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)

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