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The Big Takeover Show – Number 553 – August 25, 2025

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DJ Jack Rabid (song: The Beatles’ “Think For Yourself”)
The Beatles – Free As a Bird (2025 mix) (Anthology IV) Recorded 1977/1994, remixed now
Wet Leg – Mangetout (moisturizer) brand new
Don McGlashan & Anita Clark – Opening/Harbour Bridge (live) (Take It to the Bridge) brand new
Bird Streets – It’s a Start (The Escape Artist) brand new
Dennis Davison – Strongman and Sonny James (remix) recorded 2020; remixed now
Big Star – The Ballad of El Goodo (live) (Live in Memphis) (Radio City) recorded October 29, 1994 at the New Daisy Theater, Memphis, released 2014
Kim Weston – You Hit Me Where it Hurt Me (The Story of… Hits and Rarities) recorded 1967, released 1995
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & the Trinity – Black Cat (Open) 1967
DJ Jack Rabid
Sonny James – The One I Can’t Forget (b-side “Somebody Else’s Heartache”) 1953
Ivy – Heartbreak (Traces of You) brand new
The Black Watch – Madcap Girl (For All the World) brand new
Reds, Pinks & Purples – A Figure on the Stairs (The Past is a Garden I Never Fed) brand new
Robert Forster – Breakfast on the Train (Strawberries) brand new
The Mighty Rootsmen – Summer Breeze (The Mighty Rootsmen) brand new; Seals and Crofts cover
The Who – A Legal Matter ([The Who Sing] My Generation) 1965
DJ Jack Rabid
The Tornadoes – Phantom Surfer (single) 1962, Dorinda Morgan song
Idlewild – (I am) What I Am Not (The Remote Part) 2002
Daffodyl Daydream – Mr. Pike’s Place (The Stranger With Many Faces) 2014
The Cords – Fabulist (The Cords) brand new
Sungaze – Rice Crispies (singe) brand new
Cast (with P.P. Arnold) – Way It’s Gotta Be (Oh Yeah) (Yeah Yeah Yeah) brand new
Kingston Trio – Rider (Sunny Side!) 1963; traditional song
DJ Jack Rabid
Special Set: 1978-1981 BBC John Peel Sessions Recordings of U.K. Post-punk, Part VI:
Human League – Being Boiled (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded August 8, 1978
Subway Sect – Stool Pigeon (Peel Session) (A Retrospective (1977-81)) recorded November 29, 1978, released 1984
The Flowers – Living Doll (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded August 28, 1979
Orange Juice – Poor Old Soul (Peel Session) Ostrich Churchyard, recorded October 21, 1980, released 1995
TV21 – Waiting For the Drop (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded October 22, 1980
The Visitors – Compatibility (BBC Session) John Peel Session, recorded December 16, 1980
Josef K – Heart of Song (Peel Session), Young and Stupid, recorded June 15, 1981, released 2014
DJ Jack Rabid
Larry Davis and His Band – Texas Flood (single) 1958

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