Lots of glitter in the litter with more obscure hook-filled rock’n’ roll releases of the Glam, Power Pop, Pop/psych, Garage, Bubblegum, Surf, 60s Girl Group type of sounds as well as the usual quirkiness.

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

Andy Mackay – In Search of Eddie Riff – 1974

Daddy Maxfield – Rave ‘n’ Rock – Rave n Rock/ Smilin’ Again -1973
Capt. Groovy & His Bubblegum Army – Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army – Captain Groovy And His Bubblegum Army / Dark Part Of My Mind -1968
Original Sins – Juicy Fruit – Self Destruct – 1990
Lemming – Father John – Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet -1974

Billy Hamon – Butch Things – Glitter from the Litter Bin – 20 Junk Shop Glam Rarites from the 1970s -1978
Galahad – Summer Rocket – The Electric Asylum Vol. 1 – 1973
Moonquake – Remember – Moonquake -1972
Daddy Cool – Teenage Blues – Daddy’s Coolest -1972

Milk ‘n’ Cookies – Not Enough Girls In The World – Milk ‘n’ Cookies -1975
Trevor White – Crazy Kids – Crazy Kids/Movin’ In The Right Direction -1975
Neil Norman – Wild Boys – Wild Boys/ Tits From Mars -1974

The Handcuffs – Beg Me Beg Me – Model for a Revolution -2006
The Pussywillows – My Baby Looks But He Don’t Touch – Spring Fever -1988
The Cake – You Can Have Him – The Cake -1967
Ellie Greenwich – You Don’t Know – You Don’t Know/ Baby – 1965

The Barracudas – Surfers Are Back – Drop Out With The Barracudas – 1981
The Skeptics – Legend of the Headless Surfer – The Deadly Spawn – 1986
The Angels – (You Can’t Take) My Boyfriend’s Woody – Hey, Beach Girls! Female Surf ‘n’ Drag 1961-1966 -1964
The Dantes – Top Down Time – Pebbles Vol 4 -1962

Amy Rigby – Dancing with Joey Ramone – Little Fugitive -2005
The Ramones – Rockaway Beach – The Ramones -1977
The Clingers – Gonna Have A Good Time – Girls in the Garage, Vol. 11 -1969
Marcus Hook Roll Band – Natural Man – Marcus Hook Roll Band Featuring Harry Vanda & George Young -1973

Hector – Wired Up – Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet -1974
The Mad Hatters – The Humphrey Song – The Humphrey Song/Loving You Ain’t Easy -1976
Casper Giles McCloud – Make You Feel Like You’re Mind – Messin’ Around/ Make You Feel Like Your Mine -1979

Thomas Dean Eubanks – Oh Babe – Rock City – 1974

The Blank Stares – The Song That Brought The World To Ruin – Some Soundalikes, Sometimes They Sound Like… – 2010
The Nines – Driving Myself Insane – Calling Distance Stations -2006
Paul and Barry Ryan – Glad To Know You – Killed By Glam – 16 UK Junk Shop Glam Rarities From The 1970’s -1973
Stanley Frank – S’cool Days – S’cool Days/On A Line -1977
Saft – People In Motion – People In Motion / Albertine Hall -1971

The Jets – Yeah! – Crazee Kids Sound – 1973

Life Is Better In Movies this week on Listen Up!. Songs about films and cinematic joys, plus the director of Steve Chong Finds Out Suicide Is A Bad Idea , Charlie LaVoy chats with us about this independent movie that is currently getting some notice on the film festival circuit. The wacky world of the movie biz and more.

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

Various Artists – Ultra-lounge vol. 16, Mondo Hollywood

Butterfly Joe – Life is Better In The Movies – Butterfly Joe -2007
Genesis – The Cinema Show – Selling England By The Pound -1973
Sloan – In The Movies -Pretty Together -2001

Garland Jeffreys – 35 Millimeter Dreams – Ghost Writer – 1977
The Kinks – Groovy Movies – The Great Lost Kinks Album – 1969

Interview with Charlie LaVoy, Director of Steve Chong Finds Out That Suicide Is A Bad Idea
Vagabond Swing – Kampania/Merry Go Wrong – Soundtrack To An Untimely Death  -2012
Vox and The Hound – High Horse – 20??
Interview with Charlie LaVoy, Director of Steve Chong Finds Out That Suicide Is A Bad Idea

Gary Numan – Films – Pleasure Principle – 1979
Eugene McGuinness – Those Old Black and White Movies Were True – Eugene McGuinness – 2008
Yo La Tengo – Tom Courtenay – Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 -1995

Flaming Lips – Godzilla Flick – Hear It Is – 1986
The Psyclone Rangers – Godzilla – Third Story -199?
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead – 1979-1983: Volume 1- 1979

Julian Cope – Robert Mitchum – Skellington – 1990
Roxy Music – 2 H.B. – Roxy Music -1972
EDO – This Is Your Life Boris Karloff – Wrinkles – 1998

Go To Blazes – Bloody Sam – Anytime…Anywhere -1994

Does your Monday need two hours of music from the margins filled with unpopular pop, non-pusillanimous rock and roll, vicious and delicious sounds new and old, local and distant?

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

101 Strings – Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000 – 1968

Love and Rockets – Kundalini Express – Express – 1986
Weird Hot – Bikers Vs Rockers – Weird Hot II – 2012
David Sylvian – When Poets Dreamed of Angels – Secrets of the Beehive -1987

Television Personalities – Salvador Dali’s Garden Party – Made In Japan Bonus EP – 1996
Tame Impala – Elephant – Lonerism -2012
Pink Floyd – Childhood’s End – Obscured By Clouds – 1972
Twink -Tiptoe On The Highest Hill – Think Pink – 1970

The Deviants – Garbage – Ptooff -1967
Night Beats – War Games – Night Beats -2011
Nazz – Christopher Columbus – Nazz III – 1970
The Loved Ones – Surprise Surprise -Attack of the Jersey Teens -1966

Pawnee Drive – Ride – Pebbles Vol. 12 – 1969
Sparks – Sextown USA – Angst in My Pants -1982
Amanda Lear – The Stud – Sweet Revenge -1978
Vulcan Death Grip – Get It Up Or Get Out – Tellus #18: Experimental Theater Cassette – 1987

Arnold Corns – Moonage Daydream – Ziggy Stardust – 30th Anniversary Reissue -1971
Ex Reverie – Black Butterfly – Praxis -2011
Hex- Mercury Towers – Hex -1989
Game Theory – Chardonnay – Lolita Nation – 1987

The Only Ones – The Whole Of The Law – The Only Ones -1978
The Velvet Underground – Foggy Notion – VU -1969
The Feelies – Fa Ce La – Crazy Rhythms -1980

Barbara Manning – Scissors -One Perfect Green Blanket -1991
Mary Timony – Return To Pirates -Ex Hex -2005
The Leopards – I Wonder If I’ll Ever See You Again -Shake Some Action Vol. 7: U.S.A. – 1978

Hildegard Knef – Holiday Time -he In-Kraut Vol.2 – Hip Shaking Grooves Made in Germany 1967-1974 – 1971

Listen Up! will be digging deep into the crates to bring you some sweaty sounds for music lovin’ muffins. It could be a classic (or obscure) 70’s glam rock number or not. Tune in to find out.

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

Santo and Johnny – The Best of Santo and Johnny

Tyrannosaurus Rex – King Of The Rumbling Spires – Unicorn (Expanded Remaster) -1969
Pink Fairies – I Wish I Was A Girl – Kings of Oblivion -1973
The Move – When Alice Comes Back To The Farm – Looking On -1970

Alice Cooper – Second Coming – Love It To Death -1971
Lemming – Lucifera -Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet -1973
Pantherman – Pantherman – Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet -1974
Roxy Music – The Thrill Of It All – Country Life – 1974

Flamin’ Groovies – Jailbait – Flamingo – 1971
Streak – Bang Bang Bullet – Glitterbest – UK Glam With Attitude 1971-1976 -1973
Tiger B Smith – Tiger Rock – Tiger Rock -1974

Sadistic Mika Band – Black Ship – Sadistic Mika Band -1974
Badfinger – Know One Knows – Wish You Were Here -1974
Big Star – Daisy Glaze – Radio City -1974
Chris Bell – I Am The Cosmos – I Am The Cosmos -1978

Blue Oyster Cult – Dominance and Submission – Secret Treaties -1974
Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Swampsnake – Next -1973
White Witch – Class of 2000 – A Spiritual Greeting -1974

Amon Düül II  – Jalousie – Viva La Trance – 1973
High Tide – Blood Lagoon -Precious Cargo -1970
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation – Warning – Remains To Be Heard -1970

Elias Hulk – Delhi Blues – Unchained -1970

This Monday (July15th) on Listen Up!:  Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Into the void we have to travel, to find the clue which will unravel. Leave the capsule if you dare. We will travel the spaceways and be bound for a star with fiery oceans. It is interplanetary music for astral travelers. Prepare for blast off.

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

Brian En0 – Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks – 1983

Flaming Lips – Sunship Balloons – Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell – 2003
Pink Floyd – Set The Controls To The Heart Of The Sun – A Saucerful of Secrets – 1968
Legendary Pink Dots – A Triple Moon Salute – Chemical Playschool Volumes 8 & 9 -1995
Bjork – Dark Matter – Biophilia – 2011

Air – Seven Stars – Le Voyage Dans La Lune – 2012
Gong – A Sprinkling of Clouds – You – 1974
Loop – Black Sun – Duel -1992

The Rolling Stones – 2000 Light Years From Home – Their Satanic Majesties Request – 1967
The Gods – Towards The Skies – Genesis – 1968
Genesis – In The Beginning – From Genesis To Revelation – 1969
Kevin Ayers – Where Do The Stars End – That’s What You Get Babe -1980

Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra – We Travel The Spaceways – When The Sun Comes Out – 1963
Flying Saucer Attack The Season Is Ours – Flying Saucer Attack -1993
Boards of Canada – 1969 – Geogaddi  – 2002
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes – Astral Traveling – Astral Traveling –  1973

Hawkwind – Space Is Deep – Doremi Fasol Latido -1972
Porcupine Tree – The Moon Touches Your Shoulder – The Sky Moves Sideways -2002
King Crimson – Moonchild – In The Court Of The Crimson King – 1969

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Solar Fire – Solar Fire – 1973
Captain Beyond – Drifting In Space  – Suffiently Breathless -1973
Mort Garson – Walking In Space – Electronic Hair Pieces -1969

Deep Purple – Space Truckin’ – Machine Head -1972

This week  on Listen Up!: Meshing known and unknown platters of sound, as well as the dregs irresponsibly into a decadent mind melting cocktail.

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

George Harrison – Wonderwall Music – 1969

Tiny Tim – Welcome To My Dream – God Bless Tiny Tim -1968
Plasticland – Flower Scene – Wonder Wonderful Wonderland -1985
The Turtles – I’m Chief Kamanawanalea (We’re The Royal Macadamia Nuts) – Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands – 1968
The Rabble – I Can Still Hear The Laughing – The Rabble – 1968

The Advisory Circle – And The Cuckoo Comes – Mind How You Go EP – 2005
Savages – Shut Up – Silence Yourself – 2013
Siouxsie & The Banshees – You’re Lost Little Girl – Through The Looking Glass – 1987
Sonic Youth – Secret Girl – EVOL – 1986

Bjork – Declare Independence – Volta – 2007
The Breeders – Don’t Call Home – LSXX – 1992
Broadcast – The Book Lovers – Work and Non Work – 1997

Bryan Scary – Misery Loves Company – The Shredding Tears – 2006
Jacco Gardner – Puppets Dangling – Cabinet of Curiosities -2013
Syd Barrett – No Good Trying – The Madcap Laughs – 1970
Temples – Shelter Song – Temples – 2012
The Leopards – Psychedelic Boy – Be A Caveman – The Best Of Voxx Garage Revival 1979-1990 – 1987

Destroyer – Foam Hands – Trouble in Dreams – 208
The Kinks – Shangri-La – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) – 1969
Television Personalities – The Peter Gabriel Song – Are We Nearly There Yet? – 2007
Peter Gabriel – A Wonderful Day In The One-Way World – Peter Gabriel (2) – 1978

Television – Friction – Marquee Moon – 1977
King Tuff – Dancing On You – Was Dead – 2008
Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs – Be Glamorous – Clarietta – 2013
Nick Gilder – Got To Get Out – City Nights – 1978
Ultravox! – Rockwrok – Ha!-Ha!-Ha! – 1977

Sonny & The Sunsets – Palmreader – Antenna to the Afterworld – 2013
The Rokes – When The Wind Arises – Real Life Permanent Dreams – 2008
TOY – Walk Up To Me – Toy – 2012

17 Pygmies – Icarus – Captured In Ice -1985

Listen Up! continues to meander through a labyrinth of music shining a beacon on the unsung, should-be-sung, and will-be-sung recordings that clutter the dusty corridors that crisscross time and continents.  Get lost in the maze of sound this afternoon

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

The music of Vic Mizzy

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Big Eyed Beans From Venus – Clear Spot 1972
The Cramps – Bend Over, I’ll Drive – Look Mom No Head! – 1991
Joy Division – Interzone – Unknown Pleasures -1979
The Fugs – Frenzy – The Fugs Second Album – 1966

Collins Kids – Whistle Bait – Hop Skip & Jump – 1958
Vern Pullens – Bop Crazy Baby – Get It On! – The Music That Made Bolan Boogie – 1956
Ronnie Self – Date Bait -Essential Rockabilly – The Columbia Story -1958
Jeff Daniels – Daddy-O Rock – Hey Woman/Daddy-O Rock -1956
The Gories – Let Your Daddy Ride -I Know You Fine, But How You Doin’ -1995

Invaders – Spacing Out – Enjoy the Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992 – 1970
Brother JT – Sweatpants -Any  Stort  In A Porm -2012
Yoko Ono – O’ Oh – Ono Box -1992

Vinny Roma – Ah, Music – Enjoy the Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992 – 1968

Los Correcaminos – Incienso y Menta – From The Mexican Garage – 1968
Pink Floyd – Candy and A Currant Bun – Pipers at The Gates of Dawn (Bonus Tracks) -1967
The Soft Boys – The Face of Death -Wading Through a Ventilator -1984
Bee Gees – Lemons Never Forget -Horizontal -1968

Modern Lovers – Astral Plane – The Modern Lovers -1976
The Velvet Underground – Cool It Down – Loaded – 1970
13th Floor Elevators – She Lives (In A Time of Her Own) – Easter Everywhere – 1967
The Move – Wild Tiger Woman -Anthology 1966 -1972 – 1968

The Ridiculous Trio – No Fun – Plays The Stooges – 2004
Pharoah Sanders – Japan – Tauhid -1966
King Crimson – Ladies of The Road – Islands -1971
The Nice – Thoughts of Emerlist Davejack – The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack -1967

David Bowie – Lady Grinning Soul – Alladin Sane – 1973
Bauhaus – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything – The Sky’s Gone Out -1 982
Echo & The Bunnymen – Nocturnal Me – Ocean Rain – 1984
Toyah – It’s A Mystery – Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! -1981
Little Scream – Boatman – The Golden Record -2011

Gary Knight – The World 2000 – (courtesy of Tommy Ardolino) – year unknown

Listen Up has been happening every Monday from 2-4pm for one year now, bringing you an intoxicating dose of psychedelia, acid folk, power pop, rock and roll, garage, freak-beat, new wave, post punk, weird movie scores, prog, folk,girl groups, innuendo filled bubblegum, thrift store finds, tropicalia, jazz, sunshine pop and many assorted strange delights that provide a soundtrack for your afternoon escapes. The freeform haze of music exhumation happens this afternoon

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

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Background Music

Nino Rota – Il Casanova Di Federico Fellini -1976

Aphrodite’s Child – Loud Loud Loud  – 666 – 1972
Jacques Dutronc – Sur une Nappe de Restaurant – Volume 1 (1966-1967) -1966
David Bowie – I’ll Take You There – The Next Day -2013
The Monks – We Do Wie Du – Black Monk Time -1966
Sparks – Arts & Crafts Spectacular – Morrissey: Under the Influence – 1969

Goldfrapp – Pilots – Felt Mountain -2000
Ennio Morricone – Verushka (The Poetry of Woman) – Veruschka -1971
Roxy Music – In Every Dream Home A Heartache – For  Your Pleasure – 1973
Japan – Ghosts – Tin Drum – 1981

Gary Wilson – 6.4 Equals Makeout – You Think You Really Know Me -1977
Brett Smiley – Space Ace – Breathlessly Brett -1974
Air – Surfing On A Rocket – Talkie Walkie -2004
Adam & The Ants – Never Trust A Man (With A Egg On His Face) – Dirk Wears White Sox – 1979

The Fourth Way – The Far Side Of Your Mind – A Heavy Dose Of Lyte Psych -1968
France Gall – Nefertiti – Made In France : France Gall’s Baby Pop – 1967
Bauhaus – Who Killed Mr. Moonlight – Burning from The Inside -1983
Iggy Pop – Sister Midnight – The Idiot – 1977

Sandie Shaw – You’re Time In Gonna Come – Reviewing The Situation -1969
The Rotary Connection – We’re Going Wrong -Songs -1969
Marsha Hunt – My World Is Empty Without You Babe (Hickory Dickory Dock) – Woman Child -1971

The Poppy Family – Where Evil Grows -Poppy Seeds – 1971
The Pretty Things – Grass – Parachute – 1970

Margo Guryan – Sun – Take A Picture -1968
Belle and Sebastian – Beautiful – 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light -2000
Roy Wood – All The Way Over the Hill/ Irish Rover (and His Hen) – Boulders – 1073

Dynastie Crisis – Faust ’72 – Faust 72 / Vivre libre – 1972
Abby Travis – Lulu – IV – 2012

The Kinks – Rainy Day In June – Face To Face -1966

This  Monday (June 3rd) Listen Up! is turning back the clock to the mid to late 80’s and revisiting some records that came out during that time. Hear musical items put out by labels like SST, Enigma, Pink Dust, Coyote, Homestead, Rough Trade, 4AD and more that clutter the record shelves at the Listen Up! Music Library.

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

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Background Music

Gone – Gone II, But Not Too Gone -1986

Great Plains – Letter To A Fanzine – Naked At The Buy, Sell, And Trade -1985
The Flaming Lips – Everything’s Explodin’ – Oh My Gawd…The Flaming Lips – 1987
Half Japanese – Firecracker Firecracker – Sing No Evil -1984
Velvet Monkeys – Creeper – Rotting Corpse Au-Go-Go -1982
Beat Happening – Bewitched – Jamboree – 1988

Big Dipper – She’s Fetching – Heavens – 1987
Pixies – Waves of Mutilation – Doolittle – 1989
Mudhoney – Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More – Superfuzz Bigmuff – 1988

Ultra Vivid Scene – Guilty Pleasure – Joy 1967-1990 -1990
The Church – Tantalized -Heyday – 1985
The Stone Roses – I am The Resurrection – The Stone Roses – 1989

Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains – I Often Dream of Trains -1984
Nikki Sudden & The Jacobites – Jangle Town – Jangle Town -1986
Chameleons UK – Tears – Strange Times -1986

Butthole Surfers – I Saw An X-Ray Of Girl Passing Gas – Hairway To Steven – 1988
Death of Samantha – Coca Cola and Licorice -Strungout on Jargon -1985
Rat At Rat R – Big Rock Joke Doll – Amer$ide / Rock & Roll Is Dead Long Live / Rat At Rat R -1985

The Original Sins – Like An Animal – Move – 1992
Leaving Trains – Temporal Slut – Fuck – 1987
Yard Trauma – Eyes – Eyes EP -1990
Sonic Youth – Star Power – EVOL – 1986

Vasalines – Molly’s Lips – Enter The Vaselines -1986
The Pastels – I’m Alright With You – I’m Alright With You -1985
The Feelies – Slipping (Into Something) – No One Knows EP -1986

Galaxie 500 – Blue Thunder -On Fire – 1989
The Mekons – Ghost of American Astronauts – So Good It Hurts -1987
The Wedding Present – My Favorite Dress – George Best -1987

Redd Kross – Janus, Jeanie and George Harrison – Neurotica – 1987