The Album Concept Hour The Album Concept Hour

We're 194 episodes into this show and as we draw closer to the 200th, we thought we'd get to the ACTUAL first concept album (by most accounts): Woody Guthrie's 1940 song collection called Dust Bowl Ballads. This collection came out in 2-three disc 78 rpm records with one song per side. With autobiographical elements as well as story elements of John Steinbeck's 1939 epic "Grapes of Wrath", this album tells us the tragedy of the Dust Bowl, the forcing of 1000s of families off their farm land, the horrible working conditions of the migrants seeking better life in the "Peach Bowl" of California, and the opposition they found in corrupt business and police-men and their counterparts in vigilantes. Although this came out in 1940, it reflects on a lot of worker's rights issues that we are still facing trying to get fair wages today.



Grapes of Wrath (1940) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940



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In 1974, in the wake of the release of their magnum opus, Red, Robert Fripp made the decree "King Crimson is completely over. For ever and ever." And he meant it... for a time. For the next few years, he left the music industry completely to focus on himself and his spirituality, but he wouldn't be out for long. In the late 70s into 1980, Fripp was pulled back into the fold, laying down guitar work for legends such as David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, and Daryl Hall. Finally, the need to be in a group resurfaced, and he enlisted Adrien Belew (who had just come off the "Remain in Light" tour) and Tony Levin (a master of the Chapman Stick) to join himself and Bill Bruford in a New Wave band calling itself Discipline. It wasn't very long before it became apparent that this grouping was the next incarnation of King Crimson, and in 1981, they wowed the rock world with a completely new sound for the band. It was New Wave, but still with all the Prog polyrhythms that defined them in the past. Whatever you think of this point in their discography, it's clear they were masters of reinvention.

Today we're joined once again by Adam Elk from The Mommyheads!!! They are finally touring the midwest THIS WEEKEND and you should come out and see them! Tour dates linked belew.



The Mommyheads midwest tour dates!: https://twitter.com/TheMommyheads/status/1790120603048984586

Beato interviews Belew, Vai, Levin, and Carey about upcoming "Beat" tour:
https://youtu.be/AbQM09t5E2c?si=ZKtczYDMiFEqJBiE

The Mommyheads perform "Frame by Frame": https://youtu.be/1Gqz8NWSMyA?si=kCpkez19t7DlKnVR



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On September 9th, 1999 (or 9-9-99), Thomas Bangalter and and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo became robots. After a night of working on a track, their sampler crashed and exploded. After some quick surgery to treat their injuries, they came out as robots. After realizing their track had been erased from the incident, they started to toil away on "Discovery" to try and regain what humanity they had left...



Returning guest Derick McDuff returns! Look for an episode of his "Underrated" movie podcast next month about Interstella 5555 including Brad LeBaron!



Underrated movie podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/underrated/id1460393092

Discovery sample breakdown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBSWw7RdZLk

Discovery samples playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wpBlAXxEs9W1XVlWBTgUk?si=44d5138ec7674ec7



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Alrighty y'all, this episode is going to get DARK. We've talked about heroin as a subject matter in many songs for many bands, but today we get INTO it. Coming from an era glorifying the sex, drugs, and rock and roll style, Alice in Chains and their grunge cohorts recontextualized the lifestyle to be more of a cautionary tale than something to aspire to. In Dirt, we get the entire journey of heroin addiction; from the lackadaisical first time, to the brink of death's door, to the harrowing trial of withdrawal. They weren't the first band in the genre to experience the tragedy of heroin addiction and certainly wouldn't be the last, but Dirt remains one of the best examples of that internal conflict.



Lunar Moth "If I Lived Alone": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPT0XgE0rT4

Lunar Moth "Stranger" Album Release Shows:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6t5nsdvUL8/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Stank Rangers youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@StankRangers

Angelica Garcia "Gemini": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze_ZbtY7t3Y



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Last time on the pod we discussed Erykah's left brain album and today we have it's counterpart in her right brain album, New Amerykah Pt. 2, that arrived two years after New Amerykah Pt. 1. While it continues to have mixes from some of the best underground producers in the game, this one gets a little more personal. In "Return of the Ankh", she dissects all of her relationships--with her lovers, with her fans, with money, and with herself; and creates a hip hop classic while doing so.



Erykah Badu "Window Seat": https://youtu.be/9hVp47f5YZg?si=WwVHYXgI9zHBhK3g

Matt & Kim "Lessons Learned": https://youtu.be/bJkymylTNU4?si=EMIPy6u_VzCe6dsM

Brad discussing "Polkas on 45" on the Beer'd Al Podcast!: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/5l9IiW8qDXTos0fAMaYyY8?si=89f48c1e1ae2466f⁠

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Today we're talking about none other than the First Lady of Neo Soul. If you've ever wondered how hip hop of the 2010s got so groovy, look no further than New Amerykah. With her eclectic style and taste in music, she brings us everything from 70s funk to 90s R&B and everything in-between. After a several year hiatus due to writer's block, Erykah, with the help of some of hip-hops best producers, she came back strong with this record and remains somewhere near the top of mount hip-hop.



CHILLING WITH ERYKAH AND REGGIE (Marc Ribillet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtR1yVmCCvw&t=1388s

Brad discussing "Polkas on 45" on the Beer'd Al Podcast!: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5l9IiW8qDXTos0fAMaYyY8?si=89f48c1e1ae2466f

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