At the Circus

Highlights from Mal Thursday's DJ sets at the 11th annual Angie's Rock 'n' Roll Circus in Austin at the Carousel Lounge. Stones-adjacent madness and tasty interpretations. Presented in Malophonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Hi-Fi Sound. Originally broadcast 22 October 2026.

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Playlist:
The Rolling Stones: I'm Free (mono)/2120 South Michigan Avenue (BBC)
The Valentinos: It's All Over Now
The Who: The Last Time
Painted Faces: Play with Fire
The Black Crowes: Rocks Off
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Going to a Go Go
Lyres: Stoned
Los Apson: Satisfacción
The Eyes: Radio London/I Wanna Be Your Man
The Sugarman 3: Bitch (bed)
Reigning Sound: I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys
Ramones: Out of Time
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens: You Gotta Move
Slim Harpo: Shake Your Hips
The Dead Boys: Tell Me
The Drongos: Under My Thumb
David Bowie: Let's Spend the Night Together
The Chesterfield Kings: Street Fighting Man
The Love Supremes: Sing This All Together
Andrew Oldham Orchestra: Theme for a Rolling Stone (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Tracers: She Said Yeah
The Chaparrals: Get Off My Cloud/Satisfaction
The Laughing Kind: Empty Heart
Hickoids: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (Standing in the Shadow)
Johnny Winter And: Jumpin' Jack Flash
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears: Sway

Andrew Oldham Orchestra: Satisfaction (bed)
Ray Charles: I'm Movin' On
Billy Bragg: She Smiled Sweetly
Eric Hisaw Band: Heart of Stone
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings: Wild Horses
Jason & The Scorchers: 19th Nervous Breakdown
The T-Bones: Paint It Black (bed)
Marianne Faithfull: Sister Morphine 
Stevie Wonder: I Don't Know Why 
Anthony Joseph and The Spasm Band: Dead Flowers
Andrew Oldham Orchestra: The Last Time
The Rolling Stones: Memo from Turner (alt version)

So Easy

The Words of the Week are So and Easy on this boss installment of The Mal Thursday Show, featuring a stellar assortment of British R&B, American garage, and Nederbeat nuggets for your mind and body. Presented in Malophonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 1 October 2026. 

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Playlist:
The Fezmen: It's So Easy
The Byrds: So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (live 1967)
Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers: So You Say You Lost Your Baby (remix)
Nancy Sinatra: So Long Babe
The Avengers: I Told You So
Thee Midniters: Never Knew I Had It So Bad
The Motorcycle Abilene: (You Used to) Ride So High
The Jaggers: Feel So Good
The Thunderbolts: Heart So Cold
The Mystic: I Get So Disgusted
Jack & The Beanstalks: So Many Times
The Clefs of Lavender Hill: So I'll Try
The Beach Boys: You're So Good to Me (backing track)
The Animals: Hallelujah I Love Her So
The Olympics: So Mystifying
The Who: So Sad About Us (mono)
Cream: I'm So Glad (mono)
The Beatles: I'm So Tired (Take 14)
The Power Plant: She's So Far Out, She's In
The Guess Who: Please Don't Act So Bad
The Easybeats: She's So Fine
The Motions: I've Waited So Long
The Namelosers: But I'm So Blue
Q65: So High I Have Been, So Down I Must Fall
Nick Lowe: So It Goes
Ramones: Oh Oh I Love Her So
The Reverberations: Why You Gotta Be So Mean
The Cherry Drops: We're So High

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Buddy Holly & The Crickets: It's So Easy
The Chaparrals (Houston): Tried So Hard
The Chaparrals (Denton): So Good
Sir Douglas Quintet: Please Just Say So
The Lavender Hour: So Sophisticated
The Lost and Found: I'm So Hip to Pain
Roy Head and The Great Believers: Easy Lovin' Girl

The Disturbers: Free and Easy (bed)
The Rolling Stones: It's Not Easy
Ringo Starr: It Don't Come Easy
Gene Latter and The Detours: My Life Ain't Easy
Ron Davies: It Ain't Easy
The Animals: Take It Easy Baby
The Dirty Wurds: Mellow Down Easy
The Little Darlings: Easy to Cry
Spencer Davis Group: Let Me Down Easy
The Collectors: Make It Easy
The Ro-D-Ys: Easy Come, Easy Go
Booker T & The MGs: Kinda Easy Like (bed)
The Scoundrels: Easy

Strange

It's a Strange affair this week on The Mal Thursday Show, as the Word of the Week is Strange, all songs with Strange in the tile, as well as songs with Weird, Mystery, and/or Magic in the title in the second hour. Presented in Malophonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 17 September 2026.

Playlist:
The Uniques: Strange
The Doors: People Are Strange (live 1967)/Strange Days (mono) 
The Everly Brothers: Love Is Strange
Del Shannon: Stranger in Town
The Beau Brummels: Don't Talk to Strangers
The 4th Street Exit: Strange One
The Jesters: Strange As It Seems
The Kinks: This Strange Effect (BBC)
The Attack: Strange House
Cream: Strange Brew (BBC)
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Little Miss Strange
The Byrds: Stranger in a Strange Land (bed)
Blackburn and Snow: Stranger in a Strange Land
Leon Russell & The Shelter People: Stranger in a Strange Land
Kim Fowley: Strangers from the Sky
The Action: Strange Roads
T. Rex: Baby Strange
The Stranglers: Strange Little Girl
The Reverberations: So Strange
The Outsiders: Strange Things Are Happening
Grahame Bond: Strange Times, Sad Times
Leonard Cohen: The Stranger Song

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Buddy Holly: Love Is Strange
The Ripe: Dr. Strange
The Pastels: Weird Sounds

The Wild Thing: Weird Hot Nights (Suffer Baby)
The Wee Four: Weird
Art: I Think I'm Going Weird
Iggy Pop: Some Weird Sin
New York Dolls: Who Are the Mystery Girls?
The Chesterfield Kings: Mystery Trip
The Mothers of Invention: Mystery Roach
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (mono)
The Young Ones: Man of Mystery (bed)
The McCoys: Say Those Magic Words
Steppenwolf: Magic Carpet Ride (mono single version)
The Open Mind: Magic Potion
The Flies: Magic Train
The Who: Magic Bus
The Attack: Magic in the Air
The New Fugitives: That's Queer

Over

The Word of the Week is Over on this expanded and remastered edition of an episode originally produced in 2020 as an exclusive for a music blog that once featured The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with Over in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 23 January 2025. 

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Playlist:
The Shouters: Shakin' All Over
The Beatles: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You (BBC)
The Valentinos: It's All Over Now
The Rolling Stones: Roll Over, Beethoven (BBC)
The Yardbirds: Over Under Sideways Down (mono)
The Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over
Lulu & The Luvvers: I'll Come Running Over
The Four Tops: Wake Me, Shake Me (When It's Over)
Nolan Strong: Mind Over Matter (I'm Gonna Make You Mine)
Aaron Neville: Over You
Booker T & The MGs: Over Easy (bed)
The Guilloteens: Cryin' All Over My Time
The Avengers: When It's Over
The Vagrants: And When It's Over
The Stylos: Head Over Heels
H.P. Lovecraft: It's All Over for You
The Scavengers: It's Over
The Au Go Gos: All Over Town
The Shillings: I'm Over You
The Blue Stingrays: Moon Over Catalina (bed)
MC5: Over and Over
Yard Trauma: Over and Over
The Living Children: Now It's Over
The Pleazers: Hurtin' All Over/Is It Over Baby
The Outsiders: I'll Give You Time (To Think It Over)
The Monkees: Long Title: Do I Have To Do This All Over Again
T. Rex: Over the Flats
The Devin Kelley Organ Trio: Way Over Yonder (bed)
Flamin' Groovies: Way Over My Head
The Mal Thursday Quintet: Takin' Over
Muck and the Mires: Hang All Over Me
The Nomads: Move It on Over
Guided By Voices: Over the Neptune
Lorenzo Minguzzi New Organ Trio: When Everything Is Over (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Finnicum: Come on Over
The Bobby Fuller Four: Think It Over
The Six Deep: Girl, It's Over
The Brimstones: It's All Over Now But the Crying
13th Floor Elevators: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Willie Nelson: The Party's Over
Roy Orbison: It's Over (Live '65)

The Hollies: My Life Is Over with You
The Doors: When the Music's Over (live '70)

Please & Thank You

Mal Thursday minds his manners on an episode where the Words of the Week are Please and Thank You. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 23 July 2026. 

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Playlist:
The Score: Please Please Me
The Rolling Stones: Please Go Home (mono)
The Trekkas: Please Go
The Eyes: Please Don't Cry
The Hollies: Please Don't Feel Too Bad
Spencer Davis Group: Please Do Something
The Small Faces: Please, Please, Please
Them: Baby Please Don't Go
The Amboy Dukes: Baby Please Don't Go
The Roosters: Help Me Please
The Boss Five: Please Mr. President
The Whigs: Please Love Me
The Up Stairs: Operator Please
The Liberty Party: Please Help the Man

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Sir Douglas Quintet: Please Just Say So/Please Let It Rain in Texas
The Y'Alls: Please Come Back
The Golden Dawn: This Way Please

Bob Dylan & The Band: Please Mrs. Henry
Bob Dylan: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
Mickey & The Milkshakes: Please Don't Tell Me Why
The Maharajas: Please Don't Go
The Woggles: Please Leave Me My Mind
The Chesterfield Kings: Rosie Won't You Please Come Home
The Detroit Cobras: Just Can't Please You
The Flamin' Groovies: Please Please Girl
Lyres: Trying Just to Please You (live 1983)
The Changin' Times: Thank You Babe
The Beatles: Thank You Girl
The Remains: Thank You
Paul Revere & The Raiders (feat. Mark Lindsay): Thank You
The Moody Blues: Thank You Baby
The Sea-Ders: Thanks a Lot
The Small Faces: Wham Bam Thank You Mam (mono)
The Matchmakers: Thank You for Coming
Neil Diamond: Thank the Lord for the Nighttime*
Led Zepelin: Thank You
Big Star: Thank You Friends

*Omitted due to human digital error. 

We/Us/They/Them

Mal Thursday presents an Us vs. Them scenario as the Words of the Week are We, Us, They, and Them. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 21 May 2026.

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Playlist:
The Blues Magoos: We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet
The Rolling Stones: Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin') 
The Zombies: How We Were Before
The Who: So Sad About Us (mono)
The Beatles: We Can Work It Out (alt US mix)
The Small Faces: You Me and Us Too
The Rolling Stones: We Love You
Jordan Christopher: Angel, Angel Down We Go
The Blues Magoos: There's a Chance We Can Make It
The Collectors: We Can Make It 
The Turtles: We'll Meet Again
The Hollies: We're Through
The Chob: We're Pretty Quick
The Higher State: If We Don't Realise
The New Breed: Unto Us
Bob Dylan: Sooner or Later (One of Us Must Know)
Mott the Hoople: You Are One of Us
The Satelliters: Where Do We Go
Simon & Garfunkel: Somewhere They Can't Find Me
The Byrds: The Times They Are a-Changin' (alt version)
The Kinks: Where Are They Now
Les 409: They Say
The Status Quo (US): They All Want Her Love
Dino, Desi & Billy: Tell Someone You Love Them
The Zombies: She Loves the Way They Love Her
Nick Lowe: They Called It Rock
The Bawdies: They Call It Whiskey Blues
The Ventures: (They Long to Be) Close to You (bed)
The Grains of Time: No Matter What They Say
The Nunsuch: They Threw Sticks and Stones
The Profile: Haven't They Got Better Things to Do
Them: The Story of Them Pts. 1&2
The Rolling Stones: Before They Make Me Run

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Buddy Holly: That's What They Say (mono)
Sir Douglas Quintet: We'll Take Our Last Walk Tonight
The Cicadelics: We're Gonna Love This Way

Frampton's Camel: Do You Feel Like We Do 

Real

Things get real on this week's episode of The Mal Thursday Show, as Mal spins a series of songs with Real and Really in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 30 April 2026. 

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Playlist:
Jim Valley: I'm Real
Jet Harris: Real Wild Child (Wild One)
The Merseybeats: Really Mystified
The Kinks: You Really Got Me (BBC)
The Small Faces: You Really Got a Hold on Me
The Alan Bown Set: I Really Really Care
Manfred Mann: I Really Do Believe
Lulu: That's Some Really Good
The Wimple Winch: I Really Love You
The Zombies: Play It for Real
Larry Page Orchestra: You Really Got Me (bed)
The Action: It Really Doesn't Matter Anymore
The Warlords: Real Fine Lady
The Invaders: You Really Tear Me Up
The Tempos: All That I Really Want
The Ravin' Blue: It's Not Real
Cher: All I Really Want to Do
The Cowsills: All I Really Want to Be Is Me
The Henchmen VI: Is Love Real?
Reasons Why: All I Really Want Is Love
Jose Feliciano: If I Really Bug You
The Velvet Underground: We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together
The Stooges: Real Cool Time 
The Doors: You Make Me Real
The Who: The Real Me
Eddie & The Hot Rods: (I Don't Know) What's Really Going on
The Detroit Cobras: The Real Thing
The Wrong Society: I Really Don't Care  
Lyres: I Really Want You Right Now (live 1985)
The Greenhornes: It's Not Real
Faces: Had Me a Real Good Time
Mott the Hoople: You Really Got Me (bed)
Elvis Costello: A Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Willie Nelson with Neil Young: Are There Any More Real Cowboys
Ivan (Jerry Allison with Buddy Holly): Real Wild Child
The Warlocks: If You Really Want Me to Stay
Sir Douglas Quintet: If You Really Want Me to I'll Go
The Mullens: You Really Move Me

John Lennon: Real Love

Mal Thursday Quintet: Mods & Gods

 

 Mal Thursday Quintet: Mods & Gods (Teen Sound Records)

The difficult second album from Mal's multi-regional supergroup is out now on LP, CD, and digital, and you should buy it! But don't take my word for it. Here are some recent reviews:

"It's SO good...funny, mind-breaking rock. Highly recommend!" - Sean Cole

"It is musically generous—both in spirit and in its arrangements—navigating effortlessly between 60s-style Garage Punk, 'Big Rock' (in the vein of the 1972-era Stones), Psych Folk, and pure David Johansen-esque swagger. This is all sprinkled with a touch of Heavy Garage (reminiscent of The Lords of Altamont, for instance) and a subtle Soul vibe here and there... An expansive musical spectrum, handled with the utmost dexterity and, as always, with sheer distinction!!! Pure class!!!! Absolute class!!!!" - Bertrand Tappez, Voix de Garage Grenoble

"The band, fronted by Austin, Texas-based creative Mal Thursday (vocals, harmonica), who is backed by a range of skilled musicians, delivers twelve uplifting rock ‘n roll songs—fuzzy garage rock meets hooky rhythm & blues—including a new tune called 'If 6 Was 5' (not the title track from the previous record or anything), two live versions, and a bonus track titled 'Excitement Transfusion.' Vibrant music wrapped in a vintage sound, tough yet charming, but above all catchy and danceable." - Add to Wantlist

"A full-throttle blast of Farfisa-driven energy and playful garage primitives. Mal Thursday has spent decades scraping the rust (which never sleeps) off the genre’s fuzz-soaked hemoglobin—nods to Sky Saxon, Roky Erickson, and Brian Jones are baked in." - Christopher Duda, Scene Point Blank  

"Beyond the recurring garage-rock vibes, three of the album’s most interesting tracks – ‘A SmellOf Honey, A Swallow Of Brine’, ‘Kitten WithA Whip’ and ‘The Defilers’ – showcase the Mal Thursday Quintet’s tidy sideline of coming up with would be theme songs for bona fide obscure ’60s exploitation movies." - Grahame Bent, Shindig! Magazine

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Q & A

It's a rock 'n' roll questionnaire as Mal Thursday spins songs with Question, Answer, and Ask in the title, as well as songs that ask a musical question. Q & A! Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 9 April 2026.

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Playlist:
The Balloon Farm: A Question of Temperature
Manfred Mann: Don't Ask Me What I Say
The Beatles: Ask Me Why (BBC)/No Reply (mono)
The Downliners Sect: Why Don't You Smile Now
The Hollies: Have You Ever Loved Somebody
The Luvin' Kind: Answers Please
Billy Nichols: Question Mark
The Moody Blues: Question (BBC)
Chris Hall & The Torquays: Don't Ask Me Why
The Phantoms: Questions 
The Dream: Can I Ask You One More Question (Rebellion)
Chuck Berry: Thirteen Question Method
The Sidekicks: Ask Your Friend
The Seeds: Out of the Question (take 4)
Lord Charles & The Prophets: Ask Me No Questions
The Generals: For What More Could I Ask
The Beach Boys: I Know There's an Answer
The Buffalo Springfield: Questions

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Pack: Baby I Ask You Why
The Liberty Bell: Reality Is the Only Answer

The Changin' Times: How Is the Air Up There?
The Small Faces: Whatcha Gonna Do About It
Dale Gregory & The Shouters: Did You Need to Know?
Denise: Boy, What'll You Do Then
The Chocolate Watchband: Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)
The Mystic Five: Are You for Real Girl?
The Sonics: Do You Love Me
The Electric Prunes: Are You Lovin' Me More (But Enjoying It Less)
The End Result: Never Ask Again
The Swingin' Machine: Do You Have to Ask
The Grateful Dead: You Don't Have to Ask 
The Dovers: People Ask Me Why
The Lemon Pipers: Ask Me If I Care
The Sapians: Ask Yourself Why Babe
The Grapes of Wrath: If Anyone Should Ask
Randy & The Radiants: I Won't Ask Why
The Ramones: Questioningly
The Soundtrack of Our Lives: The Age of No Reply
Johnny Thunders: Ask Me No Questions
Lords of the New Church: A Question of Temperature

Bonus Tracks:
Don Atello: Questions I Cannot Answer
The Standells: Why Did You Hurt Me
The Barbarians: Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?
The Monkees: Long Title Do I Have to Do This All Over Again
Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

Crazy Town

Mal Thursday is back with a semi-free-form episode ruminating on the state of the world and the story of his life. Crazy Town! Dedicated to the memory of Stefán Karl Stefánsson a.k.a Robbie Rotten. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 26 March 2026.

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Playlist:
The Superfine Dandelion: Crazy Town (Move on Little Children)
The Unrelated Segments: The Story of My Life
The Riddles: I Tell You a Story of My Life
The Velvet Underground: That's the Story of My Life (mono)
The Lost Souls: This Life of Mine
Q65: The Live I Live
Thor's Hammer: My Life
Marcus: The Life Game
The Journeymen: Realities in Life
The Fleshtones: I've Gotta Change My Life
Mal Thursday Quintet: The Other Side of This Life
The Ventures: What is Life (bed)
Kevin Coughlin: I Gotta Be Me
Eric Burdon & The Animals: When I Was Young
Fire: Father's Name Was Dad
The Dictators: Teengenerate
Mott the Hoople: One of the Boys
The Kinks: The Hard Way
Ron Davies: It Ain't Easy
Guided By Voices: Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
Flamin' Groovies: Headin' for the Texas Border
The Hour Glass: Down in Texas
Conway Twitty: Big Town
Boo Boo and Bunky: This Old Town
Frank Sinatra: This Town
Nancy Sinatra: I Gotta Get Out of This Town
The Gentlemen Wild: You Gotta Leave
The Hollies: Leave Me (mono)
The Rationals: Leaving Here
The Ventures: Lullaby of the Leaves (bed)
Greg 'Stackhouse' Prevost: Ain't Nothing Here Gonna Change My Mind
Randy & The Radiants: My Way of Thinking
The Preachers: Stay Out of My World
The Pretty Things: Come See Me
The Small Faces: Tin Soldier/Rene
The Children of Darkness: She's Mine
Fingers Lee: I'm Gonna Buy Me a Dog
The Weeklings: Diamond Dogs
The Magnificent Brotherhood: Lifetime

Pot Pourri

 I started losing my voice last Thursday at Austin Stomp! #7 and right now, it is a rocky rasp. So, in lieu of a new show, here is a selection of some of my favorite episodes from the past year or so.

All Night Stand

If

 Games of Chance 

Wrong

Grounded

Smoke/Fire

Dream

Night

Day 

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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

Choices

It's all about choices this week on The Mal Thursday Show. A rogue's gallery of boss beat groups help you decide. Presented in Ultrasonic stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 15 January 2025.

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Playlist:
The Briks: It's Your Choice
The Monks: Boys are Boys and Girls are Choice
The XLs: Second Choice
Spanky & Our Gang: Anything You Choose
The Deep: Your Choice to Choose
Oliver Nelson: The Critic's Choice (bed)
The Crickets: Right or Wrong
The Blues Magoos: So I'm Wrong and You Are Right
The Chesterfield Kings: Wrong from Right
The Moquettes: Right String Baby, But the Wrong Yoyo
Dr. John: Right Place, Wrong Time
The Hate Bombs: Wrong Place, Wrong Time
The Honeycombs: Have I the Right
The Blues Project: No Time Like the Right Time
The Embrooks: The Time Was Wrong
Booker T & The MGs: When Something Is Wrong with My Baby (bed)
The Five Americans: Black Is White - Day Is Night
The North Atlantic Invasion Force: Black on White
Plasticland: In My Black and White
Serge Gainsbourg: Black and White
Painted Faces: Blackhearted Susan
The Guess Who: White Room
The T-Bones: Paint It Black (bed)
Them: Bad or Good
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Him or Me (What's It Gonna Be) [mono]
The Barons: Live and Die
Yesterday's Children: To Be or Not to Be
The Runaways: Is It Day or Night
The Gentrys: Brown Paper Sack
The Rolling Stones: Yesterday's Papers (mono)
The Beatles: Paperback Writer (2022 mix)
Traffic: Paper Sun (BBC)
Bulldrog Breed: Paper Man
Noah's Ark: Paper Man
The Rooks: Free Sunday Paper
The Ventures: Paper Airplane (bed)
The Kinks: Plastic Man (BBC)
Jefferson Airplane: Plastic Fantastic Lover (live 1968)
The Generation Gap: Plastic Faces
Mothers of Invention: Plastic People
The Sights & Sounds: Plastic People
Hans Frank El Gallo: Bodies in Plastic
The Amatones: Plastic Surgeon

 

Bay Area Beat 1965-68 Pt. 2

 It's the other half of Mal's two-part trip to the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s. More obscure but no less pure! Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 18 December 2025.

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Playlist:
Country Joe & The Fish: Rock and Soul Music (live)/Superbird 
Bobby Freeman: C'mon and Swim
The Beau Brummels: Just a Little (alt take)/Don't Make Promises
The Golliwogs: Fight Fire
The Answer: Why You Smile
The Drongos: Under My Thumb
The Trolls: Walking Shoes
The Harbinger Complex: Time to Kill
The US Male: You Got Yours
The Just Six: I'm Gonna Be Gone
Marius: San Francisco (bed)
The Grass Roots: Where Were You When I Needed You (mono)/You're a Lonely Girl
The Chocolate Watchband: Sweet Young Thing/Don't Need Your Lovin'
The Mystery Trend: Johnny Was a Good Boy
The Mojo Men: Sit Down, I Think I Love You 
The Syndicate of Sound: Rumors
The Soul Vendors: Get Out of My Eye
Teddy & His Patches: From Day to Day 
Moby Grape: Omaha
The Steve Miller Blues Band: Instrumental (bed)
The Warlocks: Mindbender (Confusion's Prince)
The Grateful Dead: Cream Puff War/The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)
The Charlatans: Alabama Bound
The Great Society: White Rabbit (live 1966)
Jefferson Airplane: It's No Secret
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dino's Song
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart (live)
Sly & The Family Stone: Never Do Your Woman Wrong (bed)/Don't Burn Baby
The Styx: Hey, I'm Lost
Santana: Evil Ways (live)
Creedence Clearwater Revival: I Put a Spell on You/Born on the Bayou (live)
Flamin' Groovies: Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (mono)/Yesterday's Numbers

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

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

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.

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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