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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.

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Favoriting October 23, 2019: NEW YORK ROCKER salute with ANDY SCHWARTZ, IRA KAPLAN, and GLENN MORROW in studio! Plus Laura Levine, Peter Holsapple, Annene Kaye, Lisa Jane Persky, Drew Wheeler, and Chris Nelson share their NYR memories via telephone!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
talking heads  love -> building on fire   Favoriting 7"  sire     
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the bongos  zebra club   Favoriting drums along the hudson  pvc        0:03:02 (Pop-up)
kimberley rew  my baby does her hairdo long   Favoriting bible of bop  compendium        0:05:51 (Pop-up)
pylon  volume   Favoriting gyrate  db     
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david johansen  frenchette   Favoriting s/t  blue sky  1978   
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wayne county  max's kansas city   Favoriting va-max's kansas city 1976  roir    "Blondie's all in a buzz, she's on the cover of New York Rocker" 
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blondie  fan mail   Favoriting plastic letters       
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the db's  i read new york rocker   Favoriting ride the wild tom tom       
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the db's  black & white   Favoriting 7"  shake        1:13:19 (Pop-up)
the dils  sound of the rain   Favoriting 7"          1:16:20 (Pop-up)
the scene is now  1150 lbs.   Favoriting 7"  lost records        1:19:37 (Pop-up)
beirut slump  staircase   Favoriting 7"          1:21:45 (Pop-up)
 
the individuals  dancing with my 80 wives   Favoriting 7"  plexus        1:57:51 (Pop-up)
that hideous strength  vintage english rock & roll   Favoriting 7"          2:00:55 (Pop-up)
 
the miamis  we deliver   Favoriting           2:23:56 (Pop-up)
the fast  kids just wanna dance   Favoriting 7"          2:25:44 (Pop-up)
the mekons  where were you   Favoriting 7"  fast        2:29:27 (Pop-up)
 
the db's  i read new york rocker   Favoriting           2:50:01 (Pop-up)
the fleshtones  the girl from baltimore   Favoriting up front 12" ep       
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the senders  6th street   Favoriting           2:53:22 (Pop-up)
the mumps  crocodile tears   Favoriting 7"       
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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Kat in Chicago:

Ah, there's the pumpkin spice playlist.
  9:07pm
kdog:

ooooooo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Hidey-ho my friends
  9:16pm
Dr Raustus:

Yaaaaaaaaah!
  9:17pm
Motobro:

A great Davie Joe piece!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Kat in Chicago:

Bonsoir Phillippe, I see "Frenchette" brought you out of lurkerville ;-)
  9:19pm
Motobro:

Killet set
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
listener 126464:

not really a bad one on that David Jo record
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
Kat in Chicago:

I'm already feeling nostalgic for a New York that I wasn't actually on-site for.
  9:24pm
Laura:

By the time I started hanging out at Max’s, none of those groups played there anymore. But Jayne herself was there a lot, and she was great!
Avatar 9:28pm
RobinSays:

I would have loved to go to Max's Kansas City but it closed when I was 10. In my dreams I am in the back room, chatting with Gerard Malanga, sipping whiskey sours and leaving Debbie Harry a nice tip.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
listener 126464:

Individuals!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Kat in Chicago:

Ha, this guy sounds familiar!
  9:50pm
JakeGould:

This is so great! Thanks for doing this, Evan!
  Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Julie M:

Loving to hear these recollections, thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55pm
Kat in Chicago:

The Cretones had some good songs on their first record. Didn't care for the second one.
  9:58pm
John from Florham park:

Hello fellow EFD listeners
  10:08pm
Steve:

EFD, ask Peter what's the latest with The dB's and will they record an all new album ??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Kat in Chicago:

Ooh, this is one of my favorite Blondie songs!
  10:13pm
angelajaeger@earthlink.net:

Love this song!
Avatar 10:14pm
the chicken of the trees:

Hi EFD will Julia Gorton be calling in ?
Avatar 10:20pm
§€®@℗§:

h’lo hey

dB’s, dB’s, dB’s. the first two albums, perfect perfect power pop. black & white, perfect power pop song. love love love love it.
Avatar 10:21pm
§€®@℗§:

AAAAHHH, the scene is NOW
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
efd:

@chicken sadly no, I had to balance the call in guests with everything else going on! Lots more people I could have included
Avatar 10:22pm
§€®@℗§:

i still haven’t found all the scene is now albums, SIGH
  10:26pm
Chris Nelson:

My closet is full of The Scene Is Now albums - come on over!
Avatar The Evan "Funk" Davies Show Hellraiser 2024 10:31pm
herb.nyc:

at Chris Stamey's McNally Jackson bk store event for his memoirs, he sang the NY Rocker song. -- great on air conversation now. Dils are being praised now and friend jack rabid has been saying that for ages.
  10:33pm
johnk77:

great show
slash records had
an incredible roster
but my strongest memory
of that period
is brian of violent femmes
making fun of
bob biggs
  10:38pm
Dan from Delco:

Love
  10:40pm
JakeGould:

Who’s on now?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
efd:

Annene Kaye
  10:42pm
JakeGould:

Ahh! Cool… 12th Street and 3rd Avenue is a block away where Travis Bickle had his famous shoot out with Sport and the other low life's.
  10:55pm
JakeGould:

This “No Magazine?” antiq.benjamins.com...
  10:57pm
Chris Nelson:

No, that was the LA NO Magazine, unrelated
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Faye:

wow this is radio...incredible show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
brycepunk1:

I love this station so much. I wish I had $5000/month to give.
  11:00pm
Steve:

Great show, EFD ! Love the conversations about NY Rocker !
  11:01pm
sufferwords:

don’t ask but I lived on 5th Ave. tween 13-14th - i used to read your rag, could I have read it out here in L.A. also?
  11:03pm
JakeGould:

@sufferwords: Wow! Were you on the side of 5th Avenue where the new New School building now is?
  11:03pm
Jett:

So you, Funk, were on WNYU, I was on WHBI and NY Rocker used to sponsor my radio show, and the dB's sang the commercial jingle for NY Rocker.
  11:04pm
flashbazbo:

I just listened to FMU in the shower.
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DETENTION:

.... nice
  11:08pm
Mike Sin:

Man, these conversations are something else. This is WFMU at its best.
  11:10pm
rev:

part of slash mag 77_79...how incredible the world was...I was in high school and learned everything about music and life from Claude kickboy face Bessy..wonderful show...
  11:13pm
johnk77:

my father's place?
  11:13pm
Fletchernyc:

This is amazing. Thank you so much!
  11:15pm
Jett:

I still have about 40 issues of NY Rocker in my garage.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
listener 126464:

have a collection also
  11:16pm
flashbazbo:

I remember the "Winter of our discontent" issue really hit home for me. it might have been about the new romantics.
  11:16pm
JakeGould:

Whoomp, here it is… www.instagram.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
listener 126464:

•partial collection
  11:17pm
Jett:

Anyone going to mention Punk magazine? Used to read that also!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
Kat in Chicago:

Punk magazine was mentioned earlier
  11:20pm
Jett:

Ty Kat!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
listener 126464:

staying up way past bedtime for this
  11:22pm
Jett:

I remember the release of that first R.E.M. single and shortly afterwards they got signed and released Chronic Town on IRS.
Avatar 11:24pm
slugluv1313:

good evening, EFD and everyone!
tuned in a bit late, but so enjoying what i am hearing (and yup! still have a bunch of NY Rocker issues :) )
@ Kat in Chicago -- YES!!! "Fan Mail" is one of my favorite Blondie songs too!
@ the chicken of the trees -- i was thinking of Julia too! only met her within the last year or so, such a fascinating person (and funny too!)

were the NY Rocker offices located in an old, abandoned school building on Eighth Street, just east of Avenue B? i remember going there with the "ex" and walking through Tomkins Square Park (on a Sunday morning, i think?!?) . . . TOTALLY spooky, the park was empty and the atmosphere was all misty, foggy . . . we were both still in school (!979? '80? "81?) (and living in New Jersey, hah!) and he was delivering artwork to the Rocker . . . the building was FREEZING (maybe no heat?) but the place was totally buzzing with all this amazing ENERGY . . .
what a fantastic, precious time in NYC . . . !
  11:28pm
Jett:

The Fast seemed to be playing all the time around town, especially CBGB and Max's.
Avatar 11:28pm
slugluv1313:

omg -- The Miamis! The Fast!
so cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Darn kids...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Did The Fast do anything else of note?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Kat in Chicago:

I have such an imaginary picture of that scene from your description, slugluv, although I didn't see 8th and B myself till the mid-90s. Wow.
Avatar 11:33pm
slugluv1313:

ahh EFD these tunes are like the soundtrack to every party i went to back then :)
Avatar 11:35pm
slugluv1313:

@ Phillippe Bastille -- The Fast were an incredible "power pop" band (for lack of a better description) -- pretty sure you can find them on youtube, etc.
  11:36pm
Jett:

@Phillippe I remember a track by The Fast "Boys Will Be Boys" and a few years later an album that the cover was a parody of The Who Sell Out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Kat in Chicago:

Kickstarter sounds like a great idea if y'all could get the word out. I'd buy in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
Phillippe Bastille:

@slugluv1313 @jett Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
Kat in Chicago:

I'm a Letraset veteran myself. Got pretty good at it.
  11:42pm
RJ:

Holy cow, this show is a true joy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
Kat in Chicago:

And I think I still have burns from my waxer!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
listener 126464:

replace your x-actos and keep the waxer clean
  11:43pm
scobot:

Rubber cement.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
listener 126464:

pour some thinner on me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Kat in Chicago:

@126464 I went shopping for an X-acto recently, since I can't find the handle I had a few years ago. They seem harder to get hold of these days.
Avatar 11:46pm
slugluv1313:

thank-you, Kat! even though i was in NJ (Douglass/Rutgers U. -- i was like the lone "punk" among all the jocks and preppies, hah!) i managed to go to NYC as much as i could -- it really was an amazing time, i consider myself lucky that i got to participate, even if it was just going to Max's, CBGB's, etc.
which reminds me! Max's had cocktails named after bands -- the Blondie, Cherry Vanilla, Tuff Darts, etc. . . . the SUICIDE was like EVERY high proof liquor in one long tall glass (and yeah, the "ex" insisted on drinking this, hah!) . . . Julia Gorton mentioned this when i met her, she said she had found the Max's drink menu online -- but it may actually have one somewhere (yeah, i am one of those goofballs who saves ticket stubs too, hah!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
listener 126464:

sam flax, pearl paints, that utrecht place... gone. where does one go for a tabouret?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Kat in Chicago:

I worked at Pearl on Canal St. briefly, circa 96-97 I think. They were not nice to work for.
  11:50pm
sufferwords:

@Jake Gould I was across the street 74 5th 1981
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Thanks everyone! That was a great listen!
  11:51pm
Beep Boop:

EFD- I haven't heard yr boss bed music once this entire effin' time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
Kat in Chicago:

@126464 Blick?
  11:52pm
Jett:

That NY Rocker spot had an announcement at the end that said "Available at newstands everywhere!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
listener 126464:

2nd song after The Dreg last Thursday at Bowery Electric
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Kat in Chicago:

Fabulous episode, Evan. Clicky-starred. Thanks to all involved! slugluv, if we ever run into each other on one of my Brooklyn visits, I'll trade cocktails for stories :)
  11:54pm
Jett:

The band that I saw the most times live, was The Fleshtones, at least 70 times!
  11:55pm
Jett:

The Senders were always great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
efd:

@Beep Boop it's not period appropriate! Next week you'll hear it.
  11:55pm
sufferwords:

saw some good shit at Peppermint Lounge in 81 - Heartbreakers, Wilson Pickett
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
brycepunk1:

This was great to listen to. Thank you guests and EFD and WFMU :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
efd:

also thought the regular bed music would be too distracting for the guests!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
listener 126464:

Thanks Evan and guests, associates, cheers everybody!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
brycepunk1:

slug, that was awesome. Must be some great stories in those memories.
Avatar 11:57pm
slugluv1313:

@ listener 126464 -- and of course Eastern Artists!
where all the SVA kids went for their art supplies -- met Wendy Wild when she was working there too
  11:57pm
Beep Boop:

"Period Appropriate"- I'll take it up with Timothy Speed Levitch whom I desperately hope comes out of retirement / where can I get a tour?
Avatar 11:59pm
slugluv1313:

@ Kat in Chicago -- definitely! ah, i am only half-joking when i talk about turning my apartment into a museum :)
  11:59pm
Steve:

Hey EFD, how about a Trouser Press magazine show ?
  11:59pm
Beep Boop:

I love that you sense our urgency with the archive!
  11:59pm
sufferwords:

What next EFD? New Music Seminar show?
Avatar 11:59pm
slugluv1313:

fantastic show, EFD -- THANK-YOU!
  12:00am
Jett:

Trouser Press was never as cool as NY Rocker.
  10:12am
Miss Georgia Peach:

FANTASTIC SHOW! I hope the book becomes a reality. Thank you, EFD!
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