This week Listen Up! is offering up an intoxicating blend. I’m all lost in my music library this week, so join me for a misguided tour where I will be rescuing obscure recording artists and playing music to satisfy your sweet spots. Streaming live from 2pm – 4pm EST.

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

Yellow Submarine film instrumental music

Ten Years After – Religion – Rock and Roll Music To The World – 1972
Flaming Lips – Jesus Shooting Heroin – Here It Is – 1986
The Rolling Stones – Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) –  Goats Head Soup – 1973
The Velvet Underground – Ocean- VU -1969
Toy Love – Frogs – AK79 -1979
Mud Pie Sun – Three More Days – Wooden Circle – 2012
Barbara Manning – Don’t Rewind – Acoustic Music Project – 1990
Paul Clayton – The Greenland Whale Fisheries – Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick – 1956
The Bigger Lovers – So It Goes – The Stiff Generation -2002
Stiv Bators – The Last Year – Disconnected – 1980
Off Broadway – Stay In Time – On – 1980
20/20 – Yellow Pills – 20/20 – 1979
The Last – She Don’t Know Why I’m Here – LA Explosion -1979
The Green Pajamas – Walking In The Rain – Book Of Hours -1987
Bocky & The Visions – Spirit of ’64 – Bigger Than The Beatles – 1964
The Outsiders – The Guy With The Long Liverpool Hair – Bigger Than The Beatles – 1964
The Motions – Long Hair – Bigger Than The Beatles – 1964
Doc Severinsen & The Now Generation Brass – In The Court Of The Crimson King – Doc Severinsen’s Closet – 1970
McDonald and Giles – Tomorrow’s People – McDonald and Giles – 1970
Koko Taylor & Willie Dixon – Insane Asylum – Koko Taylor – 1969
Tom Waits – Rains On Me – Free The West Memphis Three – 2000
Wendell Austin – LSD Made A Wreck Of Me – Wavy Gravy – 1968
The Winstons – Amen, Brother – Ultimate Breaks and Beats -1969
The Wailers – Amen – Simmer Down At Studio One – 1964
Prince Buster – She Loves You – Rude Boy Scorcher – 1964
Manito – Sock It To ‘Em, JB – O Incrivel -1970
Derrick Morgan – Moon Hop – Best of the Early Years 1960-69 – 1969
Supersuckers – Heavy Heart – Free The West Memphis Three – 2000

This  week,  there is no special theme or focus this week. But don’t worry, it will still be a trip through a labyrinth of music shining a beacon on the unsung, should-be-sung, and will-be-sung recordings that clutter the maze’s dusty corridors that crisscross time and continents.

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

Selected works from composer Vic Mizzy

The Modern Lovers – She Cracked – The Modern Lovers – 1972

Nico – Chelsea Girls – Chelsea Girl – 1967

Marianne Faithfull – Incarceration of  a Flower Child – Vagabond Ways – 1998

The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – In The Air – 2000

The Kinks – Wicked Annabella – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society – 1968

The Original Sins – Why Don’t You Smile, Joan? – Big Soul – 1987

Peter Laughner – Sylvia Plath – Take the Guitar Player for a Ride – 197?

Wilco – Sunloathe – The Whole Love – 2011

Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore – Bedazzled – Bedazzled – 1967

Rupert Hine – Orange Song – Unfinished Picture -1973

John Cale – Hanky Panky Nohow -Paris 1919 -1973

Bonzo Dog Band – Readymades – Tadpoles – 1967

The Left Banke – Pretty Ballerina – There’s Gonna Be a Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966–1969 –  1967

Badfinger – We’re For The Dark – No Dice -1970

The Zombies – Leave Me Be – The Singles: A’s and B’s -1965

The Minders – Hooray For Tuesday – Hooray For Tuesday – 1998

Big Star – Feel – #1 Record – 1972

Monochrome Set – Tomorrow Will Be Too Long – Strange Boutique – 1980

Mission of Burma – Academy Fight Song – Signals, Calls, and Marches -1981

Magazine – A Song For Under The Floorboards – The Correct Use of Soap -1980

Wire – Strange – Pink Flag -1977

Urinals – Black Hole – Urinals -1979

Vibrators – Baby, Baby – Pure Punk – 2009

The Damned – Smash It Up – Machine Gun Etiquette – 1979

The Stranglers – Goodbye Toulouse – Rattus Norvegicus -1977

Brian Eno – Burning Airlines Give You So Much More – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) -1974

David Peel and The Lower East Side – I Want To Kill You – American Revolution – 1970

The Fugs – New Amphetamine Shriek – Virgin Fugs – 1965

James Rebel O’Leary – South Bound 81 – Only In America Vol. 2  -1982

Dick Kent – Maker of Smooth Music – Tom Ardolino Presents: The Makers of Smooth Music -??

Magnapop – Favorite Writer – Magnapop – 1992

This week, Listen Up! brings you two solid hours filled with British Mod and Freakbeat sounds along with other 60’s Brit Pop pounders!

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

Selected works from composer John Barry

Bonzo Dog Band – Cool Britannia – Gorilla – 1967

The  Creation – Biff Bang Pow – Our Music Is Red With Purple Flashes – 1967

The Action – I’ll Keep Holding On – The Ultimate! Action – 1966

The Eyes – When The Night Falls – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1965

The Quick – Bert’s Apple Crumble – The Mod Scene – 1967

The Syn – Grounded – Original Syn – 1967

John’s Children – Desdemona –  Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1967

The Human Instinct – Pink Dawn –Staircase to Nowhere – 1968

The Pretty Things – Midnight to 6 – The Singles A’s & B’s – 1966

The Syndicats – Crawdaddy Simone – You’re Holding Me Down – 1965

The Wards of Court – How Could You Say One Thing – The Mod Scene -1967

The Rolling Stones – Citadel – Their Satanic Majesties Request – 1967

The Chants R&B – I’m Your Witch Doctor – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1965

The Pete Best Combo – The Way I Feel About You – Beyond The Beatles – 1966

The Primitives – You Said – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond -1965

The Poets – That’s The Way It’s Got To Be – The Immediate Records Story – 1965

The Birds – No Good Without You Baby – The Collector’s Guide to Rare British Birds – 1965

The La De Das –How Is The Air Up There? – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1966

The Mark Four – I’m Leaving – Maximum Freakbeat -1965

The Move – Fire Brigade – The Move Anthology – 1968

The Idle Race – Imposters Of Life’s Magazine – Back To The Story – 1967

The Troggs – 66-5-4-3-2-1 – Trogglodynamite – 1966

The Score – Beg Me – The Mod Scene – 1966

Eyes of Blue – Supermarket Full Of Cans – The Mod Scene – 1967

The Flies – I’m Not Your Stepping Stone – The Electric Crayon Set: Rubble, Vol. 5 – 1966

The Who – So Sad About Us – A Quick One – 1966

The Kinks – Victoria – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) – 1969

The Attack – We Don’t Know – The In Crowd – 1967

The Fire – Father’s Name Was Dad – Chocolate Soup For Diabetics – 1968

The Small Faces – Understanding – The Anthology 1965-1967 – 1966

The Buzz – You’re Holding Me Down – Joe Meek; The Alchemist of Pop – 1966

The Downliners Sect – Why Don’t You Smile Now – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1965

Les Fleur De Lys – Mud In Your Eye – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond -1966

The Yardbirds – Stroll On – Ultimate! – 1966

The Open Mind – Magic Potion – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1969

Denis Couldry & The Next Collection – I Am Nearly There –Freakbeat Scene -1968

The Blue Stars – I Can’t Take It – Trans-World Punk Rave-Up Volume Two – 1966

Timebox – Poor Little Heartbreaker – The Deram Anthology – 1969

Billy Nichols – London Social Degree – Real Life Permanent Dreams – 1968

Listen Up! pays tribute to the late Joe South who passed away last week. He didn’t get much credit outside of the snobbiest rock snob circles, but the man wrote some classic tunes that became huge hits for other artists, like “Hush,” “Rose Garden,” “Down in the Boondocks,” and “Games People Play.” Hey even laid down some tasty guitar work on Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan albums.

The songs of Joe South are passionate and righteous, empathetic and generous and those are under appreciated qualities these days. All the more reason to pay tribute to the songs and session work of Joe South (from South’s own fantastic recordings as well as a few covers of his songs).

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

King Curtis – Games People Play – Wounded Bird – 1969

Veijo  Airaksinen – Rose Garden – Mr.Frosty – ?

Joe South – Hush – Games People Play – 1969

Joe South – The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor – The Rockin’ South – 1958

The A-Bones – I’m Snowed – Daddy Wants a Cold Beer and Other Million Sellers – 2004

The Tams – Untie Me – Time For The Tams – 196?

Joe South – Games People Play – Games People Play – 1969

Bryan Ferry – Walk A Mile In My Shoes – Another Place, Another Time – 1974

Joe South – What Makes Lovers Hurt One Another – Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home? – 1970

Kelly Hogan – The Greatest Love – The Joe South Tribute Record – 2005

Joe South – Mirror Of Your Mind – Anthology A Mirror Of His Mind – 1968

Ben Vaughn – Dark Glasses – Mono USA – 1994

Arthur Alexander – Concrete Jungle – The Monument Years – 196?

The Believers – Soul Raga Simmerin’ – Voyages into Psychedelia – 1968

Tommy Roe – Sheila – At The Hop – 1962

Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again – Blonde on Blonde – 1966

Aretha Franklin – Chain of Fools – Lady Soul – 1968

Joe South – Million Miles Away – Don’t It Make You Want To Go Home? – 1969

Joe South – Children – Anthology A Mirror of His Mind – 1970

Joe South – Fool Me – Joe South – 1971

Ron Silva & The New Believers – I Knew You When – The Joe South Tribute Record – 2005

Joe South – Rose Garden – Introspect – 1969

Chuck Prophet – Don’t It Make You Want To Go Home? – The Joe South Tribute Record – 2005

Paul Revere & The Raiders – Birds of  a Feather – Indian Reservation – 1971

Joe South & The Believers  – Hearts Desire – 1968

Joe South – Party People – Games People Play – 1969

The Barracudas – Down In The Boondocks – Bucket Full of Brains 45 –  2006

Gene Vincent – Gone Gone Gone – The Crazy Beat of Gene Vincent – 1963

Joe South – Don’t Throw Your Love to The Wind – Introspect – 1969

Joe South – All My Hard Times – Introspect – 1969

Joe South – These Are Not My People – Games People Play – 1969

This Monday’s show (Sept. 3rd): Try To Change the World With a Plastic Platter. It is Labor Day and Listen Up! could celebrate those factory workers, the miners and the people who build our roads and our bridges. But nope, instead we are  going to celebrate the labors of the music star.

The excesses of grueling tours, and the dealing with record labels and industry scum will all be sung. So share the life a rock star this Monday afternoon.

Groupies, French champagne and other perks not included.

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

Opening Theme

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

Background Music

Various versions of the song “Wheels”

Talk with Chet Atkins “Wheels” in background

The Byrds – So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star – Younger Than Yesterday – 1967

Art Brut – Formed A Band – Bang Bang Rock and Roll – 2005

Sleater-Kinney – Entertain -The Woods – 2005

Wreckless Eric – A Popsong – Big Smash – 1980

The Clash – Garageland – The Clash – 1977

Talk with Chet Atkins “Wheels” in background

Nick Lowe – I Love My Label – A Bunch of Stiff Records – 1977

Graham Parker – Mercury Poisoning – Squeezing Out Sparks – 1979

The Sex Pistols – EMI – Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols – 1977

Jeffrey Lewis – Don’t Let the Record Label Take You Out to Lunch –  It’s the Ones Who’ve Cracked That the Light Shines Through – 2003

Talk with James Last “Wheels” in background

Yo La Tengo – We’re An American Band – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One – 1997

Ben Vaughn – Rhythm Guitar – Ben Vaughn Blows Your Mind – 1988

Redd Kross – Play My Song – Neurotica – 1987

The Frampton Brothers – The Beginning Of The End Of The Fun Years – File Under F For Failure – 1999

Talk with The Shaggs  “Wheels” in background

The Smiths – Paint a Vulgar Picture – Strangeways, Here We Come – 1987

Badfinger – Hey, Mr. Manager – Head First – 1974

Warren Zevon – Even A Dog Can Shake Hands – Sentimental Hygiene – 1987

Aimee Mann – Nothing Is Good Enough – Bachelor #2 -2000

French,Frith,Kaiser,Thompson – Now That I Am Dead – Invisible Means – 1990

Talk with Billy Vaughn “Wheels” in background

Mose Allison – The Getting Paid Waltz – My Backyard – 1990

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper – Where the Hell’s My Money? – 1986

Frank Zappa – Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink – Chunga’s Revenge – 1970

Talk with The Jumping Jewels ‘Wheels” in background

The Rolling Stones – The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man – Out of Our Heads – 1965

Belle and Sebastian – Seymour Stein – The Boy with the Arab Strap – 1998

Gang Of  Four – Producer – Attack Of The Killer B’s – 1983

Dead Kennedys – Pull My Strings – Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death – 1987

Todd Rundgren – An Elpee’s Worth of Toons – Todd – 1974

The Kinks – The Moneygoround – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One – 1970

Talk with The String-a-longs “Wheels” in background

Mott The Hoople – Saturday Gigs – Shades Of Ian Hunter & Mott The Hoople – 1974

The Frogs – I Only Play 4 Money – Starjob -1997

Talk with NoMan “Wheels” in background