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The Bedazzled Radio Hour: October 14th, 2026 - "Dread Is the Best" (Audio)
After the news at noon, "The Bedazzled Radio Hour" features pop, rock, and soul obscurities from the '60s, '70s, '80s, and beyond, including freakbeat, baroque rock, glam, bubblegum, pop-psych, sunshine pop, garage rock, girl groups, British invasion, punk, funk, new wave, Northern soul, and more.
Spike Priggen is a singer, songwriter, musician, and record store owner currently based in the Hudson Valley. He is the former editor and publisher of the retro pop culture blogs Bedazzled.tv and Scopitones.com. Priggen broadcasts live from Spike's Record Rack, his record store on Main Street in Catskill.
Big Youth – Dread Is the Best
Jacques Dutronc – Sur une nappe de restaurant
My Bloody Valentine – Thorn
The Shirelles – Big John
Kleenex/Liliput – Ain't You
Alice Cooper – Be My Lover
Astrud Gilberto – It Might as Well Be Spring
The Specials – International Jet Set
The Beach Boys – Girl Don't Tell Me
Helium – Baby Vampire Made Me
The Premiers – Farmer John
The Johnny Burnette Trio – Rock Billy Boogie
Lyres – Help You Ann
John Lee Hooker – Boogie with the Hook
Donna Loren – So, Do the Zonk
The Teardrop Explodes – Colours Fly Away
U-Roy – Stick Together
Mirrors – She Smiled Wild
Julian Cope – The Mystery Trend
David Bowie – Be My Wife
Teenage Fanclub – Start Again
The Pretty Things – Walking Through My Dreams
Magazine – Sweetheart Contract
Bo Diddley – I'm Looking for a Woman
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Never Understand
Nilsson – I Said Goodbye to Me
Cheap Trick – Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
The Only Ones – Creature of Doom
Playlist:
- Parfum du Goût / Lucas Kai Melody
- Mr. Yunioshi / Henry Mancini
- Sur une nappe de restaurant (Remastered 2004) / Jacques Dutronc
- thorn / my bloody valentine
- Big John / The Shirelles
- Ain't you / Kleenex
- Be My Lover / Alice Cooper
- It Might As Well Be Spring / João Gilberto
- International Jet Set / The Specials
- Girl Don't Tell Me / The Beach Boys
- Farmer John / The Premiers
- G.P.O. Tower / Dudley Moore Trio
- Rockabilly Boogie / Johnny Burnette
- Rock Billy Boogie / Johnny Burnette
- Help You Ann / Lyres
- So, Do the Zonk / Donna Loren
- Stick Together / Lee 'Scratch' Perry
- Be My Wife (1999 Remastered Version) / David Bowie
- Start Again / Teenage Fanclub
- Walking Through My Dreams / The Pretty Things
- Sweetheart Contract / Magazine
- Never Understand / The Jesus and Mary Chain
- I Said Goodbye to Me / Harry Nilsson
- Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace / Cheap Trick
- Millionaire / Dudley Moore Ensemble