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In this week's episode, the TC crew travels from Ontario's Rock the Park music festival to the shores of New Asgard for a podcast of epic proportions. In addition to talking about comics, we review Thor: Love and Thunder, listen to the loons, and show corrupted files who's boss.

Books: batman: no Man's Land, Dark Crisis #2, Prodigy: Icarus Society #1, Strange Academy #18, Jane Foster & The Mighty Thor #2, Poison Ivy #2, Saga #60, Batman #125, Eight Billion Genies #2, The Closet #2

Other Stuff: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finale

The Comic Book Podcast is brought to you by Talking Comics (www.talkingcomicbooks.com) The podcast is hosted by Steve Seigh, Bob Reyer, Joey Braccino, Aaron Amos, and John Burkle who weekly dissect everything comics-related, from breaking news to new releases. Our Twitter handle is @TalkingComics and you can email us at podcast@talkingcomicbooks.com.

All three of us were so excited to do this episode. Mainly it's me realizing that the Jagged Little Pill album changed my life is so many ways. Throughout our chat we found more reasons to love Alanis. We cover the nostalgia of it all talking radio rock, the seedy things going on behind the scenes, and why Alanis herself didn't love this portrayal. 

off-topic rants include: the current state of the music biz, music festivals,  more vintage MTV VMA talk

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We’re wrapping up the Take 5 for another year and even though 2021 still kept a lot of us apart, these conversations helped me find a community again. Maybe they did for you, too. We connected a lot over Zoom, we bonded over the music that made us who we are today, and we learned a whole lot more; not just about the guests who joined us to Take 5, but also about the songs and artists they picked.

Every year around this time I like to share my favourites. It’s always hard to whittle it down, but in this episode you’ll hear from the conversations that floored me when I had them, and still resonate with me now. From across the world, and many different personal stories, here are some of my favourite moments of the Take 5 this year.

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (chosen by Shirley Manson)

The Beatles - I Am the Walrus (chosen by Danny Elfman)

The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (chosen by Ruby Wax)

Hot Chip - I Feel Better (chosen by Tony Armstrong)

Björk - Hyperballad (chosen by Julia Stone)

Go-Betweens- Your Turn My Turn (chosen by Lindy Morrison)

The Supremes - Stoned Love (chosen by Billy Bragg)

Beverly Glen-Copeland - Ever New (chosen by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine)

Jerry and Erica talk about the songs that make them dance - who rocks out and who rocks their hips?  Plus! Amazingly, Jerry and Erica agree on a song that was recorded in the past decade!

On this week's show, we... 

• nerd out over the Alanis Morissette/Garbage/Cat Power triple bill last weekend in Tinley Park 
• celebrate 20 years of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 
• spend quality time with new records by Kacey Musgraves & Low

All this & much, much less!

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Do you remember the first time you heard Garbage? I do. It was 1995. Their debut single Vow. That opening guitar line, the stereo panning, and then Shirley Manson’s voice coming in. They exploded, in full flight, onto the scene. Grunge was well on the way out, and in it’s wake Garbage offered a high res view of the future, sounding like nothing we’d heard before.

This combination of three producers contributed to the mess of sounds, but they would be nothing without their frontwoman. For 26 years, Shirley Manson has been an icon. Releasing 7 albums with Garbage, touring non stop, and along the way stepping into Hollywood as well.

Her outspokenness has made her a feminist icon, and when she’s not fighting the equality fight, she’s giving her time to other issues of social justice, her voice to those who need it most.

It’s interesting that Garbage have never been an overtly political band, but that’s changed on their newest album. The gloves are off, there’s no hiding of their intentions on Gods and Masters, and out front is Shirley, roaring about it all. They say that this is the album they had to make, and on the day they unleashed, Shirley Manson joined me to Take 5. Across genres and time, hear about the songs of purpose for this living legend.

'At Seventeen' - Janis Ian

'Strange Fruit' - Billie Holiday

'I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier, Mama' - John Lennon

'Black Boys on Mopeds' - Sinéad O'Connor

'Who we Be' - DMX

In the midst of the pandemic of the last year, Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee found her musical bliss again while making the band's new album. 'The Bitter Truth.' "I feel a new sense of belonging where I am.," Lee  tells Steve Baltin on this week's People Have The Power. 

We all know that women rockers can kick ass just as well as any dude. We’ll listen to some of the best in this week’s episode of Keith’s Music Box. Of course, you have to start with Janis, but we’ll also hear from classic and contemporary artists including Linda Ronstadt, Chrissie Hynde, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Jenny Lewis, Shirley Manson and others.

Whether you've been a regular on the fan forum since 2002 or you simply know them as the band that did the song from Romeo and Juliet, chances are you know a little about this episode's subject – Garbage. But there is no way in gay hell you know anywhere near as much as this episode's guest, Liam, who has deeply stanned the band ever since discovering an obscure Garbage remix on his 12th birthday.

Experimental and unapologetically queer, Garbage cut their tusks in the nineties with their inimitable cocktail of genres across grunge, trip-hop, pop and rock. The method behind the music was frontwoman Shirley Manson who, a good decade younger than most of her bandmates, lead the foursome to victory, winning commercial success, critical kudos and even a Bond theme.

Here we explore Beautiful Garbage the band's third, and arguably most divisive, album. Released just three weeks after the September 11 attacks, the record initially received mixed reviews from fans and critics. But so like a rosé, Beautiful Garbage has matured over time to become a beloved curio in the band's canon that celebrates self-expression, deliberate weirdness and gender fuckery.

Join Drew and Andy as Liam showers them with Beautiful Garbage and leaves them positively shooketh at the true identity of Cherry Lips' muse, JT LeRoy.

Check out this episode's companion playlist on Spotify and if you don't slide into our DMs on Instagram at @auralfixationpodcast, we'll be deeply offended. Your hosts are @drew_down_under and @andrewdoyouthinkyouare.

Welcome back to Flop Stars!

This week, Billy and Greg take on the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, as they determine once and for all if her 2003 album American Life really deserved all the hate. Oh honey, trust us when we tell you that it was an x-static process. (Get it?)

Elsewhere in the episode, we reveal which three pop stars make up their coven, try and name the three best Madonna songs ever (ahh!), and deliver their choices for Pop and Flop of the Week. Can anyone out there explain who, exactly, P!nk is making music for these days? Asking for a friend...

To listen to all the music talked about in this week's ep—or the good stuff, at least—be sure to check out the companion playlist on Apple Music and Spotify. Get into the groove!

Paul takes on two issues of Q magazine, One from 1990 and the other from 2018. What a way to round out the year. He chooses three artists from each mag & pits them against each other.

The Challengers...

David Byrne, Garbage, Goat Girl, Paul McCartney, Tanita Tikaram & Wolf Alice

Ugly Phil catches up with Garbage.

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