Dem Vinyl Boyz

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December 06, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 21 - Whitney Houston
Dem Vinyl Boyz are back and this time we talk about one of the top women artists of all time, ranking at number seven for all time most record sales for a female artist with over 200 million sales, Whitney Houston. Houston influenced many singers in popular music and was known for her powerful, soulful vocals and vocal improvisation skills. She is the only artist to have had seven consecutive number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, from "Saving All My Love for You" in 1985 to "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in 1988. Her recordings and films generated both great success and controversy. She received numerous accolades throughout her career and posthumously, including two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 16 Billboard Music Awards, and 28 Guinness World Records, as well as induction into the Grammy, Rhythm and Blues Music, and Rock and Roll halls of fame.
Dem Vinyl boys take a trip through Whitney's exhilarating and tragic life inside the music industry and her own personal life. They also take a look at some of her all time classics and her first studio album "Whitney Houston". The Vinyl Boys talk about the somewhat recent Whitney Houston documentary called "Whitney" which takes a deep dive into her family life and struggles with addiction during her career.
1 hr 1 min
November 30, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 20 - Girls, Girls, Girls
The Vinyl crew is here to listen to Motley Crue's fourth studio album 'Girls, Girls, Girls'. This 80s record reached No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200, sold over 4 million copies and received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Though the band put nearly no energy into making it, Mötley Crüe achieved its most substantial commercial success to date with “Theatre of Pain” (1985). That probably wasn’t the best motivation to work harder on the follow-up, 1987’s “Girls, Girls, Girls.” It doesn’t mean the band was complacent. The opener, “Wild Side,” is an ominous, deep track illustrating an urban nightmare of drugs and violence, a clear indicator that the glossy, pop-metal sheen of “Theatre of Pain'' is a thing of the past. It’s followed by “Girls, Girls, Girls,” the ultimate exercise in self-indulgence and maybe the greatest strip club anthem ever written. No pair of songs in the Mötley catalog describes the band better than this one. Girls, Girls, Girls continued Mötley Crüe’s super stardom while becoming the band's third straight album to go quadruple platinum. Overall, it’s an astute journal from a band that was having the time of their lives and just enjoying the ride—while simultaneously making great music.
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48 min
November 22, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 19 - Unorthodox Jukebox
Them Vinyl Boyz are back again and this week they're dropping the needle on a record that dropped nearly ten years ago 'Unorthodox Jukebox' by Bruno Mars. Listening to his second album, you can clearly see why this gifted, well rounded artist is so successful; the most famous thing out of Hawaii since Barack Obama and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. There’s a free spirited attitude that balances the album’s ambitions. Despite similarities to Adam Levine and Gavin DeGraw, lyrically talented artists who also use a watered down form of retro soul as the foundation for their mediocre pop-rock, Mars is by far the more talented vocalist. His sophomore album signals a move from street-side troubadour irrelevance to a bigger, stadium-filling sound. Much of the credit should be given to a trio of new collaborators—including superstar-grade producers Mark Ronson, Jeff Bhasker, and Diplo. The album reached Number one on the Billboard top 200 and sold nearly nine million copies.
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44 min
November 15, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 18 - In Utero
Dem Vinyl Boyz are back again and this week they're dropping the needle on some 90s Vinyl from the legendary rock band Nirvana. 'In Utero' coming two years after their second studio album 'Nevermind' which went on to change music history selling over 30 million copies. Their third studio album was unfortunately Nirvana's last, after lead singer Kurt Cobain tragically passed away after an alleged suicide. In Utero is contrarian rock, it’s meant to be everything Nevermind wasn’t and perhaps nothing illustrates that more clearly than the rough, dissonant chord that spearheads Serve the Servants. It’s not exactly a song I would call strenuous, but it’s abrasive and confrontational. The Vinyl Boyz listen to old interviews with Kurt Cobain which were few and far between due to his reclusive nature. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and has been certified five-times platinum. It’s also a fixture on all sorts of best album lists even nearly 30 years later.
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50 min
November 08, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 17 - Me Against The World
Dem Vinyl Boyz are back again and this week they're dropping the needle on 'Me Against The World' a hip-hop album by arguably the greatest rapper of all time Tupac. It’s an amazing, cohesive body of work that completely illustrates all the nuances that made up the complicated persona of Pac. His previous works showed flashes of brilliance, but Me Against the World became a manifestation of his artistic vision and his ongoing evolution as a Black man in America during the 90s. “Dear Mama” released as the lead single on the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, going platinum, which earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance. The song describes his poverty-stricken childhood, his mother’s drug addiction, and her triumph against insurmountable odds.
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1 hr 11 min
November 01, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 16 - Electric Ladyland
Dem Vinyl Boyz are back again and this week they're dropping the needle on 'Electric Ladyland' a groovy record from the 60s by musical pioneer and genius Jimi Hendrix. When rock critic connoisseur's refer to him as the creator of a generation's most potent exceptional music, this is the album they're talking about. What Hendrix musically compassed on this record expanded the canvas of what an artist could generate out of a modern recording studio. Tragically Hendrix would lose his life less than two years after this album was released due to asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. He was a legendary icon who created art that can never be replicated in any shape or form as well as pioneering a path for fellow guitarists and musicians to follow and evolve the craft.
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1 hr 25 min
October 25, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 15 - Licensed to Ill
Dem Vinyl Boyz are back again and this week they're scratching 'Licensed to Ill' a classic record from the eighties by Rock n Roll Hall of Famers The Beastie Boys. This album was a pioneer for hip-hop history as it was the first hip-hop album to ever top the Billboard 200, was certified Platinum, and it sold over 10 million copies. Licensed To Ill was a pun based on a 1965 imitation James Bond film, Licensed To Kill. Strangely, the album pre-dated a real James Bond movie entitled License To Kill by three years. The album’s cover artwork which has gone down in infamy was created by collage artist World B Omes and illustrated an airplane crashing into the side of a cliff. Held up to a mirror, the plane’s serial number, 3MTA3, reads like “EATME”, which was on purpose of course. The inspiration for the songs on this album came from 'Run-DMC', whose “Rock Box” had combined rap and rock elements two years prior.
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1 hr
October 18, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 14 - Even Worse
On this week's episode of Dem Vinyl Boyz we drop the needle on a rare 80's record from Alfred Matthew AKA "Weird Al Yankovic." Even Worse was Yankovic's fifth studio album and parodies Michael Jacksons 'Bad' album on the cover. His previous record 'Polka Party' was widely considered a commercial failure and was released to mixed but mostly negative reviews. Even Worse came and revitalized his career bringing mostly positive reviews and peaking at no. 27 on the billboard 200 while also becoming Al's best selling album. Michael Jackson, who was actually a big fan of Yankovic's work, bought copies of his music for his whole family even supporting Weird Al by letting him use the location set for 'Bad' for his parody 'Fat'. The music video was credited with helping boost the success of "I'm Fat”. In fact, it set a whole new standard for parody artists because of the state-of-the-art special effects he used such as the fat suit Yankovic had designed for himself.
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47 min
October 12, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 13 - Jagged Little Pill
On this week's episode of Dem Vinyl Boyz we drop the needle on a 90's record from a female. Alanis Morrisette sold more copies of Jagged Little Pill than Metallica's Black album, Bruce Srpingsteen's Born in the USA and Guns N Roses Apetite for Destruction. Madonna the co-founder Maverick Record's label back in 1992, Her company signed a then relatively unknown 20-year-old Morissette. Just over a year later and her debut album for the label had been released and proved to be the smash record the label had envisioned. With total sales now in excess of 33 million units globally, the album not only cemented Morissette’s star status, but went 16x platinum in the US, became the best-selling debut album of all time and garnered the singer five out of the nine GRAMMY Awards she was nominated for in 1996, not to mention taking out the number one spot in a staggering 14 charts around the world. But this album is about so much more than just groundbreaking statistics—it’s a powerful album about personal experiences. Jagged Little Pill isn’t a rock record. It’s grungy discomfort set to the kinds of top 40 hooks and backing tracks one gets working a guy like Glen Ballard, who Morissette met in 1994 and quickly took a liking to.
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56 min
September 23, 2022 Dem Vinyl Boyz EP 12 - At Folsom Prison
The is week on Dem Vinyl Boys we find an old record from 1968 to jam to. This was really a comeback for The Man in Black as his image was tarnished and his previous albums hadn't done as well. But this week we play back some classic interviews of Johnny telling tales of life, faith and whiskey.
Johnny Cash: if you don’t know his name, you should. As a singer-songwriter, Cash sold more than 90 million albums worldwide, for a multitude of genres from 1955 to 2000. His album “At Folsom Prison” is a great place to start for those not familiar with him. It has a mix of so many genres there is something for everyone.
Cash has collaborated with many artists including Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. In addition to receiving 11 Grammys, Cash has been inducted into the Rock and Roll and Country Music Hall of Fame His life was even the subject of the 2005 Oscar-nominated film “Walk the Line.”
Cash’s 1968 live album “At Folsom Prison” made him an icon to many: from country fans who were lost, to rock fans, folk fans and people who opposed social norms. Despite a year of turmoil for Cash, involving drugs, alcohol and a rocky marriage, the musician was plain-spoken and trustworthy, which people loved.
The album was recorded during a concert for the inmates inside Folsom Prison in California. Once released, it went platinum and emphasized his outlaw image because of the country-folk sound with a jailbird song influence.
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51 min