Sinopsis
A podcast about what musicians have to say for themselves. Each episode, hosts Chris Wade and Molly O'Brien read a musician's memoir, then riff about their music, their career and their self-mythologizing both the accurate and the embellished.
Episodios
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#14 THE RANGE!
28/11/2017 Duración: 01h31minAND INTRODUCING……the Range. Chris and Molly dissect what we talk about when we talk about pop stars’ voices using twitter user @KingBeyonceStan’s viral thread on the subject. Follow along on twitter here: https://twitter.com/KingBeyonceStan/status/745085351287455744 SONGS, IN ORDER: Chris Wade - I Will Always Love You (PodDub) Evanescence - Bring Me To Life Selena Gomez - Bad Liar Fifth Harmony - Down Britney Spears - Everytime Sia - Alive Zayn - Pillowtalk Madonna - Material Girl Madonna - Don’t Cry for Me Argentina Janet Jackson - I Get Lonely Rihanna - Take A Bow Adele - Someone Like You Alicia Keys - Fallin’ Mariah Carey - Vision of Love Tori Kelly - [Youtube: Best Vocal Performances] Jazmine Sullivan - [Youtube: The Vocal Ability of Jasmine Sullivan] Brandy - [Youtube: Best Vocal Performances] Celine Dion - O Holy Night Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
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#13 MARILYN MANSON! (ft. Sean T. Collins)
14/11/2017 Duración: 01h57minAnd introducing…Marilyn Manson! Chris and Molly are joined by the original bad boy of TV criticism, Sean T. Collins to discuss God’s perfect rock n’ roll creep, Marilyn Manson, through his book “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”. Featuring: BAD 3D TREES, BASEMENT PERVERTS, LET THE BILE HIT THE FLOOR, 500 DEAD CRICKETS! DEAF! MEAT! GIRL! BONEGHAZI! SWEET WHITE MOTHER! SONGS: Chris Wade - Beautiful People (Pod Dub) Marilyn Manson - Cake And Sodomy Charles Manson - Home is Where You’re Happy Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams Marilyn Manson - I Put A Spell On You Dilly Dally - Know Yourself (Drake Cover) Marilyn Manson - Dope Show Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People Gojira - Stranded Sky Ferreira - 24 Hours Pick up Sean and Julia Gfrörer's collection of gothic comics here: http://2dcloud.com/mirror-mirror-ii The weird, true story of Boneghazi: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/vb4m4a/boneghazi-how-a-grave-robbing-controversy-tore-an-online-witch-community-apart
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#12 EMINEM! (ft. Joel Sinensky)
31/10/2017 Duración: 01h39minAnd Introducing, behind the mic…it’s Eminem. Chris and Molly are joined by special guest and co-host of the Ballin’ Out podcast Joel Sinensky to discuss the controversial Hip-Hop star and number one best selling artist of the 21st century through his book “EMINEM: The Way I Am.” Featuring: NOBEL PRIZE WINNING IRISH POET SEAMUS HEANY! REAL LIBRA HOURS! JUSTICE FOR ECSTASY! ARE WE COOL WITH JOHN MAYER? THE SUB-GATHERING OF THE JUGGALOS! R. KELLY’S INFAMOUS HIT “TOOT TOOT BEEP BEEP”! AN EARNEST DISCUSSION ABOUT PROCESSING OFFENSIVE ART! HOT MOBY TAKES! EMINEM/ICP BOWLING SUMMIT! EMINEM v. HORSES! BIG WET LEADER! SONGS Chris Wade - Without Me (Pod Dub) Eminem - Stay Wide Awake John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland Eminem - Infinite Eminem - Just Don’t Give A Fuck Eminem - Mockingbird Eminem - Marshall Mathers Eminem - My Name Is Eminem - Stan (live ft. Elton John) Eminem - Without Me Eminem - Real Slim Shady Eminem - BET Cypher
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#11 NILE RODGERS!
17/10/2017 Duración: 01h37minAND INTRODUCING, on rhythm guitar and production, Mr. Nile Rodgers! Chris and Molly discuss legendary disco guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers through his 2011 memoir Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny. Featuring: TAM POTTY’S “STAND MY GROUND”! JAZZ SODAS! ACID KISMET! THE ALL-NOTE! THE GREATER MUNICIPAL MUSIC AUTHORITY! PASS THE D.H.M.! TO ORDER “PURE DISCO” CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN! CHIC MOBILE DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORIES! A SHOCKING TRUE CRIME STORY! THE DISCO/GAMING NEXUS! SONGS: Chris Wade - Le Freak (Pod Dub) Skyy - Toccata Chic - Everybody Dance Chic - Dance, Dance, Dance Chic - Le Freak Pure Disco Ad (1996) David Bowie - Modern Love Madonna - Holiday Madonna - Live to Tell INXS - Original Sin Duran Duran - The Reflex Britney Spears - Anticipating Daft Punk - Get Lucky COULD RAY CHARLES REALLY LAND AN AIRPLANE? APPARENTLY THE ANSWER IS YES! http://dangerousminds.net/comments/could_ray_charles_really_land_an_airplane_apparently_the
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#10 TABOO! (ft. Matthew Perpetua)
03/10/2017 Duración: 01h48minAnd introducing, Taboo! Chris and Molly are joined by Fluxblog.org creator Matthew Perpetua to discuss the life and career of the mysterious fourth Black Eyed Pea through Taboo’s perhaps-aptly titled memoir “Fallin’ Up: My Story”. Check out Matthew's year-by-year pop music surveys at www.fluxblog.org Featuring: PORNOGRAPHY MEMES! ANALOG BOOGALOO! GOLDFISH LIFESTYLE! WILL9! AU BON PAIN MEETS THE WU-TANG CLAN! UPGRADE TO WINDOWS ’95! THAT COMFORTABLE GRIND! THE CONCERNED EYES OF DAVID BLAINE! FERGALICIOUS DIPLOMACY! A PUNK’DERVENTION! THE WORD “BOOM” REPEATED 186 TIMES! Chris Wade - Get It Started (PodDub) Men.com - “Right in front of my salad!” Black Eyed Peas - Joints and Jams Black Eyed Peas - Say Goodbye Black Eyed Peas - Hot Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love Black Eyed Peas - Let’s Get Retarded LCD Soundsystem - Tonite Fiona Apple - I Know Alanis Morrissette - My Humps Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow Fergie - M.I.L.F.$ Aldous Snow and Infant Sorrow - We've Got To Do Something The Lonely Island - I’m
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#09 FYRE FESTIVAL! (ft. Jessica McKenna)
19/09/2017 Duración: 01h09minAnd introducing…the disastrous luxury gathering of brands and influencers we all love to hate, it’s the story of the Fyre Festival! Chris and Molly are joined by the Off Book Podcast’s Jessica McKenna to examine a music-adjacent conflagration of hubris and poor decision-making so epically ironic, it can only be described as art. Featuring: DIY BLACK CARD! SWINGING AT SANDAL’S! POST FIRST PLAN SECOND! CHIEF POTTY OFFICER! IMMERSIVE VIP GRASS! MARITIME LEGAL ADVICE! THE SWEETEST WORDS IN JOURNALISM: NO NDA! A ROUND ROBIN OF DJS! FIND YOUR BEER TREE! NOT MY FAULT! FULL POSADISM! I NEVER THOUGHT I’D DIE ALONE! Songs: Chris Wade - Sleep Now In The Fyre (PodDub) Ed Sheeran - The A Team Ed Sheeran - Shape of You Disclosure - Latch Blink 182 - Adam’s Song
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#08 DESTINY'S CHILD! (ft. Brittany Spanos)
05/09/2017 Duración: 01h13minChris and Molly are joined by Rolling Stone’s #BrittanySpanos to discuss “Soul Survivors: The Official Autobiography of Destiny’s Child”. Featuring: CURSING THE SUN FOR ITS SHINE! THAT DASTARDLY SKELETON CREW AND THEIR “BONEHEADS”! RULE 6: KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! MUSCULAR LUNGS! JUMPIN’, LITERALLY! P. DIDDY FOR MAYOR! You can read Brittany’s great piece on Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-beyonces-lemonade-reclaims-rocks-black-female-legacy-20160426 MUSIC Chris Wade - Bootylicious (PodDub) Destiny’s Child - No No No (remix) Destiny’s Child - Intro (The Writing’s On The Wall) Destiny’s Child - Independent Woman pt. 1 Destiny’s Child - Bootylicious Michelle Williams - Say Yes ft. Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland Chris Wade - Bootylicious (PodDub)
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#07 MADONNA!
22/08/2017 Duración: 01h29minAnd 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)
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#06 ANTHONY KIEDIS! pt. 2 (ft. Nathan Truman)
08/08/2017 Duración: 01h31minChris, Molly and Nathan continue their deep dive into the life and times of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ mostly-nude frontman, Anthony Kiedis. If you thought he’d keep getting older and they wouldn’t stay the same age…you were wrong! Featuring: ALL RISE FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM! CHICKEN FOOT! THE WHOLE ENCHILADA (ewww)! FUNKY POPE! JOHN FRUSCIANTE’S SATURDAY NIGHT WAIL! DAVE NAVARRO’S BODY MOD SLIDER! COKE HATS! CRACK COLLAGES! FUNKY DALAI LAMA! Chris Wade - Can’t Stop (Pod Dub) Flea - The Star Spangled Banner Chad Smith - The Star Spangled Banner Chicken foot - Oh Yeah Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magick Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge (live on SNL, 1992) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Like Dirt Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song Faith No More - Epic Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hard To Concentrate Chris Wade - Under The Bridge (Pod Dub) Chad Smith - The Star Spangled Banner
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#05 ANTHONY KIEDIS! pt. 1 (ft. Nathan Truman)
01/08/2017 Duración: 01h19minAnd 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 Chi
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#04 RONNIE SPECTOR!
18/07/2017 Duración: 01h45minAnd introducing, on lead vocals: Ms. Ronnie Spector! Ronnie Spector was the iconic lead singer of original pop/rock girl group the Ronettes, who released a string of mega hits in the early 60’s. Though Ronnie’s many attempts at post-Ronettes hits were mostly fruitless, her career and personality were a lasting influence for many female rock stars to come, and her disastrous marriage to producer Phil Spector became the stuff of rock legend. Featuring: SAD TEENS! LANGUISHING AT MITZVAS! PHIL SPECTOR’S WALL OF PASTRAMI! ON THE FLY WIKIPEDIA REVIEW! REASONS TO START DRINKING! JOE’S DISCOUNT KID BARN! THOSE CRISP HI HATS! “DOING” TWO PERFECT THINGS! STATE MANDATED POP! Songs Used: Chris Wade - Be My Baby (2k17 Dub) Lucky Milinder - Apollo Jump (1943) The Ronettes - What’s So Sweet About Sweet Sixteen The Ronettes - Be My Baby The Ronettes - Do I Love You Ronnie Spector - Try Some, Buy Some Ronnie Spector - Tandoori Chicken Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes - You Mean So Much To Me Ronnie Spector & The E Stree
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#03 TRAVIS BARKER! pt. 2
04/07/2017 Duración: 53minAnd introducing, on drums, Mr. Travis Barker! The thrilling, tragic, and ultimately triumphant conclusion to Chris and Molly's look at the life and career Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker. Did you guess a wedding to Paris Hilton officiated by Suge Knight would show up? If so, you were right! BUST OUT THE BOOST MOBILE & RED BULL, IT’S 2007 BABY! Music used, in Order: Vitamin String Quartet performs Blink 182’s “What’s My Age Again” The Best of Travis Barker - YouTube | Desmond Hume P.Diddy - Bad Boy For Life Travis Barker and DJ AM - Fix Your Face Travis Barker feat. Transplants & Slash - Saturday Night Run The Jewels feat. Travis Barker - All Due Respect Travis Barker & Marshmello - Coachella Drum-off ’17 Blink 182 - Brohemian Rhapsody
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#02 TRAVIS BARKER! pt. 1
27/06/2017 Duración: 01h29minAnd introducing, on drums, Mr. Travis Barker! Chris and Molly discuss the life and career Blink 182 drummer/tattoo’d love boy Travis Barker through his memoir “Can I Say”. Featuring: SKA BANDS: THE SITCOMS OF MUSIC? FEAR OF FLYING (NOT Erica Jong)! BABY’S FIRST DISKMAN! THE RELATIVE EROTICISM OF VARIOUS MAGIC KINGDOM RIDES! CORN TWO WAYS! BUST OUT THE BOOST MOBILE & RED BULL, IT’S 2007 BABY! Music used, in Order: Vitamin String Quartet performs Blink 182’s “What’s My Age Again” Blink 182 - Happy Holidays, You Bastard Justin Bieber Playing Drums at Age 9 Feeble - I Think We’re Alone Now (Live) The Aquabats - The Cat With Two Heads (Live) Blink 182 - M+M’s Blink 182 - Dammit Blink 182 - Reckless Abandon Asher Roth, Nottz, Travis Barker - Interlude Blink 182 - Anthem, Part 2
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#01 DUFF McKAGAN!
07/06/2017 Duración: 02h13minAnd introducing, on bass guitar, Mr. Duff McKagen! Chris and Molly examine the life of Guns n' Roses bassist/Wealth Management Guru Duff McKagen through his memoir "It's So Easy (and other lies)". Featuring: THE INCREDIBLE EXPLODING PANCREAS! SOUP GIMLETS! INTERIOR DECORATING & CRACK COCAINE! NEVER, EVER MIXING THE SPIRITUAL HEALING OF MARTIAL ARTS WITH COMMERCE!