WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from April 20, 2024

Listener comments!
	11:00am clarke: hey now i don't normally do this...
	11:01am clarke: why are you walking out on love? (the musical question)
	11:02am Frank In Queens: hey NOW!
	11:02am Cooh John: Good Saturday morning Michael and #1ers!
	11:02am Scott from Boston: Am i too old to say happy 4:20?!?
	11:03am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Good morning Michael! Hello fans of number one hits!
	11:03am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Scott from Boston @11:02 NEVER!
	11:07am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:07am Moammar: Doug Sahmturday!
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Song: "(Hey Baby) Que Paso" by "Texas Tornados" mike buck on drums
	11:09am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:10am Joe B: greetings Michael and everyone!
	11:11am McGroovey: I finished cleaning the toaster, and now I'm cleaning the toaster oven, and next I'm going to fix the radio (sounds like there's goo in the tuner pot: yes, it's an old radio), and then I'm going to fix the stool that I usually sit on at the kitchen counter when I drink my morning coffee, but I can't sit on it because one leg is broken, so I have to sit on a different stool at the kitchen counter, and the substitute stool is too high and doesn't have a cushion. It's fixit'r'cleanit'r'thowit day in the house of McGroovey
	11:11am Squints: ↳ Song: "Soul Man" by "Memphis Black" Good. God. Y'all.
	11:11am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:11 when you get done over theyah...
	11:12am McGroovey: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:07 @RX: I'll be in Rochester next weekend to see New Math at the Bug Jar (and for other reasons). Interested?
	11:12am Peter Horvath: Happy Saturday, you #1’ers
	11:14am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Michael & all!
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...' Power pop ...typically incorporates melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, an energetic performance, and cheerful sounding music ...underpinned by a sense of yearning, longing, despair, or self-empowerment '... Nonetheless one feels it is a good era for the PowerPops ? Chin up there...
	11:15am Christina Ginger: Hey hey hey everyone!
	11:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:11 - in other words.
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" Yay ! This one...
	11:16am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" Killer track that I associate with the heyday of the Paul Collins Beat.
	11:16am rx "rexy" scabin: @McGroovey idle hands . . . .
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" ...this was 'New Wave' in the best sense one felt...
	11:19am Bill K: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" Textbook 80s
	11:19am Handy Haversack: Morning, Michael and all! Brunch is served.
	11:20am luka: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" that’s a no. 1 if i’ve ever heard one
	11:20am clarke: jalapeno
	11:20am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:15 Christina kicking of 12 SOLID HOURS of fill-ins today! Did everyone take off to get stoned?
	11:20am Joe B: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:19 Handy are you going to see Dehd tonight?
	11:21am Handy Haversack: ↳ Joe B @11:20 What?! Where?
	11:21am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" In Bob Stanley's excellent "Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyonce" he writes, "New Music were a bunch of borderline geriatrics led by Tony Mansfield, who looked like a field vole in a checked suit."
	11:21am Hughie Considine: *k
	11:22am Squints: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:20 Isn't the order of operations backwards there? Get stoned, THEN take off? You going to argue with Harry Chapin?
	11:23am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:21 Ah, is it part of Indieplaza? I think that's beyond us right now. This puppy eats a lot of time!
	11:23am Mr. Jones: Are these interstitial promos the result of AI?
	11:24am Joe B: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:23 yeah, 8 pm
	11:24am McGroovey: These big-band drop-ins are cool. Who did them?
	11:24am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Squints @11:22 Don't look at me! I'm showing up to work on time tonite.
	11:25am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ☕️☠️Saluting Thee Assembled with thuh DeathWish Koffeez☠️☕️
	11:25am Squints: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:24 Heh.
	11:25am Listener Baby: Is this the Fire Show?
	11:27am Mister Dobalina: Wonder if there are any Genesis box sets at the record fair ¿
	11:27am Moammar: Forget records. Just play bumpers.
	11:28am Dominick: loving the new (to me) bumpers
	11:28am Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" Kind of absurd, from the bands Wikipedia entry: "New Musik made their first appearance on the BBC TV pop programme Top of the Pops in October 1979 with their debut "Straight Lines", which received airplay on BBC Radio 1 from guest DJ Frank Zappa"
	11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:24 ...uh-oh. AI ??...
	11:29am Listener Baby: ↳ Mister Dobalina @11:27 I wonder too.
	11:29am Isaac Candelario: This is Zangin
	11:30am Handy Haversack: ↳ Joe B @11:24 It's doubtful ... would be cool, though. We're hoping we can leave him long enough on Tue. to see Pylon! Oh, hey, speaking of, does anyone want two tix to see Robyn Hitchcock at White Eagle Hall on Tue.? Just hit me through my WFMU profile!
	11:32am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Smack Dab In The Middle" by "George Jones" Some words just sing well ... like "smack dab."
	11:32am Squints: Bumpahs ah numbah one.
	11:35am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Oh Baby Mine" by "O.V. Wright" Those handclaps sounded like the DJ was chiming in -- did the Pidge sneak into the studio?
	11:35am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Oh Baby Mine" by "O.V. Wright" O.V. is always the answer.
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:32 ...getting kissed is like dabbing a smack, also... Possum made good rekkids.
	11:36am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:30 I have both Robyn Hitchcock and Pylon on my calendar for Tuesday, but I've bought tickets to neither. I wasn't sure if be in NJ Tuesday, but now I know I will be, and I have to decide...
	11:36am Hughie Considine: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:28 Clearly there needs to be some sort of objective history of New Musik.
	11:36am McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @11:36 If I'd
	11:37am Hughie Considine: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:35 i concur on both counts.
	11:40am Moammar: OK, sorry, but I'm out on the new bumpers. AI is just depressing.
	11:40am HyperDose: Today's programming is insane Michael ---> Rex ---> Christina ---> Matty ---> Greg 🤯
	11:40am Dominick: Bender approves
	11:40am rob: What’s the AI website?
	11:40am Hughie Considine: ↳ Moammar @11:40 Yeah, my initial reaction is to be depressed about it.
	11:40am andy fuchs: I swear one of them sounded like Jon Lambert from Lambert Hendrix and Ross !!! AI is both good and scary all at once.
	11:40am mlsgrrl: I wondered about that 40's style bumper a few minutes ago...
	11:41am McGroovey: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:28 Ahjeez. Ding-ding-ding-ding...
	11:41am common: heeee! we are doomed
	11:41am P-90: wow
	11:41am Mark Hurst: hmmmm
	11:41am Mr. Jones: Great, now we can get rid of all the human musicians earning a living. If you can't see that coming, you're more ignorant than blind.
	11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's more than depressing - it changes the parameters of the cultural aural landscape. & it's not going to stand still Technically either...
	11:41am Frank In Queens: It kinda does ruin, but it's also interesting as well. It is rather intelligent though; after all the country bumper was auto-tuned to hell just like most modern country!
	11:42am Cooh John: I was just wondering when AI music would appear on WFMU. I have my answer.
	11:42am Scott from Boston: I wrote my wife a love song on AI and she thought I was the greatest! I dare not tell her…
	11:42am common: ↳ Mark Hurst @11:41 yep
	11:42am Joe B: i find all these AI music things disturbing. SkyNet vibes.
	11:42am P-90: No you’re not wrong, we’ve all heard worse pop songs
	11:42am Listener Baby: PC was guitar player.
	11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: As they say - that the Machines should get the Profit being Creative - while the Creatives starve laboring for nothing like Machines...
	11:43am Joe B: ↳ Listener Baby @11:42 not in the Nerves!
	11:44am Hughie Considine: I guess what's eerie is that it doesn't sound "synthetic" at least in the current climate, so I find AI's ability to basically fool me disturbing.
	11:44am Mailman Tom: Robyn Hitchcock will be playing in Westport CT on Sunday April 28th. Tickets are only $30!
	11:44am mlsgrrl: I think it is difficult to judge the quality of these songs with one listen. With repeated listening, do the AI songs hold their initial "charm" or enjoyment? Upon more listens, do we start to hear strange things about them that wouldn't happen with a human creation?
	11:44am Frank In Queens: ↳ Joe B @11:42 With any luck, I'll be dead before human creativity is totally obsolete.
	11:45am Scott from Boston: I actually feel this whole show. May be AI now.
	11:45am Gordon FM: "Resistance is Futile" Which website are you using, Michael? Those are some of the best outputs I've heard yet!
	11:45am drr: Enjoy AI while it lasts; it's going to start feeding on itself (already has). The cool thing is, it will kill off entities like Google Search, unless they can figure out how to kill off this thing they had a hand in creating.
	11:45am mlsgrrl: [And now Michael has turned the chat into an AI debate and reflection forum for the next hour.]
	11:45am Cooh John: I don't mind AI content AS LONG AS IT IS IDENTIFIED AS SUCH!!!!
	11:46am Listener Baby: Some things will never be AI. Like a Fire Show, for instance.
	11:46am Frank In Queens: ↳ Cooh John @11:45 It normally isn't.
	11:46am Mailman Tom: ↳ drr @11:45 AI will be reproducing itself and will decide it doesn't need humans anymore!
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & since it's using Machine Intelligence to crunch existing information about Creative Works - to 'Compose' & "Perform' them ...it's actually a kind of Automated Plagiarism. Or @ least Impersonation. Or AntiPersonation. Nation...
	11:46am Matt in Nebraska: I fear Trump's campaign is using AI simulations to formulate a strategy to win in November. The good guys must pursue AI because if they don't, we'll be steamrolled by the bad guys using it.
	11:46am P-90: Oh to have a voice like that
	11:46am Laffnax: What website did you use to make the AI songs?
	11:47am Michael Shelley: ↳ Laffnax @11:46 Udio.com
	11:47am Mr. Jones: The end has definitely already started. A week ago when all those Iranian missiles and drones were shot down. I'm pretty sure that was AI controlling the launch and detonation of deadly weapons. Nothing problematic there, right?
	11:47am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:46 true!
	11:47am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Has anyone ever considered humans as an alternative to AI? I feel like humans could be trained to do tasks such as music, art, math, etc and they would consume far less electricity and water than giant server farms
	11:48am Gordon FM: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:47 Danke!
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Mailman Tom @11:46 en.wikipedia.org...
	11:48am Joe B: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @11:47 they ask too many questions and want to get paid
	11:48am Laffnax: @Michael Shelley thank you! Great REAL tunes today as well!
	11:48am drr: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @11:47 Humans will be too busy doing the menial tasks the computers and the aging population will require.
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Cooh John @11:45 ...which - of course - the Advertisers & Corporations & the Frauds will be sure & do...
	11:49am Joe B: ↳ Laffnax @11:48 maybe they are all fake songs. no way to tell
	11:49am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:36 If you want RH tix, just let me know.
	11:50am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ drr @11:48 Don't like this one bit!
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Matt in Nebraska @11:46 Picture of Drumpf praying in Church ...which of course he doesn't actually do ...with six fingers ...which of course I don't know if was a 'real fake' ...or a fake one...
	11:51am Chicken Girl: I for one am thanking AI (great band name!) for making me smile broadly with its ode to Juniper this mornin’. Bless you for one minute, AI overlords.
	11:52am P-90: AI could NOT create this Buddy Lucas record
	11:52am Christina Ginger: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:20 Hahahaha, crazy!
	11:53am mndave: AI can help a budding songwriter come up with ideas. Unless they've already thought of "turn off that telly and listen to Shelley" in which case, they're ahead of the game
	11:53am pgalub: Some frogs have all the luck.
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...the irony of the Computers congregated in hubs as 'Servers'. While we begin Serving them there... it'll flip like the 'Firemen' in 451...
	11:53am Frank In Queens: I think it's most certainly on purpose. It's a musical quote, and certainly not the first time it's been done.
	11:53am Hughie Considine: AI can sing like a bird and sing like a frog, so Clarence wouldn't have a career if he started out today.
	11:54am clarke: ↳ pgalub @11:53 hay mate~
	11:54am Hughie Considine: Sing like a girl, that is ... but AI can do that too.
	11:55am rx "rexy" scabin: @NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA I am with you on this. AI bubble?
	11:56am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Love Me Too" by "McCharmlys, The" This sounds like an AI rewrite of "Stop and Think It Over" (The Reigning Sound). My apologies to the McCharmlys, who are most likely real people.
	11:58am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Love Me Too" by "McCharmlys, The" Interesting that you played this because I think "Let Me Into Your Life" is SLIGHTLY reminiscent of it.
	11:58am pgalub: ↳ clarke @11:54 Hi clarke.
	11:59am Hughie Considine: Well at least we know that AI is not programming this set.
	12:02pm clarke: ↳ pgalub @11:58 listened to one of yer albums other day - nice!!
	12:02pm Listener Baby: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 Pauses inserted for realism, Hughie. Think about it.
	12:02pm mlsgrrl: That one was way out there.
	12:02pm clarke: is that a legal ID?
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Stratosphere Boogie" by "Speedy West And Jimmy Br... Yessssss!
	12:03pm Cooh John: Next week: an all AI generated selection of #1 hits.
	12:03pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @12:02 Oh damn. It's even worse than I thought.
	12:04pm Travisano66: Listener Phil here! Thanks for doing that, Mike! I wonder if Frog Man was ever aware of the swipe/tribute. I guess we’ll never know.
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Stratosphere Boogie" by "Speedy West And Jimmy Br... AI this!!
	12:06pm clarke: i never got/get the two drummer thang - even if one of them is ringo!
	12:08pm Mister Dobalina: Gotta cheese it now.. Off to see the Spazz at Rockefeller.
	12:10pm Joe B: regarding the rod stewart clip before, at the time of release in 1984 he said it was an homage to Frogman, that it was intentional.
	12:13pm Deano de los Muertos: I think this the first time I’ve caught the famous Michael Shelley’s Show live. Diggin’ it!
	12:13pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Joe B @12:10 makes sense... Thanks(also, is today Sound Exchange week? Im confused)
	12:15pm Cooh John: Hey kids, play the new existential game "AI or Not!" Pay nothing to play! Join in now because you have no choice!
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Come On Let's Go" by "Paul Collins" this sounds a bit low quality? (great tune)
	12:16pm Travisano66: And… we have an answer. Thanks, Joe B!
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Rock And Roll Girl" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" and this sounds GREAT!! cranked.
	12:18pm HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Rock And Roll Girl" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" Fantastic
	12:18pm LesleyK: ↳ Song: "Rock And Roll Girl" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" This album just kicks so much azz
	12:18pm clarke: yes, a perfect album!! ^
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: ↳ LesleyK @12:18 YES !
	12:19pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Walking Out On Love" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" personal fave!
	12:19pm Joe B: I also prefer the remake of workin' too hard on the beat's debut to the nerves version
	12:20pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:19 Pretty perfect song.
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:20 MovieTime????
	12:21pm clarke: ↳ Joe B @12:19 that, too!
	12:21pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Joe B @12:19 Agree
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Don't Wait Up For Me" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" mind-blowing to an 18 year old brain.
	12:23pm Michael Shelley: ROD/CLARENCE: www.youtube.com... www.youtube.com...
	12:24pm clarke: The Beat.
	12:26pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:20 Sparse, but managed to get Night Of The Living Dead in this week. Also caught the second half of a Honk Kong movie called Rikki-Oh from 1991; kind of a martial arts meets Evil Dead thing. Ridiculous in the best way possible.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:26 nice! it's been a lot of sports, right?
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:26 a re-watch of the fine Film Fingers was in order, as i found it on the internet archive - highly recommend if you've never seen it. harvey keitel - 1978
	12:29pm Hughie Considine: Hail, Leonia!
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Collins" this guy is ALWAYS blowing my mind!! four years in greece. (greece is the word).
	12:30pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:27 Yeah, playoffs start today for the Isles. But have been to a few Mets games in the last two weeks as well.
	12:30pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:30 ditto for my teams.
	12:30pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:28 Cool!
	12:31pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:30 well, obviously, i watch the O's at home, but you know.
	12:33pm Handy Haversack: Gotta run, I'm afraid. Thanks, MS!
	12:35pm clarke: love Paul's drumming!!!!!
	12:35pm Deano de los Muertos: as a former drummer, it is an extremely limiting instrument as far where and when you can actually play them
	12:35pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:35 If he's the drummer on "When You Find Out," then So. Do. I.
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:35 he IS!!! (it ain't AI!)
	12:37pm Squints: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @12:35 To this day, thanks to Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner, whenever I hear Muerto or Muerta, I think "Hi, Morty."
	12:38pm dano59: Saw Paul opening for Flamin’ Groovies at Bowery Ballroom- Summer ‘13. Met him after at merch table. Nice guy; built like a longshoreman
	12:38pm clarke: Peter Case's short memoir of the Nerves era is fantastic - it has a long title i am struggling remembering, but a great read!
	12:38pm Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @12:27 I went and saw Le Samourai last week; highly recommended!
	12:38pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Squints @12:37 Not familiar with the reference
	12:38pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:36 Not for a long time, I hope, but he goes straight to heaven.
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:38 ah, you remind me that i started Shogun - which is as close to kurosawa as one can get. real good.
	12:39pm dano59: Love the girlfriend Marci Marks’ M-n-M’s stuff too
	12:39pm Squints: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @12:38 Goofy spy caper comedy in the early 90s. Stupid but fun movie.
	12:40pm dano59: clarke: Fingers!! thumbs up
	12:40pm Hubig Pie: Watched the last 30 min. or so of Killer's Kiss the other nite. Early Kubrick. Gloriously filmed noir that ends with a mannequin massacre.
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ dano59 @12:40 yeah, the re-watch is a bit weird. i had a bit better memory of it, but still stands up.
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:40 yeah, watched that!! i had seen it before, but better the 2nd time!
	12:41pm Gaylord Fields: I've owned three copies of the original Nerves EP. First one (paid $3) got thrown in the trash accidentally by a sibling ca. 1980; second one (paid $8) I left on a Path station bench woth about 50 singles ca. 1995; third one (paid $20) I still have. Don't look up what it currently goes for on Discogs.
	12:41pm Frank In Queens: Bornick and Rothchild were f'in geniuses.
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:41 ouch!!
	12:42pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Collins" He should be proud of the second one, too. When I picked up the first one on CD, it was a twofer with the second one. No dropoff.
	12:42pm dano59: Walkin’ inside for an open mic in a min. / right across the street from this morning’s Record Store Day hang. Catch the rest in the archives. Have a great day, all!
	12:43pm Hughie Considine: It all comes down to Money.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ dano59 @12:42 break a leg!
	12:43pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:41 Sadly, i'm well aware.
	12:44pm clarke: Give Me Some Water!!!
	12:45pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @12:42 Funny thing is when I met Paul Collins, he told me he didn't even have a copy himself, and I'm personally responsible for there being two less copies in circulation! Oof!
	12:45pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:45 you are making them RARER!!!
	12:47pm Gaylord Fields: I'm personally responsible for my surviving copy being worth $300! I should do that for my Vaughn Meader First Family LP next!
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:47 i'd hate to take a bite outta you.
	12:48pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:43 I was lucky to have found that third copy so cheaply at a WFMU record fair in the '90s!
	12:48pm clarke: wow!
	12:49pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @12:47 I'm a cookie full of polyvinyl chloride!
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:49 truth!!
	12:49pm Hughie Considine: Take that, AI!
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:49 any chance of a Part Three anytime this summer? or have i missed 3?
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:50 or am i thinking of Part 4???
	12:50pm HyperDose: The Equals 😍
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Collins" just wanna say, i COULD be a super-fan for only a few people... paul is on that list.
	12:52pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @12:50 Possible Part 4 in August. Watch that space.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:52 yeah, i was there for 3, ha ha ha.
	12:53pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:52 loved it!!!
	12:54pm clarke: RIP Twilley
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Collins" thanks, Paulie thanks MS!!!
	12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:30 Being in love with Kaiju & MonsterMovies - one gets dragged into other Japanese Cinema like Samurai Sword pictures - via the WatchParties & such...
	12:57pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been BEATen? good nite.
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Informative & Candid Interview.
	12:57pm P-90: Another Number One Interview!
	12:57pm HyperDose: Thank you, Michael and Paul!
	12:58pm clarke: Rope moved!!!! A to B. etc. great stuff. whacky and wild stuff.
	12:58pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @12:54 As for Paul Collins calling himself the King of Power Pop, you could say that Twilley Don't Mind.
	12:58pm LesleyK: Great interview... thank you!!
	12:58pm clarke: never too chilly!
	12:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael!
	12:59pm Hughie Considine: Loved this interview -- Paulie is living his life like a true Rock n Roll Guy.

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
Paul Collins Beat, The	Let Me Into Your Life
Lovin' Spoonful	Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?	0:03:20 (Pop-up)
Texas Tornados	(Hey Baby) Que Paso	0:06:17 (Pop-up)
Memphis Black	Soul Man "Soul Man" by "Memphis Black"	0:09:34 (Pop-up)
Desmond Dekker	Coomyah "Coomyah" by "Desmond Dekker"	0:12:41 (Pop-up)
New Musik	Straight Lines "Straight Lines" by "New Musik"	0:15:03 (Pop-up)
Paul Collins Beat, The	There She Goes	0:19:25 (Pop-up)
Conlon And The Crawlers	I Won't Tell	0:24:03 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Root Beer "Root Beer" by "George Jones"	0:28:01 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Smack Dab In The Middle	0:29:36 (Pop-up)
O.V. Wright	Oh Baby Mine "Oh Baby Mine" by "O.V. Wright"	0:33:45 (Pop-up)
Ai	Juniper Is A Goofball "Juniper Is A Goofball" by "Ai"	0:40:15 (Pop-up)
Nerves, The ‎	Working Too Hard "Working Too Hard" by "Nerves, The ‎"	0:42:00 (Pop-up)
Brother John Rydgren	Butterfly "Butterfly" by "Brother John Rydgren"	0:44:11 (Pop-up)
Deke Dickerson	Snatch It And Grab It	0:46:53 (Pop-up)
Buddy Lucas	Bump Te Bump "Bump Te Bump" by "Buddy Lucas"	0:48:59 (Pop-up)
McCharmlys, The	Love Me Too "Love Me Too" by "McCharmlys, The"	0:52:31 (Pop-up)
Trizo 50	Take A Ride "Take A Ride" by "Trizo 50"	0:58:32 (Pop-up)
Speedy West And Jimmy Bryant	Stratosphere Boogie	1:02:22 (Pop-up)
Billy Preston	Encouraging Words "Encouraging Words" by "Billy Preston"	1:05:06 (Pop-up)
Uni Boys, The	Hiding In My Home "Hiding In My Home" by "Uni Boys, The"	1:08:55 (Pop-up)
Paul Collins	Come On Let's Go "Come On Let's Go" by "Paul Collins"	1:12:20 (Pop-up)
Paul Collins Beat, The	Rock And Roll Girl	1:15:31 (Pop-up)
Paul Collins Beat, The	Walking Out On Love	1:18:48 (Pop-up)
Paul Collins Beat, The	Don't Wait Up For Me	1:20:41 (Pop-up)
Paul Collins	Stand Back And Take a Good Look	1:24:06 (Pop-up)
Paul Collins	Interview "Interview" by "Paul Collins"	1:26:05 (Pop-up)
Paul Collins	I'm The Only One "I'm The Only One" by "Paul Collins"	1:55:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:00am clarke: hey now i don't normally do this...
	11:01am clarke: why are you walking out on love? (the musical question)
	11:02am Frank In Queens: hey NOW!
	11:02am Cooh John: Good Saturday morning Michael and #1ers!
	11:02am Scott from Boston: Am i too old to say happy 4:20?!?
	11:03am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Good morning Michael! Hello fans of number one hits!
	11:03am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Scott from Boston @11:02 NEVER!
	11:07am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:07am Moammar: Doug Sahmturday!
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Song: "(Hey Baby) Que Paso" by "Texas Tornados" mike buck on drums
	11:09am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:10am Joe B: greetings Michael and everyone!
	11:11am McGroovey: I finished cleaning the toaster, and now I'm cleaning the toaster oven, and next I'm going to fix the radio (sounds like there's goo in the tuner pot: yes, it's an old radio), and then I'm going to fix the stool that I usually sit on at the kitchen counter when I drink my morning coffee, but I can't sit on it because one leg is broken, so I have to sit on a different stool at the kitchen counter, and the substitute stool is too high and doesn't have a cushion. It's fixit'r'cleanit'r'thowit day in the house of McGroovey
	11:11am Squints: ↳ Song: "Soul Man" by "Memphis Black" Good. God. Y'all.
	11:11am clarke: ↳ McGroovey @11:11 when you get done over theyah...
	11:12am McGroovey: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:07 @RX: I'll be in Rochester next weekend to see New Math at the Bug Jar (and for other reasons). Interested?
	11:12am Peter Horvath: Happy Saturday, you #1’ers
	11:14am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Michael & all!
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...' Power pop ...typically incorporates melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, an energetic performance, and cheerful sounding music ...underpinned by a sense of yearning, longing, despair, or self-empowerment '... Nonetheless one feels it is a good era for the PowerPops ? Chin up there...
	11:15am Christina Ginger: Hey hey hey everyone!
	11:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:11 - in other words.
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" Yay ! This one...
	11:16am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" Killer track that I associate with the heyday of the Paul Collins Beat.
	11:16am rx "rexy" scabin: @McGroovey idle hands . . . .
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" ...this was 'New Wave' in the best sense one felt...
	11:19am Bill K: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" Textbook 80s
	11:19am Handy Haversack: Morning, Michael and all! Brunch is served.
	11:20am luka: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" that’s a no. 1 if i’ve ever heard one
	11:20am clarke: jalapeno
	11:20am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Christina Ginger @11:15 Christina kicking of 12 SOLID HOURS of fill-ins today! Did everyone take off to get stoned?
	11:20am Joe B: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:19 Handy are you going to see Dehd tonight?
	11:21am Handy Haversack: ↳ Joe B @11:20 What?! Where?
	11:21am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" In Bob Stanley's excellent "Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyonce" he writes, "New Music were a bunch of borderline geriatrics led by Tony Mansfield, who looked like a field vole in a checked suit."
	11:21am Hughie Considine: *k
	11:22am Squints: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:20 Isn't the order of operations backwards there? Get stoned, THEN take off? You going to argue with Harry Chapin?
	11:23am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:21 Ah, is it part of Indieplaza? I think that's beyond us right now. This puppy eats a lot of time!
	11:23am Mr. Jones: Are these interstitial promos the result of AI?
	11:24am Joe B: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:23 yeah, 8 pm
	11:24am McGroovey: These big-band drop-ins are cool. Who did them?
	11:24am Greg from ZONE 5: ↳ Squints @11:22 Don't look at me! I'm showing up to work on time tonite.
	11:25am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ☕️☠️Saluting Thee Assembled with thuh DeathWish Koffeez☠️☕️
	11:25am Squints: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:24 Heh.
	11:25am Listener Baby: Is this the Fire Show?
	11:27am Mister Dobalina: Wonder if there are any Genesis box sets at the record fair ¿
	11:27am Moammar: Forget records. Just play bumpers.
	11:28am Dominick: loving the new (to me) bumpers
	11:28am Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "Straight Lines" by "New Musik" Kind of absurd, from the bands Wikipedia entry: "New Musik made their first appearance on the BBC TV pop programme Top of the Pops in October 1979 with their debut "Straight Lines", which received airplay on BBC Radio 1 from guest DJ Frank Zappa"
	11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:24 ...uh-oh. AI ??...
	11:29am Listener Baby: ↳ Mister Dobalina @11:27 I wonder too.
	11:29am Isaac Candelario: This is Zangin
	11:30am Handy Haversack: ↳ Joe B @11:24 It's doubtful ... would be cool, though. We're hoping we can leave him long enough on Tue. to see Pylon! Oh, hey, speaking of, does anyone want two tix to see Robyn Hitchcock at White Eagle Hall on Tue.? Just hit me through my WFMU profile!
	11:32am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Smack Dab In The Middle" by "George Jones" Some words just sing well ... like "smack dab."
	11:32am Squints: Bumpahs ah numbah one.
	11:35am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Oh Baby Mine" by "O.V. Wright" Those handclaps sounded like the DJ was chiming in -- did the Pidge sneak into the studio?
	11:35am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Oh Baby Mine" by "O.V. Wright" O.V. is always the answer.
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:32 ...getting kissed is like dabbing a smack, also... Possum made good rekkids.
	11:36am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:30 I have both Robyn Hitchcock and Pylon on my calendar for Tuesday, but I've bought tickets to neither. I wasn't sure if be in NJ Tuesday, but now I know I will be, and I have to decide...
	11:36am Hughie Considine: ↳ Mr. Jones @11:28 Clearly there needs to be some sort of objective history of New Musik.
	11:36am McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @11:36 If I'd
	11:37am Hughie Considine: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:35 i concur on both counts.
	11:40am Moammar: OK, sorry, but I'm out on the new bumpers. AI is just depressing.
	11:40am HyperDose: Today's programming is insane Michael ---> Rex ---> Christina ---> Matty ---> Greg 🤯
	11:40am Dominick: Bender approves
	11:40am rob: What’s the AI website?
	11:40am Hughie Considine: ↳ Moammar @11:40 Yeah, my initial reaction is to be depressed about it.
	11:40am andy fuchs: I swear one of them sounded like Jon Lambert from Lambert Hendrix and Ross !!! AI is both good and scary all at once.
	11:40am mlsgrrl: I wondered about that 40's style bumper a few minutes ago...
	11:41am McGroovey: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:28 Ahjeez. Ding-ding-ding-ding...
	11:41am common: heeee! we are doomed
	11:41am P-90: wow
	11:41am Mark Hurst: hmmmm
	11:41am Mr. Jones: Great, now we can get rid of all the human musicians earning a living. If you can't see that coming, you're more ignorant than blind.
	11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's more than depressing - it changes the parameters of the cultural aural landscape. & it's not going to stand still Technically either...
	11:41am Frank In Queens: It kinda does ruin, but it's also interesting as well. It is rather intelligent though; after all the country bumper was auto-tuned to hell just like most modern country!
	11:42am Cooh John: I was just wondering when AI music would appear on WFMU. I have my answer.
	11:42am Scott from Boston: I wrote my wife a love song on AI and she thought I was the greatest! I dare not tell her…
	11:42am common: ↳ Mark Hurst @11:41 yep
	11:42am Joe B: i find all these AI music things disturbing. SkyNet vibes.
	11:42am P-90: No you’re not wrong, we’ve all heard worse pop songs
	11:42am Listener Baby: PC was guitar player.
	11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: As they say - that the Machines should get the Profit being Creative - while the Creatives starve laboring for nothing like Machines...
	11:43am Joe B: ↳ Listener Baby @11:42 not in the Nerves!
	11:44am Hughie Considine: I guess what's eerie is that it doesn't sound "synthetic" at least in the current climate, so I find AI's ability to basically fool me disturbing.
	11:44am Mailman Tom: Robyn Hitchcock will be playing in Westport CT on Sunday April 28th. Tickets are only $30!
	11:44am mlsgrrl: I think it is difficult to judge the quality of these songs with one listen. With repeated listening, do the AI songs hold their initial "charm" or enjoyment? Upon more listens, do we start to hear strange things about them that wouldn't happen with a human creation?
	11:44am Frank In Queens: ↳ Joe B @11:42 With any luck, I'll be dead before human creativity is totally obsolete.
	11:45am Scott from Boston: I actually feel this whole show. May be AI now.
	11:45am Gordon FM: "Resistance is Futile" Which website are you using, Michael? Those are some of the best outputs I've heard yet!
	11:45am drr: Enjoy AI while it lasts; it's going to start feeding on itself (already has). The cool thing is, it will kill off entities like Google Search, unless they can figure out how to kill off this thing they had a hand in creating.
	11:45am mlsgrrl: [And now Michael has turned the chat into an AI debate and reflection forum for the next hour.]
	11:45am Cooh John: I don't mind AI content AS LONG AS IT IS IDENTIFIED AS SUCH!!!!
	11:46am Listener Baby: Some things will never be AI. Like a Fire Show, for instance.
	11:46am Frank In Queens: ↳ Cooh John @11:45 It normally isn't.
	11:46am Mailman Tom: ↳ drr @11:45 AI will be reproducing itself and will decide it doesn't need humans anymore!
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & since it's using Machine Intelligence to crunch existing information about Creative Works - to 'Compose' & "Perform' them ...it's actually a kind of Automated Plagiarism. Or @ least Impersonation. Or AntiPersonation. Nation...
	11:46am Matt in Nebraska: I fear Trump's campaign is using AI simulations to formulate a strategy to win in November. The good guys must pursue AI because if they don't, we'll be steamrolled by the bad guys using it.
	11:46am P-90: Oh to have a voice like that
	11:46am Laffnax: What website did you use to make the AI songs?
	11:47am Michael Shelley: ↳ Laffnax @11:46 Udio.com
	11:47am Mr. Jones: The end has definitely already started. A week ago when all those Iranian missiles and drones were shot down. I'm pretty sure that was AI controlling the launch and detonation of deadly weapons. Nothing problematic there, right?
	11:47am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:46 true!
	11:47am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Has anyone ever considered humans as an alternative to AI? I feel like humans could be trained to do tasks such as music, art, math, etc and they would consume far less electricity and water than giant server farms
	11:48am Gordon FM: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:47 Danke!
	11:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Mailman Tom @11:46 en.wikipedia.org...
	11:48am Joe B: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @11:47 they ask too many questions and want to get paid
	11:48am Laffnax: @Michael Shelley thank you! Great REAL tunes today as well!
	11:48am drr: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @11:47 Humans will be too busy doing the menial tasks the computers and the aging population will require.
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Cooh John @11:45 ...which - of course - the Advertisers & Corporations & the Frauds will be sure & do...
	11:49am Joe B: ↳ Laffnax @11:48 maybe they are all fake songs. no way to tell
	11:49am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:36 If you want RH tix, just let me know.
	11:50am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ drr @11:48 Don't like this one bit!
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Matt in Nebraska @11:46 Picture of Drumpf praying in Church ...which of course he doesn't actually do ...with six fingers ...which of course I don't know if was a 'real fake' ...or a fake one...
	11:51am Chicken Girl: I for one am thanking AI (great band name!) for making me smile broadly with its ode to Juniper this mornin’. Bless you for one minute, AI overlords.
	11:52am P-90: AI could NOT create this Buddy Lucas record
	11:52am Christina Ginger: ↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:20 Hahahaha, crazy!
	11:53am mndave: AI can help a budding songwriter come up with ideas. Unless they've already thought of "turn off that telly and listen to Shelley" in which case, they're ahead of the game
	11:53am pgalub: Some frogs have all the luck.
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...the irony of the Computers congregated in hubs as 'Servers'. While we begin Serving them there... it'll flip like the 'Firemen' in 451...
	11:53am Frank In Queens: I think it's most certainly on purpose. It's a musical quote, and certainly not the first time it's been done.
	11:53am Hughie Considine: AI can sing like a bird and sing like a frog, so Clarence wouldn't have a career if he started out today.
	11:54am clarke: ↳ pgalub @11:53 hay mate~
	11:54am Hughie Considine: Sing like a girl, that is ... but AI can do that too.
	11:55am rx "rexy" scabin: @NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA I am with you on this. AI bubble?
	11:56am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Love Me Too" by "McCharmlys, The" This sounds like an AI rewrite of "Stop and Think It Over" (The Reigning Sound). My apologies to the McCharmlys, who are most likely real people.
	11:58am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Love Me Too" by "McCharmlys, The" Interesting that you played this because I think "Let Me Into Your Life" is SLIGHTLY reminiscent of it.
	11:58am pgalub: ↳ clarke @11:54 Hi clarke.
	11:59am Hughie Considine: Well at least we know that AI is not programming this set.
	12:02pm clarke: ↳ pgalub @11:58 listened to one of yer albums other day - nice!!
	12:02pm Listener Baby: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 Pauses inserted for realism, Hughie. Think about it.
	12:02pm mlsgrrl: That one was way out there.
	12:02pm clarke: is that a legal ID?
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Stratosphere Boogie" by "Speedy West And Jimmy Br... Yessssss!
	12:03pm Cooh John: Next week: an all AI generated selection of #1 hits.
	12:03pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @12:02 Oh damn. It's even worse than I thought.
	12:04pm Travisano66: Listener Phil here! Thanks for doing that, Mike! I wonder if Frog Man was ever aware of the swipe/tribute. I guess we’ll never know.
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Stratosphere Boogie" by "Speedy West And Jimmy Br... AI this!!
	12:06pm clarke: i never got/get the two drummer thang - even if one of them is ringo!
	12:08pm Mister Dobalina: Gotta cheese it now.. Off to see the Spazz at Rockefeller.
	12:10pm Joe B: regarding the rod stewart clip before, at the time of release in 1984 he said it was an homage to Frogman, that it was intentional.
	12:13pm Deano de los Muertos: I think this the first time I’ve caught the famous Michael Shelley’s Show live. Diggin’ it!
	12:13pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Joe B @12:10 makes sense... Thanks(also, is today Sound Exchange week? Im confused)
	12:15pm Cooh John: Hey kids, play the new existential game "AI or Not!" Pay nothing to play! Join in now because you have no choice!
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Come On Let's Go" by "Paul Collins" this sounds a bit low quality? (great tune)
	12:16pm Travisano66: And… we have an answer. Thanks, Joe B!
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Rock And Roll Girl" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" and this sounds GREAT!! cranked.
	12:18pm HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Rock And Roll Girl" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" Fantastic
	12:18pm LesleyK: ↳ Song: "Rock And Roll Girl" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" This album just kicks so much azz
	12:18pm clarke: yes, a perfect album!! ^
	12:19pm Michael Shelley: ↳ LesleyK @12:18 YES !
	12:19pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Walking Out On Love" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" personal fave!
	12:19pm Joe B: I also prefer the remake of workin' too hard on the beat's debut to the nerves version
	12:20pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:19 Pretty perfect song.
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:20 MovieTime????
	12:21pm clarke: ↳ Joe B @12:19 that, too!
	12:21pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Joe B @12:19 Agree
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Don't Wait Up For Me" by "Paul Collins Beat, The" mind-blowing to an 18 year old brain.
	12:23pm Michael Shelley: ROD/CLARENCE: www.youtube.com... www.youtube.com...
	12:24pm clarke: The Beat.
	12:26pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:20 Sparse, but managed to get Night Of The Living Dead in this week. Also caught the second half of a Honk Kong movie called Rikki-Oh from 1991; kind of a martial arts meets Evil Dead thing. Ridiculous in the best way possible.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:26 nice! it's been a lot of sports, right?
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:26 a re-watch of the fine Film Fingers was in order, as i found it on the internet archive - highly recommend if you've never seen it. harvey keitel - 1978
	12:29pm Hughie Considine: Hail, Leonia!
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Collins" this guy is ALWAYS blowing my mind!! four years in greece. (greece is the word).
	12:30pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:27 Yeah, playoffs start today for the Isles. But have been to a few Mets games in the last two weeks as well.
	12:30pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:30 ditto for my teams.
	12:30pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:28 Cool!
	12:31pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:30 well, obviously, i watch the O's at home, but you know.
	12:33pm Handy Haversack: Gotta run, I'm afraid. Thanks, MS!
	12:35pm clarke: love Paul's drumming!!!!!
	12:35pm Deano de los Muertos: as a former drummer, it is an extremely limiting instrument as far where and when you can actually play them
	12:35pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:35 If he's the drummer on "When You Find Out," then So. Do. I.
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:35 he IS!!! (it ain't AI!)
	12:37pm Squints: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @12:35 To this day, thanks to Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner, whenever I hear Muerto or Muerta, I think "Hi, Morty."
	12:38pm dano59: Saw Paul opening for Flamin’ Groovies at Bowery Ballroom- Summer ‘13. Met him after at merch table. Nice guy; built like a longshoreman
	12:38pm clarke: Peter Case's short memoir of the Nerves era is fantastic - it has a long title i am struggling remembering, but a great read!
	12:38pm Christina Ginger: ↳ clarke @12:27 I went and saw Le Samourai last week; highly recommended!
	12:38pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Squints @12:37 Not familiar with the reference
	12:38pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:36 Not for a long time, I hope, but he goes straight to heaven.
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:38 ah, you remind me that i started Shogun - which is as close to kurosawa as one can get. real good.
	12:39pm dano59: Love the girlfriend Marci Marks’ M-n-M’s stuff too
	12:39pm Squints: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @12:38 Goofy spy caper comedy in the early 90s. Stupid but fun movie.
	12:40pm dano59: clarke: Fingers!! thumbs up
	12:40pm Hubig Pie: Watched the last 30 min. or so of Killer's Kiss the other nite. Early Kubrick. Gloriously filmed noir that ends with a mannequin massacre.
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ dano59 @12:40 yeah, the re-watch is a bit weird. i had a bit better memory of it, but still stands up.
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:40 yeah, watched that!! i had seen it before, but better the 2nd time!
	12:41pm Gaylord Fields: I've owned three copies of the original Nerves EP. First one (paid $3) got thrown in the trash accidentally by a sibling ca. 1980; second one (paid $8) I left on a Path station bench woth about 50 singles ca. 1995; third one (paid $20) I still have. Don't look up what it currently goes for on Discogs.
	12:41pm Frank In Queens: Bornick and Rothchild were f'in geniuses.
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:41 ouch!!
	12:42pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Collins" He should be proud of the second one, too. When I picked up the first one on CD, it was a twofer with the second one. No dropoff.
	12:42pm dano59: Walkin’ inside for an open mic in a min. / right across the street from this morning’s Record Store Day hang. Catch the rest in the archives. Have a great day, all!
	12:43pm Hughie Considine: It all comes down to Money.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ dano59 @12:42 break a leg!
	12:43pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:41 Sadly, i'm well aware.
	12:44pm clarke: Give Me Some Water!!!
	12:45pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @12:42 Funny thing is when I met Paul Collins, he told me he didn't even have a copy himself, and I'm personally responsible for there being two less copies in circulation! Oof!
	12:45pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:45 you are making them RARER!!!
	12:47pm Gaylord Fields: I'm personally responsible for my surviving copy being worth $300! I should do that for my Vaughn Meader First Family LP next!
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:47 i'd hate to take a bite outta you.
	12:48pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:43 I was lucky to have found that third copy so cheaply at a WFMU record fair in the '90s!
	12:48pm clarke: wow!
	12:49pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @12:47 I'm a cookie full of polyvinyl chloride!
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:49 truth!!
	12:49pm Hughie Considine: Take that, AI!
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:49 any chance of a Part Three anytime this summer? or have i missed 3?
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:50 or am i thinking of Part 4???
	12:50pm HyperDose: The Equals 😍
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Collins" just wanna say, i COULD be a super-fan for only a few people... paul is on that list.
	12:52pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @12:50 Possible Part 4 in August. Watch that space.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Gaylord Fields @12:52 yeah, i was there for 3, ha ha ha.
	12:53pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:52 loved it!!!
	12:54pm clarke: RIP Twilley
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Paul Collins" thanks, Paulie thanks MS!!!
	12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:30 Being in love with Kaiju & MonsterMovies - one gets dragged into other Japanese Cinema like Samurai Sword pictures - via the WatchParties & such...
	12:57pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been BEATen? good nite.
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Informative & Candid Interview.
	12:57pm P-90: Another Number One Interview!
	12:57pm HyperDose: Thank you, Michael and Paul!
	12:58pm clarke: Rope moved!!!! A to B. etc. great stuff. whacky and wild stuff.
	12:58pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ clarke @12:54 As for Paul Collins calling himself the King of Power Pop, you could say that Twilley Don't Mind.
	12:58pm LesleyK: Great interview... thank you!!
	12:58pm clarke: never too chilly!
	12:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	12:58pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael!
	12:59pm Hughie Considine: Loved this interview -- Paulie is living his life like a true Rock n Roll Guy.

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