July 03, 2025

Love That Album - Bonus Episode - First Episode Redux - Bruce Springsteen "Wild Innocent" vs "Darkness"

44 minutes

In July 2011 (14 years ago as I write this), I recorded episode 1 of Love That Album podcast. The period wasn't ground zero for podcasts, but it was still early days, and people were still asking, “What's a podcast?” At

the time, there seemed to be very little in the way of music

discussion shows, so I decided to create one of my own to talk about

music in the same way film podcasters of the time that I enjoyed

discussed films.

So.....ahh....welcome to episode 1 of Love That Album – Redux.

I asked Melbourne music journalist Jeff Jenkins to join me, and we had a debate over which was the better Bruce Springsteen album: The Wild, The Innocent & The E-Street Shuffle or Darkness On The Edge of Town. Lengthy and poetic songs versus short and concise ones. I thought the

conversation was good, but I didn't even use a proper microphone, so

the sound quality was awful. I used the laptop mic and we had all the

ambient noise of the room. I didn't do any editing to speak of. It's

a mess.

BUT I enjoyed the conversation and the process of podcasting. It meant that I had a regular means of speaking to interesting people about

music...something I didn't have in my daily life – at least not to

the extent I wanted.

So, here we are in the mess of planet Earth in 2025. In recent times, software has been developed to clean up audio in a way we couldn't imagine. It's not just available for the likes of Peter Jackson. I had the idea to see what would happen if I ran episode 1 through the software....and to

my amazement, Jeff and I sounded like we were in a proper studio with

decent mics. So, following that revelation, I decided to edit the

show in the same fashion I've been doing over the last few years, and

put it out there for you to listen to.

I thought for 5 minutes of going back to all the early episodes whose editing and sound quality grate on my nerves, but my son convinced me otherwise. He said, “don't do a George Lucas....the show evolved, and you don't want to deny its history”. I thought about it and realised he was

100% right. So what you have here is one of two episodes I'm giving

the cleaning-up treatment to (the other one will be out sometime

later this year).....everything otherwise stays up as it is – even

the original episode 1. This is here just as an exercise on what the

start could have been in 2011. Podcasting was still the domain of

mostly people like me with the passion to present ideas, but without

any ideas as to how to present them. I'm proud of how it started and

where the show has gone. Tune in if you've never heard the episode

before....or even if you have and felt pity for my approach.

If you’ve been enjoying the show, please consider giving us a favourable review on iTunes and let your friends know that our show exists. If you don't enjoy the show, tell your adversaries to tune in. We don't care who

listens.....

Love That Album is proudly part of the Pantheon Network of music podcasts. Check out all the other wonderful shows at http://pantheonpodcasts.com

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By Maurice Bursztynski

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