This week, we’re joined by special guest, Ant, a hardcore record collector with a huge collection of They Might Be Giants, Bob Dylan, Beatles, The Go! Team, and other bands records, to discuss obsessive record collecting. We also talk about Russian Samizdat records on X-Ray film, compare Stan Ridgway era Wall of Voodoo to Andy Prieboy era Wall of Voodoo, the personality flaws of John Mayer, Meat Loaf, and much much more.
Picks this week are: John Mayer, Andy Prieboy, and Need New Body
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Show Notes
Rich
- Sanspoint
- @sanspoint
- Want a Breath Mint
- Need New Body | Wikipedia
- Need New Body – Show Me Your Heart (Live) | YouTube
- Need New Body – Beach | YouTube
- Need New Body – UFO | Pitchfork
- Need New Body | Pickled Egg Records
- Man Man | Wikipedia
- Hella | Wikipedia
- Forgotten Records: Wall of Voodoo | Kittysneezes
Andrew
- andrewmarvin.net
- @andrewmarvin
- John Mayer
- John Mayer | Wikipedia
- Born and Raised | iTunes
- “Something Like Olivia” | YouTube
- John Mayer 2008 Berklee Clinic | YouTube
- John Mayer Has a TV Show | YouTube
- One Forty Plus
- Excerpts from John Mayer’s Playboy Interview
- John Mayer on taking a break (Ellen interview) | YouTube
- “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967” | YouTube
- “Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey” | YouTube
- “A Face to Call Home” | YouTube
Matt
- Kittysneezes
- @kittysneezes
- KS Tumblr
- Andy Prieboy
- Wall of Voodoo – Far Side of Crazy
- Andy Prieboy – Tomorrow Wendy
- White Trash Wins Lotto on Conan
- The Italian Lincoln labels with the mirror-text and other…problems.
- A Map of the countries Ant has records from!
- Ant’s TMBG collection
- Ant’s collection of “Bringing It All Back Home” in all the original releases in all formats
- A selection of Ant’s various “Flood”s
- Some of Ant’s “Help”s
- A small part of Ant’s collection, including a bunch of copies of the debut They Might Be Giants album
- An article on the roentgenizdat – Russian X-Ray records
- More Russian X-Raycords
- WP on X-Raycords
- The text is in Russian, but lots of cool photos of the X-Raycords
- Dead Media Archive on them
- SUPER in-depth article, definitely check it out. These records are super neat.
