All Episodes
What the Riff Next Gen — 423 episodes
449 1999- AUGUST: Def Leppard “Euphoria”
448 1998- APRIL: Dave Matthews Band “Before These Crowded Streets”
447 2003- NOVEMBER: AC/DC 2003 Remasters
446 1996- OCTOBER: Paula Cole “This Fire”
445 2004- FEBRUARY: Van Halen “The Best of Both Worlds”
444 1996- SEPTEMBER: Better than Ezra “Friction Baby”
443 1997- MAY: Foo Fighters “The Colour and the Shape”
442 1999 - SEPTEMBER: Sting “Brand New Day”
441 2003 - AUG: Janes Addiction “Strays”
440 1996 - APRIL: Alice in Chains “Alice in Chains”
439 1998 - OCTOBER: Chris Cornell “Euphoria Mourning”
438 1999 - JUNE: Santana “Supernatural”
437 1996 - JUNE: Styx “Greatest Hits Part 2”
436 2006 - May: Tool “10000 Days”
435 1995 - January: Bush “Sixteen Stone”
434 1995 - July: Natalie Merchant “Tigerlily”
433 1998 - September: Hole “Celebrity Skin”
432 2004 - JULY: Anchorman Soundtrack
431 1997 - March: Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Let’s Face It”
430 1998 - December: Goo Goo Dolls “Dizzy Up the Girl”
429 1997 - April: Toad the Wet Sprocket “Coil”
428 2002 - May: Rush “Vapor Trails”
427 2002 - January: Creed “Weathered”
426 1998 - June: Page/Plant “Walking into Clarksdale”
425 1998 - December: Metallica “Reload”
1998 - November: David Gray “White Ladder”
2002 - October: The Foo Fighters “One by One”
1997 - January: 311 “311”
2000 - December: Kiss “Kiss Symphony:Alive IV”
1995 - June: Alanis Morisette “Jagged Little Pill”
Christmas Songs that Rock VIII
2001 - December: No Doubt “Rock Steady”
2002 - September: Porcupine Tree “In Absentia”
1998 - August: Kid Rock “Devil Without a Cause”
2002 - December: Audioslave “Audioslave”
1996 - February: Sublime “Sublime”
2025 Halloween Episode
1999 - March: Collective Soul “Dosage”
2000 - October: Mark Knopfler “Sailing to Philidelphia”
1996 - January: Gin Blossoms “Congratulations, I‘m Sorry”
2002 - August: Bowling for Soup “Drunk Enough to Dance”
1998 - March: Van Halen “Van Halen 3”
2001 - July: Cake “Comfort Eagle”
1996 - November: Matchbox 20 “Yourself or Someone Like You”
2003 - September: Jet "Get Born"
2000-March: Disturbed “The Sickness”
1995-November:Oasis “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”
2004 - September: R.E.M. “Around the Sun”
1995 - OCT: Smashing Pumpkins ”Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”
1970 - April: Crosby Stills Nash & Young “Deja Vu”
1970 - June: The Beatles “Let it Be”
1972 - January: America ”America”
1966 - February: The Sonics ”Boom”
1990 - June: Poison ”Flesh & Blood”
1972 - October: Delaney & Bonnie ”D&B Together”
1966 - January: The Yardbirds ”Having a Rave Up”
1972 - December: Neil Diamond ”Hot August Night”
1968 - September: Aretha Franklin ”Aretha in Paris”
1971 - September: Carole King ”Tapestry”
1989 - February: U2 ”Rattle and Hum”
1971 - May: Rod Stewart ”Every Picture Tells a Story”
1991 - May: Guns N’ Roses ”Use Your Illusion I” and ”Use Your Illusion II”
1972 - February: Neil Young ”Harvest”
1988 - January: Sting ”...Nothing Like the Sun”
1990 - December: AC/DC “The Razors Edge”
1974 - July: Beach Boys “Endless Summer”
1990 - July: Pink Floyd ”A Momentary Lapse of Reason”
1967 - December: The Young Rascals ”Groovin’”
1988 - December: Poison ”Open Up and Say...Ahh!”
1971 - April: Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers”
1975 - January: Led Zeppelin “Physical Graffiti”
1992 - April: Soundgarden ”Badmotorfinger”
1974 - June: Lynyrd Skynyrd ”Second Helping”
1985 - December: Talking Heads “Little Creatures”
1987 - January: Beastie Boys “Licensed to Ill”
1973 - May: the Beatles ”1962-1966” and ”1967-1970”
1974 - May: Billy Joel ”Piano Man”
1987 - June: Elton John ”Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra”
Christmas Songs that Rock Part VII!
1969 - June: Blind Faith “Blind Faith”
1988 - November: Bon Jovi ”New Jersey”
1967 - April: Beatles ”Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
1989 - September: Mötley Crüe ”Dr. Feelgood”
1967 - March: Bob Dylan “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits”
1986 - April: Metallica ”Master of Puppets”
Rocking Halloween III - A What the Riff Rabbit Hole
1992 - February: Ozzy Osbourne ”No More Tears”
1978 - November: Kansas ”Two for the Show”
1985 - November: Bruce Springsteen ”Born In the U.S.A.”
1983 - June: Dire Straits ”Love Over Gold”
1972 - August: Emerson, Lake & Palmer “Trilogy”
1980 - February: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band ”Against the Wind”
1990 - October: Various Artists, Soundtrack for “Goodfellas”
1992 - June: Rage Against the Machine ”Rage Against the Machine”
1980 - May: Devo “Freedom of Choice”
1968 - May: Sly and the Family Stone “Dance to the Music”
1980 - April: Styx “Cornerstone”
1987 - December: Def Leppard “Hysteria”
1974 - August: Little Feat “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now”
1990 - November: Megadeth “Rust In Peace”
1972 - July: Leon Russell “Carney”
1981 - November: Rick James “Street Songs”
1971 - August: The Who “Who’s Next”
1965 - October: The Beatles ”Rubber Soul”
1992 - March: The Cure “Wish”
1970 - August: Creedence Clearwater Revival ”Cosmo’s Factory”
1986 - January: Michael McDonald ”Sweet Freedom”
1986 - March: Van Halen ”5150”
1989 - March: George Thorogood and the Destroyers ”The George Thorogood Collection”
1988 - October: The Traveling Wilburys ”The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1”
1993 - January - Stone Temple Pilots “Core”
1984 - October: Steve Perry “Street Talk”
1975 - July: Outlaws “The Outlaws”
1992 - August: Eric Clapton ”Unplugged”
1985 - October: Scorpions ”World Wide Live”
1978 - December: The Doobie Brothers “Minute By Minute”
1989 - July: The B-52’s “Cosmic Thing”
1969 - October: Johnny Cash “Original Golden Hits, Volume I and II”
1979 - June: Journey “Evolution”
1982 - February: Duran Duran ”Rio”
1979 - February: “Saturday Night Fever” Soundtrack
1970 - December: Three Dog Night “Naturally”
1975 - October: E.L.O. “Face the Music”
1985 - August: R.E.M. “Fables of the Reconstruction”
1985 - April: Toto “Toto IV”
1993 - April: Porno for Pyros “Porno for Pyros”
1967 - September: The Four Tops ”Reach Out”
1970 - July: Crabby Appleton “Crabby Appleton”
1993 - December: Ian Moore “Ian Moore”
1983 - July: The Police ”Synchronicity”
1974 - November: Linda Ronstadt ”Heart Like a Wheel”
1983 - September: Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”
Christmas Songs that Rock part VI
1965 - April: The T.A.M.I. Show
1985 - July: Phil Collins “No Jacket Required”
1990 - April: The Black Crowes ”Shake Your Money Maker”
1988 - May: Cinderella ”Long Cold Winter”
1989 - December: Nine Inch Nails ”Pretty Hate Machine”
Rocking Halloween II - A What the Riff Rabbit Hole
1987 - April: Whitesnake ”Whitesnake”
1975 - May: David Bowie ”Young Americans”
1969 - December: The Rolling Stones “Let It Bleed”
1975 - February: Rush “Fly By Night”
1973 - June: Dr. John “In the Right Place”
1982 - December: Donald Fagen ”The Nightfly”
1965 - May: The Dave Clark Five ”Having a Wild Weekend”
1989 - November: Bad Religion ”No Control”
1984 - January: The Nails ”Mood Swing”
1990 - March: Michael Penn “March”
1991 - August: Metallica ”Metallica (the Black Album)”
1980 - March: Molly Hatchet ”Flirtin’ with Disaster”
1970 - May: Van Morrison ”Moondance”
1978 - August: REO Speedwagon ”You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish”
1980 - June: “The Blues Brothers Original Soundtrack”
1978 - April: The Band “The Last Waltz”
1965 - August: The Spencer Davis Group “Their First LP”
1974 - January: Bachman-Turner Overdrive “II”
1989 - October: Aerosmith “Pump”
1978 - February: Jimmy Buffett — “Son of a Son of a Sailor”
1974 - December: Montrose “Paper Money”
1968 - October: Marvin Gaye “In the Groove”
1993 - July: Candlebox “Candlebox”
1985 - March: Howard Jones ”Dream Into Action”
1965 - March: Ike & Tina Turner “Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show”
1994 - October: Weezer “Blue Album”
1987 - September: Various Artists “The Lost Boys: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”
1969 - September: The Beatles “Abbey Road”
1990 - May: The Sundays “Reading, Writing and Arithmetic”
1988 - June: The Coolies “Doug”
1978 - March: Journey “Infinity”
1992 - May: the Black Crowes ”The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion”
1988 - July: Living Colour ”Vivid”
1973 - November: the New York Dolls ”New York Dolls”
1975 - June: War ”Why Can’t We Be Friends?”
1991 - March: Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ ”Fly Me Courageous”
1989 - January: Skid Row ”Skid Row”
1980 - January: Pink Floyd “The Wall”
1970 - September: Black Sabbath “Paranoid”
1966 - December: Sam & Dave “Double Dynamite”
1978 - May: U.K. ”U.K.”
1969 - July: The Easy Rider Motion Picture Soundtrack
1974 - March: Gordon Lightfoot “Sundown”
1984 - December: Foreigner ”Agent Provocateur”
1994 - August: “The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”
1968 - April: The Monkees ”The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees”
Christmas Songs that Rock V: A What the Riff Rabbit Hole
1973 - March: Pink Floyd ”The Dark Side of the Moon”
1981 - January: the Who ”Face Dances”
1978 - October: Styx “Pieces of Eight”
1981 - December: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock-n-Roll”
Rocking Halloween - A What the Riff Rabbit Hole
1989 - August: Bad English “Bad English”
1972 - April: Deep Purple “Machine Head”
1987 - November: Bruce Springsteen “Tunnel of Love”
RECAST 1973 - SEPT - Elton John “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
1982 - May: 38 Special “Special Forces”
1990 - January: They Might Be Giants “Flood”
1968 - March: The Electric Flag “Long Time Comin’”
1983 - April: Zebra “Zebra”
1972 - March: Jethro Tull “Thick as a Brick”
1985 - January: Tears for Fears “Songs From the Big Chair”
1986 - December: The Georgia Satellites “Georgia Satellites”
1972 - May: Uriah Heep “Demons and Wizards”
1987 - February: Steve Winwood “Back in the High Life”
1982 - August: Judas Priest ”Screaming for Vengeance”
1991 - June: Van Halen “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”
1970 - November: Derek and the Dominos “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs”
1989 - May: The Cult “Sonic Temple”
1968 - February: The Moody Blues “Days of Future Passed”
1993 - May: Brother Cane “Brother Cane”
1973 - April: James Gang ”Greatest Hits”
1966 - May: Beach Boys “Pet Sounds”
1992 - January: Nirvana “Nevermind”
1968 - August: The Jeff Beck Group “Truth”
1979 — July: The Kinks “Low Budget”
1984 - July: Nik Kershaw “Human Racing”
1977 - December: Jackson Browne “Running On Empty”
1993 - October: Cracker “Kerosene Hat”
1988 - March: Robert Plant “Now and Zen”
1986 - November: Paul Simon “Graceland”
1971 - February: Yes “The Yes Album” Episode 200!
1979 — May: Blackfoot “Strikes”
1967 - February: Cream ”Fresh Cream”
1993 - November: Pearl Jam “Vs.”
1966 - November: Simon & Garfunkel ”Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme”
1984 - August: The Alarm ”Declaration”
1990 - February: Damn Yankees “Damn Yankees”
1965 - July: The Supremes “More Hits by The Supremes”
1982 - November: Missing Persons ”Spring Session M”
1971 - January: Janis Joplin ”Pearl”
1986 - September: Bon Jovi “Slippery When Wet”
1967 - October: Buffalo Springfield “Buffalo Springfield Again”
1979 - August: The Eagles ”The Long Run”
1983 - August: The Fixx ”Reach the Beach”
1971 - December: Led Zeppelin ”IV”
1977 - April: The Clash ”The Clash”
1982 - October: Squeeze “Singles - 45 and Under”
Christmas Songs that Rock IV - A What the Riff Rabbit Hole
1977 - August: Billy Joel “The Stranger”
1994 - February: Green Day “Dookie”
1967 - January: The Monkees ”More of the Monkees”
1988 - September: Metallica “...And Justice For All”
1977 - January: KC & the Sunshine Band “Part 3”
1974 - April: Paul McCartney and Wings ”Band On the Run”
1983 - March: Saga “Worlds Apart”
1976 - June: Steve Miller Band “Fly Like an Eagle”
1992 - October: Soup Dragons “Hotwired”
1980 - December: REO Speedwagon “Hi Infidelity”
1975 - November: Queen “A Night At the Opera”
1966 - October: The Troggs ”From Nowhere”
1984 - September: Prince & The Revolution “Purple Rain”
1976 - July: Ramones “Ramones”
1992 - September: Roger Waters “Amused to Death”
1982 - June: Stray Cats “Built for Speed”
1973 - January: Elvis Presley ”Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite”
1994 - November: Dave Matthews Band “Under the Table and Dreaming”
1977 - March: Foreigner “Foreigner”
1976 - September: Kansas “Leftoverture”
1987 - October: Joe Satriani ”Surfing with the Alien”
1969 - April: The Who “Tommy”
1976 - November: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “Night Moves”
1983 - February: Berlin “Pleasure Victim”
1965 - June: Tom Jones “Along Came Jones”
1976 - May: Peter Frampton “Frampton Comes Alive”
1979 - December: Cheap Trick “Dream Police”
1966 - March: The Standells “The Live Ones”
1985 - May: Dire Straits “Brothers In Arms”
1977 - November: Steely Dan “Aja”
1991 - October: Red Hot Chili Peppers “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”
1979 - November: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers “Damn the Torpedoes”
1975 - March: Nazareth “Hair of the Dog”
1991 - November: U2 ”Achtung Baby”
1984 - June: Night Ranger “Midnight Madness”
1969 - March: Blood, Sweat & Tears “Blood, Sweat & Tears”
1994 - September: Blues Traveler “four”
1968 - December: The Beatles “The White Album”
1980 - September: Pat Benatar “Crimes of Passion”
1965 - November: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles “Going to a Go-Go”
1981 - February: Rush “Moving Pictures”
1967 - June: The Hollies “The Hollies’ Greatest Hits”
1993 - February: R.E.M. ”Automatic for the People”
1977 - May: The Sex Pistols “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols”
1987 - August: The Grateful Dead “In the Dark”
1969 - May: Crosby, Stills & Nash “Crosby, Stills & Nash”
1991 - April: Temple of the Dog “Temple of the Dog”
1983 - January: Def Leppard “Pyromania”
1969 - November: Santana ”Santana”
1979 - March: Supertramp “Breakfast In America”
1991 - January: Jesus Jones ”Doubt”
Christmas Songs That Rock (III)!
1986 — February: The Outfield “Play Deep”
1983 - November: Billy Idol ”Rebel Yell”
1981 - June: Billy Squier ”Don’t Say No”
1975 - August: Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run”
1966 - June: The Association “And Then...Along Comes The Association”
1979 - September: Blondie “Eat to the Beat”
1980 - July: AC/DC “Back In Black”
What the Riff Remembers Eddie Van Halen
1971 - November: Harry Nilsson “Nilsson Schmilson”
1994 - July: Hootie and the Blowfish “Cracked Rear View”
1980 - November: The Police “Zenyatta Mondatta”
1994 - April: Hole ”Live Through This”
1980 - October: Ozzy Osbourne ”Blizzard of Ozz”
1973 — August: Lynyrd Skynyrd ”(Pronounced ’Lĕh-’nérd ’Skin-’nérd)”
1970 - March: The Guess Who “American Woman”
1975 - April: Aerosmith ”Toys in the Attic”
1965 — February: Herman’s Hermits “Introducing Herman’s Hermits”
1970 - January: Chicago “Chicago II”
1981 - May: The Go-Go’s “Beauty and the Beat”
1971 - July: The Allman Brothers Band ”At Fillmore East”
1981 - August: (various artists) ”Heavy Metal” Soundtrack
1987 - May: Hoodoo Gurus ”Blow Your Cool!”
1994 - January: Alice in Chains “Jar of Flies”
1966 - August: Wilson Pickett “The Exciting Wilson Pickett”
1977 - October: E.L.O. “Out of the Blue”
1982 - January: The J. Geils Band ”Freeze Frame”
1976 - March: Bad Company “Run with the Pack”
1983 - May: INXS “Shabooh Shoobah”
1971 - March: Jethro Tull “Aqualung”
1978 — September: Boston “Don’t Look Back”
1977 - February: Fleetood Mac ”Rumors”
2020 — April: Episode 100 “Just the WTR Guys”
1982 — September: Men At Work “Business As Usual”
1975 — December: Kiss “Alive!”
1989 — June: Don Henley “The End of the Innocence”
1974 — February: The Doobie Brothers “What Were Once Vices are Now Habits”
1990 - September: Depeche Mode “Violator”
1992 - November: Blind Melon “Blind Melon”
1966 - July: The Rolling Stones “Aftermath”
1976 - October: Stevie Wonder “Songs in the Key of Life”
1966 - September: Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels ”Breakout...!!!”
1981 - October: Loverboy “Get Lucky”
1968 - July: Pink Floyd “A Saucerfull of Secrets”
1989 - April: Tom Petty ”Full Moon Fever”
1969 - February: MC5 ”Kick Out the Jams”
1979 - April: Van Halen “Van Halen II”
1967 - November: Cream “Disraeli Gears”
What The Riff Remembers Neil Peart
1987 - July: Guns N’ Roses “Appetite for Destruction”
1976 - February: Heart “Dreamboat Annie”
1976 - December: Eagles “Hotel California”
1984 - March: Spinal Tap “This is Spinal Tap”
Christmas Songs that Rock (II)
1987 - March: U2 “The Joshua Tree”
1969 - January: Led Zeppelin “Led Zeppelin 1”
1991-July: Crowded House “Woodface”
1993 - September: Counting Crows ”August and Everything After”
1986 - August: Huey Lewis and the News “Fore!”
1968 - January: Small Faces “There Are But Four Small Faces”
1972 - June: David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust”
1986 - October: Drivin’ N Cryin’ “Scarred but Smarter”
1983 - October: Genesis “Genesis”
1973 - July: ZZ Top “Tres Hombres”
1984 - April: The Cars “Heartbeat City”
1974 - October: Ted Nugents Amboy Dukes “Tooth, Fang & Claw”
What the Riff Remembers Eddie Money
1990 - August: Queensryche “Empire”
1973 — December: Jim Croce “I Got a Name”
1994 - June - Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
1976 - January - Styx - Equinox
1994 - March - Soundgarden - Superunknown
1988 - February - The Church - Starfish
1979 - October - Toto - Hydra
1984 - November - Bryan Adams - Reckless
1967 - May - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
1982 - April - Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
1986 - June - The Smithereens - Especially for You
1979 - January - Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Armed Forces
1968 - November - The Seekers - Best of the Seekers
1988 - April - The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
1981 - March - The Producers - The Producers
SUMMER SONGS THAT ROCK - One Year Anniversary
1986 - July - The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
1965 - December - The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn
1993 - March - Duran Duran - Duran Duran (the wedding album)
1976 - August - Boston - Boston
1980 - August - The B-52’s - Wild Planet
1967 - August - Big Brother & the Holding Company - Self Titled
1973 - September - Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1991 - December - Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
1984- February - The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
1977- Sept - Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
1984 - May - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Couldn’t Stand the Weather
1992 - July - Dream Theater- Images and Words
1969 - August - Humble Pie - As Safe as Yesterday is.
1973 - October - The Who - Quadrophenia
1993 - June - Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid
1973 - February - Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
1978 - January - Atlanta Rhythm Section - Champagne Jam
1965 - January - The Beatles - Beatles for Sale
1991 - September - Pearl Jam - Ten
1985 - February - The Firm - The Firm
1986 - May - Peter Gabriel - So
1970 - October - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
1988 - August - Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
1978 - June - The Cars - The Cars
Episode 27: Christmas Songs that Rock
1981 - July - Escape - Journey
1976 - April - 2112 - Rush
1982 - July - Pictures at Eleven - Robert Plant
1971 - June - One World - Rare Earth
1982 - March - Asia - Asia
1978 - July - Some Girls- The Rolling Stones
1994 - May - Dulcinea - Toad the Wet Sprocket
1967 - JULY - The Doors - The Doors
1985 - JUNE - Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting
1981 - APRIL - Fair Warning - Van Halen
1992 - DEC - Gordon - Bare Naked Ladies
1965 - SEPT - Animal Tracks - The Animals
1993 - AUG - Grave Dancer’s Union - Soul Asylum
1974 - Sept - Crime of the Century - Supertramp
1981 - Allied Forces - Triumph
1994 - DECEMBER - Second Coming - Stone Roses
1977 - JULY - Another Mother Further - Mother’s Finest
1966 - APRIL - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - The Mamas and the Papas
1972 - NOVEMBER - Can’t Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan
1985 - SEPTEMBER - Scarecrow - John Mellencamp
1970 - February - Cold Blood - Cold Blood
1975 - September - Pink Floyd - Wish You were Here
1968 - June - Hourglass - Power of Love
1983 Dec - Yes - 90125
1991 Feb - Queen - Innuendo
1977 June - Alan Parsons Project - I Robot