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

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

Long/Tall/Short

The Words of the Week are Long, Tall, and Short on this rockin' edition of The Mal Thursday Show, as Mal mixes up a heady brew of rock 'n' roll. '60s garage and British, plus some records of more recent vintage. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 31 July 2025. 

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Playlist:
Tommy Tucker: Long Tall Shorty
The Kinks: Long Tall Sally (mono)
The Kingsmen: Long Tall Texan (live 1963)
The Argonauts: Ten Feet Tall
The Phorenbach Delegation: Tall Grass
The Lancastrians: Was She Tall (demo)
The Pretty Things: She Was Tall, She Was High
The Youngbloods: Long & Tall
The Ventures: Tall Cool One (bed)
The Kingsmen: Long Green
The Clefs of Lavender Hill: It Won't Be Long
The Myddle Class: Don't Let Me Sleep Too Long
The Tropics: For a Long Time
The Palace Guard: All Night Long
The Bad Seeds: All Night Long
Billy & the Kids: The Long Wait (bed)
Robert Plant: Long Time Coming
Them: How Long Baby
Andy Ellison: It's Been a Long Time
The Searchers: Goodbye So Long (BBC)
The Rolling Stones: Long Long While
Don Rich & The Buckaroos: Tall Dark Stranger (bed)
The Hollies: Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Like Long Hair (bed)
Little John & The Sherwoods: Long Hair
The Infinite Staircase: Long Hair
Thee Sixpence: Long Day's Care
The Electric Prunes: Long Day's Flight to Tomorrow (live 1967)
The Guess Who: Seven Long Years (live 1968)
The Roots: It's Been a Long Journey
Nancy Sinatra: So Long Babe
The Fabulous Playboys: Shortnin' Bread (bed)
Little Richard: Short Fat Fanny
Eddie Cochran: Cut Across Shorty
The Noblemen: Short Time
Spencer Davis Group: Short Change
The Dirty Strangers: Short & Sweet
The Rolling Stones: Short and Curlies
Glambilly: Stay a Little Longer 
The Customs: Long Gone
Mott the Hoople: Long Red
Alice Cooper: Long Way to Go
Grand Funk Railroad: Can't Be Too Long
The Beatles: Long Long Long (2018 mix)

Bonus Tracks:
Little Richard: Long Tall Sally
The Pseudos: It's a Long Way to Nowhere
The Young Rascals: Lonely Too Long (mono)
Otis Redding: I've Been Loving You Too Long (live 1967)
Ian McLagan & The Bump Band: Been a Long Time 
Ike & Tina Turner: Five Long Years
Lesley Gore: Ride a Tall White Horse
The Kinks: Long Tall Shorty (live 1965)

Birth, School, Work, Death

Mal Thursday presents a very heavy episode where the Words of the Week are Birth, School, Work, Death. Yeah, like the Godfathers record. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 24 July 2025.

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Playlist:
The Godfathers: Birth, School, Work, Death
The Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow is Born
The Free Thinkers: You Were Born for Me
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Born in Chicago
The Velvet Illusions: Born to Be a Rolling Stone
Murphy & The Mob: Born Loser
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Born on the Bayou (live 1970)
Steppenwolf: Born to Wild (LP version)
Cream: Born Under a Bad Sign (BBC)
The Heartbreakers: Born to Lose (live 1977)
Davie Allan & The Arrows: Born Losers Theme (bed)
The Beatles: Birthday (2018 mix)
The Bunch: Birthday
Chuck Berry: School Days
The Runaways: School Days
DMZ: Go to School (live 1976)
The Fleshtones: Back to School
The Yardbirds: Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl (mono)
The Mindbenders: Schoolgirl
Nikki Corvette: High School
Reigning Sound: Time Bomb High School
The Ramones: Rock n Roll High School (LP version)
The Ventures: Rock n Roll High School (bed)
Jerry Lee Lewis: High School Confidential (live 1964)
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Exit from Vince Lombardi High School (bed)
The Jam: Art School
Cat Stevens: School Is Out (mono)
Alice Cooper: School's Out (live 1973)
The Hate Bombs: Workin' Like a Dog
The Kinks: When Work is Over
Symon Grace & The Tuesday Blues: You Won't Get Me Working
Ten Feet: Factory Worker
The Great Scots: I Ain't No Miracle Worker
The Shadows of Knight: I Got My Mojo Working
The Animals: Work Song (BBC)
The Zombies: Work 'n' Play (bed)
Norma Tanega: You're Dead
The Pleasure Seekers: What a  Way to Die
Manfred Mann: Sick of Trying Bored with Lying Scared of Dying
The Kentuckys: The Old Hangman Is Dead
The Master's Apprentices: Buried and Dead
We The People: The Day She Dies
The Haigs: Never Die
The Outsiders: Daddy Died on Saturday
The Barons: Live and Die

Bonus Tracks:
The Bee Gees: Born a Man
AC/DC: School Days
Spinal Tap: Bitch School
Jon Wayne: Working Man Blues
Alice Cooper: Dead Babies (alt version)
The Pixies: Ed is Dead

Wyld Canada!

Mal Thursday heads up to the Great White North to bring you a very special episode featuring some of the wyldest Canadian rock 'n' roll records ever made. Inspired by the "Wyld Canada" compilations put together by BossHoss66 a.k.a Australian garage maniac Mark Taylor, formerly of The Lipstick Killers, among other bands, and creator of the G45 countdown of the greatest teenbeat records of all time. Mal grew up on the New York side of the Canadian border, just across the St. Lawrence River from fragrant Cornwall, Ontario, and spent a lot of time in Montreal during his wayward youth. Please excuse his mispronunciation of various French words in this episode. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 17 July 2025.

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Playlist:
Chad Allan & The Expressions: Shakin' All Over
The Great Scots: Lost in Conversation/That's My Girl (Rotten to the Core)
The Free-for-All: Show Me the Way
The Haunted: 1-2-5
The Mike Jones Group: Funny Feeling
M.G. & The Escorts: A Someday Fool
The Munks: Long Time Waiting
Les Sinners: Nice Try
Les Wild Ones: Mon Amour
Les 409: They Say
Fernand Lapierre: Les Expos sont là (bed)
Paul Anka: Molson Canadian spot
The Canadian Squires: Leave Me Alone
The Esquires: It's a Dirty Shame
Don Norman & The Other Four: Low Man
Thee Deuces: You Gotta Try
The Ugly Ducklings: Nothin'/I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore
A Passing Fancy: I'm Losing Tonight
(Those) Rogues: Girl
The Sparrow: Green Bottle Lover/The Pusher
The Buffalo Springfield: Sell Out
The Metaluners: Hockey Night in Canada Theme (bed)
The Mynah Birds: It's My Time
It's All Meat: Feel It
David Clayton Thomas & The Shays: Take Me Back/Wildroot Formula 3
The Checkerlads: Baby Send for Me
The Deverons: She's Your Lover
The Guess Who: It's My Pride/Ramblin Gamblin Man/No Time
The Squires: Aurora (bed)
The Quid: Crazy Things
The Jury: Who Dat? 
The 49th Parallel: Citizen Freak
The King Beezz: Can't Explain/Found and Lost/Now
The Collectors: We Can Make It
The Painted Ship: Frustration/And She Said Yes
The Centaurs: Kicks
The Band: Stage Fright
The Poppy Family: Where Evil Grows
Five Man Electrical Band: Signs/Absolutely Right
Rush: Not Fade Away
The Sadies: Another Day Again
The Smugglers: I'll Remember
Miriam: There Goes My Babe
The Gruesomes: I Never Loved Her
King Khan & The Shrines: 69 Faces of Love
Les Sexareenos: Where Are You Now
Leonard Cohen: The Stranger Song

Hurt

Mal Thursday returns with a new episode where the Word of the Week is Hurt. Featuring British beat, '60s garage/teenbeat, records of more recent vintage, and a trip in Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 10 July 2025.

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 Playlist:
The Tulu Babies: Hurtin' Kind
The Downliners Sect: Hurt by Love
Herman's Hermits: Don't Try to Hurt Me
The Small Faces: Take This Hurt off Me/Every Little Bit Hurts (BBC)  
The Mark Four: Hurt Me If You Will
Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas: Bet Nobody Ever Hurt This Bad
Them: (It Won't Hurt) Half as Much
The Dave Clark Five: It'll Only Hurt for a Little While
The Pleazers: Hurtin' All Over
The Great Scots: The Light Hurts My Eyes
The Bittersweets: Hurtin' Kind
The Outsiders: I'm Not Trying to Hurt You
The Impacs: Your Mama Put the Hurt on Me
The Lyrics: They Can't Hurt Me
The Music Machine: Something Hurtin' on Me
The Cindermen: Don't Do It Some More ('Cause It Hurts So Good)
The Sumpin' Else: Here Comes the Hurt
The Holidays Combo: Little Miss Hurt
Larry Knight & The Upsetters: Hurt
The Four Fifths: She'll Hurt You in the End
The Nightcrawlers: He Shouldn't Hurt You
The Balloon Farm: Hurtin' for Your Love

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Roy Orbison: Love Hurts
The Floyd Dakil Four: It Takes a Lot of Hurt
The Chayns: Why Did You Hurt Me
The Beefeaters: Don't Hurt Me
The 13th Floor Elevators: You Can't Hurt Me Anymore

The Fuzztones: Hurt on Hold/Flirt, Hurt, and Desert
Graham Day & The Forefathers: You Always Find a Way to Hurt Me
The Reverberations: Don't Hurt My Pride
The Parting Gifts: Don't Hurt Me Now
The Detroit Cobras: The Hurt's All Gone
The Rutles: Ouch!
Frank Ventura & The Crescents: Pain
Moving Finger: Pain of My Misfortune
The Pretty Things: Can't Stand No Pain
Lyres: Pain
Dion: Feeling No Pain
Sam & Dave: Sweet Pains
Morphine: Cure for Pain
Johnny Thunders: Hurt Me

You!

It's "You" times two this week, as Mal presents two episodes from 2019 where the Word of the Week is You. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound..

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