My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

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REPOST - Tim Rogers (You Am I) on John Hiatt 'Bring the Family' (1986) Sep 21, 2016

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The best nose in Aussie rock and frontman of legendary racket-makers You Am I, Tim Rogers, joins hostJeremy Dylan to reveal his surprising pick for his favorite album - John Hiatt's 1987 breakthrough "Bring the Family", which featured songs like 'Thing Called Love' and 'Have A Little Faith In Me'.

Why did the album that made middle-age cool give Tim hope as a troubled teen? How did the all-star band that play on the album come together? Why did their follow up project Little Village fall apart? What are the boundaries when writing songs about your family members? Why is John Hiatt so damn sexy?

Plus Tim addresses the story Jon Auer told back in episode 17 about Tim saving his life during the sessions for Tim's classic "Hi Fi Way" album and talks about why touring with Nick Lowe solidified his love for the man and why he turned down the chance to write with Kinks legend Ray Davies.

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Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes here or in other podcasting apps by copying/pasting our RSS feed -http://myfavoritealbum.libsyn.com/rss 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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162. Taylor Locke on The Pixies 'Doolittle', the album that inspired the 90s alt rock movement Sep 18, 2016

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Taylor Locke, co-founder of Rooney, Lindsay Buckingham in world renowned celebration of Fleetwood Mac "Rumors", producer, studio owner and frontman of garage-pop outfit 'The Great Indoors', joins me to open the lid on the Pixies classic 'Doolittle' and how it shows them bursting out of their genre confines to make an pure rock classic LP.

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. He directed the music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and feature film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins, and writes for Capital News magazine.

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161. Harts on Prince 'Around the World In A Day' and his time at Paisley Park with the Purple One Sep 15, 2016

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Melbourne singer/songwriter and ascendant guitar god Harts returns to the show to talk Prince's follow up to 'Purple Rain' and dive deep on his relationship with Prince, jamming at Paisley Park, the compliment that made Prince cringe and how Prince's death has changed the experience of listening to his records.

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REPOST - Robyn Hitchcock on John Lennon 'Plastic Ono Band' Sep 07, 2016

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This episode was originally posted January 22, 2015

Traveler through space and time, British cult icon, Soft Boys frontman and legendary singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock steers his ship into the podbooth this week, for a chat with host Jeremy Dylan about John Lennon's emotionally confronting classic 1970 album "Plastic Ono Band".

Along the way, they talk about why Robyn identified with Lennon as a kid, Lennon's antipathy toward his Beatles music, the possible influence of Bob Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" album, John and Yoko's primal scream therapy and which Robyn Hitchcock song borrows its arrangement from a Plastic Ono Band tune.

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Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes here or in other podcasting apps by copying/pasting our RSS feed - http://myfavoritealbum.libsyn.com/rss 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 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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160. Mark McKinnon on Kris Kristofferson, music vs politics & programming the President's iPod Sep 01, 2016

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Political strategist and co-host of the Circus, Mark McKinnon has spent decades in the A-league of 'showbusiness for ugly people', including as chief media strategist for President George W Bush. But before that, he was a singer-songwriter whose band caught the ear of Kris Kristofferson. Mark talks about how Kristofferson's most iconic songs shook up country music, living in Kristofferson's Nashville apartment in the 70s and trying to keep up with his lifestyle, what politicians could learn from great musicians, 'authenticity', when Elvis Presley almost recorded one of his songs and programming President Bush's iPod.

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159. Alan Brough on masculinity, punk and how The Blue Nile got him through a difficult teenage Aug 30, 2016

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Comedian, author, actor, Spicks and Specks team captain - Alan Brough's favorite album found him years before any of those careers, when he was a self-described 'crazy' teenager. This is the story of how an obscure Scottish post-punk band helped him find a new way of being a man and get through his adolescence.

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158. Jim Lauderdale and why we need Americana (w/ Peter Cooper of the Country Music Hall of Fame) Aug 24, 2016

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#RoadToAmericanaFest

Journalist and singer-songwriter Peter Cooper of the Country Music Hall of Fame joins me to talk about Jim Lauderdale's classic 'Pretty Close to the Truth' album and how the changes in country music in the 90s created the need for the Americana music genre, the migration of people like Jim and Buddy Miller from California to Nashville and how Jim helped Peter propose to his wife.

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Katy Perry's 'One of the Boys' - androgyny, feminism and teenage bangers (w Hedge Fund's Will Colvin) Aug 23, 2016

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Hedge Fund's Will Colvin and I dissect Katy Perry's (sort of) debut album 'One of the Boys' and look at how it encompasses feminism, the different types of androgyny represented by Katy here and on 'Teenage Dream', how it defines the 2008 pop era, why it's her most personal album, the beauty of specificity in songwriting and how it helped solidify Will's fiancee Katie Green joins us to talk about how the record solidify their relationship early on.

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156. Julia Jacklin on Fiona Apple 'Extraordinary Machine' Aug 18, 2016

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My guest today describes herself as 'creepy observer', which perhaps explains her lyrical knack for crafting couplets like an emotional sieve - particular and memorable turns of phrase with just enough space for a listener to sift their own lives through. Whether turning heir inimitable sonorous voice to her own arresting indie-folk songs or the addictive grind of her band Phantastic Furniture, her music tugs insistently at your ears. Her debut album 'Don't Let the Kids Win' is due out October 7.

She joins me to talk about Fiona Apple's "Extraordinary Machine".

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155. Japanese Wallpaper on Tame Impala 'Currents' (2015) Aug 10, 2016

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Teenage wunderkind songwriter, producer and artist Japanese Wallpaper and I dig into Tame Imapala's Currents, Kevin Parker's introspective disco gem which just turned one year old.

How did Parker construct songs that were equal parts emotionally devastating and danceable banger? What are the key influences that make up the Tame Impala sound? How do you know when to stop when you can control all aspects of your music to the nth degree? What does it sound like when you cut Rihanna's cover of Tame's "New Person Same Old Mistakes" together with the original? and what does 'Currents' have in common with Carly Slay Jepsen's 'Emotion' LP?

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