12-20-20 -- 2020 Holiday Special
Will spins a few holiday favorites.
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Will spins a few holiday favorites.
Will and David discuss their favorite albums of the past decade.
Will, Barrett and Chris discuss their favorite albums of 2014.
We kick off the end of 2014 episodes with Grant's favorite albums of the year.
Will spins some of his favorite holiday music.
Will, Barrett and Chris count down the lists of their favorite albums of 2012.
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we travel back in time and analyze two big hits from the 1970s. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Divine Fits and The Raveonettes.
Show notes:
- Recorded at More Lost Time world headquarters
- The return of song analysis
- Learning more about Rupert Holmes
- "Escape" tells a depressing tale in a lighthearted way
- Seeking a new soulmate through the personal ads
- Song ends with a wacky twist
- Jay used to belt out Holmes' "Him" in the newsroom of the college paper
- He sings the guitar solo to save money
- Digging into the rest of the album
- Rupert writes about anything like, say, his answering machine
- Holmes did a lot of work in theater and TV
- Wrote songs for "A Star is Born," the Streisand-Kristofferson movie
- "Him" as performed by Barry White
- Clearly inspired by Manilow
- "Copacabana" was a huge disco hit
- Everything was coke-fueled in the '70s and '80s
- Manilow's go-to move was the sweeping ballad
- Manilow's "Bermuda Triangle" was a clear inspiration for Rupert
- Barry found a winning formula
- Gotta love the irony that he didn't write "I Write the Songs"
- We Manil-OD'd
- Bonehead of the Week
Music:
Divine Fits - Would That Not Be Nice
The Raveonettes - She Owns the Streets
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The Divine Fits song is on the album A Thing Called Divine Fits on Merge Records. Download it for free from Chromewaves.
The Raveonettes song is on the album Observator on Vice Records. Download the song for free from KEXP.
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Christian Douglass as we talk about the state of the book industry. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The Corin Tucker Band, The Raveonettes, Stars and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Show notes:
- Recorded in Beverly, Mass.
- In this age of distraction, it's amazing that people read books at all
- Christian: Education system may be to blame for lack of reading
- Fiction is still a valuable commodity
- Jay: Fun to see my kids get into reading
- Christian: Treating reading like a workout
- Multi-tasking all day makes one less inclined to read later
- Authors were once treated like movie stars
- "Fifty Shades of Grey" started as Twilight fan fiction
- Many best-sellers are autobiographies of celebs
- Christian: Historical fiction is exciting
- Working on a new project, a "novel in stories"
- Looking at African-Americans attracted to Russian promise of equality
- Also working on novel about a murder in rural Alaska
- All about plot
- Success comes at the sentence level
- Many parallels to the music industry
- Bonehead of the Week
Music:
The Corin Tucker Band - Groundhog Day
The Raveonettes - Observations
Stars - The Theory of Relativity
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Black Mold
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!
The Corin Tucker Band song is from the forthcoming album Kill My Blues on Kill Rock Stars. Download the song for free at Stereogum.
The Raveonettes song is from the band's forthcoming album Observator on Vice Records. Download the song for free at Stereogum.
The Stars song is on the forthcoming album The North on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at StarstheNorth.com.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion song is from the band's forthcoming album Meat and Bone on Boombox/Mom + Pop. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at Pitchfork.com.
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.
Will, Barrett and Chris count down their lists of their favorite albums of 2011.
Will and Grant discuss the new album by the Raveonettes, plus The Cars, Carsick Cars, and Dum Dum Girls.
Ministry – Everyday Is Halloween (Twelve-Inch Singles 1981-1984) Wax Trax! 1985 *Music Bed for Introduction*
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (1979-1983: Vol. 1) Beggars Banquet 1986
Sohodolls – My Vampire (Ribbed Music for the Numb Generation) A&G 2007
Old Time Relijun – Vampire Sushi (Witchcraft Rebellion) K Records 2001
*Station Break* Joy Division – Incubation (Substance: 1977-1980)
Death House Chaplain – Burning Up
The Duke Spirit – Lassoo (Neptune) Artist First 2008
Patti Smith – Space Monkey (Easter) Arista 1978
Magazine – Definitive Gaze (Real Life) Virgin 1978
Joy Division – From Safety to Where…? (Substance: 1977-1980) Qwest 1988
*Station Break*
Suicide – Rocket
The Raveonettes – Aly, Walk With Me (Lust, Lust, Lust) Vice 2008
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Darklands (Darklands) Blanco y Negro 1987
The Smiths – Panic (Louder Than Bombs) Sire 1987 *Music Bed for Closer*
New Order – Blue Monday (Substance) Qwest 1987
The Rosebuds – I Better Run (Night of the Furies) Merge 2007
Chromatics – Night Drive (Night Drive) Italians Do It Better 2007
She Wants Revenge – True Romance (This Is Forever) Geffen 2007
*Station Break* Depeche Mode – Pipeline (Construction Time Again)
The Glove – Like an Animal (Blue Sunshine) Wonderland 1983
Soft Cell – Memorabilia (Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing) Sire1982
Sohodolls – Stripper (Ribbed Music for the Numb Generation) A&G 2007
The Faint – Erection (Wet From Birth) Saddle Creek 2004
Nine Inch Nails – The Only Time (Pretty Hate Machine) TVT 1989
*Station Break* Soft Cell – A Man Could Get Lost (Non-stop Ecstatic Dancing)
Ministry – Just Like You (Twitch) Sire 1986
Nitzer Ebb – Fitness to Purpose (That Total Age) Geffen 1987
Skinny Puppy – Vx Gas Attack (ViVIsectVI) Nettwerk 1988
The Smiths – Panic (Louder Than Bombs) Sire 1987 *Music Bed for Closer*
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