That Record Got Me High Podcast

As teens growing up in Summit, New Jersey in the late 70s, NY Punk Godfather Jack Rabid (Big Takeover Magazine) and his likeminded friends would sneak off to Manhattan to catch shows by the exciting new bands and punk legends they were reading about. Even at 17 they knew Johnny Thunders and his Heartbreakers were something special, and the blistering live document 'Heartbreakers Live at Max's Kansas City' is a prime example of why they rarely missed a show. "I don't know why you just don't... Let go!"

Songs featured in this episode: The Sound - Springhouse; High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis; Kill - Even Worse; Born To Lose - The Heartbreakers; White Lightning - George Jones; Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls; Trash - Morrissey; Pills - Bo Diddley; Too Much Junkie Business, Milk Me, Chinese Rocks, Get Off The Phone - The Heartbreakers; God Save The Queen - The Sex Pistols; Safe European Home - The Clash; London - The Heartbreakers; My Way - Sid Vicious; Take A Chance - The Heartbreakers; She Does It Right - Dr Feelgood; I'm A Man - The Yardbirds; One Track Mind - The Heartbreakers; Love Comes In Spurts - Richard Hell & The Voidoids; The Beat Generation - Bob McFadden; All By Myself, Let Go - The Heartbreakers; Johnny Thunder - The Kinks; Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones; I Love You, Can't Keep My Eyes On You, I Wanna Be Loved, Do You Love Me - The Heartbreakers; Bomber - Motorhead; Pipeline - The Heartbreakers

Strap-in for this one, XTC fans: Record/Hot Sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl/El Enojado Hot Sauce) brings us a curious musical oddity called 'Take Away / The Lure of Salvage', the 1980 debut record by XTC frontman Andy Partridge a.k.a. Mr Partridge! Consisting basically of dub remixes/rewrites of tracks originally recorded by Partridge's band XTC - and Co-produced with John Leckie - it's a weirdly confounding, highly experimental slab that challenges at every turn.

Songs featured in this episode: Meccanik Dancing (Peel Session), Dance With Me, Germany - XTC; Words From The Poster (Remix) - The Front; Big Train, Piss Bottle Man - Mike Watt; All My Friends Are Ghosts - Scared Of Chaka; Making Plans For Nigel, Battery Brides, A Dictionary Of Modern Marriage, Life Begins At The Hop - XTC; Commerciality - Andy Partridge; Refrigeration Blues - XTC The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down - Andy Partridge; Heatwave - XTC; The Forgotten Language Of Light - Andy Partridge; Millions - XTC; Kurt's Rejoinder - Brian Eno; Reel By Reel - XTC; Steam Fist Futurist, Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950) - Andy Partridge; Ornithology - Charlie Parker; Cairo - Andy Partridge; Penetration In The Centrefold - DEVO; Helicopter - XTC; The Rotery - Andy Partridge; Veteran's Day Poppy - Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band; Madhattan, I Sit In The Snow - Andy Partridge; Meninblack - The Stranglers; The Walrus Hunt, Margaret Freeman - The Residents; Work Away Tokyo Day, New Broom - Andy Partridge; Radio 4 - Public Image Ltd.; It's Over - The Front; Let There Be Snow - Andy Partridge

When English singer/songwriter Nick Drake released his ambitious second album - 'Bryter Layter' - in 1971, he all-but-squashed any chance of commercial success by failing to promote it. Three years later the troubled artist was gone. This week's guest, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush, The Small Square), helps us unpack this evocative collection of songs featuring musical backing by members of Fairport Convention, The Beach Boys and John Cale among others. Essential listening.

Songs discussed in this episode: Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Bob Dylan Cover) - Nick Drake; Hold Me Up - Velvet Crush; Twenty-Third - The Small Square; Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys; Rosie - Fairport Convention; Holocaust - Big Star; Introduction, Hazey Jane II, From The Morning, At The Chime Of A City Clock - Nick Drake; Forever Instant - Lou Barlow (Sentridoh); One Of These Things First - Nick Drake; All I Want To Do - The Beach Boys; Pink Moon, Hazey Jane I - Nick Drake; Heartbeats-Jose Gonzalez; Bryter Layter, The Fly - Nick Drake; Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground; Poor Boy - Nick Drake; Marianne - Leonard Cohen; Northern Sky, Sunday - Nick Drake; It'll Take A Long Time - Sandy Denny; Baby Face - The Small Square

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

Chicago-based singer/multi-instrumentalist Nora O'Connor has toured and recorded with the Decemberists, Neko Case, The New Pornographers and many more. This week she joins TRGMH to discuss a record/artist that never ceases to get her high: 'Parade' by Prince and The Revolution. His eighth studio album was the soundtrack to the 1986 film he directed and starred in, Under The Cherry Moon - and the final album where The Revolution is billed - and is yet another stunning example of Prince's place as a superior melodist, arranger, and player, as well as a celebration of his endless creativity.

Songs featured in this episode: Pitch Or Honey - Neko Case; My Heart - Nora O'Connor; Clampdown - The Clash; Pop Life, Controversy, I Would Die 4 U, Raspberry Beret - Prince; What Have You Done For Me Lately - Janet Jackson; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band - The Beatles; Christopher Tracy's Parade - Prince; In Between Days - The Cure; How Will I Know? - Whitney Houston; Never Surrender - Corey Hart; New Position, I Wonder U, Under The Cherry Moon, Girls & Boys, Life Can Be So Nice, Venus De Milo, Mountains, Do U Lie, Diamonds & Pearls (Live 1991) - Prince; Kiss (Demo) - Mazarati; Manic Monday - The Bangles; Kiss, Anotherloverholenyohead, When You Were Mine, Sometimes It Snows In April - Prince; Fare Thee Well - Nora O'Connor