Released exactly at the autumnal equinox on September 22, 2020, 'Shore' - the ambitious release by Robin Pecknold under the guise of his Seattle band Fleet Foxes - is a sonically adventurous journey through the musical heroes and influences that shaped him. This week's guest Tom Lawery guides us in unpacking this brightly dense album that “celebrates life in the face of death” Music featured in this episode: Sunblind (Solstice Version) - Fleet Foxes; St Petersburg - Supergrass; Your Protector - Fleet Foxes; Broke - Modest Mouse; Third Of May, Wading In Waist-High Water, Sunblind - Fleet Foxes; Broken Finger Blues - Richard Swift; The Kiss - Judee Sill; All My Happiness Is Gone - Purple Mountains; Can I Believe You, Jara - Fleet Foxes; Hockets For Two Voices IV - Meara O'Reilly; The Scientist - Coldplay; Featherweight - Fleet Foxes; I Want To Make It With You - Bread; A Long Way Past The Past - Fleet Foxes; the 1 - Taylor Swift; For A Week Or Two, Maestranza - Fleet Foxes; Living In Another World - Talk Talk; Young Man's Game - Fleet Foxes; Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac; I'm Not My Season, Quiet Air-Gioia - Fleet Foxes; Down To The Sea - The Fathoms; Going To The Sun Road - Fleet Foxes; Delta Rain Dream - Jon Hassel and Brian Eno; Thymia, Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman - Fleet Foxes; Koyaanisqatsi (Resource Scene) - Philip Glass; Shore, Under Control (Strokes cover featuring Uwade Akhere; Live Queens, NY 8.13.22) - Fleet Foxes

Chicago-based singer/multi-instrumentalist Nora O'Connor has toured and recorded with the Decemberists, Neko Case, The New Pornographers and many more. This week she joins TRGMH to discuss a record/artist that never ceases to get her high: 'Parade' by Prince and The Revolution. His eighth studio album was the soundtrack to the 1986 film he directed and starred in, Under The Cherry Moon - and the final album where The Revolution is billed - and is yet another stunning example of Prince's place as a superior melodist, arranger, and player, as well as a celebration of his endless creativity. Songs featured in this episode: Pitch Or Honey - Neko Case; My Heart - Nora O'Connor; Clampdown - The Clash; Pop Life, Controversy, I Would Die 4 U, Raspberry Beret - Prince; What Have You Done For Me Lately - Janet Jackson; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band - The Beatles; Christopher Tracy's Parade - Prince; In Between Days - The Cure; How Will I Know? - Whitney Houston; Never Surrender - Corey Hart; New Position, I Wonder U, Under The Cherry Moon, Girls & Boys, Life Can Be So Nice, Venus De Milo, Mountains, Do U Lie, Diamonds & Pearls (Live 1991) - Prince; Kiss (Demo) - Mazarati; Manic Monday - The Bangles;  Kiss, Anotherloverholenyohead, When You Were Mine, Sometimes It Snows In April - Prince; Fare Thee Well - Nora O'Connor

Hey, do you like The Descendents, Lemonheads, All and Teenage Fanclub? Guess what? Shirk Circus might just be your favorite band you've never heard of! Bass Player/Singer/Songwriter Dan Bonebrake (Dashboard Confessional, Lightworkers, The Enablers) brings us the debut album by this short-lived New Jersey band, 1994s 'Words To Say'. Songs featured in this episode: Untitled - Shirk Circus; I Didn't Think - Lightworkers; Back Of A Car - Big Star; Guess Who Came Home Today, #14 (What Would You Be If You Weren't Nothing) - Shirk Circus; Rudderless - Lemonheads; Makes No Sense At All - Husker Du; #10 (Under Acme), Summer Sun - Shirk Circus; Get Bent (demo) - AC Cobra; Sweet 75 (Live on KEXP) - Sleigh Bells; #2 (Smile), Fine Line - Shirk Circus; The Ballad Of El Goodo - Big Star; Wendy - The Beach Boys; Wendy - Descendents; #6 (Garden Grey) - Shirk Circus; It's So Dirty - Squeeze; Basement, Sell-Out - Shirk Circus; Prison Bound - Social Distortion; #13 (Words To Say), Climb Inside, Save My Day, #9 (Younger Than Your Years), Too True - Shirk Circus; I Didn't Think - Lightworkers

Musician Keith Michaud (The Lightworkers) brings us the fifth album by indie rock titans Sebadoh, 'Bakesale'. With this release, Lou Barlow and co. managed to bridge their lo-fi beginnings with pure pop power chords, producing a collection of songs that hit both hard AND deep! Songs featured in this episode: On Fire (Acoustic version) - Sebadoh; Hemispheres - Keith Michaud; Coming Down Heavy - The Lightworkers; Soulmate - Sebadoh; Gold Soundz - Pavement; Too Young To Fall In Love - Motley Crue; Waiting Room - Fugazi; Primary - The Cure; Bewitched - Beat Happening; License To Confuse - Sebadoh; No Bones - Dinosaur Jr; Rock Of Ages - Def Leppard; Careful, Magnet's Coil - Sebadoh; Smothered In Hugs - Guided By Voices; Magnet's Coil (Acoustic version) - Sebadoh; Song Of The Minerals - Shellac; Not A Friend, Not Too Amused, Dreams - Sebadoh; Einstein's Day - Mission Of Burma; Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr; Skull, Got It, Shit Soup - Sebadoh; Sorry Entertainer - Daniel Johnson; Give Up, Rebound, Mystery Man, Temptation Tide, Drama Mine - Sebadoh; Marquee Moon - Television; Together Or Alone - Sebadoh; The Wagon - The Lightworkers (off of 'Play em! The Woody EP')

For this BONUS Patreon episode we asked our Patrons to submit songs that make them happy and tell us why they do. It's a pretty joyful collection of songs guaranteed to make you feel good. Come on, get happy! Songs featured in this episode: Happy Days - Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox; Happy - Pharrell Williams - Happy - The Rolling Stones;  Happy House - Siouxsie and the Banshees; Happy Together - The Turtles; Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond; Our House - Madness; A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays" - De La Soul; I Get Off On It - Tony Joe White; My Best Friend (Is a Nihilist) - Iron Chic; Awake - Devon Townsend; And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles; Make Your Own Kind Of Music - Cass Elliot; Glory Hallelujah - Frank Turner; Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder; Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield/The Inspector Cluzo; High - Choo Choo Train; Spirit Ditties of No Tone - Deerhoof; Help You Ann - The Lyres; Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco; Mint Car - The Cure; Baby It's You - Phil Seymour; Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones; Else - Built To Spill; It's A Good Thing - That Petrol Emotion; Letter From An Occupant - The New Pornographers; In Spite Of Ourselves - John Prine and Iris DeMent; Perfect Day - Hoku; Going For The One - Yes

Beloved in their native Canada but often unheralded elsewhere, Kingston Ontario's The Tragically Hip made intelligent, intensely evocative rock music that won them legions of fans in the Great White North. Their final concert in 2016 - after lead singer Gord Downie's tragic diagnosis of terminal brain cancer a year earlier - was broadcast globally by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a cross-platform television, radio and internet streaming special. This week's returning guest (and non-Canadian) Eric Loehrmann, brings us their 3rd release, 1992s iconic 'Fully Completely'. Check it out, eh? Songs featured in this episode: Fifty Mission Cap (Live Kingston, ON 8/20/2016), Wheat Kings, Grace, Too, Ahead By A Century (Live Cobo Arena Detroit, MI Nov 1996) - The Tragically Hip; Best Of Both Worlds - Midnight Oil; Rockstar - Nickelback; Magic Power - Triumph; Great White North - Bob and Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee; Courage (For Hugh MacLennan), Looking For A Place To Happen, At The Hundredth Meridian, Pidgeon Camera, Lionized - The Tragically Hip; Fire Woman - The Cult; The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil; Locked In The Trunk Of A Car, We'll Go Too, Fully Completely, Fifty Mission Cap, Wheat Kings - The Tragically Hip; In The Square - The Pretty Things; The Wherewithal - The Tragically Hip; Pssyche - Killing Joke; Eldorado, Ahead By A Century (Live Kingston, ON 8/20/2016) - The Tragically Hip

This episode is about as punk rock as you can get: short, loud and to the point! Returning guest Joey Maya aka Joey Wrecked (The Reactions, Battalion of Saints, The Drummer of Miami Beach) brings us 'An Adjustment To Society' by early-80s NYC punk/hardcore heroes Kraut. Turn it up!! Songs featured in this episode: Get Away - Kraut; Nights On End - The Reactions; Sonic Reducer - DHMC4 (Live at Churchill's, Miami 2019); Part Time Punks - Television Personalities; Safe European Home - The Clash (Live, Bonds Casino NY 1981); The Magnificent - The Professionals; All Twisted - Kraut; Can This Be - The Wipers; Mishap - Kraut; Street Justice - Cro-Mags; Unemployed, Onward, Don't Believe - Kraut; Bodies - Sex Pistols; Abortion - Kraut; Every Other Night - Gutterboy; Seed Indecision - End Of Hope; Bogus - Kraut; Let's Have A War - Fear; Arming The World, Doomed Youth, Last Chance, Sell Out - Kraut; EMI - Sex Pistols; Army Sport, Society's Victim, Kill For Cash - Kraut; The Call Up - The Clash;  Office Buildings - Adrenalin O.D.; Bodies - Kraut (Live, Club Lingerie 1985 *with Steve Jones)

Birmingham UK drummer Mark Williams (The Jacobites) joins us this week to discuss 'Strawberries', the fifth studio album - and final one featuring their classic late-70s line-up of Vanian, Sensible, Gray and Scabies - by British punk Gods The Damned. It's a fantastic album by one of Rob's all-time favorite bands, so expect some mild gushing ahead... Songs featured in this episode: I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - The Damned (Live at Woolwich Coronet, 1985); Don't You Ever Leave Me - The Jacobites; Happy Talk, Wot - Captain Sensible; I Advance Masked - Andy Summers and Robert Fripp; Fun Factory, Ignite - The Damned; Genetix - The Stranglers; Generals, Stranger On The Town, Dozen Girls, The Dog, Gun Fury (of Riot Forces), Pleasure And The Pain, Life Goes On - The Damned; Come As You Are - Nirvana; Eighties - Killing Joke; Bad Time For Bonzo - The Damned; We've Got A Bigger Problem Now - Dead Kennedys; Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones; Disco Man, Citadel, Billy Bad Breaks, Under The Floor Again, Don't Bother Me - The Damned; Crossroads Theme - Tony Hatch; Life Goes On - Young Fresh Fellows

Los Angeles musician Marko DeSantis (Sugarcult) is a rock and roll lifer. Coming up in the Santa Barbara, CA music scene in the mid-90s, he's made hit records, toured the world and knows a LITTLE bit about the music-business angst described in alt-rock-cum-power-pop band Superdrag's second record, the meticulously recorded, universally ignored unsung masterpiece 'Head Trip In Every Key'. Believe the hype! Songs featured in this episode: Amphetamine - Superdrag (Live Irving Plaza NYC 11/2/07); Do It Alone - Sugarcult; Calling All Destroyers - Tsar; Self Destructive - Ridel High; Van Halen - Nerf Herder; Nastassja - Popsicko; Sucked Out, Lighting The Way, Keep It Close To Me - Superdrag; Accident Prone - Jawbreaker; Losing A Whole Year - Third Eye Blind; Phaser - Superdrag; Inside Of Love - Nada Surf; What's My Age Again? - Blink-182; Times Like These - Foo Fighters; Frogs - Failure; I'm Expanding My Mind, Hellbent - Superdrag; You're The One - Sugarcult; Sold You An Alibi - Superdrag; Ruby Soho - Rancid; Do The Vampire - Superdrag; Dream All Day - The Posies; Amphetamine, Bankrupt Vibration - Superdrag; Break Stuff - Limp Bizkit; Mr Underground, Annetichrist, She Is A Holy Grail, Pine Away, Shuck & Jive, Wrong vs Right Doesn't Matter, The Art Of Dying - Superdrag; Gettin' Used To You - Popsicko

For this Patreon episode, we asked our Patrons once again to send in songs that break their hearts every time they hear them. They did NOT disappoint. Make sure you have a box of tissues within reach... Songs featured in this episode: Don't Look Back In Anger - Manchester crowd; Words - Low; Fire and Rain - James Taylor; Changes - Charles Bradley; Don't Need A Reason - Beth Orton; Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths; Dear God - XTC; Mami - Melody; Them Changes - Thundercat; Ivy - Frank Ocean; Come A Little Closer - Cage The Elephant; Glimpse Of Us - Joji; Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) - Gladys Knight and the Pips; I've Been A Mess - American Music Club; Foolish Games - Jewel; Party Fears Two - The Associates; Love In Vain - Robert Johnson; I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Nina Simone; Black Love - Greg Dulli; It Makes No Difference - The Band; Angie - Rolling Stones; I'd Rather Go Blind - Rod Stewart; Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks; Mile Rock Man - Dawn Oberg; Photograph - Ringo Starr; Lazarus - David Bowie; Lippy Kids - Elbow; Moonlight Motel - Bruce Springsteen; Come Pick Me Up - Ryan Adams; Come Together - Spiritualized; Hold On Hope - Glen Campbell

For this BONUS 'Mixtape Episode', we invited drummer Sam Fogarino (Interpol) to curate a mixtape and dug into his selections. Sam's mixtape: 1.Auf Wiedersehen - Cheap Trick 2.Smash It Up - The Damned 3.Panorama - The Cars 4.Mustopha Dance - The Clash 5.Chessboards - Killing Joke 6.Disappearer - Sonic Youth  7.Carry The Zero - Built To Spill 8.Lullaby - Low 9.Dos Galaxias  - El Mato a Un Policia Motorizado 10.Rock Music - Pixies 11.Only The Strong - Midnight Oil 12.Girl Loves Me - David Bowie *Other songs featured in this episode: PDA (live, Sydney Australia 2008), Toni, Gran Hotel - Interpol; March Of The Pigs - Nine Inch Nails; Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3wVVi4w6ZBHnTCjDm7V6L0?si=fa958cceedfb40a2 **episode artwork: Cori Elba (On PlanetWeird)

This week's guest Larry Smith brings us a record by the critically acclaimed, highly influential but criminally unheralded 80s Austin TX band Glass Eye. 'Bent By Nature' is a melodic-yet-quirky, highly intelligent collection of post-punk tunes with nods to kooky neighbors, invasive lizards and Daniel Johnston, among others.  Songs featured in this episode: I Am A Baby In My Universe - Kathy McCarty; Introduction - Chicago; Walking The Cow - Daniel Johnston; Don't Worry About The Government - Talking Heads; Come Back And Stay - Paul Young; Dalis Car - Dalis Car; Second Coming - The Stranglers; Rejoyce - Jefferson Airplane; Whiskey - Glass Eye; Desperate Man Blues - Daniel Johnston; Comeback, Oblivion, Living With Reptiles, We Don't Touch - Glass Eye; This House That I Call Home - X; Love Gone Wrong, Dimpsey Naish, Kicking The Dog, People In The House, Heywire, Parking Space, Christine, Mechanical Chihuahua - Glass Eye; That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission Of Burma; Walking The Cow - Kathy McCarty

Strap-in for this one, XTC fans: Record/Hot Sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl/El Enojado Hot Sauce) brings us a curious musical oddity called 'Take Away / The Lure of Salvage', the 1980 debut record by XTC frontman Andy Partridge a.k.a. Mr Partridge! Consisting basically of dub remixes/rewrites of tracks originally recorded by Partridge's band XTC - and Co-produced with John Leckie - it's a weirdly confounding, highly experimental slab that challenges at every turn. Songs featured in this episode: Meccanik Dancing (Peel Session), Dance With Me, Germany - XTC; Words From The Poster (Remix) - The Front; Big Train, Piss Bottle Man - Mike Watt; All My Friends Are Ghosts - Scared Of Chaka; Making Plans For Nigel, Battery Brides, A Dictionary Of Modern Marriage, Life Begins At The Hop - XTC; Commerciality - Andy Partridge; Refrigeration Blues - XTC The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down - Andy Partridge; Heatwave - XTC; The Forgotten Language Of Light - Andy Partridge; Millions - XTC; Kurt's Rejoinder - Brian Eno; Reel By Reel - XTC; Steam Fist Futurist, Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950) - Andy Partridge; Ornithology - Charlie Parker; Cairo - Andy Partridge; Penetration In The Centrefold - DEVO; Helicopter - XTC; The Rotery - Andy Partridge; Veteran's Day Poppy - Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band; Madhattan, I Sit In The Snow - Andy Partridge; Meninblack - The Stranglers; The Walrus Hunt, Margaret Freeman - The Residents; Work Away Tokyo Day, New Broom - Andy Partridge; Radio 4 - Public Image Ltd.; It's Over - The Front; Let There Be Snow - Andy Partridge

Returning guest  Steve Michener (Big Dipper, Volcano Suns, Dumptruck) brings in Ground Zero for British punk, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, the one and only studio album by the notorious Sex Pistols.  "We mean it, man!"   Songs featured in this episode:Roadrunner (demo)  - Sex Pistols; Roadrunner - Sex Pistols (Live Brixton Academy, 2007); Meet The Witch - Big Dipper; I'll Be Back - The Beatles; Welcome To The Working Week - Elvis Costello; Street Life - Roxy Music; Beat On The Brat - Ramones; Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols; Welcome To Paradise - Green Day;  In The City - The Jam; Bodies - Sex Pistols; More Than A Feeling - Boston; No Feelings - Sex Pistols; I'm So Bored With The U.S.A. - The Clash; No Feelings, Liar, Problems - Sex Pistols; I Don't Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart; God Save The Queen, Seventeen, Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols; Come As You Are - Nirvana; Anarchy In The UK - Motley Crue; Submission - Sex Pistols; S.O.S.- ABBA; Pretty Vacant, New York - Sex Pistols; London Boys - The Heartbreakers; EMI - Sex Pistols; Careering - Public Image Ltd; Anarchy In The UK - Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain; God Save The Queen - Motorhead

Guitarist/vocalist Chris O'Rourke and drummer/vocalist Rachael McNally - two-thirds of the Boston band Sleepyhead - brings us a double record as intriguingly mysterious and expansive as its name: 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You' by Brooklyn indie rock band Big Thief. Anchored by the stunning voice and enigmatic songwriting of singer/guitarist Adrianne Lenker, it's an ambitious and weirdly absorbing collection of songs/sounds guaranteed to get under your skin. Songs featured in this episode: Change - Big Thief (Live Glastonbury, 2022); New Alchemy - Sleepyhead; Simulation Swarm, Sparrow, UFOF, Dried Roses - Big Thief; Changes - David Bowie; Change - Big Thief; You Can Have It All - Yo La Tengo; Time Escaping, Spud Infinity, Certainty, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, Little Things - Big Thief; Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush; Flower Of Blood, Red Moon, No Reason, 12,000 Lines, Simulation Swarm - Big Thief; Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers; Love Love Love, Blue Lightning - Big Thief; Pam and Eddie, Tony The Drunk Is A Thief - Sleepyhead

Wilco's fourth studio album, the quirky-yet-beloved 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot', is widely considered to be the band's masterpiece. So of course Rob dismissed it as overhyped alt-rock critic-bait for 20 years. Returning guest Steve Carroll patiently unwraps the storied tropes and mythical symbols of Jeff Tweedy and co., revealing a pretty fantastic rock record underneath. Songs featured in this episode: Jesus, etc. (Live at Sydney Opera House, 2013), Via Chicago - Wilco; After The Gold Rush - Neil Young; Drown - Son Volt; Forget The Flowers - Wilco; Black Horse - Gastr Del Sol; I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Kamera - Wilco; Isi - NEU!; Radio Cure, War On War, Jesus, etc., Ashes Of American Flags, Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco; American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; Strutter - Kiss; I'm The Man Who Loves You - Wilco; Apeman - The Kinks; Pot Kettle Black - Wilco; In Between Days - The Cure; Poor Places, Reservations - Wilco; Phonetic Alphabet NATO - The Conet Archive; I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound

It's hard to discuss British rock band Badfinger and NOT focus on the tragic details of their too-short career. This week's guest, legendary Miami music maven Rich Ulloa (Yesterday & Today Records, Y&T Music), doesn't shy away from the dark parts, but much prefers to focus on the wonderful music these four lads from Swansea gifted the world. Their 1971 release 'Straight Up' is as fine an example of lush, meticulously recorded and thrillingly played power-pop as you're ever likely to find.  Songs featured in this episode: Take It All (Live) - Badfinger; We Can Work It Out - The Beatles; Clowntime Is Over - Elvis Costello; This Broken Heart - The Mavericks; Flagboy - For Squirrels; Thirsty Boots - Bob Dylan; Perfection - Sweet Lizzy Project; Come And Get It, No Matter What, Apple Of My Eye, Take It All - Badfinger; Golden Slumbers - The Beatles; Maybe I'm Amazed (Live) - Paul McCartney and Wings; Baby Blue - Badfinger; Money - The Flying Lizards; Money, Flying, I'd Die Babe - Badfinger; No Matter What - Jellyfish; Name Of The Game - Badfinger; Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers; Suitcase, Sweet Tuesday Morning, Day After Day - Badfinger; No More - Pete Ham; Sometimes - Badfinger; It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference - Todd Rundgren; Perfection, It's Over - Badfinger; Piano Red - Albert Castiglia Band (Featuring Mandy Marylane); No Matter What (World Version) - Stan Lynch; Eyesight To The Blind - Mose Allison; Name Of The Game - Amanda Green

With their third full-length album, 2011's 'The English Riviera', British band Metronomy transitioned from garish electro-pop to a sleek, sophisticated sound that's as much Steely Dan as Daft Punk. Our guest, Scottish singer/songwriter and producer Joshua Mackenzie (The Joshua Hotel, Lional), found inspiration for his own music in leader Joseph Mount's lush-yet-quirky songs about - among other things - his hometown of Torbay in Devon that make up this beguiling record. "You're up, but you'll get down You're never running from this town... This town's the oldest friend of mine" Songs featured in this episode: Corinne (Instrumental) - Metronomy; Repetition Town - The Joshua Hotel; I'm Aquarius, Night Owl - Metronomy; Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan; Indie Rokkers - MGMT; Missing U - Robyn; The English Riviera, We Broke Free - Metronomy; Untitled - Interpol; Everything Goes My Way - Metronomy; She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina - The Kinks; The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret - Queens Of The Stone Age; The Look - Metronomy; F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E - Pulp; She Wants - Metronomy; Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) - Ween; Trouble - Metronomy; Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie; Honesty Is No Excuse - Thin Lizzy; Don't Believe A Word - Marco Mendoza w/Josh Mackenzie; The Bay - Metronomy; Atlantis To Interzone - Klaxons; Loving Arm, Corinne - Metronomy; Blockhead - DEVO; Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus; Some Written - Metronomy; Lot 105 - Blur; Love Underlined - Metronomy; Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem; Somebody New - The Joshua Hotel

For this BONUS Patreon episode, we asked our Patrons to send in songs about drinking and/or drugs. Real talk: Alcohol/Drugs in excess can be bad, but songs about them can be awesome! If you'd like to participate in these episodes, please consider becoming a Patron today... Cheers!! Songs featured in this episode: Heroin - Saul Williams and John Cale (Concert at the Philharmonie de Paris, April 3, 2016); Arrested For Driving While Blind - ZZ Top; I Think I'm In Love - Spiritualized; Jane Says - Jane's Addiction; High Time - Casey Musgraves; Opium Trail - Thin Lizzy; Since You Put Me Down - Margo Price; Johnny Hit & Run Pauline - X; The Masked Marauder - Country Joe and The Fish; The Straight and Narrow - Spiritualized; The King Is Gone (So Are You) - George Jones; The British Army on LSD - Luke Haines & Peter Buck; White Rabbit - The Damned; Passenger Side - Wilco; Here Comes A Regular - Replacements; Black Coffee - Black Flag; Beer - Jay Bennett; Get Off On Your Porch - Charlie Pickett; I'm Straight (Jonathan Richman Cover) - Psyclone Rangers; Golden Brown - The Stranglers; Dopesmoker - Sleep Episode Spotify Playlist

When this week's guest, singer/songwriter Elizabeth McCullough (Alpha Cat), heard the song 'Hoover Dam' by the band Sugar, she broke her 3-song rule (making sure an album has at least 3 good songs before purchasing it) and ran out and bought their 1992 debut 'Copper Blue'. She was not disappointed. The record by Bob Mould's new band, released five years after the dissolution of his previous band - beloved punk titans Hüsker Dü - is an emotionally visceral, sonically fierce collection of songs that sound as fresh today as when they first appeared. Stone. Cold. Classic. Songs featured in this episode: If I Can't Change Your Mind - Tre Dabney/The Salt Flats/The Decemberists; Venus Smile, Orbit - Alpha Cat; Friend, You've Got To Fall, Celebrated Summer - Hüsker Dü; See A Little Light - Bob Mould; Never Again - Zulus; The Act We Act, A Good Idea - Sugar; Debaser - Pixies; Changes, Helpless - Sugar; Hoover Dam - Bob Mould (Live, acoustic); Hoover Dam, The Slim - Sugar; Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band; If I Can't Change Your Mind, Fortune Teller - Sugar; Come In Alone - My Bloody Valentine; In Bloom - Nirvana; Slick, Man On The Moon - Sugar; Wichita - Alpha Cat; If I Can't Change Your Mind - The Decemberists (Live acoustic, A.V. Club)