Number One With A Bullet

This week, Andrew and Dan get a lesson in making lemons out of lemonade from soul-funk legends The Commodores. Despite losing their incredibly talented lead singer, this group had the kind of can-do attitude that turns a series of tragic deaths into a number 3 hit on the Billboard charts. We can all hope to be so business savvy. 

The late great Otis Redding makes his first and only appearance on the podcast to teach us all about the merits of removing polyps from your vocal chords and sitting your ass down on the dock of the bay to listen. Andrew and Dan do their best to be respectful of this music legend who was taken from us too soon and they fail miserably at within the first 20 minutes. Enjoy!

In the wake of the election of Donald J. Trump, America decided to make things a little darker. Fifty shades darker, to be exact. And who are you gonna call when you need a song that expresses horniness on levels never conceived of by modern man??? Taylor Swift, we guess. And a man named Zayn. Also, Andrew and Dan who host this podcast. They are there too.

The number one song from all of last year comes back to haunt Andrew and Dan in this week's episode. How did this sonic symptom of the Covid-19 pandemic sustain so long on the dang charts? Are the members of this band stuck in the year 2012? Is this experimental rock??? All these questions are kind of answered in this episode. 

When the four lovable lads from Liverpool sat down to pen this little ditty, they were certainly having a laugh about how many days there are in a week. But THIS week, Andrew and Dan have the LAST laugh as they dig deep in the painstaking writing and recording of this boppy mid-60s tune that marked a transitionary period in the Beatles' career. 

We hope you have your popcorn and 3D glasses ready because it's finally time for Andrew and Dan to once again recap an Oscars ceremony that just happened moments ago. Who won the awards? What were the belabored bits? Which of our favorite celebrities hit another favorite celebrity? And most importantly of all, which host of this podcast got the most predictions right?

Oscar freaks, this one's for you. Fans of 1940s Big Band music, we're very sorry. In this episode, Andrew and Dan spend an hour discussing their predictions for every category being presented at this weekend's Academy Awards. And then they spend a solid 20 minutes learning some genuinely interesting music history about this song from the long-forgotten Harry James. This is what the podcast is! Don't act like you don't like this!

Listen up all you Elizabethan ballad fans! It's time to bust out your alto-recorders and light up some Mexican grass. Andrew and Dan are traveling back to the mid-late 60s to talk about a classic song from the very Rollin' Stones (like the magazine!) They also talk about a donkey movie, because the people demanded it. 

The Queen Bee herself makes an appearance on the podcast this week to make sure Andrew and Dan are checking up on their health and butts. Unfortunately she brought along two pretty bad rap features and a bunch of aesthetics from the year 2006. We look forward to her next appearance on the show which (by process of elimination) has to be better. 

In their inaugural visit to the year of our lord ninteen hundred and fifty three, Andrew and Dan immerse themselves in a time of novelty songs and jukebox hits. It's the Eisenhower era, baby! America's number one! And so was a young gal who was simply addicting to the idea of waltzing again with someone she knew. That gal's name: Teresa Brewer. 

In their first(!) journey to the year 2000, Andrew and Dan encounter a musical landscape that has all of the bad stuff from the 90s (spiked hair) but none of the scary stuff from the 2000s (war on terror). It's a strange world, where only the most savage of gardens can climb to the top of the charts with a song so commercial viable it sounds like it was written by AI.

This week's episode might hold the record for longest title, but we'd expect nothing less from the 1940s, an era when every man had an orchestra and every orchestra had a random lady singer. Andrew and Dan are about to learn at least 2 facts about this Glen Gray hit, but not until they meticulously comb through this year's Oscar nominations. Because that's what this show is in a nutshell!

Our old friend Stevland returns to the show to share with us his very spooky superstitions (black cats, broken mirrors, etc), as Andrew and Dan revisit a year they can't seem to leave behind, 1973. Eagle eared listeners might be able to tell this episode was recorded a few days early, specifically during the part where Andrew and Dan make asses of themselves talking about the Oscar noms like they haven't already been released. 

Firmly back in the "and his orchestra" era, Andrew and Dan go DEEP on this song from the early days of the charts that incontrovertibly IS a song. You legally can't say that it isn't. They also learn a bit about the legendary Artie Shaw, who by his own account was a Grade-A psycho. It's a classic ep!

Once again, the wickedly talented Adele (Dazeem) returns to the show with a big ol' stankin hit that absolutely destroyed the charts and forced Billboard to rebuild from nothing. Unfortunately, to hear this song Andrew and Dan must travel to a famously very bad year that actually was the reason for all the bad things have ever happened on earth. But this is what we do in order to say...Hello!

To kick off the new year, Andrew and Dan are looking direclty backwards at the previous year. Join them for an hour plus conversation about their personal top ten albums of 2022. Hate opinions? This episode might not be for you! A real opinion-head? Listen up bud, we got a live one!

It's that time of year again! The time when Andrew and Dan put aside childish things and listen to the most popular songs in the nation according to the children that buy music. It's our review of Billboard's Year-End Top Ten for 2022. Will the biggest names in pop music make an appearance? The answer may surprise you...

Ho ho ho! Happy Hondadays you merry gentlmen (and gentlwomen). This week, Andrew and Dan have a very special Christmas treat which is a song all about the Virgin Mary, aka Santa's mom. It's also about extreme horniness and popping out of a big wedding cake. But mostly, it's about those druuums. We've got a big one this week, folks! Enjoy!

Finally, a song that asks: What if jail was fun? This week, Andrew and Dan travel back to the dawn of the rock era to discuss Baz Luhrman's Elvis' very own incarceration blues. We're talking movie plots. We're talking plucky little bass lines. And you know we're talking about that weird conman Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). 

Listen. We're not perfect. Well, Andrew is. But this week Dan proves himself to be a real dumbass. We begin by discussing "I'm Making Believe" by the Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald from 1944. And then we discover some reeeeallly interesting information. Let's just say...things get absolutely...fucked up.