The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway

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Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men Nov 01, 2018

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I love the smell of this week's The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway in the morning, featuring all songs about war! SCAPEGOAT a foreign power! CONSCRIPT the poor and the minorities! THROW a big parade! Smells like victory!

Fear--"Let's Have a War"

Propagandhi--"Stick the Fucking Flag Up Your Goddamn Ass, You Son of a Bitch"

The Answers--"Fool Turn Around"

Circle Jerks--"Coup D'état"

Jinx--"Mister, You're a Better Man than I"

Dead Kennedys--"When Ya Get Drafted"

The Spits--"Space Guitar"

Country Joe and The Fish--"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag"

The Dead Milkmen--"Beach Party Vietnam"

Minutemen--"Viet Nam"

Paul Revere and the Raiders--"Steppin' Out"

Creedence Clearwater Revival--"Fortunate Son"

The Dylan McKays--"I Don't Wanna Go to Vietnam"

The Cro-Mags--"World Peace"

Stiff Little Fingers--"Wasted Life"

Descendents--"M-16"

Tenpole Tudor--"Swords of a Thousand Men"

If That's All There Is, It Ain't So Bad Oct 25, 2018

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For those about to rock, we salute this week's episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway, all songs about r and f'n r! So BANG your head! COME ON, feel the noise! ROCK OUT with whatever appendages out! If it's too loud, you're too old, but also sorry, we can notch it down a hair.

Rose Tattoo--"Nice Boys"

The Dictators--"Who Will Save Rock and Roll?"

Arrows--"I Love Rock 'n' Roll"

The Drags--"Iron Curtain Rock"

Ramones--"Swallow My Pride"

The Beat--"Rock 'n' Roll Girl"

De La Soul--"Cool Breeze on the Rocks"

The Astronauts--"Rockin' Alien"

AC/DC--"Rocker"

El Pauling and the Royalton--"Solid Rock"

Teddy Bears--"Punkrocker"

D.O.A.--"I Hate Punk Rock"

The Byrds--"So You Want To Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star"

Chy Guys--"Say Mama"

The Mr. T Experience--"Alternative Is Here to Stay"

The Reatards--"Gotta Rock 'n' Roll"

Little Ike--"She Can Rock"

The Dwarves--"That's Rock 'n' Roll"

Scott Wood--"Chicken Rock"

Motorhead--"Rock 'n' Roll"

I'm Very Sober and Very, Very Bored Oct 18, 2018

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Crack open a nice cool one this week and enjoy the "sober" episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! SET up the entire bar with another round! PLY the object of your desire with drink! FAIL to perform sexually! Let's get fucked up and shitfaced!

The Queers--"I Only Drink Bud"

The Elastik Band--"Spazz"

Electric Six--"Gay Bar"

Schlong--"Days of Our Livers"

The Damned--"Drinking About My Baby"

Zeke--"Let's Get Drugs"

The Dead Milkmen--"The Badger Song"

The Kassos--"Teenage Girls and Alcohol"

The Quincy Punx--"Beer Bong Vomitorium"

The Cigarettes--"Damage Your Health"

The Revels--"Six Pak"

Jimmy Liggins--"Drunk"

The Untamed Youth--"Pabst Blue Ribbon"

Carl Butler--"Wonder Drug"

The Mindbenders--"The Morning After"

Boris the Sprinkler--"Drugs and Masturbation (Extended Pacific Northwest Hit Novelty Single Version)"

It's TV's Fault I Am This Way Oct 11, 2018

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Hello out there in TV Land, it's time to crank up the volume and yank off the knob because we've got it all on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! It's the all TV episode, so DON'T touch that dial! STAY tuned for an important announcement! ACT NOW while supplies last!

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts--"Love Is All Around"

Freddy Cannon--"Action"

JuiceheaD--"Suicide Is Painless"

Less Than Jake--"Laverne and Shirley"

The Dickies--"Banana Splits"

Agent Orange--"Get Smart"

Cliff Richard--"The Young Ones"

Link Wray--"Batman"

Ramones--"Spider-Man"

Clownvis Presley--"Reading Rainbow"

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet--"Having an Average Weekend"

Man or Astro-man?--"Love Theme from Mystery Science Theater 3000"

Sloppy Seconds--"Hooray for Santa Claus"

Riverdales--"Girls Town"

The Misfits--"This Island Earth"

Registrators--"Watch T.V."

Jon Cougar Concentration Camp--"My Favorite Show Is 90210"

The Dylan McKays--"Appetite for Reaganomics"

The Dead Milkmen--"I Tripped Over the Ottoman"

Black Flag--"TV Party"

Songs About Girls Oct 04, 2018

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It's sugar and spice and everything nice this week on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! It's the all songs about girls episode, so come on and BURN your bras! GET SLOBBERED ON by gross dudes! BE the subject of ridiculous romantic fantasies! It's girls, girls, girls, but I'll treat you like people, people, people, or your money back!

Song list:

The Pretty Things--"Rosalyn"

The Mummies--"Justine"

Lamps--"Bertha Walt"

The Monkees--"Valleri"

Kaleidoscope--"A Dream for Julie"

The Kryng--"Linda"

The Shadows of Knight--"Gloria"

Ramones--"Judy Is a Punk"

The Sonics--"Jenny, Jenny"

The Tree Stumps--"Jennie Lee"

Michael and the Messengers--"(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet"

Screeching Weasel--"Kamala's Too Nice"

The Monks--"Drunken Maria"

Tommy Roe--"Sheila"

The Hanson Brothers--"Victoria"

Heartless Bastards--"The Jean Genie"

Accidental Sons--"Kaitlyn"

Songs About Boys Sep 27, 2018

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This week's episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway is made snips and snails and puppy dog tails! It's the all songs about boys episode, so let's all GO ON DOWN to the crick! CATCH crawdads with your bare hands! RESIST the urge to become grown men! Boys will be boys will be dipshits!

Song list:

Bruce McCulloch--"The Daves I Know"

Toni Basil--"Mickey"

The Leaves--"Hey Joe"

The Adverts--"Gary Gilmore's Eyes"

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes--"Danny's Song"

Descendents--"Tonyage"

The Dead Milkmen--"Stuart"

Madness--"On the Beat Pete"

Devo--"Come Back, Jonee"

The Mystery Trend--"Johnny Was a Good Boy"

The Angry Samoans--"The Todd Killings"

The Gain--"Tim Said, Tim Said"

The Germs--"Richie Dagger's Crime"

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--"Calvin"

Beatallica--"Mean Mr. Mustard"

The Consumers--"Ballad to the Son of Sam"

The Hollies--"King Midas in Reverse"

The Polecats--"John, I'm Only Dancing"

The Undertones--"Jimmy, Jimmy"

Summer's Over Sep 20, 2018

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Welp, time to catch the school bus and dig out your light jacket, because summer is over on The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! PACK your sack lunch! STEAL some soda money out of your mom's purse! WATCH as everything starts to slowly die! Here comes the autumn, but the fall has been here for years!

Song list:

Sloppy Seconds--"Endless Bummer"

Jay Reatard--"It Ain't Gonna Save Me"

The Velvet Underground--"Who Loves the Sun"

Digital Leather--"So Warm"

Chad and Jeremy--"A Summer Song"

The Young Strangers--"She's Gone"

The Cloudwalkers--"Never Told Me So"

Buddy Knox-- "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself"

Love--"Alone Again Or"

The Illusions--"Wait Till the Summer"

The Fashions--"Surfin' Back to School"

Supernova--"Math"

The Luv'd Ones--"I'm Leaving You"

The Sonic Dolls--"Don't Screw Me Up"

Tokyo Electron--"I'm Worthy"

Screeching Weasel--"Blister My Paint"

Shannon and the Clams "The Point of Being Right"

The Unwritten Law--"This Whole World Is Blind"

Ramones--"Born To Die in Berlin"

The Breeders--"Saints"

I Love Living in the City Sep 13, 2018

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It's a one-way ticket to La-La Land on this week's The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway, a love letter to the city of Los Angeles, California! CRUISE the Sunset Strip! WEAVE down Laurel Canyon! SIT IDLY on the 405! It's all L.A. all the time! #todaysLA

Song list:

M.I.A.--"California Dreamin'"

Fear--"I Love Livin' in the City"

Missing Persons--"Walking in L.A."

Los Angeles Smog Division--"Blue Green"

Youth Brigade--"Sink with California"

The Mummies--"Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo"

The Dwarves--"Speed Demon"

Nancy Sinatra--"How Are Things in California?"

The Queers--"Goodbye California"

The Misfits--"Hollywood Babylon"

Iggy Pop--"Repo Man Theme"

Circle Jerks--"Beverly Hills"

Albert Hammond--"It Never Rains in Southern California"

Thee Midniters--"Whittier Blvd."

The Vandals--"Rico"

Instrumental in Your Life Sep 06, 2018

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All vocalists can take five on this week's episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway, the all-instrumentals episode! HEAR music unfettered by human speech! RECALL a time when an instrumental could go to #1 on the charts! A THIRD thing!

Song list:

Bad Manners--"Can Can"

The Snobs--"Stand and Deliver"

The Hogs--"Loose Lip Sync Ship"

Tony Newman--"Soul Thing"

The Sub-Dominants--"Bang Bang"

Flatt and Scruggs--"Foggy Mountain Breakdown"

The Shockwave!--"Take on Me"

Hommy Sanz Orguesta--"Heart Full of Soul"

I Monster--"The Blue Wrath"

Jan Davis--"Watusi Zombie"

The Hi-Fives--"Beauty Is the Mind"

Man or Astro-Man?--"Italian Movie Theme"

Buck Owens--"Ensenada"

The Phantom Surfers--"Pygmy Dance"

The Frantics--"The Whip"

The Bahareebas--"Peterheater"

The Monarchs--"El Bandito"

Shadowy Man on a Shadowy Planet--"Siesta Cinema"

Operation Ivy--"Bankshot"

Little Iva and Her Band--"Continental Strut"

The Imps--"Uh-Oh"

The Pagents--"Big Daddy"

The Lost Boys of Penzance-- "The Man Who Sold the World"

Lord Loves a Working Man Aug 30, 2018

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Happy Labor Day, everybody! Enjoy the holiday weekend and this all work songs episode of The Worm Turns with Jimmy Callaway! TAKE ADVANTAGE of super savings! SLEEP in! PUNCH your boss right in the goddamn face! Work is for suckers, and that's coming from one of the biggest around!

Song list:

Dead Kennedys--"Take This Job and Shove It"

Lyndon Needs--"Never Gonna Work Again"

The New Bomb Turks--"Born Toulouse-Lautrec"

The Coasters--"Hatchet Man"

The La De Das--"How Is the Air Up There"

The Vindictives--"Assembly Line"

The Mark Four--"Work All Day (Sleep All Night)"

The Leaves--"Too Many People"

The Queers--"Born To Do Dishes"

The Easybeats--"Friday on my Mind"

The Vogues--"Five O'Clock World"