The 500 with Josh Adam Meyers

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. bears witness to the cold-blooded rhythm and blues of Marvin Gaye's musical reckoning of his divorce in the form of the 1978 album Here, My Dear. For guest playlists, new music influenced by this album, and full show notes, go to The500podcast.com. Join the movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SNL alum Brooks Wheelan reveals his zealous love for all things My Morning Jacket, especially their 2005 psychedelic rock triumph Z. For guest playlists, new music influenced by this album, and full show notes, go to The500podcast.com. Join the movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Radio legend Ron Bennington reminisces about growing up in an era defined by roots rock albums like Elton John’s 1970 release Tumbleweed Connection.For guest playlists, new music influenced by this album, and full show notes, go to The500podcast.com.Join the movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Erik Griffin raises some interesting questions about the integrity of the timeless soul classics included in The Drifters’ 1968 compilation Golden Hits. For guest playlists, new music influenced by this album, and full show notes, go to The500podcast.com. Join the movement.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian JessiMae Peluso fully embodies the fearless but feminine grunge rock of Hole’s 1994 album Live Through This. For guest playlists, new music influenced by this album, and full show notes, go to The500podcast.com. Join the movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With former Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten at the helm, you’d think P.I.L.’s 1979 release Metal Box would be a slam dunk for anti-establishment types the world over, but that is not the case for punk rock-loving comedian Kyle Kinane. For guest playlists, new music influenced by this album, and full show notes, go to The500podcast.com. Join the movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Premiere episode of The 500 as a Spotify Original, Comedy icon Bobby Lee runs wild with R.E.M.’s 1987 album Document revealing the hilarious highs and lows of his life and career as well as his passion for alternative music at the 2019 Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal.    For guest playlists, new music influenced by this album, and full show notes, go to The500podcast.com. Join the movement.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s a time for happy songs, sunshine and general good cheer. And then there comes a time when it’s best to sit and stare pensively out a dirty window at bleak, rain-soaked landscapes and ponder the meaning of human existence in an uncaring universe. Krystina Hutchinson has had plenty of both; enough to know that sometimes it feels good to feel bad. After all, unrelenting self-reflection and brutal honesty are hallmarks of her stand-up, as well as the key ingredients in making her podcast, Guys We Fucked, one of the most successful and widely respected of all time. And what better theme music is there to those moments of dark ruminations on love and misery than the soulless soul music of Echo and the Bunnymen’s 1981 sophomore release Heaven Up Here? The 500 is a production of Native Creative Podcasts. For show notes, guest playlists, and fan blogs about the music go to The500Podcast.com. New Artist/Song influenced by Echo & The Bunnymen: ‘Medio Litro’ by Cosmonauts (Listen on Spotify) Join. The. Movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some artists speak for a generation. Some albums perfectly encapsulate a moment in time that, while perfect in that context, may seem out of place in any other time. English heavy metal icons Def Leppard’s contributions to the pantheon of rock are undeniable. But along the road to glorious immortality, there can often be a few questionable deviations. Without those somewhat dubious digressions, though, there would no opportunities for master comedians like Big Jay Oakerson and Randy & Jason Sklar to hilariously unpack the mullet-sporting, ripped jeans-wearing cheese of the 1987 album Hysteria, as they did for the first ever live episode at the 2019 Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas.  The 500 is a production of Native Creative Podcasts. For show notes, guest playlists, and fan blogs about the music go to The500Podcast.com. New Artist/Song influenced by Def Leppard: ‘Panic Attack’ by The Glorious Sons (Spotify) (YouTube) Join. The. Movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s a reason they call romantics hopeless, and it’s because while love can raise you up to dizzying heights of euphoria, it’ll also send you slamming into the ground with the speed of freight train and zero explanation. There aren’t many people in the world who know this better than comedian Tony Sam, host of the podcast Legally Insane and ‘Food: Fact or Fiction?’ on the Cooking Channel. He’s had his heart ripped out more than a few times, enough so to know he isn’t always free from blame when things go bad. But through it all, the lo-fi indie pop of the Magnetic Fields has helped him find some understanding through the curious chaos of intimacy, with their incredible 1999 three-volume release 69 Love Songs acting as something of a guidebook. The 500 is a production of Native Creative Podcasts. For show notes, guest playlists, and fan blogs about the music go to The500Podcast.com. New Artist/Song influenced by Magnetic Fields: ‘Dog Inside a Car’ by Fell Runner (Spotify) (YouTube) Join. The. Movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices