That Record Got Me High Podcast (Rob Elba)

What more can be said about returning guest Steve Michener (Big Dipper, Volcano Suns) that hasn't been said already during his SEVEN previous appearances?!? Perhaps not much, but Steve is ALWAYS a great guest, and he returns with a gem of a record that many may not have heard of before - the delightful one-and-done release by British singer/songwriter multi-instrumentalist Henry Badowski, 1981's 'Life Is A Grand'

Songs discussed in this episode: All Going Out Together - Big Dipper; Life Is A Grand - Henry Badowski; I Dream Of Jeannie - Hypnolovewheel; My Face, Baby, Sign Here With Me - Henry Badowski; Right To Work - Chelsea; Antipope - King; Kids In America - Kim Wilde; My Face, Henry's In Love - Henry Badowski; That Summer Feeling - Jonathan Richman; Swimming With The Fish In The Sea, The Inside Out - Henry Badowski; The New World - Robert Fripp; Lester Leaps In - The Monochrome Set; Life Is A Grand - Henry Badowski; Don't Bring Harry - The Stranglers; Silver Trees, This Was Meant To Be - Henry Badowski; Common People - Pulp; Anywhere Else - Henry Badowski; Baby, Sign Here With Me - King; Edward The Bear - The Damned; Baby, Sign Here With Me - Henry Badowski; Shot By Both Sides - Magazine; Dead Finks Don't Talk - Brian Eno; Rampant - Henry Badowski; Love Is The Drug -Roxy Music; Making Love With My Wife - Henry Badowski; She's Fetching - Big Dipper; My Baby Don't Care - King

This week's guest, English singer/guitarist Miki Berenyi (Lush, Piroshka, Miki Berenyi Trio), brings us a record by Scottish alternative band - and for a time 4AD labelmates of her band, Lush - Cocteau Twins and their stunning 1984 release 'Treasure'. Evocative, ethereal, and anchored by singer Elizabeth Fraser's otherworldly voice, its sublime, almost alien beauty is hard to describe. But we try.

Songs discussed in this episode: Strange Fruit - Cocteau Twins (John Peel BBC session, 1983); Ladykillers - Lush; Needles and Pins - The Searchers; Cherry-coloured Funk, Wax and Wane, Ivo, Lorelei, Beatrix, Persephone - Cocteau Twins; For Love - Lush; Yes - McAlmont and Butler; Pandora (For Cindy) - Cocteau Twins; Everlastingly Yours - Piroshka; Amelia, Aloysius - Cocteau Twins; Leaves Me Cold - Lush (Peel Session, 1990); Cicely, Otterley, Donimo - Cocteau Twins; Light From A Dead Star - Miki Berenyi Trio (Recorded live during Paris Popfest, 2023

Haledon, New Jersey's The Feelies were a touchstone for bands as diverse as R.E.M., Sonic Youth and Weezer. Although their 1980 debut Crazy Rhythms is the one that put them on the alt-influencer map, this week's returning guest Tom Lawery has a particular fondness for their 2nd record made six years later - the Peter Buck produced 'The Good Earth'.

Songs featured in this episode: The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness - The Feelies; On The Corner - Miles Davis; (From The) Morning Glories - The Trypes; On the Roof, The High Road, The Last Roundup, Slipping (Into Something), When Company Comes, Let's Go, Two Rooms, The Good Earth, Tomorrow Today, Slow Down - The Feelies; Driver 8 - R.E.M.; Glassworks (01. Opening) - Philip Glass; Don't Go Back to Rockville - R.E.M.; What Goes On? - The Velvet Underground; Guiding Light - Television; Fame, She Said, She Said - The Feelies

This week's guest Larry Smith brings us a record by the critically acclaimed, highly influential but criminally unheralded 80s Austin TX band Glass Eye. 'Bent By Nature' is a melodic-yet-quirky, highly intelligent collection of post-punk tunes with nods to kooky neighbors, invasive lizards and Daniel Johnston, among others. 

Songs featured in this episode: I Am A Baby In My Universe - Kathy McCarty; Introduction - Chicago; Walking The Cow - Daniel Johnston; Don't Worry About The Government - Talking Heads; Come Back And Stay - Paul Young; Dalis Car - Dalis Car; Second Coming - The Stranglers; Rejoyce - Jefferson Airplane; Whiskey - Glass Eye; Desperate Man Blues - Daniel Johnston; Comeback, Oblivion, Living With Reptiles, We Don't Touch - Glass Eye; This House That I Call Home - X; Love Gone Wrong, Dimpsey Naish, Kicking The Dog, People In The House, Heywire, Parking Space, Christine, Mechanical Chihuahua - Glass Eye; That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission Of Burma; Walking The Cow - Kathy McCarty 

Buckle-up haters, because returning guest Bobbie Jo brings us mega-selling pop star Harry Styles' third release, 2022's 'Harry's House'. It's a record engineered to make you feel good. Styles - along with producer/collaborators Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson - pays homage to his R&B, Funk and Indie-Rock heroes with meticulously crafted pop songs delivered with an appealing nice guy earnestness that's hard to resist. I mean, you COULD resist it, but maybe better to slip on a comfy candy-striped onesie and just enjoy!

Songs featured in this episode: As It Was (Live from Coachella, 2022) - Harry Styles; You Make Me Feel Mighty Real - Sylvester; Sign Of The Times (Live SNL, 2017) - Harry Styles; Stealing Cars - Kid Harpoon; Close To Me - The Cure; Music For a Sushi Restaurant - Harry Styles; Sign O' The Times - Prince; Give It To Me Baby - Rick James; Late Night Talking, Watermelon Sugar, Grapejuice, As It Was, Daylight, Little Freak, Matilda, Cinema - Harry Styles; Ain't We Funkin' Now!! - Brothers Johnson; Daydreaming - Harry Styles; Bluebird - Paul McCartney & Wings; Keep Driving - Harry Styles; Satellite Of Love - Lou Reed; Satellite - Harry Styles; Rock-a-Bye My Baby - Haruomi Hosono; Boyfriends, Love Of My Life, Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell cover, BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show) - Harry Styles

Throughout the late 80s and early 90s, Ministry were one of the most terrifyingly aggressive industrial acts around. But in 1983 Al Jourgensen introduced himself to the masses - and this week's guest, producer/musician Dave Trumfio (Chicago's Pulsars) - with the decidedly New Wave 'With Sympathy'. This is NOT your grandma's Ministry, unless your grandma is a moody goth kid singing snappy little synth-pop tunes in a faux-British accent. Enjoy!

Songs discussed in this episode: Revenge (VJ Rob Edge Mix) - Ministry; Submission Song, Tunnel Song, Suffocation - The Pulsars; Burning Inside, Just Like You, Effigy (I'm Not An) - Ministry; Body Bag - Effigies; Going For Adds - Moving Units; Revenge - Ministry; My Spine Is The Bassline - Shriekback; I Wanted To Tell Her - Ministry; Money Is Not Our God - Killing Joke; Work For Love, Every Day Is Halloween - Ministry; Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain; Here We Go, What He Say, Say You're Sorry, I Should Have Known Better, I'm Falling, She's Got A Cause - Ministry; It's Not Right - DEVO; Das Lifeboat - The Pulsars

If you are unfamiliar with British rock band The Bevis Frond and its founder, singer/multi-instrumentalist Nick Saloman, you have some serious catching up to do. Releasing glorious pop/punk/psyche records at a feverish pace since the late 80s, they could quite possibly be England's best kept indie-rock secret. OG fan and Chicago resident Mick Hans brings us their latest release, 2021's 'Little Eden', a psychedelically-hewn panoramic take on brutalism Britain punctuated with pure pop melodies and beautifully-observed English melancholy. 

Songs featured in this episode: He'd Be A Diamond - Juliana Hatfield Three/Teenage Fanclub/Mary Lou Lord; Born In Chicago - Pixies; Splendid Isolation - The Bevis Frond; Positive Vibrations - The Soft Boys; He'd Be A Diamond - Teenage Fanclub; Raisans - Dinosaur Jr; Fortune Teller - Sugar; Everyone Rise, You Owe Me, They Will Return, Find The Mole - The Bevis Frond; The Great Rock-n-Roll Swindle - The Sex Pistols w/Edward Tudor-Pole; Do Without Me, The Man In The Garden - The Bevis Frond; Autumn Almanac - The Kinks; As I Lay Down To Die, Cherry Gardens, There's Always Love, Little Eden, Here Come The Flies - The Bevis Frond; Youth Of America - The Wipers; Pasted All Over - The Bevis Frond; Lights Are Changing - Mary Lou Lord; My Own Hollywood, Dreams Of Flying - The Bevis Frond

You might recognize actress Megan Mullally from her Emmy Award-winning stint on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, or her many other comedic roles. What you MIGHT not know is that she's also an accomplished singer, releasing three albums with her band Supreme Music Program. This week's guest, Patron, visual artist and self-described potential drag disciple Motelle Codeen brings us Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program's wonderfully eclectic 2007 release: 'Free Again!'

"Honey, tact is for people who aren’t witty enough to be sarcastic."
 - Karen Walker

Songs discussed in this episode: Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Megan Mullally; Will & Grace Theme - Jonathan Wolff; Ruby's Arms - Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program; Please, Mr Jailer - Nancy and Beth; Pa Pa Power - Dead Man's Bones; You Took Advantage of Me - Megan Mullally; Up A Lazy River - Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program; Up A Lazy River - Leon Redbone; Down By The Water - Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program; Down By The Water - PJ Harvey; St James Infirmary - Louis Armstrong; St James Infirmary Blues - Cab Calloway; St James Infirmary, I Cannot Justify - Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program; I Cannot Justify - Adrienne Young; Two Sisters - Tom Waits; Wind and Rain, Shakedown On 9th St. - Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program; Talk To Me - Frogpond, Talk To Me - Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program; Awaiting You - Adam Guettel, Billy Porter; Awaiting You, For The Good Times, You Took Advantage Of Me - Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program; You Took Advantage Of Me - Elaine Stritch; Ave Maria - Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program

When this week's guest, singer/songwriter Elizabeth McCullough (Alpha Cat), heard the song 'Hoover Dam' by the band Sugar, she broke her 3-song rule (making sure an album has at least 3 good songs before purchasing it) and ran out and bought their 1992 debut 'Copper Blue'. She was not disappointed. The record by Bob Mould's new band, released five years after the dissolution of his previous band - beloved punk titans Hüsker Dü - is an emotionally visceral, sonically fierce collection of songs that sound as fresh today as when they first appeared. Stone. Cold. Classic.

Songs featured in this episode: If I Can't Change Your Mind - Tre Dabney/The Salt Flats/The Decemberists; Venus Smile, Orbit - Alpha Cat; Friend, You've Got To Fall, Celebrated Summer - Hüsker Dü; See A Little Light - Bob Mould; Never Again - Zulus; The Act We Act, A Good Idea - Sugar; Debaser - Pixies; Changes, Helpless - Sugar; Hoover Dam - Bob Mould (Live, acoustic); Hoover Dam, The Slim - Sugar; Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band; If I Can't Change Your Mind, Fortune Teller - Sugar; Come In Alone - My Bloody Valentine; In Bloom - Nirvana; Slick, Man On The Moon - Sugar; Wichita - Alpha Cat; If I Can't Change Your Mind - The Decemberists (Live acoustic, A.V. Club)

This week's guest, audio engineer, producer, teacher (and lead singer of Indianapolis punk band Zero Boys) Paul Mahern, brings us Public Enemy's landmark sophomore record 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back'. Hugely influential and sonically explosive, Chuck D, Flavor Flav and the production team known as The Bomb Squad combined rap, soul, rock, funk, punk, musique concrète and everything in-between to forge the sound of a unit keenly aware of its purpose and capabilities.
Bring the noise, indeed!

Songs discussed in this episode: Countdown To Armageddon - Public Enemy; Civilization's Dying - Zero Boys; Anarchy In The U.K. - Sex Pistols; Protect Ya Neck - Wu-Tang Clan; B-Boy Bouillabaise - Beastie Boys; The Sprawl - Sonic Youth; Cuttin' Heads - John Mellencamp; Bring The Noise - Public Enemy; Funky Drummer - James Brown; Don't Believe The Hype, Cold Lampin' With Flavor Flav, Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic - Public Enemy; The Grunt - The J.B.'s; Alone Again - Biz Markie; Mind Terrorist, Louder Than A Bomb - Public Enemy; The Robots - Kraftwerk; Caught, Can We Get A Witness, Show 'Em Whatcha Got, She Watch Channel Zero - Public Enemy; Angel Of Death - Slayer; Night Of The Living Baseheads, Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos - Public Enemy; Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic - Isaac Hayes; Security Of The First World, Rebel Without A Pause - Public Enemy; Walk This Way - Run DMC (ft. Aerosmith); Prophets Of Rage - Public Enemy; Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys; Party For Your Right To Fight - Public Enemy; Don't Shoot, Can't Breathe - Zero Boys; Change The Style - Son Of Baserk

This week we sat down with musicians Nick Mencia aka Nick County and Danny Gonzalez (Jacuzzi Boys) at a place called Lee Ho Fooks to get a big dish of beef chow mein and to discuss Warren Zevon and his 1978 release 'Excitable Boy'.

"Dad, get me out of this!"

Songs discussed in this episode: Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Warren Zevon; If You Still Love Me - Nick County; Glazin' - Jacuzzi Boys; Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks; Last Caress - Misfits; She Quit Me - Warren Zevon; Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne; Carmelita - Linda Ronstadt; Carmelita - GG Allin; My Shit's Fucked Up, Johnny Strikes Up The Band - Warren Zevon; Take It So Hard - Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos; Roland and the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon; Spanish Bombs - The Clash; Excitable Boy, Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon; Dreams - Fleetwood Mac; Accidentally Like A Martyr, Nightime In The Switching Yard - Warren Zevon; Shakedown Street - Grateful Dead; Veracruz, Tenderness On The Block - Warren Zevon; Mr President (Have Pity on the Working Man) - Randy Newman; Gotta Get Up - Harry Nilsson; Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon; Glue - Jacuzzi Boys; Racetrack - Nick County

For this special 'Mixtape Episode' we invited author/DJ/painter Joey Seeman to curate a mixtape of some of his favorite songs by bands featured in his new book (along with Chris Potash), Punk Under The Sun - 80s Punk and New Wave in South Florida.
Joey's mixtape:
1.Silver Screen - Critical Mass
2.In Society - Reactions
3.Violent Days - Screaming Sneakers
4.If This Is Love - Charlie Pickett & The Eggs
5.Teenage Lipstick Boys - Rock City Angels
6.Turn Off Your Radio - The Essentials
7.Wrap Your Arms Around Me - Psycho Daisies
8.Immigration Report - The Front
9.Endless Sky - Crank
10.Get Out Of LA - The Cookies
11.Elizabeth Caine - The Preachers
12.DontFuckMeUp - Fuckboyz

Other songs discussed in this episode: Catholic Love (Live Premier Club 1980) - The Eat; Miami Breakdown - Z Toyz; Communist Radio - The Eat; Missionary Man - The Cichlids; You Don't Mean That Much To Me - Critical Mass; Goin' Back To Marlboro Country - Mark Markham and His Jesters; Phantom Train - Charlie Pickett & The Eggs (Live at The Button, 1982)

To order the book, go to:
https://hozacrecords.com/

When British band Ultravox released their fourth studio album 'Vienna' in 1980, the addition of new lead singer Midge Ure marked a total change in direction from experimental post-rock to lushly orchestrated synth-pop. This week's guest, singer/songwriter Oscar Herrera (The Sleep of Reason, Black Tape For A Blue Girl), joins us as we explore this icely beautiful record that manages to be both cold-blooded and fierce at the same time.
"This means nothing to me..."

Songs discussed in this episode: Vienna - London Symphony Orchestra; The Sleep Of Reason - The Sleep Of Reason; Io, Father Whiskey - Oscar Herrera; Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead - Ultravox!; Forever and Ever - Silk; Fade To Grey - Visage; Get Out Of Here - Thin Lizzy; Sleepwalk, Passing Strangers, New Europeans, Private Lives, Astradyne, My Sex, Mr X, Western Promise, Vienna, All Stood Still - Ultravox; Final Sound (Chamber Version) - Oscar Herrera

For this special Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite song about religion and/or God. We got an eclectic batch of submissions, running the gamut from the holy to the heretical. Joyful noise indeed!

Songs discussed in this episode: Old Time Religion - Pete Seeger; Take Care Of All Of My Children - Tom Waits; Jewish - Spirit; Run On For A Long Time - Blind Boys of Alabama; Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum; Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst - Kendrick Lamar; Dear God - XTC; There Is No God - Mrs Magician; Drinking With Jesus - Red Elvises; Being Boiled - The Human League; Amen - Otis Redding; Amen - Spacemen 3; Burn In Hell - John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat; Harvest Festival - XTC; Come By Here - Alex Chilton; The Obeah Man - Exuma; I Walk On Gilded Splinters - Dr John; Godsong - The Residents; Four Winds - Bright Eyes; You Spoke To Me - Smoking Popes; Into the Mystic - Van Morrison; Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Gavin Bryars & Tom Waits; God! Show Me Magic - Super Furry Animals; How a Resurrection Really Feels - The Hold Steady; God - Daniel Johnston; Anti-Pope - The Damned; Jesus Was A Social Drinker - Chuck Prophet; The Holy War - Thin Lizzy; A Christmas Song - Rash Of Stabbings

What do Guns N' Roses, Young Frankenstein and Johnny Rotten all have in common? They are all name-checked in this episode as we take a deep dive into guitar prodigy - and former GnR member - Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal's 7th solo release, 'Abnormal', with special guest Larry Smith. Come for the over-the-top musicianship and quirky-but-catchy songs, stay for the self-effacing humor and Axl Rose shade.

Songs featured in this episode: Maskholes - Socially Distant; Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns N' Roses; Babalon - Andrew W.K.; Through The Fire and Flames - Dragon Force; Goodbye Divinity - Sons of Apollo; Abnormal, Glad To Be Here, Objectify, Some Other Guy, Jenny B, Last Time, Simple Days, Conspiracy, Piranha, Guitars Still Suck, Green, Misery, Redeye, Dash - Bumblefoot; Mr. Brownstone - Guns N' Roses; Eruption - Van Halen; Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols; Spaghetti - Bumblefoot

Perth, Western Australia alternative/pop band The Triffids remain one of Australia's best-loved, post-punk groups, but are virtually unknown in the US. This week's guest Erik Auerbach brings us their stunning 1986 release, 'Born Sandy Devotional'. Leader David McComb's lyrically tragic songs of love, life and obsession form a sweeping soundtrack to an imaginary film that's at once disturbing and inviting.

Songs discussed in this episode: Femme Fatale - The Triffids (Live at The Club, Melbourne 1986); In a Perfect Place - The Sneetches; Field Of Glass - The Triffids; Love Goes On! - The Go-Betweens; Betrayal Takes Two - Richard Hell and The Voidoids; The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen; The Seabirds - The Triffids; Friction - Television; Estuary Bed, Chicken Killer - The Triffids; I Can't Stand It - The Velvet Underground; Tarrilup Bridge, Lonely Stretch - The Triffids; State Trooper - Bruce Springsteen; Stranger Than Kindness - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; Wide Open Road, Life Of Crime - The Triffids; Locked In The Trunk Of A Car - The Tragically Hip; Personal Things - The Triffids; Don't Bring Harry - The Stranglers; Stolen Property, Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity) - The Triffids; Wide Open Road - The Church

Industry veteran, musician, composer, producer and engineer Mark Bingham has had a long and decidedly eclectic career in music. We sat down to talk some jazz - specifically Archie Shepp and his 1965 release 'Fire Music' - and may have finally cracked the code to Rob's ambivalence to the genre. REALLY fun conversation!

Songs discussed in this episode: Hambone (recorded live at the Village Gate March 28, 1965) - Archie Shepp; William Blake In Bakersfield - Mark Bingham; Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Brown; The First Girl I Loved - The Incredible String Band; Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong; Composition No. 122 - Anthony Braxton; The Way I Walk - The Cramps; Peripetie - Arnold Schoenberg; Hambone, Los Olvidados - Archie Shepp; I Can See For Miles - Petra Haden; Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper Malcolm - Archie Shepp; On The Corner - Miles Davis; Prelude To A Kiss - Duke Ellington; Prelude To A Kiss - Archie Shepp; The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz (featuring Astrud Gilberto); The Girl From Ipanema - Mike Tyson; The Girl From Ipanema - Archie Shepp; Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.; Insect Soup - Mark Bingham

This week we take another swing of the hammer of the Gods with Led Zeppelin's 3rd release, Led Zeppelin III. Our guest Karen Haglof came up in the Minneapolis indie music scene in the late 70s, eventually moving to NYC and playing in several of no wave pioneer Rys Chatham's guitar ensembles and later with Band Of Susans, before taking a break to earn a medical degree and join the hematology / oncology department of New York University Hospital. 
Recently retired and back at music again, Karen freely credits receiving Jimmy Page and co's eclectic 1970 release at the age of 15 as being pivotal to her future musical explorations.

Songs discussed in this episode: Since I've Been Loving You - Corinne Bailey Rae (Live at St. Lukes); The Pursuit Of Happiness - Band Of Susans; One Hand Up, Slinky 66, You're Not Where I Am - Karen Haglof; Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin; Carry On - Crosby Stills Nash and Young; Friends - Led Zeppelin; Guitar Trio Pt. 1 - Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio; Celebration Day, Since I've Been Loving You, Out On The Tiles - Led Zeppelin; Gallows Pole - Fred Gerlach; Gallows Pole - Led Zeppelin; Knowing That I'm Losing You - The Yardbirds; Tangerine, That's The Way, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp - Led Zeppelin; Have A Cigar - Pink Floyd; Shake 'Em On Down - Booker (Bukka) White; Hats Off To (Roy) Harper - Led Zeppelin; Rte 66 Revisited - Karen Haglof

Check out Karen's music:
https://karenhaglof.bandcamp.com/

A self-professed band geek whose first instrument was trumpet, this week's guest - bassist extraordinaire Dan Bonebrake (Dashboard Confessional, The Lightworkers, Vacant Andys, Quit, Honest Liars...) - brought us a record that for him is an amalgamation of everything he loves about music: "Allroy's Revenge" by ALL.
3/4 of legendary CA punk band Descendents (Bill Stevenson, Karl Alvarez, and Stephen Egerton) teamed up with singer Scott Reynolds in 1989 to create this powerfully melodic, infectiously catchy collection of songs.
Turn. It. Up.

Songs featured in this episode: Again I Go Unnoticed - Dashboard Confessional; Wendy - Descendents; Hybrid Moments - Misfits; YYZ - Rush; Could You Be The One? - Hüsker Dü; Million Bucks - ALL; Building - Sense Field; Commando - Ramones; Gnutheme, Fool, Check One, Scary Sad, Man-O-Steel, Box, Copping Z, - ALL; Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen; Hot Rod Lincoln - ALL; No Resurrection - Radiobaghdad; Police Truck - Dead Kennedys; Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze; She's My Ex - ALL; I'll Be You - Replacements; Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) - Buzzcocks; Bubblegum, Mary - ALL; Mary - Pavers;  Los Angeles - X; Net, No Traffic - ALL Carnage - The Ataris; Carnage - ALL; I Didn't Think About It - The Lightworkers

For this BONUS 'Mixtape Episode', we invited guitarist Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs) to curate a mixtape and dug into his selections. From growing up in Cleveland listening to rock-and-roll radio like CKLW out of Detroit to his mom unwittingly turning him on to The Stooges, it was a super-fun conversation with a true punk rock legend!
Cheetah's mixtape:
1. Jumpin Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
2. I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
3. 96 Tears - ? & The Mysterians
4. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
5. Good Morning Little School Girl - Ten Years After
6. Long Way To Go / Halo Of Flies - Alice Cooper
7. 1969 - The Stooges
8. Bad Girl - New York Dolls
9. Heroin - The Velvet Underground
10. Search and Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges
11. Hey Boys - The Dictators
12. Time - Tom waits
13. Anthem - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

*Other songs featured in this episode: Sonic Reducer, Down In Flames, Ain't It Fun - Dead Boys; Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones (It's Alive); I'm Going Home - Ten Years After (Live at Woodstock); B.B On Mars - Alice Cooper; Down In Flames - Rocket From the Tombs; Did You See Her Eyes? - The Illusion; Stay With Me - The Dictators

**episode artwork: Cori Elba (On PlanetWeird)

What more can be said about Led Zeppelin's densely iconic sixth studio album, 'Physical Graffiti', that hasn't already been said? Apparently quite a bit. Returning guest Corey duBrowa takes us to rock school as we unpack this multi-platinum hard rock mammoth of a double-record.

Songs discussed in this episode: Kashmir (Live at Olympia, Paris, France - July 1995) - Jeff Buckley; Sons Of Freedom - Robert Plant & Jimmy Page; Thurston Hearts The Who - Bikini Kill; Custard Pie, The Song Remains The Same (Live at MSG, 1973) - Led Zeppelin; Got Enough Love - Detective; When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Custard Pie Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee; Drop Down Mama - Sleepy John Estes; The Rover - Led Zeppelin; Wicked Annabella - The Kinks; In My Time Of Dying - Led Zeppelin; Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed - Blind Willie Johnson; In My Time Of Dyin' - Bob Dylan; In My Time Of Dying (Rehearsal, 1974), Houses Of The Holy, Rock and Roll (Live at MSG, 1973), Trampled Under Foot - Led Zeppelin; Terraplane Blues - Robert Johnson; Superstition - Stevie Wonder; Kashmir - Led Zeppelin; Nightswimming - R.E.M.; In The Light, Bron-Yr-Aur - Led Zeppelin; Embryonic Journey - Jefferson Airplane; Down By The Seaside - Led Zeppelin; Down By The River - Neil Young; Misty Mountain Hop, Ten Years Gone, Night Flight, The Wanton Song, Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin; Brother Louie - Stories; Boogie With Stu - Led Zeppelin; Ooh! My Head - Ritchie Valens; Black Country Woman, Sick Again - Led Zeppelin; The Groover - T. Rex; Warsaw - Joy Division; Custard Pie - Helmet with David Yow

As teens growing up in Summit, New Jersey in the late 70s, NY Punk Godfather Jack Rabid (Big Takeover Magazine) and his likeminded friends would sneak off to Manhattan to catch shows by the exciting new bands and punk legends they were reading about. Even at 17 they knew Johnny Thunders and his Heartbreakers were something special, and the blistering live document 'Heartbreakers Live at Max's Kansas City' is a prime example of why they rarely missed a show. 
"I don't know why you just don't...
Let go!"

Songs featured in this episode: The Sound - Springhouse; High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis; Kill - Even Worse; Born To Lose - The Heartbreakers; White Lightning - George Jones; Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls; Trash - Morrissey; Pills - Bo Diddley; Too Much Junkie Business, Milk Me, Chinese Rocks, Get Off The Phone - The Heartbreakers; God Save The Queen - The Sex Pistols; Safe European Home - The Clash; London - The Heartbreakers; My Way - Sid Vicious; Take A Chance - The Heartbreakers; She Does It Right - Dr Feelgood; I'm A Man - The Yardbirds; One Track Mind - The Heartbreakers; Love Comes In Spurts - Richard Hell & The Voidoids; The Beat Generation - Bob McFadden; All By Myself, Let Go - The Heartbreakers; Johnny Thunder - The Kinks; Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones; I Love You, Can't Keep My Eyes On You, I Wanna Be Loved, Do You Love Me - The Heartbreakers; Bomber - Motorhead; Pipeline - The Heartbreakers

We ventured once again into the Rat's lair - otherwise known as the South Beach studio of Frank 'Rat Bastard' Falestra - and sat down with Miami-via-Pennsylvania singer/songwriter Nick Mencia a.k.a. Nick County to discuss the stunning "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" by Lucinda Williams. The soul-baring songs of Williams transcend any alt-country/American roots-rock labels, and the album is truly a stone cold genre-defying masterpiece! 

Songs featured in this episode: If You Still Love Me - Nick County; Mexico - Rachel Angel; Cold Cold Heart - Hank Williams; Right In Time, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten, Drunken Angel, Concrete and Barbed Wire, Lake Charles, Can't Let Go, I Lost It, Metal Firecracker, Greenville, Still I long For Your Kiss, Joy, Jackson - Lucinda Williams; Me and the Devil Blues - Robert Johnson; Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons; Can't Let Go - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss; Daddy's Robe - Oly; I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - Ramones; Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan; You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley - Mississippi John Hurt; Jesus Is Dead - Nick County

Author Aug Stone (Nick Cave's Bar, Off-License To Kill) joins us to discuss his latest book, the bonkers rock-n-roll novel 'The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass', and a record that blew his 8-year-old mind: Van Halen's '1984'. Might as well jump!

Songs featured in this episode: Hot For Teacher - Van Halen; Cinnamon Scented Stardust - Aug Stone; Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen; Beat It - Michael Jackson; Why Can't This Be Love, Top Of The World, 1984, Jump, Panama - Van Halen; Slug (Demo) - Ramones; I Started Something I Couldn't Finish - The Smiths; Top Jimmy, Drop Dead Legs - Van Halen; Donut City (The Wild Life) - Edward Van Halen; Hot For Teacher, So This Is Love - Van Halen; What A Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers; I'll Wait - Van Halen; I Against I - Bad Brains; Girl Gone Bad, House Of Pain - Van Halen; Jump Around - House Of Pain; Jump (Loaded Version) - Aztec Camera

This week's guest Rob Kassees (1001 Album Complaints Podcast) brings us Spoon and their deceptively sparse, sonically luscious 2002 release 'Kill The Moonlight'. Britt Daniel and company employ a less-is-more approach that feels effortless and often had us pondering, "Does it rock or does it groove?" Yes.

Songs discussed in this episode: The Way We Get By - Vitamin String Quartet; Green Shirt - Elvis Costello & The Attractions; Servo - Brian Jonestown Massacre; Small StakesThe Way We Get By - Spoon; Gravity Rides Everything - Modest Mouse; Some Weird Sin - Iggy Pop; Something To Look Forward To, I Turn My Camera On, Stay Don't Go, Jonathan Fisk, Paper Tiger, Someone Something - Spoon; Ticket To Ride - The Beatles; Don't Let It Get You Down - Spoon; Do You Remember Walter - The Kinks; All The Pretty Girls Go To The City, You Gotta Feel It, Back To The Life - Spoon; Big In Japan - Tom Waits; Vittorio E, Love Song (The Damned Cover) - Spoon

Songs featured in this episode: What Deaner Was Talking About (Peel Session) - Ween; (For A While) I Couldn't Play My Guitar Like A Man - Aaron Freeman; Anchorage - Michelle Shocked; Push Th' Little Daisies - Ween; Punk's Not Dead - The Exploited; Piss Up A Rope - Ween; Man, It's So Loud In Here - They Might Be Giants; Take Me Away, Spinal Meningitis - Ween; Highway Star - Deep Purple; Freedom of '76, I Can't Put My Finger On It - Ween; Such A Scream - Tom Waits; Roses Are Free - Phish; Roses Are Free, Birthday Boy, Baby Bitch, Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony, Drifter In The Dark - Ween; Ace Of Long Nights - Umphry's McGee; Voodoo Lady, Candi, Buenas Tardes Amigo, The HIV Song, What Deaner Was Talking About, Don't Shit Where You Eat, What Deaner Was Talking About (Live in Toronto) - Ween

Beloved in their native Canada but often unheralded elsewhere, Kingston Ontario's The Tragically Hip made intelligent, intensely evocative rock music that won them legions of fans in the Great White North. Their final concert in 2016 - after lead singer Gord Downie's tragic diagnosis of terminal brain cancer a year earlier - was broadcast globally by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a cross-platform television, radio and internet streaming special. This week's returning guest (and non-Canadian) Eric Loehrmann, brings us their 3rd release, 1992s iconic 'Fully Completely'. Check it out, eh?

Songs featured in this episode: Fifty Mission Cap (Live Kingston, ON 8/20/2016), Wheat Kings, Grace, Too, Ahead By A Century (Live Cobo Arena Detroit, MI Nov 1996) - The Tragically Hip; Best Of Both Worlds - Midnight Oil; Rockstar - Nickelback; Magic Power - Triumph; Great White North - Bob and Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee; Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Looking For A Place To Happen, At The Hundredth Meridian, Pidgeon Camera, Lionized - The Tragically Hip; Fire Woman - The Cult; The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil; Locked In The Trunk Of A Car, We'll Go Too, Fully Completely, Fifty Mission Cap, Wheat Kings - The Tragically Hip; In The Square - The Pretty Things; The Wherewithal - The Tragically Hip; Pssyche - Killing Joke; Eldorado, Ahead By A Century (Live Kingston, ON 8/20/2016) - The Tragically Hip

Once considered polar opposites, country music and rap have had a bit of a moment together as of late with artists like Jelly Roll & Post Malone and releases like Beyonce's Cowboy Carter hitting the charts. The thing is, Brooklyn, NY born bluegrass/hip-hop group Gangstagrass have been doing it since 2007. Returning guest, sociologist Alana Anton, brings us their latest release: 'The Blackest Thing On The Menu', and makes the case that these genres have more in common than record label marketers would have us believe.

Songs discussed in this episode: Long Hard Times To Come (Justified Main Theme), Freedom - Gangstagrass; Feathered Indians - Tyler Childers; The Only Way Out Is Through - Gangstagrass; Rebel Without A Pause - Public Enemy; Good At Being Bad - Gangstagrass; Hunger Strike - Temple Of The Dog; Up High Do Or Die, Gone Gone - Gangstagrass; Texas Hold 'Em - Beyonce; You Can Have The Crown (Sturgill Simpson Cover) - Post Malone; Mother, Obligatory Braggadocio, Avenue B, Palette, It's Alive, Sankofa, Mother (Instrumental Jam Mix) - Gangstagrass

Award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Dan Nolan didn't have to think too long about a record that got him high. Coming up in Manchester UK in the early 90s, he was there right at the start of the band Oasis and their meteoric rise to superstardom. We sat down to discuss their eight times platinum 1994 debut 'Definitely Maybe', and it was definitely NOT shite.

Songs discussed in this episode: Live Forever (Live Paris in-store, 1994 - Oasis; Step On - Happy Mondays; Cigarettes and Alcohol (NME Cassette Demo Version) - Oasis; This Is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets; Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths; Rock'n'Roll Star - Oasis; I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses; I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing - The New Seekers; Shakermaker, Live Forever, Up In The Sky, Columbia, Supersonic - Oasis; Sub-Mission - Sex Pistols; Bring It On Down - Oasis; Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace - Cheap Trick; Cigarettes and Alcohol, Digsy's Dinner, Slide Away, Married With Children, I Am The Walrus (Live Glasgow Cathouse June '94) - Oasis

This week's guest, Tim Hinely (founder of Dagger Zine and editor of 'Where The Wild Gigs Were: A Trip Thru America’s Legendary Underground Music Venues') brings us the debut album by legendary Washington D.C. band Dag Nasty. Originally released in 1986 on Dischord Records, 'Can I Say' is a blistering collection of masterfully-played, intelligent punk tunes about looking inward and moving forward. Turn. It. Up!

Songs featured in this episode: Under Your Influence - Dag Nasty; In My Role As A Professional Singer and Ham - Rat Bastard (Mark Eitzel cover); The Godfather, Justification (with Shawn Brown) - Dag Nasty; Kids of the Black Hole - Adolescents; Unafraid - Alloy; Ohio is for Lovers - Hawthorne Heights; Values Here, One To Two - Dag Nasty; I Don't Care About You - Fear; Circles - Dag Nasty; Suburban Home - Descendents; Thin Line, Justification, What Now, I've Heard - Dag Nasty; Attitude - Bad Brains; Under Your Influence, Can I Say - Dag Nasty; Celebrated Summer - Husker Du; Never Go Back - Dag Nasty; Love's My Only Crime - Laughing Hyenas; 100 Punks - Dag Nasty (Generation X cover)

This episode is about as punk rock as you can get: short, loud and to the point! Returning guest Joey Maya aka Joey Wrecked (The Reactions, Battalion of Saints, The Drummer of Miami Beach) brings us 'An Adjustment To Society' by early-80s NYC punk/hardcore heroes Kraut. Turn it up!!

Songs featured in this episode: Get Away - Kraut; Nights On End - The Reactions; Sonic Reducer - DHMC4 (Live at Churchill's, Miami 2019); Part Time Punks - Television Personalities; Safe European Home - The Clash (Live, Bonds Casino NY 1981); The Magnificent - The Professionals; All Twisted - Kraut; Can This Be - The Wipers; Mishap - Kraut; Street Justice - Cro-Mags; Unemployed, Onward, Don't Believe - Kraut; Bodies - Sex Pistols; Abortion - Kraut; Every Other Night - Gutterboy; Seed Indecision - End Of Hope; Bogus - Kraut; Let's Have A War - Fear; Arming The World, Doomed Youth, Last Chance, Sell Out - Kraut; EMI - Sex Pistols; Army Sport, Society's Victim, Kill For Cash - Kraut; The Call Up - The Clash;  Office Buildings - Adrenalin O.D.; Bodies - Kraut (Live, Club Lingerie 1985 *with Steve Jones)

For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song about Death and/or Dying. I thought it would be a 'fun' theme for Halloween, but then shit got real...
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Songs discussed in this episode: The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd; Pink Cigarette - Mr Bungle; It's A Motherfucker - Eels; Death Of A Clown - The Kinks; Dead Eye Dick - C.J. & Company; Hardly Getting Over It - Husker Du; Run Joey Run - David Geddes; Tears - Chameleons; Daffodils - Kacey Johansing; Dig Lazarus Dig - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice; Gravedigger - Dave Matthews; What Will Death Be Like - Momus; Death Sound Blues - Country Joe & The Fish; Dying - XTC; Love Is Stronger Than Death - The The; Funeral - Phoebe Bridgers; Can't Play Dead - The Heavy; Heaven (From 1984 concert film 'Stop Making Sense') - Talking Heads

Returning guest Woody Compton takes on what some feel is the Holy Grail of punk rock excess/hubris, The Clash's sprawling, three-record-36-track opus "Sandinista!" Woody contends it would have been far more effective - and palatable - as a single record, and brought us his 12 song track list as evidence. Rob is in love with the whole overindulgent assemblage, proving one man's mess can be another man's masterpiece. 

For this week's episode, we climb aboard the rock-and-roll mothership that is Led Zeppelin and their mysteriously untitled fourth album. What more could possibly be said about this ubiquitous classic-rock staple? This week's guest Ralph Cavallaro describes how the record/band went from seminal hard rock touchstone in his youth to bloated, uncool anachronism in his college years to one of his all-time favorites today. Along the way we dig into the sonic artistry and groundbreaking recording techniques that make this a stone cold classic.

Songs featured in this episode: Anymore - Quit; The Song Remains The Same - Led Zeppelin; Terrible Lie - Nine Inch Nails; Icky Thump - The White Stripes; Rocks Off - The Rolling Stones; Detroit Rock City - KISS; The Pretender - Foo Fighters; Black Dog - Led Zeppelin; Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac; Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young; Keep a Knockin' - Little Richard; Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin; Book Of Love - The Monotones; Rock and Roll (Live) - Foo Fighters; The Battle of Evermore, Stairway To Heaven, Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks, Going To California - Led Zeppelin; California - Joni Mitchell; When The Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie; When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Time - Pink Floyd; Whole Lotta Love (Live) - Prince; Rock and Roll (Live) - Led Zeppelin

For this week's episode, Chicago musician Brian Krumm (The Great Crusades, Brian Krumm and his Barfly Friends) brings us Minneapolis pop purveyors Trip Shakespeare and their 1990 major-label debut 'Across The Universe'. 

Songs discussed in this episode: Drummer Like Me - Trip Shakespeare (Live at First Avenue, 1988); Barfly Friends, Just Fade Away - Brian Krumm and his Barfly Friends; Closing Time - Semisonic; Sioux City Swinger - The Twilight Hours; Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana; Elenore - The Turtles; Turtledove, Pearle, Snow Days, Drummer Like Me - Trip Shakespeare; Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco; Gone Gone Gone, The Slacks, Unlucky Lady, The Nail, The Crane - Trip Shakespeare; Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton; Late, Honey Tree - Trip Shakespeare; Wasn't Born Yesterday - Brian Krumm and his Barfly Friends

In 1990 Matthew Sweet - who was going through a divorce and was just dropped by his record label - assembled a band that included iconic guitarists Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine and released what would be his breakout album, 1991's 'Girlfriend'. Singer/songwriter Paul Roub sat down with Rob to discuss this stripped-down slab of noisy pop goodness.

Songs featured in this episode: Be Human - Paul Roub; Three Little Pigs - Green Jelly; Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids; Alive - Pearl Jam; Divine Intervention, I've Been Waiting, Girlfriend, Looking at the Sun, Winona, Evangeline, Day for Night, Thought I Knew You, You Don't Love Me, I Wanted to Tell You, Don't Go, Your Sweet Voice, Does She Talk?, Holy War, Nothing Lasts - Matthew Sweet; Undone - Weezer; Galileo - Indigo Girls; Wicked Little Town - John Cameron Mitchell; Hesitating Beauty - Billy Bragg & Wilco; Don't Stop Me Now - Queen; Marquee Moon - Television; Rape of the Vespers - The Holy Terrors; No Flowers - Paul Roub; Christmas - The Buzz of Delight featuring Matthew Sweet

This week, activist and co-host of 'The Muck Podcast' Hillary Dougherty takes a break from smashing the patriarchy to bring us a record that made the pandemic slightly more bearable for her: 'Punisher' by indie-rock sensation Phoebe Bridgers. It was a fun, lively conversation and no guitars were destroyed!

Songs featured in this episode: Dylan Thomas - Better Oblivion Community Center; Motion Sickness - Phoebe Bridgers; Sad Songs (Say So Much) - Elton John; Waltz #2 - Eliott Smith; DVD Menu, Garden Song, Kyoto, Punisher, Halloween, Chinese Satellite, Moon Song, Savior Complex, ICU, Graceland Too, I Know the End - Phoebe Bridgers; Halloween - Siouxsie & The Banshees; Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins; Me And My Dog - boygenius; Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty; Rebel Without A Clue - Bonnie Tyler; Criminal - Fiona Apple; I Know The End (Tiny Desk Home Concert) - Phoebe Bridgers 

Returning guest, producer, experimental/noise music pioneer and curmudgeon Frank 'Rat Bastard' Falestra invited us to his South Beach, Miami studio for a crash course on pre-eminent British singer/songwriter Sandy Denny. In her short life, Denny left an impressive body of work both with the UK folk rock band Fairport Convention and solo releases. 
File under: essential listening.

Songs featured in this episode: Untitled - Rat Bastard, Mark Morgan & Thurston Moore; A Boy Called Rat - The Rat Opera (featuring Diane Ward); No More Was Needed to Inflame My Balls - TLASILA; Nothing More - Sandy Denny; Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Fairport Convention; I'm A Dreamer - Sandy Denny; The Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin; Listen, Listen - Sandy Denny; I'll Keep It With Mine - Fairport Convention; Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Cat Power; Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Sandy Denny & The Strawbs; Autopsy, Fotheringay - Fairport Convention; Come All Ye, The Sea, John The Gun, Late November, The Sea Captain, Next Time Around, It'll Take A Long Time, At The End Of The Day, All Our Days, Take Me Away - Sandy Denny; Pink Moon - Nick Drake; Fight Fire With Fire - Metallica; Wild Thyme - Jefferson Airplane; Shake It Out - Florence + The Machine, 24 - Red House Painters; The Daily Mail - Radiohead; So Far Away - Carole King; No One Is There - Nico; Man Of Iron, Take Me Away (live from the Royalty Theatre, 1977) - Sandy Denny

The fourth - and penultimate - studio album by The Police, "Ghost In The Machine", is both the sound of a band ascending to super-stardom and a band tearing apart at the seams. Guitarist extraordinaire Russell Mofsky (Gold Dust Lounge, Quit) joins us as we unpack this at times bleak and at times joyful amalgamation of dazzling hit singles and adventurous musical explorations.

Songs featured in this episode: Desperado - Gold Dust Lounge; So Lonely (Live 1980) - The Police; Repeater - Fugazi; River Deep, Mountain High - Eric Burdon & The Animals; Roxanne - The Police; The Magnificent Seven - The Clash; The Classical - The Fall; Spirits In The Material World, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic ('77 Demo), Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic ('81 Demo), Invisible Sun, Hungry For You - The Police; Demolition Man - Grace Jones; Demolition Man, Too Much Information, Rehumanize Yourself, One World (Not Three), Omegaman, Secret Journey, Can't Stand Losing You (Live at Fat Cats '79), Darkness - The Police; Riff Raff - Gold Dust Lounge

Still reeling from the drug-related deaths of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie/friend Bruce Berry, Neil Young's 'Tonight's The Night' is as raw an expression of grief and mourning you're likely to find. Canadian filmmaker Alan Zweig (Vinyl, When Jews Were Funny) joins us as we take a deep dive into this dark but ultimately beautiful document of death and loss.

Songs discussed in this episode: Tonight's The Night (Pt II) - Neil Young; O Canada - Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson, featuring Terrance & Phillip; Macarena - Los Del Rio; Deadman's Curve - Jan & Dean; The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young; Show Biz Kids - Steely Dan; Walk On, Tonight's The Night, Speakin' Out, World On A String - Neil Young; Screaming Fist - The Viletones; Raised On Robbery - Joni Mitchell; Borrowed Tune - Neil Young; Lady Jane - The Rolling Stones; Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown - Neil Young; I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground; Mellow My Mind - Neil Young; Mellow My Mind - Simply Red; Roll Another Number For The Road, Albuquerque, New Mama, Don't Be Denied (live, 1973), Lookout Joe, Tired Eyes, Tonight's The Night (Pt II), Tonight's The Night (live Roxy Theater 1973) - Neil Young

Yes, Dot Hacker's lead vocalist Josh Klinghoffer played guitar with Red Hot Chili Peppers for 10 years - trigger warning for some - but before forming in 2008 all four members were already established musicians, recording and touring with an impressive list of respected artists including: Beck, Gnarls Barkley, PJ Harvey, The Butthole Surfers and Broken Bells amongst many others. This week's guest, musician/audio engineer Layla Moheimani, fell instantly under the spell of the band and their lush, architectural-yet-still-rocking debut release 'Inhibition'. 

Songs discussed in this episode: What Red Hot Chili Peppers Sound Like To People Who Don't Like Red Hot Chili Peppers - There I Ruined It; Unreachable - John Frusciante; Billie Holiday - Warpaint; The Afterglow - John Frusciante & Josh Klinghoffer; Going On - Gnarls Barkley; Biblical Violence - Hella; Overpour - E V Kain; Order/Disorder, Idleidolidyl, Eye Opener, Discotheque, Be Leaving, The Earth Beneath, Inhibition - Dot Hacker; Mystic Lady - T-Rex; The Wit of the Staircase - Dot Hacker; Dreams of a Samurai - Red Hot Chili Peppers; Quotes, Puncture - Dot Hacker; Fade Into You (Mazzy Star cover) - Layla Joon

Canadian documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig (Vinyl, I, Curmudgeon, When Jews Were Funny) brings us an album of understated, fluid funk with a subtle-but-potent message: 'There's No Place Like America Today' by Curtis Mayfield. Released in 1975 on Mayfield's own Curtom Records, it's a stunning, sophisticated - and sadly overlooked - chronicle of austere times by a true master of his craft. Essential listening.

*Opening dialogue from the 2000 documentary film 'Vinyl'
Songs featured in this episode: Blame Canada - Mary Kay Bergman; Superfly - Curtis Mayfield; People Get Ready - The Impressions; Freedom of '76 - Ween; Walk Like A Man - The Four Seasons; Rock and Roll - The Velvet Underground; The Young Mods' Forgotten Story - The Impressions; Billy Jack, When Seasons Change - Curtis Mayfield; No Time - The Guess Who; So In Love, Jesus - Curtis Mayfield; Jesus Is Coming Soon - Blind Willie Johnson; Blue Monday People, Hard Times, We Gotta Have Peace (live), Love To The People - Curtis Mayfield; Move On Up (live) - The Jam

For this special BONUS episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song where the drumming/drummer got them high. Turn it up!!

Songs - and drummers - discussed in this episode: Train In Vain - The Clash (Topper Headon); Satisfaction - DEVO (Alan Myers); PDA - Interpol (Sam Fogarino); Anthrax - Gang Of Four (Hugo Burnham); Tusk - Fleetwood Mac (Mick Fleetwood); Making Plans For Nigel - XTC (Terry Chambers); Forget - Mission Of Burma (Peter Prescott); No Backbone - The Lemonheads (Bill Stevenson); Jump Into The Fire - Harry Nilsson (Jim Gordon); Fool In The Rain - Led Zeppelin (John Bonham); Zodiac - The Melvins (Dale Crover); I Can See For Miles - The Who (Keith Moon); Marquee Moon - Television (Billy Ficca); I'm Glad You're Mine - Al Green (Howard Grimes); Man Like That - Gin Wigmore (Jake Sinclair); Turn It On Again - Genesis (Phil Collins); Oh Yeah - CAN (Jaki Liebezeit); Rock Music - Pixies (David Lovering); The Etcetera Stroll - The Monochrome Set (J.D. Haney); Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 (Larry Mullen Jr); Soul in Isolation - The Chameleons (John Lever); Late For The Train - Buzzcocks (John Maher); White Room - Cream (Ginger Baker); "92" - Anchorman (Daryl Bonebrake); Favorite Dish - Lee Perry & The Upsetters (Mickey Boo and/or Sly Dunbar?); Are You Happy Now - The Charlottes (Simon Scott); Dreaming - Blondie (Clem Burke)

We did it live! For this special livestreamed episode we simulcast from Live Apparatus studios with special guest co-host Erin Lee, discussing an artist/record near-and-dear to her heart: British punk/folk songwriter Frank Turner and his 2013 album 'Tape Deck Heart'
Listen to the full episode - including extra song drops - on your favorite podcast player, and then watch the live-as-it-happened stream here:
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Thanks to Juan Fernando Oña and Live Apparatus for the fun session! Visit them at: http://LiveApparatus.org

Songs featured in this episode: I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor; Glory Hallelujah, Get Better - Frank Turner; All Too Well - Taylor Swift; Recovery, Losing Days, The Way I Tend to Be, Plain Sailing Weather, Good & Gone, Tell Tale Signs, Four Simple Words, Polaroid Picture, The Fisher King Blues, Anymore, Oh Brother, Broken Piano - Frank Turner; The Crane Wife - The Decemberists; Shout At The Devil - Mötley Crüe; A Long December - Counting Crows; Glory Hallelujah - Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls

For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a Duet/Collaboration that got them - metaphorically - high.
They did good. Real good.

Songs featured in this episode: I Got You, Babe - Sonny and Cher, Marianne Faithful and David Bowie, UB40 with Chrissie Hynde, Joey Ramone and Holly Beth Vincent; Let It Be Me - The Everly Brothers; Whenever I Call You Friend - Stevie Nicks and Kenny Loggins; Angel from Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt and John Prine; Piss Bottle Man - Mike Watt with Evan Dando; Down In The Willow Garden - The Everly Brothers; Sweet Fire Of Love - Robbie Robertson and U2; The Mask - Danger Doom (Danger Mouse and MF DOOM); Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris; Muffin Man - Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart; Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl; Kick It - Peaches and Iggy Pop; Life's A Gas - Marc Bolan and Cilla Black; Love Hurts - Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris; Traveling Light - Tindersticks with Carla Torgerson; Baby Don't Go - Dwight Yoakam and Sheryl Crow; Kingdom of Rain - The The (Matt Johnson and Sinead O'Connor); Tha Boogee - Janko Milovic/The Soul Surfers; I Love How You Love Me - Nino Tempo and April Stevens; King Of America - The I Don't Cares (Julianna Hatfield and Paul Westerburg); Sweet Dreams Will Come - Nancy Grifith and John Stewart; Break Into Your Heart - Iggy Pop and Josh Homme; So Long, So Long - Dashboard Confessional with Adam Duritz; The Seer - Big Country with Kate Bush; Stop, Look, Listen To Your Heart - Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye; Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo) - Malcolm McLaren with Betty Ann White and Debbie Cole

In 1993, British alternative/shoegaze band Catherine Wheel paired-up with producer Gil Norton (Pixies) to create a record that fused the atmospheric beauty of their debut with a crushing wall-of-sound: 'Chrome'. The feedback-drenched tales of beauty and paranoia caught the ear of this week's guest, artist/poet Nate Levine, and he joined us for a deep-dive into the sonic muck.

Songs featured in this episode: Black Metallic - Catherine Wheel; Sweetness & Light - Lush; Man In The Box - Alice In Chains; Cherrie Pie - Warrant; The Act We Act - Sugar; Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden; Kill Rhythm, I Confess - Catherine Wheel; Debaser - Pixies; Everything Zen - Bush; Crank, Broken Head - Catherine Wheel; Plush - Stone Temple Pilots; Range Life - Pavement; Pain, Strange Fruit - Catherine Wheel; Feel So Real - Swervedriver; Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr; Chrome, The Nude - Catherine Wheel; Ana - Pixies; Ursa Major Station - Catherine Wheel; Souvlaki Station - Slowdive; Time & Time Again - Robert Fripp; Fripp - Catherine Wheel; Wish You Were Here - Catherine Wheel; Half Life - Catherine Wheel; Happy - Neds Atomic Dustbin; Show Me Mary, Spirit Of The Radio - Catherine Wheel

In 1991, teenage Louisville, Kentucky band Slint recorded 'Spiderland', a brooding, sinister record that helped invent post-rock and influenced a generation of musicians. This week's guest Jay Reeve (Muteant Sounds Net Label) joins Rob to dissect this darkly mysterious album.
As Steve Albini wrote in a 1991 Melody Maker review: "It's an amazing record, and no one still capable of being moved by rock music should miss it. In 10 years' time, it will be a landmark and you'll have to scramble to buy a copy then."

Songs featured in this episode: Groin - AG Davis; My Black Ass - Shellac; Ron - Slint; Thursday - Squirrel Bait; I Found That Essence Rare - Gang Of Four; Safari - The Breeders; Discipline - King Crimson; Shadow Of A Doubt - Sonic Youth; Mouth Breather - The Jesus Lizard; We Are 138 - Misfits; Breadcrumb Trail, Nosferatu Man, Don, Aman, Washer, For Dinner..., Good Morning, Captain - Slint; Heroin - The Velvet Underground; Moonbeams - The For Carnation; Half The Man I Used To Be - Stone Temple Pilots; Barricade - Interpol; Un tout petit cheval - SYLVAIN GUÉRINEAU & JEAN ROUGIER; Washer (Live in London, 2013) - Slint

California pop/punk royalty Descendents took a break in 1987, becoming All so singer Milo Aukerman could pursue a career in biochemistry. 1996 marked the return of Milo, and the release of their 5th studio album 'Everything Sucks'. This week Rob is joined by artist/drummer Woody Compton (Is This Tomorrow), as they both unleash their 12-year-old selves to unpack this hook-filled gem of a record.

Songs discussed in this episode: When I Get Old (Descendents cover) - Filipps Firma; She's My Ex - All; My War - Black Flag; Wendy, Everything Sux, I'm The One, Coffee Mug, Rotting Out - Descendents; Ramona - Ramones; Sick-O-Me, Caught, When I Get Old, Doghouse, She Loves Me, Hateful Notebook, We, Eunuch Boy, This Place, I Won't Let Me - Descendents; Heart Songs - Weezer; Thank You, That's The Breaks, Grand Theme, Glad All Over (The Dave Clark Five cover) - Descendents

This week, returning guest Joe Tunis (Carbon Records) brings us Dallas, TX band Bedhead and their stunning 1994 debut 'WhatFunLifeWas'. With a seemingly simple formula of guitars, bass, drums and often quiet, sing-speak vocals, the album explores existential questions and spiritual emptiness in a beautifully effective way.

Songs discussed in this episode: Golden Brown (Stranglers cover) - Bedhead; Swimming In - Rock Candy; The Rest Of The Day (7" version), Liferaft - Bedhead; Ocean - The Velvet Underground; Leaving Here, Don't Know Where I'm Going - Jake Xerxes Fussell; Haywire - Bedhead; New Year's - Seam; Bedside Table, The Unpredictable Landlord, Crushing, Unfinished, Powder, Foaming Love, To The Ground, Living Well, Wind Down, Disorder (Joy Division cover) - Bedhead

This week's guest, author Rob Drew, traces how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players came to be regarded as a token of intimate expression through music and a source of cultural capital in his new book Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable. 
For this episode, he curated a mixtape of some of the music featured in his book and discusses it with Rob. TWO Rob's for the price of one!

Songs discussed in this episode: Louis Quatorze - Bow Wow Wow; Sailin On - Bad Brains; Crazy - Patsy Cline; I Just Want To Feel You - R. Stevie Moore; King Heroin (Live in New York 1980) - James Chance & The Contortions; Pay To Cum - Bad Brains; Golden Lane - The Cleaners from Venus; Psychotic Reaction - Shockabilly; Redneck Jazz - Eugene Chadbourne & Evan Johns; Watchin' Girl - Shonen Knife; Don't Mix The Colors - Beat Happening; Honey - Marine Girls; Missing - Everything But The Girl; C30 C60 C90 Go - Bow Wow Wow; EMI - The Sex Pistols; Go West (Girly-Sound version) - Liz Phair; Subtle Holy Gift - Sentridoh; Going To Maryland - The Mountain Goats; Tuesday Moon - Neutral Milk Hotel; Speeding Motorcycle - Yo La Tengo; Living Life - Daniel Johnston; Living Life - Kathy McCarty

In 1970, Paul Kantner assembled an all-star musical cast including Grace Slick, Jerry Garcia, David Crosby and many others to create the Hugo Award nominated concept album - and first to mention the Jefferson Starship moniker - 'Blows Against The Empire'. Our guest, advertising art director and self-described 'art guy with a love for science and techie stuff' Michael Lebron, describes his quantum entanglement with Kantner over the years and hips us as to why this sci-fi counter-culture oddity STILL gets him high.

Songs featured in this episode: It's All Over Now - The Rolling Stones; Somebody To Love, Crown Of Creation - Jefferson Airplane; Goodnight, Irene - The Weavers; Mau Mau (Amerikon), The Baby Tree, Let's Go Together, A Child Is Coming, Sunrise, Hijack, Home, Have You Seen the Stars Tonite?, XM, Starship - Paul Kantner; Simple Man - Graham Nash; Miracles - Jefferson Starship; We Built This City - Starship; Starship (Live) - Paul Kantner

With their third full-length album, 2011's 'The English Riviera', British band Metronomy transitioned from garish electro-pop to a sleek, sophisticated sound that's as much Steely Dan as Daft Punk. Our guest, Scottish singer/songwriter and producer Joshua Mackenzie (The Joshua Hotel, Lional), found inspiration for his own music in leader Joseph Mount's lush-yet-quirky songs about - among other things - his hometown of Torbay in Devon that make up this beguiling record.
"You're up, but you'll get down
You're never running from this town...
This town's the oldest friend of mine"

Songs featured in this episode: Corinne (Instrumental) - Metronomy; Repetition Town - The Joshua Hotel; I'm Aquarius, Night Owl - Metronomy; Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan; Indie Rokkers - MGMT; Missing U - Robyn; The English Riviera, We Broke Free - Metronomy; Untitled - Interpol; Everything Goes My Way - Metronomy; She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina - The Kinks; The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret - Queens Of The Stone Age; The Look - Metronomy; F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E - Pulp; She Wants - Metronomy; Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) - Ween; Trouble - Metronomy; Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie; Honesty Is No Excuse - Thin Lizzy; Don't Believe A Word - Marco Mendoza w/Josh Mackenzie; The Bay - Metronomy; Atlantis To Interzone - Klaxons; Loving Arm, Corinne - Metronomy; Blockhead - DEVO; Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus; Some Written - Metronomy; Lot 105 - Blur; Love Underlined - Metronomy; Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem; Somebody New - The Joshua Hotel

Hey there! For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song about a PLACE. As usual, they delivered. Please enjoy this collection of 'songs about places', and if YOU'D like to become a Patron of the podcast head over to:
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Songs featured in this episode: Los Angeles - X;  Dirty Blvd - Lou Reed; Beverly Hills - Weezer; Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley; California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas; Discovering Japan - Graham Parker; California Sun - Ramones; Cleveland Rocks - Ian Hunter;  Dayton, Ohio/19 Something & 5 - Guided By Voices; Russian Hill - Jellyfish; Surfer Girl - Dave Alvin; Back To Mystery City - Hanoi Rocks; Sproston Green - The Charlatans; Satellite Beach - Peter Case; Go-Go Round - Gordon Lightfoot; Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver; Vienna - Ultravox; No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys; Warsaw - Joy Division; Night Boat to Cairo - Madness; Third Planet - Modest Mouse; People You Were Going To - Peter Hammill; Tennessee Time - Valerie June; My Hometown - Mark Mothersbaugh; Los Angeles - Frank Black

Formed in 1979, Hawthorne California's Redd Kross are having quite the year. With a feature documentary - Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story directed by Andrew Reich - a fantastic new self-titled double album, and a new memoir by brothers Jeff & Steven McDonald and award winning journalist Dan Epstein: Now You’re One of Us: The Incredible Story of Redd Kross coming October 29th. Dan joins us to discuss the book and the Redd Kross record that first got him high: 1987s 'Neurotica'. 
"Come on, lose your mind
Now you're one of us"

Songs discussed in this episode: Born Innocent, Linda Blair, Dancing Queen - Redd Kross; Convoy - C.W. McCall; Neurotica - Redd Kross; I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus; Play My Song, Frosted Flake, Janus, Jeanie and George Harrison, Blow You A Kiss In The Wind - Redd Kross; Blow You A Kiss In The Wind - Elizabeth Montgomery; Love Is You - Redd Kross; Creatures Of The Night - Kiss; Peach Kelli Pop - Redd Kross; Round and Round - Ratt; Do The Eggroll - Peach Kelli Pop; McKenzie, Switchblade Sister, Ballad of a Love Doll - Redd Kross; Left Of The Dial - Replacements; What They Say, What They Say (Demo), Ghandi Is Dead (I'm The Cartoon Man) - Redd Kross; In and Out of My Life (In a Day) - The Pandoras; Beautiful Bye-Byes, Tatum O-Tot and the Fried Vegetables, Pink Piece of Peace - Redd Kross; Going Down to Liverpool - The Bangles; It's the Little Things - Redd Kross

Before discovering punk rock and forming New Jersey hardcore band Detention with his brothers Daniel and Paul, bassist Kevin Shields was a rock and roll kid. He bought the Johnny Winter And 'Live' album because he thought the cover looked cool, and no matter where his musical path took him this blistering live set recorded live at The Fillmore East in 1970 remained near-and-dear to his heart.
Rock. And. Roll.

Songs discussed in this episode: It's My Own Fault - Johnny Winter And (Live at the Fillmore East, NYC 1970); El Salvador, Dead Rock 'N Rollers - Detention; Out of Vogue - The Middle Class; Anxiety Attack - Detention; Wait For The Blackout - The Damned (Live from 'A Night Of A Thousand Vampires'); It's My Own Fault - Johnny Winter And (Live at the Fillmore East, NYC 1970); Since I've Been Lovin' You - Led Zeppelin; Tobacco Road - Edgar Winter; Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer; Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys;  I'm Your Captain - Grand Funk Railroad; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Johnny Winter And (Live at the Fillmore East, NYC 1970); Statesboro Blues - The Allman Brothers (Live at Fillmore East, 1971); It's My Own Fault, Jumpin' Jack Flash - Johnny Winter And (Live at the Fillmore East, NYC 1970); Chaos - Bigger Thomas; Rock and Roll Medley - Johnny Winter And (Live at the Fillmore East, NYC 1970); Highway 61 Revisited - Johnny Winter (Live in California, 1975); Mean Town Blues - Johnny Winter And (Live at the Fillmore East, NYC 1970); Glory - Television; Johnny B. Goode - Johnny Winter And (Live at the Fillmore East, NYC 1970); Beach - Detention

*Check out Left For Dead Records' reissue of Detention's classic 1983 single 'Dead Rock 'n Rollers' plus 8 more songs at:
https://www.leftfordeadrecords.com/

Our 2nd foray into the rock and roll enigma that is Ween, this time diving into their sixth studio album The Mollusk with special guest and super-fan Les Norris. Pegged as a favorite by both  Gene and Dean Ween - as well as purportedly being the inspiration for Spongebob Squarepants - it's a dark but surprisingly tuneful multi-genre concept album that flits from psychedelia to sea shanties as only they can.
"Bring forth the mollusk, cast unto me
Let's be forever, let forever be free"

Songs featured in this episode: Loop de Loop - Ween; Chances When - Radiobaghdad; Shakedown Street - Grateful Dead; Brain Damage - Pink Floyd; Spongebob Squarepants Theme Song - Patrick Pinney; Are My Ears On Straight? - Gayla Peevey; I'm Dancing In The Show Tonight, The Mollusk - Ween; I've Seen All Good People - Yes; Wonderboy - Tenacious D; Polka Dot Tail, I'll Be Your Johnny On The Spot - Ween; Spinning Wheel - Blood Sweat & Tears; Octopus - Syd Barrett; My Monkey - Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids; Mutilated Lips, The Blarney Stone, It's Gonna Be Alright, The Golden Eel - Ween; Green Machine - Kyuss; Doctor Rock (live) - Ween; The Unquiet Grave - Luke Kelly; Cold Blows The Wind, Pink Eye (On My Leg), Waving My Dick In The Wind - Ween; Jar Of Cardinals - Guided By Voices; Buckingham Green, Ocean Man, Pollo Asado, She Wanted To Leave - Ween; Sears & Applebees - Les Norris

This week's guest Rory Cox phoned in all the way from Ljubljana, Slovenia to discuss enigmatic Seattle band The Walkabouts and their dark, haunting 1997 European release 'Nighttown'

Songs discussed in this episode: Albuquerque - The Walkabouts; Mi se imamo radi - Die Jungen original Oberkrainer; Feel Like Going Home - The Walkabouts; Jinx - Tad; The Wellspring - The Walkabouts; River Of Deceit - Mad Season; The Light Will Stay On - The Walkabouts; Sunblind - Fleet Foxes; Follow Me An Angel, These Proud Streets, Tremble Goes The Night - The Walkabouts; The Old Man's Back Again - Scott Walker; Unwind - The Walkabouts; Travelling Light - Tindersticks; Lift Your Burdens Up - The Walkabouts; Face Of Evil - Dirtmusic; Prayer For You, Immaculate, Nocturno, Heartless, Slow Red Dawn, Harbour Lights, Forever Gone - The Walkabouts; Bluer Than Midnight - The The; Nightbirds, Like A Hurricane - The Walkabouts

Strap-in dear listeners, as we are joined by Yasuko Onuki and Ichiro Agata (Yako & Agata) of Japanese noise rock band Melt-Banana - and some creepy computer-generated translation software - for this BONUS episode discussing the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)
"Can you hear it?
Can you see it?
Can you look me in the eyes?
It doesn't really matter anymore…”

Songs discussed in this episode: Stopgap, Scar - Melt-Banana; Der Himmel Über Berlin (Sky Over Berlin), Die Kathedrale der Bucher (The Cathedral of Books), Der Sterbende Auf Der Brucke (The Dying Man on the Bridge) - Jürgen Knieper; Marions Liebeserklarung (Marion's Declaration of Love) *Text: Peter Handke. Voice: Solveig Dommartin; The Carny - Nick Cave; Mr Clarinet - The Birthday Party; The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds; Faint Heart (The Birthday Party cover) - Melt-Banana; Angel Fragments, O Superman - Laurie Anderson; Six Bells Chime - Crime and the City Solution; From Her To Eternity - Nick Cave; When I Go - Minimal Compact; Scar - Melt-Banana

In this special BONUS Episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a favorite song by a female artist or female-led band. Let's hear it for the girls!!

Songs featured in this episode: Can’t Stop - Missy Elliott; You Don’t Own Me - Leslie Gore; Valentine - Snail Mail; Billy’s Birthday - Romeo Void; Our Lips Are Sealed - The Go-Go's; Emotions & Math - Margaret Glaspy; Hypocrite - Lush; Stop In The Name Of Love - The Supremes; Girl Anachronism - Dresden Dolls; Addictions - Lucy Dacus; There Was A Boy - Kath Bloom; Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses; What's A Girl To Do?, He Dines Out On Death - Cristina

As can often happen to records made by virtual unknowns that end up selling over 30 million copies worldwide, Alanis Morissette's uncensored diary of an album 'Jagged Little Pill' is perceived by many with a degree of snark and cynicism. Our guest this week, singer/songwriter Lori Garrote, is not one of these people. Raw, unvarnished and intensely personal, JLP became much more than just another record for her and millions of other women. You oughta know...

Songs discussed in this episode: You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette cover) - Vitamin String Quartet; Stand Alone - Lori Garrote; Too Hot - Alanis Morissette; Seether - Veruca Salt; All I Really Want, You Oughta Know, Perfect - Alanis Morissette; Bad Reputation - Joan Jett; Hand In My Pocket, Right Through You, Forgiven, You Learn, Head Over Feet, Mary Jane, Ironic, Not The Doctor, Wake Up, Your House (a cappella) - Alanis Morissette; Undertow - Lori Garrote

When British band Scritti Politti originally got together at Leeds Polytechnic in 1977, they were a punk-inspired collective of art students and squatters with a penchant towards Marxism. In the early 1980s leader Green Gartside scrapped all that and pivoted the band to a pop/soul sound that paid homage to American artists Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin among others. This week we're joined by Aylesbury, UK resident Paul Marfleet as we dig into their smash sophomore album 'Cupid & Psyche 85'  

Songs featured in this episode: God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols; Some Like It Hot - Power Station; Notorious - Duran Duran; Heads Will Roll - Echo & The Bunnymen; Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Mark Almond; Capital (It Fails Us Now) - Gang Of Four; Rent - Pet Shop Boys; Bibbly-O-Tek, Skank Bloc Bologna - Scritti Politti; Confusion - New Order; Poison Arrow - ABC; The Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti; Dedicated Follower Of Fashion - The Kinks; The Word Girl, Small Talk - Scritti Politti; Careless Whisper - George Michael; Absolute, A Little Knowledge - Scritti Politti; We Can Work It Out - Chaka Khan; Union Of The Snake - Duran Duran; Don't Work That Hard, Perfect Way - Scritti Politti; Perfect Way - Miles Davis; Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) - Scritti Politti; Human Nature - Michael Jackson; Lover To Fall, Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) - Scritti Politti; I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin; Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren; Right - David Bowie; Hypnotize - Scritti Politti; The Message - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five; The Whisper Of Your Mind - The Lilac Time; Way To Blue - Lisa Hannigan, Teddy Thompson, Green Gartside (from the concert film 'The Songs of Nick Drake: Way To Blue)

For Liverpool UK band Echo & The Bunnymen's fourth release, 1984's 'Ocean Rain', they went all-in. Recorded primarily in Paris with a 35-piece orchestra, Ocean Rain is a dazzling collection of songs writ large with sweeping string arrangements and inspired - at times restrained and at times ferocious - playing /singing by band members Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas. This week's guest Corey duBrowa went all-in as well, as he joined Rob to unpack this splendidly deranged musical masterpiece.

Songs featured in this episode: The Killing Moon - CHVRCHES/Pavement/Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs; Oregon Ducks Fight Song; Guiding Light - Television; Here I Go - Syd Barrett; Read It In Books - Echo & The Bunnymen (John Peel Session, August 1979); Some Other Guy - The Beatles (Live at the Cavern Club, August 1962); The Back Of Love (Live at Royal Albert Hall, 1984), Never Stop, Silver, Nocturnal Me, Crystal Days, The Yo Yo Man - Echo & The Bunnymen; Is She Weird? - Pixies; New Slang - The Shins; Waiting For The Sun - The Doors; Thorn Of Crowns, Thorn Of Crowns (Live at Royal Albert Hall, 2008) - Echo & The Bunnymen; BAD - U2 (Live Aid 1985); The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen; Space Oddity - David Bowie; Seven Seas - Echo & The Bunnymen; Andmoreagain - Love; My Kingdom, Ocean Rain, It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Echo & The Bunnymen; 

U.K. punk/mod titans The Jam burned fast and bright in their relatively short existence - they released 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. This week we're joined by California Public Utilities Regulatory Analyst - and music fan - Rory Cox to discuss their fourth record, the thematically ambitious almost-a-concept-album 'Setting Sons'.

Songs featured in this episode: Private Hell - The Jam; David Watts - The Kinks; You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes; Burning Sky, Smithers Jones, Saturday's Kids, The Eton Rifles, Heatwave, Girl on the Phone, Strange Town, Thick as Thieves, Private Hell, Little Boy Soldiers, Wasteland - The Jam; Burning Sky - Bad Company; Shangri-La - The Kinks; Nice & Sleazy - The Stranglers; My Ever Changing Moods - The Style Council; David Watts - The Jam

Strap-in for this one, XTC fans: Record/Hot Sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl/El Enojado Hot Sauce) brings us a curious musical oddity called 'Take Away / The Lure of Salvage', the 1980 debut record by XTC frontman Andy Partridge a.k.a. Mr Partridge! Consisting basically of dub remixes/rewrites of tracks originally recorded by Partridge's band XTC - and Co-produced with John Leckie - it's a weirdly confounding, highly experimental slab that challenges at every turn.

Songs featured in this episode: Meccanik Dancing (Peel Session), Dance With Me, Germany - XTC; Words From The Poster (Remix) - The Front; Big Train, Piss Bottle Man - Mike Watt; All My Friends Are Ghosts - Scared Of Chaka; Making Plans For Nigel, Battery Brides, A Dictionary Of Modern Marriage, Life Begins At The Hop - XTC; Commerciality - Andy Partridge; Refrigeration Blues - XTC The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down - Andy Partridge; Heatwave - XTC; The Forgotten Language Of Light - Andy Partridge; Millions - XTC; Kurt's Rejoinder - Brian Eno; Reel By Reel - XTC; Steam Fist Futurist, Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950) - Andy Partridge; Ornithology - Charlie Parker; Cairo - Andy Partridge; Penetration In The Centrefold - DEVO; Helicopter - XTC; The Rotery - Andy Partridge; Veteran's Day Poppy - Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band; Madhattan, I Sit In The Snow - Andy Partridge; Meninblack - The Stranglers; The Walrus Hunt, Margaret Freeman - The Residents; Work Away Tokyo Day, New Broom - Andy Partridge; Radio 4 - Public Image Ltd.; It's Over - The Front; Let There Be Snow - Andy Partridge

Poet/essayist Sarah Nichols brings us a band/record that has lived in her psyche for 30+ years: New Order's 1989 release, 'Technique'. Born from the ashes of Joy Division after singer Ian Curtis' suicide, New Order's integration of post-punk with electronic and dance music reached it's peak on this, their final studio album for Factory Records.

Songs featured in this episode: World In Motion - New Order; Vanishing Point - Peter Hook & The Light; What Have I Done To Deserve This? - Pet Shop Boys; Dreams Never End, Fine Time, All The Way, Love Less, Round & Round, Guilty Partner, Run, Mr. Disco, Vanishing Point, Dream Attack - New Order; Transmission - Joy Division; Thieves Like Us - New Order, Lovesong - The Cure; Leaving On A Jet Plane - John Denver

Are novelty records cool? Probably not, but this week's guest, musician/songwriter Nick County, makes the case that the best ones are artistically valid, culturally relevant and - most importantly - a hoot! We embraced the weird and dove head-first into Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Collection.
Caution: freaks ahead...

Songs discussed in this episode: Pico & Sepulveda - Felix Figueroa and His Orchestra; Welcome 2 Where U Been, Psycho, In Texas - Nick County; Another One Rides The Bus - 'Weird Al' Yankovic; Transfusion - Nervous Norvus; Eat It, My Balogna - 'Weird Al' Yankovic; Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight) - Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group; In Spite Of All The Danger - The Quarrymen; Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare; Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman; Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong feat. Alice Bowie; Dave's Not Here - Cheech & Chong; Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl; Dancin’ Fool - Frank Zappa; Star Trekkin - The Firm; Walmart - Jesse Welles; Big Parlay Blues - Silver Bluff Blues Band; King Tut - Steve Martin; Fish Heads - Barnes and Barnes; Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer; A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash; Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein; Freakin' At The Freaker's Ball - Dr Hook; They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Napoleon XIV; Red Rocky Road - Nick County

For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song about a REAL PERSON, and discuss it a little. As usual, they did NOT disappoint.

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Songs discussed in this episode: Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio; Man On The Moon - R.E.M.; Winonna - Matthew Sweet; Nature Boy - Eden Ahbez; Terry Waite Sez - The Fall; The Missing Boy - The Durutti Column; Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack; Biko - Peter Gabriel; Over My Head - King's X; Unfair Kind Of Fame - The Pastels; Dagenham Dave - The Stranglers; Friends Of P - The Rentals; Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear; History Lesson Part II - Minutemen; Hey Jack Keroac - 10,000 Maniacs; John, I'm Only Dancing - David Bowie; Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers; Rasputin - Boney M.; Alex Chilton - Replacements; Stack O' Lee - Mississippi John Hurt; Would You Be So Hot (If You Weren't Dead) - The Damned

Music fan and Patron Rory Cox Zoomed-in all the way from Ljubljana Slovenia to discuss The Roots and their ninth studio album 'How I Got Over'. For this 2010 release, Questlove, Black Thought, Dice Raw and company concocted a diverse, slow-build mission statement on how to overcome. 

Songs discussed in this episode: A Peace Of Light, The Seed, Walk Alone - The Roots; Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.) - Monsters Of Folk; Dear God 2.0 - The Roots, Dear God - XTC; Radio Daze, Now Or Never - The Roots; How I Got Over - Mahalia Jackson; How I Got Over, DillaTUDE, The Day, Right On - The Roots; Peach Plumb, Pear - Joanna Newsom; I'm Chief Kamanawanalea - The Turtles; Doin' It Again - The Roots; Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2 - The Flaming Lips; The Fire, Tunnel Vision, Web 20/20, Web, Hustla - The Roots; Lyin'ass Bitch - Fishbone; How I Got Over (Late Night With The Roots LIVE) - The Roots

Wilco's fourth studio album, the quirky-yet-beloved 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot', is widely considered to be the band's masterpiece. So of course Rob dismissed it as overhyped alt-rock critic-bait for 20 years. Returning guest Steve Carroll patiently unwraps the storied tropes and mythical symbols of Jeff Tweedy and co., revealing a pretty fantastic rock record underneath.

Songs featured in this episode: Jesus, etc. (Live at Sydney Opera House, 2013), Via Chicago - Wilco; After The Gold Rush - Neil Young; Drown - Son Volt; Forget The Flowers - Wilco; Black Horse - Gastr Del Sol; I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Kamera - Wilco; Isi - NEU!; Radio Cure, War On War, Jesus, etc., Ashes Of American Flags, Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco; American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; Strutter - Kiss; I'm The Man Who Loves You - Wilco; Apeman - The Kinks; Pot Kettle Black - Wilco; In Between Days - The Cure; Poor Places, Reservations - Wilco; Phonetic Alphabet NATO - The Conet Archive; I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound

Husband-and-wife bandmates Tony Kapel & Maitejosune Urrechaga (Pocket of Lollipops) bring us Harry Nilsson's wonderfully weird 1970 concept album 'The Point!' This strange and endearing collection of songs - which was accompanied by an animated film adaptation that aired a few weeks after the album's release on the ABC-TV network - is an often-overlooked gem that still resonates today.

Songs featured in this episode: The Town - Harry Nilsson; Rainbow Swords, Skulls & Muscle Tones - Pocket Of Lollipops; Everything's Got 'Em, Without You, Me and My Arrow - Harry Nilsson; I'm Waiting For The Day - The Beach Boys; Poli High, Think About Your Troubles - Harry Nilsson; The Fool On The Hill - The Beatles; Life Line, Life Line (live at the BBC), Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga - Harry Nilsson; Good Old Days - The Los Angeles Radio/TV Symphony Orchestra; P.O.V. Waltz, Are You Sleeping? - Harry Nilsson; Tiburon - Pocket Of Lollipops; As Time Goes By - Harry Nilsson (from A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night)

There's no mistaking the fact that The Gaslight Anthem and their leader Brian Fallon are from New Jersey. The earnest storytelling and vivid imagery in their breakout album The '59 Sound is pure Born/Darkness-era Springsteen. This week's guest Todd Bauch was skeptical at first, but eventually got sucked-in by the punk rock edge, stellar songwriting and dizzying musical references contained within this banger of a record.

Songs featured in this episode: Great Expectations (Acoustic version from Alternative Press) - The Gaslight Anthem; Feel It All Around (Portlandia Theme) - Washed Out; Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen; Cold Feelings - Social Distortion; Bastards Of Young - Replacements; Two Hearts - Bruce Springsteen; Tonight - The Reactions; Great Expectations - The Gaslight Anthem; Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan; The '59 Sound, The '59 Sound (Live Hyde Park, UK w/Bruce Springsteen), Old White Lincoln, High Lonesome - The Gaslight Anthem; Round Here - Counting Crows; Film Noir - The Gaslight Anthem; This River Is Wild - The Killers; Butterfly - Broken Bones Matilda; I Still Believe - Frank Turner; Miles Davis & The Cool - The Gaslight Anthem; Rosalita - Bruce Springsteen; I Can't Turn You Loose - Otis Redding; Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon; Patient Ferris Wheel, Casanova, Baby! - The Gaslight Anthem; Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett; Quarter To Three - Gary US Bonds; Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen; Even Cowgirls Get The Blues - The Gaslight Anthem; Santa Monica - Everclear; Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy; Meet Me By The River's Edge, Here's Looking At You, Kid, The Backseat - The Gaslight Anthem; Here's Looking At You, Kid - Broken Bones Matilda

Ladies and Gentlemen, the golden age of rock and roll...
Brad Elvis and Chloe Orwell (The Handcuffs, Big Hello) call in from Chicago for a rollicking discussion of Mott the Hoople's banging 1974 release - and lead vocalist Ian Hunter's swan song with them - 'The Hoople'

Songs featured in this episode: Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash; Roll Away The Stone (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 1973) - Mott the Hoople; She Ain't No Fluffer, I'm Happy Just To Dream With You - The Handcuffs; All the Young Dudes (Live at Rockpalast, 1980) - Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson; Changes - David Bowie; Now's The Time - Charlie Parker; Saturday Night (High 'n' Dry) - Def Leppard; Death May Be Your Santa Claus, All The Young Dudes, The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll - Mott the Hoople; The Jean Genie - David Bowie; Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis; All The Way From Memphis (Live, 1974), Marionette, Alice, Crash Street Kids - Mott the Hoople; Now I'm Here - Queen; Be My Lover - Alice Cooper; Shout It Out Loud - Kiss; Born Late '58 - Mott the Hoople; Christine Sixteen - Kiss; Trudi's Song - Mott the Hoople; Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed; Pearl 'n' Roy (England), Through The Looking Glass, Roll Away The Stone - Mott the Hoople; Big Fat Mouth - The Handcuffs

Our old pal Todd Nolan from Nashville Tennessee brings us a barn-burner of an album this week. The Geraldine Fibbers' sophomore - and final - record, 'Butch', is a weird, wild amalgamation of alt-country, punk, Appalachian fiddle music, speed metal and anything/everything in between. Anchored by the raw, poetic story-songs of Carla Bozulich and stellar musicianship of the band - including guitar-God Nels Cline - it's ultimately Carla's gravely, angelic voice that seals the deal.

Songs featured in this episode: California Tuffy (Live, Paris TV) - The Geraldine Fibbers; The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash; Devil's Johnson - Ethyl Meatplow; Lilybelle - The Geraldine Fibbers; Drove Up From Pedro - Mike Watt; California Tuffy, Toybox, I Killed The Cuckoo - The Geraldine Fibbers; Time of the Preacher - Carla Bozulich; Trashman In Furs - The Geraldine Fibbers; Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground; Swim Back To Me - The Geraldine Fibbers; Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday; Seven Or In 10 - The Geraldine Fibbers; Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac; Claudine, Folks Like Me, Pet Angel, Butch - The Geraldine Fibbers; Marquee Moon - Television; Arrow To My Drunken Eye - The Geraldine Fibbers; Man-Size Sextet - PJ Harvey; You Doo Right, The Dwarf Song, Heliotrope - The Geraldine Fibbers

For this special BONUS episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a cover of a song they feel is better than the original. As usual, they did NOT disappoint!
Warning: Hot takes ahead!!

Songs discussed in this episode:
Hallelujah - John Cale, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, K.D. Lang, Neil Diamond and Brandi Carlile
Seven Days Too Long - Dexys Midnight Runners
Black Diamond - The Replacements
Swinging Party - Lorde
This Guy's In Love With You - Faith No More
I Am, I Said - Killdozer
Don't Let Me Down - Dillard & Clark
Let It Be Me - The Everly Brothers
Fade Away - The New Age Steppers
Satisfied Mind - Jonathan Richman
Jump (Loaded version) - Aztec Camera
Moonage Daydream - Zen Guerrilla
The Briar and the Rose - Holly Cole
Do You Wanna Dance - Ramones
Ruby's Arms - Megan Mullally and Supreme Music Program
Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Suzannah's Still Alive - Cardiacs
Steppin' Stone - Minor Threat
White Wedding - Roland S Howard
Neon Lights - Love Tractor
By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Superstar - Bette Midler
Run To Me - Laurie Lindeen
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - St Etienne
I Know It's Over (Live at Sony Studios in New York, NY - April, 1995) - Jeff Buckley

This week we're joined by Richmond, VA Circuit Court Judge Richard Campbell. No, we're not in trouble - Richard, who wrote the book "Gettin' Kinda Itchie: The Groups That Made the Mamas & the Papas", is here to talk The Mamas & the Papas and their often overlooked S/T second album 'The Mamas and The Papas'
Court is in session!

Songs discussed in this episode: I Saw Her Again Last Night (The Mamas and The Papas cover) - Trombones Unlimited; California Dreamin', No Salt On Her Tail - The Mamas & The Papas; Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan; Here In My Arms, Trip, Stumble and Fall, Dancing Bear, Words Of Love, My Heart Stood Still, Dancing In The Street, I Saw Her Again, Strange Young Girls, I Can't Wait - The Mamas & The Papas; 500 Miles - The Journeymen; Even If I Could - The Mamas & The Papas; No More Running Around - The Lamp Of Childhood; That Kind Of Girl, Once Was A Time I Thought - The Mamas & The Papas; Make Your Own Kind Of Music - Cass Elliot; Tempo no Tempo - Os Mutantes

Singer/Artist Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Supercluster, Pylon Reenactment Society) joins us for another BONUS "Mixtape Episode", where we invite a special guest to curate a mixtape for our listeners and dig into their musical selections. 
Vanessa's mixtape:
1. What is Life - George Harrison
2. Space Oddity - David Bowie 
3. If There is Something  - Roxy Music
4. Dancing Barefoot - Patti Smith
5. Dance This Mess Around - B-52’s 
6. I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
7. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
8. Planet Rock - Afrika Bamabatta & Soul Sonic Force
9. The Robots - Kraftwerk 
10. Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
11. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. 
12. Na Nanana - The Squalls

*Other songs featured in this episode: Cool, Beep - Pylon; Messenger - Pylon Reenactment Society; You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes; Trans Europa Express - Kraftwerk; Crazy - R.E.M.; Stop It - Pylon

**Additional listening recommendations from Vanessa:
Nina Simone - Feeling Good 
Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences
Beach Boys - God Only Knows 
Leonard Cohen - Boogie Street 
DAR Williams - I Won’t Be Your Yoko Ono
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Over Everything 
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner 
Blondie - One Way or Another
The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing 
Romeo Void - Never Say Never 
Bush Tetras -Too Many Creeps 
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
Allman Brothers - Jessica 
Delta 5 - Mind your own business 
Heart - Barracuda 
Joy Division - She’s Lost Control
Pere Ubu - Non-Alignment Pact 
Sly and the Family Stone - Everybody is a Star 
The Staple Singers - I’ll Take You There 
Green Day -Boulevard of Broken Dreams 
The Go-Go’s - We Got The Beat
ESG - UFO  
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love 
Parliament - Flashlight / Strobelight

****Spotify Playlist Link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6wJCWreeeazii4awAUVEko?si=d5fd81dcb81b49b8

SUPER fun conversation with Chinese national Jiang Zi Xiu (Klaire) of the Shanghai band GUJI about one of her favorite records: 'Monster Movie' by the German experimental band CAN!
"You made a believer out of me..."

Songs discussed in this episode: Can Dialog - The Can Project (Irmin Schmidt with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, London 2017); I Like To Hang Out In China, Judgement Day - GUJI; Billy - Round Eye; Come sta, La Luna - Can; I Can't Stand It - The Velvet Underground; Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger (Zweite Version, 1959) - Karlheinz Stockhausen; Father Cannot Yell - Can; Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - Mediaeval Baebes; Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground; Mary, Mary So Contrary - Can; Ballad of North Henan Province - Yu Hongmei; Outside My Door, Yoo Doo Right - Can; Build A Friend For Me, My Mao Suit - GUJI

This week's guest Heidi Caballero felt a connection with New York hip hop explorers Beastie Boys from the time she was 8 years old - through her older brother - and by the time 1994's 'Ill Communication' appeared her road to spiritual awakening had begun in earnest. In many ways her path mirrored that of late Beastie member Adam 'MCA' Yauch, who was a practicing Buddhist and became an important voice in the Tibetan independence movement.
File this episode under That Record Got Me Enlightened!

Songs featured in this episode:
Fight For Your Right, B-Boy Bouillbaise, Pass The Mic - Beastie Boys; Howlin' For Judy - Jeremy Steig; Sure Shot, Tough Guy, B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak, Root Down, Sabotage, Get It Together, The Update, Do It, Heart Attack Man, Shambala, Bodhisattva Vow - Beastie Boys; Root Down (And Get It) - Jimmy Smith; Cooky Puss - Beastie Boys; Aquarius (Let The Sunshine In) - The Moog Machine; Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest; In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel; Flute Loop - Beastie Boys; Uptown Girl, We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel; Alright Hear This - Beastie Boys; Bodhisattva - Steely Dan; Transitions - Beastie Boys

For more info about Tibetan Buddhism and culture:
Https://www.drepunggomangusa.org

Artist/Musician Beatriz "Betty" Monteavaro returns with an album that both frightened and inspired her twelve-years-of-Catholic-school-self, 'Join Hands' by goth pioneers Siouxsie and the Banshees.
"Are you ready?"

Songs discussed in this episode: Love In A Void - Siouxsie and The Banshees; Bowling Green - Holly Hunt; Dog Eat Dog - Adam and the Ants; Poppy Day, Regal Zone - Siouxsie and The Banshees; Colony - Joy Division; Placebo Effect, Icon, Premature Burial, Playground Twist, Mother/Oh Mein Papa, The Lords Prayer - Siouxsie and The Banshees; The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden; Chelsea/Pigs - Floor; The Lords Prayer - Siouxsie and The Banshees

Recorded and mixed over six days, Philadelphia band Webb Chapel's latest release - 'World Cup' - represents the band’s transition from primary songwriter Zack Claxton's solo project to a more collaborative effort. The resulting amalgamation of thrilling sonic deconstructionism and top-notch indie songwriting caught the ear of this week's guest, singer/guitarist Maura Pond of the band Luna Honey.
Turn it up!

Songs discussed in this episode: Harbor - Luna Honey & Norman Westberg; Kerosene, Lead, Bound - Luna Honey; Springtime - Webb Chapel; Overture - The Who; Shipping Containers Anonymous, Blowing Trees With My Dad, Pretty, Amelia, D.U.S.T., Brown Eyes, Black Car - Webb Chapel; Don't Go Away - Oasis; Alone At The Fair, Red Roses - Webb Chapel; Wined and Dined - Syd Barrett; Five - Webb Chapel; Brand New Love - Sentridoh; Velvet Morning - Webb Chapel; Lemons - Luna Honey

For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite song by a 'fake' band/artist. It rocks. Take that, Daisy Jones & The Six!

Songs discussed in this episode: Cheese & Onions - The Rutles; Shape Of Things To Come - Max Frost & The Troopers; Maggie Thatcher - Ian Rubbish & The Bizarros; Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney; Touch Me I'm Dick - Citizen Dick; I Can Feel Your Heartbeat - The Partridge Family; Addicted To Love - Ciccone Youth; Bedazzled - Drimble Wedge & the Vegetations; The World Is Turning On - The Pooh Sticks; Basketball Jones - Cheech & Chong; Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley; Tra La La Song - The Banana Splits; Banana Splits - The Dickies; That's What He Said - The Smart Patrol; Angry Inch - The Angry Inch; I Know You - Angela & The Fans; On The Darkside - Eddie & The Cruisers; It's A Beautiful Game - The Cavaliers; Join The Professionals - The Looters; Professionals - The Fabulous Stains

This week's returning guest, Chicago native and Patron Mick Hans, brings us Britain's The Only Ones and their 1979 US release 'Special View'. While you might not be familiar with the band, you almost certainly have heard their iconic - often-covered - song 'Another Girl, Another Planet', which  AllMusic has described as "Arguably, the greatest rock single ever recorded".

Songs discussed in this episode: Another Girl, Another Planet - The Replacements/The Mighty Lemon Drops/The Greg Kihn Band/Blink-182; Another Girl, Another Planet - Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain; I Wanna Go With Dignity - Peter Perrett; Bright Lights - England's Glory; Sparkle - The Fabulous Ratbites From Hell; Better By You, Better Than Me - Spooky Tooth; Another Girl, Another Planet, Lovers Of Today, Peter And the Pets - The Only Ones; Waves Of Fear - Lou Reed; Maid In Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe; Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty; The Beast - The Only Ones; You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory - Johnny Thunders; City Of Fun, The Whole Of The Law, Out There In The Night - The Only Ones; Cool For Cats - Squeeze; Someone Who Cares, You've Got To Pay, Flaming Torch - The Only Ones; Torn Curtain - Television; Curtains For You, From Here To Eternity, The Beast (Live in Chicago 1979) - The Only Ones

For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song by a band/artist that's best known for ANOTHER song.
So, there's this band. Many people know them by that one song. You know, "That band that did that song."
Here's the thing, though: there's ANOTHER song they did that's just as good...or maybe even better!

Songs featured in this episode: Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners; Call Me Maybe, Want You In My Room - Carly Rae Jepsen; Another Girl, Another Planet, Out There In The Night - The Only Ones; Bitter Sweet Symphony, Space and Time - The Verve; Karma Chameleon, Victims - Culture Club; There She Goes - The La's; I Am The Key - Britt Daniel (Live at The Hole In The Wall, Austin TX; I Am The Key - The La's; A Million Miles Away, Oldest Story In The World, Zero Hour (Live at The Golden Bear, 1983) - The Plimsouls; I'm So Excited, Don't It Drive You Crazy - The Pointer Sisters; Stand, Orange Crush -REM; Love Shack, Channel Z - The B-52's; All Right Now, Mr Big - Free; Wild Thing, From Home - The Troggs; I Want Candy, Chihuahua - Bow Wow Wow; The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades, Rev Jack & His Roamin' Cadillac Church - Timbuk 3; Tainted Love, Sex Dwarf - Soft Cell; Vaya Con Dios, I Really Don't Want To Know - Les Paul & Mary Ford; Boys Are Back In Town, Dancing In The Moonlight, Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy; My Sharona, Good Girls Don't - The Knack; Louie Louie - Richard Berry; Have Love Will Travel - Richard Berry & The Paroahs; Hallelujah, Forget Her - Jeff Buckley; Jessies Girl, I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield; Sex and Candy, Love Bug - Marcy Playground; Come On Eileen, There There My Dear - Dexys Midnight Runners

Birmingham UK drummer Mark Williams (The Jacobites) joins us this week to discuss 'Strawberries', the fifth studio album - and final one featuring their classic late-70s line-up of Vanian, Sensible, Gray and Scabies - by British punk Gods The Damned. It's a fantastic album by one of Rob's all-time favorite bands, so expect some mild gushing ahead...

Songs featured in this episode: I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - The Damned (Live at Woolwich Coronet, 1985); Don't You Ever Leave Me - The Jacobites; Happy Talk, Wot - Captain Sensible; I Advance Masked - Andy Summers and Robert Fripp; Fun Factory, Ignite - The Damned; Genetix - The Stranglers; Generals, Stranger On The Town, Dozen Girls, The Dog, Gun Fury (of Riot Forces), Pleasure And The Pain, Life Goes On - The Damned; Come As You Are - Nirvana; Eighties - Killing Joke; Bad Time For Bonzo - The Damned; We've Got A Bigger Problem Now - Dead Kennedys; Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones; Disco Man, Citadel, Billy Bad Breaks, Under The Floor Again, Don't Bother Me - The Damned; Crossroads Theme - Tony Hatch; Life Goes On - Young Fresh Fellows

For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we invited patrons of the podcast to send in their favorite political and/or protest songs. They came up with a surprisingly eclectic playlist of songs that will make you angry, fired-up and ready to (metaphorically) rumble!
Fight The Power, indeed!!

Songs discussed in this episode: War - Bob Marley (Live 1977 at The Rainbow, London); Happy New Year (Prince Can't Die Again) - Mac McCaughan; Haillie Sellasse, Up Your Ass - Propagandhi; Ignoreland - R.E.M.; Nobody Knows - School Of Language; Porcupine or Pineapple? - Brakes; Lowest of the Low - The Barricade; Charles Windsor - McCarthy; I Pity The Country - Willie Dunn; Living For The City - Stevie Wonder; An Old Colonial's Hard Luck Story - X-tal; The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen (with Tom Morello); Fight The Power - Public Enemy; Power, Power (Live, 1992) - The Dead C; Urban Guerilla - Hawkwind; Please Don't - David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (featuring Santigold); The Body Electric - Hurray For The Riff Raff; Major John - The Wake; Where's All The Money Gone? - Asian Dub Foundation; The Three Great Alabama Icons - Drive-By Truckers; Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys; Divide and Conquer - Husker Du

When our guest Steve Carroll was a North London lad of fourteen in 1979, the Virgin Records window display of Elvis Costello's 'Armed Forces' (his 2nd album with the Attractions and 3rd overall) caught his eye, but he wasn't quite ready for the record to catch his ears yet. The heady mix of catchy melodies, fierce musicianship and ultra-clever wordplay eventually won him over a few years later, and he leads us on a deep dive into the snakes and ladders of this monumental release. 
"Oh, I just don't know where to begin..."

Songs featured in this episode: Boy Genius - Love Canal; Alison - Elvis Costello; Nobody Hurts You - Graham Parker; Radio Radio - Elvis Costello and the Attractions; Dancing in the Moonlight - Thin Lizzy; Accidents Will Happen, Senior Service, Oliver's Army, Big Boys, Green Shirt, Party Girl, Goon Squad, Busy Bodies, Sunday's Best, Moods for Moderns, Chemistry Class, Two Little Hitlers - Elvis Costello and the Attractions; All My Loving - The Beatles; I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - Diana Ross & The Supremes; Dancing Queen - ABBA; Leader of the Pack - The Shangri Las; You Never Give Me Your Money - The Beatles; Sex & Drugs & Rock-n-Roll - Ian Dury & The Blockheads; Heart of the City - Nick Lowe; Couldn't Call it Unexpected - Elvis Costello; (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding - Elvis Costello and the Attractions

This week's guest, Nathan Levine (Instagram @Boysgiant), brings us Swedish dream-pop band The Radio Dept. and their 2006 release 'Pet Grief'. Lush, evocative melodies? Check. Understated, melancholic delivery? Check. It's a vibe...

Songs discussed in this episode: It's Personal, Pulling Our Weight, Annie Laurie, Where Damage Isn't Already Done - The Radio Dept.; Apocalypse - Cigarettes After Sex; It's Personal, Pet Grief - The Radio Dept; Atmosphere - Joy Division; A Window, I Wanted You To Feel The Same, South Side - The Radio Dept.; Feel It All Around - Washed Out; The Worst Taste In Music, What You Sell - The Radio Dept.; Weirdo - New Order; Every Time, What Will Give, Gibraltar, Sleeping In, Tell, Always A Relief, You Fear The Wrong Thing Baby, Bachelor Kisses (The Go-Betweens cover) - The Radio Dept.

Author, radio host and songwriter Binnie Klein (WPKN Radio, In These Trees) brings us Joni Mitchell and her stunning 1972 release, 'For The Roses'. Searching for balance in her life after a tumultuous relationship with James Taylor - and trying to escape the craziness of Los Angeles - Joni trekked back up to the Canadian wilderness and wrote most of this, her 5th studio album, while in retreat:
"You've got to shake your fists at lightning now
You've got to roar like forest fire
You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky
They're going to aim the hoses on you
Show 'em you won't expire
Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die"

Songs discussed in this episode: Blonde In The Bleachers (Joni Mitchell cover) - Lou Barlow; Winter's Girl - Tartie; Orchard, Quiver - In These Trees & Tartie; You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor; Banquet, Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire - Joni Mitchell; Heroin - The Velvet Underground; Barangrill - Joni Mitchell; Visions Of Johanna - Bob Dylan; Lesson In Survival, Let The Wind Carry Me, For The Roses, See You Sometime, Electricity, You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio, Blonde In The Bleachers, Woman Of Heart and Mind, Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) - Joni Mitchell; Orchard, Meet Me On The Mountain Top - In These Trees & Tartie

This week's guest, producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Evan Taylor (Bernie Worrell Orchestra, Loantaka Records), brings us The Beach Boys' 21st studio album - and the last one under the group's name to be written and produced solely by troubled leader Brian Wilson - 'The Beach Boys Love You'. Released in 1977, this strange, at-times childlike collection of songs sounded like nothing else the band had done up until then. With raspier-than-usual vocals from the Wilson brothers and Brian's newfound infatuation with the Moog synthesizer, it left many fans/critics confused at the time but has since been recognized for presaging both synth-pop and new wave. 

Songs discussed in this episode: Good Vibrations - Brian Wilson (Live on SNL, 1976); Distant Star - Bernie Worrell (Featuring Jerry Harrison); Take 5 - Bernie Worrell; What Have They Done To My Funk - Bernie Worrell (Featuring Bootsy Collins, Michael Moon Reuben, Ouiwey Collins, Buckethead); Be My Baby - The Ronettes; Let Us Go On This Way, Hey, Little Tomboy, Roller Skating Child, Mona, Johnny Carson, Good Time - The Beach Boys; Good Time, Shyin' Away - American Spring; Honkin' Down The Highway, Ding Dang, Solar System - The Beach Boys; Solar System - Alex Chilton; The Night Was So Young, I'll Bet He's Nice - The Beach Boys; Shoot The Curl - The Honeys; Let's Put Our Hearts Together, I Wanna Pick You Up, Airplane, Love Is A Woman - The Beach Boys; Wave From The WOOniverse - Bernie Worrell (Featuring Miho Hatori)

Miami drag icon Shelley Novak aka 'Tommy Strangie' joins us for another BONUS "Mixtape Episode", where we invite a special guest to curate a mixtape for our listeners and dig into their musical selections. At a time when drag performers - among others - seem to be under attack, Shelley's here to ask the question, "Why can't we all just listen to the music we love and get along??"
It's Shelley Novak's High School Musical 1985 Mixtape!

Songs discussed in this episode: English Summer - Eurythmics; Send Me An Angel - Real Life; Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics; Dreaming - Blondie; Who's That Girl? - Eurythmics; Eighth Day - Hazel O'Connor; Doubleplusgood, It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) - Eurythmics; All The Pretty Girls - The Judys; Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics; Let's Go Crazy, The Beautiful Ones - Prince and the Revolution; Erotic City - Prince and the Revolution (with Sheila E); Sex Shooter - Apollonia 6; Gigolos Get Lonely Too - The Time; Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution; Purple Rain - Prince (live at Super Bowl XLI)

This week we shine a light on Athens, Georgia band Love Tractor and their fabulous, Mitch Easter produced 1989 release 'Themes From Venus'. Our guest, Milwaukee Oregon substitute teacher Matthew Kenneth, got some insider info from the band members themselves as we unpack this recently re-released gem of a record.

Songs discussed in this episode: Satan's New Wave Soul Losers (Instrumental Mitch Easter mix), I Broke My Saw (Mitch Easter mix), Fun To Be Happy, Buy Me A Million Dollars (Live Atlanta Arts Festival 5-17-1983) - Love Tractor; Crazy - Pylon; So. Central Rain - R.E.M.; I Broke My Saw - Love Tractor; Alabama Getaway - Grateful Dead; Themes From Venus - Love Tractor; House On Fire - The Wind; Crash - Love Tractor; Moonage Daydream - David Bowie; Satan's New Wave Soul Losers - Love Tractor; All Going Out Together - Big Dipper; Venice, Crystal World - Love Tractor; Better Worsens - Gold Dust Lounge; Hey Mess, Nova Express - Love Tractor; Ska'd For Life - The Ska Dows; Fantasy, Here Come The Cops - Love Tractor

Returning guest, television writer, producer and director Jeff Greenstein (Will & Grace, Friends, Desperate Housewives), makes the case that Electric Light Orchestra were - at their core - a fantastic 'singles' band. The 1979 compilation 'ELO's Greatest Hits' showcases the pop-genius of leader Jeff Lynn, as he meticulously crafted weirdly wonderful rock hits that combined classical orchestration with pop, rock and soul that somehow managed to become classic rock staples.

Songs featured in this episode: The Story Of A Rock and Roll Band - Randy Newman; Will and Grace Theme - Jonathan Wolff; National Brotherhood Week - Tom Lehrer; Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra; Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller; Rockaway Beach - Ramones; Xanadu - Electric Light Orchestra (Featuring Olivia Newton John); Do Ya - The Move; Rattled - Traveling Wilburys; Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel; Evil Woman, Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra; T.S.O.P. (The Sound Of Philadelphia) - MFSB; Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra; Where Is My Mind? - Pixies; Showdown - Electric Light Orchestra; I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye; For A Few Dollars More (Main Theme) - Ennio Morricone; I Am The Walrus - The Beatles; 10538 Overture, Turn To Stone, Rockaria!, Roll Over Beethoven, Sweet Talkin' Woman - Electric Light Orchestra; Do You Believe In Love - Huey Lewis & The News; Sweet Talkin' Woman (Take 2 Classic Cover) - The New Pornographers; Andy Warhol - David Bowie; Telephone Line - Electric Light Orchestra; Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd; Ma-Ma-Ma Belle, Strange Magic - Electric Light Orchestra; Do You Remember Walter - The Kinks; Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra; A Day In The Life - The Beatles; Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles; The Office Theme Song - Jay Ferguson; Little Drummer Boy - Neil Diamond; Day Tripper - Electric Light Orchestra (Live in Long Beach California, 1974)

It's another BONUS Patron-curated episode! For this one, we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite INSTRUMENTAL song.
No singers?? No problem!!

Songs featured in this episode:
Waltzinblack - The Stranglers;
Jessica - The Allman Brothers Band;
Fun To Be Happy - Love Tractor;
Groovy Delivery Boy - Frank DeVol;
Fracture (Live) - King Crimson;
The Köln Concert, Part IIc - Keith Jarrett;
La Femme d'Argent - Air;
Brendan #1 - Fugazi;
Pacifica - Los Straitjackets;
What Does Your Soul Look Like - DJ Shadow;
Astradyne - Ultravox;
Sandusky - Uncle Tupelo;
Roygbiv - Boards of Canada;
Larks Tongues in Aspic Parts 1 & 2 - King Crimson;
Quilombo - Steroid Maximus;
Straight No Chaser - Thelonious Monk;
Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag;
Ekute - Pino Palladino & Blake Mills;
Lester Leaps In - The Monochrome Set;
Slim Jenkins' Place - Booker T. & The MGs;
Mosh, Don't Pass The Guy - Frank Black;
Move - Snakefinger's Vestal Virgins;
Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed;
Vuscalli (The Porcupine) - Humbert

At the start of this blistering set, recorded live in Cologne Germany in 1992, saxophonist Maceo Parker declares it will be "2 percent jazz and 98 percent funky stuff." He does not disappoint. This week's guest, Chicago saxophonist Chris Greene (Chris Greene Quartet), joins us to discuss how Parker's 'Life On Planet Groove' got him high and helped inform his own musical journey.
Turn it up!

Songs discussed in this episode: Shake Everything You've Got (Live) - Maceo Parker; The Emperor Strikes Back, Broken Glass - Chris Greene Quartet; Out Of Sight - James Brown; Do That Stuff - Parliament; If Eye Was The Man In Ur Life - Prince; In Time, Children's World, Southwick, Shake Everything You've Got (Live), Pass The Peas (Live) - Maceo Parker; The Overweight Lovers In The House - Heavy D & the Boyz; Fight The Power - Public Enemy; I Got You (I Feel Good) (Live), Got To Get U (Live) - Maceo Parker; Addictive Love - BeBe and CeCe Winans; Addictive Love (Live), Children's World (Live) - Maceo Parker; Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles; Georgia On My Mind (Live), Soul Power '92 (Live) - Maceo Parker; The Emperor Strikes Back, Outro - Chris Greene Quartet

This week, singer/composer Lincoln Barr brings us the band Sparklehorse and their 2001 release: 'It's A Wonderful Life'. Led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous - this time joined by a cast of musical friends including Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Nina Persson and Dave Fridmann - it's a strange yet hauntingly beautiful collection of songs that truly resonate.

Songs discussed in this episode: It's A Wonderful Life - Frank Watkinson; A Miracle Of Sorts - Lincoln Barr; Heart Of Darkness - Sparklehorse; Game Of Pricks - Guided Of Voices; It's A Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse; Lovefool - The Cardigans; Gold Day, Piano Fire, Painbirds, Sea Of Teeth, Apple Bed, King Of Nails, Eyepennies, Dog Door, More Yellow Birds - Sparklehorse; Myrtle - Vic Chesnutt; Little Fat Baby, Devils New, Comfort Me, Babies On The Sun, Morning Hollow, Maxine - Sparklehorse; Beyond The Threshold - Lincoln Barr

It's hard to discuss British rock band Badfinger and NOT focus on the tragic details of their too-short career. This week's guest, legendary Miami music maven Rich Ulloa (Yesterday & Today Records, Y&T Music), doesn't shy away from the dark parts, but much prefers to focus on the wonderful music these four lads from Swansea gifted the world. Their 1971 release 'Straight Up' is as fine an example of lush, meticulously recorded and thrillingly played power-pop as you're ever likely to find. 

Songs featured in this episode: Take It All (Live) - Badfinger; We Can Work It Out - The Beatles; Clowntime Is Over - Elvis Costello; This Broken Heart - The Mavericks; Flagboy - For Squirrels; Thirsty Boots - Bob Dylan; Perfection - Sweet Lizzy Project; Come And Get It, No Matter What, Apple Of My Eye, Take It All - Badfinger; Golden Slumbers - The Beatles; Maybe I'm Amazed (Live) - Paul McCartney and Wings; Baby Blue - Badfinger; Money - The Flying Lizards; Money, Flying, I'd Die Babe - Badfinger; No Matter What - Jellyfish; Name Of The Game - Badfinger; Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers; Suitcase, Sweet Tuesday Morning, Day After Day - Badfinger; No More - Pete Ham; Sometimes - Badfinger; It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference - Todd Rundgren; Perfection, It's Over - Badfinger; Piano Red - Albert Castiglia Band (Featuring Mandy Marylane); No Matter What (World Version) - Stan Lynch; Eyesight To The Blind - Mose Allison; Name Of The Game - Amanda Green

Released exactly at the autumnal equinox on September 22, 2020, 'Shore' - the ambitious release by Robin Pecknold under the guise of his Seattle band Fleet Foxes - is a sonically adventurous journey through the musical heroes and influences that shaped him. This week's guest Tom Lawery guides us in unpacking this brightly dense album that “celebrates life in the face of death”

Music featured in this episode: Sunblind (Solstice Version) - Fleet Foxes; St Petersburg - Supergrass; Your Protector - Fleet Foxes; Broke - Modest Mouse; Third Of May, Wading In Waist-High Water, Sunblind - Fleet Foxes; Broken Finger Blues - Richard Swift; The Kiss - Judee Sill; All My Happiness Is Gone - Purple Mountains; Can I Believe You, Jara - Fleet Foxes; Hockets For Two Voices IV - Meara O'Reilly; The Scientist - Coldplay; Featherweight - Fleet Foxes; I Want To Make It With You - Bread; A Long Way Past The Past - Fleet Foxes; the 1 - Taylor Swift; For A Week Or Two, Maestranza - Fleet Foxes; Living In Another World - Talk Talk; Young Man's Game - Fleet Foxes; Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac; I'm Not My Season, Quiet Air-Gioia - Fleet Foxes; Down To The Sea - The Fathoms; Going To The Sun Road - Fleet Foxes; Delta Rain Dream - Jon Hassel and Brian Eno; Thymia, Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman - Fleet Foxes; Koyaanisqatsi (Resource Scene) - Philip Glass; Shore, Under Control (Strokes cover featuring Uwade Akhere; Live Queens, NY 8.13.22) - Fleet Foxes

For this BONUS Valentine's Day episode, we asked our Patrons to send us a song that broke their heart. Because sometimes, love stinks!

Songs featured in this episode: Love Hurts - Nazareth; Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan; Operator - Jim Croce; Whatever (Folk Song in C) - Elliott Smith; If I Didn't Love You - Squeeze; Things - Paul Westerberg; I Am The Cosmos - Chris Bell; 1963 - New Order; Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House; It Makes No Difference - The Band; Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys; Bridge on Fire - Shovels and Rope; Carry Me Ohio - Sun Kil Moon; Apologize - The Enablers; Valentine - Old 97’s; Not Big - Lily Allen; Like Lovers Do - Lloyd Cole; Here (Wish You Were) - Overseas; Anthrax - Gang Of Four; Nothing In Return - Roky Erickson/T Bone Burnette

Returning guest Joe Tunis (Pengo, Carbon Records) brings us a music/art trio Thurston Moore called "one of the most interesting bands in the world", New Zealand's The Dead C and their blistering 1990 release 'Trapdoor Fucking Exit'. The group's lo-fi, improvisational brand of post-rock is not for everyone, but brave listeners will surely come away with their ears ringing in a way they've never quite experienced before. File under uneasy listening.

Songs featured in this episode: Doorway to the Sky - Pengo; Disappearer - Sonic Youth; Ninth Symphony - Ludwig Van Beethoven; Children - The Dead C; Sunrise - Bardo Pond; Judy is a Punk - The Ramones; White Light White Heat, European Son - The Velvet Underground; Heaven, Hell is Now Love, Mighty, Power, Bury, Sky, Bone, Krossed, Calling Slowly, Helen Said This - The Dead C; Guitar Solo - Rat Bastard; I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground; Tally Ho - The Clean; Ghost Rider - Suicide

This week's guest Bob Fay (Sebadoh, Deluxx, Cardinal) has played on a wide swath of punk/indie releases, so it makes perfect sense that the album he chose to discuss was 'Songs in the Key of Life' by Stevie Wonder, right? Right?? Both Elton John and Michael Jackson sited it as a personal favorite, and Prince simply called it the best album ever recorded - so Bob may be onto something...

Songs featured in this episode: Temptation Tide, Ocean - Sebadoh; Glory Halleloo - Reverend Blind Gary Davis; Love's in Need of Love Today, Have a Talk With God, Village Ghetto Land, Contusion, Sir Duke, I Wish, Knocks Me Off My Feet - Stevie Wonder; You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck; Maniac - Michael Sembello; Split Red - Minutemen; Gangster's Paradise - Coolio; Summer Soft, Ordinary Pain, Isn't She Lovely, Joy Inside My Tears, Black Man, As - Stevie Wonder;  Paper Planes - M.I.A.; Take The A Train - Duke Ellington; Sforzando! - Sebadoh