"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.
Hey! Let's have some Fun. Today we listen to The Format's debut album from 2003 "Interventions + Lullabies" and at no point do we sing or initiate either of those two things!
What does a music histor…
This week, Thomas Nassiff from Bad Timing Records joins us to listen to The Gaslight Anthem's 2008 album "The '59 Sound!"
If Bruce Springsteen is "The Boss" does that make this band his employee? Two…
It’s just a normal Monday now and not a holiday, so let’s look at New Found Glory’s 2000 self-titled album! (Those two statements are not connected!)
How does Heather justify having seen this band a …
Special guest Jill Lucas is here to teach Heather and Ramsey about The Early November and their 2002 EP “For All of This.”
Will Ramsey make a bunch of jokes about the band’s name? What about bloopers…
Heather and Ramsey return to the band that gave their show their name (literally) with JIMMY EAT WORLD and their 1999 album “Clarity.”
Which holiday is the most appropriate one to give a niece a Spid…
Special guest AJ Tobey is here to introduce both Heather and Ramsey to The Suicide Machines' 1996 debut album, "Destruction by Definition!"
How much ska is too much ska for Heather? Why on Earth woul…
It's time for some extended play-action as Heather and Ramsey strap on their ear goggles for some Saves the Day with the 1999 EP "I'm Sorry I'm Leaving!"
Will a cover of a song Ramsey likes trick him…
Return guest Adrienne Fisher is here to bring us out of the music she and Heather enjoyed in high school and into the music they enjoy today! Namely, The Menzingers' 2012 album "On the Impossible Pas…
Things are about to get intense! Dan Ozzi (Noisy, No Plus Ones) is here to introduce us to the world of Choking Victim and their one and only studio album "No Gods, No Managers!"
Is it ska? Is it har…
We dive right in and get to THE name Ramsey associates with emo with Dashboard Confessional’s 2001 album “The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most.”
Is Ramsey’s love of Clone High enough to make him…
Special guest Chris Donahue joins us to talk about Cap’n Jazz and Disc 1 of their 1998 anthology album, “"Analphabetapolothology.”
Will Ramsey enjoy a band more or less when he thinks everyone involv…
We continue the second and final part of our journey into the Long Island Beef between Brand New and Taking Back Sunday with a look at Brand New's debut album, "Your Favorite Weapon."
What is the dea…
Special guest Alex Mason (Gawker, Vice, Fusion) joins us to talk about his high school SKA BAND, but more importantly, THE STARTING LINE and their 2002 album “Say It Like You Mean It.”
What would a p…
Ramsey and Heather are TALKING Back Sunday (get it?) as they start their TWO PART journey into the Long Island beef between Taking Back Sunday and Brand New! We begin with TBS (the band, not the chan…
Send a missive to the folks, because this week special guest Jeff Hong joins us to talk about The Get Up Kids' 1999 album "Something To Write Home About!"
Will this episode accidentally make Ramsey a…
In a role reversal, Heather is concerned that her own opinion of an album might not hold up when listening to Something Corporte’s “Leaving Through the Window” for the first time in years!
How did He…
Special guest Mo drops by to talk Death Cab for Cutie with Heather and Ramsey and their 2001 album "The Photo Album!"
Will listening to a band Ramsey is at least somewhat familiar with change his tun…
A break from our "high school music" policy as Heather introduces Ramsey to the band that kind of launched the podcast, with Pup's 2016 album "The Dream Is Over!"
Will Ramsey change his assessment of…
Holy moley! Special guest and pop-punk-superfan Jess Perry drops in to present one of her and Heather's favorite albums, Saves the Day's 1999 opus "Through Being Cool!"
Will Ramsey take the lead sing…
With an Abbot and Costello routine everyone can see coming a mile away, our brand new episode is all about the 2003 Brand New album “Deja Entendu!”
Will talk of Brand New fans’ obsessiveness be enoug…