353 episodes
If You're Listening If You're Listening
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4.3 • 56 Ratings
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"If You’re Listening” is all about one person’s mission to force her friend to listen to all the music he missed in high school. Sometimes it goes well and Heather broadens her friend’s horizons just a little bit. Often times it doesn’t go so well and Ramsey spends the episode wondering why anyone would listen to this music, or in extreme cases, launching empty threats at the band that recorded it.
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Show Report: Ramsey Sees the Dropkick Murphys
Ramsey honors birthday wishes and goes to a Dropkick Murphys show, lives to tell the tale! Hear the highlights and lowlights of an adventure most-Bostonian!
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This week: A deep dive on the local logos of problematic artist Johnny Hart! The funniest thing Ramsey saw at the Dropkick Murphys concert! THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS! All this and so much MORE!
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Desaparecidos "Read Music/Speak Spanish"
Ramsey is on the record as to his feelings about Bright Eyes, but what if Mr. Oberst has an entire band backing him? We’ll find out as we listen to the 2002 debut album from Desaparecidos: Read Music/Speak Spanish!
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This week: Fun with Google’s translator functionality! “Do you miss the monoculture?” And Randy Newman gets worked into the mix! All this and so much MORE!
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IYL Singles: Stephen Sondheim "Being Alive" from Company
Just a REGular old episode as Ramsey introduces Heather to the closing number from Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 masterpiece Company! That’s right: it’s “Being Alive,” performed by the OBC!
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This week: Heather reveals which musical she knows best! Who produces the producers! And the iconic hats of Elaine Stritch! All this and so much MORE!
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From First to Last "Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount"
We’ve heard from Mr. Sonny Moore pre-Skrillex before, but today we take it all the way back to the beginning as we listen to From First to Last’s 2004 debut album, Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount.
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This week: When remastering doesn’t do much! We question how this band was allowed to continue beyond this album! And deep, deep hurting! All this and so much MORE!
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IYL Singles: Young Culture "Kinda Over It"
Sometimes, TikTok does good. Like how it introduced Heather to a new band that she likes and now wants to spread the good word with the rest of the world. Meet Young Culture!
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This week: We rank the upstate NY cities! Bacteria jokes! And Clone High adjacent trivia! All this and so much MORE!
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Customer Reviews
Enjoyable
Great banter and dynamic between hosts, and excellent guests. The only critique that I have is for Heather to devote a little more time to actually research the bands they cover before recording. There’s so much context that gets missed when she doesn’t have the basic history, which shouldn’t be that hard to retain. Otherwise, excellent show
Anybody can make a podcast apparently
Terrible on all levels
Fun conversation, poor sound
I checked out Ian Cohen’s appearance on the show to discuss a 1975 record I like. Overall, I really enjoyed the conversation, but it was difficult to make out at times.
I’m not sure how the show is produced, but the group seems to be listening to the record simultaneously while recording. That’s makes sense for their format, but I do not think the audience needs the music mixed into the final edit so loudly, if at all. It’s incredibly distracting.
Last note: someone get Heather a nice microphone!