Records Revisited

The guys are joined by Janiva Magness to discuss her new album “Hard to Kill” and the debut album from the legendary Bonnie Raitt.  Plenty of other discussion including covering John Fogerty and Delbert McClinton and making songs your own, Bonnie Raitt rope a doped Wayne, Sippie Wallace, Paul Siebel, KRSH, the hand clapper is too far away, living in Minneapolis, and what’s the one song you’ll neve...

The guys are joined by film maker Gorman Bechard to discuss the Jay Bennett documentary “Where Are You Now, Jay Bennett” and “Summerteeth” from Wilco.  Repeat Revisitor Jeff Frame also joins the conversation because he would disown Ben as a friend if he didn’t get the invite.  Plenty of other discussion including the best opening line in music history (according to Gorman), the brutality of sequen...

The guys are joined by repeat revisitor Tim McKay to tackle the Rod Stewart solo album “Every Picture Tells A Story.” Plenty of other discussion including why are we having school after Memorial Day, Kate Bush and Stranger Things, The Top 10 albums from a certain week in 1971, Ron Wood doesn’t get enough credit, Elvis Presley, Dylan covers, wait… “Maggie May” was a B side?, Henry, and listening to...

The guys are joined by Drew Kennedy to talk about his new album “Marathon” and the Ben Folds solo album “Rockin’ The Suburbs.” Plenty of other discussion including Ben’s brush with The Chute in New Braunfels TX, rubber bridge guitars, crying on a record, Wayne’s internet issues, Nick Hornby, it sucks to grow old (but shout out to Dallin and Maverick), “when I go, the cops are coming,” The Park of...

Ben and repeat revisitor Jeff Frame welcome back another repeat revisitor – Karli Anderson – to continue the Foos sidecast digging into the seventh studio album “Wasting Light.”  Plenty of discussion including Pittsburgh, recent concert going (and concerts coming up), Karli’s grudge against Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, Jeff likes to POGO (and subsequent knee surgery), Bob Mould, what’s up with Brian’s...

The guys are joined by John Doe to talk about his new album “Fables in a Foreign Land” and to answer Ben and Wayne’s questions about 1980’s “Los Angeles” from X.  Plenty of other discussion including moving to Texas, Psych Furs, Skating Polly, murder ballads, Ray Manzarek, coiled up phone cords, Ben’s obsession with “Take #52,” Pizza & Pipes and more.  They say to not meet your heroes so you’r...

Ben, Wayne and repeat revisitor Jeff Frame welcome newcomer Scott Hardesty from the Foo Fighters tribute band “Joe Hero” (you remember Linc from a previous episode?) to continue the Foos sidecast digging into the sixth studio album “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace"  Other discussion includes cover bands focusing on just one band's material, the series finale of "Killing Eve," Dave's maturity...

The guys pivot when the scheduled guest gets ill and discuss an album they know all too well with 24 hours notice...the debut album from The Police "Outlando D'Amour." Plenty of other discussion including when Ben jumped off the Sting train, is there a better 5 album run to start a career, do Andy & Sting & Stewart hate each other, Phil Hartman, songs about Rod Stewart and then you become...

Ben and repeat revisitor Jeff Frame welcome newcomer Andrew McMann to continue the Foos sidecast digging into the live album "Skin and Bones."  We talk about how the songs on this album are different (in many cases) from the other versions we've discussed so far, Andrew's story with this album as a comfort after getting hurt in Iraq, baseball movies, messing with the timeline, and we remind listen...

Episode 240: The Kinks “State of Confusion” with Patreon Revisitor Phil Berg The guys are joined by repeat Patreon Revisitor Phil Berg to talk about 1982’s “State of Confusion” from The Kinks. Plenty of other discussion including albums we owned (and maybe still own) from 1982, Argent, dads and daughters, property and divorces, the last big charting song for The Kinks, Groundhog Day, the first fou...

Ben, Wayne and repeat revisitor Jeff Frame welcome newcomer Joe Royland of “Sit and Spin with Joe” to continue the Foos sidecast digging into the fifth album “In Your Honor.”  Will Wayne lose it having to score 20 songs?  Plenty of discussion including songs that remind of us of Cheap Trick and Pink Floyd, personal songs to us that get high scores, no talk box, John Kerry, Danny Bonaduce, scream-o...

The guys are joined by Kay Hanley (of Letters to Cleo fame, solo, and plenty of other stuff) to discuss the 1990 classic “Heaven or Las Vegas” from the Cocteau Twins.  Plenty of other discussion including Tacoma and “10 Things I Hate About You”, working in animated shows, the “Marmalade” remaster (coming soon to vinyl!), Boston Red Sox, Purple Rain (and Prince samples a song on this album), speaki...

Ben, Wayne and repeat revisitor Jeff Frame welcome newcomer Linc Butler from the Foo Fighters tribute band “Joe Hero” to continue the Foos sidecast digging into the fourth album “One by One."  Other discussion includes 3 year olds singing questionable lyrics, the making of great songs, Cinco De Mayo, the Billboard Top 7 albums when this album peaked in 2002, Audioslave, a banned video on MTV, Bria...

Episode 238: Randy Newman’s “Harps and Angels” with The Young Fables The guys are joined by Laurel and Wes of The Young Fables to discuss Randy Newman’s 2008 album “Harps and Angels.”  Plenty of other discussion including the new album from The Young Fables and their movie “Fable of a Song,” covering all your bases, songs that remind us of our dads, Toy Story 5: Woody’s Had Enough, you’re only pat...

Ben, Wayne and repeat revisitor Jeff Frame welcome newcomer Jacob Godbey from the band “Mrs. Ghost” to continue the Foos sidecast digging into the third album “There is Nothing Left to Lose.”   Other discussion includes Atomic Genius in Puyallup, quilts of t-shirts, comedy and Montana, Spanaway, Rage Against the Machine and Grammy Awards, which songs are Dave and which songs are Taylor, weird sing...

Episode 237: John Prine’s “Sweet Revenge” with Elliah Heifetz The guys are joined by Elliah Heifetz to discuss John Prine’s third album “Sweet Revenge.”  Plenty of other discussion including the new debut album from Elliah Heifetz called "First Generation American.”  Plenty of other discussion including fictional conversations with Prine, is it Christmas in Paris or Christmas in Prison, bonanza pe...

Foo Fighters Sidecast Part Two – The Colour and the Shape Ben, Wayne and repeat revisitors Jeff Frame and Tim McKay continue the Foos sidecast - this time digging into the second album “The Colour and the Shape.”  We recorded this episode just days after Taylor Hawkins’ passing so there is plenty of tribute to one of our favorite drummers of all time.  Wayne takes advantage of no clown horn editin...

Episode 236: Jack Johnson’s “Brushfire Fairytales” with Grady Spencer The guys are joined by Grady Spencer of Grady Spencer and the Work to discuss “Brushfire Fairytales” from Jack Johnson (his debut album)  Plenty of other discussion including the new Grady Spencer and the Work album called "Wait" (go check that out) and other topics like 1985 station wagons, Paducah Texas, being in the mood to l...

Foo Fighters Sidecast Part One – Foo Fighters self-titled Debut Ben, Wayne and repeat revisitor Jeff Frame kick off the Records Revisited Podcast special “Sidecast” project with special guest Barrett Jones.  Barrett helped Dave record and produce that first record (really it’s a Dave Grohl solo album).  Some fun tidbits are included about that process and we set the stage for the rest of the "Side...

Matt Nathanson returns...thanks to Patreon Revisitor Dave Greenberg picking Aimee Mann's "Whatever." We talk about "Achtung Matty" and Aimee's first solo record with plenty of other discussion like not wearing a shirt, ageism, is this a duets record, Jon Brion, Cameron Crowe, Paula Kelley kills it on the string arrangements, why Matt can't listen to some of our episodes, what is exactly is the wor...

The guys are joined by Michaela Anne to discuss “Wide Open Spaces” from The Chicks (yeah, it’s still sometimes hard not to say that other word).  Plenty of other discussion including Michaela’s new album “Oh To Be That Free” on Yep Roc, finding solace in music during tough times, getting a shoutout from Carole King, getting a like from Christopher Cross, living in Washington state, 90s Pop Country...

The guys are joined by two Repeat Revisitors – Rick Brantley (see our Kris Kristofferson episode) and Alex Alt of the Sly Dog Music-Cast (see Alex’s guest co-host spot with Leah Blevins discussing Stevie Nicks) to talk about the classic "Bat Out of Hell" from Meat Loaf. Plenty of other discussion including how each of us got introduced to Meat Loaf, how Rick worked with Meat (see Hang Cool Teddy B...

While Wayne is on vacation, Ben is joined by Repeat Revisitor (and bestie) Jeff Frame and Jeff Pilson of Foreigner, Dokken and Black Swan fame. Plenty of other discussion including Bjork, playing legendary songs for a legendary band, making music with friends, Longview Washington, seeing Radiohead in person, foreshadowing in 1997 of current capitalism and emphasis on social media, and 3 separate “...

While Wayne is on vacation, Ben is joined by Repeat Revisitor guest co-host Jon Lamoreaux (of the Hustle Podcast) and author Grant Walters who wrote “Decades: The Bee Gees in the 1960s” to celebrate “1st” from Bee Gees. Plenty of other discussion including Tik Tok, being of the time, the thinking behind the title, Robert Stigwood, the dumbest Wikipedia entry of all time, songs without choruses, ar...

The guys are joined by Dave Zalotoris of the Beer in Front podcast (and for a few minutes listener Mark Neese) to talk about The Rolling Stones classic “Sticky Fingers” Plenty of other discussion including how this was supposed to be an episode about REM's "Murmur," beer and Chicago, how the Stones are no longer playing "Brown Sugar," Mark's internet issues, drug references, one song that there ar...