Unsung, should-be-sung, and will-be-sung recordings are being prescribed for that mid-day, pre-holiday break.

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

Opening Theme

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

The Unholy Modal Rounders – Hoodoo Bash – Have Moicy – 1976
Jane & Lorraine – Gypsy People – Gypsy People – 1969
The Green Pajamas – The Queen Bee Is Dead – Death By Misadventure -2012
Bruce Palmer – Oxo – The Cycle Is Complete – 1971

Tom Waits – Jockey Full Of Bourbon – Rain Dogs – 1985
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Monkberry Moon Delight –Screamin’ The Blues – 1979

Paul McCartney – Ram On – Ram – 1971
Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo – Rocky Raccoon – Lena & Gabor-1970

Badfinger – Perfection – Straight Up – 1971
Fred Neil – Dolphins – Fred Neil – 1967
Tim Buckley – Buzzin’ Fly – Happy Sad – 1969
Nina Simone – Desperate Ones – Nina Simone And Piano! – 1970

Bert Sommer – The Road To Travel – The Road To Travel – 1968
Linda Perhacs – Morning Colors –Parallelograms– 1970
Gene Clark – In A Misty Morning – Roadmaster– 1973
Sir Douglas Quintet – I Don’t Want To Go Home – The Complete Mercury Mono Singles – 1969

The Trolleyvox – I Know That You’re High –The Karaoke Meltdown – 2006
Rain Parade – Carolyn’s Song – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip -1983
John Cale – Cable Hogue – Helen Of Troy – 1975

Jeffrey Lewis – Life – The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane -2001
Micheal Hurley – Biscuit Roller – Armchair Boogie – 1971
Melanie – Someday I’ll Be A Farmer – Gather Me – 1971

Pearls Before Swine – Images Of April –Balaklavav– 1968
Roger Rodier – L’Herbe – Upon Velveatur – 1972
Kim Jung Mi – Haenim – Now – 1973
Karen Dalton – Little Bit Of Rain -1966 – 1966

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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It is another afternoon of psych tinged sounds mixed into a decadent mind melting cocktail to transport you through a mid week, mid afternoon, time-warping passage.

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

Opening Theme

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

Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space – Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space – 1997
Acid Temple Mothers and The Cosmic Inferno – Pink Lady Lemonade, You’re From Outer Space (part 2) – Pink Lady Lemonade, You’re from Outer Space –  2008
Gong – Dreaming It – Haunted Chateau – 1969

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Some Time Alone, Alone – Melody’s Echo Chamber – 2012

Amon Duul II – Sandoz In The Rain (Improvisation) – Yeti – 1970
Peter Scion – Sweet Sorrow Man – Sweet Sorrow Man – 1998

Scott Walker – It’s Raining Today – Scott Walker 3 – 1969
Robert Fripp/Peter Gabriel – Here Comes The Flood – Exposure – 1979
Ghost – Fukeiga – Snuffbox Immanence – 1999

Liquid Visions – Morning Rain – Hypnotized – 2002
Pond – It Feels Like Space Again – It Feels Like Space Again – 2015
Flaming Lips – Feel Yourself Disintegrate – The Soft Bulletin – 1999

Harvester – Kristallen Den Fina –Hemåt – 1969
Ash Ra Tempel with Timothy Leary – Space – Seven Up – 1973
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Anemone – Their Satanic Majesties Second Request – 1995

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Listen Up! wields songs and sounds into a sonic stew for mid afternoon audio indulgences.

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

Opening Theme

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

Yo La Tengo – Drug Test – President Yo La Tengo – 1989
Grateful Dead – Here Comes Sunshine – Wake Of The Flood – 1973
Fleetwood Mac – Woman Of A 1000 Years – Future Games – 1971

Tim Buckley – It Happens Every Time – Tim Buckley – 1966
Del Shannon – My Love Has Gone – Home and Away – 1968
The Kinks – God’s Children – Percy – 1971

The Bonzo Dog Band – I Want To Be With You – Keynsham – 1969
The Kliek – I Never Told You – Behind Bars – 1980
The Ramones – Questioningly – Road To Ruin – 1978

Mary Weiss – Stop and Think It Over –Dangerous Game – 2007
The Cake – You Can Have Him – The Cake – 1967
Dusty Springfield – Don’t Forget About Me – Dusty In Memphis – 1969

Harry Nilsson – Think About Your Troubles – The Point  – 1970
Half Japanese – I Have Secret – Sing No Evil – 1984
Beach Boys – Johnny Carson – Love You – 1977
Coo Coo Rockin Time – Jenny Got Naked At A Party In 1989 – Coo Coo Party Time – 1990

Brenton Wood – Psychotic Reaction – Oogum Boogum – 1967
Pere Ubu – Can’t Believe It – 390° of simulated stereo – 1976
Alex Chilton – Hook Or Crook – Like Flies On Sherbert – 1979
The Blue Notes – I’ve Had It –  I’ve Had It / Be Mine – 1958
The Blues Project – No Time Like The Right Time – Various: Nuggets Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era: 1965–1968 – 1966

The Bevis Frond – Cold Rain and Snow – Various: Freakbeat Magazine Presents A Psychedelic Psauna – 1991
Alice Cooper – Hard Hearted Alice – Muscle Of Love – 1973
Alverius B – You Only Live Twice – Baroque Primitiva – 2011

Roky Erickson – Has Anybody Told You – Don’t Slander Me – 1986
Big Dipper – Faith Healer – Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology – 1987‎
The Clean – What Ever I Do It’s Right – Getting Older – 1982
Orange Juice – Falling and Laughing – The Glasgow School – 1980

The Electric Banana (The Pretty Things) – Walking Down The Street – Blows Your Mind – 1967
The Small Faces – That Man –The History Of Small Faces – 1967
The Move – Do Ya –  The Best of The Move – 1974

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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The 4th annual Listen Up! cool ghoul party is happening with a brand new dose of slimy, 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

The Fuzztones – I’m The Wolfman
Lee Kristofferson – Night Of The Werewolf
The Challengers – Igor’s Theme
Morgus & The Daringers- The Morgus Creep

Southern Culture On The Skids – Demon Death
The Gruesomes – El Diablo
The Ghouls – Voo Doo Juice
The Spooky Bunch – The Spooky Bunch Theme

LIttle Tibia and The Fibias – The Mummy
The Wailers – High Wall
The Gories – Casting My Spell
Rex Garvin – Strange Happenings

Louis Armstrong – The Skeleton In The Closet
Kay Starr and Billy Butterfield Quintet – The Headless Horseman

Dr. T & the Undertakers – Undertaker’s Theme
Charles Sheffield – It’s Your Voodoo Working
Roy Buchanan – Haunted House
Red River Dave – California Hippie Murders

The B-52’s – Planet Claire
The Ventures – Exploration In Fear
The Weirdos – E.S.P.

Donovan – Wild Witch Party
The Chattanooga Cats – My Girlfriend Is A Witch
The Lollipop Shoppe – You Must Be A Witch

The Starfires – Hand Full Of Blood
The Coral – Nosferatu
Jonathan Richman – Vampire Girl
The Crystals – Vampire

The Cramps – Surfin’ Dead
The Electric Mess – You’ve Become A Witch
The Last Word – Sleepy Hollow

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune

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Another assortment of music, some of which may have been issued on an 8-Track. Hear the raw exhilaration of precocious adventurers creating artsy, garage-pop mini-masterpieces that make no concessions to the mainstream audience.

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

Opening Theme

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

Pianosaurus – Ready To Rock – Groovy Neighborhood – 1987 
Rittenhouse Square – Battle Of The Bands – Selftitled ‎‎ – 1972
Chris Stamey – Where The Fun Is – Various: Ork Records: Complete Singles – 1977
Game Theory – Erica’s Word – Big Shot Chronicles – 1986

Cargoe – Feel Alright – Cargoe – 1972
Rock City – Lovely Lady – Rock City – 1970
Van Duren – Chemical Fire – Are You Serious? – 1978
Chris Bell – I Am The Cosmos – I Am The Cosmos – 1978

Gimmer Nicholson – Millennial Harbinger – Christopher Idylls – 1972
Big Star – Watch The Sunrise – #1 Record – 1972

No Diesel – KIssy Boys – No Lie – 1974
Peter Buck – 10 Million BC – Peter Buck – 2012
Peter Holsapple – Death Garage – Big Black Truck – 1978
Tav Falco’s Panther Burns – She’s The One That Got It – Behind The Magnolia Curtain – 1981
Will Rigby – Paper Hat – Hello CD of the Month Club April 1996 – 1996

Young Fresh Fellows – Don’t Blame It On Yoko – Don’t Blame it On Yoko/With A Big Book – 1991
Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey – Hate Me More – Various: Succour – Terrascope Benefit Album – 1996
Anton Barbeau – In the Village Of The Apple Sun – In The Village Of The Apple Sun – 2006

The Hot Dogs – Let Me Look At The Sun – Various: Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story – 1973
Alex Chilton – All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain – Free Again: The 1970 Sessions – 1970
The Loud Family – Just Gone –Interbabe Concern – 1996

Let’s Active – Room With A View – afoot – 1983
The Windbreakers – Nation of Two –Run – 1986
13111 – My Bible Is The Latest TV Guide –My Bible Is The Latest T.V. Guide/Things I’d Like To Say – 1989

The Posies – Dream All Day –Frosting On The Beater – 1993
Prix – Love You All Day Long – Historix – 1978
Tommy Hoehn – Blow Yourself Up –Various: DIY: Come Out And Play – American Power Pop I (1975-78) – 1977
The Scruffs – Break The Ice – Wanna Meet The Scruffs – 1977
The Sneakers – Decline And Fall – In The Red EP – 1978
the dB’s – Big Brown Eyes – Stands for Decibels – 1981

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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This week Listen Up! will be filled with lots of singles and sounds from the late 70’s/early 80’s New York punk/new wave scene. Hear deep tracks from the usual suspects as well as choice forgotten nuggets.

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

Opening Theme

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

Television – Little Johnny Jewel – Various: No Thanks! The ’70s Punk Rebellion – 1975
Richard Hell – You Gotta Lose – Another World – 1976
Dictators – Heartache – Manifest Destiny – 1977

The Idols – Girl That I Love – You / Girl That I Love – 1979
The Killer Kane Band – Mr. Cool – Various: Punk 45: Sick On You! One Way Spit! After the Love & Before the Revolution, Vol. 3: Proto-Punk 1969-77 – 1976
The Criminals – The Kids Are Back – The Kids Are Back / The Cops Are Coming – 1978

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – It’s Not Enough – L.A.M.F. – The Lost ’77 Mixes . – 1978
The Heroes – Seven Day Weekend – Various: Lost Hits – 1983
Kenneth Higney – I Want To Be King – Attic Demonstration – 1980

Bush Tetras – Snakes Crawl – Too Many Creeps – 1980
Comateens – Cool Chick – Comateens – 1980
3 Teens Kill 4 – Tell Me Something Good – no motive – 1968
Model Citizens – Shift The Blame – Shift The Blame – 1979

The Ramones – Teenage Lobotomy -Rocket To Russia – 1977
The Fleshtones – B.Y.O.B.- Blast Off!! – 1978
Peroxide – Heart Disease –Heart Disease /Christine – 1979
Blondie – Little Girl Lies – Blondie – 1976
Tina Peel – Knocking Down Guard Rails –Pajama Party! – 1978
Nervus Rex – Total Affair – Don’t Look / Love Affair – 1979

The Feelies – Forces At Work –Crazy Rhythms – 1980
Marbles – Fire and Smoke – Red Light / Fire and Smoke – 1976
The Erasers – Funny –Various: Singles: The Great New York Singles Scene – 1978
The Speedies – No Substitute – Let Me Take Your Foto / No Substitute – 1979

Talking Heads – Don’t Worry About The Government – ’77 – 1977
Mumps – Did You Get The Girl? –Fatal Charm: 1975 – 1980 — A Brief History Of A Brief History – 1978
Student Teachers – Channel 13 –Channel 13 / Christmas Weather – 1979
Cheese – She Said –She Said / Kids Don’t Mind – 1979

Sinatras – Teddy Crashes Blond Dies –Are You Ready! – 1979
The Revelons – 97 Tears – Anthology – 1979
The Knots – Action – Various: Punk 45: Underground Punk in the United States of America (1973–80) – 1980
Come On – Disneyland –Various:Singles: The Great New York Singles Scene – 1978

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Drift beneath melodies from darkened corners and rural sunsets and shine a beacon on the unsung, should-be-sung, and will-be-sung recordings that clutter the music maze’s dusty corridors.

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

Opening Theme

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

Jake Holmes – Dazed and Confused – The Above Ground Sound – 1967
Howie Gelb – Paradise Where Abouts – ‘Sno Angel Like You – 2006
Silver Jews – Smith & Jones Forever – American Water – 1998

Centro-Matic – Patience For The Ride -Fort Recovery – 2006
Richard Buckner – Lucky – Meadow – 2006
R.E.M.- Stumble – Chronic Town – 1981

X – See How We Are – See How We Are – 1987
Simon Joyner – Nostalgia Blues –Grass, Branch & Bone – 2015

Link Wray – La De Da – Link Wray – 1971
Phil Cook – Great Tide –Southland Mission – 2015
Cat Power – Willie – The Greatest – 2006

Kaleidoscope – Please – Side Trips – 1967
David Crosby – Walking In The Mountains –If I Could Only Remember… These Sessions – 1971
Meat Puppets – Plateau – Meat Puppets II – 1984
Bobby Bare Jr.’s Young Criminals’ Starvation League – Where Is My Mind? – The Longest Meow – 2006

Alejandro Escovedo – Sex Beat – Bourbonitis Blues – 2007
Doug Sahm – Stoned Faces Don’t Lie –The Return Of Doug Saldaña – 1971
Sparklehorse – Return To Me – Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain – 2006
Skip Spence – Book Of Moses –Oar -1969 

Green On Red – 5 Easy Pieces – Gravity Talks – 1983
Go To Blazes – Bloody Sam – Anytime…Anywhere – 1994
Bob Dylan – Billy 1 – Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid – 1973

Flying Burrito Brothers – Wheels –The Gilded Palace Of Sin – 1969
Buck Owens – A Different Kind Of Sad –Buck Owens – Buck ‘Em! Volume 2: The Music Of Buck Owens (1967-1975) – 1970
Waco Brothers – Death Of Country Music – Cowboy In Flames – 1997

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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This week on Listen Up!: It is Pennsylvania Pebbles! Two hours of sixties garage rock nuggets from all across the keystone state.

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level

The Swamp Rats – Hey Freak
The Flowerz – Flyte
The Loose Enz – Easy Rider
The Rogues – Don’t Follow Me
Mike London & The Englishmen – Gypsy Lady

Nazz – Under The Ice
The TR5 – Can’t Wait Much Longer
The Magic Mushrooms – It’s A Happening

Glass Menagerie – Natasha
Lords of T.O.N.K. – Minor Cheevy
JC & The New Tones – Love, Human Emotion
The Rising Tydes – Don’t Want You Around
Creations Disciples – Psychedelic Retraction

The Centurys – Hard Times
The Newluvs – Be My Girl
The Legends – Baby Got Your Head Screwed On
The Snaps – Polka Dot Eyes
Ognir and The Night People – I Found A New Love

The Devils – Devil Dance
The Nobleman 4 – Hang It In Your Ear
Pat Farrell & the Believers – Gotta Find Her
Gay & The Gaylords – Hey! I Don’t Care

The Baker Street Irregulars – I’m A Man
The Starfyres – Captain Dueseldorph
Soul Generation – I Can’t See You
The Escape Machine – Stop!

Scott Bedford Four – You Turned Your Back On Me
Kings Ransom – Shame
The Shillings – Lying and Crying
The Chosen Few – Staircases, Places & Time

Live Wires – Love
7 Dwarfs – Stop Girl
The Whazoos – Inside Of Me
The Swamp Rats – Louie Louie

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune

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Listen Up! is focusing on the newer psych sounds of today for a far out distant sounds of now voyage.

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

Opening Theme

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

My Expansive Awareness – We Are Stardust – My Expansive Awareness – 2015
Halasan Bazar & Tara King th – Rot Inside – 8 – 2015
Datura4 – Another Planet – Demon Blues – 2015

Plastic Man – Needle Point – Don’t Look at the Moon – 2015
The Cush – The Vigilant Ones –Between the Leaves – 2010
Mindflowers – Youth – /​/​/​3 – 2014

The Mushroom Club – Into Something Good – Various: The Psychedelic Sounds Of The Blog That Celebrates Itself, Volume II – 2013
Juleah – Anticipation – Shimmering Road – 2013

10000 Russos – Karl Burns – 10000 Russos – 2015
Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor – Seventh Scene –Desert Brain – 2015
The Chemistry Set – She’s Taking Me Down – She’s Taking Me Down – 2009

Elephant Stone – Child Of Nature (Om Namah Shivaya) – The Three Poisons – 2014
Black Lizard – Perfect Dope – Solarize – 2015
Mondo Drag – Zephyr – Mondo Drag – 2015

The Grease Arrestor – The Freakout – Volume Two – 2015
The Karovas Milkshake – Howl / Sugary Life – in the shade of purple sun – 2015

Singapore Sling – You Drive Me Insane – The Tower of Foronicity – 2014
Cool Ghouls – The Mile – A Swirling Fire Burning Through the Rye – 2014
The Wicked Whispers – Amanda Lavander – Maps Of The Mystic – 2014

The Red Plastic Buddha – Little White Pills –Songs for Mara – 2014
The Happy Fallen – Open Wide –Lost And Found –2015
Dog Age – The American Line – Reefy Seadragon – 2006

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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