Bay Area Beat 1965-68

Mal Thursday takes a trip in time and space to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. The emphasis is on rocking, rather than nodding and noodling. All the usual suspects, plus a bevy of boss beat groups that preceded psychedelia. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 11 December 2025. 

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Playlist:
The Beau Brummels: Don't Talk to Strangers/The Jerk/Laugh Laugh (alt take)
We Five: You Were on My Mind
The Charlatans: Codine
The Warlocks: Can't Come Down
The Grateful Dead: Standing on the Corner (live 1966)
The Chocolate Watchband: Misty Lane/Are You Gonna Be There (at the Love-in)
The Other Side: Streetcar
The Answer: I'll Be in
The Golliwogs: Instrumental #1 (bed)/Brown-Eyed Girl
The Syndicate of Sound: Little Girl
The Front Line: Got Love
Denise: Boy, What'll You Do Then
The Vejtables: Feel the Music
The Count Five: Psychotic Reaction
The Mojo Men: She's My Baby
The Other Half: Mr. Pharmacist/Feathered Fish
The Donnybrookes: You're Gonna Cry
The Oxford Circle: Mind Destruction (bed)
The Grass Roots: Let's Live for Today/Things I Should Have Said
Peter Wheat & The Breadmen: Baby What's New
The Harbinger Complex: I Think I'm Down
Teddy & His Patches: Suzy Creamcheese
The Great Society: Somebody to Love
Jefferson Airplane: High Flying Bird/She Has Funny Cars
The Grateful Dead: Death Don't Have No Mercy (bed)
Moby Grape: Hey Grandma (mono)/Fall on You
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Pride of Man
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Combination of the Two/Down on Me
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Suzie Q
Flamin' Groovies: Comin' After Me
Blue Cheer: Summertime Blues
Teddy & His Patches: Haight Ashbury
 

Get

The Word of the Week is Get on this acquisitive episode of The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with Get in the title. Expanded. remixed, and remastered from an online-only 2021 episode. Featuring 35 minutes of exclusive bonus tracks. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. 

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Playlist:
The Pretty Things: Get the Picture/Get a Buzz
The Fairies: Get Yourself Home
The Hollies: I Can’t Get Nowhere with You
Lulu & the Luvvers: Can I Get a Witness
The Rolling Stones: Gotta Get Away/Get Off My Cloud (live 1966)
The Spencer Davis Group: I Can't Get Enough of It (BBC)
The Animals: We Gotta Get Outta This Place (live 1965)
The Zombies: Gotta Get Ahold of Myself
The Move: Stop and Get Ahold of Myself (BBC)
The Double Feature: Baby Get Your Head Screwed on
The Small Faces: Things Are Going to Get Better
The Jam: Get Yourself Together
The Ventures: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (bed)
The Game: Gonna Get Me Someone
The Northwest Company: Get Away from It All
The Girl Getters: The Girl Getters
The Soul Vendors: Get Out of My Eye
The Electric Prunes: Get Me to the World on Time
The Dantes: Can't Get Enough of Your Love
The Uncalled For: Get Out of the Way
Thee Sixpence: Gotta Get the First Plane Home
The Allman Joys: Gotta Get Away
The Ventures: Get Smart Theme (bed)
The Tiffany System: Get Together
Suzi Jane Hokom: Need All the Help I Can Get
The Standells: Get Away from Here
The Interns: Hard to Get
The Chosen Few (From St. Michaels): Get It on Life
Chocolate Ballon Company: Gotta Get This…
The Blues Magoos: Gotta Get Away (mono single version)
The Unbelievable Uglies: Get Straight
The Barracudas: Baby Get Lost
Little Willie & The Adolescents: Get Out of My Life
The Razor’s Edge: Get Yourself Together
Booker T & The MGs: Get Ready (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Roy Orbison: Let's Get Together for a Coke Again
Sir Douglas Quintet: 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
The Reddlemen: I'm Gonna Get in That Girl's Mind
Roy Head & The Traits: Get Back
The Triumphs: Better Come Get Her
Mal Thursday & The Cheetahs: Get Outta Dallas!

T. Rex: Get It on (BBC)
The Heartbreakers: Get off the Phone (live 1977)
Ramones: I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind
Lyres: Gettin' Plenty Lovin' (live 1985)
Jerry Lewis: Get Happy

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: When I Get Home (mono)/I'll Get You (BBC)
Clarence Reid: Get Back
The Rolling Stones: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (BBC)
The Mindbenders: It's Getting Harder All the Time
The Peeps: Gotta Get a Move on
Majority One: Get Back Home
The L.A. Teens: I'm Gonna Get You
The Kinks: Get Back in the Line (live 1977)
The Swing Set: Trying to Get You Out of My Mind
The Jackets: Get Back with You
Mal Thursday Quintet: Get Out of My Eye

For the Birds

In this avian-themed outing, Mal gives you the Bird: the Word, the Dance, and the Species. Shake a tail feather and get with this Bird-a-thon, and stay tuned for an extra 37 minutes of bonus tracks. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted in two-hour broadcast format, 8 May 2020.

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Playlist:
The Rivingtons: The Bird's the Word
Baby Ray & The Ferns: How's Your Bird?
The Mojo Men: Free as a Bird
Rocky Roberts & The Airedales: The Bird Is the Word
Country Joe & The Fish: Super Bird
The Barbarians: Hey Little Bird
The Beatles: And Your Bird Can Sing
The Galileo 7: Cruel Bird
The Hour Glass: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Judy Henske: High-Flying Bird
The Moody Blues: Bye Bye Bird
The Bee Gees: Birdie Told Me
The Everly Brothers: Bird Dog
The Del Counts: Bird Dog
Gene Vincent: Bird Doggin'
The Mystery Action: The Bird Rockers
Inez & Charlie Foxx: Mockingbird
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood: Lady Bird
The Buffalo Springfield: Blue Bird
Jerry Garcia: Bird Song
Eddie Floyd: Big Bird
Daddy Cool: Eagle Rock
The Music Machine: The Eagle Never Hunts the Fly
The Electric Banana (The Pretty Things): Eagle's Son
Jimmy Rivers Combo: The Blue Eagle Pt. 1
King Khan & The Shrines: 40 Birds
The Best Things: Chicks are for Kids
The Ventures: Yellow Bird
Thee  Sixpence: Birdman of Alkatrash
The Wylde Mammoths: All the Birds are Gone
The Yo Yos: The Raven
The Ramones: Surfin' Bird
The Motivations: The Birds

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine
The Chevelle V: Come Back Bird
Johnny Winter: Birds Can't Row Boats
Mouse & The Traps: I Wonder Where the Birds Fly
The Five Americans: Sweet Bird of Youth
Willie Nelson: Bird on a Wire

Ann-Margret: Bye Bye Birdie

Bonus Tracks:
The Sevens: Love of a Bird
Gene Vincent: Love Is a Bird
Marianne Faithfull: This Little Bird
The Plague: High-Flyin' Bird
Bob Dylan: Black Crow Blues
Q65: World of Birds
Charlie Parker: Yardbird Suite
The Hooterville Trolley: No Silver Bird
The Left Banke: Sing Little Bird Sing
Joe Cocker: Bye Bye Blackbird
The Monks: Cuckoo
The Trashmen: Surfin' Bird
Lester Bangs & The Delinquents: Legless Bird

Lyres: On Fyre at the Rusty Nail 1985

 CD/digital available at lyres.bandcamp.com

LP/digital available at https://teensoundrecords.bandcamp.com

This year, Mal Thursday decided to embark on a labor of love, and bring the finest live recording of one of his favorite bands, Boston's legendary Lyres, to the world. Mal decided to partner with Massimo del Pozzo of Teen Sound Records/Misty Lane Music in Rome, Italy, to release this vital document of American rock 'n' roll, now available to stream and download, with the physical releases out by Christmas.

Mal's hyperbolic liner notes: 

The Rusty Nail was a throwback to an earlier time, a wayward roadhouse/live music venue in the wilds of Western Massachusetts, located 15 minutes up the road from the University of Massachusetts, in the woodsy hill town of Sunderland, population 3400. The wood-hewn hole in the wall featured an eclectic variety of touring acts, who would bypass the bigger college towns in favor of playing at the Nail. I saw James Brown and the Buzzcocks there, to name a couple. However, for my money, the greatest show ever staged at the Rusty Nail was Lyres’ performance on March 29, 1985.

The band was road-tested and on top of their game, having toured the US and Europe relentlesslyin the months prior, in support of their 1984 album On Fyre. They tore through a fast and furious set, an hour and change of non-stop rock 'n' roll, pausing only for Jeff "Monoman" Conolly to tell the audience, "This is a one o'clock club, which means you have to drink twice as fast."
 

As Lyres closed the show with "What a Girl Can't Do," the audience was left awestruck, buzzing, and sweaty. Exactly four months after this show was recorded, the Rusty Nail burned to the ground.

Some said the fire was caused by faulty wiring, while others alleged an insurance bust-out scheme. My favorite theory is that it was burned down by local residents who were sick and tired of Rusty Nail patrons parking, pissing, and/or puking on their lawns. 

I consider this album to be the finest Lyres live recording in existence. It has been pitch-corrected, remixed, and remastered from the original two track soundboard recording. On Fyre at the Rusty Nail 1985 is a testament to Lyres as not just one of the greatest bands from Boston, but one of the greatest bands from anywhere. 
 

Personnel: 

Jeff Conolly: Vocals, Organ
Rick Coraccio: Bass, Vocals
Danny McCormack: Guitar
Paul Murphy: Drums

Executive production, graphics & layout:
Massimo del Pozzo & Mal Thursday
Recordings duly licensed to Misty Lane Music / Teen Sound Records. Licensed from Chunk Archives Recordings
Recorded 29 March 1985 at the Rusty Nail, Sunderland, Massachusetts by Chris Dixon
Pitch correction and mixdown by Matt Parmenter at Ice Cream Factory Studio, Austin, Texas
Mastered by Pete Weiss at Panoramic House, West Marin County, California 

Back photo by Paul Shoul   

In My House

Mal Thursday rocks your hearth and home with an episode where the Word of the Week is House, all songs with House, Walls, Windows, Doors, or Roofs in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 20 November 2025.

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Playlist:
The Baytovens: My House
The Wailers: Wailers House Party (bed)
The Golden Earrings: In My House
The Bluebeards: Come on a My House
The Astronauts: Baby Let's Play House
The Moody Blues: This Is My House (But Nobody Calls)
The Pretty Things: House in the Country
The X-Cellents: Little Wooden House
The Epics: White Collar House
The Blue Things: Doll House
The Animals: House of the Rising Sun (BBC)
Oscar & The Majestics: Haunted House (bed)
Love: A House Is Not a Motel (single version)
The Flies: House of Love
The Association: House of Stone
The Turtles: House of Pain (mono)
Denny Seyton & The Sabres: House of Bamboo
The Glass Family: House of Glass
The Attack: Strange House
The Showstoppers: Ain't Nothin' But a House Party
Flamin' Groovies: Roadhouse
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Red House
The Pearlescents: Ronnie's Night House (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Roy Orbison: Rock House
The 13th Floor Elevators: Slip Inside This House (single version)
Kenny & The Kasuals: Who Stole My House?
The Five Canadians: Writting on the Wall
Lavender Hill Express: Outside My Window

The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall (live)
The E-Types: Put the Clock Back on the Wall
The Guess Who: Clock on the Wall
The Hollies: Look Through Any Window (BBC)
Bob Dylan: Can You Please Crawl Out You Window?
The Messengers: Window Shopping
The Green Beans: Knock on My Door (Tap on My Window)
The Attack: The 'Rock Door (bed)
Richard & The Young Lions: Open Up Your Door
The Primates: Knock on My Door
The Blues Project: Back Door Man (live)
The Lost: Back Door Blues
The Missing Linx: Behind Locked Doors
The 49th Parallel: Close the Barn Door
Duane Eddy: House of the Rising Sun (bed)
The Blue Things: The Orange Rooftop of Your Mind

Bonus Tracks:
The Bourbons: Bourbons House Party
The Kinks: House in the Country (mono)
Oscar & The Majestics: House of the Rising Sun
Jefferson Airplane: House at Pooneil Corners
Jimi Hendrix Experience: House Burning Down
The Fleshtones: This House Is Empty
The What Fours: Basement Walls
The Action: Climbing Up the Wall
Joe Cocker: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Teddy & The Pandas: (Bye Bye) Out the Window
The Thanes: Don't Let Her Dark Your Door
The Tigermen: Close That Door
Jerry & The Landslides: Get Off of My Roof

Mal at the Beeb Vol. 3

Mal Thursday winds up a three-part journey into the BBC vaults with another star-studded episode heavy on the British Beat. Featuring 30 minutes of bonus tracks. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 13 November 2025. Thumbnail by UnitedWorldMedia. 

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Playlist:
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Shakin' All Over
The Hollies: Nitty Gritty/Something's Got a Hold on Me
Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages: Good Golly Miss Molly
The Animals: Jailhouse Rock
The Beatles: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You/The Hippy Hippy Shake
The Rolling Stones: Come on/Cops and Robbers
Lulu & The Luvvers: Surprise Surprise
The Pretty Things: Roadrunner
The Yardbirds: I Wish You Would/Jeff's Boogie (bed)
The Troggs: Wild Thing/From Home
Manfred Mann: The One in the Middle
Dusty Springfield: Little by Little
The Small Faces: Lazy Sunday/All or Nothing
The Mindbenders: All Night Worker
Spencer Davis Group: It's Gonna Work Out Fine
The Who: My Generation/The Good's Gone
Manfred Mann: My Generation (bed)
The Zombies: Just Out of Reach/Tell Her No
The Moody Blues: And My Baby's Gone/Stop
Peter & Gordon: Wrong from the Start 
The Kinks: See My Friends/Waterloo Sunset
Jeff Beck: Tallyman
The Move: Night of Fear/So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
The Marmalade: Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
The Artwoods: Steady Gettin' It (bed)
The Yardbirds: Think About It
The Troggs: Night of the Long Grass
Pink Floyd: Jugband Blues
Cream: Sunshine of Your Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Love or Confusion
Procol Harum: Kaleidoscope
Led Zeppelin: Communication Breakdown
David Bowie: Memory of a Free Festival Pt. 2
The Moody Blues: Go Now

Bonus Tracks:
Faces: Maybe I'm Amazed
Free: All Right Now
Tyrannosaurus Rex: By the Light of a Magical Moon
Mott the Hoople: The Moon Upstairs
Thin Lizzy: Whiskey in the Jar
Jethro Tull: Living in the Past

Mal at the Beeb Vol. 2

Mal Thursday is back in the BBC archives, digging out more magnificent mono masters from the vaults. Featuring alternate performances of four dozen classics from a who's who of British beat groups. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted 6 November 2025.

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Playlist:
The Rolling Stones: Roll Over Beethoven/Route 66
The Beatles: I Just Don't Understand/Baby It's You
The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night/Where Have All the Good Times Gone
The Zombies: She's Not There/Just Out of Reach
The Yardbirds: I'm a Man/Train Kept a-Rollin'
The Pretty Things: L.S.D./Midnight to Six Man
Them: All for Myself/Here Comes the Night
Spencer Davis Group: Keep on Running/Gimme Some Lovin'
The Hollies: Nobody/Bus Stop
The Small Faces: You Need Loving/One Night Stand
The Animals: It's My Life/Bring It on Home to Me
Manfred Mann: Watch Your Step/Pretty Flamingo
The Small Faces: Coming Home (bed)
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders: The Game of Love
Tony Jackson Group: Never Leave Your Baby's Side
Marianne Faithfull: Come and Stay with Me
Herman's Hermits: Tallyman
Status Quo: Gloria
The Easybeats: Sorry
The Bee Gees: To Love Somebody
The Attack: Come on Up
Deep Purple: Hey Joe
Paul Jones: I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy
Manfred Mann: Sweet Pea (bed)
The Who: Pictures of Lily/Substitute
The Move: Useless Information/Stop and Get a Hold of Myself
Lulu: Shout/To Sir With Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Manic Depression/Radio One
Cream: I Feel Free/Tales of Brave Ulysses
Jeff Beck: Hi Ho Silver Lining

Brian Matthew with The Beatles, 1965

2̶0̶2̶4̶ 2025 Halloween Special

 It's Halloween time again at stately Thursday Manor, with Mal Thursday spinning nearly four hours of heavy duty All Hallows Eve hits for you. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 21 October 2024, and in different form in 2016, 2014, 2009, and 2007.

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Playlist:
The Out Sect: Soggy
The Dahmers: On Halloween
The Mystrys: Witch Girl
The Meteors: The Corpse Grinder
The Graveyard Five: The Marble Orchard
Lyres: Running Through the Night
Roky Erickson: I Walked with a Zombie
The Bama Lamas: Hungry Teeenage Wolf
The Goldstars: Leave Me Alone (A Halloween Song)
The Sellwoods: Jack-o-Lantern Blues
Spinal Tap: Saucy Jack
Mal Thursday Quintet: Pub of Fear
The High Frequencies: It's Alive
Agent Twang: Ghost Train
The Fleshtones: Return to the Haunted House
The Vooduo: House on Haunted Hill
Count Stephen: Spooky
The Gravedigger V: It’s Spooky
The Ramones: Pet Sematary
Del Ricos: Voodoo
The Cramps: Zombie Dance
The Seeds: Creepin' About
1313 Mockingbird Lane: Dig Her Up
Action Andy & The Hi-Tones: Black Widow
The A-Bones: Spooks a-Poppin' Theme
Chuck Berry: Trick or Treat
Torn Down Units: Lost on Ghost Road
Drac & The Swamp Rats: Haunt Your Girlfriend
Larry & The Blue Notes: Night of the Phantom
The Move: Night of Fear (BBC)
Mickey Finn: Night Comes Down
The Turtles: Grim Reaper of Love
Shouting Thomas & The Torments: Dead Man Slide
The Fleshtones: The Haunted Hipster/I Was a Teenage Zombie
Stud Cole: The Witch
Donovan: Season of the Witch
The Sonics: The Witch
The Lollipop Shoppe: You Must Be a Witch
The Radiacs: She’s My Witch
Nox Boys: The Witch
The N Betweens: Evil Witch Man
The Circus: Burn Witch Burn
The Moving Sidewalks: Crimson Witch
Super Session: Season of the Witch
The Eyes: When the Night Falls
The Standells: Blackhearted Woman
Painted Faces: Blackhearted Susan
PF Sloan: Halloween Mary
The Minus Five: Lies of the Living Dead
The Phantom Five: Graveyard
Heinz & The Wild Boys: Big Fat Spider
The Apollos: It’s a Monster
The Stems: She’s a Monster
The Sharks: Dracula’s Daughter
Screaming Lord Sutch: Jack the Ripper
Thee  Headcoats: The Strangler of Boston Town
The Bugs: Strangler in the Night/Albert,Albert
Thee  Cormans: Werewolves in Heels
Zacherle: Happy Halloween
Lon Chaney Jr.: The Maddest Story Ever Told
The Fuzztones: Happy Halloween
The Swingin' Neckbreakers: No Costume No Candy
Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures: Zombie a Go Go
The Tombstones: Black Cat
The Outsiders: Haunted by Your Love
The Moontrekkers: Night of the Vampire
Roky Erickson & The Aliens: Creature with the Atom Brain
The Cramps: Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon
Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads: Goo Goo Muck
The Frantics: Werewolf
The Bomboras: A Fistful of Terror
The Seeds: Evil Hoodoo
Manfred Mann: Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
Q65: I Got Nightmares
The Skunks: You Scare Me
The Malarians: No
The Born Losers: Werewolves on Wheels
The Last Word: Sleepy Hollow

Mal at the Beeb

 Mal Thursday presents a romp through the BBC archives as this week's show consists of songs recorded for broadcast on the Beeb between 1963 and 1973. One classic after another. In semi-chronological order. The least obscure episode in years! Presented primarily in Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 23 October 2025.

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Playlist:
The Beatles: Some Other Guy
The Rolling Stones: The Last Time
The Yardbirds: I'm Not Talking
The Pretty Things: Don't Bring Me Down
Them: Gloria
The Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place
The Kinks: Till the End of the Day
The Small Faces: Whatcha Gonna Do About It
The Who: Radio One Theme/Run Run Run
Lulu & The Luvvers: I'll Come Running Over
The Zombies: What More Can I Do
The Rolling Stones: 2120 South Michigan Avenue (bed)
Manfred Mann: Groovin'
The Hollies: Set Me Free
Hermans Hermits: Ain't That Just Like a Woman
The Merseybeats: Good Good Lovin'
Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders: Sticks and Stones
The Nashville Teens: Tobacco Road
Spencer Davis Group: Watch Your Step
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich: Hold Tight
Paul & Ritchie: Circles
The Yardbirds: Shapes of Things
Cream: I'm So Glad
Staus Quo: Pictures of Matchstick Men
Traffic: Dear Mr. Fantasy
The Pretty Things: Walking Through My Dreams
The Troggs: I Can't Control Myself
The Bee Gees: In My Own Time
The Easybeats: Friday on My Mind
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
The Move: Stephanie Knows Who
Deep Purple: Hush
Fleetwood Mac: Albatross (bed)/Oh Well
Jethro Tull: My Sunday Feeling
Led Zeppelin: Traveling Riverside Blues
Mott the Hoople: Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Faces: The Stealer
T. Rex: The Slider
David Bowie & The Spiders from Mars: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Careful

 Mal Thursday is back with a painstaking episode where the Word of the Week is Careful: all songs with Care, Full, or Careful in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 16 October 2025.

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Playlist:
The Golliwogs: You Better Be Careful
Bo Diddley: You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
The Run-A-Rounds: I Couldn't Care Less
The Gaunga Dyns: No One Cares
The Gants: My Baby Don't Care
Thor's Hammer: I Don't Care
Christopher & The Chaps: They Just Don't Care
The Byrds: She Don't Care About Time
Ken & The Fourth Dimension: See If I Care
The Front Line: I Don't Care
The Light Brigade: Baby You Don't Care
Love Inc.: She Don't Care About Me
The Dirty Shames: I Don't Care
Lulu: Gentle Care radio spot
The Chantays: Only If You Care
Our Gang: Careless Love
The Brass Buttons: Hell Will Take Care of Her

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Mouse & The Traps: You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)/Nobody Cares
Bobby Fuller Four: (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
Joe Barry: I'm a Fool to Care
Willie Nelson: I Never Cared for You
Homer: I Never Cared for You

The Buckinghams: Don't You Care
The Alan Bown Set: I Really Really Care
Miki Dallon & The Sorrows: Care About You
Them: Nobody Cares
The Ro-D-Ys: You'd Better Take Care of Yourself
The Ramones: I Don't Care
The Reverberations: Why Should I Care
Dee Rangers: Like She Don't Care
The Modern Lovers: Someone I Care About 
The Sick Rose: I Don't Care
The Sound Reasons: If I Cared
Elizabeth: You Should Be More Careful
The Tikis: Careful What You Say
The Royal Shadels: Be Careful with Your Car-full
The Impalas: Spoonful
Untamed Youth: Full Blown 426 Hemi
Thee Sixpence: Heart Full of Rain
The Yardbirds: Heart Full of Soul
Big Star: Take Care

Anxious Colors

It's a rock n' roll feast for the ears, eyes, and mind on this multi-hued episode of The Mal Thursday Show. The first hour is all songs with black or white in the title, while the songs in second hour are in full color. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 11 June 2020.

Thanks for listening.

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 Playlist:
Painted Faces: Anxious Color
Los Bravos: Black is Black (Negro es Negro)
The Rolling Stones: Paint It Black
The Beatles: Baby's in Black
The Fifth Order: Little Black Egg
MC5: Black to Comm
The Meteors: Ballad of a Blackhearted Man
Tim Hardin: Black Sheep Boy
The Kinks: Big Black Smoke
The Cramps: Color Me Black
The Ventures: Black Sand Beach
Ken Nordine: White
The Painted Ship: I Told Those Little White Lies
The Standells: Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White
The RPMs: White Lightning (It's Frightening)
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit (Live Fillmore '68)
The Cinders: Barbara White
The Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat (45 Version)
X: White Girl (Single Mix)
Billy Idol: White Wedding (Single Edit)
The Caravelles: Lovin' Just My Style
The Blues Company: Experiment in Color
Love: She Comes in Colors
The AmboyDukes: Colors
The Deep: Color Dreams
The Colors of Night: The Colors of Night
Johnny Thompson Quintet: Color Me Columbus
Mongo Santamaria: Green Onions
Fred Neil: Green Rocky Road
The Kingsmen: Long Green
The Lemon Pipers: Green Tambourine
The Bees: Voices Green and Purple
Donovan: Mellow Yellow (BBC)
The Music Machine: Double Yellow Line
Johnny & The Hurricanes: Red River Rock
The Jolly Green Giants: Caught You Red-Handed
Mott The Hoople: Long Red
The Savages: Roses are Red
Sam & Dave: Soul Sister Brown Sugar
Chuck Berry: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
Chicago: Fancy Colors
Donovan: Colours
The Knights of the Road: The Color of Dream
Ken Nordine: Black
Fleetwood Mac: Black Magic Woman
Painted Faces: Black Hearted Susan
Cream: White Room (Single Edit)
The Monkees: Shades of Grey 

Mal Thursday Quintet New England Dates!

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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 in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 24 November 2022.

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Playlist:
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Just Like Me (LP version)
The Beatles: I Just Don't Understand (BBC)
The Rolling Stones: I Just Want to Make Love to You/Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind
Dana Gillespie: You Just Gotta Know My Mind
The Answers: It's Just a Fear
Jimmy Page: She Just Satisfies
The Uprooted: It's Just You
Led Zeppelin: Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
The Hollies: (Ain't That) Just Like Me
Dusty Springfield: I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
The Zombies: Bunny Lake Is Missing/Just Out of Reach
The Beau Brummels: Just a Little
The Outsiders: Just Let Me Be
The No-Na-Mees: Just Wanna Be Myself
The MC5: I Just Don't Know
The Ventures: She's Just My Style
Michael & The Messengers: (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet
The Monkees: You Just May Be the One
Bob Dylan: Just Like a Woman (Take 16)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Sir Douglas Quintet: Please Just Say So
Janis Joplin: Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
Roy Head & The Traits: Just a Little Bit
The Word D: Today Is Just Tomorrow's Yesterday
Willie Nelson: Just As I Am

The Southern Sound: Just the Same As You
Them: If You and I Could Be As Two
The Doors: Take It As It Comes
The Tropics: As Time's Gone
Esther Phillips: As Tears Go By
Elvis Presley: A Fool Such As I
Autosalvage: Our Life As We Lived It
The Dinkies: Well
The Kinks: A Well-Respected Man (BBC)
The Beach Boys: She Knows Me Too Well
Smash: Well You Know
The Vipers: You're Doin' It Well
The Unclaimed: Well It's True
John Lennon: Well Well Well
Fleetwood Mac: Oh Well (pt. 1)
Buddy Holly: Well All Right
Ann-Margret: I Just Don't Understand (mono)

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: I've Just Seen a Face
The Rolling Stones: Just Wanna See His Face
The Seeds: Just Let Go (mono)
The Act: Just a Little Bit
The Golden Earrings: Just a Little Bit of Peace
The Hollies: Just One Look
The Young Rascals: Just a Little (mono)
The Kolors: As Tears Go By
Them: (It Won't Hurt) Half As Much
De Maskers: As Long As I Have You
Manfred Mann: As Long As I Have Lovin'
The Mosquitos: Darn Well
The Ramones: I Wanna Be Well
The People: Well All Right

Songs Lyres Taught Us

By listener request! In honor of Lyres' return to the stage on Saturday October 11th in Portland, Maine with Tiger Bomb, Mal Thursday Quintet, and The Vista Cruisers, and the forthcoming archival release Lyres: On Fyre at the Rusty Nail 1985 (Teen Sound), here is the restored, remastered, and re-ordered version of Songs Lyres Taught Us. Originally a 2007 episode on GaragePunk Pirate Radio, it has been given a sonic upgrade to HQ Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. 

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Playlist:
Tommy Tucker and The Esquires: Don't Tell Me Lies
The Human Beinz: Nobody But Me
Pete Best Combo: The Way I Feel About You
The New Breed: Wasting My Time 
New Colony Six: I Confess
Les Copains: Give Your Love to Me
Sandy Sarjeant: Can't Stop the Want
The Pretty Things: You'll Never Do It Baby
It's Them: Baby (I Still Need Your Lovin')
The Buckinghams: Don't Want to Cry
The Yo-Yos: Gonna Find a New Love
The Teddy Boys: Jezebel
The Jesters of Newport: Stormy
The Hangmen of Fairfield County: Stacey
Drusalee & The Dead: Lily
Mickey & The Clan Cuts: Soapy
Classic Ruins: Geraldine, I Need Money
The Sonics: Skinny Minnie/Cinderella
The Hangmen: What a Girl Can't  Do
The Wailers: Since You Been Gone (live 1961)
Esquerita: Gettin' Plenty Lovin'
The Jolly Green Giants: Busy Body
Otis Redding: Changed Man
The Pleazers: Security
The Beau Brummels: Ain't That Loving You Baby
The Zephyrs: I Can Tell
The Searchers: Sick and Tired (live 1964)
The Customs: Long Gone
The Rolling Stones: Stoned (mono)/Now I've Got a Witness (bed)
The Kinks: Tired of Waiting (mono)
Phil & The Frantics: Pain
Dion: Feeling No Pain
The Scavengers: But If You're Happy
The Roadrunners: I'll Make It Up to You
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich: Here's a Heart (BBC)
The Syn: Grounded
Dale & The Devonaires: Never Be Free
The Outsiders: Touch/I Love Her Still, I Always Will (mono)
Jay Jays: Today I'm Gay
Lyres: How Can I Make Her Mine/Money/Nobody But Me (live 1985)

Feel

Do you feel it? The Word of the Week is Feel on this exquisite episode of The Mal Thursday Show. With 37 minutes of bonus tracks. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 9 June 2022.

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Playlist:
Big Star: Feel (alt version)
The Creation: How Does It Feel to Feel
The Beatles: I Feel Fine (mono)
The Zombies: You Make Me Feel Good (mono)
Manfred Mann: That's the Way I Feel (BBC)
The Kinks: I've Got That Feeling (mono)
The Hollies: Please Don't Feel Too Bad
Herman's Hermits: Got a Feeling
Cream: I Feel Free
The Ventures: I Feel Fine
Small Faces: Feeling Lonely
The Byrds: Feel a Whole Lot Better (alt. take)
Neil Diamond: I Got the Feeling (Oh No No)
The Choir: Don't You Feel a Little Sorry for Me
The Vejtables: Feel the Music
The Rationals: Feelin' Lost
The Young Rascals: Do You Feel It (mono)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown: (Can You) Feel It

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Five Americans: I'm Feeling OK
The 12 AM: The Way I Feel
Willie Nelson: I Feel That Old Feeling/I Don't Feel Anything
Roy Head: The Feeling's Gone

It's All Meat: Feel It
Bohemian Vendetta: How Do You Feel
The Children: I Can Feel It Now
Neighb'rhood Childr'n: Feeling Zero
The Blackstones: Never Feel the Pain
Q65: Feel Her Still
The Outsiders: Do You Feel Alright
Chuck Berry: Blue Feeling
Harper's Bizarre: 59th St. Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
Jefferson Airplane: How Do You Feel
The Soul Clan: That's How It Feels
Slade: Cum on Feel the Noize
The Stooges: 1970 (I Feel Alright) (mono 45 mix)
Sex Pistols: No Feelings
Anthony Newley: Feeling Good
Mott the Hoople: I Can Feel

Bonus Tracks:
Ten Years After: Feel It for Me
The Animals: Blue Feeling
Freddie & The Dreamers: Feel Blue
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers: Strange Feeling
The Primitives: How Do You Feel
Lulu: What a Wonderful Feeling
The Attack: Feel Like Flying
Yesterday's Children: Feelings
The Shags: Dr. Feelgood
Aretha Franklin: Dr. Feelgood
Country Joe & The Fish: Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag
The Beatles: I Got a Feeling (Glyn Johns mix)
The Beach Boys: Feel Flows

Sorry/Not Sorry

Mal Thursday takes an annoying present day catchphrase and turns it into two hours of rock 'n' roll radio. Sorry about that, chief. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 11 September 2025.

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Playlist: 
The Easybeats: Sorry (BBC)
Jimmy Winston & The Reflections: Sorry She's Mine
The Hollies: Sorry Suzanne
The Dave Clark Five: I Said I Was Sorry
Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs: Sorry 'Bout That
Russ Olsen: Sorry About That
Erik & The Secret Agents: Sorry About That
Craig and The Ethics: Sorry About That
Sly & The Family Stone: Sorry (bed)
The Scotsmen: Sorry, Charlie
The Palace Guards: Sorry
Barry & The Remains: Say You're Sorry
The Jujus: I'm Really Sorry
The Journey Men: She's Sorry
The Choir: Don't You Feel a Little Sorry for Me

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Chevelle V: I'm Sorry Girl
The Kitchen Cinq: You'll Be Sorry Someday

Exotic Guitars: Who's Sorry Now (bed)
The Laundrettes: It's Too Late to Say You're Sorry
The Greenhornes: You'll Be Sorry
The Odds: I'll Make You Sorry
The Cherry Drops: Sorry
The Hollies: I'm Alive (mono)
Johnny Thunder: I'm Alive
Richie's Renegades: Come Alive
The Things to Come: Come Alive
The Stomachmouths: Coming Back Alive
The Prefab Messiahs: Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive
The Ventures: What Is Life (bed)
The Animals: It's My Life
Raik's Progress: I'm Gonna Change the World
The Third Bardo: I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time
The Aardvarks: I'm Higher Than I'm Down
Kevin Coughlin: I Gotta Be Me
The Cowsills: All I Want to Be Is Me
Mott the Hoople: One of the Boys/You Are One of Us
The Kinks: This Is Where I Belong (mono)
Davie Allan & The Arrows: Skater Dater (bed)
Fats Domino: I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday
Max Frost & The Troopers: The Shape of Things to Come
Sex Pistols: My Way
Faces: Glad and Sorry

Games of Chance

Games of Chance is the theme for this week's episode of The Mal Thursday Show. Gamesmanship! Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 4 September 2025.

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Playlist:
The Reasons Why: Games
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders: The Game of Love
Ten Feet: Losing Game
Dave Berry: The Crying Game
The Yardbirds: Little Games
The Syndicate of Sound: Games
The Music Explosion: Sunshine Games
The Circus: Games We Play
The Marvelettes: The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
Ivan Boogaloo Joe Jones: Games (bed)
The Legends: Fever Games
The Turtles: Outside Chance (mono)
The Bee Gees: Big Chance
Oscar & The Majestics: No Chance Baby
Zorba & The Greeks: You've Had Your Chance
The Blues Magoos: There's A Chance We Can Make It
The Marauders: Our Big Chance
The Beach Boys: Carl's Big Chance 
The Outer Limits: Just One More Chance
Sir Winston & The Commons: One Last Chance
Tiger Bomb: Gimme One More Chance
The Offhooks: Another Chance
Big Star: Give Me Another Chance
Bunny: Hey Chance (bed)
Bob Seger System: Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
Blood Sweat & Tears: Spinning Wheel (live 1969)
The Rolling Stones: Tumbling Dice (live 1972)
The Watchband: No Dice!
Unknown Group: I Won't Play Your Game
Faine Jade: People Games Play
The Things: All Work and No Play
The Rockin' Ramrods: Play It
The Astronauts: Baby Let's Play House
The Cyrkle: Squeeze Play
The Ventures: Games People Play (bed)
The Dave Clark Five: Play with Me
The New Colony Six: Some People Think I'm a Playboy
De Maskers: Play the Game Now
The Bee Gees: Playdown
The Male: Playing with Fire
The Rolling Stones: Play with Fire (mono)
Pink Floyd: See Emily Play (mono)
John's Children: Come and Play with Me in the Garden
The Klepstones: Play Your Game
Mel Torme: Games People Play
Charles Manson: Look at Your Game, Girl  

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)

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

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