Thursday, April 11, 2013

Episode 15: The Wildest! - Strange, Outsider and Contradictory Music


After a number of podcasts which barely addressed the subject, we've finally got an episode on strange, outsider and contradictory music.  This is material that is out of step with normality, either just a tiny bit or more substantially.

For your convenience, a direct download and torrent download of this episode.

Your All-Time Great Album word cloud this week is: In The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson!


Categories covered:
  • 13 A really creepy song (Creep by Radiohead not permitted)
  • 43 A song you feel 'set the world on fire while no one was listening' (similar to, but not on, the Wire's playlist)
    • Turner: Such a Color - Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece
    • Jon: Epitaph - The Kaplan Brothers - Nightbird
  • 44 "Avant-garde" or super strange song
  • 50 Song that most defies genre classification
    • Turner: Bring on the Lettuce - Factory of Angst - Plague Years: The Best of Factory of Angst
    • Jon: Myr Myr Myr - Jgimblypuff and the House Kattz - Tracks and Tricks to Slay the Compsbeast {Another FREE download}
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Episode 14: I Open at the Close - Starting and Ending Songs


Episode 7 was a general guide to sequencing, but we couldn't leave this fertile subject alone.  This episode focuses on opening tracks and closing tracks.  Do you know how to start a party?  Do you know how to end one?

For the convenience of our dedicated listenership, here is a direct download and a torrent download of the episode.

Your extra-special bonus All-Time Great Album word cloud: Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River!


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Monday, March 4, 2013

Episode 13: I'm a Bad, Bad Man


We looked at music that was socially unacceptable in episode 12, but this time we're looking at songs that are about concepts that are socially unacceptable: lying, cheating and stealing.

Because we love you and want you to love us, here is a direct download and torrent download of this episode.

Your bonus All-Time Great Word Cloud: Funeral by Arcade Fire!


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Monday, February 25, 2013

Episode 12: That Sh*t Cray!


We delve into some weird stuff this time, talking about nutty, nasty and socially unacceptable music.

For your convenience: a direct download and a torrent download

Your weekly bonus All-Time Great Album word cloud: Spiderland by Slint!


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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Episode 11: The Care and Feeding of Musical Obessives


It should be pretty obvious by now that we're musical obsessives.  In this week's episode we'll take a look at what exactly that means: how and why we collect music.

For listening anytime, download the episode directly or by torrent.

This week's bonus All-Time Great Album word cloud: Closer by Joy Division!

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Monday, February 11, 2013

Episode 10: You Have Your Whole Life to Write Your First Album...


This time we're taking a look at musical careers: development and maturation or stagnation and decay?

If you don't want to listen from this site but would instead like to download this podcast directly for listening at your convenience, THIS is a direct link and THIS is a torrent download.

All-Time Great Album word cloud of the week: Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement!


Categories covered:
  • 2: Best song from an all-time great band's worst album
  • 28: A band's overall best track that's not on their best album
  • 63: That one song from a great band's first album that sounds out of place on their debut but is totally standard for their following albums
    • Turner: Here - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
    • Jon: About a Girl - Nirvana - Bleach
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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Episode 9: The Beat, The Funk and The Rock - A Musical Trinity


In this episode we reveal our carefully crafted theology: a musical trinity containing The Beat (The Father: rhythm), The Funk (The Holy Spirit: groove) and The Rock (The Son: the riff).

If you don't want to listen from this site but would instead like to download this podcast directly for listening at any time you'd like, THIS is a direct link and THIS is a torrent download.

All-Time Great Album word cloud of the week: Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience!


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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Episode 8: The Mans Do What They Cans - The Best Album of 2012


Turner and Jon amazingly agree on what album was the best one of the previous year: Open Your Heart by The Men.

In our first non-scavenger hunt episode we'll go through it track by track and discuss how it succeeds and fails on the themes we've focused on in other TEP episodes: sequencing, lyrics, surprises, musical careers and influences and more.

As a bonus, here's a word cloud of the lyrics of the album:

On an administrative note, The Eternal Playlist has been updated until this point based on when episodes are finished editing.  This meant that you'd get a cluster of three episodes at once and then maybe nothing for a couple weeks (or months in this particular case).  No longer!  We're now on a set schedule: one episode per week, no more and no less.  We've also got a few new weekly features coming soon.  Stay tuned.

Resources:

  • Some guy named Fuzzy Material has posted the entire album, song by song, on YouTube.  I'm sure this will be taken down eventually, but until then here's a 'try before you buy' way of listening to the album.
  • And here are the lyrics to the album (some of them may be slightly wrong, but it's the best set I've found so far)