//Music Friends//

By: Danny Bennett
  • Summary

  • //Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The selection is always recorded live and posted as a teaser for the next episode//Additional segments are posted with additional Music Friends here and there//
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Episodes
  • //22//
    Oct 8 2024

    //00:00//Peter Gabriel's So (1986)//THE DAD POD//On Daddest-Mommest albums//On Albums as social phenomenon//On Generational Sgt. Pepper's importance//On Art Pop World Rock//On Gabriel out of the closet//On the JF "In Your Eyes" necklace//On "Is That Jimmy Buffet's music??"//On Bumper Cars Bumpin'//On JF on African Love Songs//On JF 2 Beers//On poor Freud and Jung discourse//On JF 3 Beers//On Basketball intermissions//On Graceland Drive-bys//On Gabriel strange-ness//On Lanois and there finally being women at the shows//On Total Mythical Cultural Gabriel Saturation//On The Art vs. Cash tension//


    //(54:32)//Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV (1971)//On The Daddest album of them all//On Led Zeppelin = departure from rock destination cosmos//On JF 4 Beers//On copping a Stairway to Heaven//On my Mom Going To California//On waiting around for the next Zeppelin record//On the sterling pseudo-un-cancellable LZ brand//On Zeppelin for the brews, Floyd for the joints//On The Avengers of proto-metal//On JF 5 Beers//On all roads leading to Prince//On the 2017 Led Zeppelin Warriors roster//On John Paul Jones Draymond//On Julian wondering if Jimmy Page is actually good?//On JF 6 Beers//On Plant or Page as Leonardo?//On it still being all about Stairway//On JF doing Plant//On JF 7 Beers//On "Haaave a gooood one" lololololololol//


    //(1:45:29)//The 20th High School Reunion Podcast!!//On it's gotta be Limp Bizkit//On Freakish Saves The Day fandom//On 8 whole minutes before Blink gets mentioned//On Gen Blink//On an early match!//On Danny hero ball//On Yankee Hotel Foxtrot gateway band//On Dashboard Unplugged FTW//On cassettes, burned CDs and VHSs//On getting older and connecting deeper//On ear condoms//On Keith 7.5 folder only//On Tidal Waves of electric violin//On ghosts of Music Friends' past//On explaining to my son what Pepsi Points were//On The Matches ruling always//On all roads leading to Arcade Fire//On essential MySpace references//On Rihanna ref #3//


    //(3:19:34)//Preview of episode//23//

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    3 hrs and 25 mins
  • //21//
    Jun 29 2024

    //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!//

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    4 hrs and 30 mins
  • //20//
    Jan 13 2024

    //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//

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    2 hrs and 37 mins

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