Fight or Flight

The Words of the Week are Fight and Flight on this week's installment of The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with Fight or Flight in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 5 March 2026. 

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Playlist:
The Electric Prunes: Long Day's Flight
The Mad Hatters: Go Fight Alone
Brand: I'm a Lover Not a Fighter 
The Golliwogs: Fight Fire
The 13th Power: Fourteen or Fight
The Merry-Go-Round: Gonna Fight a War 
The Balls: Fight for My Country
The Grip Weeds: How I Won the War
The Crickets: I Fought the Law
Mack Allan Smith: Skeleton Fight
The Gamblers: Fighting and Crying
Les Baxter: Chain Fight (bed)
Link Wray and His Raymen: Rumble
Wimple Winch: Rumble on Merseyside South
Earl Vince & The Valiants: Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight
Alice Cooper: Street Fight
T. Rex: Rabbit Fighter (alt. take)
Elton John: Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man (live 1969)
Jack Nitzsche: Rumble (bed)
The Rolling Stones: Flight 505 (mono)
The Dearly Beloved: Flight Thirteen
The Other Half: Flight of the Dragon Lady
Plato & The Philosophers: 13 O'Clock Flight to Psychedelphia
The Calico Wall: Flight Reaction
The Embrooks: Bad Flight
Kaleidoscope: Flight to Ashiya
The Wyngate: Persian Night Flight (bed)
The Byrds: Eight Miles High
Donovan: Fat Angel
Jefferson Airplane: High Flying Bird
Country Joe & The Fish: Flying High
The Moody Blues: Fly Me High
The Galileo 7: Don't Fly Too High
Flamin' Groovies: High Flyin' Baby
The Ventures: Fly Away (bed)
The Wailers: You Can Fly
The Gordian Knot: If Only I Could Fly
The Attack: Feel Like Flying
The Premiers: Get On This Plane 
Hour Glass: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
The Rolling Stones: Who's Driving Your Plane (mono)

Last to First

Mal Thursday runs a rock 'n' roll race in reverse, from Last to First. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 26 February 2026.

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Playlist:
The Koobas: The First Cut Is the Deepest
The Rolling Stones: The Last Time (live 1966)
The Kinks: Last of the Steam Powered Trains
The Hollies: I Thought of You Last Night/The Very Last Day
The Belfast Gypsies: Last Will and Testament
The Motions: Late Last Night
The Standells: Last Train to Clarksville
The Brain Police: Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night
Manfred Mann: Last Train to Clarksville (bed)
The Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night (live 1967)
The Del-Vetts: Last Time Around
The Premieres: Nothing Lasts Forever
Beethoven's Fifth: The Last Thing on My Mind
The Whatt Four: Our Love Should Last Forever
Randy Newman: Last Night I Had a Dream (single version)
We Who Are: Last Trip

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Larry Mack: Last Day of the Dragon
Sir Douglas Quintet: We'll Take Our Last Walk Tonight
Cast of Thousands: Last Night I Heard a Voice

Georgie Fame: Last Night (bed)
The Shitkicker Rebellion: 99th Floor
Jimi Hendrix Experience: 51st Anniversary
T. Rex: 20th Century Boy
The Kinks: 20th Century Man (1976 remix)
The Doors: Twentieth Century Fox (mono)
The Rolling Stones: 19th Nervous Breakdown (live 1966)
The Normals: Henry the Eighth
The Soul Agents: Seventh Son
Bob Dylan: Positively 4th Street (take 5) 
Marc Bolan: The Third Degree
The Dovers: The Third Eye
The Ventures: Second Sun (bed)
The Beatles: Not a Second Time (mono)
Flamin' Groovies: Second Cousin
The Contours: First I Look at the Purse
Thee Sixpence: Gotta Get the First Plane Home 
Dee & The Yeomen: Take the First Train Home
The Clefs of Lavender Hill: First Tell Me Why
Love: The Everlasting First
Trolley: First Day of Your Life
DMZ: First Time Is the Best Time (demo)

Florida!

Mal Thursday returns to Florida for an episode dedicated to the memory of Wayne Proctor of We The People, who is featured in an archival interview. All Florida groups from the 1960s. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 19 February 2026.

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Playlist:
We The People: When I Arrive
The Birdwatchers: I'm Gonna Love You Anyway/Mary, Mary (It's to You That I Belong)/Girl, I've Got News for You
The Proctor Amusement Company: Heard You Went Away
The Clefs of Lavender Hill: It Won't Be Long/Stop! And Get a Ticket!
The Montells: You Can't Make Me
The Modds: Don't Be Late
The Invaders: She's a Tiger
The Echo: Every Second of the Day
The Echoes of Carnaby Street: No Place or Time
The Tasmanians: Baby/I Can't Explain This Feeling
The Evil: Whatcha Gonna Do About It
The Kollektion: Savage Lost
The Tradmarks: Don't Say You Love Me Too
We The People: My Brother, The Man/In the Past/Declaration of Independence
The Allman Joys: Shapes of Things/Spoonful
The Nightcrawlers: I Don't Remember/A Basket of Flowers
The Rockin' Roadrunners: Down
The Absolutes: Yesterday I
The Roemans: Love (That's All I Want)
The Rovin' Flames: How Many Times
The Early Americans: Night After Night
The Outsiders: She's Coming on Stronger
Joshua Dyke: Cheating
Painted Faces: Anxious Color
Mercy: Fireball (bed)
The Tropics: I Want More/As Time's Gone
The Split Ends: Rich with Nothin'
Little Wilie & The Adolescents: Get Out of My Life
The Barons: Drawbridge
Mark Markham & The Jesters: Goin' Back to Marlboro Country
The Plant Life: Flower Girl
Noah's Ark: Paper Man
The Candymen: Hope
Blues Image: Ride Captain Ride
The Wrong Numbers: I'm Gonna Go Now 

Pretty

Mal Thursday presents a pretty great episode chock full o' pretty things, where the Word of the Week is Pretty. All songs with Pretty in the title, natch. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted 18 February 2021. 

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Playlist:
Eugene Church: Pretty Girls Everywhere
The Vipers: Pretty Lies
The Pretty Things: Pretty Thing
The Blue Things: Pretty Things Oh
The Deepest Blue: Pretty Little Thing
The Beat Merchants: Pretty Face
The Jads: Miss Pretty
Manfred Mann: Pretty Flamingo
Les McCann: Pretty Flamingo (bed)
The Chob: We're Pretty Quick
Count Five: Pretty Big Mouth
Love: A Message to Pretty (mono)
The Byrds: Pretty Polly
The Kinks: Pretty Polly
The Roadrunners: Pretty Me
Steve Cropper: Oh Pretty Woman (bed)
Tommy James & The Shondells: Lots of Pretty Girls
The Yardbirds: Pretty Girl
The Easybeats: Pretty Girl
The Bugs: Pretty Girl

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Bobby Fuller Four: Pretty Girls Everywhere
The Thunderchiefs: Pretty Eyes
Joe 'King' Carrasco & The Crowns: Let's Get Pretty
Sir Douglas Quintet: Pretty Flower
The Ventures: Oh Pretty Woman (bed)

The Shangri-Las: How Pretty Can You Be
David Bowie: Oh You Pretty Things
The White Stripes: You're Pretty Good Lookin' (For a Girl)
Holly Golightly: Pretty Good Love
Reigning Sound: You're Not as Pretty
Oscar Peterson: I Feel Pretty (bed)
The Quick: Pretty Please Me 
R.E.M.: Pretty Persuasion
Psychedelic Furs: Pretty in Pink (acoustic)
The Jam: Pretty Green
Nancy Sinatra: It's Such a Pretty World

Bonus Tracks:
Curtis Lee: Pretty Little Angel Eyes
Wayne Cochran: Little Bitty Pretty One
The Fleshtones: Pretty, Pretty, Pretty
The Monks: Pretty Suzanne
The Everly Brothers: Pretty Flamingo
Iggy & The Stooges: Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell

On Trial!

Mal Thursday presents a rock n' roll courtroom drama in The Mal Thursday Show: On Trial! Now expanded and sonically upgraded for your listening pleasure. It's a legally binding high-concept episode with songs featuring judges, lawyers, defendants, and witnesses, played by an all-star cast of groovemakers. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted, in different form, 17 October 2019.

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Playlist:
The Merseybeats: I Stand Accused
The Fugitives: On Trial
The Who: A Legal Matter (mono)
The Parliaments: I Wanna Testify
Marvin Gaye: Can I Get a Witness
The Feelies: Time for a Witness
The Vibrators: Eye Witness
Lyres: I Confess/Now I've Got a Witness (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Bobby Fuller Four: I Fought the Law 
The Fountain of Youth: Witness People
Sir Douglas Quintet: Philadelphia Lawyer
The 13th Floor Elevators: Before You Accuse Me
Tommy Blake: The Hanging Judge
The Chancellors Ltd.: You Be the Judge

The Judges: Judge and Jury
Winston G.: Judge and Jury
The Abstract Sound: Judge Him If You Can
The Sun Set: Don't Judge Me Baby
The Yellow Payges: Judge Carter
Moby Grape: Murder in My Heart for the Judge
Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay: The Judge 
Buddy Morrow: Perry Mason Theme (bed)
Bo Diddley: You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
Buster Poindexter: Good Morning, Judge
10cc: Good Morning Judge
Thee Mighty Caesars: I Can Judge a Daughter
Pigmeat Markham: Here Comes the Judge
Bull & The Matadors: Funky Judge
Nelson Riddle: Theme from The Defenders (bed)
Fountains of Wayne: California Sex Lawyer
The Fourmost Authority: Left Hand Lawyer
Warren Zevon: Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Garland Jeffreys: Innocent, Not Guilty
The Falling Leaves: Not Guilty
George Harrison: Not Guilty
Nicky & The Shouts: Guilty Man
The Woggles: Guilty Child
Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly): Guilty as Charged
The Jury: Not Guilty (bed)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions: I Stand Accused
The Creation Factory: You Be the Judge
The Rolling Stones: Can I Get a Witness/We Love You

Bonus Tracks:
The Kirian Crucible: The Salem Witch Trial
The Esquires: Judgment Day
Pigmeat Markham: Sock it to 'Em Judge
Bo Diddley: Before You Accuse Me
Randy & The Radiants: You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
Nicky Hopkins: Lawyer's Lament

Dance

Mal Thursday puts on his dancing shoes for a hip-shakin' episode where the Word of the Week is Dance. All songs with Dance, Dancing, or Dancer in the title, Presented in ultrasonic stereophonic and living monophonic sound, Originally broadcast 29 January 2026. 

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Playlist:
Chris Montez: Let's Dance
The Mojo Men: Dance with Me
The Monkees: Let's Dance on (mono)
The Young Rascals: Land of 1000 Dances
The Shags: Dance Woman
The Shoremen: Dance USA
The Trashmen: Bird Dance Beat
The Decades: I'm Gonna Dance
The Luv'd Ones: Dance Kid Dance
Mouse & The Boys: Dancing to the Beat
The Fourmost Authority: Dance, Dance
The Beach Boys: Dance, Dance, Dance (mono)
Davie Allan & The Arrows: Dance the Freddie (bed)
The Beatles: I'm Happy Just to Dance with You (mono)
The Who: Dancing in the Street (BBC)
The Craig: Dancing Down in New Orleans
The Fairies: I'll Dance
The Carnaby: Jump & Dance
Cat Stevens: Come on and Dance
Love Sculpture: Sabre Dance
The Small Faces: I Can't Dance with You
The Electric Banana (The Pretty Things): Love, Dance, and Sing
The Acid Gallery: Dance Round the Maypole
The Shadows: Dance on (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Floyd Dakil Combo: Dance Franny Dance
Freddy Fender: High School Dance
Greg Barr & The Barr Association: Dance Girl Dance
Bobby Fuller Four: Let Her Dance
The Spades: Do You Wanna Dance
The Excels: Let's Dance
Roy Head: Your Mama Don't Dance
The Skunks: Dancing on My Grave

T. Rex: Cosmic Dancer
David Bowie & The Spiders from Mars: John, I'm Only Dancing (live 1972)
Phil May & The Fallen Angels: Dance Again
Birdmen of Alcatraz: April Dancer
Ramones: Do You Wanna Dance
The Cramps: Zombie Dance
The Rolling Stones: Dance Little Sister (live 1977)/Dance Pt. 1
Led Zeppelin: Dancing Days (live 1972)
Tin Machine: Baby Can Dance
Ike & Tina Turner: Save the Last Dance for Me

All Night Stand

Mal Thursday presents another high concept episode, all about the ups and downs of being a rock 'n' roll musician and playing in a rock 'n' roll band. An all-star cast provides various case studies. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 22 January 2026.

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Playlist:
The Thoughts: All Night Stand
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode (take 3)
The Byrds: So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (live 1967)
The Records: Starry Eyes
The Rutles: Major Happy's Once Upon a Good Time Band
The Creation: Can I Join Your Band 
Czar: Why Don't We Be a Rock 'n' Roll Band
MC5: Kick Out the Jams
Lyres: How Do You Know (live 1985)
The Hellacopters: I'm in the Band
The Chancellors: On Tour
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Travelin' Band
Grand Funk Railroad: We're an American Band
The Ramones: Touring (1981 version)
Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts: Support Tours
Wings: Band on the Run (bed)
The Stranglers: (Get a) Grip (on Yourself)
The Who: Success Story 
Mal Thursday Quintet: A Crumpled Five
David Bowie: Star
Oasis: Rock 'n' Roll Star
The Kinks: Top of the Pops/Working at the Factory
The Clash: Garageland
Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage (edit)
Mott the Hoople: Saturday Gigs/You Really Got Me (bed)
Manfred Mann: The One in the Middle
The Vandals: We're the Vandals
The Slaves: Slaves Time
Them: The Story of Them Pts. 1 & 2
Mothers of Invention: Motherly Love
The Monkees: Monkees Theme
The Good Rats: We Are the Good Rats
Sir Douglas Quintet: Sir Doug's Recording Trip
Mott the Hoople: Ballad of Mott the Hoople (March 26, 1972 Zurich)
The Minutemen: History Lesson Pt. 1
The Kinks: All Night Stand (demo)

Bonus Tracks:
The Moody Blues: I'm Just a Singer in a Rock 'n' Roll Band
David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars: Ziggy Stardust (live 1972)
10cc: The Worst Band in the World
Paul Revere & The Raiders: The Legend of Paul Revere
The Chocolate Moose: Chocolate Moose Theme
Sex Clark Five: Battle of Sex Clark Five
Sex Pistols: EMI
Bruce Springsteen: Last Man Standing