Choices

It's all about choices this week on The Mal Thursday Show. A rogue's gallery of boss beat groups help you decide. Presented in Ultrasonic stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 15 January 2025.

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Playlist:
The Briks: It's Your Choice
The Monks: Boys are Boys and Girls are Choice
The XLs: Second Choice
Spanky & Our Gang: Anything You Choose
The Deep: Your Choice to Choose
Oliver Nelson: The Critic's Choice (bed)
The Crickets: Right or Wrong
The Blues Magoos: So I'm Wrong and You Are Right
The Chesterfield Kings: Wrong from Right
The Moquettes: Right String Baby, But the Wrong Yoyo
Dr. John: Right Place, Wrong Time
The Hate Bombs: Wrong Place, Wrong Time
The Honeycombs: Have I the Right
The Blues Project: No Time Like the Right Time
The Embrooks: The Time Was Wrong
Booker T & The MGs: When Something Is Wrong with My Baby (bed)
The Five Americans: Black Is White - Day Is Night
The North Atlantic Invasion Force: Black on White
Plasticland: In My Black and White
Serge Gainsbourg: Black and White
Painted Faces: Blackhearted Susan
The Guess Who: White Room
The T-Bones: Paint It Black (bed)
Them: Bad or Good
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Him or Me (What's It Gonna Be) [mono]
The Barons: Live and Die
Yesterday's Children: To Be or Not to Be
The Runaways: Is It Day or Night
The Gentrys: Brown Paper Sack
The Rolling Stones: Yesterday's Papers (mono)
The Beatles: Paperback Writer (2022 mix)
Traffic: Paper Sun (BBC)
Bulldrog Breed: Paper Man
Noah's Ark: Paper Man
The Rooks: Free Sunday Paper
The Ventures: Paper Airplane (bed)
The Kinks: Plastic Man (BBC)
Jefferson Airplane: Plastic Fantastic Lover (live 1968)
The Generation Gap: Plastic Faces
Mothers of Invention: Plastic People
The Sights & Sounds: Plastic People
Hans Frank El Gallo: Bodies in Plastic
The Amatones: Plastic Surgeon

 

The Best of 2025 w/ Guest DJ Mike Murray

Mal Thursday is joined by special guest DJ Mike Murray of the Whole Lotta Shakin' radio show, heard weekly Saturdays at 3 pm ET on WRUR, WITH, and theroute.org, highlighting the WLS Top 20 plus Mal's favorite new and archival releases of 2025. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 8 January 2026.

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Playlist:
Lyres: Someone Who'll Treat You Right Now (live 1985)
Tom Kenny & The Hi-Seas: Welcome To The Working Class
The Capellas: Zig Zag Wanderer
Les Rencards: Boite A Malice
The Chelsea Curve: Hey Sah-Lo-Ney
The Shakers: Money
Grip Weeds: Soul Bender
The Sound Minds: She Won't Stay For Long
Les Maharajas: Enough Of Your Love
The Embrooks: Terry And Julie
The 66ers: Holiday
Stupidity: Darkness Is My Friend (bed)
The Low Spirits: Treatin' Me Bad
The Capellas: Greener Than Green
The Sorrows: Out of My Head
Muck & The Mires: Lemon and Lime
Cosh Boys: Born to Rock 'n' Roll
Thee Strawberry Mynde: Reflections
Los Straitjackets: Genesee River Rock
The Shitkicker Rebellion: White Light White Heat
Mooon: Modulation Baby
Untamed Youth: The Harem
Los Straitjackets: Cry for a Beatle (bed)
Mal Thursday Quintet: Excitement Transfusion
The Tell-Tale Hearts: Too Many Lovers
The Things: Outside My Window
The Mosquitos: Darn Well (live 1984)
The Vipers: Nothing's from Today (live 1984)/How About Somemore
Small Faces: Get Yourself Together
Love: Laughing Stock
The Rolling Stones: The Rotterdam Jam (bed)
The Living Pins: Gold
Violet Mindfield: Autonomous Overdrive
The Bitter Ends: Everything's Going Wrong/My Brother, The Man
The Knight Shades: Why (Baby Why!)
Paul Collins: Hang on to Yourself
The Weeklings: Diamond Dogs
Len Price 3: Margate Sand
The Krayolas: Mr. Lonely (mono)
Stupidity: A Monkey in a Suit (is Still a Monkey)
The Higher State: Not Anything 

Mass Pike Memory Lane

Mal Thursday brings the Massachusetts magic on this revised and expanded deluxe edition of Mass Pike Memory Lane. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast, in different form, in 2014.

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Playlist:
The Real Kids: Better Be Good (live at the Rat '76)
The Remains: Once Before/Let Me Through
The Bugs: Slide
The Barbarians: Hey Little Bird
The Bold: Gotta Get Some
The Cobras: I Wanna Be Your Love
The Rockin' Ramrods: She Lied
The Modern Lovers: Roadrunner
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages: Ramblin' Rose
The Neighborhoods: The Prettiest Girl
The Hopelessly Obscure: She's My Best Bette
The Brood: In and Out
The Flies: In the Dark
The Odds: I'll Make You Sorry
The Prime Movers: 1-2-5
Classic Ruins: Geraldine (I Need Money)
Lyres: Tear You Up
Kenne Highland Clan: Everybody's a Lyre
Preston Wayne Four: Kumbaya (bed)
DMZ: The First Time (Is the Best Time)
The Malarians: Good Times
The Unband: We Like to Drink We Like to Play Rock n' Roll
Tag Sale: Why You Smilin' (Live at the Pulaski Club '99)
Scud Mountain Boys: Midnight Cowboy (bed)
Willie "Boom Boom" Alexander: Mass Ave
The Real Kids: Taxi Boys
The Bugs: Pretty Girl
The Barbarians: What the New Breed Say
The Reveliers: Hang Five
The Tallysmen: Little By Little
The Zipcodes: Baby Made a Fool of You
The Mauve: You Got Me Cryin'
The What Fours: Basement Walls
The Shadows of Time: Search Your Soul
The Stonemen: No More
The Shadows Four: Follow Me
Muck & The Mires: Gone, Gone, Gone

Bay Area Beat 1965-68 Pt. 2

 It's the other half of Mal's two-part trip to the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s. More obscure but no less pure! Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 18 December 2025.

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Playlist:
Country Joe & The Fish: Rock and Soul Music (live)/Superbird 
Bobby Freeman: C'mon and Swim
The Beau Brummels: Just a Little (alt take)/Don't Make Promises
The Golliwogs: Fight Fire
The Answer: Why You Smile
The Drongos: Under My Thumb
The Trolls: Walking Shoes
The Harbinger Complex: Time to Kill
The US Male: You Got Yours
The Just Six: I'm Gonna Be Gone
Marius: San Francisco (bed)
The Grass Roots: Where Were You When I Needed You (mono)/You're a Lonely Girl
The Chocolate Watchband: Sweet Young Thing/Don't Need Your Lovin'
The Mystery Trend: Johnny Was a Good Boy
The Mojo Men: Sit Down, I Think I Love You 
The Syndicate of Sound: Rumors
The Soul Vendors: Get Out of My Eye
Teddy & His Patches: From Day to Day 
Moby Grape: Omaha
The Steve Miller Blues Band: Instrumental (bed)
The Warlocks: Mindbender (Confusion's Prince)
The Grateful Dead: Cream Puff War/The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)
The Charlatans: Alabama Bound
The Great Society: White Rabbit (live 1966)
Jefferson Airplane: It's No Secret
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dino's Song
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart (live)
Sly & The Family Stone: Never Do Your Woman Wrong (bed)/Don't Burn Baby
The Styx: Hey, I'm Lost
Santana: Evil Ways (live)
Creedence Clearwater Revival: I Put a Spell on You/Born on the Bayou (live)
Flamin' Groovies: Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (mono)/Yesterday's Numbers

Bay Area Beat 1965-68

Mal Thursday takes a trip in time and space to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. The emphasis is on rocking, rather than nodding and noodling. All the usual suspects, plus a bevy of boss beat groups that preceded psychedelia. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 11 December 2025. 

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Playlist:
The Beau Brummels: Don't Talk to Strangers/The Jerk/Laugh Laugh (alt take)
We Five: You Were on My Mind
The Charlatans: Codine
The Warlocks: Can't Come Down
The Grateful Dead: Standing on the Corner (live 1966)
The Chocolate Watchband: Misty Lane/Are You Gonna Be There (at the Love-in)
The Other Side: Streetcar
The Answer: I'll Be in
The Golliwogs: Instrumental #1 (bed)/Brown-Eyed Girl
The Syndicate of Sound: Little Girl
The Front Line: Got Love
Denise: Boy, What'll You Do Then
The Vejtables: Feel the Music
The Count Five: Psychotic Reaction
The Mojo Men: She's My Baby
The Other Half: Mr. Pharmacist/Feathered Fish
The Donnybrookes: You're Gonna Cry
The Oxford Circle: Mind Destruction (bed)
The Grass Roots: Let's Live for Today/Things I Should Have Said
Peter Wheat & The Breadmen: Baby What's New
The Harbinger Complex: I Think I'm Down
Teddy & His Patches: Suzy Creamcheese
The Great Society: Somebody to Love
Jefferson Airplane: High Flying Bird/She Has Funny Cars
The Grateful Dead: Death Don't Have No Mercy (bed)
Moby Grape: Hey Grandma (mono)/Fall on You
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Pride of Man
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Combination of the Two/Down on Me
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Suzie Q
Flamin' Groovies: Comin' After Me
Blue Cheer: Summertime Blues
Teddy & His Patches: Haight Ashbury
 

Get

The Word of the Week is Get on this acquisitive episode of The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with Get in the title. Expanded. remixed, and remastered from an online-only 2021 episode. Featuring 35 minutes of exclusive bonus tracks. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. 

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Playlist:
The Pretty Things: Get the Picture/Get a Buzz
The Fairies: Get Yourself Home
The Hollies: I Can’t Get Nowhere with You
Lulu & the Luvvers: Can I Get a Witness
The Rolling Stones: Gotta Get Away/Get Off My Cloud (live 1966)
The Spencer Davis Group: I Can't Get Enough of It (BBC)
The Animals: We Gotta Get Outta This Place (live 1965)
The Zombies: Gotta Get Ahold of Myself
The Move: Stop and Get Ahold of Myself (BBC)
The Double Feature: Baby Get Your Head Screwed on
The Small Faces: Things Are Going to Get Better
The Jam: Get Yourself Together
The Ventures: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (bed)
The Game: Gonna Get Me Someone
The Northwest Company: Get Away from It All
The Girl Getters: The Girl Getters
The Soul Vendors: Get Out of My Eye
The Electric Prunes: Get Me to the World on Time
The Dantes: Can't Get Enough of Your Love
The Uncalled For: Get Out of the Way
Thee Sixpence: Gotta Get the First Plane Home
The Allman Joys: Gotta Get Away
The Ventures: Get Smart Theme (bed)
The Tiffany System: Get Together
Suzi Jane Hokom: Need All the Help I Can Get
The Standells: Get Away from Here
The Interns: Hard to Get
The Chosen Few (From St. Michaels): Get It on Life
Chocolate Ballon Company: Gotta Get This…
The Blues Magoos: Gotta Get Away (mono single version)
The Unbelievable Uglies: Get Straight
The Barracudas: Baby Get Lost
Little Willie & The Adolescents: Get Out of My Life
The Razor’s Edge: Get Yourself Together
Booker T & The MGs: Get Ready (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Roy Orbison: Let's Get Together for a Coke Again
Sir Douglas Quintet: You Never Get Too Big and You Sure Don't Get Too Heavy, That You Don't Have to Stop and Pay Some Dues Sometimes
The Reddlemen: I'm Gonna Get in That Girl's Mind
Roy Head & The Traits: Get Back
The Triumphs: Better Come Get Her
Mal Thursday & The Cheetahs: Get Outta Dallas!

T. Rex: Get It on (BBC)
The Heartbreakers: Get off the Phone (live 1977)
Ramones: I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind
Lyres: Gettin' Plenty Lovin' (live 1985)
Jerry Lewis: Get Happy

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: When I Get Home (mono)/I'll Get You (BBC)
Clarence Reid: Get Back
The Rolling Stones: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (BBC)
The Mindbenders: It's Getting Harder All the Time
The Peeps: Gotta Get a Move on
Majority One: Get Back Home
The L.A. Teens: I'm Gonna Get You
The Kinks: Get Back in the Line (live 1977)
The Swing Set: Trying to Get You Out of My Mind
The Jackets: Get Back with You
Mal Thursday Quintet: Get Out of My Eye

For the Birds

In this avian-themed outing, Mal gives you the Bird: the Word, the Dance, and the Species. Shake a tail feather and get with this Bird-a-thon, and stay tuned for an extra 37 minutes of bonus tracks. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted in two-hour broadcast format, 8 May 2020.

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Playlist:
The Rivingtons: The Bird's the Word
Baby Ray & The Ferns: How's Your Bird?
The Mojo Men: Free as a Bird
Rocky Roberts & The Airedales: The Bird Is the Word
Country Joe & The Fish: Super Bird
The Barbarians: Hey Little Bird
The Beatles: And Your Bird Can Sing
The Galileo 7: Cruel Bird
The Hour Glass: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Judy Henske: High-Flying Bird
The Moody Blues: Bye Bye Bird
The Bee Gees: Birdie Told Me
The Everly Brothers: Bird Dog
The Del Counts: Bird Dog
Gene Vincent: Bird Doggin'
The Mystery Action: The Bird Rockers
Inez & Charlie Foxx: Mockingbird
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood: Lady Bird
The Buffalo Springfield: Blue Bird
Jerry Garcia: Bird Song
Eddie Floyd: Big Bird
Daddy Cool: Eagle Rock
The Music Machine: The Eagle Never Hunts the Fly
The Electric Banana (The Pretty Things): Eagle's Son
Jimmy Rivers Combo: The Blue Eagle Pt. 1
King Khan & The Shrines: 40 Birds
The Best Things: Chicks are for Kids
The Ventures: Yellow Bird
Thee  Sixpence: Birdman of Alkatrash
The Wylde Mammoths: All the Birds are Gone
The Yo Yos: The Raven
The Ramones: Surfin' Bird
The Motivations: The Birds

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine
The Chevelle V: Come Back Bird
Johnny Winter: Birds Can't Row Boats
Mouse & The Traps: I Wonder Where the Birds Fly
The Five Americans: Sweet Bird of Youth
Willie Nelson: Bird on a Wire

Ann-Margret: Bye Bye Birdie

Bonus Tracks:
The Sevens: Love of a Bird
Gene Vincent: Love Is a Bird
Marianne Faithfull: This Little Bird
The Plague: High-Flyin' Bird
Bob Dylan: Black Crow Blues
Q65: World of Birds
Charlie Parker: Yardbird Suite
The Hooterville Trolley: No Silver Bird
The Left Banke: Sing Little Bird Sing
Joe Cocker: Bye Bye Blackbird
The Monks: Cuckoo
The Trashmen: Surfin' Bird
Lester Bangs & The Delinquents: Legless Bird