When are we now?

Buckle up for Spice Girls, heroin references, and blue cars with semi-functional headlights. It's 1997, and your hosts are college students listening to music and feeling big feelings in their dorm r…

The Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and some of the most important music of the 20th century. Ben and Sam weren't around in 1967, but they sure enjoyed this trip in the "When Are We Now?" tim…

Plug in your Zune, update your MySpace page, and text your friends using the number pad of your phone: It's 2007, snitches! Ben and Sam were bleary-eyed new dads who were too busy changing diapers an…

Like so many boats gliding into a sparkling marina at the end of a summer day, 1979 brought a convergence of musical genres: disco, New Wave, early hip hop, and (of course) yacht rock. One of our hos…

This era of iPhones and pumpkin spice lattes was not long ago, but it is full of surprises. Ben finds a song he loves on the mainstream rock chart, Sam is delighted by a big pop hook, and they both d…

We turned the time machine to "extra wayback" and landed in 1963. It was a strange world where Elvis was a movie star, astrophysics was trendy, and people were doing the limbo (again). Can Sam and Be…

Press "play" and "record" on your tape deck, because we made you a 1988 playlist. Ben and Sam travel to the era of big hair, synthesizers, and the Cold War. They examine pop culture, TV, and their ow…

Turn off the Watergate hearings, load the family into your wood-paneled station wagon, and pop us into your 8-track player as you drive to McDonalds where your kids can play unsupervised on the Mayor…

Fresh out of college, our hosts were blasting Beastie Boys in their beat-up Hondas, browsing used-record stores, and finding their way in a world full of players, busters, and scrubs. Ben and Sam rev…

The moon landing, Woodstock... the summer of 1969 was a memorable one, even for people who weren't born yet. Ben and Sam explore the music charts, ask their parents where they were then, and introduc…

Ben and Sam were new dads in their mid-30s and definitely not the target audience for popular music. They dig in and search for musical gems in an unfamiliar land. Will they find any? 

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Ben and Sam go back to high school and discuss MTV, hair bands, decathletes, and Ben's most disappointing album of all time. 

Listen to two guys from 2018 curate their own playlists - and "nay lists"…

Ben and Sam dive into the Billboard music charts of 8/21/82, and curate their own playlists - and a "nay list" - from synth-heavy pop, the dregs of disco, and the first sprinkles of New Wave and so…