A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
Nov 7, 2024 22:08:02 GMT
Charlie O., fonz, and 1 more like this
Post by loveless on Nov 7, 2024 22:08:02 GMT
I have no real sense of how the Preludin massive regards the act of podcast listening - I myself have rather severely limited my own listening to a handful of music related pods (and, boy, I am painfully aware that not all are created equal) and the Better Call Saul Insider Podcast...and even these only from about summer 2021 onwards. At its worst, it's a format that is often "two douchey blowhards inanely blowing their own minds", but...there are exceptions, and it is a few of these that have really melted the miles during my many commutes, kept me entertained during quiet time in the house, or while exercising.
Anyhow - for the past month or so, I've been bingeing on a series that several friends recommended (and that I initially resisted out of sheer laziness). I found my way in (the apple in the garden of Eden) once I was sent a link to a bonus episode on (what else) "In the Year 2525". And from then on, I was hooked. Quickly I moved on to episodes on "Itchycoo Park", "See Emily Play", "Heroes and Villains", "Everyday People" (a two parter), "Son of a Preacher Man", "Light Flight", "All Along the Watchtower" (another two parter), "Sympathy for the Devil" (four episodes), "Happy Together", "My World Fell Down", "Dark Star" (this one coming in at something like four hours, fittingly enough), "Dark End of the Street", "I Love You" (by People), "White Light White Heat", "Daydream Believer", "Blues Run the Game", "I Was Made to Love Her", "You're Gonna Miss Me", and SO many others. There's a four part episode on "Hickory Wind" that I'm hoping to tear into soon, and I'm about to sit down and enjoy a bonus episode on "I Think It's Going to Rain Today".
Anyhow, he started the podcast in 2018, and the contents are meant to run from 1938-1999 (meaning that we very well could end up with episodes on "Jesus Built My Hotrod" or "Rip It Up" or "Totally Wired" before the whole thing wraps up many years from now). That I came in during 1968 and have more or less squatted in 66-68 has everything to do with my own personal fetishes and nothing else.
Among the many things I like about it is the sheer thoroughness (he pushes against a lot of received wisdom by simply digging deeper in his research - and, my God, the stories within stories...his innate sense of what tangents and marginalized obscure events or figures merit extrapolation is uncannily unerringly spot on), the fact that it never gets "dry" (he's managed to make some seemingly tired subjects quite vibrant), and his sheer British understatedness (as you might imagine, he is often quoting unreliable narrators when telling these stories, and he manages to raise his eyebrows in an extremely modest way - i.e. "though, people who aren't James Brown all remember this rather differently"). As a point of contrast, I had just finished listening to a perfectly enjoyable 6 part pod on Stevie Wonder's purple patch (which not only featured the Obamas among its guests, but also many of the musicians and recording personnel from the albums), and - despite my love of the subject and much about the podcast - I found the host so ingratiatingly chummy (informal much like a politician during election season) that I kind of hated him by the end of it.
Anyhow, I recommend Hickey's pod unreservedly to any music enthusiast, and it is available on every streaming audio platform. I personally recommend subscribing to his Patreon where you can enjoy it for as little as $1/mo. (which is what I pay), and enjoy seemingly hundreds of bonus episodes that don't make it out into Spotify/Apple/Amazon/etc.
www.patreon.com/c/AndrewHickey/posts
Anyhow - for the past month or so, I've been bingeing on a series that several friends recommended (and that I initially resisted out of sheer laziness). I found my way in (the apple in the garden of Eden) once I was sent a link to a bonus episode on (what else) "In the Year 2525". And from then on, I was hooked. Quickly I moved on to episodes on "Itchycoo Park", "See Emily Play", "Heroes and Villains", "Everyday People" (a two parter), "Son of a Preacher Man", "Light Flight", "All Along the Watchtower" (another two parter), "Sympathy for the Devil" (four episodes), "Happy Together", "My World Fell Down", "Dark Star" (this one coming in at something like four hours, fittingly enough), "Dark End of the Street", "I Love You" (by People), "White Light White Heat", "Daydream Believer", "Blues Run the Game", "I Was Made to Love Her", "You're Gonna Miss Me", and SO many others. There's a four part episode on "Hickory Wind" that I'm hoping to tear into soon, and I'm about to sit down and enjoy a bonus episode on "I Think It's Going to Rain Today".
Anyhow, he started the podcast in 2018, and the contents are meant to run from 1938-1999 (meaning that we very well could end up with episodes on "Jesus Built My Hotrod" or "Rip It Up" or "Totally Wired" before the whole thing wraps up many years from now). That I came in during 1968 and have more or less squatted in 66-68 has everything to do with my own personal fetishes and nothing else.
Among the many things I like about it is the sheer thoroughness (he pushes against a lot of received wisdom by simply digging deeper in his research - and, my God, the stories within stories...his innate sense of what tangents and marginalized obscure events or figures merit extrapolation is uncannily unerringly spot on), the fact that it never gets "dry" (he's managed to make some seemingly tired subjects quite vibrant), and his sheer British understatedness (as you might imagine, he is often quoting unreliable narrators when telling these stories, and he manages to raise his eyebrows in an extremely modest way - i.e. "though, people who aren't James Brown all remember this rather differently"). As a point of contrast, I had just finished listening to a perfectly enjoyable 6 part pod on Stevie Wonder's purple patch (which not only featured the Obamas among its guests, but also many of the musicians and recording personnel from the albums), and - despite my love of the subject and much about the podcast - I found the host so ingratiatingly chummy (informal much like a politician during election season) that I kind of hated him by the end of it.
Anyhow, I recommend Hickey's pod unreservedly to any music enthusiast, and it is available on every streaming audio platform. I personally recommend subscribing to his Patreon where you can enjoy it for as little as $1/mo. (which is what I pay), and enjoy seemingly hundreds of bonus episodes that don't make it out into Spotify/Apple/Amazon/etc.
www.patreon.com/c/AndrewHickey/posts
