Long Plays of Our Lives

It's our very first listener pick! Ryan's dad shares one of his all time favorite records: "Entertainment!" by Gang of Four. Will David be offended by the outright catchiness of some of these tracks? Will Ryan see eye to eye with his dad? Tune in to find out!

We're back this week with Ryan's first pick of the new season: the long-awaited follow up album from NC rap duo Little Brother, "May The Lord Watch".

We're back this week to discuss David's first pick of the new season; the debut album from Portishead, "Dummy".

Welcome back, Long Players! We’re back after a 4 month hiatus, and we’re going in a different direction this season! Instead of leading off with a mutual pick, we decided to become a part of the cultural zeitgeist and break down the long-awaited new album from Tool, “Fear Inoculum”. This one was (surprisingly!) David’s idea, so he has no one to blame but himself! Will he regret it? Will he come around to Tool for the first time in his adult life? Tune in to find out!

We’re down to the final episode of our first season, and we’re here to cover David’s final pick: “Too Dark Park” from the industrial noise monsters known as Skinny Puppy. Has David successfully prepared Ryan for this? Tune in this week to find out, and hear our hosts discuss all they’ve learned in the last year!

This is it! We have just two episodes remaining this season, and here we’re covering the final pick from Ryan: “California”, by Mr. Bungle. Will David get on board with the many genres and vocal stylings that Mike Patton brings to the table? Find out this week!

It’s our final mutual pick of the first season, and we’re going out on a high note with one of hip-hop’s all time best albums: “Things Fall Apart”, from the legendary Roots crew. We’re in for the long haul with this 18 track opus, and it’s a great way to close out our list of mutual picks for the season. Tune in to find out exactly how many bottles of Mountain Dew Ryan drank in order to purchase it!

We’re back, and with just 4 episodes remaining in our first season! This week, we’re down to one of David’s final picks: “Soul Mining” by The The. We’re firmly back in synthy British post-punk territory here, and Ryan’s more happy to be here than usual!

We’re down to our final 5 episodes in the first season, and this week we’ve got Ryan’s pick, the second album from alternative rock band Morphine, “Cure for Pain”. Will David, who hates the saxophone, find something to enjoy in a band that utilizes saxophone in all of its songs? That’s the gamble Ryan’s taking this week, and we’ll see if it pays off! (Spoiler: probably not)

David and Ryan are back to a mutual pick, and this time they are diverging from their usual hip hop picks, and taking it back to the 1960’s for Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s appriately titled “Nancy & Lee”. Will they find as much musical common ground with country as they do with hip hop? Tune in this week to find out!