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

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

Musician Knox Chandler (The Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees) has made a career of using his guitar to create unique, otherworldly sound-scapes, working with a diverse array of acts including REM, Depeche Mode, Grace Jones, Marianne Faithful, Cyndi Lauper and many others. It's no surprise then, that the record that 'got him high' as a young man - and continues to astound and inspire him - is The Jimi Hendrix Experience's third and final studio album, the epic 'Electric Ladyland'.
"Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland?
The magic carpet waits for you,
So don't you be late..."

Songs discussed in this episode: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Earth, Wind & Fire; Love Me Do - The Beatles; Fire, ...And the Gods Made Love, Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland), Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix; Until She Comes - The Psychedelic Furs; Loving Arms - Darden Smith; Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix; Whiskey Wimmen - John Lee Hooker; Baby Please Don't Leave Me - Buddy Guy; Little Miss Strange, Long Hot Summer Night, Come On (Let The Good Times Roll), Gypsy Eyes, Burning Of The Midnight Lamp, Rainy Day, Dream Away - Jimi Hendrix; Sivad (Live) - Miles Davis; 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be), Still Raining, Still Dreaming, House Burning Down, All Along The Watchtower, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix; Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Stevie Ray Vaughan; Tea Stained Edge, Lapis - Knox Chandler

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

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

For this special BONUS Episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song where the guitar playing (be it a lead, riff, whatever...) gets them going, and got them high!

Songs discussed in this episode: Funk #49 - James Gang; Killer Queen - Queen; Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze; God Save The Queen - The Sex Pistols; Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac; Touch And Go - The Cars; Marquee Moon - Television; Street Fighting Man (Live) - The Rolling Stones; I Just Want To Make Love To You - Muddy Waters; Walk On By - Isaac Hayes; Edge Of Midnight - Stevie Nicks/Miley Cyrus; Redneck - Luxuria; Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits; Still There's Hope - Young Fresh Fellows; Sunrise In The Land Of Milk and Honey - Cracker; When I Get To The Border - Richard & Linda Thompson; Impossible Germany - Wilco; Adventure Of Dog - Bogshed; All Day And All Of The Night (Live) - The Kinks; Love Your Money - Daisy Chainsaw; Amethyst - David Nance; Let's Go Blue - Hey Mercedes; People Get Ready - Rod Stewart/Jeff Beck; Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno; Lonely Is The Night - Billy Squier; Masterpiece - Big Thief (Tiny Desk Concert); Precious Time - Pat Benetar; Monkey Man - Rolling Stones; When It's Over - Wipers

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 

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

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

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

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

Break out your glitter and stick some stars on your face, we're going full-on glam this week as author, artist and performer Robert Dayton (Cold Glitter: The Untold Story Of Canadian Glam) brings us Vancouver, Canada's Sweeney Todd and their 1975 self-titled debut. The band had a revolving door of members throughout the years - including a 16 year old Bryan Adams at one point - but this version with singer Nick Gilder and guitarist Jim McCulloch is the one that started it all...

Songs discussed in this episode: Roxy Roller - Nick Gilder; Free Love - Bobby Conn; Which Way You Goin' Billy - The Poppy Family; Julia Get Up - The Stampeders; Hey You Woman, Sexe Fiction - Aut'Chose; Roxy Roller (w/Bryan Adams), Roxy Roller - Sweeney Todd; Telegram Sam - T.Rex; Amateur Hour - Sparks; Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder; Broadway Bougie - Sweeney Todd; All The Way - Kiss; Juicy Loose - Sweeney Todd; Juicy, Juicy, Juice - Royal Trux; Tantalize, Short Distance Long Journey, The Kilt - Sweeney Todd; Breakdown - The Sweet; Rock 'N' Roll Story - Sweeney Todd; Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet; Sweeney Todd Folder - Sweeney Todd; C'mon C'mon - Fludd; See What We're Doing Now, Daydreams, Going For A Star, Rue De Chance, Let's Do It All Again - Sweeney Todd; Roxy Roller - Cherie Currie

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

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

Regular listeners of the show are already aware of Rob's lifelong love of all things The Damned. This week's guest, Karl Ueberbacher (Phoenix Records), brings us their third release, 1979s classic - and highly influential - 'Machine Gun Etiquette'. Is it the perfect punk record? What does that even mean?? Let's smash it up and find out!!

Songs discussed in this episode: Smash It Up (The Damned cover) - The Offspring; 1970 - The Stooges; Know Your Product - The Saints; Mad John - Small Faces; Love Song - The Damned; Ace Of Spades - Motorhead; Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned; I Can't Come - The Snivelling Shits; I Just Can't Be Happy Today - The Damned; My Baby Don't Care - King; Melody Lee - The Damned; Antipope (Peel Session) - King; Anti-Pope, These Hands, Plan 9 Channel 7 - The Damned; Soft Focus - T.S.O.L.; Vanilla Blue - Naked Raygun; Halloween - AFI; Noise, Noise, Noise, Looking At You (MC5 cover) - The Damned; Looking At You - MC5; City Slang - Sonic's Rendezvous Band; Liar, Smash It Up (Pt 1), Smash It Up (Pt 2) - The Damned; Get It On - T-Rex and The Damned, (Live at the Rainbow 1977

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

Singer/songwriter John Davis (Superdrag, The Lees of Memory) brings us the third and final album by Texas psyche rock pioneers The 13th Floor Elevators: 'Bull Of The Woods'. With other founding members Roky Erickson and Tommy Hall somewhat sidelined with various legal and personal issues, guitarist/songwriter Stacy Sutherland stepped-up to complete this dreamy, evocative slab of psychedelia that proved to be their swan song.

Songs featured in this episode: Bull Of The Woods (Radio Spot) - 13th Floor Elevators; Sucked Out - Superdrag; Lonely Everywhere - The Lees Of Memory; If I Can't Have Your Love - John Davis; Do The Vampire - Superdrag; Slip Inside This House, Before You Accuse Me, Livin' On, Barnyard Blues, Till Then - 13th Floor Elevators; Movin' On Up - Primal Scream; The Black Angel's Death Song - The Velvet Underground; Never Another, Rose and the Thorn - 13th Floor Elevators; Ranting and Raving - The Rectangle Shades; Down By The River, Scarlet and Gold - 13th Floor Elevators; The Ostrich - The Primitives; Street Song - 13th Floor Elevators; All Along The Watchtower - Bob Dylan; Dr Doom, With You, May The Circle Remain Unbroken - 13th Floor Elevators; All You Really Want Is Love - The Lees Of Memory

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

When he was a young teen, Oscar Herrera (Former lead singer with The Sleep of Reason, Halo, El Duende and Black Tape for a Blue Girl) discovered the Beatles and there was no looking back. When he and his wife had children they made sure that music - and especially the Beatles - was front-and-center in their lives. For this special episode, Oscar is joined by his daughter Danielle Herrera as they unpack some songs from the Fab Four's 1968 release 'The Beatles' aka The White Album. Along the way they are both amused and slightly confused by Rob's lack of familiarity with the record, and it's a super-fun conversation!

I'm So Tired - Alex Chilton; These Fleeting Moments, She's Gone - Black Tape For A Blue Girl; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Back In The U.S.S.R. - The Beatles; California Girls - The Beach Boys; Dear Prudence - Siouxsie & The Banshees; Dear Prudence - The Beatles; You Shouldn't Be So Sad - The Kinks; Sand and Foam - Donovan; Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Story (part 1) - Jimmy Scott; Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - The Beatles; Goo Goo Itch - DEVO; The Continuing Story Of Buffalo Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles; What Is Life - George Harrison; Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Breeders; Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Martha My Dear, Blackbird, Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, I Will, Julia, Sexie Sadie - The Beatles; Mr Blue Sky - E.L.O.; Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, Helter Skelter - The Beatles; Helter Skelter - Siouxsie & The Banshees; Revolution, Revolution 1, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution 9, Good Night - The Beatles; Good Night - Linda Ronstadt

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

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

Guitarist and Songwriter Mike Baggetta came across Mike Watt's 1997 punk rock opera 'Contemplating The Engine Room' at just the right time for him. Watt's expansive and highly personal song cycle that uses navy life as an extended metaphor for both his family history and his band, the Minutemen - created with guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Stephen Hodges - became a touchstone of sorts for Baggetta, opening his mind to the possibility of making highly original, authentic music independent of genre.

Songs featured in this episode: Pedro Bound! - Mike Watt (Live at Jillian's, Long Beach CA Feb 1998); Everywhen We Go - Mike Baggetta / Jim Keltner / Mike Watt; Boilin' Blazes - Mike Watt; Brave Captain - fIREHOSE; June 16th - Minutemen; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Jeff Beck; What's So Funny 'Bout Social Justice - mssv; In The Engine Room, Red Bluff - Mike Watt; Prove It - Television; The Bluejacket's Manual, Pedro Bound!, The Boilerman, Black Gang Coffee, The Boilerman (Live at Jillian's, Long Beach CA), Topsiders - Mike Watt; Reoccurring Dreams - Husker Du; Lake Of Fire - Nirvana (Meat Puppets cover, MTV Unplugged); Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth - Minutemen; Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana; John Coltrane - Ogunde (Live); No One Says Old Man (To The Old Man) - Mike Watt; No One Says Old Man (To The Old Man) - mssv (Live); Fireman Hurley, Liberty Calls! - Mike Watt; What Means Solid Traveller - David Torn; In The Bunk Room/Navy Wife, Crossing The Equator, Breaking The Choke Hold, Wrapped Around The Screw, Shore Duty - Mike Watt; Hallucinating Reality - Dumbass Youth

Record purveyor Karl Ueberbacher (Phoenix Records, Waitsfield Vermont) nixed his original album pick for a more in-your-face Spring-centric selection, 1993's 'Saturation' by Chicago postmodern rockers Urge Overkill. Shedding their noise-rock roots - their first few releases were recorded by Steve Albini - for a more alternative arena rock sound, their major-label debut combines a tongue-in-cheek irony with a weirdly appealing sense of rock and roll fun.
"Come around to my way of thinkin'…"

Songs featured in this episode: Operation Kissinger (Hidden track) - Urge Overkill; Sick Of Being Sick - The Damned; All Worked Out, Ticket To L.A., Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill; Fuck and Run - Liz Phair; Sister Havana, Tequila Sundae - Urge Overkill; The Phuncky Feel One - Cypress Hill; Positive Bleeding - Urge Overkill; Cut Your Hair - Pavement; The Flame - Cheap Trick; Back On Me - Urge Overkill; Runaway Train - Soul Asylum; Woman 2 Woman - Urge Overkill; Plush - Stone Temple Pilots; Bottle Of Fur - Urge Overkill; Gonna Raise Hell - Cheap Trick; Crackbabies - Urge Overkill; Ladies Room - Kiss; The Stalker - Urge Overkill; Bad Penny - Big Black; Dropout - Urge Overkill; A Shot In The Arm - Wilko; Erica Kane - Urge Overkill; Debutante - Nash Kato; Nite and Grey - Urge Overkill; Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra; Heaven - Urge Overkill; Theme From Beverly Hills, 90210 - John Davis; Operation Kissinger (Hidden track), Wichita Lineman - Urge Overkill

With their seventh release, 1990s 'Violator', Depeche Mode completed their transformation from quirky synth-pop pioneers to international rock stars. A more stripped-down, sinister sound aided by producer Flood perfectly showcases these dark songs about guilt, salvation and obsession. It's a sound that this week's guest, poet and music lover Sarah Nichols, has kept close to her heart for over 30 years.

Songs featured in this episode: Enjoy The Silence - Tori Amos; Run - New Order; Pictures Of You - The Cure; Behind The Wheel (Live 1988, Pasadena CA) - Depeche Mode; Temptation - New Order; People Are People, Stripped, A Question Of Time, World In My Eyes, Sweetest Perfection - Depeche Mode; Personal Jesus - Marilyn Manson; Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash; Personal Jesus, Halo, Waiting For The Night, Enjoy The Silence, Policy Of Truth - Depeche Mode; Fascination Street - The Cure; Blue Dress - Depeche Mode; One Of These Days - Pink Floyd; Clean, Ghosts Again - Depeche Mode

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

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

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

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

Strap in kids, this week's guest, A&R Executive, playwright and composer Dan Waldkirch, brings us the third studio album by Eureka, CA experimental band Mr. Bungle, 'California'. This weirdly dark, schizophrenically eclectic 1999 release may not be for everyone, but if you're of the musically adventurous ilk, might be just what the doctor (of Psychiatry) ordered.

Songs discussed in this episode: Won't You Be My Neighbor (Live, 2020) - Mr Bungle; Schism - Tool; Bleed - Meshuggah; Page 11 - Fantomas; Vajra - Secret Chiefs 3; Epic - Faith No More; 04 04 05-Monday - Fantomas; Bleak - Opeth; Sweet Charity, None Of Them Knew They Were Robots, Retrovertigo, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Mr Bungle; Radio/Video - System Of A Down; The Donkey-Headed Adversary Of Humanity Opens The Discussion - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum; Ars Moriendi - Mr Bungle; Bith Aneth - John Zorn; Pink Cigarette, Golem II The Bionic Vapour Boy - Mr Bungle; Easy (Commodores cover) - Faith No More; The Holy Filament, Vanity Fair - Mr Bungle; Californiacation - Red Hot Chili Peppers; Goodbye Sober Day - Mr Bungle; Retrovertigo (Mr Bungle Cover) - The Binghamton Crosbys

Drummer Todd Philips (Bullet LaVolta, Juliana Hatfield Three, Lemonheads) makes his third appearance on the podcast and brings in yet another Boston - by way of Dayton, OH - classic, the 1990 debut album by The Breeders: 'Pod'. 

Songs featured in this episode: Lord Of The Thighs - The Breeders; Swan Dive - Bullet LaVolta; Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey; Drivin' On 9 - Ed's Redeeming Qualities; Gigantic - Pixies; Feed The Tree - Belly; Nosferatu Man - Slint; Milk It - Nirvana; Glorious, Doe - The Breeders; Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Oh! - The Breeders; A Girl Like You - Wolfgang Press; Hellbound, When I Was A Painter, Fortunately Gone, Safari, Iris, Opened - The Breeders; Blown Away - Pixies; Fear - Throwing Muses; Only In 3's, Lime House, Metal Man, Cannonball - The Breeders; My Sister - Juliana Hatfield Three; Lord Of The Thighs (Live at Pinkpop 1994) - The Breeders 

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

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

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

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