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There is a story to be found inside every album - even if it’s just our own. New album, new episode every Tuesday.

Brennan Plis


    • May 28, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    092 Amanaz - Africa (1975)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 36:26


    Back to Zamrock with Amanaz (Ask me about nice artistes in Zambia). The group only made one album - 1975's Africa - but that's all that is needed to ingest the 'One Zambia, one nation, three chords' spirit.

    091 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 57:39


    Led Zeppelin return from the meadows of Bron-Yr-Aur, shave the beards and begin another three album run that would lead them to the top of King Shit Mountain. They would get one last look from its peak with Physical Graffiti - a deep track orgy that showcases Zep at full creative mast.

    090 Missing Persons - Spring Session M (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 47:54


    A new wave band made up of musically-gifted members of Frank Zappa's backing band, Missing Persons dropped a solid debut in 1982 that's kind of a paradox - loose music made by the tightest of musicians. Oh, and they also had a singer that nailed Prince.

    089 Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 49:51


    The same year their Seattle cohorts made flannel globally sexy Mudhoney stayed local and loyal to their friends at Sub Pop and released Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge - an unrelenting pounder that sounds the beating heart of the Grunge Hunx Dynasty.

    088 Pino D'Angiò - Balla! (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 36:12


    Disco was becoming played out in America at the start of the 1980's but it was just getting started in Italy. Pino D'Angiò landed a YMCA-level Italian hit with the song Ma Quale Idea in 1980. The following year he unleashed the full Power of Pino with his debut LP Balla! This is Italo-Disco at it's Satanic best.

    087 Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 38:30


    WoV was way too loose with the drizzugs to build any sort of career sustainability - but they managed to uncork the forgotten classic Call of the West along the way - angular art rock that cuts through the collective 1982 whoosh of parachute pants.

    086 Ghetto Brothers - Power Fuerza (1972)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 36:21


    The Ghetto Brothers were one of thousands of street gangs that skulked the busted-ass neighborhoods of the Bronx in leather vests during the 1970's. I think they are the only one that formed a band though. Power Fuerza is the lone musical relic left behind by the good-guy gang known as the GB's.

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    085 Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 53:55


    Hair Hunk Titans Poison fought their way thru pubic lice and a universally-perceived lack of talent to crank out their debut - Look What the Cat Dragged In - an overachieving classic squeezed into a 1986 already overstuffed with guitars, drums and spandex pant.

    084 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River (1969)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 44:03


    The USA was on fire in 1969 with Vietnam War protests and such. Everyone had a voice and wanted to be heard. But they also wanted to be SEEN. It was a flashy year of afros, flower power, bouncy boob-curtains and bush. The last year of the sixties was an eccentric one - and it was largely soundtracked by the four average Americans of Creedence Clearwater Revival. CCR dropped three in 1969 and Green River gets the gold star on it's forehead. Roots rock classic for your face.

    083 Various Artists - Ayo Ke Disco: Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea 1974-1988 (2024 comp)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 36:05


    During the 1970's while China and Vietnam were busy playing grab-ass and keep-away with the Spratly and Percocet island chains in the South China Sea, the other countries surrounding the water like Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia funk'd their way into the next decade. Ayo Ke Disco, curated by Alice from Soundway Records, provides us safe listening passage thru this fantastic sea of sound.

    082 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (2005)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 44:37


    LCD Soundsystem is an exhaustive one-hundred minute affair that showcases the best of what the combination of rock and dance music can become when crafted by the hands of an erudite music nerd. LCD eponymous - the start of a relatively flawless catalog that continues into the now.

    081 Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 46:04


    Marty Robbins' cinematic western music classic was released at the end of a decade that would soon be overshadowed by the one that followed. JFK was about to be President, the Beatles were about to form, but for now in 1959, we have Marty Robbins singing songs about other men. And horses.

    080 Woods - City Sun Eater in the River of Light (2016)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 32:19


    So few bands remain that were born during the post-MTV, pre-streaming and social media purgatorial zone of the mid-aughts. Woods are still with us. And despite having one significant kink in their curb appeal, they bring twenty years of codeine-dipped freak folk and high-value return to the listener's ears. City Sun Eater in the River of Light is my favorite of their hot dozen.

    079 Various Artists - A Tribute to Bob Dylan in the 80s (2014 comp)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 44:58


    The 1980s proved that as big as forty-something millionaire cultural icon Bob Dylan was during the decade, he was not bigger than the ever-evolving and fickle world of rock and roll. ATO Records' A Tribute to Bob Dylan in the 80s contains seventeen covers of songs from Bob's least-celebrated decade.

    078 Dum Dum Girls - Too True (2014)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 41:29


    Myself, my dad and the Canseco Twins neutralize Dee Dee's annoying production duo so that she can crank out a classic without interference. Too True is the final (boo) and best (yay) Dum Dum Girls album. A catchy atmospheric finale to a five-year run powered by good ol' work ethic.

    077 The Grateful Dead - Europe '72 (1972 Live)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2025 63:42


    Exclusion was a word rarely used in Grateful Dead world - so in April 1972 when it came time to decide who was and who wasn't joining the band for their spring tour of Europe the answer was simple - 'Everyone goes.' So off to Europe the extended Grateful Dead family went - forty-plus posse of band members, family, friends, the New Riders and even an LSD chemist named Bear. The triple-LP live album Europe '72 was released to recoup the expenses of this European vacation that Warner Brothers had fronted, and to also debut a slurry of new songs that they couldn't get down in a studio proper. A healthy musical snapshot of an ever-evolving band beyond description.

    076 Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 41:53


    Pixies (there's no the 'The') started their ascent into alt-rock wonderhood with Surfer Rosa. No album from the 1980s had a greater influence on the rock sound of the 1990s than this record. Good start Pixies. Nice work.

    075 Lord Huron - Strange Trails (2015)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 39:58


    The men who make Mangina Music suffer for us. They play with soft hands for our hard hearts - and we need to give thanks. Lord Huron's Strange Trails is a sprawling hallucinatory masterpiece that I'm pretty sure is way more popular than I think it is. It's also long and emotional - they're gonna need some assistance from the Canseco twins.

    074 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 38:33


    Several years before Parliament Funkadelic grew into a multi-banded gang of diaper daddies traveling around the country in a crack-fueled spaceship, there was Maggot Brain - a standalone gift of collective imagination and a sonic pillar of the early-1970's Lori Lightfoot Era of American black music.

    073 Guns N' Roses - G N' R Lies (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025 50:25


    We enter the Guns N' Roses Herpeverse via the band's second album G N' R Lies which contains songs recorded both before and after their historic Ape Tit debut. Initially released as a Geffen Records pacifier until the unpredictable band's next LP, Lies is an undervalued dudless wonder that bookends the group's opening volley toward global ambassadorship.

    072 Holy Fuck - LP (2007)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025 36:05


    Holy Fuck are pure punk electronica - creating dance music using everything BUT the standard loops and laptops to achieve that sound. This chaotic urgency is never more apparent and beautiful than on LP from 2007. Songs born out of improvisational jamming and then refined for record.

    071 The Cars - Candy-O (1979)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2025 40:56


    With so many time-ambiguous single song bangers, it's tough to not classify The Cars as a 'greatest hits' band. But 1979's Candy-O is as cohesively beautiful as a standalone LP can get. And thank Christ The Cars got hot BEFORE the launch of MTV because they never would have gotten a glance with THOSE mugs.

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    070 Pantera - Cowboys From Hell (1990)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2024 38:42


    Pantera ditch their hair hunk past yet keep the gay superhero band name and begin their groove metal assault on the nineties with Cowboys From Hell.

    069 Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens - Melodi Yalla (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 45:13


    Mbaqanga was a style of music birthed in the segregated South African township of Soweto in 1964. The super-unit of Simon 'Mahlathini' Nkabinde, Mahotella Queens and the Makgona Tsohle Band pumped out a volley of bouncy mbaqanga classics before the genre fell out of township taste in the late 1970s. The genre received a global re-up during the 1980s however, when several popular albums by American and British artists came out that were heavily inspired by the swing of township jive. Melodi Yalla was released at the height of this mbaqanga revival.

    068 Polaris - Music From The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1999)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2024 50:15


    One of a kind delight. A fictional band from a fictional television show creates a very-real compendium of sonic pleasure. Plus, we put the Hermanos Cansecos into action and show what happens to members of Boogie Chitz bands that quit.

    067 The Limiñanas - Shadow People (2018)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2024 37:31


    A chugging audio compote of cinematic psychedelia created by a garage rock lovin' couple from Perpignan, France. The Limiñanas are generally a two-person operation, but Shadow People is loaded with guests including one from Boogie Chitz past.

    066 Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf 7 (1970)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 51:22


    Seems like by 1970 Steppenwolf were already becoming a two-hit relic of the cultural past. Nonsense. Steppenwolf 7, which is technically their fifth album, is a furious nine-track assault that sounds like cocaine psychosis set to boogie rock. Love it.

    065 Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 36:26


    A neck-to-nuts banger of a synth album found in a genre mostly celebrated via individual songs and videos rather than LPs. Upstairs at Eric's contains by my count three 'oh yeah I know that song' songs that are probably recognizable to the greater American public.

    064 Frog - GROG (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 34:42


    Marination/Hibernation season is ovah for the class of 2023. Let us celebrate one of the stronger bears to emerge from the cave - or in this case frogs...ManFrogs.

    063 Grimes - Visions (2012)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 40:22


    Grimes dropped out of college before uncorking this masterpiece - created during a nine-day frenzy of imagination in her Montreal apartment. Good. Class dismissed.

    062 The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (1983)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 39:15


    Los Angeles 1983. While the hair hunx were leaving leather pant ass prints on the hoods of laundromat dryers, bands of the Paisley Underground scene were quietly cranking out sixties-style jingly-jangly psychedelia across town. The Rain Parade were the shortest-lived of all the P.U. bands, but their debut album Emergency Third Rail Power Trip helped garden just as much musical fruit of the future as it did pay tribute to the past.

    061 The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 48:55


    After five wild years playing together as a support band for other artists, the corduroy boys of The Band find their original voice in the basement of a house in West Saugerties, New York and begin a near-decade run of rustic rapture.

    060 Penza Penza - Alto E Primitivo (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 37:37


    Penza Penza is an Estonian big band/lo-fidelity sonic buzzsaw led by multi-instrumentalist/composer Misha Panfilov. Their fourth LP called Alto E Primitivo is fourteen instrumental rippers that could mow thru the thickest of Baltic bush.

    059 The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 41:26


    Filled with breezy melodic beatitudes that are impossible not to enjoy, It's a Shame About Ray is an underrated alt-rock classic that proved Evan Dando did indeed deserve his lemon lordship. {{{Gracias Hermanos Cansecos}}} https://youtu.be/EzKcxQGOKKE?si=st8Z_R3rMnPmyxHC

    058 Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly (1972 Soundtrack)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 35:23


    Curtis Mayfield dropped a winner in 1972 with the Super Fly soundtrack. A masterwork so dense that its songs musically narrate the film while still maintaining accessibility to be plucked for off-the-reservation playlists. Your main boy, thick and thin.

    057 Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2024 30:17


    For their sophomore effort, the sextet of Scandinavian riff-raffers known as Viagra Boys seek fresh musical adventures in less-shrimpy waters - and ultimately discover bang city with Welfare Jazz.

    056 The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2024 35:51


    The slightly off-kilter art punk of The Sugarcubes was the first rock music from Iceland to gain ears in America. The band's debut album - Life's Too Good - is a bouncy masterwork and the world's introduction to Bjork - who by the way, is the SECOND weirdest singer in this band.

    055 Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On (1971)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 43:29


    In 1969, Sly & The Family Stone were flower power royalty - a racially-mixed pop powerhouse armed with a slew of hits destined to soundtrack the Valtrex commercials of the future. Sly followed up on this glory by locking himself in his mansion loft with enough drugs to down the Hell's Angels and created a masterpiece out of the madness - There's a Riot Goin' On. Trouble funk is here.

    054 Royal Trux - Accelerator (1998)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2024 35:48


    Royal Trux were king and queen of the scuzzrock prom when they got signed to Virgin Records in 1995. Two years later, Virgin couldn't get rid of them fast enough and RTX made their best album on their way out the door - Accelerator - a masterpiece molded out of the sludge of confusion.

    053 The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads (1965)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 45:27


    The album that broke the band in America - Out of Our Heads is the musical bridge connecting the Rolling Stones American R&B-cosplay past with their Richards/Jagger-juggernaut future.

    052 The Budos Band - The Budos Band II (2007)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2024 35:28


    The Budos Band sprinkle some Ethiopian jazz into their menacingly-infectious sophomore album released on Daptone Records at the height of retro-soul revivalism in 2007. Full-time funk from a part-time band. * The Budos Band live in the Netherlands in 2008 * https://youtu.be/IkgD6AwsPZM?si=3hfoNHuY1jBqnQtk * Musicawi Silt by Hailu Mergia * https://youtu.be/r9pLeol6A9s?si=iPIf20IT-hUzJije

    051 John Cale - Vintage Violence (1970)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024 35:56


    John Cale's scrappy solo debut recorded the year after leaving the Velvet Underground. His half century of creating high art out of low living begins here with Vintage Violence.

    050 Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun (1985)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 41:05


    The Meat Puppets third album - the Kirkwood brothers fire out a catchy collection of psychedelic swingers that help keep weirdness to the front of the American music underground in 1985.

    049 Jo Bisso - African Disco Experimentals 1974-1978 (2020 comp)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2024 33:03


    An affectionate curation of the disco-funk-fueled music made by Cameroonian Jo Bisso during his half decade living in America.

    048 Those Darlins - Those Darlins (2009)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2024 40:26


    Three southern girls that met at band camp bring their garage rock gravitas north to New York City and record a ripper more potent than the purest line of Appalachian meth. The Whole Damn Thing live from Maxwell's in Hoboken 2010 - Look at little Jessi holding that big CHOOCH guitar - https://youtu.be/3lYdlaEg2zY?si=b0sFRCxXmy7xJeUX Be Your Bro from second album - https://youtu.be/TyVs4B26_P4?si=bHrJbKgAo6Gr5tWl

    047 The Mamas & the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 59:13


    The sunshine pop banger debut from The Mamas & the Papas - a devilish foursome who soundtracked the summer of love before being drowned out of the cultural zeitgeist by the electric guitar gods.

    046 The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back! (1997)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 47:16


    The 'should-woulda-coulda' sixth album from retro-revivalists The Brian Jonestown Massacre - led by the emotionally-compromised Anton Newcombe. Anton going berzerk at the Viper Room 1996(?) https://youtu.be/jSm5optFVUw?si=BOI8pzeljh_jJylr Anton going berzerk in Australia in 2023 https://youtu.be/3MKRAzCkJfM?si=06lmZxqMulq4sRaA

    045 Faith No More - Introduce Yourself (1987)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2024 44:03


    Despite the occasional TMC (Too Much Chuck) moments, Introduce Yourself is a fun listen and criminally-ignored glance at a weird underground band right before they blast off toward the MTV universe. *** Follow @boogiechitz on Instagram *** *** 1988 music video for Anne's Song *** https://youtu.be/w7dD-JJJytM?si=LIiZIEqkhU89jQfk

    044 Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic (1975)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 41:39


    Aerosmith's breakthrough third album is proof that hard work pays off - even while wearing a bedazzled, penis-flattening pelican unitard.

    043 The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 52:42


    Oh, Inverted World is a vivid, pop masterpiece that provides indie-cred to the men who make mangina music.

    042 J.J. Cale - Troubadour (1976)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 43:29


    Red dirt riffer J.J. Cale's songs were more known for being covered by other artists, but the creator of the 'Tulsa Sound' is not to be ignored - his catalogue is stuffed with swampy ravers - my favorite being 1976's Troubadour.

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