The Good, The Bad and The Ugly II: Tuco's Dance Party

Mal Thursday returns with the spaghetti-fueled sequel to last week's episode, again featuring songs with Good, Bad, and/or Ugly in the title.Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 29 May 2025.

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Playlist:
Leroy Holmes: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (bed)
The Who: Good Lovin' (BBC)/The Good's Gone (mono)
The Zombies: You Make Me Feel Good
The Clique: She Ain't No Good
Billy Nichols: Good Day Good Night
The Beatles: Good Morning Good Morning (take 8)
The Rolling Stones: Good Times, Bad Times (mono)
Eric Burdon & The Animals: Good Times
The Yardbirds: Good Night, Sweet Josephine (BBC)
The Marmalade: Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' (BBC)
The Move: High Class a.k.a She's Too Good for Me (backing track)
Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times
The Vince Maloney Sect: No Good Without You
The Standells: Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White
The Turtles: It Was a Very Good Year
The Talismen: She Was Good
The Inexpensive Handmade Look: What Good Is Up?
The Good Rats: We Are the Good Rats
Love: Good Times
Rodriguez: Only Good for Conversation
The Real Kids: Better Be Good
The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations (backing track)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Terry & Tommy: It Ain't No Good to Love Anybody
Those Boys: No Good Girl
The Traits: Too Good to Be True
The Blind Owls: Good Time
The Floyd Dakil Combo: Bad Boy
Circus: Bad Seed
The Nervebreakers: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (bed)

The D-Coys: Bad Times
The Bosstweeds: Little Bad News
The Wheels: Bad Little Woman
Paul Jones: I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy
New York Dolls: Bad Detective
The Fuzztones: Bad News Travels Fast
The Flamin' Groovies: Want You Bad
Stupidity: Too Bad
The Runaways: Born to Be Bad
The Ugly Things: Ugly Theme
The Creatures: Ugly Things
The Clear Blue Sky: Ugly Girl
The Eccentrics: She's Ugly

Bonus track:
The Coolies: Bad Bad Boy

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The Words of the Week are Good, Bad, and Ugly as Mal pays homage to Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone, and The Man with No Name in a killer installment of the series. All songs with Good, Bad, and/or Ugly in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 22 May 2025.

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Playlist:
Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Venturie 5: Good 'n' Bad
Them: Bad or Good
The Jay-Bees: Good Times, Bad Times
The Sole Survivors: Good Times - Bad Times
The Remains: All Good Things
The Todes: Good Things
The Rolling Stones: Oh Baby We Got A Good Thing Going (BBC)
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Good Thing (mono)
The Ventures: Good Thing (bed)
The Stumps: Think of the Good Times
The Kinks: Where Have All the Good Times Gone
The Shades of Blue: Where Did All the Good Times Go
The Easybeats: Gonna Have a Good Time
The Velvet Underground: We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (live)
Booker T & The MGs: Don't Mess Up a Good Thing (bed)
Nobody's Children: Good Times
The Greenhornes: Good Times
The Jaggers: Feel So Good
The Pretty Things: She Says Good Morning
The Electric Banana: What's Good for the Goose
The Tales of the City: The Good's Gone
The Ventures: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (bed)
The Tree: No Good Woman
The Moon Dawgs: You're No Good
The Brood: Yer No Good
The Five More: I'm No Good
The Birds: No Good Without You Baby
Hour Glass: No Good to Cry
The Ventures: Good Lovin' (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The 13th Floor Elevators: I Got You (I Feel Good)
Neal Ford & The Fanatics: Good Men (Are Hard to Find)
The Five Americans: Good Times
The Clue: Bad Times
The Penthouse 5: Bad Girl
The Zakary Thaks: Bad Girl
The Nervebreakers: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (bed)

New York Dolls: Bad Girl
The Coasters: Bad Detective
The Chesterfield Kings: Bad Woman
The Underdogs: Love's Gone Bad
The Soup Greens: That's Too Bad
The Bad Roads: Too Bad
The Pilgrimage: Bad Apple
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich: Bad News
The Human Beings: You're Bad News
The Stix and Stones: You're Bad News
The Saxons: Things Been Bad
The Bruthers: Bad Way to Go
The King's English: It Could Be Bad
The Cossacks: Ugly Thing
The Dowliners Sect: One Ugly Child 

With/It

Having relocated further South to the outskirts of Weird City, Mal Thursday serves up a tastefully curated episode where the Words of the Week are With and It. With it, baby! Songs with With and/or It in the title, you dig? Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 10 November 2022. NSFW (profane but necessary Troggs tape interstitials).

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Playlist:
The Hollies: Pay You Back With Interest
The Zombies: It's Alright With Me
The Sorrows: Come With Me
The Troggs: With a Girl Like You
Manfred Mann: With a Girl Like You (bed)
The Smoke: I Wanna Make It With You
The Small Faces: I Can't Dance With You
Lulu: To Sir, With Love (Live on Ed Sullivan 1967)
The Rolling Stones: Live With Me (Live 1969)
The Who: Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand (Mono LP version)
Herman's Hermits: Man With the Cigar
Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra: Play with Fire (bed)
Mott the Hoople: Walkin' with a Mountain
New York Dolls: Don't Mess With Cupid
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: Shakin' With Linda
John Fred & His Playboy Band: Play With Fire
The Knickerbockers: Stick With Me
The Spongetones: She Goes Out With Everybody
The Ramones: Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
The Cobblestones: Down With It (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Glass Kans: Stick With Her
The Hysterical Society: Come With Me
The Exotics: Come With Me
The Gentlemen: It's a Cry'n Shame
The Liberty Bell: That's How It Will Be
The Wig: Drive It Home
The Barons: Don't Burn It
The Undertakers: It's My Time
Waylon Jennings: Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Sir Douglas Quintet: Oh Baby It Just Don't Matter

The Guess Who: It's My Pride
The Wailers: Baby Don't You Do It
The Rolling Stones: It's Not Easy
Question Mark & The Mysterians: Don't Give It Up Now
The Roadrunners: I'll Make It Up to You
The Pretty Things: You'll Never Do It Baby
Lyres: Baby It's Me
The Standells: Try It
The Troggs: Give It to Me
The Pigeons: Stick It in My Corner, Baby
Burt Bacharach: Italian Fuzz
The Chesterfield Kings: It's Alright
The Barracudas: I Wish It Could Be 1965 Again
The Vipers: You're Doin' It Well
Trolley: She Has It All
Lou Reed: I Can't Stand It
New York Dolls: It's Too Late
The Chocolate Watchband: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: Within You, Without You
The Rutles: With a Girl Like You
The Penthouse 5: Don't Mess Around With My Dream
David Bowie: Rock and Roll With Me
The Three O'Clock: With a Cantalope Girlfriend
James Brown: It's a Man's Man's Man's World
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: You Got What It Takes
Super Session: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
The Blue Squares: It's No Wonder
The Bee Gees: Lay It on Me
The Insane: I Can't Prove It
Manfred Mann: You Got to Take It
Gerry & The Pacemakers: It's Gonna Be Alright
The Heard: Stop It Baby

And

It all adds up to rock 'n' roll as the Word of the Week is And on The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with And in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 8 May 2025.

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 Playlist:
The Grip Weeds: Lie, Beg, Borrow and Steal
The Zombies: Sticks and Stones
The Moody Blues: And My Baby's Gone
The Move: Stop and Get a Hold of Myself (BBC)
The Beatles: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You (BBC)/And Your Bird Can Sing (mono)
The Rolling Stones: Cops and Robbers (BBC)/Around and Around
The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night (BBC)
The Shadows: Snap Crackle and How's Your Dad (bed)
The Easybeats: Come and See Her
The Bee Gees: Wine and Women
The Golden Earrings: Tears and Lies
The Blue Things: Twist and Shout
The Rare Breed: Beg, Borrow, and Steal/Come on and Take a Ride in My Boat
We The People: You Burn Me Me Up and Down
The Mile Ends: Bottle Up and Go
Rocky & The Riddlers: Flash and Crash
Cher: Come and Stay with Me
The Byrds: Wait and See
Love: Your Mind and We Belong Together
The Waistcoats: Downhill and Shady (bed)
The Pink Floyd: Candy and a Current Bun
Spinal Tap: Cups and Cakes
Tommy James & The Shondells: Crimson and Clover (mono)
Jefferson Airplane: The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil
The Chocolate Watchband: Gone and Passes By
The Bees: Voices Green and Purple
The North Atlantic Invasion Force: Blue and Green Gown
The Ventures: Fuzzy and Wild (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Larry & The Blue Notes: In and Out (alt version)
The Novas: And It's Time
Christopher & The Souls: Diamonds, Rats and Gum
The Outcasts: I'm in Pittsburgh (and It's Raining)
The Love Flowers: Peace and Love
Bubble Puppy: Hot Smoke and Sassafras

The Vipers: Cheated and Lied
The Pandoras: In and Out of My Life in a Day
The Brood: Shake and Shout
The Kaisers: Shake and Scream
The Greenhornes: Shame and Misery
The Nox Boys: Take My Heart and Break It
The Schizophonics: Down and Out
Iggy & The Stooges: Search and Destroy
The Vagrants: And When It's Over

Dream

It's a psycho-delic dreamscape this week on The Mal Thursday Show, as the Word of the Week is Dream. Dream on. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound.

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Playlist:
The Premiers: Come on and Dream
Lulu & The Luvvers: Dream Lover
The Belfast Gypsies: Gloria's Dream
The Pretty Things: I Had a Dream/Walking Through My Dreams (BBC)
The Small Faces: I'm Only Dreaming
The Zombies: Is This the Dream/Hung Up on a Dream
The Syn: 14 Hour Technicolor Dream
The Summer Set: It's a Dream
Noel Harrison: Life Is a Dream
The Ventures: Endless Dream (bed)
The Media: Endless Dream
Ray Columbus & the Art Gallery: Kick Me (I Think I'm Dreaming)
The Master's Apprentices: Living in a Child's Dream
The Grifs: Keep Dreaming
The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream
The Buddhas: My Dream
The Kingsmen: I Guess I Was Dreamin'
Paul Revere & The Raiders: I Had a Dream (mono)
The Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Randy Newman: Last Night I Had a Dream (45 mix)
The Allman Brothers Band: Dreams (demo)
Wes Montgomery: California Dreamin' (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Roy Orbison: In Dreams/Dream Baby (live '65)
The Basic Things: You're Still Dreaming
The Penthouse 5: Don't Mess Around with My Dream/It's All My Own Bizarre Dream
Bobby Fuller Four: Only When I Dream

The Marauders: Nightmare
The Fairviews: Nightmares
Q65: I Got Nightmares
The Creation: Nightmares
The Embrooks: Nightmare
The Abstracts: Nightmare (bed)
Blondie: Dreaming
Alice Cooper: Caught in a Dream
The Bellrays: Dream Police
The Dirty Strangers: Dream Come True
The Galileo 7: You're Not Dreaming
The Sound Explosion: Girl of My Dreams, Girl of My Life
The Routes: Thousand Forgotten Dreams
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

Bonus Tracks:
The Ways and Means: Breaking Up a Dream
Jeff St. John & The Id: Eastern Dream
Shannon & The Clams: Into a Dream
Neil Young: Hippie Dream (live)
The Beach Boys: And Your Dreams Come True

Never/Ever

Mal Thursday deals in absolutes in this wild installment of The Mal Thursday Show, where the Words of the Week are Never Ever, songs with Never and/or Ever in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted 3 February 2022. 

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Playlist:
Peter and Gordon: Never Ever
Four Just Men: Things Will Never Be the Same
The Pretty Things: I Can Never Say/You'll Never Do Iy Baby
The Tony Jackson Group: Never Leave My Baby's Side (BBC)
The Kinks: Never Met a Girl Like You Before (Mono)
The Hollies: Signs That Will Never Change
The Mirage: Tomorrow Never Knows
The Alan Price Set: Never Be Sick on a Sunday
The Bee Gees: Lemons Never Forget (Mono)
The Badd Boys: Never Going Back to Georgia
The Starfires: I Never Loved Her
The Original Sinners: You'll Never Know (What Love Is All About)
The Pleasure Seekers: Neer Thought You'd Leave Me
The Basement Wall: Never Existed
The Electric Prunes: You Never Had It Better
The Magic Mushrooms: Never Let Go
The Ventures: He Never Came Back
Chuck Berry: You Never Can Tell
The Four Seasons: Never on Sunday
The Shangri-Las: I Can Never Go Home Anymore
Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Five Canadians: Never Alone
Thursday's Children: You'll Never Be My Girl
Sir Douglas Quintet: We'll Never Tell/You Never Get Too Big And You Sure Don't Get Too Heavy, That You Don't Have To Stop And Pay Some Dues Sometimes
Willie Nelson: I Never Cared for You (Live '66)
Waylon Jennings: I May Never Pass This Way Again
The Soulphonics: You're Never Gonna Love Me Anymore
The Bobby Fuller Four: Never to Be Forgotten

Hoyt Axton: Never Been to Spain
The Detroit Cobras: You'll Never Change
The Trip: Never Too Late for Linda
Greg "Stackhouse" Prevost: Never Trust the Devil
Lyres: Never Be Free
The Ventures: Have You Ever Seen the Rain
The Everly Brothers: Have You Ever Loved Somebody
The Small Faces: (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me
The Standells: Have You Ever Spent the Night in Jail?
MG & The Escorts: Please Don't Ever Change
The Knack: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind
The Action: Never Ever

If

The Word of the Week is If on an episode of The Mal Thursday Show that is rife with possibilities, and great rock 'n' roll records. Featuring the world premiere of Mal Thursday Quintet's "If 6 Was 5" from our upcoming MODS & GODS LP on Teen Sound. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 17 April 2025.

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Playlist:
Mal Thursday Quintet: If 6 Was 5
The Monotones: If You Can't Give Me All
Them: If You and I Could Be As Two
Dave Clark Five: Catch Us If You Can
The Hollies: If I Needed Someone (mono)
The Rolling Stones: If You Need Me (BBC)
The Zombies: If It Don't Work Out
Manfred Mann: If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Gary Walker & The Rain: If You Don't Come Back
The Small Faces: If I Were a Carpenter (BBC)
Billy Preston: If I Had a Hammer (bed)
The Guess Who: If You Don't Want Me
The Gents: If You Don't Come Back
Thor's Hammer: If You Knew
The Outsiders: If You Dont Treat Me Right
The Jay Jays: Come Back If You Dare
Travis Pike's Tea Party: If I Didn't Love You Girl
The Motifs: If I Gave You Love
The Hustlers: If You Try
The Byrds: If You're Gone (mono)
The Beau Brummels: That's If You Want Me to
The Scavengers: But If You're Happy
Jimi Hendrix Experience: If 6 Was 9
Unknown Group: Got Love If You Want It
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: If You Want This Love
The Trademarks: If I Was Gone
The Will-o-Bees: If You're Looking for Honey
The Cobras: If I Can't Believe Her
Lawson & Four More: If You Want Me You Can Find Me
The Gordian Knot: If Only I Could Fly
The Purple Canteen: If You Like It That Way (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Warlocks: If You Really Want Me to Stay
Bubble Puppy: If I Had a Reason
Sir Douglas Quintet: If You Really Want Me to, I'll Go
Roky Erickson: If You Have Ghosts
The Blind Owls: If They Say

The GTVs: Cry If You Want to
The Muffs: You Can Cry If You Want to
The Bristols: If You've Got Troubles
The Embrooks: You Can If You Want
The Higher State: If We Don't Realise
The Brood: See If I Care
Lyres: If You Want My Love
Muck & the Mires: If You Knew
Chris Stamey & The DBs: If and When

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: If I Needed Someone (mono)
The Rolling Stones: If You Can't Rock Me (alt mix)
The Kinks: Got Love If You Want It (mono)
The Mickey Finn: If I Had You
Tim Hardin: If I Was a Carpenter
The Ambertones: If I Do
The Bends: If It's All the Same to You
The Satelliters: If I Try
The Dirtbombs: If You Can Want
The Sound Reasons: If I Cared
T. Tex Edwards: If Looks Could Kill
Moby Grape: Naked If I Want to