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S6E305 - Public Enemy 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back' with Paul Mahern Aug 26, 2023

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This week's guest, audio engineer, producer, teacher (and lead singer of Indianapolis punk band Zero Boys) Paul Mahern, brings us Public Enemy's landmark sophomore record 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back'. Hugely influential and sonically explosive, Chuck D, Flavor Flav and the production team known as The Bomb Squad combined rap, soul, rock, funk, punk, musique concrète and everything in-between to forge the sound of a unit keenly aware of its purpose and capabilities. Bring the noise, indeed!

Songs discussed in this episode: Countdown To Armageddon - Public Enemy; Civilization's Dying - Zero Boys; Anarchy In The U.K. - Sex Pistols; Protect Ya Neck - Wu-Tang Clan; B-Boy Bouillabaise - Beastie Boys; The Sprawl - Sonic Youth; Cuttin' Heads - John Mellencamp; Bring The Noise - Public Enemy; Funky Drummer - James Brown; Don't Believe The Hype, Cold Lampin' With Flavor Flav, Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic - Public Enemy; The Grunt - The J.B.'s; Alone Again - Biz Markie; Mind Terrorist, Louder Than A Bomb - Public Enemy; The Robots - Kraftwerk; Caught, Can We Get A Witness, Show 'Em Whatcha Got, She Watch Channel Zero - Public Enemy; Angel Of Death - Slayer; Night Of The Living Baseheads, Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos - Public Enemy; Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic - Isaac Hayes; Security Of The First World, Rebel Without A Pause - Public Enemy; Walk This Way - Run DMC (ft. Aerosmith); Prophets Of Rage - Public Enemy; Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys; Party For Your Right To Fight - Public Enemy; Don't Shoot, Can't Breathe - Zero Boys; Change The Style - Son Of Baserk

S6E304 - The Ex 'Mudbird Shivers' with Joe Cannon Aug 19, 2023

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Milwaukee guitarist/vocalist Joe Cannon (WORK, Resurrectionists) brings us Dutch experimental/punk band The Ex, and their 1995 release 'Mudbird Shivers'. "Fasten your seatbelts, here is the news Just come and get it, The Thunderstruck Blues…"

Songs discussed in this episode: Eyoleo - The Ex & Han Bennink (Ziway, Ethiopia 2004); (hotel with pool) - Resurrectionists; Bluefield #2 - Delicious Monsters; Stupid Americans - The Ex; Symfonie Voor Machines - Ex Orkest; State Of Shock, Thunderstruck Blues, Only If You Want 3, Red Roper, Embarrassment - The Ex; House Carpenter (Studio outtake, 1961) - Bob Dylan; House Carpenter, Newsense, Former Reporter, Shore Thing, Things Most People Think, Audible Bacillus - The Ex; Sleep Is Wrong - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum; Hunt Hat - The Ex; Now That We Are All Ghosts - Resurrectionists

S6E303 - American Music Club 'Engine' with Tim Hinely Aug 12, 2023

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We hate to throw around the phrase 'criminally unheralded', but it sure does seem to fit San Francisco slowcore pioneers American Music Club and lead singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel. This week's guest, DAGGERzine creator Tim Hinely, brings us their 2nd album, 'Engine'. Warning: Eitzel's poignant, devastatingly raw songs will get under your skin and fester. Beautifully. "And anything beautiful That you can contrive Has no desire to survive..."

Songs discussed in this episode: Kaleidoscope World - The Chills; When Your Love Is Gone - American Music Club; 24 - Red House Painters; Big Night - American Music Club; Straight Edge - Minor Threat; Room Above The Club (AMC cover) - Frank 'Rat Bastard' Falestra (live 2012 Tobacco Road, Miami); Outside This Bar, At My Mercy, Gary's Song, Nightwatchman, Clouds, Electric Light, Mom's TV - American Music Club; I Need My Girl - The National; If You Have To Ask - Mark Eitzel; Art Of Love, Asleep, Kathleen, This Year, Outside This Bar (off 'A Toast To You', recorded live Nov 10, 2004 - Pittsburgh, PA) - American Music Club

S6E302 - Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Join Hands' with Beatriz Monteavaro Aug 05, 2023

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Artist/Musician Beatriz "Betty" Monteavaro returns with an album that both frightened and inspired her twelve-years-of-Catholic-school-self, 'Join Hands' by goth pioneers Siouxsie and the Banshees. "Are you ready?"

Songs discussed in this episode: Love In A Void - Siouxsie and The Banshees; Bowling Green - Holly Hunt; Dog Eat Dog - Adam and the Ants; Poppy Day, Regal Zone - Siouxsie and The Banshees; Colony - Joy Division; Placebo Effect, Icon, Premature Burial, Playground Twist, Mother/Oh Mein Papa, The Lords Prayer - Siouxsie and The Banshees; The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden; Chelsea/Pigs - Floor; The Lords Prayer - Siouxsie and The Banshees

S6E301 - Neil Young 'Tonight's The Night' with Alan Zweig Jul 30, 2023

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Still reeling from the drug-related deaths of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie/friend Bruce Berry, Neil Young's 'Tonight's The Night' is as raw an expression of grief and mourning you're likely to find. Canadian filmmaker Alan Zweig (Vinyl, When Jews Were Funny) joins us as we take a deep dive into this dark but ultimately beautiful document of death and loss. Songs discussed in this episode: Tonight's The Night (Pt II) - Neil Young; O Canada - Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson, featuring Terrance & Phillip; Macarena - Los Del Rio; Deadman's Curve - Jan & Dean; The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young; Show Biz Kids - Steely Dan; Walk On, Tonight's The Night, Speakin' Out, World On A String - Neil Young; Screaming Fist - The Viletones; Raised On Robbery - Joni Mitchell; Borrowed Tune - Neil Young; Lady Jane - The Rolling Stones; Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown - Neil Young; I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground; Mellow My Mind - Neil Young; Mellow My Mind - Simply Red; Roll Another Number For The Road, Albuquerque, New Mama, Don't Be Denied (live, 1973), Lookout Joe, Tired Eyes, Tonight's The Night (Pt II), Tonight's The Night (live Roxy Theater 1973) - Neil Young

S6E300 - Beck 'Midnite Vultures' with Barry Stock & Mark Guerita Jul 22, 2023

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For our 300th episode (!!!), we invited original TRGMH co-host Barry Stock and That Facebook Group Got Me High admin Mark Guerita to dissect Beck's contagiously-fun magnum opus of a party album, 1999s 'Midnite Vultures'. A good time was had by all. Songs discussed in this episode: Debra (2 Meter Sessions, 1999) - Beck; Crazy Horses - The Osmonds; Loser - Beck; Little Red Corvette - Prince; Sexx Laws, Nicotine & Gravy - Beck; The Dope Show - Marilyn Manson; Mixed Bizness - Beck; Cold Lampin' With Flavor - Public Enemy; Get Real Paid - Beck; Jam On It - Newcleus; Hollywood Freaks - Beck; Doomsday - MF Doom; Peaches & Cream, Broken Train, Milk & Honey, Beautiful Way - Beck; Countess From Hong Kong (Demo) - The Velvet Underground; Pressure Zone, Debra - Beck; Saturn Return #2 - BarryRStock

S6E299 - Camper Van Beethoven 'Key Lime Pie' with Josh Medsker Jul 15, 2023

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Teacher and poet Josh Medsker brings us California iconoclasts Camper Van Beethoven and their wonderful 1989 album 'Key Lime Pie'. It's a sweet, slightly tangy slice of musical heaven!

Songs discussed in this episode: Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Status Quo; Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Eye Of Fatima - Camper Van Beethoven; Finger-Pointing-Man - Mike Watt; Wasted, Take The Skinheads Bowling, Opening Theme, Jack Ruby, Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven; Old Mother Reagan - Violent Femmes; When I Win The Lottery, (I Was Born In A) Laundromat, Borderline, The Light From A Cake, June - Camper Van Beethoven; Bitchin' Camaro - The Dead Milkmen; All Her Favorite Fruit, Interlude, Circles, Flowers, The Humid Press Of Days - Camper Van Beethoven; Torn Curtain - Television; Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Come On Darkness, Teen Angst - Camper Van Beethoven; All Her Favorite Fruit - Starlings, TN

S6E298 - 'That Song That Samples, References or Pays Tribute To ANOTHER Song Got Me High' Patron-curated Episode Jul 11, 2023

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For this BONUS Patron-curated episode we asked our Patrons to send in a song that samples, references or pays tribute to ANOTHER song. They delivered. Remember, if YOU'D like to become a Patron of the podcast head over to: Https://Patreon.com/TRGMH

Songs discussed in this episode: Sister Ray - Velvet Underground; Velvet Underground - Jonathan Richman; Witness The Fitness - Roots Manuva; Blindness - The Fall; Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2; All By Myself - Eric Carmen; Dust In The Wind - Kansas; Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Bob Marley; You Were Right - Built To Spill; Black Cow - Steely Dan; Deja Vu - Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz; Walk Away Renee - Four Tops; Walk Away Renee (Version) - Billy Bragg; M.P.L.A - The Revolutionaries; Dub M.P.L.A. - Tappa Zukie; SpottieOttieDopaliscious - Outkast; All Night - Beyonce; Baby You're A Rich Man - The Beatles; The Beautiful - P.M. Dawn; The Greatness and Perfection of Love - Julian Cope; I Feel Dread - Business Of Dreams; Spooky - Barry Walker and the Rain; Something Wicked This Way Comes - Barry Adamson; Misty - Johnny Mathis; Johnny Mathis' Feet - American Music Club; Living In America - James Brown; James Brown - Big Audio Dynamite; These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra; Never Fight A Man With A Perm - IDLES; Man In The Box - Alice In Chains; Grunge Rock Blues - Todd Snider; Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack; Bonita Applebaum - A Tribe Called Quest; Memory Band - Rotary Connection; Killing Me Softly - The Fugees; Cavern - Liquid Liquid; White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Melle Mel; 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians; Human Fly - The Cramps; Straight To Hell - The Clash; Paper Planes - M.I.A.

S6E297 - The Embarrassment 'Death Travels West' with Bob Fay (Sebadoh) Jul 08, 2023

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Anthemic. Angular. Inscrutable. These are all words that could describe Wichita, Kansas indie-rock-cum blister-pop band The Embarrassment. Musician Bob Fay (Sebadoh, Cardinal, Lost Hours) discovered them at the end their short-but-prolific existence, after they moved to Boston and eventually splintered off into other bands - Big Dipper and The Del Fuegos to name two - leaving behind a slew of excellent releases including the 1983 mini-LP 'Death Travels West'. "We Were Famous, You Don't Remember"

Songs discussed in this episode: Immigrant Song (live) - The Embarrassment; Beauty Of The Ride - Sebadoh; She's Fetching, Ron Klaus Wrecked His House - Big Dipper; Don't Run Wild - The Del Fuegos; This Is Not A Photograph - Mission Of Burma; Venus - Television; Careen, Viewmaster - The Embarrassment; Here Comes Your Man - Pixies; Drive Me To The Park - The Embarrassment; Communist Radio - The Eat; Lewis and Clark, D-Rings, Sex Drive, Chapter 12 - The Embarrassment; Love Beach - Emerson, Lake & Palmer; This Charming Man - The Smiths; Hip and Well Read, Death Travels West - The Embarrassment; Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (live) - Ramones; Sevens Glass Lady - Lost Hours

S6E296 - Archie Shepp 'Fire Music' with Mark Bingham Jul 01, 2023

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Industry veteran, musician, composer, producer and engineer Mark Bingham has had a long and decidedly eclectic career in music. We sat down to talk some jazz - specifically Archie Shepp and his 1965 release 'Fire Music' - and may have finally cracked the code to Rob's ambivalence to the genre. REALLY fun conversation!

Songs discussed in this episode: Hambone (recorded live at the Village Gate March 28, 1965) - Archie Shepp; William Blake In Bakersfield - Mark Bingham; Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Brown; The First Girl I Loved - The Incredible String Band; Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong; Composition No. 122 - Anthony Braxton; The Way I Walk - The Cramps; Peripetie - Arnold Schoenberg; Hambone, Los Olvidados - Archie Shepp; I Can See For Miles - Petra Haden; Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper Malcolm - Archie Shepp; On The Corner - Miles Davis; Prelude To A Kiss - Duke Ellington; Prelude To A Kiss - Archie Shepp; The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz (featuring Astrud Gilberto); The Girl From Ipanema - Mike Tyson; The Girl From Ipanema - Archie Shepp; Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.; Insect Soup - Mark Bingham

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