"Animals"

"Animals" (broadcast 3/28/13)

1. The Pink Fairies: The Snake
2. Roky Erickson & The Aliens: A Cold Night For Alligators
3. Ray Wylie Hubbard: Snake Farm
4. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears: Black Snake
5. Tony Joe White: Stud Spider
6. Savoy Brown: Mister Hare (by request, for Scotty)
7. Bobby Charles: See You Later, Alligator
8. Dillinger: Mickey Mouse Crab Louse
9. Pluto Shervington: Ram Goat Liver
10. The Upsetters: Crab Wars
11. Rober Wyatt: Pigs…(In There)
12. Squeeze Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
13. Addie Brik: Fruit Fly
14. The Cramps: Human Fly
15. Nick Lowe: Shake That Rat
16. King Coleman: Alley Rat
17. The Winkies: Red Dog
18. Led Zeppelin: Hot Dog
19. The Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog
20. The Mothers Of Invention: Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
21. Fastway: Sick As A Dog
22. Chas ‘n’ Dave: Big Fat Rat
23. Alan Price: Simon Smith & His Amazing Dancing Bear
24. Eek-A-Mouse: Anarexol
25. Roddy Jackson: There’s A Moose On The Loose
26. X-Tal: White Rat (1979-1989)
27. The MC5: Skunk (Sonically Speaking)
28. Billy Bragg: Dolphins
29.Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: It’s A Free Country
30. Morphine: Sharks Patrol These Waters
31. Fishbone: Beergut (by request, for Mike)
32. The Flashcubes: Brontosaurus
33. TKTTSM: Porcupine
34. T. Rex: Ride A White Swan
35. Eno: Needle In The Camel’s Eye
36. Peter C. Johnson: Horse That Throws You
37. Captain Beefheart: “A Squid eating…”
38. Graham Parker: High Horse
39. Little Beaver: Party Down pt 1
40. Mud: Tiger Feet
41. Sweet: Fox On The Run
42. Adam & The Ants: Ants Invasion (by request, for Milton)
43. Mott The Hoople: Foxy Foxy
44. Slim Harpo: I’m A King Bee
45. The Byrds: Chestnut Mare
46. Porcupine Tree: Bonnie The Cat
47. The Strypes: Monkey
48. Brian Auger & The Trinity: Black Cat
49: The Sugarcubes: Cat (Icelandic version)
50. The Cure: The Lovecats
51. Simon Crum: Bop Cat Bop
52. Dr. Horse: Jack, That Cat Was Clean
53. April Stevens: Teach Me Tiger
54. Gene Vincent: Wild Cat
55. Tommy Collins: Black Cat
56. Andre Williams: Sweet Little Pussy Cat
57. Robyn Hitchcock: Shadow Cat
58. The Head Cat: Crossroads
59. Sonny Boy Williamson: Fattening Frogs For Snakes
60. The Band: Holy Cow
61. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Mickey’s Monkey
62. The Marvelettes: Too Many Fish In The Sea
63. Charlie & Inez Fox: Mockingbird
64. The Rolling Stones: Monkey Man

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President