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Favoriting May 1, 2008: fill-in for Dave the Spazz: Mayday Mayhem! 3 hours of classic postpunk, punk, powerpop and new wave.

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Artist Track Album Year Approx. start time
revillos  yeah yeah   Favoriting rev up  1980  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
999  homicide   Favoriting 7"  1980  0:01:52 (Pop-up)
fleshtones  the world has changed   Favoriting 7"  1981  0:06:09 (Pop-up)
the gas  definitely is a lie   Favoriting emotional warfare  1981  0:08:41 (Pop-up)
ian dury and the blockheads  hit me with your rhythm stick   Favoriting 7"  1979  0:11:51 (Pop-up)
the english beat  too nice to talk to   Favoriting 12"  1980  0:15:21 (Pop-up)
spandau ballet  to cut a long story short   Favoriting journeys to glory  1981  0:20:34 (Pop-up)
silicon teens  judy in disguise   Favoriting 7"  1980  0:23:39 (Pop-up)
robert johnson  i'll be waiting   Favoriting close personal friend  1978  0:26:37 (Pop-up)
speedies  let me take your photo   Favoriting   1979  0:30:51 (Pop-up)
new musik  straight lines   Favoriting 7"  1979  0:36:29 (Pop-up)
mo-dettes  tonight   Favoriting 7"  1981  0:40:30 (Pop-up)
roxy music  whirlwind   Favoriting siren  1975  0:43:46 (Pop-up)
shoes  tomorrow night   Favoriting 7"  1978  0:46:26 (Pop-up)
lords of the new church  open your eyes   Favoriting   1982  0:50:13 (Pop-up)
the heat  instant love   Favoriting 7"  1978  0:53:16 (Pop-up)
girls at our best  politics   Favoriting 7"  1980  0:57:42 (Pop-up)
the professionals  payola   Favoriting i didn't see it coming  1981  1:00:19 (Pop-up)
uk subs  you don't belong   Favoriting   1980  1:03:50 (Pop-up)
the stranglers  something better change   Favoriting 7"  1977  1:07:10 (Pop-up)
tenpole tudor  let the four winds blow   Favoriting 7"  1981  1:10:19 (Pop-up)
au pairs  it's obvious   Favoriting 7"  1980  1:14:22 (Pop-up)
cyclones  you're so cool   Favoriting 7"  1981  1:19:17 (Pop-up)
huang chung  china   Favoriting   1982  1:25:49 (Pop-up)
altered images  song sung blue   Favoriting pinky blue  1982  1:28:46 (Pop-up)
joe 'king' carrasco & the crowns  i get my kicks on you   Favoriting s/t  1980  1:33:37 (Pop-up)
endgames  we feel good (future's looking fine)   Favoriting 7"  1982  1:36:48 (Pop-up)
music for pleasure  fuel to the fire   Favoriting 7"  1981  1:41:06 (Pop-up)
gen ex  king rocker   Favoriting 7" ep  1981  1:43:47 (Pop-up)
pete shelley  homosapien   Favoriting homosapien  1981  1:48:17 (Pop-up)
simple minds  the american   Favoriting themes for great cities  1981  1:52:58 (Pop-up)
splodgenessabounds  yarmouth 5-0   Favoriting     1:56:46 (Pop-up)
lizzy mercier descloux  mission impossible   Favoriting 7"  1979  1:57:33 (Pop-up)
dynamic hepnotics  hepnobeat   Favoriting 7"  1981  2:00:15 (Pop-up)
delmontes  tous les soirs   Favoriting 7"  1980  2:03:38 (Pop-up)
polyrock  romantic me   Favoriting 7"  1980  2:06:34 (Pop-up)
gang of four  damaged goods   Favoriting 7" ep  1978  2:09:37 (Pop-up)
the feelies  original love   Favoriting crazy rhythms  1980  2:14:17 (Pop-up)
the feelies  everybody's got something to hid   Favoriting crazy rhythms  1980  2:16:47 (Pop-up)
madness  baggy trousers   Favoriting complete madness  1980  2:20:25 (Pop-up)
leisure process  love cascade   Favoriting 7"  1981  2:23:21 (Pop-up)
mood six  just like a dream   Favoriting   1981  2:26:29 (Pop-up)
the dB's  neverland   Favoriting 7"  1980  2:33:04 (Pop-up)
the higsons  it goes waap   Favoriting 12"  1981  2:34:54 (Pop-up)
adam & the ants  scorpios   Favoriting prince charming  1981  2:41:39 (Pop-up)
the dark  einstein's brain   Favoriting     2:43:51 (Pop-up)
shambeko say wah!  remember   Favoriting 7"  1982  2:47:01 (Pop-up)
swinging laurels  peace of mind   Favoriting 7"  1981  2:49:33 (Pop-up)
orchestral manoeuvers in the dark  electricity   Favoriting 7"    2:53:00 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  8:02pm
Sean Daily:

First comment! Woo hoo!
  8:03pm
efd:

first Sean Daily comment! woo hoo!
  8:18pm
slugluv1313:

yay, Evan!!!!!!!!!!

MAYHEM on the MAY DAY!!!!!!!
  8:24pm
Bethany Snowbeard:

It's fun to pretend that I'm a busty blonde graduate student at a midwestern university in the early 1980s listening to the college radio station while the brown rice steams and I'm memorizing attic greek verb declensions at the kitchen table while my 135-lb. red-flannel boyfriend rides his puegot road bike through the sleet to my house. this excellent radio show has been helping me dream.

I am actually an obese male media professional in california listening over the internet. Please ripost more appropriately anglophile fantasies asap natch anon if yr so inclined; peace
  8:30pm
Sybil:

I'm having a multimedia mayday madness experience here.
  8:32pm
slugluv1313:

SILICONE TEENS!!!!!!!!

omg! Mr. Evan, have you been *borrowing* my old records whilst i have not been looking?
  8:33pm
efd:

Sybil! can i count on you to keep me updated on the Sox and Yankee games?
  8:36pm
E.L.:

Web Browser > WFMU.org > Archives > Evan "Funk" Davies > Mayday Mayhem > BOOKMARK
  8:36pm
Sybil:

I have one computer showing the Sox, the other running the Spanish language radio feed for the game AND the WFMU feed.

If my head doesn't explode...

Sox down 0-2 after 5. The bats are still snoozing.
  8:38pm
Laurie:

Every song you've played so far pre-dates my birth. Thanks for making me feel young!
  8:38pm
Sybil:

Detroit ahead 4-3 after 4 and 1/2...
  8:39pm
Sybil:

Laurie, you just made me feel ancient... ;-)
  8:39pm
annne:

lovely after lovely after lovely song! many thanks
  8:41pm
Maggie:

Evan, I would - not kill, but maybe slightly maim - if you would play "Kites" by the guys who originally called themselves the Associates.
  8:44pm
Jessica:

It's all kinds of blue-skies-and-balmy out here, but should get down to 46ºF tonight.

Also: In the 80s, in S.F., whenever that last song's direction was invoked, etiquette demanded one say "Always forward, never straight."
  8:46pm
Jessica:

Now I really really *really* wish I could get the 'FMU on the car stereo. And had somewhere to go, with adequate cargo for burning the gas. 'Cause this is sunroof-open-windows-down good times.
  8:48pm
slugluv1313:

yikes!!!

i graduated from college in 1981, so i feel REALLY old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  8:48pm
Jessica:

[I will so shut up after this here trifecta, but] New Muzik? The same guys who did Planet Doesn't Mind? Not in keeping with the theme, so much, but which tore up so many dance floors in its time?
  8:49pm
efd:

uh-oh, i think there's gonna be a maiming! i don't have that song, Maggie.
Sybil- thanks for the update. Spanish language feed?!
Anne, Jessica, Slugluv and all, thanks for the comments! I can see it's going to be a challenge keeping up with the comments tonight!
  8:49pm
Laurie:

Jessica: Do they know it's spring where you live? Jeez!

It's 73&#186; in Miami.
  8:50pm
Laurie:

Er, that's 73 degrees...
  8:51pm
Laurie:

EFD: Keep the power pop coming!

Oh, wait, that dude from Shoes hated being labeled as power pop, right? Oh well!
  8:52pm
efd:

i mistyped, it's actually New Music with an s, not a z
  8:52pm
Laurie:

Also, can I request Girls at Our Best! ...?
  8:55pm
efd:

ooh! that i have!
  8:56pm
Sybil:

Alex Rios just hit a HR... (sigh}
  8:57pm
toni daytona:

hiya evan---whuts cookin??? i dont know 'bout luann,,but i'll be spendin three GLORIOUS DAZE & NITES WITH BRAD!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOHOOOO ya know life is LOVELY!!!!!!! HUGS & KISSES------TONI=)=)=)
  8:59pm
Laurie:

Woooooooooooooo! Thanks, EFD.
  8:59pm
Sybil:

...and the Yankees just tied it up.
  9:01pm
Laurie:

Quick, someone mash this up with the McCain Girls.

McCain Girls at Our Best!
  9:02pm
Will:

Evan -- Lovin every minute of it....let us now fondly remember the Mutants (SF) and "Opposite World" or "New Drug."
  9:06pm
chester:

awesomeness! meow!
  9:08pm
Sybil:

This is my favorite show of all time.
  9:11pm
Sybil:

Something better change indeed. This is a good omen.

Detroit ahead 6-4, top of 6th.
  9:12pm
annne:

I was so looking forward to spazzing, but this is indeed better than anything I could have imagined!

don't worry about keeping up with any comments! just keep playing your music!!

thanks and thanks too much
  9:19pm
Laurie:

If it's not too greedy, I'd like to request another song: "XOYO" by The Passage. It's a salty song. I can't remember if there are FCC unfriendly words, though :(

Other bands I would like to hear: The Higsons, Orange Juice, Sparks, Aztec Camera, The Farmer's Boys, and The Monochrome Set.

By the way, thus far, you've played only one song that might have been released while I was an embryo. Keep it up!
  9:21pm
efd:

ah, good news Sybil!

Glad you're enjoying the show Annne, Will, Chester and all!
  9:21pm
john:

whoa, as if i wasn't having enough trouble with the days of the week...but at least i come in to the au pairs. Drove people in my dorm nuts with that record!
  9:21pm
teris:

tuning from greece!
thank you very much for your wonderful music!
  9:21pm
efd:

Laurie i have records by 2 of those bands with me tonight
  9:22pm
john:

PS Farmer's Boys rawk. Monochrome Set truly godlike. Just saying.
  9:23pm
Laurie:

Yay!

Also, Young Marble Giants, if you're so inclined.

Pop music was so much better in the late seventies/early eighties.
  9:23pm
Sybil:

Thanks to whoever requested the au pairs!

You got any "music to wake up the Red Sox offense" there?

Still 0-3, top of 9th. However, the Bad Man is due up in the bottom of the 9th so...
  9:26pm
Hana:

BEEP BEEP BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP
  9:30pm
Laurie:

"China" and "finer." I admire that rhyming combo.
  9:30pm
Stew Art:

I agree. Any Young Marble Giants?
  9:30pm
efd:

ok, a Neil Diamond cover to urge them on at Fenway.
  9:32pm
Sybil:

Timlin coming in.

This cover is cracking me up.
  9:33pm
efd:

Timlin?! no good's gonna come of that.

Stew, i was kind of deliberately staying away from YMG since the recent colossal youth reissue got a lot of airplay, but maybe i'll reconsider
  9:34pm
Jessica:

What?

(When I changed my name to Clair Voyant, once upon a teenage runaway, I was inspired by Clare Grogan, not all the other things folks guessed no matter how hard I wished they'd just not.)
  9:36pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

How about something from the Vibrators?
  9:36pm
Sybil:

Timlin, for a wonder, got out of a little mess Aardsma made.
On to the bottom of the ninth.
  9:39pm
Jessica:

73ºF? In that timezone and everything? Yowza.
I hope you've got a nice refreshing beverage, there, Laurie. Something not in keeping with the theme, though, 'cause all I can think of is wine spritzers and rum & cokes.
  9:39pm
efd:

ger a runner on 2nd, drive him in with a hit to Wells, just like the last two nights.
  9:40pm
Sybil:

Yankees loaded the bases with 2 out in the bottom of the 6th, but it went nowhere.
  9:41pm
Joe:

So I'm innocently watching my Yankees stall out in one of the least entertaining baseball games I've ever seen, decide to flip on the radio to distract myself, and LOOK WHO IT IS. This game is YOUR fault, Davies.

If they loose, you owe me a song. Perhaps one about my waning patience concerning your shenanegous mischievery, or "Monkey Shines", if you will.
  9:42pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

While all y'all are sending musical voodoo to baseball teams, can you keep the Mariners in the game long enough to get us into the 10th?
  9:43pm
Jessica:

Er, Six Months in a Leaky Boat?
  9:44pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Go Coco. Ooh, nope. Game.
  9:45pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Ha! Game not over? Time was called on the field? Or a balk? What is going on?
  9:45pm
Sybil:

Well, that was not the game I ordered.
  9:46pm
Sybil:

Yes, what's going on?
  9:46pm
Randy in NC:

Skratchin'
  9:47pm
Sybil:

Interesting... balk, was it?
  9:48pm
Jessica:

12" Mayday Mayhem like you?
  9:49pm
Sybil:

Tiggers now 8-4
  9:49pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

I can't see anything. I'm sitting in an office in Seattle streaming the Sox game and WFMU. Balk was the call. Boston announcers suggested that they couldn't see anything that suggested a balk. Maybe Whitey Bulger was making the call.
  9:50pm
efd:

i just balked myself.

way to go with the Whitey Bulger reference, Patrick!
  9:50pm
Sybil:

I CAN''T BELIEVE YOU'RE PLAYING THIS SONG!

It's been running through my head all day!
  9:51pm
slugluv1313:

omigosh, NOW you are raiding my 12" collection

appropriate, perhaps, that "Homosapian" is a full TWELVE INCHES har har har
  9:51pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Oh! While I was distracted by the balk the Mariners made it to the 10th and took the lead. Hooray!
  9:52pm
Sybil:

I just stepped on something that caused me to lose the game feeds. Someone else will have to fill in.
  9:54pm
efd:

slugluv -- don't worry, i put your pete shelley 12" back.

WFMU, making listeners' baseball dreams come true.
  9:54pm
Randy in NC:

efd
Mayday Mayhem, great show!
  9:55pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

My favorite Bulger references come from Turbocharger in the documentary Stolen. Stolen is about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's thefted paintings.
  9:55pm
Patrick:

i have been looking forward to this all day! yea!
  9:55pm
anne:

ah, americans!
I heard this song first as a student in germany.
here comes the flag!
  9:57pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Ha, the Mariner's lead came from an improbable Richie Sexson home run.

Tigers still up 8 - 4
  9:58pm
naomi:

just tuned in and looked at your playlist. Whoa, evan! Hypnobeat must be around the corner, no? love you.
  9:59pm
Joe:

No Yanks fans to share my misery? None?
  10:00pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Not a one, Joe.
  10:02pm
efd:

Naomi, how'd you guess?!
great to hear from you!
  10:02pm
Patrick:

Joe, im a mets fan so i share your misery in a round about sorta way
  10:04pm
Patrick:

looks like the sox lost 3-0
  10:06pm
Sybil:

That was definitely not the game I ordered.
  10:07pm
naomi:

that made my week. bless you, efd
  10:08pm
Sybil:

What happened after the balk call? MLB still seems not to know.

I found on a blog: "3 hits and a walk after what should have been the last out." But no scoring?
  10:09pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Coco popped out. Game over.

Now my the Indians have the bases loaded. 3-1. No out. Ugh.
  10:10pm
spike:

wow, this polyrock song is actually better than I remember it!
  10:11pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Whoops, not my Indians. My Mariners just tied the game on a walk. Quick, EFD, play AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" to inspire Putz. I need you. Or do I need to turn to Jack FM?
  10:13pm
Laurie:

I love this Gang of Four song, by the by.
  10:16pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Oh, Putz struck out the side. No need for AC/DC.

The Feelies will do very, very well. Thanks, EFD.
  10:16pm
efd:

looks like it's jack fm for you, patrick. although i have been known to play thunderstruck before!
  10:17pm
efd:

ah, well that's that!
  10:21pm
Randy in NC:

Television, Shirts, Erasers, Richard Lloyd, dBs, Fall, Lena Lovich, Sparks, Marshall Crenshaw, PIL, ....
  10:22pm
Randy in NC:

Selektor
  10:23pm
Laurie:

Ooh, play "Too Much Too Young" by the Specials next!
  10:24pm
Laurie:

Please.
  10:24pm
slugluv1313:

ooooo yeah, ERASERS!!!!!!!!

got any CHERRY VANILLA???????? WAYNE (pre-Jayne!) COUNTY? FAST???????? THE GO??????? (yeah, those "Instant Reaction" boyz from YONKERS, woo hoo!)
  10:25pm
efd:

Randy said the magic words (two of them, one starts with "T" and the other starts with "d")
  10:30pm
john:

got this song on the Spalsh of Colour sampler. Long live the three-week long 1981 english psych revival!
  10:31pm
efd:

slugluv, I have to say you're veering awfully close to Toni Daytona / Miss Buxley-style writing there! ;)
  10:31pm
efd:

John, yep, that's what i'm playing it from!
  10:32pm
john:

I discovered one of my all time fave rave bands, The Times, on that record too!
  10:35pm
Sybil:

aaaaaaaaaaand... the Yankees lose!

Marniers still at it, though.
  10:36pm
slugluv1313:

ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

*perhaps* -- methinks??!!?? -- i am her . . . EVIL TWIN SISTER?!?!?!?!?!?!
  10:36pm
Sybil:

{ahem}

That would be the Mariners, of course, not the Marniers.
  10:38pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Grand Marniers? Barely still at it. Just announced "the outfield is at barely little league depth".
  10:40pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Mariners are no longer at it. Did anyone's team win today? Other than the WFMU EFD team?
  10:41pm
Randy in NC:

efd
Baggy Trousers -> 1980 (#3 UK)
  10:42pm
Laurie:

Thanks!!!!!!! :*
  10:42pm
Sybil:

The Washington Nationals won.

I think that tells you what you need to know about today.
  10:42pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Hmm... winning single was a line drive to the outfield. We had put our outfield back at major league depth. Wonder if the little league strategy would have helped.

Loving this Higsons tune.
  10:43pm
Sybil:

"It goes waap" is a great title. I want to steal it.
  10:43pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

And the Texas Rangers won, too. I see what you mean, Sybil.
  10:45pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

You could borrow it and use "It goes waAap"
  10:47pm
Sybil:

Or maybe the baseball fact which sort of sums up today: Eric Gagne got a save.
  10:48pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Sure does.
  10:52pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Gagne's on pace to have 52 saves. What in the world?
  10:52pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Playing for the Commish has its perks!
  10:53pm
naomi:

EFD: you are so killing me softly with your '80-'82 song...s.
  10:53pm
efd:

the red sox might have lost, but my other team won: whoever's playing the Yankees!

i can't imagine Gagne will keep this up for the whole season...
  10:54pm
efd:

naomi, the next one will jar you out of your reverie i bet.

and no, it's not our daughter's wedding.
  10:55pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Any room in here for Men Without Hats "Antarctica"? "Peace of Mind" for some reason has put that in my head. And my brother writing to inform me that Bush wanted to open up oil drilling in the Antarctica.
  10:56pm
Randy in NC:

Gotta love the analog synths in the background on a lot of these tunes.
  10:57pm
naomi:

next um...best ....thing. damn your synths!! perhaps i needed that jar. or a jar.
  10:58pm
slugluv1313:

oooooooooo not ODW but . . . OMD!!!!!!!!!!! woo hoo!!!!!!!!

THANK-YOU!!!!!!!!!! SO MUCH, Mr. EVAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  10:59pm
Former SSD Intern Patrick:

Hey, EFD, thanks for reminding me that my other team also won! And thanks for the Mayday Mayham. Madness!
  11:01pm
efd:

thanks so much for all your comments and support everyone! this is my first show to break the 100 comment barrier, woo-hoo!
(granted, some of those comments were my own, but still...!)
  2:45am
slugluv1313:

it's cuz we loooooooooooooooves ya, Evan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  5:20pm
mike tp:

reading the fleshtones book sweat great. diggin the tones and the tunes.
  12:44pm
New Fan:

This is the third time I am listening to this show. I don&#8217;t even really like your weekly show but you have officially made a new fan out of me.

Thanks EFD
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