Last to First

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

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

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

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

Florida!

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

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

Pretty

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

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

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

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

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

On Trial!

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

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

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

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

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