WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 15, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: good morning joe!
	9:03am zach: good morning!
	♥ 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Boing boing! This never gets old!
	9:05am Wild Neil: Peace Joe et al.
	9:05am Cheri Pi: Yipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyip
	9:05am KP: Good Monday national nonparking day morning, Joe!
	9:09am Wild Neil: Helluva start!
	♥ 9:10am MD: Ahoy Hoy!
	♥ 9:12am MD: Anyone Catch X on Saturday nite? John Doe at the Strand Rare book room before the show was even better...
	9:15am V Priceless: mornin' Joe!
	♥ 9:15am Joe McG: Good morning, everyone! I hope your week is off to a nice start. I currently don't have any skin because I sweated it off last night.
	♥ 9:39am fred: Good morning Joe and all. I'm really looking forward to the live set. Prince Rama seem to be very nice people as well as a great live band
	♥ 9:40am Joe McG: Hey Fred! Damn, thanks for reminding me--I'll pop back in and remind listeners! It's SO early.
	9:41am bobdoesthings: goodmorning
	9:43am bobdoesthings: big youth is duanes uncle??
	9:44am Rev. Turnip Druid: ..........
	9:44am bobdoesthings: oh wow wait... this isn't big youth? cool breeze?..
	♥ 9:44am Joe McG: Oops! Actually no, this is Keith and Tex, but it's Derrick stuff.
	9:46am bobdoesthings: oh dang.. I guess Big Youth - "Cool Breeze" is just Big Youth singing over this song.. hahaha. dang. i learned something today.
	9:59am Michael: Swag received Joe – thanks much.
	♥ 9:59am fred: So there was a reissue. That explains why Lizzy Mercier Descloux has been getting so much airplay lately. That was weird for me because "Mais où sont passées les gazelles?" was such a huge, unavoidable, hit back then over here
	♥ 10:00am Joe McG: @fred: Yeah, LITA reissued all of her records over here this year. @Michael: You bet!
	10:03am JakeGould: Hey Joe! And everyone else.
	♥ 10:04am Joe McG: Hey Jake! Quiet board today, which I'm going to take as a signal that no one is tuned in today and I can play my classic rock favorites!
	10:05am bobdoesthings: everyone quick! comment like the wind!
	♥ 10:05am Joe McG: This one goes out to Clay Pigeon!
	10:06am Polyus: Hello 7th grade.
	10:06am βrian: Good morning, Sir Face Noise. Boy, it was a long climb up from the crypt this morning.
	10:08am JakeGould: @JoeMcG: Or maybe everyone suffered heat exhaustion from over the weekend and are passed out somewhere and unable to type.
	♥ 10:08am Joe McG: Ha ha, Brian, I hear you!
	10:09am βrian: "... out to Clay Pigeon like a cluster of number nine shot?
	10:09am melinda: Just barely missed the Speedwagon.
	♥ 10:10am Joe McG: @melinda: But you're just in time for the Meat Loaf!
	♥ 10:10am Devin B.: Did not expect to hear Meatloaf today
	♥ 10:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Yo Joe! I swear my office gets louder every week. Gotta PUMP THE LOAF to drown it out…
	♥ 10:10am Joe McG: @Devin: WFMU: Expect the Unexpected! :) Hey Greg!
	♥ 10:11am Devin B.: @Joe McG: Wouldn't have it any other way!
	10:11am bobdoesthings: "pump the loaf" ? ... jesus greg. cool your jets.
	10:12am Marc Francis: My first song of the week is Meat Loaf? Uh oh....
	♥ 10:13am Joe McG: @Marc: That means it's gonna be a great week!
	10:14am SeanG: love it. :-) Hi Joe and all!
	10:15am Wild Neil: What's next...Styx?
	10:16am SeanG: Yes!
	10:16am Wild Neil: Oh, well, Billy Squire. He was pretty cool.
	10:16am SeanG: gonna turn this UP
	♥ 10:16am Joe McG: Ooh, Styx! That's a good idea, Wild Neil!
	10:16am Jim Devoid: 'Ello Squire!
	10:16am Roberto: Joe, did you happen to spend the last two weeks listening to Sirius XM Classic Rewind as I did?
	10:17am Wild Neil: I'm gonna party like it's 1984.
	10:17am Cooh John: Mebbe Kansas...
	10:17am Roberto: REO, Billy Squier, Pat Benatar...the signs are unmistakable.
	♥ 10:17am Joe McG: @Roberto: No, but maybe that will be my favorite new show!
	10:17am Wild Neil: It's throwback Monday.
	10:18am Roberto: Up next -- Eddie Money.
	10:18am Blix: Joe, did you re-watch Streets of Fire or go roller-skating or something last night?
	10:18am Polyus: Bobby Chouinard with that big backbeat.
	10:19am melinda: It's fun to hear Billy Squier in a new context.
	♥ 10:19am Joe McG: OOH, Eddie Money. Loves me some Eddie Money! @Blix: No, but I wish I had. I really want to go roller skating.
	10:20am Roberto: This song was played so frequently that my daughter got it stuck in her head. And she wasn't happy about it at all. Death metal more her speed.
	10:20am Wally: Bad Co. please
	10:21am Wild Neil: This Kix sounded like REM for a few bars....
	10:21am SeanG: i hope clay is listening
	10:23am βrian: Death Metal always makes me think of Minimata Bay.
	10:23am Cheri Pi: Eddie Money is playing here soon, and I'm so tempted!
	♥ 10:24am Tim 07030: Hey Joe! Has Rocktober come early?
	10:24am Rev. Turnip Druid: [back from meeting, checks playlist] ....shewt... dodged some bullets there...
	10:25am bobdoesthings: wow.. this took a turn.
	10:27am βrian: Sounds like he was channelling Roger Ailes.
	10:27am yoshi: was chris rock talking as part of this song a minute or so ago, or am i bugging?
	10:27am Wild Neil: This Kix sounds a bit like Devo now.
	10:28am Roberto: Oh right, they played Styx quite a lot as well.
	10:28am Cooh John: There you go, Wild Neil.
	♥ 10:28am Ken From Hyde Park: I keep getting Kix mixed up with Kick Axe.
	10:28am Wild Neil: This song actually rocks. I find myself singing it un-ironically all the time. I admit it. It resonated with me then, and it resonates now. I cannot deny this. I feel like this is an 80's Intervention.
	♥ 10:28am Joe McG: @Cheri: Go see Eddie!
	10:28am βrian: "In the craw" was my favorite album.
	10:29am XimbyZ: I'm not gonna lie. I was about to turn off the Kix but, luckily Styx appeared.
	♥ 10:29am Stevel: Last night I had the weirdest dream that WFMU was playing the best of the 80's rocking pop. Crazy, huh?
	10:29am melinda: 80s intervention, haha
	10:30am SeanG: some loverboy would be sweet
	♥ 10:30am Tim 07030: Until this moment I never noticed how much this song sounds like "Lonely Boy"
	10:30am Wild Neil: Blue Collar man, relseased in 1978 on the Pieces of Eight album....this song rocks hard.....they are so sincere in rocking out it is contagious.
	♥ 10:30am Joe McG: Oh, I forgot my Loverboy LP AND my Eddie Money! Bummer...
	♥ 10:31am Stevel: Total bummer.
	10:31am βrian: Which hip-hop artist has sampled Styx the most, I wonder?
	10:32am Wild Neil: Eddie Money does rock...cannot STAND Loverboy...didn't like it then, don't like it now.
	10:33am Wild Neil: @Joe-would that be WZZO in Allentown, 95.1?? I grew up listening to that in Blairstown, NJ.
	♥ 10:33am Greg from ZONE 5: @βrian: www.whosampled.com...
	10:34am JakeGould: I like meatloaf the food.
	10:34am Wild Neil: I heard Meat Loaf sang opera....
	10:34am thedunkel: I only love my Mom's meatloaf…
	♥ 10:34am jillydg: Blue Collar Man, rockin! And a great surprise even REO and Meatloaf. Still know every word... Crazy how those lyrics plants themselves in the ol noggin'. .
	10:34am βrian: Joe, that's not pronounced "Rio" Speedwagon??
	♥ 10:35am Barney Grubbs: looks like The Alchemist and DJ Huggy are tied in the styx-sampling stakes
	10:35am Wild Neil: @Brian-its Are-EE-OH Speedwagon.
	10:36am βrian: Wow, even Cage's 4'33" was sampled twice!
	10:37am BEAVO: Pat Benatar is on tour right now with longtime husband Neil Geraldo on guitar
	10:37am βrian: I gotta stick with "Rio." Just seems ore gleeful to me.
	10:38am Wild Neil: Billy Rooth liked Angel....they are glam rock...he had dreams of being a rock star...
	♥ 10:38am jillydg: On a hot summer night...
	♥ 10:39am Joe McG: I love the name DJ Huggy. Too bad it's taken. @BEAVO: Nice to hear! I should go see her.
	10:40am Wild Neil: OK, I am bailing for awhile....
	10:40am melinda: Which girl group sang this?
	10:41am Rev. Turnip Druid: ANGEL... speaking of clay pigeon, he's the one that hepped me to their insane logo design (reads same upside down) -- being a typography nerd, I appreciate this to an un-natural degree..
	10:41am BEAVO: Punky's Whips!
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: @melinda: I know the Rascals version best, but I'm sure someone else did it. Wikipedia says the Divinyls!
	10:42am Dean: One of the two loudest concerts I ever endured: Angel.
	♥ 10:43am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe
	♥ 10:43am Joe McG: @Dean: What was the other?
	10:45am βrian: You want is wont to wander.
	10:45am Dean: At the risk of going all Abbott & Costello, Yes. At a stadium.
	10:46am βrian: Eh, "Your want is wont to wander."
	10:46am Dean: To establish a baseline, I've heard Mogwai in a club. Not all that loud. Meshuggah in clubs, loud, but not painfully so. Etc.
	10:47am βrian: Anne Boleyn got off easy, right Dean?
	♥ 10:47am Joe McG: Hey Guido! @Dean: Wow, Yes were loud? That surprises me for some reason.
	10:48am Dean: @βrian: Any day is a good day for Henrician humor. @Joe McG: Yes, they were. The culprit was Moraz's tizzy synthesizers blasting across centerfield. I'd heard Yes before and since, but nothing like that.
	10:49am βrian: Beware the freelance sound person for thine ears shall be laid waste to.
	♥ 10:52am Joe McG: @Brian: Maybe you need to contract disco fever.
	♥ 10:54am fred: I'd say the loudest show I ever attended was Borbetomagus
	10:56am Rev. Turnip Druid: @fred: aye, here as well. I caught Borbetomagus at DC Space here in the mid '80s. It would have to be a top three for loudest...
	10:56am Dean: @fred: I think I heard that show, and I didn't even attend.
	10:58am βrian: I think the loudest for me was actually a film showing, when Dan Savage brought Hump to town.
	♥ 10:58am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, hot and steamy over hear.
	10:59am Rev. Turnip Druid: Merzbow at DC Arts Center, late '80s... Of course Motörhead...
	♥ 11:00am Joe McG: @BrianUK: Pretty much the same here, Brian! I can't do it. My Loudest Band: Spiritualized at a small club in the 90s.
	♥ 11:00am Stevel: Yes, Motörhead. White Zombie was loud for an arena (sitting in the back.)
	♥ 11:01am fred: A Stephen O'Malley solo show in a museum came close. Strangely or not, Sun O))) don't strike me as loud, it's more like a massage
	♥ 11:01am Brian in UK: I only go to poetry readings with my friend Rik. They can get a bit raucous.
	11:02am KP: Is it safe yet?
	11:03am KP: Superman!
	11:03am βrian: See, I think it's usually some local sound board person the band hires, since they don't want to pay someone to tour with them. Someone with 80% hearing loss. I dunno.
	11:05am Dean: A sound board engineer with hearing loss reminds me of a long-gone local cafe that hired a sight-impaired diabetic as a chef.
	11:06am βrian: And for some reason, these sound people always seem to have huge sagittal crests and pronounced occipital ridges.
	♥ 11:06am Brian in UK: @Dean did it have a one-armed waiter too?
	11:06am SeanG: loudest show was Triumph mid80s
	11:08am Polyus: I think the current incarnation of Swans beats anything I have heard in the volume sweepstakes. It's a weird sort of loud, though - not shrill, not low. Right in the midrange.
	11:08am Brendan: My loudest show was The Who. Four friends and I showed up at our nosebleed seats only to discovered two very drunk guys had barfed all over the whole row and passed out. A security lady got on the walkie talkie then escorted us front row in front of Petes amp My ears are still ringing
	♥ 11:10am Devin B.: Nice! Hurry Up is awesome!
	11:13am Dean: @Brian in UK: No, but a friend of mine was a server there for a time. If a fussy local patron complained he would break wind when leaving the table.
	11:14am Dean: This was at a time well before the days of "Jackass."
	♥ 11:14am Greg from ZONE 5: D'oh! Gonna miss Prince Rama cuz I've got Mothra tix. Hopefully I'll make Electric Six.
	♥ 11:15am Brian in UK: Led Zeppelin 1975 Earls Court, London. HALF WAY BACK. Ears stopped humming at one o'clock the next day. First time I had seen a big screen next to the stage. It is the anniversary today of The Beatles playing Shea Stadium in 1965 in effect the first time a stadium was used for a music gig.
	♥ 11:15am Brian in UK: @Dean classy. Noisy or silent but deadly?
	11:16am Brendan: What? I cant hear you
	11:18am KP: Brendan, i saw the Happy Jack era Who when i was 14. Fourth row. right ear never recovered.
	11:18am Dean: @Brian in UK: Very classy. SBD. Being mere youth, we were of course enchanted with the scatological. We envisioned creating an SBD Mime Troupe. Now, of course, I'm all grown up. But fortunately my kids aren't.
	11:18am βrian: "If wind coulda kill, I am-a dead now!"
	11:18am Carmichael: Heya Joe and Surfactants. Finally back at work, and had Disco Fever on the drive in. Good talkin' with ya last week, Joe.
	♥ 11:19am Joe McG: Prince Rama: princerama.com
	11:19am Brendan: Wiki says Guinness World Records no longer celebrate loudest bands 'for fear of promoting damage to ears'
	11:20am KP: Prince Rama sounds exciting
	♥ 11:21am Brian in UK: @Dean Les Petomane Brothers. Blowing out candles from one yard and setting light etc. Timeless fun. Only grown-ups listen to WFMU.
	11:21am KP: Well Brendan some fun has been taken out of it since earplugs have become almost standard.
	11:21am Brendan: @kp id give my right ear to see them
	11:23am Wild Neil: Miinistry in the late 80's in NYC was super-loud. Also: a dude wearing an SS shirt picked me up by a belt loop and threw me about eight or ten feet. He was like 6'8". At this point, I left the pit and went upstairs to watch from the balcony. I wanna say Roseland ballroom?
	11:23am JakeGould: This Prince Rama is pretty damned good.
	11:23am KP: Haaaa! I did. Absolutely amazing. Right in front of Townshend.
	11:23am βrian: Which brings up the Petomane Freeway: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 11:23am fred: Prince Rama shows are well worth attending. They're a great live band with a contagious positive attitude.
	♥ 11:23am Joe McG: @Jake: It's going to be a great show on Thursday! They are also in Asbury Park on Friday.
	11:24am Carmichael: My loudest concert was Steppenwolf. Stood in front of a speaker stack on one side of the stage. My ears are still ringing, and the concert was in the 70s ...
	11:25am KP: Sound levels are different though since PAs started being so effective. everything goes through them. The intense physical presence of the stacks is not there.
	11:25am Brendan: Its funny that we put plugs in our ears to listen to music, like putting bumps on the roads we drive.or the people who live in front of those speed bumps wearing earplugs because of the angry motorists honking. Its a vicious cycle
	♥ 11:25am Ken From Hyde Park: Hooray! Prince Rama!
	11:26am Dean: Blazing Saddles:puerility::Scarlatti:tocatta
	♥ 11:27am Brian in UK: Joe, same old story Prince Rama visiting Europe but missing UK. Must be the referendum.
	♥ 11:27am Tim 07030: And if you're going to the show Thursday I recommend getting there in time to see the opener, Hey Anna (THREE sisters in this band). I saw them for the first time last month and they were tremendous.
	♥ 11:27am fred: A word of warning about Prince Rama shows: you might end up hugging strangers
	11:28am KP: There are no strangers at wfmu
	11:30am Wild Neil: Does Prince Rama like Styx?
	11:31am βrian: Steppenwolf? Were they playing in a dumpy bar on Dort Hwy, Flint, Michigan?
	11:34am Brendan: A stranger is just someone I haven't hugged yet.
	♥ 11:35am Joe McG: Tickets to Prince Rama this Thursday: montyhall.ticketfly.com...
	11:36am Carmichael: They could have been, Brian. However, I saw them in Tucson AZ, in an equally dumpy beer bar.
	♥ 11:37am Ken From Hyde Park: If it weren't for Beavis and Butt-head, I wouldn't have known about Deee-Lite. Hoo boy.
	♥ 11:38am Ken From Hyde Park: Also, Bootsie is cool!
	11:38am Wild Neil: Our buyer has a ground hog right outside his window to his office.
	♥ 11:38am fred: I would have thought Deee-Lite were way before their time, but it makes sense
	11:40am Brendan: Did these guys ever get hats when they made it?
	11:40am Wild Neil: Ground hog=marmot. Marmota Monax. @Brendan-they did, but Devo stole the package off the porch and took their hats and called them Energy Domes. NoT!
	♥ 11:41am Ken From Hyde Park: Furthermore: Bootsy. Dumb autocorrect.
	♥ 11:43am Joe McG: @Ken: Don't worry. Yes, it was Bootsy and Q-Tip on that remix. I like it better than the LP version.
	♥ 11:45am Greg from ZONE 5: Agreed, Joe. Bootsy & Q-Tip make perfect songs better.
	11:46am βrian: I'm thinking of ducking out for a triple espresso, but I fear I'll need something stronger.
	11:49am Wild Neil: This show was literally all over the place today. Really. Wow. Talk about free form.
	11:53am JakeGould: Has Bootsy considered making a “Bootsie Roll?” I mean, Tootsie Rolls are kinda grandparent candy nowadays… They need to tap into that lucrative youth market again.
	♥ 11:53am Brian in UK: Great show, Joe. Hope you fans keep you cool.
	11:53am Wild Neil: I REALLY like Johnny Cash.
	11:53am βrian: Like an iridescent amoeba, even! Thanks, Joe.
	♥ 11:53am fred: So cool that Nimai would request Johnny Cash
	♥ 11:56am Joe McG: Well, it's been a weird one, friends! Thanks for listening and commenting. Have a great week and see you again next Monday! Don't forget to check out Prince Rama.
	11:57am Wild Neil: Prince Rama: Slip Into Nevermore is clicky star for me. Awesome!
	11:58am Dean: Loudest Surface Noise ever!
	♥ 11:58am fred: Damn, they're playing in Paris next month, but it's an overnight show. I know the drill and the venue: it's a three-hour walk through clumps of aggressive drunks to get back home
	♥ 11:59am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 15, 2016

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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
The Apostles	Never Too Late "Never Too Late" by "The Apostles"	Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vol. 1 (1972-1977)	Now Again	2016	CD	From 1976	*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jungle by Night	Ethiopino "Ethiopino" by "Jungle by Night"	Beyond Addis Vol. 2: Modern Ethiopian Dance Grooves Inspired by Swinging Addis	Trikont	2016	CD		*	0:08:11 (Pop-up)
Sunburst	Your Day Will Come "Your Day Will Come" by "Sunburst"	Ave Africa: The Kitoto Sound of East Africa 1973-1976	Strut	2016	CD	From 1976	*	0:11:40 (Pop-up)
Tala A.M.	Black Gold "Black Gold" by "Tala A.M."	African Funk Experimentals 1975-1978	Africa Seven	2015	CD	From 1978		0:14:38 (Pop-up)
Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids	Rhapsody in Berlin	We Be All Africans	Strut	2016	CD		*	0:19:54 (Pop-up)
Carlos Garnett	Let Us Go (To Higher Heights)	Celestial Blues: Cosmic Political and Spiritual Jazz 1970 to 1974	BGP/Ace	2016	CD	From 1974	*	0:26:13 (Pop-up)

Chris Ajilo and His Cubanos	Ariwo	Nigeria Freedom Sounds!: Popular Music and the Birth of Independent Nigeria 1960-63	Soul Jazz	2016	CD	From 1963	*	0:39:37 (Pop-up)
Keith and Tex	Stop That Train "Stop That Train" by "Keith and Tex"	Rock Steady 1966-1969	Dub Store	2016	CD	From 1967	*	0:43:25 (Pop-up)
Giorgio Tuma with Laetitia Sadier	Through Your Hands Love Can Shine	Balearic 2	Balearic	2016	CD		*	0:46:44 (Pop-up)
Chantage	Same Thing Twice "Same Thing Twice" by "Chantage"	Resolutionary	Staubgold	2016	CD	From 1982	*	0:51:15 (Pop-up)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux	All the Same	Zulu Rock	Light in the Attic	2016	CD	From 1984	*	0:54:23 (Pop-up)
Pat Benatar	Precious Time "Precious Time" by "Pat Benatar"	Precious Time	Chrysalis	1981	LP			0:59:22 (Pop-up)
REO Speedwagon	Don't Let Him Go "Don't Let Him Go" by "REO Speedwagon"	Hi Infidelity	Epic	1980	LP			1:04:37 (Pop-up)
Meat Loaf	I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us	Dead Ringer	Cleveland Internatonal	1981	LP			1:08:46 (Pop-up)
Billy Squier	Lonely Is the Night "Lonely Is the Night" by "Billy Squier"	Don't Say No	Capitol	1981	LP			1:15:18 (Pop-up)
Kix	Yeah, Yeah, Yeah "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" by "Kix"	Kix	Atlantic	1981	LP			1:20:08 (Pop-up)
Styx	Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)	The Best of Styx	A&M	2002	CD	From 1978		1:27:55 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s played in a row for no reason in particular
Angel	Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore	single	Casablanca	1977	45			1:38:00 (Pop-up)
Verna Williams	Wrong Number, Right Girl	single	Belinda	1962	45			1:40:18 (Pop-up)
William Bell	Gettin' What You Want (Losin' What You Got)	single	Stax	1974	45			1:43:18 (Pop-up)
The Status Quo	Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe	single	Cadet Concept	1968	45			1:46:24 (Pop-up)
UB40 with Chrissie Hynde	Breakfast in Bed	single	A&M	1988	45			1:49:12 (Pop-up)
Tina Charles	Disco Fever "Disco Fever" by "Tina Charles"	single	CBS	1976	45			1:52:06 (Pop-up)
Urbaniax	Burning Circuits "Burning Circuits" by "Urbaniax"	single	Sonet	1984	45			1:56:11 (Pop-up)
The Clique	Superman "Superman" by "The Clique"	single	White Whale	1969	45			2:00:05 (Pop-up)

Prince Rama Live at WFMU. Taraka Larson: vocals, guitar, synth. Nimai Larson: drums, vocals. Ryan Sciaino: synths, guitar. Engineered by Mario Santana.
Prince Rama	Bahia "Bahia" by "Prince Rama"	Live on WFMU						2:14:31 (Pop-up)
Prince Rama	Now Is the Time of Emotion	Live on WFMU						2:16:48 (Pop-up)
Prince Rama	Fantasy "Fantasy" by "Prince Rama"	Live on WFMU						2:20:06 (Pop-up)
Prince Rama	Your Life in the End "Your Life in the End" by "Prince Rama"	Live on WFMU						2:24:07 (Pop-up)
Prince Rama	Interview "Interview" by "Prince Rama"					Featuring a capella "Groove Is in the Heart"!		2:28:49 (Pop-up)
Deee-Lite	Groove Is In The Heart (Meeting Of The Minds Mix)	12" single	Elektra	1990	12"	Prince Rama request (Ryan)		2:34:14 (Pop-up)
Men Without Hats	I Got the Message	Rhythm of Youth	Backstreet	1983	LP	Prince Rama request (Taraka)		2:37:48 (Pop-up)
Bitchin Bajas	Water 2 "Water 2" by "Bitchin Bajas"	Water Wrackets	Kallistei	2011	LP	Prince Rama request (Nimai)		2:42:29 (Pop-up)
Primal Scream	Movin' On Up "Movin' On Up" by "Primal Scream"	Screamadelica	Sire/Warner Bros.	1991	CD	Prince Rama request (Taraka)		2:47:53 (Pop-up)
Johnny Cash	God Ain't No Stained Glass Window	Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of the Truth	Columbia/Legacy	2012	CD	Prince Rama request (Nimai); From 1983		2:51:16 (Pop-up)
Prince Rama	Slip into Nevermore "Slip into Nevermore" by "Prince Rama"	Xtreme Now	Carpark	2016	CD		*	2:54:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: good morning joe!
	9:03am zach: good morning!
	♥ 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Boing boing! This never gets old!
	9:05am Wild Neil: Peace Joe et al.
	9:05am Cheri Pi: Yipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyip
	9:05am KP: Good Monday national nonparking day morning, Joe!
	9:09am Wild Neil: Helluva start!
	♥ 9:10am MD: Ahoy Hoy!
	♥ 9:12am MD: Anyone Catch X on Saturday nite? John Doe at the Strand Rare book room before the show was even better...
	9:15am V Priceless: mornin' Joe!
	♥ 9:15am Joe McG: Good morning, everyone! I hope your week is off to a nice start. I currently don't have any skin because I sweated it off last night.
	♥ 9:39am fred: Good morning Joe and all. I'm really looking forward to the live set. Prince Rama seem to be very nice people as well as a great live band
	♥ 9:40am Joe McG: Hey Fred! Damn, thanks for reminding me--I'll pop back in and remind listeners! It's SO early.
	9:41am bobdoesthings: goodmorning
	9:43am bobdoesthings: big youth is duanes uncle??
	9:44am Rev. Turnip Druid: ..........
	9:44am bobdoesthings: oh wow wait... this isn't big youth? cool breeze?..
	♥ 9:44am Joe McG: Oops! Actually no, this is Keith and Tex, but it's Derrick stuff.
	9:46am bobdoesthings: oh dang.. I guess Big Youth - "Cool Breeze" is just Big Youth singing over this song.. hahaha. dang. i learned something today.
	9:59am Michael: Swag received Joe – thanks much.
	♥ 9:59am fred: So there was a reissue. That explains why Lizzy Mercier Descloux has been getting so much airplay lately. That was weird for me because "Mais où sont passées les gazelles?" was such a huge, unavoidable, hit back then over here
	♥ 10:00am Joe McG: @fred: Yeah, LITA reissued all of her records over here this year. @Michael: You bet!
	10:03am JakeGould: Hey Joe! And everyone else.
	♥ 10:04am Joe McG: Hey Jake! Quiet board today, which I'm going to take as a signal that no one is tuned in today and I can play my classic rock favorites!
	10:05am bobdoesthings: everyone quick! comment like the wind!
	♥ 10:05am Joe McG: This one goes out to Clay Pigeon!
	10:06am Polyus: Hello 7th grade.
	10:06am βrian: Good morning, Sir Face Noise. Boy, it was a long climb up from the crypt this morning.
	10:08am JakeGould: @JoeMcG: Or maybe everyone suffered heat exhaustion from over the weekend and are passed out somewhere and unable to type.
	♥ 10:08am Joe McG: Ha ha, Brian, I hear you!
	10:09am βrian: "... out to Clay Pigeon like a cluster of number nine shot?
	10:09am melinda: Just barely missed the Speedwagon.
	♥ 10:10am Joe McG: @melinda: But you're just in time for the Meat Loaf!
	♥ 10:10am Devin B.: Did not expect to hear Meatloaf today
	♥ 10:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Yo Joe! I swear my office gets louder every week. Gotta PUMP THE LOAF to drown it out…
	♥ 10:10am Joe McG: @Devin: WFMU: Expect the Unexpected! :) Hey Greg!
	♥ 10:11am Devin B.: @Joe McG: Wouldn't have it any other way!
	10:11am bobdoesthings: "pump the loaf" ? ... jesus greg. cool your jets.
	10:12am Marc Francis: My first song of the week is Meat Loaf? Uh oh....
	♥ 10:13am Joe McG: @Marc: That means it's gonna be a great week!
	10:14am SeanG: love it. :-) Hi Joe and all!
	10:15am Wild Neil: What's next...Styx?
	10:16am SeanG: Yes!
	10:16am Wild Neil: Oh, well, Billy Squire. He was pretty cool.
	10:16am SeanG: gonna turn this UP
	♥ 10:16am Joe McG: Ooh, Styx! That's a good idea, Wild Neil!
	10:16am Jim Devoid: 'Ello Squire!
	10:16am Roberto: Joe, did you happen to spend the last two weeks listening to Sirius XM Classic Rewind as I did?
	10:17am Wild Neil: I'm gonna party like it's 1984.
	10:17am Cooh John: Mebbe Kansas...
	10:17am Roberto: REO, Billy Squier, Pat Benatar...the signs are unmistakable.
	♥ 10:17am Joe McG: @Roberto: No, but maybe that will be my favorite new show!
	10:17am Wild Neil: It's throwback Monday.
	10:18am Roberto: Up next -- Eddie Money.
	10:18am Blix: Joe, did you re-watch Streets of Fire or go roller-skating or something last night?
	10:18am Polyus: Bobby Chouinard with that big backbeat.
	10:19am melinda: It's fun to hear Billy Squier in a new context.
	♥ 10:19am Joe McG: OOH, Eddie Money. Loves me some Eddie Money! @Blix: No, but I wish I had. I really want to go roller skating.
	10:20am Roberto: This song was played so frequently that my daughter got it stuck in her head. And she wasn't happy about it at all. Death metal more her speed.
	10:20am Wally: Bad Co. please
	10:21am Wild Neil: This Kix sounded like REM for a few bars....
	10:21am SeanG: i hope clay is listening
	10:23am βrian: Death Metal always makes me think of Minimata Bay.
	10:23am Cheri Pi: Eddie Money is playing here soon, and I'm so tempted!
	♥ 10:24am Tim 07030: Hey Joe! Has Rocktober come early?
	10:24am Rev. Turnip Druid: [back from meeting, checks playlist] ....shewt... dodged some bullets there...
	10:25am bobdoesthings: wow.. this took a turn.
	10:27am βrian: Sounds like he was channelling Roger Ailes.
	10:27am yoshi: was chris rock talking as part of this song a minute or so ago, or am i bugging?
	10:27am Wild Neil: This Kix sounds a bit like Devo now.
	10:28am Roberto: Oh right, they played Styx quite a lot as well.
	10:28am Cooh John: There you go, Wild Neil.
	♥ 10:28am Ken From Hyde Park: I keep getting Kix mixed up with Kick Axe.
	10:28am Wild Neil: This song actually rocks. I find myself singing it un-ironically all the time. I admit it. It resonated with me then, and it resonates now. I cannot deny this. I feel like this is an 80's Intervention.
	♥ 10:28am Joe McG: @Cheri: Go see Eddie!
	10:28am βrian: "In the craw" was my favorite album.
	10:29am XimbyZ: I'm not gonna lie. I was about to turn off the Kix but, luckily Styx appeared.
	♥ 10:29am Stevel: Last night I had the weirdest dream that WFMU was playing the best of the 80's rocking pop. Crazy, huh?
	10:29am melinda: 80s intervention, haha
	10:30am SeanG: some loverboy would be sweet
	♥ 10:30am Tim 07030: Until this moment I never noticed how much this song sounds like "Lonely Boy"
	10:30am Wild Neil: Blue Collar man, relseased in 1978 on the Pieces of Eight album....this song rocks hard.....they are so sincere in rocking out it is contagious.
	♥ 10:30am Joe McG: Oh, I forgot my Loverboy LP AND my Eddie Money! Bummer...
	♥ 10:31am Stevel: Total bummer.
	10:31am βrian: Which hip-hop artist has sampled Styx the most, I wonder?
	10:32am Wild Neil: Eddie Money does rock...cannot STAND Loverboy...didn't like it then, don't like it now.
	10:33am Wild Neil: @Joe-would that be WZZO in Allentown, 95.1?? I grew up listening to that in Blairstown, NJ.
	♥ 10:33am Greg from ZONE 5: @βrian: www.whosampled.com...
	10:34am JakeGould: I like meatloaf the food.
	10:34am Wild Neil: I heard Meat Loaf sang opera....
	10:34am thedunkel: I only love my Mom's meatloaf…
	♥ 10:34am jillydg: Blue Collar Man, rockin! And a great surprise even REO and Meatloaf. Still know every word... Crazy how those lyrics plants themselves in the ol noggin'. .
	10:34am βrian: Joe, that's not pronounced "Rio" Speedwagon??
	♥ 10:35am Barney Grubbs: looks like The Alchemist and DJ Huggy are tied in the styx-sampling stakes
	10:35am Wild Neil: @Brian-its Are-EE-OH Speedwagon.
	10:36am βrian: Wow, even Cage's 4'33" was sampled twice!
	10:37am BEAVO: Pat Benatar is on tour right now with longtime husband Neil Geraldo on guitar
	10:37am βrian: I gotta stick with "Rio." Just seems ore gleeful to me.
	10:38am Wild Neil: Billy Rooth liked Angel....they are glam rock...he had dreams of being a rock star...
	♥ 10:38am jillydg: On a hot summer night...
	♥ 10:39am Joe McG: I love the name DJ Huggy. Too bad it's taken. @BEAVO: Nice to hear! I should go see her.
	10:40am Wild Neil: OK, I am bailing for awhile....
	10:40am melinda: Which girl group sang this?
	10:41am Rev. Turnip Druid: ANGEL... speaking of clay pigeon, he's the one that hepped me to their insane logo design (reads same upside down) -- being a typography nerd, I appreciate this to an un-natural degree..
	10:41am BEAVO: Punky's Whips!
	♥ 10:42am Joe McG: @melinda: I know the Rascals version best, but I'm sure someone else did it. Wikipedia says the Divinyls!
	10:42am Dean: One of the two loudest concerts I ever endured: Angel.
	♥ 10:43am Guido from Cologne: Hello Joe
	♥ 10:43am Joe McG: @Dean: What was the other?
	10:45am βrian: You want is wont to wander.
	10:45am Dean: At the risk of going all Abbott & Costello, Yes. At a stadium.
	10:46am βrian: Eh, "Your want is wont to wander."
	10:46am Dean: To establish a baseline, I've heard Mogwai in a club. Not all that loud. Meshuggah in clubs, loud, but not painfully so. Etc.
	10:47am βrian: Anne Boleyn got off easy, right Dean?
	♥ 10:47am Joe McG: Hey Guido! @Dean: Wow, Yes were loud? That surprises me for some reason.
	10:48am Dean: @βrian: Any day is a good day for Henrician humor. @Joe McG: Yes, they were. The culprit was Moraz's tizzy synthesizers blasting across centerfield. I'd heard Yes before and since, but nothing like that.
	10:49am βrian: Beware the freelance sound person for thine ears shall be laid waste to.
	♥ 10:52am Joe McG: @Brian: Maybe you need to contract disco fever.
	♥ 10:54am fred: I'd say the loudest show I ever attended was Borbetomagus
	10:56am Rev. Turnip Druid: @fred: aye, here as well. I caught Borbetomagus at DC Space here in the mid '80s. It would have to be a top three for loudest...
	10:56am Dean: @fred: I think I heard that show, and I didn't even attend.
	10:58am βrian: I think the loudest for me was actually a film showing, when Dan Savage brought Hump to town.
	♥ 10:58am Brian in UK: Hey Joe, hot and steamy over hear.
	10:59am Rev. Turnip Druid: Merzbow at DC Arts Center, late '80s... Of course Motörhead...
	♥ 11:00am Joe McG: @BrianUK: Pretty much the same here, Brian! I can't do it. My Loudest Band: Spiritualized at a small club in the 90s.
	♥ 11:00am Stevel: Yes, Motörhead. White Zombie was loud for an arena (sitting in the back.)
	♥ 11:01am fred: A Stephen O'Malley solo show in a museum came close. Strangely or not, Sun O))) don't strike me as loud, it's more like a massage
	♥ 11:01am Brian in UK: I only go to poetry readings with my friend Rik. They can get a bit raucous.
	11:02am KP: Is it safe yet?
	11:03am KP: Superman!
	11:03am βrian: See, I think it's usually some local sound board person the band hires, since they don't want to pay someone to tour with them. Someone with 80% hearing loss. I dunno.
	11:05am Dean: A sound board engineer with hearing loss reminds me of a long-gone local cafe that hired a sight-impaired diabetic as a chef.
	11:06am βrian: And for some reason, these sound people always seem to have huge sagittal crests and pronounced occipital ridges.
	♥ 11:06am Brian in UK: @Dean did it have a one-armed waiter too?
	11:06am SeanG: loudest show was Triumph mid80s
	11:08am Polyus: I think the current incarnation of Swans beats anything I have heard in the volume sweepstakes. It's a weird sort of loud, though - not shrill, not low. Right in the midrange.
	11:08am Brendan: My loudest show was The Who. Four friends and I showed up at our nosebleed seats only to discovered two very drunk guys had barfed all over the whole row and passed out. A security lady got on the walkie talkie then escorted us front row in front of Petes amp My ears are still ringing
	♥ 11:10am Devin B.: Nice! Hurry Up is awesome!
	11:13am Dean: @Brian in UK: No, but a friend of mine was a server there for a time. If a fussy local patron complained he would break wind when leaving the table.
	11:14am Dean: This was at a time well before the days of "Jackass."
	♥ 11:14am Greg from ZONE 5: D'oh! Gonna miss Prince Rama cuz I've got Mothra tix. Hopefully I'll make Electric Six.
	♥ 11:15am Brian in UK: Led Zeppelin 1975 Earls Court, London. HALF WAY BACK. Ears stopped humming at one o'clock the next day. First time I had seen a big screen next to the stage. It is the anniversary today of The Beatles playing Shea Stadium in 1965 in effect the first time a stadium was used for a music gig.
	♥ 11:15am Brian in UK: @Dean classy. Noisy or silent but deadly?
	11:16am Brendan: What? I cant hear you
	11:18am KP: Brendan, i saw the Happy Jack era Who when i was 14. Fourth row. right ear never recovered.
	11:18am Dean: @Brian in UK: Very classy. SBD. Being mere youth, we were of course enchanted with the scatological. We envisioned creating an SBD Mime Troupe. Now, of course, I'm all grown up. But fortunately my kids aren't.
	11:18am βrian: "If wind coulda kill, I am-a dead now!"
	11:18am Carmichael: Heya Joe and Surfactants. Finally back at work, and had Disco Fever on the drive in. Good talkin' with ya last week, Joe.
	♥ 11:19am Joe McG: Prince Rama: princerama.com
	11:19am Brendan: Wiki says Guinness World Records no longer celebrate loudest bands 'for fear of promoting damage to ears'
	11:20am KP: Prince Rama sounds exciting
	♥ 11:21am Brian in UK: @Dean Les Petomane Brothers. Blowing out candles from one yard and setting light etc. Timeless fun. Only grown-ups listen to WFMU.
	11:21am KP: Well Brendan some fun has been taken out of it since earplugs have become almost standard.
	11:21am Brendan: @kp id give my right ear to see them
	11:23am Wild Neil: Miinistry in the late 80's in NYC was super-loud. Also: a dude wearing an SS shirt picked me up by a belt loop and threw me about eight or ten feet. He was like 6'8". At this point, I left the pit and went upstairs to watch from the balcony. I wanna say Roseland ballroom?
	11:23am JakeGould: This Prince Rama is pretty damned good.
	11:23am KP: Haaaa! I did. Absolutely amazing. Right in front of Townshend.
	11:23am βrian: Which brings up the Petomane Freeway: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 11:23am fred: Prince Rama shows are well worth attending. They're a great live band with a contagious positive attitude.
	♥ 11:23am Joe McG: @Jake: It's going to be a great show on Thursday! They are also in Asbury Park on Friday.
	11:24am Carmichael: My loudest concert was Steppenwolf. Stood in front of a speaker stack on one side of the stage. My ears are still ringing, and the concert was in the 70s ...
	11:25am KP: Sound levels are different though since PAs started being so effective. everything goes through them. The intense physical presence of the stacks is not there.
	11:25am Brendan: Its funny that we put plugs in our ears to listen to music, like putting bumps on the roads we drive.or the people who live in front of those speed bumps wearing earplugs because of the angry motorists honking. Its a vicious cycle
	♥ 11:25am Ken From Hyde Park: Hooray! Prince Rama!
	11:26am Dean: Blazing Saddles:puerility::Scarlatti:tocatta
	♥ 11:27am Brian in UK: Joe, same old story Prince Rama visiting Europe but missing UK. Must be the referendum.
	♥ 11:27am Tim 07030: And if you're going to the show Thursday I recommend getting there in time to see the opener, Hey Anna (THREE sisters in this band). I saw them for the first time last month and they were tremendous.
	♥ 11:27am fred: A word of warning about Prince Rama shows: you might end up hugging strangers
	11:28am KP: There are no strangers at wfmu
	11:30am Wild Neil: Does Prince Rama like Styx?
	11:31am βrian: Steppenwolf? Were they playing in a dumpy bar on Dort Hwy, Flint, Michigan?
	11:34am Brendan: A stranger is just someone I haven't hugged yet.
	♥ 11:35am Joe McG: Tickets to Prince Rama this Thursday: montyhall.ticketfly.com...
	11:36am Carmichael: They could have been, Brian. However, I saw them in Tucson AZ, in an equally dumpy beer bar.
	♥ 11:37am Ken From Hyde Park: If it weren't for Beavis and Butt-head, I wouldn't have known about Deee-Lite. Hoo boy.
	♥ 11:38am Ken From Hyde Park: Also, Bootsie is cool!
	11:38am Wild Neil: Our buyer has a ground hog right outside his window to his office.
	♥ 11:38am fred: I would have thought Deee-Lite were way before their time, but it makes sense
	11:40am Brendan: Did these guys ever get hats when they made it?
	11:40am Wild Neil: Ground hog=marmot. Marmota Monax. @Brendan-they did, but Devo stole the package off the porch and took their hats and called them Energy Domes. NoT!
	♥ 11:41am Ken From Hyde Park: Furthermore: Bootsy. Dumb autocorrect.
	♥ 11:43am Joe McG: @Ken: Don't worry. Yes, it was Bootsy and Q-Tip on that remix. I like it better than the LP version.
	♥ 11:45am Greg from ZONE 5: Agreed, Joe. Bootsy & Q-Tip make perfect songs better.
	11:46am βrian: I'm thinking of ducking out for a triple espresso, but I fear I'll need something stronger.
	11:49am Wild Neil: This show was literally all over the place today. Really. Wow. Talk about free form.
	11:53am JakeGould: Has Bootsy considered making a “Bootsie Roll?” I mean, Tootsie Rolls are kinda grandparent candy nowadays… They need to tap into that lucrative youth market again.
	♥ 11:53am Brian in UK: Great show, Joe. Hope you fans keep you cool.
	11:53am Wild Neil: I REALLY like Johnny Cash.
	11:53am βrian: Like an iridescent amoeba, even! Thanks, Joe.
	♥ 11:53am fred: So cool that Nimai would request Johnny Cash
	♥ 11:56am Joe McG: Well, it's been a weird one, friends! Thanks for listening and commenting. Have a great week and see you again next Monday! Don't forget to check out Prince Rama.
	11:57am Wild Neil: Prince Rama: Slip Into Nevermore is clicky star for me. Awesome!
	11:58am Dean: Loudest Surface Noise ever!
	♥ 11:58am fred: Damn, they're playing in Paris next month, but it's an overnight show. I know the drill and the venue: it's a three-hour walk through clumps of aggressive drunks to get back home
	♥ 11:59am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Joe!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from August 15, 2016

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