Season two started at the beginning of the pandemic, and we've decided to cap off the season in this intermission of the pandemic. A lot of things have returned to normal, but we have seen some hardships and have grown wiser, and we're ready for whatever comes next. It feels like a natural place to end this chapter and start the next one. We started off season two with a week of Pink Floyd and we've decided to end it with a very special album to Pink Floyd. Continuing our trend of going backwards through their discography, we're discussing "Wish You Were Here", an emotional tribute to former member Syd Barrett. This is Pink Floyd at their most raw. They are freshly disillusioned with the industry, one of their closest friends is suffering from a difficult mental condition, and the seeds of resentment are being planted between the members. But amidst all of this chaos, they managed to pull together a poignant followup to "Dark Side of the Moon" with all the depth, but without all the smoke and mirrors.

Today Brad, Jon, Dave, and Jake "the Snake" Foster are joined by Dave's good friend Nick Malson!

Links from ep:

Before Dookie 1: How Punk Became Pop (1976-87): https://youtu.be/Kw_M7d-yZlE

Before Dookie 2: How Punk Became Pop (1988-94):https://youtu.be/HlCN922DcXc

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It's not often that our guest walks such a similar path as the artist that we're discussing. The artist is Carole King, a studio musician and songwriter that wrote for legendary singers like Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, and Joni Mitchell—before solidifying a singer/songwriter career of her own with her album “Tapestry”. The guest we have on is Jordan Duffy, an engineer at the podcast network Earwolf, home of Comedy Bang Bang and How Did This Get Made, and former home of Hollywood Handbook. Jordan has worked behind the scenes of some of your favorite podcasts, such as “Yo is this Racist?”, “Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata”, and “The Deep Dive” (with June Diane Raphael and Jessica Saint Clair)--and now she has her eyes set on proving to the world what her BA in vocal performance means. She's got octaves for days, more hours in a studio than you could count, and she's a singer/songwriter in her own right, so she's basically our generation's Carole King.

Make sure to stay tuned to the end of the episode to get an exclusive look at what Jordan is capable of with short demo of her song “No Big Deal” and check out her "Powerful Ladies Podcast" (link in the description).

Links from ep:

Powerful Ladies Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EOfgxaVK7khfoBmaCLnx1?si=qcgHQ6-mScqi9bWViRA3Ag&dl_branch=1

Jordan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordankduffy/

Jordan's Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jorkadu?lang=en

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In the second part of Jimmy's Journey to find out who he is and what he lives for, he seeks the comfort of Brighton, where all of his amazing experiences with the mods took place. After finding that Sting aka Ace Face, one of the coolest mods, has begun working at the hotel they once trashed just a few years prior. Jimmy is feeling more and more like what they did meant nothing and gets closer and closer to the truth that he's been playing a role that doesn't quite fit him. After stealing Ace Face's moped, Jimmy takes on last journey out past the shore and has a spiritual epiphany with one of the greatest Who songs around, "Reign O'er Me".

Today, we're continuing on with our guest Darin Wilson from BUCK Neck-ed and guest of the Songs We Didn't Write Podcast!

Links from ep:

BUCK Neck-ed's Facebook Page (see them in Fort Atkinson August 21st!): https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063531168174

Songs We Didn't Write podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2WOugesz9tmCarifbJikzs?si=alZ45SCXQFaPhaZZEMIPXw&dl_branch=1

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We are winding down to the end of season two with just four episodes left until we start with a fresh new season after 80 episodes of the podcast! We did a lot of double albums in season two, so to start off our countdown to the end, we're talking about the first disc of The Who's "Quadrophenia", considered by many to be the quintessential Who album. Last time we discussed The Who, we were talking about Tommy. Today, we're here to talk about Jimmy. In this first half of his journey, Jimmy is a boy trying to find his place, growing up in post-war Britain. He considered himself quite the mod, going as far as to take part in group fights with the rockers, and losing his office job to pursue a more bohemian lifestyle. However, Jimmy has developed a poor attitude and becomes disillusioned to the mods, as he sees them taking jobs to pay bills to be insincere to the mod values. By the end of disc one, he has isolated himself from friends and sought out the only refuge that he knows... the sea.

Today Brad, Jon, Dave, and Jake are joined by Brad's good friend Darin Wilson, musician, deacon of sorts, and recurring guest on the Songs We Didn't Write podcast

Links from ep:

BUCK Neck-ed's Facebook Page (see them in Fort Atkinson August 21st!): https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063531168174

Songs We Didn't Write podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2WOugesz9tmCarifbJikzs?si=alZ45SCXQFaPhaZZEMIPXw&dl_branch=1

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The 80s started in 1979. If one were to pinpoint a single thing that brought all the popular music of the 80s together, it would have to be the newly utilized “gated reverb” production technique for the drums. The drum solo that plays in Phil Collins' “In the Air Tonight” right before Mike Tyson punches Ed Helm—is the most popular example of that effect, and definitely one of the first. However, he wasn't the only group that engineer Hugh Padgham and producer Steve Lillywhite were working with when they accidentally discovered the effect. Along with Peter Gabriel, who was also recording at Townhouse Studios (London) at the time, there was also a New Wave group called XTC, and they had their own contribution to the popularity of the effect with their gorgeous sounding 1979 album “Drums and Wires”. The concept of the album was pretty simple. Great sounding drums. Great sounding guitar. Epic vocal delivery. And not overly produced. It set the standard for almost all genres in the 80s with the crispiest sounding drums ever heard.

Today Brad, Jon, Dave, and Jake are very excited to have on guitarist and lead singer of the band The Mommyheads, and XTC fanatic, Adam Elk!!!

Links from ep:

The Mommyheads on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/30HbzG87mLz5XDSoNFQcr7?si=kxmvqnD_TryvlTiUOHZkIQ&dl_branch=1

The Mommyheads website: https://www.mommyheads.com/

Adam Elk on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ru3HHN3bQ40Y1QQID2d1y?si=q8r4Es0lTLq8QjyXDQf09w&dl_branch=1

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It's episode 75 and we have a double feature for you guys! We've danced around jazz music up to this point, as it is an influence on many other music genres, but today we're finally diving in to jazz proper. Since there were so few tracks on these albums (and because jazz music is a little harder to discuss), we decided to do our first double feature for an artist. First we have Hancock's 1965 album "Maiden Voyage", which is very much what you'd expect when throwing on jazz, which is in this case considered "modal jazz". Considering Hancock was only 24 at the time, this album was extraordinarily sophisticated. Coming off the heels of playing with Miles Davis, he employed some amazing jazz legends to help him make his mark, with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, George Coleman on tenor sax, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums. These songs became so big that a few of them are still standards for jazz bands today. But Hancock wasn't one to dwell on the past. His time with Miles Davis taught him that he needed to constantly push and reinvent himself. Eight years later, with the release of "Head Hunters" he did just that by making a fusion of jazz and funk, and changed the whole jazz game in the process. This brought him out of the purely jazz scene, which was fading from relevance, and into a fresh, new world where the youth were picking up on his music and loving every second of it. This album is astounding start to finish and there's a reason that it is so highly regarded by critics and hipsters alike: It slaps.

With the regular crew, Brad, Jon, Dave, and Jake Foster!!!

Links from ep:

Richard Davis on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Xktfsmu8Tlg3071prbJej?si=1iLG1TO4QFy1LPjJ8gEJbg&dl_branch=1

Herbie Hancock - Possibilities (2006 documentary): https://youtu.be/TSUpFHuAIqI

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Mono vs Stereo. Pet Sounds vs Sergeant Pepper. Paul vs Brian. The Beach Boys vs The Beatles, Taylor Swift vs Jon... Wait, back up. The rivalry between The Beach Boys and The Beatles is well known. Some say The Rolling Stones vs The Beatles, but those people don't know wtf they're talking about. These two groups of boys turned megastar heartthrobs were pushing the boundaries of what was possible in recording technology and what singer/songwriters were allowed to sing about. From the beginning of their respective careers until The Beatles came out with "Rubber Soul", their musical paths were fairly similar. Brian Wilson heard Rubber Soul and knew he needed to up the ante for their next album. The next year, in 1966, The Beach Boys released "Pet Sounds". Although it remained in mono, this Beach Boys albums was on another level to The Beatles and, although they were already in the midst of recording Revolover, it already had signs of "Pet Sounds"'s influence, with the culmination of that admiration clear in "Sergeant Pepper". Unfortunately, The Beach Boys didn't enjoy the excitement and continued success that The Beatles had for three more albums, as Brian Wilson withdrew from his music career for a time due to strains on his mental health. "Pet Sounds" is easily the peak of The Beach Boys' musical and recording ability and remains one of Rock music's classics. Today, with the whole crew! Brad, Jon, Dave, and Jake Foster!!!

Links from ep:

The Lone Girl Brewing Company: https://thelonegirl.com/

Daikaiju Live: https://youtu.be/2wgGo1h7-os

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By 1967, the Beatles had endured quite the career. The British invasion ushered in Beatlemania and made them a cultural phenomenon very early in their career with their boyish good looks mixed with their years of experience crooning classics at clubs in the UK and Germany. Then, as the 60s went on, culture changed drastically, and the Beatles changed along with it. They experienced psychedelics, traveled to India to meditate and transcend, and each felt themselves becoming something more, as they began looking less and less like each other, and more like individuals with a variety of ideals. This was evident to diehard fans, and very controversial to their detractors, but it wasn't until "Sergeant Pepper" that average listeners found out what all the hub-bub was with the psychedelic movement in rock music. Creating completely new personas, with "Sergeant Pepper", the Beatles created a fully fleshed out concept album that was experimental in ways that people hadn't seen from them yet. It popularized psychedelia and experimentation in music, and it legitimized the growing genre of Rock music by being the first Rock album to win a Grammy for Album of the Year. Even if both film adaptations were/are universally panned, the original concept is gold and the entire album is full of stone cold classics, and it ushered in the last, and arguably best, chapter of the Beatles' journey together. Today we have the core crew with Brad, Jon, Dave, and Jake "the Snake" Foster!

Links from ep:

Joe Cocker (w/ John Belushi) on SNL - "Just a Little Help From My Friends": https://youtu.be/VmjWO7oY8LU

Clip from Tom Dowd & the Language of Music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3QRzd3wpQ2ADcFGAWGHhSvOVwhw66S06

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"From the slums of Shaolin, Wu-Tang Clan strikes again

That's right. Today we're talking about the greatest rap album of all time made by the greatest rap collective of all time. It's time to enter the 36 chambers of death... "Enter the Wu-Tang" is explosive, rugged and raw, and filled with verse after verse of the nastiest bars on top of some of the greatest hip hop production ever. With RZA's beats masterfully combining the grime of gangsta rap with the gritty and violent confrontations in kung fu films, they were unstoppable. By the end of this album, you know exactly who Wu-Tang was, what they're capable of, and an incredible look at the world they were creating with their own 'Shaolin'.

With Brad, Jon, Dave, and returning guest Trevor Kolden!

Links from ep:

Mariah Carey (feat. O.D.B.) - Fantasy (Remix): https://youtu.be/-tCTm5M3Cp8Other Links:

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Major Tom...Halloween Jack... The Thin White Duke... Blackstar... David Bowie inhabited many personas throughout the years... but none as beloved as Ziggy Stardust. As someone that had experience his fair share of success and failure, Bowie was 5 years into his solo music career and was carefully and covertly crafting his magnum opus, going so far as to only play the songs in his side band Arnold Corns until they were ready. However when it was ready... it wowed the world and became a cultural sensation. They toured for eighteen months straight, with Bowie inhabiting the role of Ziggy on stage and increasingly off stage. Eventually Bowie started to worry about his identity, even creating a new persona called "Aladdin Sane" to cope with it, and in one of the most legendary moments in rock history, surprised both the audience and most of the band by stating it would be "the last show that we'll ever do". And that was the fall of Ziggy Stardust...  

Links from ep:

8bitescapades youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS1rpDd3zhXZo3WcQWnYowA

Polygondwanaland on the NES: https://youtu.be/8z601_i7JN4

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