Completely Conspicuous 121: Bad to the Bone

The podcast's back with special guest Jay Breitling, who joins me as we continue our discussion of music as a torture device. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:

- Breitling: Bad covers by inappropriate people

- Case in point: Lenny Kravitz's "American Woman"

- Another: Big Mountain's cover of "Baby I Love Your Way"

- Watch out for white guys with dreads

- Kumar: Bob Seger's "Shakedown"

- Kenny Loggins was the patron saint of crappy '80s soundtrack hits

- The Bruce Hornsby button

- Dube: Arthur Lizie came up with the Beverly Hills Cop genre of music

- Footloose was the Rosetta Stone of Beverly Hills Cop music

- Breitling: Rockapella sucks

- Michael Winslow was the ultimate beatboxer

- Breitling: GNR's "Used to Love Her"

- Liked it, but heard it so many times he got sick of it

- Kumar: Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"

- Breitling defends Christie Brinkley's honor

- Smash Mouth's "All Star" is evil and catchy

- Steve Miller's whole head sucks

- Beach Boys' "Kokomo" was doomed by the Stamos Factor

- Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" supersucked

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

- Midlake - Acts of Man

- Jawbreaker - Gutless

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The National's song is on the album High Violet on 4AD. Visit High Violet to download the song for free.

The Midlake song is on the album The Courage of Others on Bella Union Records. Download the song for free at Insound.

The Jawbreaker song is on the reissue of the album Unfun on Blackball Records. Download the song for free at Rolling Stone.

The show is sponsored by Eastbay/Footlocker.com, a leading supplier of athletic footwear, apparel and sports equipment. You can find gear from top brands such as Nike, Adidas and Asics. The promo code AFCOMP15 gets you 15% off any order at Eastbay.com; AFCOMP20 gets you 20% off any order of $75 or more at Eastbay.com; and AFCOMPFL gets you 15% off any order 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.

Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.

Completely Conspicuous 120: Feel the Pain

I'm joined on the podcast for more rock talk by special guest Jay Breitling as we discuss music as a torture device. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:

- Dig the live studio audience: Ric, Karen, Amy and Chloe

- Baby Breitling rocks

- U.S. military used music to torture prisoners at Gitmo

- Also used rock against Noriega, Branch Davidians

- Let's dwell on the negative

- Pizza arrives

- Kumar: CSN's "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" tormented hungover party guests

- Breitling: Ramones tape stuck in cassette deck tortured his family

- Kumar: Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride" evokes painful memories

- Follow-up singles from one-hit wonders popped up on MTV in the '80s

- Breitling: Aqua's "Barbie Girl" is the worst of the worst

- Kumar: The unholy trio of Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting with "All for Love" was brutal

- Breitling defends the honor of Bryan Adams

- Milli Vanilli attempted many comebacks after lip sync disgrace

- Celebutantes make albums: Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton

- Breitling actually listened to this dreck in the name of research

- Mariah Carey's Glitter soundtrack ruined songs by Robert Palmer, Foreigner

- Kumar: Mariah is vocal equivalent of wank metal guitar

- Spencer Pratt = tool

- Kumar: 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?" is truly horrible

- Dance mixes make bad songs even worse

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee

- Bettie Serveert - Deny All

- The Whigs - Kill Me, Carolyne

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

The Teenage Fanclub song is on the album Shadows on Merge Records, where you can download the song for free.

The Bettie Serveert song is on the album Pharmacy of Love on Second Motion Records; download the song for free at Planetary Group.

The Whigs song is on the album In the Dark on ATO Records; download the song for free at TheWhigs.com.

The show is sponsored by Eastbay/Footlocker.com, a leading supplier of athletic footwear, apparel and sports equipment. You can find gear from top brands such as Nike, Adidas and Asics. The promo code AFCOMP15 gets you 15% off any order at Eastbay.com; AFCOMP20 gets you 20% off any order of $75 or more at Eastbay.com; and AFCOMPFL gets you 15% off any order 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.

Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.