The Evan "Funk" Davies Show | WFMU
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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.
Location:
East Orange, NJ
Genres:
Music Podcasts
Networks:
WFMU
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@efd
Language:
English
Contact:
WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011 201-200-9368
Website:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/ED
Episodes
Week 2 of the InterActiv™ Record Fair Finds Listening Party! from Nov 20, 2024
11/20/2024
that thing - "that thing, part 1" - 7" [0:00:00]
jimmy briscoe & the beavers - "invitation to the world" - 12" [0:02:43]
mona ling - "guides for telephone approaches" - how to get appointments by telephone [0:07:53]
limozine - "hot lunch" - 7" [0:12:23]
powerplay - "love can break your heart" - 7" [0:16:08]
shirley stringham - "i hate it till i ate it" - 7" [0:18:53]
teddy & the pandas - "basic magnetism" - basic magnetism [0:22:15]
dan hartman - "vertigo/relight my fire (progressive instrumental remix)" - 12" [0:26:15]
johnny japes & his jesticles - "bags of fun with buster" - 7" [0:48:03]
various - "disclosures involving: engineers, musicians, arranging, conducting, producing, electronics. during the recording of: what is this thing called love (excerpt)" - behind closed doors at a recording session [0:52:14]
borderline - "time wave" - 7" [1:01:21]
peter murphy - "the line between the devil's teeth (and that which cannot be repeat) (full-length version)" - 12" [1:05:50]
crowcuss - "running start" - 7" [1:12:08]
matt hunter & the dusty fates - "franz" - reindeer soul [playing this Friday night at Sleepwalk, 251 Bushwick Ave in Brooklyn. 7pm show.
bandcamp] [1:23:19]
nina ryser - "cuz you" - water giants [bandcamp] [1:27:07]
dummy - "italian streets" - single [wrong dummy, thereby making me the dummy!] [1:30:16]
dommer - "cemetery bread" - single [bandcamp] [1:31:46]
weak signal - "barking at the moon" - fine [bandcamp] [1:34:54]
peter holsapple - "larger than life" - single [1:43:56]
the db's - "ups and downs" - repercussion [New remastered vinyl release! Not yet on Bandcamp, although the remastered Stands For Decibels is there] [1:48:35]
assistant - "my phone began to ring" - certain memories [album out next year!
bandcamp] [1:51:54]
beat up - "no great progress" - ep [bandcamp] [1:54:34]
freaky wilderness - "i ain't tortured" - single [playing live on the show in two weeks!
bandcamp] [2:00:07]
faithnyc - "love is a wish away" - love is a wish away [2:17:21]
alejandro escovedo - "meet me at the end of the world again" - va-silver patron saints: the songs of jesse malin [proceeds benefit jesse malin's sweet relief fund] [2:20:27]
steve wynn - "simpler than the rain" - make it right [bandcamp] [2:25:24]
rb korbet - "oh gabriel" - single [of Highly Effective People, King Missile, etc.)] [2:29:05]
jean caffeine - "mammogram" - single [bandcamp] [2:31:37]
cast of thousands - "take it back" - third house [2:41:25]
guided by voices - "fly religion" - universe room [album out Feb 7] [2:44:13]
the bqs - "comfort" - indeed! [bandcamp] [2:47:41]
fcukers - "bon bon (clean version)" - baggy$$ [2:50:45]
freak genes - "opaque" - delirik [2:53:57]
nat freedberg - "the meaning of love" - let yourself go [bandcamp] [2:57:49] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/146270
Duration:03:08:37
The long overdue return of the InterActiv™ Record Fair Finds Listening Party! from Nov 13, 2024
11/13/2024
tom wilson - "second runner up" - gay name game & other songs
street people - "i wanna spend my whole life with you" - 7" [come on down to Monty Hall tomorrow night for more of same!] [0:03:02]
the bees - "mystery date" - mystery date 7" [0:06:37]
duffy king - "livin' for the big time" - 7" [0:09:08]
linda clifford - "bridge over troubled water" - 12" [come on down to Monty Hall tomorrow night for more of same!] [0:13:24]
stadium dogs - "easy beat" - 7" [0:18:27]
ricochet - "dance" - 7" [0:21:34]
class of '81 featuring ritchie cordell - "life is a rock (but the radio rolled me) (fm version)" - 7" [0:25:22]
killer whales - "who controls the video screen?" - 7" [0:39:35]
the darned - "oklahoma on a bus" - hoarse opera [0:42:53]
the tee set - "long ago" - ma belle amie [0:44:37]
lord jaunty - "don't give up" - u.f.o.? 12" [0:47:11]
captain rat and the blind rivets - "cubs, cubs, cubs" - 7" [0:52:00]
michel pagliaro - "j'entends frapper" - live [0:54:31]
Set: RIP Jamie Klimek
styrenes - "jaguar ride" - cle 76-79 unreleased 3x7" box set [1:12:27]
styrenes - "i saw you" - it's artastic [1:14:09]
mirrors - "i've been down" - another nail in the coffin [1:16:01]
mirrors - "she smiled wild" - something that would never do [1:21:15]
electric eels - "spinach blasters" - the eyeball of hell [Jamie played with electric eels briefly, he's on guitar on this track] [1:25:18]
styrenes - "everything near me" - cle 76-79 unreleased 3x7" box set [1:30:08]
styrenes - "drano in your veins" - it's artastic [1:30:38]
End of set
keekey - "waves of 1988" - beautiful mysterious [bandcamp] [1:41:17]
d.b. edmunds - "give it all you got" - everybody knows by now [bandcamp] [1:44:36]
some sunny day - "off" - single [1:49:25]
the fleshtones - "empty sky" - it's getting late (...and more songs about werewolves) [bandcamp] [1:53:48]
the heavy heavy - "one of a kind" - one of a kind [bandcamp] [1:58:01]
the prof. fuzz 63 - "edge of the world" - va-caverns of gold: a benefit for western north carolina hurricane relief [bandcamp] [2:10:32]
peel dream magazine - "i wasn't made for war" - rose main reading room [2:13:57]
surf party, usa - "surf party usa / brand new cooler" - surf party, usa 2 [bandcamp] [2:16:50]
humdrum - "ultraviolet" - every heaven [bandcamp] [2:19:55]
the everlasting yeah - "rise up" - staying cool staying free with the everlasting yeah [Members of That Petrol Emotion with a different singer
bandcamp] [2:25:49]
cathedral ceilings - "bill berry" - la la la ... Whatever [bandcamp] [2:35:47]
pom pom squad - "street fighter (clean version)" - mirror starts voving without me [bandcamp] [2:39:20]
the heart attack-acks - "black heart song" - single [bandcamp] [2:41:55]
the serfs - "paid in full" - single [bandcamp] [2:45:41]
kassie krut - "racing man" - s/t [bandcamp] [2:49:03]
uv-tv - "only kind words" - the optimistic wrench ep [bandcamp] [2:52:46]
mt. misery - "sunday song" - love in mind [bandcamp] [2:55:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/146005
Duration:03:08:48
THE METAL DISTRICT III, with Evan "Snake" Davies from Nov 6, 2024
11/6/2024
billy squier - "in the dark" - don't say no [0:00:00]
johnny crash - "hey kid" - neighbourhood threat [0:04:22]
y&t - "summertime girls" - down for the count [0:07:17]
honeymoon suite - "new girl now" - s/t [0:10:39]
deep purple - "perfect strangers" - perfect strangers [0:14:16]
bon jovi - "let it rock" - slippery when wet [0:25:47]
heaven's edge - "skin to skin" - s/t [0:30:37]
judas priest - "turbo lover" - 7" [0:33:55]
angel city - "fashion & fame" - night attack [0:37:47]
zebra - "tell me what you want" - s/t [0:42:13]
madam x - "she's hot tonight" - we reserve the right [0:50:47]
kill for thrills - "rockets" - dynamite from nightmareland [0:53:45]
peter cetera - "living in the limelight" - s/t [0:57:59]
dokken - "it's not love" - under lock and key [1:02:34]
helix - "the kids are all shakin'" - long way to heaven [1:07:25]
night ranger - "sing me away" - dawn patrol [1:14:47]
rainbow - "jealous lover" - jealous lover 12" ep [1:18:19]
brother cane - "got no shame" - s/t [1:21:31]
sleeze beez - "rock in the western world" - screwed blued & tattooed [1:26:19]
ratt - "lovin' you's a dirty job" - detonator [1:29:24]
circus of power - "motor" - still alive...12" ep [1:32:40]
love/hate - "blackout in the red room" - blackout in the red room [1:40:19]
salty dog - "lonesome fool" - every dog has its day [1:43:03]
cinderella - "shake me" - night songs [1:46:18]
tesla - "modern day cowboy" - mechanical resonance [1:50:04]
coney hatch - "devil's deck" - s/t [1:55:27]
autograph - "that's the stuff" - that's the stuff [2:03:14]
white lion - "wait" - 7" [2:06:51]
vandenberg - "your love is in vain" - s/t [2:11:07]
the london quireboys - "7 o'clock" - cd single [2:15:01]
sammy hagar - "i can't drive 55" - voa [2:18:37]
rhino bucket - "beat to death like a dog" - get used to it [2:26:29]
triumph - "fool for your love" - allied forces [2:30:53]
rpla - "last night a drag queen saved your life" - s/t [2:35:27]
warrant - "down boys" - dirty rotten filthy stinking rich [2:38:58]
saga - "on the loose" - 7" [2:42:27]
aldo nova - "fantasy" - 12" [2:48:33]
poison - "talk dirty to me" - 7" [2:53:27] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/145805
DAN EPSTEIN, co-author of Now You’re One Of Us: The Incredible Story of Redd Kross from Oct 30, 2024
10/30/2024
plastic bertrand - "wha ! wha !" - s/t [purchased at Tune Up records, Antwerp] [0:00:00]
chagrin d'amour - "chacun fait (c'qui lui plait)" - 7" [purchased at Grey Vinyl Treasures, Antwerp] [0:05:10]
solos - "talking pictures" - 7" ep [purchased at Sugar Pie Records, Antwerp] [0:09:25]
the bet - "who takes the long way home?" - 7" [purchased at Sugar Pie Records, Antwerp] [0:11:30]
the rimshots - "super disco" - down to earth [purchased at Chelsea Records, Antwerp] [0:14:37]
divine - "shake it up" - 7" [purchased at Grey Vinyl Treasures, Antwerp] [0:18:00]
krazy kat - "melody maker" - troubled air [purchased at Chelsea Records, Antwerp] [0:21:26]
shaun cassidy - "rebel rebel" - wasp [purchased at Chelsea Records, Antwerp] [0:25:34]
manager - "dirty white coat" - hot-line [bandcamp] [0:40:19]
the gentle spring - "sugartown" - looking back at the world [bandcamp] [0:43:17]
amy rigby - "bad in a good way" - hang in there with me [bandcamp
Great live set from Amy and her band on Three Chord Monte a few weeks ago, check the archives!] [0:47:51]
rose city band - "lights on the way" - sol y sombra [bandcamp
album coming out in January] [0:52:03]
tuff sunshine - "i will meet you at the bell" - vanity matrix [bandcamp] [0:56:34]
kassie krut - "reckless" - s/t [bandcamp] [1:10:58]
plastic palms - "more juice" - single [bandcamp] [1:14:26]
x-ray spex - "i can't do anything" - germfree adolescents [1:17:49]
lelee - "životinje" - single [bandcamp
from Slovenia!] [1:21:13]
coeur a l’Index - "rattrapez moi" - adieu minette [bandcamp] [1:25:19]
the beatles - "till there was you" - meet the beatles [1:32:41]
henry mancini - "peter gunn theme" - 7" [1:35:03]
elton john - "all the girls love alice" - goodbye yellow brick road [1:36:43]
the osmonds - "crazy horses" - crazy horses [1:43:15]
c.w. mccall - "convoy" - 7" [1:44:06]
dan epstein - "chats with efd part 1" [1:49:42]
redd kross - "rich brat (demo)" [2:03:09]
redd kross - "annette's got the hits" [2:03:33]
redd kross - "linda blair" - born innocent [2:04:49]
redd kross - "blow you a kiss in the wind" - teen babes from monsanto [2:09:27]
dan epstein - "chats with efd part 2" [2:12:15]
redd kross - "peach kelli pop" - neurotica [2:25:50]
redd kross - "1976" - third eye [2:28:29]
redd kross - "lady in the front row" - phaseshifter [2:31:58]
dan epstein - "chats with efd part 3" [2:35:26]
redd kross - "born innocent" - s/t [2:57:16] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/145572