BOWIE VS. DYLAN

Special guest host Nancy Beck (AKA Jake and Charlie's indomitable mother) brings her musical knowledge and enthusiasm to one of her all-time favorite LPs, the 1976 album Luxury Liner by Emmylou Harris. The boys listen in rapt attention like some kind of throwback to their childhood story time before giving their personal, and wildly divergent, opinions on the country classic.

In the latest episode of Louder Than Sound, Jake presents his thoughts on an actual, real-life classic album: Bruce Springsteen's 1982 LP Nebraska. Come along as Jake (and by extension, the Boss himself) weaves a sweet web of tantalizing info about the home demos that somehow became a masterpiece. Charlie (who never really got into ol' Bruce) listens to it for the very first time and lets you know if he thinks it's all it's cracked up to be.

Louder Than Sound: a podcast about music for people who like music made by people who love music.

Charlie introduces Elza Soares, an 80-something samba singer who is a living legend in her native Brazil. In 2015, she released Woman at the End of the World, an explosive departure from her previous dozens of albums and possibly her finest work. Jake dips his toes into Elza's wild decades-long career and lets us know his initial thoughts.

Louder Than Sound, the new podcast from the fellas who brought you 64 episodes of Bowie Vs. Dylan, is back for a second go.

Jake presents the context and background for Soul Coughing's 1994 LP Ruby Vroom as his choice for the agreed-upon "1st Albums" theme. Charlie gives his thoughts on a terribly unique album that up until now he had never apparently listened to. Does he like it? Does he hate it? Will that affect your own feelings about it? Listen to find out.

From the fine folks who brought you Bowie Vs. Dylan comes a new podcast that explores the enormous world of music.

For the inaugural episode, Charlie presents his studied thoughts on Tom Waits' 1973 LP Closing Time. Learn along with Jake about Waits' shadowy past and try to figure out how on earth he actually sings like that. Top it off with Jake's take on the album, not necessarily from a place of expertise, but from that one most recent time he listened to it at the gentle behest of the above-mentioned Charlie.

Chaz' Special Secret Diary: August 23rd, 2021: Dear diary, I just want to tell you how special of an ep of BvD we just recorded today!  I was so funny and insightful about Bowie's albums list, and Jake also happened to be there.

Chaz' Special Secret Diary: September 15th, 2021: Dear diary, remember that sweet sweet ep of BvD I told you I recorded a few weeks ago, the one where I'll be considered for the Pulitzer?  And Jake was there but just stared at me and drooled the whole time?  Well...it's not been published yet.  Guess I'll have to talk with the boys in the IT department!

Chaz' Special Secret Diary: November 1st, 2021: Dear diary, I've become perturbed, because the legendary lost episode of BvD from August still hasn't surfaced, and I hate to rag on the guy, but Jake has REALLY DROPPED THE BALL ON THIS ONE.  He's the one who's responsible for putting them up and he JUST HASN'T, and here it is nearly Webbys season. 

Chaz' Special Diary: December 6th, 2021: It's so cold, diary.  I fear this will be my last entry.  I can't tell where I am or what's around me.  I keep calling out for help, but no one answers.  There will be no Bowie vs Dylan podcast episode #66.  I am utterly alone.  

Goodbye, cruel world, on this very special albums ranking countdown episode of Bowie vs. Dylan.

Wow, the reason that Chaz and Jake haven't been providing fresh new episodes of this podcast for the past couple of months has been because we got lost in the desert on an annual BvD Board of Directors-mandated team building exercise.  We almost starved, too!  That Charlie really was looking pretty tasty for a couple of days there, wasn't he?

Anyway, we're back, but we've had no access to the news or to the outside world for most of 2020.  Did we miss anything?  

(Shuffles papers). Are we sure that this Bowie release schedule is correct?  How many 90's-era soul patches must we endure?

(Shuffles different papers). Dylan's still BACK?!  Like, for realskis?  That's rad!

Like you are, dear listeners, who will never hold it against us that we refuse to catch on the state of domestic affairs, not to mention global ones, on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.

Welcome to Louder Than Sound, the new podcast series from real-life brothers Jake and Charlie, which finally answers the only question they didn't ask on Bowie vs. Dylan: What's better? Jake or Charlie's taste in music?

Listen every Friday as they discuss favorite albums from their deep record collections based on themes, reactively guess and react to each other's reactions to their reactions!

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Here's one or more sentences to describe this shockingly (long) final regular-run episode of the shockingly (all figures relative to actual popular) popular podcast, Bowie vs. Dylan:

It's the last one.

Jake: Are you cryin', Chaz, because I'm not cryin'.

Chaz: I'm not cryin' either, Jake.

Jake: I'm DEFINITELY not not cryin'.

Chaz: Wait, does that mean you ARE cryin'?  Your double negative is confusing, as are all your double negatives, and frankly, all of your words altogether.

Jake: I'll let you be the judge, but just know that I had to get a new beer that I'm not not cryin' in, and buy a new keyboard that I didn't not ruin because I was not not cryin' on it, and Lord I hope it comes via not Amazon in time for me to finish this one-or-more-sentences blurb about this not not last episode of Bowie vs. Dylan. 

Chaz: (not not cryin')

Jake: (not not cryin')

Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVT_mvvZLo

Chaz: I'm Charlie, and I like Bowie, as well as superty-duper long episodes of the podcast I co-host that are so drawn out that they go against every fiber of my being!

Jake: And I'm Jake, and I love Dylan, as well as wildly long and incoherent podcasts that are still half as long as every single average Academy Awards in existence!

Everybody: And that's that, on this not not not final BvD Awards episode of Bowie vs. Dylan.

Hey, what you can say about 2016?  Besides, of course, GREAT YEAR.  

Absolutely nothing upsetting happened that continues and will continue to reverberate through the political ages, nor did, like, 154 important musician/celebrities die unexpectedly within what seemed like a 6 month span.

Nope, good one, 2016.  Way to go!  

You won't find us complaining, not even because David Bowie passed away, because hey, he released an amazing album just before that that took on a whole new and deeper meaning immediately.  Eh?  And even though Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature, which must have seemed like a huge bummer for him, at least he stretched the boundaries to their breaking point for actually accepting the coveted prize.  All of Bowie's albums shot to the top of the charts, Dylan was 2 million kroner richer, and me and Charlie are about to ride off into the sunset having talked about it way too much.

So at least we got that going for us, which is nice, on this 2016 edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.