//Music Friends//

Danny Bennett
Podcast //Music Friends//

//Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The selection is always recorded live and posted as a teaser for the next episode//Additional segments are posted with additional Music Friends here and there//

  1. 29 DE JUN.

    //21//

    //00:00//Mariachi El Bronx's Mariachi El Bronx (I) (2009)//On listening changing over time//On pod brain v. music brain//On [Cough-f-theran]//On tasteful cultural appropriation//On better to outro than fadeaway//On your whole life to make your first album and 4 weeks to make your second//On Aqua Teen Mariachi Force//On not belonging to any time period//On following your creative instincts//On total, mythical, mariachi saturation//On Craig Finn El Bronx//On favorite albums// //(1:23:29)//Arcade Fire's Neon Bible (2007)//On evangelical AF fandom//On sacrificial listenability for purposeful album dedication//On Win Butler gloomathoning//On a sneaky Heartland record//On a sneaky New Orleans band//On a sneaky Ocean album//On liking music better than art//On the greatest rock act of the century (?)//On Radiohead being for the (middle-aged) people//On Régine is the spice of life//Win Butler Cultural Foreshadowing//On what exactly a Good Christian Man means//On living in an age that calls darkness light//On Black Mirrors//On where to place your most important words// //(2:49:02)//!!2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show Top Five All-Time!!//On Surprise! You're Middle-Aged!//67'-92' "Let's Send a Positive Message" Era//93'-04' "Wait, Why Haven't We Been Booking Stars For This Thing?" Era//05'-Present "The Artist Is The Theme, Let's Sell More Pepsi!" Era//On the transparency of the SBHTS//On key ingredients of a classic SBHTS//On honorable mentions and a surprise cringe choice//On 34 minutes of preamble!// //James// //5//Bruno Mars (2014)// //4//Beyoncé (2013)// //3//Lady GaGa (2017)// //2//Michael Jackson (1993)// //1//Prince (2007)// //Danny// //5//Janet & JT (2004)// //4//Shakira and JLo (2020)// //3//U2 (2002)// //2//Prince (2007)// //1//Lady GaGa (2017)⁠// //(3:59:49)//Preview of episode//22//DAD POD!//

    4h30min
  2. 13 DE JAN.

    //20//

    //00:00//Taylor Swift's 1989 (2014)//On the most special guest//On grandiose albums//On the first MF double album//On a shining light in the darkness of residency year one//On the lazy MJ comp//On a maybe concept album//On a synth pop masterpiece//On the Capitol One commercial arc//On Polaroid getting the TS treatment//On Country to City//On the female empowerment jackhammer//On a sneaky ensemble record//On "Again" and "Next"//On being the sole property owner of "Stay" Island//On Harry Styles emotional mining//On This Love and Clean renaissances//On listening parties aging very well and terribly// //(1:05:56)//Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023)//On 4 of 6 Taylor's Versions//On Once Upon a Time at Big Machine Records//On Taylor declining bad deals//On Scooter Braun being the perfect bully name//On covering yourself//On powerful messaging about not compromising on what's yours//On being elite holders of Taylor Swift vinyl//On Becca loving the vault action//On Antonoff guarding the vault//On what it would take to cancel her//On Taylor the great uniter//On sharing Taylor Swift with your best friend// //(1:35:03)//Holy Shit Broh, We Made It To 20 Eps!//On celebrating 2-0 with guest 1//On catching up//On practical music integration//On 38 hours, you're welcome!//On finding familiar water in an ocean of music//How classical music made during WWI brought Metal to the world//On New Categories for//21//and beyond!// //(2:26:48)//Preview of episode//21//

    2h37min
  3. 27/03/2023

    //17//

    //00:00//Billy Woods' Hiding Places (2019)//On this mysterious guy with so much to say//On Billy's haunted house//On the density of an intensely well-read, inquisitive, worldly, sophisticated artist//On boomer hip hop//On exploring spaces you never wanted to return to//On spiderhole living/rap//On Mick's hip hop North Star// //(39:45)//Radiohead's ⁠In Rainbows (2007)⁠//On urgent anxiety//On a beautiful existential crisis//On the Radiohead arc//On how much more time we have here//On promo-swift release strategies//On paying what you want//On proto-Patreon//On dilapidated Wilshire compound vibz//On the light going out//On the panic of realizing you're going to die//On vague layered discomfort//On PTA and Radiohead//On Greenwood and PTA//On next-level Greenwood//On anxiety and beauty// //(1:38:47)//The 2023 Jack White Extended Universe Fantasy Draft! Holy Shit Broh!//On drafting upside with the first pick//On Danny taking the Oregon corner and Zach taking the Alabama defensive end//On premier league chant rock//On Patty Mahomes @ 10//On best bar-clearing songs//On Perry Mason extra era Jack White//On a clean White Stripes sweep//On Elephant, actually not great//On Jack's 2000s and 2010s versus Dylan's 1960s and 1970s//On the Grohl-White-Homme-Oberst Traveling Wilbury's spin-off//On not trusting anyone that doesn't like Led Zeppelin (Dave)//On conflicted Evanescence vibz//On a Blunderbuss heist//On reputational Jack White suicide//On a Sea of Cowards slam dunk//On scraping a deep barrel//On feuding Jack White being a productive Jack White// //(3:10:23)//De La Soul is Alive/Streaming!//On De La rejoicing//On hip hop's landscape getting filled in//On fun//On hip hop's Wizard of Oz moment//On happy hip hop//On hip hop can be whatever you want//On the DLS PSA// //(3:30:25)//Preview of episode//18//

    3h42min
  4. 06/02/2023

    //16//

    //00:00//JAY-Z's The Blueprint (2001)//On salute to a fallen Music Friend//On loss//On boss music//On re-purposing the Jay-Z picture//On stepping through the Biggie Smalls opening//On Jay-Z's diamond which pressure created//On not writing anything down//On Ye//On missing the old Kanye//On cutting a super classic in two weeks//On separating from the East Coast pack//On Jim Morrison-tinged diss tracks//On tasteful obscure album art references//On Sean Carter synchronized with jigga//On enduring relevancy// //(50:05)//Rage Against The Machine's Renegades (2000)//On ironic financial viability//On source code albums//On Rage-ifying//On the only great rap-rock act//On holy shit broh Rick Rubin//On stealing Dylan and Springsteen songs//On Tom Joad reprisals//On all roads leading to Lennon and McCartney//On calibrating against best cover albums//on peak exercise albums//On primordial hip hip tributes by hard rock bands// //(1:47:11)//Josh Koppel Interview//On his most recognized poem//On getting phone calls from Rick Rubin's office//On Morello's vision and tenants of the band//On writing messages on money//On the state of digital music and contemporary discovery//On the internet being the new rock n' roll//On the potency of delusional aspirations as a writer//On the challenge of having all of the world's music at your fingertips//On a creative life// //(2:12:24)//Preview of episode//17// //Dedicated to John Pritchard//Pictures of You by Drugdealer and Kate Bollinger//

    2h35min

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//Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The selection is always recorded live and posted as a teaser for the next episode//Additional segments are posted with additional Music Friends here and there//

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