This is Vinyl Tap
Mining the layers of long players. We focus on great albums in their entirety and believe every album tells a story. We take a deep dive into the history of the artist and the album while discussing the merits of the music within the grooves. We are highly opinionated and outspoken and hope to provoke you into sharing your own opinions on albums. If you are serious about great music, this is your podcast. www.tappingvinyl.com
Episodes
153 episodes
SE 5, EP12: The La's - The La's
On this episode, we discuss one of the most heralded debut albums of the early 1990's: The La's by the La's. Heavily influenced by the 1960s British Invasion bands, The La’s is full of bright, jangly, melodic guita...
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1:54:38
SE5, EP 11: The Youngbloods - The Youngbloods
On this episode, we discuss one of the first albums of 1967, the eponymous debut by the Youngbloods. 1967 is one of the most heralded years in rock music, and The Youngbloods was a good primer to the music that would come ...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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1:42:23
SE 5, EP 10: Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
On this episode, we discuss Grievous Angel, the last album recorded by one of the most interesting, tragic, and influential people in modern music: Gram Parsons. In just six short years, from 1967 until his ...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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2:12:47
SE 5, EP 9: John Wesley Harding - John Wesley Harding's New Deal
On this weeks episode, we discuss an LP by John Wesley Harding (né Wesley Stace), 1996’s John Wesley Harding’s New Deal. After releasing two EPs and three full length albums with a full band for Sire Records, Harding decide...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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1:57:12
SE 5, EP 8: Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Spinning Around the Sun
On this weeks episode, we take a listen to a true Texas legend, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and his 1993, Spinning Around the Sun.With his high, lonesome voice, Jimmy Dale embodies the very essence of that land from which he hails, the...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:52:24
SE 5, EP 7: Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
On this week's episode, we take a listen to another Listener's Pick: Thin Lizzy's sixth studio album, Jailbreak from 1976. It took some time, but by the time they recorded Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy's had figured out their formula ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:59:07
SE 5, EP 6: The National - Boxer
On this week's episode, we dig into the the forth album by the band the National, 2007's Boxer. The National is a band, literally, of brothers (two pairs) and a friend all from Ohio that formed after all parties moved to Ne...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:58:17
SE 5, EP 5: Pure Prairie League - Bustin' Out
This week This Is Vinyl Tap discusses the criminally underrated album by Pure Prairie League, 1972's Bustin’ Out. Bustin' Out contains the band's most well known song, "Aime," a radio staple for the last 5...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:54:50
SE 5, EP 4: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
On this episode, we take a deep dive into a “Listener Pick” - the fifth and final studio album by the Simon and Garfunkel, 1970's Bridge Over Trouble Water. While the partnership between Simon and Garfunkel was under imme...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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2:02:02
SE 5, EP 3: Bad Company - Bad Company
This week we dig into the 1973 self-titled debut by Bad Company. Coming off of the success of Free, Paul Rodgers hooked up with Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs, and along with former Free drummer Simon Kirk, and King Crimson bassi...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:30:17
SE 5, EP 2: The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
This week we dive head first into the 1968 psychedelic rock opera by the Pretty Things, S.F. Sorrow. Ask any music fan what was the first rock opera was and most would say Tommy by the Who. That answer would be wr...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:51:25
SE 5, EP 1: The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
We start Season Five off with a monster album, Eat a Peach, by the Allman Brothers Band. Released in 1972, it is a double album and simultaneously their 3rd studio album and their 2nd Live album.The Allman Brothers Band were per...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:55:20
SE 4, EP 23: Nick Lowe - The Impossible Bird
On this episode, we have a listener pick: Nick Lowe and his 1994 album The Impossible Bird. Nick Lowe has been a topic of conversation several times on This Is Vinyl Tap due to the indelible mark the man has left on po...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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1:56:41
SE 4, EP 22: Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream
Join us on this week's episode as we discuss the 1970 album by Thunderclap Newman: Hollywood Dream. Thunderclap Newman were comprised of Townshend protege (drummer, songwriter and lead singer) Speedy Keen, a 15-year-old g...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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1:43:01
SE 4, EP 21: Joe Jackson - I'm the Man
On this week's episode, we jump into Joe Jackson's fantastic sophomore LP, 1979's I'm the Man.When Joe Jackson's hit the airwaves in fall of 1978, critics labeled him as one of the new "angry young men" on British music, the ot...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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1:33:05
SE 4, EP 20: Moby Grape - Moby Grape
On this week’s episode, we discuss what was once considered one of the hottest bands to come out of the late sixties San Francisco scene, Moby Grape and their debut album, 1967’s Moby Grape. Moby Grape is one of the mo...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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1:43:13
SE 4, EP 19: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
On this weeks episode, we discuss King Crimson's 1969 debut: In the Court of the Crimson King. Not only is In the Court of the Crimson King regarded as one of the greatest and most influential progressive rock (or prog...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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1:40:49
SE 4, EP 18: Violation Podcast: It's Trivia Time!
It's a violation episode!! Often times we wonder how much the members of the This Is Vinyl Tap team are actually paying attention to what we do around here. In an effort to find out, we present the first ever This Is Vinyl Ta...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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28:24
SE 4, EP 17: The Long Ryders - Native Sons
On this episode, we discuss one of the seminal bands of what would become the alternative country and Americana movement: the Long Ryders, and their 1984 debut LP Native Sons. Formed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, the...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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1:55:23
SE 4, EP 16: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
On this episode, we tackle a BIG album, the 1967 debut LP by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced. Heralded by many as the greatest rock guitarist of all time, to many Jimi Hendrix, along with his band the Jimi Hend...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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2:03:37
SE 4, EP 15: The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
On this episode we discuss the debut LP by the seminal psychedelic rock band, the 13th Floor Elevators: 1966's The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. The 13th Floor Elevators were one of the the first well-known band...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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1:58:34
SE 4, EP 14: The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
On this episode we tackle the Rolling Stones 1968 LP Beggars Banquet. 1968 was a tumultuous year for much of the world and a transitional time for the Rolling Stones. Their founder and original leader, Brian Jones,&...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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2:07:01
SE 4, EP 13: Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Spirit and their fourth album Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. The band Spirit sports an impressive pedigree. Drummer Ed Cassidy (20 years older than the rest of the band) was an estab...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:48:17
SE 4, EP 12: Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
This week, we dig into the debut LP by the Scottish jangle pop band Aztec Camera , 1983's High Land, Hard Rain. The creative force behind the band was Roddy Frame, a fine singer, remarkable guitarist, and very gifted songwriter...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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1:41:11