The Greatest Non Hits

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Happy Birthday, Jerry! The Hippies are moving in.... and guess what? They are hard working! 

The lyrical prowess of Robert Hunter fused with the psychedelic folk musical composition from Jerry and the gang make for the Dead's most significant leap into superstardom, whether intended or not. The lyrical musings of Hunter allow the fans to toil in the inevitability of death, all while cracking a smile and having the best time ever. Acid tests, Merry Pranksters, innovative live sound rigs, or the question of whether cowboy attire is considered part of the hippie fashion repetiore....IT IS ALL HERE. AND MUCH MORE.

Kick back with friends, with some tea, or a highball, or some other kind of tea/whiskey cocktail hybrid.... Just relax and appreciate life and the living. Because tomorrow is never guaranteed.

Will you come with me!?! Come along! Come on.. we are over by the riverside, we got some things to talk about! Woo!

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Chris and Tim have a special mystery guest who joins them to celebrate one hell of an album about cars, girls, dreams, and life for the working man. "Darkness on the Edge of Town" gives us a window in time to see the bosses point of view and creative energy right after his magnum opus of Born to Run.    You feel like you’re in Candys Room, or you’re drag Racing in New Jersey somewhere when you listen to this album.  Musically, its layered with all sorts of great sounds coming from Clarence's sax, Stevie's guitar, Max's drums, the list goes on.  As usual, we give our top three songs on the album that weren't hits. You'll love our special guest. Enjoy!

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This is the 2nd of 5 Police Studio Albums written between the late '70's and early '80's. Their musical talent is undeniable. They fuse reggae with punk, jazz, rock and everything in between. They add in quirky lyrics and, on rare occasions, frantic melodies that are just too much. While the last song isn't really our cup of tea, the rest of the album is really deep. The title track won a Grammy award in 1980 for best instrumental, message in a bottle is arguably their best song ever, and Walking on the Moon should be in their top 5. This has all that and so much more. Tim ends with a nice rendition of "The Bed's Too Big Without You". 

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Tim discovers the sound clip panel in this week's episode discussing a CLASSIC AMONG CLASSICS! X 1 million! This album opens the door for so much experimentation and further discovery sponsored by none other than Brian Eno himself. With the band coming off of Fear of Music (previous album), you see that the band infuses Nigerian African polyrhythms that really have to be heard to be believed. 

Themes of fate, appearances, self-doubt and reality as a whole are explored in depth with ways in which Brynes exercises his "stream of consciousness" lyrical pursuits that have the listener continually in limbo.
          

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As Meddle was the necessary stepping stone for Pink Floyd's making of The Dark Side of the Moon, Sheer Heart Attack was the necessary stepping stone for Queen's making of A Night at the Opera. We work in a Bob Felder/Queen Elizabeth reference, a Chris Farley Heart Attack reference, a heart attack fries reference from Curb your enthusiasm, and Mr. Bean leaving a guy who's having a heart attack on a public curb. All very tasteless, all very fun. Enjoy!!  

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In 1973, Stevie Wonder enters into his creative peak and leaves behind the boy genius, Little Stevie Wonder phase. Eugene Brown joins us as a Motown subject matter expert and owner of Eugeradio. He provides important context around the the tracks that reflect the changing times and social struggles of the day in what is arguably one of his best albums. He also shares stories about a car accident that left him in a coma shortly after the album release and how it changed how he felt about a number of the songs, especially "Higher Ground". We also explore how this album influenced Ray Charles, and how it was influenced by Marvin Gaye. Of course, you can't miss all of our 3 non hits at the end. Enjoy!!

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At the height of Disco's popularity in 1978, Marvin writes this album about his divorce to Anna Gaye, who is also Barry Gordy's oldest sister. It's a commercial failure and it's criticized for its "embryonic melodies", which we think is a nice way of saying the writing is lazy, too literal, unoriginal or unpoetic. However, there are tons of great non hits on this album. We personally feel the album is fantastic. The harmonies, the horns, synthesizers are used very creatively. We tip our hat to Eugene Brown, owner of Eugeradio, for making this request. We hope to have him as a guest on our show soon for a Stevie Wonder episode planned in the near future. In the meantime, happy listening!!

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After 8 years of hard touring, the Eagles have gone through several lineup changes, and transformed from "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to "Teenage Jail".  Not long after the recording of "The Long Run", Bob Felder slights Senator Alan Cranston with "You're Welcome... I guess", infuriating Glen Frey, Shortly thereafter, the trade threats while performing in Anaheim, and they break up. Despite substance dependencies, graded nerves, clashing egos, they make an album that surprisingly has sounds that are rarely played that we feel are better than the popular songs we all know. 

We include pop culture references from movies like the Big Lebowski and the Warriors (In the City is the movies outro).  We also discuss the bands from which the members originate. Tim discusses his shoe collection, and we both use the word Milquetoast at certain junctions of the episode. 

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Shortly after Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks Join Fleetwood Mac in 1975, they and the McVie's (the other couple in the group) find themselves having affairs with a bunch of other people and Stevie Nicks hooking up with drummer, Mick Fleetwood, during the recording of this album. We do our best to sort it out, and it is fodder for us on this podcast, leaving us with more questions than answers. We go off the rails frequently, and we give you our top non hits at the end. As badly as they screwed their lives up with the affairs and the cheating, they made what we and many rock critics believe is one of the best albums ever made. 

We did this podcast by request from “Fast Eddie", a friend of the show. Enjoy!!

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Spoiler Alert: the album cover isn't a nose. It's an ear underwater.  This is Pink Floyd's sixth studio album and it represents the band's break from the Syd Barrett Days and the collaborative sounds that would shape not only their albums, but progressive rock from that point forward.  Keyboardist Richard Wright, Drummer Nick Mason, Bassist and vocalist Roger Waters, and Guitar Virtuoso David Gilmour took prog. rock to the next level with their twenty-three minute "Echoes". and said, "Take that, Iron Butterfly! Where's your In a Gadda Di Vida now, baby?" 

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