Harley Flanagan has been kicking out punk music since he was in grade school. Literally. Cro-Mags, Harley's band, has been a big part of the NYC punk scene since the 80s and Harley has been making the rounds lately promoting his documentary called "Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos." Probably should have known by the documentary title that this episode would be anything but our typical format. Plenty of other discussion including downtuning guitars, "Medusa" from Trapeze, Ozzy's voice being unrec...
Jul 04, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 379
The "Wanted! The Outlaws" compilation from 1976 was a huge launching pad (or relaunching pad) for Waylon and Willie. And, it did for country what The Sex Pistols or Ramones did for punk music. Sterling Drake joins us to talk about this game changing compilation and his new album “The Shape I’m In.” Plenty of other discussion including short sleeved pearl snaps, Bro Country vs. Real Country (and some anti Rascal Flatts sentiment), who are the modern country outlaws, women are outlaws too, and Tom...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 378
There's only one band I've seen more live in concert than Carbon Leaf. It's a FUN time (one y'all should experience). Jesse Humphrey and Jon Markel from the band join us to discuss the self-titled debut from Rage Against the Machine (and, no, Carbon Leaf does NOT sound like Rage). Plenty of other discussion including counterfeit Carbon Leaf t-shirts, Freebird, Fenway, "you have to play the new songs," Wilco opening bands, Grammys for 1993 & 1994, free jazzy, who is E Double, and is it a dyin...
Jun 18, 2025•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 377
Canadian musician Braden Lam joins us to discuss his new album "The Cloudmaker's Cry" and the 2016 smash album "Cleopatra" from The Lumineers. Plenty of other discussion including family reunion shirts, Ben trying to learn French, the weird and wacky music charts in April 2016, handclaps, Daddy's sock drawer, and a nearly perfect Side A. Check out Braden at: https://bradenlam.com/ Check out The Lumineers at: https://www.thelumineers.com/ Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast.com or...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 376
Rambler Kane (and my friend Mark Cooper) discuss John Craigie's live album "Capricorn in Retrograde...Just Kidding...Live in Portland" from 2016. Plenty of other discussion including Rambler's own live album (which y'all need to check out...it's fantastic), being vulnerable, Craigie or a Braves game, Florida, Portlandia, Dire Straits, Wayne's podcaster phase (also known as get drunk on Wednesday phase), Philly Cheesesteaks, hummus, and dirty pictures on your phone. Learn more about Rambler Kane ...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 375
Wayne, Michael Citro and I are starting our pregaming early for a concert in May. Rick Springfield, John Waite, Wang Chung, and John Cafferty are all on one bill. Is there another album from any of those artists that we should do another pregaming episode about? We're not so sure after listening to this album again. At least Side A is awesome. Check out Rick Springfield at: https://rickspringfield.com/ Check out Michael’s podcast at: https://michaelsrecordcollection.podbean.com/ Check out other ...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 374
Repeat Revisitors (and Patreon Revisitors) Dan Beck and Dave Greenberg are joined by our buddy Jon Lamoreaux to discuss the all time punk classic from the Sex Pistols. Plenty of other discussion including "f all y'all," Johnny's other band Public Image Ltd., the Rolling Stone "bible" issue, Taylor Swift needs to write some protest songs, caring less, and who the hell is Frank Carter? Anyone going to the Sex Pistols reboot tour? Check out The Sex Pistols at: Sex Pistols | The Official Website - C...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 373
Anyone remember the Mayflies USA? I got a promo copy of "Summertown" in 1998 and I fell in love with the album. They went on a massive hiatus but got together to record their latest album "Kickless Kids" set for release in May 2025. When I got a press release about this, I immediately asked if they could come on the show to talk about their career, the new album, and albums (and some songs) important to them. We talk with Matt McMichaels and Adam Price about the new album but also talk about Bob...
Apr 24, 2025•48 min•Ep. 372
Man, this was fun. I've been on a Drive-By Truckers kick since the holidays since I decided to do a full discography listen as a way of pregaming for seeing the band for the first time in early February. That show was pure awesomeness. This was one of our Patreon Revisitor shows with Kevin Peters picking the album. We asked Stephen Deusner, author of Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers (American Music Series): Deusner, Stephen: 9781477318041: Amazon.com : B...
Apr 11, 2025•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 371
Do you know The Weakerthans? We barely did. But we absolutely loved this record. Big kudos to our guest Caleb Caudle for picking this one. We also discuss his new record "Sweet Critters" and his collaborations with John Paul White and Alison Russell, sad people, The Opry, playing for small rooms, skipping the choruses, cats who try to motivate, the Elks Lodge, hockey pucks, The Paramount, and beep boops. Check out Caleb Caudle at: https://www.calebcaudle.com/ Check out The Weakerthans at: https:...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 370
The guys are joined by cka FLAX (Sean Flax) to discuss Chris Whitley and his 1998 album “Dirt Floor.” Plenty of other discussion including FLAX’s new album “the birth of fantasy,” memes, documentaries, the act of killing, ball peen hammers and a lack of a claw, loco girls, dying way young and Wayne getting called out by the guest might be my favorite moment on an episode in a while. Check out cka FLAX at: https://www.ckaflax.com/ Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast.com or one all...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 369
When you only have two to three days to prepare for an episode due to a guest reschedule, who do you turn to? Of course our Patreon Revisitors bail us out once again – this time it’s repeat revisitor Scotty Kummer from Ten Junk Miles and I’ve Got That On Vinyl to talk about “Women and Children First” from the legendary Van Halen. Plenty of other discussion on this one including the Minnesota Twins, artists and albums we've fallen in love thanks to podcasting about music, high heels, convoy and t...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 368
Musician Daryl Hance joins us to discuss the fourth album from the Police “Ghost in the Machine.” Plenty of discussion about MTV, speaking French, Sandra Bullock and “Demolition Man,” alpha males & omega males, and more. Dissecting any Police record is a lot of fun and doing it with Daryl was a blast. Y'all go check out his last album "Devil's Milhopper." It's one part 70s rock (ala Black Sabbath or maybe Mountain) and one part Jesus and Mary Chain. Yeah, it sounds bizarre, right? It is. But...
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 367
While Wayne is away, I get to discuss some Lucero with Patreon Revisitor Seth Gill, Repeat Revisitor Jason Earle (of the Marinade Podcast) and first timer musician Matt Woods. Man...we have a blast on this episode. Jason's theory of breaking down Ben Nichols tunes into different categories turns into a super fun exercise. I'm not gonna spoil the fun of what the categories are called. Check out Lucero at: https://luceromusic.com/ Check out Matt Woods at: https://therealmattwoods.com/home Check ou...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 366
Maybe the name Jerry Hey doesn't ring any bells for you. But, you've been listening to songs that Jerry has played his trumpet on or has arranged for probably your entire life. He became one of Quincy Jones' main studio guys. He arranged strings on "Billie Jean," played on Brothers Johnson and Earth Wind & Fire and George Benson albums, that's him on Dolly's "9 to 5," and he's been on a ton of TV and movie soundtracks (yep, that's him on the CHiPs theme song). And, since I'm reengineering th...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 365
The guys are joined by Marc Wasserman who wrote the book “Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter to The English Beat” to discuss (of course) “Special Beat Service” from The English Beat. Plenty of other discussion including Two Tone, FYC and General Public, John Hughes, American TV’s influence for one song, accordion, and what in the world is “Ackee 1 2 3?” Check out Marc at: https://www.instagram.com/soul_salvation_book/ & https://www.diwulf.com/pages/marc-wasserman Check Dave Wakeling & T...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 364
Jon Lamoreaux of the Hustle Podcast joins us to dissect “Rio” from Duran Duran. It’s a travesty that it took us this long to discuss this classic album from the early days of MTV! Maybe we should just add Jon as a permanent co-host? Recorded while I was on the road for work in Newport News, VA. Anyone been there? Oh yeah…and LISTENER SCORES! Check out Duran Duran at: https://duranduran.com/ Check out The Hustle here: https://thehustle.podbean.com/ Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodc...
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 363
Roger Street Friedman joins us to discuss his new record “Long Shadows” and the classic “Tea for the Tillerman” from Cat Stevens. Plenty of other discussion including the New York Mets, Larry Campbell, Sugarland Texas and the sad history of sugar labor, story songwriting, Ted Lasso, advice from our dads (and vice versa) and is “Sad Lisa” the basis of Lisa Simpson? Check out Roger Street Friedman at: https://www.rogerstreetfriedman.com/ Check out Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam at: https://catstevens.c...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 362
It’s time for our annual “Most Listened to Songs” episode and, once again, Jason Earle of the Marinade Podcast joins us with his 12 favorite songs. 36 total most listened songs. No song repeats but we have a few artist repeats. Plenty of other discussion including Wayne discovers Spotify Auto Play, we need support groups for Jason (for pop music disdain) and Wayne (for instrumentals disdain), love and apologies, growth and progress, The Cure, Sturgill, John Doe, Waxahatchee, and who wants to joi...
Dec 30, 2024•3 hr 9 min•Ep. 361
The guys from the band Brother Elsey join us (all 4 of them) to talk about their upcoming debut record, albums from 2017 (including "White Noise" that I consider my 2nd favorite album of that year), Phoebe Bridgers, basements in L.A., The Doors, Setlist.fm stats, Spanaway & Centralia Washington, and how do we get Noah to listen to this episode and have him answer some of our questions and....AND...invite Brother Elsey to open some shows for him? Check out Brother Elsey at: https://www.brothe...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 360
The band gets back together. Shawn Brown & Kasey Anderson join us once again to nerd out about some tunes and this time it's NOT a Seattle related band. We discuss "Hard Candy" from Counting Crows. And Dan Fogelberg. But mostly Counting Crows. And hopefully we can pull off a Kasey and Shawn concert in Florida in February. Who wants to join us for that? Check out Kasey at: https://www.kaseyandersonmusic.com/ Check out Shawn at: https://www.shawnbrownmusic.com/ Check out other episodes at Reco...
Dec 14, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 359
The guys are joined by the artist known as mejia (pronounced may-uh) to discuss “Think Tank” from Blur. Plenty of other discussion including Sonic Youth, Paul McCartney, eels, leaving Goldsmith, Peter Gabriel, Gorillaz, The Clash, Dune, civility and hope. Check out mejia at: https://www.instagram.com/meija.mp3 Check Blur at: https://www.blur.co.uk/ Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast.com, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, iHeartMedia, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Additional content is fou...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 358
Big kudos to Jon for always being on the bench so to speak. You know what happens when we have a Jon episode...yep...guest reschedule. We did this one on two days notice and we didn't skip a beat as it's an album we've been listening to for 40 years. We have an unanimous top song! What?!? Any guesses what song? And, you're welcome that I didn't include a sound clip for "The Theme from Mantrap." Check out Jon’s podcast at thehustle.podbean.com/ Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast....
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 357
From Ben: I fly solo for this interview with Mindy Smith. I could have used Wayne to tell me that my microphone wasn't working properly (it might be time for a new laptop). Mindy and I talk about her excellent new album "Quiet Town" and other topics like being Geminis, Neilson Hubbard (who produced "Quiet Town"), Susan Ashton, writing sad songs, reading the comments, breaking the rules (and how it paid off). I love her picks for 5 favorite albums including The Sundays and another guest talks abo...
Nov 16, 2024•48 min•Ep. 356
Sloan Golden joins us to discuss her debut EP “Long Conversations” and then we dive into "Heard It In A Past Life" from Maggie Rogers. Plenty of other discussion including she had me at the handclaps, walking past people we don't want to talk to, Alaska and Pharrell, "Astrology gets negative points," and things that help us be our best person, Check out Sloan Golden at: https://www.instagram.com/sloanandthings Check out Maggie Rogers at: https://www.maggierogers.com/ Check out other episodes at ...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 355
Ronny Tibbs joins us to discuss the second Paul McCartney record (this one with wife Linda) - the underappreciated "Ram" from 1971. Plenty of other discussion including Myspace and Livejournal, tying audio and video into an EP, Steely Dan, George Martin's absence, McCartney solo records (I might have a hot take) and 70's solo Beatles records, "John Lennon can't be the only person Paul's mad at," fantasy milkshakes, ukulele, and Wayne says "Sublime has never done anything bad." Check out Ronny Ti...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 354
Michael Citro of Michael’s Record Collection (and occasional concert buddy) joins us to discuss the heavy metal classic “The Number of the Beast” from Iron Maiden. Plenty of other discussion including gallops, Vikings, seeing Crowded House together, mommy and daddy are fighting again, metal albums we own (or once owned), backmasking, lyrical controversies and lawsuits, and we determine that the UK charts are weird. And, yes, I went out of order of releasing episodes lately. Sorry. Or something. ...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 353
Sameer Gadhia and Eric Cannata of Young the Giant join us to discuss their sophomore album “Mind Over Matter” that is celebrating its 10th anniversary! We talk about the production of the album, sequencing, could they have made “American Bollywood” earlier in their career, vocal acrobats, misheard lyrics (Sienna?), getting “Teachers” and “Daydreamer” back into the live setlists, finding out your song is going viral on Tik Tok, and more. We love these guys! Check out Young The Giant at: https://w...
Oct 01, 2024•48 min•Ep. 352
Jocelyn Si of Walt Disco and guest co-host Jason Earle (of The Marinade” podcast) join me in discussing “Poses” from Rufus Wainwright. Plenty of other discussion including finding one’s voice in college, getting ready to tour with OMD in the states (in 2025, not in 2024), Bronski Beat, Nepo Babies, Death of Venice, welcome moments of horns, and "In A Graveyard" is I think the best Billy Joel song not written or sung by Billy Joel. Prove me wrong. I won't guarantee that you'll like the album. It ...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 351
Guests Alice Wallace and little brother Dave Montgomery join us for this week's episode to discuss "More Adventurous" from Rilo Kiley. Plenty of other conversation including the LA country scene, Mule Kick Records, Post Malone, the Bluebird, male guilt, Jenny Lewis, alternative radio in 2004, beeps and boops, and we still don’t know the meaning of 11/11/46. Jenny needs to come on the show to explain! And, we weren't very nice about "Ripchord" which, on any album, would be a song that I'd probabl...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 350
