Completely Conspicuous 182: Long Gone and Hard to Find

Part 2 of my podcast conversation with special guest Jay Breitling as we discuss and play music from underappreciated albums. Listen to the show below or download it directly (right click and "save as").



The show notes:

- Now accepting beer donations

- Breitling's pick: The Hip Young Things

- Pavement-esque German band

- Kumar: The Nation of Ulysses

- On Dischord in early '90s

- Breitling: Eggs

- Another DC act

- Kumar: Frank Black and the Catholics

- Stripped down garage rock

- Breitling: Projekt A-ko

- Name is Japanese, band is Scottish

- Kumar: Big Chief

- Detroit act combining sludge rock with funk

- The return of "120 Minutes"

- On gravelly voiced DJs

- Breitling: The Coctails

- Featured Archer Prewitt

- Bonehead of the Week

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The show is sponsored by Budget, the country's premier car rental service with 900 locations. Go to Budget.com/CompCon and save 10% off any reservation or $30 off a weekly rental.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.

Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.

Completely Conspicuous 181: Unsung

Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Jay Breitling as we discuss and play music from unsung albums. Listen to the show below or download it directly (right click and "save as").



The show notes:

- Welcome back, Senor Breitling

- What is an unsung album?

- Breitling: The Wannadies

- Different albums for different countries

- Def Leppard talk

- Bands with "extra guys" on stage

- Kumar: Max Webster

- Toured with Rush in the '70s

- Frontman Kim Mitchell went on to solo career

- Breitling: Jon Brion

- Played with Til Tuesday, Jellyfish before becoming producer

- Kumar: The Dirtbombs

- Heavy fuzz garage take on R&B and soul

- Breitling: Latimer

- Great Philly act

- Kumar: New Bomb Turks

- Garage rock ass-kickers

- Bonehead of the Week

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The show is sponsored by Eastbay/Footlocker.com. Use the following codes to get athletic gear from Nike, Adidas, Asics and more. AFCOMP15 will get you 10% off any order of $50 at Eastbay.com, AFCOMP20 will get you 15% off any order of $75 at Eastbay.com and AFCOMPFL will get you 10% off any order of $50 or more at Footlocker.com.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.

Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.

Completely Conspicuous 180: Left Behind

Part 3 of my podcast conversation with special guest Ric Dube as we dissect 1990s movies. Listen to the show below or download it directly (right click and "save as").



The show notes:

- Check out Ric's great podcast, More Lost Time

- Ric: Kirk Cameron's "Left Behind" movies were exploitation flicks

- Ric got early copies of the Dysfunctional Family Circus

- Ric offers better artists to replace Smash Mouth's reign of soundtrack terror in '98

- Match the Bond Girl to the movie

- First digitally edited movie soundtrack was in 1996

- Rating the destructive film families

- A cavalcade o' Culkins

- Ill-fated jumps from TV to movies

- Michael Moore reinvents the documentary

- Jay: In '90s, Nicolas Cage went from serious actor to uber nutjob

- Pulp Fiction inspired many knockoffs

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Senator

Sun Airway - Wild Palms

J. Mascis - Alone (live)

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!

The show is sponsored by Budget, the country's premier car rental service with 900 locations. Go to Budget.com/CompCon and save 10% off any reservation or $30 off a weekly rental.

The Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks song is on the forthcoming album Mirror Traffic on Matador Records, where you can download the song for free.

The Sun Airway song is on the 7-inch Wild Palms on Dead Oceans. Download the song for free at Pitchfork.

The J. Mascis song was recorded as part of a live Daytrotter session. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at Daytrotter.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.

Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.

Completely Conspicuous 179: Attack of the Baby Geniuses

Part 2 of my podcast conversation with special guest Ric Dube as we dissect 1990s movies. Listen to the show below or download it directly (right click and "save as").



The show notes...

- Listen to Ric's podcast More Lost Time

- Ric: Major '90s trend was precocious kids who are smarter than adults

- Sympathy for Wile E. Coyote

- Ralph Bakshi's 1990s output

- Body-switching comedies keep coming back

- Ric's beef about "Shrek" and Smash Mouth

- Smash Mouth had songs in numerous movies in the '90s

- In many '90s rock music hits, the hooks got smaller and more annoying

- Bryan Adams went from meat-and-potatoes rocker to '90s soundtrack guy

- What really happened in the Summer of '69?

- Movie trend: Animals smarter than their co-stars

- Rant alert: Ric hates TV dramas

- The argument against "Mad Men" and "The Sopranos"

- Talking about "The Simpsons"

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

Robert Pollard - In a Circle

The Answering Machine - Another City, Another Sorry

Gold-Bears - Record Store

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!

The show is sponsored by Eastbay/Footlocker.com. Use the following codes to get athletic gear from Nike, Adidas, Asics and more. AFCOMP15 will get you 10% off any order of $50 at Eastbay.com, AFCOMP20 will get you 15% off any order of $75 at Eastbay.com and AFCOMPFL will get you 10% off any order of $50 or more at Footlocker.com.

The Robert Pollard song is on the album Lord of the Birdcage on Guided By Voices Records. Find out more at and download the song for free at TellAllYourFriends PR (right click and "save as").
The Answering Machine song is on the album Another City, Another Sorry on Heist or Hit Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud.

The Gold-Bears song is on the album Are You Falling in Love? on Slumberland Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.

Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.