The Good Music Show

Not us entering a flow state discussing memes! Today, from a purely academic and scholarly angle, we will talk about memes. How they affect society, how they've changed over the years, and most importantly: how they incorporate music. Some memes use a line from a song as a punchline, some songs generate viral dance trends or endless parodies. Sometimes the song itself is the meme of it all! S...

The prompt for this episode is quite categorical: pick a live album. An album that was recorded live in front of an audience. After a brief generalized discussion on the medium of live albums and what they accomplish - we dive into Danny's pick, one of the most highly praised live albums of all time. Consisting of 7 songs that span across two vinyl discs, Danny's pick, "At Fillmore...

This one's personal! Welcome to the second installment of our side by side series, where we pick 2 artists to compare and contrast, and create playlists that showcase their best work. The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony featured touching speeches from inductees Outkast and the White Stripes, which got us reflecting on how big of an impact these acts made on our young live...

We're starting a tradition here at the Good Music Show: once a year doing a bonus episode about a new music-related animated movie with our friend and movie expert Danny Vincent. For this installment, we got his co-host Mark Young to join us! If you don't know, now you know: Danny and Mark are hosts of the excellent Pixar podcast "Looking for the Ocean!" On this bonanza of a bo...

Wrapping up our 2025 year in review, we begin with some honorable mentions that we did't discuss formally, including Mavis Staples, Earl Sweatshirt, Cleo Reed, and Florry. Then we get into our top albums of the year. First we discuss the highly discussed album "Getting Killed" - the by-the-stats critical consensus album of the year. We talk about the context and cultural impact of t...

We're back to discuss the second half of our collaborative 2025 songs playlist. With 10 songs from each of us making for a total of 20 songs, we had a lot to say! Today we'll talk about the final 10 picks featuring the distorted pop of Dijon, the experimental funk of Mac Miller, and the seriously funny T-Pain-ified R&B of keiyaA. Plus country duets of the Kris Kristofferson and Georg...

We went long on our massive 20 song collaborative playlist that encompasses 2025, so it's a classic TWO PARTER!  Join us for a discussion on 2025 on the whole, selections from a group of "kings" of rage rap, underground rap, and country music "outsiderism." Plus a powerhouse country stomper, a throwback vibey drum banger, and Taylor Swift-esque poppy country. Songs discuss...

Welcome to Season 3 of the Good Music Show! Use this description as a guide to follow along with our upcoming episodes! Editor's note: Julius's audio was recorded from a built-in mic, so for 1 episode we will have the audio quality of most other podcasts! 2025 Year in Review: SONGS THE GOOD MUSIC SHOW OFFICIAL 2025 PLAYLIST: Spotify - YouTube - Apple Music 2025 Year in Review: ALBUMS Gee...

The truth is out there. Today on The Good Music Show, we close out season 2 with a creative narrative-based playlist episode. We assembled songs that we would show to an X-files-esque supernatural being, and we both went with alien extraterrestrial stories. First, Danny takes us through the last playlist he will hear as he reckons with the imminent destruction of Earth. Join him on his crazy farew...

Content warning: this episode contains lengthy discussions about death and drug use, and a brief mention of suicide. On this episode we tackle two albums we've never heard before... until we listened to them for the first time for this episode! That's right, instead of perfectly curating a classic album for a prompt, today we are spinning some albums we've been meaning to check out...

If you're a listener and you have either one of our personal phone numbers, you have a special power to get us to spend an extra 40 minutes after recording to get us to talk about something music related! Today, after a recording session (main ep coming soon!) we do a quick overview of recent Tiny Desk Concerts that we enjoyed! First talk about a close personal friend of Danny, Rico Nasty, wh...

Pre-recorded from Washington D.C. it's the Good Music Show! Today we are talking all about NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts. We each picked 2 videos to illustrate what we love about the series: one classic and one hidden gem. After discussing our general thoughts and a brief history of the Tiny Desk, we get into our classics which are among the highest viewed of the series.  We nerd out ab...

On today's bonus, we pay tribute to two music giants that passed away in the same week at the same age. We get into Sly Stone and the excellent playlist that Julius made to pay tribute to the wonderful music of Sly and the Family Stone. From there we discuss the impact of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys on us and the music industry as a whole. We'll compare and contrast how their careers...

Continuing our review of 2024, today we discuss our picks for 2024 albums of the year, ie the albums we are most excited to talk about. It just so happens we picked albums that we both already loved before embarking on this 2024 episode journey! First we'll do a little rapid fire album discussion pulling from each of our 2024 Album Topsters (see link below). We revisit our thoughts on the muc...

We are back after some time away to talk 2024! Today, we've got two 5-song playlists to dig into, next week we talk 2 albums. We swap songs and talk about what stood out to us during a great year for music. You can also check out our mid-year review we did in season 1, but this episode we take a step back and get the big picture a few months after the debris has settled. We'll talk about...

Today on the Good Music Show - we make another drastic format change to discuss a "Good" Music Movie! Brick by Br...err I mean Piece by Piece is a LEGO animated documentary about the life and career of PHARRELL WILLIAMS. Directed by Morgan Neville, and starring several artists who've worked with Pharrell, we dissect the central question surrounding this movie: why? Joining us is LEG...

"Alright, well. We never doing that again" - Aubrey Drake Graham, February 4, 2025 Send us a text message! You can follow us here: Instagram Twitter Tiktok Check out our preview episodes to stay caught up with what we're listening to! Send us a message, we'd love to hear from you! Email is thegmspod at gmail Subscribe , you have no choice! Leave us a rating and review (optional...

Brrr... it's time for everyone's favorite season to have its day in court on the Good Music Show. Today we discuss two albums that make us think of winter. We start with Danny's pick which continues his trend of finding a song that deals with a season, and making the case why the album its on also represents that season. When he heard Song for a Winter's Night by Gordon Lightfo...

Welcome to the Good Music Show - we have more episodes planned for Season 2 and we'd like to share the music we'll be talking about in advance! Here is the rundown: Winter "Gord's Gold" - Gordon Lightfoot "The Velvet Rope" - Janet Jackson 2024 Year in Review - 2 Part Episode: Albums and Songs "Passage du Desir" - Johnny Blue Skies "Imaginal Disk&qu...

It's Dilla Time this week on the Good Music Show. On this episode, Julius leads us in a discussion on the legendary producer/rapper J Dilla, who tragically only has one 3 album run to talk about. We'll cover his debut solo album, his most famous album that arrived 3 days before his passing, and what should be considered his final album even though it was finished and released posthumousl...

It's been a minute since our last proper episode, so thanks for bearing with us! We've been hard at work on two special episodes that break our normal format. Introducing "3 Album Runs." We'll devote a full episode to dive into 3 albums from one artist, discussing the music, the context in which they came out, and connecting the dots of how the music progressed over time....

Hello all, I am writing this a few weeks after we recorded to say this is the last episode dropping this year. Do not despair, we will be coming out strong into the new year with our 3 album-run deep dive episodes that we promised in the preview. But I just want to thank everyone who gave us a chance in our first year. We appreciate everyone who told us were listening, you know who you are - pleas...

Part 2 is here! Our resident film expert Julius dives right into their list, which is full of great music in addition to mesmerizing films that feature it. From the Lynchian "Blue Velvet" to the short but perfect party film "Lovers Rock," you will be more than satisfied checking out any of the films on this list! Songs/Movies Discussed "In Dreams" - Roy Orbison - from...

You know the drill, Danny and Julius talked for way too long and now the episode is split into 2 parts! It's like the new Wicked movie! Topical, eh? First up is Danny's playlist. This playlist tells the story of Danny's youth where he grew to appreciate movies enough to want to study them in college. Of course Julius provides some excellent film criticism, particularly to a mutual f...

"It's kind of a cosmic gumbo, it almost moves to the beat of jazz" - Santa Claus on the film Detective Crashmore What would cosmic gumbo be in music form? Today we answer that question with two fantastic albums. One that will blow your mind with its insane instrumentation and send you on a journey through the afterlife. The other will have you moaning the blues and rocking along wit...