Uptown Song Club

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Uptown Song Club

12 episodes

6 months ago

Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, is back with it's final episode for the season! Host Patrick Ripoll is joined by Jim Laczkowski (current host of Director's Club and author of Five Years) and Brad Strauss (former host of Director's Club) to talk about The Best of All Possible Worlds by Kris Kristofferson, The Rip by Portishead and Mythological Beauty by Big Thief. They also talk about the most 90's song, songs that are too much of a good thing, and our on-ramps onto country music. SO...

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Episodes (12/12)

Uptown Song Club

USC 10 - Klickity Klow feat. Jim Laczkowski and Brad Strauss

2 years ago

1 hour 20 minutes

Uptown Song Club

USC 9 - Moogaloo Was Right There feat. Bill Ackerman & Heather Drain

It's been a long time, shouldn't have left you, without a dope pod to cast to. Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, is back! Host Patrick Ripoll is joined by film, music and esoteric culture writer Heather Drain (https://twitter.com/mondoheather) and host of Supporting Characters Bill Ackerman (http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingcharacters) to talk about Procession by New Order, Tunnel Walker by Barnes & Barnes and El Pito (I'll Never Go Back To Georgia) by The Joe Cuba Sextet...

2 years ago

1 hour 11 minutes

Uptown Song Club

USC 8 - Arthritic Goat feat. Heather Drain & Bill Ackerman

After a holiday hiatus Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, is back dropping polished gold nuggets directly into your ears! Host Patrick Ripoll is joined by film, music and esoteric culture writer Heather Drain (https://twitter.com/mondoheather) and host of Supporting Characters Bill Ackerman (http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingcharacters) to talk about The Bloodbells Chime by Current 93, Antidote by The Hives and Las Vegas Story/Walking With The Beast by The Gun Club. They also t...

2 years ago

1 hour 10 minutes

Uptown Song Club

7 - The Real Queen of Christmas ft. Collin Souter and Kerry Finegan of Christmas Movies Actually

On a very special Christmas episode of Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, host Patrick Ripoll is joined by Collin Souter and Kerry Finegan, hosts of the Christmas movie podcast Christmas Movies Actually to talk about Christmas (Baby Please Come Home by Darlene Love, I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You by Claudine Longet and Where Did My Snowman Go? by Patti Page. They also talk about Christmas covers that changed the meaning of the original, non-Christmas songs that deserve a ...

2 years ago

1 hour 7 minutes

Uptown Song Club

6 - Glasses Kid Meets The Wolfman ft. Regina Linn & Erin Vogel

On the sixth episode of Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, host Patrick Ripoll is joined by singer/songwriter Erin Vogel and Dinah Shore enthusiast Regina Linn to talk about Master of Art by Laura Stevenson, Black by Okkervil River, and Chaise Lounge by Wet Leg. They also talk about love songs that wouldn't sound creepy playing the father/daughter dance at a wedding, the next 80's hit that Stranger Things will rocket back onto the charts, and several other songs that are not Buttons &am...

2 years ago

1 hour 16 minutes

Uptown Song Club

5 - I Like My Girls A Little Bit Older ft. Regina Linn & Erin Vogel

On the fifth episode of Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, host Patrick Ripoll is joined by singer/songwriter Erin Vogel and one-time Columbia House Record Club Subscriber Regina Linn to talk about Drops of Jupiter by Train, Cover Me Up by Jason Isbell and Don't Start Now by Dua Lipa. They also talk about the greatest songs that are under two minutes long, the ethics of covering personal songs and engage in a full-blown Song War over two 80's radio-rock staples: Working For the Weekend ...

2 years ago

1 hour 21 minutes

Uptown Song Club

Halloween Mix 2022 - One Eye Open, One Eye Closed

for nathaxnne walker "The Devil is dope" - The Dramatics Beyond the darkest depths of imagination, the outer rim of human experience, the forbidden rites thought forgotten, rediscovered. The annual tradition of the Halloween mix corrupted, made sinister, clawed loose from the crypt and into the stark sunlight of reality. Italian soundtracks to 1930's jazz to darkwave to stoner metal to house to folk to garage psychedelia and beyond. Remember: when you look Satan in the face, he looks back a...

3 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes

Uptown Song Club

4.5 - It's Me, Tony V

Description to follow. I got too many damn errands to run to do all this crap right now. Enjoy it!

3 years ago

27 minutes

Uptown Song Club

USC 4 - Podcast Lost! feat. Jim Laczkowski

Well podcasting Icarus has done it this time. They flew too close to the sun trying to become the first podcast recorded in a Cessna and now they're stranded in the ocean with nothing but memories of better days, days where they discussed thicc songs, great album transitions, People by Silver Jews, Easy Lover by Phillip Bailey and Phil Collins, and The Heist by Jaylib. (Sometimes technical difficulties occur while podcasting and you make do with what you got.) SONGS FEATURED: Suspense theme...

3 years ago

57 minutes

Uptown Song Club

3 - Sweden's #1 Gestation Pop feat. Tony Valdivieso and Jim Laczkowski

On the second episode of Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, host Patrick Ripoll is joined by guitarist Tony Valdivieso and songwriter & recording artist Jim Laczkowski (Director's Club Podcast) to talk about It Never Entered My Mind by The Miles Davis Quintet, Do I Move You? by Nina Simone and Bastards of Young by The Replacements. They also talk about the most exciting sounds they ever heard in a rap song, songs that changed in meaning as they got older and the secret nefarious mes...

3 years ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Uptown Song Club

2 - Robert Fripped Me feat. Tony Valdivieso and Jim Laczkowski

On the second episode of Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, host Patrick Ripoll is joined by guitarist Tony Valdivieso and songwriter & recording artist Jim Laczkowski (Director's Club Podcast) to talk about Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder, Hope You Feel Better Love Pt. 1 & 2 by The Isley Brothers and Rocket Queen by Guns and Roses. They also talk about songs that would have been better if Alanis Morissette sang them, what artists should have done James Bond themes and excitin...

3 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes

Uptown Song Club

1 - We Are All Just Meat

On the debut episode of Uptown Song Club, a podcast about songs, host Patrick Ripoll is joined by guitarist Tony Valdivieso and recording artist Jim Laczkowski (Director's Club Podcast) to talk about Left Alone by Fiona Apple, Buena by Morphine, and Alright Now by Free. They also talk about their favorite songs about beverages, covers that changed how they look at the original, and the tyranny of the wood block. SONGS APPEARING ON THIS EPISODE: Uptown Song Club Theme #1 - Patrick Ripoll Ice-...

3 years ago

1 hour 8 minutes