That Record Got Me High Podcast

S9E451 - Teenage Tragedy Songs with Paul Mahern

For this special BONUS episode, Audio Engineer, Producer, Teacher and lead singer of Indiana's Zero Boys, Paul Mahern, brings us some of his favorite Teenage Tragedy Songs. Also known as Splatter Platters, Death Discs...etc, this style of songs lamenting teenage death scenarios - often in melodramatic fashion - peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s but still pack a twisted punch today. Let the teardrops fall! Songs discussed in this episode: Last Kiss - Wayne Cochran (1961); Johnny Better Get - Zero Boys; Henry Lee - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Ft. PJ Harvey); Henry Lee - Dick Justice; New Rose - The Damned; Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls; Chain Saw - Ramones; Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton; Telstar - The Tornados; Tribute To Buddy Holly - Mike Berry and the Outlaws; Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry; Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles; Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People; Detroit Rock City - Kiss; Angie Baby - Helen Reddy; Rocket USA - Suicide; Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats; Come Back Jonee, Auto Modown - DEVO; Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols; The Water Was Red - Johnny Cymbal; Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean; Teen Angel - Mark Dinning; Leah - Roy Orbison; Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones; Warm Leatherette - The Normal; Timothy - The Buoys

S9E450 - Funkadelic 'Hardcore Jollies' with Adrian Herrera

We FINALLY dipped our toes into the George Clinton/P-Funk universe, as this week's guest Adrian Herrera - aka DJ Blacksmith - brings us 1976s 'Hardcore Jollies' by Funkadelic. "If you got funk, you got style You're funkin' and you're styling all the while When you got funk, you got class You're out on the floor movin' your ass" Songs discussed in this episode: Comin' Round The Mountain (Live, 1976) - Funkadelic; Pais Tropical - Jorge Ben Jor; Hell Before Sunrise - Oscar Herrera; Fuck Wit Dre Day - Dr. Dre; So What - Miles Davis; Give Up The Funk - Parliament; Hit It And Quit It, One Nation Under A Groove, Comin' Round The Mountain, Smokey, If You Got Funk, You Got Style - Funkadelic; Ms Jackson - Outkast; I'm Never Gonna Tell It, Hardcore Jollies, Soul Mate - Funkadelic; Soul Mate - D'Angelo (Live, GQ Plugs In Behind The Scenes); Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic; Walking In Rhythm - Blackbyrds; You Scared The Lovin' Outta Me, March To The Witch's Castle, Adolescent Funk - Funkadelic; Rockit - Herbie Hancock; DAISIES - Justin Bieber; Helter Skelter - The Beatles; Cosmic Slop - Axiom Funk  

S9E449 - The Music of Miami Vice with Sarah Nichols

In 1984, Michael Mann's crime drama Miami Vice hit the airwaves. Unlike the traditional police procedurals that came before it, Miami Vice drew upon 1980s pop culture and used contemporary rock and pop music as the background for its dark, often nihilistic storylines. Returning guest, poet and essayist Sarah Nichols, joins us as we unpack some of the songs - and musical guests - that made this iconic neo-noir television series pop. Songs discussed in this episode: Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer; Vital Transformation - Mahavishnu Orchestra; Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer; Harlem Shake - Baauer; Peter Gunn Theme - Henry Mancini; Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell; Beach Theme - Tangerine Dream; In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins; Crockett's Theme - Jan Hammer; Smugglers Blues, You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey; Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits; Hello Earth - Kate Bush; Just The Way I Planned It - Philip Michael Thomas; Heartbeat - Don Johnson; I'm Not In Love - 10cc; Cry - Godley & Creme; Little Miss Dangerous, Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent; Duel, P-Machinery - Propaganda; Fly On The Windscreen - Depeche Mode; Nine Million Rainy Days - Jesus and Mary Chain; Me Myself I, Dark Truths - Joan Armatrading

S9E448 - 'That Song From My Parents Record Collection Got Me High' Patron-curated Episode

For our FIRST Patron-curated episode of 2026, we asked Patrons of the show to send in a song from their parents record collection that stayed with them...and got them high! Thanks mom and/or dad!! Songs discussed in this episode: At The Balalaika - Nelson Eddy; I Can See For Miles - The Who; Before The Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender; Flowers On The Wall - The Statler Brothers; The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel; Buzzin' Fly - Tim Buckley; Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In - The 5th Dimension; Out On The Weekend - Neil Young; Guitar Man - Bread; Poor Jenny - The Everly Brothers; Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson; Autobahn - Kraftwerk; Hands On The Wheel - Willie Nelson; Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado; Historia de un Amor - Eydie Gorme and Trio Los Panchos; Que Sera Sera - Doris Day; Groovin' With Mr Bloe - Mr Bloe; East Bound and Down - Jerry Reed; I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better - The Byrds; Charmaine - Mantovani

S9E447 - Drive-By Truckers 'American Band' with Rory Cox

Longtime Patron and returning guest Rory Cox Zoomed-in all the way from Slovenia to discuss Athens, Georgia band Drive-By Truckers and their incendiary 2016 album, 'American Band'. Overtly political - and as timely today as the day it was released - this is protest music with the guitars turned to eleven! Songs discussed in this episode: The KKK Took My Baby Away (Ramones cover) - Drive-By Truckers; Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd; Ronnie and Neil - Drive-By Truckers; Green Grass & High Tides - The Outlaws; Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd; I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - Aretha Franklin; Ramon Casiano, Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn - Drive-By Truckers; The South's Gonna Do It Again - Charlie Daniels Band; Surrender Under Protest, Guns Of Umpqua, Filthy and Fried, When The Sun Don't Shine - Drive-By Truckers; A Good Idea - Sugar; Kinky Hypocrite - Drive-By Truckers; Dead Flowers - The Rolling Stones; Ever South, Dead, Drunk and Naked - Drive-By Truckers; Cover Me Up - Jason Isbell; What It Means, Once They Banned Imagine, Baggage, Every Mother's Son (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover) - Drive-By Truckers