Listen Up! is getting all ooey and gooey and fillin’ up your afternoon with nothing but those 60’s and 70’s “Bubblegum” sounds., Raw fun as opposed to raw power

Playlist
The Tonics – Bubble Gum Music
The Music Explosion – Sunshine Games
Kasnat and Katz Fighter Squadron – Pickin’ Up Sticks
Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army- Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army

The Archies – Sugar and Spice
Andy Kim – Love That Pretty Woman
The Sweet – Get On Line
Chapman – Poppa Joe

1910 Fruitgum Company – 1, 2, 3 Red Light
Layng Martine – Come On Over To My House
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – I’ll Blow You A Kiss In The Wind
Bo Gentry & Ritchie Cordell – Stone Go Getter
Electric Banana – Groovy Baby Bubble Gum Music

The Banana Splits – I’m Gonna Find A Cave
Pawnee Drive – Ride
Tommy Roe – Jam Up and Jelly Tight
Nimbus – Lollipop

Boys and Girls Together – Knock, Knock
Licorice Schtik – The Kissin’ Game
Fire and Ice – Sugar Shaker

Bay City Rollers – Saturday Night
Mud – Tiger Feet
Canyon – Top Of The World (Make My Reservation)
Groovy Goolies – Spend Some Time Together
Hardy Boys – Good Good Lovin’

Four Fuller Brothers – Groupie
Ohio Express – Chewy Chewy
Jerry Blavat The Geator & The Geatorettes – Tasty (to me)
Joey Levine – Come On My Baby
The Joyride – The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine

Lancelot Link and The Evolution Revolution – The Evolution Revolution
Jungle Jim – Big Fat Oranguman
The Wildflower – Butterfly
The Clique – Superman

The California Gold Rush – Let’s Get It On Today
Freshmen – Gone, Movin’ On
Cherry People – Girl On The Subway
The Detroit Road Runners – Whole Lot Of Lovin’
Kasenetz Katz Singing Orchestral Circus – Quick Joey Small

Real McCoy – Round the Gum Tree

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It’s been teased, short sets have been explored, but a full Listen Up! show of the sub-micro-genre of “Hobbit Rock” has yet to happen til…now. What is “Hobbit Rock”? Tune in as we attempt to define it by rambling on into the misty mountains with some tales of wizards, gnomes and other middle earth creatures tossed into proglicious rock, folk, and other sounds.

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

Opening Theme

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

Fire – Tell You A Story –The Magic Shoemaker – 1970
The Hobbits – Down To Middle Earth –The Hobbits 
Led Zeppelin – Ramble On-II – 1969

Camel -Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider-Mirage – 1974
Sam Gopal – The Dark Lord –Escalator – 1969
Black Sabbath – The Wizard –Black Sabbath-1970
Armageddon – Bilbo Baggins-Armageddon – 1969

Rush – Rivendell –Fly By Night – 1975
Ex Reverie – Old Maps – Praxis – 2011
Elephant’s Memory – Old Man Willow-Elephant’s Memory – 1969

Skip Bifferty – The Hobbit –The Story Of Skip Bifferty – 1969
The Pink Floyd – The Gnome –The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn-1967
The Magic Ring – Frodo Lives -1969
The Beau Brummels – Galadriel-Magic Hollow-

Gandalf The Grey – My Elven Home –The Grey Wizard am I – 1969
Twink – Gandalf’s Garden -The Never Never Land/Think Pink demos
T.Rex- The Wizard-T.Rex-1970

Uriah Heep – The Wizard –Demons and Wizards – 1972
Quiet World – Traveller – The Road -1970
Genesis – Stagnation – Trespass – 1970

Sally Oldfield – Nenya- Water Bearer – 1978
Pearls Before Swine – Ring Thing –Balaklava – 1968

Mike Cooper – The Singing Tree-The Machine Gun Company- 1971

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Digging deep in the dusty and dank maze of sound for some roots rock, country, cowpunk, cosmic Americana and assorted twang tinged recordings for this week’s show.

Playlist
The Waco Brothers – The Death of Country Music
Texas Tornados & Sir Doug – Give Back The Key To My Heart
Uncle Tupelo – Screen Door
Townes Van Zandt – Tecumseh Valley

Merle Haggard – The Bottle Let Me Down
Bobby Barnett – Drink Canada Dry
The Highballers – Doing Time in Pennsylvania
Billy Barton – Wanted Man

Willie Dunn – I Pity the Country
The Knitters – The New World
Robbie Fulks – America is a Hard Religion

Bob Dylan – Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Violent Femmes – Country Death Song

The Coal Porters – The Day The Last Ramone Died
Ralph Stanley – White Light , White Heat
Meat Puppets – Climbing
Supersuckers – Born With A Tail (Country)
Old 97’s – Let’s Get Drunk & Get It On
Pontiac Brothers – Be Married Song

Jonathan Richman – The Neighbors
Carl & Pearl Butler – We’ll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning
Dwight Yoakam – Purple Rain
The Flying Burrito Bros. – Hot Burrito # 1
Loretta Lynn – Success
Don Gibson – Sweet Dreams

Moon Mullican – The Wedding of the Bugs
Rose Maddox – Wild Wild Young Men
Screamin’ Sirens – Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad
The Beat Farmers – Gun Sale At The Church
Wendell Austin – LSD

Laura Cantrell – When the Roses Bloom Again
The Long Ryders – If I Were A Bramble And You Were A Rose

Danny & Dusty – Bend In The Road

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Psych weirdness, synth soundtrack spaciness, rock, instrumental madness and assorted mutations. It’s that overnight radio show you can hear in the afternoon.

Salvation – Salvation Jam
Outlaw Blues Band – Deep Gully
The Chocolate Watch Band – Gossamer Wings

The Sammy Burdson Group – Space Nocturno 1
Sidney Owens & North, South Connection – Sputnik
Yochanan ‘A Space Age Vocalist’ with Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Message to Earthman

The Silhouette – Lunar Invasion

The Jimi Entley Sound – Charlies Theme
The Advancement – Stone Folk
The Byrds- Triad
Doris – You Never Come Closer

Dick Hyman – Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
The Red Krayola – Hurricane Fighter Plane
Piero Piccioni – Psychedelic Mood

The Music Factory – Strange Dream
McDonald and Giles – Tomorrow’s People
Can – Tango Whiskyman

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Rest Cure
Phil Manzanera – Frontera

Opal – All Souls
13th Floor Elevators – May The Circle Remain Unbroken
Jefferson Airplane – Come Up The Years
Joe Pass – Guitar Interludes
The Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs
Les McCann – Go On And Cry

Jesus – L’Electrocute
Silver Apples – Anasazi Noodle

Elektriktus – Second Wave

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Expect a mutant rock ‘n’ roll stew filled with garage, glam gunk goo. Tune in the Wed afternoon from 2-4 pm est on 92.9fm WGGT and streaming online from G-town Radio

Lulu – Watch That Man
Ume – Suffragette City
Anni-Frid Lyngstad – Liv pa Mars

Roy Owen’s Moon – Hey Sweety
Creem Circus – Rock and Roll Decree
Guida – Here Comes Saturday Night
Mott The Hoople – Whizz Kid

The Horde – Gloria
The Misanthropes – Why Do You Treat Me So Bad
The Seeds – Out Of The Question
The Original Sins – Get Into It
The Original Dukes – Ain’t About To Lose My Cool
RunHideFight – He’s a Jerk
Thee Milkshakes – She Tells Me She Loves Me
Beaver and the Trappers – Happiness is Havin’

Readymades – Terry Is A Spacecadet
Be-Bop Deluxe – Night Creatures
Baby Grande – Zepher

Suzy & Los Quattro – Fox On The Run
The Raspberries – Play On
Piper – Can’t Wait
Crabby Appleton – Go Back
Stevie Wright – Hard Road

Half Japanese – Tell Me I’m Wrong
Buzzcocks – What Do I Get?
The Cramps – What’s Behind The Mask

The Vibrators – Sweet Sweet Heart
The Vapors – Waiting For The Weekend
Dirty Looks – Let Go

The Monkees – Long Title: Do I Have To Do It All Over Again
Jeannie, Jim, Tom, Bill – Silly Whim
Peter Hollsapple – 96 sec blowout
Flamin Groovies – Sweet Roll Me On Down

Pale Lips – Some Sort Of Rock and Roll

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This week, among the freeform madness that happens as we criss cross time and blur genre, we pay tribute to Ken Nordine.

Playlist (Artist -Title)

David Crosby and Graham Nash – The Wall Song
Kurt Vile and The Violators (feat J. Mascis) – Box Of Rain
Ken Nordine – Inside Of Is
Meg Baird – To Lay Me Down

Greg Ashley – Catalina and Karen Are Drinkin’ In Heaven
Pearls Before Swine – Drop Out!
Ken Nordine – Cliche Heaven
Susan Christie – Rainy Day
Love – Alone Again, Or

Temples – Sun Structures
The Score – Please Please Me
Ananda Shankar – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Howard Flake – The Snowmobile Drive Tells His Story In Song

Ken Nordine – Windshield Wipers
Roxy Music – A Song For Europe
Grandadddy – Collective Dream Of Upper Class Elegance
Pearl Charles – Behind Closed Doors

Gram Parsons – Return of the Grievous Angel
The Everly Brothers – Less Of Me
The Flatlanders – Keeper of the Mountain
Have Moicy – Butts On Fire

Rick Nelson – Marshmallow Skies
The Trollyvox – I Know That You’re High
Robyn Hitchcock – Autumn Sunglasses
Ken Nordine – Quark
Rain Parade – When You Smile

Ken Nordine – A Good Year For Spiders

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Eccentric eclectic exploration through mindless music miscellany.

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

Listen Up! is an irresponsibly mixed, mind melting freeform radio cocktail. That overnight radio show you can hear in the afternoon happens again.

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

 Mark Twain’s Atomic Wombat – I Wanna Be Your Dog
Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine
Tame Impala – Elephant

Timothy Leary – You Can Be Anyone This Time Around
Fe FI Four Plus 2 – I Wanna Come Back

Bongwater – I’ll Fated Lovers Go Time Tripping
Yardbirds – Knowing That I’m Losing You (Tangerine)

Brother JT – Things I Like
Morgan Freeman – Easy Reader
John Lee Hooker – I’m Bad Like Jesse James

Butter 08 – How Do I Relax
Julie London – Louie Louie
Richard Hell – Hey Sweetheart
Russ Garcia & His Orchestra – Delicado

The Orchids – Yes We Can
Rosebud – Have A Cigar
Brian Eno/David Byrne – The Jezebel Spirit
Hungry March Band – Push It

Peter L. Batsin – How To Make A Tape Recorder
Dave Frishberg – I’m Hip
Nervous Norvus – Dig
Fred Lane & Ron Pate’s Debonairs – The Man With The Foldback Ears

Blossom Dearie – Too Good For The Average Man
The United States of America – The American Metaphysical Circus

The Thurston Lava Tube – Stay Free
Danny Welch – Riding Shotgun
holly Golightly & the brokeoffs – getting high for jesus
R. Stevie Moore – A Whiter Shade Of Pale

D.R. Hooker – Forge Your Own Chains

Listen Up! explores the Dunedin Sound that emerged from New Zealand in the 80s, spearheaded by the Flying Nun record label.  Introduce yourself to this great scene

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

The Verlaines – Death and the Maiden
Toy Love – Swimming Pool
Look Blue Go Purple – Cactus Cat
The Builders – Dirty and Disgusting

Straitjacket Fits – Down In Splendour
Sneaky Feelings – Husband House
The Great Unwashed – Hold On To The Rail

Tall Dwarfs -Sign The Dotted Line
Bored Games – Joe 90
Bats – Made Up In Blue
3D’s – Beautiful Things

The Chills – Pink Frost
Jean Paul Sartre Experience – Inside And Out
The Gordons – Machine Song

The Clean – Anything Could Happen
Bird Next Roys – Jaffa Boy
The Cakekitchen – Silence Of The Sirens
Pop Art Toasters – What Am I Going To You?

Snapper – What Are You Thinking
The Puddle – Interstellar Gothic
Plagal Grind – Yes, Jazz Cactus
Baloon D’Essai – Simon Says

Chris Knox – Not Given Lightly
Able Tasmans – Snow White Chook
This Sporting Life – Wasting My Time

Nocturnal Projections – You’ll Never Know
The Magick Heads – Hear From You
The Clear – The Television Love Song

David Kilgour – Here Come The Cars

This week, Listen Up! gets lost in an 80s/90s post punk haze.

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Love & Rockets – Haunted When The Minutes Drag-Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven-1985
Spiritualized – If I Were With Her Now –Lazer Guided Melodies-1992
The Mission – Wasteland-God’s Own Medicine-1986

Psychedelic Furs – Dumb Waiters – Talk Talk Talk – 1981

Adam and The Ants – Ant Invasion –Kings of the Wild Frontier-1980
Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition – Closer – 1980
Siouxie and the Banshees – Trust In Me- Through the Looking Glass-1987

Scientists – Swampland – Various: Born Out Of Time (The Australian Indie Sound 1979-88) – 1983
The Monochrome Set – On The Thirteenth Day – Various: Another Splash Of Colour: New Psychedelia In Britain 1980-1985
Firmament & the Elements – The Festival of Frothy Muggament-The Festival Of Frothy Muggament ‎(7″)-1981
Wire – On Returning- 154 – 1979

Knox – Gigolo Aunt –Gigolo Aunt ‎(7″)-1980
The Soft Boys – Sandra’s Having Her Brain Out – Can of Bees – 1979
The Dukes Of Stratosphear – My Love Explodes – 25 O’clock – 1985
Cleaners From Venus – Wivenhoe Bells II- Midnight Cleaners-1982

Lords of New Church – Russian Roulette-Lords of New Church-1982
The Church – Tantalized -Heyday-1985
Michael Moorcock’s Deep Fix – – Brothel In Rosenstrasse –Brothel In Rosenstrasse ‎(7″)-1982

The Chameleons – Tears -Strange Times-1986
The Teardrop Explodes – The Culture Bunker-Wilder-1981

Echo and the Bunnymen – Villiers Terrace- Crocodiles -1980
Orange Juice – Falling and Laughing-You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever-1982
Dead Can Dance – In Power We Trust The Love Advocated-Dead Can Dance-1984
Bauhaus – Dancing –Mask-1981

Japan – Fall In Love With Me-Quiet Life-1979

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