We've Been Had

After a little while away, the boys are back in town. And they’re ready to ponder the koan of Nada Surf

Buoyed by some beers that turned out to be malt liquor, the boys get beastie

Despite being Baxtered by tech problems (don’t worry, the laptop setting have been updated to this’ll stop happening), the hombres talk about the Lemonheads and their place on the top shelf of 90s alt-pop. Also: surprising amounts of Tom Petty and yacht rock.

Chad and Keith look at some apex 2000s indie rock while a dog barks at his own imagination. The hombres are pretty copacetic about Rilo Kiley but somehow not so much on the Arcade Fire.

Chad and Keith circle around this one warily, like apes with a monolith

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?!?!? You’re in a dining room in south Minneapolis, baby, listening to a couple of middle aged-dudes try to figure out how music can have a weird power even when it seems mostly aimed at convincing guys like Vince Neil that Axl Rose is a cool badass

Hey, have you ever heard of the Replacements?

A spectre is haunting We’ve Been Had — the spectre of Hüsker Dü! Also: Augie the lab comes into his own as third cohost

The gents dig into one of the foundational albums for modern indie rock, and try to figure out why the Pixies rule so hard. Also: the Old Testament.

Chad’s the voice of reason, more or less, as Keith has one of his turns. Also: once again, a dog makes his presence known.

Chad and Keith try to grapple with the legendary punk-precursor album while Canis Caesar Augustus tries to steal the show

The idiots dig into an album that reported from the front lines on 2019. Also, somehow: W.B. Yeats and Bilbo Baggins

The idiots get their blooze on with the Flamin’ Groovies as a giant puppy attacks their sound equipment and then farts up a storm. Also: Randy Newman, and a surprising truth about the Dead Kennedys and the B-52s

Either a philanderer ties a murderer’s shoes or some unnamed party collects a philanderer’s tie and a murderer’s shoes. You decide!

Bum software can’t stop the idiots from looking at an album and an artist that are so much greater than the dorm residents of the 1990s believed

The gents talk about a great, if heavy, album that emanated from the depths of Lake Superior

Deep focus on the album/compilation that served as “Meet the* Buzzcocks?” Seminar on punk history and theory? Meditation on the word “the” in band names? Why not all of the above?

The parts of the discussion that were just too hard core for our server to allow you to hear them

Journey into the heart of, well, something. NOTE: the episode got truncated by the server, so the last third or so of the conversation appear in a second episode

The idiots follow some strange lights out into the desert and find Jim Sullivan’s abandoned car. Also, somehow, Wolverine.

Chad and Keith come back from the dead to pass judgment on Gen X and its alleged jams.

A sixth-grade music homework assignment finally pays off as the idiots confront the Hendrix Enigma

The idiots make the very belated realization that Blondie was a very good band.

The newly-crowned Kings of Canada listen to Steve Earle’s landmark mix tape

Chad and Keith hang out in the parking lot in their Trans Ams drinking Coors Light and cranking out as much Van Halen and Van Hagar as you can handle