My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

Empire Film Magazine and Fade to Black's Amon Warmann joins me to try and answer one of the great nerd questions of all time: Is a 75 minute animated film from 1993 actually the best Batman film ever made? Warning: This is a spoiler-filled conversation after the first ten minutes. Amon and I go for broke digging into a film we both love dearly covering topics including: - Best  Batman  film vs bes...

Today Sam Tsang aka Congee joins me down the line from London, as we look back on one of the iconic records of the last decade - Frank Ocean's 'Blonde'. We talk about how Frank Ocean builds a new world with each album, and makes the release an event. We talk about the detail of the production, the care put into every choice, stories from the making of the record and speculate on the practical conc...

Eddie Hamilton is one of the greatest filmmakers working in mass entertainment today. A genius editor whose resume stretches from the KINGSMAN franchise to X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and the two best MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE films (Rogue Nation and Fallout), he spent two years working on what has become the cinematic event of 2022 - TOP GUN: MAVERICK. Today, Eddie takes us a journey through the film, using the...

Instead of watching a three hour movie about Elvis Presley, hit play on today's episode for a shorter but no less exhaustive deep dive on the real Elvis, Elvis Costello, as actor/comedian and host of the great Dead Eyes podcast Connor Ratliff joins me to make the case for what he considers the ultimate Elvis album, 1991's 'Mighty Like a Rose'. We talk about the album's underrated place in the Cost...

Today, Californian singer-songwriter Charlie Hickey joins me to celebrate the National's 2013 album 'Trouble Will Find Me'. We delve into Charlie's childhood relationship with the band, the simple and sparse lyrics and how their affect lets them get away with potentially cheesy earnestness, coming back to the record as an adult, songs about feeling like shit and more. Plus, we talk about Charlie's...

Today I'm joined by songwriter, guitarist, producer, singer, designer and more Annie Hamilton, to delve into the eclectic and inspiring world of Björk's classic 1995 album 'Post'. We talk about how Björk fused and collided different genres to create her own unique world and style, how she had to prove herself as a producer against skepticism and sexism, how the intervening years have evolved the p...

Today writer/director/producer Thomas Schnauz (Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, The X Files) returns to the show for another dive into an iconic Pink Floyd album, this time 'Wish You Were Here'. We talk about the different eras of the band, how their post - Dark Side of the Moon fame and success influenced the lyrics of this album, the story of original frontman Syd Barrett and how it inspired 'Shi...

As day turns to night and the sun rises and sets, we return to talking about the Beatles. Surprisingly there is something new to say on this subject, as proven by today's guest, Dr. Christine Feldman-Barrett. She joins me to delve into her brilliant book 'A Women's History of the Beatles', why it was important to write, compensating for male narratives and perspectives on the Fab Four, the all fem...

Today I'm joined by actor/comedian/filmmaker/singer/dancer and more, Elouise Eftos, to talk about the classic Funkadelic album 'Maggot Brain'. We talk about Elouise's days fronting a funk band, the lineage of this record to 60s psychedelia, the difference between good and bad drug influenced music, reading your own emotions into instrumental music, what makes Funkadelic unique as a band, the album...

Today Australian singer/songwriter and returning friend of the show Charlie Collins joins us to discuss a future classic album, the recently released masterpiece from Gang of Youths 'Angel in Realtime'. As a longtime friend of the band, Charlie delves into the background of the record and how the passing of frontman David Le'aupepe's father inspired the album, how the addition of new member Tom Ho...

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Today podcaster, writer, musician, director and Emmy-winning actor Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, The Lovely Bones) joins me to talk about the classic 1985 album by the Smiths, Meat is Murder. We talk about how this album broadened the Smiths post-punk sound, incorporating elements of rockabilly and funk, the under-heralded rhythm section of Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce, how Morrissey's lyrics and...

My guests today are acclaimed Melbourne folk sister duo Charm of Finches . Mabel and Ivy talk about Sufjan Stevens ' seminal 2015 album 'Carrie and Lowell', how Sufjan processed the loss of his estranged mother through the songs, the intimacy of the record and how it contrasts with many of his other more elaborate albums, how to let yourself write from a vulnerable place, trusting a producer to sh...

Today we take a detour into movie land with filmmaker Charles Hood and film journalist Drew Taylor (hosts of the Light the Fuse podcast) and count down our ten favorite films from 2021. It was an incredible movie year, and while we have a fair bit of crossover, we also have some bitter disagreements as we discuss and champion films ranging from shaggy dog coming of age stories to epic sci-fi seque...

Today we go behind the scenes and pull back the curtain on the making of the show, as guest host Seja Vogel interviews host Jeremy Dylan and producer Georgia Mooney about how the sausage/podcast is made. From the inception of the show, how the guests are chosen, the research process, the use of music, favorite episodes, dream guests, how to deal with awkward interviews and more, we try to answer a...

In our third crossover podcast, I welcome back filmmaker Charles Hood and journalist Drew Taylor , hosts of the brilliant Mission Impossible podcast Light the Fuse. This time we (mainly) don't talk about movies, but delve into their respective favorite albums, the 30 year old U2 classic 'Achtung Baby' and the world dominating final album from Daft Punk 'Random Access Memories'. We talk about how A...

Today I'm bringing you a fascinating conversation with the Michael Elliott , author of the new and definitive John Hiatt biography 'Have A Little Faith'. We dive deep into 'Bring the Family', the 1987 classic that broke open Hiatt's career after years of struggle. We talk about the album being an alternative to the dominant production of the late 80s, how it presaged Americana music, how Hiatt ass...

Well, we're only seven months late. But here at long last is our Bob Dylan 80th Birthday special, featuring new conversations with some of favourite guests from the history of the podcast talking about different aspects of Dylan and his music from the 60s to the 90s to now. - Old Crow Medicine's Show Ketch Secor on how Bob Dylan changed Nashville, and the process of excavating and finally falling...

Today we're bringing you a first for the show - a two part conversation about two records with two members of mutli-award winning Australian duo Client Liaison , whose conflicting taste comes together in a fascinating way in their own music. First I talk to Monte Morgan about Prince 's turn of the century concept album 'The Rainbow Children'. We dig into this album's different reputations amongst...

Today, filmmaker and longtime Bruce Springsteen collaborator (Letter to You, Western Stars) Thom Zimny joins me to unpack the spark of his lifelong journey on E Street, the classic live bootleg 'Live in the Promised Land', recorded in San Fransisco on the 1978 tour behind 'Darkness on the Edge of Town'. We talk about how Thom discovered the record as a teenager, the joys and charms of the bootleg...

From the early days of Talking Heads, David Byrne has been developing unique and fascinating new ways to present his music to the world. There's no finer example of this than the jaw-dropping American Utopia show, which the NME called "The Best Live Show Of All Time". Today we are delving inside the process of creating and performing the show from its early touring incarnation through to the wildl...

Today, all four members of indie-rock upstarts Teenage Dads join me for a fun five-way chat about Australia's most prolific band, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and their 2016 breakthrough album 'Nonagon Infinity'. We talk the looping structure of the record, the different ways it has influenced each of them, how streaming this album changes the experience vs listening on vinyl, whether the a...

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of Leonard Cohen 's passing, I'm joined by NYU Professor Marcia Pally to unpack the themes of her new book  From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex and Politics . We talk about how Cohen saw the world as being made up of inescapable relationships, to God and one another, the playfulness and profundity of  Everybody Knows  and how it interweaves the persona...