10 Albums: The Soundtrack of Your Life

Recorded prior to 'Gigaton'
This episode contains #5 - 1 for the Top 10 Pearl Jam Studio Albums Ranked List!!

Recorded prior to 'Gigaton'
This episode contains #10 - 6 for the Top 10 Pearl Jam Studio Albums Ranked List!!

Co-host Glen skypes in with the following artists/albums as talking points from this past 2020 year :

Taylor Swift's dual pandemic-LP-releases
Veruca Salt
Bush
Hell Yeah
Tool
Becoming Ashes
Matthew Good

A broad range of albums and artists covered in this episode :

Nick Cave, Godzilla soundtrack compilation & other modern classical composers, Johnny Greenwood, Danzig, 'Tales from the Tour Bus' inspired listening, Matthew Good...

10 Albums first official NEW episode on Spreaker!
new intro, new cover...

I give a breakdown of what was on my 2020 'Most Played' Playlist on my Apple Music account (wishing Apple Music had the same metrics that Spotify provides at the end of the year) :

Jimi Hendrix - 'Live in Maui'
Tom Petty - 'Wildflowers & All the Rest'
Tool - 'Fear Inoculum'
Trent Hemingway
Colter Wall
Sturgill Simpson - 'Sound & Fury'
Grey Daze - 'Amends'
Pearl Jam - 'Gigaton'
Alice in Chains - 'Rainer Fog'
Neil Young - 'Zuma'
Neil Young - 'Homegrown'

The wait is over!! After 13 years Tool has dropped the amazing "Fear Inoculum".

This is a dense, layered, lengthy album full of challenging and complex songs.

I have been listening to this album, in sequence, for the entire past 12 months and am more high on it now than ever before.

It grows on you!

I present my 'Pearl Jam 10 Albums Ranked' list to Josh to see how it looks side-by-side with his...we weave into 90s music transitions into the 2000s and many other music themes.

Josh has returned to discuss his favourites from the 2010s decade - but before we get there we take time to discuss how Spotify and Apple Music (among other streaming services) have permanently changed the music experience for all of us.

Interesting episode!

As a precursor for the Quarantine Mixtape mini-series Glen and I discuss the art of making a mixtape and the choices between song placement, etc.

We also bring up and delve into Columbia House Music Club (it was around in the 90s) where one could order 10 cassettes for 1 penny and then have to purchase 5 more at an inflated 'regular' price...it was a great way to expand your collection.

We also bring up the chipmunks sounding 'high speed dubbing', trying to tape songs off the radio, top loading cassette recording devices and how the mixtape resurfaced in pop culture with Guardians of the Galaxy.

Great episode! Lots of fun.

I would like to introduce Erik Armstrong to the podcast series.

He has been living in Vancouver since he turned 19 and has managed to maintain a career in music ever since (he is an Audio Engineer and a Live Sound Tech).

In late 2005 Erik was employed at The Warehouse - Bryan Adams' recording studio - as an Assistant Engineer...much to his delight Canada's most famous band, The Tragically Hip, entered the studio to record their 10th studio album "World Container".

Erik shares his stories about his 6 weeks working closely with The Hip and producer Bob Rock...stories such as getting a drum lesson from Johnny Fay on the very drum kit Fay used on "Fully Completely"...Downie bouncing last-minute lyric changes off him...the band setting up and settling in to the studio and starting into 'Wheat Kings' as Erik walked around the room running cables...Erik even got offered a job to go back to the Hip's home studio 'The Bath House'.

There are some hilarious stories about how Canadian and down(ie) to earth the band is, as Erik remembers this experience!

October 17th, 2006 was the release date for this album....who would think that 11 years later the same calendar day would share Gordon Downie's last day on Earth.

Great podcast - enjoy!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Container