I've downloaded iPodder, and upon discovering some pretty amazing shows (i.e. a smattering of DJs on East Village Radio in NYC, Professor Dum Dum's Lab, Caribbean Free Radio (my current fave)); I'm asking with a giant PRETTY PLEASE for everyone to fess up to their top secret favorites...
that is, if you're an addict to the new form like myself.
love,rob
― Robby Robby Railroad (maria b), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
This week is boogie heaven, provided by Boston's Colbourne:
odyssey - inside outbrass construction - music makes you feel like dancingescorts - make me overgeraldine hunt - could we?hypertension - got this feelin'trance - hang on itfutura - feelin' hotbaricentro - tittle-tattlefeel - i got to have your lovin'steel mind - bad passionbazooka - alivemagika - I know magicafunky family - funky is onaffinity - don't go awaywandra - sex attackdamon harris - it's musiccharisma ft. brenda watts - love treatmentmidnightrats - goalmaker
― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.switchpod.com/users/Sasha/feed.xml
Sasha welcomes you to her lair.
― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.beatsinspace.net/feed.xml
It's not in the iTunes index yet, if you're using that, but you can add it by clicking (IIRC) advanced -> subscribe to podcast and entering the URL.
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.be-in.com/12/images/bio_sirius.jpg
http://www.rusiriusradio.com/feed.xml
A bit scary, but probably one of the best talk shows on the net.
― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
The Donewaiting.com Podcast is interesting.
― Marxy-licious (maria b), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Robby Robby Railroad (maria b), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Tracks Up The Tree (indie and guitars):http://tracks.upthetree.com/index.xml
Modern Rock Minutes (daily music news):http://woxy.com/podcast_mrm.xml
Not Your Usual Bollocks (electroclash-type sounds and Evening Session-type bands):http://marenco.libsyn.com/rss
Steve Allen (UK celebrity gossip and bitchiness from LBC radio):http://podcast.chrysalis.com/BestOfSteve.aspx
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/stycast/
I've got one on dance music.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.winamp.com/player/version_history.php
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 8 September 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.groovesmag.com/podcast.php
― seanp (seanp), Thursday, 8 September 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― bubo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
http://podcast.wfmu.org/
― mike a, Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.zen38066.zen.co.uk/podcasters.opml
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
number one eurocrunk podcast in the goddamn world ya heeeard
this week's tracklist
lady sovereign" hoodie" brucker & sinden remixstacs of stamina feat DJ Tron & Ears "roll" bo hagon feat crime mob & D4L "wuz up" Trim n Scratch "trim n scratch" laurent garnier "crispy bacon" twista "badunkadunk" electronicat "birds just want to have fun"
― radioclit, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=113325143
― radioclit, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
its slanted towards philly indie rock but quite good.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/sched.php
― cnwb (cnwb), Monday, 13 February 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
last weeks playlist:
Whodini - Magic’s Wand DiscogsThe Duke Spirit - Lion Rip The Duke SpiritVan Halen - Hot For Teacher Van HalenAmon Düül II - Manana Unofficial PageMichael Rother - Silberstreif Michael RotherJason Forrest - War Photographer Cockrock discoJoey Beltram - Energy Flash Tresor / Timmy’s TabsPorn Sword Tobacco - Freedom Commercial Forced ExposureGate - Standing In Fields Table of the ElementsPaul Hardcastle - Rainforest Trinn Rhythm Records
― elgin again (golf and games), Monday, 13 February 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Whodini - Magic’s Wand The Duke Spirit - Lion Rip Van Halen - Hot For Teacher Amon Düül II - Manana Michael Rother - Silberstreif Jason Forrest - War Photographer Joey Beltram - Energy Flash TresorPorn Sword Tobacco - Freedom Commercial Gate - Standing In Fields Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest
― elgin again (golf and games), Monday, 13 February 2006 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― harshaw (jube), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.parisdjs.com/share/feeds/podcast.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GaragePunkPodcasts
http://www.pop77.com/blog/?feed=rss2
― lykvun stratta, Thursday, 2 March 2006 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link
New talky-style podcast recommendations, please. I'm running out of stuff!
― J, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Try Iain Lee - http://lbc.audioagain.com/podcast.php?channel=bestofiain
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 31 May 2007 01:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Jonesy's Jukebox is the only one I listen to
http://indie1031.fm/podcasts/podcasts.php
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 31 May 2007 03:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I really enjoy Radio360's podcast (it's in iTunes) put together by DJ Darkhorse from SF's 360 Records label (which may or may not actually still be putting out music, not sure). Point is, great downtempo/funky eclectic mix like Ninjatune without as many breaks. 20-40 minute digestible episodes, very well sequenced.
― DJ Logan5, Thursday, 31 May 2007 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
man why didn't i suggest mine back when i did it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 May 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
rofl@radioclit spam upthread
― 31g, Thursday, 31 May 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
is there a thread on the fabric podcast?
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
new year, new (music) podcast recommendations, anyone?
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 January 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
muddup at wfmu.org. resident advisor too.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
muddup isnt very good
― chaki, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno -- i liked the dexplicit mix on the latest edition, but then i really like where rupture's at musically too.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
-- poortheatre,
the fabric podcast, it is boring
The 2 Jonny Trunk shows were real nice
― sam500, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
www.helloandwelcometotheinternet.com
― randomrules, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://rocktimists.blogspot.com/2008/10/heres-nicky.html
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 19 October 2008 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
This is just a one-off recommendation- the Ed Banger podcast, which is mostly just boring promotional material, short clips of release parties and music videos, has a pretty great Midnight Mike mix available (as Mickey Moonlight, to promote his new single on EB).
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 19 October 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Interlude Radio is a fave of mine.
Sample playlist:
playlist
minnie ripperton: here we go_capitolsho nuff: sho nuff groove_malacoo’bryan: doin’ all right_capitolinstant funk: it’s cool_salsoulkid creole & the coconuts: stool pigeon_islandmidnight express: danger zone_tri-fireca$hflow: party freak_atlanta artistsgino soccio: try it out_atlanticthe NY community choir: i’ll keep my light in my window_rcaandy nelson: bionic eyes_carreremass production: shanté_atlanticdr fuck: basement edittrinidadian deep: what is it?_future visionron trent: from above_prescriptiondexter wansel: latin love_philly int.
http://www.allphon.com/
― factcheckr, Sunday, 19 October 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
MOAR! Here's a few I listen every now and then that haven't been listed yet:
Smuggler's Inn: http://www.redrackem.com/Samurai FM: http://www.samurai.fm/home/Tranquera: http://www.tranquera.org/category/podcasts/
― Moka, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The Tone Generation -- This Friday sees the launch of a new simonsound produced radio series looking at the history of electronic music as a worldwide phenomenon. The 10 part series called ‘The Tone Generation’ is presented by electronic musician and film-maker Ian Helliwell. Starting in Europe and finishing in the Southern Hemisphere Ian will be playing vintage tracks - some celebrated, many obscure and overlooked, to give an overview of electronic music. Part one starts with Great Britain and features music from a number of BBC Radiophonic composers including Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire.
http://www.simonsound.co.uk/sound
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
this person seems to be on my wavelength and has a track on her current playlist from for lee jackson in space:
http://iwillnotreturnyourrecords.podomatic.com/
― art beers (get bent), Sunday, 27 January 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
so, on top of my lefty political talk show, my friend and i have just started a new podcast called "The Definite Article" about """the creative process.""" heavily influenced by Merlin Mann/Dan Benjamin's Back to Work.
i hope people like it
#1 is called "the elements of style, by drunken whites"
http://www.hoosteen.net/defart/1
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
a dude i know started a WTF-style one for interviewing musicians: http://www.third-story.com/episodes/
knowing his tastes & connections it'll probably be mostly session and jazz dudes.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Ray Bausa's mod podcasts are great, google for info. Lately, I've been collecting oldies podcasts and something called "GaragePunk Pirate Radio" which is completist when it comes to fuzz-punk history. They also play glam rock, power pop and psychedelia...very good taste in songs, unlike some devotees of this genre.
Still looking for decent electronic podcasts, Beat Odyssey out of Australia was good.
I get LOaDS of stuff of podomatic.
― Amne$ha (I M Losted), Thursday, 30 January 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
would love to hear a good music podcast with some decent music-crit and chat along with it
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 30 January 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
xpost to adam -fyi i am def going to check out Theres Yr Problem bc it sounds right up my alley
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 January 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link
thanks vegemitegrrl will check those out.
not into ghosts sorry
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:04 (two years ago) link
How Long Gone and The Dildorks are my “two friends shooting the shit” podcasts.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Friday, 28 January 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link
Very Bad Wizards Future FossilsWeird Studies
All broadly art / culture / philosophy discussions that are fun end erudite.
Seems like you've got the debunky stuff covered.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Friday, 28 January 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
This one wrapped up in 2020 but I just heard about it & is SO good “California City” by LAist Studios, hosted by Emily Guerin - it’s about the decades-long California City real estate fraud & it’s fascinating. (Reminds me of an old Rockford Files episode where a company pitched “lakefront property” to folks while they’re literally standing in the middle of open desert) I blew through the whole thing in a few days.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 April 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
thanks!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
( it’a good journalistic podcast, lots of interviews & very investigative .. not at all aimless or chatty)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 April 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
i am currently obsessed w season two of Lili Anolik’s Once Upon a Time podcast - the Bennington College season that came out last year - about the college/creation of bret easton ellis, donna tartt & jonathan lethem i am a fan of ellis (or was until i wasnt) & tartt but obviously ymmv it taps so deeply into writing, into all the posing & self-doubting you do in college … i cannot stop listening anolik does wear on me, at times - she can be irritatingly glib or knowing & also often cutesy-wutesy … but god, also really good at this, there’s SO many interviews, so much research…it’s fucking fascinating to me.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
For those who like Dissect (super deep dives on albums--mainly rap--with focus on music theory & lyrical analysis), the host (Cole Cuchna) was the guest on the Radiohead episode of Bandsplain. Good listen if you're interested in music theory in popular music.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
I’m digging Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, which is about mistakes people make that lead to problems or heartbreak, illustrated with examples from history
― Josefa, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
Tarfumes The Escape Goat mentioned this one on another thread, but "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" by Andrew Hickey is really remarkable. Deep dive musical & cultural analysis with every episode dropping many unexpected and fascinating factoids. He's going chronologically and is now up to 1967.
For those who know this pod, can anyone recommend any particularly good episodes? The "All You Need Is Love" one is a tour de force, and I especially liked the "Hey Joe" episode, and the "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and "I Fought the Law" and "Trouble Every Day" (Zappa) episodes were excellent as well.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
ooh that sounds kinda neat
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 02:33 (one year ago) link
seconding the 500 songs podcast. i'm listening from the beginning and love the ones about 40s/50s music since i know much less about the performers, songs and stories.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
I'd never heard of it until seeing it mentioned in the Kissinger thread, and it sounded cool, so I listened to the first episode of "If Books Can Kill," and ... while I appreciate the concept (shit-talking airport bestsellers), those guys were kiiiiind of insufferable. It's, like, middlebrow books vs. the obnoxious snobs at the party mocking the person for reading or enjoying the middlebrow book. Which feels a little punch-downy. I'll give another episode a shot, though; all I heard was (most of) the one about "Freakanomics," that first episode, so maybe they felt like they had to make a splashy entrance. But it was kinda the smug calling the kettle smug to me.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:16 (nine months ago) link
(Hmm, I guess this is an ILM thread?)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:17 (nine months ago) link
There's this thread on ILE: Podcasts
― emil.y, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:24 (nine months ago) link
I don't think it's possible to punch down at Freakonomics considering the demographics that lapped that shit up. Mind you I think the misinformation and crypto-racism was a bigger problem with that book than smugness.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:24 (nine months ago) link
Funnily enough I also just listened to that ep after seeing the ILE mention and think Josh is super wrong lol
― rob, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:29 (nine months ago) link
Most of the ep is an artful refutation of the infamous legal abortion made crime go down claim, but there is lots about the misinfo and not so crypto racism along the way
― rob, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:30 (nine months ago) link
and tbc there is no mocking of the book's readers (for one thing, Hobbes admits he used to listen to the podcast regularly), except sort of at the end when they lament that people with genuine power do actually read these kinds of books while you might assume they're for the lay audience while the powerful have access to more sophisticated expertise
― rob, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:32 (nine months ago) link
I generally agree (though they definitively mock the readers, just as they sometimes admit to the occasional good observations in the book), but what I listened to often felt less like a debunking and more like self-satisfied dunking. Maybe I just don't like the personalities involved and how they are presenting their takes? Like, they'd read a paragraph, pausing to laugh in the middle, and then land on something like "this fucking moron." But I kept waiting for some sort of correction that didn't always arrive, and when it did, it came with this (perhaps unavoidable) air of superiority. They'd dismissively say something like "this basic economics 101 bullshit is being presented as something smart," but I've never taken Econ 101 and wanted to hear a little bit more of the "why." Which they did sometimes offer. But I kept thinking of the shitty Tyler Coe podcast "Your Favorite Band Sucks," which surprised me. This is better than that, though I didn't make it to the end, since I was listening on a walk; I think I made it to addressing the crypto-racism stuff about names.
Like I said, I want to hear another episode. Any suggestion? The Nudge?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:39 (nine months ago) link
I've enjoyed a bunch of these but am finding it diminishing returns. It's all US conservatism all the time, which is obviously a rich pudding but I'd appreciate some deviation. I really liked the episodes on The Game, Men are From Mars and The End of History.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:44 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, that's what I'm curious about, something just plain dumb self-help or something, not kneecapping deep thinker Tom Friedman.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:49 (nine months ago) link
xpYeah, tbf, "do I like the host(s)?" is of course the crucial barrier for any podcast regardless of the content and why I tend to not bother recommending them often. e.g., the Bandsplain host was the guest on the last episode of 60 90s Songs that I listened to, and now I will never listen to Bandsplain, even though it sounded intriguing previously.
You probably have a point about the occasional lack of context-filling. I'm basically the prime audience for IBCK, because I'm already familiar with the legacies of a lot of these books and have read critiques of them before (in fact, my one major problem with the ep was that I don't agree that no one at the time brought up issues with the book; admittedly it might have just been on the lefty blogs I was reading, but it happened). I'm also in grad school so the more methodological complaints are in my wheelhouse as well.
And you're right, I do remember now that they make fun of some readers. I suppose that didn't impact me because it rang true in terms of actual convos I'd had about this terrible book irl, but I could see it seeming assholey if it felt like it came out of nowhere.
I've only listened to this one ep as well, but maybe the key is to pick a book where the disdain won't bother you so much? Like one you're already suspicious of (Nudge, maybe?) or is more clearly a noxious force in the world (e.g., Clash of Civilizations)
― rob, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 20:52 (nine months ago) link
malcolm gladwell one is great bc i can’t stand him - also the men are from mars/women from venus one was good because there’s a lot that’s revealing in the dude’s backstory i thoughtbut i like them both: have been a michael hobbes fan for a while now, didn’t know peter before this but enjoy him esp when he gets sweary. i don’t care so much about the recent spate of conservative books but i enjoy the show generally
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 21:41 (nine months ago) link
really want a tim ferris takedown but i dunno if they’d do it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 21:42 (nine months ago) link
I was on board when they did the Rich Dad Poor Dad episode, hated that book for a long time.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 22:36 (nine months ago) link
They haven’t done many really conservative books though. The ones they have done are ones that got NYT praise etc. like Bobos in Paradise, Clash of Civilizations, End of History and Hillbilly Elegy.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 22:59 (nine months ago) link
Nudge and World is Flat are Obama Dem books
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 23:00 (nine months ago) link
ok whatever theyve done a few that i found boring
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 00:35 (nine months ago) link
Presumably they're going to get to The Bell Curve
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 08:59 (nine months ago) link
I like Michael Hobbes in Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon and have enjoyed If Books Could Kill throughout.
I picked up World is Flat from a charity shop a while back but never got around to it. Now glad that I heard this first but maybe reading a bad book would shape my recognition of bad books and the ensuing thought etc. Which was why I was toying with buying some Jordan Peterson. Oh well.
Have been enjoying The Book ON Fire podcast which is one I don't remember seeing mentioned on here , which may be me missing its mentions. THey're currently working through the Dawn of Everything. I thought their coverage of Caliban and the Witch which was done a few years ago and listened to by me a month or so back and has me reading the book now.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 09:22 (nine months ago) link
I've been enjoying I Books Could Kill a lot the last couple of weeks. Of the books they've covered the only one I've read is Freakonomics, but as someone who was a not super informed 20-something year old when he read that book, it was pretty enlightening to hear just how wrong it was on certain things and how little of it was fact checked.
Have enjoyed the other episodes as well, especially when they talk about the actual real-world effect of these books, which (as mentioned somewhere above) is much bigger than I would have thought.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:56 (nine months ago) link
Maintenace Phase basically does the same thing that If Books Could Kill does but about popular dieting books instead of airport tomes. If you haven't heard it yet. I think it's quite enlightening.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 16:25 (nine months ago) link
Maybe I just don't like the personalities involved and how they are presenting their takes? Like, they'd read a paragraph, pausing to laugh in the middle, and then land on something like "this fucking moron."
If you don't find them basically funny and enjoyable to listen to, it's probably not worth your time. I do appreciate, though, when they bring in scholarly critiques or other outside perspectives on the books to bolster their own opinions.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 16:37 (nine months ago) link
I wonder if the diminishing returns are down to them being spread a bit thin? Hobbes's dry wit aside, his great strength is his research and I can see why he'd be totally snowed under with the amount of content he produces.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:16 (nine months ago) link
I did finally get around to listening to another episode of "If Books Could Kill." This one was the Thomas Friedman "The World Is Flat" one, and I enjoyed it more than the "Freakanomics" one, if only because at the least Friedman is pompous in a way that the "Freakanomics" guys are not. But I suppose I had the same fundamental reaction to the podcast and the hosts, particularly the host who is more the Flava Flav of the pair (Hobbes?). Just so smug and sometimes willfully obtuse. Like, they make fun of Friedman comparing the US post 9/11 to Godzilla with an arrow sticking out of its shoulder, and they're all "what does that even mean!? why was there an arrow sticking out of its shoulder!?!" And Friedman and his metaphors might be dopey, but, like, come on, guys. He's comparing the US to a giant angry rampaging lizard, what's to figure out? I do very much like the gist of the podcast, though, taking aim not at sacred cows but at middlebrow bestsellers lauded as mind-blowing or world changing or whatever for no good reason. I just wish the takedowns were more methodical and not so snobby and obnoxious.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 18:00 (eight months ago) link
I haven't gotten to that one yet so can't retort, but they take turns being the point person for each book, so there's no Flava/Chuck D dynamic.
Based on this reaction, you *might* like the End of History or Clash of Civilizations eps better--they take those both a little more seriously. That said jaymc is otm, so you probably shouldn't bother
― rob, Monday, 24 July 2023 18:59 (eight months ago) link
The Yacht Rock guys JD Ryznar, Steve Huey et al have launched two fine music podcasts - both very fun & very nerdy (obv)Yacht Or Nyacht, a continuation of their old minisodes where they rank songs, always a good time and, my personal favorite Billion Dollar Record Club where they dig out an old classic & give it a close listen to explore the hidden value first ep: Barry Manilow’s ‘Tryin To Catch The Feeling’ (1975) :D
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:41 (six months ago) link
I could not disagree more with Josh in Chicago re: the merits of If Books Could Kill. The "Godzilla with an arrow in his shoulder" metaphor was singled out not for being difficult to parse (it's a bit of an outlier among Friedman's work in that it lines up with our linguistic consensus about how figurative language works), but for being really stupid and unnecessary. The idea that "pre-9/11 U.S.A. equals Puff the Magic Dragon, post-9/11 U.S.A. equals angry Godzilla" may be a well-formed statement (in the sense of "Does not break any rules"), but it seems shockingly vapid even by the standards of newspaper punditry.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Thursday, 7 September 2023 13:58 (six months ago) link
It's a bit specialized, but I highly recommend "The Hidden History of LA." It's a labor of love and will tell you things you didn't know about the city even if you're a native.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:31 (six months ago) link
So glad the Yacht Rock guys are back. I remember that BYR episode about J.D.'s late wife. One of the best podcasts I've ever heard.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:41 (six months ago) link
The "If Books Could Kill" guys are snotty as hell. They're also funny and right, although tbf they're picking off very low-hanging fruit.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 September 2023 15:42 (six months ago) link
I haven't listened to it yet, but No Dogs in Space is tackling Krautrock in their new season. If you're not familiar, No Dogs is husband-and-wife team Marcus Parks (the research guy from Last Podcast on the Left) and Carolina Hidalgo tackling histories of punk bands and related music. They've done series on The Stooges, Suicide, The Damned, The Ramones, The Misfits, The Slits, The Cramps, The Dead Kennedys, Joy Division, The Screamers, The Beastie Boys, The Velvet Underground, The Replacements, Patti Smith, and the Monks so far, with a few bonus eps sprinkled throughout. Like any podcast, they don't get everything right, but they're still really thorough and Marcus and Carolina are just a charming couple.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:51 (six months ago) link
i think i mentioned this but JD Ryznar & the Yacht Rock guys have a second podcast “billion dollar record club” where they listen to forgotten records it’s a lot of fun!so far they’ve done barry manilow’s first album, jimmy buffet and dragon (!) this week it’s Blackjack aka Michael Bolton’s hard rock band w Bruce kulick (lol)They’re pretty good! With Bolton in rock mode it sounds like Y&T if they were a bar band or maybe like a lost Hagar record
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:26 (six months ago) link
Yeah I'm enjoying it and the new Yacht Or Nyacht eps too.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:35 (six months ago) link
It's only available to Patreon subscribers, but I really enjoyed The Spectral Voyager, a recent miniseries by the Qanon Anonymous guys. Definitely among the best things I've listened to on the paranormal and general weirdness; my favourite episode concerned Mike Marcum, a would-be time traveller who was apparently trending a few months back (though I'd never heard of him until now personally) - very funny but also, unexpectedly, quite moving.
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 22:37 (three months ago) link
I've been loving that series too! I agree, the one about Mike Marcum was the best of the lot (though I've only gotten up through the Giant Squid one so far). I really liked the one about clairvoyance too. It made me a bit more open to the possibility of there actually being something there... Though patron comments made it sound like the author they interviewed wasn't as reliable of a source as they portrayed him in the episode.
― OneSecondBefore, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 03:01 (three months ago) link
If you mean Eric Wargo, his blog is very interesting, but I haven't read his Time Loops book. He refers to Daryl Bem's precognition study, which has been much contested.
In the majority of the weird encounter, out-of-body experience accounts, I don't doubt the sincerity of the witnesses themselves, it just seems that the experiences are almost always completely subjective, resulting from altered states of consciousness etc. But maybe I'm wrong, and demons will be singing Rihanna songs with altered lyrics to me after I die
― Duane Barry, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 12:30 (three months ago) link
I was surprised how much I enjoyed Ezra Klein's interview with Marilynne Robinson re her book on the book of Genesis. I feel like maybe I had him wrong based on some of his earlier work, and I found him a lot more thoughtful and less annoying than I expected. May start listening to his podcast more.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 18 March 2024 03:28 (one week ago) link