WFMU: Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac: Playlist from January 13, 2016

Listener comments!
	12:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Zzzzzzero Hour !
	12:03am JakeGould: Hi Bill!
	12:03am V Priceless: Hey Bill! Good to hear ya!
	12:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Bill Mac is back for the attack!
	12:04am coelacanth: Ah, Bill! Good to hear you again so soon.
	12:06am KP: Bill!
	12:06am Bill Mac: Hey, seems like I was just hear a few days ago...
	12:07am Bill Mac: KP!!!
	12:09am Bill Mac: Evening all, thanks for staying up to babysit me for a bit. Got a little Bowie, but the important thing right now is Don van Vliet would be 75 years young come Friday! Hotcha!
	12:10am Jeff: Hey, Bill! What a nice treat.
	12:12am rw: Hey!
	12:12am Bill Mac: Hiya Jeff, here we are again.
	12:12am fleep: Greetings Bill and them what's here.
	12:13am Bill Mac: fleep & rw! Howdy do!
	12:16am Jeff: That was like Tuvan Gogol Bordello
	12:16am JakeGould: @Jeff: What Jeff said. Eugene Hutz-like.
	12:17am Jeff: achoo.
	12:17am V Priceless: Nice! Dave Vanian's fave tune. Still on a Bowie bender here.
	12:18am Bill Mac: Gotta pay homage to Lemmy in any small way I can
	12:18am Bill Mac: @VP-really? I'd only picked up on that one about 4 years ago.
	12:20am V Priceless: Urban legend has it he used to sing that when he worked as a grave digger.
	12:22am Bill Mac: I'm sure the Bowie thing has been turned over and over here, but I gotta say, what a class way to make an exit.
	12:23am V Priceless: agreed, 100% amazing.
	12:23am JakeGould: @BillMac: You mean release an album on your birthday and then kick the bucket a few days later? The guy calculated his whole life but still lived it. Stunning.
	12:24am Bill Mac: Couldn't have said it better myself Mr Gould...
	12:25am coelacanth: yup. Brilliant! he's probably still working up new ideas!
	12:26am Bill Mac: @Fish: I was thinking that he might be trying to figure out a way to top the last one.
	12:26am daupomatic: Perfect program so far. No pressure!
	12:26am JakeGould: @coelacanth: Would be funny if he created a virus or trojan that would play a random Bowie MIDI on a specific date.
	12:28am V Priceless: to roll up your demise and your last creative work into a single, unified piece of art...whoa...we'll be doing the math on that feat for a while.
	12:29am Bill Mac: @dpm Show's been done for about an hour, waited for it to cool and now I wanna see how it turns out.
	12:33am coelacanth: Haha! ...or - he really did just pull a McCartney! maybe he just decided to live as a hermit and faking his death was the only way he could think to do it. ...just as brilliant 'twould be, though people would hate him if it got out. ...(i don't believe that though.)
	12:36am coelacanth: gravedigger's from his first album.
	12:40am V Priceless: @ fish: no celeb has faked their death yet, as far as I know. But that would be brilliant.
	12:40am Bill Mac: @CC People would be pissed.... wouldn't they?
	12:40am daupomatic: @BillMac Nice time bending. It seems to be rising well. Don't knock the radio oven.
	12:40am coelacanth: oh i didn't catch that you took gravedigger off your premium. someone earlier played it from a comp.
	12:41am Dean: @VP: [T]to roll up your demise and your last creative work into a single, unified piece of art...whoa..." Mozart, the Requiem. Just saying.
	12:41am V Priceless: @ Bill: not if it was done under the guise of performance art, perhaps.
	12:42am JakeGould: @coelacanth: Him and Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison are all living on Robin Master’s estate in Hawaii.
	12:44am coelacanth: V, yes - as far as we know! but you know, there's always been theories...."Paul is dead"; Morrison;Dylan.
	12:44am V Priceless: @Dean: you got me there. I am far from an historian when it comes to the powdered-wig set, as much as I enjoy the tunes.
	12:44am coelacanth: oh,yes,Jake. Elvis too.
	12:46am pacific standard simon: Naw, they're all down at Trader Vic's, having a pina colada with The Werewolf of London.
	12:47am V Priceless: Read a pretty fascinating story today about an Elvis tune from '60 called 'Black Star'....and Bowie similarities...whoa
	12:47am V Priceless: XTC nice
	12:47am coelacanth: oh shit. i gotta hear that.
	12:48am daupomatic: Arrrgh! XTC! Radio souffle in trouble!
	12:48am Bill Mac: @PSS With warren Zevon?
	12:49am pacific standard simon: He ain't dead neither.
	12:50am coelacanth: i wouldn't be pissed. i'd laugh my head off!
	12:50am pacific standard simon: This Twinkeys number seems like an appropriate Bowie tribute...
	12:50am Bill Mac: I was hoping someone would get that.
	12:51am coelacanth: subtle and sweet,Bill.
	12:53am Bill Mac: Thanks CC.... I'm treading water here!
	12:53am Dean: Darn it. I wish I still had the first two XTC albums. Also, Schubert's "Schwanengesang" was not his last work, but it appeared in his final year. "Swan Song" pretty much seals the deal.
	12:53am daupomatic: That's what swimming really is.
	12:54am pacific standard simon: Well, shit. I was trying to quick-cool a bottle of ale in the freezer, and now it's slowly ejecting ale-slush on my desk.
	12:54am coelacanth: exactly,Dean...as it came to be known.
	12:55am V Priceless: Link to Bowie/Elvis Black Star intrigue: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/bowie_elvis_warhol_black_star_connection_popism_eats_itself
	12:55am Bill Mac: @Dean Both classic anc what a great band live. Don't believe a word Mr Partridge says about them as a live act.
	12:57am V Priceless: pity Andy couldn't conquer his stage freight issue
	12:57am pacific standard simon: I saw XTC in 1980 and they were great live. A shame Mr. Partridge doesn't like performing live. It happens.
	12:58am V Priceless: haha. I meant fright haha
	12:59am Bill Mac: I saw them twice in the 80s and there didn't seem much fear there. I think he was sick of the grind. It would be nice if the guys could do another album but I think that moment has long since passed.
	12:59am rw: This past weekend I popped an old cassette in the player and it turned out to be the Mr. Partridge Takeaway record. I had forgotten how good it was.
	12:59am coelacanth: xtc is a very rare example of a band that i don't remember if i saw or not! - and Thanks for the link V.
	12:59am V Priceless: But for all I know he may have had freight issues too. But that was on his roadies
	1:00am JakeGould: Hey! Has anyone on WFMU played “Ice, Ice, Baby” yet? Seems like Vicky from “Do or DIY” could do a sweet mashup.
	1:05am Dean: I don't remember even having an opportunity to hear XTC live during the early years, but I know I never saw them. I lost interest in them, generally in rock altogether, during their years of commercial success. But before that time I collected everything of theirs.
	1:07am Guido from Cologne: Hello Bill! Guten TZAG everyone!
	1:08am pacific standard simon: I'd love to hear Robyn Hitchcock cover this.
	1:08am Bill Mac: I lost interest in them around Oranges & Lemons. @rw BTW Takeaway/Lure of Salvage was a revelation to me and still a great listen.
	1:09am Bill Mac: @Guido How's Cologne treating you!
	1:10am V Priceless: Dean: u must seek out the correctly-polarized re-release of XTC's Skylarking. Ab fab.
	1:10am coelacanth: if i saw them it was when english settlement came out...but i think drums and wires is far and away their best album.
	1:11am Guido from Cologne: Cologne is nice! Still no real Winter here.
	1:12am pacific standard simon: @coelacanth - That's about when they started cancelling shows.
	1:13am daupomatic: Real weather is now to be known as "Vintage Weather," and is going be managed by the Nestlé corporation, and become very expensive. Sorry! Best of luck with the rest of it all.
	1:14am pacific standard simon: I could use some artisinal weather.
	1:15am V Priceless: Mott!
	1:15am cory: it is 6 F here
	1:15am coelacanth: actually i lost interest in xtc a few albums after english settlement. it all started sounding recycled to me. maybe there are gems i've missed...but i also always just tolerated his voice!
	1:15am northguineahills: Irene just played the Black Sea Hotel (Bulgarian choir). Black Sea connection!
	1:16am cory: -15 C, is that bad?
	1:17am Bill Mac: @VP Any difference with the polarized version?
	1:17am coelacanth: that track ruled, ngh!
	1:18am P-90: Happy New Year, Bill M!
	1:19am coelacanth: (shoulda played something from the black sea xtc album,Bill!)
	1:19am Dean: Are VP and Bill Mac referring to the controversial "Wood effect" respecting absolute polarity?
	1:20am Bill Mac: What up P-90!
	1:20am cory: oh crap, new dollop. toodles all
	1:21am V Priceless: @ Bill: like night and day. If u dig that record, it's a worthy purchase. Always thought the original recording sounded thin, and there you go! The original master was not correctly polarized. What a difference!
	1:23am mauri: Heyy Bill Mac!
	1:23am coelacanth: stay warm-ish cory.
	1:23am Bill Mac: Later Cory!
	1:23am daupomatic: @cory: weather bill is on its way. @pss: vintage weather is very artisinal, or, at least, bottled.
	1:24am Bill Mac: @VP Now I'll need to seek out the corrected version
	1:24am Bill Mac: Speaking of cold, hi Mauri!
	1:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Whata kewl set.
	1:24am daupomatic: Is it just me, or does the tiny Bill Mac gif seem to be singing along?
	1:25am Bill Mac: If it were a Killdozer toon I'd say without a doubt!!!
	1:25am Bill Mac: RR1163 - It's workin!
	1:27am Guido from Cologne: @Bill A huge package of vinyl I sent has just arrived @ WFMU. Maybe ask Brian later to have a first look.
	1:27am pacific standard simon: Another of my favorites!
	1:27am mauri: shoots icebeams yup its been snowing for couple of days and its was really cold a week back.
	1:28am Bill Mac: We just had our first snow shower tonight. Can't wait for winter to be over!
	1:29am pacific standard simon: I haven't seen any snow in 13 months. What a gyp!
	1:30am Brian in UK: So this is a walk-in radio show in New Jersey. Mornin' Boss.
	1:31am Bill Mac: It's alive!!!! How you doing?
	1:32am daupomatic: Kooky weather.
	1:32am pacific standard simon: At one point, the frost was so heavy for several days that it wasn't melting, just accumulating. It almost looked like snow if you didn't look too closely.
	1:34am Bill Mac: @Brian The would be Bill with the Showing Scalp Bald Spot...
	1:34am coelacanth: i'd like it to snow A LOT! but not 'till a month from now, when i should be in a better position to miss some work. i'm trying to arrange that. 'hope no one minds.
	1:35am pacific standard simon: Make it artisinal, coelacanth!
	1:36am pacific standard simon: What an unfortunate shout-out to OJ Simpson.
	1:37am coelacanth: that's my way,simon!
	1:39am Bill Mac: The guys heart was in the right place when he did the song.
	1:39am daupomatic: James Brown is here to end this dark turn.
	1:39am pacific standard simon: Every snowflake one-of-a-kind.
	1:40am coelacanth: ...i'm getting the best outsider artists. each snowflake will be unique!
	1:41am coelacanth: aw shit. look what happened!
	1:41am pacific standard simon: Obvious joke is obvious.
	1:42am pacific standard simon: Nice.
	1:43am Ken From Hyde Park: Fame! That's the David Bowie I grew up with!
	1:44am coelacanth: yup. but i typed "outartist" and it didn't look right so i had to look up the fashionable terminology.
	1:44am pacific standard simon: No, Bill, I was talking about coelacanth and me duplicating each other.
	1:47am coelacanth: that is interesting.i would've assumed the same.(but i never heard that JB song before) i'm not surprised at Mr.Brown ripping off a riff though!
	1:50am Brian in UK: This is short and sweet Bill. To the grindstone needle in hand.
	1:51am V Priceless: Woo! Odd hearing this sans Big Bro
	1:53am pacific standard simon: WOW! Great cover!
	1:53am coelacanth: nice!
	1:53am Bill Mac: Happy sticking Bri! Thanks for popping by!
	1:53am V Priceless: Still one of the most confusingly brilliant riffs to figure out ever
	1:54am Bill Mac: Now can someone make a 15 minute dance track of that?
	1:55am tinkle bear: seriously? that was the wedding present? bill, you've blown my mind. (not for the first time.) thanks for the show, as always.
	1:56am coelacanth: 'ball's in your court,VP!
	1:56am Bill Mac: Thanks a lot TB! It's been a blast!
	1:56am northguineahills: gotta jet in the somnabulance, thanks Bill!
	1:57am Dean: I've explored a bit the polarity issue with XTC's "Skylarking." I had no idea Rundgren was the producer, which goes to show how out of it chose to be at the time. The details online are sketchy about the album. My guess is that the record suffers from the same problem that plagues many recordings, namely reversed polarity. According to Clark Johnsen, who has been the loudest polarity evangelist--see http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue1/cjwoodeffect.htm--one must determine for every record one plays its correct polarity. Once that's known, you adjust your system accordingly. Recordings with reverse polarity require reversing the reversal: switch the black and red cables on your speakers or, if your preamplifer permits it, switch the polarity there. (My preamplifer is by default reverse, so my speaker cables are always switched, but that won't correct the problem Johnsen perceives.) FWIW, I don't bother.
	1:57am Bill Mac: NGH See ya Mon! Thanks for the drink!
	1:58am Fran: Morning Bill and all Listening more than talking but good stuff has been had so far I see
	1:58am V Priceless: Ha fish...and here I was thinking it's right up your alley
	1:59am pacific standard simon: I want to hear the Bowie version mashed up with some similar vintage Miles Davis.
	2:00am Bill Mac: @Dean AP and TR didn't get along during those sessions. I heard a story where TR is tall has an irregular gait. When he would walk from his house to the studio, Andy and the Boys would play the Munsters Theme.... eh, guess you had to be there.
	2:00am coelacanth: Dean, my father had an old fisher tube amp with a switch for that. i guess no one bothers with that any more though.
	2:00am Bill Mac: Hey Fran! Good to have you by!
	2:02am coelacanth: welcome Fran. V,you were not! i'm not qualified.
	2:03am Dean: Figures. Now the Munsters theme is the predominant sample, if that's the word, in a song called "Uma Thurman." TR has earned an irregular gait, I suppose. @coelacanth: "an old fisher tube amp with a switch..." is such a happy phrase!
	2:03am pacific standard simon: Has anyone done a rock book about bands that hated their producers? I'm sure Phil Spector, Todd Rundgren and Al Kooper could generate such a thing.
	2:04am Bill Mac: @Dean & CC - Very evocative, like an Ivor Cutler verse.
	2:04am coelacanth: ha! it had LOTS of switches! ..good switches!
	2:04am V Priceless: Dean: yes, the polarity was reversed during the mastering process, which, to my ears, resulted in an overall tinny, thin sound thoughout. Corrected version is lush and full-sounding, if that makes any sense.
	2:04am Dean: @Bill Mac: Yes, precisely!
	2:05am daupomatic: Dammit, Dean. Now I'll have to look up that Munster-Thurman song, and I know it's going to hurt.
	2:05am Fran: AP now in hindsight recognised TR plated a blinder with the production - 2 stubborn heads butting I think! New AP book coming out this year - collected interviews so there may be more insight. Now if TR had tried to impose some of the horrible dated electronic/dance sounds he has more recently killed his otherwise good songs with..........
	2:06am Dean: @VP: Perhaps so. But if Johnsen is correct, and if the problem is reverse polarity (as opposed to something else) then anybody could have simply switched positive for negative at the loudspeaker posts and corrected it.
	2:07am Dean: Don't do it, daupomatic.
	2:09am coelacanth: for what it's worth, if i needed a producer i'd never work with rundgren.
	2:12am Dean: If I needed a producer/engineer, it'd be Marc Rusch in a heartbeat. His recordings (C.I.M.P.) are uniformly marvelous.
	2:13am V Priceless: Gotta grab my ugly rest. Thanks Bill! Nite all!
	2:14am Bill Mac: Nite VP See you soon!
	2:14am coelacanth: i'm not familiar with Marc Rusch...but i'm not sure who my hero producer would be. - 'night V.
	2:15am Bill Mac: Has anyone heard TRs version of Dear god? DEAR GOD!!!!
	2:15am pacific standard simon: I went nuts collecting all these XTC B-sides, EPs and flexidiscs.
	2:16am Bill Mac: @PSS I did too! I got this one on something called 5 Senses.
	2:17am Stanley: (Leaps from bed ands starts gyrating uncontrollaby) ye Gods its Zero Time at this time of the day
	2:17am coelacanth: i don't think you are- but if you're saying it's Great,then no offense...i don't think i want to hear it! i'm fairly intolerant of rundgren's singing.
	2:17am Bill Mac: @Stanley I'd like to see that!
	2:18am Guido from Cologne: wednesDon!
	2:18am Bill Mac: @CC All I need to say is you should seek it out and then not blame me...
	2:18am mauri: beefheart and now I miss picking up berries.
	2:18am Guido from Cologne: love the demo version
	2:18am pacific standard simon: My producer of choice would be Nick Lowe, I guess. Why not?
	2:19am Bill Mac: Don woulda been 75 this Friday...
	2:20am Fran: My Bpwie phases = as a teenager I loved the era Space Oddity to Hunky Dory but never understood the hype around Ziggy - I've learned to like it since but not love it. Diamond Dogs great but Aladdin Sane is amazingly good. Station to Station through to Scary Monsters is one of the greatest runs of albums I can think of - wonderful. 80's - frustrating mixed bag but not as bad as some make out. 90's - still don't get the drum and bass stuff - that was his Todd Rundgren ruining otherwise good songs era. Tin Machine better than credited. 2000s - not bad. The Next Day - a bit harsh Bill - it had its moments. Blackstar - what I've hear is great and I almost bought it on Saturday but now I'm going to wait for a month or two to buy it - partly to allow the ambulance chasers to bore of Bowie being their favourite ever pop star (before saying they loved that song of his 'In the Air Tonight') and partly to listen objectively myself.....
	2:20am coelacanth: ha! okay i'll try but no promises! ( -you are talking about the xtc song,right?)
	2:20am Stanley: Perhaps my line of all time "they sold wine like turpentine to painters, they took to social life like cops to aviators". Genius
	2:21am Bill Mac: @CC Yes I am!
	2:22am Bill Mac: @Stanley It's a couplet of his that comes to me more immediately than most things he's spoken/sung.
	2:22am pacific standard simon: I think that's why I'm not taking this Bowie exit all that hard -- I've been through it so many times with artists I was more influenced by. Zappa + Beefheart, for two.
	2:23am Fran: Lots of good 'producers'out there but most of them are only as good as their engineer.......
	2:23am pacific standard simon: That would be "crops to aviators', BTW.
	2:24am coelacanth: engineer= unsung hero.
	2:26am Dean: That's why I fudged the producer/engineer thing with Rusch. Also, Marc Aubort. Gorgeous recordings.
	2:26am pacific standard simon: Damn, I thought this was The Cramps at first.
	2:28am Bill Mac: PSS I'm with you on the Zappa & Beefheart comment.
	2:29am pacific standard simon: Rickey certainly has the right spirit, all right.
	2:30am pacific standard simon: Losing Viv Stanshall gutted me.
	2:31am Bill Mac: I don't think I heard about Viv until well after it happened.
	2:31am Guido from Cologne: Killer Track by lenny drake, in moments sounds like Cramps.
	2:33am Ken From Hyde Park: I am all done (doing dishes)! Glad that task is out of the way.
	2:33am coelacanth: i Loved Heroes (& 7 albums before that)then hated Lodger,mostly- and the next one- then gave up on Bowie when let's dance came. the glimpses of his commercial pop hits that i heard through the years were rarely terrible,but not Great either. ...then on friday when i heard some of "✭" i was practically overwhelmed. it's so honest and pure and poetic and i thought "this is what you could've been doing all this time". i felt very happy and optimistic about Bowie then and decided already i'd get that album. ...maybe that's partly why it hit me as hard as it has.
	2:37am Stanley: "Props to aviators" according to Beefheart.com I'll have to revise my best lines list yet again
	2:37am rw: I think the thing about Bowie is that his appeal and influence was so far reaching. Something I hadn't really considered until the past few dozen hours.
	2:38am pacific standard simon: I did my dishes before the show. Organized. Made kielbasa, cabbage & potato soup.
	2:38am Alejandroool: Dustbin Divers
	2:41am pacific standard simon: @Stanley - That makes sense, too. I always thought it was a reference to the crop-dusters that Beefheart must have seen out there in the Palmdale/Lancaster area.
	2:42am pacific standard simon: You're probably right.
	2:44am Guido from Cologne: Loved the shoW! Thanks Bill! ... off to the dentist ...
	2:44am Bill Mac: @PSS I would've thought that crop dusters made more sense... btw thanks for bringing up food
	2:45am rw: Stanley, I had always heard that line as props. I think I like cops better though!
	2:45am Bill Mac: Thanks Guido, Go get yanked! I'll see you soon!
	2:45am Stanley: As a thirteen year old you can imagine the effect Ziggy Stardust had on me. A wonderful introduction to teenage life.
	2:46am pacific standard simon: Thanks, Bill Mac, for picking up a fill-in shift when I'm not working. I've missed a lot of them lately due to scheduling conflicts.
	2:46am Bill Mac: @Stanley Agreed - a perfect album all around
	2:48am Bill Mac: @PSS I appreciate you hanging around and mixing it up. It makes the show experience a lot better when I know you're out there
	2:48am Alejandroool: golden recording, this song...
	2:49am Alejandroool: Always a sucker for this kind of bouncy bass playing
	2:50am rw: Yes. Thank you Mr. Mac! Your shows are always a good time.
	2:50am pacific standard simon: Bowie albums were hit-and-miss affairs for me, except for Pin-Ups, Hunky Dory, and The Man Who Sold The World. The thing is, with Bowie, it wasn't about the albums -- it was about HIM.
	2:51am coelacanth: well now i wonder if i missed some good music between let's dance and now. i've barely heard anything besides the predictable pop hits since 1983, and it's usually been the "deep album cuts" that were best. also,"(eyepatch)fox" said ✭ reminds her of "outside", so i have a feeling there's all kinds of diversity in those 3 decades that i'm mostly oblivious to. with his supreme talent for arrangement there must be good in there. i feel foolish for not giving ANY of it a chance all this time.
	2:52am Bill Mac: @Alejandroool There's a lot of soul music that I should make it my business to play
	2:52am pacific standard simon: ...and I'll just throw in my approval of this Spinners track. Lord knows I didn't appreciate it when it was released, but ch-ch-changes...
	2:52am Bill Mac: @CC I like Sound & Vision even though the production onsome of that stuff is kind of thin
	2:54am Stanley: @pss - agreed but within all that self obsession there came out some great tunes though I always thought he relied on others when it came to his best stuff
	2:54am Fran: Classic Caetano ............great show Bill. Have a good day and see you soon Bill and all
	2:56am pacific standard simon: I'd trust Bill Mac to DJ an Anthony Bourdain TV show.
	2:56am coelacanth: simon, that marketing always disgusted me. especially the suit/hat,dapper bullshit. but it sometimes was an injustice to the Great music on the albums- as with Aladin Sane,Heroes,Ziggy. i wish he hadn't done that but i guess it's why his name is a household word.
	2:57am Bill Mac: Friends, thanks for coming out on a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning! Hopefully I won't be in the either too long. Take care and be well
	2:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Take care, Bill. This was a nice little party tonight.
	2:58am coelacanth: isn't "sound and vision" on low? i love that album!
	2:58am Stanley: Bugger Time has reached for that ol'cigarette already. Thanks Bill. Miss the old Saturday's but always great to hear you again.
	2:58am pacific standard simon: @coelacanth - We'll have to disagree on that. I thought it was perfect for him.
	3:00am coelacanth: oh shit i should've been asleep by 12! Thanks Bill! Great show. g'night people.
	9:15am Brian in UK: Used to have The Man with the Four Way Hips on green vinyl. Bolan used to wear ballet pumps, leastways that was what he was wearing when he spoke to me, made my wife mad as hell when I told her. The dustbin men were collecting just as I was writing earlier. Remember seeing Vinegar Joe supporting Lindisfarne. The piano player impressed turned out it was Robert Palmer. Loved his early albums with Little Feat. This track is a bit like LF. Never really liked Ziggy probably because it was electric guitar driven. Thought Hunky Dory & Lodger cooked. Might see you on the stream soon, old bean?

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Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band	Trust Us (Take 9)	Safe as Milk	Buddha				0:16:06 (Pop-up)
Striggles	At the End of the Day "At the End of the Day" by "Striggles"	The Schizo Box	Rock is Hell			*	0:23:02 (Pop-up)
Johnny Clarke	A Rude Dubwise "A Rude Dubwise" by "Johnny Clarke"	Justice Dub: Rare Dubs from Justice Records 1975-1977	Jamaican	LP		*	0:25:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit					0:28:31 (Pop-up)
Sex Clark Five	The Men Who Don't Know Ice	Strum and Drum	Beehive Rebellion				0:37:11 (Pop-up)
Bush Tetras	Dub in the Night "Dub in the Night" by "Bush Tetras"	Tetrafied	2 13 61				0:38:59 (Pop-up)
XTC	Buzzcity Talking "Buzzcity Talking" by "XTC"	Go 2	Virgin				0:43:42 (Pop-up)
The Twinkeyz	Aliens in Our Midst "Aliens in Our Midst" by "The Twinkeyz"	Aliens in Our Midst	Anopheles				0:46:22 (Pop-up)
Van Dyke Parks	Occapella "Occapella" by "Van Dyke Parks"	This Record Belongs to ....	Light in the Attic		Various	*	0:50:33 (Pop-up)
Strapping Fieldhands	The Author in Her Ear	Wattle & Daub	Shangri-La				0:52:06 (Pop-up)
Django Reinhardt	Django Castle "Django Castle" by "Django Reinhardt"	Essential	Legacy				0:54:46 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit					0:57:39 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees	Odessa (City on the Black Sea)	Odessa	reprise				1:04:59 (Pop-up)
Mott the Hoople	Angel of Eighth Avenue	Wildlife	Atlantic	LP			1:12:43 (Pop-up)
Annie Phillippe	Pour la Gloire "Pour la Gloire" by "Annie Phillippe"	Toujours Chic!	Ace		Various	*	1:17:04 (Pop-up)
The Cyrkle	Don't Cry, No Fears, No Tears Comin' Your Way	Red Rubber Ball	Legacy				1:18:11 (Pop-up)
Len Bright Combo	You're Gonna Screw My Head Off!	Wreckless Eric Presents	Southern Domestic				1:21:07 (Pop-up)
Holly Golightly	Virtually Happy "Virtually Happy" by "Holly Golightly"	Singles Round Up	Damaged Goods				1:24:32 (Pop-up)
April March	Kooky "Kooky" by "April March"	April March	Kook Pop				1:28:26 (Pop-up)
Dusty Springfield	Easy Evil "Easy Evil" by "Dusty Springfield"	Beautiful Soul:The ABC/Dunhill Collection	Hip - o				1:30:05 (Pop-up)
Bill Moss	Sock it to 'em Soul Brother	Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label	Numero				1:33:10 (Pop-up)
James Brown	Hot (I Want to be Loved loved Loved)	Star Time	Columbia				1:34:52 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Fame "Fame" by "David Bowie"	Changes	RYKO				1:40:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit					1:46:57 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family	Diamond dogs	Ryko				1:48:11 (Pop-up)
Wedding Present	Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family	Hit Parade					1:49:53 (Pop-up)
Jason Willett and Ruins	Smoke from a Magnet	Jason Willett and Ruins	Megaphone Ltd				1:52:30 (Pop-up)
Third War World	Ascension Day "Ascension Day" by "Third War World"	Third War World	Esoteric			*	1:54:42 (Pop-up)
Happy Dragon Band	3-D Free "3-D Free" by "Happy Dragon Band"	Happy Dragon Band	Radioactive				1:59:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit					2:02:29 (Pop-up)
Khwanta Fasawang	Lam Paen Motorsai Tham	Lam Phaen Motorsai Tham	Best				2:08:58 (Pop-up)
XTC	Smokeless Zone "Smokeless Zone" by "XTC"	Black Sea	Virgin				2:11:30 (Pop-up)
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band	Harry Irene	Outtakes	Rhino				2:14:56 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Liggins	Careful Love "Careful Love" by "Jimmy Liggins"	Jimmy Liggins and HIs Drops of Joy	Specialty				2:18:29 (Pop-up)
Vic Gallon	I'm Gone "I'm Gone" by "Vic Gallon"	Big Box of Rockabilly Volume 2	Retro			*	2:22:13 (Pop-up)
Rickey Lee	She's My Baby Doll "She's My Baby Doll" by "Rickey Lee"	Raw Demos	Savage damage			*	2:23:38 (Pop-up)
Lenny Drake	Love Eyes (Cast Your Spell on Me)	Brown Acid: The First Trip	Riding Easy			*	2:27:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Organs in Orbit					2:30:09 (Pop-up)
Vinegar Joe	Rusty Red Armour "Rusty Red Armour" by "Vinegar Joe"	Vinegar Joe	Lemon				2:38:17 (Pop-up)
Tino's Breaks	Starsky Beats Hutch	Volume 1 & 2	Tino Corp				2:43:03 (Pop-up)
Spinners	It's a Shame "It's a Shame" by "Spinners"	Best	Rhino				2:45:58 (Pop-up)
Caetano Veloso	Lost in the Paradise	Tropicalia	Soul Jazz		Various		2:49:10 (Pop-up)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard	Time = Money	Paper Mache Dream Balloon	ATO			*	2:52:54 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Rock and Roll Suicide	Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars	Ryko				2:53:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Zzzzzzero Hour !
	12:03am JakeGould: Hi Bill!
	12:03am V Priceless: Hey Bill! Good to hear ya!
	12:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Bill Mac is back for the attack!
	12:04am coelacanth: Ah, Bill! Good to hear you again so soon.
	12:06am KP: Bill!
	12:06am Bill Mac: Hey, seems like I was just hear a few days ago...
	12:07am Bill Mac: KP!!!
	12:09am Bill Mac: Evening all, thanks for staying up to babysit me for a bit. Got a little Bowie, but the important thing right now is Don van Vliet would be 75 years young come Friday! Hotcha!
	12:10am Jeff: Hey, Bill! What a nice treat.
	12:12am rw: Hey!
	12:12am Bill Mac: Hiya Jeff, here we are again.
	12:12am fleep: Greetings Bill and them what's here.
	12:13am Bill Mac: fleep & rw! Howdy do!
	12:16am Jeff: That was like Tuvan Gogol Bordello
	12:16am JakeGould: @Jeff: What Jeff said. Eugene Hutz-like.
	12:17am Jeff: achoo.
	12:17am V Priceless: Nice! Dave Vanian's fave tune. Still on a Bowie bender here.
	12:18am Bill Mac: Gotta pay homage to Lemmy in any small way I can
	12:18am Bill Mac: @VP-really? I'd only picked up on that one about 4 years ago.
	12:20am V Priceless: Urban legend has it he used to sing that when he worked as a grave digger.
	12:22am Bill Mac: I'm sure the Bowie thing has been turned over and over here, but I gotta say, what a class way to make an exit.
	12:23am V Priceless: agreed, 100% amazing.
	12:23am JakeGould: @BillMac: You mean release an album on your birthday and then kick the bucket a few days later? The guy calculated his whole life but still lived it. Stunning.
	12:24am Bill Mac: Couldn't have said it better myself Mr Gould...
	12:25am coelacanth: yup. Brilliant! he's probably still working up new ideas!
	12:26am Bill Mac: @Fish: I was thinking that he might be trying to figure out a way to top the last one.
	12:26am daupomatic: Perfect program so far. No pressure!
	12:26am JakeGould: @coelacanth: Would be funny if he created a virus or trojan that would play a random Bowie MIDI on a specific date.
	12:28am V Priceless: to roll up your demise and your last creative work into a single, unified piece of art...whoa...we'll be doing the math on that feat for a while.
	12:29am Bill Mac: @dpm Show's been done for about an hour, waited for it to cool and now I wanna see how it turns out.
	12:33am coelacanth: Haha! ...or - he really did just pull a McCartney! maybe he just decided to live as a hermit and faking his death was the only way he could think to do it. ...just as brilliant 'twould be, though people would hate him if it got out. ...(i don't believe that though.)
	12:36am coelacanth: gravedigger's from his first album.
	12:40am V Priceless: @ fish: no celeb has faked their death yet, as far as I know. But that would be brilliant.
	12:40am Bill Mac: @CC People would be pissed.... wouldn't they?
	12:40am daupomatic: @BillMac Nice time bending. It seems to be rising well. Don't knock the radio oven.
	12:40am coelacanth: oh i didn't catch that you took gravedigger off your premium. someone earlier played it from a comp.
	12:41am Dean: @VP: [T]to roll up your demise and your last creative work into a single, unified piece of art...whoa..." Mozart, the Requiem. Just saying.
	12:41am V Priceless: @ Bill: not if it was done under the guise of performance art, perhaps.
	12:42am JakeGould: @coelacanth: Him and Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison are all living on Robin Master’s estate in Hawaii.
	12:44am coelacanth: V, yes - as far as we know! but you know, there's always been theories...."Paul is dead"; Morrison;Dylan.
	12:44am V Priceless: @Dean: you got me there. I am far from an historian when it comes to the powdered-wig set, as much as I enjoy the tunes.
	12:44am coelacanth: oh,yes,Jake. Elvis too.
	12:46am pacific standard simon: Naw, they're all down at Trader Vic's, having a pina colada with The Werewolf of London.
	12:47am V Priceless: Read a pretty fascinating story today about an Elvis tune from '60 called 'Black Star'....and Bowie similarities...whoa
	12:47am V Priceless: XTC nice
	12:47am coelacanth: oh shit. i gotta hear that.
	12:48am daupomatic: Arrrgh! XTC! Radio souffle in trouble!
	12:48am Bill Mac: @PSS With warren Zevon?
	12:49am pacific standard simon: He ain't dead neither.
	12:50am coelacanth: i wouldn't be pissed. i'd laugh my head off!
	12:50am pacific standard simon: This Twinkeys number seems like an appropriate Bowie tribute...
	12:50am Bill Mac: I was hoping someone would get that.
	12:51am coelacanth: subtle and sweet,Bill.
	12:53am Bill Mac: Thanks CC.... I'm treading water here!
	12:53am Dean: Darn it. I wish I still had the first two XTC albums. Also, Schubert's "Schwanengesang" was not his last work, but it appeared in his final year. "Swan Song" pretty much seals the deal.
	12:53am daupomatic: That's what swimming really is.
	12:54am pacific standard simon: Well, shit. I was trying to quick-cool a bottle of ale in the freezer, and now it's slowly ejecting ale-slush on my desk.
	12:54am coelacanth: exactly,Dean...as it came to be known.
	12:55am V Priceless: Link to Bowie/Elvis Black Star intrigue: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/bowie_elvis_warhol_black_star_connection_popism_eats_itself
	12:55am Bill Mac: @Dean Both classic anc what a great band live. Don't believe a word Mr Partridge says about them as a live act.
	12:57am V Priceless: pity Andy couldn't conquer his stage freight issue
	12:57am pacific standard simon: I saw XTC in 1980 and they were great live. A shame Mr. Partridge doesn't like performing live. It happens.
	12:58am V Priceless: haha. I meant fright haha
	12:59am Bill Mac: I saw them twice in the 80s and there didn't seem much fear there. I think he was sick of the grind. It would be nice if the guys could do another album but I think that moment has long since passed.
	12:59am rw: This past weekend I popped an old cassette in the player and it turned out to be the Mr. Partridge Takeaway record. I had forgotten how good it was.
	12:59am coelacanth: xtc is a very rare example of a band that i don't remember if i saw or not! - and Thanks for the link V.
	12:59am V Priceless: But for all I know he may have had freight issues too. But that was on his roadies
	1:00am JakeGould: Hey! Has anyone on WFMU played “Ice, Ice, Baby” yet? Seems like Vicky from “Do or DIY” could do a sweet mashup.
	1:05am Dean: I don't remember even having an opportunity to hear XTC live during the early years, but I know I never saw them. I lost interest in them, generally in rock altogether, during their years of commercial success. But before that time I collected everything of theirs.
	1:07am Guido from Cologne: Hello Bill! Guten TZAG everyone!
	1:08am pacific standard simon: I'd love to hear Robyn Hitchcock cover this.
	1:08am Bill Mac: I lost interest in them around Oranges & Lemons. @rw BTW Takeaway/Lure of Salvage was a revelation to me and still a great listen.
	1:09am Bill Mac: @Guido How's Cologne treating you!
	1:10am V Priceless: Dean: u must seek out the correctly-polarized re-release of XTC's Skylarking. Ab fab.
	1:10am coelacanth: if i saw them it was when english settlement came out...but i think drums and wires is far and away their best album.
	1:11am Guido from Cologne: Cologne is nice! Still no real Winter here.
	1:12am pacific standard simon: @coelacanth - That's about when they started cancelling shows.
	1:13am daupomatic: Real weather is now to be known as "Vintage Weather," and is going be managed by the Nestlé corporation, and become very expensive. Sorry! Best of luck with the rest of it all.
	1:14am pacific standard simon: I could use some artisinal weather.
	1:15am V Priceless: Mott!
	1:15am cory: it is 6 F here
	1:15am coelacanth: actually i lost interest in xtc a few albums after english settlement. it all started sounding recycled to me. maybe there are gems i've missed...but i also always just tolerated his voice!
	1:15am northguineahills: Irene just played the Black Sea Hotel (Bulgarian choir). Black Sea connection!
	1:16am cory: -15 C, is that bad?
	1:17am Bill Mac: @VP Any difference with the polarized version?
	1:17am coelacanth: that track ruled, ngh!
	1:18am P-90: Happy New Year, Bill M!
	1:19am coelacanth: (shoulda played something from the black sea xtc album,Bill!)
	1:19am Dean: Are VP and Bill Mac referring to the controversial "Wood effect" respecting absolute polarity?
	1:20am Bill Mac: What up P-90!
	1:20am cory: oh crap, new dollop. toodles all
	1:21am V Priceless: @ Bill: like night and day. If u dig that record, it's a worthy purchase. Always thought the original recording sounded thin, and there you go! The original master was not correctly polarized. What a difference!
	1:23am mauri: Heyy Bill Mac!
	1:23am coelacanth: stay warm-ish cory.
	1:23am Bill Mac: Later Cory!
	1:23am daupomatic: @cory: weather bill is on its way. @pss: vintage weather is very artisinal, or, at least, bottled.
	1:24am Bill Mac: @VP Now I'll need to seek out the corrected version
	1:24am Bill Mac: Speaking of cold, hi Mauri!
	1:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Whata kewl set.
	1:24am daupomatic: Is it just me, or does the tiny Bill Mac gif seem to be singing along?
	1:25am Bill Mac: If it were a Killdozer toon I'd say without a doubt!!!
	1:25am Bill Mac: RR1163 - It's workin!
	1:27am Guido from Cologne: @Bill A huge package of vinyl I sent has just arrived @ WFMU. Maybe ask Brian later to have a first look.
	1:27am pacific standard simon: Another of my favorites!
	1:27am mauri: shoots icebeams yup its been snowing for couple of days and its was really cold a week back.
	1:28am Bill Mac: We just had our first snow shower tonight. Can't wait for winter to be over!
	1:29am pacific standard simon: I haven't seen any snow in 13 months. What a gyp!
	1:30am Brian in UK: So this is a walk-in radio show in New Jersey. Mornin' Boss.
	1:31am Bill Mac: It's alive!!!! How you doing?
	1:32am daupomatic: Kooky weather.
	1:32am pacific standard simon: At one point, the frost was so heavy for several days that it wasn't melting, just accumulating. It almost looked like snow if you didn't look too closely.
	1:34am Bill Mac: @Brian The would be Bill with the Showing Scalp Bald Spot...
	1:34am coelacanth: i'd like it to snow A LOT! but not 'till a month from now, when i should be in a better position to miss some work. i'm trying to arrange that. 'hope no one minds.
	1:35am pacific standard simon: Make it artisinal, coelacanth!
	1:36am pacific standard simon: What an unfortunate shout-out to OJ Simpson.
	1:37am coelacanth: that's my way,simon!
	1:39am Bill Mac: The guys heart was in the right place when he did the song.
	1:39am daupomatic: James Brown is here to end this dark turn.
	1:39am pacific standard simon: Every snowflake one-of-a-kind.
	1:40am coelacanth: ...i'm getting the best outsider artists. each snowflake will be unique!
	1:41am coelacanth: aw shit. look what happened!
	1:41am pacific standard simon: Obvious joke is obvious.
	1:42am pacific standard simon: Nice.
	1:43am Ken From Hyde Park: Fame! That's the David Bowie I grew up with!
	1:44am coelacanth: yup. but i typed "outartist" and it didn't look right so i had to look up the fashionable terminology.
	1:44am pacific standard simon: No, Bill, I was talking about coelacanth and me duplicating each other.
	1:47am coelacanth: that is interesting.i would've assumed the same.(but i never heard that JB song before) i'm not surprised at Mr.Brown ripping off a riff though!
	1:50am Brian in UK: This is short and sweet Bill. To the grindstone needle in hand.
	1:51am V Priceless: Woo! Odd hearing this sans Big Bro
	1:53am pacific standard simon: WOW! Great cover!
	1:53am coelacanth: nice!
	1:53am Bill Mac: Happy sticking Bri! Thanks for popping by!
	1:53am V Priceless: Still one of the most confusingly brilliant riffs to figure out ever
	1:54am Bill Mac: Now can someone make a 15 minute dance track of that?
	1:55am tinkle bear: seriously? that was the wedding present? bill, you've blown my mind. (not for the first time.) thanks for the show, as always.
	1:56am coelacanth: 'ball's in your court,VP!
	1:56am Bill Mac: Thanks a lot TB! It's been a blast!
	1:56am northguineahills: gotta jet in the somnabulance, thanks Bill!
	1:57am Dean: I've explored a bit the polarity issue with XTC's "Skylarking." I had no idea Rundgren was the producer, which goes to show how out of it chose to be at the time. The details online are sketchy about the album. My guess is that the record suffers from the same problem that plagues many recordings, namely reversed polarity. According to Clark Johnsen, who has been the loudest polarity evangelist--see http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue1/cjwoodeffect.htm--one must determine for every record one plays its correct polarity. Once that's known, you adjust your system accordingly. Recordings with reverse polarity require reversing the reversal: switch the black and red cables on your speakers or, if your preamplifer permits it, switch the polarity there. (My preamplifer is by default reverse, so my speaker cables are always switched, but that won't correct the problem Johnsen perceives.) FWIW, I don't bother.
	1:57am Bill Mac: NGH See ya Mon! Thanks for the drink!
	1:58am Fran: Morning Bill and all Listening more than talking but good stuff has been had so far I see
	1:58am V Priceless: Ha fish...and here I was thinking it's right up your alley
	1:59am pacific standard simon: I want to hear the Bowie version mashed up with some similar vintage Miles Davis.
	2:00am Bill Mac: @Dean AP and TR didn't get along during those sessions. I heard a story where TR is tall has an irregular gait. When he would walk from his house to the studio, Andy and the Boys would play the Munsters Theme.... eh, guess you had to be there.
	2:00am coelacanth: Dean, my father had an old fisher tube amp with a switch for that. i guess no one bothers with that any more though.
	2:00am Bill Mac: Hey Fran! Good to have you by!
	2:02am coelacanth: welcome Fran. V,you were not! i'm not qualified.
	2:03am Dean: Figures. Now the Munsters theme is the predominant sample, if that's the word, in a song called "Uma Thurman." TR has earned an irregular gait, I suppose. @coelacanth: "an old fisher tube amp with a switch..." is such a happy phrase!
	2:03am pacific standard simon: Has anyone done a rock book about bands that hated their producers? I'm sure Phil Spector, Todd Rundgren and Al Kooper could generate such a thing.
	2:04am Bill Mac: @Dean & CC - Very evocative, like an Ivor Cutler verse.
	2:04am coelacanth: ha! it had LOTS of switches! ..good switches!
	2:04am V Priceless: Dean: yes, the polarity was reversed during the mastering process, which, to my ears, resulted in an overall tinny, thin sound thoughout. Corrected version is lush and full-sounding, if that makes any sense.
	2:04am Dean: @Bill Mac: Yes, precisely!
	2:05am daupomatic: Dammit, Dean. Now I'll have to look up that Munster-Thurman song, and I know it's going to hurt.
	2:05am Fran: AP now in hindsight recognised TR plated a blinder with the production - 2 stubborn heads butting I think! New AP book coming out this year - collected interviews so there may be more insight. Now if TR had tried to impose some of the horrible dated electronic/dance sounds he has more recently killed his otherwise good songs with..........
	2:06am Dean: @VP: Perhaps so. But if Johnsen is correct, and if the problem is reverse polarity (as opposed to something else) then anybody could have simply switched positive for negative at the loudspeaker posts and corrected it.
	2:07am Dean: Don't do it, daupomatic.
	2:09am coelacanth: for what it's worth, if i needed a producer i'd never work with rundgren.
	2:12am Dean: If I needed a producer/engineer, it'd be Marc Rusch in a heartbeat. His recordings (C.I.M.P.) are uniformly marvelous.
	2:13am V Priceless: Gotta grab my ugly rest. Thanks Bill! Nite all!
	2:14am Bill Mac: Nite VP See you soon!
	2:14am coelacanth: i'm not familiar with Marc Rusch...but i'm not sure who my hero producer would be. - 'night V.
	2:15am Bill Mac: Has anyone heard TRs version of Dear god? DEAR GOD!!!!
	2:15am pacific standard simon: I went nuts collecting all these XTC B-sides, EPs and flexidiscs.
	2:16am Bill Mac: @PSS I did too! I got this one on something called 5 Senses.
	2:17am Stanley: (Leaps from bed ands starts gyrating uncontrollaby) ye Gods its Zero Time at this time of the day
	2:17am coelacanth: i don't think you are- but if you're saying it's Great,then no offense...i don't think i want to hear it! i'm fairly intolerant of rundgren's singing.
	2:17am Bill Mac: @Stanley I'd like to see that!
	2:18am Guido from Cologne: wednesDon!
	2:18am Bill Mac: @CC All I need to say is you should seek it out and then not blame me...
	2:18am mauri: beefheart and now I miss picking up berries.
	2:18am Guido from Cologne: love the demo version
	2:18am pacific standard simon: My producer of choice would be Nick Lowe, I guess. Why not?
	2:19am Bill Mac: Don woulda been 75 this Friday...
	2:20am Fran: My Bpwie phases = as a teenager I loved the era Space Oddity to Hunky Dory but never understood the hype around Ziggy - I've learned to like it since but not love it. Diamond Dogs great but Aladdin Sane is amazingly good. Station to Station through to Scary Monsters is one of the greatest runs of albums I can think of - wonderful. 80's - frustrating mixed bag but not as bad as some make out. 90's - still don't get the drum and bass stuff - that was his Todd Rundgren ruining otherwise good songs era. Tin Machine better than credited. 2000s - not bad. The Next Day - a bit harsh Bill - it had its moments. Blackstar - what I've hear is great and I almost bought it on Saturday but now I'm going to wait for a month or two to buy it - partly to allow the ambulance chasers to bore of Bowie being their favourite ever pop star (before saying they loved that song of his 'In the Air Tonight') and partly to listen objectively myself.....
	2:20am coelacanth: ha! okay i'll try but no promises! ( -you are talking about the xtc song,right?)
	2:20am Stanley: Perhaps my line of all time "they sold wine like turpentine to painters, they took to social life like cops to aviators". Genius
	2:21am Bill Mac: @CC Yes I am!
	2:22am Bill Mac: @Stanley It's a couplet of his that comes to me more immediately than most things he's spoken/sung.
	2:22am pacific standard simon: I think that's why I'm not taking this Bowie exit all that hard -- I've been through it so many times with artists I was more influenced by. Zappa + Beefheart, for two.
	2:23am Fran: Lots of good 'producers'out there but most of them are only as good as their engineer.......
	2:23am pacific standard simon: That would be "crops to aviators', BTW.
	2:24am coelacanth: engineer= unsung hero.
	2:26am Dean: That's why I fudged the producer/engineer thing with Rusch. Also, Marc Aubort. Gorgeous recordings.
	2:26am pacific standard simon: Damn, I thought this was The Cramps at first.
	2:28am Bill Mac: PSS I'm with you on the Zappa & Beefheart comment.
	2:29am pacific standard simon: Rickey certainly has the right spirit, all right.
	2:30am pacific standard simon: Losing Viv Stanshall gutted me.
	2:31am Bill Mac: I don't think I heard about Viv until well after it happened.
	2:31am Guido from Cologne: Killer Track by lenny drake, in moments sounds like Cramps.
	2:33am Ken From Hyde Park: I am all done (doing dishes)! Glad that task is out of the way.
	2:33am coelacanth: i Loved Heroes (& 7 albums before that)then hated Lodger,mostly- and the next one- then gave up on Bowie when let's dance came. the glimpses of his commercial pop hits that i heard through the years were rarely terrible,but not Great either. ...then on friday when i heard some of "✭" i was practically overwhelmed. it's so honest and pure and poetic and i thought "this is what you could've been doing all this time". i felt very happy and optimistic about Bowie then and decided already i'd get that album. ...maybe that's partly why it hit me as hard as it has.
	2:37am Stanley: "Props to aviators" according to Beefheart.com I'll have to revise my best lines list yet again
	2:37am rw: I think the thing about Bowie is that his appeal and influence was so far reaching. Something I hadn't really considered until the past few dozen hours.
	2:38am pacific standard simon: I did my dishes before the show. Organized. Made kielbasa, cabbage & potato soup.
	2:38am Alejandroool: Dustbin Divers
	2:41am pacific standard simon: @Stanley - That makes sense, too. I always thought it was a reference to the crop-dusters that Beefheart must have seen out there in the Palmdale/Lancaster area.
	2:42am pacific standard simon: You're probably right.
	2:44am Guido from Cologne: Loved the shoW! Thanks Bill! ... off to the dentist ...
	2:44am Bill Mac: @PSS I would've thought that crop dusters made more sense... btw thanks for bringing up food
	2:45am rw: Stanley, I had always heard that line as props. I think I like cops better though!
	2:45am Bill Mac: Thanks Guido, Go get yanked! I'll see you soon!
	2:45am Stanley: As a thirteen year old you can imagine the effect Ziggy Stardust had on me. A wonderful introduction to teenage life.
	2:46am pacific standard simon: Thanks, Bill Mac, for picking up a fill-in shift when I'm not working. I've missed a lot of them lately due to scheduling conflicts.
	2:46am Bill Mac: @Stanley Agreed - a perfect album all around
	2:48am Bill Mac: @PSS I appreciate you hanging around and mixing it up. It makes the show experience a lot better when I know you're out there
	2:48am Alejandroool: golden recording, this song...
	2:49am Alejandroool: Always a sucker for this kind of bouncy bass playing
	2:50am rw: Yes. Thank you Mr. Mac! Your shows are always a good time.
	2:50am pacific standard simon: Bowie albums were hit-and-miss affairs for me, except for Pin-Ups, Hunky Dory, and The Man Who Sold The World. The thing is, with Bowie, it wasn't about the albums -- it was about HIM.
	2:51am coelacanth: well now i wonder if i missed some good music between let's dance and now. i've barely heard anything besides the predictable pop hits since 1983, and it's usually been the "deep album cuts" that were best. also,"(eyepatch)fox" said ✭ reminds her of "outside", so i have a feeling there's all kinds of diversity in those 3 decades that i'm mostly oblivious to. with his supreme talent for arrangement there must be good in there. i feel foolish for not giving ANY of it a chance all this time.
	2:52am Bill Mac: @Alejandroool There's a lot of soul music that I should make it my business to play
	2:52am pacific standard simon: ...and I'll just throw in my approval of this Spinners track. Lord knows I didn't appreciate it when it was released, but ch-ch-changes...
	2:52am Bill Mac: @CC I like Sound & Vision even though the production onsome of that stuff is kind of thin
	2:54am Stanley: @pss - agreed but within all that self obsession there came out some great tunes though I always thought he relied on others when it came to his best stuff
	2:54am Fran: Classic Caetano ............great show Bill. Have a good day and see you soon Bill and all
	2:56am pacific standard simon: I'd trust Bill Mac to DJ an Anthony Bourdain TV show.
	2:56am coelacanth: simon, that marketing always disgusted me. especially the suit/hat,dapper bullshit. but it sometimes was an injustice to the Great music on the albums- as with Aladin Sane,Heroes,Ziggy. i wish he hadn't done that but i guess it's why his name is a household word.
	2:57am Bill Mac: Friends, thanks for coming out on a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning! Hopefully I won't be in the either too long. Take care and be well
	2:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Take care, Bill. This was a nice little party tonight.
	2:58am coelacanth: isn't "sound and vision" on low? i love that album!
	2:58am Stanley: Bugger Time has reached for that ol'cigarette already. Thanks Bill. Miss the old Saturday's but always great to hear you again.
	2:58am pacific standard simon: @coelacanth - We'll have to disagree on that. I thought it was perfect for him.
	3:00am coelacanth: oh shit i should've been asleep by 12! Thanks Bill! Great show. g'night people.
	9:15am Brian in UK: Used to have The Man with the Four Way Hips on green vinyl. Bolan used to wear ballet pumps, leastways that was what he was wearing when he spoke to me, made my wife mad as hell when I told her. The dustbin men were collecting just as I was writing earlier. Remember seeing Vinegar Joe supporting Lindisfarne. The piano player impressed turned out it was Robert Palmer. Loved his early albums with Little Feat. This track is a bit like LF. Never really liked Ziggy probably because it was electric guitar driven. Thought Hunky Dory & Lodger cooked. Might see you on the stream soon, old bean?

Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac: Playlist from January 13, 2016

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