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Favoriting October 19, 2024: That's What A #1 Song Can Do

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JD McPherson  That’s What a Love Song Does to You   Favoriting
Ventures, The  Wack Wack   Favoriting
Gary Owens  Direct Sun Light   Favoriting
Oscar (Slim) Wills And His Heartbreakers  Dancing Senorita   Favoriting
Living Percussion, The  Green Tambourine   Favoriting
Nick Lowe  Fool Too Long   Favoriting
John Mayall  Crocodile Walk   Favoriting
Johnny Russell  I'm Stayin'   Favoriting
Bo Diddley  Here Tis   Favoriting
Rockpile  Fool Too Long (live)   Favoriting
Gainsborough Gallery, The  Dreams In A Boxcar   Favoriting
Bud Brewer  Caffein, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)   Favoriting
Patty Drew  Sufferer   Favoriting
Johnny Organ  Bewitched   Favoriting
Rockpile  Fool Too Long   Favoriting
Clique, The  Superman   Favoriting
Red Simpson  Highway Patrol   Favoriting
Meters, The  Funky Miracle   Favoriting
Amy Rigby  Hell-Oh Sixty   Favoriting
XTC  Earn Enough For Us   Favoriting
Jags, The  Back Of My Hand   Favoriting
Elvis Costello  High Fidelity   Favoriting
Jonathan Richman  I'm Just Beginning To Live   Favoriting
Clash, The  Mustapha Dance   Favoriting
Tone-Loc  Funk Cold Medina   Favoriting
Young MC  Bust A Move   Favoriting
Bill Wyman  (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star   Favoriting
XTC  Love On a Farmboy's Wages   Favoriting
XTC  Mayor of Simpleton   Favoriting
Nick Lowe  Cruel to Be Kind   Favoriting
Johnny Cash  Without Love   Favoriting
Little Village  Haunted House   Favoriting
Grandmaster And Melle Mel  White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)   Favoriting

CLICK HERE for a Golf Channel documentary about DEVO’s strange intersection with the professional sports legend Chi-Chi Rodríguez

CLICK HERE to read about the guy who has written over 24,000 songs (like “I Need a Lot of Toilet Paper to Clean the Poop in My Butt”) and makes a good living, or CLICK HERE to listen to the podcast version.

CLICK HERE for the story of Gene Krupa - with lots of great video clips

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's guesting on Mark Hurst's WFMU show Techtonic, discussing AI music making.

CLICK HERE for video clips of Kay Adams on the Buck Owens Ranch Show

CLICK HERE and HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE for The Beatles' 167 page FBI file

CLICK HERE for a documentary about L.A.'s Chinatown Punk Wars

CLICK HERE to help Paul find his bass

CLICK HERE for an assortment of Wrecking Crew AFM union contracts

CLICK HERE for 20+ gigabytes of sound effects from the USC Sound Effects Library

CLICK HERE for Armstrong's 1954 catalog, featuring spectacular mid-century linoleum, rug, and wall tile designs

CLICK HERE for The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History

CLICK HERE for Michael Shelley's appearance on the Finding Favorites podcast where he discusses WFMU, NRBQ, Nancy & road food

CLICK HERE for The Beatles Sorter (1200 choice decision game takes an hour)

CLICK HERE for The Beatles & The Butcher - The Story of The 'Yesterday & Today' Album

CLICK HERE for the Radio & Broadcasting History site with archives of British music mags from the 60's

CLICK HERE for Beatle Novelty Records on YouTube

CLICK HERE for a free download of the book "Our time is now : A farandole of Jonathan Richman songs"

CLICK HERE for The 100 Most Lost Songs of All

CLICK HERE for a million dollar guitar

CLICK HERE for The Herman Cain Award

CLICK HERE for a pricing strategy consultant's look at how much Mike Love pays Brother Records INC. for the right to tour as The Beach Boys

CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for recipes Michael has discussed on the show

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley

CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

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 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 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"

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 HERE for 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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Listener comments!

  11:00am
Scott from Boston:

Love Mike Shelley!
  11:00am
clarke:

hey now.

he was great.
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Squints:

ok, then.

hey HEY hey now.
  11:02am
clarke:

wow. distorto madness!!
  11:03am
clarke:

it was not detrimental, actually.
  11:03am
clarke:

yer still undefeated!!!
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egould:

You saved music, Michael! Yayyyy!!!!
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Squints:

Turntable One remains the Van Wyck of radio programming.
  11:05am
clarke:

i hope Baby is one with nature!
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Ciggy:

Good Saturday morning Michael
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Moammar:

↳ Song: "Wack Wack" by "Ventures, The"
The characteristic funk of the Ventures.
  11:06am
clarke:

that's wack
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Listener Baby:

Baby
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drr:

I'm OUTSIDE, painting, the weather in tropical Louisiana is incredible, feels like the world is air conditioned.
  11:07am
gf2002:

Back to back fuzz! Make it a triple play with a Davie Allen & The Arrows
  11:07am
Frank In Queens:

HEY NOW!!!!
  11:07am
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @11:06
dude - you did NOT get mauled by bears!!! kudos! (if so)
  11:07am
clarke:

↳ drr @11:07
what are you painting??
  11:08am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:07
your Magpies got sucker punched in the first half - not watching now, tho
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens"
When, again, one goes to clicky-star a song only to find that... well, HEY now.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Direct Sun Light" by "Gary Owens"
NICE Belmonts callback there.
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drr:

↳ clarke @11:07
A girl forest wizard with magenta hair and a staff topped with a big green gem. The usual stuff.
  11:10am
clarke:

↳ drr @11:09
and, i thought it was the house! ha ha.
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Listener Baby:

↳ clarke @11:07
I’m in one piece
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Morning, Michael & all!
  11:11am
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @11:10
this is a plus!
  11:11am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke, i left the house before kickoff. Still time left to go!
  11:11am
clarke:

HELLO GREGORY!!
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drr:

↳ Song: "Dancing Senorita" by "Oscar (Slim) Wills And His ...
His Heartbreakers, to distinuish them from Johnny Thunders' ones, or that other guy's.
  11:12am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:11
well, despite having possession for most of the half - the one time brighton got the ball they score.
  11:12am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke big match too
  11:13am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:11
yer other team is doing well, tho - subway series intact.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The"
!!!!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ clarke @11:11
I'm here apparently!
  11:14am
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @11:13
how was yer trip???
  11:14am
gf2002:

↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The"
Was waiting to hear how they handled the original's tape delay on this instrumental...they didn't.
  11:14am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke forced the series back to LA and facing a bullpen game tomorrow night. Hopefully they didn’t use up all their hits last night.
  11:14am
clarke:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:13
there was conjecture...
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Listener Baby:

↳ clarke @11:14
Lovely. And as expected
  11:15am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:14
i have no dog in the hunt, but this is some most exciting baseball!!
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myron feld:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:14
And thankfully they managed to issue fewer than 7 walks...I think
  11:16am
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @11:14
very good, sir!!
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d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA:

↳ Song: "Green Tambourine" by "Living Percussion, The"
Hi Mike!

Some trivia!

The Lemon Pipers were essentially a guy named Bill Bartlet. Bill was also Ram Jam, that band that played "Black Betty".

One of my childhood friends is his nephew.

Bill plays in bands in Cincinnati, drives a rural mail route, and cashes royalty checks.
  11:17am
Frank In Queens:

@myron and limited their Ks
  11:19am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:17
where yat son??
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myron feld:

↳ d-_-b __Listener Jonny in MA @11:16
I'm going to Cincinnati soon -- do you know the names of any bands Bill plays with?
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Montmaster J:

↳ myron feld @11:15
Maybe they've used up all the walks...cause they were killing them. Looking forward to tomorrow!
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Moammar:

↳ Montmaster J @11:19
Mets in seven. So it is written, so shall it be.
  11:20am
clarke:

↳ Montmaster J @11:19
it ought to be a(nother) thriller!
  11:20am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke on the train headed out to the Island
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Moammar:

Great to see McNeill in the lineup -- and Alvy act like himself again. And two triples!
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Montmaster J:

↳ Moammar @11:20
I'm down Moammar!
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myron feld:

↳ Moammar @11:20
From your lips to Rob Manfred's ears
  11:21am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:20
noice, mate!!
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Montmaster J:

↳ clarke @11:20
Yes! Should be!
  11:21am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:20
big family doin's on the island?
  11:22am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke hanging out with fam before the fame tonight
  11:22am
Frank In Queens:

Thanks for the Mayall
  11:22am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:22
good times!
  11:23am
clarke:

the fame game!
  11:23am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke nothing bug. Just a visit.
  11:23am
Frank In Queens:

er, big
  11:24am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:23
but, i'm sure there will be good food!
  11:25am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke homemade minestrone!
  11:25am
Frank In Queens:

A Bovember preview
  11:25am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:25
oh my!!
  11:29am
clarke:

steam roller is right
  11:29am
listener phat in lincoln:

Happy Rocktober!
  11:29am
David Watts:

Looking for a love in the heart of the city!
  11:30am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in lincoln @11:29
no, you won!
  11:30am
Todd E:

Rockpile — one of the greatest live R&R bands! Where is this track from?
  11:30am
clarke:

the band of the weak is journey
  11:32am
gf2002:

↳ clarke @11:30
"They said I won!"
  11:32am
clarke:

i think i'm drunk
  11:33am
Cooh John:

Good morning Michael and #1ers.
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egould:

Benzedrine is fun. Maybe too much fun.
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myron feld:

↳ Song: "Caffein, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)"...
i'm already up to two of these today.
  11:34am
Frank In Queens:

I’ve never smoked cigarettes….
  11:34am
clarke:

the denizens of Uzzle Street!!
  11:34am
wenzo:

Howdeee
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:30
Do I win a pair of Haggar slacks?
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "Caffein, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)"...
No / Yes / No for me.
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drr:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:34
If you can manage to get addicted to them, they're incredible. But you gotta get through the first two or three.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I don't miss booze, but I miss cigarettes.
  11:36am
Jersey Plaid:

Nick Lowe, a rocker who as relevant today as he was wayyyy back, outstanding!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:34
Havent I seen you drinking COKE?
  11:38am
Frank In Queens:

Ciggies always seemed like a cheap petty high. Do real drugs, that’s what I say!
  11:38am
clarke:

@Frank - your neighbors have smoked enough for you!
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Michael Shelley:

My parents all smoked, I never liked the smell - and never tried 'em - lucky
  11:40am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke too f’in right!
  11:40am
Andres:

↳ Song: "Bewitched" by "Johnny Organ"
Good morning. Loving this vibe!
  11:40am
Frank In Queens:

Ok kids catch you all later! Thanks Michael!
  11:40am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:40
dat suckx
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Squints:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:38
Have fun but stay clear of the needle.
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Ciggy:

Coffee & Carbona
  11:41am
gf2002:

The Beatles wouldn't have become The Beatles without discovering uppers in Hamburg
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Ike:

Aren’t uppers kinda the same thing as meth, though?
  11:43am
Andres:

Coffee and a butt was the hit my friends were after mid morning. I stuck with the coffee.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:37
Oh GOD yes. I'm addicted to Coke (with a capital "C") But it has way less caffeine than coffee. Doesn't send me into the danger zone.
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drr:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:38
It's not even a high. It's the addiction without the high. But satisfying an addiction feels as good as any high. And you can do it forty times a day if you want to.
That's the fun of cigarettes.

(They're horrible.)
  11:44am
clarke:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:43
but the amount of sodium!!! yikes!
  11:44am
gf2002:

I watched a fascinating documentary on YouTube last week about The Beatles in Hamburg, where they went around to all the places where they played and where they bunked during their times there, and it was great to put a moving image to a lot of those places like The Indra, The Kaiserkeller, the old movie house where they slept, etc. and all the surrounding streets. Very cool.
  11:45am
clarke:

i used to drink like a smokestack!! (uhhhh...)
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ clarke @11:44
Oh yeah, I'm certainly not arguing for its health benefits.
  11:46am
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @11:44
i have seen that, it is very good
  11:46am
clarke:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:45
when i stopped drinking cokes, i had a headache for two weeks!
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Squints:

↳ clarke @11:44
Sodium is a preservative. My story. Sticking to same.
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Ike:

↳ Andres @11:43
For a sec, I thought you meant coffee and actual butts in mid-morning. I’d prefer that! They’re rounder and less smoky. (ducks)
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egould:

If you’re a fan of the Attractions or the Buzzcocks, thank benzedrine.
  11:48am
clarke:

rounded edges!! lest we not forget
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Squints:

↳ drr @11:43
Best legal rush available comes thirty seconds after tucking the Copenhagen between the cheek and the gum.

Bingabongadabing, real quick. Then over.

Can't do that no more or She Of The Big Brown Eyes won't kiss me.
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Matt in Nebraska:

I doubt we'd have those Rockpile "Fool Too Long" takes without the assistance of some kind of 'magic powder'. One's too many and a 100 ain't enough.
  11:49am
clarke:

four guys wearin' sweaters.. singin' like boids!!
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Squints:

Turntable One makes George Joneses of us all.

"You win again."
  11:49am
gf2002:

↳ clarke @11:46
One of the most interesting parts of that film is how they explained how popular The Beatles really were in Hamburg and how they along with Tony Sheridan and others brought real rock and roll into the region when German pop music at that time was leaning more to the light pop similar to Pat Boone's style. Of all the Beatle books I've read, I never got that sense of how popular they became because they were playing loud in-your-face rock and roll and it was a new experience for the people going to those clubs.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ egould @11:48
So THAT explains it. What about Clem Burke?
  11:50am
Mr. Jones:

One of the few REM tunes not sung by Stipe. I read that he wasn't really into recording it at all. #heresay
  11:50am
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @11:49
also that huge theater where they recorded with sheridan was mind-blowing too.
  11:51am
clarke:

↳ Mr. Jones @11:50
Near Wild Heaven!!
  11:51am
wenzo:

That must have felt great when a cover of their song became a hit 20 years later
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Superman" by "Clique, The"
This is a song for which there might be no bad versions. But the R.E.M. cover kills 'em all.
  11:52am
gf2002:

↳ clarke @11:50
Yes! The image in my mind of where they cut those tracks was nothing like the building they showed in that documentary. It reminded me of the Capitol tower in LA or something in scope and I pictured some spare room with blankets hung on the walls or something similar
  11:53am
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @11:52
ikr???
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson"
I got that. I get jokes ;)
  11:53am
clarke:

↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson"
wait? a cover?? original??
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egould:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:49
Cocaine. Still “up”; but of a different quality.
  11:54am
gf2002:

↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson"
Junior Brown nailed this one...
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Highway Patrol" by "Red Simpson"
Dink Daugherty. Punchin' speeders.
  11:54am
clarke:

i had no idee that junior's was a cover??? mind blown.
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Squints:

G.
G.
Y.
  11:55am
clarke:

g
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Sq
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Moammar:

↳ Song: "Funky Miracle" by "Meters, The"
Do it, Zig.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ egould @11:54
Nobody can play the drum part of "Dreaming" without a little help.
  11:56am
gf2002:

↳ clarke @11:54
And Junior stayed very true to the original's guitar solo too, very close. But Junior added those banjo rolls to his solo which upped it a few notches
  11:56am
clarke:

there's a street uptown, here, called Valence - it is neville central - all the nevilles lived near the same block. i saw the Meters at a street party, once. before the albums, etc. unreal.
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drr:

↳ Squints @11:54
Is that a Clay Pigeon character, or some other reference I've missed?
  11:57am
clarke:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @11:56
i beg to differ!
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drr:

"Pink tea for the ladies, and zu-zu crackers for the men!"
  11:58am
sharon:

Milk Duds for the ladies! Love Lou Mitchells.
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Squints:

↳ drr @11:56
Yep. Couldn't resist.
  11:59am
yippie:

last month i went to a ramen shop in tokyo where all the girls got a free scoop of ice cream and the guys got free nothing. the ramen was a bit heavy.
  11:59am
clarke:

↳ Song: "Hell-Oh Sixty" by "Amy Rigby"
i'm ever-impressed with Wreckless production!!
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Listener Baby:

Eric bought a compressor.
  12:00pm
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @11:59
'e prolly traded fer et!!
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Listener Baby:

↳ clarke @12:00
Init’
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @11:59
indeed
  12:01pm
clarke:

roight??
  12:01pm
Billybob:

↳ gf2002 @11:49
Isn't that what happened here, too? There wasn't much going on in the US post-Elvis and pre-Beatles. When the Beatles happened, they didn't just change music; they changed the world. Probably more right place, right time than anything else, tho.
  12:01pm
ledzeppelinsucks:

Salernos Pizza 1201 2 Grand in Chicago is entertaining. The barely ambulatory waitress pushes a steel industrial cart to serve dishes. CPD enters in groups and walks behind the bar to help themselves in uniform. White beans are the best.
  12:02pm
gf2002:

He had magic dust

And this would get the reindeer off, man?

Got them off, are you kidding, man? They flew all the way around the world!
  12:02pm
clarke:

cheech and dipthong
  12:03pm
Marie in Chicago:

Top o' the morning to ya', Michael and All! I ate at Lou Mitchell's once a long time ago. All I remember was that it's a really nice interior.
  12:03pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "Earn Enough For Us" by "XTC"
oh my, yes! !
  12:04pm
Scott from Boston:

The drums seem very upfront… Or maybe they always work??
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Earn Enough For Us" by "XTC"
Tracked with no drums. Crazy!
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Michael Shelley:

CHECK THE COASTERS:
www.michaelshelley.net...
  12:05pm
clarke:

↳ Scott from Boston @12:04
the drums always sounded pretty good on the cd. i think there is better bass reproduction going on, tho
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Scott from Boston @12:04
maybe a machine kick?
  12:06pm
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @12:04
thats right, they took the tracks to prairie in SF.. mitchell's diner
  12:06pm
Scott from Boston:

Thank you, Clarke!
  12:07pm
clarke:

↳ Scott from Boston @12:06
i have not listened to that cd in a long while tho!
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Ciggy:

↳ Song: "Back Of My Hand" by "Jags, The"
A WPIX-fm Classic
  12:09pm
Scott from Boston:

This jags song should’ve been a number hit!
  12:09pm
clarke:

↳ Scott from Boston @12:09
charts schmarts!! i think it was in england, no??
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Squints:

↳ Scott from Boston @12:09
Shoulda been all the damned numbers.
  12:10pm
clarke:

↳ Squints @12:09
on the back of your...???
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Squints:

↳ clarke @12:10
It was absolutely Number One in Toledo.
  12:11pm
gf2002:

↳ Billybob @12:01
I agree The Beatles had the great X-Factor that can't be planned or plotted out, and that was their timing, They appeared at exactly the right time especially in the US, and they pulled the plug when the time was right. But the Hamburg years have been written about often and until watching this documentary and hearing from people who were there beyond the usual talking heads it gave a sense that the young Beatles were far more influential and popular in Hamburg than has been reported before. It was a great take on the whole Beatles tale.
  12:11pm
clarke:

↳ Squints @12:11
still ain't made my mind up..
  12:12pm
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:11
you HAVE read mark lewisohn's book, right??
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Hughie Considine:

Can't believe I missed my promo! One o them days...
  12:13pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:12
dude, it was RIGHT HERE!!
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egould:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:12
You did a very nice job.
  12:13pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:12
life is good!!
  12:13pm
gf2002:

↳ clarke @12:12
It's on my list, haven't made it through that one yet. But the other stacks of the Beatle books I've read before the Lewisohn book are my reference haha
  12:13pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman"
love it!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ egould @12:13
Thanks, man! Twas a labor of love.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman"
Pleased to report that Jonathan was great last weekend at WEH. (Last couple times I saw him were so-so)
  12:14pm
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:13
oh my god. better and bigger than the bible! i said it!
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egould:

↳ clarke @12:14
Don’t you blaspheme in this house!
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Moammar:

↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman"
This is the best Jonathan album. "Rocking and Romance."
  12:15pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "I'm Just Beginning To Live" by "Jonathan Richman"
i will admit i was pretty 'against' jonathan's career-shift around this time, but still... it's freaking great!
  12:16pm
gf2002:

↳ clarke @12:14
It is now toward the top of my list! I've been meaning to dig in but just haven't had the chance yet. I'm currently working through "When They Were Boys" by Larry Kane which is a decent read so far
  12:16pm
Sheldon Kay:

I saw Johnathan Richman both nights last weekend. Great show
  12:16pm
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:16
lewisohn puts all other writers to SHAME!! i just hope he can finish volume two!!! in our lifetime!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:15
It's true -- there are some purists who didn't appreciate the extreme turn away from VU inspiration.
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SeaCreature:

That was a great version of the modern lovers with Beth and Ellie singing backup. Boston good times.
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egould:

Time to put on my earbuds and head down to the grocery store. Think I’ll make a pot roast on this chilly rainy Seattle day.
  12:18pm
onthetrain:

Rock the casbah , now Mike did you own the “watch” ?
  12:18pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:17
i went to see them "blind" -- not what i expectorated..
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The"
Topper: Great drummer? Or THE GREATEST DRUMMER?!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ onthetrain @12:18
?
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egould:

↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The"
Lasers! Pew pew pewwww!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ egould @12:18
Pot roast is good chilly weather food. Happy roasting.
  12:19pm
Billybob:

↳ gf2002 @12:11
I might have to watch that doc. Not that I don't know enough about the Beatles at this point, LOL. Hell, I lived through it. I remember exactly what I was doing the day they first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. (I was like 7, and I was helping Dad wallpaper my bro's bedroom that day, LOL.)
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tadpoles:

↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The"
Listening on headphones and it sounds great.
The Soft Cell 12"ers from the 80's are also magnificent!
Cheers
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Matt in Nebraska:

I listened to the audio book version of the Mark Lewisohn book while I worked. It's almost 44 hours long! Hopefully, the 2nd volume will be out sooner than later.
  12:19pm
StringOFperils:

Yeeeah, this mix will get you positive feedback!
  12:19pm
clarke:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @12:18
one of! but, i am not sure topper is on this??"
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Squints:

↳ SeaCreature @12:18
I never don't tear up a little at that version of "That Summer Feeling."
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @12:14
I heard reports tha he was relatively down to earth
  12:20pm
onthetrain:

From the album version there was the moment when Joe strummers watch alarm goes off and it made it to it the cut . You can sort or hear it in this version .
  12:20pm
clarke:

↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:19
that book should be READ!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ onthetrain @12:20
did not know that!
  12:20pm
gf2002:

↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The"
Topper is the entire rhythm section on this track, drums bass and piano...incredible groove!
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SeaCreature:

↳ Squints @12:19
Too right.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Mustapha Dance" by "Clash, The"
Bathroom break?
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egould:

↳ clarke @12:19
He wrote it. Recorded the drums and piano parts solo. Then the other blokes completed it.
  12:21pm
onthetrain:

Mike https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/e3pfa/does_anyone_else_notice_that_strange_electronic/
  12:22pm
clarke:

↳ egould @12:21
didn't know dis.
  12:22pm
gf2002:

I've heard it was Mick Jones' watch but either way it's a cool effect...like Mal's alarm clock on Day In The Life haha
  12:22pm
clarke:

this show has exposed some mental lapses...
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GeoSinPhilly:

↳ Song: "Funk Cold Medina" by "Tone-Loc"
That one sounds GREAT.
  12:23pm
gf2002:

↳ egould @12:21
Bass too
  12:23pm
Cooh John:

80's night revisted
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egould:

I had both the Clash and Tone-Loc 12”.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @12:21
awww man!
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drr:

Could Young M.C. be next?
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Listener Baby:

Kiss and Foreigner? Right?
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egould:

↳ gf2002 @12:23
Thanks. I wasn’t sure if he recorded the bass. Makes sense, though.
And then the other guys gave Topper an ultimatum, get of the horse or you’re out of the band. I think he was fired shortly thereafter.
  12:26pm
gf2002:

I'm thinking MARRS "Pump Up The Volume" was spun often as well. Which is a great track BTW
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Moammar:

↳ drr @12:24
Yes, apparently.
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Matt in Nebraska:

↳ clarke @12:20
Am I being shamed for listening to an audio book? I listened while I worked as a custodian at an elementary school. I'm sorry. The narrator is good.
  12:26pm
Jeff formerly from Rahway:

This show is taking me back to college parties
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Listener Baby:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:24
Just plain’ which you, Baby
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Matty No Times:

What's up WFMU! Killer show as usual!
  12:26pm
Billybob:

↳ gf2002 @12:13
In my storage, I have a "collector's" edition of the NY Times that's actually just every page of the NY Times that the Beatles ever appeared on. Because it's the full page, you get an idea of everything else that was going on in the world at the time. Just bits and pieces of the world in 1964, 65, etc. It's kind of what makes newspapers better than articles on the 'net, but that's another topic.
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James in ATL:

↳ drr @12:24
Nice job!
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Matty No Times:

Im always gonna get up for Bust A Move
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drr:

↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC"
Thought so.
  12:26pm
clarke:

↳ egould @12:25
hence my confusion - thought he was already gone by that time
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC"
Goddamn this rocks.
  12:27pm
clarke:

↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:26
sometime you should read it.
  12:28pm
gf2002:

↳ egould @12:25
And Topper had lyrics written for it too but Strummer threw them out and wrote the ones we know. Hearing that track and realizing most of the instruments are just one guy overdubbing the parts is amazing. What a groove!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC"
Clearing a space in my office so I can do the Running Man.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @12:25
musta been back in the wild west days when people just sampled whatever they felt like it...
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drr:

↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC"
Don't get cocky and try to karaoke this, unless you are in incredible pulmonary health you will be laying on the floor by the end.
  12:29pm
gf2002:

↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC"
Flea on bass...killer line
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Matt in Nebraska:

↳ clarke @12:27
Sometime you should listen to it.
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Matty No Times:

↳ drr @12:28
oof ive def made that mistake before
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egould:

↳ drr @12:28
Hahaha!
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC"
serious kick drum on this!
  12:29pm
clarke:

↳ Matt in Nebraska @12:29
my ears are busy
  12:30pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "Bust A Move" by "Young MC"
Frosh week a guy in my dorm blasted this on a loop seemingly in the hallway at 7am all week long. Slightly traumatic but still funky.
  12:30pm
clarke:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:29
sample.
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James in ATL:

I have a friend that was a record exec and we once went to dinner with Young MC, was super nice. He warned us that he shared the bill with Milli Vanilli and they didn't really sing their songs. This was a few months before it became common knowledge.
  12:30pm
Scott from Boston:

Why do I love this? Bill Wyman tune so much!🤣
  12:31pm
Congrats EFD! Keep the great music going!:

This song has the sleaziest one liner ever.
  12:31pm
Scott from Boston:

That smooth operator
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Listener Baby:

Written for Ian Dury
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drr:

↳ Song: "(Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star" by "Bill Wyman"
This reminds me of a 12" I had as part of a marriage, Captain Sensible's idiotic and enjoyable "Wot?"
  12:32pm
Scott from Boston:

Wow, I can really hear that… Great bit of info!
  12:33pm
Andres:

↳ Listener Baby @12:31
Can’t not hear it now!
  12:33pm
gf2002:

Speaking of Clash...was the DJ'ing at the time when Mick Jones with Big Audio Dynamite had the hit "Rush"? That track was a real banger as the kids like to say, loaded with samples
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Squints:

↳ drr @12:32
Some days -- well, kind of a lot of days -- I think "Wot?" is the greatest record ever made.
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drr:

↳ Squints @12:33
I say wot?
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egould:

↳ drr @12:32
Idiotic and enjoyable. Carve it into my headstone.
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Sweet Corn Lizzie:

↳ Squints @12:33
You’re not wrong.
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Listener Baby:

Had this 12” No idea where it went. I worsted this song back then.
  12:34pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC"
oh my, yes.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC"
Top tune from top tunesmiths.
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Listener Baby:

Is yours shaped like a coin purse, Baby. And did you steal mine?
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Matty No Times:

fuckin love this song
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Matt in Nebraska:

↳ clarke @12:29
The narrator is great. If your ears can find the time, I highly recommend it.
  12:35pm
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @12:34
in your worsted suit??
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Listener Baby:

↳ Listener Baby @12:34
Worshiped
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drr:

↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC"
never heard this, very good.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC"
A little distortion at the top end
  12:36pm
Johnny Staten Island:

Micheal your show is so on point today. Great sets all day
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @12:35
no & no
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Hughie Considine:

What a bridge
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Listener Baby:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:36
Damn
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clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @12:36
in your worshipped suit??
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Hughie Considine:

or, meandering path...
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @12:35
I assume by "yours" you mean my record sleeve?
  12:37pm
gf2002:

↳ Billybob @12:26
That's the best way to really dig in and research music, especially the legendary artists from the 60's, to put them into context with what was going on around the music. I do the same with broadcast radio airchecks from the 60's, where you hear what an hour of top-40 radio sounded like in the 60's and also get the news reports and ads, it creates a time machine where the music becomes part of a much bigger picture.
  12:37pm
Billybob:

↳ James in ATL @12:30
What I never understood was why that Milli Vanilli Grammy wasn't just transferred over to the guys who actually sang on the record. Were they not pretty enough for a Grammy or something?
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Squints:

↳ Billybob @12:37
If somebody told me that was a thing I'd totally believe it.
  12:38pm
clarke:

threefur!!
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Hughie Considine:

Colin Moulding, man ...
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egould:

I’m in XTC ecstasy!
  12:39pm
clarke:

guy could f'n PLAY
  12:39pm
gf2002:

↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC"
From that rare time when MTV was playing XTC in regular rotation
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:38
wish he'd play on more sessions
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drr:

↳ Billybob @12:26
This reminds me of the argument against getting rid of card catalogs--with digital search you find what you were looking for and that's it. With the context of a card catalog you also find out about things you didn't know to look for.
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egould:

↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC"
Jangle jangle jangle!
  12:40pm
Billybob:

↳ gf2002 @12:37
I'm guessing you've delved into that 77 Music Radio website? The site itself is kind of a mess, but you can listen to some interesting old stuff from WABC in the 60s and 70s.
  12:40pm
DRATSUM:

You know, XTC never grew on me and I don’t know why. Even when it’s upbeat, it makes me feel sad.
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drr:

↳ drr @12:39
Librarians hated that argument, for the most part.
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drr:

↳ DRATSUM @12:40
XTC has so many good songs, but I hate "Living Through Another Cuba" so much it kinda cancels out.
  12:41pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:40
what is your most convenient branch?
  12:41pm
Jersey Plaid:

Nick Lowe and now XTC, outstanding
  12:41pm
gf2002:

↳ Billybob @12:37
The music industry overcompensated in their "punishment" after the lid was blown off their dirty little secrets. There was another dance track that was huge at the same time where they had a supermodel pictured as the singer while the real female singer was kept anonymous. I think it was Technotronic featuring Felly. A total marketing sham.
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drr:

↳ clarke @12:41
Alvar or Martin Luther King. MLK is closer but Alvar is a little easier to park.
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Matty No Times:

nah never heard it
  12:43pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:42
uhh, the MLK that used to be Melpomene Street?? that don't make sense??
  12:43pm
Billybob:

↳ drr @12:39
I don't think I've done that in 30 years, but yes, absolutely!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Mayor of Simpleton" by "XTC"
From XTC Song Stories (a fave): "Andy came up with the bell-sounding "collegiate" bass line but it was so fast it would blur if it sounded to bassy," he says. Colin invented the rest of the bass line itself, which is one of the finest and fastest on any XTC track. But if the playing was complex, the song was not. "I was rather embarrassed by its simplicity," says Andy.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" by "XTC"
Can't beat Mr. Mister on the drums? Can you?
  12:44pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:42
i don't know where that MLK is?
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe"
Sounds HUGE in Studio A
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:44
Nice
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Hubig Pie:

↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe"
When I ax ya to 'splain....
  12:45pm
gf2002:

↳ Billybob @12:40
Yes! Very cool site. I have a bit of a collection of old broadcasts on CDR's traded and bought from various sources, my favorites are 93 KHJ from LA, Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan, Roger Christian, a great on air team. I also have a few hours of Dan Ingram and "The Hern" on WABC from the 60's, great radio!
  12:45pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Song: "Cruel to Be Kind" by "Nick Lowe"
SO good
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Listener Baby:

↳ drr @12:41
A: Respectfully, that’s pretty a harsh mind set. B: I 100% agree. Their attempt at Dub, gone very wrong.
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egould:

This outro, though!
  12:46pm
clarke:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:45
ax=splain
  12:46pm
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @12:46
it would have been okay at a minute or less
  12:47pm
clarke:

↳ clarke @12:46
an interlude
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Listener Baby:

↳ clarke @12:46
But would it have been?
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drr:

↳ clarke @12:44
It's in a junior high school on Claiborne, in the Lower Nine. It's a nice branch. Kinda full of junior high kids using the computers after school.
  12:47pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:47
wow, nevah hoid of it!
  12:48pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:47
yer Vols got a bit of a tussle, today
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drr:

↳ clarke @12:48
Bama?
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egould:

Thanks Michael!
  12:49pm
clarke:

↳ drr @12:48
yessir.
  12:50pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village"
keltner?
  12:51pm
Billybob:

↳ gf2002 @12:45
Wow, nice. I always thought it'd be great to have a radio station that just plays full days' broadcasts from random dates in history...news, promos, commercials, call-ins, etc. I guess recordings of broadcasts like that aren't as available as you'd think they'd be.
  12:52pm
clarke:

↳ Billybob @12:51
to go back further in time, check out Antioch Broadcast Radio sometime
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drr:

i don't wanna spend this much time with "Haunted House".
  12:53pm
Billybob:

↳ gf2002 @12:41
Well, hell...I'd never heard of the Wrecking Crew until maybe 20 years ago. At first, I thought "cool". Then, after thinking about it, I felt a tad defrauded.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village"
I get it. Needs to be faster, though, like Jumpin' Gene Simmons.
  12:53pm
annette:

side note for NRBQ fans. you probably remember Jon Blickens at Wild weekends. sadly passed recently. wish him peace
  12:54pm
Billybob:

↳ clarke @12:52
Thanks for the tip!
  12:54pm
clarke:

↳ annette @12:53
RIP John. damn.
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drr:

↳ Squints @12:53
I like Jerry Lee's drunken-sounding version where he doesn't bother rhyming.
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Hubig Pie:

↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ...
Stolen bass line.
  12:55pm
clarke:

↳ Billybob @12:54
it broadcasts mostly from 30's and 40's but is awesome
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KevinfromBayRidge:

↳ Song: "Haunted House" by "Little Village"
Love Roy Buchanan's cover of this.
  12:55pm
Mr. Jones:

↳ drr @12:54
oh "White Lines?"
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drr:

I couldn't count the number of times "something like a phenomenon" just appears in my headspace.
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Listener Baby:

Always felt was singing directly to me. Not that I did any drugs.
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egould:

Gettin’ higher baby!
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drr:

↳ Mr. Jones @12:55
heh, no; "Haunted House". JLL would have crushed "White Lines" though.
  12:56pm
Cosmic:

Freebase!
  12:56pm
clarke:

baby.
  12:56pm
gf2002:

↳ Billybob @12:51
It depends on the station and the city, but yes they can be hard to find especially unscoped/unedited broadcasts with complete songs because they would actually chop out the song and just leave the DJ talk and ads to use as demos. A lot of the best ones were either recorded by the DJ's themselves or the stations, and if they leaked out they came from the DJ or their family. The ones recorded off-air by a random listener are usually poor quality but still fascinating.

Check out this site: https://www.reelradio.com/
  12:56pm
clarke:

this is the news dept.
  12:57pm
Raina:

Wow so retro clubdays today. I Like!!
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Squints:

↳ drr @12:54
The Killer's on the short list of guys who can say "the words are whatever I want 'em to be."
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ...
Anyone know if the horns are sampled. And from what? Pretty brilliantly done.
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Hubig Pie:

↳ drr @12:55
Original was "Slip in and out of phenomenon" I think.
  12:58pm
tonyb:

Didn’t get much sleep during the Reagan years. 🥱
  12:58pm
gf2002:

↳ Song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by "Grandmaster ...
This led me to the "original version" released as "Cavern" by Liquid Liquid, which is one of my favorite grooves of all time.
  12:58pm
clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @12:57
it sounds like a Fairlight system to me
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drr:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:58
yeah, I thought I might have it wrong!
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Squints:

↳ drr @12:54
This would have been an awesome NRBQ impromptu cover back in the days when they had The Box.
  12:58pm
clarke:

ah ha ha. good night.
  12:59pm
Raina:

↳ tonyb @12:58
I hear you same here!
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Listener Baby:

↳ clarke @12:58
Before all that?
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drr:

↳ Squints @12:58
yes!
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