When this week's guest, Minneapolis-based writer and drummer David Jarnstrom, was tasked with choosing a record to discuss, he surprisingly went with something both relatively obscure AND near-and-dear to Rob's heart: the 1990 debut - and sole full-length record - by criminally unsung Miami pop-punk heroes Quit, 'Earlier Thoughts'. Go figure!

Songs discussed in this episode: Intro - Quit:Live at Churchill's Pub Goodtastic Films Video Excerpt; Run It Out - Rad Owl; VANNEN, the friend - John Snodgrass; Drive Away - Gratitude; Dine Alone - Quicksand; Defy, All The Same, Changes, Could Be Wrong, Remember, Feeling OK, Dedication - Quit; Fixed - The Holy Terrors; Me For Me, Waiting - Quit; Everything & You - Lightworkers; Shepherd's Pie, Did You See, Billness, Quit - Quit; Quiet While You're Ahead - Rad Owl

Back in March, 2021 when TRGMH was still a two-man operation, musician & human Bob Fay (Sebadoh, Deluxx, Folk Implosion) joined Rob and Barry to discuss The Frogs and their controversial 1989 cult classic 'It's Only Right and Natural'. That episode was never released.
Until now...

Songs discussed in this episode: Homos - The Frogs (Live at The Knitting Factory, Los Angeles CA 05-16-2003); Not Too Amused - Sebadoh; I'm Just A Bill - Deluxx Folk Implosion; I've Got Drugs (Out Of The Mist), I Don't Care If U Disrespect Me (Just So You Love Me), Hot Cock Annie, These Are the Finest Queen Boys (I've Ever Seen), Rosy Jack World - The Frogs; Songs For Swinging Larvae - Renaldo & The Loaf; Someone's Pinning Me to the Ground, Baby Greaser George, (Thank God I Died in) The Car Crash, Gather 'Round for Savior #2, Richard Dick Richards, Men (Come on Men), Christian With A Gun, Dykes Are We - The Frogs; Diary Of A Shiteater (Excerpt) - Girls Who Hate Their Mothers and The Chicken Fucks; Been a Month Since I Had a Man - The Frogs; Homos (Live) - The Lemonheads; Homos - The Frogs; Sforzando! - Bob Fay

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/

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 

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

Returning guest  Steve Michener (Big Dipper, Volcano Suns, Dumptruck) brings in Ground Zero for British punk, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, the one and only studio album by the notorious Sex Pistols. 
"We mean it, man!"

Songs featured in this episode:Roadrunner (demo)  - Sex Pistols; Roadrunner - Sex Pistols (Live Brixton Academy, 2007); Meet The Witch - Big Dipper; I'll Be Back - The Beatles; Welcome To The Working Week - Elvis Costello; Street Life - Roxy Music; Beat On The Brat - Ramones; Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols; Welcome To Paradise - Green Day;  In The City - The Jam; Bodies - Sex Pistols; More Than A Feeling - Boston; No Feelings - Sex Pistols; I'm So Bored With The U.S.A. - The Clash; No Feelings, Liar, Problems - Sex Pistols; I Don't Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart; God Save The Queen, Seventeen, Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols; Come As You Are - Nirvana; Anarchy In The UK - Motley Crue; Submission - Sex Pistols; S.O.S.- ABBA; Pretty Vacant, New York - Sex Pistols; London Boys - The Heartbreakers; EMI - Sex Pistols; Careering - Public Image Ltd; Anarchy In The UK - Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain; God Save The Queen - Motorhead  

Guitarist/vocalist Chris O'Rourke and drummer/vocalist Rachael McNally - two-thirds of the Boston band Sleepyhead - brings us a double record as intriguingly mysterious and expansive as its name: 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You' by Brooklyn indie rock band Big Thief. Anchored by the stunning voice and enigmatic songwriting of singer/guitarist Adrianne Lenker, it's an ambitious and weirdly absorbing collection of songs/sounds guaranteed to get under your skin.

Songs featured in this episode: Change - Big Thief (Live Glastonbury, 2022); New Alchemy - Sleepyhead; Simulation Swarm, Sparrow, UFOF, Dried Roses - Big Thief; Changes - David Bowie; Change - Big Thief; You Can Have It All - Yo La Tengo; Time Escaping, Spud Infinity, Certainty, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, Little Things - Big Thief; Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush; Flower Of Blood, Red Moon, No Reason, 12,000 Lines, Simulation Swarm - Big Thief; Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers; Love Love Love, Blue Lightning - Big Thief; Pam and Eddie, Tony The Drunk Is A Thief - Sleepyhead

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

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

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

For this BONUS Patreon episode, we asked our Patrons to send in songs about drinking and/or drugs. Real talk: Alcohol/Drugs in excess can be bad, but songs about them can be awesome! If you'd like to participate in these episodes, please consider becoming a Patron today...
Cheers!!

Songs featured in this episode: Heroin - Saul Williams and John Cale (Concert at the Philharmonie de Paris, April 3, 2016); Arrested For Driving While Blind - ZZ Top; I Think I'm In Love - Spiritualized; Jane Says - Jane's Addiction; High Time - Casey Musgraves; Opium Trail - Thin Lizzy; Since You Put Me Down - Margo Price; Johnny Hit & Run Pauline - X; The Masked Marauder - Country Joe and The Fish; The Straight and Narrow - Spiritualized; The King Is Gone (So Are You) - George Jones; The British Army on LSD - Luke Haines & Peter Buck; White Rabbit - The Damned; Passenger Side - Wilco; Here Comes A Regular - Replacements; Black Coffee - Black Flag; Beer - Jay Bennett; Get Off On Your Porch - Charlie Pickett; I'm Straight (Jonathan Richman Cover) - Psyclone Rangers; Golden Brown - The Stranglers; Dopesmoker - Sleep

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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)

Listening back to it now, it's hard to believe that Bad Religion's seventh studio album - 1993s 'Recipe For Hate' - was at the time considered a polarizing record that many hardcore fans felt was a sell-out. 30 years later, it's clear this was a band at the top of their game - maturing and expanding musically while still delivering ferociously intelligent songs about class, religion and navigating a treacherous path towards the 21st century. Our guest, personal trainer and Taekwon-Do Studio owner Aaron Fruitstone, makes the case that their brand of cerebral punk is as presciently valid now as it was when he was an angry teen.
"Well madness reigned and paradise drowned
When Babel's walls came crashing down
Now the echoes roar for a story writ
That was hardly understood
And never any good."

Songs featured in this episode: Recipe For Hate (Live Hollywood Palladium, 2004) - Bad Religion; Strike First - Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson; No Control, Only Entertainment - Bad Religion; White Riot - The Clash; Commando - Ramones; Recipe For Hate, Kerosene - Bad Religion; Vigil Smile - Claw Hammer; American Jesus - Bad Religion; Porch - Pearl Jam; Portrait Of Authority - Bad Religion; House Of Wolves - My Chemical Romance; Wichita - Karen Landau and Greg Leisz; Man With A Mission, All Good Soldiers, Watch It Die - Bad Religion; Still In Hollywood - Concrete Blonde; Struck A Nerve - Bad Religion; Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy; My Poor Friend Me - Bad Religion; Growing Up - Fall Out Boy; Lookin' In - Bad Religion; Kids Of The Black Hole - Adolescents; Don't Pray On Me - Bad Religion; Sorrow - Greg Graffin (Live acoustic); Modern Day Catastrophists, Skyscraper, Stealth, Skyscraper (Piano version) - Bad Religion

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

Buckle-up listeners! This week's guest, Jeff Kaiser (Florida Sound Archive Podcast), brings us a record - and genre - that got his teenage self extremely high: It's the 1995 debut album by Tampa Death Metal supergroup Six Feet Under (featuring members of Cannibal Corpse and Obituary), 'Haunted'. With a slightly groovier, more riff-heavy sound than your standard Death Metal fare, its horror-themed songs about zombies, werewolves and the darker side of existence just might get under your skin. Added bonus: your parents will HATE it!

Songs featured in this episode: Suffering In Ecstasy - Six Feet Under; If This Is Love - Charlie Pickett & The Eggs; Buzzard Dance - Billie Stewart (Songs of the Seminole Indians of Florida 1931-1933); A Skull Full Of Maggots - Cannibal Corpse; Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment - Ramones; The Enemy Inside - Six Feet Under; Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath; Silent Violence, Lycanthropy, Still Alive, Beneath The Black, Human Target, Remains Of You, Suffering In Ecstasy - Six Feet Under; Better You, Better Than Me - Judas Priest; Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers; Tomorrow's Victim - Six Feet Under; A New Hope - Amboog-A-Lard; Torn To The Bone, Haunted - Six Feet Under; Veil Of Maya - Cynic; Stepping Stone - Six Feet Under

Record store owner and self-professed 'music geek' David Lewis (Elizabeth's Records - Columbus, OH) thinks we should never stop discovering new (to us) music. He's right. Around 10 years ago he came upon the 1972 debut album by German experimental rock group Agitation Free, 'Malesch'. A mysterious fusion of psychedelia, experimental krautrock and world music, it's a fascinating snapshot of a band working together to create a trippy, ethereal and unique wall of sound.

Songs featured in this episode: Laila III - Agitation Free (Live in Paris ORTF Studio, 1973); Future Games - Fleetwood Mac; Hallogallo - Neu!; Phaedra - Tangerine Dream; Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath; Winning - The Sound; You Play For Us Today, Sahara City - Agitation Free; New Dawn Fades - New Order; Ala Tul - Agitation Free; Supernaut - Black Sabbath; Outside Tokyo - The Stranglers; Pulse - Agitation Free; Departure From The Northern Wasteland - Michael Hoenig; Pruit Igoe - Philip Glass; Khan El Khalili - Agitation Free; Jessica - The Allman Brothers; No One Is There - Nico; V-2 Schneider - David Bowie; Malesch - Agitation Free; Utopia III (excerpt) - Thomas Kessler; Malesch, Rücksturz - Agitation Free; Emka - My Education; Music Factory - Agitation Free (Live Mainz Germany, 1972)

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

For Halloween 2022 we asked our Patrons to send in a song or music that was used in a movie scene that made it MUCH more tense, terrifying...etc. They didn't just stick to horror films - any movie where a song/music was used in a scene to ratchet-up the suspense/anxiety level was fair game - and as usual they did NOT disappoint!
Happy Halloween!!

Songs featured in this episode: 'Goodbye Horses' - Q Lazzarus; 'Tubular Bells' - Mike Oldfield; 'Needle In The Hay' - Elliott Smith; 'Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)' - The Delfonics; 'The Shining, Main Title' - Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind; 'All Along The Watchtower' - Bear McCreary; 'The Cannibals' - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis; 'Die By The Sword', 'Captor of Sin' - Slayer; 'In Dreams' - Roy Orbison; 'Stuck In The Middle With You' - Stealers Wheel; 'Jessie's Girl' - Rick Springfield; 'Kites Are Fun' - The Free Design; 'Walk The Night' - Skatt Bros.; 'Witch' - Goblin; 'Hip Priest' - The Fall; 'East Hastings' - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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

While many fans of British band The The (aka Matt Johnson) might immediately point to earlier albums Soul Mining or Mind Bomb as proof-of-concept, this week's guest Marcia Potts brings us 1993's 'Dusk' to consider. With a crack band - including guitarist/harmonicist Johnny Marr - in tow, Johnson's songs of lust, love and a blacker-than-black worldview hit all the right notes, and it's a lush, provocative ride from start to finish.

Songs featured in this episode: True Happiness (this way lies) - The The (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2018); Like A Hurricane - Roxy Music (Live from Arenes de Frejus France, 1982); Uncertain Smile, Heartland, I Saw The Light - The The; The Headmaster Ritual - The Smiths; True Happiness (this way lies), Love Is Stronger Than Death, Dogs Of Lust - The The; Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart; This Is The Night - The The; Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths; Slow Emotion Replay, Helpline Operator, Sodium Light Baby - The The; Come - Prince; Lung Shadows, Bluer Than Midnight, Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2018) - The The

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 the official start of our SIXTH season, musician/composer/producer/instrument designer Markus Reuter brings us an album that grabbed onto his psyche as a teenager in Germany and STILL captivates him over 30 years later: 'Thunder and Consolation' by Bradford, Yorkshire band New Model Army. Led by singer/songwriter Justin Sullivan, the band creates hard-to-classify musical soundscapes that perfectly compliment Sullivan's biting lyrics about navigating one's family, finding your tribe and coming to terms with the often harsh realities of human nature:
"These tracks stretch out before me - the ones you left behind
What I want and what I feel - it's yours, yours, not mine"

Songs featured in this episode: Green and Grey - New Model Army (Live Köln, 2006); River of Things - Markus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis); Tentacles - Stick Men; 51st State, 125 MPH - New Model Army; Schubert Ständchen (Serenade) - Peter Schreier; Ambition, Love Songs - New Model Army; Layla - Derek and the Dominos; Lovesong - The Cure; I Love The World, Vanity, Stupid Questions, 225, Inheritance, Green and Grey, Green and Grey (Live Rockpalast, 2006), The Ballad of Bodmin Pill, Family, Family Life, Vagabonds - New Model Army; 51st State of America - The Shakes; Archway Towers - New Model Army; One Cut Suffices - Markus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis)

This week's guest Joe Tunis (Carbon Records, Pengo) once again guides us into the world of post-rock, with Chicago-by-way-of-Kentucky band Gastr del Sol and their 1994 Drag City release 'Crookt, Crackt, or Fly'. Like many of their adjacent bands - Slint, Tortoise, Bastro...etc - the music on this mysterious record is often hard to define. It's a strange, evocative amalgamation of unconventional guitar virtuosity, subtle tape-work and occasional forays into full-on math rock that's definitely not for the timid.

Songs featured in this episode: Wedding in the Park - Gastr del Sol; Queasy Stream - Pengo; Sun God - Squirrel Bait; Breadcrumb Trail - Slint; Shoot Me A Deer - Bastro; A Watery Kentucky - Gastr del Sol; Rain On Tin - Sonic Youth; History and Repetition - Bill Orcutt; Four Violins (excerpt) - Tony Conrad; Sunflower River Blues - John Fahey; Wedding in the Park, Work From Smoke - Gastr del Sol; Glass Museum - Tortoise; Parenthetically - Gastr del Sol; Wird - Codeine; Every Five Miles - Gastr del Sol; Boilermaker - The Jesus Lizard; Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye, Is That A Rifle When It Rains? - Gastr del Sol; Horizontal Hold - This Heat; Jacking The Ball - The Sea and Cake; The C in Cake, The Wrong Soundings - Gastr del Sol; What's He Building? - Tom Waits; The Wrong Soundings, Dry Bones in the Valley (I Saw The Light Come Shining 'Round and 'Round) - Gastr del Sol

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)

The last thing Rob expected to be doing in 2024 was talking about Anaheim, California ska-punk/pop band No Doubt, but when he invited Late Slip's ringleader Chelsea Nenni on the show her record choice was crystal clear. When she first heard their breakout album 'Tragic Kingdom' as a 10 year old girl living in Southern California, the seed of one day forming and fronting a band of her own was firmly planted, and Gwen Stefani's honest takes on navigating life and love as a young girl coming of age at the end of the 20th century had a huge impact, even if she didn't quite realize it yet.

Songs discussed in this episode: Just A Girl - Florence + The Machine; I'll Be Okay, I Love You, Love Me True - Late Slip; Total Hate 95, Total Hate (Original Version) - No Doubt; On My Radio - The Selecter; Spiderwebs, Excuse Me Mr., Just A Girl - No Doubt; Just A Girl - Florence + The Machine; Happy Now, Different People - No Doubt; Mind Your Business - Late Slip; Hey You, Sixteen, Sunday Morning - No Doubt; Dream On - Aerosmith; Don't Speak, You Can Do It, End It On This, Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt; I Love You - Late Slip

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; 

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)

For Labor Day 2022 we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite work-related songs. It's an impressively eclectic list, with surprisingly NO Bruce Springsteen songs! (although he IS referenced several times throughout the episode)
"There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hand of the worker
But it all amounts to nothing
If together we don't stand
There is power in a Union"
 - Billy Bragg

Songs featured in this episode: Career Opportunities - The Clash with Luke and Ben Gallagher; Finest Worksong - R.E.M.; Paid In Cigarettes - Hot Snakes; Working Girl - The Members; A New Career in a New Town - David Bowie; The Ballad of Dorothy Parker - Prince; Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster - Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon; Working Class - The Defibulators; I Hate My Job - Butthole Surfers; Graveyard Shift - Uncle Tupelo; Morning Train (9 to 5) - Sheena Easton; 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford; Heigh Ho - Tom Waits; Hey! Hey! It's Friday! - Black Snake Halo; Those Men In White Coats - The Diagram Brothers; Working Man - Rush (Live, All The World's A Stage); Bell Boy - The Who; The Working Hour - Tears For Fears; Clockout - Devo; Don't Wanna - All Hits; King Of Ska - Desmond Dekker; Piss Factory - Patti Smith; Factory - Wall Of Voodoo; Vacation - The Go-Go's; The Magnificent Seven - The Clash; There Is Power In A Union - Billy Bragg; Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

Spotify Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nNnCUcgjmmazidSIi4HIr?si=ed59362cff114198

Formed in London in 1980, The Legendary Pink Dots - led by core members Edward Ka-Spel and Phil Knight - are an uncategorizable experimental avant-rock band with over 40 albums to their credit. This week's guests, Oklahoma City husband-and-wife duo Allan and Barb Vest (doubleVee), join us to discuss their 1991 album 'The Maria Dimension', a uniquely compelling collection of neo-psychedelic tunes that sound like they were intercepted from an interplanetary radio broadcast hosted by Syd Barrett and Hawkwind.

Songs featured in this episode: Home - The Legendary Pink Dots; When Dawn Comes Tonight - doubleVee; As Long As It's Purple and Green - The Legendary Pink Dots; Dark Globe - Syd Barrett; Disturbance - The Legendary Pink Dots; Chromosome Damage - Chrome; Pennies For Heaven - The Legendary Pink Dots; In The Square - The Pretty Things; The Third Secret, The Grain Kings - The Legendary Pink Dots; The End - The Doors; Flaming - Pink Floyd; The Ocean Cried 'Blue Murder', Belladonna - The Legendary Pink Dots; My Impression Now - Guided By Voices; People Who Died - The Jim Carroll Band; A Space Between, Evolution, Cheraderama, Expresso Noir - The Legendary Pink Dots; The Question's Closed - doubleVee

Coming up as a teenager playing piano in Washington, D.C. gay bars, Tori Amos has always had a special connection to the LGBTQ community - particularly gay men. For this week's guests, 'Drive All Night - The Songs Of Tori Amos Podcast' co-host Efrain Schunior and Tori super-fan Kenny Franklin, that connection was only deepened with the release of her 1996 tour de force 'Boys For Pele'. Recorded primarily in a church in rural Ireland, the album combines her typically virtuoso piano playing with more experimental instrumentation and sometimes stark, sometimes expansive songs about casting emotional demons aside and reclaiming one's fire.

Songs featured in this episode: Mr Zebra, Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix), Strange Little Girl, Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos; Sonata for Harpsichord Four Hands in C major - Mozart; Beauty Queen/Horses, Blood Roses, Father Lucifer, Professional Widow - Tori Amos; Violet - Hole; Marianne, Caught a Lite Sneeze, Caught a Lite Sneeze (Live sessions at West 54th 1998), Muhammed My Friend, Muhammed My Friend (Live feat. Maynard Keenan), Hey Jupiter - Tori Amos; Wish You Were Gay - Billie Eilish; Little Amsterdam, Doughnut Song - Tori Amos; Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B Hawkins; Vibeology - Paula Abdul; The Springtime of His Voodoo, Putting the Damage On - Tori Amos; The Tourist - Radiohead; Time (Live on David Letterman, 2001) - Tori Amos

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

This week we ventured outside the box a bit, as we explored 1994's confounding 'Pomme Fritz' (The Orb's Little Album) by English electronic music group The Orb. When our guest, UK musician Nick Morfitt, first discovered this record he was ALREADY a fan of The Orb's brand of ambient techno, but this release - incorporating more abstract, experimental musique concrète elements - took him years to fully comprehend.
Rob might still need a little more time.

Music featured in this episode: Two Highland Lads - Alexander Brothers; Emerald Isle - NM and the No Man Band; Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb; Oxygene - Jean-Michel Jarre; Assassin, Oxbow Lakes, Pomme Fritz - The Orb; Spud Beer - SNL Parody Commercial; More Gills Less Fishcakes, We're Pastie To Be Grill You - The Orb; Two Highland Lads - Alexander Brothers; Spam Sketch - Monty Python; Bang 'Er 'N Chips, Alles Ist Schoen - The Orb; Space Mountain Star Tunnel Music; Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb; Golden Clouds - The Orb feat. Lee Scratch Perry; His Immortal Logness, Towers Of Dub - The Orb; Irrational Anthem - NM and the No Man Nand

"The Man In The Van" himself, Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges) 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. He did NOT disappoint!
Mike's mixtape:
1. Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
2. She's As Beautiful As A Foot - Blue Oyster Cult
3. Another Coke - Alternative Television
4. Dice Man - The Fall
5. Mine Mine Mind - Roky Erickson
6. Up Around The Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival
7. Forces Of Oppression - The Pop Group
8. Dot Dash - Wire
9. Richie Dagger's Crime - The Germs
10. You're Not Blank (So Baby We're Through) - The Dils
11. (Afraid of Being) Bled by Leeches - Lemon Kittens
12. Jump Into The Fire - Harry Nilsson

*Other songs featured in this episode: Take 5, D. - Minutemen; Arrow-Pierced-Egg-Man - Mike Watt; 1969 (live, 2007) - The Stooges; Bad Brain - The Ramones; The Girl Can't Help It - Little Richard; The Big Stick - Minutemen; Frownland - Captain Beefheart; All My Senses - VS (Mark Stewart, Mike Watt, KK Null; Ghost Rider - Suicide; Dr. Wu - Minutemen

This week's guest, writer/drummer S.W. Lauden, first wrote about NY band Fountains Of Wayne in the book 'Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop'. During that time, he listened to their third - and breakout - album 'Welcome Interstate Managers' for months on repeat, and eventually formulated a theory that it's actually a sly, sophisticated Gen-X concept album. To be clear, this is solely HIS theory.
Nonetheless, it lent itself to a really fun conversation, and the pure-pop mastery of Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger's songs cannot be denied!

Songs featured in this episode: Valley Winter Song - Fountains Of Wayne (NPR Tiny Desk Concert); Next Aquarius - The Brothers Steve; Go All The Way - Raspberries; Radiation Vibe - Fountains Of Wayne; Fight Test - The Flaming Lips; That Thing You Do - The Wonders; Mexican Wine, Bright Future In Sales, Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne; Buddy Holly - Weezer, Just What I Needed - The Cars; Hackensack - Fountains Of Wayne; Hackensack - Katy Perry (Live MTV Unplugged, 2009); No Better Place, Valley Winter Song, All Kinds Of Time - Fountains Of Wayne; Rock-n-Roll Star - Oasis; Little Red Light, Hey Julie, Fire Island, Bought For A Song, Supercollider, Yours And Mine, Elevator Up - Fountains Of Wayne; Popular - Nada Surf; Hackensack - Fountains Of Wayne (Live Jersey 4 Jersey feat. Sharon Van Etten)

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 this positively bonkers episode, we ventured into the studio of L.A. musician/producer Fernando Perdomo to help him unpack the bizarre album by Philadelphia pop/soul hitmakers Daryl Hall and John Oates that got them dropped by Atlantic Records: 1974's 'War Babies'.
Strap in, kids...

Songs discussed in this episode: Is It A Star - Todd Rundgren; Searching For Myself, Self - Fernando Perdomo; Whenever You're on My Mind - Marshall Crenshaw; No Matter What You Do - Jakob Dylan & Regina Spektor; Old San Juan - Spyro Gyra; International Feel - Todd Rundgren; Right - David Bowie; Guitar Man - Bread; Sara Smile, I Can't Stop The Music, Is It A Star, Beane G and the Rose Tattoo, You're Much Too Soon, 70's Scenario - Daryl Hall and John Oates, Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf; War Baby Son Of Zorro, I'm Watching You (A Mutant Romance), Better Watch Your Back, Rich Girl, Screaming Through December, Johnny Gore and the C Eaters - Daryl Hall and John Oates; Self - Fernando Perdomo

Founded in Wakefield, West Yorkshire UK in 1972 by singer/guitarist Bill Nelson, Be-Bop Deluxe were a band that combined art-rock, glam and prog with a healthy dose of heavy metal guitar heroics. OG BBD fan Bill Burns joins us as we unpack their sonically stunning 1976 album, 'Sunburst Finish'.

Songs featured in this episode: Anemone - The Brian Jonestown Massacre; Stay Young - Bill Nelson's Red Noise; Sickle Clowns - The Pretty Things; Axe Victim - Be-Bop Deluxe; Matte Kudasai - King Crimson; Good Times Roll - The Cars; Wah-Wah Galaxy No. 1 - Bill Nelson; Fair Exchange - Be-Bop Deluxe; At Night In Dreams - White Denim; Heavenly Homes, Ships In The Night - Be-Bop Deluxe; Watch That Man - David Bowie; Crying To The Sky - Be-Bop Deluxe; Apache - The Shadows; Sleep That Burns - Be-Bop Deluxe; Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles; Maid In Heaven, Beauty Secrets, Life In The Air Age, Like An Old Blues - Be-Bop Deluxe; Hercules - Elton John; Crystal Gazing - Be-Bop Deluxe; Penny Lane - The Beatles; Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney and Wings; Baby's On Fire, 2/1 (Music For Airports) - Brian Eno; The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise - DEVO; Blazing Apostles - Be-Bop Deluxe; Great White Buffalo - Ted Nugent; Blazing Apostles - Be-Bop Deluxe (Live, Grand Theatre, Leeds 14 Feb 1977)

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)

When this week's guest, producer/audio engineer Paul Mahern, discovered 'Easter Everywhere' by Texas psychedelic rock band 13th Floor Elevators in the early 80s, he was a punk rock loving musician (Indianapolis Indiana's Zero Boys) looking to expand his musical horizons. He got all that he bargained for and more with this wonderfully dense, expansive and mind-blowing record by a band - led by Tommy Hall and Roky Erickson - that went all-in on their spirituality-through-psychedelics ideals.
"You're moving, keep climbing...leave your body behind."

Songs featured in this episode: I've Got Levitation (live, 1967) - 13th Floor Elevators; Vicious Circle - Zero Boys; Forecast - Diane Coffee (feat. Deep Sea Diver); Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd; You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators; Night of the Vampire - Roky Erickson; Slip Inside This House, Slide Machine - 13th Floor Elevators; Monkey Island - Powell St John; She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) - The Judybats; She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) - 13th Floor Elevators; Let's Spend The Night Together - The Rolling Stones; Nobody To Love - 13th Floor Elevators; D.C.B.A.-25 - Jefferson Airplane; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bob Dylan; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Earthquake - 13th Floor Elevators; I Look Around - Rain Parade; Things'll Never Be The Same - Spacemen 3; Dust - 13th Floor Elevators; Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) - Sebadoh; I've Got Levitation, I Had To Tell You - 13th Floor Elevators; Sweet Virginia - The Rolling Stones; Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte Marie; Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) - 13th Floor Elevators; Earthquake - Butthole Surfers

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

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

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

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

We put the AA batteries into our Sony Walkman and fired up Berkeley California's The Motels 1982 New Wave classic 'All Four One'. Our special guest, retired drag queen and bon vivant Shelley Novak a.k.a. Tommy Strangie, brings the passion AND the knowledge as we explore the life, songs and stylings of Martha Davis and Co. Along the way we bump into Mark McGrath, Diane Warren and Wink Martindale, among others.
Join us, won't you?

Songs featured in this episode: You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore; Talk Of The Town - The Pretenders; Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics; Total Control, Danger, Mission Of Mercy, Celia, Take The L - The Motels; Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles; Only The Lonely - The Motels; Tonight - Tina Turner with David Bowie; Working For The Weekend - Loverboy; It's My Life - No Doubt; Art Fails, Change My Mind, So L.A., Tragic Surf, Apocalypso - The Motels; I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith; He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Motels; He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Crystals; Suddenly Last Summer, Forever Mine - The Motels; You'll Never Walk Alone - Tom Jones

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

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)

Avant-garde singer-songwriter and musician Azalia Snail joins Rob in the TRGMH studio to discuss an artist near and dear to her heart - Melanie Safka aka Melanie - and some of her greatest hits:
"But maybe it'll all be alright, ma
Maybe it'll all be okay
Well, if the people are buying tears
I'll be rich someday, ma
Look what they done to my song..."

Songs discussed in this episode: California Dreamin' - Melanie; Take Away His Power, Expert Outlier, Zap You Of That Hate - Azalia Snail; Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins Singers; Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie; Look What They've Done To My Song - The New Seekers; What Have They Done To My Song, Ma, Brand New Key, Ruby Tuesday, The Nickel Song, Bobo's Party, Good Book, Christopher Robin, Animal Crackers, Psychotherapy (Live), Beautiful People, Leftover Wine, Peace Will Come (According To Plan), People In The Front Row - Melanie; Becomes Clear To Them - Azalia Snail; Sign In The Window (Bob Dylan cover) - Melanie

In 1974, the one-of-a-kind chameleon that is David Bowie was poised to shed his Ziggy Stardust persona for the Thin White Duke. Before that transformation, he fired the Spiders from Mars and - using George Orwell and William S. Burroughs as inspiration, crafted his nightmarish apocalyptic opus Diamond Dogs. This week's guest, Oscar Hererra (The Sleep of Reason, Black Tape For A Blue Girl), leads us on a journey through this raw, challenging and ambitious album.
"This ain't Rock'n'Roll, This is Genocide!"

Songs featured in this episode: All the Young Girls Love Alice - Elton John; 1984 - David Bowie; Excerpt from The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs; Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus; What Kind Of Fool Am I? - Anthony Newley; It's Only Rock 'n' Roll - The Rolling Stones; Future Legend, Diamond Dogs, Sweet Thing, Alladin Sane, Candidate, Sweet Thing (Reprise), Rebel Rebel - David Bowie; Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through - Meatloaf; Rock 'n' Roll with Me, We Are the Dead - David Bowie; Double Plus Good - Eurythmics; 1984 - David Bowie; 1984 - Tina Turner; Big Brother, Boys Keep Swinging, Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family, Young Americans - David Bowie; Because You're Mine - Nat King Cole; A Chaos Of Desire - Black Tape For A Blue Girl

Our first "Mixtape" episode, where we invite a special guest to curate a mixtape for our listeners and dig into their musical selections. From the mind of Robert Price (Kreamy 'Lectric Santa, Bank O Christ, The Funyuns) we bring you 'Sir Robert's Kreamy-n-Reconstructive Brainmelt Mixtape', featuring:
1. Popcorn - Hot Butter
2. You Cant Kill Me - Gong
3. Germfree Adolescents - X-Ray Spex
4. Lisa Says - Velvet Underground (1969  live album)
5. Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag
6. Communist Radio - The Eat
7. J'ai Mal Aux Dents - Faust
8. The Drum - Slapp Happy
9. Yü-Gung (Fütter Mein Ego) - Einstürzende Neubauten
10 .Hospitality On Parade - Sparks
11 .To Hell With Poverty - Gang of Four
12 .Help, I’m a Rock - Mothers of Invention
13 .Five Foot One - Iggy Pop

Other songs featured in this episode: Ga, Everything...?, Spaceship Timmy - Kreamy 'Lectric Santa; Down At The Rock and Roll Club - Richard Hell; Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat; New York - Swell Maps; Typical Girls - The Slits; Warm Leatherette - The Normal; Red Bull - Kreamy 'Lectric Santa

*Additional listening recommendations from Sir Robert:

I Have Always Been Here Before - Roky Erickson 
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones 
Busted Keysham - Bonzo Dog Band 
2 & 3 - Camper Van Beethoven 
Balos - Dionysis Savvopoulos
C'est La Dernière Chanson - Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Everybody Wants To Be An Asshole - Peter Stubbs
*https://www.reverbnation.com/musician/peterstubb
Stan Kenton ‎– Conducts Robert Graettinger's This Modern World
Starry Eyes - The Records
Clumps Take a Ride - Fly Ashtray
Trash Monkey Universe - Trash Monkeys
Nunmonksex - Nina Hagen
Fetus - Franco Battiato
Raincoats - 1st 
America - John Fahey
Box of Chameleons - Sun City Girls
Power Corruption and Lies - New Order
Time (B-side to Pretty Woman) - Bobby Sherman
Monster Puss - Vaselines 
Pachanga Cha cha - Randy Carlos

Returning guest John Strohm (Blake Babies, Lemonheads, Antenna) has a strong personal connection to the record he chose to discuss, the stunning 1995 debut of Minneapolis band Polara. As a close friend of the bands founder, beloved musician/producer Ed Ackerson who sadly succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2019 at the age of 54, John was right there during the recording sessions lending a musical hand where needed. He brings deep insight into the creation of this impressive amalgamation of blissful pop melody and fuzzed-out psychedelia. 

Songs featured in this episode: Girl In A Box - Blake Babies; Out - Lemonheads; Out There - Blake Babies; I'm Not Sayin' - Replacements; Counting Down - Polara; The National Anthem - Radiohead; Like The Poison - The 27 Various; When You Sleep - My Bloody Valentine; Allay - Polara, Duel - Swervedriver; Source Of Light, Listening Now, Taupe, Avenue E - Polara; Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow - Felt; Anniversary 6 - Polara, Little Fury Things - Dinosaur Jr; One Foot - Polara; E-Bow The Letter - REM; A+B=Y, State, Letterbomb - Polara; Live Forever - Noel Gallagher; A+B=Y - John Strohm