Episode 12: That Sh*t Cray!

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

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


Categories covered:

• 97 Sleazy beats
• Turner: Your Retro Career Melted - The Faint - Danse Macabre
• Jon: Emerge - Fischerspoonder - #1
• 152 Song that is bonkers
• Turner: Wham City! - Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
• Jon: Coming to a Radio Near You - Supie T. - Getdown Airwaves: Coming to a Radio Near You
• 130 Potty humor song
• Jon: My Ding-a-Ling - Chuck Berry - The Anthology
• Turner: Who Farted? Pt. 1 - Sage Francis - Sick of Wasting...
• 131 Song for a Rube Goldberg Machine
• Turner: Bird Flu - MIA - Kala
• Jon: A Night on the Tiles - Disco Inferno - It's a Kid's World EP

Cultural reference links:

• Why is this episode called 'That Shit Cray'?  It's just yet another reference to this song!
• What is a Rube Goldberg Machine?
• Check out this real-life RGM!
• Electroclash: what is it?  Who makes it?
• Chuck Berry's music went into space as our first ambassador to alien species - which I think is a good choice!
• But it's so sad that 'My Ding-a-Ling' was Berry's only #1 hit...

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.

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

Categories Covered:

• 21 Great song you know I have never heard before
• Jon: Premonitions (Fantasy) - Bobb Trimble - Harvest of Dreams
• Turner: Let it Go - araabMUZIK - Electronic Dream
• 29 Great song on a compilation (and that compilation is the only thing you have by that artist)
• Turner: De-Orbit - Speedy J - Artificial Intelligence
• Jon: Qhude Manikiniki - Umahlathini Nabo - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
• 113 Last song recorded by a dead person
• Turner: Ceremony (Tour Rehearsal Session, Manchester April 1980) - Joy Division - Heart and Soul Box Set Disc 3
• Jon: Black-eyed Dog - Nick Drake - Time of No Reply
• 124 Best version of the song you have the most versions of
• Turner: Heroes and Villains - The Beach Boys - Smile Sessions Box Set
• Jon: Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys - Smile Sessions Box Set

Cultural reference links:

• araabMUZIK making a beat on his MPC
• Robert Christgau, who is referenced but not explained in this episode, is a major music critic.  Jon loves him, Turner is skeptical of him.
• Christgau absolutely LOVES The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
• Our dead persons:
• Ian Curtis
• Nick Drake

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?

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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
• Jon: Tight Connection to My Heart - Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque
• Turner: Dramamine - Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
• 28: A band's overall best track that's not on their best album
• Jon: How Soon Is Now - The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
• Turner: Rattled by the Rush - Pavement - Wowee Zowee
• 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

Cultural Reference Links:

• Nirvana released Bleach, then Nevermind, then In Utero
• Pavement released Slanted & Enchanted, then Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, then Wowee Zowee, then Brighten the Corners, then Terror Twilight
• The Smiths released The Smiths, then Meat is Murder, then The Queen is Dead, then Strangeways Here We Come
• There is no way I am doing a list of Bob Dylan's bajillion albums
• Lots of artists' careers function like a bell curve (a.k.a. a normal distribution): they start immature, get better, hit their prime, are kind of okay for a while and then decline.

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).

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


Categories covered:

• 140: Song that best represents The Beat
• Jon: Niggers are Scared of Revolution - The Last Poets - The Last Poets
• Turner: Guns of Brixton - The Clash - London Calling
• 141: Song that best represents The Rock
• Jon: Back in Black - AC/DC - Back in Black
• Turner: Rock the Casbah - The Clash - Combat Rock
• 142: Song that best represents The Funk
• Turner: Overpowered by Funk - The Clash - Combat Rock
• Jon: Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine - James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine Single
• 143: Song that best represents The Beat, The Funk and The Rock
• Turner: Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock? - Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
• Jon: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

Cultural Reference Links:

• The Trinity explained (almost)
• Eros and Thanatos, the sex and death drives.