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

The Last – Obsession –Fade To Black – 1982
The Things – Love Is Gone -Outside My Window – 1986
The Grip Weeds – She Brings The Rain -She Brings The Rain/Strange Bird – 1992
The Point – All My Life – Various: The Rebel Kind – 1983

Miracle Legion – All For The Best – Surprise Surprise Surprise – 1987
Winter Hours – Hyacinth Girl –Wait Till The Morning – 1989

Screaming Trees – Other Days And Different Planets – Even If And Especially When – 1987
Thin White Room – Not Your Fault –Moonhead – 1987

Dumptruck – Carefree- For The Country – 1987
The Johnsons – Love You So – Break Tomorrow’s Day- 1986
R.E.M. – Moral Kiosk – Murmer – 1983

Manual Scan – She Said It’s Late – Days And Maybes...-1991
The Wishniaks – She’s The One –Catch 33 – 1990
The Windbreakers – Young Republicans –Meet The Windbreakers –
64 Funnycars – AMC Pacer – Hog Wild – 1990

The Vertebrats – Left In The Dark – Various: Battle Of The Garages – 1981
Mission Of Burma – Academy Fight Song –Signals, Calls And Marches – 1981
Husker Du – Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope –Warehouse-Songs and Stories – 1987

Blood On The Saddle – Burning Sun –Fresh Blood – 1987
Divine Horsemen – Frankie Silver –Time Stands Still – 1984
Meat Puppets – Confusion Fog –Mirage – 1987

The Libertines – Black Garage Door –Various: Beasts From the East – 1986
Happy Family – Eight Good Reasons –Lucky – 1990
Hugh Beaumont Experience – Purple Things – Various: Steel Rok Presents ‎- 1983

Scruffy The Cat – Big Fat Monkey’s Hat – Various: Luxury Condos Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon – 1985
The Nightmares – Baseball Altamont –Baseball Altamont/Hold On And Pray – 1985

The Skeptics – What Can I Do – Worry Beads – 1985
Flying Color – Dear Friend – Flying Color – 1987
Green – Something About You – Various: Beasts From the East – 1986
America Music Club – Outside This Bar – Engine – 1987
The Eyes Of Mind – Drama, Drama- Various: Battle Of The Garages, Vol. 3: The Paisley Underground – 1984

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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After a week break, Listen Up! returns this Wednesday from 2-4pm EST. We will be making up a mess of fun with a mix of the jangle, fuzz and twang, beats, breaks and grooves pulled from jukebox 45’s and dusty LP’s,  new and old, lost, found and rediscovered.  It is this and all that other good stuff that blends into a mid-week, mid-day happening.

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

Opening Theme

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

Big Jay McNeely – Psycho Serenade – Swingin’ – 1958
Ike Turner’s Family Vibes – Heep A Hole Lot – Strange Fruit – 1972
Pluto – Ram Goat Liver – Various: History Of Trojan Records 1972 – 1995 (Volume 2) – 1974
Pudding – The Magic Bus- Various: Rubble 06 – 1967

The Olympics – Baby Do The Philly Dog – The Best Of The Olympics – 1966
Modern Detergents – Monkey Hips & Yice – Various: Boddie Recording Company – 1965
The Music Explosion – Dazzling –Little Bit O’Soul: The Best of the Music Explosion – 1968
Jeannie C.Riley – The Generation Gap – The Very Best Of Jeannie C. Riley – 1970
Henson Cargill – Skip A Rope – Skip A Rope / A Very Well Traveled Man – 1967

The Explorers Club – Any Little Way – Grand Hotel – 2012
The Beach Boys – Busy Doing Nothin’ – Friends – 1968
Martin Denny – Quiet Village – Quiet Village – 1959
The Monochrome Set – 405 Lines – Love Zombies – 1980

Mike McAlister – I Don’t Dig It –  Various: Nasty Rockabilly  Vol.18 – 195?
Bob Lee – Wanted For Questioning – Various: The Big Itch Volume Two: Memorial Album For Joe E. Ross – 1957
Hasil Adkins – Shake That Thing – Chicken Walk – 1986
The Early Mourning – I’ve Tried – Various: Debris – 1968
Lene Lovich – I Think We’re Alone Now –Stateless – 1979

The Squires of Subterrain – Private Gherkin’s Psychedelic Silly Mustache Band –The Squires of Subterrain– 2014
Neutral Milk Hotel – King Of Carrot Flowers Pt 1 – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – 1998
The Olivia Tremor Control – Jumping Fences – Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle – 1996
Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers – Believe It Or Not – I Gotta Go Now / Believe It Or Not – 1967

The Peels – Marilah Ke Mari – Varous: Java-Java: Indonesia Screaming Fuzz Vol. 1 – 1966
Trio Agave – Slant Six – Rock And Roll Problem – 2014
Jerry and Brad – The People Hater – Various: Twisted Tales From the Vinyl Wastelands – 1959
Dick Curless – Drag ’em Off The Interstate- Various: Truckin’ On – 1972
NRBQ – Do The Bump – Ridin’ In My Car / Do The Bump – 1977
Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams – Oh Gee –Laverne & Shirley Sing – 1976
The Cherry Drops – Shlemiel, Shlemazel, Hasenpfeffer Inc. – Everything’s Groovy – 2014

The Bigger Lovers – So It Goes – Various:The Stiff Generation – 2002
Rockpile – Now and Always- Seconds Of Pleasure – Seconds Of Pleasure  – 1980
Cactus Blossoms – Clown Collector – You’re Dreaming – 2016
Sue Thompson – Norman – Norman / Never Love Again – 1982

Brotherhood – The Monkey That Become President – Various: Funky Funky New Orleans Vol 4 – 1972
Swamp Dogg – The World Beyond – Total Destruction to Your Mind – 1970
The Kinks -Uncle Son- Muswell Hillbillies – 1971

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Enjoy a tasty aural menu of music that is harvested locally and shared with the world. The focus will be on deeper cuts from great, under-appreciated albums and artists.

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

Opening Theme

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

Roxy Music – Mother of Pearl – Stranded – 1973
Murray Head – Say It Ain’t So Joe –Say It Ain’t So Joe – 1975
The Kinks – Fancy – Face To Face – 1966

Del Shannon – Sister Isabelle – Greatest Hits – 1970
The Merry-Go-Round – Live – Various: Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 – 1967
The Beatles – Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey – The Beatles – 1968
T.Rex – Life’s A Gas – Electric Warrior – 1971

Apple – Doctor Rock – An Apple A Day – 1969
The Creation – Try and Stop Me – The Creation Collection – 1967
The Go-Go’s – How Much More – Beauty and The Beat – 1981
New York Dolls – Personality Crisis – New York Dolls – 1973

Yo La Tengo – I Heard You Looking – Painful – 1993
The Pastels – Nothing To Be Done – Sittin’ Pretty – 1989

The Zeros – Wimp – Don’t Push Me Around – 1977
The Victims – Television Addict – Television Addict/(I’m) Flipped Out Over You – 1978
Brian Eno – Needles In The Camels Eye – Here Come The Warm Jets – 1973
The Twinkeyz – Aliens In Our Midst – Alpha Jerk – 1979

Red House Painters – Shock Me – Shock Me – 1994
Jesus and Mary Chain – Never Understood – Munki – 1998
Pink Floyd – Lucifer Sam – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Mono) – 1967
The Three O’ Clock – A Day In Erotica –Sixteen Tambourines – 1983

The dB’s – Picture Sleeve – Picture Sleeve – 2012
The Frampton Brothers – There’s A Place (I’ve Never Been) – I Am Curious (George) – 1991
Buffalo Springfield – Burned – Buffalo Springfield – 1966
Love – Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale – Forever Changes – 1967

The Shangri-Las – Heaven Only Knows-The Best Of The Shangri-Las – 1965
The Rutles – Between Us – The Rutles – 1978
Redd Kross – Yesterday Once More – Various: If I Were a Carpenter – 1994

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Listen Up! brings you another sort of hazy psych tinged afternoon of sound. Let your mind interact with the music and make something beautiful and maybe even a little strange.

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

Opening Theme

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

Brian Eno – Julie With… – Before And After Science – 1977
Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship – Have You Seen The Stars Tonight – Blows Against The Empire – 1970
Mandible Chatter – The Grape Scrubber’s Lament – Measuring the Marigolds – 1999

Wizards From Kansas – Misty Mountainside – Wizards From Kansas – 1970
Gene Clark – Train Leaves Here This Morning – No Other –
Jim Sullivan – Roll Back The Time – U.F.O. – 1970
The Monkees – As We Go Along – Head – 1968

Loud Family – Asleep and Awake On The Man’s Freeway – Interbabe Concern – 1996
Cardinal – Singing To The Sunshine – Cardinal – 1994
Giant Skyflower Band – Time Won’t Sing A Song For You –Blood Of The Sunworm – 2007

Glenn Mercer – Twenty-Nine Palms -Incidental Hum – 2012
Steven Roback – Black Shade Of Blue – Various: Ptolemaic Telescope Issue 36 – 2007
The Mountain Goats – Surrounded –Moon Colony Bloodbath – 2009

Akron/Family – Crickets – Love Is Simple – 2007
Reade McCardell – Sticker – Frets – 2015
Holy Modal Rounders – Sky Divers – Indian War Whoop – 1967
Jerry Garcia – Accidentally Like A Martyr -All Good Things – 1977
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Brokedown Palace – Pebbles And Ripples – 2004
Ellen McIlwaine – Can’t Find Way Home -Honky Tonk Angel – 1972

Home – Contract/Children’s Suite:Displaying Prisms – XIV – 1999
Erkin Koray – Belki Bir Gün Anlarsın –1969-78 singles – 1970
Marcos Valle – Voo Cego –Vento Sul – 1972

Alexander “Skip” Spence – All Come To Meet Her – Oar – 1969
Dennis Wilson – Thoughts Of You – Pacific Ocean Blue -1977
David Crosby – Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) – If Only I Could Remember My Name – 1971

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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This Wednesday on Listen Up!, we listen to some sounds from David Bowie’s record collection based on a list he submitted back in 2006.

“To be brief and to the point, I’ve often been asked for some of my first faves, most from many years ago (the discs not the requests) but these very special vinyls had a particular telling effect on how I would collect and listen to music in the years to come. This is an old list and has been around a bit but you may not have seen it so it gives me great pleasure to re-represent it one mo’ time. Here are 25 to start with.” – David Bowie
The list and record buying memories from David Bowie can be found via the following links:
Sounds of My Universe Part One
Sounds of My Universe Part Two

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

Opening Theme

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

Incredible String Band – Painting Box –5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion – 1967
Igor Stravinsky – Part I. Adoration of Spring: Spring Round Dances –Le Sacre Du Printemps 
Daevid Allen – All I Want Is Out Of Here –Banana Moon – 1970

Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding – Shipbuilding / Memories Of You – 1982
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Sonny Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem) –Forces of Victory -1979
The Last Poets – Just Because –The Last Poets – 1970

Tucker Zimmerman – Upsidedown Circus World –Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman – 1969
Charles Mingus – Wham Bam Thank you Ma’am – Oh Yeah – 1961
The Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting For The Man –The Velvet Underground – 1967

George Crumb – Black Angels, Departure –Black Angels –  1972
Johnny Lee Hooker – Tupelo Blues –Tupelo Blues – 1962
Gundala Janowitz – Vier letzte Lieder – September – Four Last Songs (Strauss) – 1973

Glenn Branca – The Ascension – The Ascension – 1981
The Fugs – Doin’ Alright –The Fugs – 1966
Little Richard – She Knows How To Rock – The Fabulous Little Richard –1959

Steve Reich – Music For 18 Musicians – Sections 1 –Music for 18 Musicians – 1978
Harry Partch – Cry From Another Darkness –Delusion Of Fury – 1971
Tom Dissevelt – Sonik Re-Entry –The Electrosoniks – 1960

Toots and The Maytals – Time Tough –Funky Kingston – 1973
James Brown – Lost Someone –Live At the Apollo – 1963
Elly Stone – My Death (La Mort) –Original Cast: Jaques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris – 1968

Koerner, Ray and Glover – Ramblin’ Blues – Blues, Rags and Hollers -1963
Syd Barrett – Dark Globe –The Madcap Laughs – 1970

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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The countdown of the top 100 artists that got the most plays on Listen Up! over the past 3 years continues with #78.

The countdown so far can be found here

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

Opening Theme

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

78. Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan – Paranoid – 1970
77. The Seeds – Mr. Farmer – Web of Sound – 1966
76. The Asteroid #4 – The Unknown – Hail To The Clear Figurines – 2011

75. The Pretty Things – Walking Through My Dreams – S.F. Sorrow – 1968
74. Mud Pie Sun – Worrisummer  Wooden Circle – 2012
73. The Bonzo Dog Band – We Are Normal – The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse – 1968

72. The Bee Gees – Jumbo – Bee Gees Best 1967-1970 ‎- 1968
71. The GTV’s – Organ Donor – Organ Donor/Here’s A Thing – 2015
70. The Chesterfield Kings – Outtasite! – Psychedelic Sunrise – 2007

69. Blondie – Rip Her To Shreds – Blondie – 1975
68. The Who – A Quick One While He’s Away – A Quick One – 1966
67. Joy Division – A Means To An End – Closer – 1980

66. Rain Parade – Saturday’s Asylum – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip – 1985
65. Nick Drake – Which Will – Pink Moon – 1972
64. The Residents – Godsong – Fingerprince – 1977

63. Lovin’ Spoonful – There She Is – Daydream – 1966
62. Lou Reed – Kill Your Sons – Sally Can’t Dance – 1976
61. The Beach Boys – Feel Flows – Surfs Up – 1971
60. The Yardbirds – Happenings Ten Years Time Ago – Roger The Engineer ‎- 1966

59. Can – Paperhouse – Tago Mago – 1971
58. The Feelies – It’s Only Life – Only Life – 1988

57. Ultravox! – The Wild, The Beautiful and The Damned – Ultravox! – 1977
56. Lyres – Buried Alive – AHS1001 – 1981
55. Fleetwood Mac – The Green Manalishi -The Early Years – 1972

Countdown continues next week

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Listen Up! once again brings you a mid-afternoon escape. What pathways in the music maze we will end up in?

One with lots of riffs, crunchy chords, proto-punk, psych tinged nuggets, power pop and other  hook-filled rock ‘n’ roll releases.

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

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

The Barracudas – God Bless The 45 – God Bless The 45  7″ – 2013
Slade – Raven – Play It Loud – 1970
Hush – Oh Me, Oh My – Oh Me, Oh My/No More Worries – 1976
Hotlegs – Lady Sadie – Thinks School Stinks – 1970

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Action Strasse – Tomorrow Belongs To Me – 1975
Free – Mr. Big – Fire and Water – 1970
Cozy Powell – And There Was Skin – Dance With The Devil/And Then There Was Skin – 1973

Jet – Nothing To Do With Us – Jet – 1975
Sweeney Todd – Roxy Roller – Sweeney Todd – 1975

The Gun – Drives You Mad – The Gun – Gun – 1968
Maxx – 200 Years – Various: Relics Vol. 2 – 1969
Cherry Slush – I Cannot Stop You – Various:  Boulders Vol.5 – 1968

Raw Meat – Stand By Girl – Stand-By Girl/Out in The Country – 1969
The Legend – Portrait Of Youth – Various:  Boulders – Vol. 11 – 1968
Hot Poop – Dance To The War – Does Their Own Stuff! – 1971

The Hammersmith Gorillas – You Really Got Me – Various: Glitterbest – UK Glam With Attitude 1971-1976 – 1974
Crow – Slow Down – Crow By Crow – 1970
Galactus – Live With Me – Live With Me / You Can’t Win – 1976

The Arrows – Toughen Up – Various: Velvet Tinmine 20 Junk Shop Glam Ravers – 1974
Pagan Blitz – Slippin’ Away – Slippen Away/Rosalie – 197?
Quick Fox – Feel My Touch – Feel My Touch/Indian – 1978
Godson – We’ve Not Made It – Various: The Electric Asylum – 1971

The Sweet – Action – Action: The Sweet Anthology – 1975
Jook – Aggravation Place – Different Class  – 1978
Sky – Goodie Two Shoes -Don’t Hold Back – 1970

The Dictators – Heartache – Manifest Destiny – 1977
New York Dolls – Trash – New York Dolls – 1973
Neon Boys – That’s All I Know (Right Now) – Neon Boys, The / Richard Hell + The Voidoids (Part III) – 1973

Mott The Hoople – Violence – Mott – 1973

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