Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 6: Round Of 32, '91-'22
The Round Of 32 is a plot-heavy affair: Coldplay premonitions, beautiful German cheese, learning to love advisedly off-putting pop, and songs that grab you by the nip. As the decisions get more agoniz...
20 Feb 202338min
Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 5: Round Of 32, '59-'90
The Round Of 32: where the choices get tougher and the cheeses get lonelier. We're writing Back To The Future/Babybel fan-fic, analyzing palimpsest layers, appreciating Bobby Darin's interpretive skil...
13 Feb 202357min
Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 4: 2007-2022
It's the final section of our Record Of The Year Showdown Round Of 64! The Grammys get more of a clue, albeit seemingly by accident, here in the 21st century, and we're talking about that, plus the la...
6 Feb 20231h 21min
Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 3: 1991-2006
We're heading -- somewhat angrily! -- into the 21st century in our third Record Of The Year Showdown episode. Spanning 1991-2006 at the Grammys, our discussion also looks at early-nineties quality con...
30 Jan 20231h 27min
Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 2: 1975-1990
The Record Of The Year Showdown enters the second "bracket" section with winners from 1975-1990, which means a lot of flashbacks to our America's Damp 40 season; theories about Billy Joel and Rufus Wa...
23 Jan 20231h 36min
Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 1: 1959-1974
Welcome to our Record Of The Year Showdown season! With listeners' help, we're going to find out which Grammy-winner for ROTY is the best of the 64 winners to date...or maybe just the least baffling a...
16 Jan 20231h 7min
Beats Around The Bush, Episode 07: Cringe-Hop Is Too Legit To Quit
We're wrapping up our second "embarrassing radio hip-hop" ep with Marky Mark, Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, and two by Young MC. Different Wahlbergs for different times in one's bunk, Myra Cormier trutherin...
5 Dec 202249min
Beats Around The Bush, Episode 06: Cringe-Hop Wipes Out
We had so much to say about embarrassing radio hip-hop of the H.W. Bush era, we had to split our convo into two episodes! Here in the first one, we're confronting C+C Music Factory, the Fat/Beach Boys...
28 Nov 202258min
