Shadows and Reflections

Mal Thursday is standing in the shadows of rock 'n' roll on this week's episode of The Mal Thursday Show, Shadows and Reflections. Theme song by The Action. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 30 July 2026.

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Playlist:
The Action: Shadows and Reflections
The Rolling Stones: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (Standing in the Shadow)
The Coasters: The Shadow Knows
Link Wray: The Shadow Knows
The Quests: Shadows in the Night
The Seeds: A Thousand Shadows
The Kaisers: Cry for a Shadow
The Jades: When Shadows Fall
The Last Knight: Shadow of Fear
The Guess Who: Shadow Cross the Shadows
The Echo: Shadows
The Ventures: Standing in the Shadows of Love (bed)
The Electric Prunes: Shadows
The Vejtables: Shadows
The Leather Boy: Shadows
The Sparrow: Chasin' Shadows
First Crow to the Moon: The Sun Lights Up the Shadows in Your Mind
The Left Banke: Shadows Breaking Over My Head
The Fleshtones: Shadow Line
T. Rex: The Street and Babe Shadow
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Tombstone Shadow

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Penthouse Five: In His Shadow
The Exotics: Queen of Shadows
The Hickoids: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (Standing in the Shadow)
The Merlynn Tree: Look in Your Mirror
The Zakary Thaks: Mirror of Yesterday
The Bourbons: A Dark Corner
S.J. & The Crossroads: The Darkest Hour Pts. 1&2

The Marmalade: Reflections of My Life
Alice Cooper: Reflected
House of Nimrod: Reflections of Our Time
The Avengers: Reflection
The Yankee Dollar: Reflections of a Shattered Mind
Rupert's People: Reflections of Charles Brown
The Ventures: Reflections (bed)
We the People: Mirror of Your Mind
The Who: Go to the Mirror/Smash the Mirror
Bob Morrison: I Looked in the Mirror
The Endless: Prevailing Darkness
Greg "Stackhouse" Prevost: Traveling in the Dark
The Vertebrats: Left in the Dark
The Shadows of Knight: The Dark Side
Thee Sydes: Shadows
 

Please & Thank You

Mal Thursday minds his manners on an episode where the Words of the Week are Please and Thank You. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 23 July 2026. 

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Playlist:
The Score: Please Please Me
The Rolling Stones: Please Go Home (mono)
The Trekkas: Please Go
The Eyes: Please Don't Cry
The Hollies: Please Don't Feel Too Bad
Spencer Davis Group: Please Do Something
The Small Faces: Please, Please, Please
Them: Baby Please Don't Go
The Amboy Dukes: Baby Please Don't Go
The Roosters: Help Me Please
The Boss Five: Please Mr. President
The Whigs: Please Love Me
The Up Stairs: Operator Please
The Liberty Party: Please Help the Man

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Sir Douglas Quintet: Please Just Say So/Please Let It Rain in Texas
The Y'Alls: Please Come Back
The Golden Dawn: This Way Please

Bob Dylan & The Band: Please Mrs. Henry
Bob Dylan: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
Mickey & The Milkshakes: Please Don't Tell Me Why
The Maharajas: Please Don't Go
The Woggles: Please Leave Me My Mind
The Chesterfield Kings: Rosie Won't You Please Come Home
The Detroit Cobras: Just Can't Please You
The Flamin' Groovies: Please Please Girl
Lyres: Trying Just to Please You (live 1983)
The Changin' Times: Thank You Babe
The Beatles: Thank You Girl
The Remains: Thank You
Paul Revere & The Raiders (feat. Mark Lindsay): Thank You
The Moody Blues: Thank You Baby
The Sea-Ders: Thanks a Lot
The Small Faces: Wham Bam Thank You Mam (mono)
The Matchmakers: Thank You for Coming
Neil Diamond: Thank the Lord for the Nighttime*
Led Zepelin: Thank You
Big Star: Thank You Friends

*Omitted due to human digital error. 

Street

This episode of The Mal Thursday Show belongs to the Streets, as the Word of the Week is Street. All songs with Street (or Avenue or Boulevard) in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 16 July 2026. 

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Playlist:
MC5: Shakin' Street
The Who: Out in the Street (mono)/Dancing in the Streets (BBC)
The Bo Street Runners: Bo Street Runner
The Electric Banana: Street Girl
The Rolling Stones: Backstreet Girl (mono)/Street Fighting Man (mono)
The Kinks: Dead End Street (mono)/Denmark Street
The Zombies: Conversation Off Floral Street
Procol Harum: Lime Street Blues
The Electric Banana: Walking Down the Street (bed)
Turquoise: 53 Summer Street
Chuck Berry: Off Rampart Street
The Aztex: The Little Streets in This Town
Ty Wagner & The Scotchmen: Walking Down Lonely Street
Our Generation: Run Down Every Street
Merrilee & The Turnabouts: How's The Weather on Your Street
The Flying Burrito Brothers: Dark End of the Street
Bob Dylan: Positively 4th Street (mono)
Jerry Howard: Wild in the Streets
Davie Allan: Wild in the Streets (bed)
The Other Side: Streetcar
The Rationals: Out in the Streets (bed)
The Everly Brothers: Lonely Avenue
The Kindred Spirits: Blue Avenue
Thee Midniters: Whittier Blvd/Down Whittier Blvd (feat. Godfrey)
Lou Reed: Dirty Blvd (rough mix)
Big Star: In the Street (alt mix)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Oxford Circus: 4th Street Carnival
Kenny & The Kasuals: Chimes of 42nd Street
Sir Douglas Quintet: You're Out Walking the Streets Tonight
The Krayolas: Wall St. Blues

The Ventures: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue(bed)
Garland Jeffreys: Wild in the Streets
The Jam: Sounds from the Street/Carnaby Street
The Hollywood Stars: All the Kids on the Street
Sylvain Sylvain: 14th Street Beat
Jim Basnight: Second Street
Plan 9: Street of Painted Lips
The Stooges: Down on the Street (take 8)
Stiv Bators: Crime in the Streets (bed)
Kip Tyler: Shadow Street

Summer

Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of Summer are here again, and the Word of the Week is Summer, as Mal spins songs with Summer in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 9 July 2026. 

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Playlist:
The Undertones: Here Comes the Summer
The Dave Clark Five: Here Comes Summer
The Who: Summertime Blues
The Zombies: Summertime
The Pretty Things: Summer Time
Donovan: Sunny South Kensington
The Turquoise: 53 Summer Street
Tuesday's Children: Summer Leaves Me with a Sigh
The Lovin' Spoonful: Summer in the City (mono)
The Sandals: Theme from the Endless Summer
Love: Bummer in the Summer
The Ventures: Theme from 'A Summer Place' (bed)
Bruce & Terry: Summer Means Fun (mono)
The Turtles: On a Summer's Day (mono)
The New Breed: Summer's Coming
Tony & The Tigers: Summertime (Is the Best Time for Making Love)
Randy & The Radiants: Hope We Meet Next Summer
The Chozen Ones: Cold Summer
Don Malena & The Dry Ice: Land of Summertime
The Vagrants: Sunny Summer Rain
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Long Hot Summer Night
The Monkees: The Door into Summer
Les Baroques: Summerbeach
The Ventures: Hot Summer (bed)
The Troggs: Last Summer
Chris Stamey: Summer Sun
The Barracudas: Summer Fun
Nikki & The Corvettes: Summertime Fun 
Unnatural Axe: Summertime
The Phantom Keys: In the Summertime
The Cherry Drops: Summertime Is a State of Mind
The Ventures: Green Leaves of Summer (bed)
The Rolling Stones: Summer Romance
The Cynics: Summer's Gone
The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Lone Summer Dream
Dean Landew: Summertime Friday Night

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
The Lemon Fog: Summer
The Surf Knights: In the Summer
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood: Summer Wine (mono)
Big Brother & The Holding Company (feat. Janis Joplin): Summertime

The Doors: Summer's Almost Gone (Live 1967)

Happy Semiquincentennial!

No new episode this week, as I'm kicking back for the holiday weekend here in the US. Here are some quality episodes to binge in case you missed 'em the first time around.

Get

Bay Area Beat 1965-68 

Bay Area Beat 1965-68 Pt. 2

Last to First

Fight or Flight

School

Remember to Forget 

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Sun/Moon

Mal Thursday sets the controls for the heart of the Sun -- with a side trip to the Moon -- on this week's episode of The Mal Thursday Show. While many of the Sun songs were heard on the "Summer, Babe" series ten or so years ago, they have been sonically upgraded for maximum impact. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 25 June 2026.

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Playlist:
Paul Revere & The Raiders (feat. Mark Lindsay): Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon (mono)
The Sunrays: I Live for the Sun
The Phoenix: Live for the Sun
The Misunderstood: Children of the Sun
The Pretty Things: The Sun
The Beathovens: Summer Sun
Buffalo Springfield: No Sun Today (mono)
The Turtles: A Walk in the Sun (mono)
The Rivieras: California Sun '65
The Kinks: Sunny Afternoon (BBC)
The Animals: House of the Rising Sun (BBC)
The Ventures: House of the Rising Sun (bed)
Donovan: Sunshine Superman
The Eyes: Good Day Sunshine
Spooky Tooth: Sunshine Help Me
Jethro Toe (Jethro Tull): Sunshine Day
Cream: Sunshine of Your Love (BBC)
The Suburban 9 to 5: Sunshine Becomes You
Jack Bedient & The Chessmen: Glimmer Sunshine
T.I.M.E.: Tripping Into Sunshine
Paul Revere & The Raiders (feat. Mark Lindsay): Cinderella Sunshine (mono)
Big Jim Sullivan: Sunshine Superman (bed)
The Velvet Underground: Who Loves the Sun
Blondie: In the Sun 
The Greenhornes: Lovin' in the Sun
The Fleshtones: Let's See the Sun
Lyres: Love Me Till the Sun Shines (live 1985)
The Woggles: When the Sun Goes Down
The Lords of Gravity: No Sunshine

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Mouse & The Traps: You Are My Sunshine
Pure Jade Green: Into the Sun
The Ugly Beats: Up on the Sun
The Chayns: Live with the Moon (bed)

Chuck Berry: Havana Moon
The Doors: Moonlight Drive (demo)
The Beatles: Mr. Moonlight (take 4)
The Rolling Stones: Child of the Moon (mono)
Gary Walker & The Carnabeats: Cutie Morning Moon
The Savages: He's Gone to the Moon
The Taste: Blister on the Moon
Mott the Hoople: The Moon Upstairs
Groovy Uncle (feat. Suzi Chunk): The Moon and Back 
The Wondermints: Full Moon (Tropical Blend)
The Snakes: Silvery Moon

Bonus Tracks:
The Ramones: California Sun (remix)
Alice Cooper: Sun Arise
The Marshmallow Overcoat: Something About the Sun
The Doors: Waiting for the Sun (remix)
Manfred Mann: Sitting Alone in the Sunshine
The Bossmen: Sunshine
The Marksmen: Moonshine
Paul Revere & The Raiders: Moon Dawg
Jonathan King: Everyone's Gone to the Moon
The Grip Weeds: Child of the Moon 

Naming Names III

Mal Thursday is going around taking names again on this moniker-heavy episode of The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with names in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 18 September 2026. Starting this week, new uploads will post on Mondays.

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Playlist:
The King Bees: What's Your Name
Chuck Berry: Carol
The  Rolling Stones: Mona (BBC)/Miss Amanda Jones (mono)
The Swinging Blue Jeans: Good Golly Miss Molly
The Everly Brothers: Lucille
The Syndicats: Crawdaddy Simone
The Strangeloves: Cara-Lin
Paul Revere & The Raiders (feat. Mark Lindsay): Mo'reen
The Gaunga Dyns: Rebecca Rodifer
The Apostolic Intervention: Madame Garcia (bed)
The Rationals: Gloria 
The Standells: Hey Joe
The Premiers: Farmer John
The Seeds: Mr. Farmer (live 1968)
The Remains: Hang on Sloopy
The Sonics: Louie Louie

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Robb London & The Rogues: Gloria
Sir Douglas Quintet: Old Bill Baetty
The 13th Floor Elevators: Doctor Doom (alt version)

The Beaten Path: Doctor Stone
The Beatles: Doctor Robert (mono)
Apple: Doctor Rock (mono)
Flamin' Groovies: Doctor Boogie (live 1970)
The Stomachmouths: Dr. Syn
Eric Burdon & the Animals: A Girl Named Sandoz
Pink Floyd: See Emily Play (mono)
The Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow Is Born (mono)
David Bowie: The Gospel According to Tony Day
Manfred Mann: Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Episode Six: Jak D'Or (bed)
The Who: Little Billy (live 1968)/Pictures of Lily (mono)
The Velvet Underground: Sweet Jane (mono)
T. Rex: Telegram Sam
The Embrooks: Francis
The Greenhornes: Jacob's Ladder
DMZ: Mighty Idy (demo)
Lyres: Help You Ann (live 1985)
Classic Ruins: Geraldine I Need Money (More Than I Need You)
The Downliners Sect: Glendora