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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. A duo calling themselves Air set sail from the French touch scene of the Paris 1990s and find sonic alchemy on their debut "Moon Safari". The boys discuss tasty bass lines, chill out music, and vintage synthesizers.
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Listen to Moon Safari here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/206GTDefY2qRMQxYXmfb0a?si=HDAP2bpMQZaJrdAcEyf3-w
Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Next week's album: Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Green Day sets their sights on a punk rock opera and stages a huge comeback with American Idiot. The fellows discuss mid-2000s compression techniques, arena rock singalongs, and being creative with power chords.
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Listen to American Idiot here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5dN7F9DV0Qg1XRdIgW8rke?si=C0tLlG9qTk-Mn1ztz0T0Ng
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Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Next week's album: Air - Moon Safari
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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. George Clinton and Funkadelic create "a musical experience" with their acid-infused album Maggot Brain. The boys discuss song length, naming rights, and echoplexes.
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Listen to Maggot Brain here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3ywVzrwMQ3Kq43N9zBdBQm?si=gbgGCpjER6W_e9rBrpP6-A
Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Next week's album: Green Day - American Idiot
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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The B-52's embraced surf rock, corny sci-fi, and 1950s kitsch on their 1979 self-titled debut. The boys welcome a special guest and discuss expressionist singing styles, improvised lyrics, and the power of "uncool".
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Listen to our episode companion playlist (compilation of the songs we referenced on this episode) here:
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Listen to The B-52's here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3eXETk1esvZPRluDCWH3GN?si=tTUSWbpGRuy7jIJSRkCwxA
Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Next week's album: Funkadelic- Maggot Brain
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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Neneh Cherry was born cool as the daughter of international musicians. The boys discuss 1980s drum programming, bad rhymes, and strange spoken word intros.
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Listen to Raw Like Sushi here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2AyJzvREOnlnYhaBzF1Kxp?si=BY0v1HASRBGGxtPs-YjQFA
Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Next week's album: The B-52's - The B-52'S
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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Loretta Lynn is a coal miner's daughter who writes about her life in a plain and occasionally shocking way. The team dives into professional songwriting inside the Nashville machine, how Loretta pushed the envelope throughout her career, and how 1960s mixing techniques affect our perception of this music.
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Listen to our episode companion playlist (compilation of the songs we referenced on this episode) here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3toImHlyo3DqEecQ2vCsgW?si=c0c26dcc500f4ca0
Listen to Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/32fTx9DYJWjenQSMoI22Dq?si=HSzpptJVQXi9_IOMATiM8Q
Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Next week's album: Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
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The boys come together for a very special Christmas episode to share the songs that they truly love but make them feel "uncool" to listen to at the stoplight. We ceremoniously release each other of any guilt as nearly every song is (secretly?) great.
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Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Elvis Costello and the Attractions come off the road and into the studio to record their second album with a batch of songs honed on the stage. The boys talk about killer bass breaks, varied vocal stylings, and how the echoes of another Liverpool band made their way onto the tape.
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Listen to our episode companion playlist (compilation of the songs we referenced on this episode) here:
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Listen to Armed Forces here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5w3q6GZbw0gsAtvl1c0rmu?si=-y5RXaieTda49IcpW6-FIg
Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Next week's album: Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home A Drinkin'
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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Elliot Smith was a Portland darling when he started recording his 3rd record Either/Or and rocketed to national stardom after a handful of these songs appeared in the movie "Good Will Hunting". The boys talk about the origins of the "sad bastard" genre, vocals doubled and then doubled again, plus how the heaviness of grunge led us here.
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Listen to our episode companion playlist (compilation of the songs we referenced on this episode) here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1JPNFMxwVKuGz2vyPC5w7u?si=75a5668ba7b141c7
Listen to Either/Or here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6KMdn9HDIqcBPaaok0K34K?si=tHhhd6eeTeSC02kYgqkWog
Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
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Next week's album: Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Armed Forces
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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The Violent Femmes rolled out of their native Milwaukee like a freight train, conquering college radio for a couple decades to come. The crew discuss the benefits of simply constructed songs, the perennial marketability of teenage angst, and the recording studio swagger needed to "reinvent" rock and roll.
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Listen to our episode companion playlist (compilation of the songs we referenced on this episode) here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/53K7jnawJfNFN2hUNEHnqp?si=d653bc5851204e4b
Listen to Violent Femmes here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0Ojio25IPzIrw1rUmgrhrG?si=5ukH_prTTDizFA3BnFiyNQ
Intro music: When the Walls Fell by The Beverly Crushers
Outro music: After the Afterlife by MEGA
Follow our Spotify Playlist of music produced directly by us. Listen and complain at home
Follow us on instagram @thechopunlimited AND @1001AlbumComplaints
Next week's album: Elliot Smith - Either / Or
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