That Record Got Me High Podcast

In 1984, Michael Mann's crime drama Miami Vice hit the airwaves. Unlike the traditional police procedurals that came before it, Miami Vice drew upon 1980s pop culture and used contemporary rock and pop music as the background for its dark, often nihilistic storylines. Returning guest, poet and essayist Sarah Nichols, joins us as we unpack some of the songs - and musical guests - that made this iconic neo-noir television series pop.
Songs discussed in this episode: Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer; Vital Transformation - Mahavishnu Orchestra; Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer; Harlem Shake - Baauer; Peter Gunn Theme - Henry Mancini; Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell; Beach Theme - Tangerine Dream; In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins; Crockett's Theme - Jan Hammer; Smugglers Blues, You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey; Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits; Hello Earth - Kate Bush; Just The Way I Planned It - Philip Michael Thomas; Heartbeat - Don Johnson; I'm Not In Love - 10cc; Cry - Godley & Creme; Little Miss Dangerous, Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent; Duel, P-Machinery - Propaganda; Fly On The Windscreen - Depeche Mode; Nine Million Rainy Days - Jesus and Mary Chain; Me Myself I, Dark Truths - Joan Armatrading

For our FIRST Patron-curated episode of 2026, we asked Patrons of the show to send in a song from their parents record collection that stayed with them...and got them high!
Thanks mom and/or dad!!
Songs discussed in this episode: At The Balalaika - Nelson Eddy; I Can See For Miles - The Who; Before The Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender; Flowers On The Wall - The Statler Brothers; The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel; Buzzin' Fly - Tim Buckley; Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In - The 5th Dimension; Out On The Weekend - Neil Young; Guitar Man - Bread; Poor Jenny - The Everly Brothers; Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson; Autobahn - Kraftwerk; Hands On The Wheel - Willie Nelson; Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado; Historia de un Amor - Eydie Gorme and Trio Los Panchos; Que Sera Sera - Doris Day; Groovin' With Mr Bloe - Mr Bloe; East Bound and Down - Jerry Reed; I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better - The Byrds; Charmaine - Mantovani

Longtime Patron and returning guest Rory Cox Zoomed-in all the way from Slovenia to discuss Athens, Georgia band Drive-By Truckers and their incendiary 2016 album, 'American Band'. Overtly political - and as timely today as the day it was released - this is protest music with the guitars turned to eleven!
Songs discussed in this episode: The KKK Took My Baby Away (Ramones cover) - Drive-By Truckers; Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd; Ronnie and Neil - Drive-By Truckers; Green Grass & High Tides - The Outlaws; Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd; I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - Aretha Franklin; Ramon Casiano, Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn - Drive-By Truckers; The South's Gonna Do It Again - Charlie Daniels Band; Surrender Under Protest, Guns Of Umpqua, Filthy and Fried, When The Sun Don't Shine - Drive-By Truckers; A Good Idea - Sugar; Kinky Hypocrite - Drive-By Truckers; Dead Flowers - The Rolling Stones; Ever South, Dead, Drunk and Naked - Drive-By Truckers; Cover Me Up - Jason Isbell; What It Means, Once They Banned Imagine, Baggage, Every Mother's Son (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover) - Drive-By Truckers

Seattle singer/songwriter Robert Deeble brings us British band Mojave 3 and their 2003 release 'Spoon and Rafter'. Borne from the ashes of their previous band Slowdive, its core members Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell and Ian McCutcheon dialed-in the dream pop/folk with stunning arrangements and a feather-light touch. 
Songs discussed in this episode: Love From Room 109 at the Islander (Tim Buckley cover) - Mojave 3; Hi-Lo and In Between - Neil Halstead; My Life In Art - Mojave 3; Orphan Song - Robert Deeble; Bluebird Of Happiness, Starlite #1, Bill Oddity - Mojave 3; War On War - Wilco; 40 Days - Slowdive; The Kiss - Robert Deeble; River Man - Nick Drake; Writing To St. Peter, Battle Of Broken Hearts - Mojave 3; Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - The Velvet Underground; Hard To Miss You, Tinkers Blues - Mojave 3; The Forest From The Tree - Robert Deeble; She's All Up Above, Too Many Mornings, Between The Bars - Mojave 3; Not On Your Team - Robert Deeble

Writer, comedian, musician Aug Stone joins us this week to unpack The Afghan Whigs and their stunning 1996 release: 'Black Love'. Leader Greg Dulli and company mine themes of vengeance, remorse and self-loathing on a record that manages to be both ferocious AND soulful.
Songs discussed in this episode: The Bed (Lou Reed cover) - Afterhours (feat. Greg Dulli); Written In The Stars - Aug Stone & The Love Conspiracy; Premonitions - Damien Youth; Rachel On The Rooftops - Aug Stone; Debonair - The Afghan Whigs; There's Been An Accident - The Twilight Singers; Crime Scene Part One, Turn On The Water, My Enemy, Double Day - The Afghan Whigs; Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations; Blame, Etc, Step Into The Light - The Afghan Whigs; Superstition - Stevie Wonder; Going To Town, Honky's Ladder, Night By Candlelight, Bulletproof, Dear Prudence (Live Montreal 1998), Purple Rain (Live, LA 2012), Summer's Kiss - The Afghan Whigs; Teenage Wristband - The Twilight Singers; Faded - The Afghan Whigs; Rachel On The Rooftops - Aug Stone; Been Teen - Dolly Mixture; There Are Solutions To Each & Every Problem - Black Watch; A Lighthouse I Ain't Ever Been To - Aug Stone