Ep. 400 Today's Peep Is Milestone Number 400, We Spend it Decluttering the Upstairs Room, From Bobbleheads to B-Sides: A Sentimental Cleanout with Soundtrack, Turning Spring Cleaning into a Vinyl Time Machine

A quiet plan to tidy the upstairs office turns into a milestone celebration and an unexpected time machine. We hit 400 episodes and crack open a plastic pouch of 45s—no sleeves, plenty of stories—and let the music score a candid look at memory, clutter, and what deserves to stay. As dust lifts, labels gleam: Columbia Hall of Fame, Motown Yesteryear, Starline, Reprise. Each record becomes a little biography of taste and time.We start with Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay and its aching flip I Threw It All Away, then stumble into David Seville and the Chipmunks for a reminder that every collection has a wild card. The vibe swings back with The Lovin’ Spoonful’s Do You Believe in Magic before Junior Walker and the All-Stars roar in with How Sweet It Is and the propulsive Nothing But Soul. Gordon Lightfoot’s If You Could Read My Mind slows the room to a hush, only for the Kinks to light it back up with All Day and All of the Night and a swaggering B-side, I Gotta Move. The Outsiders punch through with Time Won’t Let Me, and Motown’s engine purrs with the Four Tops’ I Can’t Help Myself and Stevie Wonder’s Uptight. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles close the loop with The Tracks of My Tears, the perfect smile-through-it sendoff.Between spins, we talk about spring cleaning, sentimental cards with handwriting we can’t toss, jackets from vanished stores, and the gentle art of letting go. The takeaway is simple: keep what changes your next hour for the better—what makes you move, call, sing, or finally hang that print. Everything else can find a new story with someone else. Thanks for being part of this 400-episode ride and for letting these songs ring a little louder.If this resonated, follow the show, share it with a friend who loves vinyl, and leave a quick review—what record would you save first?