WFMU: The Evan "Funk" Davies Show: Playlist from October 8, 2007

The Evan "Funk" Davies Show: Playlist from October 8, 2007

Every show starts with the ’70s! We’ll rediscover forgotten rockers, revisit unfairly maligned disco beats and replay power-pop favorites. Next: plenty of new releases, occasional live bands and more. Don’t let the nickname confuse you.

Upcoming events:

Wed. Dec 18th, Noon - 3pm: Manager (More info...)

Wed. Dec 25th, Noon - 3pm: The 18th Annual Holiday Music Funktacular! (More info...)

October 8, 2007: unpacking the new Monday timeslot

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
the jam	monday "monday" by "the jam"	sound affects	polydor	1980	umm.... it was probably written in the 70s, at least		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
jonah jones	my monday date "my monday date" by "jonah jones"	mp3					0:02:39 (Pop-up)
fats domino	blue monday "blue monday" by "fats domino"						0:05:02 (Pop-up)
new order	blue monday "blue monday" by "new order"	12"	factory	1983			0:07:43 (Pop-up)
chief kamachi & the ju ju mob	my squad	12"	good hands	2007			0:14:43 (Pop-up)
lovin' spoonful	darling be home soon	all the best of					0:18:42 (Pop-up)
monday night football theme	"monday night football theme"						0:22:02 (Pop-up)

rev rev	it's a mouse: it's not a motel	mole in the raven room	third ear trumpet			*	0:31:55 (Pop-up)
stereolab	cybele's reverie "cybele's reverie" by "stereolab"	emperor tomato ketchup	elektra	1996			0:36:41 (Pop-up)
blank dogs	yellow mice sleep "yellow mice sleep" by "blank dogs"	7"	hozac			*	0:41:29 (Pop-up)
fifth estate	ding dong the witch is dead				thuuuuuuhhhhhh yankees lose!		0:44:26 (Pop-up)
suzyn waldman, john sterling, roger clemens	they came and got me out of texas						0:47:30 (Pop-up)

coconut coolouts	(please don't break me out of) party jail	party time machine	haunted horse / xeriod			*	0:55:38 (Pop-up)
the touch-me-nots	it's not right but it's ok	7"	nasty products			*	0:59:13 (Pop-up)
heavy trash	kissy baby "kissy baby" by "heavy trash"	going way out with heavy trash	yep roc			*	1:02:01 (Pop-up)
stray cats	runaway boys "runaway boys" by "stray cats"	s/t	arista uk	1981			1:04:40 (Pop-up)

dalek	desolate peasants "desolate peasants" by "dalek"	deadverse massive vol 1: dalek rarities 1999-2006	hydra head			*	1:15:29 (Pop-up)
turzi	animal signal "animal signal" by "turzi"	a	kemado			*	1:22:50 (Pop-up)
thundertrain	hot for teacher "hot for teacher" by "thundertrain"	teenage suicide	gulcher		This is the cover photo from the Hot For Teacher single, taken at my old high school. credit: Lynn Ciulla		1:19:55 (Pop-up)
ike & tina turner	finger poppin' "finger poppin'" by "ike & tina turner"	the ike & tina turner story	time life			*	1:25:24 (Pop-up)
black lips	veni vidi vici "veni vidi vici" by "black lips"	good bad not evil	vice			*	1:28:19 (Pop-up)

electro group	trauma "trauma" by "electro group"	good technology	tone vendor			*	1:36:38 (Pop-up)
agnes kain	all time high "all time high" by "agnes kain"	keep walking or i'll kill you	half a cow			*	1:39:13 (Pop-up)
xtc	generals and majors "generals and majors" by "xtc"	7"	rso	1980			1:42:13 (Pop-up)
wondermints	shine "shine" by "wondermints"	s/t	big deal	1996			1:46:09 (Pop-up)
sun-electric	ohaya "ohaya" by "sun-electric"	lost & found (1998-2000)	shitkatapult			*	1:50:33 (Pop-up)

dan melchior und das menace	the pink scream and the middle manager	the 'pink scream' e.p.	shake appeal			*	2:04:14 (Pop-up)
bobby fuller	shakedown "shakedown" by "bobby fuller"	rock and roll king of the southwest	norton			*	2:08:22 (Pop-up)
le tigre	get off the internet "get off the internet" by "le tigre"	from the desk of mr lady	mr lady	2000			2:10:14 (Pop-up)
ultravox	the man who dies everyday	ha! ha! ha!	antilles	1977			2:15:02 (Pop-up)
oneida	all arounder "all arounder" by "oneida"	anthem of the moon	jagjaguwar	2001	playing live at Southpaw this Saturday with Simply Saucer, Alan Vega and Old Time Relijun -- part of WFMU's Free Music Series (so, it's FREE!)		2:19:18 (Pop-up)

mannequin men	22nd century "22nd century" by "mannequin men"	fresh rot	flameshovel			*	2:28:09 (Pop-up)
cynics	here we are "here we are" by "cynics"	here we are	get hip			*	2:30:34 (Pop-up)
mala rodriguez	nanai "nanai" by "mala rodriguez"	malamarismo	machete / universal			*	2:38:23 (Pop-up)
ajit singh feat. asha bhosle	main akeli raat jawan	va-sitar beat! indian style heavy funk vol 2	guerilla reissues			*	2:42:05 (Pop-up)

electric six	lenny kravitz "lenny kravitz" by "electric six"	i shall exterminate everything around me that restricts me from being the master	metropolis			*	2:50:17 (Pop-up)
eldridge holmes	humpback "humpback" by "eldridge holmes"	deep southern soul	aim			*	2:53:28 (Pop-up)
the amazements	steel mill "steel mill" by "the amazements"	s/t ep	self-released			*	2:55:15 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	11:28pm jason: NEVER change your bed music! it's like the shot of bourbon in my morning coffee. ps - I've always meant to ask you, what is it?
	11:33pm Smokey Henderson: I worked - Pittsburgh commute was EMPTY. Work for a lawfrm, which, with courts closed, isn'tfair...
	11:33pm Sybil: Hi, Evan! Great Monday set. I had today off - university instructor. Why we take this holiday, I've no idea. Game will end soon, no worries.
	11:39pm efd: ugh, Abreu home run. Joe Borowski makes me nervous.
	11:41pm efd: @Jason, thanks! It's a song called "Saturday Night Fever" by the Lordz of Brooklyn, from 1993 or so.
	11:43pm Sybil: Yanks eliminated. Go Red Sox!
	11:44pm efd: YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
	11:50pm Sybil: Too funny, Evan! BTW my check-number sum last post was 714. Ironic, huh?
	11:52pm Steev: I've seen the Yankees win 5 World Series Ttitles in my lifetime... how about your team?
	11:52pm wobble: rofl
	11:57pm wobble: ive seen micheal jordon win 86 emmys
	12:08am efd: @Steev - I believe you've seen my team win one World Series title in your lifetime. As I recall, it was shortly after they came back from a 3-game deficit in the LCS.
	12:13am wobble: i miss allen
	12:59am nita: o hai!
	1:02am wobble: o hai?
	1:09am efd: @wobble - check http://www.lolcats.com/ @Nita - thanks for the laugh!
	1:10am Jurf: Thanks Evan. Thanks for leading me to discover the video "Kitty Cat Dance" on lolcats
	1:11am slugluv1313: ah! the ORIGINAL (a/k/a NOT Van Halen) HOT FOR TEACHER . . . yep i got THAT 45 too . . . AND the Thundertrain "Teenage Suicide" LP . . . complete with slit-wrist-girl poster (ah, those fabulous 1970s!)
	1:12am wobble: efd do you know if allen isever going to come back
	1:12am Tim: Bobby Fuller rocks! How about some Sir Douglas?
	1:16am slugluv1313: aaawwwwwwwwww . . . CUTE and SILLY KITTIES!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing!!!
	1:34am efd: @slugluv - did you also grow up in the Boston area, or are you just a fan of bands from there? I remember you also commented on the Pastiche song I played recently. @Tim - don't think I'll get to SDQ tonight, but thanks for the comment! @wobble - are you referring to John Allen?
	1:46am wobble: yes,im referring to john
	1:53am slugluv1313: i grew up in the thriving metropolis of Martinsville, NJ and lived in New Brunswick while i went to Douglass (the women's college at Rutgers Univ.) . . . by around 1975/76, i was reading about this stuff in "Rock Scene" and Nancy Foster's "New Age" fanzine (anyone know where she is these days???) and send away for the records with the few dollars i had . . . first year at college, my room-mate was this sweet girl who was also a born-again Christian . . . and there i was hanging up stuff like the Teenage Suicide poster on my half of the dorm room's wall . . . fall of 1977, literally 30 years ago . . . yikes! BUT not like there was ready-made-pre-packaged "punk" back then . . .
	6:12am jeff: GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	12:00pm Jessica: I can['t] has holiday, not in all my 25 years (I started young) of paid work. But I can has cheeseburger. http://icanhascheezburger.com/. I'm freelance, now, so sneak my errands in when most folks are thinking about that second cup of corporate coffee; today's milieu was a little more regular-folks than normal, but they all looked like banker types. And their way-too-young mistresses. That's what I get for running errands in Piedmont. none of which was in bank or gov't employ.
	12:01pm Jessica: [cough] yesterday's [cough]
	1:08pm Bill Kelly: Yankees lose. @!#%&$#!! My second team, the Tribe, will be on the warpath!
	2:45pm peter: Thanks for the Stray Cats song. I use to love them so, embarassingly so. Do you have the live Rockats record there. I lost mine. If so please play. All those "Cats" bands inspired me to name my band in high school in the 80's the "Dan Katz" after our friend.
	11:10pm efd: @Jessica - Thanks for the link to icanhascheezburger.com -- I was trying to think of that site during my show, but totally blanked. @Bill - Suddenly, I am no longer an Indians fan. @Peter - I'm not sure if that Rockats record is in the station's library... isn't that the one that was rushed out something like a week or two after the show? I might actually have that in my own collection, I will take a look.
	11:28pm mikey c: say hey, after combing through my old topps cards i figure that rick MONDAY's picture was taken for 1968, correct me if i'm wrong but didn't he stop some damn dirty hippies from burnin the american flag during a Monday twi night double header? ps. i'm hopin steinbrenner signs bob shepard for another 100 year contract, but kate smith's voice has got to go
	4:46pm Dave McGurgan: You played New Order at the wrong speed. No worries though, sounded just as good ... congrats on new time slot.

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Wed. Dec 18th, Noon - 3pm: Manager (More info...)
Manager is a three-piece band that’s based right here in Jersey City. They recently released a new EP, HOT-LINE (Texacobra), which showcases their hard-edged percolating indie sound that may remind the listener of Echo & The Bunnymen or Yo La Tengo. Tune in to this live session and hear for yourself!
Wed. Dec 25th, Noon - 3pm: The 18th Annual Holiday Music Funktacular! (More info...)
It’s the 18th year of the Evan “Funk” Davies Show Holiday Music Funktacular, and this year — for the first time ever — it will air on actual Christmas Day! Tune in for three hours of Christmas music that you won’t already be sick of hearing: old and new seasonal rock, punk, dance, glam, and power pop favorites. Even your family might enjoy it!

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
the jam	monday "monday" by "the jam"	sound affects	polydor	1980	umm.... it was probably written in the 70s, at least		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
jonah jones	my monday date "my monday date" by "jonah jones"	mp3					0:02:39 (Pop-up)
fats domino	blue monday "blue monday" by "fats domino"						0:05:02 (Pop-up)
new order	blue monday "blue monday" by "new order"	12"	factory	1983			0:07:43 (Pop-up)
chief kamachi & the ju ju mob	my squad	12"	good hands	2007			0:14:43 (Pop-up)
lovin' spoonful	darling be home soon	all the best of					0:18:42 (Pop-up)
monday night football theme	"monday night football theme"						0:22:02 (Pop-up)

rev rev	it's a mouse: it's not a motel	mole in the raven room	third ear trumpet			*	0:31:55 (Pop-up)
stereolab	cybele's reverie "cybele's reverie" by "stereolab"	emperor tomato ketchup	elektra	1996			0:36:41 (Pop-up)
blank dogs	yellow mice sleep "yellow mice sleep" by "blank dogs"	7"	hozac			*	0:41:29 (Pop-up)
fifth estate	ding dong the witch is dead				thuuuuuuhhhhhh yankees lose!		0:44:26 (Pop-up)
suzyn waldman, john sterling, roger clemens	they came and got me out of texas						0:47:30 (Pop-up)

coconut coolouts	(please don't break me out of) party jail	party time machine	haunted horse / xeriod			*	0:55:38 (Pop-up)
the touch-me-nots	it's not right but it's ok	7"	nasty products			*	0:59:13 (Pop-up)
heavy trash	kissy baby "kissy baby" by "heavy trash"	going way out with heavy trash	yep roc			*	1:02:01 (Pop-up)
stray cats	runaway boys "runaway boys" by "stray cats"	s/t	arista uk	1981			1:04:40 (Pop-up)

dalek	desolate peasants "desolate peasants" by "dalek"	deadverse massive vol 1: dalek rarities 1999-2006	hydra head			*	1:15:29 (Pop-up)
turzi	animal signal "animal signal" by "turzi"	a	kemado			*	1:22:50 (Pop-up)
thundertrain	hot for teacher "hot for teacher" by "thundertrain"	teenage suicide	gulcher		This is the cover photo from the Hot For Teacher single, taken at my old high school. credit: Lynn Ciulla		1:19:55 (Pop-up)
ike & tina turner	finger poppin' "finger poppin'" by "ike & tina turner"	the ike & tina turner story	time life			*	1:25:24 (Pop-up)
black lips	veni vidi vici "veni vidi vici" by "black lips"	good bad not evil	vice			*	1:28:19 (Pop-up)

electro group	trauma "trauma" by "electro group"	good technology	tone vendor			*	1:36:38 (Pop-up)
agnes kain	all time high "all time high" by "agnes kain"	keep walking or i'll kill you	half a cow			*	1:39:13 (Pop-up)
xtc	generals and majors "generals and majors" by "xtc"	7"	rso	1980			1:42:13 (Pop-up)
wondermints	shine "shine" by "wondermints"	s/t	big deal	1996			1:46:09 (Pop-up)
sun-electric	ohaya "ohaya" by "sun-electric"	lost & found (1998-2000)	shitkatapult			*	1:50:33 (Pop-up)

dan melchior und das menace	the pink scream and the middle manager	the 'pink scream' e.p.	shake appeal			*	2:04:14 (Pop-up)
bobby fuller	shakedown "shakedown" by "bobby fuller"	rock and roll king of the southwest	norton			*	2:08:22 (Pop-up)
le tigre	get off the internet "get off the internet" by "le tigre"	from the desk of mr lady	mr lady	2000			2:10:14 (Pop-up)
ultravox	the man who dies everyday	ha! ha! ha!	antilles	1977			2:15:02 (Pop-up)
oneida	all arounder "all arounder" by "oneida"	anthem of the moon	jagjaguwar	2001	playing live at Southpaw this Saturday with Simply Saucer, Alan Vega and Old Time Relijun -- part of WFMU's Free Music Series (so, it's FREE!)		2:19:18 (Pop-up)

mannequin men	22nd century "22nd century" by "mannequin men"	fresh rot	flameshovel			*	2:28:09 (Pop-up)
cynics	here we are "here we are" by "cynics"	here we are	get hip			*	2:30:34 (Pop-up)
mala rodriguez	nanai "nanai" by "mala rodriguez"	malamarismo	machete / universal			*	2:38:23 (Pop-up)
ajit singh feat. asha bhosle	main akeli raat jawan	va-sitar beat! indian style heavy funk vol 2	guerilla reissues			*	2:42:05 (Pop-up)

electric six	lenny kravitz "lenny kravitz" by "electric six"	i shall exterminate everything around me that restricts me from being the master	metropolis			*	2:50:17 (Pop-up)
eldridge holmes	humpback "humpback" by "eldridge holmes"	deep southern soul	aim			*	2:53:28 (Pop-up)
the amazements	steel mill "steel mill" by "the amazements"	s/t ep	self-released			*	2:55:15 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:28pm jason: NEVER change your bed music! it's like the shot of bourbon in my morning coffee. ps - I've always meant to ask you, what is it?
	11:33pm Smokey Henderson: I worked - Pittsburgh commute was EMPTY. Work for a lawfrm, which, with courts closed, isn'tfair...
	11:33pm Sybil: Hi, Evan! Great Monday set. I had today off - university instructor. Why we take this holiday, I've no idea. Game will end soon, no worries.
	11:39pm efd: ugh, Abreu home run. Joe Borowski makes me nervous.
	11:41pm efd: @Jason, thanks! It's a song called "Saturday Night Fever" by the Lordz of Brooklyn, from 1993 or so.
	11:43pm Sybil: Yanks eliminated. Go Red Sox!
	11:44pm efd: YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
	11:50pm Sybil: Too funny, Evan! BTW my check-number sum last post was 714. Ironic, huh?
	11:52pm Steev: I've seen the Yankees win 5 World Series Ttitles in my lifetime... how about your team?
	11:52pm wobble: rofl
	11:57pm wobble: ive seen micheal jordon win 86 emmys
	12:08am efd: @Steev - I believe you've seen my team win one World Series title in your lifetime. As I recall, it was shortly after they came back from a 3-game deficit in the LCS.
	12:13am wobble: i miss allen
	12:59am nita: o hai!
	1:02am wobble: o hai?
	1:09am efd: @wobble - check http://www.lolcats.com/ @Nita - thanks for the laugh!
	1:10am Jurf: Thanks Evan. Thanks for leading me to discover the video "Kitty Cat Dance" on lolcats
	1:11am slugluv1313: ah! the ORIGINAL (a/k/a NOT Van Halen) HOT FOR TEACHER . . . yep i got THAT 45 too . . . AND the Thundertrain "Teenage Suicide" LP . . . complete with slit-wrist-girl poster (ah, those fabulous 1970s!)
	1:12am wobble: efd do you know if allen isever going to come back
	1:12am Tim: Bobby Fuller rocks! How about some Sir Douglas?
	1:16am slugluv1313: aaawwwwwwwwww . . . CUTE and SILLY KITTIES!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing!!!
	1:34am efd: @slugluv - did you also grow up in the Boston area, or are you just a fan of bands from there? I remember you also commented on the Pastiche song I played recently. @Tim - don't think I'll get to SDQ tonight, but thanks for the comment! @wobble - are you referring to John Allen?
	1:46am wobble: yes,im referring to john
	1:53am slugluv1313: i grew up in the thriving metropolis of Martinsville, NJ and lived in New Brunswick while i went to Douglass (the women's college at Rutgers Univ.) . . . by around 1975/76, i was reading about this stuff in "Rock Scene" and Nancy Foster's "New Age" fanzine (anyone know where she is these days???) and send away for the records with the few dollars i had . . . first year at college, my room-mate was this sweet girl who was also a born-again Christian . . . and there i was hanging up stuff like the Teenage Suicide poster on my half of the dorm room's wall . . . fall of 1977, literally 30 years ago . . . yikes! BUT not like there was ready-made-pre-packaged "punk" back then . . .
	6:12am jeff: GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	12:00pm Jessica: I can['t] has holiday, not in all my 25 years (I started young) of paid work. But I can has cheeseburger. http://icanhascheezburger.com/. I'm freelance, now, so sneak my errands in when most folks are thinking about that second cup of corporate coffee; today's milieu was a little more regular-folks than normal, but they all looked like banker types. And their way-too-young mistresses. That's what I get for running errands in Piedmont. none of which was in bank or gov't employ.
	12:01pm Jessica: [cough] yesterday's [cough]
	1:08pm Bill Kelly: Yankees lose. @!#%&$#!! My second team, the Tribe, will be on the warpath!
	2:45pm peter: Thanks for the Stray Cats song. I use to love them so, embarassingly so. Do you have the live Rockats record there. I lost mine. If so please play. All those "Cats" bands inspired me to name my band in high school in the 80's the "Dan Katz" after our friend.
	11:10pm efd: @Jessica - Thanks for the link to icanhascheezburger.com -- I was trying to think of that site during my show, but totally blanked. @Bill - Suddenly, I am no longer an Indians fan. @Peter - I'm not sure if that Rockats record is in the station's library... isn't that the one that was rushed out something like a week or two after the show? I might actually have that in my own collection, I will take a look.
	11:28pm mikey c: say hey, after combing through my old topps cards i figure that rick MONDAY's picture was taken for 1968, correct me if i'm wrong but didn't he stop some damn dirty hippies from burnin the american flag during a Monday twi night double header? ps. i'm hopin steinbrenner signs bob shepard for another 100 year contract, but kate smith's voice has got to go
	4:46pm Dave McGurgan: You played New Order at the wrong speed. No worries though, sounded just as good ... congrats on new time slot.

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