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This is not a nice or polite podcast: if you’re not liking the message in it, you should not listen. It is for educational purposes and uses clips of audio from classic VINYL records, as much as possible sourced from the earliest release in an effort to get the rawest possible sound. Remasterings are discouraged (there are some Pixies records I only have as remasters, but in general these are original vinyl) and I’ll try to identify the source record as closely as possible on the podcast.
The purpose of this podcast is to tell you how to mix music in the style that created entire industries and genres, rather than the styles that killed them. There’s a heavy emphasis on Sixties and Seventies recordings, not because of any special merit to the musicians or the times, but because it was the time when primitive 1930s-style recording evolved and transformed between the old ‘gramophone’ tonalities and the over-processed, inhuman world of today. There were points along that curve where recording developed uncanny ability to convey the power of music, and you can still do that today… but nobody will tell you how, because half the time people didn’t know what they had, and the other half of the time they were actively working to get rid of the very qualities that made the music so powerful.
This will be a colossally arrogant podcast. My only excuse here is that I didn’t do these records. I’ve learned as much as I can about them, and I’m here to explain what makes them so amazing and why they’ve survived my whole lifetime while newer, more heavily marketed records fade and die. I’m going to ignore much about lyrics and melodies and focus on the SOUND of the records, and you’ll probably find many of the sounds strange (especially if you’re listening on laptops… or earbuds… really, a horrifying amount of modern music playback technology won’t be your friend here). I’m going to insist that if you listen to this stuff RIGHT, it’s amazing, and you’ll come to believe it if you stay with me. You will never be able to rip even so much as a single complete song off any of this, for I’ll needle-drop and play only excerpts (this is Fair Use, not a DJing podcast) but for all that you’ll get to hear a great deal of music off these records, in the highest vinyl-sourced intensity I can summon off those old grooves. None of it will be ‘remastered’, compressed, EQed or anything like that. You’ll hear WHAT IT WAS back when the music set the world on fire.
Listen, and understand. These are no longer regular, but now and then I’ll add one.
AC/DC-Back In Black
Beatles-Revolver
Beatles-White Album
Phil Collins-Face Value
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Devo-Duty Now For The Future
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Rolling Stones-Let It Bleed
Steve Miller Band-Fly Like An Eagle
Tangerine Dream-Phaedra
Frank Zappa-Apostrophe
Led Zeppelin II
ZZ Top-Tres Hombres
Here’s the list of what remains.
acdc let there be rock
dirty deeds
for those about to rock
aerosmith toys in the attic
rocks
allman bros fillmore east
eat a peach
b52s first
wild planet
barrett
basie one o’clock jump
beatles
yesterday and today
sgt. pepper
yellow submarine
abbey road
beck blow by blow
wired
beefheart spotlight kid
belew lone rhino
black sabbath paranoid
boc first
tyrrany and mutation
agents of fortune
fire of unknown origin
boston first
bowie man who sold the world
hunky dory
ziggy stardust
aladdin sane
diamond dogs
young americans
station to station
heroes
low
lodger
scary monsters
bruford one of a kind
carlos switched on bach
chic risque
clapton 461 ocean boulevard
phil collins
costello my aim is true
armed forces
this year’s model
get happy
cream disraeli gears
wheels of fire
creedence first
bayou country
green river
willy and the poorboys
cosmo’s factory
miles davis in a silent way
bitches brew (one disc w. title track)
dead kennedys fresh fruit
sandy denny the north star grassman and the ravens
devo are we not men
freedom of choice
new traditionalists
al dimeola elegant gypsy
dire straits first
love over gold
doors morrison hotel
la woman
dr john gris-gris
eagles desperado
one of these nights
hotel california
the long run
english beat I just can’t stop it
wha’appen
elp first
tarkus
brain salad surgery
eno another green world
fripp and eno no pussyfooting
byrne and eno my life in the bush of ghosts
budd and eno ambient2
fagen the nightfly
fairport convention liege and lief
full house
feast or famine brecon beacon
fleetwood mac selftitled
peter gabriel solo 1977 atco
solo 1978 atlantic
solo 1980 mercury
solo 1982 geffen
marvin gaye what’s going on
genesis trespass
nursery cryme
foxtrot
selling england
lamb lies down
trick of the tail
wind and wuthering
duke
abacab
genesis
grateful dead first
anthem x2
aoxomoxoa x2
live dead
grateful dead
workingman’s dead
american beauty
europe 72
wake of the flood
blues for allah
terrapin
herbie hancock mwandishi
crossings
sextant
head hunters
jimi hendrix first x2
smash hits
axis bold as love
electric ladyland
cry of love
crash landing
robyn hitchcock black snake diamond role
globe of frogs
queen elvis
michael jackson off the wall
thriller
jethro tull this was
stand up
benefit
aqualung
thick as a brick
passion play
warchild
minstrel in the gallery
songs from the wood
heavy horses
stormwatch
broadsword and the beast
elton john honky chateau
goodbye yellow brick road
journey infinity
escape
frontiers
judas priest unleashed in the east
british steel
point of entry
defenders of the faith
king crimson
in the wake of poseidon
lizard
islands
larks tongues in aspic
starless and bible black
red
discipline
beat
three of a perfect pair
kinks something else
village green preservation society
arthur
league of gentlemen
little feat sailing shoes
dixie chicken
feats don’t fail me now
mahavishnu inner mounting flame
birds of fire
between nothingness and eternity
bob marley catch a fire
burnin’
natty dread
rastaman vibration
exodus (tuff gong)
john mayall blues breakers w. eric clapton
curtis mayfield curtis in chicago
superfly
something to believe in
joni mitchell clouds
ladies of the canyon
blue
court and spark
mike oldfield tubular bells
hergest ridge
robert palmer sneakin sally
pressure drop
some people can do what they like
parliament mothership connection
tom petty damn the torpedoes
pink floyd saucerful of secrets
ummagumma
atom heart mother
meddle
obscured by clouds
dark side
wish you were here
animals
the wall
division bell
pj harvey rid of me
queen first
sheer heart attack
pixies reissues come on pilgrim
surfer rosa
doolittle
trompe le monde
the police outlandos d’amour
reggata de blanc
zenyatta mondatta
ghost in the machine
synchronicity
lou reed rock n roll animal
return to forever no mystery
terry riley a rainbow in curved air
roches first
keep on doing
rolling stones let it bleed
some girls
hot rocks
get yer yayas out
beggars banquet
flowers
sticky fingers
exile on main st
todd rundgren a wizard a true star
rush 2112
farewell to kings
hemispheres
permanent waves
signals
santana first
abraxas
selftitled71
caravanserai
paul simon first
still crazy after all these years
sister sledge we are family
squeeze uk squeeze
cool for cats
argybargy
east side story
chris squire fish out of water
steely dan can’t buy a thrill
countdown to ecstacy
pretzel logic
katy lied
the royal scam
aja
gaucho
talking heads fear of music
remain in light
speaking in tongues
tangerine dream zeit
phaedra
rubycon
ricochet
sorcerer
stratosfear
force majeure
james taylor sweet baby james
touch first and only
tower of power bump city
back to oakland
traffic heaven is in your mind
welcome to the canteen
john barleycorn must die
last exit
low spark of high-heeled boys
tubeway army
u2 the joshua tree
vai flex-able
van der graaf generator pawn hearts
van halen first
fair warning
1984
van morrison astral weeks
moondance
st dominic’s preview
stevie ray vaughan texas flood
couldn’t stand the weather
tom waits swordfishtrombones
rain dogs
rick wakeman six wives of henry viii
joe walsh the smoker you drink the player you get
so what
war the world is a ghetto
weather report heavy weather
bob weir ace
steve winwood back in the high life
the who happy jack
sell out
meaty beaty big and bouncy
live at leeds
tommy
who’s next
quadrophenia
who are you
face dances
stevie wonder greatest hits
signed sealed and delivered
talking book
innervisions
fulfillingness’ first finale
songs in the key of life
xtc white music
go2
drums and wires
black sea
english settlement
mummer
oranges & lemons
yes first
time and a word
the yes album
fragile
close to the edge
tales from topographic oceans
yessongs
yesterdays
relayer
tormato
drama
90125
neil young everybody knows this is nowhere
harvest
zappa freak out
absolutely free
we’re only in it for the money
uncle meat
lumpy gravy
weasels ripped my flesh
hot rats
burnt weeny sandwich
chunga’s revenge
200 motels
Fillmore East
just another band from la
waka/jawaka
the grand wazoo
roxy & elsewhere
overnite sensation
one size fits all
zoot allures
studio tan
orchestral favorites
sheik yerbouti
sleep dirt
joe’s garage
joe’s garage acts ii & iii
shut up & play your guitar
you are what you is
ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch
boulez conducts zappa
jazz from hell
led zeppelin i
iii
iv
houses of the holy
physical graffiti
presence
zz top
fandango!
deguello
eliminator