Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast

Current mood.

#Beatles #Lennon #McCartney #Harrison #Starr

This is who runs this account.

Genius laying down its trademark insight on Randy Newman

Part 2 is in your feeds right now!

The picture shows a cd of the Tortoise album Millions Now Living Will Never Die waiting expectantly in the cd tray. The CD is also pictured.

Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die #nowplaying Amazing that after listening to rock music for nearly 50 years I can still discover amazing bands that passed me by at the time. Have gone Tortoise-mad lately after hearing the excellent @discordpod.bsky.social episode about this album! 🙏

Seeing King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard tonight at Merriweather. If you’re there and see a dorky guy in a Moody Blues “A Question Of Balance” shirt, feel free to say hello!

Part 2 coming Tuesday. It is ready and it is spectacular.

the best music was made between like 1890 and 2057 and I won't be convinced otherwise

The person at Apple who replaced the standard headphone jack with a lightning cable jack

Bandcamp Friday for all who observe. I don’t do threads of recommendations ever since their union busting ways drained the fun out of that endeavor, but bands still gotta eat/fill their adderall scrips and I still need online validation for my taste/lifestyle choices. So here’s my recent purchases!

Apart from U Got the Look (because Sheena), I wasn’t familiar with this album at all. The soundtracks to PURPLE RAIN and BATMAN were more my jam back in the day. But this was a great ep! He’s part of our DNA here in Minneapolis, and I love learning more about his career. @discordpod.bsky.social

What we'd really like is to do Discord & Rhyme for a living. It might happen!

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

Ok here’s something cool. Adopt a station — donate to the public media stations that rely the most on federal funds. >>> adoptastation.org

If true, it is one perfect pop song begetting another. Also, our Prince song draft is now out for Patreon subscribers!

This. This is why when I did a thread on this topic a while back my first recommendation was to buy stuff if you can, from Bandcamp or Qobuz, and only *then* to suggest streaming alternatives.

Wendy Melvin comically scrunching up her face in Prince's "Kiss" music video

Rich's reaction when Mike nabbed "When You Were Mine" in the first round of the Discord & Rhyme Prince song draft. (Coming exclusively to Patreon this week!)

Poison some pigeons in the park today in his honor

This is an excellent article that nails the domino effects of a decrease in arts criticism. The same thing is happening across the country with the closure of alt-weeklies and shrinking daily newspaper arts coverage. As search degrades on social media and Google, events info is harder to find. 🧵

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked a little boy "What'cha got there?" and he said "Kind sir, it's a mollusk I've found," and I asked, "Did you find it in the sandy ground? Does it emulate the ocean sound?"

"What would The Beatles sound like if they stayed together?"

I just got out of the time machine, and you're not gonna believe this, but they sound exactly like Guided by Voices

All the songs are about Piccadilly Circus or some shit though

He had such an eternal cool that I could sense it as a kid. I knew the one song and thought "Yeah, Chuck Mangione, right on!"

Today’s selection:
Prince - Sign O the Times

Not my fave Prince (I know), but @discordpod.bsky.social gave me a good excuse to pull it out with their new episode. I’ve always been a bigger fan of disc 2 that’s a bit more heavy on the Camile stuff. Wasn’t he gonna release that soon?
#vinyl

YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic Symptom Of The Universe (2021 Remaster)

I don't even know what to say about the loss of Ozzy Osbourne.... I'm a huge metalhead, and without Ozzy (and the rest of Black Sabbath), metal as we know it simply *would not exist*. There is legitimately no more important figure in the history of heavy metal.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g_Y...

Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

Farewell to the great Ozzy Osbourne, one of a handful of truly iconic rock stars. He died just days after giving a farewell concert in his hometown of Birmingham. news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

Holy fucking christ.

YouTube video by Ozzy Osbourne OZZY OSBOURNE - "Mama, I'm Coming Home" (Official Video)

RIP to a real one youtu.be/K0siYUjV9UM?...

Rich and Dan are both Toast of London fans, so when they're both on the same recording, the obligatory Zoom call "Can you hear me?" is always followed by "Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!"

164: Prince - Sign o' the Times (1987) — Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast Shut up, already. Damn! Prince was one of the most interesting popular artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and Sign o’ the Times from 1987 was the culmination of one of the most inter...

Shut up already. Damn! Part 1 of our formidable Prince episode is available now in your favorite podcast app and you should listen immediately. #musicsky discordpod.com/listen/164-p...

YouTube video by Bryan Michael Buckingham Nicks - ''Frozen Love''

One more Buckingham Nicks post: listen to "Frozen Love." It's one of the songs that made Mick Fleetwood hire Lindsey and Stevie + it's a marvel: Nicks' hypnotic harmonies, that psychedelic edge, Lindsey's guitar flash. I want to lay in the sun with this on repeat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6sf...

From Beatles to Biggie, Carly to Kendrick, Diss Records Are a Pop Fixture They weren’t always called diss tracks, but pop stars have been trading insults since Tin Pan Alley.

You probably think this pod is about you—my new #HitParadePod from @slate.com is a history of diss records, which predate hip-hop+even rock. From Eddie Cantor bitching about “Bananas” to Carly Simon puncturing vanity…an army of Roxanne,Roxannes or K-dot ethering Drake…beef on wax has served up hits.