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Options January 8, 2011: Filling in for Terre T... and taking it to '11!

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Artist Track Album Label Format Comments Year New Approx. start time
David Bowie  Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed   Options Space Oddity (40th Anniversary Edition)  Virgin  2 CD  from 1969. 2-CD reissue with a disc of bonus tracks.  2009    0:00:00 ()
The Kids  This Is Rock 'n Roll   Options The Kids / Naughty Kids  Sonik's Chicken Shrimp  CD  from 1977. This CD compiles this Belgian punk band's first two LPs from 1977 and 1978, respectively.  2006    0:06:27 ()
Alice Cooper  No More Mister Nice Guy   Options Billion Dollar Babies  Warner Bros.  LP  The band does it live in 1973 right HERE!  1973    0:08:19 ()
Catapult  Let your Hair Hang Down   Options VA: Boobs - The Junkshop Glam Discotheque Top Sounds on Disc  RPM   CD  from 1974. Check out this crazy VIDEO!  2005    0:11:14 ()
The Jam  Sounds from the Street   Options In the City  Polydor  LP    1977    0:13:49 ()
Chords  Maybe Tomorrow   Options   Polydor  7"  The band does it on "Top of the Pops" right HERE!  1979    0:17:00 ()
Letters  Nobody Loves Me   Options   Heartbeat  7"    1980    0:20:14 ()
Shoes  Too Late   Options Best  Black Vinyl Records  CD  from 1979. Here's the original promo VIDEO  1987    0:22:20 ()
Tweeds  I Need That Record   Options VA: Yellow Pills: Prefill  Numero Group  2 CD  from 1980.  2005    0:24:58 ()
Commonauts  Missing Link   Options VA: New Wave Underground: U.S. Artists, 1980-83  no label  CD  From 1982. Here is a PHOTO of this Boise, Idaho band.  2010  *   0:28:11 ()
White Mystery  White Widow   Options White Mystery  White Mystery (self-release)  CD  The band played LIVE on the Cherry Blossom Clinic -- Listen to the awesome ARCHIVE!  2010  *   0:31:52 ()
 
Fireballs  Groovy Motions   Options VA: Get Ready To Fly: Pop-Psych From The Norman Petty Vaults  Big Beat  CD  from 1967  2007    0:41:37 ()
Pink Floyd  Lucy Leave   Options Interstellar Overdrive (Alternate Masters '66-'68)  "Odeon"  CD  unreleased track from the the Pink Floyd's first recording session in October 1966.  2002    0:44:21 ()
The Craig  I Must Be Mad   Options VA: Rare 60's Beat Treasures, Vol. 2  Gone Beat  CD  from 1966. Featuring Carl Palmer on drums  1995    0:46:58 ()
The Nerve  Satisfying Kind   Options VA - Pop-In Volume One: Choice Cuts from the Other Side of Mainstream UK Pop 1966-70  Elevator Music Co.  CD  from 1968.  2002    0:49:42 ()
Kirkbys  It's a Crime   Options VA: Real Life Permanent Dreams - A Cornucopia of British Psychedelia 1965-1970  Rhino  4 CD  from 1966  2007    0:52:07 ()
Guess Who  Use Your Imagination   Options Shakin' All Over!  Sundazed  CD  from 1966  2001    0:54:14 ()
 
P.P. Arnold  A Likely Piece of Work   Options VA: Get Ready: UK Floor Fillers Vol. 3 - 20 Blue-Eyed Soul Gems 1966-71  Psychic Circle  CD  from 1970  2008    1:01:31 ()
Miller  Baby I Got News For You   Options VA: A Perfumed Garden, Volume Three  Past & Present  CD  from 1967  2003    1:03:46 ()
Electric Prunes  You Never Had It Better   Options Lost Dreams  Birdman  CD  from 1967. Awesome live film clip right over HERE, people!  2000    1:06:40 ()
Glass Sun  Silence of the Morning   Options VA: Incredible Sound Show Stories Vol. 1 - The Technicolour Milkshake  Dig the Fuzz  CD  from 1968?  2001    1:08:52 ()
Gants  (You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings   Options Road Runner! The Best of the Gants  Sundazed  CD  from 1966  2000    1:14:03 ()
MC5  Looking at You   Options Back in the USA  Rhino/Atlantic  CD  from 1970  1992    1:16:33 ()
Les Miserables  Ecoute-Moi   Options L'integrale  Disques Merite  CD  from 1967. Montreal!      1:19:32 ()
Nomads  From Zero Down   Options VA: Teenage Shutdown: The World Ain't Round, It's Square! - 17 Paint-Peeling Garage-Punk Monsters!!!  Teenage Shutdown  CD  From 1967  1995    1:21:29 ()
Humans  Warning   Options VA: Back From The Grave Part 2: Garage Punkers  Crypt  CD  from 1966  1991    1:24:02 ()
 
Lincolns  You Can't Come 'Round Anymore   Options VA: It's A Kave-In! Wild Oz Sixties Punk from the Caverns of Time!!  Kustom65  CD  from 1966, but unreleased at that time.  1998    1:34:15 ()
The Sound Sandwich  Zig-Zag News   Options VA: Ain't It Hard! Garage & Psych From Viva Records  Sundazed  CD  from 1967. This CD features choice Snuff Garrett productions.  2007    1:36:41 ()
Toggery Five  I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys   Options VA: Beat at Abbey Road  EMI  CD  from 1965. This song was composed by Keith Richards and Andrew Loog Oldham.  1997    1:39:50 ()
Harbinger Complex  Time to Kill   Options VA: With Love, A Pot Of Flowers  Big Beat  CD  from 1967. This is CD reissue of "the classic 1967 garage-psych compilation with rare and unreleased bonus tracks from associated Mainstream artists."  2010  *   1:42:09 ()
Nightcrawlers  Basket of Flowers   Options The Little Black Egg  Big Beat  CD  from 1966  2000    1:43:58 ()
Sweet Smoke  Mary Jane Is To Love   Options VA: Marijuana Unknowns  Stoned Records  CD  from 1968  1997    1:46:26 ()
Os Incríveis  Giulieta   Options VA: Worldbeaters, Vol. 11  Krazy World  CD  from 1967. Brazil!  2008    1:48:28 ()
Lyres  Don't Give It Up Now   Options On Fyre  Ace Of Hearts Records  LP    1984    1:50:52 ()
Spencer Davis Group  Morning Sun   Options With Their New Face On  United Artists  LP  The first LP by the band after the departure of Steve Winwood.  1967    1:54:52 ()
 
Syl Johnson  Annie Got Hot Pants Power   Options Complete Mythology  Numero Group  Box set  from a 4-CD, 6-LP box set. A little visual overview of this great box set is right over HERE  2010  *   2:08:08 ()
Nouvellas  Reputation   Options Nouvellas  Ernest Jenning Record Co.  CD  The Nouvellas played LIVE on the Cherry Blossom Clinic -- listen to the archive right over HERE! YEAH!  2009    2:11:14 ()
The Wards of Court  How Could You Say One Thing   Options VA: The Mod Scene  Decca  CD  from 1967.  1998    2:15:04 ()
Charles Bradley  No Time For Dreaming   Options No Time For Dreaming  Daptone  CD    2010  *   2:16:54 ()
Generation  Nan Nan Pob Gan Tee (Long Time No See)   Options VA: Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s  Sublime Frequencies  CD    2007    2:19:45 ()
Vaselines  Overweight But Over You   Options Sex With an X  Sub Pop  CD    2010  *   2:23:03 ()
 
Devil's Anvil  Wala Dai   Options Hard Rock From the Middle East  Sony/Collectables  CD  from 1967. A New York band of Middle Eastern musicians produced by Felix Pappalardi.  1998    2:33:35 ()
Tuneful Trolley  Written Charter   Options VA: Book A Trip - The Psych Pop Sounds of Capitol Records  Now Sounds  CD  from 1969  2010  *   2:36:21 ()
Murphy & The Mob  Because You Love Me   Options VA: Total Rauch - 100% Boss Garage from tthe Sixties  Manic Mustang  CD  from 1966. The flipside of "Born Loser"  2004    2:39:06 ()
Jane Birkin  Les Langues De Chat   Options Di Doo Dah  Light in the Attic  CD  A bonus track on the CD reissue of her 1973 LP.  2010  *   2:41:44 ()
Matadors  I Feel So Lonely   Options VA: Behind the Iron Curtain: Soviet-Era Rock and Pop  no label  CD  from 1968. Prague, Czechoslovakia!  2010  *   2:43:59 ()
Chartbusters  Tomorrow Night   Options VA: Psych Bites Volume Two: A Collection of Head-Expanding Psychedelic Movers From Around the World  Past & Present  CD  from 1970  2010  *   2:48:03 ()
Gentrys  Brown Paper Sack   Options Keep On Dancing  Polydor  LP  Japanese reissue of a 1966 LP  1984    2:50:46 ()
Loose Ends  That's It   Options VA: New Directions: A Collection of Blue-Eyed British Soul 1964-1969  Past & Present  CD  from 1966  2003    2:52:23 ()
 

Listener comments!

  Sat. 1/8/11 3:07pm Peanut Gallery:

Way great!
  Sat. 1/8/11 3:24pm keef:

get some records on. maybe a little starry eyes
  Sat. 1/8/11 3:25pm Richard from Venezuela:

Hello Mike.
  Sat. 1/8/11 3:29pm Moparlarry:

Mike Sin is kick Mod/Pop ass!!!!!!!
  Sat. 1/8/11 3:35pm Peanut Gallery:

Take it Mike: bit.ly/g0omhL
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:03pm Todd 76%:

Lovin' the show today, Mike! I think Carl Palmer was in Atomic Rooster just before ELP?
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:09pm frenchee:

thanks Todd! I think the theme of today's show is I WANT THAT RECORD...
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:10pm jet:

need some NY Dolls!!!
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:31pm Listener Jumpy:

Good stuff today, Michael.
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:33pm Listener Jumpy:

Gants autographed my "Roadrunner" when they played Warsaw (the club not the city).
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:34pm Listener Jumpy:

I said, "Welcome to Brooklyn." And they said, "Oh, we played Brookyn in the '60s."
Anyone know where?
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:44pm frenchee:

Hi Jumpy! The Paramount?
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:46pm Doug:

I wish you weren't playing this song just now.
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:52pm todd:

GOOD STUFF MIKE SIN.
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:54pm Listener Jumpy:

I dunno, Frenchie, maybe.
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:54pm Listener Jumpy:

Good to hear some Lyres!
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:56pm frenchee:

ha ha Jumpy, I thought You KNEW
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:56pm Wiseacre:

I think the Gants played Trash Bar in 1967
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:57pm frenchee:

HI TODD
  Sat. 1/8/11 4:57pm todd:

i remember when i had the lyres 'on fyre' back in the 80s and my throbbing gristle listening to roommates turned up their noses. now i know which band was cooler. it wasn't TG.
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:02pm Peanut Gallery:

Brown liquor, I hope.
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:05pm pfapfap:

Damnit, you're right!
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:07pm Vikki V:

Hey Mike! Tuning in from Atlanta. I love that Nightcrawlers song btw!
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:08pm Vlorg:

You keep playing what you want. Its all good.
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:08pm todd:

HI FRENCHEEE
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:13pm Uncle Roy:

No better way to clean house...here in Kansas City, MO. Great show!
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:13pm Thurmond Chang:

OMG one of my fave Syl Johnson tracks-- never heard it on the reddio before!!
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:16pm -max-:

Really appreciating this warm-up for the party. See you all on the porch later tonight!
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:20pm Morning Miss L.:

GREAT segue from Syl Johnson to Nouvellas. Your entire show has been fantastic! You may be "just" be filling in for Terre T, but you're all pro, bro!
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:26pm seang:

this new Vaselines album rules
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:50pm Listener Jumpy:

I think your studio chatter is leaking into the airwaves.
  Sat. 1/8/11 5:54pm frenchee:

thanks, Jumpy! Actually it was the Czech band speaking, you know, CZECH. xxoo
  Sat. 1/8/11 6:02pm Listener Jumpy:

Mountain! The Vagrants' Leslie West got big in that band...
  Wed. 1/12/11 11:32am John W:

You deserve to have your own regular slot. I love each and every one of your fill-in shows.
  Wed. 2/16/11 5:21pm Em:

just got around to listening - i have never heard the Miller "Baby I Got News for You" track...I only knew of the Bristols' cover from the early 2000's...thank you Mike Sin!!!!!!
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