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That Record Got Me High Podcast

by Rob Elba

Are you a music obsessive? Can you sit down for an hour or so poring over an album you love, digging deep into the lyrics, musical references and 'secret sauce' that makes it so special to you? Then this just MIGHT be your podcast! Each week your host - rock-n-roll lifer and recovering punk Rob Elba - sits down with a special guest to dissect a record that - metaphorically - got them high.

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S9E491 - The Buggles 'The Age Of Plastic' with Dave Brasgalla

This week, our guest Dave Brasgalla dialed-in all the way from Sweden to talk about The Buggles and their 1980 blast-from-the-futuristic-past New Wave gem, 'The Age Of Pl

Nov 7
58 min

S9E490 - Cracker 'Forever' with Cathy Merriman

Longtime TRGMH Patron Cathy Merriman is a devout fan of the band Cracker, and she's here to let us know that their 2002 release, 'Forever', STILL gets her high. Singer an

Oct 31
1 h 15 min

S9E489 - Redd Kross 'Teen Babes From Monsanto' with Matt Devine

This week's guest, Los Angeles musician Matt Devine (Ventilator, Permanent Green Light, Medicine, Possum Dixon), brings us Hawthorne California's Redd Kross and their wil

Oct 24
56 min

S9E488 - R.E.M. 'Murmur' with Tim Quirk

As debut albums go, you'd be hard-pressed to find one more foundationally influential to modern indie/alternative rock than R.E.M.s 1983 release, 'Murmur'. This week's gu

Oct 17
1 h 12 min

S9E487 - Johnny Hammond 'Wild Horses Rock Steady' with Wesley Stace

This week's guest, singer/songwriter and author Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) brings us jazz organist Johnny Hammond and his 1972 Kudu/CTI Records release 'Wild

Oct 10
1 h 00 min

S9E486 - The Congos 'Heart Of The Congos' with Skip Heller

Bandleader, composer and music historian Skip Heller (Voodoo 5, Los duenos del Klezmer, the Hollywood Film Noirchestra), brings us the OG 1977 roots reggae album 'Heart O

Oct 3
1 h 13 min

S9E485 - 'That Song That Asks A Question Got Me High' Patron-curated Episode

For this special Patron-curated episode, we tasked our Patrons with sending in their favorite song that asks a question. As always, they answered the call... Songs disc

Sep 26
1 h 07 min

S9E484 - Jim Croce 'Photographs & Memories' with Luke Bob Robinson and Jasper Smith

On September 20, 1973, singer/songwriter Jim Croce, his musical partner Maury Muehleisen and four others were killed in a plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana after fin

Sep 20
1 h 13 min

S9E483 - Herbie Hancock 'Chameleon' with Michael Hampton (Parliament-Funkadelic)

This week, we're honored to have Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton joining us to discuss Herbie Hanc

Sep 12
55 min

S9E482 - Fast Times At Ridgemont High BONUS Movie Episode with Les Norris

For this special BONUS episode, we took a break from records to discuss a MOVIE with returning guest Les Norris - because why not?? It's 'That Movie Got Me High' featurin

Sep 7
43 min

S9E481 - Throwing Muses debut with Ronnie Barnett

The first album by an American band to be released on British independent label 4AD, Throwing Muses' stunningly beautiful 1986 debut got this week's guest Ronnie Barnett

Sep 5
1 h 05 min

S9E480 - Television 'Marquee Moon' with Alan Zweig

This week's returning guest, Canadian documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig, brings a record many before him have mentioned but never pulled the trigger to tackle. Released in

Aug 29
1 h 39 min

S9E479 - Social Distortion 'Born To Kill' with Woody Compton

This week's returning guest, Woody Compton, brings us Social Distortion and their 2026 release 'Born To Kill'. Their first studio album in fifteen years, it's both a retu

Aug 22
1 h 02 min

S9E478 - Bill Nelson 'Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam' with Kevin Chanel

This week's guest, record/hot sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl, El Enojado Hot Sauce), brings us singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, v

Aug 15
1 h 10 min

S9E477 - Wovenhand 'Silver Sash' with Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto

This week, returning guests Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto (hackedepicciotto) join us to discuss musician David Eugene Edwards' (16 Horsepower) offshoot projec

Aug 8
1 h 12 min

S9E476 - Moving Targets 'Burning In Water' with Tim Hinely

This week we set the way-back machine to North Shore, Massachusetts 1986, as returning guest Tim Hinely (Dagger Zine, Where The Wild Gigs Were) brings us Moving Targets a

Aug 1
59 min

S9E475 - 'That ENDING Of That Song Got Me High' Patron-curated Episode

For this special BONUS episode, we asked our Patrons to send in some of their favorite ENDINGS (Outros, Codas...etc) of songs that - you know - got them high! Songs dis

Jul 28
55 min

S9E474 - Al Kooper 'You Never Know Who Your Friends Are' with Glenn Morrow

Alan Peter Kuperschmidt - better known as Al Kooper - is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician who throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s was a prolific s

Jul 25
1 h 01 min

S9E473 - Queen 'A Night At The Opera' with Oscar Herrera

Like many music lovers who came of age in the mid-70s, returning guest Oscar Herrera (The Sleep Of Reason, Halo, El Duende, Black Tape For A Blue Girl) first encountered

Jul 18
1 h 09 min

S9E472 - Hal Blaine - Psychedelic Percussion with Bob Bert

A member of the world-famous Wrecking Crew studio band, drummer Hal Blaine was thought to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the music industry, claiming over

Jul 11
59 min

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