Records Revisited

The guys are joined by Ryan Hamilton to discuss “Throwing Copper” from Live.  Plenty of other discussion including vintage alternative, hidden tracks, taking sides, protesting but also listening, Tibetan Book of the Dead, ad placements, leaving the music business, mowing the lawn, Foreigner, 90s radio and MTV, and of course…placentas. Check out Ryan Hamilton at: https://ryanhamiltonmusic.com/ Chec...

The guys are joined by Shadwick Wilde and repeat revisitor Karli Anderson to discuss “Doolittle”  from The Pixies.   Plenty of other discussion including Louisville, when “all kinds of music” really means “all kinds,” imports, ghost tracks that become the final recording, Kim Deal, slicing up eyeballs, Bathsheba and other biblical references, Freight Train Hoppin’ Hobos, and Wayne has some competi...

The guys are joined by Cole Gallagher to discuss “The Wall” from Pink Floyd.  Yep….all 26 songs.   Plenty of other discussion including battling imposter syndrome and getting Sadler & Jimbo & David Hidalgo of Los Lobos to play on your album, Captain & Tennille, backmasking, mean teachers, songs played on KISW (and Wayne doesn’t remember them), team David or team Roger, and the difficul...

The guys are joined by Kat Wodtke and Nick of Long Mama to discuss “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning” from Bright Eyes.  Plenty of other discussion including the Milwaukee scene, punk scene and sleeping on floors, driving to Alaska from Wisconsin, resisting a war and how this album is a timepiece of anxiety and angst from 2005, Maria Taylor and Emmylou Harris, and things that just might be a “drummer...

Last minute guest reschedules means….PIVOT!  For this last minute episode, the guys are once again joined by Jon Lamoreaux of The Hustle Podcast to discuss “Aladdin Sane” from David Bowie.  Drunk Wayne also makes an appearance.  Plenty of other discussion including FLEX!, The Guess Who and other Canadians, Anne Murray and racquetball, Filter, live albums, glam rock and America not getting it, Mott...

The guys are joined by Chris Ballew (Presidents of the United States of America, Caspar Babypants) discuss The Soft Boys record “Underwater Moonlight.”  Plenty of other discussion including Chris’s new record “Laying Low,” Robyn Hitchcock (who was part of the Soft Boys), Tacoma and the Sonics (the band, not the team), Young Fresh Fellows, making music for kids AND their parents, and discovering a...

The guys welcome back David Borne to discuss the Band of Horses record “Cease to Begin.”  You might remember David from our Nirvana episode a few years ago.  We’ve been wanting to have David back on and we've been wanting to do a Band of Horses episode forever.  Was happy to finally do both.  Plenty of other discussion including David’s fantastic new record “Genesis,” quitting drinking, moving to...

The guys welcome Ben Harold to discuss the Bruce Springsteen record “Nebraska.”  Plenty of other discussion including Mississippi (the reason behind the song “I Am Weak”), learning to love this album, Caril Ann Fugate (any relation?), dealing with fathers, please don’t stop me, the best outro we’ve ever recorded, an unanimous top pick (for the three of us) and LOTS of listener comments and listene...

I finally released this recording!  You all know this record.  It's an absolute classic!  And....lots of listener scores as well.  We recorded this in early 2022 as one of our Patreon Revisitor hangs and...yeah....I just didn't get to editing the recording. Trying to normalize a recording with a ton of different microphones and recording setups can be challenging but...I think I did it.   Enjoy! C...

Roger Clyne (The Refreshments, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers) joins us to talk about The Refreshments album "Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy" (1996).  Other discussion including King of the Hill, how "Wheelie" fits into the context of the album, P.H. as M.V.P., the Tempe scene of the '90s, Clif Norrell, and more.  Co-host Wayne gets a week off for his move across the U.S.  Instead, repeat revisito...

The guys welcome Trapper Schoepp to discuss the Bob Dylan “comeback” record “Time Out of Mind.”  Plenty of other discussion including Trapper’s new album “Siren Songs,” Cheap Trick, Anna Edson Taylor, Daniel Lanois, Wayne’s vitriol for a certain standard, the landscape of the 1998 Grammys (Soy Bomb!) local crew t-shirts, the length of "Highlands" (hard boiled eggs!) and more.   Check out Trapper S...

The guys welcome back Repeat Revisitors Kalie Shorr (previous episode - Alanis' "Jagged Little Pill") & Craig Manning (previous episode - The Gaslight Anthem's "The '59 Sound) to talk about the Third Eye Blind debut (1997). Plenty of other discussion including band in-fighting, liking only “Jumper” means no second date, aqua lube, TLC, Butch Walker, the weird landscape of music in 1997, and mo...

Episode 294 – U2’s “War” with author Bradley Morgan  The guys are joined by author Bradley Morgan to discuss his book “"U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" and the album “War” from U2 (“The Joshua Tree” has already been discussed on Episode 124).  Plenty of other discussion including finding identity, U2 switching producers (and then coming back to Steve), how we each discovere...

The guys are joined by Amy Stroup to discuss the 2005 soundtrack to Elizabethtown.  This soundtrack is STACKED with great songs.  Plenty of other discussion including why it took us so long to do this episode considering we did a Cameron Crowe soundtrack month a few years ago, who is Frank, dogs, being a song farmer, getting placements, Nancy Wilson, Susan Sarandon, Jim James, Tom Petty, Ryan Adam...

The guys are joined by Will Payne Harrison to discuss the 1975 country classic album “Red Headed Stranger” from Willie Nelson.  Plenty of other discussion including pricepoints, CCR, peaking in high school, 80s country movies, saloon piano, well whiskey, screaming like a panther, Wayne wants justice (and karma), and we think we need to have a watch party for the made for TV movie starring Willie a...

The guys are joined by Patreon Revisitor Dave Greenberg and repeat Revisitor Jeff Frame to discuss the 1991 album “Girlfriend” from Matthew Sweet.  Plenty of other discussion including “John Prine…is that you?!”, Mr. Deeds and Adam Sandler movies (and Winona Ryder movies), Thrice!, sucker punches and steel guitars, thoughts and prayers, and the joy of Matthew Sweet harmonies.    Check out Matthew...

Donovan Woods joins the show to discuss Bruce Springsteen’s debut record "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.”  No Wayne for this one…instead, Patreon Revisitors Tom Hershey and Andrew Rybak share co-host duties.  Plenty of other discussion including opening for bands/artists and starting at zero, collaborating, Aoife O’Donovan, The Hold Steady, the formula of writing a song with a story, being a fro...

The guys are joined by Glen Phillips to discuss his 2005 solo record "Winter Pays for Summer.”  Plenty of other discussion including barriers to entry, working with Dan Wilson and John Fields, goat yoga, the different meanings of “Released,” song circles, “Secrets of the Deep”, triggers of anxiety, being judged in front of a room of people, Kate Bush, and songs Glen might not play live anymore.  ...

The guys are joined by Pete Droge to discuss another Tom Petty record...this time "Full Moon Fever." Plenty of other discussion including Price Utah, Sheryl Crow poaching Pete's bandmates, The Thorns, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Johnny Seattle, defiance, Jeff Lynne, Brendan O'Brien, Jim Keltner, Pete stumps us on Scott Thurston trivia and how in the world was this album rejected by the label?  Come...

The guys are joined by fellow podcasters John Nixon and Tom Nixon from the Out of the Main Podcast (a Yacht Rock themed podcast) to do a non-Yacht album...namely the debut from Boston.  Some Steely Dan talk, boxing ourselves into a corner, “that wasn’t a single,” Caddyshack, what is and what is not Yacht, Steve Lukather, organs, the Rock Band video game, and we almost feel bad about our scores for...

The guys are joined by repeat revisitors Shawn Brown and Kasey Anderson (remember the “Brad” episodes) to discuss the pinnacle album “Superunknown” from Soundgarden.  Plenty of discussion including Citizen Dick, Artis the Spoonman, some waves are fragile, Hiro vs. Ben records, “you can take the quotation marks off of Pantera and Megadeath," the gluttony of 90s albums, Black Sabbath, a song that is...

Episode 285 – Marshall Crenshaw’s Debut Album with…Marshall Crenshaw  Ben interviews Marshall Crenshaw himself about the Yep Roc re-release of his fantastic 1982 debut.  Then, the guys are  joined by repeat revisitor Jon Lamoreaux of The Hustle Podcast to discuss Marshall’s 1982 self-titled debut album in our standard format.  Plenty of other discussion including Elvis Presley or Elvis Costello, t...

The guys are joined by Patreon Revisitor Tim McKay and newcomer Megan Cullip to discuss the second Counting Crows album “Recovering the Satellites.”  Plenty of other discussion including “you’re putting emotion into it…it’s just a text,” Gil Norton, we’re over famous complaining about their fame, who is the monkey, David Gray, we give “Mercury” more attention than anyone has ever done, and…uh oh…T...

The guys are joined by repeat revisitor Jon Lamoreaux of The Hustle Podcast and Mike Blanchard of the Geekcast to join us for our first ever Hall & Oates episode.  We dive into 1984's "Big Bam Boom."  Plenty of discussion including whether we really love INXS's "Mediate," Funko Pops, John Oates songs, G.E. Smith, songs that take us back, artists with great songs but without albums construed as...

Ben and Wayne were joined by Brett Newski of the band...Newski...for our first ever Barenaked Ladies episode and to talk about BNL's album "Stunt."  Fun episode that covers a ton of ground about the 90s, some of Stephen Page's finest moments, Ferris Bueller advice, Nada Surf, Scott Terry, don't look at advance ticket sales, Candlebox, the leather cheerio, powelines, why does America like big pillo...