That Record Got Me High Podcast

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 navigat...

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-the...

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...

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 earnestnes...

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' -...

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 E...

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, p...

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...

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 p...

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 g...

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 - T...

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 Freit...

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....

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"  -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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 s...

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 an...

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...

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 feat...

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 Tom...

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. D...