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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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Favoriting December 3, 2018: Dropping Down in My Parachute

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments New Approx. start time
Chicago  25 or 6 to 4   Favoriting Chicago  Rhino  2002  CD  From 1970    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Nazareth  This Flight Tonight   Favoriting Loud 'N' Proud  A&M  1973  LP      0:06:46 (Pop-up)
Chilliwack  Fly at Night   Favoriting single  Mushroom  1976  45      0:10:08 (Pop-up)
Taos  20,000 Miles in the Air (Again)   Favoriting Taos  Mercury  1970  LP      0:13:32 (Pop-up)
Calexico  All the Pretty Horses   Favoriting Aerocalexico  Our Soil, Our Strength  2001  CD      0:16:21 (Pop-up)
Portland  Reborn   Favoriting Portland - Gary Ogan & Bill Lamb  Elektra  1972  LP      0:20:15 (Pop-up)
Houston  All My Life   Favoriting Houston  SSS International  1970  LP      0:23:28 (Pop-up)
Boston  Peace of Mind   Favoriting Boston  Epic  1985  CD  From 1976    0:26:34 (Pop-up)
Paris  Red Rain   Favoriting Paris  Capitol  1976  LP      0:31:25 (Pop-up)
Saint Tropez  Je T'aime   Favoriting Je T'aime  Butterfly  1977  LP      0:34:48 (Pop-up)
New York City  Quick, Fast, In a Hurry   Favoriting I'm Doin' Fine Now  Chelsea  1973  LP      0:41:22 (Pop-up)
London  Handcuffed   Favoriting single  MCA  1977  45      0:43:52 (Pop-up)
Warsaw  At a Later Date   Favoriting unreleased  No Label  1977  MP3  recorded 18 July 1977    0:45:45 (Pop-up)
Beirut  As Needed   Favoriting No No No  4AD  2015  CD      0:48:55 (Pop-up)
Berlin  The Metro   Favoriting I Get Around: Therese's 2011 Marathon Premium  WFMU  2011  CD-R  From 1982    0:52:19 (Pop-up)
 
Richard Thompson  The Storm Won't Come   Favoriting 13 Rivers  New West  2018  CD    *   1:05:19 (Pop-up)
Heron Oblivion  Beneath Fields   Favoriting Heron Oblivion  Sub Pop  2016  CD  playing Monty Hall this Thursday!    1:10:53 (Pop-up)
The Mountain Movers  Heavenly Forest   Favoriting Pink Skies  Trouble in Mind  2018  LP  on the bill with Heron Oblivion!  *   1:18:19 (Pop-up)
Opal  Lullabye   Favoriting Early Recordings  Serpent  1989  LP      1:22:56 (Pop-up)
 
 
Single File: a bunch of 45s played in a neat orderly row
Lee Allen  Walkin' with Mr. Lee   Favoriting single  Ember  1957  45      1:34:14 (Pop-up)
Peggy Little  Sugarman   Favoriting single  Epic  1973  45      1:36:13 (Pop-up)
Madness  The Sun and The Rain   Favoriting single  Stiff  1983  45      1:38:30 (Pop-up)
Air Miami  Airplane Rider   Favoriting single  Teen Beat  1994  45      1:41:57 (Pop-up)
Huddersfield Transit Authority  Runaway   Favoriting single  Decca  1972  45      1:43:54 (Pop-up)
Kate Bush  December Will Be Magic Again   Favoriting single  EMI  1980  45      1:46:49 (Pop-up)
Toast  Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall   Favoriting single  Jamie  1970  45      1:51:43 (Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell  Keep On Lovin' Me Honey   Favoriting single  Tamla  1968  45      1:55:04 (Pop-up)
Bim & Clover  Sweet Heart   Favoriting single  Dawn  1975  45      1:57:41 (Pop-up)
 
Test  White Cities   Favoriting Milk in My Language  Auditorium  2002  CD      2:10:22 (Pop-up)
The Vegetable Orchestra  Bamako   Favoriting Green Album  Transacoustic Research  2018  CD    *   2:14:01 (Pop-up)
Erik Griswold  Shinkansen   Favoriting Yokohama Flowers  Room40  2018  CD    *   2:16:45 (Pop-up)
Takao  Boat   Favoriting Stealth  Em  2018  CD    *   2:19:24 (Pop-up)
IXNA  Galleo   Favoriting Knotpop  Concentric Circles  2018  CD  From 1981  *   2:23:42 (Pop-up)
Ursula Bogner  Begleitung Für Tuba   Favoriting Recordings 1969-1988  Faitiche  2018  CD    *   2:28:06 (Pop-up)
Jean-Jacques Perrey  Ballet Intersidéral   Favoriting Moog Sensations  Pulp Flavor  2001  LP  From 1971    2:30:59 (Pop-up)
Don the Tiger  Nueva Danza Gallinacea   Favoriting Matanzas  Crammed Discs  2018  CD    *   2:33:51 (Pop-up)
Personal Bandana  Hollow Soft   Favoriting Personal Bandana [sic]  Personal Bandana  2018  CD-R    *   2:35:51 (Pop-up)
Young Marble Giants  Clicktalk   Favoriting Colossal Youth  Rough Trade  1990  CD  actually on the "Test Card" EP, 1981    2:40:44 (Pop-up)
Wild Havana  Phased   Favoriting Wild Havana  Mental Experience  2018  CD  From 1977  *   2:42:20 (Pop-up)
K. Leimer  Ceylon   Favoriting A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975 - 1983)  RVNG Intl  2014  CD  From 1983    2:44:41 (Pop-up)
Roy Orbison  Southbound Jericho Parkway   Favoriting Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present State of the Union: The American Dream in Crisis 1967-1973  Ace  2018  CD  From 1969  *   2:47:59 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Hey!
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queems:

hey joe & all
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12539:

Yippee!
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Losermom:

My favorite Sesame Street segment.
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Colleen:

Hi Joe!
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queems:

oh mannnnn
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NotARealDoctor:

Yikes, Linda Lee! I wish I could've gotten the ball out, but his throat was so tight I could do anything but move it up and down
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Turn you clocks back to 1970 now as we enjoy a rock 'n' roll classic. Yip yip!
  9:04am
MplsCoco:

Good morning Joe!! Way to start it off! ❤️
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The Oscar:

I just realized I have absolutely no idea what "25 or 6 to 4" means. Anybody?
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pantz:

Say what you will about this tune but that driving drum beat is pretty great.
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Diezel Tea:

Good morning to y'all, and good evening for the rest of us wrapping up their work days.
  9:05am
Steiner in Whately:

Man, those horns
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Diezel Tea:

Man, that wah!
  9:06am
kevlicki:

I once snuck into a Hall and Oates and Chicago concert, in Port Jervis.
Something to do for shots and giggles twenty years ago
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Krys O.:

Howdy, Joe et al!
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Vincent Nifigance:

Cooking.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

I snuck into a Dead show in the 80's, Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
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Planet Tyler:

McGasko snagged the best intro
  9:07am
kevlicki:

Morning Joe
  9:07am
pp:

Terry Kath great guitar and singer
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queems:

going in for the kill first thing today, huh
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Davee:

Hi Joe - enjoying the Nazareth this morning!
  9:08am
medson:

Good Morning Joe and everyone.
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melinda:

Wow, I knew this sounded familiar yet strangely different!
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12539:

Nice choices Clay! - er, I mean Joe.
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Krys O.:

Did you know there is an WFMU connection to Nazareth? The late station manager Bruce Longstreet worked for them. Can't recall in what capacity though.
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agillyo:

@the Oscar think I remember seeing in a doc that the song was written shortly before 4 AM in a state of delirium, hence the title. In any case, it’s what I needed to hear this morning!
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Joe McG:

Joe McGasko reporting from Jersey City, NJ!
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dale:

CHILLIWACK! LOVe this song.....
  9:12am
Miles:

at ease , McGasko
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Davee:

Good music in the seventies.
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Diezel Tea:

@Krys O - ah ha, so that explains that seeming anomalous pick))
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dale:

this and gone gone gone are admittedly the only chilliwack songs i know.
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karlward:

What was a typical day like for you in 1976?
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dale:

i was a senior in high school 42 years ago today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14am
The Oscar:

@dale You have me beat-- I only really know the SCTV version of "Gone Gone Gone."
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Krys O.:

There was a Chilliwack album in the mid-80s. We listened to it at the Crazy Eddie store I worked at.
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dale:

i'll have to look that up oscar.
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Sem:

Missed Chilliwack? Dang.
Hello, Joe, McGaskoes, and Surface Noise enthusiasts.
That just about covers everybody.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:16am
Krys O.:

I was 13 in 1976 with all of that awkwardness.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I've long since lost my Crazy Eddie T-shirt, but I still have a Crazy Eddie wallet downstairs.
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The Oscar:

@dale IIRC, it's pretty much just Moranis, Levy, and Candy as a gawky high school band covering it in its entirety. Each of their characterizations is PERFECT.
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Sem:

20,000 miles, that's way more than 7 miles high.
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dale:

whenever i listen to fly at night i always have to follow it up lake shore drive by aliotta haynes and jeremiah
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melinda:

I would have been attending kindergarten today in 1976.
  9:17am
MplsCoco:

Joe... I'm sensing a flying theme. Where ya headed?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19am
dale:

here it is:

www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20am
Joe McG:

@MplsCoco: There IS something that these all have in common.
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Sem:

Place names, I think.
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pantz:

Planes, Trains and Horses?
  9:21am
pp:

just looked up Chilliwack Fly by Night on YouTube and up next they had listed 25 or 6 to 4. This can only mean that Joe McG is an algorithm :)
  9:21am
MplsCoco:

Hmmmmmm
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The Oscar:

I think Sem's right-- all the band names are cities!
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Joe McG:

@Sem: Ding ding ding! @pp: Ha ha ha. I don't really exist.
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dale:

pp - you have your computer set up to allow it to listen?
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Itzall Ablurr:

Haha, just clicked the thumbnail image for "Houston" and it took me to Amazon to buy Whitney Houston's "I'll be your baby tonight". Sorry wrong number?
Good morning Joe.
  9:28am
emily:

where you going, Joe? Oh, just read the playlist! Doh!
  9:28am
Agent Peter:

Now I'm sorry I thanked you last week for not playing Boston...
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Joe McG:

@Agent Peter: I told you I'd play them. :)
  9:29am
pp:

the Chilliwack/SCTV connection, this was great https://youtu.be/ZaHfWqmC18A
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Roberto:

"Tangle in your hair, yeah yeah yeah yeah"
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Vincent Nifigance:

A whistlestop tour through Rock Country.
  9:30am
trouble:

awesome segue!!!
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Diezel Tea:

TIL one of the members of Boston was of Armenian heritage.))
  9:31am
dale:

I hope it's not listening. I did watch the Chicago video a month ago, so that may be more likely :)
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Itzall Ablurr:

I, umm... loved Boston. They hit at just the right time for a teenage dude and at first seemed like a weird, out of nowhere mashup of Kiss, Styx, Journey et. al. but kind of clawed their way in to being just BOSTON. Hey, it was the 70s!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

City names and cool album covers, that's the theme!
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Itzall Ablurr:

Hoping to hear something from Berlin.
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The Oscar:

I had a college professor who was a longtime DJ at WFNX in Boston, and he recalled how everyone in town was baffled when this huge arena rock band appeared out of nowhere. It wasn't until later that they realized it was essentially a studio project that suddenly blew up.
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Joe McG:

@trouble: Paris is the band featuring your fave, Bob Welch! ;)
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Listener Scott:

Great theme, but please no Asia Joe
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Joe McG:

@Scott: They don't qualify. For anything! :)
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Itzall Ablurr:

Listener Scott, you know what you just did, right?!? haha.
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Vincent Nifigance:

Something from Neil Buchanan's band Marseille, surely.
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Sem:

haha, Joe. Unheard cover!
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Parq:

Ooh, look, Mommy and Daddy are wrestling!
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Listener Scott:

whew!
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northguineahills:

What, no Danzig???!!!
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Joe McG:

@Parq: They have my Kiss records out!
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dale:

gotta go do stuff . keep disco dancing kids.
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Listener Scott:

@Itzall Ablurr, I don't know what came over me, it must've been the heat, or something, of the moment.
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Joe McG:

@ngh: Oh gawd, I hadn't thought of that!
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Kansas? You know, I think John Wetton from King Crimson Red sang for Asia, but I never really liked them much.
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Brian in UK:

Hey Joe, just come down from the loftspace. Laying mineral wool for extra insulation. Gloves, mask and knee pads. Everyone is wearing them this season.
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Brian in UK:

I am as hot as these gals but in a different way.
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Listener Scott:

I believe Sleater-Kinney qualifies, btw
  9:43am
pp:

I accidentally signed as "dale" in this thread. I'm sorry dale, I will stop commenting now :)
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Sem:

Shearing a mineral, now that's gotta be a rare occupational skill.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Mineral wool is a more fire resistant insulation than fiberglass.
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northguineahills:

I believe there is a Brooklyn....
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pantz:

There's definitely a Berlin.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Was Warsaw Joy Division?
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The Oscar:

Did Chevy Chase ever record a single?
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steveo:

good morning -- sounding good.
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Joe McG:

@Oscar: Ha ha ha!
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northguineahills:

Yes, WN!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Bands like L.A. Guns and Saigon Kick don't qualify, do they?
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Brian in UK:

@Sem ever tried knitting with the stuff?
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steveo:

i saw sleater-kinney once at 2 in the afternoon at irving plaza but i didn't sneak in
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Itzall Ablurr:

Heck to the yeah.
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Ike:

Kansas doesn't count because they're not called Kansas City. Right?
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steveo:

i love this song. it seems so bleak though, right?
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Itzall Ablurr:

steveo, of course! That's why it's good, in my opinion.
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βrian:

On the ride in to work, our bus kept scraping its top against the cloud ceiling. Not exactly an expansive feelingl
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Ken From Hyde Park:

This is pretty impressive if you just got the idea when Clay Pigeon played "Galveston" just over an hour ago. Procuring all these albums in such a short amount of time, I mean.
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Itzall Ablurr:

(chair dancing)!!!
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Sem:

@BiUK: alas, all thumbs. Long story: genetic dead-end.
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Ike:

You didn't play anything by Truth or Consequences, Intercourse, or Accident! For shame! (J/K, I have no idea if such bands actually exist.)
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Brian in UK:

@Sem good for hitch hiking. If anyone does that anymore.
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Vincent Nifigance:

HA!!
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lukavino:

sleazy disco outfits wearing sleazy disco outfits.
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Sem:

Ha! Brian. Well observed.
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The Oscar:

I grew up near a town called Athol, which I always thought would be a great name to shout from a stage.
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βrian:

Chicago ll was the one after the great fire.
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steveo:

it looks like Calexico is in California and abuts a city in Mexico called Mexicali. Nice.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

I've been to Truth or Consequences. It is near Elephant Butte lake.
Why would there be strange panties in my laundry? My wife found these and I have no explanation. I do not have a mistress. My wife and I go to the YMCA sometimes and use the locker rooms there. My niece visited this summer, but they are not hers.
I guess Queen is not a valid option for band names that are locations?
Real NM town names: Weed and Claunch.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Good thing they dropped "Transit Authority" from their name, hereby qualifying them to be on the playlist today.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

>Discuss<
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Joe McG:

@Ken: Quite a relief!
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βrian:

Well, there's your band name: strange panties.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

@Brian-LOL! Literally, I laughed out loud! Good thing I wasn't drinking milk.
  10:08am
Daybreak, the Human:

I very much appreciated being able to hear from people who love there cities and town while I graded for an hour. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE THOUGHT AND EFFORT!

Sorry to shout, but it’s easy to wing things which is what I and many of us do most of the time. But sometimes, we can make ourselves and everyone else a little special by putting ourselves out there through our thought and effort!

Thanks again Joe!
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Joe McG:

Thanks, Daybreak, nice sentiments! Give the kiddies good grades.
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pantz:

There's a small park south of Cincinnati called Big Bone Lick. I chuckle every time I pass it on the hwy, but my sense of humor never left middle school.
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βrian:

Apparently, there was a band name Gotham. Does that qualify?
en.wikipedia.org...
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The Oscar:

@Brian Too bad they wouldn't be eligible for today's show, unless there's a Strange Panties, Minnesota.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Morning, Joe and all!
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steveo:

maybe the panties came from elephant butte!
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Seriously though, what are strange panties doing in my laundry. What does Occam's Razor say about this?
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βrian:

... and there are any number of Thompsonvilles out there.
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northguineahills:

I'm a geographer, and never heard of the town of Richard Thompson....
  10:12am
David in London:

@Joe McG - A couple of weeks ago I said I would report back about the Heaven 17 gig I was shortly due to attend. Happily they were excellent, more full-on than I had anticipated, and Glen Gregory’s voice is still bold and strong. They even threw in a couple of early Human League numbers, such as Being Boiled, which HL don’t do themselves anymore. So all in all, far from being over the hill as yet...
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

There is a Jim Thorpe, PA I think.
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Joe McG:

@ngh: It's near Sandy Denny.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Heron Oblivion is epic.
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northguineahills:

@WN: I would get my wife's dedicates in my laundry all the time. Curious, as I used to drop it off all the time....
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βrian:

Ardeidae Obliviata
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mb:

Howdy Joe and listeners
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steveo:

@ngh could be a combined effort from Richard City, TN and Thompsonville, MI?
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

@NGH-she says they are NOT HERS. Too BIG. Somebody is messing with us I think, but not sure how.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

@Steveo-
Do the locals call it Dick Town?
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

The PANTIES are TOO BIG. My wife is a size S. She is 5'2" and about 120 lbs.
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steveo:

never been!
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βrian:

"Oh, no they're not too big at all ... Oh, you mean for you."
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steveo:

enjoying the oblivion! (new to me!)
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northguineahills:

That works for me, steveo.

@WN: sometime our laundry bags in the closet would vomit on each other, so, some articles of clothing would be put in the wrong bag. (I've only gotten a random sock here and there from a laundromat that wasn't mine).
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Heh!
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Joe McG:

@David: So cool to hear that Heaven 17 still has it! Thanks for the concert report. That should be a regular feature of the show: The Concert Report!
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βrian:

One might do cheese pairings with various bands.
  10:23am
Brendan:

Good morning . Great Heron Oblivion . Although they never seem oblivious to me. On the other hand I was raking leaves Saturday and a hawk perched on the fence not 5 meters away watching me.
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Joe McG:

@Brendan: You're lucky he didn't eat you.
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βrian:

I wonder if the hawk thought you might stir up some mice.
  10:28am
Johnzon:

isn't there a Big Panties Ontario?
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

My wife is a size large in Poland, but here she is small. I guess American girls have big butts compared to the rest of the world. Poland, anyway.
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Sem:

@Johnzon, probably not, but there IS a Big Johnzon.
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Phillippe Bastille:

Good morning Joe and friends
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Krys O.:

Oh, yeah! Love this tune!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36am
steveo:

is there anything better than the sounds of a 60-year-old record???
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ChrisB.:

Once saw Lee Allen AND Red Tyler share the stage with The Blasters inn Hollywood, ca. 1984.
  10:38am
Listener Alexandra:

Good morning, Joe! Greetings from the other size of 92103!
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Joe McG:

@steveo: Not much! @ChrisB: Jealous!
  10:38am
Brendan:

@brian I thought the same thing. Like in the spring when i’m hoeing the garden (walking down the rows with my ‘ho ) there’s usually a robin nearby waiting to grab the worms.
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Krys O.:

I bet that's Charlie McCoy on harmonica.
  10:39am
MplsCoco:

Joe "you're a real Jim dandy."
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northguineahills:

@WN: My wife is brown mestizo Mexi, but has Euro blood, so, she's somehow 5'9", so she is very tall for Mexicanas.
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Wendy del Formaggio:

Hello Joe McG! I just tuned in and it's nice to be here. I just scrolled up to look at your playlist that I missed. Very clever what you did with that first set. :-)
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Granny Spicy Tuna:

I was an ungrateful adolescent who didn't appreciate Madness enough at the time because they weren't Boy George.
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Evan From Seattle:

absolutely love Air Miami! great pick Joe!
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Marc Francis:

Hot damn! That Madness song was a CHUUUUUUUUUNE!
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tim from champaign:

For a second I thought,"How come I never heard this Unrest song before", then it all made sense when the playlist was updated.
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Brian in UK:

@GST Culture Club played recently overhere.
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cluebucket:

smashing singles :-)
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Joe McG:

@Alex: Hope the new pad is swell! @Wendy: It had to be done! @Evan: Thanks! Gllad you liked it.
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Brian in UK:

Del Shannon & Lou Christie, do not hear them much anymore.
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Listener Alexandra:

I'm currently being stared at by a greyhound, so I'd say the new place is definitely livelier!
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Granny Spicy Tuna:

BiUK: i finally saw Culture Club a couple of years ago, in Oakland CA. It fulfilled all of my adolescent dreams, except i didn't get to party with them…
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Krys O.:

YES!!!! Had this on a Kate Bush mix tape from a co-worker in the 80s.
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melinda:

I like that there is a group called Huddersfield Transit Authority, and that they covered Runaway.
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Brian in UK:

@GST they probably were all in bed by midnight.
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Joe McG:

@melinda: Me, too! I wonder if they were making fun of Chicago.
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Joe McG:

@Brian in UK: Where is Huddersfield?
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Colleen:

@Granny Spicy....I tried to fulfill that same adolescent dream this summer and failed! They were sold out! Which made me sadly happy that they were still "That cool"
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Roberto:

I don't think I was aware of this Kate Bush single. Thanks for the enlightenment, Joe!
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Granny Spicy Tuna:

Colleen; don't give up the dream. Even to this cynical weirdo, the show transported me to an MTV wonderland of delight!
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Hughie Considine:

Interesting cover! What it lacks in Garfunkularity it makes up with strings...kinda
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pantz:

"Yes, I can hear you Clem Fandango!"
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Joe McG:

You bet, Roberto! One of my fave Xmas singles ever.
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Brian in UK:

Joe, it is in Yorkshire formerly quite an indutrial area.
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Brian in UK:

Such a posh voice for an S&G song.
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Joe McG:

@Brian: Thanks!
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karlward:

TAMMI!
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Brian in UK:

Joe, they say 'you can tell a Yorkshire man, but not much'.
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melinda:

I saw fliers for the Psychadelic Furs a few years ago but couldn't go, adolescent dreams deferred.
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Krys O.:

@pantz - I too thought of Matt Berry.
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pantz:

@Krys O glad I'm not the only one. Underrated singer too, he is.
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johnk77:

@melinda
if u do ever get a chance
to hang with the Furs
Tim Butler is the Fur
most fun to have a chat
and a drink with:>
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Brendan:

If Marvin and Tammi ever got together and had a kid, he/ she would have been a force of nature as well as capable of singing solo duets.
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karlward:

Hmm Autechre?
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karlward:

Oh that was not Autechre, just a needle against paper. Carry on.
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Hughie Considine:

I had a few beers with Richards Butler at the Telephone Bar on 2nd Ave in NYC during his Love Spit Love phase. Completely charming, low-key, not at all rock star-ish.
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johnk77:

@hughie agreed
both Butlers remarkably real
Tim was the band's rep
to the party
in the eighties
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ɨkɛ:

Wow, those are dopey lyrics. It sounds so much better when Kate Bush obscures the meaning with her singing style.
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the Canterbury wood-elf:

Sorry to be a Brit pronunciation pedant, Joe, but "Charing" rhymes with the first bit of "larynx", rather than "sparring". Loved that second set by the way...
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Brian in UK:

That is why I have never got Kate Bush.
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The Oscar:

Could be a reference to the British tradition of ghost stories at Christmas? Also, I'm pretty delighted that there exists a Christmas song with the line "Inside Oscar's mind."
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Morphe:

Thanks Joe.... Gotta go... Til...
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Evan From Seattle:

I don't think I've ever heard a version of Runaway I haven't liked.
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the Canterbury wood-elf:

Oscar Wilde's funeral was on 3rd December 1900 (he died in November)...that's all i could find.
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john l:

what is this bed music please?
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Brian in UK:

Oblique Dorian Grey reference. Makes as much sense as any thing else.
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Hughie Considine:

@john, i guess the Butlers are among the rare rock brothers who could stand each other.
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Hughie Considine:

@John l: bed music is a loop of Kevin Ayers made by DJ Joe.
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Brendan:

Kate pays tribute to her hero, Oscar Wilde, who died in Paris the same month as the single was released, eighty years earlier.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Kate Bush was hot. I think she traded on that. I think she was trained to sing Opera too. My 15 year old son finds Chrome "unlistenabl". Oh well, I guess I stretched his musical Overton Window a bit with that run through of the CD in the car. Heh! He's all "Led Zeppelin this" and "10CC that". Although he did ask for Mr. Bungle for Christmas (California!). He heard about it from some dude on the internet.
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john l:

Thanks Hughie!
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Joe McG:

@Canterbury: No problem! Thanks for the assistance. :)
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Hughie Considine:

@the canterrbury wood-elf: what is the proper pronunciation of "pedant" ?
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tim from champaign:

I love how the music that Ira the K plays when he DJs or in this case recommends sounds like his band. Not in an egotistical way but more like he's giving the listeners a glimpse of how his ear works. Whether it's a boogaloo jam or 60s folk pop, it all makes sense.
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northguineahills:

@WN: Don't worry, when I was 15, I didn't listen to music that wasn't top 40. It take a year later to have that revelation.
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steveo:

We took a car trip for Thanksgiving and driving back my 12-year-old kept asking me to check to see if WFMU was back in range yet. I've never been prouder.
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johnk77:

@hughie smart observation
in the eighties the Butlers
did not always hang together
offstage
but i never saw battling
unlike Zanes, Davies, etc.
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Brian in UK:

@Hughie two syllables ped ant.
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Listening Out There:

The New Age are here...
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Krys O.:

@pantz: I agree and I have an autographed copy of his latest Television Themes cd.
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Brian in UK:

There is a column in a newspaper over here called pedants corner. Now do you hyphenate the s in pedants before or after it.
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pantz:

@Krys O Jealous! That album is great
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brick layer:

i didnt want that boat ride to end
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βrian:

You mean apostrophize?
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Sem:

Neither, I think, Brian. It is a corner (of the paper) in which you find more than one pendant, yes?
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Phillippe Bastille:

@pantz @Krys We use the "Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango" in my family when someone has forgotten to do something and another family member reminds them. Always afraid I'm going to use it on a conference call when one of the attendees asks "can you hear me?"
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βrian:

With pendants, it all depends.
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Sem:

Consider "The Sports Page."
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johnk77:

@joemcg another great show;>
in jersey news
FBI is at the home of Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam
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pantz:

That's great @Phillippe! The fact that they are intentionally trying to drive Toast crazy makes it even more appropriate in that case.
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Hughie Considine:

Thanks @Brian. @johnk And the Everlys, and the Gallaghers. It's a really deep phenomenon. Then of course you have the rare brother duos who are total equals, like the Maels. And the D'Addario brothers of the Lemon Twigs, who seem poised to bring brother rock forward.
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Brian in UK:

@βrian yes you are correct but not with a zed.
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Phillippe Bastille:

Another one we use whenever someone texts us at the grocery store for an additional item is "Ok Columbo". We watch too much tv
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Hughie Considine:

@Brian, I tend to go with Pedants Corner, as in: a corner for pedants, just like Publishers Weekly is a weekly for publishers.
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Brian in UK:

Did not know that there was such a word.
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βrian:

I see no zed!
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steveo:

umlaut + tuba = clickystar
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Wendy del Formaggio:

Yesterday I missed Tuba Christmas because I had a radio station meeting to go to. I'm sad, but this Ursula Bogner is cheering me up.
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melinda:

The first time I heard someone use the word "pedant" it made me laugh, I had only heard people use "pedantic".
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Brian in UK:

I am starting to over-hyphenate.
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Rich in Washington:

Did I miss a Kate Bush argument?
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Brian in UK:

Better than pederast.
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Rich in Washington:

I kept pronouncing it 'pendantic', until I heard the root word come into common usage recently.
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Listening Out There:

Pedant's = One pedant, Pedants' = Multiple pedants...not to be pedantic, o' course... :)
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Brian in UK:

@Sem think that you are correct.

Now a pendentive is a wonderful thing.
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melinda:

I like this set.
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βrian:

A local couple was pondering marriage vs civil union. In the end, they decided to get hyphenated.
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Asheville Jon:

love this Moog
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Granny Spicy Tuna:

Anything Moog = clicky star. I got to shake Robert Moog's hand at the Asheville airport, but as my friends simply introduced him as their "friend, Bob," i didn't realize who he was until he was gone. Probably for the best, i would have made an embarrassment of myself.
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Mike Sin:

Been enjoying the show very much! Of curse, I loved that version of the Paul Simon track by the band Toast!
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Listening Out There:

In his latest show, Irwin played a Jean-Jacques Perrey and, in the comments, said he got copies of a recording from JJP's daughter. Joe, were you lucky enough to get one of those copies? (If not, maybe you need to have a word with Irwin...)
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Asheville Jon:

nice GST. i go past the Moog facility on a regular basis
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johnk77:

@hughie yes i only met
the Maels a few times
but wish i had gotten to know
them better
the guys in their then backing band
Gleaming Spires
were very cool
i was told the Maels
got on well from
their earliest years
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Joe McG:

@Mike Sin: Me, too, Mike!
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Sem:

pendentive: BiUK, always ready to follow a tangent. Did you pick up that word whilst visiting Turkey?
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steveo:

Liz Berg did a Moog tribute in 2005 after he passed away. wfmu.org...
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Rich in Washington:

Robert Moog was the first famous person I ever sent a fan email to out of the blue in the early days of the modern web and a month or so later, I got a nice email back from what I am really sure was actually him. I wish I bronzed it or something.
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steveo:

add this fantastic set here to list!
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tim from champaign:

I had a feeling this set was leading up to Young Marble Giants. Way to go, Joe!
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Sem:

...and have now learned the origin of "squinch" into the bargain. A good day, and scarcely half-over.
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Krys O.:

Was lucky enough to be with a group of folks having lunch with Bob Moog about 20 years ago.
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Guido from Cologne:

Love this "electric" section!
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Brian in UK:

Sem, no I have been trying to learn somethings about architecture.
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Hughie Considine:

@john77, you keep some good company. Sparks are among my very favorites. Seeing them by chance on TV late one night during the mid-70s was my Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
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johnk77:

@hughie
just working for a living
recently retired after 42 years in
"entertainment" biz
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Granny Spicy Tuna:

steveo: oooh, that looks good, thanks!
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Brendan:

@Joe - you’re all over the map today - that is to say , great show. I hope you do a theremin set one day.
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tim from champaign:

Roy!
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annie:

whew!!! seconds to spare! guess i'll be digging the archive..hi everyone!
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Granny Spicy Tuna:

My dream team: Moog + Theremin + Sitar (maybe a harpsichord and a jaw harp and a singing saw to round it out?)
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Asheville Jon:

hey Annie
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Joe McG:

@Krys O: Wow! Moog lunch!! @johnk77: Thanks, John! @Brendan: Not a bad idea! Bryce ended his show last week with "The Swan."
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northguineahills:

Ceylon prefers to go by Sri Lanka these days....
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Brian in UK:

Sem, having written that it did make the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul possible, turning a square shape into a round dome. That is one stunning building.
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Sem:

Ah, this is what led me to a possible Turkish connection:The first experimentation with pendentives was made in Roman dome construction beginning in the 2nd–3rd century AD,[3] while full development of the form was achieved in the 6th-century Eastern Roman Hagia Sophia at Constantinople." via wikithingy.
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Tom P:

What was Roy Orbison thinking?
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Asheville Jon:

this is the most fawked up Roy song i've ever heard.
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Asheville Jon:

i'm not complaining, just pointing it out
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Joe McG:

I think this song is incredible! :) Seven minutes and not even a chorus! What a brave single for 1969.
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Sem:

Hope to get there before much longer, BiUK.
Thanks, Joe. Been extra good fun. See you and all sometime again soon.
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Listening Out There:

Speaking of Roy Orbison, what's the general opinion on hologram performers? www.rollingstone.com...
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βrian:

Henceforth, when anyone says "Consider the squinch," Sem will come to mind.
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đ¢ ÞäŦ:

this is not making me feel too good about Roy..
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Mick:

I am agog.
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Hughie Considine:

@john, ah yes, that business: "a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs."
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Joe McG:

Thanks for listening and commenting, everyone! See you next week for more radio fun. Welcome to December! Hopefully it will be magic again. :)
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Mick:

I think this "American Dream in Crisis" record may be worth looking into.
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Asheville Jon:

does one need to be tripping to get this song? :)
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12539:

Thanks, Joe!
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Brian in UK:

This must have been around MacArthur Park time.
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The Oscar:

Holy cow-- who wrote this one?? I'd listen to a whole Roy album like this.
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Listening Out There:

...hologrammatic appearances also planned for Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston www.theguardian.com...
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Brian in UK:

Great mix as ever, Joe.
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Hughie Considine:

What they said, @Joe!
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Jeff Moore:

My Lord, I didn't realize this was Roy Orbison until he hit that high note at the end!
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steveo:

thanks, Joe!
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tim from champaign:

Man, that was Roy Orbison's Frankie Teardrop.
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Listening Out There:

Great program today, Joe. Thanks!
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Asheville Jon:

don't forget the ABBA "reunion" with holograms
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TheLoneliestMonk:

Hey Joe: too damn busy at work today to talk.
loved the old school Bim & Clover!
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Hughie Considine:

nice one @tim
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northguineahills:

happy thanks, Joe!
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Krys O.:

Roy was forward thinking and Tupper Saussy of Neon Philharmonic was an abstract gent.
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Krys O.:

Thanks!
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