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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Naming Names!

 Here are two episodes of songs with people's names in the title, Naming Names and Naming Names 2. New episodes return July 10th, as my affiliates should all be caught up by then.

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Summer, Babe!

To celebrate the coming of Summer, here is six and a half hours of songs about sun, sand, and surf. Summer, babe!  

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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)

The Mal Thursday Show on Radio Crown

 The Mal Thursday Show has a new affiliate!

Radio Crown, streaming at https://radiocrown.com/radio-crown-live/

 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:

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

Dream

It's a psycho-delic dreamscape this week on The Mal Thursday Show, as the Word of the Week is Dream. Dream on. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound.

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Playlist:
The Premiers: Come on and Dream
Lulu & The Luvvers: Dream Lover
The Belfast Gypsies: Gloria's Dream
The Pretty Things: I Had a Dream/Walking Through My Dreams (BBC)
The Small Faces: I'm Only Dreaming
The Zombies: Is This the Dream/Hung Up on a Dream
The Syn: 14 Hour Technicolor Dream
The Summer Set: It's a Dream
Noel Harrison: Life Is a Dream
The Ventures: Endless Dream (bed)
The Media: Endless Dream
Ray Columbus & the Art Gallery: Kick Me (I Think I'm Dreaming)
The Master's Apprentices: Living in a Child's Dream
The Grifs: Keep Dreaming
The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream
The Buddhas: My Dream
The Kingsmen: I Guess I Was Dreamin'
Paul Revere & The Raiders: I Had a Dream (mono)
The Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Randy Newman: Last Night I Had a Dream (45 mix)
The Allman Brothers Band: Dreams (demo)
Wes Montgomery: California Dreamin' (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Roy Orbison: In Dreams/Dream Baby (live '65)
The Basic Things: You're Still Dreaming
The Penthouse 5: Don't Mess Around with My Dream/It's All My Own Bizarre Dream
Bobby Fuller Four: Only When I Dream

The Marauders: Nightmare
The Fairviews: Nightmares
Q65: I Got Nightmares
The Creation: Nightmares
The Embrooks: Nightmare
The Abstracts: Nightmare (bed)
Blondie: Dreaming
Alice Cooper: Caught in a Dream
The Bellrays: Dream Police
The Dirty Strangers: Dream Come True
The Galileo 7: You're Not Dreaming
The Sound Explosion: Girl of My Dreams, Girl of My Life
The Routes: Thousand Forgotten Dreams
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

Bonus Tracks:
The Ways and Means: Breaking Up a Dream
Jeff St. John & The Id: Eastern Dream
Shannon & The Clams: Into a Dream
Neil Young: Hippie Dream (live)
The Beach Boys: And Your Dreams Come True

Never/Ever

Mal Thursday deals in absolutes in this wild installment of The Mal Thursday Show, where the Words of the Week are Never Ever, songs with Never and/or Ever in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted 3 February 2022. 

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Playlist:
Peter and Gordon: Never Ever
Four Just Men: Things Will Never Be the Same
The Pretty Things: I Can Never Say/You'll Never Do Iy Baby
The Tony Jackson Group: Never Leave My Baby's Side (BBC)
The Kinks: Never Met a Girl Like You Before (Mono)
The Hollies: Signs That Will Never Change
The Mirage: Tomorrow Never Knows
The Alan Price Set: Never Be Sick on a Sunday
The Bee Gees: Lemons Never Forget (Mono)
The Badd Boys: Never Going Back to Georgia
The Starfires: I Never Loved Her
The Original Sinners: You'll Never Know (What Love Is All About)
The Pleasure Seekers: Neer Thought You'd Leave Me
The Basement Wall: Never Existed
The Electric Prunes: You Never Had It Better
The Magic Mushrooms: Never Let Go
The Ventures: He Never Came Back
Chuck Berry: You Never Can Tell
The Four Seasons: Never on Sunday
The Shangri-Las: I Can Never Go Home Anymore
Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Five Canadians: Never Alone
Thursday's Children: You'll Never Be My Girl
Sir Douglas Quintet: We'll Never Tell/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
Willie Nelson: I Never Cared for You (Live '66)
Waylon Jennings: I May Never Pass This Way Again
The Soulphonics: You're Never Gonna Love Me Anymore
The Bobby Fuller Four: Never to Be Forgotten

Hoyt Axton: Never Been to Spain
The Detroit Cobras: You'll Never Change
The Trip: Never Too Late for Linda
Greg "Stackhouse" Prevost: Never Trust the Devil
Lyres: Never Be Free
The Ventures: Have You Ever Seen the Rain
The Everly Brothers: Have You Ever Loved Somebody
The Small Faces: (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me
The Standells: Have You Ever Spent the Night in Jail?
MG & The Escorts: Please Don't Ever Change
The Knack: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind
The Action: Never Ever

If

The Word of the Week is If on an episode of The Mal Thursday Show that is rife with possibilities, and great rock 'n' roll records. Featuring the world premiere of Mal Thursday Quintet's "If 6 Was 5" from our upcoming MODS & GODS LP on Teen Sound. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 17 April 2025.

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Playlist:
Mal Thursday Quintet: If 6 Was 5
The Monotones: If You Can't Give Me All
Them: If You and I Could Be As Two
Dave Clark Five: Catch Us If You Can
The Hollies: If I Needed Someone (mono)
The Rolling Stones: If You Need Me (BBC)
The Zombies: If It Don't Work Out
Manfred Mann: If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Gary Walker & The Rain: If You Don't Come Back
The Small Faces: If I Were a Carpenter (BBC)
Billy Preston: If I Had a Hammer (bed)
The Guess Who: If You Don't Want Me
The Gents: If You Don't Come Back
Thor's Hammer: If You Knew
The Outsiders: If You Dont Treat Me Right
The Jay Jays: Come Back If You Dare
Travis Pike's Tea Party: If I Didn't Love You Girl
The Motifs: If I Gave You Love
The Hustlers: If You Try
The Byrds: If You're Gone (mono)
The Beau Brummels: That's If You Want Me to
The Scavengers: But If You're Happy
Jimi Hendrix Experience: If 6 Was 9
Unknown Group: Got Love If You Want It
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: If You Want This Love
The Trademarks: If I Was Gone
The Will-o-Bees: If You're Looking for Honey
The Cobras: If I Can't Believe Her
Lawson & Four More: If You Want Me You Can Find Me
The Gordian Knot: If Only I Could Fly
The Purple Canteen: If You Like It That Way (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Warlocks: If You Really Want Me to Stay
Bubble Puppy: If I Had a Reason
Sir Douglas Quintet: If You Really Want Me to, I'll Go
Roky Erickson: If You Have Ghosts
The Blind Owls: If They Say

The GTVs: Cry If You Want to
The Muffs: You Can Cry If You Want to
The Bristols: If You've Got Troubles
The Embrooks: You Can If You Want
The Higher State: If We Don't Realise
The Brood: See If I Care
Lyres: If You Want My Love
Muck & the Mires: If You Knew
Chris Stamey & The DBs: If and When

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: If I Needed Someone (mono)
The Rolling Stones: If You Can't Rock Me (alt mix)
The Kinks: Got Love If You Want It (mono)
The Mickey Finn: If I Had You
Tim Hardin: If I Was a Carpenter
The Ambertones: If I Do
The Bends: If It's All the Same to You
The Satelliters: If I Try
The Dirtbombs: If You Can Want
The Sound Reasons: If I Cared
T. Tex Edwards: If Looks Could Kill
Moby Grape: Naked If I Want to

Change

Change is in the air on this shape-shiftin' installment of The Mal Thursday Show, where the Word of the Week is Change. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 10 April 2025.

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Playlist:
Moby Grape: Changes
The Hollies: Don't Ever Think About Changing
The Kinks: Don't Ever Change
The Boston Dexters: Nothing's Gonna Change Me
The Animals: How You've Changed/I'm Gonna Change the World
Los Chiajuas: Changing the Colors of Life
Larry Page Orchestra: Don't Ever Change (bed)
The Poor: She's Got the Time (She's Got the Changes)
The Sintrifical Fours: You Put Me Through Changes
Warden & His Fugitives: The World Ain't Changed
The Byrds: The Times They Are a-Changin' (alt. version)
The Allman Joys: Changing of the Guard
The Voxmen: Time Won't Change Your Mind
The Violations: You Sure Have Changed
Toots Thielman: Chump Change (bed)
Alice Cooper: Changing, Arranging (live 1969)
The Herd: Things Won't Change
Max Frost And The Troopers (The 13th Power): A Change Is Gonna Come
Otis Redding: I'm a Changed Man

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Buddy Holly & The Crickets: Changing All Those Changes
Eddie Cunningham and The Lone Rangers: Girl Don't Change Your Mind
Sir Douglas Quintet: Change Is in the City
The Elastic Prism: Time Change

David Bowie: Changes (alt. mix)
The Detroit Cobras: (If You Don't Think) You Better Change/Time Changes Things
The Jam: I've Changed My Address
The Stranglers: Something Better Change
The Fleshtones: I've Gotta Change My Life
The Projectiles: Some Things Never Change
The Prime Movers: Change for the Better
Plasticland: Reserving the Right to Change My Mind
The Schizophonics: Not Gonna Change My Mind
Charles Bradley: Changes (live 2016)
Jimi Hendrix & Band of Gypsys: Them Changes
Jack McDuff: Pocket Change (bed)
The Blue Things: Pennies
Tommy Roe: A Dollar's Worth of Pennies
Paul Messis: Nickels and Dimes
The Everly Brothers: It Only Costs a Dime
The Flamin' Groovies: Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Spencer Davis Group: Short Change
Booker T. & The MGs: Spare Change (bed)
Tom Waits: Small Change (Got Rained on with His Own .38)

Time

Mal Thursday is right on time in this wild installment of The Mal Thursday Show, spinning three hours of top tunes with the word Time in the title, featuring over an hour of new material, combined with highlights from the 2018 "It's About Time" episode. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 3 April 2025. 

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Playlist:
The Livin' End: Makin' Time
The Roulettes: Bad Time
The Mindbenders: It's Getting Harder All the Time
The Mickey Finn: Time to Start to Lovin' You
The Searchers: It's Time (BBC)
The Animals: Night Time Is the Right Time
The Afex: She Got the Time
The Yardbirds: Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (BBC)
The Spencer Davis Group: High Time Baby
Paul Jones: High Time
The Sonics: High Time
The Original Sinners: Any Time You Need Me (I'll Be Home)
The Guilloteens: Crying All over My Time
The Rogues: How Many Times
The Harbinger Complex: Time to Kill
The New Breed: Wasting My Time
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: Time Is After You
The Doors: Love Me Two Times (take 3)
The Tell-Tale Hearts: Just a Matter of Time
The Pandoras: It's About Time
The Vipers: Borrowed Time
The Grip Weeds: No Time Like the Right Time
Plan 9: Step Out of Time
The Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today
Mondo Topless: Get Me to the World on Time
The Zombies: Time of the Season
The  Rovin' Flames: How Many Times
Suzi Chunk: For the Millionth Time
The Really Rottens: It's Monster Surfing Time
The Rolling Stones: The Last Time/Good Time Women
Joey Covington: I'll Do Better Next Time
The Hollywood Stars: King of the Night Time World
Muck and the Mires: Hamburg Time/It Takes Time
The Beginner's Mynd: All the Time/Time Dilation
The Monkees: No Time/Good Times
The Kinks: Time Will Tell
Hour Glass: In a Time/Three Time Loser
The Third Bardo: I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time
The Guess Who: No Time
The Woggles: No Time to Lose
The Blind Owls: Good Time
Mal Thursday Quintet with F. Alex Johnson: Good Times
The Tropics: Time/As Time's Gone
Neil Diamond: The Time Is Now
Booker T and The MGs: Time Is Tight (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Satori: Time Machine
Buddy Holly: Take Your Time
Roy Head and The Traits: One More Time
Sir Douglas Quintet: In Time
The Patterns: In My Own Time
The Golden Dawn: My Time
The Conqueroo: I've Got Time
The Five Americans: Good Times
The Clue: Bad Times
Neal Ford and The Fanatics: Night Time
Willie Nelson: Funny How Time Slips Away
The Satelliters: Lost in Time

Everybody/Somebody/Nobody

The Words of the Week are Everybody, Somebody, and Nobody on this full-tilt episode of The Mal Thursday Show. Replete with heavy doses of U.S. '60s garage, British beat and freakbeat, some records of more recent vintage, and a wild trip in Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine. Errata: I mixed up Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer in the intro. Apologies. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound: Originally broadcast 27 March 2025.

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Playlist:
Thee Midniters: Everybody Needs Some to Love
Earl Vince & The Valiants: Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite
The Spencer Davis Group: Somebody Help Me
The Searchers: Have You Ever Loved Somebody
The Electric Banana: If I Needed Somebody
The Phantoms: Someday I'm Somebody
The Deepest Blue: Somebody's Girl
The Tikis: Somebody's Son
Question Mark & The Mysterians: Need Somebody
Ed Wool and The Nomads: I Need Somebody
The Enfields: She Already Has Somebody
The Strangers: Somebody Stole My Gal (bed)
The Riders of the Mark: Gotta Find Somebody
The Young Rascals: Find Somebody
The Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love (live '67)
Eddie Cochran: C'mon Everybody
Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs: Everybody Knows (alt. version)
The Electric Prunes: Everybody Knows You're Not in Love
The Kinks: Everybody's Gonna Be Happy (BBC)
The Chocolate Watchband: I'm Not Like Everybody Else
The Beatles: Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (2018 mix)
Steppenwolf: Everybody's Next One
The Electric Prunes: Everybody Knows You're Not in Love
King Curtis: Everybody's Talkin' (bed)
The Standells: Mr. Nobody (live '66)
The Zombies: Can't Nobody Love You (mono)
The Famen: Don't Want Nobody
The Seeds: Nobody Spoil My Fun (alt. take)
The Firebeats Inc.: Can't Find Nobody
Sounds Unlimited: Nobody But You
The Moody Blues: This Is My House (But Nobody Calls)
The Bee Gees: Like Nobody Else
Nobody's Children: Girl I Need You (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Loose Ends: He's a Nobody
Mouse & The Traps: Nobody Cares
Shapes Have Fangs: Nobody's There
The 13th Floor Elevators: Nobody to Love/Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
The Five Americans: Somebody Help Me
ZZ Top: (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree

The Sharp Turn: Everybody Knows But Me
Lyres: Nobody But Me (live '85)
Kenne Highland Klan: Everybody's a Lyre
The Barracudas: Somebody
Iggy & the Stooges: I Need Somebody

Bonus Tracks:
The Rolling Stones: Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
The Mamas and the Papas: Somebody Groovy
The Smacks: Nobody Else Is Gonna Do
Arthur Lee: Everybody's Gotta Live
The Sick Rose: Everybody Wants to Know
The Ramones: Somebody Put Something in My Drink
The Lost and Found: Everybody's Here

Night

Mal Thursday heads into the Night on this nocturnally-inspired edition of The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with Night in the title. There had been a mini-episode with this Word of the Week back in 2020, but that one has been deleted, and this one is way better. With an extra 45 minutes of bonus tracks. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 20 March 2025.

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Playlist:
The Early Americans: Night After Night
The Eyes: When the Night Falls
The Mickey Finn: Night Comes Down
The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night (BBC)
The Thoughts: All Night Stand
The Downliners Sect: All Night Worker
Them: Here Comes the Night (BBC)
Lulu: Nighttime is the Right Time
The Small Faces: One Night Stand (BBC)
The Move: Night of Fear (mono)
The Troggs: Night of the Long Grass
The Beatles: The Night Before (mono)
Georgie Fame: Last Night (bed)
Q65: Cry in the Night
The Motions: Late Last Night
The Jets: Worker in the Night
Firebeats Inc: : I Never Knew the Sun Could Shine So Brightly at Night
The Wyld: Fly by Nighter
The Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) (live)
Lazy Smoke: How Was Your Day Last Night
Neil Diamond: Thank the Lord the Night Time
The Byrds: Bad Night at the Whisky
Peter Fonda: November Night
The Doors: End of the Night
The  Ventures: Night Run (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Chayns: Night Time
Larry & The Blue Notes: Night of the Sadist
John Ellington & David Ryeeme: In the Night
Willie Nelson: Night Life (live)
Roy Orbison: Nightlife
Sir Douglas Quintet: Spearfish by Night
The Five Americans: Black is White - Day Is Night
Mal Thursday with Neal Ford & The Fanatics: Every Night a New Surprise
Bobby Fuller Four: Saturday Night

The Country Gentlemen: Saturday Night
The Syndicate of Sound: Saturday Night
The Searchers: Saturday Night Out
The Marmalade: Everything's Leading Up to Saturday Night
The Easybeats: Saturday Night
Emmitt Rhodes: Saturday Night
Les Baxter: Saturday Night on Saturn (bed)
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Long Hot Summer Night
Lesley Gore: California Nights
The Daze of the Week: One Night Stand
The Sound Explosion: Every Day and Every Night
The Greenhornes: End of the Night
Jack Nitzsche: Night Walker (bed)
The Metaluners: Hockey Night in Canada

Bonus Tracks:
June Christy: Night People
The Leaders: Night People
The Rovin' Kind: Night People
The Trojans of Evol: Through the Night
A Passsing Fancy: I'm Losing Tonight
The Turtles: Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night
John's Children: A Midsummer Night's Scene
Lyres: Running Though the Night
Radio Birdman: Murder City Nights
The Routes: Day and Night
The Bugs: Strangler in the Night
Iggy Pop: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Day

The Word of the Week is Day on this bright and shiny episode of The Mal Thursday Show. Back in 2020, Mal did a much shorter version of this Word of the Week for [redacted], but that one has been deleted. This is the definitive version, with 45 minutes of bonus content, presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 13 March 2025.

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Playlist:
Sir Raleigh & The Coupons: Tomorrows Gonna Be Another Day
The Kinks: Til the End of the Day (mono)/Days (BBC)
Shel Naylor: One Fine Day
The Drag Set: Day and Night
The Knack: It's Love, Baby (24 Hours A Day)
The Mark Four: Work All Day (Sleep All Night)
The Classmates: Pay Day
The Rolling Stones: Sad Day (mono)
The Beatles: Day Tripper (mono)
Sandy Nelson: Day Tripper (bed)
The Hollies: Very Last Day
The Dave Clark Five: Best Days Work
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound: Day Time, Night Time
Manfred Mann: Oh What a Day (BBC)
David Bowie: The Gospel According to Tony Day
The Action: Day by Day
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs: Blue Day
The Last Straws: One Fine Day
The Wright Group: Better Every Day
The Lords: Day After Day
The Golden Earrings: Sound of the Screaming Day
The Jay Jays: To-day I'm Gay
The Byrds: The Day Walk (Never Before)
The Roosters: One of These Days
Sandy Nelson: A Hard Day's Night (bed)
The International Submarine Band: One Day Week
Flying Burrito Brothers: Six Days on the Road/Lazy Days
The Left Banke: Lazy Day
The Echoes: Every Second of The Day
The Cavaliers: Seven Days of Cryin'
Thee Sixpence: Long Days Care
The Electric Prunes: Long Day's Flight (Til Tomorrow) (live)
The Northwest Company: Eight Hour Day
Billy Preston: Eight Days a Week (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Kenny & The Kasuals: All Day and All of the Night (live)
The Cellar Dwellers: Bad Day
The Headstones: Bad Day Blues
The Avengers: Some Day
Willie Nelson: Three Days
The Wig: Forever and a Day
Larry Mack: Last Day of the Dragon
The Esquires: Judgement Day
Bubble Puppy: Days of Our Time
Kenny Wayne & The Kamotions: A Better Day's a Comin'
The Ugly Beats: Brand New Day
The Mullens: Future Days

Nico: These Days

Bonus Tracks:
Dionne Warwick: A Hard Day's Night
Otis Redding: Day Tripper
Lulu: Good Day Sunshine
Eric Burdon & War: A Day in the Life
We The People: The Day She Dies
The Ohio Express: It's a Sad Day (It's A Sad Time)
The Crystal Sect: Days and Weeks
Trafalgar Square: Til the End of the Day
The Heartbreakers: Seven Day Weekend (live)

Bad Times

In a summit of Austin-based rock n' roll radio hosts, Mal Thursday is joined by Scott Gardner, the mastermind behind the long-running Stronger Than Dirt radio program on 91.7 KOOP-FM in Austin, for a show all about Bad Times. Mr. Thursday hands Mr. Gardner the keys to the Texas Tyme Machine, and Scott floors it. Originally broadcast 29 November 2018. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. 

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Playlist:
The D-Coys: Bad Times
Paul Revere & The Raiders: These are Bad Times (For Me and My Baby)
The Who: The Good's Gone
The Jam: So Sad About Us
The Underdogs: Love's Gone Bad
The Aqualads: Runaway
The Rolling Stones: Good Times, Bad Times
The Yardbirds: I Ain't Done Wrong
Lyres: What's Wrong with You   
The Lovejoys: Payin' (for the Wrong I've Done)
Sam & Dave: Rich Kind of Poverty
Booker T & The MGs: Born Under a Bad Sign

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine with Guest DJ Scott Gardner:
Oedipus & The Mothers: (I Remember) How It Used to Be
The Bards: Alibis
Electric Love: This Seat Is Saved
The Brentwoods: Yeah Yeah, No No
The Bad Seeds: Sick & Tired
The Six Deep: Girl It's Over

Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue Got Married
The Gentlemen: It's a Cry'n Shame
The Iguana: Leaving You Baby
The Bad Roads: Too Bad
The Hard Times: Goodbye
The Roadrunners: Goodbye
The Blind Owls: Goodbye
The Greenhornes: Saying Goodbye
The Loons: A Last Goodbye
Plan 9: I Can't Stand This Love, Goodbye
The Flight Reaction: I Don't Wanna Say Goodbye
Gerry Bright & The Stokers: Heavy Trip
Palmyra Delran & The Doppel Gang: Come Spy with Me
The Embrooks: Going But Not Gone
Groovy Uncle: Howard Eno
RunHideFight: He's a Jerk
The Invisible Surfers: The Devil Herself
Dee Rangers: No One to Love
The Routes: Driving Round in Circles
The Malarians: A Taste of Five
The Clue: Bad Times