Ep451: Tom Monaghan (1001 Album Complaints. The Chop)

Stay Puft is a Ghostbusters themed concept record by the music collective known as The Chop. These are the same guys responsible for The Beverly Crushers (a Star Trek The Next Generation themed concept band that Rob Kassees was on for), and Ghostbeef, a post-apocalyptic concept record about the fast food chain Arby’s. Tom doesn’t just play bass for these wild conceptual records, but he’s also part of the pantheon of the increasingly popular 1001 Album Complaints podcast. Where Classic albums’ from the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book are given full backstories told by musicians who love to mercilessly nitpick the details. Conan has been a guest on this great show before and will again. This is a deep dive into all things Ghostbusters and a detailed song by song breakdown of the record. Why not? The title of this very show was inspired by the movie! [...]

Six years have past since Chris Spencer was last on Protonic! At the time Human Impact was brand new. So let’s catch up. Starting with the reissue of Occupational Hazard on Lamb Unlimited. Remastered and including the AmRep demos. Unsane with Eric Cooper and Jon Syverson will be doing a lot of touring this year, along with an appearance at Roadburn! We speak about that as well the incredible story behind the release of the once lost, than found Improvised Munitions, and exactly where The Ernie Chicorelli disappeared to…the nature of the Telecaster and why it is the perfect guitar for Chris. The Body Bomb video (and MTV’s very succinct response), synergy with the sonic science of Jim Coleman with Human Impact. Human Impact writing something like 48 songs during the pandemic. Celan Recording in Berlin’s Neubauten studio in a wild two-week sprint. Cutthroats 9, Frank Kozik and Man’s ruin. All that and so very much more! [...]

4 years and a month ago (what? Really?), William Goldsmith was on to talk about Sunny Real Estate, Fire Theft, Foo Fighers and Assertion. Now Assertion has a new record that snuck into Conan’s top records of 2025 “Basking in the Gaslight“. In additon to that Sunny Day Real Estate has been back and playing shows ! The “Down in the Park” sessions with the Foo Fighters (as well as some great talk about Gary Numan).. the recording of Diary and history of that as well as revisiting. Which albums William can listen to and which he can’t… and that there are 3 2″ tapes of 90s Sunny Day Real Estate waiting to get listened to. Wow! All this plus SDRE and Fire Theft history. William’s powerful friendship with Scott Jernigan of KARP, including a two drummer project! and lots, lots more. It’s been a long time, let’s catch up. [...]