That Record Got Me High Podcast

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S5E225 - Ween 'Chocolate and Cheese' with Josh Medsker May 21, 2022

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When Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo - better known by their respective stage names Gene and Dean Ween of the band Ween - were given full reign of a professional recording studio for their 4th studio album, they rose to the occasion and crafted 1994's "Chocolate and Cheese". This week's guest, teacher and poet Josh Medsker, joins us as we attempt to dissect this weirdly wonderful, schizophrenic slab.

Songs featured in this episode: What Deaner Was Talking About (Peel Session) - Ween; (For A While) I Couldn't Play My Guitar Like A Man - Aaron Freeman; Anchorage - Michelle Shocked; Push Th' Little Daisies - Ween; Punk's Not Dead - The Exploited; Piss Up A Rope - Ween; Man, It's So Loud In Here - They Might Be Giants; Take Me Away, Spinal Meningitis - Ween; Highway Star - Deep Purple; Freedom of '76, I Can't Put My Finger On It - Ween; Such A Scream - Tom Waits; Roses Are Free - Phish; Roses Are Free, Birthday Boy, Baby Bitch, Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony, Drifter In The Dark - Ween; Ace Of Long Nights - Umphry's McGee; Voodoo Lady, Candi, Buenas Tardes Amigo, The HIV Song, What Deaner Was Talking About, Don't Shit Where You Eat, What Deaner Was Talking About (Live in Toronto) - Ween

S5E224 - Slint 'Spiderland' with Jay Reeve May 14, 2022

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In 1991, teenage Louisville, Kentucky band Slint recorded 'Spiderland', a brooding, sinister record that helped invent post-rock and influenced a generation of musicians. This week's guest Jay Reeve (Muteant Sounds Net Label) joins Rob to dissect this darkly mysterious album. As Steve Albini wrote in a 1991 Melody Maker review: "It's an amazing record, and no one still capable of being moved by rock music should miss it. In 10 years' time, it will be a landmark and you'll have to scramble to buy a copy then."

Songs featured in this episode: Groin - AG Davis; My Black Ass - Shellac; Ron - Slint; Thursday - Squirrel Bait; I Found That Essence Rare - Gang Of Four; Safari - The Breeders; Discipline - King Crimson; Shadow Of A Doubt - Sonic Youth; Mouth Breather - The Jesus Lizard; We Are 138 - Misfits; Breadcrumb Trail, Nosferatu Man, Don, Aman, Washer, For Dinner..., Good Morning, Captain - Slint; Heroin - The Velvet Underground; Moonbeams - The For Carnation; Half The Man I Used To Be - Stone Temple Pilots; Barricade - Interpol; Un tout petit cheval - SYLVAIN GUÉRINEAU & JEAN ROUGIER; Washer (Live in London, 2013) - Slint

S5E223 - Led Zeppelin IV with Ralph Cavallaro May 07, 2022

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For this week's episode, we climb aboard the rock-and-roll mothership that is Led Zeppelin and their mysteriously untitled fourth album. What more could possibly be said about this ubiquitous classic-rock staple? This week's guest Ralph Cavallaro describes how the record/band went from seminal hard rock touchstone in his youth to bloated, uncool anachronism in his college years to one of his all-time favorites today. Along the way we dig into the sonic artistry and groundbreaking recording techniques that make this a stone cold classic.

Songs featured in this episode: Anymore - Quit; The Song Remains The Same - Led Zeppelin; Terrible Lie - Nine Inch Nails; Icky Thump - The White Stripes; Rocks Off - The Rolling Stones; Detroit Rock City - KISS; The Pretender - Foo Fighters; Black Dog - Led Zeppelin; Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac; Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young; Keep a Knockin' - Little Richard; Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin; Book Of Love - The Monotones; Rock and Roll (Live) - Foo Fighters; The Battle of Evermore, Stairway To Heaven, Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks, Going To California - Led Zeppelin; California - Joni Mitchell; When The Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie; When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Time - Pink Floyd; Whole Lotta Love (Live) - Prince; Rock and Roll (Live) - Led Zeppelin

S5E222 - Crosby Stills Nash & Young 'Deja Vu' with Kristen McLean Apr 30, 2022

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When this week's guest Kristen McLean's parents were raising the beams of their house in Worthington Massachusetts in 1971, Crosby Stills Nash & Young's 'Deja Vu' was the soundtrack. The angelic melding of CSN&Y's voices belied the often-dark mood of the record, as the members personal struggles and the tattered remnants of the Summer of Love colored every note within. "One morning I woke up and I knew you were really gone..."

Songs featured in this episode: No Irish Need Apply - Don McLean; Sliabh Russell - Mary Bergin; Hidden Lake - Gold Dust Lounge; Honeysuckle - Waikiki Swingsters; Find The Cost of Freedom, Marrakesh Express, Carry On, Teach Your Children - CSN&Y; Father & Son - Cat Stevens; Almost Cut My Hair, Helpless, Woodstock - CSN&Y; Woodstock - Joni Mitchell; Deja Vu, Our House, 4 + 20, Country Girl, Everybody I Love You - CSN&Y; In The Morning - Bee Gees; Know You Got To Run - CSN&Y

S5E221 - The Cramps 'Songs The Lord Taught Us' with Brook Dorsch Apr 23, 2022

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Formed in 1976 by husband-and-wife duo Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, The Cramps forged their own unique niche in the early punk movement with their raucous brand of rock-n-roll psychobilly. This week's guest, art gallery owner and music fan Brook Dorsch, brings us their debut full-length 'Songs The Lord Taught Us'. "Well, come on little mama, let's tear this damn place up!"

Songs featured in this episode: Human Fly - The Cramps; Dark Entries - Bauhaus; Health Fanatic - John Cooper Clarke; The Ballad Of El Goodo - Big Star; Teenagers From Mars - The Misfits; TV Set, Rock on the Moon, Garbageman, I Was a Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps; Rumble - Link Wray; Sunglasses After Dark - The Cramps; Ace Of Spades - Link Wray; The Mad Daddy, Mystery Plane - The Cramps; Terror Couple Kill Colonel - Bauhaus; The Way I Walk - Robert Gordon; Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps; The Monster Mash - Bobby Pickett; Zombie Dance, What's Behind the Mask - The Cramps; Strychnine - The Sonics; Strychnine, I'm Cramped, Tear It Up, Fever, Lonesome Town - The Cramps

S5E220 - The Highwomen with Alana Anton Apr 16, 2022

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Sociologist, Appalachian scholar and activist Alana Anton is a southern girl at heart, and when she first discovered The Highwomen - the debut album by the country music super-group of the same name composed of Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris, and Amanda Shires - it immediately brought her back to her country roots. The at times gut-wrenching collection of songs is a stunning celebration of women in country music, full of equal parts high comedy and high pathos. An instant classic!

Songs featured in this episode: Highwayman - The Highwaymen; Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus; Can I Get An Outlaw - Luke Combs; Hold On - Yola & The Highwomen; The Highwomen - The Highwomen; Washington Bullets - The Clash; White Feather - Amanda Shires; She's An Eagle - Dolly Parton & The Highwomen; Redesigning Women - The Highwomen; Romeo - Dolly Parton; Loose Change - The Highwomen; Daddy Lessons - Beyonce (featuring the Dixie Chicks); Crowded Table, My Name Can't Be Mama, If She Ever Leaves Me, Old Soul, Don't Call Me, My Only Child - The Highwomen; If You're Gonna Play In Texas - Alabama; Heaven Is a Honky Tonk, Cocktail and a Song, Wheels of Laredo, The Chain - The Highwomen

S5E219 - Prefab Sprout 'Jordan: The Comeback' with Greg Franco Apr 09, 2022

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Singer/songwriter Greg Franco (Man's Body, Rough Church, Ferdinand) has a dark secret. Even though he came up in the early-80s LA punk scene listening to bands like Dead Kennedys and Black Flag, he's also completely enamored with the music of British pop band Prefab Sprout and it's founder Paddy McAloon. Join us as we discuss their 1990 release: 'Jordan: The Comeback'

Songs featured in this episode: I Don't Want To Grow Up - Descendents; Contact Sigh - Man's Body; Appetite - Prefab Sprout; Absolute Beginners - David Bowie; Don't Sing, When Love Breaks Down, Looking For Atlantis, Wild Horses - Prefab Sprout; Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix; Machine Gun Ibiza - Prefab Sprout; I Heard Ramona Sing - Frank Black; We Let The Stars Go, Jordan: The Comeback, Moon Dog - Prefab Sprout; She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby; Jet Song - Stephen Soundheim; Take A Chance On Me - ABBA; The Ice Maiden, All The World Loves Lovers, One of the Broken, Mercy, Scarlet Nights, Doo Wop In Harlem - Prefab Sprout; Clasically Mine - Man's Body

S5E218 - Patron Episode: That ONE Song By That Band/Artist I Don't Really Like Got Me High Apr 05, 2022

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For this special bonus episode, I asked my Patrons to send in a song they kind of love by a band/artist they kind of hate. It's: That ONE Song By That Band/Artist I Don't Really Like Got Me High! As usual, they did NOT disappoint!!

Songs featured in this episode: Superstar - The Carpenters; Viva La Vida - Coldplay; Stranglehold - Ted Nugent; Crazy Horses - The Osmonds; No One Like You - Scorpions; Peace Frog - The Doors; Heard 'em Say - Kanye West; Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler; Plainsong - The Cure; Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots; I'm Against The Eighties - Denim; Your Smiling Face - James Taylor; Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan; Fix You - Coldplay; Waves Of Fear - Lou Reed; California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco

S5E217 - Kate Bush 'Hounds Of Love' with Jim Camacho Apr 02, 2022

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Singer/songwriter...musician...producer...et cetera...et cetera Jim Camacho sat down to discuss a record that got him high over 35 years ago and continues to inspire him today: 1985s 'Hounds Of Love' by the incomparable Kate Bush. The songs on this record are at once dramatic, moving, wildly adventurous and undeniably Kate! "Do you want to feel how it feels?"

Songs featured in this episode: Hounds of Love - The Futureheads; When The World Stops Spinning - Jim Camacho; Free Man In Paris - Joni Mitchell; To True To Be Good - The Goods; Adagio - Johann Sebastian Bach; Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel; The Man With The Child In His Eyes, Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush; Problems - The Sex Pistols; Heartattack and Vine - Tom Waits; Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), Hounds of Love - Kate Bush; Ophelia - Jim Camacho; Change - Killing Joke; The Big Sky, Mother Stands for Comfort, Cloudbusting, And Dream of Sheep - Kate Bush; Trapped Under Ice - Metallica; Under Ice, Waking the Witch, Watching You Without Me, Jig of Life, Hello Earth, The Morning Fog - Kate Bush; Roaches - The Goods; I'm So Old - Jim Camacho & Rob Elba (featuring Fernando Perdomo, John Camacho, Erik Fabregat and Juan Davila)

S5E216 - Tom Lehrer 'More of Tom Lehrer' with Jeff Greenstein Mar 26, 2022

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Emmy-winning writer Jeff Greenstein (Friends, Will & Grace, Parenthood, Desperate Housewives) knows a thing or two about comedy. So it's no surprise that a record that got HIM high as a young impressionable adolescent ALSO made him laugh. A lot. The songs on 'More of Tom Lehrer' by singer-songwriter/satirist Tom Lehrer combine wickedly-clever wordplay with an absurdist - at times dark - sense of humor that clearly influenced Jeff's future work. "And we will all go together when we go..."

Songs featured in this episode: I'll Be There For You (Theme from 'Friends') - The Rembrandts; Sail Away - Randy Newman; Country Song (Pandering) - Bo Burnham; Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Bright College Days, National Brotherhood Week - Tom Lehrer; Stein Song - Rudy Vallee; Homeward Bound - Tufts Beelzebubs; Land Of The Glass Pinecones - Human Sexual Response; A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer; O Tannenbaum - Vince Guaraldi Trio; The Elements - Tom Lehrer; I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General - Gilbert & Sullivan; Oedipus Rex, In Old Mexico, Clementine - Tom Lehrer; Clementine - Jan & Dean; It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier, She's My Girl - Tom Lehrer; Rockaway Beach - Ramones; Crazy - R.E.M.; Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground; The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer; Kiss Of Fire - Caterina Valente; We Will All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer; My Bologna - Weird Al Yankovic; Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Eric Idle; We Will All Go Together When We Go - Red Leicester Choir

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