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This Monday’s Show (August 13th) Motor City Is Burnin’ and we are gonna get raw, rough, and messy as we feature the high energy rock sounds of Metro Detroit from the late 60’s and 70’s spitting out a healthy dose of anger, determination and attitude.
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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
Background Music
THAT MOTOWN SOUND – 29 Detroit Instrumentals by Choker Campbell bands Earl Van Dyke
The MC5 – Ramblin’ Rose – Kick out The Jams -1969
The Amboy Dukes – You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire – Journey To The Center of The Mind -1968
Terry Knight and The Pack – How Much More? – The Pack Anthology: The Singles 1965-1968 – 1967
The Rationals – Guitar Army – Think Rational – 1969
Detroit – Rock ‘n’ Roll – Detroit With Mitch Ryder – 1971
The Up – Together – Killer Up – 1970
Bob Seger and The Last Herd – Heavy Music (part 1) – Lost Jukebox – 1967
Frigid Pink – House of The Rising Sun – Frigid Pink – 1970
A Jack Van Impe Warning
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges – 1969
Savage Grace – All Along The Watch Tower – Savage Grace -1970
Alice Cooper – Long Way To Go – Love It To Death – 1971
The Third Power – Persecution – Believe -1970
SRC – Black Sheep – SRC -1968
The Pleasure Seekers – What A Way To Die – What A Way To Die – 1966
Don and The Wanderers – On The Road – 1968
Southbound Freeway – Psychedelic Used Car Lot Blues – Michigan Nuggets – 1967
The Amboy Dukes – Journey To The Center of Your Mind – Journey To The Center of The Mind -1968
Frost – Rock and Roll Music – Rock and Roll Music – 1969
Ormandy – Good Day – Michigan Nuggets – 1970
The Underdogs – Love’s Gone Bad – Michigan Nuggets – 1967
The Woolies – Who Do You Love? – Michigan Nuggets – 1966
The Unrelated Segments – Story Of My Life – Nuggets – 1967
Tidal Waves – Farmer John – Michigan Nuggets – 1966
Flaming Ember – Gotta Get Away – Sunshine – 1967
The MC5 – Looking At You – Borderline – 1970
Sonics Rendezvous Band – Electrophonic Tonic – Motor City Is Burnin’ – 1977
Ascension – Get Ready – Detroit Michigan 1972 – 1972
Wayne Kramer – Get Some – 1977
The Stooges – Down On The Street – Funhouse – 1970
Over in the right hand column, you will see a list under the “Sites and Sounds” headline. The list contains a number of radio stations and radio shows. All of the shows listed are programmed and hosted by REAL people. Real Radio is not a jukebox driven by a computer algorithm with no personality.
They are REAL people who care and love the music they are sharing and not a single one of them is deliberately trying to ensnare your soul by deciphering you into some kind of marketing demographic, so that you may be more handily squeezed. Consider that when making your listening choices.
If you know of any shows/stations not listed, share them here. Your input is welcome.
Look for a more detailed editorial on this topic coming soon.
This Monday’s Show (August 6th) is August Au-Go-Go, unleashing an audio avalanche of crazy rock AND roll, garage rock, hopped up and drunk rockabilly, hillbilly horrors, raunchy soul, voodoo R & B, insane instrumentals and more. The wild, the weird and the wonderful mix it up for two hours of afternoon fun.
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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
The Sonics – Maintaining My Cool – Maintaining My Cool – 1966
Electric Prunes – Never Had It Better – Underground – 1967
The Alarm Clocks – No Reason To Complain – Yeah!: Savage Ohio Garage Raunch – 1966
Faron Young – I’m Gonna Live Some Before I Die – Live Fast, Love Hard: Original Capitol Recordings – 1956
Nervous Norvus – Dig – Transfusion/Dig – 1956
Roscoe Gordon – Let’s Get High – Let’s Get High: The Man About Music From Memphis – 195?
Lovin’ Spoonful – Pow! – What’s Up Tiger Lily – 1966
The Devils – Devil Dance – 196?
Brice Coefield – Cha Cha Twist – Cha Cha Twist / Tempted – 1960
Don Gardner – My Baby Likes To Boogaloo – Shakin’ Fit – 1967
Hoodoo Gurus – Like Wow, Wipeout – Mars Need Guitars – 1985
Ann Margret – 13 Men – The Vivacious One -1962
Elvis Presley – Adam and Evil – Spinout -1966
The Cramps – Like A Bad Girl Should – Big Beat From Badsville -1997
Radio Stars – Dirty Pictures – Submarine Tracks & Fool’s Gold -1977
Frankie Laine – Jezebel – Greatest Hits – 1951
Annette Funicello – Don’t Stop Now – Beach Party -1963
Thee Headcoatees – Fish Pie – We Got 7 Inches, But We Wanted Twelve! -1992
Little Phil and The Night Shadows – Sixty Second Swinger – Sixty Second Swinger / In the Air -1966
Ike and Tina Turner – Contact High – Come Together – 1970
The Standells – Medication – The Very Best of The Standells – 1966
The Sorrows – You Got What I Want – Take a Heart -1965
Nick Lowe – Truth Drug – Keep It Out Of Sight /Truth Drug – 1976
The Wailers – Hung Up –Wailers Wailers Everywhere – 1965
Allen Toussaint – Java – The Wild Sound of New Orleans -1958
Slim Gaillard – Potato Chips – Laughing In Rhythm -1952
Little Milton – Grits Ain’t Groceries – Grits Ain’t Groceries -1969
Dave Clark Five – Concentration Baby – The History of the Dave Clark Five -1967
Eddie Noack – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Hillbilly Boogie -1949
Freddie Hart – Snatch It and Grab It – Whistle Bait: 25 Rockabilly Rave-Ups -1956
Jack Donovan and the Knight Cap – Time Machine – Big Itch Vol. 8 – 195?
Gene Dunlap – Made In The Shade – ’50s Rockabilly Pioneers Vol. 2 – 1958
The Shy Ones – 12 Months Later – How Strong My Love Is / 12 Months Later -1967
The Troggs – You Can’t Beat It – Archeology (1967-1977) – 1966
DMZ – When I Get Off – Relics – 1976
Chocolate Watch Band – Don’t Need Your Lovin’ – The Best of The Chocolate Watch Band – 1967
The Animals – Outcast – Animalisms – 1966
The Breakers – Don’t Send Me No Flowers – Pebbles, Vol. 12 – 1965
Teenage Head – You’re Tearing Me Apart – Teenage Head – 1979
Steppenwolf – Faster Than The Speed of Life – The Second – 1968
This Monday’s Show (July 30th) found the program dusting off recordings that fall into the category of Prog Rock. Lots of windswept guitar histrionics, gushing keyboards, lyrics full of mystical allusions and song and album titles bearing no relation to the music and almost as long as the music itself! Streaming live From 2pm 4pm EST.
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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
Background Music
Suspiria: The Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack performed by Goblin
Gong – You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever – You – 1974
Caravan – Water Wine – In The Land of Grey and Pink – 1971
Genesis – Firth of Fifth – Selling England By The Pound – 1973
Chris Squire – Hold Out Your Hand – Fish Out Of Water – 1975
Khan – Space Shanty – Space Shanty – 1972
Renaissance – Mother Russia – Turn Of The Cards – 1974
King Crimson – Cirkus – Lizard – 1970
Van Der Graaf Generator – Killer – H To He Who Am The Only One – 1970
Matching Mole – O’ Caroline – Matching Mole – 1972
Gentle Giant – Experience – In A Glass House – 1973
Nektar – Desolation Valley/Waves – A Tab In The Ocean -1972
Premiata Forneria Marconi – E’ Festa – Storia di un Minuto -1972
Le Orme – Una Delecezza Nuovo – Uomo Di Pezza – 1972
Camel – Another Night – Moonmadness – 1976
This Monday’s show (July 23rd) is an intoxicating blend of music filled with tributes to those in the music world who have recently departed (Jon Lord, Kitty Wells, Lol Coxhill, Bob Babbitt), some swell now and new sounds, lost gems of yesterday and whatever other tunes accumulate in the hallways of the Listen Up! labyrinth.
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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 Space Negros Do Generic Ethnic Muzak Versions of All Your Favorite Punk/Psychedelic Songs From the Sixties
Santa Barbara Machine Head – Rubber Monkey – Blues Anytime Vol 3. – 1968
Deep Purple – Lazy – Machine Head – 1971
The Temptations – Ball of Confusion – Greatest Hits Vol 2. – 1970
Kitty Wells – It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels – Kitty Wells Golden Favorites – 1952
Kevin Ayers – May I? – Shooting At The Moon – 1970
The Damned – Creep (You Can’t Fool Me) – Music For Pleasure – 1977
Pink Floyd – Candy and a Currant Bun – Arnold Layne/Candy and a Currant Bun – 1967
The Flaming Lips – I’m Working at NASA on Acid (featuring Lightning Bolt) – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – 2012
The Impossible Years – Attraction Gear – Battle of the Garages, Vol. II: America’s Psychedelic Underground – 1984
Father John Misty – Hollywood Forever Cemetery – Fear Fun – 2012
King Tuff – Unusual World – King Tuff – 2012
Comet Gain – The Ecstatic Library – Howl Of The Lonely Crowd – 2011
Dan Kibler – Never Good News – Dan Kibler – 2012
David Neil (Steve Kilbey & Ricky Maymi) – Looking For Myself – The Wilderness Years – 2011
Teenage Fanclub – Planets – Songs from Northern Britain – 1997
The Byrds – Triad – The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Reissue Bonus Track) – 1968
Big Star – Kangaroo – Third/Sister Lovers – 1974
Terry Adams – A Girl Who Loves The Stooges – rhythm spell – 2007
The Kinks – Animal Farm – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society – 1968
Bob Dylan – I’ll Keep It With Mine – Biograph – 1965
John Cale – Andalucia – Paris 1919 – 1973
Sixto Rodriguez – Crucify Your Mind – Cold Fact – 1970
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – My Wife and My Dead Wife – Gotta Let This Hen Out! – 1985
Abby Travis – Rosetta – IV – 2012
Blondie – Shayla – Eat To The Beat – 1979
Lou Reed – Perfect Day – Transformer – 1972
Cleaners From Venus – Illy Kuryakin Looked At Me – Living With Victoria Grey -1986
This week’s show (July 16th), is “If You Can’t Beatle them, Join Them” as we crisscross geography and time and play songs that sound a lot like The Beatles…but they aren’t. It isn’t Meet The Beatles, it is Repeat The Beatles.
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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song) (Geographic Origin)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
Background Music
Yellow Submarine film instrumental music
The Bee Gees – In My Own Time – Bee Gee’s 1st – 1967 (Australia)
Ronnie Burns – Coalman – Sixties Down Under – 1967 (Australia)
Bjorn & Benni, Agnetha & Anni-Frid (ABBA) – Santa Rosa – He Is Your Brother/Santa Rosa – 1972 (Sweden)
Czerwone Gitary – Nie Zadzieraj Nosa – To Walsnie My – 1966 (Poland)
Los Shakers – Rompan Todo – Los Shakers – 1966 (Uruguay)
Utopia – I Just Want To Touch You – Deface The Music – 1980 (New York, USA)
The Kaisers – No Other Guy – Shake Me – 2002 (Scotland)
Peter Berry & The Shake Set – Alright – For Goodness Shake – 2007 (Norway)
Guess Who – Till We Kissed – Shakin’ All Over – 1965 (Canada)
The Sneetches – Love Comes My Way – 1985-1991 – 1989 (California, USA)
The Raspberries – Nobody Knows – Fresh – 1972 (Ohio, USA)
The Spongetones – Now Your Gone – Torn Apart – 1984 (North Carolina, USA)
The Db’s – From a Window To A Screen – Repercussions – 1982 (North Carolina, USA)
NRBQ – A Better Word For Love – Message For The Mess Age – 1994 (New York, USA)
Badfinger – Know One Knows – Wish You Were Here – 1974 (Wales)
Squire – No Time Tomorrow – The Singles Album – 1982 (England)
Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be – Surrender – 2003 (England)
Justin Heathcliff – You Know What I Mean – Love, Peace & Poetry, Asian Psychedelic Music – 1971 (Japan)
Jim Boggia – Peter Pan – Fidelity Is The Enemy – 2001 (Pennsylvania, USA)
World Party – She’s The One – Egyptology – 1997 (England)
Aerovons – World Of You – Aerovons – 1969 (Missouri, USA)
Lazy Smoke – There Was A Time – Corridor of Faces – 1969 (Massachusetts, USA)
Jade – Wait Till I Come Home – Faces Of Jade – 1970 (Ohio, USA)
Ellie Pop – Sometime Ago – Ellie Pop – 1968 (Michigan, USA)
Sleepy Hollow – Sincerely Yours – Sleepy Hollow – 1972 (Pennsylvania, USA)
The Gants – I Wonder – Nuggets – 1967 (Mississippi, USA)
The Knack – That’s What The Little Girls Do – Get The Knack – 1979 (California, USA)
The Flamin’ Groovies – Please Please Girl – Shake Some Action – 1976 (California, USA)
The Poppees – Jealousy – Jealousy/She’s Got It – 1985 (New York, USA)
The Beagles – Sharing Wishes – Meet The Beagles (Cartoonland, USA)
The Dukes of Stratosphere – The Mole From The Ministry – 25 O’Clock – 1985 (England)
The Gurus – Big Sea – Big Sea – 2003 (Spain)
Klaatu – Sub – Rose Subway – 3:47 EST – 1976 (Canada)
The Rutles – I Must Be In Love – The Rutles – 1978 (England)
Dan Epstein was the guest on Listen Up!. Dan is an award-winning journalist and contributing columnist to Rolling Stone. His latest book, Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s, has just been released in paperback. We chatted about his book, his Rolling Stone column “High and Tight” – where Rock & Roll Baseball experts talk about the national pastime and the worlds where baseball and rock music collide and mesh. There was also dose of sludgy 70’s space rock, and other sounds from the 70’s. A couple tunes about baseball were tossed into the show as well.
You can purchase Big Hair and Plastic Grass: Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s via Amazon buy it from an indie bookseller .
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Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
Robert Calvert – The Right Stuff – Captain Lockheed and The Starfighters – 1974
UFO – Timothy – UFO 1 – 1970
Blue Öyster Cult – The Red and The Black – Tyranny and Mutation – 1973
Pink Floyd – Fat Old Sun – Atom Heart Mother – 1970
Captain Beyond – Sufficiently Breathless – Sufficiently Breathless – 1973
Be-Bop Deluxe – Sister Seagull – Futurama – 1975
Amon Düül II – Jalouise – Viva La Trance – 1973
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – The Faith Healer – Next – 1973
Iggy and the Stooges – Gimme Danger – Raw Power – 1973
Mott The Hoople – Thunderbuck Ram – Mad Shadows – 1970
The Edgar Winter Group – Sundown – Shock Treatment – 1974
Warren Zevon – Bill Lee – Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School – 1980
The Baseball Project – Fair Weather Fans – Volume 2: High and Inside – 2010
The Skeletons – Take Me Out To The Ballgame – In The Flesh – 1988
The Baseball Project – 1976 – Volume 2: High and Inside – 2010
Bob Dylan – Catfish – The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 – 1976
The Nightmares – Baseball Altamont – Baseball Altamont /Hold On and Pray – 1985
Roy Harper – When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease – HQ – 1975
Thin Lizzy – Cowboy Song – Jailbreak – 1975
The Listen Up! show has been UPHELD as CONSTITUTIONAL and “Revolution Get Down” went down as planned. So start your Independence Day shindigs off right as we descend into the labyrinth of sound with a wild mix of music from and about the USA.
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Background Music: Dick Schory- The National Emblem March – Music For Bang Baaroom and Harp – 1958
Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
The Bellrays – Revolution Get Down – Red, White and Black – 2004
Bruce McCulloch – That’s America – Shame Based Man – 1995
The Blasters – American Music – The Blasters – 1981
Chuck Berry – Promise Land – St. Louis To Liverpool – 1965
Carl Perkins – Tennessee – The Complete Sun Singles – 1956
Vincent – Freedom’s Coming – Freedom’s coming/ I’m losing time – 1973
Ween – Freedom of ’76 – Chocolate and Cheese – 1974
Tim Hardin – Simple Song of Freedom – Simple Song of Freedom/Question of Birth – 1969
The Fleshtones – American Beat ’84 – Bachelor Party OST – 1984
Rory Storm and The Hurricanes – America – Liverpool 1963-1968 – 1964
The Count Five – Declaration of Independence – Psychotic Reaction- 1965
The MC5 – American Ruse – Back In The USA – 1970
The Original Sins – Later Than You Think – Party’s Over -1990
The Dictators – New York, New York – Fuck ‘Em If They Can’t Take a Joke – 1981
Marah – Christian Street – Kids In Philly – 2000
Sufjurn Stevens – The Upper Peninsula- Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State – 2003
The Byrds – Hickory Wind – Sweetheart of The Rodeo – 1968
Ryan Adams – Oh My Sweet Carolina – Heartbreaker – 2000
Uncle Tupelo – New Madrid – Anodyne – 1993
Lord Buckely -The Gettysburg Address – His Royal Hipness – 1956
The Skeptics – The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln – Snallygaster -1986
The B-52’s – 52 Girls – The B-52’s – 1979
The Beat – U.S.A. – The Beat – 1979
Redd Kross – 1976 – Third Eye – 1990
Gene Marshall – Jimmy Carter Says Yes – Beat of The Trap MSR Madness – 197?
Joey Welz – Rockin’ In America – single – 1985
The Cramps – Route 66 – Flamejob – 1994
Dead Milkmen – Wisconsin – A Date With The Dead Milkmen – 1983
Jonathan Richman – Parties in the U.S.A. – I, Jonathan – 1992
Phil Ochs – Power and the Glory – All The News That’s Fit To Sing – 1964
Randy Newman – Political Science – Sail Away – 1972
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – This Land Is Your Land – Naturally – 2005
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