Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast

51 is way too young. Hard to think of many artists who were as influential across genres in the past 30 years as D'Angelo. RIP.

Lynchian Vibes If you fix your attitude, you can ride along with me.

Producer Mike has assembled a new mega-mix in tribute to the late, great David Lynch. Check it out!

Moody Blues Primer

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A giant Moody Blues introduction Playlist I put together a few years ago, based off of a 2 CD Moodies compilation I made for myself in graduate school. Listen in order, I put a lot of thought into the sequencing.

YouTube video by John Lodge - Topic Say You Love Me

RIP John Lodge. Here's a great song that gets easily forgotten because it was on a solo album instead of a Moodies album.

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And then there was one…

Gonna be a tough weekend for the @discordpod.bsky.social crew.

Rest in peace, singer in a rock and roll band.

Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge dies aged 82 Musician died peacefully surrounded by sounds of Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly, family say

This one hurts.

YouTube video by Bill Bruford King Crimson - The Sheltering Sky (The Noise - Live At Fréjus 1982)

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Come On a Safari With Me: Listening to the Beach Boys, Song by Song Amazon.com: Come On a Safari With Me: Listening to the Beach Boys, Song by Song eBook : Marlin, Benjamin: Kindle Store

HEY BEACH BOYS FANS! Our own Ben Marlin has written a brand new book where he dives into their enormous catalog, track by track! (Cover design and editing by Amanda Rodgers!)

Long-hair David Byrne isn't real
Long-hair David Byrne can't hurt you

If you don't

If you count The Magnificent Moodies

norman Rockwell painting of a man in a tan jacket standing up to speak in a meeting

8pm is too late for weeknight concert start times

Genesis’ Mike Rutherford and Charles Schultz’s ‘Peanuts’ were launched 75 years ago today 🎂

sometimes you gotta sit down and ask yourself….am i truly livin’ la vida loca?

Lost Tom Petty eight years ago today. Still the heaviest rock star death in recent memory for me.

Happy 40th to one of the greatest records ever made.

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166: Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (1991) — Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast Power pop legend Matthew Sweet has had a rough go of it lately, suffering a debilitating stroke last year while setting out on tour, and it’s possible that he may never play music again. So today’s ep...

This week, @libbycudmore.bsky.social joins us for an album that's perfect in so many ways. Power pop icon Matthew Sweet suffered a debilitating stroke last year and may never play music again, and we pay tribute to him by discussing his album Girlfriend, which is equal parts joyous and bittersweet.

Happy birthday to Mike Post. Now playing this 12” which boasts his “Theme from Hill Street Blues” and his Northern Soul fave “Afternoon of the Rhino”. Both are in this playlist featuring his biggest tunes
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I’m real proud of an upcoming @discordpod.bsky.social episode about Matthew Sweet I recorded with @richbunnell.bsky.social and @libbycudmore.bsky.social. Coming very soon!

Spotify playlist titled "Weird Al songs where he acts like a dick"

There is a surprisingly large number of these, and the contrast with his actual persona makes the gag extra funny.

One Beatle After Another

Stereo and the cover of the The Rutles

It’s a Rutles kind of morning

Some vintage crate-digging geekery from the D&R Slack.

It takes two: the best pop duets – ranked! As Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s Where the Wild Roses Grow turns 30, we count down pop’s finest two-handers, from career-revivers to celebrity meta-texts

Thumbs up for the choice of cover photo, but let's be real, "Don't Give Up" is both Peter Gabriel's and Kate Bush's respective 40th-best song, tops.

You've officially hit peak middle age when the first three songs on Brothers in Arms transition into the alto sax that opens "Your Latest Trick" and you think "Oh hell yeah, now we're talkin'"

Sonny Curtis, Member of Buddy Holly’s Crickets & ‘I Fought the Law’ Writer, Dies - Best Classic Bands Sonny Curtis, who played with Buddy Holly's Crickets and later wrote the classic rocker 'I Fought the Law,' died in September 2025.

Farewell to Sonny Curtis, a member of Buddy Holly & the Crickets and the author of such enduring classics as the Everly Brothers’s “Walk Right Back,” the Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought the Law” and the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme “Love is All Around.” bestclassicbands.com/sonny-curtis...

The David Bowie Song You Didn’t Know Was Dedicated to Bob Dylan In Song For Bob Dylan, Bowie fearlessly critiqued one of the biggest names in music. But what was the real story behind this enigmatic track?

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"