Mal at the Beeb

 Mal Thursday presents a romp through the BBC archives as this week's show consists of songs recorded for broadcast on the Beeb between 1963 and 1973. One classic after another. In semi-chronological order. The least obscure episode in years! Presented primarily in Living Monophonic Sound.

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Playlist:
The Beatles: Some Other Guy
The Rolling Stones: The Last Time
The Yardbirds: I'm Not Talking
The Pretty Things: Don't Bring Me Down
Them: Gloria
The Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place
The Kinks: Till the End of the Day
The Small Faces: Whatcha Gonna Do About It
The Who: Radio One Theme/Run Run Run
Lulu & The Luvvers: I'll Come Running Over
The Zombies: What More Can I Do
The Rolling Stones: 2120 South Michigan Avenue (bed)
Manfred Mann: Groovin'
The Hollies: Set Me Free
Hermans Hermits: Ain't That Just Like a Woman
The Merseybeats: Good Good Lovin'
Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders: Sticks and Stones
The Nashville Teens: Tobacco Road
Spencer Davis Group: Watch Your Step
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich: Hold Tight
Paul & Ritchie: Circles
The Yardbirds: Shapes of Things
Cream: I'm So Glad
Staus Quo: Pictures of Matchstick Men
Traffic: Dear Mr. Fantasy
The Pretty Things: Walking Through My Dreams
The Troggs: I Can't Control Myself
The Bee Gees: In My Own Time
The Easybeats: Friday on My Mind
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
The Move: Stephanie Knows Who
Deep Purple: Hush
Fleetwood Mac: Albatross (bed)/Oh Well
Jethro Tull: My Sunday Feeling
Led Zeppelin: Traveling Riverside Blues
Mott the Hoople: Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Faces: The Stealer
T. Rex: The Slider
David Bowie & The Spiders from Mars: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Careful

 Mal Thursday is back with a painstaking episode where the Word of the Week is Careful: all songs with Care, Full, or Careful in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 16 October 2025.

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Playlist:
The Golliwogs: You Better Be Careful
Bo Diddley: You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
The Run-A-Rounds: I Couldn't Care Less
The Gaunga Dyns: No One Cares
The Gants: My Baby Don't Care
Thor's Hammer: I Don't Care
Christopher & The Chaps: They Just Don't Care
The Byrds: She Don't Care About Time
Ken & The Fourth Dimension: See If I Care
The Front Line: I Don't Care
The Light Brigade: Baby You Don't Care
Love Inc.: She Don't Care About Me
The Dirty Shames: I Don't Care
Lulu: Gentle Care radio spot
The Chantays: Only If You Care
Our Gang: Careless Love
The Brass Buttons: Hell Will Take Care of Her

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Mouse & The Traps: You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)/Nobody Cares
Bobby Fuller Four: (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
Joe Barry: I'm a Fool to Care
Willie Nelson: I Never Cared for You
Homer: I Never Cared for You

The Buckinghams: Don't You Care
The Alan Bown Set: I Really Really Care
Miki Dallon & The Sorrows: Care About You
Them: Nobody Cares
The Ro-D-Ys: You'd Better Take Care of Yourself
The Ramones: I Don't Care
The Reverberations: Why Should I Care
Dee Rangers: Like She Don't Care
The Modern Lovers: Someone I Care About 
The Sick Rose: I Don't Care
The Sound Reasons: If I Cared
Elizabeth: You Should Be More Careful
The Tikis: Careful What You Say
The Royal Shadels: Be Careful with Your Car-full
The Impalas: Spoonful
Untamed Youth: Full Blown 426 Hemi
Thee Sixpence: Heart Full of Rain
The Yardbirds: Heart Full of Soul
Big Star: Take Care

Anxious Colors

It's a rock n' roll feast for the ears, eyes, and mind on this multi-hued episode of The Mal Thursday Show. The first hour is all songs with black or white in the title, while the songs in second hour are in full color. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 11 June 2020.

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 Playlist:
Painted Faces: Anxious Color
Los Bravos: Black is Black (Negro es Negro)
The Rolling Stones: Paint It Black
The Beatles: Baby's in Black
The Fifth Order: Little Black Egg
MC5: Black to Comm
The Meteors: Ballad of a Blackhearted Man
Tim Hardin: Black Sheep Boy
The Kinks: Big Black Smoke
The Cramps: Color Me Black
The Ventures: Black Sand Beach
Ken Nordine: White
The Painted Ship: I Told Those Little White Lies
The Standells: Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White
The RPMs: White Lightning (It's Frightening)
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit (Live Fillmore '68)
The Cinders: Barbara White
The Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat (45 Version)
X: White Girl (Single Mix)
Billy Idol: White Wedding (Single Edit)
The Caravelles: Lovin' Just My Style
The Blues Company: Experiment in Color
Love: She Comes in Colors
The AmboyDukes: Colors
The Deep: Color Dreams
The Colors of Night: The Colors of Night
Johnny Thompson Quintet: Color Me Columbus
Mongo Santamaria: Green Onions
Fred Neil: Green Rocky Road
The Kingsmen: Long Green
The Lemon Pipers: Green Tambourine
The Bees: Voices Green and Purple
Donovan: Mellow Yellow (BBC)
The Music Machine: Double Yellow Line
Johnny & The Hurricanes: Red River Rock
The Jolly Green Giants: Caught You Red-Handed
Mott The Hoople: Long Red
The Savages: Roses are Red
Sam & Dave: Soul Sister Brown Sugar
Chuck Berry: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
Chicago: Fancy Colors
Donovan: Colours
The Knights of the Road: The Color of Dream
Ken Nordine: Black
Fleetwood Mac: Black Magic Woman
Painted Faces: Black Hearted Susan
Cream: White Room (Single Edit)
The Monkees: Shades of Grey 

Mal Thursday Quintet New England Dates!

 Mal Thursday Quintet Fall 2025 New England Dates:

TIGER BOMB  MAL THURSDAY QUINTET  RAY MASON  ORANGES Friday October 10th at CitySpace, Easthampton, Mass. Get advance tickets

LYRES  MAL THURSDAY QUINTET  TIGER BOMB + VISTA CRUISERS Saturday October 11th at VFW Portland, Maine Get advance tickets

Just/As/Well

Mal Thursday is back to bring you three Words of the Week on this triple-thick episode of the program, all songs with Just, As, and/or Well in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 24 November 2022.

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Playlist:
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Just Like Me (LP version)
The Beatles: I Just Don't Understand (BBC)
The Rolling Stones: I Just Want to Make Love to You/Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind
Dana Gillespie: You Just Gotta Know My Mind
The Answers: It's Just a Fear
Jimmy Page: She Just Satisfies
The Uprooted: It's Just You
Led Zeppelin: Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
The Hollies: (Ain't That) Just Like Me
Dusty Springfield: I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
The Zombies: Bunny Lake Is Missing/Just Out of Reach
The Beau Brummels: Just a Little
The Outsiders: Just Let Me Be
The No-Na-Mees: Just Wanna Be Myself
The MC5: I Just Don't Know
The Ventures: She's Just My Style
Michael & The Messengers: (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet
The Monkees: You Just May Be the One
Bob Dylan: Just Like a Woman (Take 16)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Sir Douglas Quintet: Please Just Say So
Janis Joplin: Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
Roy Head & The Traits: Just a Little Bit
The Word D: Today Is Just Tomorrow's Yesterday
Willie Nelson: Just As I Am

The Southern Sound: Just the Same As You
Them: If You and I Could Be As Two
The Doors: Take It As It Comes
The Tropics: As Time's Gone
Esther Phillips: As Tears Go By
Elvis Presley: A Fool Such As I
Autosalvage: Our Life As We Lived It
The Dinkies: Well
The Kinks: A Well-Respected Man (BBC)
The Beach Boys: She Knows Me Too Well
Smash: Well You Know
The Vipers: You're Doin' It Well
The Unclaimed: Well It's True
John Lennon: Well Well Well
Fleetwood Mac: Oh Well (pt. 1)
Buddy Holly: Well All Right
Ann-Margret: I Just Don't Understand (mono)

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: I've Just Seen a Face
The Rolling Stones: Just Wanna See His Face
The Seeds: Just Let Go (mono)
The Act: Just a Little Bit
The Golden Earrings: Just a Little Bit of Peace
The Hollies: Just One Look
The Young Rascals: Just a Little (mono)
The Kolors: As Tears Go By
Them: (It Won't Hurt) Half As Much
De Maskers: As Long As I Have You
Manfred Mann: As Long As I Have Lovin'
The Mosquitos: Darn Well
The Ramones: I Wanna Be Well
The People: Well All Right

Songs Lyres Taught Us

By listener request! In honor of Lyres' return to the stage on Saturday October 11th in Portland, Maine with Tiger Bomb, Mal Thursday Quintet, and The Vista Cruisers, and the forthcoming archival release Lyres: On Fyre at the Rusty Nail 1985 (Teen Sound), here is the restored, remastered, and re-ordered version of Songs Lyres Taught Us. Originally a 2007 episode on GaragePunk Pirate Radio, it has been given a sonic upgrade to HQ Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. 

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Playlist:
Tommy Tucker and The Esquires: Don't Tell Me Lies
The Human Beinz: Nobody But Me
Pete Best Combo: The Way I Feel About You
The New Breed: Wasting My Time 
New Colony Six: I Confess
Les Copains: Give Your Love to Me
Sandy Sarjeant: Can't Stop the Want
The Pretty Things: You'll Never Do It Baby
It's Them: Baby (I Still Need Your Lovin')
The Buckinghams: Don't Want to Cry
The Yo-Yos: Gonna Find a New Love
The Teddy Boys: Jezebel
The Jesters of Newport: Stormy
The Hangmen of Fairfield County: Stacey
Drusalee & The Dead: Lily
Mickey & The Clan Cuts: Soapy
Classic Ruins: Geraldine, I Need Money
The Sonics: Skinny Minnie/Cinderella
The Hangmen: What a Girl Can't  Do
The Wailers: Since You Been Gone (live 1961)
Esquerita: Gettin' Plenty Lovin'
The Jolly Green Giants: Busy Body
Otis Redding: Changed Man
The Pleazers: Security
The Beau Brummels: Ain't That Loving You Baby
The Zephyrs: I Can Tell
The Searchers: Sick and Tired (live 1964)
The Customs: Long Gone
The Rolling Stones: Stoned (mono)/Now I've Got a Witness (bed)
The Kinks: Tired of Waiting (mono)
Phil & The Frantics: Pain
Dion: Feeling No Pain
The Scavengers: But If You're Happy
The Roadrunners: I'll Make It Up to You
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich: Here's a Heart (BBC)
The Syn: Grounded
Dale & The Devonaires: Never Be Free
The Outsiders: Touch/I Love Her Still, I Always Will (mono)
Jay Jays: Today I'm Gay
Lyres: How Can I Make Her Mine/Money/Nobody But Me (live 1985)

Feel

Do you feel it? The Word of the Week is Feel on this exquisite episode of The Mal Thursday Show. With 37 minutes of bonus tracks. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 9 June 2022.

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Playlist:
Big Star: Feel (alt version)
The Creation: How Does It Feel to Feel
The Beatles: I Feel Fine (mono)
The Zombies: You Make Me Feel Good (mono)
Manfred Mann: That's the Way I Feel (BBC)
The Kinks: I've Got That Feeling (mono)
The Hollies: Please Don't Feel Too Bad
Herman's Hermits: Got a Feeling
Cream: I Feel Free
The Ventures: I Feel Fine
Small Faces: Feeling Lonely
The Byrds: Feel a Whole Lot Better (alt. take)
Neil Diamond: I Got the Feeling (Oh No No)
The Choir: Don't You Feel a Little Sorry for Me
The Vejtables: Feel the Music
The Rationals: Feelin' Lost
The Young Rascals: Do You Feel It (mono)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown: (Can You) Feel It

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Five Americans: I'm Feeling OK
The 12 AM: The Way I Feel
Willie Nelson: I Feel That Old Feeling/I Don't Feel Anything
Roy Head: The Feeling's Gone

It's All Meat: Feel It
Bohemian Vendetta: How Do You Feel
The Children: I Can Feel It Now
Neighb'rhood Childr'n: Feeling Zero
The Blackstones: Never Feel the Pain
Q65: Feel Her Still
The Outsiders: Do You Feel Alright
Chuck Berry: Blue Feeling
Harper's Bizarre: 59th St. Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
Jefferson Airplane: How Do You Feel
The Soul Clan: That's How It Feels
Slade: Cum on Feel the Noize
The Stooges: 1970 (I Feel Alright) (mono 45 mix)
Sex Pistols: No Feelings
Anthony Newley: Feeling Good
Mott the Hoople: I Can Feel

Bonus Tracks:
Ten Years After: Feel It for Me
The Animals: Blue Feeling
Freddie & The Dreamers: Feel Blue
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers: Strange Feeling
The Primitives: How Do You Feel
Lulu: What a Wonderful Feeling
The Attack: Feel Like Flying
Yesterday's Children: Feelings
The Shags: Dr. Feelgood
Aretha Franklin: Dr. Feelgood
Country Joe & The Fish: Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag
The Beatles: I Got a Feeling (Glyn Johns mix)
The Beach Boys: Feel Flows