Episode 479 / Trains & Boats & Planes

This week’s theme is Trains & Boats & Planes, the title lifted from a song written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David, the best-known version being the 1965 hit by Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas (included in Monday’s show). Our premise this time out is songs with either one of those three words in the title, or some trains & boats & planes connection, like Ship of Fools by the Doors and Wooden Ships by the pre-Neil Young edition of Crosby Stills & Nash. As usual, our song selection covers many different genres & eras. Who’s Driving Your Plane?

1 Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas – Trains & Boats & Planes
2 The Doors – Ship of Fools
3 Status Quo – Paper Plane
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4 Deep Purple – Slow Train (Album Out-Take)
5 Every Mother’s Son – Come On Down To My Boat Baby
6 Pete Brown & Piblokto! – Aeroplane Head Woman
7 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Aeroplane
8 Howlin’ Wolf – Mr. Airplane Man
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9 Johnny Trouble Trio – Rhythm of The Railroad Track
10 Zac Brown Band – Same Boat
11 Ray Charles – Theres a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York
12 Beach Boys – Loop De Loop (Flip Flop Flyin’ In An Aeroplane)
13 Slade – Wheels Ain’t Coming Down
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14 Foghat – Jump That Train
15 Jimmy Buffett – Boat Drinks
16 Jefferson Airplane – Blues From An Airplane
17 Eddie Cleanhead Vinson – Lonesome Train
18 Lulu – The Boat That I Rows
19 New York Dolls – Jet Boy
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20 Moonrakers – Love Train
21 Crosby Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships
22 Rolling Stones – Who’s Driving Your Plane
24 Blindside Blues Band – Freight Train
25 Big Wreck – Locomotive
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26 Back Street Crawler – Train Song
27 Hues Corporation – Rock the Boat
28 Frank Sinatra – Come Fly With Me
29 Madness – Night Boat To Cairo
30 Paul Pena – Jet Airliner
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31 Ricky Nelson – Glory Train
32 Dick Dale – Sloop John B
32 Peter Paul & Mary – Leaving on a Jet Plane
32 Rolling Stones – I’m Moving On [Live]
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33 Jack Jones – The Love Boat Theme EDIT
STAN FREBERG OUTRO

Episode 478 / Future Shock

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades… Our shows with a recurring theme return with a vengeance! In this episode, entitled “Future Shock”, each song mentions the word “future”, and we even bring you a few tunes that just happen to be titled Future Shock (from Atomic Rooster to Curtis Mayfield)! The Future Is Now, and as the Sex Pistols sang, “there’s no future for you”. The best futuristic song title here is by Motion City Soundtrack – “The Future Freaks Me Out”! Look Into the Future…

1 Pat Travers – Runnin’ From The Future
2 Gary Moore – Victims of the Future
3 Iron Maiden – Days Of Future Past
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4 Gillan – Future Shock
5 Bang – Future Shock
6 Toxic Holocaust – Future Shock
7 Atomic Rooster – Future Shock
8 Journey – Look Into the Future
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9 Timbuk3 – The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
10 Chickenfoot – Future In The Past
11 April Wine – Future Tense
12 Offspring – The Future Is Now
13 Stray – No Future
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14 Bruce Springsteen – Livin’ In the Future
15 Golden Earring – Future
16 B52s – Song for a Future Generation
17 Motion City Soundtrack – The Future Freaks Me Out
18 Curtis Mayfield – Future Shock
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19 Our Lady Peace – Will The Future Blame Us
20 Europe – In The Future To Come
21 Todd Rundgren – Future
22 Manic Street Preachers – Love Letter to the Future
23 Tonic – Future Says Run
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24 Morrissey – In the Future When All’s Well
25 Ron Wood – Fear For Your Future
26 Fleetwood Mac – Future Games EDIT
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27 David Bowie – A Better Future
STAN FREBERG OUTRO

Episode 477 / Dem Bones

By request, our “bony” show (no, Bony M is not included in this episode), featuring a collection of songs that mention bones, and in some cases, skeletons! Yes, George Thorgood’s “Bad To the Bone” or Tragically Hip’s “Little Bones” is definitely on deck, but as is our custom, we cover many musical styles and eras, from Louis Prima to Blue Cheer, from The Trashmen to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, from Ozzy Osbourne to Captain Beefheart! Rattle Your Bones…

1 AC/DC – Givin’ The Dog A Bone
2 Queen – Dog With A Bone
3 Johnny Winter – Bony Moronie
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4 Krokus – Burning Bones
5 Jokers – Rock and Roll Bones
6 Airbourne – Rattle Your Bones
7 Jodimars – Rattle My Bones
8 Louis Jordan – Bone Dry
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9 George Thorogood & The Destroyers – Bad To The Bone
10 Tragically Hip – Little Bones
11 David Gogo – Cuts Me To The Bone
12 Robben Ford – You Cut Me To The Bone
13 Kinks – To The Bone
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14 Blue Cheer – Rollin’ Dem Bones
15 Rush – Roll the Bones
16 Robin Trower – Chase The Bone
17 Ozzy Osbourne – No Bone Movies
18 Volbeat – Sorry Sack Of Bones
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19 Trashmen – ABone
20 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Beatle Bones N Smokin’ Stones
21 Aerosmith – Bone To Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)
22 Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Skeleton Song
23 Alice Cooper – Skeletons in the Closet
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24 Delta Rhythm Boys – Dry Bones EDIT
25 Tracy Byrd – Drinkin Bone
25 Louis Prima – The Closer To The Bone The Sweeter Is The Meat
26 Insane Clown Posse – The Bone
27 T Bone Walker – Two Bones And A Pick
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28 Alice In Chains – Them Bones
29 Young Guns – Bones
30 Great White – Mista Bone
31 Johnny Winter – Black Cat Bone
32 Randy Travis – Diggin’ Up Bones
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33 Poison – One More For The Bone EDIT
STAN FREBERG OUTRO

Episode 476 / The Return of Car Tunes

Now that summer is in full swing, last week we presented “The Sound of The Surf” — and what is the other summertime activity that comes to mind? That’s right, CARS: car shows, show & shines, hot rod displays, etc. This episode is once again devoted to the automobile; I say “once again” because in the old Captain Maniac Show on Mixcloud, we offered a series of car-related instalments entitled “Car Tunes” (https://www.mixcloud.com/CaptainManiac/playlists/car-tunes/ going back to 2015), so now that our show is called CMS, we bring you “The Return of Car Tunes”!

We mentioned hot rods, and even though we have several hot rod tunes sprinkled throughout tonight’s show, we start off with four hot rod tunes in a row, including one by Edd “Kookie” Byrnes with the imaginative title of ” Hot Rod Rock”!

Start the car!

1 Odin Mann – Hot Rod Rock
2 The Playtones – Hot Rod Dream
3 Hi-Voltage – Hot Rod Man
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4 Edd Byrnes – Hot Rod Rock
5 Red West – Daddy’s Got Himself A Brand New Automobile
6 The HighJacks – Thunderbird Rock N Roll
7 Jimmy Dale Richardson – 58 Buick
8 The Chrome Daddies – Gear Up Daddy
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9 The Cramps – Get Off The Road
10 The Go Gos – Stuck In My Car
11 The Breeders – Wait in the Car
12 Hasil Adkins – Get Outta My Car
13 Howlin Wolf – Highway 49 (LONDON SESSIONS)
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14 Travis Tritt – Start the Car
15 Baker Knight – Bring My Cadillac Back
16 Floyd Dixon Roll Baby Roll
17 Little Sylvia – Drive Daddy Drive
18 Big John Greer – Ride Pretty Baby
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19 Tom Tall – Hot Rod Is Her Name
20 The Raging Teens – Hot Rod Shotgun Boogie
21 The Fantastic Baggys – Hot Rod USA
22 The Dovells – Dragster On The Prowl
23 Joey & The Continentals – She Rides With Me
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24 Sabres – Hot Rod Kelly
25 Gene Savage – Big Machine
26 Tommy Payne – Cruisin’ Around
27 The Corvettes – Corvette
28 Little E & the Mellotone Three – Candy Apple Red Impala
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30 Ronny & The Daytonas – Little Scrambler
31 Rawhide – Ridin’ With the Rockers
32 The Backboons – Hurricane
33 Bitch Boys – Road Racer
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34 Montrose – Let’s Go
35 Les Dudek – Cruisin’ Groove
36 The Kinks – Somebody Stole My Car
37 Shania Twain – In My Car (I’ll Be The Driver)
38 Doobie Brothers – Divided Highway
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39 John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band – Open Road
40 The Kings of Leon – Camaro
41 The Raspberries – Drivin’ Around
42 The Boss Martians – Top Fueler Stomp EDIT
STAN FREBERG OUTRO