BONUS - Song Battle: 2025 #1 Hits - Episode 1 of 5
The first episode of our brand new 2025 #1 Hits Song Battles. Tweets for every song. Back stories and factoids!Listen to all 5 at: https://www.patreon.com/c/1001AlbumComplaintsOur full 16 song bracket...
4 Mar 40min
The Story Behind: Rocket from the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream, Ep. 249
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Rocket from the Crypt was touted by some as "the next Nirvana", but John Reis (aka Speedo) just wanted to...
2 Mar 1h 40min
The Story Behind: Can - Tago Mago, Ep. 248
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Can emerged as the baby boomer generation of post-war Germany, horrified by the recent past and wanting to...
23 Feb 1h 59min
The Story Behind: Billy Joel - The Stranger, Ep. 247
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Billy Joel was an underground success playing to small theaters around America when he decided to take hi...
16 Feb 1h 43min
The Story Behind: Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet, Ep. 246
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Public Enemy set out to scare complacent suburban America with a deep knowledge of history, culture, and ...
9 Feb 2h 2min
The Story Behind: Moby - Play, Ep. 245
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Moby started as a New York City crate diver before taking some hard left turns in his career and isolatin...
2 Feb 1h 46min
The Story Behind: Chic - Risque, Ep. 244
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Chic set out to make sophisticated and elegant dance music and took the disco world by storm before wanin...
26 Jan 1h 27min
The Story Behind: Nick Drake - Pink Moon, Ep. 243
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Nick Drake released 3 relatively unheralded albums in his short lifetime and only decades later became a ...
19 Jan 1h 29min
