Belonging Songs

The Stride is the Belonging Songs bonus show for you to enjoy while we're on hiatus leading up to season two, we just couldn't leave you hanging, because we love you! We love you! Each week we'll play you a couple songs, this week's songs are: Song #1 - "The Unknown Slamberred" by Thin Pleasures Song #2 - "Torch" by Deadsurf, from their album "Surf Slud...

The Stride is the Belonging Songs bonus show for you to enjoy while we're on hiatus leading up to season two, we just couldn't leave you hanging, because we love you! We love you! Each week we'll play you a couple songs, this week' songs are: Song #1 - "Is It Just Me?" by The Captain, from the EP "Heave-Ho!" Song #2 - "Eerie Dearie" by Portals or T...

This week we close out season one with a bang by bringing you our first true 3 person collaboration. That's right, Brad, Wade, and Patrick combine to form the mega-super-awesome group "The Whyte Spydrz"! Tune in to hear this week's song go from a raw, live recording, all the way to a finished track. We'd like to thank each and every one of you for listening this season, an...

If you were to jump in the time machine with Uncle Dave and travel back to episode 25, You'd hear us lay out plans for what we're calling "Ingredient Songs", which means we pulled a bunch of song element options from a hat (e.g. theme, tempo, mood, instrumentation) and had to use them to create a new song. This is the second installment from the results of that idea. Recipe: I&...

Please take your seats, the show is about to begin! This week we listen to Brad's 2015 "The Opera" EP. Hear this story of love and loss in its entirety as we discuss how and why it was made. Send us a message! bs@belongingsongs.com Visit our website! www.belongingsongs.com Check out our Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/belongingsongs/ Follow us throughout the week for your lates...

Previously, on Belonging Songs... [insert montage here] This week we listen to a song by Wade that was inspired by the type of thing that usually inspires Brad. Tune in to here all about it! Send us a message! bs@belongingsongs.com Visit our website! www.belongingsongs.com Check out our Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/belongingsongs/ Follow us throughout the week for your latest BS news. This...

Welcome back BSrs, and hello to anyone new! This week we listen to a new track by our very own Bradley J, and this one is an excellent example of why we started this project, and what we intended for it to do. Why? Because this song greatly benefits from critical feedback and the collaborative process. This one goes from day to night, errr, night to day....not really sure how that works, guess it...

Welcome back BSrs! This week we listen to and talk about 5 tracks off of Wade's first solo album "Better This Way". These "look back" episodes are a fun way for us to revisit some of our past work and to examine how we've evolved as artists over the years. This era of songwriting was also when we were actively playing our music out live, and listening to these songs n...

Welcome back BSrs! This week we visit another of Brad's songs that was recorded as part of a group a few years back. It's looking very much like these songs will end up together in the form of an EP, and it's becoming evident that the revision process for all these songs are developing a pattern: heavy edits to the arrangement to condense the song into a more compact and listenable...

This week's song is about history, and how "We The People" have failed to learn from it, or to acknowledge its entirety. Send us a message! bs@belongingsongs.com Visit our website! www.belongingsongs.com Check out our Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/belongingsongs/ Follow us throughout the week for your latest BS news. This is where we do most of our social media-ing. Our stand...

Hello BSrs, we're back with an episode that spans a couple months in time, and features a brand new song by Brad...er, well, it was brand new a couple months ago...but now we've traveled from the past to our future (your present), to show you all the changes this song went through on its journey to completion. Grab yourself a Crux and settle in for some grade-A BS! Send us a message! bs@...

Welcome back BSrs! This week's song is by Brad, and we give it a major overhaul, cutting nearly two minutes out! The results are drastic, and the arc of this song is a great example of why we started this project in the first place. Tune in to hear how important and beneficial collaboration can be to the creative process! Send us a message! bs@belongingsongs.com Visit our website! www.belongi...

July is National Hot Dog Month, and July 22nd is National Hot Dog Day! To celebrate this great occasion we present you with one of the ten best songs about hot dogs you will hear this week! Fire up the grill and join us for the party! Send us a message! bs@belongingsongs.com Visit our website! www.belongingsongs.com Check out our Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/belongingsongs/ Follow us throu...

A few weeks back (episode 25) we laid out plans for what we're calling "Ingredient Songs", which means we pulled a bunch of song element options from a hat (e.g. theme, tempo, mood, instrumentation) and had to use them to create a new song. This is the first installment from the results of that idea. Recipe: Trail Blazin' Start with large mixing bowl, add a tempo of 75 and slow...

A cast from the past, brought back at long last! That's right, this episode was previously recorded and scrapped because we sucked at it the first time. Not to worry though, because we suck slightly less this time around, and in person no less! Yep, the gang's all back together in the studio for this one, and we're listening to two songs, so sit back, strap in, dial the coordinates,...

This week's song is political. It's about Donald Trump. We do not like him. Send us a message! bs@belongingsongs.com Visit our website! www.belongingsongs.com Check out our Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/belongingsongs/ Follow us throughout the week for your latest BS news. This is where we do most of our social media-ing. Our stand-alone songs are now available online! (Spotify, i...

Join us this week to feel all giddy in your belly, because this episode's song is about butterflies. You can still picture Brad frolicking around in a field chasing fluttering bugs if you want, but that's not what the song is about. What it is, though, is one of the best tunes brought to the podcast thus far (according to the other two jerks on the show, not Brad, he doesn't care ab...

This weeks song was born of quarantine. The arc of this episode takes us from when the song was written during the first days of pandemic lockdown, through to it's revision process just days after the Murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police. The world is a fucking mess, and this song reflects some of that. Send us a message: bs@belongingsongs.com Visit our website: www.belongingsongs....

Are you an anchor, or are you a wheel? Maybe you're the anchor to my wheel? The wind beneath my wings? What the heck am I talking about? Find out this week as we embark on a wheel journey together! We now have chapter markers! Jump to the songs, jump to the future, JUMP AROUND! JUMP AROUND! Send us a message! bs@belongingsongs.com Visit our website! www.belongingsongs.com Check out our Instag...

Have you ever just wished that someone you don't like is sort of failing at life? You don't necessarily wish them harm, but you sure hope you're doing way better than they are? Yeah? Then this is a song for you! And c'mon, really, we all can think of people who fit that mold, right? Right. So let's celebrate ourselves, and our accomplishments, and raise a glass in toast to...

We're traveling way back in time with this one, nearly twenty years, to when Brad originally recorded this week's song. We're going to sneak into his house, steal the cassette tape out of his 4-track recorder, then blast back here to the present so he can do a total re-record. The results are quite drastic, and the theme of the song lends an interesting view of the shift in perspect...

Buckle up BS'rs, we're heading to court. Yep, we're jumping in the ol' time machine again and visiting the year 1985 to sit in on the Senate hearing instigated by The Parents Music Resource Center that culminated in letting every kid know exactly which album they wanted to buy because of the resultant "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" rating system. The theme of th...

Are we...did you...is there something in your eye, or is today about to be super awesome? Oh, yeah...I see, yep, definitely something in your eye. This week's song is about the wink! Easily misconstrued, often overlooked, yet, when used properly, this small action can become a giant gesture. Or maybe not, it's hard to tell. Either way, it's a new song by Brad, and it's saturate...

This week, an older song by Brad gets wrestled with. The recording is simple, and raw, and the boys learn that it can sometimes be rather difficult to deal with a stripped down song. When should you try to improve things, and when should they be left alone? We ask these questions, and more, as we attempt to maintain the captured vibe of this track, while at the same time improving on the overall q...

That's right folks, this week we're doing cover songs, but with a twist; Wade is covering a song of Brad's, Brad is covering a song of Wade's, and Patrick got to pick those songs based on which song he thought the other would have been most likely to NOT have written themselves. We also throw in a David Bowie cover, and then Brad caps the episode off by redoing one of his Georg...