The Greatest Non Hits

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This episode is dedicated to the memory of David Crosby, a music legend who pioneered the folk genre and influenced the generations that followed. Almost 54 years ago, he and his bandmates Steven Stills and Graham Nash created harmonics that set the stage for the Eagles, Seals and Croft, Steely Dan, among others. Join us as we pay homage to David's memory. By going deep into their catalogue, we have a fuller appreciation for his music and how it not only entertained us, but also struck a chord within us that changed our culture and world forever. 

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It's not too late to download this baby. We really did make it, not just try to make it, the only way The Two Dragons of Podcasting would. Sure, we're so far away, but we're home again and it's beautiful. 

Seriously, it was interesting to learn more about Carole's background, the songwriting collaborations she had with her first husband, Jerry Goffin as well as with James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, who harmonize with her on her version of Will You Love Me Tomorrow. 

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This episode draws a thread between episode one (Steely Dan's "The Royal Scam" published in  May of '76)  and the last episode (Jaco Pastorius's Self Titled debut album published in August of '76). 

On Joni's 8th studio album Hejira (published in March '76), we get the benefit of hearing her incredible songwriting and vocals combined with Larry Carleton's Guitar playing and Jaco's bass playing on a number of songs while they're in the midst of playing on their respective masterpiece's. What could be better? Listening to them with our zany antics!!. Seriously, there's good music, good comedy, good fun while you learn more about Joni's incredible career and what she was dealing with during the recording. 

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He's considered the Jimmy Hendrix of bassists, according to his peers, including Sting, Flea, Robert Trujillo, and Geddy Lee, just to name a few. He's recorded with Pat Metheny and Joni Mitchell, and served as the primary electric bass player for the band Weather Report after recording this album through 1981. 
Recorded in 1976, this album is recognized as his crowning achievement as a solo artists and his supporting band includes Herbie Hancock on Piano, Lenny White on Drums, Don Alias on Congas, David Sanborn on alto Sax, and many more. Give this album a listen as well as the podcast if you've never heard it. Think of the most awesome car chase music from Starsky and Hutch. This is 100 times better than that. 

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Our Mojo's rose recording this episode. We hadn't played this album much since high school and college, and it brought back a lot of memories.  We rediscover the songs being in 2 camps: the blues songs and the "cocktail hour songs" that we loved. Certain songs like "Love Her Madly" and "Riders on the Storm" weren't well received by their long time producer, Paul Rothschild, who opted out as he felt the band and Engineer Bruce Botnik would be better in the role, and we think he was right. The time period of the recording, early '71, overlaps Jim Morrison's sentencing to hard time for "The Miami incident". Shortly after recording this album, he and his girlfriend, Pamela  Courson, flew to Paris, where they lived for several months before he died of a heart attack. Despite the tragic tail that plays out in real life (for Jim and Pamela), the album is rich in philosophical, mythical, political, cultural and psychological themes that permeate through the music, especially some of the non hits that we rank at the end.  We get deep when we need to while still being as silly as ever. We had a blast recording this and we hope you enjoy listening!

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Brace yourself for the jungle of emotion that still reverberates through this touching classic of an album from 1975. Few albums embrace and even lean into emotions we experience through difficult times in our lives the way this album did and still does. If you layer that brilliance on top of an all star lineup of studio musicians, you get one hell of a body of music. 

Whether Taylor intended this or not, we both felt that the lyrics in Gorilla the song can be taken literally as a song about a Gorilla trapped by the walls of a Zoo held captive by man or metaphorically about a person trapped by loss, addiction and other obstacles we create in our lives that can keep us back. 

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Referred to as the "Third Leg" of the unholy trinity(the others being Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath), Deep Purple cemented itself as a founding father of metal with this 1970 studio album. As always, we had fun with sound clips derived from "This is Spinal Tap", a movie that seems to parody  Deep Purple more than most metal bands of the time. This particular album is Mark II, the second lineup that adds Ian Pace and Roger Glover to Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord and Ian Paice. Upon first listen, it is heavy, aggressive, and fast paced. After the 2nd or 3rd listen,  a range of less obvious influences from Little Richard to Jimmy Hendrix become more evident.
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Before we look ahead to our season two, we couldn't leave the '70's without an Aerosmith episode. It just wouldn't be right. They're America's rock band, considering many of Steven Tyler's likenesses to Mick Jagger among many other things. Critics and fans alike agree this album ranks at or near the top of their list. It also ranks in the top half  (somewhere) of Rolling Stone's top 500 albums. Regardless of where they rank it, we loved it. It's not quite Shakespeare, but Steven Tyler's Voice is like an instrument and works incredibly well with the rest of the band. 

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The celebration of rock and roll in all its glory! Made up and ready to serve HOT with Flames and shit! Seriously, this is a celebration of machismo, loud music, youth, sex and rock and roll. Kiss may not have wanted to expand the boundaries of music, but they loved having a good time, and it reflected in this album. From Shout it out Loud to Detroit Rock City, rock anthems were plentiful, but they didn't dominate it altogether, with Beth slowing things down at just the right time. 

We'll give you a synopsis of the songs and people  who contributed beyond the band, including the choirs, orchestras and individual contributors involved. We also poke fun at Gene's womanizing, Ace's high pitched laugh, and Sean William Scott's explanation of Love Gun to his little in the movie Role Models. 

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This episode celebrates perhaps the most influential Heavy Metal album ever. You can hear the passion in their instruments, and how they're influenced by such rock icons as Jimmy Hendrix , The Doors, Led Zeppelin and yet hear how they've influenced later bands like  Van Halen, Pantera, and Deep Purple.
The coolest thing about this album is its anti war message. Very descriptive, even disturbing lyrics about the horrors of war. 

On the hilarious side, We reminisce about classic moments in movies about the military, like Stripes and Full Metal Jacket 

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