WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from February 6, 2017

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	9:03am B^): hey
	9:03am Cheri Pi: Boing Boing!
	♥ 9:04am psysci: Ray Dee OH
	♥ 9:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...'welll I reel-eyez - that I been hip - no -tized - I love your Gypsee Eyahuhz'...Sorry DA DJ put 'ElectricLadyLand' in my head...not tired of the yip-yips yet! :) ...
	9:08am Polyus: clap clap clap clap clap clap
	9:09am Polyus: (on the twos and fours)
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: Happy Monday morning, everyone. Today I have excavated music from the WFMU basement library and will be playing some of my finds.
	♥ 9:12am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Let us hope you manage to shift all the swag before next month.
	♥ 9:12am Sem Chumbo: Flute WITH bongo. Now that's cool, daddy-o. Hiya, Joe, and McGaskos attending.
	♥ 9:13am Ken From Hyde Park: Yip yip, Joe. Mining the mother lodes, Doug Schulkind-style?
	♥ 9:14am Joe McG: @Brian: We love it so much we can't let it leave the building.
	9:14am KP: Hey, daddy-o I don't want to go down to the basement
	9:14am Rev. Turnip Druid: Björn Boing!
	♥ 9:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...it's called a Cuíca - & I won't forget this time...I won't...
	♥ 9:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...cause the Cuíca is a squeaka...
	♥ 9:21am Passaic River Blues: PRINCE RAKEEM A/K/A RZA A/K/A BOBBY DIGITAL! Your friend and mine. Thank you for this one, Joe.
	♥ 9:22am MD: Good Morning Sleepy Heads all over da World!!!
	♥ 9:22am MattBelow: Hey Joe! Long time no listen!
	♥ 9:23am Joe McG: Hey Matt! My, you're up early!
	9:24am JtotheK: Rakeem aka the RZA...great to hear this!
	♥ 9:25am MattBelow: "Workin' for the man every night and day..."
	♥ 9:25am melinda: Meatballs!
	♥ 9:26am melinda: What an unexpected treat.
	♥ 9:28am Joe McG: "You don't want to be a meatball with meat sauce on your face"??
	♥ 9:33am Brian in UK: Tommy Boy, that was Monica's label.
	9:35am V Priceless: hey Joe and people of Joe!
	♥ 9:36am Fuzzy: You got Billy and Dusty too.
	9:37am JakeGould: Hey! Hey daddy-o! Joe is gonna go! Dowwwwn to the basement!
	♥ 9:40am Guido from Cologne: I send the German version of "Disco Duck"! Brian Turner say's it's awful! I found it fun!
	9:40am Polyus: "Get me Rick Dees on the line. We need someone that's hot with the kids right now".
	9:40am PKNY: Rick Dees was also in one of the worst movies I've seen over the past few years: "Record City". Imagine "Car Wash", but set in a record store. Thank goodness it was free on Amazon Prime, I'd have been mad if I spent money to watch it--> www.imdb.com...
	♥ 9:42am doctorjazz: HI Joe and you noisy folks out there!
	9:43am Brendan: Of all the gin joints... play it again Joe!
	9:44am JakeGould: To be fair, a lot of the German versions of many things is a bit "off." So hey!
	♥ 9:46am Stevel: Godfathers! (Not the spunkiest version I've heard though.)
	♥ 9:46am Bootsie: The Godfathers!!
	9:47am ?: Cary Grant's on LSD!! What a lyric! Nice one, Joe -- don't know this version, just the much faster version.
	9:50am JakeGould: Really liking this Joe.
	9:52am Polyus: Jeez, I actually saw The Call live, like 50 years ago.
	♥ 9:52am Joe McG: Nice to have you along, Jake.
	♥ 9:52am Marcel M: Fun show, Joe!
	9:53am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: This is awesome Joe, we're both doing our archeology jobs today :)
	9:54am KP: This was yuge
	♥ 9:54am MD: THE GOOD OLD DAYS IN THE USA WHEN RICH PEOPLE PAYED TAXES!!!
	♥ 9:54am Fuzzy: "Hey Bob -- hand me that big chunk of uranium over there..."
	♥ 9:55am ChrisB.: Backstage at the Atomic Bomb? That's what I call All Access!
	9:55am βrian: "Gone fission," read the sign.
	♥ 9:55am MD: the good old days when radioactive material was good for us!
	♥ 9:56am Joe McG: Thanks, Marcel. Nice to see you, Karen!
	9:56am Emily C: Oh! This is fascinating. What a thing to wake up to! Good morning, Joe :)
	♥ 9:57am Joe McG: Good morning, Emily! I love this guy's accent!
	♥ 9:57am Fuzzy: Check out the atomic bomb craters NW of Las Vegas sometime on Google Maps -- that's some crazy shit!
	♥ 9:57am ChrisB.: "And Oy Vey, such a noise!"
	9:58am JakeGould: These guys are taking about nuclear weapons as if they are scary things.
	♥ 9:58am MD: And I have become Death...
	9:58am Emily C: So do I! Who is he??
	9:58am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: A coyote howled in the distance for the last time...
	9:59am Listener Robert: This sounds like the original of "The Walls Came Down". I liked it very much when it started getting air play. Something electrifying about the lyric "Who's laughing now?"
	♥ 9:59am MD: I am in a great Monday morning mood!!!
	♥ 9:59am Fuzzy: Nah...people used to sit on the rooftop of Atomic Liquors in LV and watch the fireworks.
	♥ 10:00am Ken From Hyde Park: Joe, besides cuing up records, checking swag, planning a marathon, giving the station ID, etc., can you go out and check on the 90.1 transmitter? I don't seem to be receiving a signal this morning.
	♥ 10:01am Marcel M: The 1 percenters used to be motorcycle freaks?
	♥ 10:02am MD: THIS GUY IS HIP!!!!!!!!!!
	♥ 10:02am MD: DADDYO!!!
	10:02am Clïff in Prägůe: I'm hip to this guy's rap, man.
	10:03am Brendan: The biker narrator was on acid
	♥ 10:03am Brian in UK: Holy Mackeral, that's just how I feel. The open road, the wind in my hair. A chick on the pillion. Giving it to the man. Yeah.
	10:04am Clïff in Prägůe: I'll be he has some swingin' chicks back at his pad. Groovy.
	10:06am Cecile: I feel like I went to the big gay superbowl party at my neighborhood bar where they were handing out jello shots after every touchdown. But I stayed at home and had one beer. Yet I feel like crap. Growing old sucks.
	♥ 10:09am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning all! LOVED that Prince Rakeem track.
	♥ 10:14am Marcel M: Is this guy Old Codgers brother?
	10:14am Brendan: Is this the Mark Twain thing he did?
	♥ 10:15am Joe McG: @Marcel: ha ha ha @Brendan: Yup!
	10:15am Clïff in Prägůe: Uris Hall at Cornell has a display case full of people's brains.
	♥ 10:15am Marcel M: Nice Dreyfus affair reference.
	10:15am Brendan: Ah say ah say this is highly irregular!
	♥ 10:16am Brian in UK: Quite timely.
	10:17am JakeGould: Hal Holbrook is America. Or something like that.
	10:19am βrian: Dreyfus? I missed that. What?
	♥ 10:21am doctorjazz: Just killing it with this set, Joe!
	♥ 10:22am Brian in UK: Joe, time for a Johnny Prine special, 'cause he is.
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: Nice to have you along, good doctor!
	♥ 10:23am Whosondephone: I love these record Library shows Joe keep them coming.
	♥ 10:25am Joe McG: @whos: It's so much fun to dig around down there. I'm not going to wait another 5 years to do my next one, I can tell you that.
	10:26am FernandoBelmondo: The Handsome Family should always make the cut.
	♥ 10:26am Marcel M: @Joe: You think some Jandek will eventually end up down there?
	♥ 10:26am Brian in UK: Misheard lyrics John P's That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round. Should be It's half an inch of water and you think your going to drown. Heard as Half an enchilada and you think your going to drown.
	10:26am Listener Robert: Wait for the next flood from below, Mr. McG.
	♥ 10:26am Joe McG: @Marcel: Never.
	10:28am Emily C: This is wonderful. Handsome Family, especially. I'm on the edge of my seat to see what's next!
	10:29am βrian: I heard it from JP's account as "a happy enchilada."
	♥ 10:31am Brian in UK: @βrian Sounds even better. Let's not split enchiladas.
	♥ 10:31am Nate K.: I can only assume that the station has two copies of Fandango! and one lives in the basement. If not, we need to have a serious discussion.
	10:32am βrian: "May the sun fall softly on your back and may your enchiladas always be happy ones."
	10:34am Listener Robert: Now that WMFU's up, I notice the stream is several MINUTES behind, which means DA the DJ probably actually got out on time.
	10:34am SeanG: love the sixths
	10:35am melinda: I think I saw the Call backing Harry Dean Stanton. The Walls Came Down got some play on MTV at the time.
	♥ 10:35am Passaic River Blues: The 6ths! Keep 'em coming, Joe!
	10:35am melinda: Love the 6ths
	10:35am Listener Robert: At least you're not using NewtRadio's streaming service, which frequently cuts in with completely unrelated programming.
	♥ 10:35am Brian in UK: Joe, Hyacinths and Thistles is wonderful. Go on say it on air.
	10:36am SeanG: hi melinda :-)
	10:36am melinda: Hi Sean!
	10:37am Snortley: In Brazilian Portuguese, "barato" is roughly equivalent to English slang "cool."
	♥ 10:37am Brian in UK: As an aside on The Sixths' H & T Ken & Monica get name checks.
	♥ 10:37am Joe McG: @Snortley: Thanks! I was reading promo copy on the CD that turns out to be wrong!
	10:39am KP: I also saw the Call. Their bass player Michael Been, who was the whole act on stage, fairly recently died while doing sound st a festival for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. His son was in the band
	♥ 10:39am Joe McG: @KP: Oh, how sad!
	10:40am melinda: @Brian: I have the H and T album but was not aware of that
	10:40am Snortley: Strange interpretation. Oddly, the word's literal meaning is "low priced."
	♥ 10:40am Uncle Michael: I missed the Call? (just got here) Garth Hudson produced that record!
	♥ 10:41am Ken From Hyde Park: 90.1 working normally now...yay!
	♥ 10:42am doctorjazz: How about, "Walk on the Kosher Side"? www.youtube.com...
	10:42am Andy in Berlin: I think I actually remember this song! Very clever, though I guess very timely. And maybe now timely again?
	♥ 10:42am Hoboken Jack: Enjoying your basement tapes, Joe!
	10:43am FernandoBelmondo: Barato is also a 60s slang for the effects of psychodelic drugs.
	♥ 10:44am Joe McG: Thanks, Jack! good to see you. And thanks everyone for clearing up "barato"!
	10:44am JakeGould: Oh Jesus. Am in social studies class in 1983?
	♥ 10:44am Planet Tyler: O boy I'm a day late hearing about David Axelrod.
	10:45am ?: Let's not forget Gefilte Joe & the Fish and "Take a Walk on the Kosher Side"
	10:47am Will: That is sad about Michael Been from the Call. I think he was the vocalist and main songwriter too.
	10:47am thatpatsmith: great cover!
	♥ 10:48am doctorjazz: I remember this "Renee" cover, really like it.
	♥ 10:49am SSS: Gotta love Tommy Jones.
	♥ 10:50am SSS: That was him, yes?
	♥ 10:51am Joe McG: @SSS: No, but I think he might've cut a version!
	10:52am PKNY: My wife loves "Don't Pull Your Love", so now it looks like I have an excuse to look for the 45, thanks Joe!
	10:55am Parq: The Tops' "Rene" is in the basement? Man.
	♥ 10:58am psysci: It was left in the bank for Joe hurdy hur hur
	10:59am Cecile: How is ERP doing these days. He had some good songs.
	10:59am KP: Is East River Pipe also represented upstairs. I remember them as pretty promising
	♥ 11:01am Joe McG: @KP: Yes, Mr. Cornog was an FMU fave. In fact, two DJs are thanked on this single's sleeve!
	11:01am Cecile: He actually has been busy as a family man these days. That's a happy thing.
	11:02am Cecile: I'm glad I looked it up.
	♥ 11:02am ChrisB.: Is this one of DEVO's alter-ego bands?
	♥ 11:03am Brian in UK: The Gasoline Age is by far my favourite ERP album. Top notch for a bedroom recording.
	♥ 11:04am Joe McG: @Brian: I like the single comp, "Shining Hours in a Can."
	♥ 11:04am JtotheK: excellent Supremes track.
	♥ 11:08am Guido from Cologne: they must have been called the Primettes
	♥ 11:08am Guido from Cologne: But the Primettes were with Diana Ross
	11:08am Joe B: it's Flo Ballard on lead. and Berry thought the same thing and stopped promoting it, ainstead promoted the b side
	11:11am Joe B: They never recorded as the Primettes for motown - Gordy made it one of the conditions of signing to motown was letting him change their name
	♥ 11:11am Brian in UK: Levi Stubbs vocals makes that record, thereagain he does with most Four Tops records.
	♥ 11:12am Guido from Cologne: OK, thanks Joe B.
	11:12am Joe B: the b-side by the way of Buttered Popcorn was none other than Who's Lovin' You by Smokey Robinson!
	11:13am Joe B: they did have at least one single as the Primettes though for another local label whose name escapes me at this moment
	♥ 11:13am Mick: motownjunkies.co.uk... The views expressed by the blog do not necessarily represent the views of this listener.
	♥ 11:14am Guido from Cologne: That's it, Joe, I have The Primettes on a comp CD. "History Of Mototr Town" or sth. like this.
	♥ 11:16am Joe McG: Thanks for all your Motown guidance, radio friends!
	♥ 11:18am Greg from ZONE 5: In Greg from Zone 5's reality, this was a chart-topping summertime hit.
	♥ 11:19am Joe McG: @Greg: Ha!
	11:19am Carmichael: Heya Joe and hepcats.
	11:19am Joe B: definitely file that east river pipe upstairs!
	♥ 11:20am Joe McG: @JoeB: Can you check to see if we already have a copy in there? If not, it's staying up!
	♥ 11:20am Brian in UK: Hey Carmichael, the Sacramento Scallywag. How's Spencer doing?
	11:22am Carmichael: @UK Brian: Spencey boy is AOK, guarding the fencelines against the evil squirrels. How about your Spencer?
	11:27am Dennis Diken: diggin' the show Joe!
	♥ 11:28am Joe McG: Thanks, Dennis! How about this crazy Buddy cover?
	11:30am Dennis Diken: I've heard worse...I think?
	♥ 11:31am Joe McG: @Dennis: Ha ha ha!
	11:31am Parq: Catholic girls! WFMU hipped me to them in the first place. The backbeat on this track, and all the many bands who used it at the time, was the soundtrack of my salad days.
	11:32am MFOOZ: Catholic Girls -- all-time epic album cover!
	11:34am Listener Alexandra: Wow. Haven't heard this song in decades!
	♥ 11:34am Hoboken Jack: Huey Lewis, pride of the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville NJ!
	11:35am Mark in Toronto: Catholic Girls sound like they're borrowing from the Jags "Back of My Hand", who of course borrowed heavily from a Mr. E. Costello
	11:38am Parq: I still remember FMU broadcasting a live Cath Girls set. Can't remember the venue. During a break between songs, some joker yelled out "I'm gonna convert!"
	♥ 11:40am MD: GREASED LIGHTIN'!!!
	♥ 11:41am ChrisB.: Must be nice to know you can always pull together a solid show from the basement!
	♥ 11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gittarz !...Huh - I'ma clicky☆ HueyLewis...
	11:42am Bronwyn Bishop: hey joe and everyone!
	♥ 11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'We're all sons of B.B. King.' - CarlosSantana
	♥ 11:45am Passaic River Blues: That Johnny Adams song was truth in action. I need to incorporate that into my upstairs library.
	11:46am Parq: How could a record by a New Orleans musician named Boozoo Chavis possibly not be great?
	♥ 11:48am Brian in UK: Carmichael, He is ruled by his nose as ever. Becoming a bit wimpish in his middle age.
	♥ 11:48am ChrisB.: Don't go to Bingo, Lula! I have Yahtzee!
	♥ 11:50am Brian in UK: There had to be some polkaring in there to finish things off.
	♥ 11:52am Guido from Cologne: Thanks so much 4 the entertainment. CU
	♥ 11:53am Joe McG: My pleasure, Guido. Thanks so much to everyone who listened. Hope you enjoyed the basement treasures! Have a great week.
	11:54am Emily C: Immensely. What a show, sheesh.
	11:55am Listener Robert: Honestly, Mr. McG, they were noticeably less interesting than your usual fare, avg. vs. avg., but a few of great interest, plus interesting to hear what you'd pick.
	♥ 11:57am Passaic River Blues: Great concept and great show--thank you!
	11:58am JakeGould: Thanks Joe!
	♥ 11:59am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks Joe!
	♥ 11:03am Whosondephone: the whole kitten Kaboodle

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from February 6, 2017

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February 6, 2017: Up from the Basement Revisited

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
BOSQ	Celestial Strut "Celestial Strut" by "BOSQ"	Celestial Strut	Ubiquity	2015	CD		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Björn J:son Lindh	Bull Dog "Bull Dog" by "Björn J:son Lindh"	Sissel	Metronome	1971	LP		0:08:43 (Pop-up)
Herbie Mann	Rivers of Babylon "Rivers of Babylon" by "Herbie Mann"	Reggae	Atlantic	1974	LP		0:16:07 (Pop-up)
Prince Rakeem	Ooh I Love You Rakeem	12" single	Tommy Boy	1991	12"	"Baggin' Ladies Instrumental"	0:20:10 (Pop-up)
Rick Dees	Meatballs "Meatballs" by "Rick Dees"	Meatballs: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture	RSO	1979	LP		0:24:12 (Pop-up)
Love Craft	Ain't Gettin' None "Ain't Gettin' None" by "Love Craft"	We Love You (Whoever You Are)	Mercury	1975	LP		0:29:04 (Pop-up)
ZZ Top	Heard It on the X "Heard It on the X" by "ZZ Top"	Fandango!	London	1975	LP		0:32:01 (Pop-up)

Ass Ponys	Earth to Grandma "Earth to Grandma" by "Ass Ponys"	CD single	A&M	1995	CD		0:42:34 (Pop-up)
The Godfathers	If I Only Had Time	The BBC Session	Strange Fruit / Dutch East India	1989	CD	From 1986	0:44:58 (Pop-up)
The Call	The Walls Came Down "The Walls Came Down" by "The Call"	Modern Romans	Mercury	1983	LP		0:47:31 (Pop-up)
Bob Hope, William L. Laurence, et al.	The Biography of the Atom (excerpt)	The Quick and the Dead - The Story of the Atom Bomb Volume 1	RCA Victor	1950	LP		0:51:50 (Pop-up)
Chris Martell	It's a Revolution Mother	It's a Revolution Mother Motion Picture Sound Track	KW Pictures Corp.	1969	LP		0:58:52 (Pop-up)
The Mosquitos	Sunshine Barato "Sunshine Barato" by "The Mosquitos"	Sunshine Barato	Bar None	2004	CD		1:02:03 (Pop-up)
The Howard Roberts Quartet	Dirty Old Bossa Nova	H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player	Sundazed	2002	CD	From 1963	1:04:09 (Pop-up)
Charlie Byrd	This Can't Be Love "This Can't Be Love" by "Charlie Byrd"	Midnight Guitar	Savoy Jazz	1978	LP	From 1957	1:06:19 (Pop-up)
Walt Koken	Hei-Wa Hoedown "Hei-Wa Hoedown" by "Walt Koken"	Hei-Wa Hoedown	Rounder	1995	CD		1:08:58 (Pop-up)
Hal Holbrook	My Ancestor Satan "My Ancestor Satan" by "Hal Holbrook"	More of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!	Columbia Masterworks	1961	LP		1:11:43 (Pop-up)
The Kentucky Headhunters	Skip a Rope	PIckin' on Nashville	Mercury	1989	LP		1:16:48 (Pop-up)
Kris Kristofferson and Joan Baez	Hello in There	Big Sur Festival - One Hand Clapping	Columbia	1972	LP		1:19:42 (Pop-up)
The Handsome Family	Little Sparrows	Honey Moon	Carrot Top	2009	CD		1:22:52 (Pop-up)

Single File: all singles from the WFMU Basement Library this week
The 6ths	All Dressed Up in Dreams	single	London	1995	7"	vocal: Mary Timony	1:34:55 (Pop-up)
Twig	Fall of Love "Fall of Love" by "Twig"	single	Harriet	1993	45		1:37:10 (Pop-up)
Fred Small	Walk on the Supply Side	single	Aquifer	1982	45		1:39:52 (Pop-up)
The Leopards	Psychedelic Boy "Psychedelic Boy" by "The Leopards"	single	Voxx	1986	45		1:43:35 (Pop-up)
Four Tops	Walk Away Renee "Walk Away Renee" by "Four Tops"	single	Motown	1967	45		1:46:14 (Pop-up)
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	Funk-in-Wagnal	single	Dunhill-abc	1971	45		1:48:57 (Pop-up)
The Knobs	Nun "Nun" by "The Knobs"	single	Request O Matic	1984	45		1:52:23 (Pop-up)
Suburban Youth	Guitar All Night "Guitar All Night" by "Suburban Youth"	single	Request O Matic	1983	45		1:54:37 (Pop-up)
East River Pipe	Make a Deal with the City	single	Hell Gate	1992	45		1:56:53 (Pop-up)
The Wrong Band	The Wrong Song "The Wrong Song" by "The Wrong Band"	single	What	1983	45		1:59:39 (Pop-up)
Supremes	Buttered Popcorn "Buttered Popcorn" by "Supremes"	single	Tamla/Motown	2015	45	From 1959	2:03:03 (Pop-up)

Tone	Lo "Lo" by "Tone"	Sustain	Independent Project	1996	CD		2:14:44 (Pop-up)
The Fever	Ladyfingers "Ladyfingers" by "The Fever"	Pink on Pink EP	Kemado	2003	CD		2:20:54 (Pop-up)
The Flips	I Just Don't Know Where I Stand	single	HoZac	2010	45		2:24:55 (Pop-up)
Ruby Starr	Love's Made a Fool of You	Smokey Places	Capitol	1977	LP		2:27:04 (Pop-up)
Catholic Girls	C'est Impossible "C'est Impossible" by "Catholic Girls"	Catholic Girls	MCA	1982	LP		2:30:01 (Pop-up)
Huey Lewis and the News	Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner or Later)	Huey Lewis and the News	Chrysalis	1980	LP		2:33:02 (Pop-up)
The Cowpokes	Zither Magic "Zither Magic" by "The Cowpokes"	Hey Judy	Circularphile	1990	CD		2:36:05 (Pop-up)
The Hot Shots	Guitar Battle "Guitar Battle" by "The Hot Shots"	Wise Up, Watch Out	Dionysus	1999	CD	featuring Deke Dickerson	2:37:45 (Pop-up)
Johnny Adams	Life Is a Struggle "Life Is a Struggle" by "Johnny Adams"	I Won't Cry	Rounder	1991	CD		2:39:31 (Pop-up)
B.B. King	When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer	Blues Kingpins: B.B. King	Virgin	2003	CD	From 1954	2:41:54 (Pop-up)
Boozoo Chavis	Lula Lula Don't You Go to Bingo	Johnny Billy Goat	Rounder Heritage	2000	CD		2:44:50 (Pop-up)
JPP	Myllypolkka Ja Eriks Polkan "Myllypolkka Ja Eriks Polkan" by "JPP"	Devil's Polska: New Finnish Folk Fiddling	Green Linnet	1994	CD		2:48:32 (Pop-up)
The Greg Foat Group	Girl and Robot with Flowers (Part I)	Girl and Robot with Flowers	Jazzman	2012	CD		2:52:03 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am B^): hey
	9:03am Cheri Pi: Boing Boing!
	♥ 9:04am psysci: Ray Dee OH
	♥ 9:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...'welll I reel-eyez - that I been hip - no -tized - I love your Gypsee Eyahuhz'...Sorry DA DJ put 'ElectricLadyLand' in my head...not tired of the yip-yips yet! :) ...
	9:08am Polyus: clap clap clap clap clap clap
	9:09am Polyus: (on the twos and fours)
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: Happy Monday morning, everyone. Today I have excavated music from the WFMU basement library and will be playing some of my finds.
	♥ 9:12am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Let us hope you manage to shift all the swag before next month.
	♥ 9:12am Sem Chumbo: Flute WITH bongo. Now that's cool, daddy-o. Hiya, Joe, and McGaskos attending.
	♥ 9:13am Ken From Hyde Park: Yip yip, Joe. Mining the mother lodes, Doug Schulkind-style?
	♥ 9:14am Joe McG: @Brian: We love it so much we can't let it leave the building.
	9:14am KP: Hey, daddy-o I don't want to go down to the basement
	9:14am Rev. Turnip Druid: Björn Boing!
	♥ 9:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...it's called a Cuíca - & I won't forget this time...I won't...
	♥ 9:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...cause the Cuíca is a squeaka...
	♥ 9:21am Passaic River Blues: PRINCE RAKEEM A/K/A RZA A/K/A BOBBY DIGITAL! Your friend and mine. Thank you for this one, Joe.
	♥ 9:22am MD: Good Morning Sleepy Heads all over da World!!!
	♥ 9:22am MattBelow: Hey Joe! Long time no listen!
	♥ 9:23am Joe McG: Hey Matt! My, you're up early!
	9:24am JtotheK: Rakeem aka the RZA...great to hear this!
	♥ 9:25am MattBelow: "Workin' for the man every night and day..."
	♥ 9:25am melinda: Meatballs!
	♥ 9:26am melinda: What an unexpected treat.
	♥ 9:28am Joe McG: "You don't want to be a meatball with meat sauce on your face"??
	♥ 9:33am Brian in UK: Tommy Boy, that was Monica's label.
	9:35am V Priceless: hey Joe and people of Joe!
	♥ 9:36am Fuzzy: You got Billy and Dusty too.
	9:37am JakeGould: Hey! Hey daddy-o! Joe is gonna go! Dowwwwn to the basement!
	♥ 9:40am Guido from Cologne: I send the German version of "Disco Duck"! Brian Turner say's it's awful! I found it fun!
	9:40am Polyus: "Get me Rick Dees on the line. We need someone that's hot with the kids right now".
	9:40am PKNY: Rick Dees was also in one of the worst movies I've seen over the past few years: "Record City". Imagine "Car Wash", but set in a record store. Thank goodness it was free on Amazon Prime, I'd have been mad if I spent money to watch it--> www.imdb.com...
	♥ 9:42am doctorjazz: HI Joe and you noisy folks out there!
	9:43am Brendan: Of all the gin joints... play it again Joe!
	9:44am JakeGould: To be fair, a lot of the German versions of many things is a bit "off." So hey!
	♥ 9:46am Stevel: Godfathers! (Not the spunkiest version I've heard though.)
	♥ 9:46am Bootsie: The Godfathers!!
	9:47am ?: Cary Grant's on LSD!! What a lyric! Nice one, Joe -- don't know this version, just the much faster version.
	9:50am JakeGould: Really liking this Joe.
	9:52am Polyus: Jeez, I actually saw The Call live, like 50 years ago.
	♥ 9:52am Joe McG: Nice to have you along, Jake.
	♥ 9:52am Marcel M: Fun show, Joe!
	9:53am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: This is awesome Joe, we're both doing our archeology jobs today :)
	9:54am KP: This was yuge
	♥ 9:54am MD: THE GOOD OLD DAYS IN THE USA WHEN RICH PEOPLE PAYED TAXES!!!
	♥ 9:54am Fuzzy: "Hey Bob -- hand me that big chunk of uranium over there..."
	♥ 9:55am ChrisB.: Backstage at the Atomic Bomb? That's what I call All Access!
	9:55am βrian: "Gone fission," read the sign.
	♥ 9:55am MD: the good old days when radioactive material was good for us!
	♥ 9:56am Joe McG: Thanks, Marcel. Nice to see you, Karen!
	9:56am Emily C: Oh! This is fascinating. What a thing to wake up to! Good morning, Joe :)
	♥ 9:57am Joe McG: Good morning, Emily! I love this guy's accent!
	♥ 9:57am Fuzzy: Check out the atomic bomb craters NW of Las Vegas sometime on Google Maps -- that's some crazy shit!
	♥ 9:57am ChrisB.: "And Oy Vey, such a noise!"
	9:58am JakeGould: These guys are taking about nuclear weapons as if they are scary things.
	♥ 9:58am MD: And I have become Death...
	9:58am Emily C: So do I! Who is he??
	9:58am Karen in Sleepy Hollow: A coyote howled in the distance for the last time...
	9:59am Listener Robert: This sounds like the original of "The Walls Came Down". I liked it very much when it started getting air play. Something electrifying about the lyric "Who's laughing now?"
	♥ 9:59am MD: I am in a great Monday morning mood!!!
	♥ 9:59am Fuzzy: Nah...people used to sit on the rooftop of Atomic Liquors in LV and watch the fireworks.
	♥ 10:00am Ken From Hyde Park: Joe, besides cuing up records, checking swag, planning a marathon, giving the station ID, etc., can you go out and check on the 90.1 transmitter? I don't seem to be receiving a signal this morning.
	♥ 10:01am Marcel M: The 1 percenters used to be motorcycle freaks?
	♥ 10:02am MD: THIS GUY IS HIP!!!!!!!!!!
	♥ 10:02am MD: DADDYO!!!
	10:02am Clïff in Prägůe: I'm hip to this guy's rap, man.
	10:03am Brendan: The biker narrator was on acid
	♥ 10:03am Brian in UK: Holy Mackeral, that's just how I feel. The open road, the wind in my hair. A chick on the pillion. Giving it to the man. Yeah.
	10:04am Clïff in Prägůe: I'll be he has some swingin' chicks back at his pad. Groovy.
	10:06am Cecile: I feel like I went to the big gay superbowl party at my neighborhood bar where they were handing out jello shots after every touchdown. But I stayed at home and had one beer. Yet I feel like crap. Growing old sucks.
	♥ 10:09am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning all! LOVED that Prince Rakeem track.
	♥ 10:14am Marcel M: Is this guy Old Codgers brother?
	10:14am Brendan: Is this the Mark Twain thing he did?
	♥ 10:15am Joe McG: @Marcel: ha ha ha @Brendan: Yup!
	10:15am Clïff in Prägůe: Uris Hall at Cornell has a display case full of people's brains.
	♥ 10:15am Marcel M: Nice Dreyfus affair reference.
	10:15am Brendan: Ah say ah say this is highly irregular!
	♥ 10:16am Brian in UK: Quite timely.
	10:17am JakeGould: Hal Holbrook is America. Or something like that.
	10:19am βrian: Dreyfus? I missed that. What?
	♥ 10:21am doctorjazz: Just killing it with this set, Joe!
	♥ 10:22am Brian in UK: Joe, time for a Johnny Prine special, 'cause he is.
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: Nice to have you along, good doctor!
	♥ 10:23am Whosondephone: I love these record Library shows Joe keep them coming.
	♥ 10:25am Joe McG: @whos: It's so much fun to dig around down there. I'm not going to wait another 5 years to do my next one, I can tell you that.
	10:26am FernandoBelmondo: The Handsome Family should always make the cut.
	♥ 10:26am Marcel M: @Joe: You think some Jandek will eventually end up down there?
	♥ 10:26am Brian in UK: Misheard lyrics John P's That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round. Should be It's half an inch of water and you think your going to drown. Heard as Half an enchilada and you think your going to drown.
	10:26am Listener Robert: Wait for the next flood from below, Mr. McG.
	♥ 10:26am Joe McG: @Marcel: Never.
	10:28am Emily C: This is wonderful. Handsome Family, especially. I'm on the edge of my seat to see what's next!
	10:29am βrian: I heard it from JP's account as "a happy enchilada."
	♥ 10:31am Brian in UK: @βrian Sounds even better. Let's not split enchiladas.
	♥ 10:31am Nate K.: I can only assume that the station has two copies of Fandango! and one lives in the basement. If not, we need to have a serious discussion.
	10:32am βrian: "May the sun fall softly on your back and may your enchiladas always be happy ones."
	10:34am Listener Robert: Now that WMFU's up, I notice the stream is several MINUTES behind, which means DA the DJ probably actually got out on time.
	10:34am SeanG: love the sixths
	10:35am melinda: I think I saw the Call backing Harry Dean Stanton. The Walls Came Down got some play on MTV at the time.
	♥ 10:35am Passaic River Blues: The 6ths! Keep 'em coming, Joe!
	10:35am melinda: Love the 6ths
	10:35am Listener Robert: At least you're not using NewtRadio's streaming service, which frequently cuts in with completely unrelated programming.
	♥ 10:35am Brian in UK: Joe, Hyacinths and Thistles is wonderful. Go on say it on air.
	10:36am SeanG: hi melinda :-)
	10:36am melinda: Hi Sean!
	10:37am Snortley: In Brazilian Portuguese, "barato" is roughly equivalent to English slang "cool."
	♥ 10:37am Brian in UK: As an aside on The Sixths' H & T Ken & Monica get name checks.
	♥ 10:37am Joe McG: @Snortley: Thanks! I was reading promo copy on the CD that turns out to be wrong!
	10:39am KP: I also saw the Call. Their bass player Michael Been, who was the whole act on stage, fairly recently died while doing sound st a festival for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. His son was in the band
	♥ 10:39am Joe McG: @KP: Oh, how sad!
	10:40am melinda: @Brian: I have the H and T album but was not aware of that
	10:40am Snortley: Strange interpretation. Oddly, the word's literal meaning is "low priced."
	♥ 10:40am Uncle Michael: I missed the Call? (just got here) Garth Hudson produced that record!
	♥ 10:41am Ken From Hyde Park: 90.1 working normally now...yay!
	♥ 10:42am doctorjazz: How about, "Walk on the Kosher Side"? www.youtube.com...
	10:42am Andy in Berlin: I think I actually remember this song! Very clever, though I guess very timely. And maybe now timely again?
	♥ 10:42am Hoboken Jack: Enjoying your basement tapes, Joe!
	10:43am FernandoBelmondo: Barato is also a 60s slang for the effects of psychodelic drugs.
	♥ 10:44am Joe McG: Thanks, Jack! good to see you. And thanks everyone for clearing up "barato"!
	10:44am JakeGould: Oh Jesus. Am in social studies class in 1983?
	♥ 10:44am Planet Tyler: O boy I'm a day late hearing about David Axelrod.
	10:45am ?: Let's not forget Gefilte Joe & the Fish and "Take a Walk on the Kosher Side"
	10:47am Will: That is sad about Michael Been from the Call. I think he was the vocalist and main songwriter too.
	10:47am thatpatsmith: great cover!
	♥ 10:48am doctorjazz: I remember this "Renee" cover, really like it.
	♥ 10:49am SSS: Gotta love Tommy Jones.
	♥ 10:50am SSS: That was him, yes?
	♥ 10:51am Joe McG: @SSS: No, but I think he might've cut a version!
	10:52am PKNY: My wife loves "Don't Pull Your Love", so now it looks like I have an excuse to look for the 45, thanks Joe!
	10:55am Parq: The Tops' "Rene" is in the basement? Man.
	♥ 10:58am psysci: It was left in the bank for Joe hurdy hur hur
	10:59am Cecile: How is ERP doing these days. He had some good songs.
	10:59am KP: Is East River Pipe also represented upstairs. I remember them as pretty promising
	♥ 11:01am Joe McG: @KP: Yes, Mr. Cornog was an FMU fave. In fact, two DJs are thanked on this single's sleeve!
	11:01am Cecile: He actually has been busy as a family man these days. That's a happy thing.
	11:02am Cecile: I'm glad I looked it up.
	♥ 11:02am ChrisB.: Is this one of DEVO's alter-ego bands?
	♥ 11:03am Brian in UK: The Gasoline Age is by far my favourite ERP album. Top notch for a bedroom recording.
	♥ 11:04am Joe McG: @Brian: I like the single comp, "Shining Hours in a Can."
	♥ 11:04am JtotheK: excellent Supremes track.
	♥ 11:08am Guido from Cologne: they must have been called the Primettes
	♥ 11:08am Guido from Cologne: But the Primettes were with Diana Ross
	11:08am Joe B: it's Flo Ballard on lead. and Berry thought the same thing and stopped promoting it, ainstead promoted the b side
	11:11am Joe B: They never recorded as the Primettes for motown - Gordy made it one of the conditions of signing to motown was letting him change their name
	♥ 11:11am Brian in UK: Levi Stubbs vocals makes that record, thereagain he does with most Four Tops records.
	♥ 11:12am Guido from Cologne: OK, thanks Joe B.
	11:12am Joe B: the b-side by the way of Buttered Popcorn was none other than Who's Lovin' You by Smokey Robinson!
	11:13am Joe B: they did have at least one single as the Primettes though for another local label whose name escapes me at this moment
	♥ 11:13am Mick: motownjunkies.co.uk... The views expressed by the blog do not necessarily represent the views of this listener.
	♥ 11:14am Guido from Cologne: That's it, Joe, I have The Primettes on a comp CD. "History Of Mototr Town" or sth. like this.
	♥ 11:16am Joe McG: Thanks for all your Motown guidance, radio friends!
	♥ 11:18am Greg from ZONE 5: In Greg from Zone 5's reality, this was a chart-topping summertime hit.
	♥ 11:19am Joe McG: @Greg: Ha!
	11:19am Carmichael: Heya Joe and hepcats.
	11:19am Joe B: definitely file that east river pipe upstairs!
	♥ 11:20am Joe McG: @JoeB: Can you check to see if we already have a copy in there? If not, it's staying up!
	♥ 11:20am Brian in UK: Hey Carmichael, the Sacramento Scallywag. How's Spencer doing?
	11:22am Carmichael: @UK Brian: Spencey boy is AOK, guarding the fencelines against the evil squirrels. How about your Spencer?
	11:27am Dennis Diken: diggin' the show Joe!
	♥ 11:28am Joe McG: Thanks, Dennis! How about this crazy Buddy cover?
	11:30am Dennis Diken: I've heard worse...I think?
	♥ 11:31am Joe McG: @Dennis: Ha ha ha!
	11:31am Parq: Catholic girls! WFMU hipped me to them in the first place. The backbeat on this track, and all the many bands who used it at the time, was the soundtrack of my salad days.
	11:32am MFOOZ: Catholic Girls -- all-time epic album cover!
	11:34am Listener Alexandra: Wow. Haven't heard this song in decades!
	♥ 11:34am Hoboken Jack: Huey Lewis, pride of the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville NJ!
	11:35am Mark in Toronto: Catholic Girls sound like they're borrowing from the Jags "Back of My Hand", who of course borrowed heavily from a Mr. E. Costello
	11:38am Parq: I still remember FMU broadcasting a live Cath Girls set. Can't remember the venue. During a break between songs, some joker yelled out "I'm gonna convert!"
	♥ 11:40am MD: GREASED LIGHTIN'!!!
	♥ 11:41am ChrisB.: Must be nice to know you can always pull together a solid show from the basement!
	♥ 11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gittarz !...Huh - I'ma clicky☆ HueyLewis...
	11:42am Bronwyn Bishop: hey joe and everyone!
	♥ 11:43am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'We're all sons of B.B. King.' - CarlosSantana
	♥ 11:45am Passaic River Blues: That Johnny Adams song was truth in action. I need to incorporate that into my upstairs library.
	11:46am Parq: How could a record by a New Orleans musician named Boozoo Chavis possibly not be great?
	♥ 11:48am Brian in UK: Carmichael, He is ruled by his nose as ever. Becoming a bit wimpish in his middle age.
	♥ 11:48am ChrisB.: Don't go to Bingo, Lula! I have Yahtzee!
	♥ 11:50am Brian in UK: There had to be some polkaring in there to finish things off.
	♥ 11:52am Guido from Cologne: Thanks so much 4 the entertainment. CU
	♥ 11:53am Joe McG: My pleasure, Guido. Thanks so much to everyone who listened. Hope you enjoyed the basement treasures! Have a great week.
	11:54am Emily C: Immensely. What a show, sheesh.
	11:55am Listener Robert: Honestly, Mr. McG, they were noticeably less interesting than your usual fare, avg. vs. avg., but a few of great interest, plus interesting to hear what you'd pick.
	♥ 11:57am Passaic River Blues: Great concept and great show--thank you!
	11:58am JakeGould: Thanks Joe!
	♥ 11:59am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks Joe!
	♥ 11:03am Whosondephone: the whole kitten Kaboodle

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from February 6, 2017

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