
Surface Noise with Joe McGasko | WFMU
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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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East Orange, NJ
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Music Podcasts
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Description:
A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.
Twitter:
@WFMU
Language:
English
Contact:
WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011 201-200-9368
Website:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/SN
Episodes
Episode from Oct 13, 2025
10/13/2025
Grand Funk Railroad - "We're an American Band" - Grand Funk Hits [From 1974] [0:00:00]
Yo La Tengo - "We're an American Band" - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One [0:05:39]
Art Brut - "Formed a Band" - Bang Bang Rock & Roll [0:12:36]
Ben Vaughn Combo - "My First Band" - single [0:15:02]
Meal Ticket - "Day Job" - Goodbye Nashville, Hello Camden Town: The Pub Rock Anthology [From 1977] [0:18:11]
Waylon Jennings - "The Entertainer" - Never Could Toe the Mark [0:22:33]
Jo Jo Gunne - "60 Minutes to Go" - The Asylum Recordings [From 1973] [0:25:25]
Tim Rose - "The Musician" - The Musician [From 1973] [0:29:34]
Les Brown and His Orchestra - "While the Music Plays On" - Sentimental Journey [From 1940; Doris Day, vocal] [0:33:09]
Nilsson - "How to Write a Song" - Sandman [0:44:17]
Helen Reddy - "Think I'll Write a Song" - Free and Easy [0:46:57]
Barry Manilow - "I Really Do Write the Songs" - This One's for You [demo, 1976] [0:49:21]
Rupert Holmes - "Studio Musician" - Rupert Holmes [0:51:43]
The Kinks - "Session Man" - Face to Face [From 1966] [0:55:26]
Bread - "The Guitar Man" - Retrospective [From 1972] [0:57:35]
Michael Nesmith - "American Airman" - Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings [From 1970] [1:02:32]
Hank Williams, Jr. - "Hamburger Steak, Holiday Inn" - Eleven Roses [1:04:07]
Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts - "Support Tours" - Manhattan [1:07:06]
Half Man Half Biscuit - "Running Order Squabble Fest" - This Leaden Pall [1:09:34]
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - "Where the Hell's My Money?" - Frenzy [1:11:31]
Swansea Sound - "Corporate Indie Band" - Live at the Rum Puncheon [1:18:20]
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Workin' for MCA" - Second Helping [1:21:51]
Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour
AC/DC - "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)" - single [1:31:56]
Bad Company - "Movin' On" - single [1:34:42]
Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta - "Don't Call Us We'll Call You" - single [1:38:00]
Graham Parker and the Rumour - "Mercury Poisoning" - single [1:41:19]
Bill Parsons and His Orchestra - "The All American Boy" - single [1:44:23]
Adverts - "One Chord Wonders" - single [1:47:16]
Terry Jacks - "Rock N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" - single [1:49:52]
Kris Kristofferson - "To Beat the Devil" - single [1:53:34]
Mott the Hoople - "Saturday Gig" - single [1:59:51]
Loudon Wainwright III - "Motel Blues" - The Atlantic Recordings [From 1971] [2:11:06]
Loudon Wainwright III - "The Home Stretch" - More Love Songs [2:12:57]
Loudon Wainwright III - "Career Moves" - Career Moves [2:16:44]
Lee Hazlewood - "The Perfomer" - Poet, Fool or Bum [2:19:38]
Bobbie Gentry - "Lookin' In" - The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters [From 1971] [2:23:12]
Tom T. Hall - "Homecoming" - Homecoming [From 1970] [2:27:14]
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - "Turn the Page" - Live Bullet [2:30:36]
Geils - "I'm Falling" - Monkey Island [From 1977] [2:35:44]
Flo & Eddie - "Just Another Town" - The Best of Flo & Eddie [From 1973] [2:41:25]
Sonny Curtis - "This Is the Last Song I'm Ever Gonna Sing" - The Sonny Curtis Style [2:44:42]
Dave Edmunds - "A1 on the Jukebox" - Tracks on Wax 4 [2:47:14]
The Blasters - "Rock and Roll Will Stand" - Hard Line [2:50:28] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157118
Duration:03:08:45
Episode from Oct 6, 2025
10/6/2025
Spanky & Our Gang - "Three Ways to Tomorrow" - The Best of Spanky & Our Gang [From 1968]
Margo Guryan - "Spanky and Our Gang" - Words and Music [From 1968]
Emmit Rhodes - "Pardon Me" - The American Dream
The Status Cymbal - "In the Morning" - In the Morning
The Alan Copeland Conspiracy - "A Bubble Called You" - A Bubble Called You
Eternity's Children - "Flowers" - Flower Music: Testify's 2025 Marathon Premium [From 1968]
The Eighth Day - "It Takes the Rain (To Make the Flowers Grow)" - On the Eighth Day...
Marshmallow Way - "Good Day" - Marshmallow Way
The Mother Love - "A Carousel of Daydreams" - A Carousel of Daydreams
The Tradewinds - "Little Susan's Dreamin'" - Excursions
The Lovin' Spoonful - "Me About You" - Revelation: Revolution '69
Piggietails - "I Want You" - Piggietails
Harte Attack - "Running Thru My Mind" - Summer's Over [From 1973]
Alley Girl - "Theme for Gentle Eyes" - Peregrine Rambler
Jon Camp - "Kerosene Goodbye" - Proceed
Animal, Surrender! - "Shenandoah" - A Boot for Every Bane
Delicate Steve - "Nearly Everything" - Luke's Garage
Geir Sundstøl - "Mats" - Sakte film
Wow - "La Radura" - Rosa di Luce ["The Glade"]
Calibro 35 - "The Twang" - Exploration
SAULT - "H.T.T.R." - 10
Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour
Al Green - "Keep On Cryin'" - single
The Belle Stars - "Sweet Memory" - single
The Boyfriends - "Romance" - single
Tommy Sosebee - "Sittin' in the Backseat of Your Heart" - single
The Sullivans Polka Orchestra - "Sullivans Medley" - single
Tommy James - "Boo, Boo, Don't 'Cha Be Blue" - single
Millie Jackson - "My Man, A Sweet Man" - single
Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde - "A Very Good Year" - single
The Michael Stanley Band - "He Can't Love You" - single
Ralph McTell - "Ollie the Otter" - Songs from Alphabet Zoo
Stackridge - "Syracuse the Elephant" - BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert [2/15/73, Paris Theatre]
Richard Digance - "Beaver the Believer" - Live [11/28/74, Rainbow Theatre]
The Incredible String Band - "Giles Crocodile" - First Girl I Loved [live in Canada, 1972]
Ralph McTell - "Unwin the Unicorn" - Songs from Alphabet Zoo
David Bowie - "Joe the Lion" - "Heroes"
Zwei Null Zwei - "SUV (On Fire)" - Zwei Null Zwei
Orcutt Shelley Miller - "Four-Door Charger" - Orcutt Shelley Miller https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156875
Duration:03:08:43
Sunlight, Moonlight, Good Times, Boogie from Sep 29, 2025
9/29/2025
Arlo Guthrie - "Crash Pad Improvs" - Alice's Restaurant: Original Motion Picture Score [0:00:00]
Stephen Lawrence - "Miss Industrial Progress" - Bang the Drum Slowly: Music from the Soundtrack of the Paramount Release [0:04:31]
John Barry - "Highway 101" - Petulia: Original Motion Picture Sound Track [0:07:16]
John Barry - "Blues and Out" - The Knack...and how to get it: Original Motion Picture Score [organ: Alan Haven] [0:09:19]
John Lurie - "Vesuvio's" - Get Shorty: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [0:12:05]
Quincy Jones Featuring Astrud Gilberto - "Who Needs Forever" - The Original Sound Track Album of John Le Carre's The Deadly Affair [0:14:44]
Gato Barbieri and His Orchestra - "Return – Tango (La Vuelta)" - Last Tango in Paris: Original Motion Picture Score [0:17:48]
Tom Waits - "(Meet Me in) Paradise Alley" - Paradise Alley: Original Soundtrack [0:20:22]
Melina Mercouri - "Love Theme from Phaedra / Goodbye John Sebastian" - Phaedra: Original Motion Picture Sound Track [0:24:41]
James William Guercio - "Tell Me" - Electra Glide in Blue: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [0:30:13]
Nick Cave - "Let It Be" - I Am Sam: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture [0:38:00]
Essendon Airport - "Malibu" - MOR [0:57:07]
Thee Reps - "Espadrilles" - Cryptocartography [1:02:17]
Sister Irene O'Connor - "Mass – 'Emmanuel'" - Fire of God's Love [From 1973] [1:08:13]
Arnold Mars - "Smoldering Copal Fills the Air" - Lost Island [1:13:20]
Appliqué - "Nagi" - Appliqué [From 1973] [1:16:15]
Austin Potter - "Mona Lisa" - New Romantic [1:20:19]
Olivia Barton - "My First House" - For Myself and For You [1:22:52]
Françoise Hardy - "Dans le monde entier" - Mon Amie La Rose [live in Paris, 1965; "In the Whole World"] [1:26:14]
Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour
Aztec Camera - "All I Need Is Everything" - single [1:35:29]
The Love Unlimited Orchestra - "Satin Soul" - single [1:39:02]
Dusty Springfield - "Silly, Silly Fool" - single [1:42:31]
Bobby Braddock - "Ruby Is a Groupie (With a Cosmic Cowboy Band)" - single [1:44:57]
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart - "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" - single [R.I.P. Bobby Hart] [1:47:02]
Meg Myles - "My Melancholy Baby" - single [1:49:02]
The Jacksons - "Blame It on the Boogie" - single [1:51:15]
Billy Bragg - "Days Like These" - single [1:54:44]
The 5th Dimension - "The Declaration" - single [1:57:03]
Joseph Decosimo - "Glory in the Meetinghouse" - Fiery Gizzard [2:13:08]
Sally Anne Morgan - "Callahan" - Second Circle the Horizon [2:16:12]
Murphy Campbell - "Lonesome John" - Murphy Campbell EP [2:20:45]
Liam Grant, Grayson McGuire, & Trevor McKenzie - "Let Me Fall" - The Sun Is Not True [2:24:32]
Uncle Tupelo - "Theme from "The Waltons"" - March 16-20, 1992 [bonus track on reissue] [2:26:55]
Lillian King - "Tiber Creek" - In Your Long Shadow [2:28:15]
Dillon Warnek (Feat. Margo Price) - "Bluebird" - As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep [2:33:17]
Elvis Presley - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - Sunset Boulevard [rehearsal, 8/16/74] [2:37:35]
Will Rainier - "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" - Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em [2:42:05]
Jenny Don't & The Spurs - "Paso del Norte" - Live at the Spur [2:46:09]
Lone Justice - "This World Is Not My Home (I'm Just a Passin' Through)" - Live at the Palomino 1983 [2:49:48]
Neko Case with the Sadies - "This Little Light" - The Tigers Have Spoken [2:52:20] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156642
Duration:03:08:47