//00:00//Mariachi El Bronx's Mariachi El Bronx (I) (2009)//On listening changing over time//On pod brain v. music brain//On [Cough-f-theran]//On tasteful cultural appropriation//On better to outro than fadeaway//On your whole life to make your first album and 4 weeks to make your second//On Aqua Teen Mariachi Force//On not belonging to any time period//On following your creative instincts//On total, mythical, mariachi saturation//On Craig Finn El Bronx//On favorite albums//

//(1:23:29)//Arcade Fire's Neon Bible (2007)//On evangelical AF fandom//On sacrificial listenability for purposeful album dedication//On Win Butler gloomathoning//On a sneaky Heartland record//On a sneaky New Orleans band//On a sneaky Ocean album//On liking music better than art//On the greatest rock act of the century (?)//On Radiohead being for the (middle-aged) people//On Régine is the spice of life//Win Butler Cultural Foreshadowing//On what exactly a Good Christian Man means//On living in an age that calls darkness light//On Black Mirrors//On where to place your most important words//

//(2:49:02)//!!2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show Top Five All-Time!!//On Surprise! You're Middle-Aged!//67'-92' "Let's Send a Positive Message" Era//93'-04' "Wait, Why Haven't We Been Booking Stars For This Thing?" Era//05'-Present "The Artist Is The Theme, Let's Sell More Pepsi!" Era//On the transparency of the SBHTS//On key ingredients of a classic SBHTS//On honorable mentions and a surprise cringe choice//On 34 minutes of preamble!//

//James// //5//Bruno Mars (2014)// //4//Beyoncé (2013)// //3//Lady GaGa (2017)// //2//Michael Jackson (1993)// //1//Prince (2007)//

//Danny// //5//Janet & JT (2004)// //4//Shakira and JLo (2020)// //3//U2 (2002)// //2//Prince (2007)// //1//Lady GaGa (2017)⁠//

//(3:59:49)//Preview of episode//22//DAD POD!//

//00:00//Taylor Swift's 1989 (2014)//On the most special guest//On grandiose albums//On the first MF double album//On a shining light in the darkness of residency year one//On the lazy MJ comp//On a maybe concept album//On a synth pop masterpiece//On the Capitol One commercial arc//On Polaroid getting the TS treatment//On Country to City//On the female empowerment jackhammer//On a sneaky ensemble record//On "Again" and "Next"//On being the sole property owner of "Stay" Island//On Harry Styles emotional mining//On This Love and Clean renaissances//On listening parties aging very well and terribly//

//(1:05:56)//Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023)//On 4 of 6 Taylor's Versions//On Once Upon a Time at Big Machine Records//On Taylor declining bad deals//On Scooter Braun being the perfect bully name//On covering yourself//On powerful messaging about not compromising on what's yours//On being elite holders of Taylor Swift vinyl//On Becca loving the vault action//On Antonoff guarding the vault//On what it would take to cancel her//On Taylor the great uniter//On sharing Taylor Swift with your best friend//

//(1:35:03)//Holy Shit Broh, We Made It To 20 Eps!//On celebrating 2-0 with guest 1//On catching up//On practical music integration//On 38 hours, you're welcome!//On finding familiar water in an ocean of music//How classical music made during WWI brought Metal to the world//On New Categories for//21//and beyond!//

//(2:26:48)//Preview of episode//21//

//00:00//Disclosure's Settle (2013)//On here with (in person!)//On albums as friends//On where they buried Al Capone and house music was born//On what isn't House?//On vocalists as instruments//On BPM CSVs//On the bellwether Disclosure track//On the rare sucky Weeknd feature//On Blick Bassey energy//On trendy African influences v. traditional African influences//On best and clearly worst album//On all roads leading to Daft Punk//

//(37:50)//Fred Again.. 's Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020) (2021)//On weird album titles//On Feelings//On feeling the moment//On being okay when things are not//On Godfather Fred//On you're welcome, Brix//On deeper connections with artists//On apex audio samples//On royal blood//On ascendant Sheeran collabs//On how we all lost dancing//On prominent artists providing everyday vocal samples//On Freddy Prinze Jr. Again.. //On Selena Gomez dinner dates//On there's nothing worse than when someone demands you listen to a certain Tiny Desk, but you need to watch Fred's Tiny Desk//On unintentionally being a professional DJ//

//(1:04:31)//Preview of episode//20//

//00:00//Daft Punk's Alive 2007 (2007)//On JF three-peat (weezy voice)//On pre-hyper internet information transfer//On close encounters with the EDM gods//On religious live experiences//On every man's losing their shirt moment//On feedback robo-rock//On remaining human behind the masks//On disco drums//On anti-electronica rock snobbery//On the potency of electronic music performed live//On the buckets of why to make a live record//

//(1:14:51)//Prince's ⁠Purple Rain (1984)//On 6 of 39//On uncool coolness//On Apex Mountain for Apollonia('s titties)//On Prince during Computer Blue//On autobiographical-ish Prince//On the incoherent movie hall of fame//On Holy Shit The Bodyguard//On maybe the best guitarist ever//On the Beautiful Ones//On dangerous queer icon Prince//On is this the artists best album answered by a real source//On total, mythical, cultural saturation//

//(2:37:00)//Preview of episode//19//

//00:00//Billy Woods' Hiding Places (2019)//On this mysterious guy with so much to say//On Billy's haunted house//On the density of an intensely well-read, inquisitive, worldly, sophisticated artist//On boomer hip hop//On exploring spaces you never wanted to return to//On spiderhole living/rap//On Mick's hip hop North Star//

//(39:45)//Radiohead's ⁠In Rainbows (2007)⁠//On urgent anxiety//On a beautiful existential crisis//On the Radiohead arc//On how much more time we have here//On promo-swift release strategies//On paying what you want//On proto-Patreon//On dilapidated Wilshire compound vibz//On the light going out//On the panic of realizing you're going to die//On vague layered discomfort//On PTA and Radiohead//On Greenwood and PTA//On next-level Greenwood//On anxiety and beauty//

//(1:38:47)//The 2023 Jack White Extended Universe Fantasy Draft! Holy Shit Broh!//On drafting upside with the first pick//On Danny taking the Oregon corner and Zach taking the Alabama defensive end//On premier league chant rock//On Patty Mahomes @ 10//On best bar-clearing songs//On Perry Mason extra era Jack White//On a clean White Stripes sweep//On Elephant, actually not great//On Jack's 2000s and 2010s versus Dylan's 1960s and 1970s//On the Grohl-White-Homme-Oberst Traveling Wilbury's spin-off//On not trusting anyone that doesn't like Led Zeppelin (Dave)//On conflicted Evanescence vibz//On a Blunderbuss heist//On reputational Jack White suicide//On a Sea of Cowards slam dunk//On scraping a deep barrel//On feuding Jack White being a productive Jack White//

//(3:10:23)//De La Soul is Alive/Streaming!//On De La rejoicing//On hip hop's landscape getting filled in//On fun//On hip hop's Wizard of Oz moment//On happy hip hop//On hip hop can be whatever you want//On the DLS PSA//

//(3:30:25)//Preview of episode//18//

//00:00//JAY-Z's The Blueprint (2001)//On salute to a fallen Music Friend//On loss//On boss music//On re-purposing the Jay-Z picture//On stepping through the Biggie Smalls opening//On Jay-Z's diamond which pressure created//On not writing anything down//On Ye//On missing the old Kanye//On cutting a super classic in two weeks//On separating from the East Coast pack//On Jim Morrison-tinged diss tracks//On tasteful obscure album art references//On Sean Carter synchronized with jigga//On enduring relevancy//

//(50:05)//Rage Against The Machine's Renegades (2000)//On ironic financial viability//On source code albums//On Rage-ifying//On the only great rap-rock act//On holy shit broh Rick Rubin//On stealing Dylan and Springsteen songs//On Tom Joad reprisals//On all roads leading to Lennon and McCartney//On calibrating against best cover albums//on peak exercise albums//On primordial hip hip tributes by hard rock bands//

//(1:47:11)//Josh Koppel Interview//On his most recognized poem//On getting phone calls from Rick Rubin's office//On Morello's vision and tenants of the band//On writing messages on money//On the state of digital music and contemporary discovery//On the internet being the new rock n' roll//On the potency of delusional aspirations as a writer//On the challenge of having all of the world's music at your fingertips//On a creative life//

//(2:12:24)//Preview of episode//17//

//Dedicated to John Pritchard//Pictures of You by Drugdealer and Kate Bollinger//

//00:00//Brand New's The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)//On the essence//On beauty in the exploration of darkness//On the crossfade intersecting loop chant thing//On point-counterpoint//On to emo and beyond//On the Brand New ark//On Brand New @ MSG//On the best part of doing this thing//On incredibly dark but beautiful//On John Cusack's arc versus the Brand New arc//On doing so much with so little time//On an album art conversation (finally)//

//(1:16:36)//Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (Original Soundtrack) (2001)//On what Wes Anderson is shooting at//On things not working out but working out anyway//On scheming, wonder and whimsy//On surreality grappling with reality//On Mothersbaugh score Apex Mountain//On the hey jude dog whistle//On Margot is a punk//On Nico is to Tenenbaum's what surfer rock was to Pulp Fiction//On deliberate but slippery cleverness//On The Clash as instant cool-making//On way too apropos Elliot Smith//On Wes fucking up the Between the Buttons reference//On Wes Anderson Apex Mountain//On just one man's opinion//On "You heard me, Coltrane!"//

//(2:23:09)//Preview of episode//16//

//00:00//The Clash's London Calling (1979)//On historic sonic diversity//On longer, better, broader//On being more than punk//On the punk orthodoxy always being pissed//On not being tied to your roots//On the clampdown//On spanish bombtracks//On reggae for the end times//On Orwellian, Vonneguttian, dystopian radio broadcasts//On commentary with pop value//On anthemic self worth//On masterpiece London Calling//On not so vanilla sessions//On greatest ever in two different decades//

//(57:12)//Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77 (1977)//On coming in lukewarm//On unconvention//On a glimmer of potential//On liner notes trickery//On Arcade Fire-style dog whistles//On Talking Heads validating//On creative icon Byrne//On Arthur Russell on cello//On RISD friends//On Talking Heads creative, original, innovative 77'--91'//

//(1:33:31)//Preview of episode//15//