Episodes
Friday Jun 15, 2018
EP07: 1989 - Tin Machine vs. Oh Mercy, or the Crack Deadening of 1989
Friday Jun 15, 2018
Friday Jun 15, 2018
Jake and Charlie try very hard not to be a-holes with b-holes for brains in this hard PG/soft PG-13 episode of Bowie vs. Dylan, but can't make any promises as they take a ride on the Nadir-O-Rater in the year 1989. Bowie heads back to high school to start a socially-conscious rock band with his mates, while Dylan lets Daniel Lanois turn his late 80's song output into something actually listenable. Dylan and the Dead somehow further tarnishes Bob in his worst decade; and nothing compares to the grand tradition of scintillating creativity quite like the song Tin Machine on the album Tin Machine by the band Tin Machine, written by all 4 equal members of...Tin Machine. Will Bowie's communal contraption pump out points, or will Dylan have him saying, "Oh Mercy"?
Don't forget to take a little taste of the year's songs with our 1989 Spotify playlist at bit.ly/BvD-EP07.
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Charlie and Jake are still standing in the wind, but they never wave bye-bye as they examine Bowie and Dylan in 1983. Chaz makes absolutely sure to enunciate Bowie's massively successful year by doing all the cocaine that Bowie apparently gave up in '83, and drives his verbal yacht at impressive and dangerous speeds for the duration of the podcast. While DANCING. Jake has trouble scoring Dylan's "non-religious" record Infidels, but asks Bowie, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa, Ric Ocasek, and finally Mark Knopfler to produce the podcast, and the results are slick, desperate, critically acclaimed, and woefully dated. Chaz ultimately thinks the whole thing would have been much better if Jake had decided to keep the very best 5 minute section of the podcast instead of inexpicably jettisoning it in direct conflict with literally everyone who heard it. PLUS: TWO years in Bowie's hair, and WE HAVE A MICK!!! Say, what's a sweet podcast audience like yoooooouuu, doing in a dump like this?
But wait! There's also a custom Spotify playlist for when you're done savoring 1983 and hungry for more. Listen at bit.ly/BvD-EP05.