This week on Listen Up!, hear some hot and sticky, sort of messy, sludgy and loud rawk and roll from the mid 80’s to early 90’s that promises to “melt your Walkman”.

Blame the weather.

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Playlist (Artist -Title -Year of song)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Mudhoney – In “n” Out Of Grace –Superfuzz Bigmuff – 1988
Death of Samantha – Coca-Cola & Licorice –Strungout On Jargon – 1985
Butthole Surfers – Moving To Florida –Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis – 1985
Slint – Washer –Spiderland – 1991

Screaming Trees – Ocean of Confusion –Uncle Anesthesia – 1991

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Bellbottoms –Orange – 1994
The Gories – You Make It Move -I Know You Fine, But How You Doin’– 1990
The Flaming Lips – Strychnine/Peace Love & Understanding –The Day They Shot A Hole In The Jesus Egg (1989-1991) – 1990

Mothra – I Love My Shirt –Leaning On The Fridge – 1995
Velvet Monkeys – Rock The Nation-  Rock The Nation b/w Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? – 1991
Jack Lord’s Hair – Trailer Park – The Difference Between Trash and Garbage – 1988
Redd Kross – Deuce – Teen Babes From Monsanto – 1984

Rat At Rat R – Amer$ide – Amer$ide Rock And Roll Is Dead Long Live Rat At Rat R – 1985
Psyclone Rangers – I Wanna Be Jack Kennedy – Feel Nice – 1993
Original Sins – Later Than You Think – Party’s Over – 1990

Rodney & The Tube Tops – I Hate The 90’s – I Hate The 90/Tube Tops Forever / Cellphone Madness – 1997
King Missile – Take Stuff From Work –Fluting on the Hump – 1987
The Unband – We Like to Drink and We Like to Play Rock and Roll –Chung Wayne Lo Mein – 1984
Uptown Bones – Do Watcka Do –Various: A La Folie! – 1992
Sonic Youth – Is It My Body? –Various: Alice Cooper Tribute– 1991

O Mighty Isis – Rock N Roll Band – 1994
Swamp Oaf – Sad Minnow –Swamp Oaf – 1989
Dinosaur (Jr) – Repulsion – Repulsion – 1985
Meat Puppets – We Don’t Exist – Too High to Die – 1994

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments – Quarrel With The World – Bait and Switch – 1995
Supersuckers – Born With A Tail – The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers – 1995
Half Japanese – U.S. Teens Are Spoiled Bums – Music To Strip By – 1987

Closing Theme
Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – 1997

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

The Tweeds – I Need That Record –Various: Yellow Pills: Prefill – A Powerful Pop Prescription – 1981
Jim Boggia – Bubblegum 45’s –Fidelity Is The Enemy – 2001
Great Plains – Letter To A Fanzine –Naked At The Buy, Sell, And Trade – 1985
R. Stevie Moore – Play Myself Some Music –The Future Is Worse Than The Past – 1999
Marah – Why Independent Record Stores Fail –Point Breeze – 2000

King Crimson – Elephant Talk –Discipline – 1981
Devo – Beautiful World –New Traditionalists – 1981

The Kinks – Victoria –Arthur or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire – 1969
Kate Bush – Oh England My Lionheart –Lionheart – 1978

The B-52’s – 52 Girls –The B-52’s – 1978
The Banana Splits – I’m Gonna Find A Cave –We’re The Banana Splits – 1969
Leopards – Psychedelic Boy –Magic Still Exists – 1987

The Ramones – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend –The Ramones – 1976
Slade – Coz I Love You –Sladest – 1972
Blue Oyster Cult – She’s As Beautiful As A Foot-Blue Oyster Cult – 1972

The Pixies Three – Birthday Party –Various: Growin’ Up Too Fast: The Girl Group Anthology – 1963
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Ice Cream Man –Rock ‘N’ Roll With The Modern Lovers – 1977
The Yardbirds – Ha Ha Said The Clown –Ultimate!  – 1967
Tom Waits – Pony –Mule Variations – 1999
The Residents – Birthday Boy-Duck Stab / Buster & Glen – 1978

The Bonzo Dog Band – Big Shot –Gorilla – 1967
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra – Interplanetary Music –Interstellar Low Ways – 1956
The Cramps – Don’t Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk –Psychedelic Jungle – 1981
Moondog – Theme- Moondog – 1969

Marianne Faithfull – Incarceration Of A Flower Child –Vagabond Ways-1999
Syd Barrett – Terrapin –The Madcap Laughs – 1970
Beach Boys – Wonderful – Smile– 1967
Gene Clark – With Tomorrow –White Light – 1971

Tyrannosaurus Rex- King of the Rumbling Spires –Unicorn – 1969
Robert Calvert – Ejection –Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters– 1974
Sadistic Mika Band – Time Machine- Black Ship – 1974

Closing Theme
Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections – 1997

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