Listen Up! is getting into the holiday spirit with a collection of offbeat, cool and zany seasonal musical treats. While spirited and at times invigorating, these are not traditional holiday singalongs.

Deck the halls and kick off your cool yule celebrations.

Playlist (Artist -Title)

The Wise Men – Mr. Mojo’s Christmas

Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva – I Wish You A Merry Christmas
Black Knights – Xmas Record Hop
Huey “Piano” Smith – Rock & Roll Santa
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Kris Kringle Ju Ju
Holly Golightly – That’s What I Want For Christmas

Redd Kross – Super Sunny Christmas
Creem Circus – Glamorous Christmas
Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
Slade – Merry Christmas Everybody

Paddy Roberts – Merry X-Mas You Suckers (and a Happy New Year)
Graham Parker – Christmas Is For Mugs
Reigning Sound – If Christmas Can’t Bring You Home
Hasil Adkins – Blue Christmas

The J’s With Jamie – Cool Yule
Yogi Yorgesson – Yingle Bells
Sherwin Linton – Santa Got A DWI

Spectrum – Santa Claus
Misty’s Big Adventure – Have A Psychedelic Christmas
Marvin Gaye – Purple Snowflakes

Eddie Blazonczyk’s Versatones – It Must Be Christmas Polka
Pala Brothers Orchestra – Sausage and Sauerkraut
Rita Faye Wilson – Sleigh Bells, Reindeer and SnowJ. B. Summers & Doc Bagby’s Orchestra – I Want A Present For Christmas

The Bomboras – Little Drummer Boy
The Sonics – Don’t Believe In Christmas
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Dear Mr. Claus
The Point – On Comet

Blues Magoos – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Grip Weeds – Welcome Christmas
The Mockers – (There’s No War On Christmas) When Christmas Is In Your Heart

NRBQ – Christmas Wish

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

This afternoon Listen Up! will criss-cross time and genre with another steaming stew of sounds known and unknown to satisfy your afternoon music cravings.

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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

David McCallum – Communication – Communication/My Carousel – 1966
T.Rex – Buick MacKane – The Slider – 1972
Slade – Gudbuy T’ Jane – Sladest – 1972
Sweeney Todd – Roxy Roller – Sweeney Todd – 1975

Mott The Hoople – Sucker – All The Young Dudes – 1972
Alice Cooper – Hallowed Be Thy Name – Love It To Death -1971 
The Raiders – Interlude (To Be Forgotten) – Collage – 1970

The Move – Do Ya – Split Ends – 1972
Archie Bronson Outfit – Magnetic Warrior – Coconut -2009

The Devils – Devil Dance – Devil Dance – 1964
B-52’s – Strobe Light – Wild Planet – 1980
Ted Taylor – (Love Is Like A) Ramblin’ Rose – (Love Is Like A) Ramblin’ Rose / I’m So Satisfied ‎ -1965
The Vows – Buttered Popcorn – Buttered Popcorn – 1965
Ike Bennet & The Crystalites – Illya Kuryakin – Various Artists: Trojan ROCKSTEADY Box Set – 1968

The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist – Since I Left You -2000
Adam and The Ants – Kings of The Wild Frontier – Kings of the Wild Frontier -1980
Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 Go –  C30 C60 C90 Go/Sun Sea And Piracy – 1980

Can – Mushroom – Tago Mago – 1971

The Association – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You  – Just The Right Sound -1965
Mary Weiss with the Reigning Sound – Cry About The Radio – Dangerous Game – 2007
The Beas – Nothing Can Go Wrong/International Girl – 1966
The Like – Wall of Shame – Release Me – 2010

Game Theory – Bad Year at UCLA – Blaze Of Glory – 1982
Posies – Everyone Moves Away – Dear 23 – 1990
The Smiths – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me – Strangeways, Here We Come – 1987

Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains – I Often Dream Of Trains In New York -2009

R.E.M. – So. Central Rain – Reckoning – 1984

Nick Cave & Bad Seeds – City of Refuge (acoustic) – B-Sides & Rarities -2005

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

Today Listen Up is visiting those Cosmic American Music sounds that make up the Wyrd American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from a country and roots music influence in the late 60’s.  It’s a million dollar (afternoon) bash!

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

Opening Theme

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

Mic Break Music
Red Rhodes- Velvet Hammer In A Cowboy Band – 1973

Sir Douglas Quintet – Lawd, I’m Just A Country Boy – Mendocino -1969
Bob Dylan & The Band – Million Dollar Bash – The Basement Tapes – 1967

Charlatans – Alabama Bound – Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-70 – 1969
Rising Sons – Tulsa County – Rising Sons – 1965

Beau Brummels – Long Walking Down To Misery – Bradley’s Barn – 1968
The Byrds – Hickory Wind – Sweetheart of the Rodeo -1968
THe Monkees – Nine Times Blue – Missing Links – 1969

Clarence White – Hong Kong Hillbilly aka Nashville West – Clarence White: Tuff & Stringy Sessions 1966-1968 – 1968
The Spencers – Make Up Your Mind – Clarence White: Tuff & Stringy Sessions 1966-1968 – 1968
Everly Brothers – I’m On My Way Home Again – Various Artists : The Big Ball – 1969

Guilbeau & Parsons – Your Gentle Way Of Loving Me – Lousiana Rain -1967
The Youngbloods – Sugar Babe – Earth Music -1967
The Dillards – Nobody Knows – Wheatstraw Suite -1968

Timbercreek – Stoned Cold Turkey -Hellbound Highway -1975
Mountain Bus – I Know You Rider – Sundance -1971
Grateful Dead – High Time – Working Man’s Dead – 1970

Jim Sullivan – U.F.O. – U.F.O. – 1970
New Riders of The Purple Sage – Glendale Train – New Riders Of The Purple Sage – 1971
Holy Modal Rounders – Black Bottom – Good Taste Is Timeless -1971
The Band – Don’t Ya Tell Henry – The Basement Tapes – 1967

The Band – Long Black Veil – Music From Big Pink – 1968
Lee Hazlewood – Pray Them Bars Away – Cowboy In Sweden -1970
Manassas – Hide It So Deep – Manassas – 1972
Maxfield Parrish – Ellie McCall – t’s a Cinch to Give Legs -1972

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

Today on Listen Up!. All of a sudden it is a different world as the familiar mutates and alters slightly when all the songs are done by other people. In other worlds, the entire program will be “cover versions” or ready-mades. Known and unknown platters of sound, mesh into another decadent mind melting cocktail.

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Playlist (Artist -Title (original artist) – Album – Year of song) 
Opening Theme

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

Mic Break Music

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra – The Jazz Age – 2012

Mandible Chatter – Psychotic Reaction (Count Five) – Measuring the Marigolds -2000
The Gil Evans Orchestra – 1983-A Merman I Should Turn To Be (Jimi Hendrix Experience) – Plays the music of Jimi Hendrix – 1974
Dion – Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix Experience) – Dion -1968

Yung Wu – Child of The Moon (The Rolling Stones) – Shore Leave – 1987
Mud Pie Sun – So You Say Lost Your Baby (Gene Clark) – Wooden Circle – 2012
Opal – Sisters of Mercy (Leonard Cohen) – Early Recordings Volume 2 -1989
Patti Smith & Friends – Black Peter (Grateful Dead) –  Paths that Cross – 1995

Annie Haslam- Ripples (Genesis) – Various Artists: Supper’s Ready – 1995
King Crimson – Get Thy Bearings (Donovan) – Epitaph – 1969
Doc Severinsen and the Now Generation Brass – The Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson) – Doc Severinsen’s Closet – 1970

Mike McGear – Sea Breezes (Roxy Music) – McGear – 1974
Mary Hopkin – Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (Sparks) – Valentine – 197?
Langley Schools Music Project – Space Oddity (David Bowie) – Innocence & Despair – 1976
Brother JT – Flaming (Pink Floyd) – Asyd Vinyl – 2008

Game Theory – You Can’t Have Me (Big Star) – Real Nightmare – 1985
Jon Auer – Green Eyes (Husker Du) – 6 1/2 – 2001
Teenage Fanclub – Between Us (The Rutles) – Mellow Doubt – 1995
The Bongos – Mambo Sun (T-Rex) – Drums Along The Hudson – 1982

Spacemen 3 – Little Doll (Stooges) – Sound of Confusion -1986
Mudhoney – Revolution (Spacemen 3) – March To Fuzz -2000
The Left – TV Eye (Stooges) – Last Train To Hagerstown – 1985

Bongwater – You Don’t Love Me Yet (Roky Erickson) – Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye -1990
Fairport Convention – Tried So Hard (Gene Clark) – Heyday – The BBC Sessions 1968-69 – 1969

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song) 
Mic Break Music

David Bowie – Selections from Low and Heroes – 1977

The Church – The Night Is Very Soft – Sing-Songs -1982
Durutti Column – Smile In The Crowd – Another Setting -1983
David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto – I Won’t Be Disappointed (World Citizen) – World Citizen – 2003
Steve Hackett – How Can I? – Please Don’t Touch – 1978

Legendary Pink Dots – Princess Coldheart – Crushed Velvet Apocalypse – 1993
All About Eve – Don’t Follow Me (March Hare) – Return To Eden -2002
Sebastian Tellier – Fantino – L’Incroyable Vérité  -2000
Syd Barrett – Golden Hair  – The Madcap Laughs – 1970

Tuxedomoon – In A Manner of Speaking – Holy Wars -1985
Beck – Chemtrails – Modern Guilt   -2008
The Flaming Lips (with Erykah Badu) – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends -2012

Magazine – Parade – Real Life -2007
Ultravox! – Artificial Life – Ha! Ha! Ha! – 1977
The Psychedelic Furs – We Love You – The Psychedelic Furs -1980
Roxy Music – Both Ends Burning – Siren – 1975

Neu! – Hero – Neu 75 – 1975
Talking Heads – Memories Can’t Wait – Fear of Music – 1979
Eno – I’ll Come Running – Another Green World – 1975

The Chameleons – Up The Down Escalator – Script of The Bridge – 1983
XTC- The Somnambulist – Black Sea – 1980
Teardrop Explodes – Tiny Children – Wilder – 1981

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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

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

Mic Break Music

Saxie Russell – El Monkey – Various Artists: Tittyshakers – Crawlin’ – 1968
The Hip Sound – Far Out -Far Out -1968
Rufus Harley – Eight Miles High – Kings And Queens -1970

The Royal Teens – Sham Rock – Sham Rock /Big Name Button -1958
The Gentrys – Brown Paper Sack – Keep On Dancing – 1965
Manfred Mann – Tired of Trying, Bored Of Lying, Scared of Dying – Down The Road Apiece – Their EMI Recordings 1963-1966  -1965
Nathaniel Mayer With The Fortune Bravos – I Want Love And Affection (Not the House of Correction) – I Want Love And Affection / From Now On -1966

Mr. Airplane Man – Jesus on The Mainline – Moanin’ -2002
Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis – The Lonesome Death of Johnny Ace – Indian Giver -2008

The Voltage – It’s A Man’s Man’s World – Various Artists:  Banzai Freakbeat -196?
Bill Coday – A Woman Rules The World – Right On Baby: The Crajon Recordings -1971
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band – Nowadays a Woman’s Gotta’ Hit A Man – Clear Spot – 1972

The Deep Six – C’mon Baby – The Deep Six – 1966
The Fugs – Crystal Liason – It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest -1968
The Hombres – Am I High – Let It All Hang Out – 1967
Titanics – High On Drugs – The Titanics – 1990

Flamin’ Groovies – High Flyin’ Baby – Teenage Head – 1071
Howlin’ Wolf – Chocolate Drop – My Baby Walked Off (Sun Records 1951 -1953) – 1953
Chocolate Watch Band – Sweet Young Thing – Various Artists: Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 -1966
Link Wray & The Wraymen – Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby – Slinky! The Epic Sessions, 1958-1961 – 1960

The Sheep – Hide & Seek – Hide & Seek / Twelve Months Later -1966
The Cindermen – Don’t Do It Some More – Various Artists: Pebbles Vol. 8 -1966
The Gun Club – For The Of Ivy – Fire Of Love – 1981

This Monday (October 28th) the Listen Up! cool ghoul party is taking place with your yearly dose of slimy and zany obscuro rock and roll, graveyard stompers and assorted other tricks and treats of a Halloweeny nature.

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

Opening Theme Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level

Mic Break Music
Los Straitjackets – Selections from Mondo Zombie Boogaloo

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level
The Fuzztones – Happy Halloween
The Calico Wall – I’m The Living Sickness
The Duponts – Screamin Ball
Screaming Lord Such – All Black and Hairy

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – The Whammy
Jack Kittel – Psycho
Porter Wagoner – The First Mrs. Jones

The Emersons – Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
The Fleshtones – Haunted Hipster
Comateens – The Munsters Theme

The Driving Stupid – Horror Asparagus Stories
The Green Slime – The Green Slime
Headless Horsemen – Cellar Dwellar
Johnny Fever – Zombie
Roky Erickson & The Aliens – I Walked With A Zombie

The Dream Syndicate – Halloween
The Cramps – Human Fly
The Upperclassmen – Cha- Cha With The Zombies
Ann Magnuson – Sex With The Devil

Big Boy Groves – Bucket O’ Blood
Los Sleepers – El Zombie
Big Bee Kornegay & Group – At The House of Frankenstein
Rolf Harris – Dislocation Twist

The Poindexter Bros. – Booga Man
The Swing Rays – Hello-O-Ween

Danny Ware – The Zombie Stomp
Jackie Morningstar – Rockin In The Graveyard
Bobby Please – The Monster
Cathy Mills – Monster Hop
Southern Culture On The Skids – The Loneliest Ghost In Town

The Symbols – Do The Zombies
The Mark IV – Dante’s Inferno
Ronnie Cook – Goo Goo Muck
Slickee Boys – The Brain That Refused To Die

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune

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This Monday (October 21st) on Listen Up!: More servings from an aural menu designed to satisfy those afternoon music cravings of the snack variety

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

Opening Theme

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

Mic Break Music

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

The Rolling Stones – Can You Hear The Music – Goats Head Soup – 1973
David Bowie – Holy Holy – Holy Holy/Black Country Rock -1971
Jim Carroll Band – Wicked Gravity – Catholic Boy – 1980
Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band – Hair -Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band – 1978

Pere Ubu – Final Solution – Final Solution / Cloud 149 -1976
Television – Venus  Marquee Moon – 1977
The Twinkeyz – Aliens In Our Midst – Aliens In Our Midst – Complete Recordings 1977-1980 -1977
Wire – Map Ref. 41n 93w – 154 – 1979

Julian Cope – Up-Wards At 45 Degrees – Jehovahkill – 1992
Roy Harper – Big Fat Silver Aeroplane – Sophisticated Beggar -1966
Robyn Hitchcock – Love – Black Snake Diamond Role-1981
Pink Floyd – Cymbaline – More – 1969

Sneakers – Condition Red – Nonsequitur Of Silence -1976
Big Star – Give Me Another Chance – #1 Record – 1972
The Posies – Licenses To Hide – Blood + Candy – 2010
Game Theory – Here It Is Tomorrow – Big Shot Chronicles – 1986

The Three O’Clock – A Day In Erotica – Sixteen Tambourines -1983
The Residents – Boots – Meet The Residents – 1974
Neutral Milk Hotel – King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. One – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea -1998
The Olivia Tremor Control – Jumping Fences – Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle -1996
The Nazz – Forget All About It – Nazz Nazz – 1969
The Apples In Stereo – Seems So – Tone Soul Evolution -2006

The Flamin’ Groovies – You Tore Me Down – Shake Some Action – 1976
Mary Hopkin – Goodbye – Those Were The Days -1969
Fleetwood Mac – Jewel Eyed Judy – Kiln House  -1970
The Kinks – Sweet Lady Genevieve – Preservation Act 1 – 1973

Flop – The Great Valediction – Whenever You’re Ready -1993
Myracle Brah – Love Is – Life on Planet Eartsnop -1998
The Chills – Heavenly Pop Hit – Submarine Bells -1990

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997