Soft Shoulder

Format be damned! Alex and his old friend Danny are sitting down and kind of talking about OUR LADY PEACE! A Canadian band with a huge career during the 90s ( Hope you like 2 dudes saying "remember that time?" ) and a decent following states side. We delve in to their "kind of ok, we guess" catalogue, Summersault 98/2000, Edwin and a whole lot more. 

We're sitting down this week for the penultimate artist feature of Soft Shoulder season 1, Robert Palmer! From his early Island sound inspirations, the insane amount of cover material, his tin pan alley style to the powers station. Robert Palmer is a strange and pretty reserved musical chameleon  with an equally weird body of work that is really all over the map. 

Stacey and Skinner are talking SPARKS! ( Who Alex just wasn't hip to) But wow! Sparks are great with a capitol DAMN! Just wait, you're all in for a treat, seriously. Music is an amazing thing and sometimes something just finds you and you know it's a perfect fit.

Hey Soft Soldiers! Stacey and Alex are all the way back with an all new episode almost kind of about your favourite Alan Parsons produced 70's weirdo's, Ambrosia! Come learn about a band we "Kind of thought were different, but they're ok, i guess", sperm whale vomit, our opinions on Zappa, side profiled old men named Arthur and our brand new fan favourite segment "recipes with Stacey"

If there were ever rails, we never even glimpsed them before going off on this episode.

Episode 9, Kenny Loggins, let's gooooooo! We are returning to Pooh corner this week to talk about multi-level marketing, birth energy, gang fights with a gang's accountant and raking in that sweet sweet soundtrack & Xmas Money. So what did our boy K-Log get up to after Loggins and Messina ? Turns out a whole bunch of high strangeness. Check it out and don't forget to rate and review, it really helps us out.

Wow, this one's a real hum dinger. Stacey and Alex sit down with Skinner from Philly for 2 somewhat coherent games. In the first game we play some clips and ask Skinner, "is this Chilliwack, Trooper or April Wine?" We're not going to lie, it's tough, even for the most seasoned cancon aficionado. In the second game, both Skinner and Stacey play "Who is this obscure Canadian band?" Skinner is given a song name & clip and has to choose between a,b,c & d answers to figure out which band it is, easy enough? But! Then Stacey has to point out what the connection is between at least 2 of the aforementioned bands ( Spoiler, she hates both the game and Alex ) So come learn about early much music, an old man trying to figure out tabs, Thrust and 3 people just chatting random nonsense.

Wow, this one went way off the rails and we're pretty sure it's our longest episode yet. Speaking of pretty, let's talk about this accidental best selling duo of the 1970s, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina. From Danny's song all the way to a pretty brutal cover of Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash" these 2 cuties really run the gamut of strange folky island blues soft rock. Come learn about how this even happened, who are the coral island reefers, when the undertaker became the American badass, and we remember the golden era of the "secret song" Yikes.

Everyone once and a while we're going to make an "Official Tangent" episode between Soft Shoulder episodes. This one is the debut of "2 bummed out Cancers". Matt and Alex sit down and just shoot the shit, complain, commiserate and try to figure out what Brandy's little brothers name was. Join these 2 dudes and try to decide out wtf is even happening. 

What a week! Porcaro's and Lukathers and Fergusons oh my! We're talking Toto and all of their wacky shenanagins. From their beginnings as Rural Still Life, then Still life, amazing session work to a Louisiana wild man starting his own Toto in the 80's. Also on this episode, Stacey has a confession and trust us, it's HUGE.