S5E216 - Tom Lehrer 'More of Tom Lehrer' with Jeff Greenstein

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03/26/22 • 69 min

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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S5E215 - Heartbreakers 'Live at Max's Kansas City' with Jack Rabid

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

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S5E217 - Kate Bush 'Hounds Of Love' with Jim Camacho

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)