That Record Got Me High Podcast

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S6E265 - Wilco 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' with Steve Carroll Dec 17, 2022

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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

S6E264 - Badfinger 'Straight Up' with Rich Ulloa Dec 10, 2022

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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

S6E262 - Metronomy 'The English Riviera' with Joshua Mackenzie Dec 03, 2022

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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

S6E263 - 'That Song About Drugs/Alcohol Got Me High' BONUS Patron-curated Episode Nov 29, 2022

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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

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S6E261 - Sugar 'Copper Blue' with Elizabeth McCullough (Alpha Cat) Nov 26, 2022

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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)

S6E260 - Bad Religion 'Recipe For Hate' with Aaron Fruitstone Nov 19, 2022

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Listening back to it now, it's hard to believe that Bad Religion's seventh studio album - 1993s 'Recipe For Hate' - was at the time considered a polarizing record that many hardcore fans felt was a sell-out. 30 years later, it's clear this was a band at the top of their game - maturing and expanding musically while still delivering ferociously intelligent songs about class, religion and navigating a treacherous path towards the 21st century. Our guest, personal trainer and Taekwon-Do Studio owner Aaron Fruitstone, makes the case that their brand of cerebral punk is as presciently valid now as it was when he was an angry teen. "Well madness reigned and paradise drowned When Babel's walls came crashing down Now the echoes roar for a story writ That was hardly understood And never any good."

Songs featured in this episode: Recipe For Hate (Live Hollywood Palladium, 2004) - Bad Religion; Strike First - Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson; No Control, Only Entertainment - Bad Religion; White Riot - The Clash; Commando - Ramones; Recipe For Hate, Kerosene - Bad Religion; Vigil Smile - Claw Hammer; American Jesus - Bad Religion; Porch - Pearl Jam; Portrait Of Authority - Bad Religion; House Of Wolves - My Chemical Romance; Wichita - Karen Landau and Greg Leisz; Man With A Mission, All Good Soldiers, Watch It Die - Bad Religion; Still In Hollywood - Concrete Blonde; Struck A Nerve - Bad Religion; Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy; My Poor Friend Me - Bad Religion; Growing Up - Fall Out Boy; Lookin' In - Bad Religion; Kids Of The Black Hole - Adolescents; Don't Pray On Me - Bad Religion; Sorrow - Greg Graffin (Live acoustic); Modern Day Catastrophists, Skyscraper, Stealth, Skyscraper (Piano version) - Bad Religion

S6E259 - Six Feet Under 'Haunted' with Jeff Kaiser Nov 12, 2022

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Buckle-up listeners! This week's guest, Jeff Kaiser (Florida Sound Archive Podcast), brings us a record - and genre - that got his teenage self extremely high: It's the 1995 debut album by Tampa Death Metal supergroup Six Feet Under (featuring members of Cannibal Corpse and Obituary), 'Haunted'. With a slightly groovier, more riff-heavy sound than your standard Death Metal fare, its horror-themed songs about zombies, werewolves and the darker side of existence just might get under your skin. Added bonus: your parents will HATE it!

Songs featured in this episode: Suffering In Ecstasy - Six Feet Under; If This Is Love - Charlie Pickett & The Eggs; Buzzard Dance - Billie Stewart (Songs of the Seminole Indians of Florida 1931-1933); A Skull Full Of Maggots - Cannibal Corpse; Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment - Ramones; The Enemy Inside - Six Feet Under; Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath; Silent Violence, Lycanthropy, Still Alive, Beneath The Black, Human Target, Remains Of You, Suffering In Ecstasy - Six Feet Under; Better You, Better Than Me - Judas Priest; Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers; Tomorrow's Victim - Six Feet Under; A New Hope - Amboog-A-Lard; Torn To The Bone, Haunted - Six Feet Under; Veil Of Maya - Cynic; Stepping Stone - Six Feet Under

S6E258 - Agitation Free 'Malesch' with David Lewis Nov 05, 2022

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Record store owner and self-professed 'music geek' David Lewis (Elizabeth's Records - Columbus, OH) thinks we should never stop discovering new (to us) music. He's right. Around 10 years ago he came upon the 1972 debut album by German experimental rock group Agitation Free, 'Malesch'. A mysterious fusion of psychedelia, experimental krautrock and world music, it's a fascinating snapshot of a band working together to create a trippy, ethereal and unique wall of sound.

Songs featured in this episode: Laila III - Agitation Free (Live in Paris ORTF Studio, 1973); Future Games - Fleetwood Mac; Hallogallo - Neu!; Phaedra - Tangerine Dream; Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath; Winning - The Sound; You Play For Us Today, Sahara City - Agitation Free; New Dawn Fades - New Order; Ala Tul - Agitation Free; Supernaut - Black Sabbath; Outside Tokyo - The Stranglers; Pulse - Agitation Free; Departure From The Northern Wasteland - Michael Hoenig; Pruit Igoe - Philip Glass; Khan El Khalili - Agitation Free; Jessica - The Allman Brothers; No One Is There - Nico; V-2 Schneider - David Bowie; Malesch - Agitation Free; Utopia III (excerpt) - Thomas Kessler; Malesch, Rücksturz - Agitation Free; Emka - My Education; Music Factory - Agitation Free (Live Mainz Germany, 1972)

S6E256 - Harry Styles 'Harry's House' with Bobbie Jo Oct 29, 2022

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Buckle-up haters, because returning guest Bobbie Jo brings us mega-selling pop star Harry Styles' third release, 2022's 'Harry's House'. It's a record engineered to make you feel good. Styles - along with producer/collaborators Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson - pays homage to his R&B, Funk and Indie-Rock heroes with meticulously crafted pop songs delivered with an appealing nice guy earnestness that's hard to resist. I mean, you COULD resist it, but maybe better to slip on a comfy candy-striped onesie and just enjoy!

Songs featured in this episode: As It Was (Live from Coachella, 2022) - Harry Styles; You Make Me Feel Mighty Real - Sylvester; Sign Of The Times (Live SNL, 2017) - Harry Styles; Stealing Cars - Kid Harpoon; Close To Me - The Cure; Music For a Sushi Restaurant - Harry Styles; Sign O' The Times - Prince; Give It To Me Baby - Rick James; Late Night Talking, Watermelon Sugar, Grapejuice, As It Was, Daylight, Little Freak, Matilda, Cinema - Harry Styles; Ain't We Funkin' Now!! - Brothers Johnson; Daydreaming - Harry Styles; Bluebird - Paul McCartney & Wings; Keep Driving - Harry Styles; Satellite Of Love - Lou Reed; Satellite - Harry Styles; Rock-a-Bye My Baby - Haruomi Hosono; Boyfriends, Love Of My Life, Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell cover, BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show) - Harry Styles

S6E257 - 'That Song/Music From That Creepy Scene In A Movie Got Me High' Bonus Patron-curated Episode Oct 28, 2022

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For Halloween 2022 we asked our Patrons to send in a song or music that was used in a movie scene that made it MUCH more tense, terrifying...etc. They didn't just stick to horror films - any movie where a song/music was used in a scene to ratchet-up the suspense/anxiety level was fair game - and as usual they did NOT disappoint! Happy Halloween!! Songs featured in this episode: 'Goodbye Horses' - Q Lazzarus; 'Tubular Bells' - Mike Oldfield; 'Needle In The Hay' - Elliott Smith; 'Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)' - The Delfonics; 'The Shining, Main Title' - Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind; 'All Along The Watchtower' - Bear McCreary; 'The Cannibals' - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis; 'Die By The Sword', 'Captor of Sin' - Slayer; 'In Dreams' - Roy Orbison; 'Stuck In The Middle With You' - Stealers Wheel; 'Jessie's Girl' - Rick Springfield; 'Kites Are Fun' - The Free Design; 'Walk The Night' - Skatt Bros.; 'Witch' - Goblin; 'Hip Priest' - The Fall; 'East Hastings' - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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