Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: Monkeys

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Featuring a special guest appearance by The Bike Show‘s Jack Thurston

Love Ain’t Nothing but a Monkey on Your Back – Johnny Nash
I Don’t Want to Live With Monkeys – The Higsons
Hommes Singes – VVAA
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show – The Marvels
Monkey Talk – Hubert Porter & George Moxey and his Calypso Quintet
Another Postcard – Barenaked Ladies
Don’t Monkey with Another Monkey’s Monkey – Johnny Paycheck
Monkey Magic – Godiego
King Kong – Jimmy Castor Bunch
The Ape Walk – Monkey Business
La Petit Singe Rouge – Fred Gardoni and his Orchestra
These Little Monkeys – Jonathan Fire Eater
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show – Joe Tex
Apeman – The Kinks
I Am Gorilla – Jonny Trunk & Duncan Wisbey
Monos – Yma Sumac
The Higher the Monkey Climbs – Justin Hinds & The Dominoes
Can Your Monkey Do The Dog – Rufus Thomas
Le Gorille – Georges Brassens
Welcome to the Monkey House – Animal Magnet
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show – Sonny Terry

Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: The love that dare not speak its name

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I Think We’re Alone Now – Lene Lovich
Green Door – The Cramps
I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar – Jonathan Richman
Prove It on Me – Ma Rainey
Young Guns – Wham
Theme for Alan Mathison Turing – White Town
Girls and Boys – Blur
Lola – The Kinks
Michael – Franz Ferdinand
Mad About the Boy – Dinah Washington
Jailhouse Rock – Elvis
This Charming Man – The Smiths
It’s My Party – Bryan Ferry
Gloria – Patti Smith
Judy and the Dream of Horses – Belle and Sebastien
A Postcard to nina – Jens Lekman
Homosapien – Pete Shelley

Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: Climate Change

Photo: Loomis Dean

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The theme for this week’s show was chosen by Casper ter Kuile, co director of the UK Youth Climate Coalition. Hear his climate change song choices, along with those of Quentin Cooper, Michele Noach, Mark Ellen and Subratha Subramaniam.

Walking on Thin Ice – Elvis Costello
A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
Ocean – The Velvet Underground
Wade in the Water – Lee Patterson Singers
Vond Dag – Terje Isungset
Eve of Destruction – Barry Maguire
The Tide is High – Blondie
Keen Hawaii – Icke & Er
This Time Tomorrow – The Kinks
Tag Traum: Der Umweltsong – LB and Friends
Future Fossil, Future Fuel – The Nite Lights
Workin in a Coal Mine – Lee Dorsey
Oil – Johnny Greenwood
Gas Dance – The Last Shadow Puppets
One World – John Martyn
Heatwave – Martha and the Vandellas
If the World Should End in Ice – Handsome Familly