Listen Up! is going international with a two hour trek around the world filled with psych and garage sounds from various countries in practically every continent.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song – *Country of Origin)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996 – USA

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965 – USA

Taste – Blister on the Moon – Taste – 1969 –  *Ireland
N.S.U. – Turn On, Or Turn Me Down- *Turn On, Or Turn Me Down – 1969 –  *Scotland
Great Scots – The Light Hurts My Eyes – Various: Wyld Canada Vol. 2: Shake Yourself Down – 1967 – *Canada
The Creatures – Ugly Thing – Various: Down Under Nuggets 1965-1967 – 1987   *Australia
Larry’s Rebels – I’ll Make You Happy – Various: Stop The Machine: Transworld Freakbeat Sounds And More! – 1967 – *New Zealand

The Snap Shots – Hip-Hip Hurray – Various: Stop The Machine: Transworld Freakbeat Sounds And More! – 1968 – *Belgium
Omega – Dead Are The Flowers – Omega Red Star From Hungary – 1968 *Hungary
Les 5 Gentlemen – LSD 25 Ou Les Metamorphoses De Margaret Steinway – Les 5 Gentlemen – 1967 –  *France

Kaleidoscope – Colours –  Various: Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 2 Latin American – 1968 – *Puerto Rico
La Revolución De Emiliano Zapata – En Medio De La Lluvia – Various: Love, Peace & Poetry: Mexican Psychedelic Music – 1972 – *Mexico
Les Loups Noirs – Pile Ou Face – Various: Haiti Direct –  1972 – *Haiti

Los Gatos – Cuando LLegue El Ano 2000 –  Various: Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 2 Latin American – 1968 – *Argentina
The Aftermads – Sweating Soul –  Various: Primer Festival Beat Del Paraguay – 1970 – *Paraguay
Laghonia – Someday – Various: Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 2 Latin American – 1971  *Peru

The Jacks – Marianne – Vacant World – 1968 *Japan
Juan De La Cruz Band – Shake Your Brains – Shake Your Brains –  1976 – *Philippines
The Quest – 26 Miles –  Various: Love, Peace & Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music ’67-’77 – 1976 –  *Singapore

Witch – Little Clown – Lazy Bones!!  – 1975 – *Zambia
Ofege – Gbe Mi Lo – Various: Love, Peace And Poetry  African Psychedelic Music – 1973 –  *Nigeria
Freedom’s Children – Gentle Beasts Part 1 – Various:  Love, Peace And Poetry African Psychedelic Music – 1970 – *South Africa

Taboo – Queen Of Spades –  Various: Norsk Beat 5 – 1968 -*Norway
The Tages – Fuzzy Pattern –  Contrast – 1967 – *Sweden
Stomps – My Parents – Various: International Times (1967-74) – 196? – *Denmark
Group 1850 – Zero –  1967-1968 – 1968 – *Netherlands

Phil Clinton & Peter Smith – She’s Born Loser – Various:  A Trip? Just a Little Beat: A Taste of Pure Psychedelia in the Italian 60s – 196?  –  *Italy
Fabio – Lindo Sonho Deilrante –  Various: Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas – 1968 – *Brazil
Ram and Sel – Screw You – Exploiting Plastic Inevitable Vol. 2: Globular Lightning – 1970 – *West Germany

Pacific Sound – The Drug Just Told Me – Forget Your Dream – 1972 –  *Switzerland

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997 – USA

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Listen Up! returns with more explorations in the music labyrinth. We will play tribute to one of the founders of the great Flying Nun/Dunedin Sound; Peter Gutteridge, who passed away last week. Hear his music with The Chills, The Clean, The Great Unwashed, Snapper & The Puddle, in addition to a variety of other unrelated sounds for your afternoon escape.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965

Cockney Rebel – Ritz – Psychomodo – 1974
The Church – Song In Space – Forget Yourself – 2003
David Bowie – Quicksand – Hunky Dory – 1971

Cooley-Munson – In Debt – In Debt – 1972
Euphoria – Lady Bedford – A Gift From Euphoria – 1969

Peter Gutteridge – Hang On – Pure – 1989
The Clean – Point That Thing Somewhere Else – Boodle, Boodle, Boodle – 1982
The Chills – Rolling Mood – Kaleidoscope World – 1986

The Puddle – Into The Moon – Into The Moon – 1992
The Great Unwashed – Duane Eddy – Singles – 1982
Snapper – Cause Of You – Snapper EP – 1988
Yo La Tengo – Gentle Hour – Various: Dark Was the Night – 2009

The Lilys – Paz en el Hogar – Better Can’t Make Your Life Better – 1996
Ngozi Family – Hi Babe – Day of Judgement – 1975
The Green Pajamas – Deadly Nightshade – Narcotic Kisses –   2000
Daevid Allen – Children of The New World – Good Morning – 1976

Dead Skeletons – Dead Mantra – Dead Magick Part One – 2011

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Party of Special Things to Do – Bluejeans & Moonbeams – 1974
White Witch – Crystallize and Realize – A Spiritual Greeting – 1974

Roxy Music – Triptych – Country Life – 1974
Big Star – Holocaust (Demo)  – Keep An Eye On The Sky [Box Set] – 1974
The Velvet Underground – That’s The Story of My Life – The Velvet Underground – 1969

Peter Gutteridge – Don’t Catch Fire – Various: Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox – 2010

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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It is “Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991” on Listen Up!

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1964

 

The Replacements – Color Me Impressed – Hootenanny –  1983
Velvet Monkeys – Any Day Now –  Rotting Corpse Au Go-Go – 1989
The Wipers – No Fair – Youth of America – 1981
Sonic Youth – Teen Age Riot – Daydream Nation – 1988

Hüsker Dü – Pink Turns To Blue – Zen Arcade – 1984
Half Japanese – Open Your Eyes – Close Your Eyes – The Band That Would Be King – 1989

Black Flag – Rise Above – Damaged – 1981
Minutemen – Little Men With A Gun In His Head – Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat – 1983
Flipper – Get Away – Sex Bomb Baby – 1982

Dinosaur Jr. – Freak Scene – Bug – 1988
Leaving Trains – Walking With You – Fuck – 1987
Squirrel Bait – Sun God – Squirrel Bait – 1985

The Left – Labels – Jesus Love The Left: The Complete Studio Recordings – 1985
Fugazi – Give Me The Cure – 13 Songs – 1988
Death of Samantha – Coca Cola & Licorice – Strungout On Jargon – 1985

Mudhoney – In ‘n’ Out of Grace – Superfuzz Bigmuff – 1988
The Flaming Lips – Jesus Shootin’ Heroin – Here It Is – 1986
The Original Sins – Possession – Big Soul – 1987
The Dogmatics – Everything Went Bad – Everybody Does It – 1986

MDC – Corporate Deathburger – Millions Of Dead Cops – 1982
Dead Milkmen – Right Wing Pigeons – Big Lizard In My Backyard – 1985
Big Black – Kerosene – Atomizer – 1986

Butthole Surfers – Ricky – Hairway To Steven – 1988
Big Dipper – Mr. Woods – Heavens – 1987
Pixies – Waves of Mutilation – Doolittle – 1989

Flesh Eaters – See You In The Boneyard – A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die – 1981
Meat Puppets -Plateau – Meat Puppets II – 1983
Camper Van Beethoven – Shut Us Down – Camper Van Beethoven – 1986

Minutemen – History Lesson Part II – Double Nickels on the Dime – 1984

 

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

Listen Up! is now available as a podcast at  listenupradio.podomatic.com

 

Every Labor Day, Listen Up! salutes one group of workers in song. This year the honor goes to the…writers and authors. It is two hours of songs about writers, books, newspapers and all other things literary.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1964

The Beatles – Paperback Writer –  Past Masters, Volume Two – 1966
Rockpile – When I Write The Book – Seconds of Pleasure – 1980
Sloan – Autobiography – One Chord to Another – 1996
Lynn Ahrens – A Noun Is A Person, Place or Thing – Schoolhouse Rock! – 1973

Pylon – Read A Book – Gyrate – 1980
Echo & The Bunnymen – Read In Books – Crocodiles – 1980
Husker Du – Books About UFO’s – New Day Rising – 1985
X – Adult Books – Wild GIft – 1981

Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Everyday I Write The Book – Punch the Clock – 1983
Paul Westerberg – Bookmark – Suicaine Gratifaction – 1990
Talking Heads – The Book I Read – Talking Heads 77 – 1977
Zachary Sanders – Verb, That’s What’s Happening –  Schoolhouse Rock! – 1974

Stan Ridgway – Newspapers – Mosquitos – 1989
Joe Jackson – Sunday Papers – Look Sharp! – 1979
The Rolling Stones – Yesterday’s Papers – Between The Buttons – 1967

Moxy Fruvous – My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors – Bargainville – 1993
John Cale – Graham Greene – Paris 1919 – 1973
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Raymond Chandler Evening – Element Of Light – 1986
Peter Laughner – Baudelaire – Take the Guitar Player for a Ride – 197?
The Johnsons – Sylvia Plath – Break Tomorrow’s Day – 1986

The Wonder Stuff – A Great Drinker – Construction for the Modern Idiot – 1993
The Go-Betweens – The House That Jack Kerouac Built – Tallulah – 1987
Rosanne Cash – The Summer I Read Colette – 10 Song Demo – 1996

Nick Cave – There She Goes, My Beautiful World – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus – 2004
Sonic Youth – The Empty Page – Murray Street – 2002

Belle and Sebastian – Wrapped Up In Books – Dear Catastrophe Waitress – 2003
XTC – Your Dictionary – Apple Venus Vol.1 – 1999

Daniel Johnston – Unpack Your Adjectives – Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks – 1996

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

Listen Up! is now available as a podcast at  listenupradio.podomatic.com