Discography

After an entire season spent searching for the stories hidden in the grooves, we finish by hearing from someone who put them there. Last time, Derrick Bostrom helped us straighten out the Meat Puppets' first decade into their stint on London Records. Now, things get weird. In the final episode of Discography's season exploring The Meat Puppets, founding drummer, Derrick Bostrom, shares with M...

We've spent seven episodes telling the story that The Meat Puppets' records contained; now we get to hear the story from someone who lived it. Host Marc With a C sits down with founding Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom for an extensive conversation about the band's history. In part 1, we're going back to the 1980s: when three guys from Arizona made an ungodly racket, somehow landed on SST Reco...

Some reunions chase the past. The Meat Puppets used theirs to prove the story wasn't over. Instead, this current era of Meat Puppets is characterized by: second chances, hard-earned wisdom, and a catalog that refuses to stand still. These later albums aren't epilogues; they're proof that artistic curiosity doesn't have an expiration date, and that a band can continue to surprise listeners long aft...

Sometimes the end of one band is the beginning of several new adventures: unlikely supergroups, overlooked masterpieces, and the quiet confidence of an artist who kept moving forward no matter what name appeared on the album cover. Host Marc With a C follows Curt Kirkwood through the years in-between incarnations of the Meat Puppets; writing and recording with a remarkable cast of collaborators. F...

Not every chapter in a band's history is defined by triumph. Sometimes the most revealing stories are the ones told through uncertainty. Host Marc With a C chronicles the Meat Puppets' journey through one of the most turbulent periods of their career. Beginning with their overlooked record No Joke , continuing through the You Love Me EP, the reflective Golden Lies , and the raw Live album released...

Success changes every band. For the Meat Puppets, it simply gave more people the chance to discover what was there all along. Host Marc With a C follows Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood, and Derrick Bostrom as they leave SST Records for London Records, navigating the leap to a major label with Forbidden Places , breaking through to a wider audience with Too High to Die , and revealing another side of...

Every great band reaches the point where evolution isn't optional, it's inevitable. In this episode, host Marc With a C explores the Meat Puppets at the close of their run with SST Records. We begin with the concise songwriting of Huevos , capturing the trio's onstage chemistry on Live in Montana , and arriving at the ambitious, loudly expansive Monsters . Through it all, Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkw...

The Meat Puppets didn't leave psychedelia behind after Meat Puppets II , they disappeared into it. In this episode, host Marc With a C follows Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood, and Derrick Bostrom through three releases that transformed the band's sound without sacrificing its identity: the luminous Up on the Sun , the adventurous Out My Way EP, and the dreamlike Mirage . Still recording for SST Recor...

Season Five of Discography begins where the desert first started humming: before Too High to Die , before MTV, before “Lake of Fire” became somebody else's campfire song. Host Marc With a C traces the earliest evolution of the Meat Puppets through three foundational releases: the frantic In a Car EP, the feral self-titled debut, and the astonishing leap that is Meat Puppets II . Along the way, we'...

Discography returns for its fifth season on August 5th. The legendary artist whose oeuvre we're unpacking? None other than your favorite musicians' favorite musicians: The Meat Puppets! Join host Marc With a C for a seven episode sojourn, weekly on Wednesdays. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discography Producer Cat Blackard reports in with a brief update on the show and a new documentary about Discography 's host, Marc With A C. The film is called Half Serious, Half Kidding: The Digital Footprint Of An Obscure Rock Star it's coming soon to streaming platforms, but if you're keen to get a limited run physical copy with a soundtrack, zine, and a wealth of bonus content... now's your ch...

Discography host Marc With a C posits (and tries to answer) the eternal question: what IS Black Sabbath? Armed only with the records, some supplemental reading material, and a little commentary through the season from Jim Myers of Milk Carton Superstars, Razorfist (aka The Rageaholic, host of Black Sabbath: Metal Mythos ), Ernie Cunnigan (producer of the Forbidden album, guitarist for Body Count),...

Discography host Marc With a C posits the eternal question: what IS Black Sabbath? Armed only with the records, some supplemental reading material, and a little commentary from Razorfist (aka The Rageaholic), Ernie Cunnigan (producer of the Forbidden album, guitarist for Body Count), and some recited exclusive commentary from a source that could change all that you know about Sabbath, Marc chronic...

Discography host Marc With a C posits the eternal question: what IS Black Sabbath? Armed only with the records, some supplemental reading material, and a little commentary from Jim Myers of Milk Carton Superstars, plus Razorfist (aka The Rageaholic), Marc chronicles their music from Technical Ecstasy all the way to the oft-misunderstood Seventh Star album on this episode!  Hosted on Acast. Se...

The wait is over! Host Marc With a C posits the eternal question: what IS Black Sabbath? Armed only with the records, some supplemental reading material, and a little commentary from Jim Myers of Milk Carton Superstars, Marc chronicles their music from the 1969 debut all the way to Sabotage on this episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With literally hundreds of compilations exploring the continuum of The Who's canon discography and beyond... keeping track of variations and critical recordings can be genuinely maddening! Let Discography 's host, Marc With a C, be your leader and your guide to the compilation cream that rose to the top and the remixed albums that are completely essential for any self-respecting Who fanatic. Learn...

After John Entwistle's shocking death on the eve of The Who's 2002 tour, few could have been blamed for considering that event to be the proverbial "end of the road" for the group. Even fewer could have predicted that it would instead be followed by one of the largest tours in the band's history and their first album of new material in well over two decades, Endless Wire . But that's not all! If y...

The 90s were a strange and unpredictable time for The Who. The band was back as a touring act but little else, meanwhile the individual members pressed on into their solo careers. Townshend's passion projects paved the way for eventual Who material, Daltry soldiered on to find a way forward musically, and Entwistle threw caution to the wind to start his own group with friends Steve Luongo and Godf...

Following the release of their 1982 album, It's Hard , The Who called it quits and spent the rest of the 80s redefining their solo careers. Join Discography host Marc With a C as he chronicles what he's dubbed "the first farewell era" - exploring the ways that the group had splintered and how they carried on in finding their individual voices. John Entwistle wouldn't have much luck getting his new...

Between 1977 and 1982, The Who changed in inconceivable ways. They were still a huge live draw, they were making massive hit records, and their tenure as stars of the silver screen was only seeming to grow, but this period certainly contained some of the saddest chapters in Who history: the death of the seemingly indestructible Keith Moon, the passing of previous manager Kit Lambert, and the Cinci...

By 1973, The Who were superstars. Their gargantuan rock opera Quadrophenia had given wayward teenagers a mirror with which to find themselves, even though the ensuing tour would be the catalyst for each band member to go a bit off the rails in their own ways. Join host Marc With a C on a sojourn through 1973 to 1976, when Ken Russell's film adaptation of Tommy took the world by storm, and turned l...

Our first episode saw the band rise from humble beginnings all the way to 1969, when The Who had somehow made themselves world famous for writing a rock opera about a physically challenged boy with a talent for... pinball? Of course, you'd celebrate such a feat with a tour of revered opera houses and then record a live album in a glorified school cafeteria, wouldn't you? I mean, it just makes sens...

Discography is a quarterly podcast chronicling a legendary artist’s catalog album by album - and this season is one for the record books. Host Marc With a C has already taken on the entirety of Frank Zappa's impenetrably expansive catalogue and the surprising intricacies of Janet Jackson, but now he's cracking open the chronicles of one of the most influential bands of all-time: The Who! Maybe you...

Brace yourselves for maximum Discography! We're taking on The Who. This is no mere surface level Scoop of one of the greatest bands of all-time - we're Riding a Rock Horse off the Deep End. Beginning this January, host Marc With a C explores every studio record, live records, singles, and every solo release by Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon. If you think you know Who...

For the past four episodes, Discography has counted down Janet Jackson's studio records - her self-titled 1982 debut to 2015's Unbreakable . But as host Marc With a C assembled this season, he was completely caught off-guard by just how much completely essential non-album music Ms. Jackson had produced over the years. In this epilogue episode, we discuss some of the best and brightest of her b-sid...