Episode 466 / Rock & Roll Monsters Vol. 2

Well, it’s not exactly Halloween — at this writing, that’s months away! However, in this episode of The Captain Maniac Show, entitled Rock & Roll Monsters Vol. 2, we still present all manner of tunes that mention monsters, including Metallica’s “Some Kind of Monster”, an edited version of Steppenwolf’s “Monster”, “Bo Meets The Monster” by Bo Diddley and “Monster in Paradise” by Hard Stuff. To be sure, Bobby “Boris” Pickett is on hand, but this time out he doesn’t do the Monster Mash — he instead does The Monster Swim! By request, we do bring you Godzilla by Blue Öyster Cult, although the version we play is a live recording instead of the hit single. I Was A Teenage Monster!

1 Herman Munster – Dem Bones
2 Hard Stuff – Monster in Paradise
3 Metallica – Some Kind of Monster
4 Extreme – It (‘s A Monster)
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5 Steppenwolf – Monster [Single Edit]
6 Blue Öyster Cult – Godzilla [Live]
7 Cheap Trick – Woke Up With A Monster
8 White Zombie – Cosmic Monsters Inc
9 Meat Puppets – Attacked By Monsters
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10 Bobby “Boris” Pickett – The Monster Swim
11 Jimmy Dee – The Monster Hop
12 Keytones – I Was A Teenage Monster
13 Joe Johnson – Gila Monster
14 Fabulous Five – Janie Made a Monster
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15 Zodicac Mindwarp – Feed My Frankenstein
16 Castle Kings – You Can Get Him Frankenstein
17 Tyrone A’Saurus – The Monster Twist
18 Bobby Please – The Monster
19 Bo Diddley – Bo Meets The Monster
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20 Lordi – Would You Love A Monsterman
21 Reckless Love – Monster
22 Skillet – Monster
23 Zombie Ghost Train – Monster Rock n Roll
24 Disturbed – Legion Of Monsters
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25 Nina Simone – A Monster
26 Jeff Healey – Dancing With The Monsters
27 Misfits – Die Monster Die
28 Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
29 Cramps – God Monster
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30 Diamonds – Batman Wolfman Frankenstein or Dracula
31 Gene Moss – Surf Monster
32 Rhythm Coffin – Surfin’ Monster
33 Jack & Jim – Midnight Monsters Hop
34 Zacherly – Coolest Little Monster
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35 Pair Of Kings – The Monster
36 Joe Satriani – Light Years Away EDIT
STAN FREBERG OUTRO

Episode 465 / Jazz Impressions

Recently we listened to “The Johnny Switchblade Jazz Hour” on Mixcloud, so in this episode we present “Captain Maniac’s Jazz TWO Hours”! While tonight’s show briefly starts off in beatnik mode, our premise is to get into a groove thang and bring you some of jazz’s variations, such as bebop, jazz fusion, swing, west coast jazz etc. A cultural landslide for your home entertainment centre!

1 Louis Nye – Teenage Beatnik
2 Blossom Dearie – I’m Hip
3 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – Twisted
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4 Oscar Peterson/Clark Terry – Mumbles
5 Babs Gonzalez – Professor Bop
6 Jamie Cullum – Devil May Care
7 Dave Brubeck – Three To Get Ready
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8 PapauSmooth – Beatnik Bop
9 Thelonious Monk – RhythmANing
10 Horace Silver Quintet – Blowin’ the Blues Away
11 Grant Green – Green’s Greenery
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12 The Eleventh House With Larry Coryell – The Funky Waltz
13 Weather Report – Palladium
14 Alphonse Mouzon – Mind Transplant
15 Stanley Clarke – Vulcan Princess
16 Return To Forever – Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
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17 Craig Hundley Trio – Who Can I Turn To When Nobody Needs Me
18 Cannonball Adderley – Work Song
19 Miles Davis – Milestones
20 Clifford Brown – Joy Spring
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21 Vince Guaraldi Trio – Linus And Lucy
22 Paul Desmond – Take Ten
23 Wynton Kelly Trio – Unit 7
24 Stanley Turrentine – Feeling Good
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25 Herbie Hancock – Fat Albert Rotunda EDIT
26 Larry Coryell – The Jam With Albert EDIT
27 Kenny Burrell – Be Yourself
28 John Coltrane – A Love Supreme Pt I /Acknowledgement EDIT
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29 Crusaders – Put It Where You Want It
STAN FREBERG OUTRO

Episode 464 / Mondo Garage

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as we embark on a journey to the centre of your mind (offer not good after curfew in Sector R). This episode is a virtual fuzz-o-rama, and as it says on the show artwork, “monsterpieces from the mind garage” — we’re born to be mild with garage rock tunes aplenty, from the mysterious reaches of Infinity and Beyond! A return trip to garage rock of the 60s, presenting Close Encounters of the High School Madness Kind (or at least the kind of music I grooved to when I was in high school, which would make it 1966-1967). Our show begins with some mojo workout, courtesy of Paul Revere & the Raiders, in a cover of a song that might not fly in 2023, My Wife Can’t Cook! As The Banana Splits told us (and coincidentally, the drummer’s name was Bingo), I’m Gonna Find A Cave…

1 Paul Revere & the Raiders – My Wife Can’t Cook
2 The Banana Splits – I’m Gonna Find A Cave
3 The Monkees – She
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4 The Blues Magoos – So I’m Wrong And You Are Right
5 The Electric Prunes – Ain’t It Hard
6 The Rolling Stones – Think
7 The Easybeats – Sorry
8 The Northwest Company – Get Away From It All
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10 T I M E – What Would Life Be Without It
11 The Leaves – Be With You
12 The Gants – Smoke Rings
13 The Chessmen (Canadian) – There’s No Blood in Bone
14 The Chessmen (American) – You Can’t Catch Me
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15 Mickey Lee Lane – (They’re All In) The Senior Class
16 Our Gang – Careless Love
17 The Plague – Go Away
18 The Surfaris – Black Denim
19 The Mascots – I Close Your Eyes
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20 The Bobby Fuller Four – Love’s Made a Fool of You
21 The Pleasure Seekers – Never Thought You’d Leave Me
22 The Bittersweets (girl band) – Hurtin’ Kind
23 The Bitter Sweets (boy band) Cry Your Eyes Out
24 The Cedars (Sea-ders) – I Don’t Know Why
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25 The Nocturnals – This Ain’t Love
26 Paul Revere & the Raiders – Mojo Workout
27 The Kingsmen – The Waiting
28 The Guess Who – It’s My Pride
29 The Elite – One Potato
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30 The Others – I Can’t Stand This Love Goodbye
31 The Grim Reepers – Two Souls
32 The Gentlemen – It’s A Cry’n Shame
33 The Dark Horsemen – You Lied
34 Great Shakes Commercial
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35 Gonn – Blackout Of Gretely
36 The Shoremen – She’s Bad
37 The Syndicate – The Egyptian Thing
38 The Syndicate Of Sound – Brown Paper Bag
39 Psycho – You Need Me
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40 Swingin’ Medallions – She Drives Me Out Of My Mind
41 The Exterminators – Declaration Of Independence 65
42 The Banshees – Project Blue
43 The Lost Souls – Simple To Say
44 The Shadows of Knight – It Always Happens That Way
45 The Rockin’ Ramrods – She Lied
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46 The Music Machine – The People In Me
STAN FREBERG OUTRO

Episode 463 / Coffee Shop

It’s “double double” time in another one of our theme shows, as we wake up and smell the coffee! This time our focus is that hot beverage enjoyed by millions, which has a stimulating effect on humans primarily due to its caffeine content. Each song in tonight’s Captain Maniac Show has coffee as its subject matter, so stay grounded and expresso yourself!

Remember, “behind every successful person is a substantial amount of coffee”.

1 Beth Hart – Black Coffee
2 Shorty Long – Burnt Toast and Black Coffee
3 Bobby Darin – Black Coffee
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4 UFO – Black Cold Coffee
5 Anthrax – Cupajoe
6 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Coffee Shop
7 Tower of Power – If It’s Tea Give Me Coffee
8 Squeeze – Black Coffee In Bed
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9 Dave Dudley – Coffee Coffee Coffee
10 Cigarettes And Coffee Blues – Lefty Frizzell
11 Conway Twitty – I’ll Just Have Another Cup of Coffee
12 Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Cowboy Coffee
13 Scatman Crothers – Keep That Coffee Hot
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14 Frank Sinatra – The Coffee Song
15 Otis Redding – Cigarettes and Coffee
16 Jimmy Eat World – Coffee And Cigarettes
17 Brook Benton – Another Cup Of Coffee
18 Johnny Mercer – Java Jive
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19 Ella Mae Morse – 40 Cups Of Coffee
20 Carmen McRae – Coffee Time
21 Charlie Wood – Coffee is For Me
22 Johnny Winter – Iodine In My Coffee
23 Nat King Cole – You’re the Cream in My Coffee
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24 Dr Feelgood – Java Blue
25 Black Flag – Black Coffee
26 Cream – The Coffee Song
27 Lacy J Dalton – Black Coffee
28 Marty Robbins – Another Cup Of Coffee
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29 White Stripes – One More Cup of Coffee
30 Glen Glenn – One Cup Of Coffee And A Cigarette
31 Arrogant Worms – The Coffee Song
32 Tragically Hip – Coffee Girl
33 Abbey Lincoln – A Lonesome Cup Of Coffee
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34 Shel Silverstein – Have Another Espresso
35 Texas Slim – Expresso Girl
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36 Tony Stevens Band – Coffee at the Cafe
37 Mark Schmidt – Coffee Yeah EDIT
38 Combustible Edison – Short Double Latte
STAN FREBERG OUTRO