Latest Garage rock Podcast Episodes
Little Latin Lupe Lu
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - May 17, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. The very first Righteous Brothers release was "Little Latin Lupe Lu" in '62. It has a slight rockabilly/surf feel, with the great vocals we came to expect, plus the immortal love song line, "She's My Mash Potato Baby"! In 1964, our frat friends The Kingsmen trashed the s...
Bad Little Woman
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - May 11, 2024 19:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This week, we take on one of the greatest "she done me wrawng" songs of all time - "Bad Little Woman" by The Wheels. We analyze the religious slant of the song written by these Northern Ireland velocity boys - is the singer's woman dating the literal devil?? Wild screams...
So Much In Love
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - May 03, 2024 21:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Did The Tymes come up with their 1963 hit "So Much In Love" by repurposing the official song of the United States Army? That's Erik's theory, and we talk about it as well as the tune as doo-wop's "swan song" -its gentle and elegaic quality serves also as a goodbye to a m...
Episode #221 - Hugo Burnham (Gang of Four)
Damaged Goods Radio - April 30, 2024 17:50 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsBack in November 2023, Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith Group played a tribute show to the amazing box set he compiled "Nuggets" at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC. The Nuggets Boxset profiles lost classics from the 60s psychedelic garage rock era. Matt was fortunate enough to sit down with one of t...
Name That Vid!
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 26, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. At In The Past, we always take things to the next level - some people are still satisfied with "Name That Tune," but we've invented "Name That Vid!" In this episode, your hosts read the Wikipedia descriptos of notable music videos, and try to guess which tune it belong...
Name That Vid
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 26, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAt In The Past, we always take things to the next level - some people are still satisfied with "Name That Tune," but we've invented "Name That Vid!" In this episode, your hosts read the Wikipedia descriptos of notable music videos, and try to guess which tune it belongs to. If you grew up in t...
Green Fuz
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 19, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We've weathered several recessions and a pandemic, but there's an ever-present threat of ... Green Fuz. It all started back in 1968, when The Green Fuz had everything go wrong at the Crossroads Cafe in Bridgeport, Texas, and there's been several sightings of the escaped ...
A Series of Sounds You Know Means Good Music
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 12, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. The latter phrase comes early on in our discussion about band names - the good, the bad, and the shitty shitty! This is Part 2 of "Shitty Shitty Band Names!" - a popular new series that we're assured has created a lot of discussion around the family dinner table, and cau...
Boarding House Revisited
The Third Men Podcast - April 08, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsSurprise! The Third Men Podcast is back from the mind shaft, connected by brotherly love (ew) and ready with an all-new episode that will take you for a stroll down memory lane. Specifically, whatever memory lane Ezmerelda is on. This is an installment of the show that we're calling BOARDING HOUS...
Walking The Dog
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 06, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. If you have a dog, you have to understand your responsibilty - "Walking the Dog" isn't as simple as you might think. Therefore, we start with Rufus Thomasand his instructional record of the same name from 1963. Is it a goofy great? It's definitely great, because a millio...
No Sugar Tonight
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - March 30, 2024 00:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This week we pick a Canuck classic that's two songs in one - "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" by The Guess Who. The lyrics are faux-profound, but Burton Cummings' pipes and scattin' will spike your blood sugar. We scoured the record bins for our second version - a di...
All Day And All Of The Night
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - March 24, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It's time to revisit The Kinks Kanon and do "All Day & All of the Night." Have you ever noticed how weird the title is? Probably not, because of the Riff! It's dirty and has that "Louie Louie" fairy dust which produces misty brain fog where you can't remember how many du...
Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - March 16, 2024 06:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. The first in a series celebrating Goofy Greats!: the 1975 K-Tel compilation that turned a generation of kids onto novelty songs, old rock n roll and R & B, and some very questionable tunes, too (we're looking at you, Ray Stevens) ... we go back to our old friends The Roy...
In The Pastoral: Garage Rock Songs About Nature
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - March 09, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We're a bit weary of garage rock tropes, so it's time to head to the country. First this week is "The Woods" by The Nickel Bag. This 66er advocates leaving the city, but should you follow this pied piper? I might - the swirling organ has me hyp - mo - tized!! That same y...
Be My Baby
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - February 29, 2024 21:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This one's a doozy - 4 versions of "Be My Baby" and a close relative! The first-born by The Ronettes is so good it's disqualified from the Bo Diddley Awards. We discuss Ronnie's "vibrato in a phone booth," Hal Blaine's boom-crash, the smiley backing vocals and so much mo...
(Don't Give Me No) Friction
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - February 17, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We're back with a great garage tune that is the inverse? obverse? reverse? of 1965's "Satisfaction" - the tune is "(Don't Give Me No) Friction" by The Green Beans, released the same year as the Rolling Stones gem. The lyrics were written by a couple of middle-aged people...
She's About A Mover
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - February 03, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It's early February, and time for love & conversation ... so this week's song is the 1965 classic "She's About A Mover" by the Sir Douglas Quintet (2:57). A simple groove, great manly singing from SIr Doug himself, and a cavernous, carnivalesque organ sound will keep thi...
Police On My Back
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - January 27, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we throw the book at The Equals and their 1967 non-hit, "Police on my Back." Written by the indestructible Eddy Grant, the debate centers around the song's rude boy narrative (Stratton 2013) and the question of the narrator's guilt or innocence. The next...
Leader Of The Pack
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - January 20, 2024 05:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We recorded this a few days before the very sad passing of Mary Weiss on Friday, January 19, 2024. We hope that this episode honours her memory, and the other departed Shangri-La's, Marge & Mary Ann Ganser. Love forever <3. Versions by The Shangri-Las, The Compacts, Di...
Single File: Shepherd's Heard
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - January 13, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Single File is back and we're talking about a real rager: Shelby, Ohio's Shepherd's Heard and their only record "I Know" b/w "But That's Life." The first sounds like a demented version of The Rascals' "Good Lovin'." The drums and vocals are CRAZY and they're both perform...
We're Pretty Quick
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - January 06, 2024 15:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Our podcast's New Year's Resolution? To be quicker! Hence, we present you with "We're Pretty Quick," a wild 1967 side by New Mexico's finest, The Chob (4:32). There are covers by The Fuzztones and The Cannibals that fly by, too. But then we introduce The Lucky Seven Lig...
Bonus: Bo Diddliest of the Bo Diddliest!
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - January 03, 2024 20:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We end 2023 and start 2024 with some final thoughts and we pick our favourite songs out of all the Bo Diddley Awards nominees. Is the discussion insightful? Maybe. Incisive? Probably not. Insane? Always!!
Third Annual Bo Diddley Awards!
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - December 30, 2023 02:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. The categories are: Bo Diddliest Girl Group Song: Dedicated to the One I Love - Shirelles He’s Gone - Chantels Then He Kissed Me - Crystals Uncle Willie - Juliettes Mr. Scrooge - Orchids Bo Diddliest Video: Liar Liar - The Castaways Now and Then - The Beatles Mu...
"Say It" With The Gruesomes!!
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - December 22, 2023 20:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We kept the tape rolling after the recent episode we did with John & Bobby from The Gruesomes and we said more stuff about John's favourite song ever - "Say It" by the Five Royales. Along the way, we solve the problems of modern music.
The Gruesomes Salute The Five Royales!
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - December 16, 2023 20:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We know Pastronauts love it when John & Bobby of The Gruesomes visit our podcast, but this one's extra exciting because it's two episodes in one! John has picked two of his favourite songs by the unsung Five Royales ("Think" and "Dedicated to the One I Love"), and then ...
Christmas Bonus!: Unwrapping Two Secret Songs
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - December 13, 2023 18:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We enjoyed the eggnog so much last week that we decided to gift Pastronauts two more Holiday songs, and the talk that goes with it. 'Tis the season!!!
Rocking Your Stocking with Wild Xmas Tunes!
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - December 10, 2023 03:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Forget about all those uncool Xmas tunes you hear in the malls - we've got the good stuff for this Holiday season! The first present for you is "Mr. Scrooge" by England's GREATEST 60S girl group, The Orchids (2:16). If Georgina Oliver isn't in your 60s British Music Icon...
Shitty Shitty Band Name !
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - December 03, 2023 03:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Erik & Weldon discuss band names they hate. Will YOUR favourite band be included? - Listen and find out!!!
The New Beatles Song: Now And Then
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - November 24, 2023 01:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Let's not Beat(les) around the bush here - the Garage Studies world has been waiting for Weldon & Erik to weigh in on the new Fab 4 tune, "Now and Then." We play it, talk about it, and also throw in some other AI versions of said tune. Along the way, there's questions fr...
Monkey Business
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - November 19, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Theme episode time! This one's a simian sensation, so we start off with Chuck Berry's 1957 baboon tune, "Too Much Monkey Business" (2:32:31). Is it anti-monkey, or anti-business? It may not really be about monkeys. but it's rock n roll poetry! The next in the evolutionar...
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