Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

This quarterly double feature is about Fleetwood Mac for a couple of reasons: because they’re a very interesting and important band, and because they have two self-titled albums that sound nothing like each other. Launched by Peter Green in 1968 as a British blues band, in less than a decade they became an unstoppable California pop-rock monster. Their progression from one to the other is one of the most fascinating stories in rock history, and includes a lot of incredible music that you might not have known about. Mike, John, and Amanda had a great time talking about the various forms of Fleetwood Mac, and if you’re not familiar with their earlier incarnations, we hope you end up loving them as much as we do. And even if you don’t, the later version of the band is still every bit as good as their reputation says they are. This episode includes Side One of each album, and you will get Sides Two next week!

Cohosts: Mike DeFabio, John McFerrin, Amanda Rodgers

Complete show notes: https://discordpod.com/listen/175-fleetwood-mac-fleetwood-mac-1968-and-fleetwood-mac-1975

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This week, we dive into the second half of "Weird Al" Yankovic's tribute to the alternative rock format, featuring angsty anthems from Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden, the return of America's brother-in-law Anthony Kiedis, and a song that Rivers Cuomo stole from this medley, so we're stealin' it back.

Co-hosts: Rich Bunnell, Phil Maddox, Ben Marlin

Tracklist:

Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Weezer - Buddy Holly

Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends

Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Green Day - Basket Case

Other clips:

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Skipper Dan

Weezer - My Name Is Jonas (The Kitchen Tape demo)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bedrock Anthem

Foo Fighters - Big Me

Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly

"Weird Al" Yankovic - My Own Eyes

Soundgarden - Rusty Cage

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Canadian Idiot

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea

For this year's Q&A episode, we asked you guys what artists and albums you'd like to hear us cover on the show, and you did not disappoint! We got literally hundreds of suggestions, and we did our best to narrow them down but we still ended up having to split this episode into two parts. We published Part 1 last week, and here's Part 2 right here. We had a great time talking about everything from Bob Dylan to Dennis Wilson, and we hope you enjoy it too. 

Cohosts: Everybody

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Ew83laRbjctsD57wQXcd7

Discord & Rhyme's merch store: http://tee.pub/lic/discordpod

Support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/discordpod

For this year's Q&A episode, we asked you guys what artists and albums you'd like to hear us cover on the show, and you did not disappoint! We got literally hundreds of suggestions, and we did our best to narrow them down but we still ended up having to split this episode into two parts. Part 1 is right here, and you'll hear Part 2 next week. We had a great time talking about everything from Bob Dylan to Dennis Wilson, and we hope you enjoy it too. 

Cohosts: Everybody

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Ew83laRbjctsD57wQXcd7

Discord & Rhyme's merch store: http://tee.pub/lic/discordpod

Support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/discordpod

This week, we don our lederhosen and celebrate the return of our compilation series dissecting "Weird Al" Yankovic's polka medleys, on which he rounded up and lovingly lampooned the chart music of the day. Originally released on his 1996 album Bad Hair Day, "The Alternative Polka" was Al's attempt to catalog the emerging radio format of alternative rock, though the artists in this batch cover so much stylistic ground as to suggest that maybe, just maybe, the whole "alternative" label was just a marketing gimmick. Whether it's a real genre or not, we've finally reached the radio hits our hosts grew up listening to, which makes for a fun discussion with a healthy dose of '90s nostalgia.

Tracks:

Beck - Loser

Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing

Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do

Nine Inch Nails - Closer

R.E.M. - Bang and Blame

Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know

Other clips:

Beck - The New Pollution

Beck - Soul Suckin' Jerk

Beck - Get Real Paid

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Wanna B Ur Lovr

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Syndicated Inc.

Michael Jackson and Sheryl Crow - I Just Can't Stop Loving You

Sheryl Crow - All Kinds of People

Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy

Sheryl Crow - Soak Up the Sun

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Germs

Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Nine Inch Nails remix)

R.E.M. - Crush with Eyeliner

Talking Heads - The Lady Don't Mind

"Weird Al" Yankovic - We All Have Cell Phones (live)

Alanis Morissette - Too Hot

Alanis Morissette - No Return