Records Revisited

Musician Daryl Hance joins us to discuss the fourth album from the Police “Ghost in the Machine.”  Plenty of discussion about MTV, speaking French, Sandra Bullock and “Demolition Man,” alpha males & omega males, and more.   Dissecting any Police record is a lot of fun and doing it with Daryl was a blast. Y'all go check out his last album "Devil's Milhopper." It's one part 70s rock (ala Black S...

While Wayne is away, I get to discuss some Lucero with Patreon Revisitor Seth Gill, Repeat Revisitor Jason Earle (of the Marinade Podcast) and first timer musician Matt Woods. Man...we have a blast on this episode. Jason's theory of breaking down Ben Nichols tunes into different categories turns into a super fun exercise. I'm not gonna spoil the fun of what the categories are called. Check out Luc...

Maybe the name Jerry Hey doesn't ring any bells for you. But, you've been listening to songs that Jerry has played his trumpet on or has arranged for probably your entire life. He became one of Quincy Jones' main studio guys. He arranged strings on "Billie Jean," played on Brothers Johnson and Earth Wind & Fire and George Benson albums, that's him on Dolly's "9 to 5," and he's been on a ton of...

The guys are joined by Marc Wasserman who wrote the book “Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter to The English Beat” to discuss (of course) “Special Beat Service” from The English Beat. Plenty of other discussion including Two Tone, FYC and General Public, John Hughes, American TV’s influence for one song, accordion, and what in the world is “Ackee 1 2 3?” Check out Marc at: https://www.instagram.co...

Jon Lamoreaux of the Hustle Podcast joins us to dissect “Rio” from Duran Duran.  It’s a travesty that it took us this long to discuss this classic album from the early days of MTV! Maybe we should just add Jon as a permanent co-host? Recorded while I was on the road for work in Newport News, VA. Anyone been there? Oh yeah…and LISTENER SCORES! Check out Duran Duran at:  https://duranduran.com/   Ch...

Roger Street Friedman joins us to discuss his new record “Long Shadows” and the classic “Tea for the Tillerman” from Cat Stevens.  Plenty of other discussion including the New York Mets, Larry Campbell, Sugarland Texas and the sad history of sugar labor, story songwriting, Ted Lasso, advice from our dads (and vice versa) and is “Sad Lisa” the basis of Lisa Simpson?  Check out Roger Street Friedman...

It’s time for our annual “Most Listened to Songs” episode and, once again, Jason Earle of the Marinade Podcast joins us with his 12 favorite songs. 36 total most listened songs.  No song repeats but we have a few artist repeats. Plenty of other discussion including Wayne discovers Spotify Auto Play, we need support groups for Jason (for pop music disdain) and Wayne (for instrumentals disdain), lov...

The guys from the band Brother Elsey join us (all 4 of them) to talk about their upcoming debut record, albums from 2017 (including "White Noise" that I consider my 2nd favorite album of that year), Phoebe Bridgers, basements in L.A., The Doors, Setlist.fm stats, Spanaway & Centralia Washington, and how do we get Noah to listen to this episode and have him answer some of our questions and....A...

The band gets back together. Shawn Brown & Kasey Anderson join us once again to nerd out about some tunes and this time it's NOT a Seattle related band. We discuss "Hard Candy" from Counting Crows. And Dan Fogelberg. But mostly Counting Crows. And hopefully we can pull off a Kasey and Shawn concert in Florida in February. Who wants to join us for that? Check out Kasey at: https://www.kaseyande...

The guys are joined by the artist known as mejia (pronounced may-uh) to discuss “Think Tank” from Blur. Plenty of other discussion including Sonic Youth, Paul McCartney, eels, leaving Goldsmith, Peter Gabriel, Gorillaz, The Clash, Dune, civility and hope.   Check out mejia at: https://www.instagram.com/meija.mp3   Check Blur at: https://www.blur.co.uk/   Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisite...

Big kudos to Jon for always being on the bench so to speak. You know what happens when we have a Jon episode...yep...guest reschedule. We did this one on two days notice and we didn't skip a beat as it's an album we've been listening to for 40 years. We have an unanimous top song! What?!? Any guesses what song? And, you're welcome that I didn't include a sound clip for "The Theme from Mantrap." Ch...

From Ben: I fly solo for this interview with Mindy Smith. I could have used Wayne to tell me that my microphone wasn't working properly (it might be time for a new laptop). Mindy and I talk about her excellent new album "Quiet Town" and other topics like being Geminis, Neilson Hubbard (who produced "Quiet Town"), Susan Ashton, writing sad songs, reading the comments, breaking the rules (and how it...

Sloan Golden joins us to discuss her debut EP “Long Conversations” and then we dive into "Heard It In A Past Life" from Maggie Rogers.  Plenty of other discussion including she had me at the handclaps, walking past people we don't want to talk to, Alaska and Pharrell, "Astrology gets negative points," and things that help us be our best person,   Check out Sloan Golden at: https://www.instagram.co...

Ronny Tibbs joins us to discuss the second Paul McCartney record (this one with wife Linda) - the underappreciated "Ram" from 1971. Plenty of other discussion including Myspace and Livejournal, tying audio and video into an EP, Steely Dan, George Martin's absence, McCartney solo records (I might have a hot take) and 70's solo Beatles records, "John Lennon can't be the only person Paul's mad at," f...

Michael Citro of Michael’s Record Collection (and occasional concert buddy) joins us to discuss the heavy metal classic “The Number of the Beast” from Iron Maiden.  Plenty of other discussion including gallops, Vikings, seeing Crowded House together, mommy and daddy are fighting again, metal albums we own (or once owned), backmasking, lyrical controversies and lawsuits, and we determine that the U...

Sameer Gadhia and Eric Cannata of Young the Giant join us to discuss their sophomore album “Mind Over Matter” that is celebrating its 10th anniversary!   We talk about the production of the album, sequencing, could they have made “American Bollywood” earlier in their career, vocal acrobats, misheard lyrics (Sienna?), getting “Teachers” and “Daydreamer” back into the live setlists, finding out your...

Jocelyn Si of Walt Disco and guest co-host Jason Earle (of The Marinade” podcast) join me in discussing “Poses” from Rufus Wainwright.  Plenty of other discussion including finding one’s voice in college, getting ready to tour with OMD in the states (in 2025, not in 2024), Bronski Beat, Nepo Babies, Death of Venice, welcome moments of horns, and "In A Graveyard" is I think the best Billy Joel song...

Guests Alice Wallace and little brother Dave Montgomery join us for this week's episode to discuss "More Adventurous" from Rilo Kiley. Plenty of other conversation including the LA country scene, Mule Kick Records, Post Malone, the Bluebird, male guilt, Jenny Lewis, alternative radio in 2004, beeps and boops, and we still don’t know the meaning of 11/11/46.  Jenny needs to come on the show to expl...

We have a few episodes coming up that are "not our typical format." Here's the first one. We got to hang out virtually with Frank Turner for 30 minutes and ask some follow up questions about "Love Ire & Song" and a few things about his latest album. Wayne has a new favorite artist now. You're gonna have a new favorite artist as well. Let me know your thoughts if we should do more of these type...

We got the band back together! Another Seattle related band episode with repeat revisitors Kasey Anderson and Shawn Brown...this time Pearl Jam's "Yield." Plenty of other discussion including the 1998-99 Alternative overcorrections, conspiracy theories and JFK, Ticketmaster, the song that should have been a single, "We're all crazy," Hummus, souvenir keys, and more. The intro song is Kasey's "Beli...

Josh Joplin joins us to discuss "Be What You Are” from the Staple Singers (1973).  Plenty of other discussion including the new album from Josh called “Figure Drawing” and baptism, Quakers, the soul charts of 1974, Bill Withers, Stax Records, Gladys Knight, “I’ll Take You There” and a song that Ben thinks sounds like it, “You can’t wash the Bert out” and what happens when you have to do some of yo...

Dan Rickabus, the drummer from The Crane Wives, joins us to discuss "Sound & Color" from Alabama Shakes. Plenty of other discussion including the new album from The Crane Wives called "Beyond Beyond Beyond," Blake Mills, Grammys 2016 when Alabama Shakes dominated, Nate Smith, "That's Enough" from Brandy, shoegazing, voice modulation/muffled vocals/reverb, and "You came to Florida? Where was I?...

Don't recognize the name Stelth Ulvang? He's been a part of the Lumineers for 11 years as their touring keyboardist (and other instruments). But he also puts out records under his own name and with his wife under the moniker Heavy Gus. We dove into "There's Nothing Wrong With Love" from Built to Spill and talked about a whole myriad of topics including Bishop California, his work with the Lumineer...

Repeat Revisitors Alex Alt (Sly Dog Music Cast) and Jeff Frame join us to discuss "Sentimental Hygiene" also known as the 1987 "comeback record" from Warren Zevon. Plenty of other conversation including Neil Young (the San Diego concert and Neil's guest appearance on this album), Hindu Love Gods, weird Cali beaches, fate of karma, music industry travails, Warren's obsession with Monkeys, and I com...

Patreon Revisitor Dan Beck joins us and picked “Love Ire & Song” from Frank Turner for his first episode with us.  Plenty of other discussion including how the title is missing a comma, “poetry is not my jam” (or is it?), 12 shaming, Buy The Tickets, being defiantly English, The Smiths, Journey & Boy George and other concerts we’re going to, and whiny crybabies playing pianos. Check out Fr...