And Introducing

And introducing, on lead vocals, it’s Rick James! Yes we’re talking about the 1980’s #1 funk superfreak who managed to fit 3 lifetimes worth of decadence and depravity into one short life. And today we’ll give it to you, baby, from his book “GLOW: The Autobiography of Rick James” by Rick James and David Ritz.

Songs in order:

Mynah Birds - It’s My Time

Rick James - My Mama

Rick James - You And I

Rick James - Bustin’ Out

Rick James - Super Freak

Rick James - Give It To Me Baby

And introducing, from Iceland, our NATO ally to the north, it’s BJORK. The most famous musician from the isolated northern island, Bjork has built an incredible career and international fame from her unique voice and genre-exploring, endlessly idiosyncratic music. And today we’ll be exploring all things Bjork from her coffee table book BJORK and a 2004 Bjork New Yorker story called “Bjork’s Saga”.

Songs in Order:

CarlosAndres90 - Army of Me (YouTube FL Studio cover)

Bjork - Ruby Baby

Recordings of Bjork at age 11: https://www.openculture.com/2014/09/the-album-bjork-recorded-as-an-11-year-old.html

KUKL - Dismembered

The Sugarcubes - Birthday

Bjork - Human Behavior

Bjork - Army of Me

Bjork - Alarm Call

And introducing, on lead vocals, guitar and bass...it’s Mr. Billy Corgan. Yes we’re talking through the legendary frontman and sole consistent member of gen x rock titans Smashing Pumpkins, a person who is constantly portrayed as either alt-rock’s greatest villain or saint, depending on who you’re asking. And today we’re joined by Struggle Sessions Leslie Lee III to dive into some of Mr. Corgan’s most intimate thoughts and feelings about his life and career through the best access we have...his mid-2000’s LiveJournal called simply “BillyBlog”.

Check out Struggle Session at sesh.plus

Songs

Smashing Pumpkins - Zero

Smashing Pumpkins - Nothing and Everything (Live on Pulse 1988)

Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock

Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha

Smashing Pumpkins - Transmission (Live, featuring Peter Hook)

Billy Corgan - Take Me Out to the Ball Game

And introducing, online, it’s Rolling Stone Magazine’s NEW 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List! We discuss Rolling Stone’s updated-for-2020 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, talk about the value of lists, the relative ranked-ness of the Beatles, and how our appreciation of music changes over time.

Songs:

Britney Spears - Piece of Me

Beatles - Day in the Life

Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On

Beach Boys - Sloop John B

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

Lauryn Hill - To Zion

And introducing, on lead vocals, it’s Scott Walker. Over a six decade journey from teen dream crooner to brooding experimental composer, Scott Walker has explored the dark bleeding edges of pop music with his inconic vibrato and iconoclastic production. And today we’ll be learning all about Scott from a bunch of articles and the 2006 documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man.

We’re joined by Matty Monroe, the host of the Indieheads podcast and the MODERATOR of the r/indieheads subreddit. Check out Matty’s stuff here:

Indieheads Podcast: https://rindieheadspodcast.wordpress.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/IndieheadsPodcast

https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads

Songs in Order:

The Walker Brotherss - There Ain’t No Sunshine

Jacques Brel - Amsterdam

Scott Walker - Next

Scott Walker - 30 Century Man

The Walker Brothers - The Electrician

Scott Walker - Dealer

Pulp - I Spy

Scott Walker - The Cockfighter

Scott Walker - Cossacks Are

Scott Walker - Clara

Scott Walker - Jesse

Scott Walker - Corps de Blah

Scott Walker - Epizootics

Scott Walker - Brando

And introducing, partying hard, it’s Andrew WK! This week we’re talking the enigmatic evangelist of Partying who unleashed a torrent of hard rocking power pop party anthems, became a national celebrity, spokesman, motivational speaker, and tv personality before sinking somewhat back into mysterious obscurity. Today we’ll be exploring WK through Phillip Crandall’s 2014 entry into the 33 ⅓ book anthology for “I GET WET”

Songs In Order:

The Portly Boys - Demo Tape

Andrew WK - Party Hard (Demo)

Andrew WK - Party Hard

Andrew WK - I Get Wet

Andrew WK - Party Mindset

And introducing, on the drums, it’s Chris Frantz! We’re JOINED by Chris Frantz, drummer for Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club to discuss downtown bands in ‘77, buildings & food, the love of music, and remaining in love with his wife, bassist Tina Weymouth, all through his new book “Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina”

Check out Chris’ book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250209221

And check out that killer 1980 Talking Heads live in Rome set we were talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwWW742T0Wc

And introducing, on lead vocals and guitar, it’s Mr. Robert Pollard! We’re joined by Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Operators) to talk about the frontman synonymous with Guided by Voices, the prolific indie legends from Dayton Ohio.

Please support Dan's music over on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/operators

Songs:

Acid Ranch - Beautiful Plastic

Guided by Voices - Drinker’s

GBV - Weedking

Times New Viking - (My Head)

GBV - Tractor Rape Chain

GBV - Closer You Are

GBV - Official Ironman’s Rally Song

GBV - Teenage FBI

GBV - Glad Girls

GBV - Packing the Dead Zone

Part two of…the Song Machine! We track pop music’s muddled fallout from 9/11 (again), the reign of Max Martin and Dr. Luke, track-and-hook songwriting, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Kesha and the f u t u r e of pop.

NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL, please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-sYl6WVNG_-okzBwm4SiTg

Songs in order:

Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone

Ted Leo - Since U Been Gone/Maps

Rihanna - SOS

Rihanna - Umbrella

Rihanna - What’s My Name

Beyonce - Halo

Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone

Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl

Flo Rida (FT KESHA) - Right Round

Kesha - Tik Tok

Kesha - Raising Hell

Juice WRLD x Marshmello - Come & Go

And introducing…the Song Machine! We track the rise of Denniz Pop and the Swedish music production juggernaut in American pop music through John Seabrooke’s 2015 book “The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory.”

Songs

Tag Team - Whoomp (There It Is!)

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Swemix)

Heino - Medly Volksleider

Ace of Bass - The Sign

It’s Alive - Pretend I’m God

Backstreet Boys - We’ve Got it Going On

Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)

Crooked I - Everythang

Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time