Frankenstein's Jukebox

James and Dan pick their songs from 2010 and discuss their favorite songs of the 2010 selections! A huge thanks to amazing artist Kelp Rabbit for our logo! Check out her store for earrings, t-shirts, and more amazing designs!

James and Dan talk about instrumentals, how 2011 shaped future FJ picks, and more! A huge thanks to amazing artist Kelp Rabbit for our logo! Check out her store for earrings, t-shirts, and more amazing designs!

James and Dan pick songs from 2012 and discuss made up bands, musical friends, and Jeremy Piven. 

In today's episode, James and Dan sit down with Matt and Chris Yule of Finish It! to discuss Boston, double August, camp, and The Sea! Show art by Kelp Rabbit Follow along with our picks on our Spotify playlist!

Dan and James break down their picks for 2014, and discuss KISS (not one of their picks), Casablanca, and maybe start two new shows?  A huge thanks to amazing artist Kelp Rabbit for our logo! Check out her store for earrings, t-shirts, and more amazing designs!

The songpromise from the 2015 episode, named Control. Music by Daniel Spencer, lyrics written by James Anderson, sung by Daniel Spencer and James Anderson.  Music Sampled: "Control" by Janet Jackson, Control, A&M Records, 1986.

It's our first guest episode! Kyle Turner from Wet Hot American Moon Juice joins James and Dan to talk 2015. Big thanks to Kelp Rabbit for our logo! Check out our Soundcloud for all of our songs, and Spotify for our playlist of the songs picked!

The songpromise from 2016, utilizing a double fake-out, gilding the mundane, plucked guitar, non-standard verse structure and rhyme scheme, an It's A Wonderful Life reference, and rhyming a word with itself. Here it is: Candela!

In today's episode, James and Dan talk about cricket, the A.V. Club's Undercover project, and Frank Capra as we delve into the songs we picked from 2016 and the aspects that we like about them, and mix them into a brand new song! Follow along with our playlist that we update each month with our picks! Find the songs we've written and released on our SoundCloud! As always, a huge thank you to Kelp...

2017's Songpromise, New Dawn (Hungry Again)! Music written and recorded by Daniel Spencer. Lyrics but James Anderson and Daniel Spencer. Vocals by Daniel Spencer and AJ Ganaros. You can find AJ on the Kids on Bikes actual play podcast Christmastide, Ohio !

We keep moving back in time as James and Dan delve into 2017, a year of ups and downs, peaks and valleys, saints and sinners. We talk about music festivals, reversing the track order on an album, and use one word...just too much.  We discuss a duet video in the episode, which you can find here ! Follow along with our playlist that we update each month with our picks! As always, a huge thank you to...

Here's our 2018 SongPromise! "You can't break me, I don't have a breaking point" is the line sampled from the 2010 Valerie Plame biopic Fair Game. NASA countdown taken from the Apollo 11 launching. Music by Dan Spencer Logo by Kelp Rabbit ! 

2018 was an eventful year, and James and Dan break down two of their favorite songs from the year and build out a songpromise in a genre they've not worked in before! As always, a huge thank you to Kelp Rabbit for our incredible logo! Check out all her stuff available! Check out our Spotify playlist as we add each year's picks and listen along with us! Also, check out Dan's  SoundCloud  where they...

It's our Songpromise from 2019's episode! Here's "Anna". Music written and recorded by Daniel Spencer. Lyrics by James Anderson, sung by Daniel Spencer. 

Dan and James bring two vastly different songs from 2019 and stitch together their favorite parts to create a whole new monster! What monstrosity do they create this month? Have a listen!   Huge thank you to Kelp Rabbit for the incredible logo!

Here's the snippet of May Morning that we wrote from the songpromise in our 2020 episode! Music written and recorded by Dan. Lyrics by James. Vocal track by Karla Kay ( @KayK_Olicity on twitter). 

James and Dan have gone to the 2020 graveyard and dug up a couple of their favorite songs! Now they'll pick their favorite parts and stitch them together to make a new monster! Will the lightning hit and bring their creation to life? Huge thank you to Kelp Rabbit for the incredible logo!