Completely Conspicuous 297: Sign O' the Times

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1987. Listen to the episode below or download it directly (right click and "save as").


Show notes:
- Recorded via Skype
- Jay's #2 album of '87: The Cult's Electric
- Used to crank it while working supermarket night shifts
- Brian's #2: R.E.M.'s Document
- Mike Mills is the band's secret weapon
- R.E.M. was burdened by U2 comparisons
- Stipe and Mills formed Automatic Baby with U2's Clayton and Mullen
- Jay's #1: GNR's Appetite for Destruction
- Paved the way for rawer hard rock
- Brian's #1: Pixies' Come On Pilgrim EP
- New Pixies is okay but nowhere near the old one
- Teenage metalhead Jay also dug Joe Satriani's Surfing With the Alien
- Enjoying That Metal Show
- Terrible moments in '87 music
- Jay: Bruce Willis releases an album
- Brian: Pink Floyd's post-Waters output
- "That's What Friends Are For"
- Jay: Terrible movie soundtrack music, like Bob Seger's "Shakedown"
- "Shakedown" was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe
- Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
- Brian: The death of legendary jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius
- The fascinating story of Aaron North (ex-Icarus Line and NIN guitarist)
- The Jesus Lizard got a record deal thanks to Kurt Cobain
- Next on our hit list: 1980
- Bonehead of the Week


Music:
Sebadoh - I Will
The Men - I Saw Her Face
The Besnard Lakes - People of the Sticks
 
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The Sebadoh song is on the album Defend Yourself on Joyful Noise Recordings. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) as part of the Paste Fall Preview 2013 at NoiseTrade.
The song from The Men is on the album Campfire Songs on Sacred Bones Records. Download the song for free at Aquarium Drunkard.

The Besnard Lakes song is on the album Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO on Jagjaguwar Records. Download the song for free at Chromewaves.

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 blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Completely Conspicuous 109: The Future is Now

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Completely Conspicuous Episode 48: Don't Believe the Hype

I just hacked my way through another episode of the CC. I'm afraid I'm still fighting this cold. Nevertheless, you can download the show here (right click and "save as"). A truly great collection of tunes this week as well.

Dig the show notes...

Topics:
- The benefits of naps
- Super Bowl hype
- Pinhead of the Week

Music:
- The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands
- Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
- Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You
- Ladyhawk - I Don't Always Know
- The Besnard Lakes - And You Lied to Me

Promo:
- New England Podcasting

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The song from The Gutter Twins is on their forthcoming album Saturnalia. The song from Band of Horses is on their album Cease to Begin. Both songs are on Sub Pop Records; find out more and download the tracks at their Internet home page.

The song from Frightened Rabbit is on the forthcoming album The Midnight Organ Fight on Fat Cat Records. The song was provided by IODA Promonet.

Frightened Rabbit
"The Modern Leper" (mp3)
from "The Midnight Organ Fight"
(Fat Cat Records)

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The Ladyhawk song is on the forthcoming album Shots. The song from The Besnard Lakes is on the album The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse. Both songs are courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records; find out more and download the songs here.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling by visiting his fine music blog. Happy birthday, mang! Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of Mark Campbell.

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