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The Big Takeover Show – Number 551 – August 11, 2025

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DJ Jack Rabid (song: The Bee Gees “Sea of Smiling Faces”)
Jerry Lee Lewis – Mean Woman Blues (Live at the Star Club) live, Hamburg, Germany, April 5, 1964; Claude Demetrius song;
Successful Failures – I’ve Got a Flair (single) 2013; rereleased now; Fountains of Wayne cover
Moving Targets – Saw Too Much (Red Eyes) brand new
The Valery Trails – First Kiss (Winter Palace) brand new
Welcome Strawberry – Doings of a Wraith (Desperate Flower) brand new
Jesse Welles – The Grapes of Wrath (Pilgrim) brand new
Flying Vipers (featuring Earl Sixteen) – Persistency (single) brand new
The Animals – See See Rider (single, Animalization) 1966 #10; Ma Rainey/Lena Arant song
DJ Jack Rabid
The Black Watch – Bright Blue Sun, Gold Sky (For All the World) brand new
Jeanines – You’ll Figure it Out (How Long Can It Last) brand new
The Loft – Killer (Everything Changes Everything Stays The Same) new
Yndling – Fences (Time Time Time (I’m in the Palm of Your Hand)) brand new
Lake Ruth – A Diamond on Its Side (Hawking Radiation) brand new
Hawkshaw Hawkins – Lonesome 7-7023 (single) 1963; Justin Tubb song
Marty Wilde – Bad Boy (single) 1959
DJ Jack Rabid
Small Faces – Eddie’s Dreaming (The Small Faces) 1967
The Ramones – I Can’t Give You Anything (Rocket to Russia) 1977
The Spongetones – Honest Work (The 40th Anniversary Concert… and Beyond) brand new
Robert Forster – Tell it Back to Me (Strawberries) brand new
Beirut – Gallipoli (Gallipoli) 2019
Terry Reid – Better By Far (single) 1968; Tony Macaulay/John MacLeod song; R.I.P. Terry Reid, (1949-2025), age 75
The Beatles – Not Guilty (Take 102) (The Beatles box set) recorded 1968, released 2018
DJ Jack Rabid
Special Set: 1978-1981 BBC John Peel Sessions Recordings of U.K. Post-punk, Part IV:
The Adverts – I Looked at the Sun (BBC Peel Session version) (The Wonders Don’t Care (The Complete Radio Recordings)) recorded April 30, 1979; released 1997
The Skids – Masquerade (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded April 30, 1979
Generation X – Night of the Cadillacs (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded January 15, 1979
The Members – Phone in Show (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded January 17, 1979
The Comsat Angels – Home is the Range (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded April 29, 1980
The Chameleons – Here Today (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded November 9, 1981
The Sound – Skeletons (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded November 9, 1981
DJ Jack Rabid
Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain (Sweet England) 1959; traditional folk cover

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