Listen Up! returns (as it usually does every Monday)..Someone took the tuba for a pony ride and the music sounded so much better.  It will be another freeform mix of music for afternoon escapes with various recordings that clutter the dusty rabbit hole of sound,

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

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty

Ultravox! – I Want To Be A Machine – Ultravox!- 1977
Silver Apples – Oscillations  – Silver Apples -1968
Wall of Voodoo – Animal Day – 1981

Joy Division – Dead Souls – Still – 1981
Iggy Pop – Dum Dum Boys – The Idiot – 1977

Japan – My New Career – Gentlemen Take Polaroids – 1980
The Cure – The Hanging Garden – Pornography – 1982

Conceputol – Bulk Fiber – Bulk Fiber / The Space Invaders – 1979?
Sparks – Perfume – Hello Young Lovers -2006
Missing Presumed Dead – Say It With Flowers –  Say It With Flowers -1979
Devo – Social Fools – Hardcore Devo Vol.1 – 1974

The Balanescu Quartet – Computer Love – Possessed – 1992
Sue Jorge & Almaz – The Model – Seu Jorge And Almaz – 2010
Senor Coconut y su Conjunto – Trans Europe Express – El Baile Alemán -2000
Love Tractor – Neon Lights – “Til The Cows Come Home -1984
Kraftwerk – The Man Machine – The Man Machine – 1978

Kate Bush – Deeper Understanding – The Sensual World – 1989
Toyah – Jazz Singers In The Trees  – Prostitute – 1988
Little Scream – The Lamb – The Golden Record – 2011

Brian Eno – The True Wheel – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy -1974
Gary Numan – Down In The Park – Replicas -1979

David Bowie – Sons of The Silent Age –  Heroes – 1977

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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

Listen Up! returns (as it usually does every Monday)..Someone took the tuba for a pony ride and the music sounded so much better.  It will be another freeform mix of music for afternoon escapes with various recordings that clutter the dusty rabbit hole of sound,

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

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty

John Cale – Hello There -Vintage Violence – 1970
Jet – My River – Jet – 1975
Queen – Brighton Rock – Sheer Heart Attack – 1974

Peter Laughner – Amphetamine – Take The Guitar Player For A Ride – 1976
Doug Sahm – Give Back The Key To My Heart – Texas Rock for Country Rollers – 1976

Bill Fay – Be Not So Fearful – Bill Fay – 1969
Michael Nesmith – I Looked Away – Nevada Firefighter – 1971
Townes Van Zandt – Flyin’ Shoes – Flyin’ Shoes – 1978

Tim Buckley – Phantasmagoria In Two – Goodbye And Hello -1967
The Teardrop Explodes – Tiny Children  Wilder – 1981
Arthur Lee & Love – Five String Serenade – Various Artists: The New Rose Story – 1992
The Movements – The Death of John Hall D.Y. – Elephants – 2013

Brother JT – T. Rex Blues – The Svelteness of Boogietude  2013
Opal – Rocket Machine – Happy Nightmare Baby – 1987
Tyrannosaurus Rex – Elemental Child – A Beard Of Stars -1970

Rain Parade – What She’s Done To Your Mind – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip – 1982
Pink Floyd – Green Is The Colour – More – 1969
Bridget St. John – Back To Stay – Songs for the Gentle Man – 1971
John and Beverley Martyn – The Ocean – Stormbringer! – 1970

Jad Fair – Mule In The Corn – Like It When You Smile – 1992
NRBQ – The Dough Got Low – Tapdancin’ Bats – 1983
Lovin’ Spoonful – Your A Big Boy Now – Anthology – 1967
Bunky and Jake – Down In Uncle Henry’s Basement – L.A.M.F. – 1969

Bob Dylan – I Threw It All Away – Nashville Skyline – 1969
Jacobites – Son Of A French Nobleman – Ragged School – 1986

Mott The Hoople – Henry and The H-Bombs –  The Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective – 1972

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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

This week Listen Up! is shaking with the Italian beat. It will be two hours of Italian bands from the sixties serving up some familiar tunes (sung in Italian) and choice original numbers. It will be a Firenze Freakout, a Roma Raveup….

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty

Ghigo e Ghoghi – Ciao (Shout) – 
Cuccioli – Tu Non Sai (The Kids Are Alright)
Gli Uragani – Con Quella Voce (Can’t Explain)
I Fantoms – Le Insegne Pubblicatarie

Piermaurizio – Acqua Sporca (Dirty Water) 
Rita Pavone – Il Geghegè
Caterina Caselli – Tutto Nero (Paint It Black)
Popi – Fuoco (Fire)

Gli Innominati – Prendi Un Fiammifero (Light My Fire)
Chriss & The Strokes – Torno In Russia (Back In The USSR)
I Diabolico – C’e Una Strada (Homburg)
Le Forze Nuevo – Le 7 Del Mattino 
Gli Hu! – Aspetti (Il Mio Ritorno) (Respect) 
The Primitives – Gira, Girab (Reach Out I’ll Be There)

David E Sara – Facciamo L’amore non la Guerra (Good Vibrations)
Gianni Pettinati & i Juniors – Il Superuomo (Sunshine Superman)
I Sagittari – Tu Piu Lui 
La Ragazza ’77 – Ill Beat Cos e’ (The Beat Goes On)

5 Gentlemen – Dimmi Dylan 
Wretched – Come Una Pietra Che Rotola (Like a Rolling Stone)
I Memphis – Sono Una Roccia (I am a Rock) 
Augusto Righetti – Quello Che Manca (Paperback Writer)
Formula 3 – Eppur Mi Son Scordato Di Te

Stormy Six – L’amico e il fico
THe New Rangers – Oggi Piango (All or Nothing) 
I Memphis – Come Il Tempo (Time Won’t Let me) 

I Colours- Hush
Mat 65 – Un Riparo Per Noi (With A Girl Like You) 
I Corvi – Sospesa ad Un Filo (I Had Too Much To Dream)

I Camaleonti – La Liberta (Last Train To Clarksville)
Equipe 84 – Sei Felice (Tired of Waiting)
I 4 Calliffi – Ti Guiro E Cosi (You Really Got Me)
Juniors – Chi e’ (Get Back)

I Trappers – lui lui non ha (louie louie)

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

35 Years ago on March 28th, a partial nuclear meltdown occurred in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors. Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh recommended that pregnant women and young children evacuate the area.   Listen Up! chats with Tom Quinn of the blog Tapewrecks . Tapewrecks  has compiled a collection of music relating to the incident and we will hear some of that music and talk about how and why this project came about. 

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level

Background Music

De Fabriek  – Harrisburg

Elliot Sharp – TMI

Nash The Slash – Reactor No. 2

Metalhead Motion Pictures – Three Mile Island

Al Shade and Jean Romaine – Three Mile Island
Maxwell – Radiation Funk
The Turn Ups – Radioactive Baby
The Tyme- Aires – Three Mile Island

The Judys – Radiation Squirm
Russell Hoffman – The Beatles at Three Mile Island

Fred and the Jupiter Gypsies – Who Will Close Pandora’s
Box?
Joy Ryder & Avis Davis – No More Nukes!
The Fourth Wall – Your Money or Your Life

Reesa and The Rooters – TMI
Syn – Radioactive Nights
Wreck ‘n’ Crew – Radioactive Love
Transistors – R-Love (Is Approaching Critical Mass)

The Zips- Radioactivity
Hawkwind – Nuclear Toy
KSMB – Atomreggae Harrisburg

The Citizen Kafka Singers – It’s A Meltdown
The Reactors – Meltdown
The Chicago City Limits – Radiation Polka
The Rattlers – On The Beach

Tom Paxton – All Clear In Harrisburg

Kraftwerk – Radioactivity

Suicide – Radiation
Midnight Oil – Harrisburg
Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band – The Meltdown
Bruce Springsteen – Roulette

Gary & the Outriders – Goodbye TMI

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune

Hear it here
https://radiolistenup.podbean.com/e/show-090-radiation-squirm/

This week,  Listen Up! is getting all ooey and gooey as it will be filled with nothing but those 60’s and 70’s “Bubblegum” sounds.,Lots of chewy chunks of supersweetened pop that is hard to resist.

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Playlist (Artist -Title -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

Music Explosion – Sunshine Games -1967
Blowtorch – I Want Sugar All The Time -1971
Decemeber’s Children – Backwards and Forwards -1968
Two Dollar Question – Aunt Matilda’s Double Yummy Blow Your Mind Out Brownies – 1969
1910 Fruitgum Co. – 1,2, 3 Red Light –  1968
Boyce and Hart – I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite – 1968

The Beagles – Sharing Wishes – 1966
Lancelot Link & The Evolution Revolution – Sha-La Love You – 1971
Josie & The Pussycats – Stop, Look and Listen – 1970
Groovy Gooolies – Spend Some Time Together – 1970
The Banana Splits – Doin’ The Banana Split – 1968

The Archies – Sugar, Sugar – 1969
The Osmonds – Crazy Horses – 1972
Ohio Ltd. – Wham Bam – 1973
Nimbus – Lollipop – 1973
Popcorn Rebellion – Sugar Lady – 1969

Shadows Of Knight – My Fire Department Needs A Fireman – 1969
Bo Gentry & Ritchie Cordell – Stone Go Getter -1969
Tommy James & The Shondells – Mirage – 1967
Paul Revere and The Raiders – Cinderella Sunshine  -1969
Crazy Elephant – Gimme Some More -1969
Astronaut Alan & The Planets – Cellophane Mary-Jane – 1969

I Ribelli – Yummy Yummy Yummy -1968
Guillano E I Notturni – Il Ballo Simone – 1968
Golden Earring – Dong Dong Di Ki Di Gi Dong -1968
Bohanna – Jamaica – 1970

The Tonics – Bubblegum Music -1969
Sunny Four – Goodie Good Ice Cream Man – 1969
The Countdown Five – Shaka Shaka Na Na  -1969
Sweet – Wig Wam Bam – 1972
Pawnee Drive – The Ride – 1969
Kasentz Katz Singing Orchestral Circus – Quick Joey Small – 1968

Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine – 1968
Ganip Ganop – Toot Toot Toot -1969
The Tricks – Wham! Bam! Ala Cazam – 1968
1989 Musical Marching Zoo – Mother Goose -1968
Purple Avalanche – Oh Bah Um, Dee Dum -1969
World’s Fare – Sugar Shaker -1970

Tricycle – Yumberry Park -1969
World Of Oz – Muffin Man – 1969
Clique – Superman – 1969

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

This week, Listen Up! ventures down into the dark cellar and get all sludgy and heavy as those gloomy psych and hard rock sounds of some early 70’s LP’s are resurrected.

Taste the mold!

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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

Black Sabbath – Evil Woman – Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath -1970
Pentagram – Forever My Queen – First Daze Here -1973
Flower Travelin’ Band – Satori Pt II – Satori – 1970

UFO – Timothy  – UFO 1 – 1970
Robert Calvert – The Widow Maker – Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters -1974
Hawkwind – Urban Guerilla – Doremi Fasol Latido -1973

November – Mount Everest -En ny tid är här … -1970
Sir Lord Baltimore – Helium Head (I Got A Love) – Kingdom Come -1970
Speed, Glue & Shinki – Sniffin’ and Snortin’ Pt 2 – Speed, Glue & Shinki -1972
Buffalo – Sunrise (Come My Way) – Volcanic Rock -1973

Leaf Hound – Freelance Hound – Growers of Mushroom -1971
Possessed – Climb The Wooden Hills – Exploration -1971
Rumpelstiltskin – Squadron Leader Johnson – Rumplestiltskin -1970

Blue Oyster Cult – Hot Rails To Hell – Tyranny and Mutation -1973
The Stooges – Dirt – Fun House – 1970

Captain Beyond – Dancing Me Backwards – Captain Beyond – 1972
Blackwater Park – For Noone – Dirt Box – 1972
Atomic Rooster – Sleeping For Years – Death Walks Behind You – 1970

Dust – Stone Woman – 1971
Budgie – Hot As A Docker’s Arm – Squawk -1972
Slade – My Life Is Natural – Slayed? – 1972

Patto – Hold Your Fire – Hold Your Fire – 1971

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

This week, Listen Up! returns with another journey into the labyrinth of sound with a dose of recordings to satisfy 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

This week on Listen Up!: Part V of the 5 part series of radio shows that have been counting down the weeks before I turn 50. The Forties Years (2004-2014) will focus on music that came out during the last 10 years.

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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

Lifeguards – Paradise Is Not So Bad – Waving at the Astronauts -2010
Spoon – The Beast and Dragon, Adored – Gimme Fiction -2005
The War on Drugs – Taking The Farm – Wagonwheel Blues -2008

Asteroid #4 – My Love – These Flowers Of Ours: A Treasury Of Witchcraft and Devilry -2008
Temples – The Golden Throne – Sun Structures -2014

East River Pipe – Life Is A Landfill – What Are You On? -2006
Espers – Hearts & Daggers – Espers – 2004
Devendra Banhart – This Is The Way – Rejoicing In The Hands -2004

Dungen – Du e för fin för mig – Ta det lugnt – 2004
Yasmine Hamdan – Beirut – Ya Nass -2013

Loretta Lynn – Portland, Oregon – Van Lear Rose -2004
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Let It Ride – Cold Roses – 2005
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – My Friend The Sun  – Here and Now -2009

Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins – You Are What You Love – Rabbit Fur Coat -2006

The New Pornographers – Crash Years – Together -2010
Fleet Foxes – He Doesn’t Mind – Ragged Wood -2008
Neko Case – Star Witness – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood -2006

Chesterfield Kings – Up And Down – Psychedelic Sunrise – 2007
Foxygen – We Are The Ambassadors of Peace and Magic – We Are The Ambassadors of Peace and Magic – 2013

Santigold – L.E.S. Artistes – Santigold – 2008
Cat Power – Lived In Bars – The Greatest – 2006
Arcade Fire – Crown of Love – Funeral – 2005

Damian Youth – Keep Away – Test Tube Jesus -2011

This week on Listen Up!: Part IV of the five part series of radio shows as I count down the weeks before I turn 50. The Thirties Years (1994-2004) will focus on music that came out during that time frame.

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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

 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow – No More Shall We Part -2001
Tom Waits – Come On Up To The House – Mule Variations -1999
Spiritualized – Electricity – Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space -1997

Brian Jonestown Massacre – If Love Is The Drug, Then I Want To O.D. – Zero – 2000
Mercury Rev – Tonite It Shows – Deserter’s Songs -1999
Super Furry Animals – Gathering Moss – Fuzzy Logic -1996

Teenage Fanclub – Planets – Songs From Northern Britain -1997
Velvet Crush – My Blank Pages – Teenage Symphonies To God -1994

Guided By Voices – Jane of The Waking Universe – Mag Earwhig! -1997
Photon Band – I Understand – Our Own ESP Driven Scene -199?
Yo La Tengo – Sugarcube – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One – 1997
The Bellrays – Sister Disaster – Red, White & Black – 2003
Reigning Sound – Time Bomb High School – Time Bomb High School -2002
The White Stripes – Hello Operator – De Stijl -2000

Beck – Lost Cause – Sea Changes – 2002
The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – 2000
Lucinda Williams – Drunken Angel – Car Wheels on A Gravel Road -1998

Clinic – Walking With Thee – Walking With Thee – 2002
Elastica – Car Song – Elastica -1995
The Strokes – NY Cops – Is This It? – 2001

Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -2002
The Dirtbombs – Got To Give It Up – Ultraglide in Black -2001
The Dandy Warhols – Godless – Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia -2000

Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – 1998
The Olivia Tremor Control – Jumping Fences – Dusk At Cubist Castle – 1996
Apples In Stereo – Seems So – Tone Soul Evolution -1996
Flaming Lips – A Spoonful Weighs A Ton – The Soft Bulletin – 1999

Low Road – Lullabye – The Devil’s Pocket -1994

This week on Listen Up!:  Part III of the five part series of radio shows that count down the weeks before your host turns 50. The Twenties Years (1984-1994) will focus on music that came out during that time frame. It will be the sounds discovered via hanging out in dingy music venues, reading fanzines, record company mail room clerks, strange record shops and the usual oddballs.

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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

Sebadoh – Gimme Indie Rock  – Gimme Indie Rock -1991
The Leaving Trains – Temporal Slut – FUCK – 1987
Meat Puppets – Plateau – Meat Puppets II – 1984
Butthole Surfers – Moving To Florida – Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis -1986

Half Japanese – Firecracker Firecracker – Sing No Evil -1985
Beat Happening – Foggy Eyes – Beat Happening – 1985
Liz Phair – Stratford-on Guy – Exile in Guyville – 1993
Bongwater – David Bowie Wants Ideas – Double Bummer – 1988

The Fall – Cruisers Creek – This Nation’s Saving Grace –  1985
The Verlaines – Jesus What A Jerk – Some Disenchanted Evening -1989
The Clean – Getting Older – Compilation -1988

The Chameleons – Tears – Strange Times – 1986
R.E.M. – Time After Time (Annelise) – Reckoning – 1984
David Sylvian – When Poets Dreamed of Angels – Secrets Of The Beehive  -1987

Rain Parade – Sad Eyes Kill – Crashing Dream – 1985
Game Theory – Together Now, Very Minor – Lolita Nation – 1987
XTC – Earn Enough For Us – Skylarking – 1986
Camper Van Beethoven – Sometimes – II & III – 1986 

The A-Bones – Time Machine – The Life Of Riley -1991
The Chesterfield Kings – Stop! – Stop! – 1985
Lyres – Here’s A Heart – A promise is a promise – 1988
Redd Kross – Peach Kelli Pop – Neurotica – 1987

The Stone Roses – Going Down – The Stone Roses – 1989
Primal Scream – Higher Than The Sun – Screamadelica -1991

The Original Sins – Alice D. – Self Destruct – 1990

Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians – I’m The Man With the Lightbulb Head – Fegmania! – 1985
Husker Du – The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill – New Day Rising – 1985
The Replacements – Answering Machine – Let It Be – 1984

Billy Bragg – Levi Stubbs’ Tears – Talking With The Taxman About Poetry -1986

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997