Listen Up! is only going as far back as 2020 and playing some fave sounds from this past year (not a “best of” countdown…just a collection of fave “new” sounds from 2020). Two hours of fresh music (but with enough of the mold) from the past year.
Half Japanese – Wondrous Wonder Scott The Hoople – All Strung Together Foxycontin – Alive In Interesting Times The Exbats – Funny Honey
Soccer Mommy – Royal Screw Up Kelly Lee Owens & John Cale – Corner Of My Sky ft. John Cale
Shabaka and the Ancestors – Behold, the Deceiver
U.S. Girls – 4 American Dollars Don Bryant – Is It Over The Mountain Goats – Bell Swamp Connection Josephine Foster – Love Letter
HC McEntire – Houses of The Holy Karl Blau- The Sand Bill Callahan – Pigeons Waxahatchee – The Eye
John Foxx and The Maths – Howl The Sun Ra Arkestra – Rocket #9 Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network – When My Day of the Crone Comes
Sparks – Stravinsky’s Only Hit Yo La Tengo – Smile A Little Smile For Me Six Organ of Admittance – Words of Two Matthew “Doc” Dunn – Cold Wind
Tyler Keith – The Last Drag The Howling Hex – Lies Mt. Vengeance – Blue Sky Sprite
The Special Pillow – 1921
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An afternoon excuse for a holiday hoopla filled with weird and wonderful seasonal tunes is right here. While spirited and at times invigorating, these are not traditional holiday singalong. Grab the nog, sport the reindeer antlers, trim the tree and join the party.
Playlist Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire – Pete Townsend’s Christmas The Crew Cuts – Dance Mr. Snowman Dance Bunnygrunt – Seasons Freaklings The Untamed Youth – Santa’s Gonna Shut ‘Em Down
Fleshtones- Super Rock Santa The Bellrays – Poor Old Rudolph Joe Loco Quintet – Rudolph Al And The Vibrators – Merry Christmas The Enchanters – Mambo Santa Mambo
Palmyra Delran – Coal In My Fishnet Stocking The Boss Martians – It’s Xmas Time Pointed Sticks – Power Pop Santa Quiet Sunday – Every Day Is Christmas Nick Frater – Wash Your Hands Of Christmas Neil Innes – Dear Father Christmas
The Sharp & The Flats – Sleigh Bells The Qualities – It’s Christmas Time Hasil Adkins – Santa Claus Boogie The Davis Sisters – The Christmas Boogie
Santa Sabbath – Frosty The Snowman JD McPherson – Bad Kid The Candy Mountain Boys – It’s A Hillbilly Xmas Thristy Dave’s Western Caravan – Psycho
Robert Fripp – Silent Night Future Shock – Santa Left Us Microchips for Xmas Bruce Haack – I Like Christmas Esquivel – Here Comes Santa Claus
Jim Diamond’s Pop Monsoon – Christmas In Detroit The Bad Girls – Santa’s Got A Brand New Bag The dB’s – Holiday Spirit The Dollyrots – Because I’m Santa
Jad Fair and Naotumi Ishimaru – Santa’s Knee Leslie Millner & The Brentford Harmonics – Fashion Xmas Anton Barbeau – Xmas Song Binky Griptite – Stone Soul Christmas St. James and The Apostles – When Was Jesus Born (Last Month Of The Year)
Yoko Ono – Listen The Snow Is Falling The Tripwires – Waiting For The Snow Guided By Voices – Doughnut For A Snowman Esquivel -Snowfall
Explosions in the Sky – Snow And Lights My Bloody Valentine – Soft a Snow (But Warm Inside)
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester – Snowblind The Rolling Stone – Winter
Purple Mountains – Snow Is Falling Manhattan Galaxie 500 – Snowstorm Neil Young – Winterlong The Pentangle – Rain and Snow Emmylou Harris – Roses In The Snow
Harry Nilsson – Listen, The Snow Is Falling Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow Bjork – Frosti Mercury Rev – Snowflake In A Hot World Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Fifty Feet Of Pure White Snow Vashti Bunyan – Winter Is Blue Elliott Smith – Angel In The Snow Belle and Sebastian – Fox In The Snow Wendy and Bonnie – The Winter Is Cold
It’s a fun activity! A freeform stew of music filled goo for your mid-week, mid-afternoon enjoyment.
Strapping Fieldhands – Ben Franklin Airbath Rocket from the Tombs – Spooky Richard Hell & The Voivoids – You Gotta Lose Saâda Bonaire – This Is A Man’s Man’s World
Kak – Lemonade Kid David Nance – Save Me Some Tears Porter Wagoner – Waldo The Weirdo
The Rudy Schwartz Project – Carry Me Back to the Good Ol’ U.S.A. The Bonzo Dog Band – You Done My Brain In Robert Fripp – Disengage II
Brass Buttons – Hell Will Take Care of Her The Blue Van – Don’t Leave Me Blue Allahs-Las – Light Yearly Warphphle – Going Down The Motives – The Chair
Snakefinger – Trashing All The Loves of History Rockfour – Route 66 Blue Oyster Cult – Transmaniacon MC Black Cab – New Speedway Boogie Glass Sun – Silence Of The Morning The Original Sins – Kill The Buddha
The Slits – Love Und Romance Tapper Zukie – Man Ah Warrior Coo Coo Rockin’ Time – Plenty of Room on the Radio Sunwatchers w/Eugene Chadbourne – This Ain’t No Picnic Minutemen – Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love
The Soft Boys – Sandra’s Having Her Brain Out Sparks – Equator David E. Williams -What’s Your Scene, Jellybean David Cassidy – How Can I Be Sure Flo & Eddie – Keep It Warm
Fred Lane & His Desheveled Monkeybiters – I’m Gonna To Hell (When I Die)
All eyes and ears are on Georgia and thus a radio salute.
Yep, two hours of music from the State of Georgia.
Hear known and obscure nuggets, pebbles, and peaches crossing genres and time.
James Brown – Get Up, Get Into It , Get Involved The Woogles – Take It To The People Joe South – Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Love Tractor – Highland Sweetheart Guadalcanal Diary – Trial of Tears Buddy’s Buddies – Tell Me What I See LIttle Phil & The Night Shadows – The Way It Used To Be
The Nightporters – Mona Lisa Dreams So Real – Everywhere Girl Elf Power – Jane Circulatory System – The Pillow Deerhunter – Spring Hall Convert
LIttle Richard – Bama Lama, Bama Loo Beethoven 4 – Sets My Soul On Fire Chickasaw Mudd Puppies – McIntosh Black Lips – Boys In Wood The Rock A Teens – Carla Anne
Thirteen-One-Eleven – My Bible Is The Latest TV Guide Vic Chestnutt – Supernatural Michael Stipe – Drive To The Ocean Opal Foxx Quartet – Blue Exception
Pylon – Crazy Kevin Dunn – Cars and Explosions The B-52’s – Rock Lobster (Db Records version) The Coathangers – Stop Stomp Stompin’
Otis Redding (with The Pinetoppers) – Shout Bamalama The Spontaneous Combustions – Up In My Mind Primitons – Seeing Is Believing R.E.M. – Exhuming McCarthy
In response to the FEWSH (fellow radio station colleague) Batmanless episode, Listen Up! presents an all Batman themed show.
Neal Hefti – Batman Theme Gate Wesley & Band – Do The Batman Combo Kings – Batman A Go-Go Jon & Lee The Checkmates – Batman Batusi
La Bert Ellis – Batman Theme Lavern Baker – Batman To The Rescue Sun Ra Arkestra – I’m Gonna Unmask The Batman Celio Balona – Tema De Batman The Merriettes – Look Out For The Batman Robin & The Batmen – Batskinnner
Link Wray & The Wraymen – Batman Theme The Squires – Batmobile The Camps – The Ballad of Batman Seeds of Euphoria – Let’s Send Batman To Vietnam Bob Schneider – Batman
Sam Chalpin – Batman Theme Jenny Clay – Even Batman Jumpin’ Gene Simmons – The Batman Gotham City Crime Fighters – Whole Stole The Batmobile Shapes – (I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette)
The Piano Guys – Batman Evolution Adam Batman West – The Story of Batman Ivan Cattaneo – Maria – Batman De Hazestaartjes – Batman King Sounds of The Israelites – Batman
Voivod – Batman Theme Cruela – Batman The Stolen Minks – Batman (You’re The Sex) The Spotlights – Batman and Robin
The Who – Batman Theme Rocky and The Riddlers – Batman The Chud – Don’t Call Me Batman The Plunderers – Batman Scotty McKay and His Orchestra – Batman Bobby Valentin – Batman’s Bugaloo
Johnnie Morrisette – (Bat Man) For Days Invisible Burgandy Bullfrog – Batman Rides Again Scaffold – Goodbat Nightman The Sensational Guitars Of Dan & Dale – Batman Theme
John Anealio – Batman Smells (A Rebuttal)
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A show filled with old and new music presented within the “underground/freeform radio” style. Genres can include (but not limited to): garage, folk & folk rock, power pop, prog rock, and also a wide selection of interesting and rare singer-songwriter, harmony pop, soft rock, lounge-punk and glam, , brown acid sludge ,space jazz, avant-garde, vanity-pressings and “outsider” albums.
Playlist The Fleshtones – Alex Trebek Oblivians – Call The Police Alex Chilton – Jumpin’ Jack Flash The Exbats – I Got The Hots For Charlie Watts
Uriah Heep – July Morning The Gods – Towards The Sky Toe Fat – Working Nights Uriah Heep – The Wizard
Creem Circus – La Machine James Williamson & Deniz Tek – Jet Pack Nightmare Slade – Them Kinda Monkeys Can’t Swing
Husker Du – Love Is All Around The Lollipop Shoppe – Don’t Look Back The Carrie Nations – Find It
Le Tigre – Get Off The Internet Whoom-Elements – Men In The Politics Saint Pe – Kiss It Goodbye Cobalt Chapel – Who Are The Strange
Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy (feat. Matt Sweeney) – OD’d In Denver The Electric Farm – Shabby Girl Dan Horne – The Motorcycle Song The Byrds – Goin’ Back
Cut Worms – Sold My Soul Crazy Horse – I Don’t Want To Talk About It Dillard & Clark – Why Not Your Baby Nikki Sudden & The French Revolution – French Revolution Blues
Mountain Goats – Bridge of Sighs
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Lucinda Williams – Man Without a Soul Pink Floyd – Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Max Roach -Triptych: Prayer, Protest, Peace The Fugs – Exorcism of the White House Edgar Broughton Band – Out Demons Out
Laura Nyro – Save The Country Kyle Craft – Before The Wall Alex Chilton – All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain John Lennon – Hold On
Minutemen – Political Nightmare The Mothers of Invention – It Can’t Happen Here Warren Zevon – Lawyers, Gun And Money The Temptations – Ball Of Confusion Little Scream – Dear Leader
Planet Gong – Opium For The People Radiohead – I Want None Of This Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah – Hesitating Nation Leonard Cohen – Democracy
Big Star – Ballad Of El Goodo Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush – Don’t Give Up
Sharon Jones – This Land Is Your Land
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All you vampires. insomniacs and other dark hour inhabitants, let us stay up all night for my annual spooktacular overnight shindig! It’s a zany ghoul a go-go theme this year with all kinds of back from the grave and assorted graveyard stompers. Since we also turn the clock back, in honor of the “Time Warp” at 2am, The Rocky Horror Soundtrack reinterpreted via some interesting and perhaps bizarre cover versions. So join me from the bewitching hour of midnight to dawn for all kinds of trick and treating.
Archive stream is broken into four parts
Midnight to 1am Fuzztones – Happy Halloween
Jackie Morningstar – Rockin’ In The Graveyard The Crystals – Frankenstein Twist Richard Rome – Ghost A Go-Go Mann Drake – Vampire’s Ball
Louis Armstrong – Spooks Ervinna and The Stylers – Witch Queen Of New Orleans Jericho Jones – Black Magic Jerry Wald – The Creeper October Country – My Girlfriend Is A Witch
The Hi-Risers – Ghost of The Surfer Girl The Ventures – Exploration In Terror The Skeptics – Legend Of The Headless Surfer The Pandoras – Haunted Beach Party
Kip Tyler – She’s My Witch Glenn Ryle – Wolf Girl Batlord – Undertaker Demented Are Go – One Sharp Knife Dead Moon – Graveyard Gravedigger V – All Black And Hairy
1-2am Peter & The Wolf – Mr. Frankenstein Christine Pilzer – Dracula Cobra Verde – Modified Frankenstein Bobby Bare – Vampira Yummy Fur – Frankenstein A-Go-Go John Zacherle – Dinner With Drac
The Vettes- Devil’s Driver Theme Mike Adkins – The Invaders Are Here The Invasion – The Invasion Is Coming Blue Oyster Cult – E.T.I (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
Hasil Adkins – No More Hot Dogs Kenn Kerr & The Idols – Haunted House Billy Barton – The Devil, My Conscience And I Porter Wagoner – First Mrs Jones Eddie Noack – Psycho
Griz Green – Jam At The Mortuary Alice Cooper – I Love The Dead The Original Sins – Evil Hoodoo
Time Warp/Daylights Savings Hour Rocky Horror Picture Show – Time Warp
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Science Fiction, Double Feature Sua Rakastan – Näet Janet (Dammit Janet) (Finnish) Rasputina – Over at the Frankenstein Place Transexual Glamour – Time Warp (Japanese) The Jezebelles – Sweet Transvestite Pansy Division – Can Make You A Man Leikarar úr Leikfélagi MH – Laugardagskvöld (Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul) (Icelandic) Rocky Horror Argentina -I Can Make You A Man (Reprise)(Spanish) Rocky Horror Korea -Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me (Korean) Gene Chiovari and the Completely Crazy – Eddie Ukulele Munson and His Instructional Ukulele – Rose Tint My World The Necro Tonz – I’m Going Home Show De Terror De Rock Mexican – Super Hero (Spanish) Munich School Chorus – Science Fiction/Double Feature: Reprise
2-3am Maury Laws & Jules Bass – The Mummy The Upperclassmen – Cha Cha With The Zombies Larry’s Rebel – Halloween Pink Floyd – Lucifer Sam The Lollipop Shoppe – You Must Be A Witch
Neanderthals – 2000 Pound Werewolf The Diamonds – Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein Or Dracula Bill Buchanan – Beware Jim Burgett – Jekyll And Hyde Artie Shaw – Nightmare The 7th Court – One Eyed Witch The Prophets – Night Of The Beast
Murray Schafe And The Aristocrats – Tombstone #9 Teddy Durant – The Night Stalker The Hollywood Flames – Frankenstein’s Den Paul Frees as Bela Lugosi – Games People Play Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
3-4am Paul Chaplain – The Hearse Glenda & Glen – Voodoo Doll Garry Warren – Werewolf The Frantics – Werewolf The Cramps – I Was A Teenage Werewolf Link Wray – Graveyard Billy Ghoulston – Graveyard Stomp
Bily Snel -Queen Of Halloween Gene “Bo” Davis – Satan’s Daughter George Morgam – Tennessee Hillbilly The J Ann Trio – Voo Doo Doll Newports – I’m In The Ground For Good Bobby Please – The Monster Round Robin – I’m The Wolfman
Bracey Everett – Lover’s Curse Betty Lavett – Witchcraft In The Air The Gladiators – Bleak House Zen Fuller – Doomsday The Magics – Zombie Walk
Eddie Thomas – Frankenstein Rock Miss L. L. Louise Lewis – Monster’s Bride Denims – The Ghost In Your House Is Me Social Outcasts – Mad
4-5am
The Executioners – The Guillotine Thee Outlets – Vampire Of Mine Southern Culture On The Skids – The Loneliest Ghost In The World Inflatable Boy Clams – Skeletons Rhythm Rockers – Madness
Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors – Scream! The Madmen – Haunted The Detergents – Igor’s Cellar Billy & The Dukes – Roland
Kenny & The Fiends – The Raven The Circus – Burn With Burn The Ebb-Tides – Seance Richie Allen – Cave Man Ted Cassidy – The Lurch
Don Bishop – Nightmare Jessie Floyd – Satan’s Wife The Quests – Shadows In The Night Bob Regan – Tarantula Vic Plati Quintet – The Chiller Tony Casanova – The Grave
5-6am Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Hear Voices Lord Luther – I Was A Teenage Creature The Devils – The Devil Dance Frantic Flintstones – Date With The Devil
The Monstrosities – Dance Along With Dracula Hamilton Streetcar – Invisible People Mr. Baseman & The Symbols – Do The Zombie Roky Erickson – I Walked With A Zombie The Fleshtones – Haunted Hipster
The Kiriae Crucible – The Salem Witch Trial The Rattles – The Witch Pale Lips – I’m A Witch The Sonics – The Witch The Mystrys – Witch Girl
Screaming Tribesmen – Date With A Vampyre The Stems – She’s A Monster Hoodoo Gurus – Dig It Up The Spellbinders – Castin’ My Spell
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