Episodes

Returning guest, singer/songwriter Oscar Herrera ( The Sleep of Reason, Black Tape for a Blue Girl ), brings us Bauhaus and their 1980 debut full-length: ' In The Flat Field '. Often cited as a foundational release in the Got...

What is it about multiple voices singing a beautiful melody together that just GETS to us? For this special BONUS Episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song with amazing vocal harmonies...that got them high! Caution: Ear...

Returning guests Allan & Barb Vest of Oklahoma City-based doubleVee bring us a record considered by many to be one of the key alternative rock albums of the 1980s, ' Doolittle ' by Boston's Pixies . Released in 1989, this col...

Hailing from Cork, Ireland, songwriters Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan formed the band Microdisney in 1980. After relocating to London in 1983, the band recorded six Peel Sessions for BBC Radio and released their debut albu...

Returning guest Garry Messick ( American Doom Podcast ) brings us Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians ' 1991 release, ' Perspex Island '. His third album for A&M records, it's yet another sterling example of Hitchcock's quirkil...

In November 1973, Rolling Stone record reviewer Stephen Davis infamously slagged Elton John 's double album ' Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ', calling it - among other things: "a big fruity pie that simply doesn’t bake". Ahem. No...

For one of our first episodes back in 2018 (S1E3), we discussed ' Hunky Dory ' by David Bowie with then co-host Barry Stock. Honestly, though, for our first 20 episodes or so we were still finding our way and weren't even pla...

New York City singer/songwriter Robert Scheffler joins us this week with an artist Rob somehow slept on all these years - Aimee Mann . Her second full-length, 1995's " I'm With Stupid ", is the one that did it for Robert, and...

For this special BONUS Episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a short song - less than 2 minutes - that got them high. As usual, they did NOT disappoint! Songs discussed in this episode: Fingertips - They Might Be Giants; T...

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...

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...

There's no getting around it, ' Magic and Loss ', Lou Reed 's sixteenth studio album released in 1992, is NOT a particularly easy listen. While often musically beautiful in an elegantly understated way, the themes of death an...

Musician, songwriter and producer Chris Stamey ( The dB's, Big Star Quintet ) FINALLY ushers Todd Rundgren into the TRGMH universe with the 1971 release: Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren . This beautifully written, performed...

Returning guest Les Norris ( Radiobaghdad ) channels his 16-year-old self as he joins Rob to unpack Circle Jerks ' 1985 release, ' Wonderful '. Keith Morris and company dialed down the tempos and leaned into the metal for thi...

Returning guest Tim Hinely ( Dagger Zine, Where The Wild Gigs Were ) brings us Dallas, TX band Old 97's and their 1997 breakout release ' Too Far To Care '. Coming up during the alt-country boom of the 90s that also included ...

Originally known as The Hammersmith Gorillas, UK's The Gorillas were often thought to be the missing link between Hendrix, glam and punk. This week's guest, musician Philip King ( Felt, Lush, The Jesus and Mary Chain ), bring...

This week, Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris of Brooklyn based Goth-Folk duo Charming Disaster joins us to discuss PJ Harvey , and her stunning 1995 release ' To Bring You My Love '. "Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water C...

Fresh off a tour with his band mssv (Mike Baggetta, Mike Watt & Stephen Hodges) , guitarist/songwriter Mike Baggetta brings us a record he received as a gift when he was in High School that changed the course of his musical l...

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, Gra...

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; Kil...

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 Sweene...

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 -...

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...

In 1988 at the 31st annual Grammy Awards, a new category was introduced: Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental. That night, Metallica's '...And Justice For All' famously lost to Jethro Tull's 'Crest of a Knav...