WE ARE BACK AND TALKIN' HARRY NILSSON! One of our absolute favourites from the late 60's and 70's. Known for his absolutely awesome voice, campyness and unique genius throughout his strange and fast paced career. Also on this episode Stacey drops the atomic bomb of all Dog in pants news, we discuss if Alan Thicke wrote Mmmmm mmmm mmmm mmmmm, Adam Sandler winning life and a special Stacey's fashion tips for summer time Alex.
Songs used:
Perfect Strangers theme, Harlem World - I really like it, Murdah Ma$e - Oracle 2: The liberation of Mason Betha, Mariah Carey/Air Supply/ Badfinger - Without you, Fred Neil Dolphins, The Turtles - Elenore, Paul McCartney - Comin' up, Brian Wilson - Smart girls, The Monkees - Cuddly toy, Fred Neil - Everybody's Talkin', Mary Hopkins/Kenny Loggins - The puppy song, Ella Fitzgerald - Open your window, Sinead O'Connor/Makeout Videotape - I guess the ord must be in New York City, Van Dyke Parks - Vine Street, Randy Newman - Short people, Beakman's world theme, Third Nye Blind - Atoms in my life, The facts of life theme, Charles in charge theme, Adam Sandler - Somebody kill me please, A toot and a snore - Stand by me, Neko Case - Don't forget me, Barry Cryer - Purple people eater, Bertie Higgins - Casablanca, Crash Test Dummies - mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
Nilsson: Jump in to the fire!, You can't do that, Everybody's Talkin', Skidoo credits, Mother natures son, Vine Street, Everything's got em, Think about your troubles, Me and my arrow, It had to be you, Daybreak, Old forgotten soldier, Rock around the clock, Save the last dance for me, Many rivers to cross, He needs me, Don't forget me, Gotta get up, The puppy song, Life line, Living without you, Without you, Bath, Turn on your radio, You're breakin' my heart, Yo dodger blue, Zombie Jamboree
Spring has sprung and we're talking about the Free Design. A little known wholesome, smooth and cute family band from late sixties/ early 70's New York City. If you've never heard of the Free Design, this is a perfect chance to come find out a little, you won't regret it, we promise. As usual, we are definitely always on track and for sure haven't introduced a new segment called "The super tangent" on top of talking about old Mungo Jerry, Ma$e news, the complexity of the Canadian awards system or smelly Montreal noise shows. Happy Spring Everyone!
Songs used: Mungo Jerry - In the summertime, Ma$e - The Player way, The Manson Family - Always is all is forever, Sonic Youth - Superstar, Vaughn Munroe - They call the wind Maria, Bobby Hackett - Creole cookin, Cornelius Bumpus - One step closer, Alex Chilton - I wanna pick you up, Monks - Monk time, Rex Manning - Say no more mon amour, Lewis - Like to see you again/ So be in love with me, The Association - Windy, Albert Hammond - I'm a train, Magnet - Corn rigs, Christoper Lee - Silent night, The Seeds - Pushin' too hard, Yahowa 13 - Fire in the sky, Belle & Sebastian - Another sunny day, Dressy Bessy - Bubbles, Lightning bolt - The metal east, Kenny Loggins - Birth Energy
The Free Design: Kites are fun, Bubbles, Spring time, Endless harmony, Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street, Daniel dolphin, Little cowboy, Cosmic peekaboo, Miracle of one (Starscape singers), I found love, Love you, I like the sunrise, If I were a carpenter, Dorian benediction , A child is born, Destiny
Season 2 Episode 2 and we're talking CHER! There's so much we can say about this wonderful woman who has had hits in SIX decades. From her time working with her partner Sonny at Phil Spectre's studio, both chart topping and Television dominating in the 70's, Academy awards, Grammy's, infomercials, mail order goth gear catelogue's to a duet with Beavis and Butthead, Cher has done SO MUCH! So Snap out of it as we stay on track, always in this nearly TWO HOUR Cher Bonanza.
Songs referenced in this episode:
Children of the corn - Hell up in Harlem, The Ronettes - Be my baby, Darlene Love - A fine fine boy, Monet Exchange - The unauthorized Rusical history of cher, Bo Diddly - Love is Strange, Nirvana - I hate myself and want to die, The Ohio players - love rollercoaster, Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth, Buck Owens - My heart skips a beat, Tangerine dream - Betrayal, Ballantyne fuels theme, Crossfire theme, Deadsy - The key to Gramercy Park, Celine Dion - Frere Jaque, Coach theme, Night court theme, Empty nest theme, Dear John theme, Cardi B - WAP, Peter Cetera - Glory of love, Nox Arcana - Scarborough fair, The Refreshments - Yahoo's and triangles\Banditos, a bunch of shitty Deadsy songs, Bon Jovi - It's my life
Cher: Walking in Memphis, Don't think twice it's alright, Do you want to dance (S/C), Baby don't go (S/C), I got you babe (S/C), Little man (S/C), Alfie, Git down (guitar groupie), Hell on wheels, Bad love, Never should have started (Black Rose - Live), Dead ringer for love (with Meatloaf), I paralyze, I found someone, If I could turn back time, After all, Love hurts, It's a man's, man's, man's world, Mama was a rock & roll singer Papa used to write all her songs, Gypsies, tramps & thieves, Living in a house divided, Dark lady, Heart of stone, Save up all your tears, Take me home, Skin deep, Disaster cake.
Season Two! Welcome back everyone! We have a real hum-dinger for you to open it up, we're talking about STEELY DAN! Stacey and Alex go through these 2 loveable scamps history, stories and discography including: hurting Mark Knopfler's feelings, the Purdie shuffle, an award winning drum machine named Wendel, Gene Ween's Billy Joel cover band, Hulkamaniacs and a lot more. It's good to be back!
Songs referenced in this episode include:
Ma$e - Welcome back/ Feel so good, Jay & the Americans - Come a little bit closer, Barbra Streisand - I mean to shine, David Palmer - Silhouette, Scorpions - Wind of change, Gene Ween - Big shot, Ween - It's gonna be a long night/ Your Party, Junkyard Dog - Grab them cakes, Hulk Hogan - Hulkster in heaven, Macho Man Randy Savage - Be a man, Adam Green - Cigarette burns forever, Kanye West - Champion, MF Doom - Gas Drawls, Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz - Deja Vu, Wiz Kalifa - Old Chanel, De la soul - Eye know, Organized Konfusion - Walk into the sun, Keith Jarrett - As long as you're living yours, Laurie Anderson - Sharkey's night, Kurt Cobain - The "priest" they called him, The cure - Friday i'm in love, Donald Fagan - The night fly, Yngwie Malmsteen - Baroque and roll, Bob Dylan - Hurricane, Ben Folds - I paid my money, Cousins - What's your name, The northern pikes - She ain't pretty
Steely Dan - Barrytown (demo), Dirty work, Rikki don't lose that number, Show biz kids, My old school, Doctor Wu, Kid Charlemagne, The fez, Everything you did, Haitian divorce, Gaucho, FM, Time out of mind, Hey nineteen, Deacon blues, Your gold teeth 2, Home at last, Any major dude will tell you, Peg, Bodhisattva, Cousin Dupree, What a shame about me
OUR SEASON ONE FINALE!
You know what everyone loves ?! LATE ERA MUSIC FROM LEGACY ACTS! But, fret not, there's still some life left in this band, hell... some of their best work is from this era. (Some) Guess what y'all? Skinner takes the lead on this episode! (insert dj air horn here) So join the three of us as we talk about everything post Tusk Fleetwood Mac and definitely stick to the task at hand the whole time through, no tangents.
Return of the Mac, Return of the Mac, (Once again) We're back everyone, and we're talking about Fleetwood Mac's 11th and 12th studio albums Rumors and double album Tusk. 1976 through 1979 was a wild time for the Mac and these albums perfectly sum it up. We're joined with Skinner as we talk about fog bowls, spotify's shocking lack of hole content, cocaine, heartbreak, adultery, excess, Stacey's love of Reverend Horton Heat, cocaine, Bill Skinner, Patti smith in a wind tunnel and cocaine.
I (Alex) think I lost my mind editing this one, so... there's that. Enjoy!
HO-HO-HO-LY SHIT! We're back y'all!
After a WAY TOO LONG break, we're finally ready to wrap up season one with a three part Fleetwood Mac extravaganza. On part 1 we are focusing on the early iterations of the band from Peter Green, cults, an explanation of legs, sex magik, the new Fleetwood Mac and way too many albums concentrating on dad blues. Our favourite dipshit Eric Clapton even managed to squeeze his way in to their history, because of course he did. So let's begin shall we ? Next week we are focusing on the so called "classic" lineup and their two wildest albums Rumors and Tusk!
We're sitting down this week for the penultimate artist feature of Soft Shoulder season 1, Robert Palmer! From his early Island sound inspirations, the insane amount of cover material, his tin pan alley style to the powers station. Robert Palmer is a strange and pretty reserved musical chameleon with an equally weird body of work that is really all over the map.
Hey Soft Soldiers! Stacey and Alex are all the way back with an all new episode almost kind of about your favourite Alan Parsons produced 70's weirdo's, Ambrosia! Come learn about a band we "Kind of thought were different, but they're ok, i guess", sperm whale vomit, our opinions on Zappa, side profiled old men named Arthur and our brand new fan favourite segment "recipes with Stacey"
If there were ever rails, we never even glimpsed them before going off on this episode.
Episode 9, Kenny Loggins, let's gooooooo! We are returning to Pooh corner this week to talk about multi-level marketing, birth energy, gang fights with a gang's accountant and raking in that sweet sweet soundtrack & Xmas Money. So what did our boy K-Log get up to after Loggins and Messina ? Turns out a whole bunch of high strangeness. Check it out and don't forget to rate and review, it really helps us out.
Wow, this one went way off the rails and we're pretty sure it's our longest episode yet. Speaking of pretty, let's talk about this accidental best selling duo of the 1970s, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina. From Danny's song all the way to a pretty brutal cover of Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash" these 2 cuties really run the gamut of strange folky island blues soft rock. Come learn about how this even happened, who are the coral island reefers, when the undertaker became the American badass, and we remember the golden era of the "secret song" Yikes.
What a week! Porcaro's and Lukathers and Fergusons oh my! We're talking Toto and all of their wacky shenanagins. From their beginnings as Rural Still Life, then Still life, amazing session work to a Louisiana wild man starting his own Toto in the 80's. Also on this episode, Stacey has a confession and trust us, it's HUGE.
Safe and easy middle of the road rock with a penchant to kind of sound like everyone else, that's America! Stacey and Alex sit down to talk about all sorts of stuff and kind of stay on track, find out the reason David Bowie kept a jar of pee in his fridge, who Hal Blaine is, Stacey's song about cats toe beans and other super America related things.
ENJOY!
So, what can't we say about Stevie Winwood ? He's been in bands since the age of 8 and really never stopped making music since. From The Spencer Davis group to Steve's solo career and as much in between as we could cram. We also find on this episode, our true feelings for Eric Clapton as well as the important question, what happened to Muff?
Full disclosure, the audio is a little off on this one. We're learning as we go everyone ! And what more does anyone enjoy than learning along ? We've really stepped it up on Episode 6 going forward.
Find this episodes spotify playlist HERE
Stacey introduces all of you (and Alex) to the Queen of the whistle register and overall beautiful human Minnie Riperton. What an absolute treat to be able to discuss her short, but so amazing career through music. There's a lot of surprises in this one.
Our Minnie Riperton spotify playlist can be found HERE.
Hey everyone, guess what? WE LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates! We sit down and talk gang fights, century home restoration, stock car racing and we do it all in typical Philly Fashion. Also we debut our first game "Who's at Daryl's House"
This weeks spotify playlist is a BANGER! Find it HERE.
Trigger Warning: This episode contains descriptions of gun violence.
Guess what? We don't really like Chicago that much, but sometimes we do, we guess. We're sorry but also not sorry.
Our Chicago playlist can be found on Spotify here
Full episodes coming soon.
Want a hint for episode 1 ? Just listen to the music.