The Mal Thursday Show #19: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 3

The Mal Thursday Show #19: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 3

The third time's the charm as Mal Thursday brings you another mother lode of old 45s later given new life by Jeff "Monoman" Conolly and his long-running garage band (the) Lyres. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.


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Playlist:
LYRES: Tired of Waiting
THE KINKS: Never Met a Girl Like You Before (BBC)
THE SONICS: Louie Louie
THE WAILERS: Since You’ve Been Gone
THE CUSTOMS: Long Gone
THE JAY JAYS: Shake It Some More
THE WAILERS: Swing Shift (bed)
THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS: She Told Me Lies
CLASSIC RUINS: Geraldine
LOVE: Signed D.C.
THE ROLLING STONES: Stoned
SAM THE SHAM & THE PHAROAHS: Ring Dang Doo
DION: Feeling No Pain
THE SEARCHERS: Sick and Tired
THE PRETTY THINGS: You’ll Never Do It Baby
THE OUTSIDERS: Teach Me to Forget You/Touch
IT’S THEM: Baby (I Still Want Your Lovin’)
THE HUMAN BEINGS: Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby
OTIS REDDING: Love Man
DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK, & TICH: Here’s a Heart
LES COPAINS: Baby Give Your Love to Me
QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS: Don’t Give It Up Now

In case you missed it, be sure to dig The Mal Thursday Show #4: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 1, Featuring a mess o' wild numbers from the Sonics, the Yo-Yos, the Jesters of Newport, and many more. Then, keep the party going with The Mal Thursday Show #18: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 2, with more Mono madness from Mickey & the Clean Cuts, the Jolly Green Giants, and the Pete Best Combo!

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While My Turntable Gently Weeps

At heart, I'm a vinyl man. Always have been, always will be. Back when I was running Chunk Records, I had over 30 releases, only about five of which were CDs. The rest were 45s and LPs. I resisted the CD format at first, because it seemed somehow cold, and the shrinkage on the cover art was appalling. I later embraced the compact disc because it became the undoing of the greedy pigs of the record industry, who lacked the foresight to realize that digital media could be copied endlessly without generational loss. Napster and its stepchildren fucked them but good, but it was too damn bad: they'd sown the seeds of their own downfall.

Now, the industry has almost managed a full recovery, thanks to iTunes and the ubiquitous iPod, in the process taking a giant step backward, away from the full-length album and returning to the single. At 99 cents a pop. Actually, they've jacked it up to a buck-twenty-nine, which is bullshit, but so it goes.

Which is my long-winded preamble to the news that I have joined the 21st century: I got an iPod for my birthday. It's a mere 8 GB, so it only holds a fraction of my collection, but it's still pretty cool. I like the way the cover art comes up on the little screen when the track is playing, even if said artwork is even smaller than CD and about 8% of the size of an old-school album cover. Because I'm a record geek, I went online and found JPEGs of various picture sleeves and label shots to properly adorn the songs.

The little thumbnails I created for my podcasts look pretty cool as well. Hopefully, now that I've uploaded them, anybody who downloads the shows off of iTunes will get them as well. Not sure how that works.

Of course, now I want one of the 160 GB models, so I can dump as much of my collection into it as I can.

I'm so easily corrupted...

Rubios and Rubes Press

I just discovered Rubios and Rubes Press, a publishing house run by "a consortium of disgruntled bibliophiles with an additional interest in taking advantage of certain anomalies in the laws regarding international finance," including Michael Lucas of the Phantom Surfers, who is also the author of Devil Born Without Horns, and co-author of Rock Stardom for Dumbshits. The one I'm most excited about is The Hal Ellson Omnibus, featuring three of the author's juvenile delinquent paperback originals in one handsome volume.

Dig the whole line at rubiosandrubes.com.

12th Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull

If you anywhere in the vicinity of Waycross, Georgia this week, the place to be is the Okefenokee Fairgrounds for the 12th annual "Guitar Pull" in memory of the late, great Gram Parsons. For more info, call 912.288.9712.

The Mal Thursday Show #18: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Volume 2

The Mal Thursday Show #18: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Volume 2

Another collection of vintage ’60s nuggets covered by Boston’s longest-running garage band, (The) Lyres, led by Jeff “Monoman” Conolly. Quite possibly the most rockin' episode in the history of the show. Stay tuned for Volume 3.

Presented in Mono, of course.

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Playlist:
LYRES: Nobody But Me
MICKEY & THE CLEAN CUTS: Soapy
JOLLY GREEN GIANTS: Busy Body
MR. LUCKY & THE GAMBLERS: Take a Look at Me
THE SONICS: Skinny Minnie
THE STANDELLS: Little Sally Tease
SANDY SARJEANT: Can’t Stop the Want
THE ARTWOODS(?): Can’t Stop the Want

COPS & ROBBERS: You’ll Never Do It Baby
THE BEEFEATERS (BYRDS): Boston
THE BUCKINGHAMS: Don’t Want to Cry
HIM & THE OTHERS: She’s Got Eyes That Tell Lies
JOHN'S CHILDREN: Jagged Time Lapse (BBC)/ Go Go Girl

PETE BEST COMBO: The Way I Feel About You
NEW COLONY SIX: I Confess
THE NIGHTCRAWLERS: If You Want My Love
PHIL & THE FRANTICS: Pain
MYSTIC TIDE: Stay Away/Running through the Night

WANDA JACKSON: Let’s Have a Party
ESQUERITA: Gettin’ Plenty Lovin’
OTIS REDDING: Security
BOBBY ROBERTS & THE RAVE-ONS: How Can I Make Her Mine
THE SEVENS: Seven
THE OUTSIDERS: I Love Her Still, I Always Will
THE KINKS: Love Me Till the Sun Shines
LYRES: Stormy

In case you missed it, be sure to dig The Mal Thursday Show #4: Songs the Lyres Taught Us, Vol. 1, Featuring a mess o' wild numbers from the Sonics, the Yo-Yos, the Jesters of Newport, and many more. Yeah!


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Yet More Celebrity Headlines by JM Dobies

Here's the latest celebrity shite from my gig as Dallas Celebrity Headlines Examiner:













Definitely Maybe: Liam Gallagher says Oasis will 'Soldier on' without brother Noel

Shawne Merriman/Tila Tequila: NFL star says he didn't harm reality TV skank

Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart brave soul-sucking paparazzi for concert date

Jon Gosselin: Kate "beat" and "abused" me

Top Celebrity Headlines of the Week

Bin Laden's mad crush on Whitney Houston led to Bobby Brown death plot

Fall TV '09: the savage return of 'Sons of Anarchy'

Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones: It was murder, baby!

Chelsea's Chappaquiddick Wedding

Project Trainwreck? Lindsay Lohan wants her own reality show

For more Celebrity Headlines by JM Dobies at Examiner.com, click HERE

Classic Rerun: Florida Rocks Again! #20

By popular demand, our classic rerun for the holiday weekend is Florida Rocks Again! #20: Florida Time. Originally posted March 3, 2007, this episode features the all-time greats from the Sunshine State singing songs about Florida, and places like Miami, Daytona Beach, Tampa, and Tallahassee.

Hosted by Mal Thursday, produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich, and presented in Living Monophonic Sound on the GaragePunk Podcast Network.

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Playlist:

THE BEACH BUMS (BOB SEGER & THE LAST HEARD): Florida Time

LARRY & THE LOAFERS: Let's Go to the Beach

THE CORONADOS: Florida Sun

THE CONSERVATIVES: Miami

WAYNE COCHRAN: Goin' Back to Miami

ELVIS PRESLEY: Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce

RONNY ELLIOT: Elvis Presley Didn't Like Tampa

THE IMPACS: Cape Canaveral (bed)

JERRY SEINFELD: Florida

BING CROSBY with THE ANDREWS SISTERS: Appalachiacola, Fla.
THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Tallahassee Lassie
MUDDY WATERS: Deep Down in Florida
BUTTHOLE SURFERS: Movin' to Florida
NOBLE "THIN MAN" WATTS: F-L-A

FLOYD MILES: Goin' Back to Daytona

THE PREMIERS: Daytona
DENNIS WHEELER: Down in Daytona
SANDY & THE BEACHCOMBERS: Daytona Darlin'
ROOT BOY SLIM & THE SEX CHANGE BAND: In Jail in Jacksonville
MOFRO: Florida

Be sure to dig our latest episode, Florida Rocks Again! #40: Anyhere But Here (click on image to launch podcast):

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The Malarians' In the Cool Room Now on CD!

Well, kiddies, my first album has come back into print, thanks to John Lebhar, a/k/a Johnny Tomorrow, my old co-conspirator in the '80s neo-garage band the Malarians.

In the Cool Room was the Malarians' first album, released on LP in August of 1986, recorded at Trod Nossel Studios in Wallingford, Connecticut. The original mixes and mastering left much to be desired, leading to a bad review in my own memoir, "The Chunk Records Story" (Part One).

Now, Johnny has worked a sonic miracle, addressing the production deficiencies of the original pressing to create a new and improved, remixed and remastered edition of In the Cool Room. It's available for the first time on CD in a limited run, and I've got a few of these rare items for sale at $17 postage paid, via PayPal HERE.

In any case, it's a pleasant surprise to the ears that my playing and singing aren't as horrible as I remembered, and a joy to rediscover the playing of my brothers in arms, Johnny, Lime, Bobby, Jimm, and the late, great Slater Awn. Of the 12 tracks here, there a number of standouts: "Tuesday's Child, " our twisted ode to Aimee Mann, the frantic Diddley basher "Gilligans Wake," a nice cover of Donovan's "Superlungs My Supergirl," and one, "The Lone Star Surfer," that's going to be on the pilot episode of Texas Tyme Machine.

And how could we have dropped "Where You Gonna Go" from the original running order?

There's a nice arrangement of Jimm Chanson's "Old Enough to Know," sung by the composer himself, which is from one of his rock operas, but I'm not sure if it's from 2520 Metonymy Street or No Sky at Lunchtime. Special props to Johnny for adding the Leo Gorcey samples to "Up to No Good," which totally make the tune, and for making "Mopar" and "Deep Inside" sound as good as they do.

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Track Listing:

Tuesday's Child / Gilligan's Wake / Where You Gonna Go / One Time Only / The Lone Star Surfer / Super Lungs (My Super Girl) / Old Enough to Know / Up to No Good / Little Girls Cry / Mopar / Deep Inside / Brightness

If you dig the Malarians, you should also dig The Mal Thursday Show #9: Sons of the Stage, featuring a lengthy set of songs we used to cover, and the band's 1988 recording of "What's New, Pussycat?"