Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Wrong

The Word of the Week is Wrong on this 2021 episode of The Mal Thursday Show, where all the songs have the word Wrong in the title. This episode is so wrong, it's right. Now even more so, as it's been fortified with an additional 30 minutes of Wrong songs. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. Originally broadcast, in different form, 29 July 2021.

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Playlist:
The 31st of February: Wrong
The Music Machine: Wrong
The Sumpin' Else: Baby, You're Wrong
The Seeds: She's Wrong
The Hard Road: You Rub Me the Wrong Way
The Bougalieu: Let's Do Wrong
The Turtles: Wrong from the Start
The Blues Magoos: So I'm Wrong and You Are Right
The Byrds: It Won't Be Wrong
Booker T & The MGs: When Something Is Wrong with My Baby
The Everly Brothers: I've Been Wrong Before
The Hollies: Hey, What's Wrong with Me/What's Wrong with the Way I Live
The Yardbirds: I Ain't Done Wrong
The Truth: Who's Wrong
The Rolling Stones: Grown Up Wrong
The Animals: Baby, What's Wrong (BBC)
The Easybeats: Something Wrong
The Miles Grayson Trio: You Were Wrong (bed)
The Outsiders: What's Wrong with You
The Buffalo Springfield
: Flying on the Ground Is Wrong
The Rockatones
: Everything's Gone Wrong
The Gnomes
: Something's Gone Wrong
The Nazz
: Not Wrong Long
Sly & The Family Stone
: Never Do Your Woman Wrong (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Sir Douglas Quintet: Ain't Nothin' Wrong with You, Baby
The Chayns
: There's Something Wrong with This Place
Billy McKnight & The Plus 4: You're Doin' Me Wrong
The Lemon Fog: Girl from the Wrong Side of the Tracks
The Crickets: Right or Wrong

Reigning Sound: Everything I Do Is Wrong
The Vipers
: What's Wrong
The Wyld Tryfles
: What's Wrong with You
Untamed Youth
: I've Been Wrong Before
The Lounge Lizards
: Do the Wrong Thing (bed)
The Cynics
: Baby, What's Wrong
The Chesterfield Kings: Wrong from Right
Muck & The Mires: I May Be Wrong (But That Don't Make You Right)
Lyres: You've Been Wrong
The Beginner's Mynd: Nothing Wrong
The Woggles: Do Me Wrong
The Embrooks: The Time Was Wrong
The Lovejoys: Payin' (For the Wrong I've Done)

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Wanna?

Here is a revised and expanded edition of a 2020 episode of The Mal Thursday Show, fortified with an hour of new material, where the Word of the Week is Wanna -- all songs with Wanna in the title. That's a whole lotta Wanna. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound.

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Playlist:
Robin & The Three Hoods: I Wanna Do it
Casey Jones & The Governors: All You Wanna Do
The Animals: I Just Wanna Make Love to You
The Southern Sound: I Don't Wanna Go
The Swinging Blue Jeans: I Wanna Be There
The Hollies: I Wanna Shout
The Ventures: I Wanna Be Well
The Bluestars: I Don't Wanna Be Lonely Anymore
The No-Na-Mees: Just Wanna Be Myself
The Fee-Fi-Four + 2: I Wanna Come Back (From the World of LSD)
The Mamas and Papas: Go Where You Wanna Go
The Monkees: I Wanna Be Free (fast version)
The Wrecking Crew: I Wanna Be Free (backing track)
The Most: Do You Wanna Know
The Eyes: I Wanna Be Your Man
Bob Dylan: I Wanna Be Your Lover
The Cobras: I Wanna Be Your Love
Yesterday's Children: I Wanna Be With You
The Sorrows: I Don't Wanna Be Free
Bud Shank: I Wanna Be Free
The Heartbreakers: I Wanna Be Loved
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers: I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms
Kurt Baker: I Don't Wanna Get Involved With You
The Crawdaddys: I Wanna Put a Tiger in Your Tank
The Beach Boys: All I Wanna Do (early version)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Royal Knights: I Wanna Know
The Pastels: Yeah I Wanna Know
Neal Ford & The Fanatics: Mary Wanna Marry Me
Brother L Congregation (BLC):   I Don't Wanna Go
The Ugly Beats: (I Don't Wanna Be the One to) Bring Her Down
Sir Douglas Quintet: I Wanna Be Your Mama Again
Joe Tex: I Wanna Be Free

The Enchanters: I Wanna Thank You
Sugar Pie DeSanto: I Don't Wanna Fuss
Bloodstone: Do You Wanna Do a Thing with Me
The Parliaments: I Wanna Testify
Stevie Wonder: I Wanna Make Her Love Me
Etta James: I Just Wanna Make Love to You
Eddie & The Hot Rods: Do Anything You Wanna Do
The Cramps: I Wanna Get in Your Pants
The Jumpers: (I Wanna Know) What's Going On
The Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Dead Boys: I Don't Wanna Be No Catholic Boy
The Beach Boys: Do You Wanna Dance (backing track)
The Ramones: I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement/I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
The Dictators: I Just Wanna Have Something to Do
Dee Dee Ramone: I Don't Wanna Die in the Basement
The Ventures: I Wanna Be Sedated
The Soft Boys: I Wanna Destroy You
The Fleshtones: I Wanna Feel Something Now
The Dwarves: I Wanna Kill Your Boyfriend (early version)
The Real Kids: Where I Wanna Be
The Sex Pistols: I Wanna Be Me
Holly & The Italians: I Wanna Go Home
The Strangeloves: I Wanna Do It

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Wait/Until/Dark

This week's episode features Wait, Until, and Dark as the Words of the Week, inspired by Wait Until Dark, the 1967 Audrey Hepburn flick co-starring Alan Arkin as the hipster villain menacing a blind woman to get his hands on a doll full o' dope. All songs with Wait, Until, and/or Dark in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 14 August 2025. 

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Playlist:
The Lyrics: Wait
The Kinks: Tired of Waiting/Wait 'Til the Summer Comes Along
The Force Five: Yeah, I'm Waiting
The In Crowd: Stop Wait a Minute
The Beatles: Wait (mono)
The Rolling Stones: I Am Waiting (mono)
David Bowie & The Spiders from Mars: Waiting for My Man (live 1972)
The Munks: Long Time Waiting
The Main Line: Don't Wait Around
Howard Roberts: Wait Until Dark (bed)
The Motions: I've Waited So Long
The Sonics: He's Waiting
The Bark of Paper Mulberry: Wait
The Starlites: Wait for Me
The Chaps: Wait a Minute
Buddy Holly: Crying, Waiting, Hoping
The Royal Guardsmen: Baby Let's Wait
The Byrds: Wait and See (mono)
The Grass Roots: I'd Wait a Million Years 
Della Humphrey: Let's Wait Until Dark
The Tropics: Tired of Waiting
Larry Page Orchestra: Tired of Waiting (bed)
The Crawdaddys: Why Wait Until Tomorrow
The United Notions: Wait Until Tomorrow
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Wait Until Tomorrow
Stu James & The Mojos: Until My Baby Comes Home
The X-Men: Until I Leave
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: Until the Poorest People Have Enough Money to Spend
Big Star: Til the End of the Day
The Animated Egg: Dark (bed)
Friend & Lover: Reach Out of the Darkness
The Shadows of Knight: Dark Side
The Vipers: Dark as My Day
The Endless: Prevailing Darkness
The Dark Side: In the Dark
The Flies: In the Dark
The Vertebrats: Left in the Dark
The Thanes: Don't Let Her Dark Your Door Again
Greg "Stackhouse" Prevost: Traveling in the Dark
The Youngbloods: Darkness, Darkness
The Chocolate Watchband: The Dark Side of the Mushroom (bed)
The Bourbons: A Dark Corner

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Grounded

Mal Thursday is your host on this down to earth episode of The Mal Thursday Show, where the theme is Grounded. All songs having to do with the Ground: Dirt, Mud, Grass, etc. Terra firma, baby. Presented in Ultrasonic Sterephonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 7 August 2025. 

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Playlist:
Lyres: Grounded
The Syn: Grounded
The Minimum Daily Requirements: I'm Grounded
The Kinks: Got My Feet on the Ground
The Knickerbockers: My Feet Are Off the Ground (versions 1 & 2)
The Guess Who: Flying on the Ground Is Wrong
Spirit: Ground Hog
Larry Page Orchestra: Got My Feet on the Ground (bed)
Thee Midniters: Breakfast on the Grass
The Caretakers of Deception: Cuttin' Grass
Buck Owens & The Buckaroos: Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass
Caesar & The Romans
: Green Grass Makes Everything Better
The Move: I Can Hear the Grass Grow (BBC)
The Troggs: Night of the Long Grass
The Camel Drivers: The Grass Is Greener
The Electric Mess: The Grass Ain't Always Greener
Steppenwolf: Don't Step on the Grass, Sam 
The Black Crowes: Greasy Grass River
The 31st of February (feat. Gregg & Duane Allman): Morning Dew
Jack Nitzsche: Green Grass of Texas (bed)
Unit Four Plus Two: Concrete and Clay
The Ardells: Stronger Than Dirt (bed)
Soul Inc.: Stronger Than Dirt
The Standells: Dirty Water (live)
The Sonics: Dirty Robber
The Electras: Dirty Old Man
Them: Dirty Ol' Man (at the Age of 16)
The Wreck-a-Mended: Dirty Old Man 
Laura Lee: Dirty Man
The Sel Sync: Dirty Books
The Stooges: Dirt (take 10)  
The Buffalo Springfield: Hot Dusty Roads
The Birds: Dust in My Pants
Greg "Stackhouse" Prevost: Dust My Blues
The Yardbirds: Dust My Broom (BBC)/Drinking Muddy Water
Fleur de Lys: Mud in Your Eye
The Spats: The Bottom of It All

Just/As/Well

Mal Thursday is back to bring you three Words of the Week on this triple-thick episode of the program, all songs with Just, As, and/or Well...