Latest Garage rock Podcast Episodes
Everyday
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - November 12, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Wouldn't you love it if we published every day? Well, we can't do that, but here's Buddy Holly's magical 1957 b-side "Everyday" as compensation (3:35). A concerto for hambone, celesta, and hiccupping hillbilly vocals! A gentle, innocent, and hopeful rock'n'roll hay ride ...
Rob Jones Returns
The Third Men Podcast - October 29, 2023 06:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsWe're connected...by Rob! The Third Men Podcast is back with an all-new extended interview with returning guest and Jack White artwork guru Rob Jones! It's been six years and four studio albums since last we spoke to the animalrummy, and in this episode we'll do our best to make up for lost time....
Goodbye, So Long
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - October 29, 2023 02:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Live! From Room 711 of the Georgian Court Hotel in Vancouver, BC - it's Erik & Weldon broadcasting in the same spot for the first time in In The Past history!! We say hello to Ike & Tina Turner's 1965 tune, "Goodbye, So Long" and then gab about it behind its back. Up sec...
He's Gone
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - October 21, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This week the boys talk about the girls - it's doo wop time and we start with the fabulous Chantels and their 1957 debut, "He's Gone" (1:32). Picture perfect in every way, from Arlene Smith's powerful voice and glittering, subtle songwriting to the beautiful backing from...
You Really Got Me
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - October 15, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It's Episode 152 and we're finally gettin' to "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks (1:06). Knife, amp, and THEE garage rock riff! But is it FUZZ? Is the song's repetitiveness a representation of obsessive thoughts of lust? Is it choral music? Yep Yep Yep! In 1966, The 13th ...
Single File: The Huns
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - October 07, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Some people flip houses, but we at In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast flip singles. Yes, it's a return to the tried-and-true Single File format, and this week the subject is The Huns from Arlington Heights, Illinois, and their rampaging 1966 everblack, "Destination Lonely ...
Bo Diddley: Episode 150 Celebration!!
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - September 30, 2023 02:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We celebrate Episode #150 with 1 artist, 5 great songs, and 0 misses! The spotlight is on Bo Diddley, and 5 of our favourite tunes by him. The beat starts with 1955's "Bo Diddley" (2:41). The second selection introduces you to Bo's legendary maracas rattler, Jerome Green...
Garage Rock Protest Songs!
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - September 16, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. No one's gonna protest about this week's songs! Three of the greatest garage tunes PERIOD - with some astute social commentary as well?! The first missile we hurl is "Social End Product" by New Zealand refuseniks The Bluestars (1:59) A proto-punk anthem with a pounding ...
Let's Talk About Girls
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - September 10, 2023 21:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This week we talk about "Let's Talk About Girls"! The original was done by Tucson's The Grodes (aka The Tongues of Truth) (1:10). This gem features slinky guitar & organ, deft drumming, and a psychedelic pulse of a bassline. Not to mention Jagger-esque vocals and a fun,...
Save It For Later
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - September 03, 2023 17:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Ch-Chk! This week we step out of the garage to discuss many people's favourite song, "Save It For Later" by The (English) Beat (1:27). A ringing guitar sound, soaring strings, and cheeky lyrics with some clever Catcher in the wry-ness. Dave Wakeling's timeless tune has a...
And My Baby's Gone
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - August 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Enough of the big names - Beatles and Dylan have dominated the podcast for too long! This week we're talkin' bout the Moody Blues and their 1965 album track "And My Baby's Gone" (1:10). A little known slice of (squeaky) blue eyed soul an' R&B - it even has a faint "Bayou...
Bonus Episode: Hamilton Camp
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - August 11, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Have you ever wondered what Erik & Weldon do when they sign off? They keep drinking and talking about music!! That's what we did right after we recorded our latest episode, on Bob Dylan's "Girl From The North Country." We had a folk cover left over, by a mysterious troub...
Girl From The North Country
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - August 06, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This week we're staying in the world of the Big B's of the 60s - but now it's Bob Dylan and his achingly beautiful 1963 ballad "Girl from the North Country" (3:07). Erik thinks it's a meditation on being forgotten, written at a time before Bob was famous. We get deep i...
She Loves You
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - July 29, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. If Bug Music gives you the horrors, stay away from this one! An early slice of Beatlemania, "She Loves You", is on the docket this week (2:11). We discuss why people don't really rate The Beatles of this period: is it the "yeah yeah yeah"'s? Is it because it's a single a...
My Flash On You
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - July 16, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We're re-doing an episode from the very early days of the podcast, when we didn't have our snappy patter & schtick down like we do now - the folk-punk classic "My Flash on You"! All versions are from 1966 : the original by Love is at 1:25, and we focus on FUZZ and Fashio...
Sweet Pea
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - July 09, 2023 02:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This episode is bigger than bubblegum! We chew on Tommy Roe's 1966 hit, "Sweet Pea" and we find it both delicious and diatonic (2:19). It has that wicked drum break, but the jangly guitar and bright organ also make the song POP! The second stick comes from Mexico's great...
Just Like Me
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - June 24, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. We're back in the Garage Studies classroom to discuss the poetic masterpiece, "Just Like Me"! The first version by The Wilde Knights (1:25) gets us talking about iambic dimeter, and the poetry of John Skelton & Robert Frost. As one does. More importantly, the song has a ...
Top Special: The Dead Weather
The Third Men Podcast - June 18, 2023 16:16 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsWhat are YOUR favorite Dead Weather tracks? This is the question at the heart of the second installment of our ongoing TOP SPECIAL series - wherein we award our top three tracks from a set of albums with medals of varying (christian?) names. Today we welcome back returning guest Luke Sinclare to ...
Land Of 1000 Dances
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - June 10, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Pastronauts Rejoice! We're finally taking you to the Land of 1000 Dances! The first dance goes to Chris Kenner, the author and soulful belter of the original one-chord wonder (1:30). CK mixes the sacred and secular, and Allen Toussaint and the band give the song a swampy...
The Jack White Collections feat. Frank Anselmo
The Third Men Podcast - June 02, 2023 19:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsYou've heard his name amongst the earliest die hard White Stripes fans...you've seen him mentioned in Mojo Magazine, Rolling Stone and even the White Stripes & Third Man Records official social channels. He's Frank Anselmo, and this week he's joining us on the Third Men podcast to talk Jack White...
Table-Toppers
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - May 27, 2023 17:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this theme episode, we feature a trio of tunes with the proven percussive potency that makes you want to bash the nearest table like a raving Ringo … in fact, many of you tabletop thumpers have probably clattered the cutlery to at least one of these. First up is “Have...
The Paranoyds: Extended Interview
The Third Men Podcast - May 14, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsThe future's not a bore on the Third Men Podcast this week, as we're joined by Third Man Records recording artists THE PARANOYDS! Laila Hashemi and Lexi Funston join your humble co-hosts to break-down the origins of the band, how they linked up with Staz Lindes & David Ruiz and what brought them ...
Good Lovin'
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - May 06, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This week's episode traces the evolution of one of the most beloved songs of the 60s: "Good Lovin'"! (A tune that should have an exclamation mark in the title). Lemme B. Good was the first to pitch woo in spring of 1965 (0:48). Exuberant vocals, crashing piano chords, ...
Better Than The Beatles: The Monkees
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 29, 2023 15:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Our fifth edition of the ever-popular Better Than The Beatles series focuses on the first, and greatest, manufactured pop group: The Monkees. Literally cast into the limelight of pop superstardom, The Monkees, at their peak, outsold the Beatles while simultaneously fil...
Elephant: Analysis & Review vol.3
The Third Men Podcast - April 24, 2023 05:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsWe have arrived at the finale of our ELEPHANT album analysis & review series...and so much more is left to cover. Part 2 left off with our track-by-track deep-dive, ending with middle-point powerhouse track Ball & Biscuit -- now it's time to bring it on home to the end. With favorite cuts like Li...
Brand New Cadillac
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 22, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we go for a wild ride with a golden oldie that still smells factory fresh, "Brand New Cadillac" by Vince Taylor & His Playboys (1:53). Hear how this 1959 bopper is a "crossroads", deal-with-the-devil ditty, as signalled by the otherwordly opening string ...
Ball And Chain
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 15, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. In this episode, we go down a Rabbitt hole and discuss one of the early songwriting efforts of the man who ruled the musical world of 1980 - Eddie Rabbitt! In 1966, his tune "Ball and Chain" (co-penned by Tricia Carr, who we also talk about) was released as a single by S...
Elephant: Analysis & Review vol.2
The Third Men Podcast - April 09, 2023 00:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsWe're back for part 2 of our 3-part ELEPHANT album analysis & review! With The White Stripes breakthrough masterpiece celebrating its 20th anniversary, and in advance of the corresponding commemorative vault release, the Third Men Podcast is finally tackling the only Stripes record remaining in i...
Try To Understand
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 08, 2023 04:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. While some might see Lulu as an exemplar of cherubic innocence, one listen to "Try To Understand," written by the boss songwriting duo of Lori Burton & Pam Sawyer (see Episode 70) will clear up that misconception (1:27). This song is from the POV of a player, a female Ca...
Pictures Of Matchstick Men
In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast - April 02, 2023 01:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This week we discuss the song that Francis Rossi wrote on the toilet while trying to escape family life - the pop-psychedelic masterpiece "Pictures of Matchstick Men" by Status Quo (1:53). With that in mind, it's possible that the tune is a fever dream fantasy of familic...
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