Food and Beverage

Mal Thursday serves up a tasty high concept episode where all the songs have various foods and/or drinks in the titles. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted 7 September 2023.

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 Playlist:
Elvis Presley: Smorgasbord
Nick Lowe's Last Chicken in the Shop: Let's Eat
Pink Floyd: Candy and a Currant Bun
The Rolling Stones: Rice Krispies
The Beatles: Savoy Truffle (2018 mix)
High Street East: Newcastle Brown
Manfred Mann: Sweet Pea
The Troggs: Coca Cola spot
The Who: Heinz Baked Beans
The Strangeloves: I Want Candy (mono)
Cinnamon Quill: Candy
The Searchers: Sweets for My Sweet
Strawberry Alarm Clock: Incense and Peppermints
Sixth Day Creation: Cherry Pie
The Box Tops: Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March
Herman's Hermits: No Milk Today
Booker T & The MGs: One Mint Julep
The Yardbirds: Great Shakes spot/Honey in Your Hips
The Hollies: A Taste of Honey (mono)
Ian & The Zodiacs: No Money No Honey
The Mourning After: Inside the Honeypot
The Mal Thursday Quintet: A Smell of Honey, A Swallow of Brine!
Victor Feldman Quartet: A Taste of Honey
Little Milton: Grits Ain't Groceries
Kenny Burrell: Wavy Gravy
Chuck Berry: Fish & Chips
The Crossfires: One Potato, Two Potato
Shadows of Knight: Potato Chip
Mothers of Invention: Call Any Vegetable
The Beach Boys: Vegetables
The Ventures: Green Onions
Roy Orbison: Coca Cola spot

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Shades: Ginger Bread Man
The Clique: Sugar on Sunday
Roy Head: Apple of My Eye
The Countdown Five: Candy
The Chocolate Moose: Chocolate Moose Theme
George Jones: White Lightning
Bobby Fuller: Wine, Wine, Wine

Jerry Lee Lewis: Drinkin' Wine Spo-dee-odee
The Bee Gees: Wine and Women
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood: Summer Wine
Eric Burdon & War: Spill the Wine (live 1970)
The Cherry Drops: Magically Delicious

Bonus Tracks:
The Evergreen: Food for Soul
Blondie: Eat to the Beat
Southern Culture on the Skids: Fried Chicken and Gasoline
Fear: Beef Boloney
Hasil Adkins: No More Hot Dogs
Andre Williams: Rib Tips pts 1 & 2
Nina Simone: Give Me a Pig Foot and a Bottle of Beer
Cream: Sweet Wine
Flamin' Groovies: Whisky Woman
Ray Charles: Candy
Fun and Games: Elephant Candy
The Elite: One Potato
The 5-6-7-8s: Hey! Mashed Potato! Hey
The Rutles: Cheese and Onions
The Driving Stupid: Horror Asparagus Stories

Mass Pike Memory Lane II

The long-rumored sequel to The Mal Thursday Show: Mass Pike Memory Lane is finally here, with Mal joined by guest DJ Alex Piandes of WMFO’s The Desperate Hours for another groovy trip down Mass Pike Memory Lane. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 14 March 2019, just ahead of St. Paddy's Day.  

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Playlist:
The Byrds: Boston
Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs: Banned in Boston
Richard Anthony & The Blue Notes: The Boston Monkey
The Standells: Dirty Water (Live)
Lyres: How Do You Know
The Prime Movers: Where We All Come From
The New Breed:  Wasting My Time
The Last Ones: Number One Again
The Blackjacks: That's Why I Always Dress in Black
The Neats: Red and Grey
Boy's Life: It Came From Here
The Nervous Eaters: Hot Steel and Acid
Triple Thick: Alright (She's Alright)
The Dogmatics: King-Size Cigarette
The Turbines: Rock in My Pocket
Downbeat Five: My Way
Classic Ruins: Let's Get Dull
The Remains: Hang On Sloopy
The Lost: No Reason Why
The Shyres: Where Is Love
Travis Pike's Tea Party: If I Didn't Love You Girl
Steve Walker & The Bold: Train Kept a Rollin'
The Rockin' Ramrods: Play It
Willie "Loco" Alexander: At the Rat
The Real Kids: Better Be Good/All Kindsa Girls
DMZ: Lift Up Your Hood
Plan 9 (with Jeff Conolly): I'm Gone
The Voodoo Dolls: Gone, Gone, Gone
The Ventures: The Rat
Mal Thursday & the Cheetahs: Torn Up
The Del Fuegos: Don't Run Wild
Robin Lane & The Chartbusters: When Things Go Wrong
Dream Syndicate: Boston

The Job That Ate My Brain

Labor Day Special! In this hard-workin', hardly workin' episode, Mal Thursday finds himself under-employed once again, presenting a playlist all about working for the man. And getting fired by the man. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. Originally transmitted in September of 2015.

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Playlist:
The Ramones: The Job That Ate My Brain
Jimmy Reed: Big Boss Man
Alex Chilton: Lost My Job
David Allan Coe: Take This Job and Shove it
The Service Industry: My Next Job
Robert Morse: How to Succeed in Business
Frank Sinatra: I Believe in You
The GTVs: Mind the Gap
Manfred Mann: Up the Junction
The Kinks: Working at the Factory
Elvis Costello: Welcome to the Working Week
The Vogues: Five O'Clock World
Merle Haggard: Workin' Man Blues
Jon Wayne: Workin' Man Blues
Symon Grace & The Tuesday Blues: You Won't Get Me Working
Cannonball Adderly: Work Song
The Kinks: Situation Vacant/Education
Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby

 

Can/Do

Mal Thursday welcomes guest DJ Alex Piandes back to the program for an episode where the Words of the Week are Can and Do, featuring excerpts from Alex's weekly rock n' roll radio show The Desperate Hours. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted, in different form, on 17 August 2023.

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Playlist:
The Birdwatchers: Can I Do It
The Zombies: What More Can I Do (BBC)
The Moody Blues: He Can Win
The Zephyrs: I Can Tell
The Artwoods: Can You Hear Me
The Who: I Can See for Miles (mono)
The Red Squares: You Can Be My Baby
Booker T & The MGs: Can You Dig It? (bed)
Rufus Thomas: Can Your Monkey Do The Dog 
The Titans: Can It Be
Roscoe Robinson: How Much Pressure (Do You Think I Can Stand)   
Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers: Can Can '62 (bed)   
T. Valentine: Do The Do   
Suzi Quatro: Can The Can
Funkadelic: Can You Get To That           
Val & The V's: Do It Again A Little Bit Slower   
Sir Michael & The Sounds : Can You
The Esquires: Cry Is All I Do
The Savoy's: Can It Be
Family: I Wanna Do It   
The Ramones: Do You Wanna Dance
The Mile Ends: I Can Never Say   
The Crystals: Da Doo Ron Ron

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Liberty Bell: I Can See
The Briks: Can You See Me
The Twilighters: Nothing Can Bring Me Down
Fever Tree: I Can Beat Your Drum
Sir Douglas Quintet (+2): Can You Dig My Vibrations?

Tommy James & The Shondells: Do Something To Me (mono)  
Marvin Gaye: Can I Get A Witness   
Betty Wright: Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do   
The Lovelites: How Can I Tell My Mom And Dad   
The Monks: We Do Wie Du
Rodd Keith: How Can A Man Overcome His Heartbroken Pain
The Uncalled For: Do Like Me   
The Move: I Can Hear The Grass Grow
The Turbans: Wadda Do   
The Beau Brummels: Can It Be
Elkie Brooks: The Way You Do The Things You Do
The Ronettes: Do I Love You?   
The Troggs: I Can Only Give You Everything   
The Tempests: Lemon Lime (bed)
The Rolling Stones: Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)

Royalty Check

His Highness Mal Thursday presents a series of songs about various royals, mostly kings and queens. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted 24 August 2023.

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Playlist:
The Pink Floyd: I'm a King Bee
The Who: The Hall of the Mountain King
The Rolling Stones: Little Queenie (live 1969)
The Kinks:
Victoria (BBC)/Little Miss Queen of Darkness (mono)/King Kong (BBC)
Booker T & The MGs: Sun King
The Hollies: King Midas in Reverse
The Chentelles: Be My Queen
The Music Machine: King Mixer
Bob Dylan: Queen Jane Approximately (Take 6)
The Byrds: King Apathy III

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Bobby Fuller Four: King of the Beach
Destiny's Children: The Fall of the Queen
The Exotics: Queen of Shadows
The 13th Floor Elevators: Kingdom of Heaven
New York Dolls: Lone Star Queen

The Hollywood Stars: King of the Nighttime World
Utopia: Princess of the Universe
Muck & The Mires: King of the Beat
Green River: Queen Bitch
Sex Pistols: God Save the Queen
Guided By Voices: Weed King
The Band: King Harvest

Truth/Luck

Mal Thursday explores the eternal conflict of truth vs. fiction -- with a mess o' songs about lyin' -- and good luck vs. bad luck in this timely edition of the program, originally transmitted 17 January 2017. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound.

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Playlist:
Otis Redding: Tell the Truth
Derek & The Dominos: Tell the Truth
Ian Hunter: The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nothing But the Truth
Brenda Lee: Is It True
The Who: It's Not True
The Escapades: I Tell No Lies
Chuck Berry: Don't You Lie to Me
The Rolling Stones: Lies
The Gripweeds: Lies
The  Greenhornes: Lies
The Ventures: Lies
The  Miracle Workers: Lies Lies
A Wild Uncertainty: La La La Lies
Len Price 3: You Tell Lies
Lyres: She Told Me Lies
Painted Ship: Little White Lies
The Lively Ones: Too Many Lies
John Wooley & Just Born: You're Lying
The Outsiders: Lying All the Time
Three Dog Night: Liar
Queen: Liar
The Castaways: Liar, Liar
The Tell-Tale Hearts: (You're a) Dirty Liar
Oasis: I Can See a Liar
The Sex Pistols: Liar
The Bee Gees: He's a Liar (backing track)
Stupidity: Bad Luck
Stiv Bators: Bad Luck Charm
Albert King: Born under a Bad Sign
Ray Charles: If It Wasn't for Bad Luck
Alan Price: O Lucky Man!
Nick Waterhouse: Once Lucky
Johnny Winter: Bad Luck Situation
Josefus: Hard Luck
The Black Crowes: Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye
The Vines: Truth

Only/But

Mal Thursday presents a revised, remastered, and expanded edition of the "Only/But" episode, where the Words of the Week are Only and But. Now with 27 minutes of exclusive bonus tracks. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted, in slightly different form, on 7 April 2022.

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Playlist:
Nancy Sinatra: You Only Live Twice
Dave Clark Five: It'll Only Hurt for a Little While
The Beatles: It's Only Love
The MI5: Only Time Will Tell
The Troggs: I Can Only Give You Everything
The Sons of Fred: She Only Wants a Friend
The Hollies: It's Only Make Believe (mono)
Small Faces: I'm Only Dreaming
The Pretty Things: Not Only But Also (bed)
Episode Six: Only Lonely People
The Tuesday Club: Only Human
The Beach Boys: God Only Knows (Live '67)
The Satisfactions: Only Once
Zorba & The Greeks: One and Only Girl
Christopher & The Chaps: It's Alright, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding
The Ventures: Only the Young
The Gentle Touch: Visitors Parking Only
Rodriguez: Only Good for Conversation
The Bitter Ind: Hands Are Only to See
The Changin' Tymes: The Only Girl I Love
The Brood: Only Think of You
The Vipers: Tears (Only Dry)
International Noise Conspiracy: Only Lovers Left Alive

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Exotics: Bill McKay Chevrolet spot
The Bobby Fuller Four: Only When I Dream
Roy Orbison: Only the Lonely (Live '65)
Waylon Jennings: The Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line (Live '74)
The Liberty Bell: Reality is the Only Answer
Sir Douglas Quintet: If She'd Only Come to Me
Shapes Have Fangs: Shapes Theme/Only Blood

The Boots: But You'll Never Do It Baby
Lyres: But If You're Happy
The Human Beinz: Nobody But Me
The Chosen Few: Nobody But Me
The Sounds Unlimited: Nobody But You
The Critters: No One But You
Modern Jazz Quartet: But Not for Me
John's Children: But She's Mine
The Spires of Oxford: But You're Gone
The Electric Prunes: Are You Loving Me More (But Enjoying It Less)
The Remains: But I Ain't Got You
Muck & the Mires: I May Be Wrong (But That Don't Matter)
David Johansen: Funky But Chic
The Scientists: You Only Live Twice

Bonus Tracks:
The Monkees: Love Is Only Sleeping (alt mix)
The Changing Tymes: The Only Girl I Love
Slade: It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft
The Gordian Knot: If Only I Could Fly
Lyres: The Only Thing
Me & The Other Guys: Everybody Knew But Me
The Embrooks: But I Didn't Know Him
The Cramps: I Ain't Nothin' But A Gorehound
The Scavengers: But If You're Happy