Nirvana Unplugged: Something in the Way, solo

We are back! 

The grand return of Before the Stream features Jason and Natasha Alexandra talking about Tori Amos' 1994 classic album Under the Pink.

Jason tries to guess Natasha's defining 3 songs from this record before the two friends and musical colleagues dive into the full album, whether spirits help with songwriting, storytelling vs. marketing, 30-year anniversaries, the 90s, production, and so much more.

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Rob Collier made his first appearance on the show back in episode 4 to talk about Soul Asylum.

Now he's back to talk about their 1995 album, Let Your Dim Light Shine.

It's impossible not to talk about Dave Pirner's lyrics. But Rob and Jason also talked a lot about music production (Butch Vig produced this record), songwriting, arrangement, and much more, going song by song while interspersing games, jokes and anecdotes. 

They finished up with some more games, a dramatic reading of a review (of the complete Soul Asylum lyrics book), and the first ever edition of Dramatic Music Tweets on Before the Stream.

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Jason and Brian Kantor continue and conclude their conversation about The Cardigans' 1996 album First Band on the Moon. 

The two friends analyze each song on the record while sharing thoughts on production, arrangement, creativity, Black Sabbath, and more. They even dramatically read a couple of bizarre reviews for this album. 

Brian then shares what he's been up to at The Soundry, and with Sound For and other bands, and more. 

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Nina Persson of the Cardigans is interviewed in this episode! 

Brian Kantor returns to talk about The Cardigans' 1996 album First Band On The Moon. 

Brian is friends and erstwhile bandmates with Nina, so they recorded a conversation about the album that we listen to on this episode. 

Jason and Brian talk about drum sounds, bass note choices, dark lyrics wrapped in happy-sounding songs, if "Happy Meal II" is actually a happy song, the differences between this album and other 90s alternative hit records, and much more.

We'll be back soon with Part 2 of the conversation.

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We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York song by song.

Host Jason Bemis Lawrence did this one by himself. 

It gave Jason a chance to ruminate on the song Something in the Way, play some guitar, sing a little, address some of the common topics about the song and the differences between the Unplugged performance and the version on Nevermind, lyrics, and a lot more. 

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Chris Towers of CBS joins the podcast to count down our rankings of the full-length albums by the band The National in anticipation of a new National album in April. 

Jason Bemis Lawrence is the host and once had his parody song played on Chris' podcast, as Jason mentions. You can hear Chris and his colleagues listening to it and commenting here at 39:50 into the podcast. (It's a Spotify link, but hey if you can easily find that episode in their extensive backlog elsewhere, please let us know)

Chris and Jason talk through how they got introduced to The National and what the band means to them before discussing the band's catalog and ranking their albums worst to best. 

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D. James Goodwin is back on the show. 

We're taking a break from the Nirvana series to ask Dan some questions about his process of learning and engaging with the world via social media, technology, etc, before getting into R.E.M's 1992 album Automatic For The People.

Dan had mentioned his deep emotional connection to the album on his previous appearance so we decided to dig further into it.

As usual, we talk lyrics, production, songwriting, the specific qualities and characteristics of each band member, and more. 

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Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Travis Smith returns to the pod to discuss On A Plain and reminisce about Nirvana. Jason and Travis talk about album sequencing, "great little pop songs" vs "great songs", poignant lyrics vs throwaway lyrics, what stands out about this song in this performance and on Nevermind, and more.

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Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

We finally had to go out of song order for this one, but you'll be glad to get it sooner.

Singer/Songwriter/cellist/multi-instrumentalist Heather Woods Broderick joins Jason to talk about the penultimate song of the performance All Apologies.

The two friends and sometimes bandmates discuss Heather's memories of Nirvana, grunge music, and Unplugged before moving through a variety of topics like live performance versus recorded performance, how people will get inspired to learn an instrument in the future, songwriting, and more. 

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Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Chris Buckridge joined Jason to share his deeply personal connection to this song and to Nirvana. 

The two friends and erstwhile/forever bandmates discuss music theory, mental health, cognitive dissonance and of course, Nirvana. 

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