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

This Monday (May 27th) Listen Up! presents rashy, obscuro rock ‘n’ roll  and other music for your weenie roasts and Memorial Day shindig happenings.  So fire up the grill and get ready to do the zonk, do the mouse, do the clam…

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(Note:  some minor technical issues with recording of the first couple songs, but it clears up)

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

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Background Music

Various – Those British Instrumentals Vol 5

Elvis Presley – Do The Clam – Girl Happy – 1965 
The Chanters – Bongo Bongo – Hell Bent for Leather – 1967

Betty Logan I Got My Hot Pants On – 196?

Donna Loren – So, Do The Zonk – Girls In The Garage, Vol 6 – 1965

Brute Force – To Sit On A Sandwich – I, Brute Force – Confections Of Love -1967
Hasil Adkins – No More Hot Dogs – Out To Hunch -1986
The Hombres – Am I High – Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) -1968
Titanics – High On Drugs – Titanics -1989

Cliff Nobles – Judge Baby, I’m Back – The Horse -1968
James Brown – Don’t Be A Dropout – Startime – 1966
Rufus Thomas – Jump Back – Jump Back -1965
Andre Williams – Down To Tijuana – Roll Your Moneymaker – Early Black Rock ‘n Roll 1948 -1958 – 1956

The Db’s – If and When – (I Thought) You Wanted To Know / If And When – 1978
Young Rascals – Come On Up – Time Peace: The Rascals’ Greatest Hits -1966
DMZ – Mighty Idy – DMZ -1978

Orchester Werner Muller – Bodybuilding – The In-Kraut: Hip Shaking Grooves Made in Germany 1966-1974 -1972
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra – Take Sex – Space Patrol – 1966

Manfred Mann – Tired of Trying, Bored With Lying, Scared of Dying – The EP Collection – 1965
John Doe & The Acetates – Purple Haze – Fistfull of Fuzz – 196?
J.D. Blackfoot – Epitaph For A Head – High All The Time Vol. 2 ‎-1969
Death – Politicians In My Eyes – …For the Whole World to See -1974

The Head Shop – Infinity – The Head Shop -1969
The Knight Riders – I -Pebbles Vol 13 -1968
The Hogs – Loose Lip Sync Ship – Pebbles Vol 3 – 1966
The Dynamic Batmen – The Joker Laughs – The Batmen and Robin – 1966

The Barracudas – (I Wish It Could Be) 1965 Again – Drpp Out With The Barracudas – 1981
The Beas – Doctor Goldfoot and The Bikini Machine – Doctor Goldfoor and The Bikini Machine -1965
The Belles – Melvin – Pebbles Vol 1 -196?
The Gas Co. – Blow Your Mind – Hard Workin’ Man – The Jack Nitzsche Story – 196?

The Seeds – It’s A Hard Life – The Seeds – 1966
The Blendells – Lalala – The History Of Latino Rock Vol.1 1956-1965 -1964
Soupy Sales – Do The Mouse -1965

The Human Expression – Love at Psychedelic Velocity – Pebbles Vol 10 -1967

This Monday (May 20th) Listen Up! presents another wonderful, wondrous, world-weary, word-heavy collection of songs both new and old, known and forgotten, that go beyond the quarantine of genre.

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

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996

Background Music

Nora Orlandi – 10.000 Dollari Per Un Massacro & Django Per Diecimila Dollari -1967

Calling Hearts – In The Jungle – East of Croydon/In the Jungle -1981
Eno – Back In Judy’s Jungle – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy – 1974
Giles, Giles & Fripp – Thursday Morning – The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp -1968
Mario Molino – Vivaldiana – Tecnologia Moderna 2a Parte -1969

Sparks – Roger – Sparks [Halfnelson] -1972
Marizane – Marizane of The Alien Christ – Stage One -2003
Amor De Dias – Jean’s Waving – The House at Sea -2013

The Clientele – That Night, A Forest Grew – That Night, A Forest Grew -2008
Circus 2000 – You Aren’t Listening – An Escape from a Box -1972

The Monkees – Can You Dig It? – Head – 1968
The Explorers Club – Open The Door – Grand Hotel – 2012
Stories – Kathleen – Stories – 1972
Fairfield Parlour – Soldier of The Flesh – From Home To Home -1970
George Fenton – Black Hole – Shadows -197?

David Sylvian – The Ink In The Well – Brilliant Trees -1984
Damien Youth – Lies We Tell – Phantom Of Fables -2004
Donovan – Divine Daze of Deathless Delight – Essence to Essence -1973
Television Personalities – A Life of Her Own – The Painted Word -2002
The Kinks – The Way Love Used To Be – Percy – 1971

Cream – World of Pain – Disreali Gears – 1967
The Yardbirds – White Summer – Little Games -1967
The Orient Express – Birds of India – The Orient Express -1968
Foxygen – No Destruction – We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic -2013

Woods – To Have In This House – Sun And Shade -2011
Apache Dropout – Katie Verlaine -Bubblegum Graveyard -2012
Mandy More – If Not By Fire – But That Is Me – 1972
Mort Garson – Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant – Mother Earth’s Plantasia -1976

Opal – Supernova – Happy Nightmare Baby -1987