My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

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 son...

This episode was originally broadcast September 3, 2015 The modern ambassador of cow-punk, singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless , joins me to chat about The Replacements 1987 album "Pleased to Meet Me", diversifying sounds, the 'Mid-West sound' and her love of pure pop music. My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician...

This episode originally aired July 1, 2015 Standup comic and legendary bass master Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Icehouse) joins host Jeremy Dylan to chat about the iconic rock concept album about alienation and adolescence - The Who's 1973 rock opera "Qaudrophenia". How did Quadrophenia kickstart a mod revival? How easy was it to understand the story of the album? What is the m...

Writer/producer Jeff Lieber (Necessary Roughness, NCIS: New Orleans) joins me to explore the intersection between music and drama, and how he uses an obsession with an album to fuel his writing process. We talk about how Gregory Alan Isakov's 'The Weatherman' has been the soundtrack to his current writing project, the different ways that changing technology has effected TV and music, what the Beat...

My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all time - their history with it, the making of the album, individual songs and the album's influence on their own music. Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist and photographer from Sydney, Australia who has worked in the music industr...

My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all time - their history with it, the making of the album, individual songs and the album's influence on their own music. Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist and photographer from Sydney, Australia who has worked in the music industr...

One of Australia's busiest and most accomplished singer/songwriters Ella Thompson (GL, Dorsal Fins) joins me to tell the story of how Aussie soul legend Renee Geyer became her childhood mentor, the lessons and advice Geyer taught her and why neither of them fit comfortably in Australia's musical landscape. Plus, should singers smoke? My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop...

The Shires have brought contemporary country to the mainstream in the UK. They open up about the inspiration of US country superstars Lady Antebellum, the difference between US and UK perspectives on sincerity and being 'uncool' as performers, and their friendship with friend of the show Sam Palladio. My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a di...

We celebrate a milestone today with first ever Scottish guest of the pod. Duglas T Stewart, founder and frontman of indie legends BMX Bandits, joins me to discuss the offbeat magic and beautiful naive emotion of Beach Boys 'Love You', the band's bizarre and compelling 1977 'comeback' album, which saw Brian Wilson and a host of wonky synthesisers create a sonic world completely different to the per...

Standup comic, actor, co-host of The Bonfire, Dan Soder has followed an instinct to just 'do cool shit'. His just 'do cool shit' idol is Josh Homme, frontman of Queens of the Stone Age. We talk about how being uncool makes QOTSA the coolest band in the world, why Dan doesn't care how many years it takes between Queens records, how Elton John talked Homme into letting him play piano on the album, t...

Kingswood are one of Australia's hottest rock bands, and I sat down with frontman Fergus and axeman Alex on release day for their new album 'After Hours, Before Dawn' , to talk about why "everything comes back to the Beatles " , studio experimentation, finding their own George Martin , mellotrons, the music teacher that made them appreciate the Beatles and the art of the album and translating drea...

Standup comic, writer and self-described 'hateful rat' Becky Lucas on her childhood infatuation with the music of Michael Jackson, and arguably MJ's last classic album, 1987′s 'Bad'. We talk about how Jackson still managed to connect to people through music when isolated from the everyday world, I tell a bizarre MJ studio story (courtesy of bass legend Guy Pratt), the death of mass culture in the...

PVT drummer Laurence Pike joins me to discuss the iconic British producer, singer-songwriter, self proclaimed 'non-musician' and mad professor Brian Eno and his classic album Another Green World (1975). We use Eno's classic 'Oblique Strategies' cards, we try to find insight into Eno's creativity, PVT's musical process and different ways of overcoming creative stumbling blocks and barriers. My Favo...

Middle Kids frontwoman and chief songwriter Hannah Joy on the marriage of emotional indie folk and sophisticated classicism that is My Brightest Diamond's debut LP and how it has influenced her own approach to pop music.  Why are all modern rockers in debt to Bach and Chopin (and where does ABBA fit in)? What does it mean to see yourself as only a part of the greater story of pop music? What's wit...

Film author and blogger the Bitter Script Reader joins me to celebrate Tom Hanks' classic 1996 film That Thing You Do, the best rock'n'roll biopic to only feature fictional pop bands. We talk about how the film embodies the spirit of early 60s rock, as well as the spirit of Tom Hanks, how Hanks used his leverage as the biggest movie star on earth to get this idiosyncratic little film made, how the...

How does the woman behind one of the biggest mainstream pop singles of the decade follow it up with a cult album beloved by critics and hipsters alike? I assembled a dream team of Carly Rae Jepsen fans, from photographer and record company staffer Jess Gleeson to Secret Garden music festival programmer Adam Lewis and emo social media influencer (and my flatmate) Geordie Gray.  Sit back and listen...

Note: This episode originally aired in March 2016. Danny Clinch , harmonica player and the greatest rock photographer of the past 25 years, joins me to talk about the debut album of his idol and frequent collaborator Bruce Springsteen - 'Greetings from Ashbury Park NJ'. Danny talks about the parallels between his NJ upbringing and the characters on the album, why Springsteen's managers have also p...

Reposting this episode on request from two lovely fans of the pod I met at a Bruce Springsteen gig last night. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and E Street Band saxophonist Jake Clemons joins host Jeremy Dylan to chat about his love for Sarah McLachlan 's 1997 album "Surfacing". Why did this album inspire Jake to become a songwriter? How did McLachlan and producer Pierre Marchand create...

Sydney singer-songwriter makes music that's complex, compelling and controlled, and bathed in the influence of 80s new wave pop. Today she joins me to talk Peter Gabriel's solo album 'So', the 1986 juggernaut that dominated MTV and established his commercial resilience after a series of acclaimed, less populist records. My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each ep...

Reposting this episode on request to compliment the most recent chat with fellow Crowded House member Mark Hart. The first Kiwi on the podcast waxes lyrical on four of the most influential albums in his record collection. Neil and host Jeremy Dylan delve into The Beatles' "Beatles for Sale" and Neil Young 's "After the Goldrush" and along the way talk about their shared memories of a bizarre Crowd...

Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumental wizard Mark Hart (Crowded House, Supertramp) joins me for a freewheeling journey through the records that inspired him through his formative years, particularly XTC's nervy new wave classic 'Drums & Wires'. We talk about how XTC hid their intricacy and sophistication through canny pop songwriting, whatever happened to Oingo Boingo , driving to Woodstock on...

In a moment of history where pissed off women are rising up, Queen of the Sadcore Bangers Emma Swift returns to the show to talk about Marianne Faithfull's brittle, confronting classic 'Broken English'. Faithfull started her career being exploited as a folk-pop starlet, hitting rock bottom with drugs and homelessness and then taking control of her life and identity with this album. Emma and I talk...

On today's episode, I explore the link between Kate Bush's 1985 classic 'Hounds of Love' and modern electronic pop with Sydney singer-songwriter/producer Owen Rabbit .  My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all time - their history with it, the making of the album, individua...

Legendary English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock returns to the podcast to talk about artist who's influence has shaped his entire career - Bob Dylan and his iconic 1966 double album  'Blond on Blonde' . We talk about why some people are obsessed with finding the literal inspiration behind every Bob line, how Robyn fell in love with Dylan at boarding school, why David Bowie was the British Bob...

Dave Mudie , the deft powerhouse drummer who has been the engine room of  Courtney Barnett 's CB3 since 2012, joins me to talk about the album that changed music for him - and the rest of the world - Nirvana 's iconic album Nevermind. We talk about how a love for Nirvana united Dave, Courtney and bassist Boanes Sloane when they first played together in country-psych band Immigrant Union , the infl...