Spin It‪!‬ James & Connor

You'll feel the earth move under your feet this week because You've Got A Friend in Carole King! We'll listen to her weave a Tapestry of self-love and heartache on her unprecedented 1971 sophomore album. She was already established as a hit songwriter; we'll talk about her early career and her breakout as a recording artist. The Mixtaper has another journey for us and Where He Leads, we will follow... even if that means facts about Gilmore Girls, her VERY loose ties to Otis Redding, or even reading the phone book‽‽ The whole album feels like a time capsule, like sitting around a piano listening to Carole King play these songs in her living room with Telemachus. Will it be a surefire winner? Can James call his shot in the Year Of Healing? (And if you DIDN'T want us to release this episode, well, It's Too Late, baby, it's too late... We really did try to make it.) 
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0:00 Intro
4:26 About Carole King
9:34 About Tapestry
16:16 Awards & Accolades
18:01 Fact Or Spin
19:35 Otis Redding Was A Part Of Her Conception
23:49 Carole King Is A Fan Of Dead Punctuation‽
30:40 Gilmore Girls: She Sang That Song
33:31 Carole King: Grade Skipper
38:40 Album Art
40:07 I Feel The Earth Move
42:15 So Far Away
44:06 It's Too Late
46:47 Home Again
47:53 Beautiful
49:34 Way Over Yonder
50:37 You've Got A Friend
52:56 Where You Lead
54:33 Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
56:12 Smackwater Jack
57:51 Tapestry
1:00:02 (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
1:02:20 Final Spin

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Don't you wanna get out of Cape Cod tonight? Take a look through a musical kaleidoscope with Vampire Weekend's self-titled 2008 debut, ranked among the best debut albums of all time! This vibey record kickstarted and pioneered a new subgenre. From a Columbia semi-secret society to the halls of a middle school and everywhere in between, learn about the creation of this scrapped screenplay-turned-album! We'll share our EXTENSIVE knowledge of vampires, Mansard Roofs, cod fishing, and the Oxford Comma. The Mixtaper is teaching us all about Parks & Rec's Rashida Jones and her boyfriend, both avid Vampire Weekend fans. And Connor will surprise us all with his judgment and a dark secret that may or may not be true... Listen along if you're not A-Punk!
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0:00 Intro
4:23 About Vampire Weekend (The Band)
7:11 About Vampire Weekend (The Album)
17:15 Awards & Accolades
18:03 Fact Or Spin
20:18 The Band Performed The Parks & Rec Theme Song
23:34 The Band Performed On An Interesting Holiday
32:08 They Were In A TV Commercial
36:15 Ezra Koenig Has Another Career
41:44 Album Art
44:24 Mansard Roof
49:32 Oxford Comma
54:28 A-Punk
57:31 Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
59:28 M79
1:00:36 Campus
1:02:29 Bryn
1:03:50 One (Blake's Got A New Face)
1:06:20 I Stand Corrected
1:07:37 Walcott
1:09:47 The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
1:10:58 Final Spin

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Want a Whole Lotta Love? This week we Ramble On with Led Zeppelin on their aptly named sophomore album, Led Zeppelin II! James & Connor are celebrating 150 episodes of Spin It with one of the most iconic bands in rock-- practically a household name to this day, almost 50 years after the end of their legendary career. We'll talk about the band's supergroup origins, the innovations they brought to the music world, and the crucial differences between blimps and zeppelins (yes, they're different)! From the life-changing Heartbreaker and the drums of Moby Dick to the scorned Living Loving Maid, we've got a lot to cover on the Brown Bomber. Can The Mixtaper Bring It On Home during Fact Or Spin with tales about Nobs, rigid dirigibles, and a cult house that's home to a certain famous spirit? Find out, exclusively in our special sesquicentennial episode! The future is now!!
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0:00 Intro
2:52 Our Zeppelin Experience + Why Led Zeppelin II
8:03 About Led Zeppelin
15:17 About Led Zeppelin II
21:44 Led Zeppelin III And Beyond
24:52 Awards & Accolades
26:34 Fact Or Spin
28:12 They Inspired A Tin Blimp
33:41 They Had A Different Name
39:16 They Recorded An Album From Wheelchairs
43:44 Jimmy Page Owns Ghost Detecting Equipment
54:58 Album Art
57:20 Whole Lotta Love
1:02:28 What Is And What Should Never Be
1:04:55 The Lemon Song
1:07:48 Thank You
1:10:27 Heartbreaker
1:14:12 Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)
1:16:12 Ramble On
1:20:26 Moby Dick
1:25:31 Bring It On Home
1:26:26 Final Spin

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Oh, hello! Join us on a Danse Macabre this week as we weave through a fantastical land of conquerors, demons, and kings with Dear Wormwood, the sophomore concept album from folk duo The Oh Hellos! These Texas siblings wrote and recorded this C.S. Lewis-inspired epistolary all by themselves, with each track representing another step in the protagonist's quest to end an unhealthy relationship. We'll Oh-Lei-Oh-Lai our way through whimsical tracks like There Beneath and Soldier, Poet, King, and learn about everything from the intricacies of Irish citizenship to all the ways you could get wet during a concert. This folksy album blends deep symbolism with hard-hitting poetic lyrics and upbeat instrumentals that you might just have to hear to believe. We know who we are now... do you?
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0:00 Intro
2:16 About The Oh Hellos
3:51 About Dear Wormwood
11:37 Fact Or Spin
13:13 Everything's Bigger In Texas
15:59 They're Irish Citizens
20:53 They've Been On Broadway
25:46 A Very Wet Performance
32:24 Album Art
33:49 Prelude
35:13 Bitter Water
39:17 There Beneath
41:29 In The Blue Hours Of Morning
42:39 Exeunt
45:05 Caesar
46:36 This Will End
48:23 Pale White Horse
50:37 Where Is Your Rider
54:22 Soldier, Poet, King
59:08 Dear Wormwood
1:02:09 Danse Macabre
1:03:51 Thus Always To Tyrants
1:06:12 Final Spin

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Bonus Content! In Episode 148 we felt the Summertime Sadness with Lana Del Rey's rich debut album Born To Die, but we couldn't resist the chance to check out her Grammy-nominated ninth record Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, too! It's a new evolution for her sound, with so-called "automatic singing," and featured artists like Jack Antonoff, Father John Misty, and Jon Batiste! Will this experimental, ballad-heavy album sway Connor? Were there too many risks without enough reward? And how can we even begin to compare it to the other Album Of The Year nominees?
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Turn on your Radio, crack open a Diet Mountain Dew, and experience that Summertime Sadness with us.. We're Off To The Races with Lana Del Rey's sweeping, saturated, cinematic debut Born To Die! This trip-hop album with a dark edge was born from her experiences with alcohol, mental health, and growing up. The Mixtaper is taking us on a journey through her Dark Paradise with facts that are almost as cinematic as this record, from Gatsby memes to dino dinners. We'll talk about her storytelling lyrics, signature low-register vocals, and Connor will rant about Carmen in the mornin'. It's truly a unique, unforgettable, genre-shifting album that's a must-listen for anybody who's interested in the pop music that defined the 2010s. Keep Spinning Del Rey!!
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0:00 Intro
2:56 About Lana Del Rey
8:32 About Born To Die
13:09 Awards & Accolades
14:08 Fact Or Spin
14:42 She Was The Soundtrack To A Meme
20:27 She Lived In A Trailer Park
22:58 She Was Eaten By A Dinosaur
30:45 She Made James Bond Cry
39:04 Album Art
41:40 Born To Die
44:46 Off To The Races
46:39 Blue Jeans
50:26 Video Games
52:43 Diet Mountain Dew
54:47 National Anthem
58:24 Dark Paradise
1:00:12 Radio
1:02:53 Carmen
1:06:52 Million Dollar Manchester
1:09:20 Summertime Sadness
1:12:34 This Is What Makes Us Girls
1:14:58 Final Spin

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