Celebrating TWENTY YEARS of podcasting with part 1 of my conversation with Phil Stacey about choosing 10 artists to listen to for the rest of your life if you were stranded on a desert island. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Started this show in August 2006!
- Instead of Desert Island Discs, we each chose 10 artists that we'd be limited to hearing on a desert island
- Mixing up genres
- Jay: I ruled out a lot of classic rock acts that I've listened to all my life
- Limiting artists to music that came out under their name, not in other groups
- This magical island has killer WiFi
- Phil's honorable mentions: Bowie, Phish, Ella Fitzgerald, Drive-By Truckers, Tom Petty, Pearl Jam, Billie Holliday, Talking Heads, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Kinks, Pretenders, Nirvana, Sleater-Kinney
- Jay's HMs: Kinks, Pavement, Pixies, QOTSA, Afghan Whigs, Peter Gabriel, XTC, James Brown, PJ, Spoon, Superchunk, Tragically Hip, Yo La Tengo, Sloan, Elvis Costello
- Island picks
- Jay and Phil: Neil Young
- So much NY material out there
- Neil has a varied catalog of styles
- Phil: The Beatles, naturally
- Incredibly influential and wide-ranging catalog in a handful of years
- Jay: Going outside the box with Fugazi
- Total DIY operation, only charged $5 per concert and album
- Only played non-traditional venues like school gyms and small clubs
- Phil: Not a jazz aficionado, but John Coltrane makes the cut
- Drugs are bad, mmkay?
- Jay: Drive-By Truckers have close to 30 years of hard-driving rock, alt-country and everything in between
- Not much in the way of popular attention
- Phil: He loves the modern jam band stylings of Goose
- Jay and Phil: The massive legacy of Prince
- The best Super Bowl halftime performance
- Prince could do everything well
- Phil: The Grateful Dead built a huge following under the radar
- Survived decades of trends and change
- They're still popular 30 years after they stopped making music
- Jay: The collected works of Parliament-Funkadelic
- They were two different bands with a rotating roster that eventually merged
- Combined rock with funk and soul
- George Clinton and a cast of thousands
- Phil: The mighty Led Zeppelin
- Embraced different sounds
- There are still Zep albums that are underplayed
- Jay: Bowie's chameleonic career
- Is Madonna the most successful female artist of all time?
- Incredible string of great albums from the '70s to the '80s
- To be continued
- Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.
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