Our View From This Tower

Brent Craddock and Jared Murphy

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Music Commentary

Music podcast about CD collecting, ranting and nonsense.

Sep 28

Episode 5 - Live Music is the Best Way to Consume Music

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Intro Physical space for CDs Class action lawsuits The new SLEEP album Most bands that have been together for 40 years are incapable of making 10 more good records Long running band discographies, and enjoying it as a whole The new Mike D album Return to the "Best Rapper/artist that became an actor" - LL Cool J Working at the movie theater when Deep Blue Sea was in the theater Soundtrack to movies that the artist does the song(s) One-track/Cassette singles Bone Thugs and Harmony The phrases "Back East", "mid-west", "over the pond", "on the coast" sound ridiculous The new Mike D album continued Released on a cool looking cassette Cassette tapes in-general Making compilation tapes/CDs for people The first Bruce Springsteen album Shoutout to SP! 10 years ago we went to see SWANS at Crescent Ballroom Seeing SWANS live... and the "noise rock/art" genre Some of the best bands, who made the best songs, never made it out of the "local scene" New CZARFACE/Frankie Pulitzer album Is good, but doesn't get extra notoriety because of Tom Hardy being involved Do you trust your Social Media algorithm? Metallica tour with Limp Biscuit and AVATAR The 90s resurgence Metal heads are the nicest/sweetest people of any music scene Algorithm continued... Jerry Zhao and other social media personas and "brainrot" Controlling the social media addiction Putting the podcast into the algorithm by interacting more Development of our podcast and who it's for and how it will spread "We're not all famous, and we're not all talented." Over 78% of podcasts don't get past 7 episodes Personal social media page vs the podcast page "Posts" vs "Content" Getting older and understanding what came from your formative years What is even considered, or how do you say what is, "new music"? "Professional Musician" as a career Going to see a huge stadium show/festival isn't something we would want to do now Getting knocked out in the pit at Slayer Meeting people in Phoenix you ask "where are you from?" which is mostly unique to Phoenix Downtown Phoenix is such a hassle It has to be a special occasion to go out to a show nowadays that we're old Live music is the best way to consume music.
Sep 5

Episode 4: Musicians becoming Actors vs Actors becoming Musicians

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Our show has little or no plan, with very few real topics We have a ton of CDs of one group that the average person doesn't even know the group You can't count Grateful Dead live bootlegs as "albums released" David Bowie's Blackstar released two days before his death What band/group/artist did you get into after they were already established? - Queens of the Stone Age - Guided By Voices People who tried to stump Jared with new bands that he actually likes Getting excited about new albums from groups we like - Domi & JD Beck WHO ASKED? follow-up with YOU ASKED! (the instrumental version) - Ty Segall - Sleep - Dinosaur Jr Who cares about The Strokes after the first two albums? The Beatles had two geniuses and one of them isn't Paul McCartney... Sting solo albums, and Sting being the worst part of The Police Henry Rollins on Howard Stern talking about U2 Musicians that turned into actors... Soundtrack albums "Life Is a Highway" - one of the top five worst songs ever The first year of MTV was shit Musicians that turned into actors continued... - ELVIS! - David Bowie Hilarious CD shopping experiences: - The white guy at the Goodwill - People that crowd in on you while you're looking at CDs - IT'S THE BLOOD THAT JESUS SHED! - You got any Five Finger Death Punch? Now we're talking about Five Finger Death Punch and whatever type of "metal" that is. What is Heavy Metal anyway? In 1989 Jethro Tull wins a Grammy over Metallica ... And Justice For All Iggy Pop and The Stooges... then The Replacements Roxy Music in movies - Flashbacks of a Fool - Movies and books with huge musical references Glasgow music scene - Scotland produces great music Australia has great bands too - INXS Kick is a perfect record How musicians are spending their "off" time, it's not surprising if they turn into addicts Bands ending their shows with a cover song Built To Spill played Freebird and "released" and unofficial bootleg CD Musicians that turned into actors continued... - Queen Latifah Reality TV shows and American Idol Piercings Mark Walberg movie Rockstar 90s fashion coming back CDs outsold vinyl for the first time in years
Aug 6

Episode 3: Overrated cult classics and your music taste hasn't matured

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. How long is a CD? What's the difference between an EP and an LP? Bands that come through Phoenix; either sold out when we don't think it will be, or no one there at all. Record stores in the 90s and early 2000s. Buying music online at odd shops like FYE. Alphabetical band names where the shop doesn't have what i want but terrible shit all around it. Rolling Stone magazine (is trash) Cassette tapes. Making mix tapes. Tape deck in your car. Headphone jack tape to connect MP3 player or CD player. AC/DC is terrible, but we still spend 5 minutes talking about it. Old hardcore bands playing together again after 20 years and all their songs are about being 15. Pennsylvania hardcore bands and venues. Bands that quit for 20 years and are back at it. Could they or should they make a new album? Rhythym Room closing. Karate: the band. Overrated cult classics. Tupac... ICP... Cardi B WAP... 2 Live Crew... No bad press! Terrible pop country music. Musical tastes that don't mature. What we've been listening to.
Jul 23

Episode 2: GN'R killed 80's Glam Rock bands

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Glam Rock bands, Guns N' Roses, local all-ages shows and other rambling tangents.
Jul 13

Introduction / Getting things rolling

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. After many years of collecting and conversations about music in-general, we finally have a full episode to kick things off. Loose topics about collecting CDs, the CD format compared to other physical media, hip hop, what is "good" and "bad" music, and more.

5 Episodes

Music podcast about CD collecting, ranting and nonsense.

Creator

Brent Craddock and Jared Murphy
Years Active

2026
Episodes

5
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© Brent Craddock 2026
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Our View From This Tower