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The show airs Saturdays Midnight EU, 11 pm UK, 6 pm ET, 3 pm PT; Mondays 4 pm EU, 3 pm UK, 10 am ET, 7 am PT; Wednesdays 2 pm EU, 1 pm UK, 8 am ET, 5 am PT. 

This week's episode:

Ain't

 Mal Thursday delivers a wild episode chock full o' colloquial negativity as the Word of the Week is Ain't. All songs with Ain't in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 19 June 2025.

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Playlist:
The Electric Prunes: Ain't It Hard
The Young Rascals: I Ain't Gonna Eat My Heart Out Anymore
The Remains: Ain't That Her/But I Ain't Got You
The Beau Brummels: Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
The Roosters: Ain't Gonna Cry Anymore
The Uniques: You Ain't Tuff
The Blue Things: It Ain't No Big Thing, Babe
The Turtles: It Ain't Me Babe
Barry McGuire: Ain't No Way I'm Gonna Change My Mind
The Chocolate Watchband: I Ain't No Miracle Worker
The Sapians: Love Ain't Making It No More
The Ventures: Ram Bunk Shush (I Ain't Go No Money)
The Mothers of Invention: I Ain't Got No Heart
The Fugitive Five: I Ain't Gonna Change My Way of Life
The Intruders: Five: Ain't Comin' Back
The Wave Riders: Ain't It a Shame
The Bootmen: Ain't It the Truth Babe
Tim Hardin: I Ain't Gonna Do Without
Taj Mahal: Ain't That a Lot of Love

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Cords: Ain't That Love
The Clique: Love Ain't Easy
Terry & Tommy: It Ain't No Good to Love Anybody

The Ugly Ducklings: She Ain't No Use to Me
The Animals: I Ain't Got You
The Hollies: Ain't That Just Like Me
The Knack: She Ain't No Good
The Spectres: We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet
Terry Reid: Ain't That Peculiar
The Yardbirds: I Ain't Done Wrong
Jeff Beck Group: I Ain't Superstitious (BBC)
Van Morrison: He Ain't Give You None
David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars: It Ain't Easy (BBC)
The Shadows: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (bed)
The Nomads: This Ain't the Summer of Love
Greg "Stackhouse" Prevost: I Ain't Signifying
Lyres: I Ain't Going Nowhere
The Vipers: Ain't Nothing Like Her
Thee Fourgiven: Ain't That Mad
The Pandoras: You Ain't No Friend of Mine
The Creation Factory: Ain't Gonna Let You Stay
Cheap Trick: Ain't That a Shame (live 1977)

Smoke/Fire

Mal Thursday presents a smoky, fiery episode where the Words of the Week are Smoke and Fire. All songs with Smoke and/or Fire in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast June 2025. 

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Playlist:
The Blues Project: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire!
Question Mark & The Mysterians: Smokes
Bob Seger & The Last Heard: Chain Smokin'
The Minitmen: Smokin' in the Boys Room
The Cobblers: Smokin' at the Half-Note
The Gants: (You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings
The Music Machine: Smoke and Water
Neil Diamond: Smokey Lady
The Kinks: Big Black Smoke (mono)
The Higher State: Smoke and Mirrors
The Golden Earrings: Smoking Cigarettes
Pell Mell: Smoke (bed)
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning
The Yarbirds: Smokestack Lightning (live 1964)
The Electric Prunes: Smokestack Lightning (live 1967)
The Things to Come: Smokestack Lightning (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Bubble Puppy: Hot Smoke and Sassafrass (mono)
Butthole Surfers: John E. Smoke
The 13th Floor Elevators: Fire Engine/Fire in My Bones
The Children: Fire Ring
The Sons of Hercules: Angel on Fire
Shapes Have Fangs: Putting Out Fires

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Fire (mono)
The Byrds: This Wheel's on Fire
The Golliwogs: Fight Fire
Painted Faces: Play with Fire
The Amboy Dukes: You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire
Mercy: Fireball (bed)
The Raves: Everything's Fire
The Mojo Men: Fire in My Heart
The Beethoven 4: Sets My Soul on Fire
The Move: Fire Brigade (mono)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Fire (BBC)
The Doors: Light My Fire (mono)
Lyres: On Fyre

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly II: Tuco's Dance Party

Mal Thursday returns with the spaghetti-fueled sequel to last week's episode, again featuring songs with Good, Bad, and/or Ugly in the title.Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 29 May 2025.

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Playlist:
Leroy Holmes: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (bed)
The Who: Good Lovin' (BBC)/The Good's Gone (mono)
The Zombies: You Make Me Feel Good
The Clique: She Ain't No Good
Billy Nichols: Good Day Good Night
The Beatles: Good Morning Good Morning (take 8)
The Rolling Stones: Good Times, Bad Times (mono)
Eric Burdon & The Animals: Good Times
The Yardbirds: Good Night, Sweet Josephine (BBC)
The Marmalade: Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' (BBC)
The Move: High Class a.k.a She's Too Good for Me (backing track)
Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times
The Vince Maloney Sect: No Good Without You
The Standells: Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White
The Turtles: It Was a Very Good Year
The Talismen: She Was Good
The Inexpensive Handmade Look: What Good Is Up?
The Good Rats: We Are the Good Rats
Love: Good Times
Rodriguez: Only Good for Conversation
The Real Kids: Better Be Good
The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations (backing track)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Terry & Tommy: It Ain't No Good to Love Anybody
Those Boys: No Good Girl
The Traits: Too Good to Be True
The Blind Owls: Good Time
The Floyd Dakil Combo: Bad Boy
Circus: Bad Seed
The Nervebreakers: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (bed)

The D-Coys: Bad Times
The Bosstweeds: Little Bad News
The Wheels: Bad Little Woman
Paul Jones: I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy
New York Dolls: Bad Detective
The Fuzztones: Bad News Travels Fast
The Flamin' Groovies: Want You Bad
Stupidity: Too Bad
The Runaways: Born to Be Bad
The Ugly Things: Ugly Theme
The Creatures: Ugly Thing
The Clear Blue Sky: Ugly Girl
The Eccentrics: She's Ugly

Bonus track:
The Coolies: Bad Bad Boy

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The Words of the Week are Good, Bad, and Ugly as Mal pays homage to Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone, and The Man with No Name in a killer installment of the series. All songs with Good, Bad, and/or Ugly in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 22 May 2025.

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Playlist:
Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Venturie 5: Good 'n' Bad
Them: Bad or Good
The Jay-Bees: Good Times, Bad Times
The Sole Survivors: Good Times - Bad Times
The Remains: All Good Things
The Todes: Good Things
The Rolling Stones: Oh Baby We Got A Good Thing Going (BBC)
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Good Thing (mono)
The Ventures: Good Thing (bed)
The Stumps: Think of the Good Times
The Kinks: Where Have All the Good Times Gone
The Shades of Blue: Where Did All the Good Times Go
The Easybeats: Gonna Have a Good Time
The Velvet Underground: We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (live)
Booker T & The MGs: Don't Mess Up a Good Thing (bed)
Nobody's Children: Good Times
The Greenhornes: Good Times
The Jaggers: Feel So Good
The Pretty Things: She Says Good Morning
The Electric Banana: What's Good for the Goose
The Tales of the City: The Good's Gone
The Ventures: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (bed)
The Tree: No Good Woman
The Moon Dawgs: You're No Good
The Brood: Yer No Good
The Five More: I'm No Good
The Birds: No Good Without You Baby
Hour Glass: No Good to Cry
The Ventures: Good Lovin' (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The 13th Floor Elevators: I Got You (I Feel Good)
Neal Ford & The Fanatics: Good Men (Are Hard to Find)
The Five Americans: Good Times
The Clue: Bad Times
The Penthouse 5: Bad Girl
The Zakary Thaks: Bad Girl
The Nervebreakers: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (bed)

New York Dolls: Bad Girl
The Coasters: Bad Detective
The Chesterfield Kings: Bad Woman
The Underdogs: Love's Gone Bad
The Soup Greens: That's Too Bad
The Bad Roads: Too Bad
The Pilgrimage: Bad Apple
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich: Bad News
The Human Beings: You're Bad News
The Stix and Stones: You're Bad News
The Saxons: Things Been Bad
The Bruthers: Bad Way to Go
The King's English: It Could Be Bad
The Cossacks: Ugly Thing
The Dowliners Sect: One Ugly Child 

With/It

Having relocated further South to the outskirts of Weird City, Mal Thursday serves up a tastefully curated episode where the Words of the Week are With and It. With it, baby! Songs with With and/or It in the title, you dig? Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 10 November 2022. NSFW (profane but necessary Troggs tape interstitials).

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Playlist:
The Hollies: Pay You Back With Interest
The Zombies: It's Alright With Me
The Sorrows: Come With Me
The Troggs: With a Girl Like You
Manfred Mann: With a Girl Like You (bed)
The Smoke: I Wanna Make It With You
The Small Faces: I Can't Dance With You
Lulu: To Sir, With Love (Live on Ed Sullivan 1967)
The Rolling Stones: Live With Me (Live 1969)
The Who: Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand (Mono LP version)
Herman's Hermits: Man With the Cigar
Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra: Play with Fire (bed)
Mott the Hoople: Walkin' with a Mountain
New York Dolls: Don't Mess With Cupid
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: Shakin' With Linda
John Fred & His Playboy Band: Play With Fire
The Knickerbockers: Stick With Me
The Spongetones: She Goes Out With Everybody
The Ramones: Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
The Cobblestones: Down With It (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Glass Kans: Stick With Her
The Hysterical Society: Come With Me
The Exotics: Come With Me
The Gentlemen: It's a Cry'n Shame
The Liberty Bell: That's How It Will Be
The Wig: Drive It Home
The Barons: Don't Burn It
The Undertakers: It's My Time
Waylon Jennings: Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Sir Douglas Quintet: Oh Baby It Just Don't Matter

The Guess Who: It's My Pride
The Wailers: Baby Don't You Do It
The Rolling Stones: It's Not Easy
Question Mark & The Mysterians: Don't Give It Up Now
The Roadrunners: I'll Make It Up to You
The Pretty Things: You'll Never Do It Baby
Lyres: Baby It's Me
The Standells: Try It
The Troggs: Give It to Me
The Pigeons: Stick It in My Corner, Baby
Burt Bacharach: Italian Fuzz
The Chesterfield Kings: It's Alright
The Barracudas: I Wish It Could Be 1965 Again
The Vipers: You're Doin' It Well
Trolley: She Has It All
Lou Reed: I Can't Stand It
New York Dolls: It's Too Late
The Chocolate Watchband: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: Within You, Without You
The Rutles: With a Girl Like You
The Penthouse 5: Don't Mess Around With My Dream
David Bowie: Rock and Roll With Me
The Three O'Clock: With a Cantalope Girlfriend
James Brown: It's a Man's Man's Man's World
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: You Got What It Takes
Super Session: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
The Blue Squares: It's No Wonder
The Bee Gees: Lay It on Me
The Insane: I Can't Prove It
Manfred Mann: You Got to Take It
Gerry & The Pacemakers: It's Gonna Be Alright
The Heard: Stop It Baby

And

It all adds up to rock 'n' roll as the Word of the Week is And on The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with And in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 8 May 2025.

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 Playlist:
The Grip Weeds: Lie, Beg, Borrow and Steal
The Zombies: Sticks and Stones
The Moody Blues: And My Baby's Gone
The Move: Stop and Get a Hold of Myself (BBC)
The Beatles: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You (BBC)/And Your Bird Can Sing (mono)
The Rolling Stones: Cops and Robbers (BBC)/Around and Around
The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night (BBC)
The Shadows: Snap Crackle and How's Your Dad (bed)
The Easybeats: Come and See Her
The Bee Gees: Wine and Women
The Golden Earrings: Tears and Lies
The Blue Things: Twist and Shout
The Rare Breed: Beg, Borrow, and Steal/Come on and Take a Ride in My Boat
We The People: You Burn Me Me Up and Down
The Mile Ends: Bottle Up and Go
Rocky & The Riddlers: Flash and Crash
Cher: Come and Stay with Me
The Byrds: Wait and See
Love: Your Mind and We Belong Together
The Waistcoats: Downhill and Shady (bed)
The Pink Floyd: Candy and a Current Bun
Spinal Tap: Cups and Cakes
Tommy James & The Shondells: Crimson and Clover (mono)
Jefferson Airplane: The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil
The Chocolate Watchband: Gone and Passes By
The Bees: Voices Green and Purple
The North Atlantic Invasion Force: Blue and Green Gown
The Ventures: Fuzzy and Wild (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Larry & The Blue Notes: In and Out (alt version)
The Novas: And It's Time
Christopher & The Souls: Diamonds, Rats and Gum
The Outcasts: I'm in Pittsburgh (and It's Raining)
The Love Flowers: Peace and Love
Bubble Puppy: Hot Smoke and Sassafras

The Vipers: Cheated and Lied
The Pandoras: In and Out of My Life in a Day
The Brood: Shake and Shout
The Kaisers: Shake and Scream
The Greenhornes: Shame and Misery
The Nox Boys: Take My Heart and Break It
The Schizophonics: Down and Out
Iggy & The Stooges: Search and Destroy
The Vagrants: And When It's Over