That Record Got Me High Podcast

Please support TRGMH on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TRGMH? Local artist Richard Vergez grew up in Miami and at the age of nine forced his father - with threats of extreme violence - to buy him Ministry's ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ (Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs) on cassette. Richard found the album complemented his desire for raw power and world domination. He called us and made us...

Providence, Rhode Island used record dealer and drummer/guitarist for a few obscure New England bands (Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns, Kustomized, Minibeast) Peter Prescott brings Brian Eno's debut solo album to That Record Got Me High. It's a humdinger, and we all get reacquainted with just HOW influential this work really was (and is). That "Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno...

Steven Toth of Mr. Entertainment & The Pookiesmackers brings the first album he ever bought, literally, he actually brings the album, Alice Cooper's 1972 masterpiece "Killer." John Lydon calls it "the greatest rock and roll album of all time." We don't argue with his assessment. Live from the beer closet at The Laser Wolf with host Chris Bellus. Please Support TRGMH on Patreon: https://www.patreon...

An album named for a television series about underwater militaristic puppets with fake American accents. A Pakistan native whose family drove from England back to Pakistan and then came back to England in a midget submarine. Nadeem Khan of Chimp Eats Banana, The Wildtones, Tandoori Knights et. al. brings Swell Maps insane, fantastic, influential debut "Trip to Marineville" to our show. Please supp...

Brookesville, Florida native Tom Lawery – who Barry Stock really should have known but didn't until now – drove over from St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) to bring us R.E.M.'s 1984 sophomore set, "Reckoning." It's an album that has done more than stand up over time, it seems to have actually gotten better. It's not all hagiography in our episode with Tom, but this record got us all high. Suppor...

Erudite and suavé Jeffrey Weaver, a patron, brings to our slash and blab idiot ambulance a circular vinyl sword aimed straight at the heart of everything in its path, The Fall's second full-length album, "Dragnet." Like a good sandwich monger he pulls from his mental meat wagon the proverbial goods, and we try and follow along while scribbling dimwitted cartoons on our vodka-sodden desks. Become a...

A contentious foursome gathered before anxious, sweaty microphones to pontificate conversely about the relative merits of Minneapolis underdogs Soul Asylum's A&M debut, "Hang Time." Some found it full of promise, hope, and the scent of newly-mown grass, while others found that it smelled like the grass after horses digested it, and derivative of odious chumps like Aerosmith. You will HAVE to decid...

THIS IS A DUPLICATE TRACK TO FIX A PROBLEM WITH THE SPOTIFY STREAM. Camila Risso gets us on the horn with one of the originals, Popmaster Fabel, whose "pioneering individuality has been showcased internationally since 1982. President of the Hierophysics Theater Group, Senior member of the Rock Steady Crew and proud member of the Electric Boogaloos." He picked an amazing gem from Jello Biafra's Alt...

Camila Risso gets us on the horn with one of the originals, Popmaster Fabel, whose "pioneering individuality has been showcased internationally since 1982. President of the Hierophysics Theater Group, Senior member of the Rock Steady Crew and proud member of the Electric Boogaloos." He picked an amazing gem from Jello Biafra's Alternative tentacles label, the industrial/funk/rap monster that is "T...

Jerry Lee Lewis Live at The Star Club Hamburg is the greatest live album you've never heard. It's white hot, and The Big Takeover kingpin Jack Rabid comes onboard our leaky vessel to paddle for the far shore with a Whole Lotta insight about this here affair. Support Rob and Barry on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TRGMH? As always, thanks to our sponsor, Is This Tomorrow? http://isthistomorr...

Garry Messick comes in wth a killer classic by the divisive, polarizing duo of the late Walter Becker and the curmudgeonly Donald Fagen – AKA Steely Dan. Love them or hate them, you Can't Buy A Thrill better than listening to us rubes chew the fatback over this slab of alternately snarky and touching vignettes. Thanks again to our sponsor http://isthistomorrow.com, and please support our Patreon a...

With the cancellation of a guest due to a case of having to go to banjo camp (NOT a euphemism), Rob Elba and Barry Stock grabbed this one off the shelf, an album that ought to be in YOUR collection if it's not. The Stranglers are singular, weird, perfect, a force of nature – just not an entirely benevolent one. Four aural sculptors, five fucking stars.

KISS superfan and for-real metal guitarist deluxe Juan Montoya brings every 1976 teenage boy's rock and roll fantasy disc to That Record Got me High's monthly Live at Laser Wolf show. The deep philosophical lyrical content really has us scratching our beards and/or razor stubble, and we smoke pipes and drink cognac while scrunching up our foreheads. At the end we break out the acoustics and kick t...

Flat out one of the best albums we've talked about on our show, a masterful work of sinister, dark pop from Jarvis Cocker and his ensemble Pulp. The combination of classic pop structures and Cocker's shatteringly candid observations about goings on within and without the human organisms in his orbit combine for a very, very interesting ride. Please support That Record Got Me High on Patreon: https...

Our friend Bobbie Jo from up the block brings in her disco album and turns us on to one of the genres greatest talents, the flamboyant and gifted Sylvester. "You Make Me Feel Mighty Real" is the track most of us are familiar with, but the rest of the album mixes harmonically ambitious dance tracks with gospel-tinged soul and stellar vocal performances. It's 1978, do you know where your dancing sho...

This week we are joined by Punk Jill, Jill Definis, drummer for the Pop Skulls, world-class cynic (according to Rob) and Cheap Trick aficionado. We all pretty much give up on any kind of criticism of one of all of our favorite albums, the insanely great Heaven Tonight. Drinks are had, good and bad words are said, and we enjoy the heck out of this piece of wonderment. Support our Patreon: https://w...

Camila Risso returns, bringing 1984's controversial, love it or hate it "My War," the first in a string of dark, bleak, challenging albums by LA's seminal hardcore ensemble Black Flag. Side One gives the kids in the mosh pit a little something to write home about, but side two slips into a musical La Brea Tar Pit of heavy dirges topped with Henry Rollins' verbal self-immolations. It's great. Pleas...

In another of our...um..."collusions" with ex-members of Boston's beloved and defunct Big Dipper, axe-man Gary Waleik walks up the subway stairs with the fourth and final Velvet Underground album, "Loaded." "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll" were FM rock staples in the late 70s, and this album was the closest the band got to mainstream...anything. Support Rob and Barry on Patreon: https://www.patreo...

An eyeball-gouging, face-raking, windshield bouncing classic from 1994, the debut from the (still doing it) trio of miscreants Shellac. 10 songs of love, loss, and getting your scrotum snagged in a carnival ride by Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer. Brought to us by the self-proclaimed "King of Used Office Furniture (in Deerfield Beach)" Jay Reeve, who drank the drinks and slung the hash w...

Miami music producer, member of To Live and Shave in LA, and founder of the International Noise Conference Rat Bastard brings his knowledge of producer Joe Boyd and love of Nick Drake's melancholy genius to our 63rd episode of that Record Got Me High. Recorded at the Dan Hosker Studio in Miami. Please Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TRGMH?

Witty, astute and lovely ska saxophonist Mitzie Velez brings her love of X-Ray Spex and the late. singular, undeniable, brilliantly day-glo Poly Styrene to our monthly live taping at Laser Wolf. The record was unavailable in the US until 1992, and many may have missed its extraordinary charms. They are many, and varied. Support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/TRGMH?

Voivod's 2003 self-titled album is their first to feature newly self-amputated-from-Metallica Jason Newsted ("Jasonic"), and also the return of original vocalist Denis Bélanger ("Snake"). It's guitarist Denis D'Amour's ("Piggy") swan song (RIP 2005). Drummer and visionary Michel Langevin ("Away") propels the album in spectacular fashion. Sci-fi, thrash metal, alt-rock, unclassifiable (and spectacu...

1971 comes into razor sharp focus with Captain Beefheart's follow up to his magnum opus "Trout mask Replica." The songs are intensely strange, but focus on both human ecological concerns and Don's love of "yams" that "yawn and yearn." It is a crazy, crazy ride, an album that's just as wild as the day it hatched, and one that will have you laughing and scratching your chin simultaneously. Thanks ve...

Our friend Steve Michener makes his third appearance on That Record Got Me High to wax eloquent about The Monochrome Set, a group that is as English as The Kinks, and with the same difficulties in crossing the pond culturally. Steve recently shepherded the quirky ensemble on the West Coast leg of a US tour, and his love of the band is now shared by your less-hip cohosts. Please support our Patreon...

That Record Got Me High is very pleased to have as our guest the fantastic and highly entertaining original member of Cleveland, Ohio's seminal Rocket from the Tombs – AND – NY punk rock icons Dead Boys – CHEETAH CHROME. He brings the goods with clarity about who, what, when and where, and hips us to a lyric we've puzzled over for decades. This was a great time for both of us, and we think you'll...