And Introducing

And introducing…on piano and vocals, it’s Fiona Apple! We discuss the singer-songwriters music and public perception using two longform magazine articles bookending her career.

Songs in Order:

Fiona Apple - Criminal

Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream

Fiona Apple - Relay

Fiona Apple - On I Go

Fiona Apple - Left Apple

And introducing…on bass guitar, John Taylor! Bassist and founding member of 80’s new romantic superstars Duran Duran, Taylor and his bandmates achieved wild success in the 1980, but Taylor and Duran Duran’s 80’s excess came with a price, and his personal journey took him to the brink of self-destruction. Today we’ll be talking all about those wonderful double Duran’s through his book “In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran”.

Songs

Chic - Everybody Dance

Duran Duran - Girls on Film

Duran Duran - Rio

Duran Duran - Save a Prayer

Duran Duran - The Reflex

Duran Duran - A View to a Kill

The Power Station - Get it On (Bang a Gong)

Duran Duran - Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)

Duran Duran - Ordinary World

Neurotic Outsiders - Jerk

Neurotic Outsiders - Janie Jones

Duran Duran - Falling Down

And introducing, on lead vocals…it’s Debbie Harry! The ORIGINAL atomic blonde, Harry the frontwoman of CBGB stalwarts turned global disco innovators, Blondie. Blondie paved the way from punk to new wave as Debbie fashioned herself into a singing, rapping avant-grade starlet. And today we’ll be reading through the parallel lines to learn all about Debbie Harry, Blondie and downtown in the 70’s through her memoir “Face It”.

SONGS:
The Wind in the Willows - Djini Judy

New York Dolls - Trash

Debbie Harry and the Stilettos - Anti Disco

Blondie - X Offender

Blondie - Heart of Glass

Blondie - 11:59

Blondie - Rapture

Debbie Harry - Backfired

Blondie - Doom or Destiny

Blondie - Atomic (Armand’s Short Circuit Remix)

Mac Demarco - Blackbird/Break Stuff (Live @ Pitchfork Music Festival Paris)

And introducing….on vocals, it’s Jessica Simpson. This Texas-bred big voiced, pop diva has spent her career beset by harsh media, judgmental critics and tabloid hell. But after 20 years in the spotlight she’s come out the other side of drugs, abuse and reality tv to share an incredible amount of wisdom in her memoir “Open Book”.

SONGS

Jessica Simpson - I Wanna Love You Forever

Nick Lachey - What’s Left of Me

Jessica Simpson - A Public Affair

Jessica Simpson - My Only Wish

And introducing….pop-punk! We’re joined by musician Juiceboxxx take a look at this particular aesthetic mutation of stripped down, sneering anarchistic rock & radio-friendly bops of juvenile yearning, talking about where punk ends and pop begins, and discussing just what counts as pop-punk anyway.

SONGS:

Lil Tracey - Beautiful Nightmare

Bowling for Soup - High School Never Ends

New Found Glory - Sincerely Me

Times New Viking - (My Head)

Katy Perry - Hot and Cold

Air Pop, Pinky Rose - 54y 17 41n7 50

Juiceboxxx’s playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GkRwgAk8HuvW6ybq6DanI?si=Cgkd0Q4hQb-SKEhfH2MPDw

Juiceboxxx’s Talkhouse piece:

https://www.talkhouse.com/juiceboxxx-recommends-a-nine-hour-pop-punk-spotify-playlist/

And introducing…on the decks, it’s Mr. Steve Aoki! This is the first time we’ve dipped into the world of Electronic Dance Music, and today we’ll be traversing ALL the builds and drops of the EDM world through the memoir of hibachi heir turned superstar producer Steve Aoki and his memoir “BLUE: THE COLOR OF NOISE”

Songs

Steve Aoki & Alan Walker ft. ISAK - ARE YOU LONELY (midi)

Circle of Life - King of Africa (The Lion King) Intro Jungle Bae VIP [Jack Ü Mashup]

TJR - Ass Hypnotized (feat. Dances With White Girls)

Michael Jackson - Thriller (Steve Aoki Midnight Hour Remix)

Linkin Park, Steve Aoki - A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES

Avicii - Levels

BTS - Mic Drop (Steve Aoki Remix)

BTS - Mic Drop

Steve Aoki - Crash Into Me feat. Darren Criss

And introducing…on drums, it’s Bill Kreutzman. Working rhythm for the band that put the Jam in “Jam Band,” we’ll learn all about his humble bay area beginnings, his three acid-soaked decades in the Grateful Dead, and how everything from the Great Pyramids to San Francisco garbage-men is “far out”, all from his book “DEAL: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams and Drugs with the Grateful Dead”.

Check out Ben's plays and the Fast & Furious series at www.thetanknyc.org

Songs:

Grateful Dead - St. Stephen (Philmore West, June 7 1969)

Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower (Avalon Ballroom May 5 1969)

Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower (Veneta Oregon, 8/27/72)

Grateful Dead - Playing in the Band (Bickershaw Festival, Wiggen England, May 7 1972)

Grateful Dead - Greatest Story Ever Told (Bickershaw Festival, Wiggen England, May 7 1972)

Grateful Dead - Brown Eyed Woman (Cornell University, May 8, 1977)

Grateful Dead - Scarlet Bogonias (Cornell University, May 8, 1977)

Grateful Dead - He’s Gone (Veneta Oregon, 8/27/72)

Grateful Dead - Fire on the Mountain (Live at Giza 9/17/78)

Grateful Dead - Truckin’ (Live at Giza 9/17/78)

Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia (Soldier Field, Chicago, July 9 1995)

And introducing…Dave Matthews Band! We’re talking the terminally normie jam band that ruled the 90’s by examining Dave, what made him so big, and what kind of legacy – if any – he created. We also do a fair bit of talking about the Rock ’n Roll Hall of Fame (DMB’s failure to be inducted this year inspired this ep) and why we love to hate these prestigious lists.

Read Steven Hyden’s piece on DMB: https://uproxx.com/indie/cases-for-and-against-dave-matthews-band-induction-rock-hall/

And please, go buy Good Vibes at the Iowa State Fair! www.iowagoodvibes.com

Songs:

NateTheGreatBeats - Crash (midi remix)

Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching

Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me

Dave Matthews Band - Tripping Billies (Live at Woodstock ’99)

Dave Matthews Band - The Space Between

Dave Matthews - Gravedigger

Dave Matthews - All Along the Watchtower (Live at FarmAid ’01)

Dave Matthews - All Along the Watchtower (Live at FarmAid ’10)

And introducing…STEVE ALBINI! The king curmudgeon of American punk, today we’re going to be talking all about the legendarily confrontational Big Black frontman, and doing a deep dive into art, artists and what being offensive is all about from a 2015 interview “Steve Albini Talks to Listen”.

The Listen Mag interview: https://www.listenlistenlisten.org/stevealbini/

Listen to Beep Beep Lettuce: https://beepbeeplettuce.podbean.com/

Listen to Generation Loss: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/generation-loss/id1488879962

Listen to Stay Inside (Bryn's Band) https://stayinside.bandcamp.com/

St. Vincent Plays Kerosene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TuWsQ1smQo

Songs

Shellac - Squirrel Song

Shellac - You Came in Me

Shellac - Prayer to God

Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota

Big Black - Kerosene

St. Vincent - Kerosene (Live)

And introducing…the original dirtbags of punk rock, it’s The Cramps! We’re joined by Casey Hopkins, guitarist for Brooklyn rock band The Advertisers, to explore Lux Interior and Poison Ivy’s unique brand of psychobilly sleaze through Dick Porter’s definitive “Journey To The Center of the Cramps”

Find the Advertisers online:

https://theadvertisers.nyc/

Live at Meltasia video EP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4o3yT_gkxs

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theadvertisersnyc/?hl=en

Songs

The Cramps - Human Fly (cover)

The Flamingos - Love Walked In

The Cramps - Strychnine

The Cramps - Live California State Mental Hospital

The Cramps - Garbageman

The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck

The Cramps - How Far Can Too Far Go

The Cramps - Get off the Road

The Bird Brains - Underwater Sun

The Cramps - Bikini Girls with Machine Guns