstice & Equinox.
Andres:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Handy Haversack:
Kick out the Jams Joe:
clarke:
clarke:
Frank In Queens:
annette:
FREE sign. . .
Spinning Giant:
jingles:
Greg from ZONE 5:
D:
Listener Baby:
Wenzo Toad:
Spinning Giant:
...groovy
D:
Andres:
Also, thankful for finally hearin this original Superman in 2021. So great!
Sparky:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
clarke:
myron feld:
morphe':
secondhand fruitcake lol!
oddly enough ... Traditional Irish wedding cakes are/were a large fruit cake ... The remainder saved in a large cookie bin and sprinkled periodically with whiskey preservative with bits eaten on the anniversary over the years... could be 20-30 years...
Corey:
John L:
clarke:
Spinning Giant:
(who am i to argue with tradition!)
Squints:
egould310:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
teddy:
I'll spare you old dweebs from my bad vibes.
I'll suffer in silence as Michael spreads HIS bad vibes, be it his finding something that everyone likes and trashing it, griping about random things or even interviewing MAGA guests and allow them to spread deadly disinformation with a mild challenge to their anti-vaxing garbage.
I wonder how many of the 20,000 people who died from covid in Tennessee were infected by Cropper.
Goodbye forever & HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Spinning Giant:
Frank In Queens:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Noir = Everything Else
radioronan:
Hoboken Jack:
Mister Dobalina:
Listener Baby:
Squints:
Patster:
Spinning Giant:
clarke:
thanks for this and EVERY show of the year, MS - yer a good sort!!
Michael Shelley:
Andres:
Frank In Queens:
Spinning Giant:
HyperDose:
Mister Dobalina:
Greg from ZONE 5:
morphe':
Squints:
Off to exult in the return of Broons hockey.
phat in lincoln:
Anyway, happy new year!
clarke:
Eddy in Australia:
Spinning Giant:
Baja Joe:
myron feld:
Greg from ZONE 5:
Officer Pupp:
Andres:
clarke:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Marko: