Soapbox Where I Can Shout It Podcast

A few unpublished classics to celebrate Rachel’s birthday. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com

National Poetry Month: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month On Turning Ten The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad light a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because...

In the soapbox newsletter this week while celebrating Beck’s Guero we talked about list making and rules for enjoying music, and the subject of top track one side ones came up. I promised my list and chiseled it down from these songs (using some rules of course!) to make my top five: * "Straight Outta Compton" - NWA * "London Calling" - The Clash * "Bixby Canyon Bridge" - Death Cab for Cutie * "Gr...

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St. Patrick’s Day is upon us and while there are no shortage of good drunken Irish pub songs and no shortage of mediocre Irish and Irish-posing punk (and dozens of sub-genre punks) songs, there’s only one playlist of U2 songs, which is a vaguely offensive way to commemorate the holiday by highlighting with almost zero methodology two tracks from their impressive catalogue of albums (except the awf...

Full album title: Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe , full episode title, "The Dogs Bark While I breathlessly walk in unseasonably warm weather despite it being early march while listening to Coheed & Cambria’s Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.subst...

Panda Bear’s newest album Sinister Grift is finally here and Ben & I wanted to let you know what we thought of each track. Sorry about the audio, hands-free voice note recording makes up for safety what it lacks in quality. We’ve been waiting five years for this one and couldn’t wait a second longer to dig in! ! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or...

MEG WHITE IS A BETTER DRUMMER THAN I AM A POET This is an issue of record, meaning it is recorded on record as sounding the thumping heartbeat of an entire arena and or stadium. Can you imagine if every person in the world understood every step you ever took onto a bass drum? into a room? onto a stage? C’mon people, Meg syncopated Jack White tied down those long stringed guitar solos, those long b...

Assembling the stroller while listening to The White Stripes’ Get Behind Me Satan – an album that came out when I was a baby, barely walking, brushing sweaty hair from my anxious forehead now – marred with lines of worry and furrowed, glistening still underneath a hat with an old logo for a new university, “this is it,” I say to the dog, maybe my wife in the other room, the glass of bourbon shimme...

On February 2, 2011, The White Stripes announced their retirement from making and performing live music. This news came to me while being on a flight from Columbus to Washington D.C., which is to say, this news came to me in the form of a dozen text messages with links to unsophisticated mobile news sites broadcasting the news far and wide. When my feet left the ground on that frigid morning, The...

The Soapbox Podcast debut includes a new(ish) poem called "Birthday Party Poetry Lessons" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com