In 1994, Smashing Pumpkins were a rock band coming off a super successful album (Siamese Dream) with an epic heavy sound – but many were surprised at exactly how far they could take “epic” – and they certainly took it far on their 1995 masterwork Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. Christopher Fritz joins Craig once again as they dive into this one track by track, starting in the neighborhood record store where they met, the show where they saw the original four-piece Pumpkin lineup for what would be one of the last times, Billy’s track notes, what songs from the singles that would swap into the album, and culminating with these two friends reuniting to see the band in 2018 to relive some of those memories one more time. Join us on this empty party afternoon where we sing a birthday song to one of the most ambitious albums to come out of the nineties.
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Join Brian Jacobs and Craig Smith for the last of four installments covering Paul McCartney’s eighties output. Covered in this episode: CHOBA B CCCP; My Brave Face; Flying To My Home; FLOWERS IN THE DIRT; The First Stone; I Wanna Cry; I’m In Love Again; Party Party; Loveliest Thing; Mama’s Little Girl; Same Time Next Year.
Join Brian Jacobs and Craig Smith for the third of four installments covering Paul McCartney’s eighties output. Covered in this episode: Spies Like Us; My Carnival; Simple As That; Press; It’s Not True; Hanglide; PRESS TO PLAY; ALL THE BEST; Once Upon A Long Ago.
Join Brian Jacobs and Craig Smith for the second of four installments covering Paul McCartney’s eighties output. Covered in this episode: Say Say Say; Ode To A Koala Bear; PIPES OF PEACE; No More Lonely Nights; GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET; We All Stand Together.
Join Brian Jacobs and Craig Smith for the first of four installments covering Paul McCartney’s eighties output. Covered in this episode: Coming Up; Lunch Box/Odd Sox; McCARTNEY II; Check My Machine; Secret Friend; Ebony And Ivory; Rainclouds; TUG OF WAR; I’ll Give You A Ring; The Girl Is Mine.
MORONOPHONICSIan Zapczynski & Craig Smith
Craig’s choice: Al Stewart / Year Of The Cat
1977
MORONOPHONICSIan Zapczynski & Craig Smith
episode 11: Ian’s choice
Men At Work / Two Hearts
1985
MORONOPHONICSIan Zapczynski & Craig Smith
episode 10: Craig’s choice
Ben Folds Five / The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
1999
Perhaps no work of art has such a powerful connection to the horrific and shocking events of September 11th as Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising album. Powerful, beautiful, painful, heroic, cathartic, vengeful, unifying, inspiring, brave, vulnerable, fearful, loving… it’s all fertile territory and Bruce covers every bit as he responds to the events of September 11th as only the truly great artists can – through his timeless and brilliant work.
In this debut of a new sidecast series entitled The Chronicles of This and That, Eric welcomes Lee McCormack of the Tramps Like Us podcast, Kimberly Blatz, and Pods & Sods regular Mr Brian Jacobs for this wonderful conversation about this landmark album, it’s meanings, significance and impacts.
PODS & SODS episode 171Track By Track: Journey / Frontiers Stunning music, questionable visual representations of such. That could only mean one thing – by popular demand, Eric and Craig finally tackle both sides of Journey’s 1983 epic Frontiers LP. Warning: this podcast contains light Debbie Gibson, political and BATSHOW content.
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