Great great great episode with Brent Kick, who is like the oracle of music knowledge. We'll be back soon enough with more content but I'm proud of this one.

We took a brief break from the format to elevate another FB meme for no reason other than our own amusement. This was recorded a bit over a week ago.

We were joined by Jim Gross to talk baseball as well as two bands who remain extremely underappreciated despite their later infamy as bands that every good band appreciates.

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Songs on this podcast:

Big Star - "Ballad of El Goodo"

The Replacements - "Unsatisfied"

Art Brut - "The Replacements"

The two Andys exchanged thoughts about the albums they assigned to each other before engaging with Josh in a very open ended and interesting conversation.

The two Andys exchanged thoughts about the albums they assigned to each other before engaging with Josh in a very open ended and interesting conversation.

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This episode is deeply weird and it's great. It's just Andy and Andy talking exclusively about Ween. By Ween.

This episode is deeply weird and it's great. It's just Andy and Andy talking exclusively about Ween. By Ween.

Part two of our conversation with Ryan Morgan concerns his opinions on modern female pop stars. His thesis is that not only are we in a golden age of female pop stars who are both artistically interesting and also important culturally and even politically but that we've never actually seen anything like this. We've never had women pop stars, and WOC pop stars at that, in anything like their number or in terms of them making their own choices for themselves. In the course of the conversation we touched on how #MeToo hasn't really hit the music industry yet, how female artistry had been stamped out in the past because of the patriarchy of the music industry and society, among many other side topics.

Songs sampled in this episode:

Beyonce - "Formation"

Miley Cyrus - "Jolene"

Ariana Grande - "Dangerous Woman"

Taylor Swift - "Style"

Amy Winehouse - "Tears Dry On Their Own"

Janelle Monáe - "Make Me Feel"

Rihanna - "Man Down"

The Libertines - "Boys in the Band"

We're joined this week by Ryan Morgan who was here to discuss why the current generation of female pop singers aren't just great musicians in an unprecedented way, but also that they matter culturally. We don't talk about any of that in part one, in fact we don't talk about music it all for the first forty minutes so if you don't care about baseball or soccer you should skip to that point. After that we talk about Ryan's ongoing series of essays about Hootie and the Blowfish, the Brown Andy reviews the latest Telestrion album, and the two Andys return to the album review series.

Telestrion album can be found here:

https://telestrion1.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-in-the-sky

You can check out Ryan's music here:

https://ryanmorgan.bandcamp.com/

We're once again joined by Scott Jeffries as well as first time guest Andy Bellemer as we have a wide ranging discussion about progressive rock. It was long enough to be broken in to two parts but in tribute to prog we left it at the excessive length.

New Telestrion available here:

https://telestrion1.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-in-the-sky

The Cardiacs - Tarred and Feathered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjSycDJatc