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Chris and Paul discuss the current market for used cassettes and a desert island game we'd love our listeners to try, and we feature songs by Split Single, The Article, The Ascenders, The Bratz and Love Spit Love. 

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Paul and Chris discuss the use of prerecorded tracks in live performance, the role of critics in forming our tastes, and feature songs by Golden Earring, Buddy Love, The Pengwins, Alien and Flying Colors. 

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Chris and Paul recap record store day, reignite their debate about what makes a song a cover, and feature songs by Happygolovely, Avion, Tickets, The Jacks and Ralph Covert.

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Each of our five lucky Dean Brownrout book winners pick a song this week. We discuss the new Springsteen movie, the new book on The Cars, and highlight songs by Squeeze, Puffy Ami Yumi, Katie Costello, Martin Newell and Beau Coup.

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Chris and Paul discuss best debuts of the 90s, what makes a cover song a cover song, and feature songs by Vox Pop, The Clean, Bad City, Grant Lee Buffalo and The Snap.

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Chris and Paul discuss the podcast mechanics and how things have changed over the past 2 1/2 years, and feature songs by Tubetop, Dave Suh & the Dirty Wings, BB Steal, Ultra Vivid Scene and Boy Wonder.

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Chris and Paul discuss the "used record store dilemma," Billboard chart books, offer a bit of trivia about the year 1984, and feature songs by Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve, The Sounds, The Blow Pops, Robert Fleischman and Donnie Iris. 

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Author and co-founder of Big Deal, Dean Brownrout, regales us with stories about running a label in the 90s, how his book No Big Deal came about (including 5 free giveaways to our lucky listeners), and picks five bangers by Splitsville, Material Issue, Adam Schmitt, The Sighs and Wondermints.

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Chris and Paul discuss musician Gabriel Kahane's essay on active music listening, and feature songs by Anthanaeum, Superchunk, Psychodots, The Dream and The Dodgers.

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Did the music you listen to ever make you fear for your soul? Chris and Paul discuss their relationship to music in the 80s when there was a lot of talk about subliminal messages and devil worship. And then we feature fun and wholesome songs by Roger Klug, The Lone Bellow, First Base, John Lawton and The Edgar Winter Group.

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