This week, we Zoomed all the way over to the medieval wine country of Romagna, Italy to discuss The Flaming Lips and their beloved 2002 release: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots with musician/artist Lucas Ward (The Silver Snails)
"All we have is now
All we've ever had is now
All we have is now
All we'll ever have is now"

Songs discussed in this episode: Do You Realize (Flaming Lips cover) - Willie Nelson; No Name #3 - Elliott Smith; Evanessence, Galen's Song - The Silver Snails; Race For The Prize - Flaming Lips; Time/Breathe (Reprise) - The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs; Father and Son - Cat Stevens; Fight Test - Flaming Lips; Domsbore - Boredoms; Right Hand Ponk - OOIOO; One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 2, In The Morning Of The Magicians, Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell, Are You A Hypnotist, It's Summertime, Do You Realize, All We Have Is Now, Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia) - Flaming Lips; Video Killed The Radio Star (Buggles cover) - The Silver Snails

Arguably one of the most important groups of the 1980s, St Paul Minnesota punk rock trio Hüsker Dü paved the way for 90s indie superstars Nirvana and a host of others while never quite reaching anything close to that level of success in their short 9-year existence. This week's guest, Reno, NV musician and writer Mark Earnest (Kanawha, Manchild), joins us to discuss their sixth - and final - studio release, Warehouse: Songs and Stories. A sprawling, sonic battlefield between dual songwriters Bob Mould and Grant Hart, the double record is a harrowing, at times beautiful soundtrack to a band falling apart.

Songs discussed in this episode: She Floated Away (Hüsker Dü cover) - Casey Neill & The Norway Rats; Strings - Kanawha; Makes No Sense At All - Hüsker Dü; Bastards Of Young - The Replacements; Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely, In A Free Land, Do You Remember, These Important Years - Hüsker Dü; Accident Prone - Jawbreaker; Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope, Standing In The Rain, Back From Somewhere, Ice Cold Ice, Could You Be The One, Too Much Spice, Friend, You've Got To Fall, Visionary, She Floated Away - Hüsker Dü; So Grant Hart - Mr Entertainment and The Pookiesmackers; Bed Of Nails, Eight Miles High (The Byrds cover), I'll Tell You Why Tomorrow, It's Not Peculiar, No Reservations, Turn It Around, She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man) - Hüsker Dü; Up In The Air (Hüsker Dü cover) - Heidi Berry; Up In The Air, You Can Live At Home - Hüsker Dü; House Of Dead Memories - Sugar; Ashes Into The Sea - Manchild

New York City singer/songwriter Robert Scheffler joins us this week with an artist Rob somehow slept on all these years - Aimee Mann. Her second full-length, 1995's "I'm With Stupid", is the one that did it for Robert, and her deceptively biting songcraft and the record's dense, layered guitars made a true believer of your humble host.

Songs discussed in this episode: Voices Carry ('Til Tuesday cover) - Gang Green; Always, Excuse The Mess, Basher - Robert Scheffler; Up The Junction - Squeeze; Long Shot, Choice In The Matter - Aimee Mann; Animal Nitrate - Suede; Sugarcoated, You Could Make A Killing, Superball, Amateur - Aimee Mann; When The Hangover Strikes, I Think I'm Go Go - Squeeze; All Over Now, Par For The Course, You're With Stupid Now, That's Just What You Are, Frankenstein, Ray, It's Not Safe, *hidden track - Aimee Mann; We're All Waiting - Robert Scheffler

"What is Love anyway, does anybody love anybody anyway?" We don't know the answer to that question, Howard, but we DID ask our Patrons to send in their favorite TWISTED love song - and they did NOT disappoint. We think you will love this episode...

Songs discussed in this episode: Love Gets You Twisted - Graham Parker; Rosie - Jackson Browne; Woman - Anti-Nowhere League; Carmelita - Warren Zevon; Buddha - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band; They Don't Know About Me And You - Chuck Prophet; Fat - Violent Femmes; Gimme All Your Lovin' Or I Will Kill You - Macy Gray; I Want You - Elvis Costello
If I Didn't Love You - Squeeze; Johanna - Iggy Pop; Into My Arms - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; Red Headed Stranger -  Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith; Lovey Dovey - Split Enz; Reflections In A Flat - Half Man Half Biscuit ; Timebomb - Old 97s; Sally Cinnamon - The Stone Roses; Be My Girl-Sally - The Police; A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off - The Magnetic Fields; I Lied - Lord Huron; Valerie Loves Me - Material Issue; Shadow Of Love - The Damned; Stay Away From Robert Mitchum - April March; The Fall - Nomeansno; You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr; (I Never Loved) Eva Braun - The Boomtown Rats

This week Rob sits down with a friend of 30+ years, musician Pete Gordon, to talk Chapel Hill NC indie rock titans Superchunk and their 1993 release, 'On The Mouth'.
"Have you got a minute?..."

Songs discussed in this episode: From The Curve (Live in Montreal 1993) - Superchunk; Worry Wart - Radiobaghdad; A New Hope - Amboog-A-Lard; Seed Toss - Superchunk; Alpha Dog - Irish Car Bomb; Precision Auto - Superchunk; Precision Auto - Jimmy Eat World; Precision Auto - Les Savy Fav; Bringin' It Down - Judge; Sometime To Return - Soul Asylum; Still Waiting - Dag Nasty; Merchandise - Fugazi; From The Curve - Superchunk; Raining Blood - Slayer; For Tension, Mower, Package Thief, Swallow That, I Guess I Remembered It Wrong - Superchunk; Helicopter - Bloc Party; New Low - Superchunk; A Weird Place To Look For Gold, But OK - Cede The Clouds; Untied - Superchunk; Undone-The Sweater Song - Weezer; The Question Is How Fast, Trash Heap, Flawless, The Only Piece That You Get - Superchunk; What's Your Theory Doctor? - Cede The Clouds

This week, UK record shop owner/musician Richard Farnell brings us the impossible-to-classify British iconoclasts Cardiacs and their magnificently eclectic 1988 debut 'A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window'. It's a wild ride indeed, and we're here for it!

Songs featured in this episode: Interlude - Cardiacs; Sparkle - The Suncharms; Tarred and Feathered, Hope Day - Cardiacs; Casablanca Moon - Slapp Happy; Smart Patrol/Mr DNA - DEVO; Cross Wires - XTC; Ill In The Head - Dead Kennedys; A Little Man And A House, In A City Lining, Is This The Life, Dive, The Icing On The World, The Breakfast Line, Victory Egg - Cardiacs; Act Of Being Polite - The Residents; R.E.S., The Whole World Window - Cardiacs; Things Lost - The Suncharms

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

When we asked this week's guest, Grammy Award winning fiddler/singer/songwriter Louis Michot (Lost Bayou Ramblers) to choose a record to discuss, he went with an album that captured his imagination as a young up-and-coming Louisiana musician and has mystified him ever since: Pink Floyd's fascinating 1971 release, 'Meddle'.
"And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the Sun"

Songs discussed in this episode: One Of These Days (8-Bit Version) - 8 Bit Songs; The Bathtub (Live) - Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra & Lost Bayou Ramblers; Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd; Les Beaux Jours, Rêve du Troubadour (feat. Rising Stars Fife and Drum), Le Cas de Marguerite (feat. Bombino, Leyla McCalla) - Louis Michot; One Of These Days, A Pillow Of Winds, Fearless - Pink Floyd; In My Life - The Beatles; San Tropez - Pink Floyd; Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground; Seamus - Pink Floyd; Mountain Jam (Live) - Allman Brothers Band; Echoes, Time, Echoes - Pink Floyd; Amourette (feat. Quintron) - Louis Michot

A supergroup to end all supergroups, the Traveling Wilburys (George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne) and their mega-platinum debut, Vol. 1, is at-the-end-of-the-day a chronicle of 5 supremely gifted musicians making some music together and clearly enjoying each other's company. This week's guest, Los Angeles musician D.A. Stern, can't remember a time when this record WASN'T a part of his life, and we leave our cynicism at the door as we dig into this once-in-a-lifetime classic.

Songs discussed in this episode: Not Alone Anymore - Roy Orbison (Demo Version); Acid Winter, Not A Punk - D.A. Stern; When We Was Fab - George Harrison; Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra; Handle With Care, Dirty World, Rattled, Last Night - Traveling Wilburys; You Got It - Roy Orbison; Not Alone Anymore, Congratulations, Heading For The Light, Margarita, Tweeter and the Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys; Blinded By The Light - Bruce Springsteen; End Of The Line - Traveling Wilburys; Lovebird (feat. Sarah Chernoff) - D.A. Stern

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)

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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

Atlanta, GA based multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter Jeremy Wilms (J.Wilms) brings us Neil Young and his seminal 1970 release 'After The Gold Rush'. We take a deep dive into a record that has influenced Jeremy's - and countless others - songwriting and STILL, on occasion, makes him cry.

Songs featured in this episode: After The Goldrush - Linda Ronstadt; The Fighter, All The Roads, Hey My - Jeremy Wilms; Carry On, Woodstock - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Rockin' In The Free World, Tell Me Why, After The Gold Rush, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Southern Man - Neil Young; Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd; The South's Gonna Do It Again - Charlie Daniels Band; Till The Morning Comes - Neil Young; Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson; Oh Lonesome Me, Don't Let It Bring You Down, Birds, Birds (Demo - Neil Young & Graham Nash), Birds (Mono - Neil Young Archives Vol. 1), When You Dance I Can Really Love, I Believe In You, Cripple Creek Ferry - Neil Young; Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zandt; Yes I Know - Jeremy Wilms

When English singer/songwriter Nick Drake released his ambitious second album - 'Bryter Layter' - in 1971, he all-but-squashed any chance of commercial success by failing to promote it. Three years later the troubled artist was gone. This week's guest, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush, The Small Square), helps us unpack this evocative collection of songs featuring musical backing by members of Fairport Convention, The Beach Boys and John Cale among others. Essential listening.

Songs discussed in this episode: Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Bob Dylan Cover) - Nick Drake; Hold Me Up - Velvet Crush; Twenty-Third - The Small Square; Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys; Rosie - Fairport Convention; Holocaust - Big Star; Introduction, Hazey Jane II, From The Morning, At The Chime Of A City Clock - Nick Drake; Forever Instant - Lou Barlow (Sentridoh); One Of These Things First - Nick Drake; All I Want To Do - The Beach Boys; Pink Moon, Hazey Jane I - Nick Drake; Heartbeats-Jose Gonzalez; Bryter Layter, The Fly - Nick Drake; Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground; Poor Boy - Nick Drake; Marianne - Leonard Cohen; Northern Sky, Sunday - Nick Drake; It'll Take A Long Time - Sandy Denny; Baby Face - The Small Square

For this special BONUS Episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a short song - less than 2 minutes - that got them high. As usual, they did NOT disappoint!

Songs discussed in this episode: Fingertips - They Might Be Giants; Time: The Donut of the Heart - J Dilla; Just Another Soldier, Shit You Hear At Parties - Minutemen; Manifest - The Weakerthans; Game Of Pricks - Guided By Voices; Abra Cadavor - The Hives; Maybeline (Buddy Holly cover) - Social Distortion; Superstar-Watcher - Yo La Tengo; Short Songs (Live) - Dead Kennedys; Talk Talk - The Music Machine; Feelin' - The La's; Breaking Glass - David Bowie; Minimum Wage - They Might Be Giants; Final Day - Young Marble Giants; Bored To Life - Scream; True Love Will Find You In The End - Daniel Johnston; I Hate Your Lipstick - Veal; I'm Wrong, You're Gone - Natalie Sweet; Rapp Snitch Knishes (feat. Mr. Fantastik), Accordion - MF Doom; Fragile - Wire; As Kind As Summer - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band; Brother - Oh-OK; Allison - Pixies

This week's returning guest, political activist and co-host of The Muck Podcast Hillary Dougherty, didn't mince words when she asked to come back on the show: "boygenius just released the album of the year and I need to come on and talk about it!" OK. Luckily the debut full-length by this indie supergroup made up of three young, talented women (Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus) simply titled 'the record' IS pretty great, and well deserving of all the accolades it's been getting. Go figure.

Songs discussed in this episode: Not Strong Enough (Live, Saturday Sessions) - Boygenius; Ladies (Live, Ohana 2017) - Fiona Apple; Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers; Souvenir, Without You Without Them, $20, Emily I'm Sorry, True Blue - Boygenius; The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkle; Cool About It, Not Strong Enough - Boygenius; Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow; Revolution 0, Leonard Cohen - Boygenius; Chelsea Hotel #2 - Leonard Cohen; Satanist, We're In Love, Anti-Curse, Letter To An Old Poet, Me And My Dog, Read My Mind (The Killers cover) - Boygenius

This week we're joined by Ramona Jan and Nicholas Dembling of NYC synth-punk pioneers The Comateens. For the record of discussion, Ramona chose British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae's stunningly intimate 2010 release, 'The Sea', and Nick came along for the ride...

Songs discussed in this episode: The Blackest Lily (Live in Williamsburg) - Corinne Bailey Rae; Overseas, Danger Zone - The Comateens; Elizabeth's Lover - Dizzy and the Romilars; Mandy - Barry Manilow; Ramona - Ramones; Put Your Records On, Are You Here - Corinne Bailey Rae; Magician (Internally) - Lou Reed; I Am Woman - Helen Reddy; I'd Do It All Again, Feels Like The First Time - Corinne Bailey Rae; I'll Be Seeing You - Billie Holiday; The Blackest Lily, Closer - Corinne Bailey Rae; Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips; Love's On Its Way - Corinne Bailey Rae; Sexy Mama - Laura Nyro; Be Bop Kid - Suicide; My Girl (Rehearsal) - The Comateens; I Would Like To Call It Beauty, Paris Nights New York Mornings - Corinne Bailey Rae; Drive My Car - Nastyfacts; Paper Dolls, Diving For Hearts, The Sea, I'd Do It All Again (Acoustic) - Corinne Bailey Rae; Elizabeth's Lover - The Comateens

Originally released as a cassette in 1987 under the Sentridoh name, 'Weed Forestin' is a beautifully eclectic collection of home-recordings by songwriter Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr). This week's guest Dave Gebroe of the Discograffiti Podcast joins us as we unpack this weirdly wonderful indie classic.

Songs discussed in this episode: Brand New Love - Ben Lee/Superchunk/Death Cab For Cutie; I Have Been Floated - The Olivia Tremor Control; Healthy Sick - Sebadoh; How Loft I Am - Guided By Voices; Metal Machine Music Pt. 1 - Lou Reed; Albuquerque '89, New Worship, My Own Religion, More Simple, Jealous Of Jesus, Mr Genius Eyes, Perfect Power, Feeding Evil, Sexual Confusion, Broken, Waited Forever - Sentridoh; Place To Be - Nick Drake; Slightest Suggestion, It's So Hard To Fall In Love - Sentridoh; It's So Hard To Fall In Love - Superchunk; Brand New Love - Sentridoh; Brand New Love - Sebadoh

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

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

Returning guest Joe Tunis (Carbon Records, Pengo) brings us Louisville, Kentucky math rock purveyors Rodan and their first and only full-length studio album 'Rusty'. Strap in!

Songs discussed in this episode: Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto (Live at The Black Cat, Washington, DC) - Rodan; It Don't Bring Me Down - Nod; Helen Said This - The Dead C; Good Morning Captain - Slint; Hammering So Hard - Squirrel Bait; Bumper Crop - Volcano Suns; Happily Divided - Sebadoh; Burning Too - Fugazi; June Miller - June Of 44; Southbound To Marion - Rachel's; Bible Silver Corner, Shiner - Rodan; Hirscheneck - Bastro; Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex - Don Caballero; The Everyday World Of Bodies - Rodan; Blown (Face Down) - Dazzling Killmen; The Everyday World Of Bodies, Jungle Jim - Rodan; Hybrid Ice Princess - Retsin; Gauge, Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto - Rodan; Androscoggin River Ragg - Liam Grant

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

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...
Such is life!

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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

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

Seattle singer/songwriter Scott Yoder took a break from his seemingly non-stop touring to sit down and discuss British folk singer Al Stewart and his beautifully enigmatic 1975 album 'Modern Times'. 
"I was drawn by the sirens of Titan
Carried along by their call
Seeking for a way to enlighten
Searching for the sense of it all"

Songs discussed in this episode: Pink Panther Theme (Live 1978 WKQX Studios, Chicago) - Al Stewart; Love Theme From How's It Gonna End, You'll Never Know - Scott Yoder; Year Of The Cat, You Should Have Listened To Al, Time Passages - Al Stewart; Cosmic Dancer - T-Rex; West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys; Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John; Down To The Waterline - Dire Straits; Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project; Carol, Sirens Of Titan, What's Going On, Not The One - Al Stewart; Queen Bitch - David Bowie; Next Time - Al Stewart; Everybody's Talkin' - Fred Neil; Life And Life Only - Al Stewart (with Richard Thompson); Apple Cider Re-Constitution - Al Stewart; The Star Of The County Down - Graham Johnson & Ann Murray; The Dark and The Rolling Sea, Modern Times - Al Stewart; Finale From How's It Gonna End, Silver Screen Starlet - Scott Yoder

This week's guest, musician Arad Evans (The Whimbrels, Glenn Branca's Ensemble, Heroes Of Toolik), chose to discuss a record by groundbreaking New York City band Television that's NOT 'Marquee Moon'! The bands follow-up to that classic album, 1978's 'Adventure', is sometimes overlooked, but the clever songwriting and magnificent dual-guitar orchestrations of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd prove that their iconic debut was no fluke.

Days (Television cover) - Swervedriver; She Is The Leader - The Whimbrels; Marquee Moon - Television; I'm So Bored With The U.S.A. - The Clash; June Bug - Leo Kottke; Perfect - Heroes Of Toolik; Glory, Days - Television; Talk About The Passion - REM; Foxhole - Television; Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones;  Twisting In Space - Glenn Branca; Careful, Adventure, Carried Away - Television; Search and Destroy - Iggy Pop & the Stooges; Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - The Rezillos; The Fire - Television; Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - The Velvet Underground; Ain't That Nothin', The Dream's Dream - Television; Four Moons Of Galileo - The Whimbrels

Returning guest Mick Hans brings us a lost 60s nugget this week, as we explore the music of singer/songwriter/guitarist Merrell Wayne Fankhauser and his 1968 release: Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty 'Things'. It's as obscure a collection of wonderfully executed psyche/pop/blues as you're likely to come across, and we're here for it!

Songs discussed in this episode: Wipe Out - Merrell Fankhauser (Live from The Tiki Lounge, 2013); Chicago Shuffle Blues - Julius H; Fort Lauderdale - The Impacts; Wipe Out - Surfaris; The Music Scene - Fapardokly; Ain't No Blues - Mu; Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & His Playboy Band; Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show - Neil Diamond; Things (Goin' Round In My Mind) - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty;  Wasn't Born To Follow - The Byrds; Girl (I'm Waiting For You) - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty;  Frownland - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band; What Does She See In You - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty;  I Can't Reach You - The Who; Lost In The City, Your Painted Lives - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty;  Sweet Caroline (Fenway Park, Game 2 ALCS 10-14-2018) - Neil Diamond; Drivin' Sideways (On A One Way Street) - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty;  Tomorrow's Girl - Merrell & The Xiles (Fapardokly); In A Minute Not Too Soon, A Visit With Ashiya - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty;  Listen To The Flower People - Spinal Tap; The Big Gray Sky, Rich Man's Fable - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty;  In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly; Ice Cube Island, Madame Silky, I'm Flying Home, Tampa Run, Everybody's Talkin' - Merrell Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty

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

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

This week we venture a little out of our comfort zone, as our guests Francis Grenon and Jeff Snow play hooky from THEIR podcast The Sonic Temple and bring us Def Leppard's 1987 release, 'Hysteria'. Produced by rock production legend  Robert John "Mutt" Lange and taking over three years to complete (during which time drummer Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident and famously soldiered on), the album went on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide and spawn 7 hit singles.
Take that, haters...

Songs discussed in this episode: Pour Some Sugar On Me - Deerhoof; Rock Brigade - Def Leppard; Back In Black - AC/DC; Rock and Roll Queen - Mott The Hoople; Money Honey - Bay City Rollers; Bang A Gong (Get It On) - T-Rex; Women, Rock Of Ages, Rocket - Def Leppard; Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam and the Ants; Any Man Of Mine - Shania Twain; Animal, Love Bites - Def Leppard; Sugar, Sugar - The Archies; Pour Some Sugar On Me, Armageddon It, Gods Of War, Don't Shoot Shot Gun, Run Riot, Hysteria - Def Leppard; Be My Baby - The Ronettes; Excitable, Love And Affection, 20th Century Boy (T-Rex cover) - Def Leppard 

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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

This week's guest, writer/DJ/Tech dude Corey duBrowa, brings some deep personal insight to this episode focusing on Elliott Smith and his amazing 1997 record: 'Either/Or'. Corey was living in Portland, OR and running in the same circles as Smith during his rise as a member of the Portland rock band Heatmiser to Oscar-nominated indie solo artist. Although he was tragically taken way too soon from this earth, his wonderfully written, captivatingly delivered songs live on.

Songs discussed in this episode: Say Yes - Brown Derbies/Lucy Lowis/Ben Folds/Elliott Smith; Blackout - Heatmiser; No Confidence Man (Live at Umbra Penumbra, Portland, OR - September 17, 1994) - Elliott Smith; Plainclothes Man - Heatmiser; Miss Misery (Live at The Oscars, 1998), Speed Trials - Elliott Smith; My Valuable Hunting Knife - Guided By Voices; Alameda - Elliott Smith; The Ballad Of El Goodo - Big Star; Ballad Of Big Nothing, Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Live, Bob Dylan Cover) - Elliott Smith; Ballad Of A Thin Man - Bob Dylan; This Will Be Our Year - The Zombies; Between The Bars, Pictures Of Me, No Name No. 5, Rose Parade - Elliott Smith; I Figured You Out - Mary Lou Lord; Punch and Judy, Angeles, Cupid's Trick, 2.45 AM, Say Yes - Elliott Smith; Warsaw - Joy Division; I Figured You Out - Elliott Smith

This week's guest, musician Denis Tetreault, brings us the 1999 debut record by Washington D.C. post-punk band Burning Airlines - the blistering Mission: Control! Singer/guitarist J. Robbins and bass player Bill Barbot (Jawbox) along with drummer Peter Moffett (Government Issue) made a gloriously furious racket in the band's short existence, and we're here for it!

Songs discussed in this episode: Action (Sweet Cover) - Burning Airlines; Final Solution - Pere Ubu; Cooling Card - Jawbox; Chivaree - Channels; Harden Your Heart - Office Of Future Plans; Burning Airlines Give You So Much More - Brian Eno; Carnival, Wheaton Calling - Burning Airlines; London Calling - The Clash; Pacific 231 - Arthur Honegger; Pacific 231, Scissoring, The Escape Engine, (My Pornograph), Meccano - Burning Airlines; Forget - Mission Of Burma; 3 Sisters, Flood Of Foreign Capital, Crowned - Burning Airlines; Are You Receiving Me? - XTC; Sweet Deals On Surgery, I Sold Myself In, Back Of Love (Echo & The Bunnymen Cover) - Burning Airlines

Minnesota-based singer/songwriter Tony Cuchetti brings us the lone 1995 release by grunge supergroup Mad Season, 'Above'. When Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and journeyman bass player John Baker Saunders met at rehab, they decided to form a band and brought in Layne Staley of Alice In Chains primarily because they thought he would benefit from being around some clean musicians. With Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin rounding out the band, they crafted this dense record of slow-burning jams that is as bleak a document of drug addiction as you're ever likely to hear.

Songs featured in this episode: River Of Deceit (Live at the Moore, Seattle 1995) - Mad Season; Lay It On Me, The After - Tony Cuchetti; The Rooster - Alice In Chains; Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees; Wake Up, X-Ray Mind, River Of Deceit - Mad Season; Better Man - Pearl Jam; I'm Above, Artificial Red, Lifeless Dead - Mad Season; Hunger Strike - Temple Of The Dog; I Don't Know Anything, Long Gone Day - Mad Season; Voodoo - Godsmack; November Hotel - Mad Season; Riders On The Storm - The Doors; All Alone - Mad Season; Stubborn Bones - Tony Cuchetti

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'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

Bob Dylan's fifth studio album - and his first  to incorporate electric instrumentation - 1965's 'Bringing It All Back Home', marked a seismic shift in popular music that can still be felt today. This week's guest, Buffalo, NY-born singer-songwriter and rock-and-roll lifer Willie Nile, joins us to dissect this stunning game-changer of a record.

Songs discussed in this episode: Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan cover), Vagabond Moon, We Are We Are - Willie Nile; Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan; Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly; 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones; Subterranean Homesick Blues, She Belongs To Me, Maggie's Farm - Bob Dylan; Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Bob Dylan Cover) - Willie Nile; Love Minus Zero/No Limit, Outlaw Blues - Bob Dylan; On The Road Again - Willie Nelson; On The Road Again, Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan; Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds; Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan; Don't Worry Baby - The Beach Boys; Gates Of Eden, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bob Dylan; Wake Up America - Willie Nile

Milwaukee guitarist/vocalist Joe Cannon (WORK, Resurrectionists) brings us Dutch experimental/punk band The Ex, and their 1995 release 'Mudbird Shivers'.
"Fasten your seatbelts, here is the news
Just come and get it,
The Thunderstruck Blues…"

Songs discussed in this episode: Eyoleo - The Ex & Han Bennink (Ziway, Ethiopia 2004); (hotel with pool) - Resurrectionists; Bluefield #2 - Delicious Monsters; Stupid Americans - The Ex; Symfonie Voor Machines - Ex Orkest; State Of Shock, Thunderstruck Blues, Only If You Want 3, Red Roper, Embarrassment - The Ex; House Carpenter (Studio outtake, 1961) - Bob Dylan; House Carpenter, Newsense, Former Reporter, Shore Thing, Things Most People Think, Audible Bacillus - The Ex; Sleep Is Wrong - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum; Hunt Hat - The Ex; Now That We Are All Ghosts - Resurrectionists

We hate to throw around the phrase 'criminally unheralded', but it sure does seem to fit San Francisco slowcore pioneers American Music Club and lead singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel. This week's guest, DAGGERzine creator Tim Hinely, brings us their 2nd album, 'Engine'. Warning: Eitzel's poignant, devastatingly raw songs will get under your skin and fester. Beautifully.
"And anything beautiful
That you can contrive
Has no desire to survive..."

Songs discussed in this episode: Kaleidoscope World - The Chills; When Your Love Is Gone - American Music Club; 24 - Red House Painters; Big Night - American Music Club; Straight Edge - Minor Threat; Room Above The Club (AMC cover) - Frank 'Rat Bastard' Falestra (live 2012 Tobacco Road, Miami); Outside This Bar, At My Mercy, Gary's Song, Nightwatchman, Clouds, Electric Light, Mom's TV - American Music Club; I Need My Girl - The National; If You Have To Ask - Mark Eitzel; Art Of Love, Asleep, Kathleen, This Year, Outside This Bar (off 'A Toast To You', recorded live Nov 10, 2004 - Pittsburgh, PA) - American Music Club

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

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

For our 300th episode (!!!), we invited original TRGMH co-host Barry Stock and That Facebook Group Got Me High admin Mark Guerita to dissect Beck's contagiously-fun magnum opus of a party album, 1999s 'Midnite Vultures'. A good time was had by all.

Songs discussed in this episode: Debra (2 Meter Sessions, 1999) - Beck; Crazy Horses - The Osmonds; Loser - Beck; Little Red Corvette - Prince; Sexx Laws, Nicotine & Gravy - Beck; The Dope Show - Marilyn Manson; Mixed Bizness - Beck; Cold Lampin' With Flavor - Public Enemy; Get Real Paid - Beck; Jam On It - Newcleus; Hollywood Freaks - Beck; Doomsday - MF Doom; Peaches & Cream, Broken Train, Milk & Honey, Beautiful Way - Beck; Countess From Hong Kong (Demo) - The Velvet Underground; Pressure Zone, Debra - Beck; Saturn Return #2 - BarryRStock

Teacher and poet Josh Medsker brings us California iconoclasts Camper Van Beethoven and their wonderful 1989 album 'Key Lime Pie'. It's a sweet, slightly tangy slice of musical heaven!

Songs discussed in this episode: Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Status Quo; Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Eye Of Fatima - Camper Van Beethoven; Finger-Pointing-Man - Mike Watt; Wasted, Take The Skinheads Bowling, Opening Theme, Jack Ruby, Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven; Old Mother Reagan - Violent Femmes; When I Win The Lottery, (I Was Born In A) Laundromat, Borderline, The Light From A Cake, June - Camper Van Beethoven; Bitchin' Camaro - The Dead Milkmen; All Her Favorite Fruit, Interlude, Circles, Flowers, The Humid Press Of Days - Camper Van Beethoven; Torn Curtain - Television; Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Come On Darkness, Teen Angst - Camper Van Beethoven; All Her Favorite Fruit - Starlings, TN

For this BONUS Patron-curated episode we asked our Patrons to send in a song that samples, references or pays tribute to ANOTHER song. They delivered. Remember, if YOU'D like to become a Patron of the podcast head over to:
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Songs discussed in this episode: Sister Ray - Velvet Underground; Velvet Underground - Jonathan Richman; Witness The Fitness - Roots Manuva; Blindness - The Fall; Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2; All By Myself - Eric Carmen; Dust In The Wind - Kansas; Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Bob Marley; You Were Right - Built To Spill; Black Cow - Steely Dan; Deja Vu - Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz; Walk Away Renee - Four Tops; Walk Away Renee (Version) - Billy Bragg; M.P.L.A - The Revolutionaries; Dub M.P.L.A. - Tappa Zukie; SpottieOttieDopaliscious - Outkast; All Night - Beyonce; Baby You're A Rich Man - The Beatles; The Beautiful - P.M. Dawn; The Greatness and Perfection of Love - Julian Cope; I Feel Dread - Business Of Dreams; Spooky - Barry Walker and the Rain; Something Wicked This Way Comes - Barry Adamson; Misty - Johnny Mathis; Johnny Mathis' Feet - American Music Club; Living In America - James Brown; James Brown - Big Audio Dynamite; These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra; Never Fight A Man With A Perm - IDLES; Man In The Box - Alice In Chains; Grunge Rock Blues - Todd Snider; Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack; Bonita Applebaum - A Tribe Called Quest; Memory Band - Rotary Connection; Killing Me Softly - The Fugees; Cavern - Liquid Liquid; White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Melle Mel; 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians; Human Fly - The Cramps; Straight To Hell - The Clash; Paper Planes - M.I.A.

Anthemic. Angular. Inscrutable. These are all words that could describe Wichita, Kansas indie-rock-cum blister-pop band The Embarrassment. Musician Bob Fay (Sebadoh, Cardinal, Lost Hours) discovered them at the end their short-but-prolific existence, after they moved to Boston and eventually splintered off into other bands - Big Dipper and The Del Fuegos to name two - leaving behind a slew of excellent releases including the 1983 mini-LP 'Death Travels West'.
"We Were Famous, You Don't Remember"

Songs discussed in this episode: Immigrant Song (live) - The Embarrassment; Beauty Of The Ride - Sebadoh; She's Fetching, Ron Klaus Wrecked His House - Big Dipper; Don't Run Wild - The Del Fuegos; This Is Not A Photograph - Mission Of Burma; Venus - Television; Careen, Viewmaster - The Embarrassment; Here Comes Your Man - Pixies; Drive Me To The Park - The Embarrassment; Communist Radio - The Eat; Lewis and Clark, D-Rings, Sex Drive, Chapter 12 - The Embarrassment; Love Beach - Emerson, Lake & Palmer; This Charming Man - The Smiths; Hip and Well Read, Death Travels West - The Embarrassment; Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (live) - Ramones; Sevens Glass Lady - Lost Hours

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

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

There's no getting around it, 'Magic and Loss', Lou Reed's sixteenth studio album released in 1992, is NOT a particularly easy listen. While often musically beautiful in an elegantly understated way, the themes of death and the relentless toll it can take on both the dying and ones who love them are both universal and at times uncomfortably personal. Returning guest, Canadian documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig, is here for all of it.
"There's a bit of magic in everything
And then some loss to even things out"

Songs discussed in this episode: Dorita (The Spirit) - Lou Reed; Pale Blue Eyes, White Light White Heat - The Velvet Underground; Teardrop In The Sand - The Hollywoods; Buffalo Ballet - John Cale; Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed; Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters; Dorita (The Spirit), What's Good (The Thesis) - Lou Reed; Stay With Me - Little Jimmy Scott; Power and Glory (The Situation), Magician (Internally), Sword Of Damocles (Externally), Goodby Mass - (In a Chapel Bodily Termination), Cremation (Ashes To Ashes), Dreamin' (Escape), No Chance (Regret), Warrior King (Revenge), Harry's Circumcision (Reverie Gone Astray), Street Hassle, Gassed and Stoned (Loss), Power and Glory, Part II (Magic - Transformation), Magic and Loss (Summation) - Lou Reed; Magician (Lou Reed cover) - Rosanne Cash

This week's guest, Don Cowan (Kraut), brings us T. Rex's 1972 release 'The Slider'. Leader Marc Bolan - still at the top of his game - unleashes a trippy cast of characters (Telegram Sam, Baby Strange, Jungle-face Jake, Buick Mackane...etc) on this rock-and-roll dream of a record.
Rock on!

Songs discussed in this episode: Metal Guru - Nena; Don't Believe - Kraut; Ziggy Stardust, Heroes - David Bowie; Bang A Gong (Get It On), Metal Guru - T. Rex; Panic - The Smiths; Elenore - The Turtles; Mystic Lady - T. Rex; Sloop John B - The Beach Boys; Rock On, The Slider, Baby Boomerang - T. Rex; The Ballad Of John and Yoko - The Beatles; Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed; Spaceball Ricochet - T. Rex; Trampled Under Foot - Led Zeppelin; Buick McCane - T. Rex; Telegram Sam - Bauhaus; Telegram Sam, Rabbit Fighter, Baby Strange, Ballrooms Of Mars, Chariot Choogle, Main Man - T. Rex; Arming The World - Kraut 

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

Michigan music fan Ron Wade is a sucker for alternative/pop female-fronted bands, and when he first heard Ivy and their 1997 release 'Apartment Life' while working at a Detroit weekly, it ticked all his musical boxes! Lush, breezy and expertly crafted, the songs written by Andy Chase and the late/great Adam Schlesinger - with the magnificent Dominique Durand on vocals - will most-surely tick the boxes of any/all pop music lovers.

Songs featured in this episode: Sleeping Late - Ivy; Panic In Detroit - David Bowie; Utopia Parkway - Fountains Of Wayne; Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground; That Thing You Do - The Wonders; Gepetto - Belly; Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage; The Best Thing, I've Got A Feeling, This Is The Day - Ivy; The Bright Light - Tanya Donelly; This Is The Day (Live, Philadelphia PA 3.22.98), Never Do That Again, I Get The Message, Baker - Ivy; Slide Away - Oasis; You Don't Know Anything - Ivy; I've Got A Feeling - Potty Mouth; The Noise Of Carpet - Stereolab; Ba Ba Ba - Ivy; Ba Ba Ba - Liz Phair; Get Out Of The City, These Are The Things About You, Quick, Painless and Easy, Back In Our Town - Ivy; Caribou - Pixies; Sweet Mary - Ivy