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//00:00//Coheed and Cambria's Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe [New Entities Edition] (2025)//On Koi Boyz assemble//On straight into THE LORE//On intimate Claudio//On Space Opera//On thumbs medium//On Dillon SMASHING the Nick Fell question//On King James Claudio//On Zakk Dickinson and Gold-Plated diapers//On more Andre flute//On best of Coheed??//ON MORE LORE//On earthed emotions sans lore//On "are we sure we're starting cryptic string motif then an accoustic song?"//On Good Apollo's accesible violence//On lore-master Dil//On the Amen Break//On the Keith Lapid question genesis//On heliocentric Keith-ball// //(1:16:56)//Jack's Mannequin's Everything In Transit (2005)//On concept//On before and after albums//On electric newness//On hook-downs//On roller skates being silly walking--legendary Dillon take//On I'm Ready laugh track//On legendary Andrew McMahon social commentary//On legendary dirty laundry commentary//On thank you Andrew McMahon for the best laugh of my decade//On least likely Tommy Lee cameo ever//On SoCo v. J'sM//On Andrew McMahon's voice sucking//On gimme any other singer//On everybody still being a mess//On doing things no one is asking for// //(2:22:42)//Preview of episode//26//

//00:00//Tom Petty's Wildflowers (1994)//On love at first listen//On a true Music Friends record//On coming to it through The Heartland//On subconscious Wildflowers memory//On a Happy Music Sad Family record//On Most Things We Worry About Never Happen Anyway//On nourishment//On league-leading WPM and WORW for Zach//On not a party record//On back porch record Hall of Fame//On divisive Honey Bee//On maybe Coen Bros are too narrow a filmography//On sky-high VORP for Petty and Rubin and Tench//On Stan Lynch going Mid-Kanye//On Zach Leaving Virginia Alone//On difficulty pin-pointing Petty's most culturally resonant moment// //(1:10:04)//Tom Petty's Wildflowers & All The Rest (2020)//Alllllll The Rest//On desecrating Tom Petty's deliberate and specific desire to have Wake Up Time conclude the great work of his career//On tasteful re-ordering//On Ugliest Rock n' Roll Frontman Mount Rushmore//On tough pod for Stan Lynch Stans//On would you rather Heartbreakers or Solo stuff//On I turned around and he was gone//On Petty forever// //(1:28:07)//Preview of episode//26//

//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's GNX (2024)//Recorded 2-18-2025//On commission assembled//On Peakaboo, Coach!//On an immidiate pantheon Los Angeles Album for episode//24//On Kobe 2-4 in July 1-0//On a bit Carter IIIish//On meticulous Kenny//On breezier Kendrick//On Grand Nationals not bein' rational//On exponential Reincarnated rise//On Kendrick's compression socks//On GNX to the summit for Danny//On the great rap war of 2024//On the seven game rap war//On Euphoria as moving Draymond to the 5//On giving Drake his due//On sinister Meet The Grahams//On JF going back to Eminem, again//On Drake taking his eye off the ball//On Luka Booker Game Seven//On R.I.P. shopping rap//On Drake The Appropriator//On "Hey Drake, I hear you like acting"// //(1:17:44)//Kendrick Lamar's ⁠Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (2022)⁠//Recorded 5-17-2022//On grown Kendrick//On shepherd Kendrick//On therapy//On Eckhart Tolle and Kodak Black back-to-back//On the hurt hurting others//On singular Kendrick//On the holy quadology of pop stardom//On not savior Kendrick//On the Kyrie stamp of approval//On Kodak's imperfections as our imperfections?//On humor sprinkles//On early Eminem tracks// //(2:13:03)//Kendrick Lamar's ⁠DAMN. (2017)⁠//Recorded 4-17-2017//On the To Pimp a Butterfly release valve//On the uptempo vs. downtempo ratio//On wickedness vs. weakness//On the depth of Kendrick//On back-to-back-to-back champs//On bedroom rap//On mysterious Kendrick//On not doing it for the gram//On forcing his way into the conversation//On storytelling wizardry//On Kendrick's 2016 Finals' comeback moment//On Mike Will energy//On covering all the bases// //(2:57:41)//Preview of episode//25//

//(00:00)//Lou Reed's Transformer (1972)//On going solo!//On being hard to pin down//On all roads leading to Little Richard//On being smart, sensitive and intense//On electroshock//On The Beatles, again//On being in the main tent of the Andy Warhol circus//On Velvet Underground's not so underground resonance//On Vicious's viciousness//On a sneak Bowie masterpiece//On Hendrix always//On a beautiful accident of a record (?)//On keeping going--you don't know when and how things will hit unless you do//On Bowie casually crafting a classic// //(37:49)//Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)//On PJ life//On your notebook as the gym where your thoughts get swole//On RZA as the hood Lorne Michaels//On Raekwon's time to be Honey Nut Cheerios//On beachside writing//On the 5%ers//On low-key RZA//On total mythical cultural saturation//On The Staircase to Stage//On all hail the Purple Tape// //(1:17:09)//Preview of episode//24//

//00:00//Peter Gabriel's So (1986)//THE DAD POD//On Daddest-Mommest albums//On Albums as social phenomenon//On Generational Sgt. Pepper's importance//On Art Pop World Rock//On Gabriel out of the closet//On the JF "In Your Eyes" necklace//On "Is That Jimmy Buffet's music??"//On Bumper Cars Bumpin'//On JF on African Love Songs//On JF 2 Beers//On poor Freud and Jung discourse//On JF 3 Beers//On Basketball intermissions//On Graceland Drive-bys//On Gabriel strange-ness//On Lanois and there finally being women at the shows//On Total Mythical Cultural Gabriel Saturation//On The Art vs. Cash tension// //(54:32)//Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV (1971)//On The Daddest album of them all//On Led Zeppelin = departure from rock destination cosmos//On JF 4 Beers//On copping a Stairway to Heaven//On my Mom Going To California//On waiting around for the next Zeppelin record//On the sterling pseudo-un-cancellable LZ brand//On Zeppelin for the brews, Floyd for the joints//On The Avengers of proto-metal//On JF 5 Beers//On all roads leading to Prince//On the 2017 Led Zeppelin Warriors roster//On John Paul Jones Draymond//On Julian wondering if Jimmy Page is actually good?//On JF 6 Beers//On Plant or Page as Leonardo?//On it still being all about Stairway//On JF doing Plant//On JF 7 Beers//On "Haaave a gooood one" lololololololol// //(1:45:29)//The 20th High School Reunion Podcast!!//On it's gotta be Limp Bizkit//On Freakish Saves The Day fandom//On 8 whole minutes before Blink gets mentioned//On Gen Blink//On an early match!//On Danny hero ball//On Yankee Hotel Foxtrot gateway band//On Dashboard Unplugged FTW//On cassettes, burned CDs and VHSs//On getting older and connecting deeper//On ear condoms//On Keith 7.5 folder only//On Tidal Waves of electric violin//On ghosts of Music Friends' past//On explaining to my son what Pepsi Points were//On The Matches ruling always//On all roads leading to Arcade Fire//On essential MySpace references//On Rihanna ref #3// //(3:19:34)//Preview of episode//23//

//00:00//Mariachi El Bronx'sMariachi El Bronx (I) (2009)//On listening changing over time//On pod brain v. music brain//On [Cough-f-theran]//On tasteful cultural appropriation//On better to outro than fadeaway//On your whole life to make your first album and 4 weeks to make your second//On Aqua Teen Mariachi Force//On not belonging to any time period//On following your creative instincts//On total, mythical, mariachi saturation//On Craig Finn El Bronx//On favorite albums// //(1:23:29)//Arcade Fire'sNeon Bible (2007)//On evangelical AF fandom//On sacrificial listenability for purposeful album dedication//On Win Butler gloomathoning//On a sneaky Heartland record//On a sneaky New Orleans band//On a sneaky Ocean album//On liking music better than art//On the greatest rock act of the century (?)//On Radiohead being for the (middle-aged) people//On Régine is the spice of life//Win Butler Cultural Foreshadowing//On what exactly a Good Christian Man means//On living in an age that calls darkness light//On Black Mirrors//On where to place your most important words// //(2:49:02)//!!2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show Top Five All-Time!!//On Surprise! You're Middle-Aged!//67'-92' "Let's Send a Positive Message" Era//93'-04' "Wait, Why Haven't We Been Booking Stars For This Thing?" Era//05'-Present "The Artist Is The Theme, Let's Sell More Pepsi!" Era//On the transparency of the SBHTS//On key ingredients of a classic SBHTS//On honorable mentions and a surprise cringe choice//On 34 minutes of preamble!// //James////5//Bruno Mars (2014)////4//Beyoncé (2013)////3//Lady GaGa (2017)////2//Michael Jackson (1993)////1//Prince (2007)// //Danny////5//Kendrick Lamar (2025)////4//Shakira and JLo (2020)////3//U2 (2002)////2//Prince (2007)////1//Lady GaGa (2017)⁠// //(3:59:49)//Preview of episode//22//DAD POD!//

//00:00//Taylor Swift's 1989 (2014)//On the most special guest//On grandiose albums//On the first MF double album//On a shining light in the darkness of residency year one//On the lazy MJ comp//On a maybe concept album//On a synth pop masterpiece//On the Capitol One commercial arc//On Polaroid getting the TS treatment//On Country to City//On the female empowerment jackhammer//On a sneaky ensemble record//On "Again" and "Next"//On being the sole property owner of "Stay" Island//On Harry Styles emotional mining//On This Love and Clean renaissances//On listening parties aging very well and terribly// //(1:05:56)//Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023)//On 4 of 6 Taylor's Versions//On Once Upon a Time at Big Machine Records//On Taylor declining bad deals//On Scooter Braun being the perfect bully name//On covering yourself//On powerful messaging about not compromising on what's yours//On being elite holders of Taylor Swift vinyl//On Becca loving the vault action//On Antonoff guarding the vault//On what it would take to cancel her//On Taylor the great uniter//On sharing Taylor Swift with your best friend// //(1:35:03)//Holy Shit Broh, We Made It To 20 Eps!//On celebrating 2-0 with guest 1//On catching up//On practical music integration//On 38 hours, you're welcome!//On finding familiar water in an ocean of music//How classical music made during WWI brought Metal to the world//On New Categories for//21//and beyond!// //(2:26:48)//Preview of episode//21//

//00:00//Disclosure's Settle (2013)//On here with (in person!)//On albums as friends//On where they buried Al Capone and house music was born//On what isn't House?//On vocalists as instruments//On BPM CSVs//On the bellwether Disclosure track//On the rare sucky Weeknd feature//On Blick Bassey energy//On trendy African influences v. traditional African influences//On best and clearly worst album//On all roads leading to Daft Punk// //(37:50)//Fred Again.. 's Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020) (2021)//On weird album titles//On Feelings//On feeling the moment//On being okay when things are not//On Godfather Fred//On you're welcome, Brix//On deeper connections with artists//On apex audio samples//On royal blood//On ascendant Sheeran collabs//On how we all lost dancing//On prominent artists providing everyday vocal samples//On Freddy Prinze Jr. Again.. //On Selena Gomez dinner dates//On there's nothing worse than when someone demands you listen to a certain Tiny Desk, but you need to watch Fred's Tiny Desk//On unintentionally being a professional DJ// //(1:04:31)//Preview of episode//20//

//00:00//Daft Punk's Alive 2007 (2007)//On JF three-peat (weezy voice)//On pre-hyper internet information transfer//On close encounters with the EDM gods//On religious live experiences//On every man's losing their shirt moment//On feedback robo-rock//On remaining human behind the masks//On disco drums//On anti-electronica rock snobbery//On the potency of electronic music performed live//On the buckets of why to make a live record// //(1:14:51)//Prince's ⁠Purple Rain (1984)//On 6 of 39//On uncool coolness//On Apex Mountain for Apollonia('s t*****s)//On Prince during Computer Blue//On autobiographical-ish Prince//On the incoherent movie hall of fame//On Holy Shit The Bodyguard//On maybe the best guitarist ever//On the Beautiful Ones//On dangerous queer icon Prince//On is this the artists best album answered by a real source//On total, mythical, cultural saturation// //(2:37:00)//Preview of episode//19//

//00:00//Billy Woods' Hiding Places (2019)//On this mysterious guy with so much to say//On Billy's haunted house//On the density of an intensely well-read, inquisitive, worldly, sophisticated artist//On boomer hip hop//On exploring spaces you never wanted to return to//On spiderhole living/rap//On Mick's hip hop North Star// //(39:45)//Radiohead's ⁠In Rainbows (2007)⁠//On urgent anxiety//On a beautiful existential crisis//On the Radiohead arc//On how much more time we have here//On promo-swift release strategies//On paying what you want//On proto-Patreon//On dilapidated Wilshire compound vibz//On the light going out//On the panic of realizing you're going to die//On vague layered discomfort//On PTA and Radiohead//On Greenwood and PTA//On next-level Greenwood//On anxiety and beauty// //(1:38:47)//The 2023 Jack White Extended Universe Fantasy Draft! Holy Shit Broh!//On drafting upside with the first pick//On Danny taking the Oregon corner and Zach taking the Alabama defensive end//On premier league chant rock//On Patty Mahomes @ 10//On best bar-clearing songs//On Perry Mason extra era Jack White//On a clean White Stripes sweep//On Elephant, actually not great//On Jack's 2000s and 2010s versus Dylan's 1960s and 1970s//On the Grohl-White-Homme-Oberst Traveling Wilbury's spin-off//On not trusting anyone that doesn't like Led Zeppelin (Dave)//On conflicted Evanescence vibz//On a Blunderbuss heist//On reputational Jack White suicide//On a Sea of Cowards slam dunk//On scraping a deep barrel//On feuding Jack White being a productive Jack White// //(3:10:23)//De La Soul is Alive/Streaming!//On De La rejoicing//On hip hop's landscape getting filled in//On fun//On hip hop's Wizard of Oz moment//On happy hip hop//On hip hop can be whatever you want//On the DLS PSA// //(3:30:25)//Preview of episode//18//

//00:00//JAY-Z's The Blueprint (2001)//On salute to a fallen Music Friend//On loss//On boss music//On re-purposing the Jay-Z picture//On stepping through the Biggie Smalls opening//On Jay-Z's diamond which pressure created//On not writing anything down//On Ye//On missing the old Kanye//On cutting a super classic in two weeks//On separating from the East Coast pack//On Jim Morrison-tinged diss tracks//On tasteful obscure album art references//On Sean Carter synchronized with jigga//On enduring relevancy// //(50:05)//Rage Against The Machine's Renegades (2000)//On ironic financial viability//On source code albums//On Rage-ifying//On the only great rap-rock act//On holy shit broh Rick Rubin//On stealing Dylan and Springsteen songs//On Tom Joad reprisals//On all roads leading to Lennon and McCartney//On calibrating against best cover albums//on peak exercise albums//On primordial hip hip tributes by hard rock bands// //(1:47:11)//Josh Koppel Interview//On his most recognized poem//On getting phone calls from Rick Rubin's office//On Morello's vision and tenants of the band//On writing messages on money//On the state of digital music and contemporary discovery//On the internet being the new rock n' roll//On the potency of delusional aspirations as a writer//On the challenge of having all of the world's music at your fingertips//On a creative life// //(2:12:24)//Preview of episode//17// //Dedicated to John Pritchard//Pictures of You by Drugdealer and Kate Bollinger//

//00:00//Brand New's The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)//On the essence//On beauty in the exploration of darkness//On the crossfade intersecting loop chant thing//On point-counterpoint//On to emo and beyond//On the Brand New ark//On Brand New @ MSG//On the best part of doing this thing//On incredibly dark but beautiful//On John Cusack's arc versus the Brand New arc//On doing so much with so little time//On an album art conversation (finally)// //(1:16:36)//Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (Original Soundtrack) (2001)//On what Wes Anderson is shooting at//On things not working out but working out anyway//On scheming, wonder and whimsy//On surreality grappling with reality//On Mothersbaugh score Apex Mountain//On the hey jude dog whistle//On Margot is a punk//On Nico is to Tenenbaum's what surfer rock was to Pulp Fiction//On deliberate but slippery cleverness//On The Clash as instant cool-making//On way too apropos Elliot Smith//On Wes f*****g up the Between the Buttons reference//On Wes Anderson Apex Mountain//On just one man's opinion//On "You heard me, Coltrane!"// //(2:23:09)//Preview of episode//16//

//00:00//The Clash's London Calling (1979)//On historic sonic diversity//On longer, better, broader//On being more than punk//On the punk orthodoxy always being pissed//On not being tied to your roots//On the clampdown//On spanish bombtracks//On reggae for the end times//On Orwellian, Vonneguttian, dystopian radio broadcasts//On commentary with pop value//On anthemic self worth//On masterpiece London Calling//On not so vanilla sessions//On greatest ever in two different decades// //(57:12)//Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77 (1977)//On coming in lukewarm//On unconvention//On a glimmer of potential//On liner notes trickery//On Arcade Fire-style dog whistles//On Talking Heads validating//On creative icon Byrne//On Arthur Russell on cello//On RISD friends//On Talking Heads creative, original, innovative 77'--91'// //(1:33:31)//Preview of episode//15//

//00:00//Middle Brother's Middle Brother (2011)//On odes to things that aren't had//On peak rock-bottom Isbell//On mood and/or audience//On Orbison karaoke//On Wilco-adjacent//On Newport Not-So-Folk Festival's history//On Middle Brother principal symmetry//On the grand Deertick conversation 15 years in the making//On emotional carnage and sonic beauty// //(57:06)//alt-J's The Dream (2022)//On ultimate musical satisfaction//On Alt-J in my life//On a ton of instruments for a three-piece//On coca-cola and opera singing//On floaty, sparkly, wobbly organs//On Belushi's exit//On the best COVID record on record//On kirkland brand Radiohead//On the Mercury Music Prize deepest dive//On insert pin for Arctic Monkeys debut record Music Friends episode//On Thom Yorke super snubs//On re-re-re-re-birth//On getting better//On their improbable crest//On Alt-J as the perpetual butt of the joke//On embracing the internet's sharpest barbs// //(2:06:17)//Preview of episode//14//

//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (2022)//Recorded 5-17-2022//On grown Kendrick//On shepherd Kendrick//On therapy//On Eckhart Tolle and Kodak Black back-to-back//On the hurt hurting others//On singular Kendrick//On the holy quadology of pop stardom//On not savior Kendrick//On the Kyrie stamp of approval//On Kodak's imperfections as our imperfections?//On humor sprinkles//On early Eminem tracks// //(55:18)//Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. (2017)//Recorded 4-17-2017//On the To Pimp a Butterfly release valve//On the uptempo vs. downtempo ratio//On wickedness vs. weakness//On the depth of Kendrick//On back-to-back-to-back champs//On bedroom rap//On mysterious Kendrick//On not doing it for the gram//On forcing his way into the conversation//On storytelling wizardry//On Kendrick's 2016 Finals' comeback moment//On Mike Will energy//On covering all the bases// //(1:40:05)//Preview of episode//13//