WFMU: The Evan "Funk" Davies Show: Playlist from October 5, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:08pm Fuzzy: Senior year again tonight -- cool!
	9:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Annabella. NeoPsych farfisa. This must be the place.
	9:10pm herb.nyc: Right; some of us are senior citizens
	9:14pm JakeGould: 1981! The year I was in JHS with a teacher who would give us 7" singles for doing good in class and some kid gave me a mixtape whose opening track was Sparks "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us." So yeah... 1981 music!
	9:19pm coelacanth: solid gold = a perfect album! ...hi Evan and Funkies
	9:19pm Cheri Pi: This may be my favorite year for music
	9:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PostPunk, PreAlternative. Reagan. MTV only just starts. No R.E.M. yet.
	9:22pm Laura: You read my mind! I was just thinking of Tenpole Tudor!
	9:24pm Dave in SoDak: This is so perfect! I got my FCC license on June 15, 1981. My first slot (and show) was 12am to 4am, and the GM and PD were listening... Next day they gave me - wait for it - WEDNESDAYS 7-10PM (Central). Kismet. So many memories of that huge musty old 19th century building, top floor, windows open, and a record collection to die for. I remember ALL of this stuff! Rock it, EFD. Rock it hard. And don't forget the Stranglers and P-Furs. <3
	9:26pm Dave in SoDak: Cheri Pi, absolutely agree. Actually anything from 77 to 82 was awesome. I just have a really soft spot for '81, for reasons previously explained.
	9:26pm JakeGould: U68!
	9:27pm GW: Always a great show Evan . I think you were among the first to play all of these on the radio stateside . Just a great era and time to be out there and dancing and hearing a non stop wave of great music . Thanks.
	9:28pm Stevel: Moved to Madison midway through my sophomore year, right as 81 began. No school for a semester. Worked as a hotel maid ands started shooting photos for The Daily Cardinal, UW-Madison daily paper (well, Monday thru Friday).
	9:28pm Dave in SoDak: Ditto GW
	9:29pm Dave in SoDak: Go Badgers!
	9:29pm efd: thanks much for tuning in and all the comments everyone! Gonna be tough to comment between the mostly short songs and short sets but I'm reading and enjoying all of yours.
	9:30pm Dave in SoDak: Oh, shit... Cabaret Voltaire and PIL Second Edition... So much ear candy...
	9:31pm Stevel: Right on, Dave. Fuck ''em Bucky!
	9:31pm JakeGould: @SteveL: Wasn't Madison a heavy duty slacker and party school back then? I heard stories about the riots on State Street back then. Lived there in the 1990s.
	9:32pm Dave in SoDak: I get really great vibes still when I visit Madison. Don't know why...
	9:34pm Stevel: Jake: relatively quiet '81 through '85 (so much for the 4-year degree!). Demonstrations against US involvement in ElSalvador and Regan in general.
	9:34pm IFisher: A right chequebook-loosening playlist if there ever was one- Wah! Crucial 1/3
	9:35pm herb.nyc: 1981- I think I went to Max's Kansas Ciry for 1st (and only) time. Maybe Tuff Darts played. --Shambecko Say Wah(?)
	9:35pm Cheri Pi: I was 10, just moved to Seattle and discovered college radio
	9:37pm Stevel: Madison was Berkeley of the Midwest, or so we still hoped. Plenty of beer, booze and drugs, but it WAS the early 80s. No AIDS yet, at least not early on.
	9:37pm IFisher: Wah! The Mongrel
	9:40pm herb.nyc: I have library copy of John Doe 's personal history of LA punk. I'll look for the 1981 bits.
	9:41pm Dave in SoDak: My experience in Madison was hanging out with grad students and doing responsible stuff, i guess. no craziness, just a lot of great sightseeing, frank lloyd wright, all that. beautiful in the fall. the lake. and really great local bread, pastries, and of course, beer.
	9:41pm Stevel: Herb: I first heard Tuff Darts on cool radio in Denver. I was buying flowers for prom and they played "She's Dead". Not sure I shared that with my date later that evening.
	9:42pm JakeGould: Was Hotel Washington a venue complex back in the 1980s? That was an amazing venue when it existed. Caught fire in the late 1990s. Two venues, multiple bars and it was an old hotel as well.
	9:44pm coelacanth: hahaha! i like you much better now!
	9:44pm chris_in_space: This old tape is incredible.
	9:45pm Mary Wing: Heh, Duran Duran, Medium Medium, and Liquid Liquid playing together--too damn funny!
	9:45pm Cheri Pi: So sweet!!
	9:45pm efd: that's a relief, coel!
	9:46pm Dave in SoDak: wooooooowwww... :)
	9:47pm Mary Wing: I nominate EFD for the new FMU morning zoo program! :-)
	9:48pm Stevel: Yes. Club De Wash. Cafe Palms (late-night eggs Florentine) The Barbers Closet (ice cream-drinks, secret entrance) and Rods, a relatively intense gay bar (neon sign depicting two penises meeting head to head) There may have been one more place. I was sad when I heard it burned. My claim to fame was a pic of Paul Westerberg singing, curled up on the floor (shooting straight down from a chair). It ended up on the Hootenanny album.
	9:49pm Stevel: Seconding morning zoo duty.
	9:50pm JakeGould: @EFD: The The. @SteveL: Very cool! Hotel De Wash was like a mini hipster mall in the good sense.
	9:51pm Cheri Pi: When I get nostalgic I listen to the old mic breaks from 1983 that I found on YouTube
	9:52pm Stevel: Jake: it also had urinals big enough to sleep in. ( I did not sleep in the urinals. )
	9:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yup: Burning Blue Soul - September 7, 1981
	9:53pm herb.nyc: From JDoe book- in 1981, Henry Rollins moved to LA (Wash, DC is ecstatic! That's me talking, not JDoe)
	9:54pm melinda: hi guys
	9:55pm herb.nyc: Brain-addled me don't remember what Tuff Darts sound like
	9:55pm Julie M Brooklyn: I'm all in with The The. Hope You got some for us.
	9:55pm coelacanth: hi melinda
	9:56pm Stevel: Jake: When were you in Madison?
	9:57pm Stevel: Yes, The The, please. Nearly impossible to Google.
	9:57pm melinda: hi coel
	9:58pm coelacanth: a different "banal" opened the lili drop album i bought,probably in 1981...but the album came out in '80.
	9:58pm Dave in SoDak: I had a tape that had OMD (US release from 81 - kind of a combo of first two albums) and on the other side, X Wild Gift. I played that thing so goddamn much...
	9:59pm efd: sorry everyone, I have no The The here here.
	9:59pm Stevel: Drat drat!
	10:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...probably didn't get to 'T' in the alphabet - haha...
	10:01pm Dave in SoDak: In the obscure arena, remember "Fun in Nicaragua" or "Jackie Onassis"? Y'know, I wanna wear a pair of cheap sunglasses...
	10:02pm coelacanth: (my favorite cure album came in 1981)
	10:02pm Dave in SoDak: EFD, I heart you. #fleshtonesbitch
	10:04pm Stevel: Ah, Fleshtones! Pretty sure they came through in '81. Probably the second show I shot in town. Maybe 20 people there. A year later they packed the place (Merlyn's) Dave, I think the first show I shot was Human Sexual Response (Jackie O)
	10:05pm Dave in SoDak: Stevel - YES!
	10:05pm Stevel: Roman Gods may be a perfect album. Played the hell out of it for years.
	10:05pm coelacanth: ah, my favorite human sexual response album also in 1981.
	10:06pm coelacanth: ("in a roman mood"?)
	10:06pm IFisher: Heaven Up Here Flowers of Romance
	10:07pm Dave in SoDak: When did Romeo Void "Never Say Never" come out? Had to have been around this year...
	10:08pm JakeGould: @SteveL: Yes! Lived there from 1995 to 2001. Didn’t go to school there. Just needed a change of pace from NYC, so moved to a place where rent was cheap, apartments were (are?) decent, and lots of stuff to do in walking distance.
	10:09pm JakeGould: @DaveinSoDak: Recorded in 1981 and released in 1982. en.wikipedia.org...
	10:10pm Dave in SoDak: ty jakegould
	10:12pm JakeGould: And—FWIW— 1982 was an amazing year for science fiction films. Also, those walkman headphones with orange foam on them. io9.gizmodo.com...
	10:13pm geezerette: Reminds me of "Something Goes Wrong Again".
	10:14pm Stevel: My in laws are in Madison, so I get there pretty often. Easy town to get around in. I could stand ending up there?
	10:15pm JakeGould: “Gleaming Spires” debut album was in 1981… Just saying!
	10:19pm geezerette: '81 was a great year. Yep.
	10:19pm JakeGould: @SteveL: Maybe! For me I was entranced by all of the snow since I never grew up with it that intense before, but by the end of my run there was getting some serious seasonal affective disorder. So hey!
	10:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Think I had 'bullrushes' playing in my head for decades til efd put a name on it for me.
	10:20pm GW: Ah , the Bongos . Playing a couple of gigs soon in the area. They gave me "Drums Along the Hudson" when I was working the door at the Peppermint Lounge in 81
	10:21pm efd: whoa, that's pretty cool GW! I've got some fond memories of the Pep (the 45th street location, never made it down after the move to 5th Ave)
	10:22pm melinda: I like Madison, from the few times I visited. I kinda thought of it as the Austin of the upper Midwest (grew up in Austin so that was my reference point).
	10:23pm Stevel: Melinda: Yup. Cool and not a lot like the rest of the state.
	10:24pm john: Hey Evan! Half the show and two thirds of the game...what'd I miss?
	10:24pm melinda: Both state capitals, too.
	10:25pm braveness23: B23 here! Holy shit, this show is a real toe tapper!
	10:26pm JakeGould: @GW: You worked the door at the Peppermint Lounge? Damn!
	10:26pm GW: Funny that Ev , I didnt last at the new location . I got fired for arriving late to my post on the second night of Flock of Seagulls. The dude with the haircut was turned away out front . Didnt really enjoy them. He got in on time to get on stage.
	10:27pm melinda: UW-Madison also has one of the coolest student union buildings, too. Not that I've visited many, but it felt old and grand.
	10:27pm efd: hey john! I think you've already enumerated what you missed! :D Thanks for joining in!
	10:28pm efd: the Flock Of Seagullls "dude with the haircut" -- can you be a liittle more specific??:)
	10:28pm tom: Screw your talk of Madison already.Take a break Gould.
	10:28pm john: I'll have to go back and replay both!
	10:29pm Chop Scott: EFD--I Thank You!!!
	10:29pm Stevel: GW: Seconding Jake'a "Damn!" By chance did you work there when The Cramps recorded?
	10:30pm Dave in SoDak: Actually, Atlanta is the new hot spot, so fya. :)
	10:31pm Stevel: Melinda: Absolutely, not to mention the Terrace, overlooking Lake Mendota (always with pitchers of beer.)
	10:32pm Steve: Thanks for playing AFOS ! Love them.
	10:32pm coelacanth: no; i have that ep. the one guy's hair is already pretty laughable!
	10:34pm Howard F: Hey everyone! How about some DAF?
	10:34pm GW: The lead singer , with the haircut , I got there late and someone had turned him away . Which was funny. I would go up to the office and grab one of the demo cassettes that bands would send in , and tape over them via the board in the dj booth
	10:35pm coelacanth: in god we trust,inc. is from '81. what can we expect to hear from that? - just kidding! ( -i know that's not your jam.)
	10:36pm Dave in SoDak: Memory: Canoeing down the Sioux River with my friend Rick, with a case of beer and a portable stereo thinger, playing Flock of Seagulls on one side and Men at Work on the other. Rick got drunk and stood up, canoe tips over, I save Rick (because just now he tells me he can't swim), but lost the crappy blaster and Flock and MAW tape. Rick's a good shit. Good times...
	10:37pm Stevel: Coel: Now yer talkin'! That ep peeled paint!
	10:37pm GW: The only ones I have around are Fear live a few nights after Belushi died. The band had me put a small JB up on the marquee. Then Johnny Thunders on Valentines day 1981 live at the Pep. Also I taped the Nihilistics .
	10:38pm braveness23: I bought this A flock of seaguls album in Canada on a vacation in 1981. I bought it purely because of their haitcuts. I couldnt listen to it until i got back to the states. Within a week or two it was all that MTV was playing. A couple weeks later i went to see the Go Go's and to my delight AFOS was the openning act. Cheri Pi now has my vinyl copy of this album! I love ya, CP!
	10:42pm herb.nyc: Blondie's "picture this" mentions "pocket computer ", 1978
	10:43pm coelacanth: GW i didn't know anyone else besides me remembered the nihilistics...and Chris T. of course.
	10:43pm efd: hey everyone, just a quick reminder that it's Silent Fundraiser time here at WFMU! Your pledge is greatly appreciated, as always -- use the pledge widget at the top left of the page or just click here: pledge.wfmu.org... Cool new t-shirts await!
	10:45pm Dave in SoDak: RE: Cockney dialect. Apparently Cockney is dying out due to the gentrification of East London. Me and Sir Michael Caine are really sad. [ patrick d. martin ]
	10:45pm Arad: Such an evocative show, what a list. Haven't thought about some of these bands since that year. Hanging at the Hotel Diplomat, shows in the ballroom there.
	10:47pm coelacanth: i was playing a tape of this medium medium ep in a store i worked in once, which is how i met a (then) wfmu dj, who then supplied me with the medium medium album.
	10:51pm bkd69: Thanks EFD, for reminding me of my own advancing age and inevitable mortality.
	10:52pm Dave in SoDak: EFD, this is one of those shows that I'm going to have to archive because it just IS that amazing. Thank you for your diligence and never-ending dedication to the craft that is great radio. I will be listening to this whole show again tomorrow as I drive through the vast wastelands that are my home state. :)
	10:54pm Stevel: What Dave said. Hear, hear! Wednesdays are always something I look forward to. Thanks, efd!
	10:54pm efd: that's very kind Dave, thank you. bkd69, you're welcome I guess? Right there with you though.
	10:55pm bkd69: I'll be sharing this one in the WLIR and u68 FB groups
	10:56pm Julie M Brooklyn: Is it OK to talk about National League baseball? No score at the end of the 8th inning. I'm having a hard time balancing radio/'81 and tv/sports.
	10:57pm efd: haha, yes, baseball talk is always welcome! Hi Julie!
	11:03pm Mary Wing: Everyone who is listening to this show should pledge $81 to Evan's show right now, in solidarity of exceptional freeform radio which he dleivers every week! DO IT!
	11:03pm efd: ooh, I like the way you think Mary!
	11:03pm bkd69: Damned if the lead singer of Positive Noise doesn't sound like Mark Mothersbaugh.
	11:05pm Mary Wing: Delivers, I meant to say, not dleivers, heh. Individuals rule the airwaves, yay!
	11:06pm Dave in SoDak: @Mary Wing, that is brilliant. Forgot this is a silent fundraiser! 8+1=9, and 9 is my number.
	11:09pm phat: I miss spastic 80s nerd rock.
	11:09pm efd: uh-oh, just happened to flip over to my Twitter feed for a moment - sorry, Mets fans. :(
	11:12pm Julie M Brooklyn: Grrrrrr.
	11:12pm Dave in SoDak: Never been a Cubs fan until they got Madden. Jealous. He should have been picked up by the Twins. Oh, well. Madden, and the Cubs, HELL YEAH! GO!
	11:14pm Dave in SoDak: sorry, MaddOn.
	11:17pm herb.nyc: Evan, can you do the 99 Records spot?
	11:18pm Ike: Dig it!
	11:18pm Power Papi: Giants: 3, Mets: 0, GO GIANTS!!!
	11:21pm Steve: Evan, is this the PIL album with Ginger Baker on the drums ?
	11:23pm Julie M Brooklyn: And the Giants win it. Pish tosh. I'm done. Ginger Baker with PiL?
	11:24pm cheri: hello efd & everybody! I just came home a Halloween party, but believe it or not, I was born in 1981.
	11:25pm Marc15: I was 15 in 1981. Great show Evan
	11:26pm efd: @Steve, I don't think so? That's a new one on me I have to say
	11:26pm Steve: "It was very good year" 1981, Cheri
	11:27pm Joe stalvey: Time for this geezer to go to bed and maybe dream of seeing PiL at the Channel. Great show, thanks EFD.
	11:27pm Steve: Evan, Ginger is on one of PIL's albums if it's not Flowers of Romance.
	11:28pm JakeGould: @MaryWing: $81 dollars? Reverse mitzvah!
	11:29pm bkd69: How old was everybody in '81? 13 years, here
	11:30pm JakeGould: @Steve: That was the generic album I believe.
	11:30pm Steve: ALBUM
	11:31pm cheri: well time for me to say goodnight all, been a long day, see you all soon!
	11:32pm JakeGould: I was 13 in 1981.
	11:32pm coelacanth: ginger was on the abominable, just for the sake of income album.
	11:33pm Steve: According to Wikipedia it's these 4 tracks from 'ALBUM' that Ginger Baker played the drums on: Fishing, Round, Bags, Ease.
	11:34pm coelacanth: yeh, i'm not sure how that qualifies as a pil album.
	11:36pm Steve: They could be classified as John Lydon solo albums after the original line-up of PIL broke apart.
	11:36pm melinda: I was 10 in 1981. I didn't know anything that wasn't on top 40 radio or MTV at the time.
	11:37pm Stevel: I was 20 in July.
	11:38pm coelacanth: right, Steve. there wasn't even a band on that album. it was just session/guest musicians. (i'm pretty sure)
	11:38pm Steve: 18
	11:38pm phat: why wouldn't a bunch of British artists just make a disco record?
	11:38pm Mary Wing: Jake, is a reverse mitzvah a good thing? If so, let the dollars flow!
	11:39pm phat: artistes
	11:41pm northguineahills: I was 5 in 1981, and I wouldn't know anything that wasn't on MTV Top 40 until I was 16. (I was a late bloomer).
	11:43pm bkd69: @melinda & northguineahills: fortunately, even 1980's top 40 was awesome. My theory is that Hitler hasn't been killed by time travelers because everybody's using their time machines to go clubbing in the 80's.
	11:45pm JakeGould: @MaryWing: Money is good. Please donate folks! $81 is great!
	11:46pm melinda: @bkd69: I have great memories of early 80s top 40, not so much later, but by then I was seeking out 60s rock & folk, so I had alternatives.
	11:47pm bkd69: @efd: well, if you're not going to play the cramps, the dynamic hepnotics is an acceptable substitute. And there's a show theme, for you...cover bands you've never heard...bands that are nigh indistinguishable from their more famous stylistic kin.
	11:47pm cheri: oh evan, i'm so looking forward to the singles going 70s show, how cool is that? i'll be tuning in on the 26th! well night for real!
	11:52pm Mary Wing: Let's not forget the fabulous show when Evan had Paul Humphries of OMD as his guest--pledge for great archives! wfmu.org...
	11:54pm efd: I remember that show!
	11:55pm Ken From Hyde Park: I remember the band Berlin had a few songs on the radio in 1981. "The Metro" for one, and some other tunes.
	11:55pm Mary Wing: So do I, I took that picture of you and Paul. And got his autograph! :-)
	11:56pm efd: yes, I was going to mention that but wasn't sure if I should out you! :D
	11:57pm melinda: I remember 'The Metro'.
	11:58pm northguineahills: Thanks EFD!
	11:58pm bkd69: My defense of 80's top 40: the 80's were the last decade a rockabilly song was in the top 40 The last decade Irving Berlin had a song in the top 40 the last decade Herbie Hancock had a song in the top 40 the last decade Slade had not one, but two songs in the top 40
	11:59pm melinda: Great show! Nighty night.
	12:00am Ken From Hyde Park: Mayhem in 1981. Thanks, efd!
	12:00am coelacanth: 'twas a fine show Evan. Thank you. tchau mammals
	6:16am gaz Birtles: Thanks for playing our song, Peace Of Mind by The Swinging Laurels. Much appreciated, keeping the name and music alive ;-)

The Evan "Funk" Davies Show: Playlist from October 5, 2016

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October 5, 2016: MAYHEM IN THE PM SALUTE TO 1981!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
pete shelley	i don't know what it is	7"	generic	1981		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
bow wow wow	w.o.r.k. (n.o. nah no! no! my daddy don't)	7"	emi	1981		0:03:14 (Pop-up)
the raybeats	tight turn "tight turn" by "the raybeats"	roping wild bears ep	don't fall off the mountain	1981		0:05:41 (Pop-up)
au pairs	inconvenience "inconvenience" by "au pairs"	12"	human	1981		0:10:18 (Pop-up)
gang of four	what we all want "what we all want" by "gang of four"	solid gold	warner bros	1981		0:12:42 (Pop-up)
the fun boy three	the lunatics (have taken over the asylum)	7"	chrysalis	1981		0:18:07 (Pop-up)
tenpole tudor	throwing my baby out with the bathwater	let the four winds blow	stiff	1981		0:20:50 (Pop-up)
holly & the italians	youth coup "youth coup" by "holly & the italians"	7"	virgin	1981		0:24:34 (Pop-up)
killing joke	follow the leaders "follow the leaders" by "killing joke"	10"	eg	1981		0:27:00 (Pop-up)
wah!	somesay "somesay" by "wah!"	7"	eternal	1981		0:32:58 (Pop-up)
the professionals	join the professionals	7"	virgin	1981		0:35:44 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: 4" be 2"	all of the lads "all of the lads" by "4" be 2""	12"	wea	1981		0:39:29 (Pop-up)
altered images	dead pop stars "dead pop stars" by "altered images"	7"	epic	1981		0:44:47 (Pop-up)
the damned	billy bad breaks "billy bad breaks" by "the damned"	friday the 13th ep	nems	1981		0:47:21 (Pop-up)
bill nelson	banal "banal" by "bill nelson"	7"	mercury	1981		0:50:56 (Pop-up)
the passions	skin deep "skin deep" by "the passions"	7"	polydor	1981		0:54:34 (Pop-up)
delmontes	so it's not to be "so it's not to be" by "delmontes"	7"	rational	1981		0:58:19 (Pop-up)
the fleshtones	shadow line (to j. conrad)	roman gods	irs	1981		1:00:32 (Pop-up)
scars	leave me in autumn "leave me in autumn" by "scars"	author! author!	pre	1981		1:04:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: human league	non-stop "non-stop" by "human league"	7"	virgin	1981		1:06:40 (Pop-up)
department s	is vic there? "is vic there?" by "department s"	7"	stiff	1981		1:11:07 (Pop-up)
music for pleasure	fuel to the fire	7"	rage	1981		1:13:49 (Pop-up)
the bongos	the bulrushes "the bulrushes" by "the bongos"	7"	fetish	1981		1:17:24 (Pop-up)
the bureau	only for sheep "only for sheep" by "the bureau"	7"	wea	1981		1:19:35 (Pop-up)
alternative tv	fun city "fun city" by "alternative tv"	strange kicks	irs	1981		1:23:22 (Pop-up)
the gas	the finger "the finger" by "the gas"	emotional warfare	polydor	1981		1:26:04 (Pop-up)
a flock of seagulls	talking "talking" by "a flock of seagulls"	7"	cocteau	1981		1:29:50 (Pop-up)
richard strange	international language	the phenomenal rise of	virgin	1981		1:33:41 (Pop-up)
patrick d. martin	computer datin'	s/t 12" ep	irs	1981		1:37:47 (Pop-up)
pigbag	papa's got a brand new pigbag	7"	y	1981		1:40:32 (Pop-up)
medium medium	hungry, so angry "hungry, so angry" by "medium medium"	12" ep	cachalot	1981		1:44:30 (Pop-up)
afraid of mice	i'm on fire "i'm on fire" by "afraid of mice"	7"	charisma	1981		1:48:03 (Pop-up)
everest the hard way	tightrope "tightrope" by "everest the hard way"	12" ep	do it	1981		1:51:55 (Pop-up)
robyn hitchcock	brenda's iron sledge	black snake diamond role	armageddon	1981		1:56:45 (Pop-up)
positive noise	charm "charm" by "positive noise"	7"	statik	1981		2:00:04 (Pop-up)
the individuals	piledrive "piledrive" by "the individuals"	aquamarine ep	infidelity	1981		2:02:52 (Pop-up)
pylon	m train "m train" by "pylon"	7"	db	1981	Pylon Reenactment Society's Monty Hall set will be broadcast on my show on October 19!	2:06:49 (Pop-up)
mo-dettes	tonight "tonight" by "mo-dettes"	7"	decca	1981		2:09:55 (Pop-up)

999	obsessed "obsessed" by "999"	7"	albion	1981		2:17:03 (Pop-up)
public image ltd	flowers of romance	flowers of romance	warner bros	1981		2:19:42 (Pop-up)
new math	they walk among you "they walk among you" by "new math"	they walk among you 12" ep	415	1981		2:22:54 (Pop-up)
material	bustin' out "bustin' out" by "material"	7"	ze	1981		2:25:49 (Pop-up)
heaven 17	i'm your money "i'm your money" by "heaven 17"	7"	virgin	1981	hint hint!	2:29:28 (Pop-up)
simple minds	i travel "i travel" by "simple minds"	themes for great cities: definitive collection 79-81	stiff	1981		2:33:16 (Pop-up)
the db's	big brown eyes "big brown eyes" by "the db's"	7"	albion	1981		2:36:48 (Pop-up)
the cyclones	you're so cool "you're so cool" by "the cyclones"	7"	little ricky	1981		2:38:54 (Pop-up)
the dynamic hepnotics	hepnobeat! "hepnobeat!" by "the dynamic hepnotics"	7"	statik	1981		2:41:33 (Pop-up)
soul	tribes "tribes" by "soul"	7"	cherry red	1981		2:45:01 (Pop-up)
orchestral manoeuvres in the dark	she's leaving	architecture & morality	dindisc	1981		2:47:58 (Pop-up)
swinging laurels	peace of mind "peace of mind" by "swinging laurels"	7"	albion	1981		2:51:26 (Pop-up)
esg	moody "moody" by "esg"	12" ep	99	1981		2:55:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: stiff little fingers	go for it "go for it" by "stiff little fingers"	go for it	chrysalis	1981		2:58:00 (Pop-up)

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	9:08pm Fuzzy: Senior year again tonight -- cool!
	9:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Annabella. NeoPsych farfisa. This must be the place.
	9:10pm herb.nyc: Right; some of us are senior citizens
	9:14pm JakeGould: 1981! The year I was in JHS with a teacher who would give us 7" singles for doing good in class and some kid gave me a mixtape whose opening track was Sparks "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us." So yeah... 1981 music!
	9:19pm coelacanth: solid gold = a perfect album! ...hi Evan and Funkies
	9:19pm Cheri Pi: This may be my favorite year for music
	9:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PostPunk, PreAlternative. Reagan. MTV only just starts. No R.E.M. yet.
	9:22pm Laura: You read my mind! I was just thinking of Tenpole Tudor!
	9:24pm Dave in SoDak: This is so perfect! I got my FCC license on June 15, 1981. My first slot (and show) was 12am to 4am, and the GM and PD were listening... Next day they gave me - wait for it - WEDNESDAYS 7-10PM (Central). Kismet. So many memories of that huge musty old 19th century building, top floor, windows open, and a record collection to die for. I remember ALL of this stuff! Rock it, EFD. Rock it hard. And don't forget the Stranglers and P-Furs. <3
	9:26pm Dave in SoDak: Cheri Pi, absolutely agree. Actually anything from 77 to 82 was awesome. I just have a really soft spot for '81, for reasons previously explained.
	9:26pm JakeGould: U68!
	9:27pm GW: Always a great show Evan . I think you were among the first to play all of these on the radio stateside . Just a great era and time to be out there and dancing and hearing a non stop wave of great music . Thanks.
	9:28pm Stevel: Moved to Madison midway through my sophomore year, right as 81 began. No school for a semester. Worked as a hotel maid ands started shooting photos for The Daily Cardinal, UW-Madison daily paper (well, Monday thru Friday).
	9:28pm Dave in SoDak: Ditto GW
	9:29pm Dave in SoDak: Go Badgers!
	9:29pm efd: thanks much for tuning in and all the comments everyone! Gonna be tough to comment between the mostly short songs and short sets but I'm reading and enjoying all of yours.
	9:30pm Dave in SoDak: Oh, shit... Cabaret Voltaire and PIL Second Edition... So much ear candy...
	9:31pm Stevel: Right on, Dave. Fuck ''em Bucky!
	9:31pm JakeGould: @SteveL: Wasn't Madison a heavy duty slacker and party school back then? I heard stories about the riots on State Street back then. Lived there in the 1990s.
	9:32pm Dave in SoDak: I get really great vibes still when I visit Madison. Don't know why...
	9:34pm Stevel: Jake: relatively quiet '81 through '85 (so much for the 4-year degree!). Demonstrations against US involvement in ElSalvador and Regan in general.
	9:34pm IFisher: A right chequebook-loosening playlist if there ever was one- Wah! Crucial 1/3
	9:35pm herb.nyc: 1981- I think I went to Max's Kansas Ciry for 1st (and only) time. Maybe Tuff Darts played. --Shambecko Say Wah(?)
	9:35pm Cheri Pi: I was 10, just moved to Seattle and discovered college radio
	9:37pm Stevel: Madison was Berkeley of the Midwest, or so we still hoped. Plenty of beer, booze and drugs, but it WAS the early 80s. No AIDS yet, at least not early on.
	9:37pm IFisher: Wah! The Mongrel
	9:40pm herb.nyc: I have library copy of John Doe 's personal history of LA punk. I'll look for the 1981 bits.
	9:41pm Dave in SoDak: My experience in Madison was hanging out with grad students and doing responsible stuff, i guess. no craziness, just a lot of great sightseeing, frank lloyd wright, all that. beautiful in the fall. the lake. and really great local bread, pastries, and of course, beer.
	9:41pm Stevel: Herb: I first heard Tuff Darts on cool radio in Denver. I was buying flowers for prom and they played "She's Dead". Not sure I shared that with my date later that evening.
	9:42pm JakeGould: Was Hotel Washington a venue complex back in the 1980s? That was an amazing venue when it existed. Caught fire in the late 1990s. Two venues, multiple bars and it was an old hotel as well.
	9:44pm coelacanth: hahaha! i like you much better now!
	9:44pm chris_in_space: This old tape is incredible.
	9:45pm Mary Wing: Heh, Duran Duran, Medium Medium, and Liquid Liquid playing together--too damn funny!
	9:45pm Cheri Pi: So sweet!!
	9:45pm efd: that's a relief, coel!
	9:46pm Dave in SoDak: wooooooowwww... :)
	9:47pm Mary Wing: I nominate EFD for the new FMU morning zoo program! :-)
	9:48pm Stevel: Yes. Club De Wash. Cafe Palms (late-night eggs Florentine) The Barbers Closet (ice cream-drinks, secret entrance) and Rods, a relatively intense gay bar (neon sign depicting two penises meeting head to head) There may have been one more place. I was sad when I heard it burned. My claim to fame was a pic of Paul Westerberg singing, curled up on the floor (shooting straight down from a chair). It ended up on the Hootenanny album.
	9:49pm Stevel: Seconding morning zoo duty.
	9:50pm JakeGould: @EFD: The The. @SteveL: Very cool! Hotel De Wash was like a mini hipster mall in the good sense.
	9:51pm Cheri Pi: When I get nostalgic I listen to the old mic breaks from 1983 that I found on YouTube
	9:52pm Stevel: Jake: it also had urinals big enough to sleep in. ( I did not sleep in the urinals. )
	9:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yup: Burning Blue Soul - September 7, 1981
	9:53pm herb.nyc: From JDoe book- in 1981, Henry Rollins moved to LA (Wash, DC is ecstatic! That's me talking, not JDoe)
	9:54pm melinda: hi guys
	9:55pm herb.nyc: Brain-addled me don't remember what Tuff Darts sound like
	9:55pm Julie M Brooklyn: I'm all in with The The. Hope You got some for us.
	9:55pm coelacanth: hi melinda
	9:56pm Stevel: Jake: When were you in Madison?
	9:57pm Stevel: Yes, The The, please. Nearly impossible to Google.
	9:57pm melinda: hi coel
	9:58pm coelacanth: a different "banal" opened the lili drop album i bought,probably in 1981...but the album came out in '80.
	9:58pm Dave in SoDak: I had a tape that had OMD (US release from 81 - kind of a combo of first two albums) and on the other side, X Wild Gift. I played that thing so goddamn much...
	9:59pm efd: sorry everyone, I have no The The here here.
	9:59pm Stevel: Drat drat!
	10:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...probably didn't get to 'T' in the alphabet - haha...
	10:01pm Dave in SoDak: In the obscure arena, remember "Fun in Nicaragua" or "Jackie Onassis"? Y'know, I wanna wear a pair of cheap sunglasses...
	10:02pm coelacanth: (my favorite cure album came in 1981)
	10:02pm Dave in SoDak: EFD, I heart you. #fleshtonesbitch
	10:04pm Stevel: Ah, Fleshtones! Pretty sure they came through in '81. Probably the second show I shot in town. Maybe 20 people there. A year later they packed the place (Merlyn's) Dave, I think the first show I shot was Human Sexual Response (Jackie O)
	10:05pm Dave in SoDak: Stevel - YES!
	10:05pm Stevel: Roman Gods may be a perfect album. Played the hell out of it for years.
	10:05pm coelacanth: ah, my favorite human sexual response album also in 1981.
	10:06pm coelacanth: ("in a roman mood"?)
	10:06pm IFisher: Heaven Up Here Flowers of Romance
	10:07pm Dave in SoDak: When did Romeo Void "Never Say Never" come out? Had to have been around this year...
	10:08pm JakeGould: @SteveL: Yes! Lived there from 1995 to 2001. Didn’t go to school there. Just needed a change of pace from NYC, so moved to a place where rent was cheap, apartments were (are?) decent, and lots of stuff to do in walking distance.
	10:09pm JakeGould: @DaveinSoDak: Recorded in 1981 and released in 1982. en.wikipedia.org...
	10:10pm Dave in SoDak: ty jakegould
	10:12pm JakeGould: And—FWIW— 1982 was an amazing year for science fiction films. Also, those walkman headphones with orange foam on them. io9.gizmodo.com...
	10:13pm geezerette: Reminds me of "Something Goes Wrong Again".
	10:14pm Stevel: My in laws are in Madison, so I get there pretty often. Easy town to get around in. I could stand ending up there?
	10:15pm JakeGould: “Gleaming Spires” debut album was in 1981… Just saying!
	10:19pm geezerette: '81 was a great year. Yep.
	10:19pm JakeGould: @SteveL: Maybe! For me I was entranced by all of the snow since I never grew up with it that intense before, but by the end of my run there was getting some serious seasonal affective disorder. So hey!
	10:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Think I had 'bullrushes' playing in my head for decades til efd put a name on it for me.
	10:20pm GW: Ah , the Bongos . Playing a couple of gigs soon in the area. They gave me "Drums Along the Hudson" when I was working the door at the Peppermint Lounge in 81
	10:21pm efd: whoa, that's pretty cool GW! I've got some fond memories of the Pep (the 45th street location, never made it down after the move to 5th Ave)
	10:22pm melinda: I like Madison, from the few times I visited. I kinda thought of it as the Austin of the upper Midwest (grew up in Austin so that was my reference point).
	10:23pm Stevel: Melinda: Yup. Cool and not a lot like the rest of the state.
	10:24pm john: Hey Evan! Half the show and two thirds of the game...what'd I miss?
	10:24pm melinda: Both state capitals, too.
	10:25pm braveness23: B23 here! Holy shit, this show is a real toe tapper!
	10:26pm JakeGould: @GW: You worked the door at the Peppermint Lounge? Damn!
	10:26pm GW: Funny that Ev , I didnt last at the new location . I got fired for arriving late to my post on the second night of Flock of Seagulls. The dude with the haircut was turned away out front . Didnt really enjoy them. He got in on time to get on stage.
	10:27pm melinda: UW-Madison also has one of the coolest student union buildings, too. Not that I've visited many, but it felt old and grand.
	10:27pm efd: hey john! I think you've already enumerated what you missed! :D Thanks for joining in!
	10:28pm efd: the Flock Of Seagullls "dude with the haircut" -- can you be a liittle more specific??:)
	10:28pm tom: Screw your talk of Madison already.Take a break Gould.
	10:28pm john: I'll have to go back and replay both!
	10:29pm Chop Scott: EFD--I Thank You!!!
	10:29pm Stevel: GW: Seconding Jake'a "Damn!" By chance did you work there when The Cramps recorded?
	10:30pm Dave in SoDak: Actually, Atlanta is the new hot spot, so fya. :)
	10:31pm Stevel: Melinda: Absolutely, not to mention the Terrace, overlooking Lake Mendota (always with pitchers of beer.)
	10:32pm Steve: Thanks for playing AFOS ! Love them.
	10:32pm coelacanth: no; i have that ep. the one guy's hair is already pretty laughable!
	10:34pm Howard F: Hey everyone! How about some DAF?
	10:34pm GW: The lead singer , with the haircut , I got there late and someone had turned him away . Which was funny. I would go up to the office and grab one of the demo cassettes that bands would send in , and tape over them via the board in the dj booth
	10:35pm coelacanth: in god we trust,inc. is from '81. what can we expect to hear from that? - just kidding! ( -i know that's not your jam.)
	10:36pm Dave in SoDak: Memory: Canoeing down the Sioux River with my friend Rick, with a case of beer and a portable stereo thinger, playing Flock of Seagulls on one side and Men at Work on the other. Rick got drunk and stood up, canoe tips over, I save Rick (because just now he tells me he can't swim), but lost the crappy blaster and Flock and MAW tape. Rick's a good shit. Good times...
	10:37pm Stevel: Coel: Now yer talkin'! That ep peeled paint!
	10:37pm GW: The only ones I have around are Fear live a few nights after Belushi died. The band had me put a small JB up on the marquee. Then Johnny Thunders on Valentines day 1981 live at the Pep. Also I taped the Nihilistics .
	10:38pm braveness23: I bought this A flock of seaguls album in Canada on a vacation in 1981. I bought it purely because of their haitcuts. I couldnt listen to it until i got back to the states. Within a week or two it was all that MTV was playing. A couple weeks later i went to see the Go Go's and to my delight AFOS was the openning act. Cheri Pi now has my vinyl copy of this album! I love ya, CP!
	10:42pm herb.nyc: Blondie's "picture this" mentions "pocket computer ", 1978
	10:43pm coelacanth: GW i didn't know anyone else besides me remembered the nihilistics...and Chris T. of course.
	10:43pm efd: hey everyone, just a quick reminder that it's Silent Fundraiser time here at WFMU! Your pledge is greatly appreciated, as always -- use the pledge widget at the top left of the page or just click here: pledge.wfmu.org... Cool new t-shirts await!
	10:45pm Dave in SoDak: RE: Cockney dialect. Apparently Cockney is dying out due to the gentrification of East London. Me and Sir Michael Caine are really sad. [ patrick d. martin ]
	10:45pm Arad: Such an evocative show, what a list. Haven't thought about some of these bands since that year. Hanging at the Hotel Diplomat, shows in the ballroom there.
	10:47pm coelacanth: i was playing a tape of this medium medium ep in a store i worked in once, which is how i met a (then) wfmu dj, who then supplied me with the medium medium album.
	10:51pm bkd69: Thanks EFD, for reminding me of my own advancing age and inevitable mortality.
	10:52pm Dave in SoDak: EFD, this is one of those shows that I'm going to have to archive because it just IS that amazing. Thank you for your diligence and never-ending dedication to the craft that is great radio. I will be listening to this whole show again tomorrow as I drive through the vast wastelands that are my home state. :)
	10:54pm Stevel: What Dave said. Hear, hear! Wednesdays are always something I look forward to. Thanks, efd!
	10:54pm efd: that's very kind Dave, thank you. bkd69, you're welcome I guess? Right there with you though.
	10:55pm bkd69: I'll be sharing this one in the WLIR and u68 FB groups
	10:56pm Julie M Brooklyn: Is it OK to talk about National League baseball? No score at the end of the 8th inning. I'm having a hard time balancing radio/'81 and tv/sports.
	10:57pm efd: haha, yes, baseball talk is always welcome! Hi Julie!
	11:03pm Mary Wing: Everyone who is listening to this show should pledge $81 to Evan's show right now, in solidarity of exceptional freeform radio which he dleivers every week! DO IT!
	11:03pm efd: ooh, I like the way you think Mary!
	11:03pm bkd69: Damned if the lead singer of Positive Noise doesn't sound like Mark Mothersbaugh.
	11:05pm Mary Wing: Delivers, I meant to say, not dleivers, heh. Individuals rule the airwaves, yay!
	11:06pm Dave in SoDak: @Mary Wing, that is brilliant. Forgot this is a silent fundraiser! 8+1=9, and 9 is my number.
	11:09pm phat: I miss spastic 80s nerd rock.
	11:09pm efd: uh-oh, just happened to flip over to my Twitter feed for a moment - sorry, Mets fans. :(
	11:12pm Julie M Brooklyn: Grrrrrr.
	11:12pm Dave in SoDak: Never been a Cubs fan until they got Madden. Jealous. He should have been picked up by the Twins. Oh, well. Madden, and the Cubs, HELL YEAH! GO!
	11:14pm Dave in SoDak: sorry, MaddOn.
	11:17pm herb.nyc: Evan, can you do the 99 Records spot?
	11:18pm Ike: Dig it!
	11:18pm Power Papi: Giants: 3, Mets: 0, GO GIANTS!!!
	11:21pm Steve: Evan, is this the PIL album with Ginger Baker on the drums ?
	11:23pm Julie M Brooklyn: And the Giants win it. Pish tosh. I'm done. Ginger Baker with PiL?
	11:24pm cheri: hello efd & everybody! I just came home a Halloween party, but believe it or not, I was born in 1981.
	11:25pm Marc15: I was 15 in 1981. Great show Evan
	11:26pm efd: @Steve, I don't think so? That's a new one on me I have to say
	11:26pm Steve: "It was very good year" 1981, Cheri
	11:27pm Joe stalvey: Time for this geezer to go to bed and maybe dream of seeing PiL at the Channel. Great show, thanks EFD.
	11:27pm Steve: Evan, Ginger is on one of PIL's albums if it's not Flowers of Romance.
	11:28pm JakeGould: @MaryWing: $81 dollars? Reverse mitzvah!
	11:29pm bkd69: How old was everybody in '81? 13 years, here
	11:30pm JakeGould: @Steve: That was the generic album I believe.
	11:30pm Steve: ALBUM
	11:31pm cheri: well time for me to say goodnight all, been a long day, see you all soon!
	11:32pm JakeGould: I was 13 in 1981.
	11:32pm coelacanth: ginger was on the abominable, just for the sake of income album.
	11:33pm Steve: According to Wikipedia it's these 4 tracks from 'ALBUM' that Ginger Baker played the drums on: Fishing, Round, Bags, Ease.
	11:34pm coelacanth: yeh, i'm not sure how that qualifies as a pil album.
	11:36pm Steve: They could be classified as John Lydon solo albums after the original line-up of PIL broke apart.
	11:36pm melinda: I was 10 in 1981. I didn't know anything that wasn't on top 40 radio or MTV at the time.
	11:37pm Stevel: I was 20 in July.
	11:38pm coelacanth: right, Steve. there wasn't even a band on that album. it was just session/guest musicians. (i'm pretty sure)
	11:38pm Steve: 18
	11:38pm phat: why wouldn't a bunch of British artists just make a disco record?
	11:38pm Mary Wing: Jake, is a reverse mitzvah a good thing? If so, let the dollars flow!
	11:39pm phat: artistes
	11:41pm northguineahills: I was 5 in 1981, and I wouldn't know anything that wasn't on MTV Top 40 until I was 16. (I was a late bloomer).
	11:43pm bkd69: @melinda & northguineahills: fortunately, even 1980's top 40 was awesome. My theory is that Hitler hasn't been killed by time travelers because everybody's using their time machines to go clubbing in the 80's.
	11:45pm JakeGould: @MaryWing: Money is good. Please donate folks! $81 is great!
	11:46pm melinda: @bkd69: I have great memories of early 80s top 40, not so much later, but by then I was seeking out 60s rock & folk, so I had alternatives.
	11:47pm bkd69: @efd: well, if you're not going to play the cramps, the dynamic hepnotics is an acceptable substitute. And there's a show theme, for you...cover bands you've never heard...bands that are nigh indistinguishable from their more famous stylistic kin.
	11:47pm cheri: oh evan, i'm so looking forward to the singles going 70s show, how cool is that? i'll be tuning in on the 26th! well night for real!
	11:52pm Mary Wing: Let's not forget the fabulous show when Evan had Paul Humphries of OMD as his guest--pledge for great archives! wfmu.org...
	11:54pm efd: I remember that show!
	11:55pm Ken From Hyde Park: I remember the band Berlin had a few songs on the radio in 1981. "The Metro" for one, and some other tunes.
	11:55pm Mary Wing: So do I, I took that picture of you and Paul. And got his autograph! :-)
	11:56pm efd: yes, I was going to mention that but wasn't sure if I should out you! :D
	11:57pm melinda: I remember 'The Metro'.
	11:58pm northguineahills: Thanks EFD!
	11:58pm bkd69: My defense of 80's top 40: the 80's were the last decade a rockabilly song was in the top 40 The last decade Irving Berlin had a song in the top 40 the last decade Herbie Hancock had a song in the top 40 the last decade Slade had not one, but two songs in the top 40
	11:59pm melinda: Great show! Nighty night.
	12:00am Ken From Hyde Park: Mayhem in 1981. Thanks, efd!
	12:00am coelacanth: 'twas a fine show Evan. Thank you. tchau mammals
	6:16am gaz Birtles: Thanks for playing our song, Peace Of Mind by The Swinging Laurels. Much appreciated, keeping the name and music alive ;-)

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