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Favoriting December 27, 2017: BEST OF THE BEST! Nothing but (my personal) #1 hits from 2007-2016!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
sneakers  what i dig   Favoriting nonsequitur of silence  collector's choice  2007  my #1 reissue of 2007!  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
the fallen leaves  trouble   Favoriting 7"  parliament  2007  my #1 single/EP of 2007!  0:02:57 (Pop-up)
the rokes  when the wind arises   Favoriting va-real life permanent dreams: a cornucopia of british psychedelia 1965-70  castle  2007  my #1 various artist compilation of 2007!  0:05:57 (Pop-up)
white hills  love serve remember   Favoriting glitter glamour atrocity  white hills  2007  my #1 album of 2007!  0:09:07 (Pop-up)
 
pylon  driving school   Favoriting gyrate plus  dfa  2008  my #1 reissue of 2008!  0:25:36 (Pop-up)
vermillion sands  mary   Favoriting 7"  rijapov  2008  my #1 single/EP of 2008!  0:27:51 (Pop-up)
carolyn crawford  good and plenty   Favoriting va-conquer the world: the lost soul of philadelphia international records  phila. int'l/legacy  2008  my #1 various artist compilation of 2008!  0:31:32 (Pop-up)
thomas function  relentless machines   Favoriting celebration!  alive  2008  my #1 album of 2008!  0:34:01 (Pop-up)
 
big star  she's a mover (alternate version)   Favoriting keep an eye on the sky  ardent / rhino  2009  my #1 reissue of 2009!  0:41:56 (Pop-up)
bare wires  let down   Favoriting 7"  milk 'n' herpes  2009  my #1 single/EP of 2009!  0:44:59 (Pop-up)
plastic feet  big blond baby   Favoriting va-clap your hands and stamp your feet: 24 nederglam tracks from the early '70s  excelsior  2009  my #1 various artist compilation of 2009!  0:47:30 (Pop-up)
cyclone 60  chocolat   Favoriting instant classic  cyclone 60  2009  my #1 album of 2009!  0:50:38 (Pop-up)
the commoners  love is a carburetor   Favoriting va-idealistic youth: 80s us mod revival vol 1 - california  no label  2010  my #1 various artist compilation of 2010  0:53:56 (Pop-up)
the limiñanas  je ne suis pas tres drogue   Favoriting 7"  trouble in mind  2010  my #1 single/EP of 2010!  0:56:40 (Pop-up)
the endtables  trick or treat   Favoriting s/t  drag city  2010  my #1 reissue of 2010!  0:59:34 (Pop-up)
conspiracy of owls  raving mad   Favoriting s/t  burger  2010  my #1 album of 2010!  1:01:56 (Pop-up)
 
the vagrants  i can't make a friend   Favoriting I can't make a friend 1965-1968  light in the attic  2011  my #1 reissue of 2011!  1:13:29 (Pop-up)
the renegades  thirteen women   Favoriting 7"  norton  2011  my #1 single/EP of 2011! (even though it came out in late 2010)  1:15:54 (Pop-up)
quando quango  love tempo   Favoriting va-fac. dance 02: factory records 12" mixes & rarities 1980-87  strut  2011  my #1 various artist compilation of 2011!  1:19:22 (Pop-up)
the laureates  don't lose your cool   Favoriting spells  funambulist  2011  my #1 album of 2011!  1:27:09 (Pop-up)
 
metz  do you wanna   Favoriting s/t  ossining  2012  my #1 reissue of 2012!  1:34:48 (Pop-up)
jacco gardner  where will you go   Favoriting 7"  trouble in mind  2012  my #1 single/EP of 2012!  1:39:47 (Pop-up)
the beach-nuts  out in the sun (hey-o)   Favoriting va-smash boom bang: the songs and productions of feldman-goldstein-gottehrer  ace  2012  my #1 various artist compilation of 2012!  1:42:59 (Pop-up)
gap dream  leather   Favoriting s/t  burger  2012  my #1 album of 2012!  1:45:41 (Pop-up)
the jook  crazy kids   Favoriting jook rule  sing sing  2013  my #1 reissue of 2013!  1:49:26 (Pop-up)
john foxx & the belbury circle  empty avenues   Favoriting empty avenues cd ep  ghost box  2013  my #1 single/EP of 2013!  1:53:56 (Pop-up)
victrola  maritime tatami   Favoriting va-mutazione: italian electronic & new wave underground 1980-1988  strut  2013  my #1 various artist compilation of 2013!  1:57:52 (Pop-up)
free fall  free fall   Favoriting power & volume  nuclear blast  2013  my #1 album of 2013!  2:03:52 (Pop-up)
 
the student teachers  past tense   Favoriting invitation to... the student teachers 1978-1980  nacional  2014  my #1 reissue of 2014!  2:14:35 (Pop-up)
games  little elise   Favoriting 7"  hozac  2014  my #1 single/EP of 2014!  2:17:43 (Pop-up)
king sporty & the root rockers  get on down   Favoriting va-horse meat disco iv  strut  2014  my #1 various artist compilation of 2014!  2:20:53 (Pop-up)
the paul & john  brickland   Favoriting inner sunset  mystery lawn  2014  my #1 album of 2014!  2:27:34 (Pop-up)
 
cerrone  look for love   Favoriting best of cerrone productions  because  2015  my #1 reissue of 2015!  2:34:51 (Pop-up)
eyelids  bound to let you down   Favoriting s/t ep  jealous butcher/schizophonic  2015  my #1 single/EP of 2015!  2:39:01 (Pop-up)
the revelons  the way (you touch my hand)   Favoriting va-ork records: new york, new york  numero group  2015  my #1 various artist compilation of 2015!  2:42:11 (Pop-up)
john krautner  northwood   Favoriting fun with gum vol. 1  burger  2015  my #1 album of 2015!  2:45:04 (Pop-up)
rexy  perfect day   Favoriting running out of time  lucky number  2016  my #1 reissue of 2016!  2:47:33 (Pop-up)
the jeanies  ami lee   Favoriting 7"  hozac  2016  my #1 single/EP of 2016!  2:50:21 (Pop-up)
instant automatons  new muzak   Favoriting va-close to the noise floor: formative uk electronica 1975-1984  cherry red  2016  my #1 various artist compilation of 2016!  2:53:47 (Pop-up)
ultimate painting  monday morning, somewhere central   Favoriting dusk  trouble in mind  2016  my #1 album of 2016!  2:55:40 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 9:02pm
ron in S FL:

Hey Evan, happy days!
Avatar 9:02pm
fleep:

You made it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
efd:

I did indeed!
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
listener 126464:

saw chris as part of alejandro escovedos' band couple months ago
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Cooh John:

Bring on the best. Sounds great.
  9:09pm
li'l funk:

You jet-setter, you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
efd:

hope you're enjoying another night in Fla, li'l funk!
  9:12pm
Danne D:

Woooooo EFD FOR THE WIN!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
efd:

yay me!!
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Kat in Chicago:

Great show idea!
Avatar 9:18pm
Mailman Tom:

Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25pm
efd:

thanks Kat! And hi there everyone!
Avatar 9:26pm
Scraps:

Awesome!! I like Pylon's second album Chomp even better
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
listener 126464:

gang of four/pylon was a good double bill
Avatar 9:27pm
Scraps:

i hop hop hop hop to every pylon song
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Uncle Michael:

Is Pylon singing "Bingo! Fleagle! Drooper! Snork!"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
efd:

No lyric sheet, UM, so I'm not sure ;)
@Scraps Chomp is also great but Gyrate has the edge for me.
Avatar 9:32pm
Scraps:

This band called Vermillion Sands was the third of that name (J.G. Ballard reference), and the first to get the spelling wrong (there's only one l in vermilion)
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Kat in Chicago:

I like Chain (Pylon's 3rd LP) a lot too, definitely a different energy from the first two though
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Figgsrock:

Oh wow, this Carolyn Crawford song is fantastic. Gotta see if this comp is still in print.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
efd:

that explains the squiggly red underline when I was typing it into the playlist!
Avatar 9:35pm
Scraps:

Maybe because I had Chomp first, that's why I preferred it to Gyrate (which is very good)
Avatar 9:35pm
Scraps:

:-)
Avatar 9:37pm
Scraps:

when i was a work-people, i was a copyeditor/proofreader
Avatar 9:38pm
Scraps:

since my stroke, my proofreading brain isn't so automatic.... at all
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Kat in Chicago:

@Scraps :(
Avatar 9:39pm
Scraps:

i haven't heard this power pop!
Avatar 9:40pm
Mailman Tom:

Vermillion Sands. Good song!
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
listener 126464:

11
  9:45pm
JakeGould:

HEY EFD! SOUNDING GOOD!!!
Avatar 9:45pm
Scraps:

wow, rateyourmusic doesn't have Keep an Eye on the Sky. I hadn't heard of it, so I wanted to look it up.... next, discogs
Avatar 9:47pm
Scraps:

oh never mind, they have got it under "albums" under "archival". sheesh.
Avatar 9:47pm
Scraps:

not, say, Compilations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
efd:

too many categories!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Barkevious Shabazz:

Milk 'n Herpes. Nice combo.
Avatar 9:48pm
Scraps:

yep.
Avatar 9:59pm
Scraps:

waitaminit, you said "reissue" was for single bands!
Avatar 10:00pm
Scraps:

:-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
efd:

yeah I messed up! Good catch!
Avatar 10:02pm
Scraps:

aw. didn't wanna.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
efd:

I had already realized it when I was cueing up the Endtables album
Avatar 10:04pm
Scraps:

those damned turntables!
Avatar 10:11pm
All out Scott:

Turntable bites can be pretty nasty ya know
Avatar 10:16pm
Steve B._Parsippany_NJ:

Saw Mountain live years ago. Leslie West broke at least two guitar strings and continued to wail on. Awesome show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
I am the Upsetter:

This renegades track is cooking!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Cooh John:

Fortunate to have seen Mountain as well.
Avatar 10:22pm
Scraps:

Looking at the Big Star collection -- and this is not a Gotcha moment, I'm just curious -- most of the songs aren't reissues (if any are, I'm not sure); I =think= they are released for the first time. Did anyone object (in 2009)? or could "reissues" stand for old stuff, even if released new?

You don't have to answer this obnoxious question!
  10:23pm
JakeGould:

Quando Quando!!!
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Kat in Chicago:

Used to get me on the dancefloor every time, and still does when I hear it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
efd:

@Scraps I'll just say that I've been known to be a little loose with my categorization, deliberately or otherwise! :)
Avatar 10:31pm
Scraps:

very good!
  10:33pm
JakeGould:

I meant to say Quango… :/
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Kat in Chicago:

Haha EFD, I thought I'd recalled you playing "Thirteen Women" obsessively for a while there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
efd:

oh yes, absolutely!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Mister Dobalina:

Renegades video was pretty awesome, thanks for sharing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
efd:

happy to spread the word on that one!
  10:39pm
JakeGould:

I guess a number one EFD hit might be, “Thirteen Women with a Bedazzler”

*ducks*
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Kat in Chicago:

That could lead to an awful lot of embellished denim
Avatar 10:40pm
Scraps:

boy there are a lot of bands with duplicate names, especially not very well known bands. Look at RateYourMusic for any simple band names, and you'll find several.
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Kat in Chicago:

Yayyyy Jacco Gardner!
Avatar 10:42pm
Scraps:

there are at least three bands names Metz. One of them spells it with all caps
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
efd:

yeah I miss this dude!
Avatar 10:43pm
Scraps:

one of them is from Denmark. :-)
  10:44pm
herb.nyc:

Jacco Gardner, the Laureates- great songs by them. Et les autres.
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Kat in Chicago:

Yeah what happened to Jacco?
  10:45pm
Doctor B.:

Last time I heard this song it was on am AM radio...a long time ago...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
efd:

I gotta look him up and see, really not sure
Avatar 10:48pm
Scraps:

he had a second album, Hypnophobia, in 2015. I haven't seen it (and I have his first album)
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Kat in Chicago:

I'm not finding anything after 2015
  10:48pm
herb.nyc:

re "thirteen women", my lady friend was w me and when she heard it 3x in a row one night, she screamed. "3 diff versions", sez Evan's esteemed counsel. Judge ruled in his favor. High five!
Avatar 10:48pm
Scraps:

Jacco Gardner, I mean
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Kat in Chicago:

OMG I remember that three-fer, herb.nyc. Wasn't sure how long I'd been an EFD listener but it's apparently been at least that long.
Avatar 10:52pm
Scraps:

Gardner had one song, "Lazy Old Sun" from a Kinks tribute, specifically =Something Else= album tribute (!), in 2017.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
efd:

I believe that was the night I was presenting the compleat history of "Thirteen Women." :D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
medson:

hey efd.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
efd:

hiya medson!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
medson:

tuned in very late tonight.
playlist looks great, cant wait to hear the archive tomorrow : )
  11:06pm
George P.:

#1 single of the 1889:
Emile Berliner's Der Handschuh

https://gizmodo.com/5922410/this-is-the-oldest-vinyl-album-in-the-history-of-the-world
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
efd:

thanks, happy to see you regardless of how late it is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
efd:

Before I started on WFMU, George P! :)
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Kat in Chicago:

Wonder what that goes for on Discogs
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I wonder what the Old Codger thinks of Emile Berliner and his album.
  11:08pm
herb.nyc:

My friend says "Evan must mean The Repeat History of 'thirteen women' ".
  11:09pm
George P.:

True! Reissue, maybe?

Overheard: "I was into Emile Berliner in 1888, before he sold out."
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:09pm
Kat in Chicago:

That Gizmodo article is actually fascinating
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Kat in Chicago:

I saw Jacco live in Chicago (great show, great band) and talked to him for a minute. He was very young at the time, if I recall correctly. Could've gone back to school or started a family or something. That first LP was so good though!
  11:21pm
Eric Hat:

California Girls rip?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
efd:

let's say "influence"
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
Kat in Chicago:

Lotta love for the Strut comps here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
efd:

I was just noticing that!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
efd:

this is the last one tonight though
  11:25pm
Eric Hat:

True. I’m sure it probably wasn’t done maliciously, but that melody in the first line of the verse is pretty much note for note...
Avatar 11:32pm
Scraps:

i think, reading up on them, that Free Fall's 2013 album was not s/t, but was called Power & Volume
  11:37pm
Mike Sin:

Loving this show from top to bottom!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
efd:

correct! I actually had it correctly in my notes, but got caught up in wanting the triple-play of band name/song name/album name.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
efd:

hey Mike, very happy to see you here. Appreciate you checking in.
Avatar 11:45pm
Scraps:

and by the way, there are MANY Free Fall bands (or Freefall) (to refer back to conversation). It made them hard to look up!
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Kat in Chicago:

Ah, I was wondering if anything Numero would make an appearance
  11:48pm
Eric Hat:

Awesome show tonight, Evan. Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
efd:

thank you Eric!
Avatar 11:50pm
Scraps:

"running out of time" at 8:45!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
efd:

sadly I think the needle on TT1 is on its last legs.
  11:53pm
blackwings666:

Hey Evan, Do you like JEX THOTH?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
efd:

and yes, "running out of time" is definitely apropos!
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Nice show, efd. You should do this again in 2027.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
medson:

Damn if im not a sucker for that glam sound
  11:55pm
Ignore Function:

Good show, EFD.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
efd:

thanks everyone! Back next week with the Best of 2017!
  11:58pm
blackwings666:

Hey Evan--long time listener first time commenting on your show. Always enjoy the music. Was wondering if you ever heard Jex Thoth.
  12:01am
PNW THC:

i'm really digging tonight's set!!
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Kat in Chicago:

HNY EFD!
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