This week we dive into why people stop listening to new & current music as they get older and how we haven’t (totally) fallen victim to this. Jesse’s take is predictably viewed through the lens of Marxism. Nat’s is much more gracious and concerned with aging.

Edited by Nat

Nat: HarborLights – “Isolation Ritual”

(Recorded on Sunday, January 12, 2022)

This week we catch up after the holidays and discuss our families’ influence on our own musical tastes.

Edited by Nat

Nat: SOM – “The Shape of Everything” – Spotify

(Recorded on Sunday, January 5, 2022)

Nat & Jesse swing the pendulum back from pop music to the opposite side of the spectrum. We talk hard-to-listen-to / avant garde music. “Challenging” music, if you will.

“I never worked out what it was that possessed me when music possessed other than I always wanted it.”

“Furthermore it made me someone of course. Thanks to music I became someone who was the forefront. Someone you had to admire. Not as much as you had to admire those who made the music admittedly. But as a listener I was in the vanguard.”

From “My Struggle” by Karl Ove Knausgard

Nat’s weekly picks – School of Seven Bells – “SVIIB” – Wikipedia

Recorded on Sunday, November 28, 2021.

Nat & Jesse talk about pop music they like because we are stereotypically music nerds who don’t listen a lot of pop music.

Edited by Nat

Nat’s weekly pick — Apparently the entire Wire discography – Wikipedia

Recorded on Sunday, November 11, 2021.

Nat & Jesse discuss whether or not Christmas music is good actually and then dive into their list of year end favorites.

Edited by Nat

Recorded on Sunday, December 12, 20212.

Were the 90s the best decade for music or are we just old?

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." — Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The quote Jesse thinks of when he remembers he asked for snowboarding gear for Christmas once and barely used it.

Nat's weekly pick — Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3 Series) – Amazon

(Episode recorded Sunday November 7, 2021)

Nat’s weekly pick — Shabazz Palaces — “Black Up” — Full album stream on YouTube

(Episode recorded Sunday October 31, 2021)

LiveJournal — Wikipedia — You had to be there.

Nat’s weekly pick — The Melvins’ “Stoner Witch” — Spotify

Jesse & Nat share their experiences at Riot Fest & Furnace Fest respectively

1/2 way through the episode Jesse’s mic decided to go terrible. Super apologize for that. Shouldn’t happen moving forward.

Furnace Fest

Nat’s Weekly Pick — Elliott Smith’s “Elliott Smith” — Wikipedia

Get to know your hosts as Nat and Jesse discuss their formative tentpole moments as music fans, important moments along their journeys, and where they are now.

Links to things mentioned:

Nat’s music review website, “A Year of Vinyl”.

“Blackgaze” genre

Isis (the band)

The explosion of Christian metalcore

CCM

The rise of nü-metal

Christian alternatives to “secular” music

Other moments:

Indie rock gets popular

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