Love That Album

We here at LTA HQ don’t want any favouritism amongst your podcast choices. We just want to be treated right…or rite. Welcome to episode 125 of Love That Album Podcast. I’m joined by host of the brilliant Supporting Characters podcast Bill Ackerman to talk about singer, guitarist and songwriter Terry Reid with a focus to his 1976 album Seed of Memory. Terry is one of those musicians who is unfortun...

As the Northern Hemisphere enter the humid wasteland that is the end of July into August, it is time once again for a round up of recent country artists to listen to while drinking beer at dusk. Eric has his recent tattooed, too fast for love, Outlaw Country dames who say what they think, talk about what they see going on and swear. He'd really like to buy any of these women a beer and let them lo...

Hello….it’s Love That Album. Todd Rundgren must have shares in a millinery, because he wears a lot of hats. Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, video producer, (it can be argued) comedian…….He doesn’t do anything by half-measures. Rundgren started his recording career with rock group Nazz in the late 60s, then branched out to work as a producer for Bearsville Records when he found out he...

It's time to take a trip... back to the Psychedelic 80s??  Okay, there is a bit of 60s and a bit of 70s, but we have to pay respects at the temples of mind madness as we exalt the Head Tripper and Nightmare interpreter Roky Erickson, as his time has ended in this world. There have been many tributes to the man, but Eric has yet to speak about his role in as Horror Punk icon - and Eric has some tho...

Love That Album is baaaaaaack. For the second time in the show’s history, The Kinks are the focus of the program (look for Episode 31 back in October 2012 where I was joined by the wonderful Ben Eisen to talk about Something Else). For episode 123, film and music writer extraordinaire, Heather Drain returns to the episode 123 to talk about the Kinks’ album from November 1970, “Lola Versus Powerman...

It's back to the 90s Beach time with Man Or Astro-man...    Eric looks back at the era of flashing SciFi, SpyFi instro madness. Gasp at the .. ok not gasp.... smile and bob your head to  Hi Energy Surf Rock as only the 90s could provide...    Specifically, Eric looks at their two comps of seven-inch singles, Destroy All Astro-Men!! and Intravenous Television Continuum. He puts their revival of rev...

Hey all you cool cats and mussel pullers….I hope you can be tempted to squeeze in some time to listen to episode 122 of Love That Album Podcast. For this month’s episode, I am joined again by guitarist Shane Pacey to talk about Squeeze. This is the band that has over its history combined hook-laden melodies with tales of human frailty and surviving difficult circumstances. You can smile and dance...

Eric Reanimator is back for another episode of Love That Album: The Compilation Edition. For episode 56, he wants to talk with you about two superb box sets from Rhino Records (the Criterion of CD reissue labels). Firstly, Eric discusses the vocal wonderfulness that is The Doo Wop Box. Come on.....every body loves even a little Doo Wop...it makes you smile no matter how shitty the world can get. H...

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It's been a few months since I last said this, but it's time for a new episode of Love That Album: The Compilation Edition.   After some needed time to focus on real life concerns, Eric has returned with some reflections on his fave albums and music of 2018 and a couple of tributes to members of the band Legal Weapon who passed in 2018.   Please welcome Eric back to podcasting life.   You can down...

It's January 2019....what better way to start anew year than to look in the rear view mirror. Welcome to episode 121 of Love That Album.  The "favourite first time listens of the year" episode is an annual tradition at LTA, but normally recorded and released in December. As Booker T and the MGs once put it, time was tight so I delayed it to this month. I am excited to present for his first full sh...

Love That Album episode 120 is ready for your aural gratification.   It’s December, so as is the annual tradition, I provide for you the first of two programs where I ask some wonderful fellow music lovers to give their opinions as to the great first time listens of the year. I know most people like to contemplate the greatest music released over the previous 12 months, but I like to ask my guests...

When the late 70s arrived, many musicians wanted to sweep away the “dinosaurs” of rock (imagine that in 2018). Punk was about to sweeping away the complexities (among other things) and getting back to raw honest energy. Many musos liked the rawness and energy of punk but felt they had stronger musical chops that they wanted to apply to that realm, as well as explore other stylistic avenues. 1977 s...

I love a music festival. It had been a long while since I last went to one, so a few months back I decided to book a weekend away at the Victorian rural town of Wangaratta and attend their annual Festival of Jazz And Blues. I’d promised myself that I’d attend the fest years ago…this year I finally did it. “But hey”, I thought to myself, “why not incorporate the podcast into the weekend????” With t...

Since the 1995 documentary “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” was released, ex Beach Boy Brian Wilson has deservedly undergone a resurgence in popularity. Musicians and fans have been reminded about the brilliance of Wilson’s melodies and arrangements as well as his troubled past. However, what most people don’t recall is that brother Dennis had also inherited some of that Wilson compositional b...

I'm a huge admirer of people who drastically changes they way they do things because they have no satisfaction from the “tried and true” way. This is especially true of musicians. Most of the greatest ones challenged their audiences to accept them for who they wanted to be, not what they previously were.   Welcome to episode 116 of Love That Album podcast.   By 1995, Emmylou Harris needed creative...

Eric  Reanimator is still on his two month sabbatical away from Love That Album: The Compilation Edition. In his absence, the most diverse podcaster out there, Tom Kwei, has prepared an episode for your earholes. Tom is a keen guitarist, and one of his heroes and inspirations is English folk player John Martyn. Martyn didn't stick to the traditional rules or styes of English folk or folk-rock. Tom...

  According to the Collins Dictionary website (because I don't have a physical dictionary handy), “evolution” is “a process of gradual development in a particular situation or thing over a period of time.” There could not be a more apt title for the name of the debut album by Newcastle band, Tamam Shud.   For episode 115 of Love That Album podcast, I am once again joined by music journalist and au...

    Eric Reanimator is taking a podcasting break, but we at LTA HQ don't want the listenership to miss out on their fix of Love That Album: The Compilation Edition.....nosiree Bob. Terry Frost is the Head honcho at Paleo Cinema and Martian Drive In Podcast. He REALLY knows his cinema history and is great at putting it into social context. Terry is also a fan of great film scores, and on this episo...

We talk a lot about musical progression on Love That Album podcast. If you knew nothing about The Replacements background, and heard “Dope Smoking Moron” followed by Skyway (or even Can’t Hardly Wait), you’d be hard pressed to determine how they walked the line between one point and the other.   For LTA episode 114, I'm joined once again by the wonderful music and film writer Heather Drain, and by...

When punk rock bands put out live albums, it can be a crap shoot. Are they trying to keep a buzz alive? Are they filling out a contract? Do they want to make a best of record but have albums and tracks across several labels some of which are no longer active?   On this episode of LTA: The Compilation Edition, Eric talks about two live albums that act as best of records for two of the most enduring...

When punk arrived in the mid 70s, its charter was to shake the establishment and give the finger to all that it stood for. Aim was also taken at bands taking months to record an album that were needlessly complex. They were seen as being part of the “machine”. In 1973, along came San Franciscan band The Tubes. They had punk attitude, but were not content to play 2 minute stripped-back punk songs....

Anthony Bourdain RIP.   Everything moves towards it’s end. We get the time we get.   Death comes ripping for each of us, and this time Eric once again pauses to pay tribute to a fan of crime films, of travel, or food. A crime writer and TV host, Anthony Bourdain, who was also a fan of punk rock, rock and roll and music that moves us.    If you take nothing else away from this  episode, take a mome...

It's time for episode 112 of Love That Album. I've gone walkabout this month, but my great friend and music fiend Dave Blom returns to take over the show. Another Australian band with a massive debut album from possibly the last wave of really big album sales. This 2003 album was the result of a perfect storm of factors for the members of Jet. The success that The Vines had (subject of previous Da...

Welcome to Episode 50 of Love That Album: The Compilation Edition.  At the start of May 2018 Tony Kinman of the Dils, Rank'n'File and Cowboy Nation passed away. Eric reflects on his music and bands, it's influence and some of the other artists he played with. He brilliantly sums up the links between country and punk, and beautifully describes the working relationship between brothers. Rest in Peac...