//Music Friends//

//00:00//The Melvins’ A Senile Animal (2006) //On generational pop-cultural hand-me-downing//On Balty Hardcore Turnstile v. Blood Orange Turnstile//The passage of time as genres and artists resurface//On what year is it??//On needed Fontaines D.C. discourse//On any reason to talk about Rosalía//On any reason to talk about the first Arctic Monkeys album//On 20th Anny records//On fuzzy sludge//On do...

//00:00//The Beatles' Revolver (1966) //On R.I.P. The Bunker*//On Cultural Scripture//On Church v. John Lennon by the numbers//On anthemic cultural shifts//On re-shaping conscious trajectories//On Revolver as the Sonic Moon Landing//On a Billy Elliot quote for the ages//On revolutionary implementation of technology as production//On sneaky Motown vibrations//On Bizarro Rubber Soul//On starting...

//00:00//The Beatles’ Revolver (1966) //On RIP The Bunker and my Mic sounding good//On The Beatles v. Jesus Christ//On secular scripture//On The Sonic Moon Landing//On Tomorrow Never Knows the flag in Lunar Soil//On ‘If Rock n’ Roll disappeared we could recreate all of it with Revolver’//On revolutionary implementation of technology//On Avant-Garde R&B//On Bizarro Rubber Soul//On Eleanor Rigby...

//00:00//Neil Young’s On The Beach (1974) //On Music Friends via Geese//On the perils and glory of vinyl addiction//On Neil enters the chat//On Neil as we know enters the chat//On American Hero Neil//On cautiously optimistic depression rock//On perfectly imperfect Neil//On Wurlitzer slap slap slap//On No Country For Honey Slides//On Sautéed Marijuana Depression Rock//On going to the radio intervie...

//00:00//Coheed and Cambria's Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe [New Entities Edition] (2025) //On Koi Boyz assemble//On straight into THE LORE//On intimate Claudio//On Space Opera//On thumbs medium//On Dillon SMASHING the Nick Fell question//On King James Claudio//On Zakk Dickinson and Gold-Plated diapers//On more Andre flute//On best of Coheed??//ON MORE LORE//On earthed emotions sans...

//00:00//Tom Petty's Wildflowers (1994) //On love at first listen//On a true Music Friends record//On coming to it through The Heartland//On subconscious Wildflowers memory//On a Happy Music Sad Family record//On Most Things We Worry About Never Happen Anyway//On nourishment//On league-leading WPM and WORW for Zach//On not a party record//On back porch record Hall of Fame//On divisive Honey Bee//O...

//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's GNX (2024) //Recorded 2-18-2025//On commission assembled//On Peakaboo, Coach!//On an immidiate pantheon Los Angeles Album for episode//24//On Kobe 2-4 in July 1-0//On a bit Carter IIIish//On meticulous Kenny//On breezier Kendrick//On Grand Nationals not bein' rational//On exponential Reincarnated rise//On Kendrick's compression socks//On GNX to the summit for Danny//On th...

//00:00//Lou Reed's Transformer (1972) //On going solo!//On being hard to pin down//On all roads leading to Little Richard//On being smart, sensitive and intense//On electroshock//On The Beatles, again//On being in the main tent of the Andy Warhol circus//On Velvet Underground's not so underground resonance//On Vicious's viciousness//On a sneak Bowie masterpiece//On Hendrix always//On...

//00:00//Peter Gabriel's So (1986) //THE DAD POD//On Daddest-Mommest albums//On Albums as social phenomenon//On Generational Sgt. Pepper's importance//On Art Pop World Rock//On Gabriel out of the closet//On the JF "In Your Eyes" necklace//On "Is That Jimmy Buffet's music??"//On Bumper Cars Bumpin'//On JF on African Love Songs//On JF 2 Beers//On poor Freud and Jung discourse//On JF 3 Beers//On Bask...

//00:00//Mariachi El Bronx's Mariachi El Bronx (I) (2009) //On listening changing over time//On pod brain v. music brain//On [Cough-f-theran]//On tasteful cultural appropriation//On better to outro than fadeaway//On your whole life to make your first album and 4 weeks to make your second//On Aqua Teen Mariachi Force//On not belonging to any time period//On following your creative instincts//On tot...

//00:00//Taylor Swift's 1989 (2014) //On the most special guest//On grandiose albums//On the first MF double album//On a shining light in the darkness of residency year one//On the lazy MJ comp//On a maybe concept album//On a synth pop masterpiece//On the Capitol One commercial arc//On Polaroid getting the TS treatment//On Country to City//On the female empowerment jackhammer//On a sneaky ense...

//00:00//Disclosure's Settle (2013) //On here with (in person!)//On albums as friends//On where they buried Al Capone and house music was born//On what isn't House?//On vocalists as instruments//On BPM CSVs//On the bellwether Disclosure track//On the rare sucky Weeknd feature//On Blick Bassey energy//On trendy African influences v. traditional African influences//On best and clearly worst...

//00:00//Daft Punk's  Alive 2007 (2007) //On JF three-peat (weezy voice)//On pre-hyper internet information transfer//On close encounters with the EDM gods//On religious live experiences//On every man's losing their shirt moment//On feedback robo-rock//On remaining human behind the masks//On disco drums//On anti-electronica rock snobbery//On the potency of electronic music performed live//...

//00:00//Billy Woods' Hiding Places (2019) //On this mysterious guy with so much to say//On Billy's haunted house//On the density of an intensely well-read, inquisitive, worldly, sophisticated artist//On boomer hip hop//On exploring spaces you never wanted to return to//On spiderhole living/rap//On Mick's hip hop North Star// //(39:45)//Radiohead's  ⁠In Rainbows (2007)⁠ //On urgent...

//00:00//JAY-Z's The Blueprint (2001) //On salute to a fallen Music Friend//On loss//On boss music//On re-purposing the Jay-Z picture//On stepping through the Biggie Smalls opening//On Jay-Z's diamond which pressure created//On not writing anything down//On Ye//On missing the old Kanye//On cutting a super classic in two weeks//On separating from the East Coast pack//On Jim Morrison-tinged...

//00:00//Brand New's The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006) //On the essence//On beauty in the exploration of darkness//On the crossfade intersecting loop chant thing//On point-counterpoint//On to emo and beyond//On the Brand New ark//On Brand New @ MSG//On the best part of doing this thing//On incredibly dark but beautiful//On John Cusack's arc versus the Brand New arc//On doing so...

//00:00//The Clash's London Calling (1979) //On historic sonic diversity//On longer, better, broader//On being more than punk//On the punk orthodoxy always being pissed//On not being tied to your roots//On the clampdown//On spanish bombtracks//On reggae for the end times//On Orwellian, Vonneguttian, dystopian radio broadcasts//On commentary with pop value//On anthemic self worth//On masterpiec...

//00:00//Middle Brother's Middle Brother (2011) //On odes to things that aren't had//On peak rock-bottom Isbell//On mood and/or audience//On Orbison karaoke//On Wilco-adjacent//On Newport Not-So-Folk Festival's history//On Middle Brother principal symmetry//On the grand Deertick conversation 15 years in the making//On emotional carnage and sonic beauty// //(57:06)//alt-J's The Drea...

//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (2022) //Recorded 5-17-2022//On grown Kendrick//On shepherd Kendrick//On therapy//On Eckhart Tolle and Kodak Black back-to-back//On the hurt hurting others//On singular Kendrick//On the holy quadology of pop stardom//On not savior Kendrick//On the Kyrie stamp of approval//On Kodak's imperfections as our imperfections?//On humor sp...

//00:00//New Found Glory's Sticks And Stones (2002) //On summer lovin'//On the genesis of sweating girls//On albums with memory//On riffs as hooks//On deep drumming lineage//On tasteful heaving noises//On downhill uptempo emo-pop//On peak information//On peak NFG//On spousal musical enjoyment// //(57:32)//Rage Against The Machine's Rage Against The Machine (1992) //On musical purity//O...

//00:00//Gustav Holst's The Planets (1918) //On JFII//On the solar system of emotions//On war vibz//On the Lusitania//On Mars, Jupiter and Neptune//On suites, compositions, movements//On melodic plagiarism//On all roads leading to Holst//On Kalamazoo!//On Mars as a double IPA and Jupiter as a brown ale//On Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath starting metal and Holst starting Black Sabbath by Black...

//00:00//Steven Wilson's Hand Cannot Erase (2015) //On crushingly depressing songs//On all concept record roads leading to loneliness//On dulcimers and chapman sticks//On Floyd vibz//On vignette roulette//On the internet making it easier to be alone//On aliens?// //(43:20)//The Beatles' Let it Be (1970) //On best content ever?//On Beatle nose hairs and fingernails//On the long and winding...

//00:00//Green Day's American Idiot (2004) //On dorm life releases//On relatability//On strip mall depression//On super great records post-greatest hits records//On the paradox of selling out//On hailing Jesus of Suburbia//On Broadway runs//On validating Billie Joe as Saint Jimmy and Saint Jimmy as triumphant Billie Joe// //(54:49)//Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Long After Dark (1982) /...

//00:00//Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) //On constituent parts of thematic rock//On one part empathy, two parts essential pop, one part cultural scripture//On having mental issues or whatever//On Us Us Us and Them Them Them//On high art with the music//On primordial mental health awareness//On all roads leading to Miles Davis// //(47:26)//Prince's Sign O' The Times (1987...

//00:00//Beck's Guero (2005) //On road trip albums//On cinematic vibz//On multi-instrumentalist Beck//On congruence//On the long bread of the Dust Bros//On digital robo-rock//On the complete Beck-ography//On weirdo maybe-Scientologist Beck// //(33:12)//The Avalanches' Since I Left You (2000) //On breaking through to the other side//On audible interdimensional cable with killer hooks//On a...