"If You’re Listening” is all about one person’s mission to force her friend to listen to all the music he missed in high school. Sometimes it goes well and Heather broadens her friend’s horizons just a little bit. Often times it doesn’t go so well and Ramsey spends the episode wondering why anyone would listen to this music, or in extreme cases, launching empty threats at the band that recorded it.
As we move into the 2020s, Heather and Ramsey name their favorite songs of the past ten years!
How many comedy songs does Ramsey include? Is there any crossover at all between the pair? Will Ramsey a…
This week, special guest Josh Gondelman is here to bring our first hip-hop album to the show, and what better place to start than Jay-Z’s 2001 album, “The Blueprint!”
The Jay-Z vs. Nas feud. Remember…
This week we bring some holiday spirit to the podcast as we listen to a track from Piebald's new reunion EP, “(All I Want For Christmas) Is To Rage With My Friends."
A new holiday song classic is pen…
This week: our first video game soundtrack! And (hold your gasps) it does not involve Tony Hawk! It's the soundtrack to MVP 06: NCAA Baseball!
A very special lady gets a birthday shout out! We pick o…
Oh wow. Look at the clock. It would appear to be ska time, once again. This week, special guest Sam Gursky is back, and he brought us the exact same band he brought us last time, The Arrogant Sons of…
This week, Ramsey and Heather go back to where they began with a song from Jimmy Eat World. This week, it’s one of their newest songs, “All the Way (Stay)” from their new album Surviving.
This week w…
Your hosts are a pair of upstate New Yorkers with very different musical tastes, but regardless, the frightening tales of Woodstock ‘99 were inescapable that summer. This week, Ramsey and Heather rev…
Ladies and gentlemen, the fantastic Adam Maid is back. Last time he brought Ramsey’s least favorite album, “Relationship of Command” by At the Drive In. Will history repeat itself when he plays …And …
A band we've listened to before is back with new stuff, and we're going right for the hits. This week we listen to two tracks The Menzingers' new album Hello Exile: "Anna" and "Portland!"
Ana Vs. Ali…
Let’s go back to the turn of the century! Heather remembers buying this for some children and Ramsey remembers not listening to Good Charlotte’s 2000 album, “The Young and the Hopeless!”
As usual, Ra…
Sometimes you gotta break out the big guns for a big album. For Promise Ring’s influential, 1997 classic, “Nothing Feels Good” we bring in Grammy Award winner, Steve Roessner, to tell us all about it…
It’s a mini episode that focuses on a song that we’ve never talked about before, but it turns out we both have a lot of connections with. It’s Ben Gibbard’s 2003 song, “You Remind Me of Home!”
A simp…
This week we head to our roots, way back in Upstate New York to listen to Marathon’s 2003 album, “Songs to Turn the TIde.”
Ramsey learns everything about the pit! A comprehensive discussion of upstat…
This week, The Tonight Show’s Arthur Meyer brings us a classic album by a band neither of your hosts really knows. Except… only one will hear it… its Supertramp’s 1974 album, “Crime of the Century!”
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Ripped from the headlines: If You’re Listening tackles Taylor Swift once again with her new single “Cruel Summer,” a song which a blissed out, first-class, Heather listened to a gazillion times.
A ru…
We’re going back to 2003. The world was different. And Ramsey was very busy listening to something else besides Copeland. Today, Heather aims to fix that by presenting him with their 2003 debut, “Ben…
After being mentioned on the show a gazillion times, the White Stripes finally get played on the show! Special return guest Zach Custer decides on playing their breakthrough album, 2001’s “White Bloo…
The tables are turned yet again as Ramsey takes control of the podcast and plays Heather a new song! She doesn’t know what it is but soon discovers it’s “Amish Paradise” done up in glittery punk duds…
This week, Heather and Ramsey say goodbye to the last of summer with ska: it’s Less Than Jake’s 2000 album, “Borders & Boundaries!”
A fun new game is introduced, called “Less Than Jake!” Ramsey decid…
The wonderful Chris Spooner is here this week to expose us to Ugly Kid Joe’s 1992 masterpiece “America’s Least Wanted!”
A lifetime’s worth of noodling! Tons of stuff for the 90s Kids. Pat from Saturd…