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August 4, 2009: there's no such thing as coincidence
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | Year | New | Approx. start time | |
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| billion dollar babies | shine your love | battle axe | polydor |
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1977 | 0:00:00 ( ) | ||
| aviary | anthem for the usa | s/t | epic | 1979 | 0:02:32 ( ) | |||
| upper crust | long table for two | revenge for imagined slights | camp street | * | 0:07:51 ( ) | |||
| dean carter | sizzlin' hot | call of the wild! | big beat | orig 1967 | 2002 | 0:11:20 ( ) | ||
| billy lee riley | got the water boiling baby | red hot - the best of | collectables | Check this post for more on Billy Lee, without whom I dare say there would have been no Robert Gordon. | 0:13:48 ( ) | |||
| crazy elephant | gimme gimme good lovin' | va-bubblegum classics vol 2 | varese sarabande | orig 1969 | 1995 | 0:15:53 ( ) | ||
| mitch easter | sights set on heaven | dynamico | electric devil | 2008 | 0:18:14 ( ) | |||
| game theory | don't entertain me twice | two steps from the middle ages | enigma | 1988 | 0:22:27 ( ) | |||
| lionel newman & his orchestra | evan's theme | 7" | 0:26:14 ( ) | |||||
| andrew w.k. | linda linda | premium collection: the japan covers | universal | * | 0:37:55 ( ) | |||
| rudi | crimson | 7" | jamming! | 1982 | 0:40:52 ( ) | |||
| woven bones | grown crazy | split 7" with jacuzi boys | needless | * | 0:43:39 ( ) | |||
| eddy current suppression ring | cool ice cream | s/t | goner | * | 0:46:14 ( ) | |||
| the saucy jacks | everywhere you go | 7" | chocolate covered | * | 0:49:05 ( ) | |||
| miss kittin & the hacker | suspicious minds | two | nobody's bizzness | * | 1:01:21 ( ) | |||
| medical tourists | ysig | s/t | self-released | * | 1:07:28 ( ) | |||
| ear pwr | tripodium / beam of light | super animal brothers iii | carpark | * | 1:10:43 ( ) | |||
| public image limited | albatross | second edition | warner bros | 1979 | 1:14:21 ( ) | |||
| the mitch easter sound! | gimme gimme good lovin' | va-right to chews: bubblegum classics revisited | not lame | look what I found in the WFMU record library! | 2002 | 1:24:55 ( ) | ||
| pisces | circle of time | a lovely sight | numero | orig 1969 | * | 1:32:12 ( ) | ||
| the shaker pegs | shall i compare thee to a hammer | blue moon | self-released | 2008 | 1:35:27 ( ) | |||
| outrageous cherry | memphis stereo | stay happy | rainbow quartz | playing at Cake Shop this Friday! And live here on the efd show on Sept 1! | 2007 | 1:39:35 ( ) | ||
| the shackles | broken arm | 7" | sweet rot | * | 1:43:24 ( ) | |||
| 999 | feelin' alright with the crew | separates | ua | 1978 | 1:46:04 ( ) | |||
| the a-bones | outcast | not now! | norton | * | 1:56:57 ( ) | |||
| bare wires | let down | 7" | milk n'herpes | * | 2:00:08 ( ) | |||
| poison arrows | shakin' all over | 7" | full breach kicks | * | 2:02:32 ( ) | |||
| catapult | let your hair hang down | va-clap your hands and stamp your feet | excelsior | * | 2:06:14 ( ) | |||
| carol douglas | doctor's orders | 7" | rca | 1974 | 2:08:58 ( ) | |||
| birds of avalon | i never knew | uncanny valley | volcom | * | 2:17:35 ( ) | |||
| television personalities | my new tattoo | 7" | good village | * | 2:20:22 ( ) | |||
| ted leo | the back seat of my car | dog: a best show tribute to ram | * | 2:24:03 ( ) | ||||
| heidi bruhl | berlin | va-funky frauleins: female beat, groove, disco, funk in germany 1968-78 | bureau b | * | 2:29:37 ( ) | |||
| guimaraes e o grupo som sagrado | our sound | va-black rio 2 | strut | * | 2:32:33 ( ) | |||
| hex dispensers | buy you a ring | winchester mystery house | douchemaster | * | 2:42:12 ( ) | |||
| the spits | tonight | s/t iv | recess | * | 2:45:02 ( ) | |||
| screaming blue messiahs | four engines burning (over the usa) | totally religious | elektra | 1989 | 2:47:08 ( ) | |||
| cheap time | woodland drive | 7" | in the red | * | 2:50:10 ( ) | |||
| davila 666 | pingorocha y la diva rockera | 7" | douche master | playing live on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal next Tuesday the 11th, 9am | * | 2:52:13 ( ) | ||
| the fresh & onlys | i'll tell you everything | 7" | dirty knobby | * | 2:55:55 ( ) | |||
Tue. 8/4/09 11:05pm
G:
you didn't need to call EMS to get access to the studio, we hope!
Tue. 8/4/09 11:07pm
john:
So this is what Queen would have sounded like without those asinine "No Synthesizers" notices on the back of the sleeve...better!
Tue. 8/4/09 11:20pm
efd:
hi everyone! or hi john and G, at least!
john, good point re Aviary vs Queen!
Tue. 8/4/09 11:24pm
Brendan:
All rock no talk tonight Evan?
Tue. 8/4/09 11:24pm
Greg from Detroit:
I love hearing Game Theory on the Evan "Funk" Davies show.
Tue. 8/4/09 11:25pm
dustin:
is this Game Theory song a response to Tom's comment or just a coincidence?
Tue. 8/4/09 11:27pm
efd:
There's no such thing as coincidence.
Tue. 8/4/09 11:30pm
Sybil:
I just got home... and Evan's Theme was on! Yay!!!
Tue. 8/4/09 11:31pm
Sybil:
Uh-oh, looks like I missed a whole story... EMS?
Tue. 8/4/09 11:33pm
G:
Tom more or less lost the will to live and offered to let efd start 25 minutes early -- hopefully the suicie hotline wasn't dragged in
Tue. 8/4/09 11:34pm
Michael from the Left Coast:
The only thing snooty about Varese Sarabande is their name (I have to stick up for my friend Cary Mansfield and company here).
Tue. 8/4/09 11:41pm
efd:
fair enough, Michael! I guess I was also automatically (and unfairly) putting all soundtracks in the "snooty" category.
hi Sybil!
Tue. 8/4/09 11:41pm
Sybil:
I should know better than to be away from a radio or internet connection at any time, even for a minute, on Tuesdays!
Tue. 8/4/09 11:43pm
Michael from the Left Coast:
EFD--the soundtracks aren't all that they do. Lots of good compilations (my favorite--Tony Burrows, who was the lead singer of Edison Lighthouse, White Plains, the Brotherhood of Man, First Class and the Pipkins all British one hit wonders). They did a great early Warren Zevon album too among many great things
Tue. 8/4/09 11:49pm
efd:
huh, i had no idea! clearly i made an incorrect snap judgement - thanks for the info!
on a different topic, what the heck is happening in the Red Sox game??
Tue. 8/4/09 11:50pm
Sybil:
Red Sox may have to do the equivalent of letting Mark Loretta pitch if this game goes on much longer... 2-2, bottom 12th.
Tue. 8/4/09 11:51pm
john:
In other words, absolutely nothing!
Tue. 8/4/09 11:54pm
Sybil:
Manny HR in LA
Tue. 8/4/09 11:58pm
Michael from the Left Coast:
Consider it endorsed!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:02am
hipsters:
no, you're right. 1:30 is way too fucking early, man.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:02am
Laurie:
This one time, Andrew W.K. linked to an ONTD entry via his twitter. And I got hella embarrassed, because I made some obscene comments as is my wont on ONTD.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:05am
Hideous Lump:
The Mitch Easter version of "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" is available on the bubblegum tribute comp "Right to Chews."
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3ifexqrald0e
Wed. 8/5/09 12:07am
Sybil:
Evan Longoria HR bottom 13th. That's all she wrote.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:09am
efd:
dammit, this is no time for Evans In The News!
H. Lump, thanks for the tip on that comp! I have a feeling that version would sound very different from the one I saw but I'm curious to check it out.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:10am
john:
That comp is great. I'd dig it out if I could ever find anything here. I tried arranging all the CDs by height, apparently.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:12am
efd:
ha!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:13am
@BunnyKickButt:
Hello efd. PFT tweeted about you so I thought I'd check you out.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:15am
BunnyKickButt:
I had to do MATH to post. I'm sweating.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:15am
Danne D:
Hello EFD and all you funky folks :)
Welcome aboard Bunny- you'll love Evan's show!
Evan did you happen to see my e-mail?
Wed. 8/5/09 12:16am
Math:
I'm tough. Deal.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:16am
Sybil:
It's not MATH, it's frackin' arithmetic. Trust me, not the same at all. If it were Math, I could do it. Grr.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:16am
efd:
Thanks for stopping by, @BunnyKickButt! hope I can live up to the expectations set by a @PFTompkins tweet!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:16am
georgie:
one of my favorite PIL trax!!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:17am
BunnyKickButt:
Me too, efd! :)
Wed. 8/5/09 12:18am
risky!:
yo PiL! Funk GET IT! GO N GET EM!!!!
R I S K Y_______________________
Wed. 8/5/09 12:19am
BunnyKickButt:
efd, have you ever heard of Daniel Amos?
Wed. 8/5/09 12:19am
Math:
631 + 4 + ???????
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:21am
BunnyKickButt:
Math is taunting me.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:22am
efd:
Danne, I did get your email and will get back to you on that tomorrow.
BunnyKickButt, I have not, unless by chance you're referring to Danny Amis of Raybeats/Los Straitjackets fame, bur you're probably not.
Georgie and risky, glad you're enjoying the PiL!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:22am
Sybil:
It's not Math. I knew Math. Math was a friend of mine.You, sir, are no Math.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:23am
Math:
I'm not a bad egg in the long run. If you like runny eggs.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:25am
efd:
guess what I found in the library...
Wed. 8/5/09 12:26am
hmm...:
a perv in the stacks?
Wed. 8/5/09 12:26am
randy in NC:
Anyone else having issues with the 128K MP3 stream?
Wed. 8/5/09 12:28am
Danne D:
Thanks Evan :) Hopefully we can spread some good cheer.
Interested by the reaction to FMU's underground Math Operation :)
As to what you found, EFD, I dunno, but I found Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ssR7M5Px0
which I last saw in high school. Basically the one thing I got out of it was learning how to play angles on a pool table.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:28am
Sybil:
My 128K stream is fine, which is amazing given I'm also watching mlb.tv and have this live comments thing running.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:30am
Sybil:
That pool table thing - that's Math.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:31am
expectant:
No one's gonna ask what the bed music is??? That's ok, a week off would work too!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:32am
Sybil:
We can't ask. Joe's not here.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:33am
Math:
For years I earned my living as a pool hustler
Wed. 8/5/09 12:33am
Danne D:
Yup, Sybil. Though Geometry is the math that I basically sucked at. Actually have a baseball story to go with it. My 9th Grade Geometry teacher was the wife of former major league manager Jim Fregosi.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:35am
Sybil:
That is very cool, Danne.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:37am
Chuck E. Jesus:
can't believe i missed Pil, but i enjoyed the Mitch Easter....
Wed. 8/5/09 12:37am
randy in NC:
MP3 now OK, but missed the Mitch Easter to compare with Saturday. Archives...
Wed. 8/5/09 12:38am
efd:
Randy, that's too bad - I was hoping you could provide a second opinion!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:39am
Danne D:
Ya, though our honors geometry class was pretty unruly actually. I tend to think I'm the least hipsterish FMU listener given that my degree is in *ulp* statistics of all things. I'm also a recovering actuary.
To Bunny: so do you know from the, like 10 years of archives here on FMU? If you like this edition of Evan's show you can commence worshiping him 24/7 via the magic of archives :) Evan is one of FMU's humbler deities I might add :)
Wed. 8/5/09 12:40am
BunnyKickButt:
efd, have a listen to Daniel Amos at the itunes store. Pick a song you would like to play and I'll mail you a dollar.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:41am
BunnyKickButt:
Must say I'm really enjoying the show and will have my fill of neato music.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:41am
Sybil:
BunnyKickButt shows up here and already she's (he's?) trying to bribe the host..
Wed. 8/5/09 12:42am
BunnyKickButt:
teehee
Wed. 8/5/09 12:43am
Danne D:
LOL, some catch on quicker than others I guess Sybil :o)
Wed. 8/5/09 12:43am
Danne D:
too bad EFD is uncorruptable :)
Wed. 8/5/09 12:44am
BunnyKickButt:
Is a dollar the going rate?
Wed. 8/5/09 12:44am
BunnyKickButt:
It's funny, but we all want people to love the music we love.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:45am
efd:
that sounds an awful lot like payola to me! On a small scale, granted, but still...!
Wed. 8/5/09 12:45am
A Principle:
No one is utterly incorruptible.
Ratchet up the amount till you get your way.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:46am
BunnyKickButt:
Just reimbursing the cost of the song. heheh
Wed. 8/5/09 12:46am
Math:
99 cents then
Wed. 8/5/09 12:47am
Sybil:
You can't fool me. You're not Math, you're Accounting.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:47am
BunnyKickButt:
99 pennies coming your way efd
Wed. 8/5/09 12:48am
BunnyKickButt:
This math thing is coming back to me. Like riding a bike.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:48am
Math:
I do GAAP as a sideline.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:49am
Danne D:
Hmm, though maybe Evan can be corrupted by cookies. As long as he eats the evidence and doesn't leave a trail of crumbs he should be good.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:50am
Sybil:
Just stay away from the Wall Street stuff. Frackin' Quants gave us all a bad name.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:50am
john:
Great show tonight! p<.0001.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:51am
john:
And as a twice-recovering Wall Streeter, let me just say that quants gave the rest of US a bad name.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:51am
Sybil:
That's very significant.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:53am
john:
I'm very confident.
Wed. 8/5/09 12:55am
Math:
Quants are my evil twin. Just like 999 upside down becomes 666.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:02am
Georgie:
I, just like efd, can't seem to get enough of this Bare Wires 7".
Wed. 8/5/09 1:03am
efd:
Sybil, here's another one for the "not *that* [song title]" show. I'm starting to think maybe that should be my 2010 marathon premium theme.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:05am
Sybil:
I was actually surprised when "gimme gimme good lovin" WAS "that" song. I'm beginning to expect otherwise.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:06am
efd:
Georgie, glad I'm not the only one!
Wed. 8/5/09 1:06am
Danne D:
That sounds like an excellent idea Evan :)
Wed. 8/5/09 1:10am
G:
Could it be that I haven't heard this since aboiut 1974???
Wed. 8/5/09 1:12am
efd:
G, that's very possible.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:13am
Sybil:
G, only if you're not a long-time listener to efd's show. Or Monica.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:13am
G:
They were playing it on La Difusora radio in Brasil when I moved there from England... That's how I guessed the year before you even posted it...
Wed. 8/5/09 1:14am
Sybil:
(Just guessing about Monica, but I'm 99% confident about efd.)
Wed. 8/5/09 1:23am
john:
I was hoping this new TVPs single would turn up somewhere. Brilliant as ever!
Wed. 8/5/09 1:25am
Joshua K:
I am late to the party.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:25am
Sybil:
I can't believe I didn't choose this as one of my premiums. :(
Wed. 8/5/09 1:26am
efd:
there might be half a slice of cake left...
Wed. 8/5/09 1:27am
Sybil:
Not that I'm unhappy with my other choices, that is!
Wed. 8/5/09 1:33am
johnny rivers:
secret agent man, secret agent man!
Wed. 8/5/09 1:37am
G:
I bet that's Guimaraes -- it's a common name in Portuguese...
Wed. 8/5/09 1:38am
BunnyKickButt:
Goodnight good people. Thanks for the tunes, efd. I'll visit another night. I will now do my last bit of math for the evening.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:39am
Math:
tx for being so submissive :-P
Wed. 8/5/09 1:43am
blancofunk:
thanks fer the heads up on the black rio-2 release.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:44am
efd:
goodnight BKB - thanks for stopping by!
Wed. 8/5/09 1:44am
G:
btw, "e o grupo som sagrado" = "and the sacred sound group" -- i thought it might be obvious, but maybe not...
Wed. 8/5/09 1:44am
john:
I heartily endorse the endorsement. There is at present an ex-shelter cat under the covers and a rescue dog under the bed. Sadly, that means I'm relegated to a far corner of the room, but the pets are happy. Except regarding the presence of the other. Welcome to Growl And Hiss Central.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:46am
risky!:
THE SPITS! GET EM FUNK! FUCKIN GET THEEEM!!!
________________________
Wed. 8/5/09 1:48am
efd:
nice, John,
G, thanks - I got "sagrado" thanks to my recent Barcelona trip, but not the rest of it.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:49am
Sybil:
Thanks for verifying my suspicion, G.
BTW I saw a horror flick from Spain, English title "The Nameless", and it turned out to be in Catalan. I was very pleased with myself for figuring that out. Didn't help much with understanding what they were saying, though.
Wed. 8/5/09 1:52am
G:
Spain's cool -- haven't been there since 92 -- every region's different...
Wed. 8/5/09 1:58am
Danne D:
Goodnight good people! :)
EFD, thanks for another excellent show!
Wed. 8/5/09 1:59am
Sybil:
Goodnight, Danne! I agree totally!
Sun. 8/9/09 12:14am
Joe:
checking out the show now... that billion dollar babies single might be my most favorite cover art in recent memory
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