WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from March 24, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01am 12539: Raydio!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am bradford: Good morning Joe & greetings to all! Hope you're feeling better.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Deano de los Muertos: 👾📻👾
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Triple G: Good morning Joe and Yippers near/far
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning! Spoiler alert: RADIO is not today's Wordle. Yip yip!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am listener james from westwood: How do, Joe and all!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, hope it is an easy return. At least you have the interview to give you some breathing space.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG and friends!
	9:05am ViolaChica: My happy time- Joe-vibes! Hope you are feeling better!
	♥ 9:05am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "St. Louis Blues" by "101 Strings" Calgon, take me away!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am Hughie Considine: I'm always in the mood for Monday morning with Jazzy Joe McGasko!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08am Charles in Chicago: Good morning Radio-Heads!
	♥ 9:08am HyperDose: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @9:03 Conky's secret word for today, March 24, 2025, is...."PUPPET" AHHHH! 🧦🎭
	♥ 9:08am Steve Del Sol: This the Jackie Gleason easy listening set, yes?
	♥ 9:08am common: joe! all!
	9:09am Adrian in London: Ooh, just read on Mastodon that you’ve got Stuart Staples on the show? I saw them last week (for the 40-somethingth time) at the Royal Albert Hall.
	♥ 9:10am Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: Good morning Joe! I am gonna try and listen at my office until I get distracted with actual work.
	9:10am Mrs Pipes: Love the crackle, this is my happy place. Thanks Joe
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am Hughie Considine: Quality surface noise, folks.
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: Hey folks, glad to be back! Bit of a hangover set to begin the show. Stuart Staples from Tindersticks interview at 10:30.
	9:11am Brendan: ↳ Song: "What's New" by "Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra" Brings to mind a smokey bar. Just the sound of glasses here and there. The piano player playing with a lit cigarette in his mouth. Maybe some soldiers sitting over in the corner. Joe's Surface Noise bar and grill. Welcome back, Joe. Hope you're feeling better
	🎸 ♥ 9:12am Son Of Pantz: ↳ Joe McG @9:11 Glad you survived Covid, Joe.
	9:13am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Joe, Stuart, and Everyone.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13am Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Cry Me a River" by "Pete Condoli" loving this start, Joe! glad you’re well
	♥ 9:13am Tooth: Ah the many moods of McGasko!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am michby: phew, glad you're back and hope you're feeling better
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Brendan @9:11 👌
	9:15am mark from denver: great song- cry me a river!
	♥ 9:15am TDK60: Deejay Joe! I'm glad you're back. I hope you're feeling better.
	9:15am chresti: Hello from the wee small hours!
	♥ 9:16am Joe McG: Thanks to everyone for the well wishes when I was out, btw, that was very nice!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18am Dan S: ↳ Joe McG @9:16 Welcome back, Joe! Thanks for the show and all you do at WFMU.
	♥ 9:18am Savage in Brooklyn: Perfect vibe on this gray and rainy day, Joe. Cheers.
	9:18am rx "rexy" scabin: All great songs, all the time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ HyperDose @9:08 Aaaahhhh! Heh heh!
	9:19am chresti: Supposed to be 88-90 today
	9:21am rx "rexy" scabin: Perhaps my favorite song.
	9:24am Philip: love Sonny Rollins. There's a great album he does with Sonny Stitt
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am Triple G: ↳ Song: "In a Sentimental Mood" by "Sonny Rollins" Sonny! On the vibes is Milt Jackson, who had the great nickname "Bags"
	🎸 ♥ 9:25am michby: haunting
	9:25am KWilde: Hey Joe
	9:26am eric from lake hiawatha: JULIE LONDON!!! Oh Joe, I will float the rest of my shift. Dreamy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am michby: ty for updating my profile! I look like a real listener now
	♥ 9:28am word: This set is definitely lifting my spirits having to walk in the rain. Thanks Joe.
	9:31am mark from denver: one of the two best daytime DJ's on the station..Joe m--friday brilliant Jessica ..the bookends..great musical taste!
	♥ 9:32am Yes: Wonderful, joe
	♥ 9:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: + awlright +
	♥ 9:33am Joe McG: ↳ mark from denver @9:31 So kind! I hope Jessica sees your comment.
	9:36am Philip: oh noooooooooo! Sorry Joe
	🎸 9:37am morphe': Welcome back JOE !!!!! & THANKS FOR ALL THE WORK !!!!
	9:37am cTarps: Great to have you back, Joe! ‘Rona can’t keep u down
	♥ 9:38am TDK60: Yeah, the "tenor of the times." Eeeeeehhh.
	9:38am Pogo Eddie: Welcome back Joe! Glad you are healthy and recovered from the 'Rona! You were missed.
	🎸 ♥ 9:38am listener james from westwood: The smooth upward track of the donations this year was heartening. I know I'm not the only contractor/freelancer in the listening audience, so I took that as a good economic sign for my type of worker.
	9:39am Drewid: Joe — I love your show — your evil music trivia less so. Ha. I’m glad you’re feeling better!
	♥ 9:39am Tooth: This too will pass (one hopes).
	♥ 9:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Get vaxxed friends. Ticks off the RightWingers for one thing.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39am tim: Welcome back, Joe! I'm glad you are better. Congratulations on a successful marathon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:41am radioronan: Glad you are feeling better..thanks for everything you do at the station. Looking forward to today's program!
	🎸 ♥ 9:43am Bob Tankenstein: Good morning to all. Glad you are feeling better, Joe.
	♥ 9:47am TDK60: I've never even heard of Tindersticks. Which is one reason, among others, why I listen to WFMU. To remind myself that I don't know all that much, hoo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "The Thing Is" by "The Tubs" These Tubs surely have the thing. He's always in high dudgeon.
	♥ 9:48am Tooth: ↳ TDK60 @9:47 I’m glad I’m not the only one.
	9:48am chresti: I usually use my tax refund for donating (although I haven’t filed yet this year, gulp)
	🎸 ♥ 9:49am tim: ↳ Song: "The Thing Is" by "The Tubs" You're right about Richard Thompson vocals, Joe! At least they didn't take the most convenient route and sing like Fee Waybill. ;)
	♥ 9:49am HyperDose: ↳ TDK60 @9:47 who said WoofMoo ain't educational? ;)
	♥ 9:50am Joe McG: ↳ tim @9:49 It was nice to hear the Tubes this morning on Evan's show!
	🎸 ♥ 9:50am Brian in UK: Here is an interview withe the aforementioned Tubs. www.theguardian.com...
	9:51am Hawkeye: This is the only song that can lift me up on a Monday. Thanks Joe.
	♥ 9:51am the other nadia (hectic): ↳ Song: "Only a Shadow" by "The Cleaners from Venus" this intro sounds very new order-y
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am egould: ↳ Song: "Only a Shadow" by "The Cleaners from Venus" Oh yes. Thanks Joe McG.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am tim: ↳ Joe McG @9:50 Oooh! I'll have to check that out. Go efd!
	♥ 9:52am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ Song: "Only a Shadow" by "The Cleaners from Venus" OK
	♥ 9:52am TDK60: ↳ HyperDose @9:49 Mornin' Hypedose. It was some Jersey City bureaucrat if I recall. Then, they got edjumacated by the listeners.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am prof.fuzz: ↳ tim @9:51 it seems that he played a track from the new creem circus album too!
	🎸 ♥ 9:53am prof.fuzz: ↳ prof.fuzz @9:52 but that was all too early for me. thank buddha for the archives!
	9:53am chresti: Only a Shadow by The Cleaners from Venus (Midnight Cleaners) Cleaners from Venus sounds like a captain beafheart lyric
	🎸 ♥ 9:53am Brian in UK: At this rates it will be Half Man, Half Biscuit next up.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53am prof.fuzz: ↳ chresti @9:53 "We Specialize in Removing Big Eyed Bean Stains"
	♥ 9:55am Savage in Brooklyn: That CFV song is so good!!! It reminds me of those very early Cure videos, which I love too. Not sure what came first.
	♥ 9:55am Joe McG: ↳ Brian in UK @9:53 You know me too well.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am Hughie Considine: Loving the particular type of Englishness in this set.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am Crownless Gander: ↳ Song: "Brenda, Parts 1 and 2" by "Captain Sensible" Love this song! I think Robyn Hitchcock had a hand in the writing?
	🎸 ♥ 9:56am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Crownless Gander @9:55 Yeah he swung that Iron Sledge :-)
	🎸 ♥ 9:57am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Joe McG and all!!! Been listening, cold and damp out here... The music is warm tho! Good to hear that you are feeling better!!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:58am tim: ↳ prof.fuzz @9:52 Creem Circus you say? SOunds like my fuZZZmobile reading!
	🎸 ♥ 9:58am tim: Great set, Joe!
	9:58am chresti: 🫘🫘🫘
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am Webhamster Henry: Hi Joe + Surface Noise fans!
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am tim: prof - I sent you a text from the fuZZZmobile fuZZZphone.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Brenda's Iron Sledge" by "Robyn Hitchcock" YES!!
	10:01am the serpent: Robyn!!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Brenda's Iron Sledge" by "Robyn Hitchcock" Please don't call him Reg.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:01 It's not his name!
	10:02am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you, Joe and Everyone. I must go to work.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02am tim: Go Robyn!
	♥ 10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Now I want for some JulianCope. By now of course I mean always.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Charles in Chicago: Everybody should read Robyn Hitchcock's "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left"
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Brian in UK: This puts me in mind of Rich Hall's alter ego Otis Lee Crenshaw who had seven wives all called Brenda.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Son Of Pantz: I saw Robyn play a small venue here and I was close enough to ask him about Gene Hackman. He just shook his head. He'd probably heard that one a hundred times. It was just after Hackman died.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:03 St. Julian. The Archdrude. Have you kept up with his recent output (it's been a litle while since I checked in with him)
	♥ 10:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: More than enuff for any sledge.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Son Of Pantz @10:03 I have a good Robyn Hitchcock fan encounter story, do you want to hear it?
	♥ 10:04am doctorjazz: Hey Joe, Noisemakers!
	🎸 ♥ 10:05am Son Of Pantz: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:04 Sure!
	♥ 10:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:04 Shamefully no.
	10:06am Cyn: Very excellent Brenda set!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:01 I had a friend who, when given the opportunity, would always name a character “Reggie”. Never did find out why
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Son Of Pantz @10:05 After the show he was walking across the lobby to the merch-signing station, I should have gotten in line like everybody else but he walked right in front of me, and I couldn't resist blurting out: "Robyn! I've been listening to your music fo 40 years!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:06 He looks at me, without missing a beat, says "So have I" and keeps walking.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "Brenda, Parts 1 and 2" by "Captain Sensible" The Captain Sensible solo stuff is new to me and I really dug it. Had to check the accu to see what was playing and if it was new.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Son Of Pantz: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:07 Great sense of humor, or humour, in his case.
	10:07am Loren: I began my morning by listening to BBC news. Then tuned into your show. Ahhh, today’s playlist is a much needed balm for my frazzled nerves & twitchy brain. Your calming voice, always great variety of music — love you Joe, thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Welcome back, Joe. I hope you're feeling better.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:07 Check out his take on "Happy Talk", it's a classic
	10:08am Rich from Wading River: Captain and Rat are expected to be At the White Eagle Hall show.
	♥ 10:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:06 In the earlier days - TheBeatles used to goof on - 'we've been together now - for 40 years' ...from the Goons iirc ?...
	♥ 10:08am Barney Grubbs: sad I have to ask, but are they going to let the Captain into the country?
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Hughie Considine: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @10:06 Certain names just pop -- like colors almost. You can spend a lot of time figuring out a character's name, I find. I remember reading an interview with one of the writers of The Office, the original British one, and he said one eureka moment was when they decided to name the character Gavin.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am tadpoles: ↳ Song: "Only a Shadow" by "The Cleaners from Venus" Ditto Joe..FMU introduced me to the Cleaners' cassettes....the only way apart from the station that you got to hear them. Forever grateful to the station....the "Greatest Living Englishman" indeed. Cheers
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am tim: ↳ Song: "The Rapper" by "The Jaggerz" I always wondered what the Jaggerz sounded like. I dig it!
	10:10am Tinley Park Randy: Donnie Iris with the Jaggerz
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Brian in UK: ↳ Barney Grubbs @10:08 The UK Subs had trouble the other week. Only Charlie Harper could stay for the gig. The other three were sent home eventually.
	10:10am johnk77: great work selecter rock in power brian james☹️ saw him in iggy's killer road band 1979
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am radioronan: Wearing my Damned t-shirt from last year's tour with Rat, today!
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "The Rapper" by "The Jaggerz" "Released as a single, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, behind Simon & Garfunkel's smash "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on 20 March 1970" - Funny, it was a #2 hit and I've never heard it before.
	♥ 10:11am Joe McG: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:11 Wow, I had no idea it got to #2!
	♥ 10:12am Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: ↳ Song: "The Rapper" by "The Jaggerz" I discovered this song as a youngster from a TV commercial for a record. Maybe it was "Freedom Rock?"
	♥ 10:12am David The Splatter: Good morning, Joe and friends! Listening from home today while I unpack in my new place.
	10:13am mark /denver: the rapper..great song!! been decades since I heard it.
	♥ 10:13am Barney Grubbs: ↳ Brian in UK @10:10 that’s what got me worrying. hopefully past involvement with the Blah! party won’t be an issue
	🎸 ♥ 10:13am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Jeff Formerly from Somewhere @10:12 Freedom Rock tracklist (no Jaggerz) www.discogs.com...
	♥ 10:14am David The Splatter: "Is that Surface Noise, man? Yeah, man! WELL, TURN IT UP, MAN!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:15am DjLorraine: Joe McG im sorry you got covid and super glad you are back. I love your picture with Clay Pigeon that was on the station site!
	♥ 10:16am Joe McG: ↳ DjLorraine @10:15 Oh yeah, we're doing a trivia night together! I'll try to remember to talk about that on the mic break.
	♥ 10:16am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ Song: "Touch Me Baby (Reaching Out for Your Love)" by "T... Ok
	♥ 10:21am Mike Sin: ↳ Song: "Theme for Kinetic Ritual" by "Klark Kent" Old-ass reference: It's now midnight on a Sunday, and I'm watching "The Cutting Edge" on MTV!
	♥ 10:22am Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: ↳ Joe McG @10:16 hifivicky and I have our tickets!
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: ↳ Jeff Formerly from Somewhere @10:22 Nice!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am Brooklyn Clay: ↳ Mike Sin @10:21 Or it's time for the KEXP concert calendar
	♥ 10:23am Joe McG: ↳ Mike Sin @10:21 Ha, I never had MTV. Great choice of a theme!
	🎸 ♥ 10:23am tim: ↳ Song: "Theme for Kinetic Ritual" by "Klark Kent" I'm thinking this might fit into the 'adjacent' category on It's Complicated.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25am Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Somebody Else on Your Mind" by "Skeeter Davis" 🦟
	♥ 10:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Somebody Else on Your Mind" by "Skeeter Davis" ...when she had an uptempo one you might say Skeeter slaps ...which is better than slapping a Skeeter...
	🎸 ♥ 10:27am tim: ↳ Joe McG @10:23 The only thing you really missed out on, Joe, was the promo for the John Cougar Little Pink House giveaway contest.
	♥ 10:27am Joe McG: ↳ tim @10:27 Wow! Did they give away a pink house in Indiana or something?
	10:28am Dean: Never has the Alan Parsons/Pink Floyd connection sounded clearer.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Trash" why would you do a cover like this?
	♥ 10:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:31 - on Apple.
	♥ 10:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:31 ...you gonna sing that better than Sir Macca ?...
	🎸 ♥ 10:32am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Trash" When the Bee Gees covered it on All This and World War II, it was for a different reason, one supposes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:32 They're doing a credible job, but adding nothing original IMO
	♥ 10:33am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Trash" Didn't change a whole lot of the arrangement...what was the point? (As RRNN63 pointed out).
	🎸 ♥ 10:33am tim: ↳ Joe McG @10:27 Yes! Exactly! The promo ended with a charicature of a local yokel with a huge paintbrush painting pink paint on the pink house. The yokel said 'Let's paint tha motha piiink!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am tadpoles: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:32 Kudos to Joe as it must be a rare single. I did like the church organ solo though
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am PNX: Didn't this come out before the Beatles version?
	♥ 10:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ doctorjazz @10:33 To be @ Apple & try & reproduce the Arrangement. M'kay.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:32 My favorite Beatles covers are "T.N.K." on "801 Live" and Charlotte Dada's take on "Don't Let Me Down"
	🎸 ♥ 10:35am Hughie Considine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:34 Top notch choices. I love Willie Bobo's "Michelle." The only lyric he sings is "Michelle, ma belle!"
	10:36am Dean: Well, five songs.
	♥ 10:36am newton: mtv bought the house for $20k then found it was across the street from a toxic waste dump so they got another for $38k painted it pink, got the water tested, had the party and the winner never lived in it sold it and went back to bellevue wa.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Trash" Ok, this is interesting www.reddit.com... - their version came out BEFORE The Beatles - "Considering that those songs were originally recorded and rejected during the Get Back Sessions, it's possible that McCartney figured they weren't going to be Beatles songs so he had them record it instead like he had done numerous times."
	10:37am Jacky: Poets were awesome! Discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham while he was eloping with his teenage bride in Scotland. He managed and produced them
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am tim: ↳ newton @10:36 Oh wow! I never knew that. Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 10:41am tim: I'm really looking forward to Techtonic. I hate sp@tify.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:07 thanks for that heads up
	♥ 10:42am newton: ↳ tim @10:41 no one needs spotify with the WFMU archive! give the money to fmu instead, better value!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45am Charles in Chicago: ↳ newton @10:42 spotify rips off artists, it's terrible
	♥ 10:45am Audrey from Colombia: Stuart, my man. Curtains from 1997 is my favorite album, what a classic
	♥ 10:46am newton: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:45 they do, it is.
	♥ 10:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: SpottyFees©️
	♥ 10:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:37 Informative & interesting.
	♥ 10:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:37 ...since the Side2 Suite on AbbeyRoad is odds & ends sewn together...
	♥ 10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 1" ...since Tindersticks music is so moody ...it's actually refreshing he's not a glumpuppet speaking...
	♥ 10:55am Joe McG: tindersticks.bandcamp.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:00am Rich in Bristol: Love me some Surface Noise Mondays
	11:01am Christoph: this is great!
	♥ 11:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah this is a privilege.
	♥ 11:02am technicalflaw: Tindersticks (2) was a seminal album in my education, and I'm enjoying this interview very much.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am tim: Realy enjoyng the interview and music, Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am DjLorraine: ↳ Song: "Always a Stranger" by "Tindersticks" This Tinderstick can start a fire 🔥.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am Brian D: Great interview, and beautifully crafted. Thank you, Joe. Great to have you back.
	♥ 11:06am Joe McG: ↳ Brian D @11:04 Thanks, Brian! Hope you're feeling better, too!
	♥ 11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Suddenly wanting Mr. Staples to put a Set together of other Musics he favors...
	♥ 11:11am Robini: ↳ Song: "Patchwork" by "Tindersticks" Such an emotionally powerful song.
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am tim: Joe - How long have you been a Tindersticks fan?
	♥ 11:16am Joe McG: ↳ tim @11:14 I think I heard the second album first, but immediately got the first one after that, so those two are combined in my mind.
	♥ 11:17am Joe McG: ↳ Joe McG @11:16 The first 3 albums are great favorites I've listened to a lot over the years.
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am tim: ↳ Joe McG @11:16 Oh cool! I've always listened to Tindersticks with interest (and enjoyment) but haven't picked up any records for some reason.
	♥ 11:18am Audrey from Colombia: ↳ Joe McG @11:17 Do you like ‘Curtains’? It’s a masterpiece
	🎸 ♥ 11:19am tadpoles: ↳ Joe McG @11:17 I think I remember getting a free 45 single with the first album. Nice!
	♥ 11:20am Joe McG: ↳ Audrey from Colombia @11:18 I sure do! I think of that as #3, even though "Nenette et Boni" was in there somewhere.
	♥ 11:22am Audrey from Colombia: ↳ Joe McG @11:20 He’s great singing in French as well, ‘Plus des liaisons’ is such a beautiful and emotional song
	♥ 11:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Robini @11:11 Just love the Arranging & the whole sound.
	11:24am DrTPhD: May I suggest "Songs for the young at heart" for the Tindersticks fans with children? I used to play it to my newborn son during those early sleepless nights...!
	♥ 11:24am Joe McG: ↳ Audrey from Colombia @11:22 I agree! He's lived in France for such a long time that I'm sure it's second nature at this point.
	♥ 11:25am Joe McG: ↳ DrTPhD @11:24 I wish I had it!
	♥ 11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think of Tindersticks as like the station halfway twixt RedHousePainters & NickCave. Which of course is not to diminish its distinctiveness - just a notion... Wonder if he feels any relation to those Artists ...more likely - other things entirely...
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Lady with the Braid" by "Tindersticks" Not heard this for years after selling it but seem to still know all the words.
	♥ 11:28am Joe McG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:26 I think their covers reveal much: Dory Previn, Lee Hazlewood, Townes Van Zandt, etc. All people in my pantheon!
	♥ 11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Joe McG @11:28 Indeed.
	♥ 11:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:26 - I mean - these I mention happened to be around the same time...
	♥ 11:29am Robini: Thanks for putting this together Joe. Just one more example of why it's important to support FMU
	♥ 11:30am Joe McG: ↳ Robini @11:29 It was my pleasure! I wish I could have spoken to him longer. An interesting man!
	♥ 11:33am Audrey from Colombia: Thanks Joe, Tindersticks is always an emotional journey
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am tim: Thanks, Joe! Great interview!
	🎸 ♥ 11:36am chris_in_space: Well that was great. Thanks, @joe! Great work as usual.
	11:36am seedfriend: Wow. Caught this just in time. Lovely
	11:37am Jacky: ↳ Song: "Can We Start Again?" by "Tindersticks" This one sounds a bit like Hey Ya
	11:37am Jacky: Thanks for the excellent interview Joe!
	♥ 11:37am Joe McG: ↳ Jacky @11:37 Ha ha, I'm sure he'd love the comparison!
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am chris_in_space: ↳ Jacky @11:37 Ha, you're not wrong.
	🎸 ♥ 11:39am listener 126464: Joe, that was fantastic.
	♥ 11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I've never heard a bad interview on WFMU ...& there are many.
	🎸 ♥ 11:42am Brian in UK: Hoping to see Un Homme et Une Femme at the pictures on Wednesday.
	11:43am the other nadia (hectic): great show and interview, thanks joe!
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am DjLorraine: ↳ DrTPhD @11:24 That sounds lovely
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am tadpoles: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:40 Ditto...nice Joe...many thanks.
	♥ 11:45am Leigh: this has a roxy music vibe
	11:45am jennyfruit: great interview, thanks Joe!
	♥ 11:50am Joe McG: Thanks to Stuart Staples, the folks at City Slang, and the folks at Blue Note for making it happen. Glad you enjoyed it!
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am bradford: Thanks, Joe. Cool interview! Glad you're on the mend.
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am Triple G: Thanks Joe! Glad you're back in the saddle and feeling better Take care all
	11:51am hifivicky: this is so educational, I really appreciate it. I love Stuart staples / tindersticks but have only scratched the surface in my travels. you have inspired a deep dive, THANKS JOE
	♥ 11:54am Joe McG: ↳ hifivicky @11:51 Great to hear! You have much great music to discover! And thanks to everyone for listening and commenting today. Let's say goodbye to March together next week. See you then!
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Dan S: Thanks for this show, Joe! Love Tindersticks songs and loved your interview with Stuart Staples.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Listener Bryan (the Professor): thx for a great show, joe (and stuart!). enjoyed this a lot.
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	♥ 11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Leigh @11:45 Oh Bryan Ferry some comparison ...was almost thinking David Sylvian might be in some broad Venn with Tindersticks somewhere...
	♥ 11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Trying to Find Home" by "Tindersticks" ...this had me thinking CowboyJunkies right @ the start...
	11:59am BillyD: Thanks for a beautiful and informative show. Nice one.
	🎸 ♥ 11:59am James in ATL: Great show! Thank you, Joe!
	12:00pm Brendan: Thanks, Joe
	♥ 12:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JoeMcG ~

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from March 24, 2025

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
101 Strings	St. Louis Blues "St. Louis Blues" by "101 Strings"	101 Strings Play the Blues	Somerset	1958	LP			0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra	What's New	I'm in the Mood	Somerset	1958	LP			0:06:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pete Condoli	Cry Me a River "Cry Me a River" by "Pete Condoli"	Blues, When Your Lover Has Gone	Somerset	1961	LP			0:10:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Julie London	In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning	The Singles 1955-62	Fine and Mellow	2017	CD	From 1960		0:14:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Henry Mancini	Dream of You "Dream of You" by "Henry Mancini"	Combo!	RCA Victor/BMG	1997	CD	From 1960		0:16:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sonny Rollins	In a Sentimental Mood	Young Rollins	Proper	2004	CD	From 1953		0:19:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jeri Southern and Johnny Smith	Have You Forgotten So Soon	Jeri Southern Meets Johnny Smith	Roulette	1958	LP			0:23:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chet Baker and Bud Shank	Let Me Be Loved	Theme Music from "The James Dean Story"	Pacific Jazz	2000	CD	From 1957		0:26:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eddy Howard	Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams	Art Deco: The Crooners	Columbia Legacy	1993	CD	From 1940		0:30:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

The Tubs	The Thing Is "The Thing Is" by "The Tubs"	Cotton Crown	Trouble in Mind	2025	CD		*	0:46:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Cleaners from Venus	Only a Shadow	Midnight Cleaners	Captured Tracks	2012	CD	From 1982		0:49:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Captain Sensible	Brenda, Parts 1 and 2	Women and Captains First	Cherry Red	2009	CD	From 1982		0:52:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock	Brenda's Iron Sledge	Black Snake Diamond Röle	Rhino	1995	CD	From 1981		1:00:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Single File: some singles in a row for about a half-hour
The Jaggerz	The Rapper "The Rapper" by "The Jaggerz"	single	Kama Sutra	1970	45			1:07:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Blue Mitchell	Nutty "Nutty" by "Blue Mitchell"	single	RCA	1975	7"			1:10:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tamiko Jones	Touch Me Baby (Reaching Out for Your Love)	single	Arista	1975	45			1:13:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dion	Love Came to Me "Love Came to Me" by "Dion"	single	Laurie	1962	45			1:16:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Klark Kent	Theme for Kinetic Ritual	single	Kryptone	1978	45			1:19:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Skeeter Davis	Somebody Else on Your Mind	single	RCA Victor	1963	45			1:22:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Alan Parsons Project	Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)	single	Arista	1977	45			1:25:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Trash	Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight	single	Apple	1969	45			1:29:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 1	"Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 1"							1:42:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	Falling, the light "Falling, the light" by "Tindersticks"	Soft Tissue	Lucky Dog/City Slang	2024	CD			1:48:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 2	"Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 2"							1:52:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	Always a Stranger "Always a Stranger" by "Tindersticks"	Soft Tissue	Lucky Dog/City Slang	2024	CD			1:58:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 3	"Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 3"							2:04:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	Patchwork "Patchwork" by "Tindersticks"	Working for the Man	Island	2004	CD	original single version, 1992		2:08:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 4	"Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 4"							2:13:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	Stars at Noon "Stars at Noon" by "Tindersticks"	Stars at Noon (Original Soundtrack)	City Slang	2022	MP3	instrumental version		2:15:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 5	"Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 5"							2:18:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	Lady with the Braid "Lady with the Braid" by "Tindersticks"	Distractions	Lucky Dog/City Slang	2021	CD			2:21:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 6	"Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 6"							2:28:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	Can We Start Again? "Can We Start Again?" by "Tindersticks"	Simple Pleasure	Island	1999	CD			2:34:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Tindersticks	Soft Tissue "Soft Tissue" by "Tindersticks"	single	Lucky Dog	2025	MP3			2:42:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	Buried Bones "Buried Bones" by "Tindersticks"	Live at the Botanique 9th–12th May 2001	Tippy Toe	2001	CD	with Paula Frazer		2:47:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tindersticks	Trying to Find Home "Trying to Find Home" by "Tindersticks"	Waiting for the Moon	Beggars Banquet	2003	CD			2:51:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01am 12539: Raydio!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am bradford: Good morning Joe & greetings to all! Hope you're feeling better.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Deano de los Muertos: 👾📻👾
	🎸 ♥ 9:02am Triple G: Good morning Joe and Yippers near/far
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning! Spoiler alert: RADIO is not today's Wordle. Yip yip!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am listener james from westwood: How do, Joe and all!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, hope it is an easy return. At least you have the interview to give you some breathing space.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Joe McG and friends!
	9:05am ViolaChica: My happy time- Joe-vibes! Hope you are feeling better!
	♥ 9:05am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "St. Louis Blues" by "101 Strings" Calgon, take me away!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am Hughie Considine: I'm always in the mood for Monday morning with Jazzy Joe McGasko!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08am Charles in Chicago: Good morning Radio-Heads!
	♥ 9:08am HyperDose: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @9:03 Conky's secret word for today, March 24, 2025, is...."PUPPET" AHHHH! 🧦🎭
	♥ 9:08am Steve Del Sol: This the Jackie Gleason easy listening set, yes?
	♥ 9:08am common: joe! all!
	9:09am Adrian in London: Ooh, just read on Mastodon that you’ve got Stuart Staples on the show? I saw them last week (for the 40-somethingth time) at the Royal Albert Hall.
	♥ 9:10am Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: Good morning Joe! I am gonna try and listen at my office until I get distracted with actual work.
	9:10am Mrs Pipes: Love the crackle, this is my happy place. Thanks Joe
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am Hughie Considine: Quality surface noise, folks.
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: Hey folks, glad to be back! Bit of a hangover set to begin the show. Stuart Staples from Tindersticks interview at 10:30.
	9:11am Brendan: ↳ Song: "What's New" by "Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra" Brings to mind a smokey bar. Just the sound of glasses here and there. The piano player playing with a lit cigarette in his mouth. Maybe some soldiers sitting over in the corner. Joe's Surface Noise bar and grill. Welcome back, Joe. Hope you're feeling better
	🎸 ♥ 9:12am Son Of Pantz: ↳ Joe McG @9:11 Glad you survived Covid, Joe.
	9:13am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Joe, Stuart, and Everyone.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13am Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Cry Me a River" by "Pete Condoli" loving this start, Joe! glad you’re well
	♥ 9:13am Tooth: Ah the many moods of McGasko!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am michby: phew, glad you're back and hope you're feeling better
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Brendan @9:11 👌
	9:15am mark from denver: great song- cry me a river!
	♥ 9:15am TDK60: Deejay Joe! I'm glad you're back. I hope you're feeling better.
	9:15am chresti: Hello from the wee small hours!
	♥ 9:16am Joe McG: Thanks to everyone for the well wishes when I was out, btw, that was very nice!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18am Dan S: ↳ Joe McG @9:16 Welcome back, Joe! Thanks for the show and all you do at WFMU.
	♥ 9:18am Savage in Brooklyn: Perfect vibe on this gray and rainy day, Joe. Cheers.
	9:18am rx "rexy" scabin: All great songs, all the time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ HyperDose @9:08 Aaaahhhh! Heh heh!
	9:19am chresti: Supposed to be 88-90 today
	9:21am rx "rexy" scabin: Perhaps my favorite song.
	9:24am Philip: love Sonny Rollins. There's a great album he does with Sonny Stitt
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am Triple G: ↳ Song: "In a Sentimental Mood" by "Sonny Rollins" Sonny! On the vibes is Milt Jackson, who had the great nickname "Bags"
	🎸 ♥ 9:25am michby: haunting
	9:25am KWilde: Hey Joe
	9:26am eric from lake hiawatha: JULIE LONDON!!! Oh Joe, I will float the rest of my shift. Dreamy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am michby: ty for updating my profile! I look like a real listener now
	♥ 9:28am word: This set is definitely lifting my spirits having to walk in the rain. Thanks Joe.
	9:31am mark from denver: one of the two best daytime DJ's on the station..Joe m--friday brilliant Jessica ..the bookends..great musical taste!
	♥ 9:32am Yes: Wonderful, joe
	♥ 9:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: + awlright +
	♥ 9:33am Joe McG: ↳ mark from denver @9:31 So kind! I hope Jessica sees your comment.
	9:36am Philip: oh noooooooooo! Sorry Joe
	🎸 9:37am morphe': Welcome back JOE !!!!! & THANKS FOR ALL THE WORK !!!!
	9:37am cTarps: Great to have you back, Joe! ‘Rona can’t keep u down
	♥ 9:38am TDK60: Yeah, the "tenor of the times." Eeeeeehhh.
	9:38am Pogo Eddie: Welcome back Joe! Glad you are healthy and recovered from the 'Rona! You were missed.
	🎸 ♥ 9:38am listener james from westwood: The smooth upward track of the donations this year was heartening. I know I'm not the only contractor/freelancer in the listening audience, so I took that as a good economic sign for my type of worker.
	9:39am Drewid: Joe — I love your show — your evil music trivia less so. Ha. I’m glad you’re feeling better!
	♥ 9:39am Tooth: This too will pass (one hopes).
	♥ 9:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Get vaxxed friends. Ticks off the RightWingers for one thing.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39am tim: Welcome back, Joe! I'm glad you are better. Congratulations on a successful marathon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:41am radioronan: Glad you are feeling better..thanks for everything you do at the station. Looking forward to today's program!
	🎸 ♥ 9:43am Bob Tankenstein: Good morning to all. Glad you are feeling better, Joe.
	♥ 9:47am TDK60: I've never even heard of Tindersticks. Which is one reason, among others, why I listen to WFMU. To remind myself that I don't know all that much, hoo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "The Thing Is" by "The Tubs" These Tubs surely have the thing. He's always in high dudgeon.
	♥ 9:48am Tooth: ↳ TDK60 @9:47 I’m glad I’m not the only one.
	9:48am chresti: I usually use my tax refund for donating (although I haven’t filed yet this year, gulp)
	🎸 ♥ 9:49am tim: ↳ Song: "The Thing Is" by "The Tubs" You're right about Richard Thompson vocals, Joe! At least they didn't take the most convenient route and sing like Fee Waybill. ;)
	♥ 9:49am HyperDose: ↳ TDK60 @9:47 who said WoofMoo ain't educational? ;)
	♥ 9:50am Joe McG: ↳ tim @9:49 It was nice to hear the Tubes this morning on Evan's show!
	🎸 ♥ 9:50am Brian in UK: Here is an interview withe the aforementioned Tubs. www.theguardian.com...
	9:51am Hawkeye: This is the only song that can lift me up on a Monday. Thanks Joe.
	♥ 9:51am the other nadia (hectic): ↳ Song: "Only a Shadow" by "The Cleaners from Venus" this intro sounds very new order-y
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am egould: ↳ Song: "Only a Shadow" by "The Cleaners from Venus" Oh yes. Thanks Joe McG.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am tim: ↳ Joe McG @9:50 Oooh! I'll have to check that out. Go efd!
	♥ 9:52am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ Song: "Only a Shadow" by "The Cleaners from Venus" OK
	♥ 9:52am TDK60: ↳ HyperDose @9:49 Mornin' Hypedose. It was some Jersey City bureaucrat if I recall. Then, they got edjumacated by the listeners.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am prof.fuzz: ↳ tim @9:51 it seems that he played a track from the new creem circus album too!
	🎸 ♥ 9:53am prof.fuzz: ↳ prof.fuzz @9:52 but that was all too early for me. thank buddha for the archives!
	9:53am chresti: Only a Shadow by The Cleaners from Venus (Midnight Cleaners) Cleaners from Venus sounds like a captain beafheart lyric
	🎸 ♥ 9:53am Brian in UK: At this rates it will be Half Man, Half Biscuit next up.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53am prof.fuzz: ↳ chresti @9:53 "We Specialize in Removing Big Eyed Bean Stains"
	♥ 9:55am Savage in Brooklyn: That CFV song is so good!!! It reminds me of those very early Cure videos, which I love too. Not sure what came first.
	♥ 9:55am Joe McG: ↳ Brian in UK @9:53 You know me too well.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am Hughie Considine: Loving the particular type of Englishness in this set.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am Crownless Gander: ↳ Song: "Brenda, Parts 1 and 2" by "Captain Sensible" Love this song! I think Robyn Hitchcock had a hand in the writing?
	🎸 ♥ 9:56am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Crownless Gander @9:55 Yeah he swung that Iron Sledge :-)
	🎸 ♥ 9:57am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Joe McG and all!!! Been listening, cold and damp out here... The music is warm tho! Good to hear that you are feeling better!!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:58am tim: ↳ prof.fuzz @9:52 Creem Circus you say? SOunds like my fuZZZmobile reading!
	🎸 ♥ 9:58am tim: Great set, Joe!
	9:58am chresti: 🫘🫘🫘
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am Webhamster Henry: Hi Joe + Surface Noise fans!
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am tim: prof - I sent you a text from the fuZZZmobile fuZZZphone.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Brenda's Iron Sledge" by "Robyn Hitchcock" YES!!
	10:01am the serpent: Robyn!!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Brenda's Iron Sledge" by "Robyn Hitchcock" Please don't call him Reg.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:01 It's not his name!
	10:02am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you, Joe and Everyone. I must go to work.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02am tim: Go Robyn!
	♥ 10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Now I want for some JulianCope. By now of course I mean always.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Charles in Chicago: Everybody should read Robyn Hitchcock's "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left"
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Brian in UK: This puts me in mind of Rich Hall's alter ego Otis Lee Crenshaw who had seven wives all called Brenda.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Son Of Pantz: I saw Robyn play a small venue here and I was close enough to ask him about Gene Hackman. He just shook his head. He'd probably heard that one a hundred times. It was just after Hackman died.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:03 St. Julian. The Archdrude. Have you kept up with his recent output (it's been a litle while since I checked in with him)
	♥ 10:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: More than enuff for any sledge.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Son Of Pantz @10:03 I have a good Robyn Hitchcock fan encounter story, do you want to hear it?
	♥ 10:04am doctorjazz: Hey Joe, Noisemakers!
	🎸 ♥ 10:05am Son Of Pantz: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:04 Sure!
	♥ 10:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:04 Shamefully no.
	10:06am Cyn: Very excellent Brenda set!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:01 I had a friend who, when given the opportunity, would always name a character “Reggie”. Never did find out why
	🎸 ♥ 10:06am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Son Of Pantz @10:05 After the show he was walking across the lobby to the merch-signing station, I should have gotten in line like everybody else but he walked right in front of me, and I couldn't resist blurting out: "Robyn! I've been listening to your music fo 40 years!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:06 He looks at me, without missing a beat, says "So have I" and keeps walking.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "Brenda, Parts 1 and 2" by "Captain Sensible" The Captain Sensible solo stuff is new to me and I really dug it. Had to check the accu to see what was playing and if it was new.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Son Of Pantz: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:07 Great sense of humor, or humour, in his case.
	10:07am Loren: I began my morning by listening to BBC news. Then tuned into your show. Ahhh, today’s playlist is a much needed balm for my frazzled nerves & twitchy brain. Your calming voice, always great variety of music — love you Joe, thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Welcome back, Joe. I hope you're feeling better.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:07 Check out his take on "Happy Talk", it's a classic
	10:08am Rich from Wading River: Captain and Rat are expected to be At the White Eagle Hall show.
	♥ 10:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:06 In the earlier days - TheBeatles used to goof on - 'we've been together now - for 40 years' ...from the Goons iirc ?...
	♥ 10:08am Barney Grubbs: sad I have to ask, but are they going to let the Captain into the country?
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Hughie Considine: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @10:06 Certain names just pop -- like colors almost. You can spend a lot of time figuring out a character's name, I find. I remember reading an interview with one of the writers of The Office, the original British one, and he said one eureka moment was when they decided to name the character Gavin.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am tadpoles: ↳ Song: "Only a Shadow" by "The Cleaners from Venus" Ditto Joe..FMU introduced me to the Cleaners' cassettes....the only way apart from the station that you got to hear them. Forever grateful to the station....the "Greatest Living Englishman" indeed. Cheers
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am tim: ↳ Song: "The Rapper" by "The Jaggerz" I always wondered what the Jaggerz sounded like. I dig it!
	10:10am Tinley Park Randy: Donnie Iris with the Jaggerz
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Brian in UK: ↳ Barney Grubbs @10:08 The UK Subs had trouble the other week. Only Charlie Harper could stay for the gig. The other three were sent home eventually.
	10:10am johnk77: great work selecter rock in power brian james☹️ saw him in iggy's killer road band 1979
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am radioronan: Wearing my Damned t-shirt from last year's tour with Rat, today!
	🎸 ♥ 10:11am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "The Rapper" by "The Jaggerz" "Released as a single, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, behind Simon & Garfunkel's smash "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on 20 March 1970" - Funny, it was a #2 hit and I've never heard it before.
	♥ 10:11am Joe McG: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:11 Wow, I had no idea it got to #2!
	♥ 10:12am Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: ↳ Song: "The Rapper" by "The Jaggerz" I discovered this song as a youngster from a TV commercial for a record. Maybe it was "Freedom Rock?"
	♥ 10:12am David The Splatter: Good morning, Joe and friends! Listening from home today while I unpack in my new place.
	10:13am mark /denver: the rapper..great song!! been decades since I heard it.
	♥ 10:13am Barney Grubbs: ↳ Brian in UK @10:10 that’s what got me worrying. hopefully past involvement with the Blah! party won’t be an issue
	🎸 ♥ 10:13am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Jeff Formerly from Somewhere @10:12 Freedom Rock tracklist (no Jaggerz) www.discogs.com...
	♥ 10:14am David The Splatter: "Is that Surface Noise, man? Yeah, man! WELL, TURN IT UP, MAN!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:15am DjLorraine: Joe McG im sorry you got covid and super glad you are back. I love your picture with Clay Pigeon that was on the station site!
	♥ 10:16am Joe McG: ↳ DjLorraine @10:15 Oh yeah, we're doing a trivia night together! I'll try to remember to talk about that on the mic break.
	♥ 10:16am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ Song: "Touch Me Baby (Reaching Out for Your Love)" by "T... Ok
	♥ 10:21am Mike Sin: ↳ Song: "Theme for Kinetic Ritual" by "Klark Kent" Old-ass reference: It's now midnight on a Sunday, and I'm watching "The Cutting Edge" on MTV!
	♥ 10:22am Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: ↳ Joe McG @10:16 hifivicky and I have our tickets!
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: ↳ Jeff Formerly from Somewhere @10:22 Nice!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am Brooklyn Clay: ↳ Mike Sin @10:21 Or it's time for the KEXP concert calendar
	♥ 10:23am Joe McG: ↳ Mike Sin @10:21 Ha, I never had MTV. Great choice of a theme!
	🎸 ♥ 10:23am tim: ↳ Song: "Theme for Kinetic Ritual" by "Klark Kent" I'm thinking this might fit into the 'adjacent' category on It's Complicated.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25am Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Song: "Somebody Else on Your Mind" by "Skeeter Davis" 🦟
	♥ 10:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Somebody Else on Your Mind" by "Skeeter Davis" ...when she had an uptempo one you might say Skeeter slaps ...which is better than slapping a Skeeter...
	🎸 ♥ 10:27am tim: ↳ Joe McG @10:23 The only thing you really missed out on, Joe, was the promo for the John Cougar Little Pink House giveaway contest.
	♥ 10:27am Joe McG: ↳ tim @10:27 Wow! Did they give away a pink house in Indiana or something?
	10:28am Dean: Never has the Alan Parsons/Pink Floyd connection sounded clearer.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Trash" why would you do a cover like this?
	♥ 10:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:31 - on Apple.
	♥ 10:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:31 ...you gonna sing that better than Sir Macca ?...
	🎸 ♥ 10:32am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Trash" When the Bee Gees covered it on All This and World War II, it was for a different reason, one supposes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:32 They're doing a credible job, but adding nothing original IMO
	♥ 10:33am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Trash" Didn't change a whole lot of the arrangement...what was the point? (As RRNN63 pointed out).
	🎸 ♥ 10:33am tim: ↳ Joe McG @10:27 Yes! Exactly! The promo ended with a charicature of a local yokel with a huge paintbrush painting pink paint on the pink house. The yokel said 'Let's paint tha motha piiink!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am tadpoles: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:32 Kudos to Joe as it must be a rare single. I did like the church organ solo though
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am PNX: Didn't this come out before the Beatles version?
	♥ 10:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ doctorjazz @10:33 To be @ Apple & try & reproduce the Arrangement. M'kay.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:32 My favorite Beatles covers are "T.N.K." on "801 Live" and Charlotte Dada's take on "Don't Let Me Down"
	🎸 ♥ 10:35am Hughie Considine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:34 Top notch choices. I love Willie Bobo's "Michelle." The only lyric he sings is "Michelle, ma belle!"
	10:36am Dean: Well, five songs.
	♥ 10:36am newton: mtv bought the house for $20k then found it was across the street from a toxic waste dump so they got another for $38k painted it pink, got the water tested, had the party and the winner never lived in it sold it and went back to bellevue wa.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by "Trash" Ok, this is interesting www.reddit.com... - their version came out BEFORE The Beatles - "Considering that those songs were originally recorded and rejected during the Get Back Sessions, it's possible that McCartney figured they weren't going to be Beatles songs so he had them record it instead like he had done numerous times."
	10:37am Jacky: Poets were awesome! Discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham while he was eloping with his teenage bride in Scotland. He managed and produced them
	🎸 ♥ 10:37am tim: ↳ newton @10:36 Oh wow! I never knew that. Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 10:41am tim: I'm really looking forward to Techtonic. I hate sp@tify.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:07 thanks for that heads up
	♥ 10:42am newton: ↳ tim @10:41 no one needs spotify with the WFMU archive! give the money to fmu instead, better value!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45am Charles in Chicago: ↳ newton @10:42 spotify rips off artists, it's terrible
	♥ 10:45am Audrey from Colombia: Stuart, my man. Curtains from 1997 is my favorite album, what a classic
	♥ 10:46am newton: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:45 they do, it is.
	♥ 10:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: SpottyFees©️
	♥ 10:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:37 Informative & interesting.
	♥ 10:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:37 ...since the Side2 Suite on AbbeyRoad is odds & ends sewn together...
	♥ 10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Interview with Stuart Staples, Part 1" ...since Tindersticks music is so moody ...it's actually refreshing he's not a glumpuppet speaking...
	♥ 10:55am Joe McG: tindersticks.bandcamp.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:00am Rich in Bristol: Love me some Surface Noise Mondays
	11:01am Christoph: this is great!
	♥ 11:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah this is a privilege.
	♥ 11:02am technicalflaw: Tindersticks (2) was a seminal album in my education, and I'm enjoying this interview very much.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03am tim: Realy enjoyng the interview and music, Joe.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am DjLorraine: ↳ Song: "Always a Stranger" by "Tindersticks" This Tinderstick can start a fire 🔥.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am Brian D: Great interview, and beautifully crafted. Thank you, Joe. Great to have you back.
	♥ 11:06am Joe McG: ↳ Brian D @11:04 Thanks, Brian! Hope you're feeling better, too!
	♥ 11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Suddenly wanting Mr. Staples to put a Set together of other Musics he favors...
	♥ 11:11am Robini: ↳ Song: "Patchwork" by "Tindersticks" Such an emotionally powerful song.
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am tim: Joe - How long have you been a Tindersticks fan?
	♥ 11:16am Joe McG: ↳ tim @11:14 I think I heard the second album first, but immediately got the first one after that, so those two are combined in my mind.
	♥ 11:17am Joe McG: ↳ Joe McG @11:16 The first 3 albums are great favorites I've listened to a lot over the years.
	🎸 ♥ 11:18am tim: ↳ Joe McG @11:16 Oh cool! I've always listened to Tindersticks with interest (and enjoyment) but haven't picked up any records for some reason.
	♥ 11:18am Audrey from Colombia: ↳ Joe McG @11:17 Do you like ‘Curtains’? It’s a masterpiece
	🎸 ♥ 11:19am tadpoles: ↳ Joe McG @11:17 I think I remember getting a free 45 single with the first album. Nice!
	♥ 11:20am Joe McG: ↳ Audrey from Colombia @11:18 I sure do! I think of that as #3, even though "Nenette et Boni" was in there somewhere.
	♥ 11:22am Audrey from Colombia: ↳ Joe McG @11:20 He’s great singing in French as well, ‘Plus des liaisons’ is such a beautiful and emotional song
	♥ 11:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Robini @11:11 Just love the Arranging & the whole sound.
	11:24am DrTPhD: May I suggest "Songs for the young at heart" for the Tindersticks fans with children? I used to play it to my newborn son during those early sleepless nights...!
	♥ 11:24am Joe McG: ↳ Audrey from Colombia @11:22 I agree! He's lived in France for such a long time that I'm sure it's second nature at this point.
	♥ 11:25am Joe McG: ↳ DrTPhD @11:24 I wish I had it!
	♥ 11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think of Tindersticks as like the station halfway twixt RedHousePainters & NickCave. Which of course is not to diminish its distinctiveness - just a notion... Wonder if he feels any relation to those Artists ...more likely - other things entirely...
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "Lady with the Braid" by "Tindersticks" Not heard this for years after selling it but seem to still know all the words.
	♥ 11:28am Joe McG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:26 I think their covers reveal much: Dory Previn, Lee Hazlewood, Townes Van Zandt, etc. All people in my pantheon!
	♥ 11:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Joe McG @11:28 Indeed.
	♥ 11:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:26 - I mean - these I mention happened to be around the same time...
	♥ 11:29am Robini: Thanks for putting this together Joe. Just one more example of why it's important to support FMU
	♥ 11:30am Joe McG: ↳ Robini @11:29 It was my pleasure! I wish I could have spoken to him longer. An interesting man!
	♥ 11:33am Audrey from Colombia: Thanks Joe, Tindersticks is always an emotional journey
	🎸 ♥ 11:35am tim: Thanks, Joe! Great interview!
	🎸 ♥ 11:36am chris_in_space: Well that was great. Thanks, @joe! Great work as usual.
	11:36am seedfriend: Wow. Caught this just in time. Lovely
	11:37am Jacky: ↳ Song: "Can We Start Again?" by "Tindersticks" This one sounds a bit like Hey Ya
	11:37am Jacky: Thanks for the excellent interview Joe!
	♥ 11:37am Joe McG: ↳ Jacky @11:37 Ha ha, I'm sure he'd love the comparison!
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am chris_in_space: ↳ Jacky @11:37 Ha, you're not wrong.
	🎸 ♥ 11:39am listener 126464: Joe, that was fantastic.
	♥ 11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I've never heard a bad interview on WFMU ...& there are many.
	🎸 ♥ 11:42am Brian in UK: Hoping to see Un Homme et Une Femme at the pictures on Wednesday.
	11:43am the other nadia (hectic): great show and interview, thanks joe!
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am DjLorraine: ↳ DrTPhD @11:24 That sounds lovely
	🎸 ♥ 11:44am tadpoles: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:40 Ditto...nice Joe...many thanks.
	♥ 11:45am Leigh: this has a roxy music vibe
	11:45am jennyfruit: great interview, thanks Joe!
	♥ 11:50am Joe McG: Thanks to Stuart Staples, the folks at City Slang, and the folks at Blue Note for making it happen. Glad you enjoyed it!
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am bradford: Thanks, Joe. Cool interview! Glad you're on the mend.
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am Triple G: Thanks Joe! Glad you're back in the saddle and feeling better Take care all
	11:51am hifivicky: this is so educational, I really appreciate it. I love Stuart staples / tindersticks but have only scratched the surface in my travels. you have inspired a deep dive, THANKS JOE
	♥ 11:54am Joe McG: ↳ hifivicky @11:51 Great to hear! You have much great music to discover! And thanks to everyone for listening and commenting today. Let's say goodbye to March together next week. See you then!
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Dan S: Thanks for this show, Joe! Love Tindersticks songs and loved your interview with Stuart Staples.
	🎸 ♥ 11:55am Listener Bryan (the Professor): thx for a great show, joe (and stuart!). enjoyed this a lot.
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am 12539: Thanks, Joe!
	♥ 11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Leigh @11:45 Oh Bryan Ferry some comparison ...was almost thinking David Sylvian might be in some broad Venn with Tindersticks somewhere...
	♥ 11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Trying to Find Home" by "Tindersticks" ...this had me thinking CowboyJunkies right @ the start...
	11:59am BillyD: Thanks for a beautiful and informative show. Nice one.
	🎸 ♥ 11:59am James in ATL: Great show! Thank you, Joe!
	12:00pm Brendan: Thanks, Joe
	♥ 12:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JoeMcG ~

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