My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

LA singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson joins me to talk about Elliott Smith 's classic 1998 album XO. We chat about how XO was Elliott's first album produced with a major label, retrospective listening and how many fans have hunted for hidden messages in the album's lyrics post Elliott's suicide and how a collision of musical worlds helped Christian bond with his Dad.  Christian tells me about...

LA Singer/songwriter  Leslie Stevens  joins me to chat about  Neutral Milk Hotel 's classic 1998 album 'In The Aeroplane Over the Sea'. We talk about The Diary of Anne Frank and it's influence on the album, authenticity in music and innocence lost. We unpack our teenage superiority complexes and debate whether genre labels are essential in the music world.   Leslie plays us an impromptu rendition...

Podcasts collide as musician (The One AM Radio) and creator of my two favorite podcasts (Song Exploder, The West Wing Weekly) Hrishikesh Hirway joins me to delve into the sonic world Björk created on her classic 1997 album 'Homogenic' and how it inspired Hrishi to develop his own unique musical identity. From the beats to the string arrangements and beyond, we unpack the incredible craft and atten...

Screenwriter Zack Stentz (Thor, X-Men: First Class, The Flash) has plenty of experience with charismatic aliens and mutants, so he's right at home talking to me about David Bowie  and his classic 1980 album 'Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps'. We delve into how this record was Bowie's journey back to mainstream success after his experimental Berlin period,  Ashes to Ashes  as a sequel song to Bowie...

This week on the podcast, Hollywood producer and director David Friendly joins me to talk about Steely Dan's classic 1977 album 'Aja'. We talk about David's discovery of the album during his college years, how 'Aja' rewards repeat listens and how Walter Becker and Donald Fagen worked with the best session musicians of the time to create the perfect album recording.   Plus we discuss ageing musicia...

Grammy winning singer-songwriter  Kacey Musgraves  talks her love iconic iconoclast  John Prine  and his self-titled debut album. Kacey talks about performing with Prine, playing him the song she wrote about him, how his approach to lyric writing inspired her own songs, why she put her Grammy in a Prine exhibit in the Country Music Hall of Fame, and wonders why people keep thinking her and Prine's...

This week on the podcast I chat to  Rolling Stone 's  Brittany Spanos  about  Patti Smith 's seminal album 'Horses'. We talk about how Michael Stipe led to Brittany's discovery of the album as an aspiring music journalist, how it remains a seminal punk album while flying in the face of punk conventions, the album's iconic opening line, Smith's dismissal of traditional gender conventions, Brittany'...

Groove master and bassist Tom Champion (The Preatures) joins me to chat about Neil Young's classic 1975 album 'Tonight's the Night'. We discuss how Tom first discovered the album, the sad story behind the album and the different incarnations of Neil Young, including whether Neil should be considered a cat or a dog. We compare the recording methods of Neil Young and The Preatures, how drunk the ban...

Today's episode is one of my favorite conversations I've had for the podcast. Legendary drummer/producer/songwriter  Steve Jordan  surveys his incredible career, from the albums that first inspired him to pick up drumsticks as a child to the songwriting lessons he was taught by  Keith Richards , being put through his paces by  James Brown  on the Letterman show, why he became a producer, his band ...

Today we're revisiting my chat with the gracious Pegi Young, humanitarian and singer-songwriter, who sadly passed away last week from cancer. Here is our conversation from 2017, a lovely and wide-ranging chat on her biggest musical influences. Singer-songwriter  Pegi Young 's new album  'Raw'  was inspired by her recent divorce, but her musical identity has been developing for decades, taking insp...

Americana singer-songwriter  Kirby Brown  joins me to talk about  Randy Newman' s 1974 album 'Good Old Boys'.  We discuss Newman's progression from satirical songwriting to movie music composition, writing from the point of view of a character whose beliefs don't align with your own, the Eagles backing vocals on the album, will Newman ever write a song about President Trump and more.

Singer/songwriter  Gretchen Peters  joins me to talk about the every songwriter's favorite  Bob Dylan record, 1975's 'Blood on the Tracks'. Gretchen talks about how she fell in love with the album as she was getting divorced, the unusually soft edges of Dylan's songwriting on this record, how he treats women in his lyrics, how his songs always bring you to a place of empathy and the importance of...

Revisiting the OG My Favorite Album Christmas special from 2015... Happy Holidays to all of you out there in the world For the first ever My Favorite Album Christmas special, I delve into the origins of the Christmas pop songs we all know today with musicologist and Sydney Morning Herald journalist  Tim Byron  - how did we go from religious music to songs about cold weather? Why were all the best...

Revisiting our most downloaded episodes of 2018 to close out the year LA singer-songwriter  Phoebe Bridgers  joins me to celebrate a classic album of the mid-naughties,  Bright Eyes  'I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning'. We talk about why Phoebe resisted listening to the album before falling in love with it, how it changed the way she writes songs, where Bright Eyes fits in the 'emo' pantheon, why she c...

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Writer, director, producer and crate digger extraordinaire Drew Pearce joins me for a rollicking conversation about Pixies classic album 'Doolittle', the formative impact it had on him as a child, listening to it totally fresh while not even knowing what the band looked like, the impact that producer Gil Norton had on the record and artists' relationships to their most revered work. Plus Drew reca...

Possessed of a voice and musical depth far beyond her years, Angie McMahon joined me to discuss KD Lang's 'Hymns of the 49th Parallel', a supreme covers album that celebrates Canada's great songwriters from Joni Mitchell to Leonard Cohen to Neil Young. Angie and I unpack why KD is such a supremely great singer, why some covers succeed and some fail, what Angie's covers record would be themed aroun...

Longtime friend of the show, filmmaker Brian Koppelman , joins me to delve into the music of his acclaimed hit Showtime drama series BILLIONS. We go behind the scenes on some of the most compelling musical moments from three seasons of a show that has always found unexpected and fascinating songs to shade and power dynamic scenes and surprising and compelling ways to use some classic tunes. Songs...

"People often dismiss [Paul] as soft and lazy and complacent. In so many ways, he's the exact opposite of that, to a frightening extreme." - Rob Sheffield Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield , author of Dreaming the Beatles , joins me to preview the new White Album box set and for a wide ranging discussion on all things Fab Four - the way our perception of the Beatles change as we age, how the Rock Band...

Stella Donnelly is a Western Australian singer-songwriter who wraps uncompromising lyrics in deft playing and aching beautiful melodies. She joins me to talk about the influence on 'Tender Buttons' by British cult favorites Broadcast. We talk about how the album marked a turning point in Broadcast's sound and the life of the band in general, how 'Tears in the Typing Pool' helped Stella find the co...

English-born Australian-raised pop singer-songwriter Jess Kent joins me to delve into the weird and wonderful world of Gorillaz and their sophomore album 'Demon Days'. My Favorite Album  is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them. Jeremy Dyla...

Expert crafter of fiercely melodic guitar rock Ali Barter joins me to celebrate Hole's 'Live Through This'. My Favorite Album  is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them. Jeremy Dylan  is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photogra...

Last night Emma Swift and I saw the new lineup of Fleetwood Mac at the United Center in Chicago, featuring Neil Finn and Mike Campbell replacing Lindsey Buckingham. We break down the show, the new band dynamic and whether or not it's worth your money. This is a special end of week episode of the podcast. There will be a regular episode coming on Wednesday...