Tag: Patrick Foster
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Episode 1363: What Was First: Merge Records
Our series What Was First continues today with a trip down North Carolina way to learn about the first release on Merge Records. Listener Mark Neese wrote in to suggest this one and it turns out that the first release on Merge is not a 7″, 12″ or a compact disc. No, it’s a cassette!
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Episode 1362: What Was First: Rhino Records
An email from beautiful Cornucopia, Wisconsin leads us to investigate the first release on Rhino Records. The story will take us back to Westwood, California and touch on buying records at flea markets, Hassle the Salesman Day and even include a number one single.
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Episode 1361: What Was First: Creation Records
Welcome to a week of What Was First episodes! We got a pile of suggestions for this series, so we decided to dive right in. We begin with a suggestion from Steven Routledge, who thought the first release on Creation Records would make a good episode and we think he’s right!
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Episode 1360: What Was First: Twin/Tone Records
Based on listener suggestions, Patrick takes a peek into the historical record to locate the first release on influential Minneapolis label Twin/Tone Records.
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Episode 1357: What Was First: Slash Records
On a second-straight suggestion from listener David Leedy, Patrick takes a look at the first record released on Slash Records, a highly influential label born out of the Los Angeles punk boom.
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Episode 1356: What Was First: I.R.S. Records
It’s another edition of the “bite-size history lesson” series What Was First, where we explore the first release on iconic record labels. Today, on a suggestion from listener David Leedy, Patrick takes a look at the first record released on the I.R.S. label: the album “Singles Going Steady” by the Buzzcocks.
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Episode 1345: Instrumentals with Bill: Bangles, Go-Gos, Nick Lowe, The Police, Van Halen
Longtime friend of the pod Bill Mulligan drops by Patrick’s basement to discuss something that’s been on his mind lately: What happens when bands with perfectly good singers play instrumentals? Bill’s got a list of songs that he and Patrick discuss. Plenty of clips in this one!
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Episode 1344: What Was First: Rough Trade Records
We debut a new segment today! Have you ever wondered what record was the very first release on iconic indie record labels? So do we! Patrick investigates the first release on legendary UK label Rough Trade (which turns out to be a single from French punk band Métal Urbain). Hit play for a bite-size musical history lesson.
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Episode 1343: Exploring Frank Ocean’s “Channel Orange”
Scott Parks joins Patrick for a look inside Frank Ocean’s landmark 2012 album “Channel Orange.” And they both think it’s a masterpiece that will be passed on from generation to generation. Hit play and find out why.
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Episode 1342: Book Nook – Record Guides: Rolling Stone to Trouser Press and beyond
Patrick is back with another Book Nook, this time exploring the record guides that helped him build his collection. The New Rolling Stone Record Guide, The Trouser Press Record Guide and the Penguin Guide to Jazz are among the volumes he discusses.