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And Introducing, on lead vocals, Mr. Anthony Kiedis. 

Yes, Anthony Kiedis the Dionysian fuck-prince of socal, founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose sex mania, insatiable drug thirst and most importantly - soul of a poet - made him one of the most dynamic and enduring frontmen in rock history. 

Featuring: WEDDING FAIL COMPILATIONS! THE KIEDIS MYTHOS! QUALUUD PALM! SHIT PIZZA!  THE CHICKEN/COCAINE CONTINUUM! THOSE DASTARDLY PEPPER BOYS! JB80! DRIVING LESSONS WITH SINEAD O'CONNOR! HAIR PRISON! THE RIVER/LEAF CONSPIRACY!

Music Used
Chris Wade - Can’t Stop (Pod Dub)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (Instrumental)
Anthym - Clocks (Live, Los Angeles, 1979)
DEVO - Satisfaction
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mommy, Where’s Daddy?
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Get Up and Jump
Gang of Four - Natural’s Not In It
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mommy, Where’s Daddy?
FIDLAR - Cheap Beer
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sex Rap
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Yertle The Turtle
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Catholic Schoolgirls Rule
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fight Like A Brave
Chris Wade - Under the Bridge (Pod Dub)

#05 ANTHONY KIEDIS! pt. 1 (ft. Nathan Truman)

And introducing, pop-icon Madonna! Chris and Molly examine Madonna at the height of her world-wide superstardom through her 1991 Rolling Stone interview with Carrie Fisher.

Featuring: XOXO, PONTIFEX! PLAIN DONUT, STALE FLAVOR! THEN BOYFRIENDS!DID YOU FUCK WARREN?! GETTING QUAALOOSE! SEXY DOWAGER’S HUMP! THE TELLTALE NUDE! THE POP STAR IDENTITY MATRIX!

Chris Wade - Material Girl (PodDub)
Madonna - Ray of Life
Patrick Hernandez - Born to be Alive
Breakfast Club - Shit on the Ground/Safe Neighborhood
Madonna - Everybody
Madonna - Holiday
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Madonna - Like a Virgin (Live)
Nine Inch Nails - Copy Of a…
Chris Wade - Material Girl (PodDub)

#07 MADONNA!

And introducing……those wild eyed boys! Yes, we’re talking Thin Lizzy, the Irish hard rock group that obtained international recognition through their 1976 single “The Boys Are Back In Town”. We talk all about the band, Twitter semiotics and what we talk about when we talk about "the boys" with our guest, writer, critic and creator of the popular nationally produced edu-party-lecture series Drunk Education, Eric Thurm.

visit: http://drunkeducation.com/

Songs:
Chris Wade - The Boys Are Back In Town (PodDub)
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar
Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
Thin Lizzy - The Rocker
Thin Lizzy - Cruisin’ in the Lizzymobile
Thin Lizzy - Suicide
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
Phil Lynott - Talk In ’79
Thin Lizzy - The Pressure Will Blow
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (live)

And Introducing Podcast

#22 THIN LIZZY! ft. Eric Thurm

And introducing, on lead vocals and guitar...Jeff Tweedy! Tweedy’s folk-punk-alt-country music has gained him a massive rock cred over the past 25 years and today we’re learning about his philosophies on creativity, his struggle with prescription painkiller addiction, and his adult circumcision in his very recently published memoir “Let’s Go So We Can Get Back”.

Find Ben’s plays at https://www.thetanknyc.org/
Watch Molly’s music video for Shy Baby here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_0eMri_X0

SONGS:
Chris Wade - Jesus, etc. (pod dub)
Uncle Tupelo - Gun
Wilco - Christ For President
Wilco - She’s A Jar
The Conet Project - Lincolnshire Poacher
Wilco - I am trying to break your hear
Wilco - Spiders (Kidsmoke)

#43 JEFF TWEEDY! (ft. Ben Firke)

And introducing…a movie about a musical about a punk rock concept album! We’re joined by Sam Sutherland and Josiah Hughes of the Blink-155 podcast to discuss “Broadway Idiot”, a documentary about the creation of American Idiot: The Musical, and everything else Green Day-related we can think of, including Godzilla.

Songs:
American Idiot - Chris cover
Brain Stew - Green Day ft. Godzilla
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Broadway Version) - Green Day
21 Gun Salute (Broadway Version) - Green Day

#45 AMERICAN IDIOT! (ft. Josiah Hughes & Sam Sutherland)

And introducing...Prog! Though now largely the butt of music snob jokes, during the 1970’s, progressive rock was THE ascendant style of rock music, winning over critics, selling out stadiums and exploring uncharted sonic territories of popular music…before succumbing to bloat, excess and a culture that left the progers behind. And today we’ll be learning all about the rise, fall and eternal life of Prog talking to Dave Weigel, author of the 2018 book “The Show That Never Ends”

SONGS:
ELP - Karn Evil 9 1st Impression, Pt. 2 (chris cover)
Magma - Troller Tanz
Yes - Cans and Brahms 
Doctor Mix (YouTube) - Mellotron: Famous Songs!
Keith Emerson - Lucky Man Moog Solo
ELP - Hoedown
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Pt. 1
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
King Crimson - Discipline (Live in Japan 1984)
Brian Eno - St. Elmo’s Fire (Fripp on Guitar)
Yes - Does It Really Happen?
Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
Asia - Heat of the Moment

#49 PROG ROCK! (ft. Dave Weigel)

And introducing….on vocals, it’s Billie Eilish, 2019’s newly minted world pop super star who broke a billion streams before her first album even dropped. Today we’ll be learning all about her unique upbringing, meteoric rise to fame, and how she can avoid becoming the next Britney Spears from the Billboard Article “Why All Eyes Are on Billie Eilish, the New Model for Streaming Era Success” by Lyndsey Havens and “Who’s Billie Eilish” by Meaghan Garvey.

Why All Eyes Are on Billie Eilish:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8510552/billie-eilish-billboard-cover-story-2019

Who’s Billie Eilish?
https://www.thefader.com/2019/03/05/billie-eilish-cover-story

Songs
Bad Guy (cover)
Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes
Robbie Trip - Chubby Sexy
Billie Eilish - bad guy
Billie Eilish - bellyache
Playboi Cardi - Kid Cudi

And Introducing

#52 BILLIE EILISH!

And introducing…the original jazz man from outer space, it’s Sun Ra! The prolific composer and performer melded musical experimentation, technological innovation and cosmic philosophy over decades of work with his legendary Arkestra and it’s ever-changing line up. Today, we’ll be learning all about Sun & jazz & egypt & space & time & the cosmos & the void through his biography “Space Is The Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra”

Check out the Saturn Records archives: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKlrmwFP2flRdjBPoiq8PA

Songs In order
Sun Ra - Space is the Place
Sun Ra - Street Named Hell
Sun Ra - Live at Slug's Saloon 1969/70 Full concert
Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Other Planes Of There (1966) 
Sun Ra Arkestra - Face the Music / Space is the Place - Live on SNL
Pere Ubu with Debbie Harry - "Waiting For Mary," Night Music (1989)

#54 SUN RA! (ft. Hannah Silk Champagne)

And introducing…the day we’re always never forgetting, it’s 9/11 in popular music! Yes, since we started this show, we’ve noticed almost every musician we’ve covered who’s lived through 9/11 has had BIG THOUGHTS about that important day. So for this year’s 11th of September we brought in Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman to take a complete survey of how 9/11 broke the brains of the America’s musicians, just as it broke the brains of every American.

Songs:

Psy - Kill Those Yankees
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name (live at the Super Bowl)
Limp Bizkit - Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten?
I Am The World Trade Center - Metro (Brooklyn Mix)

#58 9/11 IN MUSIC! (ft. Matt Christman)

And introducing…The Fall! It’s the story of punk rock’s orneriest group and of course the front man synonymous with the name, Mark E. Smith. Chapo Trap House’s Will Menaker joins us to learn all about Smith and the Fall through the recollections of the dozens and dozens…and dozens of musicians used up and discarded in Fall’s chaotic wake, through Dave Simpson’s “The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain’s Most Insane Group”.

Songs
The Fall - Totally Wired (chris cover)
The Fall - Pacifying Joint
The Fall - In My Area
The Fall - Two Steps Back
The Fall - Eat Y’self Fitter
The Fall - Theme From Sparta F.C.
The Fall - Spector vs. Rector

#60 THE FALL! (ft. Will Menaker)

And introducing…Dave Matthews Band! We’re talking the terminally normie jam band that ruled the 90’s by examining Dave, what made him so big, and what kind of legacy – if any – he created. We also do a fair bit of talking about the Rock ’n Roll Hall of Fame (DMB’s failure to be inducted this year inspired this ep) and why we love to hate these prestigious lists.

Read Steven Hyden’s piece on DMB: https://uproxx.com/indie/cases-for-and-against-dave-matthews-band-induction-rock-hall/

And please, go buy Good Vibes at the Iowa State Fair! www.iowagoodvibes.com

Songs:
NateTheGreatBeats - Crash (midi remix)
Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
Dave Matthews Band - Tripping Billies (Live at Woodstock ’99)
Dave Matthews Band - The Space Between
Dave Matthews - Gravedigger
Dave Matthews - All Along the Watchtower (Live at FarmAid ’01)
Dave Matthews - All Along the Watchtower (Live at FarmAid ’10)

#66 Dave Matthews Band!

Anthropologist Marc Edelman explores the intersections of poverty, capitalist predation and authoritarian populism in rural America - as financial capital picks clean the remains of large swathes of community and individual wealth, the impoverished working class finds itself isolated from community and politics, and turns its rage outward, but never upward.

Marc wrote the article How Capitalism Underdeveloped Rural America for Jacobin.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/capitalism-underdeveloped-rural-america-trump-white-working-class

Deep poverty, capitalist predation and isolation in rural America.

And introducing….pop-punk! We’re joined by musician Juiceboxxx take a look at this particular aesthetic mutation of stripped down, sneering anarchistic rock & radio-friendly bops of juvenile yearning, talking about where punk ends and pop begins, and discussing just what counts as pop-punk anyway.

SONGS:
Lil Tracey - Beautiful Nightmare
Bowling for Soup - High School Never Ends
New Found Glory - Sincerely Me
Times New Viking - (My Head)
Katy Perry - Hot and Cold
Air Pop, Pinky Rose - 54y 17 41n7 50


Juiceboxxx’s playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GkRwgAk8HuvW6ybq6DanI?si=Cgkd0Q4hQb-SKEhfH2MPDw

Juiceboxxx’s Talkhouse piece:
https://www.talkhouse.com/juiceboxxx-recommends-a-nine-hour-pop-punk-spotify-playlist/

#69 POP PUNK! (ft. JUICEBOXXX)

And introducing…on bass guitar, John Taylor! Bassist and founding member of 80’s new romantic superstars Duran Duran, Taylor and his bandmates achieved wild success in the 1980, but Taylor and Duran Duran’s 80’s excess came with a price, and his personal journey took him to the brink of self-destruction. Today we’ll be talking all about those wonderful double Duran’s through his book “In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran”.

Songs
Chic - Everybody Dance
Duran Duran - Girls on Film
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
Duran Duran - The Reflex
Duran Duran - A View to a Kill
The Power Station - Get it On (Bang a Gong)
Duran Duran - Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Neurotic Outsiders - Jerk
Neurotic Outsiders - Janie Jones
Duran Duran - Falling Down

#72 DURAN DURAN!

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani debunk the latest right-wing freakout about migration. Plus, Government corruption on PPE, submissions close for the Labour Leaks inquiry and why we all need Joe Biden to stop talking.

Novara Audio: Radio For A Different Politics

TyskySour: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

Britt Daniel (@brittdaniel from @spoontheband) joins Dan, Charles, and Alex to talk about pizza jingles and critique songs by some of Fortune Kit's favorite YouTube artists.

48 - Mmm Mmm Pizza (ft. Britt Daniel)

And introducing, on the drums, it’s Chris Frantz! We’re JOINED by Chris Frantz, drummer for Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club to discuss downtown bands in ‘77, buildings & food, the love of music, and remaining in love with his wife, bassist Tina Weymouth, all through his new book “Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina”

Check out Chris’ book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250209221
And check out that killer 1980 Talking Heads live in Rome set we were talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwWW742T0Wc

#77 TALKING HEADS & TOM TOM CLUB! (ft. Chris Frantz)

The US West Coast is suffering from record breaking forest fires. Will the disaster jolt the country into climate action? Plus, Alan Sugar wants you back in the office, Labour Friends of Israel celebrates an influx of MPs, and thousands complain after ITV airs homage to Black Lives Matter. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

TyskySour: Apocalyptic Skies

Chris and Molly read Infinite Jest, part 3. Pages 20-27: Ken Erdedy continues to anticipate his marijuana delivery. Discussion starts at 21:17.

Infinite Cast

Part 3

Will Menaker (@willmenaker) joins Charles, Alex, and Dan to watch gospel performances on Jim Bakker's 1970s TV show and explore the music these artists inspired.

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