Listen Up! things get solemn. 10 years ago the invasion of Iraq began. Smart bombings, bloodshed, body bags and on and on. The music and words will express the sorrow and outrage that goes with living with war.

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Playlist (Artist -Title – Album – Year Of Song Release)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Background Music

Samuel Barber’s Adagio For Strings Op 11

The West Coast Pop Experimental Band – Suppose They Give A War And No One Comes – Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) – 1967
The Minutemen – Political Nightmare – 3-Way Tie (For Last) -1985
The Fugs – Kill For Peace – The Fugs Second Album -1966
Bob Dylan – Masters of War – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – 1963

Eugene Chadbourne – New New New War War War – New War – 2001
John Cale – Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend – Fear -1974
David Bowie – Weeping Wall – Low -1977

The Flaming Lips – The W.A.N.D. – At War With The Mystics – 2006
Black Sabbath – War Pigs – Paranoid -1970
Super Furry Animals – The Man Don’t Give A Fuck – Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 – 1996

Red Crayola – War Sucks – Parable of Arable Land -1967
Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg – A Saucerful of Secrets – 1968
Charlie Haden – War Orphans – Liberation Music Orchestra -1969

The Zombies – Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914) – Odessey and Oracle -1968
The Kinks – Some Mother’s Son – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) – 1969 
Billy Bragg – My Youngest Son Came Home Today – The Internationale -1990

Bloc Party – Price of Gas – Silent Alarm -2005
Gang Of Four – Guns Before Butter – Entertainment -1979

Hugh Masekela – If There’s Anybody Out There – Masekela -1969
King Crimson – Epitaph – In The Court Of The Crimson King – 1969

Cat Power – Maybe Not – You Are Free – 2003

Listen Up! will be lost in a world of Power Pop. So expect lots of hooks, riffs, harmonies, fat chords and tricky cheapness to satisfy most of your teenage kicks and awake those September gurgles you got goin’ on.

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Playlist (Artist -Title – Album – Year Of Song Release)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Cheap Trick – Come On, Come On – In Color -1977
The Romantics – First In Line – Tell It to Carrie / First in Line – 1978
The Knack – Let Me Out – Get The Knack – 1979
20/20 – She’s An Obsession – 20/20 – 1979

Dwight Twilley Band – I’m On Fire – Sincerely – 1976
Paul McCartney & Wings – Junior’s Farm – Wingspan -1974
Pezband – Stop! Wait A Minute – Laughing In The Dark – 1978
Flashcubes – Christi Girl – Christ Girl – 1078
The Villas – Way To Go – Set For Life -2003

Badfinger – Just A Chance – Wish You Were Here – 1974
Velvet Crush – Hold Me Up – Teenage Symphonies To God – 1994
The Flamin’ Groovies – I Can’t Hide – Shake Some Action – 1976
The Plimsouls – A Million Miles Away – Everywhere At Once – 1983

The Buzzcocks – Love You More  – Singles Going Steady – 1978
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks – Teenage Kicks – 1079
Rezillos – My Baby Does Good Sculptures – Can’t Stand The Rezillos – 1978

Todd Rundgren – Slut – Something/Anything? – 1972
Big Star – When Baby’s Beside Me – #1 Record – 1972
Tommy Hoehn – Hey Polarity! – Losing You To Sleep – 1978
The Scruffs – I’m A Failure – Wanna Meet The Scruffs? – 1977

Cigarettes – I Forgot My Number – They’re Back Again, Here They Come – 1979
The Jook – Aggravation Place – Watch Your Step – 1978
The Shout – I Won’t Be There  – I Won’t Be There/ Sha-Day-La-Day – 1982
The Speedies – Something On My Mind – Something On My Mind/Time -1981
Radio Stars – Nervous Wreck – Songs For Swinging Lovers – 1977

The Barracudas – I Can’t Pretend – Drop Out With The Barracudas – 1981
MnM’s – I’m Tired – I’m Tired / Knock Knock Knock – 1979
Nikki & The Corvettes – I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend – Nikki & The Corvettes – 1980
Blondie – Dreaming – Eat To The Beat – 1979
The Beat – Don’t Wait Up For Me – The Beat – 1979

New Math – Die Trying – Die Trying / Angela – 1979
The Go-Go’s – How Much More – Beauty and The Beat – 1981
The Real Kids – All Kinds of Girls – The Real Kids – 1977

The Raspberries – Play On – Starting Over – 1974

Another week flies by like nothing and time is all messed up, It must mean it is time for another Listen Up! show.

I once again return with a giant pile of records that criss cross time and I’m bearing down the tracks, headed straight for your ear canals.

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Playlist (Artist -Title – Album – Year Of Song Release)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Background Music

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – Twenty Easy Listening Classics

Genesis – The Musical Box – Nursery Cryme – 1972
Flash – Small Beginnings – Flash – 1972

Savage Rose – A Girl I Knew – The Savage Rose -1968
Daevid Allen – Memories – Banana Moon -1971
T. Rex – Diamond Meadows – T. Rex – 1970

Gil Evans Orchestra – Voodoo Chile – Gil Evans Plays Jimi Hendrix – 1975
Bongwater – Flop Sweats – The Big Sell Out -1992
David Bowie – Win – Young Americans – 1975
Be-Bop Deluxe – Jet Silver and The Dolls of Venus – Axe Victim – 1974

Kraftwerk – Hall of Mirrors – Trans Europe Express -1977
Ultravox! – The Man Who Dies Everyday – Ha!-Ha!-Ha! -1977
Hawkwind – Quark, Strangeness and Charm – Quark, Strangeness and Charm -1977
Steve Kilbey– Zara Thustra – The Idyllist -2013
Roxy Music – Nightingale – Siren – 1975

Anton Barbeau – Mushroom Box, 1975 – In The Village Of The Apple Sun -2007
Mud Pie Sun – Church of Bitter Souls – Wooden Circle – 2012
The Holy Modal Rounders – Half of Mind – The Moray Eel Eats the Holy Modal Rounders – 1969
Skip Spence – I Think You and I – Qar – 1969
The Beatles – I’m So Tired (Esher Demo) – 1968

Brother JT3 – Naked – Way To Go – 1999
Rain Parade – Saturday’s Asylum – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip – 1985
Pink Floyd – Julia Dream – Relics – 1968
Robyn Hitchcock – Harry’s Song – Love From London -2013

Brian Eno – Some of Them Are Old – Here Come the Warm Jets – 1973

his Monday (March 4th), Listen Up! will be induce pop-sike dreams. Take the staircase to nowhere and find yourself in a technicolour world filled with British acts from the psychedelic era. Streaming live from 2-4pm EST.

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Playlist (Artist -Title – Album – Year Of Song Release )

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Background Music

Various Artists – Kaleidoscopia: Obsessive Psychedelic, Funk-Beat: Seventies Italian Sound Library

The Attack – Magic In The Air – About Time! – 1967
Mike Stuart Span – Children of Tomorrow – Timespan -1968
The Factory – Try A Little Sunshine – The Perfumed Garden Vol 1 -1968
Sharon Tandy – Hold On – You Gotta Believe It’s… Sharon Tandy -1967

The End – Shades of Orange – Mojo Presents Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers – 1968
The Smoke – Sydney Gill – The Best of Sugar Man -1967
The Misunderstood – Children of The Sun  – Nuggets II – Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond 1964-1969 – 1969
The Yardbirds – Happenings Ten Years Times Ago – Roger The Engineer -1966

The Voice – Train To Disaster – Nuggets II – Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond 1964-1969 – 1966
The Accent – Red Sky At Night – Baby Get Your Head Screwed On – A Collection Of Mod and Freakbeat Sounds – 1967
Tickle – Subway (Smokey Pockey World) –  Chocolate Soup For Diabetics Volume 2  -1967
23rd Turnoff – Michaelangelo – Mojo Presents Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers -1967

The World of Oz – The Muffin Man – The World of Oz – 1968
The Pretty Things – Defecting Grey – S. F. Sorrow -1968
Nirvana – Tiny Goddess – The Existence of Chance Is Everything and Nothing While the Greatest Achievement Is the Living of Life, and so Say All of Us -1968
The Kinks – Lazy Old Sun – Something Else – 1967

Caleb – Baby, Your Phrasing is Bad –  Nuggets II – Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond 1964-1969 -1967
The Blossom Toes – Look At Me I’m You – We Are Ever So Clean -1967
Kaleidoscope – Flight From Ashiya – Nuggets II – Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond 1964-1969 -1967
Ramases & Selket – Minds Eye – Mojo Presents Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers -1968

Tinturn Abbey – Vacuum Cleaner – Nuggets II – Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond 1964-1969 -1967
One in a Million – Fredereek Hernando – Chocolate Soup For Diabetics – 1967
July – Dandelion Seeds – Mojo Presents Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers -1968
Hush – Grey – The Psychedelic Snarl -1968

Apple – The Otherside – Mojo Presents Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers -1969
Dantalions’s Chariot – Madmen Running Through The Fire  – Chariot Rising -1967
Pussy – The Open Ground – Pussy Plays -1969
Felius Andromeda – Meditations – Mojo Presents Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers -1967
Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup – Jabberwock -Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks, Vol 1 -1966

Big Boy Pete – Cold Turkey – Songsammlung -1968
Bobak, Jons, Malone – On A Meadow-Lea – Motherlight -1969