Episode 279 / I Lost My Train of Thought

Episode 279

Our journey continues on the wrong side of the tracks with the fourth part in our series devoted to trains and railroads, this week dedicated to Jerry Stiller, who in an episode of Seinfeld (as Frank Costanza) admitted that he had lost his Train of Thought! We get into training and keep on moving as the train keeps a rollin’ — think again, take the train! There is light at the end of the tunnel.

1 Brian Setzer Orchestra – Trouble Train
2 David Gogo – Whiskey Train
3 The Cult – Medicine Train
4 Neil Young – Southern Pacific
5 Velvet Revolver – Sucker Train Blues
6 Johnny McCollum – Santa Fe, All the Way
7 Rosanne Cash – My Baby Thinks He’s A Train
8 Johnny Cash – Blue Train
9 Sid King & The Five Strings – Let Er Roll
10 Rudy Thacker – Black Train
11 Eddie Bond – One Way Ticket
12 Boz Boorer – Let It Rock
13 Johnny Trouble – Big Black Train
14 Franklin Stewart – That Long Black Train
15 Tabby Thomas – Popeye Train
16 Art Law – Big Train
17 Hasil Adkins – Roll Roll Train
18 Anson Funderburgh – Hold That Train Conductor
19 Buddy Guy – Midnight Train
20 Christmas Train – Carey Bell
21 John Mayall – Ridin’ On The L & N (LIVE)
22 Savoy Brown – Train to Nowhere
23 Steamhammer – Hold That Train
24 Grateful Dead – Monkey and the Engineer
25 Little Feat – Two Trains
26 Rank and File – The Conductor Wore Black
27 Ray Charles – Chattanooga Choo-Choo
28 Arctic Monkeys – Choo Choo
29 The Waterboys – Some of My Best Friends Are Trains
30 Electric Light Orchestra – Last Train To London
31 Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath
32 Screamin Lord Sutch – The Train Kept A-Rollin’
33 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesday’s Gone
34 Stan Freberg Outro

Episode 278 / Ride That Bomb

We return to the music of the 70s, when we used to listen to these all of these songs real loud on the trusty 8-track (KA-CHUNK!). Tonight’s episode is titled “Ride That Bomb”, a nod to Slim Pickens’ character (Major Kong) in the movie Dr. Strangelove or: How Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover!

1 Alice Cooper – Caught In a Dream
2 Captain Beyond – Fantasy
3 Blue Öyster Cult – I Am the Storm
3 Black Sabbath Snowblind
4 Cactus – One Way… Or Another
5 UFO- Oh My
6 Judas Priest – Diamonds And Rust
7 Atomic Rooster – I Can’t Take No More
7 Jeff Beck Group – Situation
8 Mahavishnu Orchestra – Noonward Race
9 Santana – No One To Depend On
10 Mountain – Don’t Look Around
11 Deep Purple – The Mule
12 Scorpions – The Sails Of Charon
13 Ten Years After – Sugar the Road
14 Rory Gallagher – Used To Be
15 Johnny Winter And – Jumpin’ Jack Flash (live)
16 Kiss – Anything For My Baby
17 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Midnight Moses
18 Nitzinger- Yellow Dog
19 Blackfoot – Wishing Well
20 Cactus – You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover
21 Ted Nugent – Stranglehold
22 Aerosmith – Make It
23 Black Sabbath – After Forever
24 Jeff Beck – Come Dancing (BONUS TRACK)
24 Stan Freberg Outro

Episode 277 / How Do We Get There

This week we decided to try something a little bit different: with summer coming to an end, we at the Captain Maniac Show thought you’d appreciate some musical tips on how to get to a few places — we supply a destination, and the way to get there! Several of the songs on tonight’s show offer an objective/end of the line and concealed within is the method of meeting the target. For instance, the way to get to Surf City is in a ’30 Ford wagon and we call it a woodie”, or the location of Heartbreak Hotel is “down the end of Lonely Street”. Get the picture? Unfortunately, it would have been nearly impossible to include every single instance of this premise (not in a two-hour show, anyway), so like we always stress, some of your favourites had to be omitted. And anyway, Stairway to Heaven and Highway to Hell: tells you something about expected traffic flow!

1 Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle

2 The Beatles – Back In The USSR

3 Montrose – Bad Motor Scooter

4 The Monkees – Last Train To Clarksville

5 Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City

6 Chuck Berry – Promised Land

7 AC/DC – It’s a Long Way To the Top

8 Roger Miller – King of the Road

9 Taj Mahal – Six Days On the Road

10 Fats Domino – I’m Walking To New Orleans

11 Johnny Horton – Battle of New Orleans

12 The Box Tops – The Letter

13 Eddie Money – Two Tickets to Paradise

14 Jan and Dean – Surf City

15 Grateful Dead – Casey Jones

16 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Travelin’ Band

17 Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over the Line

18 John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads 

19 Rush – Red Barchetta

20 AC/DC – Highway To Hell

21 Ozark Mountain Daredevils – If You Wanna Get To Heaven

22 The Rose Garden – Next Plane To London

23 Freddy Cannon – Palisades Park

24 The Doors – Break On Through (To The Other Side)

25 Blackfoot –  Train, Train

26 Gerry & the Pacemakers – Ferry Cross the Mersey

27 The Beach Boys – Sloop John B 

28 The Beatles – Yellow Submarine 

29 The Drifters – Under The Boardwalk

30 Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel

31 America – A Horse with No Name

32 Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train

33 Thin Lizzy – Chinatown

34 ZZ Top – Tush

35 Petula Clark – Downtown

36 The Band – Up On Cripple Creek

37 Robben Ford – Indianola

38 Stan Freberg Outro

Episode 276 / Are You Being Surfed?

It’s our annual Labour Day extravaganza (notice the UK/Canadian spelling of “labour”), and what better way to close out a glorious summer than with a Captain Maniac surfing show! Tonight’s episode is a collection of surf-related tunes old and new, from The Beach Boys (“Surfin”) to Messer Chups (“Cemetery Beach”) and all points in between in a surfalicious surf party!

1 The Dictators – California Sun

2 Untamed Youth – Go Girl Go

3 Los Straitjackets – State Fair 

4 The Sunrays – Andrea

5 Pat Boone – Beach Girl

6 Messer Chups – Crocotiger

7 The Tigers – Tigers Theme

8 Polaris – Strange Μary Jane

9 The Nebulas – Surf Party

10 Satan’s Pilgrims – Malaguena

11 The Sentinals – Big Surf

12 The Scramblers – Super Surfer U.S.A

13 Jerry Cole & His Spacemen – Midnight Surfer

14 Rhythm Rockers – Moovin’ ‘N’ Groovin’

15 The Penetrators – Checkpoint Echo

16 The Dynotones – Endless Dream 

17 The Mach IV – Astroboy

18 Eddie Angel – Rampage

19 The Space Cossacks – Exolumina

20 The Ghastly Ones – Banshee Beach

21 Satan’s Pilgrims – Haunted House Of Rock

22 Beach Boys – Surfin’

23 Beach Boys – Finders Keepers

24 Bruce Johnston – The Original Surfer Stomp

25 Surfin Gorillas – Penetration

26 Atomic Mosquitos – Alien Round-up

27 The Shockwave – Take On Me

28 Hawaii Samurai – Surf Or Die

28 Los Straitjackets – Tempest 

29 Jon and the Nightriders – Moving Target

29 The Panteras – No Beach 

30 Los Pegajosos – Antropofagia

31 The Aquanauts – Rumble on the Docks 

32 The Ventures – Blue Moon

33 Messer Chups – Cemetery Beach

34 Ralph Rebel – Sabre Jet

35 Man or Astroman – Espanto Del Futuro 11

36 Dick Dale – Shake-N-Stomp 

37 Big Ray & The Futuras – Horrorscope

38 The Coffin Daggers – Stella Vista

39 The Retroliners – Surf Avenue

39 Richie Allen – The Quiet Surf

40 Scott Engel (Walker) – Devil Surfer

41 The Clash – Charlie Don’t Surf

42 Stan Freberg Outro