Listen Up! ventures back to that magic era we all know and love with a two hour dose of British Psychedelia from the late 60’s.

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

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

The Who – Armenia City In The Sky – The Who Sell Out – 1967
Giles, Giles & Fripp – North Meadow – The Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp – 1968
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera – Mary Jane – Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera -1968
Mike Stuart Span – Children Of Tomorrow – Various: The Rubble Collection Vol. 5 – 1968
The Move – Flowers In The Rain – Move – 1968

Dantalion’s Chariot – The Madman Running Through The Fields – Various: Nuggets II Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964–1969 – 1967
Soft Machine – We Did It Again – Volume One – 1968
Pink Floyd – Candy And A Current Bun – The First Three Singles – 1967
Jimi Hendrix Experience – 51st Anniversary – Smash Hits – 1967
The Attack – Lady Orange Peel – Magic In The Air – 1968

Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup – Jabberwock – Various: Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks Vol. 1 – 1966
Jason Crest – Black Mass – Various: The Rubble Collection – 1969
Love Sculpture – River To Another Day – The Dave Edmunds Anthology (1968-90) – 1968
Idle Race – I Like My Toys – The Birthday Party – 1968
Bee Gees – Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You – Bee Gees 1st – 1967
The Zombies – Brief Candles – Odessey and Oracle – 1968

The Small Faces – Green Circles – There Are But Four Small Faces – 1968
Traffic – Berkshire Poppies – Mr. Fantasy- 1967
The Beatles – Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – 1967
Moles – We Are The Moles – The British Invasion: History of British Rock, Vol. 8 – 1968

Tomorrow – Revolution – Tomorrow – 1968
Yes – Beyond and Before -Yes – 1969
Rainbow Ffolly – Sun Sing – Sallies Fforth – 1968
July – The Way – July – 1968

The Creation – Life Is Just Beginning – The Creation Collection – 1967
Virgin Sleep – Love – Various: Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers – 1967
The Factory – Try A Little Sunshine – Various: A Perfumed Garden Vol. 1 – 1969

Mick Softley with The Summer Suns – Am I The Red One – Various: Acid Drops, Spacedust & Flying Saucers – 1966
Peep Show – Mazy – Various: The Rubble Collection Volume 7 – 1967
Pretty Things – Loneliest Person – S.F.Sorrow – 1968

The Rolling Stones – We Love You –   Singles Collection: The London Years – 1967

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Listen Up! is taking a mid afternoon trip where rivers of gold flow into sun drenched flowering fields of purple with the sounds of cosmic psychedelic country/folk tinged tunes and things of that sort.

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

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

 

Relatively Clean Rivers – Hello Sunshine – Relatively Clean Rivers – 1976
Meat Puppets – We’re Here – Meat Puppets II – 1983
Grateful Dead – Cosmic Charlie – Aoxomoxoa – 1969

Castanets – Three Days, Four Nights – Cathedral – 2004
MV & EE – Wasteland – Space Homestead – 2012
Moby Grape – 8:05 – Moby Grape – 1967

Opal – If The Sun Don’t Shine (Adaptation of Jugband Blues) -Various: Beyond The Wildwood A Tribute To Syd Barrett – 1987
Neil Young – I’ve Been Waiting For You – Neil Young – 1968
Man – Keep In Crinting – Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day – 1972

The Holy Modal Rounders – Spring of ’65 – Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day – 1971
The Pine Hill Haints – Shattered Waltz – The Magik Sounds of The Pine Hill Haints – 2014
Li’l Cap ‘n’ Travis – Steady As She Goes – In All Their Splendor – 2004

The Handsome Family – Weightless Again – Through the Trees – 1998
John Wesley Coleman – I Wish The Night To Be A Lot Longer – The Love That You Own – 2014
Brother JT – Son Of Man – Off Blue – 2004

New Riders of The Purple Sage – Dirty Business – New Riders Of The Purple Sage – 1971
Maxfield Parrish – Ellie McCall – It’s A Cinch To Give Legs To Old Hard-Boiled Eggs – 1972
David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights – Left By Soft -Left By Soft – 2011

The Flying Burrito Brothers – Juanita – The Gilded Palace of Sin – 1969
Gene Clark – Silver Raven – No Other – 1974
Amy LaVere – Dark Moon – Runaway’s Diary – 2014
The Court and Spark – Suffolk Down Upon The Night – Witch Season – 2004
The Byrds – Wasn’t Born To Follow – The Notorious Byrd Brothers – 1968

Lee Hazlewood and Suzi Jane Hokom – For a Day Like Today – Cowboy In Sweden – 1970

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Listen Up! serves up another audio cocktail mixed with assorted riffs and hooks, spaced out grooves, fuzz filled twists and twangs, and other flavorings that rock and roll.

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

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

Flat Duo Jets – I Went Rockin’ -Safari – 1993
Ray Vernon & The Raymen – Big City After Dark – Big CIty After Dark/Hold It – 1962
The Premiers – Get On This Plane – Various: Boulders Vol 2 – 1966
Nick Lowe – Truth Drug – The Wilderness Years – 1976

The Wailers – Tall Cool One – Tall Cool One – 1964
Jolly Green Giants – Busy Body – Various: Teenage Shutdown Vol. 01  Jump Jive & Harmonize – 1966
Eddie Kirk – The Hawg (Pt 1) -Various:  The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 – 1963
Charles Bradley – Heart Of Gold – Heart of Gold/In You (I Found A Love) – 2011
Billy Ball & The Upsetters – Tighten Up Tighter – Various: The Funky 16 Corners  – 1968

The Dirtbombs – Sugar on Top -Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey! – 2013
Boys and Girls Together – Knock, Knock – Knock, Knock / Progressive Halavah – 1969
Palmyra Delran – You’re My Brian Jones – You Are What You Absorb – 2013
Del Shannon – She – The Further Adventures Of Charles Westover – 1968

The Wild Tones – Sick Chick –
Kim Fowley – Pop Art ’66 – Mondo Hollywood – 1966
Fat White Family – Cream of The Young – Champagne Holocaust – 2013
Tony Allen – Crazy Afrobeat – Home Cooking – 2002
Bo Diddley – Say Man -The Chess Box – 1959

Junkyard Dogs – Breakin’ The Law – Good Livin’ Platter – 1994
Tommy Collins – I Made The Prison Band –  I Made The Prison Band / No Love Have I – 1968
Sir Douglas Quintet – Michoacan – The Best of Doug Sahm (1968-1975)  – 1971
The Band – Yazoo Street Scandal – The Basement Tapes – 1967

Pete Best Four – I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door – Various:The Beat Scene – 1964
The Bee Gees – In My Own Time – Bee Gees 1st – 1967
The Beatles – What You’re Doing –  Beatles For Sale – 1964
The Moving Sidewalks – I Want To Hold Your Hand -Various: 30 Seconds Before The Calico Wall – 1967

LIttle Red & The Rockin’ Hoods – Rock Pebbles Rock – Rock Pebbles Rock/Twist and Shout – 1967 
Dominique MIchel – Mirza -Moi, J’aime Dominique – 1966
Os Brazeos – Feitico – Os Brazoes – 1968
Celio Balona – Tema De Batman – Various: Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas – 196?

Brainticket – Black Sand – Cottonwoodhill – 1971
Iron Knowledge – Show Stopper – Showstopper/Oh Love – 1972
George Brigman & Split – Blowin’ Smoke – I Can Hear the Ants Dancin’ – 1977

Terry and The Topics – Where is my Pussycat? – Various: Twistin Rumble Volume 1 – 1967

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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We (again) venture back in time to the 80’s and early 90’s, playing those sort of indie/college rock, power pop, garage type, slightly noisy and jangly combos that might or may not fall into some sub-genre depending on some archivist.

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

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

The Cold – Three Chord City – You/The Chord City – 1980
Material Issue – Out Right Now – International Pop Overthrow – 1991
Redd Kross – Peach Kelli Pop – Neurotica – 1987
The Plimsouls – How Long Will It Take? – Everywhere At Once – 1983

Dumptruck – Carcass – d Is For Dumptruck – 1983
The dB’s – Ask For Jill – Repercussion – 1981
World of Pooh – Playing One’s Piano – The Land Of Thirst – 1989
The Feelies – On The Roof – The Good Earth – 1986

The Salvation Army – For Hours – Befour Three O’Clock – 1982
The Hard -Ons – Girl In The Sweater – Hard-Ons – 1986
Green – Radio Caroline – Elaine MacKenzie – 1987
The Scientists – Sorry Sorry Sorry – Pissed On Another Planet – 1981
Dogmatics – You Say – Thayer St. – 1984
Bad Religion – Suffer – Suffer – 1988

Camper Van Beethoven – She Divines Water -Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart – 1988
The Long Ryders – And She Rides – Native Sons – 1984
The Beat Farmers – Gun Sale At The Church – Van Go – 1986

The Original Sins – Higher – Self Destruct – Native Sons – 1990
Opal – Rocket Machine – Happy Nightmare Baby – 1987
The Lyres – Don’t Give It Up Now – On Fyre – 1984
Died Pretty – Stoneage Cinderella – Free Dirt – 1986

Green On Red – Death And Angels – Green On Red – 1982
American Music Club – Rise – Everclear – 1991
The Chills – Pink Frost – Kaleidoscope World – 1984

The Meat Puppets – Swimming Ground – Meat Puppets II – 1985
Violent Femmes – Ugly – Ugly – 1983

Salem 66 – Love and Truth – A Ripping Spin – 1985
The Embarrassment – Drive Me To The Park – Heyday 1979-83 – 1983
The Replacements – Little Mascara – Tim – 1985
Husker Du – Sorry Somehow – Candy Apple Grey – 1986

Young Fresh Fellows – Searchin’ USA – Topsy Turvy-1985

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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We venture back in time to the 80’s and early 90’s, playing those sort of indie/college rock, power pop, garage type,  slightly noisy and jangly combos that might or may not fall into some sub-genre depending on some archivist.

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

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

The Dream Syndicate – The Days of Wine and Roses – The Days of Wine and Roses – 1982
Eleventh Day Dream – Between Here and There – Beet – 1989
Screaming Trees – Transfiguration – Even If And Especially When – 1987

Guadalcanal Diary – Michael Rockefeller – Jamboree – 1985
The Cavedogs – Leave Me Alone – Joyrides For Shut-Ins – 1990
Game Theory – Last Day That We’re Young – Lolita Nation – 1987
The Jigsaw Seen – My Name Is Tom – My Name is Tom – 1991

The Connells – ’74-’75 – Ring – 1993
Briggs Beall – Walk Me Into The Cold and Rain – Briggs Beall Cassette – 1986
The Johnsons – Love You So – Break Tomorrow’s Day – 1986

The Cramps – Don’t Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk – Psychedelic Jungle – 1981
The Minutemen – The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts – Double Nickels On The Dime – 1984
Manual Scan – Nothing You Can Do – Plan Of Action – 1983

R.E.M. – Wolves, Lower – Manual Scan – 1981
Rain Parade – You Are My Friend – Explosions In The Glass Palace – 1984
Teenage Fanclub – The Concept – Bandwagonesque – 1991
Velvet Crush – Star Trip – Teenage Symphonies To God – 1994

Electric Love Muffin – Down Easy -Rassafranna – 1988
Dinosaur Jr. – Raisans – You’re Living All Over Me – 1987
Das Damen – Spider Birds – Triskaidekaphobe – 1988

Chesterfield Kings – She Told Me Lies – Stop! – 1985
Headless Horsemen – Just Yesterday – Can’t Help But Shake – 1987
St. John’s Alliance – Mark My Word – Mark My Word/No One Sees – 1984

The Bangles – He’s Got A Secret – All Over The Place – 1984
Le Hoodoo Gurus – Leilani – Various; Do The Pop! – 1982
Big Dipper – All Going Out Together -Heavens – 1987

Dancing Hoods – Pleasure – 12 Jealous Roses – 1985

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Listen Up! is moving to Wednesdays beginning April 1st. No Kidding!

Since it is April Fools Day, we will embrace the truly odd and celebrate the outsider with song poems, jazz band arrangements of prog and space rock tunes, cartoon bands, various exotic sounds, incredibly strange music, and other cool, weird and often unusual audio selections.

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

Opening Theme
Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level

West Virginia University Marching Band – Karn Evil 9
Langley Schools Music Project – Venus and Mars -Rock Show
The Bran Flakes – Dear Mom and Dad
Jay Mesco – The Generation Gap

Lowney’s Chocolate – The By Cracky Beat
Barry Tiffin – Candy Bars For Elvis
Elvis Presley – Yoga Is As Yoga Does
Wilton Place Street Band – Disco Lucy

Gil Evans Orchestra – Voodoo Chile
James Last – Silver Machine, Children Of The Revolution, School’s Out
Village Sound – Hey Jack (Don’t Hijack My Phone)

Master Gunnery Sergeant Bill Dower – Aerobics: Physical Readiness Training – I Ran (So Far Away)
T. Valentine – Shake Your Funky A-S-S
Josie and The Pussycats – I Wanna Make You Happy
The Banana Splits – Doin’ The Banana Split

Oscar The Grouch – I Love Trash
Gene Marshall – Scat Car Scat
Brian Ingland – The World of Gorillas and Monkeys
Rodd Keith – Our Senators
Max & Ada Rogoff – Travelling Thru New Jersey

Doc Severinson – In The Court of The Crimson King
Don Ellis – Roundabout
Philippe Giordiani; Bruno Tocanne; Remi Gaudillat – interstellar Overdrive
The Space Lady – Ballroom Blitz

Leon Womack – Far Left
Merv Shiner – Protest

Gilbert Shelton Ensemble – If I Was A Hell’s Angel
Freak Brothers – Set Your Chickens Free

Leonard Nimoy – Consilium

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune

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Listen Up! explores the Canterbury Scene with the music of the freewheeling British bands of the post-psychedelic era that emerged from the quiet cathedral city of Canterbury, England. We will also remember Daevid Allen , a key figure in that scene and sound, who passed away this week.

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

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

Listen Up! returns with another time shifting musical trip filled with psych tinged sounds, garage nuggets, dusty grooves, fractured folk, unpopular pop songs and assorted strange and wonderful delights.

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

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

Dukes of Stratosphear – 25 O’Clock – 25 O’Clock – 1985
The Steppes – Tourist From Timenotyet – Stewdio – 1988
Russell Morris – The Real Thing – Various: Rubble 18 – Rainbow Thyme Wynders – 1969

Sons of The Vegetal Mother – Love Is The Law – The Garden Party – 1970
The Mothers of Invention – Let’s Make The Water Turn Black – We’re Only in It for The Money – 1968

Yellow Moon Band – Entangled – Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World – 2009
David Holmes – What R We Stealing – Oceans Twelve OST – 2004
Ananda Shankar – Exploration – A Life In Music: Best Of The EMI Years – 2001

Dorothy Ashby – Soul Vibrations – Afro-Harping – 1968
The Dave Pike Set – Spooky – Got The Feelin’ – 1969
Cosmic Michael – Now That I Found It -Cosmic Michael – 1969
Howard Eynon – Boots & Jam & Heads & Things – So What If I’m Standing in Apricot Jam – 1974
Donovan – Riki Tiki Tavi – Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976 – 1970
Eartha Kitt – Hurdy Gurdy Man – Various: Electric Lemonade Acid Test Vol. 3 – 1970

Mort Garson – Killing of The Witch – The Wozard of Iz – 1968
13th Floor Elevators – Slip Inside This House – Easter Everywhere – 1967
Bohemian Vendetta – I Wanna Touch Your Heart – Various : The Best Of Pebbles Volume Two – 1968

Leon Russell – The Ballad of Hollis Brown – Stop All That Jazz – 1974
Friends of Dean Martinez – Wichita Lineman – Wichita Lineman – 2001
Ed Askew – Love Is Everyone – Ask the Unicorn – 1968

Nick Nicely – 49 Cigars – Psychotropia – 1982
Tame Impala – It’s Not Meant To Be – Innerspeaker – 2010
Tyrnaround – Colour Your Mind – Colour Your Mind – 1986
Anton Barbeau – Mushroom Box, 1975 – In The Village Of The Apple Sun – 2006

Father Yod and The Spirit of 76 – I Can Read Your Mind  – All Or Nothing At All – 1974

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

Listen Up! is now available as a podcast at  listenupradio.podomatic.com