The Rock & Roll History Show

We continue our series of torturing a Crambone for an entire episode.

2026...let's see how it goes.

See y'all in 2026!!
    -The Crambones

Happy Holidays from The Crambones!
We're giving you lots to talk about with your relatives this season, along with enough ammo to make an excuse and depart as you deem necessary.

Brian welcomes back Judge Linda from Murder in the Hudson Valley and UFO Headquarters to keep score of the 2025 Crambone Pop Quiz. The Crambones are very angry at Brian because they thought it was going to be the annual hoiday episode.
Will Barbara retain her championship from last year? And can you beat The Crambones yourself? Let us know!

You don't have to do any actual math in this episode.

The Crambones check out songs with spoken words. For some reason, most of them are surprisingly sad...

Happy Thanksgiving from The Crambones!

The Crambones who aren't deathly ill this week take a look at the second best TV show of all time, WKRP in Cincinatti, as well as a few food related tracks.

Songs about actors this week on our crossover episode with The Silver Screen.

Let's check out some unusual covers of popular hits!

The Crambones check out some popular songs where the drummer is also the lead singer.

BOO!


Gotcha.

This is the second episode of our sporadic series, "Our Least Favorite Instruments." Mercedes hates the harp, and may need to go to therapy.

Brian is on the road at Farm Aid 40 along with Allison from Getting Dirty. We will be back with new episodes of The Rock & Roll History Show and Getting Dirty soon!

Brian is on the road at Farm Aid 40 along with Allison from Getting Dirty. We will be back with new episodes of The Rock & Roll History Show and Getting Dirty soon!

Brian and Allison are at Farm Aid in Minneapolis this weekend. Head over to FarmAid.org to watch the live stream on September 20!

Welcome to our annual crossover episode with Getting Dirty. Allison and Ivana join the Crambones to talk about the 40th anniversary of Farm Aid, happening on Saturday, September 20 in Minneapolis. Brian and Allison will be there! Head over to FarmAid.org to watch the concert livestream.

A little pick-me-up after last week's boozefest.

Grab your favorite beverage and join us by the pool as summer sadly comes to a close. (To our friends in the Southern Hemisphere, grab your favorite warm beverage as winter comes to a close. We got ya.)

This is the first episode of our sporadic series, "Our Least Favorite Instruments." Barbara leads us off with her feelings on the ukulele.

Diss tracks have been around for a loooong time!

Some more homicidal tracks along with special guest Linda Zimmermann from "Murder In The Hudson Valley."

Linda Zimmermann from "Murder In The Hudson Valley" joins The Crambones to take a look at some songs about murder. Watch your back!

The Crambones dig up some track that mention chain stores. (Stores are building that contain stuff for you to buy, for those who may not be aware.)

We'll see you next week!

We'll be back on July 25 with a brand new episode. Be safe, everybody!

The Crambones take a deep, intellectual look at The Hokey Pokey. No, not really.

Songs with a woman's name in the title. You probably already figured that out.

Songs with a man's name in the title. Can you guess what next week's topic will be?

The Crambones will be back next week. Until then, please enjoy this episode from the vault!

Sometimes successful musicians decide to move on to another field. Some of these career changes are pretty surprising!

Crambone Gail came up with an interesting topic this week.

The Crambones disappeared for Memorial Day weekend. Until they return, please enjoy "Short Songs" from February 7, 2025.

It's about time The Crambones took the time to talk about time, isn't it?

The Crambones are life-long fans of live shows. This week, they take a look at some live concert albums.

There used to be these things called "albums," and sometimes band would use an album to tell a complete story.

Classical music isn't so boring after all!

Famous rock tunes are sometimes lifted from old classical pieces. Do any of these sound familiar?

Hopefully these will cheer you up after last week's show.

Don't worry. We plan on being much more cheerful next week.

The Crambones are normally confused, so this seemed like a no-brainer.

Sit back and let the vibes take over.

You'll be adding these artists to your playlist. Just wait.

A few tracks you likely have never heard before.

Virtual road trip time! Except for Mercedes, who is actually there.

Sometimes it's best to get on, say your piece, then get off.

It's time for our annual Valentine's Day episode. Will the tally fall toward 'for' or 'against' this year?

The Crambones share their first concert experiences.

Berries, cherries, and apples, oh my!

Some more advice for you!

The Crambones, for some reason, feel qualified to give some life advice to help you start off 2025 right. Use at you own discretion.

John missed the annual pop quiz and had to make up the assignment. The rest of The Crambones were mad at Brian for giving the pop quiz in the first place. So, 2024 Champion Barbara decided that Brian and John had to watch the horrible 2019 'Cats' movie from beginning to end, without a break, and report on it to the group. You might want to play this on double speed.

Thak you all for a wonderful 2024! Happy New Year from all of The Crambones, and we'll see you next week in 2025!

As 2024 comes to a close, The Crambones pick their favorite tunes to hear as they turn around and walk off into the sunset.

Once again, The Crambones are super mad at Brian about their annual pop quiz! Linda Zimmermann from UFO Headquarters and Murder In The Hudson Valley once again plays the no-nonsense judge. Who will be this year's Crambone Champion?

We apologize up front.
Happy Holidays everybody!

No more of the same old boring holiday music!

Part 2 of our annual Thanksgiving episode. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

It's Thanksgiving already? The Crambones pick a few Thansgiving tunes to help ease you through the holiday, plus the annual deep dive on the "Turkeys Away" episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.

What does "chaos" mean to The Crambones? Let's find out...

Boo again.

Boo!

A little more pre-Halloween death discussion.

The cheery topic of death!

Filling up Part 2 with more placeholders!
*We talk about Greg Kihn in this episode and, unfortunately, he passed away on August 13, 2024. We recorded this episode on August 12.

Did you know that songwriters will sometimes drop in made-up words or nonsense lyrics into a song until they come up with something better? Did you know that they sometimes don't come up with anything better? Over the next two shows, The Crambones will check out some of these songs!

Part two of our special crossover edition of The Rock & Roll History Show and Getting Dirty! Farm Aid will be taking place on September 21, 2024, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in New York. We hope to see you there!

Join us for this special crossover edition of The Rock & Roll History Show and Getting Dirty! We will be talking about Farm Aid, which will be taking place on September 21, 2024, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in New York.

Barbara Viohl step up to host this episode!

The Crambones don't suffer from insanity. They enjoy every minute of it.

Part 2!

The Crambones check out two wildly different songs by the same artist.

The earth is not flat. Just sayin'.

We're taking a trip to outer space!

More flowers for all you hippies out there.

Flowers, trees, and plants, oh my!

Some more questions answered. Or not.

The Crambones check out songs with questions in the title or lyrics.

The next batch of songs MTv played on their first day in 1981.

MTv launched in a small section of New Jersey on August 1, 1981. We all know what the first video was, but what came after that?

What do you think?

The Crambones check out the most controversial songs from the years they were born, according to Stacker.com.

The second part, wrapping up the first part from last week.

Songs about siblings, by siblings... something to do with siblings.

The final episode on States!

We are wrapping up our mini-series on 'States' with States of Mind.

Part 2 of States of Matter!

Our mini-series on States continues with States of Matter.

A perfect episode if you're stuck in Connecticut traffic.

Songs about some of the US states. And something about glue in New Jersey.

The Crambones collectively apologize, as promised.

We will collectively apologize next week.

More one hit wonders who weren't!

These artists may be known as one hit wonders, but they weren't!

Dude, hurry up. The bell just rang!

High school memories. The good, the bad, the tardy. Dan Lennane from The Rock Nerd Radio Show joins The Crambones for this trip down memory lane.

Pro-Valentine's Day? Anti-Valentine's Day? Where will the Crambones fall?