1001 Album Complaints

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

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 44min

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 26min

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

Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The Stranglers started with a jazz drummer and an ice cream van, and somehow made it work such that they ...

12 Jan 1h 31min

Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums.  Bad Brains revolutionized the DC punk scene by being consistently adversarial and unpredictable. The fell...

5 Jan 1h 40min

Special bonus: we made an album - hear us, the musicians and producers tell the backstory - first of The Ghostbusters film that was our inspiration, and then of how we made Stay Puft together. And - w...

1 Jan 1h 19min

Musicians recount the strange and unexpected stories behind the making of your favorite albums. Happy (almost) New Year! In order to take a little break for the holidays we've painstakingly compiled o...

29 Dec 202542min