A music podcast where we go through old music magazines and talk about culture and trends and music and bad choices and good choices and what was number one in the charts.
Do you remember the first time you heard Ween? Jess and I do. We both heard Chocolate and Cheese about a week apart from each other. We're such massive fans of this album we decided to do a LIVE LISTEN and talk about discovering Ween, Ween culture and break downs of the songs. Join us as we chat about Chocolate and Cheese 30 years after hearing it for the first time....
It's been 30 years since Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe. Now Oasis have reunited and since 1994 was my favourite year in music we talk 1994 era Oasis. We deep dive on the Definitely Maybe album, the Brit Pop culture around it and ask the question, do the Gallagher brothers actually hate each other?
It's the 30th anniversary of Green Day Dookie and we're celebrating by taking deep look at it's 1994 release and the death of grunge.
This episode we get opinionated as we break down the RS Top 50 Canadian Artists rankings. We're Canadian the people who wrote this list were not. There's obvious choices on this list but a lot of surprises as well. We shake our heads a lot.
Riot Grrl and Bikini Kill are one of the most important touchstones in music of the past 30 years. So when Bikini Kill came to town on their reunion tour Jess and I went to see the revolution girl style. After the show we concluded we had to do a pod and talk about all things Bikini Kill so here it is. No magazine reference, just Bikini Kill, women in music, reunions and whether or not Bikini Kill needed a guitar player.
It's the all Canadian episode! We've been very excited for this one and it's a list episode! That's right we're going through Chart Magazine's top 50 Canadian Albums of all time. But don't worry international listeners you'll recognize most of them as Canada has produced some of the greatest artists of all time. Join us as we go deep into Canadian pop and indie some of which we agree with putting on this list and some we don't...
It's the end of the year...in 1996 and in the present too so we look at Spin's artist of the year Beck and his landmark album Odelay. And what would be a year end without lists? We go through Spin's top 20 albums of the year in 1996 and trust me there are some gems that have stood the test of time, it was a great year for music.
We couldn't fit all our thoughts into one episode so we split it into 2 parts. In this episode we only talk about one thing: The 15 Most Influential Albums not made by the Beatles, Stones or Dylan, and every one of these albums is undeniably awesome punk, electronic, metal, its all here.
Can Rick Rubin save the music industry? That's the title of the cover story. Did his idea of creating a subscription service platform ever actually become a reality? Or was it ignored until streaming platforms like Spotify appeared and proved him right? Well sort of right, artists still aren't getting paid for streams...