The Mal Thursday Show #29: Songs I Taught the Malarians

The Mal Thursday Show #29: Songs I Taught the Malarians

In a self-referential variation on the "Songs the Lyres Taught Us" series, Mal spins the original versions of 29 songs that he covered with his band the Malarians (the American garage band, not the Spanish ska band) between 1984 and 1990, including several that have been revived for the band's reunion tours in 2010. Dedicated to the memory of Slater Awn (1963-1994).

The Malarians' LP catalog has been reissued by Chunk Archives and is available on mp3 from iTunes, Amazon, Napster, and other leading digital retailers, and on CD from The Malarians Online Superstore and on the swag table at Mal's gigs.

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Playlist:

THE MALARIANS: Mighty Idy
THE HAUNTED: 1-2-5
THE MINUTEMEN: #1 Hit Song
DEAD KENNEDYS: Let's Lynch the Landlord
FEAR: Fresh Flesh
BLONDIE: In the Flesh
THE CRAWDADDYS: Why Don't You Smile Now
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: European Son to Delmore Schwartz

? & THE MYSTERIANS: Ten O'Clock
DONOVAN: Superlungs (My Supergirl)
SYNDICATE OF SOUND: Little Girl
THE RATIONALS: Little Girls Cry
THE GENTLEMEN: It's a Cryin' Shame
THE MIRACLE WORKERS: Tears
THE UNCALLED FOR: Do Like Me
THE VENTURES: The "In" Crowd (bed)
THE UNRELATED SEGMENTS:
It's Gonna Rain/Where You Gonna Go
THE MAGIC MUSHROOMS: Never Let Go
BELFAST GYPSIES: Boom Boom
THE PAINTED SHIP: Frustration
THE MALARIANS: Paranoia (bed)

THE MODERN LOVERS: Astral Plane
LOTUS STP: Broke Down
THE LITTER: Action Woman
THE ROCKIN' RAMRODS: She Lied
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS: You're Gonna Miss Me
THE MAGIC MUSHROOM: I'm Gone
THE MALARIANS: A Walk in the Sun

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Still Yet More from JM Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner

The recent site redesign at Examiner.com has been playing havoc with links to both old and new articles (and my page views, dammit). Things seem to have settled down, so you should be able to click on the links below to read these recent pieces Austin Classic Movies column:

Weird Wednesday: Village of the Giants (1965)

Master Pancake Theater Takes on 'The Breakfast Club' at the Alamo

Joe Bob Briggs Pays a Call on the Alamo Drafthouse

Weird Wednesday: Freebie and the Bean (1974)

Director William Grefé on 'Mako: The Jaws of Death' (1976)

Jack Nicholson Is a Far-Out Stud in 'The Wild Ride' (1960)

The Pistols' Last Stand: The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (1980)

The King in Vegas: Elvis - That's the Way It Is (1970)

Elvis, Dude: Tickle Me (1965)

Elvis Rocks Spring Break: Girl Happy (1965)

Elvis Presley's Greatest Movies

Audrey in Paris: Funny Face (1957)

Exile on Madison Avenue: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

Bob Fosse's 'Lenny' (1974) and 'All That Jazz' (1979) at the Paramount

The Greatest Horror Movies of the 30s, 40s, and '50s

Weird Wednesday presents 'Hollywood High' (1976)

'American Grindhouse' at the Alamo

Double Noir: Where Danger Lives (1950)/Tension (1949)

Beach Bomb: The Fat Spy (1966)

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Subscribe to the British Music Examiner HERE.

The Mal Thursday Show 2010

Although I've stepped up the pace of late, I've only managed to produce seven episodes of "The Mal Thursday Show" this year.

The reasons for this are many, chief among them the GaragePunk Podcast Network's new free-for-all schedule (I thrive on deadlines, and now there aren't any), my old band band The Malarians' reunion tour, and the inordinate amount of time it takes to scrape together a living in this economy.

Here are all of the episodes of the show I've produced this year, plus the New Year's Eve show, posted in the last few hours of 2009. Click on the images to launch podcasts:








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My Alamo Drafthouse Host Audition

The Alamo Drafthouse had an open call for potential hosts. I waited until the last day and uploaded this less-than-stellar, lo-fi audition. The best part about it is that it looks like Oliver Reed is holding a gun to my head.

I watched some of the other audition videos -- some people went whole hog and obviously spent hours and hours on theirs, with martial arts sequences, multiple edits, etc. -- I just hope that this gets me in the door for the live audition.

J.M. Dobies, British Music Examiner

I have a new column, The British Music Examiner. This is not to say that I'm a Brit and examine music in general, but that I am examining British music of all stripes.

Recent columns:

The Sex Pistols' Last Stand: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

'All the Rage: My High Life with the Small Faces, the Faces, and the Roling Stones' by Ian McLagan

Liam Gallagher: Beady Eye will be 'bigger than Oasis,' Noel will 'come crawling back'

Who's Obscure: 11 Unjustly Neglected Tracks by The Who

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The Mal Thursday Show #28: Psummer's Purple Phogg

The Mal Thursday Show #28: Psummer's Purple Phogg

Summertime's almost gone, kiddies, but Mal Thursday is back to make the most of what's left of it with a bitchin' batch of boss wax to beat the heat. The new Mondo Topless long-player, Freaking Out, has been a turntable staple at Mal's pad of late, so there's a couple of tracks from it here, as well as the original versions of some of the songs featured on the album. Also included are recent releases and reissues from the Higher State (whose fuzz-blastin' instrumental provided the title for this episode), Paul Messis, Roky Erickson and Okkervill River, the Sons of Hercules, Les Klepstones, and Mal's band the Malarians. Conflict of interest? No.

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Playlist:

MONDO TOPLESS: Get Me to the World on Time/Nothing Can Bring Me Down
THE VERTEBRATS: Left in the Dark
THE BREAKERS: Don't Send Me No Flowers (I Ain't Dead Yet)
THE OPEN MIND: Magic Potion
THE MALARIANS: Sky Wild
THE HIGHER STATE: Song of the Autumn/Psummer's Purple Phogg

THE MIRACLE WORKERS: Hey Lover
LIL' BOYS BLUE: I'm Not There
THE MARAUDERS: Since I Met You
THE MOVE: Stop And Get a Hold on Myself
THE ACTION: I'll Keep Holding On
THE HIGH SPIRITS: I Believe
PAUL MESSIS: Lost and Found
THE DWARVES: I Wanna Kill Your Boyfriend
GENE CLARK: So You Say You Lost Your Baby
LYRES: But If You're Happy

KIM FOWLEY: Hollywood Nights
ALICE COOPER: Requiem for the Spiders
THE SONS OF HERCULES: Easy Action
ROKY ERICKSON & OKKERVILL RIVER: John Lawman
THE MULLENS: You Really Move Me
THE FLESHTONES: Feels Good to Feel
LES KLEPSTONES: She'll Always Be Mine

THE MOURNING AFTER: Set Me Free

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