Listener comments!

Thu. 5/1/08 8:02pm From: Sean Daily

First comment! Woo hoo!

Thu. 5/1/08 8:03pm From: efd

first Sean Daily comment! woo hoo!

Thu. 5/1/08 8:18pm From: slugluv1313

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

MAYHEM on the MAY DAY!!!!!!!

Thu. 5/1/08 8:24pm From: 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

Thu. 5/1/08 8:30pm From: Sybil

I'm having a multimedia mayday madness experience here.

Thu. 5/1/08 8:32pm From: slugluv1313

SILICONE TEENS!!!!!!!!

omg! Mr. Evan, have you been *borrowing* my old records whilst i have not been looking?

Thu. 5/1/08 8:33pm From: efd

Sybil! can i count on you to keep me updated on the Sox and Yankee games?

Thu. 5/1/08 8:36pm From: E.L.

Web Browser > WFMU.org > Archives > Evan "Funk" Davies > Mayday Mayhem > BOOKMARK

Thu. 5/1/08 8:36pm From: 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.

Thu. 5/1/08 8:38pm From: Laurie

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

Thu. 5/1/08 8:38pm From: Sybil

Detroit ahead 4-3 after 4 and 1/2...

Thu. 5/1/08 8:39pm From: Sybil

Laurie, you just made me feel ancient... ;-)

Thu. 5/1/08 8:39pm From: annne

lovely after lovely after lovely song! many thanks

Thu. 5/1/08 8:41pm From: Maggie

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

Thu. 5/1/08 8:44pm From: 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."

Thu. 5/1/08 8:46pm From: 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.

Thu. 5/1/08 8:48pm From: slugluv1313

yikes!!!

i graduated from college in 1981, so i feel REALLY old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu. 5/1/08 8:48pm From: 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?

Thu. 5/1/08 8:49pm From: 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!

Thu. 5/1/08 8:49pm From: Laurie

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

It's 73º in Miami.

Thu. 5/1/08 8:50pm From: Laurie

Er, that's 73 degrees...

Thu. 5/1/08 8:51pm From: Laurie

EFD: Keep the power pop coming!

Oh, wait, that dude from Shoes hated being labeled as power pop, right? Oh well!

Thu. 5/1/08 8:52pm From: efd

i mistyped, it's actually New Music with an s, not a z

Thu. 5/1/08 8:52pm From: Laurie

Also, can I request Girls at Our Best! ...?

Thu. 5/1/08 8:55pm From: efd

ooh! that i have!

Thu. 5/1/08 8:56pm From: Sybil

Alex Rios just hit a HR... (sigh}

Thu. 5/1/08 8:57pm From: 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=)=)=)

Thu. 5/1/08 8:59pm From: Laurie

Woooooooooooooo! Thanks, EFD.

Thu. 5/1/08 8:59pm From: Sybil

...and the Yankees just tied it up.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:01pm From: Laurie

Quick, someone mash this up with the McCain Girls.

McCain Girls at Our Best!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:02pm From: Will

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

Thu. 5/1/08 9:06pm From: chester

awesomeness! meow!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:08pm From: Sybil

This is my favorite show of all time.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:11pm From: Sybil

Something better change indeed. This is a good omen.

Detroit ahead 6-4, top of 6th.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:12pm From: 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

Thu. 5/1/08 9:19pm From: 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!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:21pm From: efd

ah, good news Sybil!

Glad you're enjoying the show Annne, Will, Chester and all!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:21pm From: 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!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:21pm From: teris

tuning from greece!
thank you very much for your wonderful music!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:21pm From: efd

Laurie i have records by 2 of those bands with me tonight

Thu. 5/1/08 9:22pm From: john

PS Farmer's Boys rawk. Monochrome Set truly godlike. Just saying.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:23pm From: Laurie

Yay!

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

Pop music was so much better in the late seventies/early eighties.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:23pm From: 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...

Thu. 5/1/08 9:26pm From: Hana

BEEP BEEP BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

Thu. 5/1/08 9:30pm From: Laurie

"China" and "finer." I admire that rhyming combo.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:30pm From: Stew Art

I agree. Any Young Marble Giants?

Thu. 5/1/08 9:30pm From: efd

ok, a Neil Diamond cover to urge them on at Fenway.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:32pm From: Sybil

Timlin coming in.

This cover is cracking me up.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:33pm From: 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

Thu. 5/1/08 9:34pm From: 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.)

Thu. 5/1/08 9:36pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

How about something from the Vibrators?

Thu. 5/1/08 9:36pm From: Sybil

Timlin, for a wonder, got out of a little mess Aardsma made.
On to the bottom of the ninth.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:39pm From: 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.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:39pm From: efd

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

Thu. 5/1/08 9:40pm From: Sybil

Yankees loaded the bases with 2 out in the bottom of the 6th, but it went nowhere.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:41pm From: 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.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:42pm From: 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?

Thu. 5/1/08 9:43pm From: Jessica

Er, Six Months in a Leaky Boat?

Thu. 5/1/08 9:44pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Go Coco. Ooh, nope. Game.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:45pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Ha! Game not over? Time was called on the field? Or a balk? What is going on?

Thu. 5/1/08 9:45pm From: Sybil

Well, that was not the game I ordered.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:46pm From: Sybil

Yes, what's going on?

Thu. 5/1/08 9:46pm From: Randy in NC

Skratchin'

Thu. 5/1/08 9:47pm From: Sybil

Interesting... balk, was it?

Thu. 5/1/08 9:48pm From: Jessica

12" Mayday Mayhem like you?

Thu. 5/1/08 9:49pm From: Sybil

Tiggers now 8-4

Thu. 5/1/08 9:49pm From: 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.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:50pm From: efd

i just balked myself.

way to go with the Whitey Bulger reference, Patrick!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:50pm From: Sybil

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

It's been running through my head all day!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:51pm From: slugluv1313

omigosh, NOW you are raiding my 12" collection

appropriate, perhaps, that "Homosapian" is a full TWELVE INCHES har har har

Thu. 5/1/08 9:51pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

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

Thu. 5/1/08 9:52pm From: Sybil

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

Thu. 5/1/08 9:54pm From: efd

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

WFMU, making listeners' baseball dreams come true.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:54pm From: Randy in NC

efd
Mayday Mayhem, great show!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:55pm From: 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.

Thu. 5/1/08 9:55pm From: Patrick

i have been looking forward to this all day! yea!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:55pm From: anne

ah, americans!
I heard this song first as a student in germany.
here comes the flag!

Thu. 5/1/08 9:57pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

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

Tigers still up 8 - 4

Thu. 5/1/08 9:58pm From: naomi

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

Thu. 5/1/08 9:59pm From: Joe

No Yanks fans to share my misery? None?

Thu. 5/1/08 10:00pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Not a one, Joe.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:02pm From: efd

Naomi, how'd you guess?!
great to hear from you!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:02pm From: Patrick

Joe, im a mets fan so i share your misery in a round about sorta way

Thu. 5/1/08 10:04pm From: Patrick

looks like the sox lost 3-0

Thu. 5/1/08 10:06pm From: Sybil

That was definitely not the game I ordered.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:07pm From: naomi

that made my week. bless you, efd

Thu. 5/1/08 10:08pm From: 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?

Thu. 5/1/08 10:09pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Coco popped out. Game over.

Now my the Indians have the bases loaded. 3-1. No out. Ugh.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:10pm From: spike

wow, this polyrock song is actually better than I remember it!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:11pm From: 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?

Thu. 5/1/08 10:13pm From: Laurie

I love this Gang of Four song, by the by.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:16pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

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

The Feelies will do very, very well. Thanks, EFD.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:16pm From: efd

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

Thu. 5/1/08 10:17pm From: efd

ah, well that's that!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:21pm From: Randy in NC

Television, Shirts, Erasers, Richard Lloyd, dBs, Fall, Lena Lovich, Sparks, Marshall Crenshaw, PIL, ....

Thu. 5/1/08 10:22pm From: Randy in NC

Selektor

Thu. 5/1/08 10:23pm From: Laurie

Ooh, play "Too Much Too Young" by the Specials next!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:24pm From: Laurie

Please.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:24pm From: slugluv1313

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

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

Thu. 5/1/08 10:25pm From: efd

Randy said the magic words (two of them, one starts with "T" and the other starts with "d")

Thu. 5/1/08 10:30pm From: john

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

Thu. 5/1/08 10:31pm From: efd

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

Thu. 5/1/08 10:31pm From: efd

John, yep, that's what i'm playing it from!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:32pm From: john

I discovered one of my all time fave rave bands, The Times, on that record too!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:35pm From: Sybil

aaaaaaaaaaand... the Yankees lose!

Marniers still at it, though.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:36pm From: slugluv1313

ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

*perhaps* -- methinks??!!?? -- i am her . . . EVIL TWIN SISTER?!?!?!?!?!?!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:36pm From: Sybil

{ahem}

That would be the Mariners, of course, not the Marniers.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:38pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Grand Marniers? Barely still at it. Just announced "the outfield is at barely little league depth".

Thu. 5/1/08 10:40pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Mariners are no longer at it. Did anyone's team win today? Other than the WFMU EFD team?

Thu. 5/1/08 10:41pm From: Randy in NC

efd
Baggy Trousers -> 1980 (#3 UK)

Thu. 5/1/08 10:42pm From: Laurie

Thanks!!!!!!! :*

Thu. 5/1/08 10:42pm From: Sybil

The Washington Nationals won.

I think that tells you what you need to know about today.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:42pm From: 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.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:43pm From: Sybil

"It goes waap" is a great title. I want to steal it.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:43pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

And the Texas Rangers won, too. I see what you mean, Sybil.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:45pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

You could borrow it and use "It goes waAap"

Thu. 5/1/08 10:47pm From: Sybil

Or maybe the baseball fact which sort of sums up today: Eric Gagne got a save.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:48pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Sure does.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:52pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Gagne's on pace to have 52 saves. What in the world?

Thu. 5/1/08 10:52pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

Playing for the Commish has its perks!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:53pm From: naomi

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

Thu. 5/1/08 10:53pm From: 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...

Thu. 5/1/08 10:54pm From: efd

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

and no, it's not our daughter's wedding.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:55pm From: 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.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:56pm From: Randy in NC

Gotta love the analog synths in the background on a lot of these tunes.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:57pm From: naomi

next um...best ....thing. damn your synths!! perhaps i needed that jar. or a jar.

Thu. 5/1/08 10:58pm From: slugluv1313

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

THANK-YOU!!!!!!!!!! SO MUCH, Mr. EVAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu. 5/1/08 10:59pm From: Former SSD Intern Patrick

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

Thu. 5/1/08 11:01pm From: 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...!)

Fri. 5/2/08 2:45am From: slugluv1313

it's cuz we loooooooooooooooves ya, Evan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri. 5/2/08 5:20pm From: mike tp

reading the fleshtones book sweat great. diggin the tones and the tunes.

Mon. 5/5/08 12:44pm From: New Fan

This is the third time I am listening to this show. I don’t even really like your weekly show but you have officially made a new fan out of me.

Thanks EFD

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