PLAY DISC

By Jon Porobil & Harrison Porobil

Every other Tuesday, Jon and Harrison Porobil sit down for about an hour to discuss a full album of music. We will cover many genres from many different time periods—the only common theme is that we t... more

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March 24, 2020Episode 012: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
For our 12th episode, Jon and Harrison are listening to someone else's recommendation...what?! At the request of listener Billy Callis (through the magic of our Play Disc Request Lottery!), today we discuss King Crimson's debut album, In The Court Of The Crimson King. Over the course of an hour, join us as we:
Discuss the little observed fact that Kanye West listens to King Crimson
Hear Jon's impersonations of Casey Kasem, Sir Patrick Stewart, and (after a fashion) Kanye West
Talk about the virtues and vices of flute solos
Marvel at the gall of someone showing up to a job interview without any of the requested qualifications
Experience Harrison's shock upon discovering Robert Christgau's evaluation of King Crimson
Have a brief discussion to talk about who the best drummer of all time is
Wax poetic about the slowly disappearing art of the album, and Harrison maybe comes around a little bit on vinyl
Listen to Harrison learn what a mellotron is in real time
Elucidate a slight tension between Jon and Harrison and how they critically approach music
Entertain Harrison whining about people who Oppenheimer and Nietzsche
Get into a brief argument about whether or not each note needs to justify its existence and whether or not you can miss an absence of something
Discuss our key track, while Harrison does a bit of metagaming
Preview our next episode
Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!
Find Billy Callis on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/Billy_Callis/
And find Billy's band Nailhouse at https://www.instagram.com/Nailhouse___
The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above.
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March 10, 2020Episode 011: Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind (1983)
It's our 11th episode, and Harrison has brought metal gods Iron Maiden to the table with their third album, Piece of Mind. Over the course of our hour-long discussion, we cover...
The comforting feeling of getting exactly what you want from a familiar artist
Iron Maiden's changing lineup, and how this album showed them "becoming Iron Maiden"
Can one great song save an otherwise unremarkable album?
The backmasking at the beginning of "Still Life"
Jon picks on Harrison's inappropriately long-lived love of ska, and Harrison picks on Jon's completely appropriate enduring love of The Beatles
How weird it is that we don't hear much about the Satanic Panic of the 1980s anymore
Iron Maiden's fandom of Frank Herbert's Dune... and how they were rebuffed by Frank Herbert
Jon dunks on Lord Tennyson with a 170-year-belated sick burn
Jon & Harrison pick their key tracks!
The PLAY DISC Request Lottery (now with its own theme song!)
A preview of next week's episode!
Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!
Here is the video of Jon rolling the dice for the Request Lottery: https://youtu.be/N-sIf6N3xNU
The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above.
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March 03, 2020BONUS - Jon & Harrison interview Glenn Case
For a special bonus episode, Jon & Harrison are joined by [Glenn Case](glenncase.com), who blessed us with an extremely energetic interview in which we discussed...
Our history with online comunities such as [MC Frontalot](frontalot.com), The Frontalittle Squad, and [Song Fight](songfight.org)!
Glenn's new album Growth, available now for purchase and on all streaming platforms
How Glenn keeps up with so many projects at once and stays prolific
Death and its reminder to create things you love because our time is limited
The advantages of recording in a home studio
Some details about the next project by indie rock-rap group The Grammar Club
The significance of some of the songs on Growth, especially "Honorary" and "I'm No Good"
Glenn chooses a song for the PLAY DISC Request Lottery
Why Glenn loves the number 12
Glenn's tradition of releasing albums on Leap Day, April 1, and his birthday
Harrison once again compares something to ska that has no business being compared to ska
Here are some relevant links from the discussion. Let us know if we forgot anything, because Glenn covered a lot of ground.
Glenn Case's website: https://glenncase.com
Glenn's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/glenncase
Glenn's Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/glenncase
Song Fight! website: https://songfight.org (and btw, go listen and vote for The Frontalittle Squad's latest entry!)
The Grammar Club's website: https://thegrammarclub.bandcamp.com/
Jamuary website: https://www.jonathanmann.net/jamuary
Brother Machine: https://brothermachine.bandcamp.com/ - RIP Seth. :-(
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February 25, 2020Episode 010: Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy (2014)
For our tenth episode (!), Jon brings the 2014 album by Old Crow Medicine Show, Remedy. Over the course of our hour-long discussion, we talk about...
Jon's nine-year-old daughter and her favorite band (EDITOR'S NOTE: Her favorite band has changed since this episode was recorded - try and guess it now!)
Whether we needed to be told it was okay to like a bluegrass album, or that "OCMS is actually a secret punk or metal band" (they're not)
Whether it's offensive to call bluegrass "Hillbilly music"
Our opinions on modern country music
Our adoration of Dolly Parton
"The Warden" and whether it's okay for a bluegrass song to sympathize with a prison warden
Our key tracks for the album
Our dice roll for the PLAY DISC Request Lottery
A preview of our next episode, about Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind
Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!
The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above. The video of the dice roll from this episode is here: https://youtu.be/cUiIgQJNmno
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February 18, 2020Episode 009: Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons... (2008)
For our ninth episode, Harrison brings for consideration the 2008 album by Atmosphere, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that Shit Gold. Over the course of our hour-long discussion, we talk about...
How much in our lives and the world has changed in the eleven years since this album's release (ooOOoooo...... Timeghost!)
The change in Atmosphere from being a DJ-and-rapper duo to being a full four-piece band
The album's lyrical reliance on "twist endings" and extended metaphors
The mind-blowing true meaning of the "skinny white pimp" in "The Skinny"
Slug's prominent use of women as protagonists of his songs—why that works, and why it might not
Whether or not the titular waitress of "The Waitress" knows that the song's narrator is her father (spoiler alert!)
Whether the conversation between Slug and the person he's rapping to in "Yesterday" is more "lovers talk" or "dad talk" (spoiler alert again!)
How Atmosphere can make a lifetime of struggle culminating in a "F$&% YOU!" feel like a triumph
We reveal our key tracks and roll for next week's PLAY DISC Request Lottery
Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!
The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above. The Youtube video for this episode's Request Lottery dice roll is here: https://youtu.be/WthnexucU5Q
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February 11, 2020BONUS - Jon & Harrison interview Patty Lynn of The Wind + The Wave!
Jon & Harrison sit down with special guest Patty Lynn, one-half of the eclectic folk-pop duo The Wind + the Wave! Over the course of an hour, we discuss...
Jon's discovery of The Wind + The Wave early in their career, thanks to some ardent boosting from KUTX
How first albums can be intensely personal, followed by the pressure to repeat the magic
Why the band chose to work with an outside producer for their second album, and how that went
The Wind + The Wave's current album, the vinyl-exclusive collection of 80s songs, Covers II
How the band chooses their covers, and why the new album is vinyl exclusive
Patty's public advocacy for mental health discussion, and her personal struggles
Patty's forthcoming side project with Kelly Jones
Patty picks an album for our Request Lottery
Pre-order Covers II by The Wind + The Wave here: https://www.thewindandthewave.com/shop/covers-ii-vinyl-preorder
Thanks to Ben Wright-Heuman for custom cover art for this episode! Support the Kickstarter campaign for his second graphic novel Letters of the Devil II: The Legacy of L here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bwhcomics/the-letters-of-the-devil-ii-the-legacy-of-l
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February 04, 2020Episode 008: Billy Joel - An Innocent Man (1983)
For our 8th episode, Jon brings for consideration Billy Joel and his 1983 album An Innocent Man. Over the course of our hour-long discussion, we talk about...
Harrison's reputation in the neighborhood where he works for having eclectic music
Creativity in a state of "flow"
What Billy Joel has in common with Sylvia Plath
Joel's songwriting process, which he called "Wrestling the beast with 88 teeth"
How Billy Joel's music saved Jon from a depression in his early teenage years
Harrison asks: Is Billy Joel kind of a Communist?
We ponder whether Joel's intentional homages to the (mostly black) musicians of his youth constitutes cultural appropriation, and whether it's "okay"
We reveal our key tracks
The dice roll for the PLAY DISC Request Lottery
A preview of our next episode, on Atmosphere's When Life Gives You Lemons...
Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!
Our artist Ben Wright-Heuman is running a Kickstarter campaign for his next graphic novel, Letters of the Devil 2. We have an advertisement for it in this episode. Support him and/or order your copy by CLICKING HERE NOW!
Links to stuff we discussed in the episode:
The 12" dance remix of "Tell Her About It" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yjp7RUOjI
The biography of Billy Joel from which Jon cites the phrase "Wrestling the beast with 88 teeth" and the anecdote about the speedy writing process of this album - Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man by Hank Bordowitz
The Sylvia Plath quote (which was, in point of fact, a quote about Sylvia Plath by her husband, Ted Hughes) - https://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/she-was-quite-happy-to-get-a-chair-or-even-a-toy/
A helpful site about the early rock performances in the USSA as Gorbachev slowly lifted the Iron Curtain - https://historyofrussia.org/billy-joels-historic-soviet-concert-tour/ (note that Billy Joel was not the first legal rock performance in the USSR. That honor went to Elton John. But Billy Joel headlined the first legal rock concert tour in the USSR, and the first rock concert to be broadcast in the USSR.)
The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above.
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January 21, 2020Episode 007: Bowling for Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve (2004)
For our 7th episode, Harrison brings for consideration the 2004 album by Bowling For Soup, A Hangover You Don't Deserve. Over the course of our hour-long discussions, we talk about...
Harrison's "Literal Desert Island Mix" and why this album is on it
What makes Bowling For Soup fit in with the 2000s pop-punk scene... And what makes them different
The "clever" gimmicks that drive many of the album's songs
The confusing mechanics of the lyrics to "Almost"
Jon's difficulty remembering "Smoothie King," and Harrison explaining how it's actually a depressing song
Harrison's young mind having difficulty with the concept of metaphor
What Bowling for Soup have in common with Shakespeare's Richard III
The self-awareness of "Really Might Be Gone"... And its similarity to another contemporaneous album track
Jon and Harrison reveal their Key Track(s)
We roll the dice for the PLAY DISC Request Lottery
A preview of our next episode, covering Billy Joel's An Innocent Man
Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!
The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above.
Here's a link to the YouTube video of the dice roll: https://youtu.be/ab_HjIkTzJc
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January 14, 2020 BONUS - Jon & Harrison interview Too Much Joy!
In lieu of an "outtakes" episode this week, we have a full-length interview with the band. Three fourths of it, anyway. Tim Quirk, Sandy Smallens, and Jay Blumenfield sat down for an interview with Jon & Harrison. Tommy Vinton couldn't make it, but Jay did a great Tommy impression! We dicsuss their connection to Ohio, the band's influence on the funny, sarcastic pop punk movement that followed them, the transition from being in a rock band to the business world, the bands that influenced them the most, and their infamous Miami arrest on obscenity charges for playing 2 Live Crew songs. We also gave each of them an entry into our Request Lottery!
It was a fun-filled hour of discussion and reminiscences, so come join us and let us know what you think. Then come back in one week for our next regular episode, when we'll be talking about Bowling for Soup.
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January 07, 2020Episode 006: Too Much Joy - Cereal Killers (1991)
For our sixth episode, Jon brings for consideration Too Much Joy, an early and relatively obscure influence for a lot of cheeky pop-punk bands, and their 1991 major-label debut Cereal Killers. Over the course of our hour-long discussion, we talk about....
The surprising saga of how Newt Gingrich came to be a Too Much Joy fan... and then had to disavow them
Harrison's total shock at hearing KRS-One do a guest verse
The balance of humor and poignancy; how Too Much Joy recorded songs that were funny and embraced humor without being "a comedy band."
The Abbott & Costello routine that inspired "Susquehanna Hat Company"... and why Jon might have ruined the song by discussing it
The numerous ways that Too Much Joy is able to "have it both ways" in their songwriting
The impressively strange angles of some of these song lyrics
What's up with Ohio?
How the band's embrace of artifice and "fakeness" clashed against a genre that was beginning to crave "authenticity" in its performers
Jon and Harrison reveal their Key Tracks
The debut of our PLAY DISC Request Lottery! Donate to our Patreon at the $5 level or above to get a request on the list!
And a preview of our next episode, on Bowling For Soup and their 2005 album A Hangover You Don't Deserve
Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!
Starting this week, we've begun rolling dice for our PLAY DISC Request Lottery! Here's the link to the video of Jon rolling the dice, so you know we're honest. https://youtu.be/oOLnozgSJxA (The video is pretty low quality, but you can still see the dice, and that's all that matters). The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above.
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