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Are you a music obsessive? Can you sit down for an hour or so poring over an album you love, digging deep into the lyrics, musical references and 'secret sauce' that makes it so special to you? Then this just MIGHT be your podcast!
Each week your host - rock-n-roll lifer and recovering punk Rob Elba - sits down with a special guest to dissect a record that - metaphorically - got them high.

That Record Got Me High Podcast Rob Elba

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    • 4.8 • 95 Ratings

Are you a music obsessive? Can you sit down for an hour or so poring over an album you love, digging deep into the lyrics, musical references and 'secret sauce' that makes it so special to you? Then this just MIGHT be your podcast!
Each week your host - rock-n-roll lifer and recovering punk Rob Elba - sits down with a special guest to dissect a record that - metaphorically - got them high.

    Red Red Meat 'Jimmywine Majestic' with Michael Wiener

    Red Red Meat 'Jimmywine Majestic' with Michael Wiener

    This week, vocalist/songwriter...etc Michael Wiener (The Children...) brings us Chicago's Red Red Meat and their 1993 Sub Pop release 'Jimmywine Majestic'. With singer/songwriter Tim Rutili's - later of Califone - impressionistic lyrics and the band's fuzzed-out bluesy swagger, it's a dark, menacing ride indeed.
    Songs discussed in this episode: Smokey Mtn Dbl Dip - Red Red Meat (Live 1994 Davenport, IA); God Is A Bereaved, Smothered My Traces - The Children...; Funeral Singers - Califone; Glynis - Smashing Pumpkins; Flank, Stained & Lit - Red Red Meat; Mayonaise - Smashing pumpkins; Braindead, Smokey Mtn Dbl Dip - Red Red Meat; Sitting Still - R.E.M.; Moon Calf Tripe - Red Red Meat; Stull Pt 1 - Urge Overkill; Cillamange, Ball, Lather, Rusted Water, Gorshin, Dowser, Comes, Roses - Red Red Meat; Smothered My Traces - The Children...

    • 1 hr 10 min
    Spoon 'Kill The Moonlight' with Rob Kassees

    Spoon 'Kill The Moonlight' with Rob Kassees

    This week's guest Rob Kassees (1001 Album Complaints Podcast) brings us Spoon and their deceptively sparse, sonically luscious 2002 release 'Kill The Moonlight'. Britt Daniel and company employ a less-is-more approach that feels effortless and often had us pondering, "Does it rock or does it groove?" Yes.
    Songs discussed in this episode: The Way We Get By - Vitamin String Quartet; Green Shirt - Elvis Costello & The Attractions; Servo - Brian Jonestown Massacre; Small StakesThe Way We Get By - Spoon; Gravity Rides Everything - Modest Mouse; Some Weird Sin - Iggy Pop; Something To Look Forward To, I Turn My Camera On, Stay Don't Go, Jonathan Fisk, Paper Tiger, Someone Something - Spoon; Ticket To Ride - The Beatles; Don't Let It Get You Down - Spoon; Do You Remember Walter - The Kinks; All The Pretty Girls Go To The City, You Gotta Feel It, Back To The Life - Spoon; Big In Japan - Tom Waits; Vittorio E, Love Song (The Damned Cover) - Spoon

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Beastie Boys 'Paul's Boutique' with Kevin Moyer

    Beastie Boys 'Paul's Boutique' with Kevin Moyer

    Initially considered a commercial failure following their multi-platinum debut, Beastie Boys' groundbreaking second record "Paul's Boutique" is now viewed as a landmark achievement in the world of hip-hop. Producer/Music Supervisor Kevin Moyer (Heaven Adores You, The Glamour and The Squalor) joins us as we unpack this dense, highly influential classic.
    Songs discussed in this episode: Shake Your Rump - Beastie Boys (Live in Amsterdam, 2004); It's The Little Things - Redd Kross; Beastie Boys - Beastie Boys; Annie's Gone - Redd Kross; Girls, To All The Girls, Shake Your Rump - Beastie Boys; 6 O' Clock DJ (Let's Rock) - Rose Royce; Funky Snakefoot - Alphonse Mouzon; Unity, Pt. 2 (Because It's Coming) - James Brown and Afrika Bambaataa; Johnny Ryall - Beastie Boys; Sharon - David Bromberg; Egg Man, Egg Raid On Mojo - Beastie Boys; Sport - Lightnin' Rod; The Murder - Bernard Herrmann; High Plains Drifter, The Sounds Of Science, 3-Minute Rule - Beastie Boys; Brave & Strong - Sly and the Family Stone; Hey Ladies, 5-Piece Chicken Dinner, Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun - Beastie Boys; Last Bongo In Belgium, Apache - Incredible Bongo Band; Car Thief - Beastie Boys; Rien Ne Va Plus - Funk Factory; Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan; What Comes Around - Beastie Boys; Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin; Put On Train - Gene Harris & The Three Sounds; It's Hot Tonight - Alice Cooper; Rhymin and Stealin, Shadrach - Beastie Boys; Loose Booty - Sly and the Family Stone; Never Let Em Say -  Ballin' Jack; B-Boy Bouillabaisse - Beastie Boys; The Well's Gone Dry - The Crusaders; Mess Around - Redd Kross

    • 1 hr 15 min
    Les Savy Fav 'Root For Ruin' with Camila Risso

    Les Savy Fav 'Root For Ruin' with Camila Risso

    Hey! For our first episode of Season 7, long time TRGMH guest Camila Risso brings us NYC Art Punk purveyors Les Savy Fav and their endearingly bombastic 2010 release 'Root For Ruin'.
    "We've no shame and we've no pride
    And we've got nothing left to hide
    Cause we've got nothing left inside
    They can try with all of their might
    We still got our appetite"
    Songs discussed in this episode: Who Rocks The Party (Live at the Bowery Ballroom, NY 1/1/2008), Legendary Tippers - Les Savy Fav; Luno - Bloc Party; Waiting Room - Fugazi; Appetites - Les Savy Fav; Mr. Pharmacist - The Fall; Dirty Knails, Sleepless In Silverlake, Let's Get Out Of Here - Les Savy Fav; Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys; Lips N' Stuff, Poltergeist - Les Savy Fav; Ghost Rider - Suicide; High And Unhinged, Excess Energies, Crutches - Les Savy Fav; Shamisen Solo 1 - Shinichi Kinoshita; Calm Down, Clear Spirits - Les Savy Fav; Not Me - This Mortal Coil; Let's Get Out Of Here (Alternate Version) - Les Savy Fav

    • 55 min
    The Soft Boys 'Underwater Moonlight' with Tom Lawery

    The Soft Boys 'Underwater Moonlight' with Tom Lawery

    For our final episode of Season 6, we're joined by TRGMH super-fan Tom Lawery as we explore a classic of neo-psychedelic post-punk, The Soft Boys' seminal 1980 release: 'Underwater Moonlight'. Robyn Hitchcock's jangly, twisted pop songs were hugely influential to a slew of 80s alternative bands, and we could hardly contain our glee at revisiting this timeless classic of a record!
    Songs discussed in this episode: Queen Of Eyes -  Fastbacks; My Wife And My Dead Wife - Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians; Human Music - The Soft Boys; Moral Kiosk - R.E.M.; Octopus - Syd Barrett; Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves; I Wanna Destroy You, Kingdom Of Love, Positive Vibrations - The Soft Boys; Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.; I Got The Hots - The Soft Boys; Peaches - The Stranglers; Insanely Jealous Of You - The Soft Boys; Days - Television; Tonight, You'll Have To Go Sideways - The Soft Boys; Celestial Transgression - Robyn Hitchcock; Old Pervert - The Soft Boys; Bill's Corpse - Captain Beefheart; Old Pervert (Original LP Version), Queen Of Eyes - The Soft Boys; Teenage FBI - Guided By Voices; Underwater Moonlight, Only The Stones Remain, Vegetable Man, Empty Girl - The Soft Boys

    • 1 hr 2 min
    'That TWISTED Love Song Got Me High' Patron-curated Episode

    'That TWISTED Love Song Got Me High' Patron-curated Episode

    "What is Love anyway, does anybody love anybody anyway?" We don't know the answer to that question, Howard, but we DID ask our Patrons to send in their favorite TWISTED love song - and they did NOT disappoint. We think you will love this episode...
    Songs discussed in this episode: Love Gets You Twisted - Graham Parker; Rosie - Jackson Browne; Woman - Anti-Nowhere League; Carmelita - Warren Zevon; Buddha - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band; They Don't Know About Me And You - Chuck Prophet; Fat - Violent Femmes; Gimme All Your Lovin' Or I Will Kill You - Macy Gray; I Want You - Elvis Costello
    If I Didn't Love You - Squeeze; Johanna - Iggy Pop; Into My Arms - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; Red Headed Stranger -  Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith; Lovey Dovey - Split Enz; Reflections In A Flat - Half Man Half Biscuit ; Timebomb - Old 97s; Sally Cinnamon - The Stone Roses; Be My Girl-Sally - The Police; A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off - The Magnetic Fields; I Lied - Lord Huron; Valerie Loves Me - Material Issue; Shadow Of Love - The Damned; Stay Away From Robert Mitchum - April March; The Fall - Nomeansno; You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr; (I Never Loved) Eva Braun - The Boomtown Rats

    • 1 hr 14 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
95 Ratings

95 Ratings

Gino’s Reviews. ,

Loving the Sam Fogarino episodes

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-Gino Verna (the youngest brother)

Radiophonic Oddity ,

Many diff albums and goes in depth

I like this music podcasts best as it does not stick to one artists or one genre and goes through the whole album. The back catalogue is worth checking out. I’ve discovered and rediscovered artists or albums and look forward to every week’s new one.

Trashook ,

Punk under the sun is a great read!

Just now thru this podcast and Joey’s book “Punk under the Sun” am I now being introduced to many of the bands from the 80s South Florida Music Scene…oh well better late than never right? Thank you all very much for that 🎸🏆👍

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