My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

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Neil Finn (Crowded House) on Beatles, Bowie, Neil Young & Radiohead (REPOST) Jan 31, 2017

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NOTE: Reposting this on request. A lot of you wanted to hear my podcast with Neil after last week's chat with fellow Crowded House member Mark Hart. So here you go!

The first Kiwi on the podcast waxes lyrical on four of the most influential albums in his record collection.

Neil and host Jeremy Dylan delve into The Beatles' "Beatles for Sale" and Neil Young's "After the Goldrush" and along the way talk about their shared memories of a bizarre Crowded House gig in Hyde Park, covering the Beatles with Paul Kelly, the Finn family record collection circa 1964, Neil's planned first name-based supergroup, singing in falsetto and why he's a self-described "perverse bastard".

They delve in to David Bowie's "Hunky Dory" and Radiohead's "In Rainbows", try to resolve the Bowie vs. Bowie debate, why Bowie is as important to Neil as the Beatles, what Radiohead's favorite card game is, the time and place to be methodical in rock'n'roll and Neil reveals his next musical project.

My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all time - their history with it, the making of the album, individual songs and the album's influence on their own music. Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist and photographer from Sydney, Australia who has worked in the music industry since 2007. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the feature film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins, in addition to many commercials and music videos.

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185. Mark Hart (Crowded House) on XTC 'Drums & Wires' (1979) Jan 27, 2017

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Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumental wizard Mark Hart (Crowded House, Supertramp) joins me for a freewheeling journey through the records that inspired him through his formative years, particularly XTC's nervy new wave classic 'Drums & Wires'.

We talk about how XTC hid their intricacy and sophistication through canny pop songwriting, whatever happened to Oingo Boingo, driving to Woodstock on acid, how some Crowded House songs changed after they played them live, Mark's possibly terrible childhood bands, a cover of "Louie Louie" in the style of Bowie's "Let's Dance", the time Nick Seymour almost introduced Mark to XTC guitarist Dave Gregory on a boat, why Mark's height got him fired from Jackshit and much more.

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184. Emma Swift on Marianne Faithfull 'Broken English' (1979) Jan 24, 2017

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In a moment of history where pissed off women are rising up, Queen of the Sadcore Bangers Emma Swift returns to the show to talk about Marianne Faithfull's brittle, confronting classic 'Broken English'.

Faithfull started her career being exploited as a folk-pop starlet, hitting rock bottom with drugs and homelessness and then taking control of her life and identity with this album. Emma and I talk about the cock forrest of the punk / new wave scene, how women are often written out of pop history, the inappropriate way Emma discovered the album, how it's influencing the shift in her music from despair to rage, and more.

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183. Owen Rabbit on Kate Bush 'Hounds of Love' Jan 18, 2017

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On today's episode, I explore the link between Kate Bush's 1985 classic 'Hounds of Love' and modern electronic pop with Sydney singer-songwriter/producer Owen Rabbit.

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182. Robyn Hitchcock on Bob Dylan 'Blonde on Blonde' (1966) Jan 16, 2017

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Legendary English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock returns to the podcast to talk about artist who's influence has shaped his entire career - Bob Dylanand his iconic 1966 double album 'Blond on Blonde'.

We talk about why some people are obsessed with finding the literal inspiration behind every Bob line, how Robyn fell in love with Dylan at boarding school, why David Bowie was the British Bob Dylan, how the Nashville session players changed the way Dylan made records, Dylan's knack for song titles, whether it matters what order you sing the verses to these songs in, why Visions of Johanna is Robyn's favorite song and the difference between being 'a Bob Dylan' instead of 'the Bob Dylan'.

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181. Dave Mudie (Courtney Barnett) on Nirvana 'Nevermind' (1991) Jan 11, 2017

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Dave Mudie, the deft powerhouse drummer who has been the engine room of Courtney Barnett's CB3 since 2012, joins me to talk about the album that changed music for him - and the rest of the world - Nirvana's iconic album Nevermind.

We talk about how a love for Nirvana united Dave, Courtney and bassist Boanes Sloane when they first played together in country-psych band Immigrant Union, the influence of Dave Grohl on his playing in songs like Pedestrian at Best and Depreston, being gifted a bottle of scotch by Grohl at a gig, running after a Krist Novoselic lookalike by mistake, the unique perks of the power trio formate that Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and the CB3 all used to their advantage - and what Dave, Boanes and Courtney have been playing in the tour bus while traversing the globe for the past few years.

We also delve into how producer Butch Vig used the ghost of John Lennon to convince Kurt Cobain to embrace more refined production, why Cobain later disavowed many aspects of the album, the track that almost didn't make it on the album due to human error, how the record label underestimated the demand for the album, and whether an album like Nevermind could have the same impact on the direction of music today.

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180. Brian Koppelman on Bruce Springsteen 'Nebraska' (1982) Jan 09, 2017

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Filmmaker (Rounders, Ocean's 13, Solitary Man), showrunner (Billions) and podcaster (The Moment) Brian Koppelman returns for his fourth appearance on the show, to open up Bruce Springsteen's devastating classic Nebraska (1982).

We talk about how Brian turned to the album during a period of personal pain as a young man, how the stories resonate in the age of Trump and point to some of the factors behind his election, the hope Springsteen finds amongst the devastation of his characters, how he stands as an aspiration and relatable figure to his audience, whether it's a good idea to turn Bruce's songs into movies and the empathy that is key to the Boss's music.

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179. Nick Allbrook (POND) on Outkast 'Love Below' (2003) Jan 07, 2017

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Singer/songwriter and POND frontman Nick Allbrook takes me backstage before the band's recent LA show to reveal his long-term infatuation with Outkast's 2003 classic 'Love Below', the complex and endlessly inventive record helped teach Nick it was ok to love pop bangers.

We talk about how the album is structured like a concept record, the wonderfully weird production choices, how Andre 3000 and Outkast evolved from their early Atlanta rap days into the genre blending of 'Love Below', the Outkast cover Nick did with Tame Impala on triple J, stories about foisting the record on the Tame boys in their old sharehouse, the pop anxiety some psych fans have about the evolution of Pond's sound and what to expect from the new Pond record.

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2016: What the fuck? ft Brian Koppelman, Lisa Mitchell, Mark Hart (Crowded House), Jeff Greenstein, Emma Swift, Davey Lane, Alex Lahey, Melody Pool, Cookin on 3 Burners and more Jan 05, 2017

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10 conversations about the highs and lows of music in 2016

Emmy winner Jeff Greenstein on when David Bowie guest starred on his first TV sitcom.
How Melbourne indie soul band Cookin' on 3 Burners had a smash hit on the French dance charts.
Americana singer/songwriter Melody Pool on finding her way back to her darkest emotional places to write her stellar album Deep Dark Savage Heart.
ARIA-nominee Lisa Mitchell on struggling with how to listen to music in the modern age.
Nashville-based Aussie ex-pat Emma Swift on being artistically radicalised by the election of Donald Trump.
Filmmaker Brian Koppelman (Billions, Rounders, Ocean's 13) on what music to listen to to get through the Trump blues, and what to expect from music in the coming years.
Crowded House guitarist/keyboardist Mark Hart on the inside story of their triumphant reunion shows at the Sydney Opera House forecourt.
You Am I guitarist Davey Lane on a year of playing with his living heroes and paying tribute to his dead ones.
Singer/songwriter Alex Lahey on writing some of the year's best songs for her debut EP and what to expect from her imminent debut album.
Host Jeremy Dylan reveals his 10 favorite albums of 2016.

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177. Harper Simon on The Beatles 'White Album' (1968) Jan 02, 2017

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We kick off 2017 at the Chateau Marmont, where I join Harper Simon for bacon, eggs and coffee to talk about the most iconic double album in pop history - the Beatles White Album.

We talk about how the album shows George Harrison coming into his own, the incredible musical diversity on the record, Eric Clapton and outside players guesting on Beatles records, whether knowing the Beatles personally changes how you listen to their music, whether or not 'Revolution 9′ should've been cut from the album, the lyrical directness of the songs and that time Paul McCartney taught Harper how to play 'Mother Nature's Son'.

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