Surprise, Surprise!
Host: Mal Thursday
It’s a groovy grab-bag of tough sounds on this eclectic episode of The Mal Thursday Show. Featuring a set of Texas-related material from the likes of Loco Gringos and the Ugly Beats and some vintage ‘66 garage from the Loved Ones, the Underdogs, and Positively 13 O’Clock.
In Living Monophonic Sound.
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Host: MalThursday
Sons of the Stage
The following podcast is Mr. Thursday’s self-referential variation on episode #4: Songs The Lyres Taught Us, featuring various songs covered by his old bands: The Malarians (1984-1990), The Cheetahs (1991-2001), and The Whores (2000). Mal says, “This episode is bittersweet, in that part of me wishes I was still up there on stage with a mic in my hand. These days, my voice has about three songs in it before I start sounding like Andy Devine… Most of all, I remember how much fun it was to play these songs for people.”
Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.
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Host: MalThursday
This time out, we’ve got a very special episode for you, much like The Mal Thursday Show #6: The Girl-Getters, as we salute the 1968 film Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush. It’s all about a boy named Jamie, played by Barry Evans, who’s keen to lose his virginity at the earliest possible opportunity. We’ll be telling the story with excerpts from the soundtrack and the music of various British and American beat groups.
Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.
By the way, The Mal Thursday Show now has its own exclusive RSS feed, separate from that of Mal’s other show, Florida Rocks Again! So now you can subscribe to one or the other or BOTH if you’d like!
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Host: MalThursday
This time around, Mal spins a bunch of tunes from various “forum comps,” assembled by some of the foremost collectors of ’60s garage 45s on the planet. These homemade CD-Rs contained both super-obscure, uncollected rarities as well as well-known classics that had only been available in less than stellar sound quality on various Pebbles, Boulders, and other semi-legit compilations.
The old forum may be dead now, but Psychotic Reactions lives on over on the GaragePunk Hideout.
Dedicated to BossHoss, Masterbeat64, Rich Strauss and everyone who ever put one of these comps together. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.
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The Girl-Getters
Host: MalThursday
This episode of The Mal Thursday Show was inspired by Michael Winner’s 1964 film, The System, released in the US two years later under the title The Girl-Getters, and starring the one and only Oliver Reed. The story of a group of rogues in a seaside resort who set out to seduce all the pretty girls who come there on holiday, it has just been reissued on DVD in the UK. We’ll be telling the story of this lost classic of ’60s cinema through the music of a bunch of British and American beat groups.
Dedicated to the memory of the late, great Ollie.
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Host: MalThursday
Live ‘n’ Wild
Live recordings of rock ‘n’ roll bands from the mid-’60s are often a mixed bag of out-of-tune guitars, screaming girls, and questionable mic placement. Witness the Rolling Stones’ Got Live If You Want It and The Kinks’ Live at Kelvin Hall, to name but two. Then there are the fake live records, where audience noise is dubbed on to studio recordings, usually with underwhelming results.
This edition of The Mal Thursday Show brings together some excellent live garage records, which are drawn from 45s, radio and TV broadcasts, demo tapes, and even a Hawaiian “Battle of the Bands” LP.
Presented in Living Mono.
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Host: MalThursday
Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 1
A collection of vintage ’60s nuggets covered by Boston’s longest-running garage band, the Lyres, led by Jeff “Monoman” Conolly. A couple of these date back to Jeff’s days in the legendary DMZ, but all of ‘em have been heard at one time or another at various Lyres shows dating back to 1979.
This episode was inspired by Crypt’s boss Lyres comp “The Early Years,” which if you ain’t got, you need to get.
Presented in mono, of course.
Also, if you’d like to hear a couple of vintage live Lyres concerts presented in their entirety in podcast form, click here and here!
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Host: MalThursday
Mal is back with a boatload o’ kick-ass garage to assault your eardrums and bend your mind, direct from stately Thursday Manor in Austin, Texas. Along with bands from the Lone Star State (Sons of Hercules, Ugly Beats), there are also representatives from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Pacific Northwest, the U.K., and elsewhere.
Tune in, turn on, and turn it up!
Host: MalThursday
Here’s a Halloween double shot from from GaragePunk podcaster and part-time TV horror host Mal Thursday. First up, it’s an expanded version of Florida Rocks Again! #4, with the most haunted hits ever waxed up by the all-time greats from the Sunshine State. Highlights include “Count Stephen,” a.k.a. Steve Alaimo, doing a tribute to Mantan Moreland on the 1961 novelty record “Spooky,” and Jim Stafford’s immortal Everglades allegory “Swamp Witch.” Produced by Mal and JeffMiami in living mono.
Then it’s an abbreviated All Hallow’s Eve edition of The Mal Thursday Show, headlined by headless horsemen, horrible hobgoblins, and wicked, wicked witches. All together, it’s an hour of ghoulish garage, scary soul, and bone-rattling rockabilly.
NEW SHOW!
Host: MalThursday
Having just moved to Austin, Mal was going through his record collection and decided to put together a podcast. Except for a set of ‘66-era Texas garage, most of the records in this show were made in the last 15 years, in contrast to Florida Rocks Again!
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By the way, the original Mal Thursday Show aired on WMUA in Amhesrt, MA, from 1987 to 1991, and had a brief revival on WFCF in St. Augustine in 2002. Enjoy!
Host: Mal Thursday
The GaragePunk.com Forums are arguably the best place on the Web for fans of garagepunk trash rockabilly powerpop slop to come together and discuss the music we all dig so much. It’s where fan meets musician meets collector meets writer meets DJ meets photographer. In short, a pretty cool place. Carpet Donkey’s combo recorded a cover of Tonto and The Renegades “Little Boy Blue” which sparked the idea to compile a comp of forum members, either as bands or individuals, covering cool ’60s Garage/Beat/Rock’n'Roll tunes. JPRackets urged people to contribute songs and the response was incredible. Songs started coming in from all over the world. Established bands and first-timers alike joined in. Other forum members designed a cover, mastered and sequenced the disc and it was copied and distributed to forum members by other forum members. All for free. For more info, or to comment on the music, click here. Now, thanks to MalThursday of Florida Rocks Again, it’s been converted to a podcast. Dig in, and dig it.
