Tue, 13 October 2015
Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1994. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Jay's #4 - Pavement was a shock to the system at the time - Malkmus continues to be a solo force - Brian's #3 - Ween's second-based album - Brian: Ween made 5 perfect albums in a row - Jay's #3 - Drive Like Jehu delivers scorching rock - Brian's #2 and Jay's #2 - Jay: Frank Black's Guided by Voices album - Black had serious writer's block during the making of this record - Brian's #1 - Weezer's debut features 10 perfect pop songs - Videos helped the album take off - Jay's #1 - One of Sloan's greatest albums got them dropped by DGC - Abrupt shift from first album's sound - Other '94 notables: Soundgarden, Nas, NIN, Portishead, Neil Young, Helmet, New Bomb Turks, Pearl Jam - Also: Magnetic Fields, TMBG, R.E.M., Outkast - Next up: 1992 - Jam bands became popular - Jay: Covered the best of the 2000s in CompCon episodes 96-99
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Tue, 6 October 2015
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1994. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Brian: Enjoyed albums from Tom Petty, Rancid, Sea and Cake - Beasties were all over the place on Ill Communication--in a good way - Sunny Day Real Estate's epic album - Halo Benders teamed Doug Martsch and Calvin Johnson - The Toadies break through - Jay: Sebadoh's Bakesale was a good combo of punk and melodic songs - Jeff Buckley went from hard rock to cabaret on Grace - Sugar's 2nd full-length was punchy and fun...for Bob Mould - Green Day's Dookie was a monster hit that nobody needs to hear anymore - Jay: Foolish was my intro to Superchunk - Brian's #5 - Nirvana's best album was Unplugged in New York - Jay saw Nirvana in Springfield, Mass., about a week before the Unplugged show - Jay's #5 - Bee Thousand is probably the perfect distillation of Guided By Voices - Brian's #4 - Alice in Chains' Jar of Flies was the first EP to top the album charts - Jay: "No Excuses" got me through a tough time - Brian: Jerry Cantrell looks like an uncle now - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 29 September 2015
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1994. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Rooting for a Jays-Mets World Series - Brian: 1994 was a big year for me - Rock radio was all about the alternative - Big year for Ace of Base with three songs in top 10 of '94 - Lots of pop and hip hop on singles chart - Aerosmith's foray into downloadable music - Took hours to download, no way to share it - Pearl Jam vs. Ticketmaster didn't end well - Corporate-owned venues are everywhere now - Woodstock '94 was full of mud - Sheryl Crow and Jackyl played on the same stage - Cobain's unsurprising fate - Brian: Was obsessed with music in '94 - Soundtracks were a big deal: Pulp Fiction, The Crow, Reality Bites - Older alternative acts turned up the guitars: R.E.M., Meat Puppets - Bands formed in '94 that loomed large a few years later: Creed, Limp Bizkit, Hoobastank, Maroon 5 - Eagles returned with Hell Freezes Over tour and introduced $100 tickets - Page and Plant reunited without John Paul Jones - Mark Lanegan's interesting solo work - Elvis Costello released a rock record - Rollins Band scored an unlikely hit - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 22 September 2015
Quick hit episode this week as I discuss the power of a song. Show notes: - In 1979, I listened to Toronto's CHUM-AM all the time - Used to collect the Top 30 singles chart every Friday - A song that captured my imagination was Joe Jackson's "I'm the Man" - The clock radio was important - Couldn't get enough of "I'm the Man" - Still powerful after all these years - Jackson's best work was in the late '70s/early '80s
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 1 September 2015
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we discuss vacations. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - Check out our web series Trust Fund Challenge - Vancouver is a great destination - Trouble at the border - Someday, Jay will visit India again - A co-worker's move to France - Ric's vacation movie marathon - Dick Clark's role in Killers Three - Ric has beef with Christopher Nolan movies - Medical emergencies - Black Christmas is a Canuck horror classic from the director of Porky's
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 25 August 2015
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we discuss vacations. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - Check out our web series Trust Fund Challenge - A reboot/remake/sequel to National Lampoon's Vacation is out - The first Vacation movie still holds up - Based on a National Lampoon novella - Both of our families went to Disney World in the '70s - Family vacations can either be packed with activities or relaxing - Jay: Just went to Disney with two other families - Ric: We rent a vacation home in Maine every summer with inlaws - Jay: We vary vacations each year; might go to Europe in a few years - Doing work while on vacation sucks - Ric: We were an hour away from everything - Ric's dad takes on a ropes course - Going out West - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Wed, 19 August 2015
Part 3 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the art of hype. Show notes: - Order Matt's book The Entropy of Everything: The Indestructibles Book 3 - Patreon is a crowdfunding option - The patronage model - Kickstarter, Indie GoGo efforts are commonplace - Matt loves board games - Contributing to podcasts and radio shows - Matt's research on dino romance novels - A Gronk to Remember was a big-selling e-book - Matt: "People are hot for were-critters" - Readers like series and formulas - John Irving always writes the last line first - Matt: Want to interact with more people to hype books - The problem with contests - The vagaries of web traffic - Nine years, man
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Wed, 12 August 2015
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the art of hype. Show notes: - Order Matt's book The Entropy of Everything: The Indestructibles Book 3 - Avoiding overhype - Getting RTs from celebrities - Sometimes it feels like there's no benefit to Internet hype - Getting bummed out to write sad scenes - Cosplayers are having a moment - Day jobs are a must, unfortunately - Tagging somebody famous can work from time to time - YouTube "stars" - Spider-man with no butt - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Wed, 5 August 2015
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the art of hype and celebrate CompCon's 9th anniversary. Show notes: - Pre-order Matt's book The Entropy of Everything: The Indestructibles Book 3 - When your medical professional is younger than you - It's all about the hype - Matt was at Boston ComiCon last weekend - How to effectively hype your stuff online - Perfecting the pitch - Geeking out like a fanboy - Books sell better when you meet people face to face - One of a handful of authors - Writing is fun, editing sucks - Gotta hustle to sell books - To hype without hyping - Matt live-tweets superhero shows - Making friends with people you've never met - Women 18-40 are Matt's target audience - Ensemble cast - Harley the cat wants in - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 28 July 2015
Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1997. Show notes: - Jay and Brian's #4 - Pavement continues a strong run of records - Brian's coffee shop - Jay's #3 - Ben Folds Five breaks through - Brian's #3 to be discussed later - Jay's #2 - Built to Spill's guitar pop excellence - Brian's #2 - Foo Fighters' sophomore album is chock full o' good songs - Backbeat soundtrack is great - Jay gets confused - Jay's #1 and Brian's #3 - Radiohead steps up their game - Brian's #1 - Ween shows off its chops on The Mollusk - Next up: 1994
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
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