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The Big Takeover Show – Number 548 – July 21, 2025

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DJ Jack Rabid (song: The Sons of the Pioneers’ “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”)
Springhouse – Sea and Rain (live) (From Now to OK Acoustic Sessions, “AKA Springhouse Pretends They’re on MTV Unplugged,” recorded January 2025) Jack Rabid drums
Guided By Voices – I am a Scientist (30th Anniversary Version) (single) 2024
The Black Watch – If Only (For All the World) brand new
Miki Berenyi Trio – Ubique (Tripla) brand new
Ron Sexsmith – Cigarettes and Cocktails (Hangover Terrace) brand new
Dauber – Dead Weight (Falling Down) brand new
Chan Romero – The Hippy Hippy Shake (single) 1959
Billy Fury with the Gamblers – The Hippy Hippy Shake (single) 1964; Chan Romero cover
DJ Jack Rabid
Wipers – No One Wants an Alien (Over the Edge) 1983
Flying Vipers – No One Wants an Alien (Off World) brand new; Wipers cover
Here Today – She Decides (b-side “Feel”) brand new
The Deadlights – Forever Now (Blue Sides) brand new
Chris Stamey (with Mitch Easter and The Lemon Twigs) – I’d Be Lost Without You (Anything’s Possible) brand new
Fever Tree – Time is Now (Creation) 1969
The Chambers Brothers – Uptown (The Time Has Come) 1967; Betty Mabry (Davis) song
DJ Jack Rabid
Four Bands Interviewed in the Brand New Big Takeover Issue 96!:
Bob Mould – Hard to Get (Here We Go Crazy) new
Brief Candles – Rewards (Unfinished Nature) new
Doves – Kingdom of Rust (Kingdom of Rust), 2009
Nada Surf – Always Love (live) (Conan O’Brien TV Show, October 7, 2005)
Lake Ruth – Astral Voices (Hawking Radiation) brand
Tex Ritter – The Ballad of High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) (High Noon soundtrack, main title) 1952, Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington song
Sons of the Pioneers – Ghost Riders in the Sky (single) 1948; Stan Jones song
DJ Jack Rabid
Special Set: Original 1979 BBC Recordings of U.K. Post-punk (1 live, 6 Peel Sessions)
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (live in the studio) (Something Else BBC TV Show) broadcast September 15, 1979, BBC 2
Public Image Ltd. – Poptones (BBC) (Peel Session) recorded December 10, 1979
Magazine – Permafrost (BBC) (Peel Session) recorded May 8, 1979
Gang of Four – 5:45 (BBC) (Peel Session) recorded January 9, 1979
Teardrop Explodes – Went Crazy (BBC) (Peel Session) recorded October 2, 1979
Echo & the Bunnymen – Stars are Stars (BBC) (Peel Session) recorded August 15, 1979
The Cure – Plastic Passion (BBC) (Peel Session) recorded May 9, 1979
DJ Jack Rabid
Connie Francis – Who’s Sorry Now (single) 1957; Ted Snyder/Bert Kalmar/Harry Ruby song; R.I.P. Connie Francis (1937-2025), age 87

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