By The Album Concept Hour
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We've been doing the podcast for almost 5 years and in that time we've discussed all variety of concept albums. We've discussed brilliantly crafted social commentaries, deeply personal tragedies, space oddities, and brat reinventions. We've followed the rise of King Crimson and the fall of Pink Floyd, the tragedy of Janice Joplin and the triumph of Louryn Hill, and the forerunners of the concept albums we enjoy today. This has been an incredible journey and we couldn't have done it without each and every listener that tunes in. You have let me do a thing I have a passion for and I get to keep doing it because you keep listening! I'll be forever grateful.
And I'm especially grateful for my cohosts, past and present, for giving me their time and energy these past 5 years. John Griffith, Jake "the Snake" Foster, Trevor "The Altered Beast" Kolden, Scott Westley, Nathan Maney, Reis Galvan, and of course, the cohosts with the mo-host Jon Acker and Dave Gallagher. I love you guys and I couldn't be happier with this podcast and the people I make it with.
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We have Rockford, IL's own The Bitter Ends and we're wrapping up 199 episodes of the podcast (before starting fresh on 200) with truly one of the greatest concepts to grace this podcast, Frances the Mute! From the beautiful, but tragic story, to the inspiration that created it, to the scorching riffs and prog trumpets (to the decoded version of the album that combines the single Frances the Mute overtop the album Frances the Mute). If you're a concept fan, this is an epic concept.
See The Bitter Ends live in September!!!!
Links:
The Bitter Ends Live - https://www.facebook.com/events/s/local-bands-shred-the-stage/545418984487508/
Bucket List Playlist from Brad's music league: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Fc9xoXop3OXBGqnqBBm53?si=3324903e8fd84ac4
Suicide Prevention Hotline: https://nationaltoolkit.csw.fsu.edu/resource/national-suicide-prevention-lifeline-1-800-273-talk-8255/
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I had a really awesome description for this episode but Spotify's new uploader deleted everything. I don't know exactly what I said but it was moving and concise. You have to believe me...
Links:
The Suburbs short film by Spike Jonze: https://vimeo.com/58296738?share=copy
In his most personal album yet, Usher took his rocket blasting into the stars and poured some nas in the tank. This album put him on the map for good and solidified him as our generation's R Kelly (without all the weird pdfile/pee stuff). This is the kind of thing that Millenials were bumping and grinding to, and for good reason. Listen along with us to see how many of these tracks really are confessions, and how many are just about fuckin.
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We've raved over DAMN. We dick-rided To Pimp a Butterfly. Now it's time to really glaze, because it is the summer of "Not Like Us" and we're going back to long before the beef began. It's time for the origin story for Drake v Kendrick with the album that put them together in a track, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. Before Kendrick turned into the literal Boogie Man of Haters, there was a time when he could be in the same studio as him. Although, he phoned it in a little bit in the music video...
Links:
"Poetic Justice (feat. Drake)" Music Video: https://youtu.be/yyr2gEouEMM?si=zkSesxIkoXl8uJ3S
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City short film: https://youtu.be/cGkUpjyL7y8?si=USfOxf772QPQ79Nl
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Move over Swifties, it's time for brat girl summer.
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We're 194 episodes into this show and as we draw closer to the 200th, we thought we'd get to the ACTUAL first concept album (by most accounts): Woody Guthrie's 1940 song collection called Dust Bowl Ballads. This collection came out in 2-three disc 78 rpm records with one song per side. With autobiographical elements as well as story elements of John Steinbeck's 1939 epic "Grapes of Wrath", this album tells us the tragedy of the Dust Bowl, the forcing of 1000s of families off their farm land, the horrible working conditions of the migrants seeking better life in the "Peach Bowl" of California, and the opposition they found in corrupt business and police-men and their counterparts in vigilantes. Although this came out in 1940, it reflects on a lot of worker's rights issues that we are still facing trying to get fair wages today.
Grapes of Wrath (1940) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940
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In 1974, in the wake of the release of their magnum opus, Red, Robert Fripp made the decree "King Crimson is completely over. For ever and ever." And he meant it... for a time. For the next few years, he left the music industry completely to focus on himself and his spirituality, but he wouldn't be out for long. In the late 70s into 1980, Fripp was pulled back into the fold, laying down guitar work for legends such as David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, and Daryl Hall. Finally, the need to be in a group resurfaced, and he enlisted Adrien Belew (who had just come off the "Remain in Light" tour) and Tony Levin (a master of the Chapman Stick) to join himself and Bill Bruford in a New Wave band calling itself Discipline. It wasn't very long before it became apparent that this grouping was the next incarnation of King Crimson, and in 1981, they wowed the rock world with a completely new sound for the band. It was New Wave, but still with all the Prog polyrhythms that defined them in the past. Whatever you think of this point in their discography, it's clear they were masters of reinvention.
Today we're joined once again by Adam Elk from The Mommyheads!!! They are finally touring the midwest THIS WEEKEND and you should come out and see them! Tour dates linked belew.
The Mommyheads midwest tour dates!: https://twitter.com/TheMommyheads/status/1790120603048984586
Beato interviews Belew, Vai, Levin, and Carey about upcoming "Beat" tour:
The Mommyheads perform "Frame by Frame": https://youtu.be/1Gqz8NWSMyA?si=kCpkez19t7DlKnVR
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On September 9th, 1999 (or 9-9-99), Thomas Bangalter and and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo became robots. After a night of working on a track, their sampler crashed and exploded. After some quick surgery to treat their injuries, they came out as robots. After realizing their track had been erased from the incident, they started to toil away on "Discovery" to try and regain what humanity they had left...
Returning guest Derick McDuff returns! Look for an episode of his "Underrated" movie podcast next month about Interstella 5555 including Brad LeBaron!
Underrated movie podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/underrated/id1460393092
Discovery sample breakdown:
Discovery samples playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wpBlAXxEs9W1XVlWBTgUk?si=44d5138ec7674ec7
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Alrighty y'all, this episode is going to get DARK. We've talked about heroin as a subject matter in many songs for many bands, but today we get INTO it. Coming from an era glorifying the sex, drugs, and rock and roll style, Alice in Chains and their grunge cohorts recontextualized the lifestyle to be more of a cautionary tale than something to aspire to. In Dirt, we get the entire journey of heroin addiction; from the lackadaisical first time, to the brink of death's door, to the harrowing trial of withdrawal. They weren't the first band in the genre to experience the tragedy of heroin addiction and certainly wouldn't be the last, but Dirt remains one of the best examples of that internal conflict.
Lunar Moth "If I Lived Alone": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPT0XgE0rT4
Lunar Moth "Stranger" Album Release Shows:
Stank Rangers youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@StankRangers
Angelica Garcia "Gemini": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze_ZbtY7t3Y
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The podcast currently has 201 episodes available.