Podcasts

i like far meridian thanks!

i tried within the wires a couple of months ago and got impatient with it - i will give it another chance

i find myself getting impatient with a lot of podcasts tbh

Any good podcasts that interview smaller-time musicians beyond the NPR-related shows, getting into talking about making music? Marc Maron's interview with Ty Segall a couple of years ago was really good and in the ballpark.

No Effects (specializes in '00s indie/Brooklyn musicians, hosted by one of the members of Tanlines)
The Trap Set (drummers)
Secret Skin (specializes in indie rappers, hosted by Open Mike Eagle)
The Wandering Wolf (mostly musicians, hosted by the dude from Why?)
Kinda Neat (L.A. rappers mostly)

Turned Out A Punk (hosted by the singer of Fucked Up)
Kreative Kontrol (lots of Canadians)

Song Exploder

lol there was that rick rubin / malcolm gladwell podcast that came out in november and still hasn't had another episode

578 ratings

I love Song Exploder, I wish each episode was 3x as long. what about Album Exploder. i'm all in. patreon, whatever. let's go

Any suggestions for particularly good Song Exploder eps? I usually only tune in when it is a musician I like, and the few times I've tried listening to some band I've never heard of before I've also found the episodes to be lacking. There have been eps with bands that I like that I didn't enjoy also, but I'm less likely to take a risk on a band I don't know after a few bad tries I guess. Ones I've really enjoyed include Grimes, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Lorde.

this is the one that got me hooked: http://songexploder.net/the-microphones

The Onion have just launched the "A Very Fatal Murder" podcast

https://www.theonion.com/episode-1-a-perfect-murder-1822346450

Holy shit this is good, even the live-reads for subscription food boxes.

A Very Fatal Murder sends Onion Public Radio (OPR) correspondent David Pascall from New York City to the sleepy town of Bluff Springs, Nebraska to investigate the mysterious death of a 17-year-old girl, Hayley Price. Hayley was a popular, smart animal lover, with a bright future ahead of her. Everyone in town knew her name, and now everyone in town is a suspect. Join David as he works to understand why the initial investigation of Hayley’s death failed, and how a very inquisitive and Pulitzer-hungry podcast host might shed new light on the case.

there are lots of good song exploders--the recent one with ?uestlove was excellent.

The Trent Reznor episode was pretty fascinating

yeah that one was great.

also Song Exploder is SO good at changing the way you listen to that same song afterwards. You can hear so many more of the elements that they talk about once they're pointed out, it's so cool

Celebration Rock can be okay--his thing seems to be having an artist on to talk about another artist's work, like recently Craig Finn was on to talk about Joe Strummer and now he has a series going about Springsteen with Brian Fallon talking about Greetings and TWTIATESS and Jeff Rosenstock on Born to Run. In the past he had Dan Bejar on to talk about 80s Dylan.

Song Exploder sometimes has the weird effect of making me like a track less, or being disappointed about how the whole came together after hearing about the process and the cool little elements.

god song exploder is the most overrated thing in the world. so superficial - no dig-deep or fascination, just banal gloss (unless the interviewee is naturally forthcoming). it's the crummy version of an excellent thing

Listened to all of "A Very Fatal Murder" last night, starts out as just a satire of "serial" and similar podcasts, but as it got more and more absurd it just kept getting funnier.

lmao

Haley Price was a typical 17-year-old with clear skin when she was killed. She was a high achiever, a debate champion, a prom queen, a doting girlfriend. But she also excelled at being murdered.

Didn't want to harsh on the 'sploder but Sean Grammo is so OTM. It's such a great concept but done so poorly.

god song exploder is the most overrated thing in the world. so superficial - no dig-deep or fascination, just banal gloss (unless the interviewee is naturally forthcoming). it's the crummy version of an excellent thing

― sean gramophone, Tuesday, February 13, 2018 10:42 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is true for some of them, but it's dependent on the guest imo. Like the Courtney Barnett one- it's mostly about how the song was written, what inspired it, which is interesting enough, but the shit I want is Phil Elverum explaining how he had a song in G and he broke up the notes of all the chords and voiced them individually and how he got that ocean-scraping percussion sound. like, total nerd shit. the Grimes one is equally good for this reason. but I still wish they were like an hour long.

Yeah, the ones that I've taken a chance on that flubbed were all like "and I wanted to write this song about a relationship that blah blah blah" whereas Grimes talks about pitching a dentist drill sample down to match her 808 and then hard-panning it. And it wouldn't even have to be weirdo innovative stuff like Grimes or the Microphones necessarily(which btw I listened to and enjoyed yesterday - thanks). Just more nitty gritty like that.

Yeah, “A Very Fatal Murder” is great, and you can hear the whole thing in like 35 mins

xpost

but why not talk more about HOW or WHY that decision - about the other alternatives s/he considered or what they like about what they chose?

even the Grimes one or whatever feel like a surface-level eHow article about making a song

i mean ehow is useful when you want to fix a dishwasher but

I thought about that but it would void my protection plan, so now I'm stuck washing by hand for two weeks until they can get a guy out here with the part.

Sometimes they do have stuff in there like demos, outtakes, other directions the song could have taken. I agree with flappy that the brevity is probably a limiting factor.

Yeah the CRJ one was nice for getting to hear the stages of development, but it still felt a little on the flimsy side

i mean yeah i would like song exploder to be an hourlong deep dive too but i'm a huge dork. i think it's designed to be digestible to more casual fans and the format works really well for that.

That's it. I've freakin' had it. I'm gonna start some indie synth band, write and record a hit song, and when that flimsy wimp asks me to do a Song Exploder episode for him, it's gonna be five hours long and then people will know the magic that podcast is capable of.

^ gets it

Lol fuck yeah

Tried to listen to the Celebration Rock ep w/ Dan Bejar on 80's Dylan and couldn't make out a word he was saying wtf

Appropriate for 80s Dylan

Any good podcasts that interview smaller-time musicians beyond the NPR-related shows, getting into talking about making music?

While I can't really recommend The Hustle (the host loves everything and isn't particularly good at drawing out reticent guests) - I've rarely/never seen or heard any of the guests interviewed anywhere else. Danielle Dax, Alannah Myles, Dave Gregory of XTC, Fee Waybill, Voice Of The Beehive, Stu Cook of CCR, etc.

https://thehustle.podbean.com

Any good podcasts that interview smaller-time musicians beyond the NPR-related shows, getting into talking about making music?

This is what I do, but fair warning, I only interview jazz musicians.

https://burningambulance.com/tag/podcast/

I think The Books' edition of Song Exploder is the most Song Exploder-y, Song Exploder edition.

If you really want to get upset about a music podcast that really tries to break things down, I recommend Switched on Pop. It's been my hate-listen for the past week or so. I'm not ususally one to hate-listen or hate-read things, but there's something weirdly compelling about having Katy Perry Big-Birded to me by two guys who sound just like the Wild Kratts.

i would listen to a wild kratts podcast

Deep self interest but my friend Michael has a podcast called This Is Your Mixtape, where a guest goes over five songs in their life. Anyway, I was the subject of the most recent episode:

https://www.megaphonic.fm/mixtape/6

But check out the others, it's a fun idea!

I love Wild Kratts. I don't like these guys whose radio voices/attitudes seem totally copped from them.

xp

yes same

basically i am lobbying for a wild kratts podcast, let's make this happen

that sounds good ned and i will check it out. keep in mind these exist!

desert island discs (podcast archives go back to the 1940s!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5qhJd1byxhTBYbSCFmw580y/desert-island-discs-podcasts

inheritance tracks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9my/episodes/downloads (suzi quatro did one!)

so like... i'm reading flaubert's salammbo:

https://www.acast.com/elireads

fans of cannibalism, human sacrifice and detailed descriptions of clothing and foodstuffs please drop in

Kevin Conroy of Gilmore Guys has a newish show called Good Christian Fun that i really love
It’s basically for reformed Christians & they talk Christian tv and movies & music with ppl who grew up in churches etc

I spent a lot of Sundays in church and like, 10 summers at youth missions so it’s kind of a secret treat to hear ppl talk about this stuff in a fun way

(and randomly burst into song)

Kevin Conroy? ugh. I meant Kevin PORTER
i hate my brain

A friend turned me on to Cocaine & Rhinestones last weekend and I've done three episodes now. They're looooong, and the host/narrator is kind of awkward, but if you want deeeeeeep dives into facets of the history of 20th century country music, this seems like the one to hit up.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:04 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tyler Mahan Coe, the host/narrator, is apparently David Allan Coe's kid it turns out.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:13 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just binged 3 of these in a row and had been wondering about the "I've been hearing these stories my whole life" disclaimer. Holy shit.

• lament insurmountable size of podcast queue
• browse for some reason
• somehow end up with 30 more episodes
• lament insurmountable size of podcast queue
• repeat forever

yep

* skip everything in favour of another episode of hello from the magic tavern