This week's guest, singer Anne Richmond Boston (longtime member of Atlanta band The Swimming Pool Q's), brings us World Party and their wonderfully effortless pop-rock gem, 'Goodbye Jumbo'. Essentially the solo project of songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger, this 1990 release - which according to Q magazine and dozens of critics was one of the best albums of that year - definitely warrants a deep-dive.

Songs discussed in this episode: Put The Message In The Box (World Party cover) - Mary Chapin Carpenter and The Mountain Goats; More Than One Heaven - The Swimming Pool Q's; I Should Be Happy - Anne Richmond Boston; The Bells Ring - The Swimming Pool Q's; Give In - Anne Richmond Boston; The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys; Is It Too Late, Way Down Now - World Party; Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones; When The Rainbow Comes, When The Rainbow Comes (Live 2014 Nashville, TN), Put The Message In The Box - World Party; Give A Little Bit - Supertramp; Ain't Gonna Come Till I'm Ready - World Party; Jesus Children Of America - Stevie Wonder; The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix cover) - Anne Richmond Boston; And I Fell Back Alone, Take It Up, God On My Side, Show Me To The Top, Love Street, Sweet Soul Dream, Is It Like Today, Ship Of Fools, Thank You World - World Party; The Music Weaver (Sandy Denny cover) - Anne Richmond Boston

Blur's third album, 1994's 'Parklife', was released the same year as Oasis' debut 'Definitely Maybe'. And while many saw this as Britpop's answer to a Beatles/Stones rivalry, none other than Ray Davies himself considered Blur - and especially Parklife - as the heir apparent to ANOTHER classic British band, The Kinks. This week's returning guest Corey duBrowa once again brings the goods as he and Rob attempt to unpack this UK Classic.

Songs discussed in this episode: Girls & Boys (Blur cover) - Terry Edwards and The Scapegoats; Love You (Syd Barrett cover) - Graham Coxon; For Tomorrow, Country House, Sing - Blur; Step On - Happy Mondays; This Is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets; She's So High - Blur; Love Me For A Reason - The Osmonds; Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones; Girls & Boys, Tracy Jacks - Blur; David Watts - The Kinks; Helicopter - XTC; End Of A Century, Parklife - Blur; Mad John - Small Faces; Bank Holiday, Badhead - Blur; Connection - Elastica; The Debt Collector, Far Out, To The End - Blur; My Mistakes Were Made For You - The Last Shadow Puppets; You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra; To The End (French Version), London Loves, Trouble In The Message Centre, Clover Over Dover, Magic America, Charmless Man, Jubilee - Blur; 20th Century Boy - T-Rex; Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz; This Is A Low, Lot 105 - Blur; Waterloo Sunset - Ray Davies and Damon Albarn

Derisively referred to as "Nobody's favorite Neil Young album", Young's 1986 release 'Landing On Water' was conceived at a time when his own record label, Geffen, sued him for creating albums unrepresentative of his familiar style. This week's guest, Musician/Filmmaker Rossellini, contends that this confoundingly claustrophobic release - filled with icy-loud drums, synclavier and synthesizers - deserves a second look.

Songs discussed in this episode: Hippie Dream (Neil Young cover) - The Slags; A Comment On Ritual - The Nation Of Ulysses; Wonderin', Mr Soul - Neil Young; Boys Of Summer - Don Henley; Turn On Tune In Drop Out - The Fugs; I'll Wait - Van Halen; The X-Files Opening Credits - Mark Snow; Touch The Night (Live at the Catalyst, 1984), Weight Of The World, Violent Side - Neil Young; Bone Machine - Pixies; Dirty Window - Metallica; Rockin' In The Free World, Hippie Dream, Tired Eyes, Bad News Beat - Neil Young; Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson; Touch The Night, Touch The Night (Live at the Catalyst, 1984), People On The Street, Hard Luck Stories, I Got A Problem, Pressure, Drifter - Neil Young; Mineral Water - Small Reactions

For this special BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked Patrons of the show to send in a song where the bass playing really caught their ear...and GOT THEM HIGH!

Songs discussed in this episode: Big Bottom - Spinal Tap; Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin; Don't Look Any Further - Dennis Edwards; Iron Fist - Motorhead; Slow Hand - Three Mile Pilot; Psycho Killer - Talking Heads; Effort To Waste - Saccharine Trust; Rope Ladder To The Moon - Jack Bruce; Ageispolis - Aphex Twin; Bless The Weather - John Martyn; You Were Lying When You Said You Loved Me - New Fast Automatic Daffodils; Add It Up - Violent Femmes; One Hundred Percent Tree - Dianogah; Lady - Beck, Bogert & Appice; Erpland - Ozric Tentacles; Eye Of Fatima (Pt. 1) - Camper Van Beethoven; The Real Me - The Who; Panic In Detroit - David Bowie; Love Has Brought Me Around - James Taylor; Wax And Wane - Cocteau Twins; 2 + 2 = ? - The Bob Seger System; If You Want Me To Stay - S.L.Y. and The Family Stone; Cause - All; Nice 'N' Sleazy - The Stranglers

This week's guest, writer, director, producer, journalist and musician Gabriel Rotello, brings us the stunning debut studio album by Patti Smith, 'Horses'. Gabriel's latest book, 'The CBGB Conspiracy', is a gritty mystery novel set during the sweltering NYC summer of 1977, with Son of Sam on the prowl and the city rocked by the blackout. As both a musician who lived that scene and a longtime LGBTQ journalist, Gabriel's insight into this foundational punk landmark of a record is not to be missed! *NEW AND IMPROVED, with final 15 minutes added back!!

Songs discussed in this episode: My Generation (Who cover - Live at the Agora, Cleveland, OH 1976) - Patti Smith; All The Good Places - Gabriel Rotello; Easter - Patti Smith; Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys; X Offender - Blondie; Judy Is A Punk - Ramones; Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 2 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer; No Feelings - Sex Pistols; Unknown - Patti Smith/Lenny Kaye - Max's Kansas City, Fall, 1973; Fire Engine (13th Floor Elevators cover) - Television (Live at CBGBs, 1975); Gloria, Because The Night, Redondo Beach, Birdland - Patti Smith; Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols; Birdland - Patti Smith; Personality Crisis - New York Dolls; Free Money, Kimberly - Patti Smith; Marquee Moon - Television; Break It Up, Land - Patti Smith; Teenage Crutch - The Shirts; 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) - Jimi Hendrix; Elegie - Patti Smith; Redondo Beach (Patti Smith cover) - Morrissey (Live at Earls Court)

Returning guest and long-time friend of the show Tom Lawery brings us Sub Pop band (by way of the Carolinas) Band Of Horses and their second album, 2007s 'Cease To Begin'. Both evocative AND rocking, it's a record that delivers big riffs in a beautiful, indie-guitar pop package.

Songs discussed in this episode: Luther (Kendrick Lamar and SZA cover) - Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell; Trinidad - Geese; The Funeral - Band Of Horses; One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket; They'll Only Miss You When You Leave - Carissa's Wierd; Is There A Ghost, Ode to LRC - Band Of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You - CeeLo Green; No One's Gonna Love You, Detlef Schrempf, The General Specific - Band Of Horses; Tears Of Rage - The Band; Lamb On The Lam (In The City), Islands On The Coast - Band Of Horses; Goin' Against Your Mind - Built To Spill; Mississippi - Bob Dylan; Marry's Song - Band Of Horses; Seven Bridges Road (Live) - The Eagles; Act Together - Ron Wood; Act Together (Live, 2007), Cigarettes, Wedding Bands, Window Blues - Band Of Horses; When I Get Old - Descendents

Technically Jeff Beck's seventh solo album - but only the second to bear only his name on the front cover - 1975s 'Blow By Blow' became a million-selling top-5 album, and proved once and for all there was truly nothing Jeff Beck could not do with a plank of wood and six strings. This week's guest, Filmmaker/Musician Peter Spirer (Rugged Entertainment), joins Rob as they attempt to unpack this instrumental classic.

Songs discussed in this episode: Freeway Jam (Live, 1976) - Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group; Devil's Road - Sacred Cowboys; Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt; Spanish Boots - Jeff Beck; Blues Jam - The Rolling Stones (with Jeff Beck); Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart; You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck; She's A Woman - The Beatles; She's A Woman - Jeff Beck; Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith; Constipated Duck, Air Blower - Jeff Beck; Stroll On - The Yardbirds; Pink Moon - Nick Drake; Scatterbrain - Jeff Beck; Frame By Frame - King Crimson; Lookin' For Another Pure Love - Stevie Wonder; Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck; 'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk; Thelonious, Freeway Jam, Freeway Jam (Live, 1976), Diamond Dust - Jeff Beck; Horrors - Hummingbird; The Lonely Ones - Z Toyz

His songs have been covered by HUNDREDS of bands over the years, and he's rightly been nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll". John Lennon may have said it best, "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." This week's guest, New Orleans musician Smitti Supab (Captain Buckles), brings us 'The Great Twenty-Eight' by the late, great Chuck Berry. "Hail, hail rock and roll!"

Songs discussed in this episode: School Days - The Beach Boys (Live, Knebworth 1980), Iron City House Rockers, Bobby Vee, Jan and Dean, AC/DC; Cringe, Hurry Up, Bus Station Blues - Captain Buckles; Johnny Be Goode, Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry; Roll Over Beethoven - The Beatles; Too Much Monkey Business - Chuck Berry; Too Much Monkey Business - The Kinks; Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan; Havana Moon, School Days, Rock and Roll Music - Chuck Berry; Rock and Roll Music - The Beatles; Reelin' and Rockin', Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry; Surfin' U.S.A. - The Beach Boys; Beautiful Delilah - Chuck Berry; Beautiful Delilah - The Kinks; Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry; Memphis Tennessee - John Lennon and Chuck Berry with Yoko Ono; Nadine, Maybellene, No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry; Raindrops on Mardi Gras - Captain Buckles

For this special BONUS episode, Audio Engineer, Producer, Teacher and lead singer of Indiana's Zero Boys, Paul Mahern, brings us some of his favorite Teenage Tragedy Songs. Also known as Splatter Platters, Death Discs...etc, this style of songs lamenting teenage death scenarios - often in melodramatic fashion - peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s but still pack a twisted punch today. Let the teardrops fall!

Songs discussed in this episode: Last Kiss - Wayne Cochran (1961); Johnny Better Get - Zero Boys; Henry Lee - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Ft. PJ Harvey); Henry Lee - Dick Justice; New Rose - The Damned; Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls; Chain Saw - Ramones; Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton; Telstar - The Tornados; Tribute To Buddy Holly - Mike Berry and the Outlaws; Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry; Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles; Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People; Detroit Rock City - Kiss; Angie Baby - Helen Reddy; Rocket USA - Suicide; Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats; Come Back Jonee, Auto Modown - DEVO; Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols; The Water Was Red - Johnny Cymbal; Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean; Teen Angel - Mark Dinning; Leah - Roy Orbison; Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones; Warm Leatherette - The Normal; Timothy - The Buoys

We FINALLY dipped our toes into the George Clinton/P-Funk universe, as this week's guest Adrian Herrera - aka DJ Blacksmith - brings us 1976s 'Hardcore Jollies' by Funkadelic. "If you got funk, you got style You're funkin' and you're styling all the while When you got funk, you got class You're out on the floor movin' your ass"

Songs discussed in this episode: Comin' Round The Mountain (Live, 1976) - Funkadelic; Pais Tropical - Jorge Ben Jor; Hell Before Sunrise - Oscar Herrera; Fuck Wit Dre Day - Dr. Dre; So What - Miles Davis; Give Up The Funk - Parliament; Hit It And Quit It, One Nation Under A Groove, Comin' Round The Mountain, Smokey, If You Got Funk, You Got Style - Funkadelic; Ms Jackson - Outkast; I'm Never Gonna Tell It, Hardcore Jollies, Soul Mate - Funkadelic; Soul Mate - D'Angelo (Live, GQ Plugs In Behind The Scenes); Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic; Walking In Rhythm - Blackbyrds; You Scared The Lovin' Outta Me, March To The Witch's Castle, Adolescent Funk - Funkadelic; Rockit - Herbie Hancock; DAISIES - Justin Bieber; Helter Skelter - The Beatles; Cosmic Slop - Axiom Funk

In 1984, Michael Mann's crime drama Miami Vice hit the airwaves. Unlike the traditional police procedurals that came before it, Miami Vice drew upon 1980s pop culture and used contemporary rock and pop music as the background for its dark, often nihilistic storylines. Returning guest, poet and essayist Sarah Nichols, joins us as we unpack some of the songs - and musical guests - that made this iconic neo-noir television series pop.

Songs discussed in this episode: Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer; Vital Transformation - Mahavishnu Orchestra; Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer; Harlem Shake - Baauer; Peter Gunn Theme - Henry Mancini; Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell; Beach Theme - Tangerine Dream; In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins; Crockett's Theme - Jan Hammer; Smugglers Blues, You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey; Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits; Hello Earth - Kate Bush; Just The Way I Planned It - Philip Michael Thomas; Heartbeat - Don Johnson; I'm Not In Love - 10cc; Cry - Godley & Creme; Little Miss Dangerous, Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent; Duel, P-Machinery - Propaganda; Fly On The Windscreen - Depeche Mode; Nine Million Rainy Days - Jesus and Mary Chain; Me Myself I, Dark Truths - Joan Armatrading