Episodes
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Hey, what you can say about 2016? Besides, of course, GREAT YEAR.
Absolutely nothing upsetting happened that continues and will continue to reverberate through the political ages, nor did, like, 154 important musician/celebrities die unexpectedly within what seemed like a 6 month span.
Nope, good one, 2016. Way to go!
You won't find us complaining, not even because David Bowie passed away, because hey, he released an amazing album just before that that took on a whole new and deeper meaning immediately. Eh? And even though Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature, which must have seemed like a huge bummer for him, at least he stretched the boundaries to their breaking point for actually accepting the coveted prize. All of Bowie's albums shot to the top of the charts, Dylan was 2 million kroner richer, and me and Charlie are about to ride off into the sunset having talked about it way too much.
So at least we got that going for us, which is nice, on this 2016 edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
The myriad choices for your preferred Super Deluxe Edition of this Bowie vs. Dylan Podcast 2014 have arrived by magic horseback, delivered by hand, by Bob Dylan and David Bowie! Aren't you thrilled? Check out all the special deviations and features, and pick your favorite to own, or your most favorite favorite, since you'll for sure want them all:
7 CDs, 14 LPs, 1 DVDs: Bowie looks suave as H, making you slightly uncomfortable to show the 70 page booklet of Hot Granddad Bowie photos to your Granddaughter. Dylan looks like his Vincent Price mustache has been poorly CGI'd right off his ancient yet eerily smooth face, making you equally uncomfortable in a totally different way to show the photos to your Granddaughter or anyone else really. Cost: $85
1 CDs, 1 LP, 14 DVDs: Whoops, we had found even MORE hand-written lyrics from Dylan's Basement Tapes years, and accidentally included the originals in this boxset. Those are practically priceless. Please send this one back! Cost: Priceless
0 CDs, 22 LPs, 0 DVDs: Jazz Covers Edition! Bowie records exactly one (1) jazz cover for inclusion, the remaining content are Dylan's efforts, totaling one thousand (1000) mellow, crooning contributions. Cost: $235
390 CDs, 0 LPs, 0 DVDs: 195 separate "Best Of" compilations for each of Bowie and Dylan's greatest contributions to music. 195 different chronological track listings each, 195 different orderings based on country where sold for each, 195 different hand-drawn album cover arts for each. 1 result: INCREDIBLE SUCCESS. Cost: $4290. Note: set cannot be broken up into individual compilations.
10 CDs, 10 LPs, 100 DVDs: This episode and this episode only re-enacted word for word in different podcasting styles by some of the biggest musical stars of the day never to be knocked from their cultural pedestal ever: Jim James! Elvis Costello! Taylor Goldsmith! Rhiannon Giddens! Marcus Mumford?! Producer: T-Bone Burnett. Listener: YOU. Cost: $1,000,000
0 CD's, 0 LP's, 0 DVD's: One (1) podcast broadcast for free ($0) via all of your favorite podcast platforms and players. Cost: $0
Myself and Chaz bought all of them, even the weird "priceless" one, so if you're any kind of fan you'll follow suit, just kidding, we love you, on this 2014 edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
What follows is a basic synopsis of this podcast:
Welcome to Bowie vs Dylan, special 2011 edition!
Where literally nothing happens, except some stuff that happened in 2010.
Bowie is invisible; Dylan is touring the world. David is hanging out in his sweatpants at home (picture not included); Bob is transcendent in his wide brim flat top hat.
Both look (and presumably feel) pretty darned snazzy, on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan!
What follows has been nimbly and professionally translated from English to Arabic to English to Japanese to English to Latin to English to Norwegian and back to English for our very special fans who share that particular heritage:
Bowie, our Perkins 2011 Hello!
Literally, it's nothing but the 2010 items.
I don't see Bowie. Saint is the largest in the world. At the gym, David had his own suit (not including pictures). Wide flat shoes, Bob has a hard top and is slow to anger,
This version of Saint-style Bowie sees (and feels) us!
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
2020: (a fresh little baby, whistling a jaunty tune) Oh man, am I pumped! Who else just got born? Anyone?
2019: (a sagged old man, snorting a cynical dirge) What are you so pleased with yourself about?
2020: The freshness and anticipation of new life, wise elder! Say, you look like you're just chock full of wisdom, or wait...what IS that?
2019: Oh, this? It's the incredibly heavy burden of a full year's worth of human suffering, longing, troubles, and yes...unfiltered joy. It's our sacred duty as years to accumulate and carry it, to bear up under it with all of the strength and perseverance we can muster. It's what you have to look forward to, young baby.
2020: No, not that...THAT. It looks suspiciously like Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese, Mick Ronson, Joan Baez, KISS, and Sharon Stone in a pseudo-documentary followed by a 14 disc super deluxe box set of the Rolling Thunder Revue that should have maybe been a Bootleg Series followed by a much smaller Bootleg Series that was actually a Bootleg Series.
2019: Yes. Yet that's only a tiny part of it. Here, let me turn around, and show you the rest, my son.
2020: GOOD GRAVY!! It's HUGE! No being should have to carry that load!!! Oh, what have they done to you, you poor, tired old year?!?!?!? It's...it's...IT'S!
2019: All of the massive and expensive vinyl box sets with 1-4 early David Bowie demos released in 2019.
2020: IT'S HIDEOUS, on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
This podcast about Bowie and Dylan in the year 2017 is presented to you, dear listeners, as a triple album, each LP containing clearly defined themes that feed one to another, and then back again from the end of LP #3 to the start of LP #1, so that you'll be stuck in an endless feedback loop of listening to this specific podcast for the rest of eternity.
Wherein: Bowie is again a Cracked Actor, Dylan is again Born Again Again; Bowie returns to the early 70's; Dylan returns again to the 1940's and 50's again, and once again, and then again again, and then again once more for good measure.
Here's a sneak preview of each podcast LP's incredibly varied and easily identifiable and classifiable themes, just in case you want to know what you're getting into as you prepare to listen to this podcast and nothing else for the rest of your life:
LP #1: authentically smooth, mid-tempo, jazzy, non-improvised croony-tunes that Frank Sinatra may or may not have sang at some point.
LP #2: authentically smooth, mid-tempo, jazzy, non-improvised croony-tunes that Frank Sinatra may or may not have sang at some point.
LP #3: authentically smooth, mid-tempo, jazzy, non-improvised croony-tunes that Frank Sinatra may or may not have sang at some point.
A real humdinger, folks, on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Ep31: 2015 - Lazarus vs. Shadows in the Night, or the Near-Death Crooning of 2015
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Setting: Two men age-group 18-49, with so many more important things to do, nonetheless talking to each other and roughly 41 other souls about David Bowie and/or Bob Dylan. Their respective rooms are dark; their tone slight, but uniformly pensive.
Man #1: Bob Dylan's single from the year two thousand and fifteen is as follows: The-
Man #2: (interrupting jovially): Are we talking about David Bowie's history of musicals right now?
Man #1: The Night-
Man #2: (interrupting haphazardly): Because it's a rich, rich...rich historical text.
Man #1: The Night We-
Man #2 (interrupting wildly): Why, in 1968, of all year, Bowie was thinking of thinking of maybe writing and producing one.
Man #1: The Night We Called-
Man #2: (interrupting rather rudely): It's about a man with a very ordinary name who's ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY, you see.
Man #1: The Night We Called It-
Man #2: (interrupting as if it's now a joke that only he can truly appreciate): Ever heard of Ziggy Stardust, friend?
Man #1: The Night We Called It A-
Man #2: (interrupting just a little too righteously): Now picture it...as a musical.
Man #1: The Night We Called It A Day. The Night We Called It A Day. The Night We Called It A Day. The Night We Called It A Day. The Night We Called It A Day. The Night We Called It A Day!!!
Man #2: (interrupting solemnly and self-importantly): Why are you yelling?! Stop yelling at me. I was just thinking about how 2015 was Bowie's last year on the planet and he managed to produce some of his finest work. This seems important, and it's a little disrespectful for you to continue interrupting me while I try to communicate the sheer magni-
Man #1 and Man #2: (in unison): On this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan!
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Grizzled musical veterans Chaz and Jake return to relevance discussing Bowie and/or Dylan (fresh off their BvD Awards for Worst Years Ever) in the "monumental" year of 2012. Bowie does almost nothing besides play "Heroes" a couple times each for every single world event, but nevertheless transfigures his manic energy to Charlie, who can't stop interrupting and saying all the things that Jake was about to say before he says them. Dylan tries to terrify Jake with the possibility that he's already released the comeback old man mortality record that was promised, but Jake is too busy trying to figure out how to be juuuuust the right amount of interested in Dylan's career to be the kind of fan whom Dylan doesn't want to go straight to f***ing hell.
So go ahead and feed this entire podcast into Google Translate (say, Egyptian?), then feed it back through to English to enjoy an experience that might just make more sense than the actual thing on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Bowie's not with us anymore, but that doesn't stop him from attempting to stampede a very much alive Dylan (editor's note: "very much" is a little strong here) in the juuuuuust passed year of our Lord 2018. You see, his record label is deathless and is intent on shoving reissues, 4th remasters of "legendary" concerts from 1978, and "greatest shows on earth in the year 2000 at Glastonbury on the night Bowie played it" at an alarming clip. And well, Dylan might not be able to keep up because his record label is deathless and is doing the exact same thing even though Bob lives (we're pretty sure he toured 9 months of the year...anyone?), but just to a slightly lesser extent given his afore-mentioned livingness.
So it's a thinly veiled battle for artistic supremacy that's actually a vehicle for childish emotional outbursts and barely masked sarcastic comments that occasionally hit too close to home. Happy New Year from Chaz and Jake on a very special episode of Bowie vs. Dylan that's just like all the others!
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
The renowned, multiple Obie-award winning off-off-off-off-off-off-Broadway show returns for a very special one-podcast episode devoted to the year 2010, but also 1959-1963, and 1962-1968, but also 1976 and 2003, and there's some talk about 1983 and 2013 for some reason. Elastic-voiced and androgynous hosts Chaz and Jake present to you in 3 surround-sound versions the epic goings-on of Bowie and Dylan as they do almost nothing at all in 2010, except maybe be stay at home Dads and get straight burnt by Joni Mitchell. Jake compensates by introducing a new, wildly pun-filled segment you'll just have to listen to for the final name of. And Chaz over-compensates by releasing a super-deluxe edition of his portion with no new material, but hey, ogle this, it's some swag. Put down your Greek newspaper, settle in, and order your Jeeves to push play on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.
When he's done hand-washing your sock garters, also have Jeeves key up our customized 2010 Spotify playlist, available at bit.ly/BvD-EP13.
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
Jake and Charlie return from a 10-year absence to discuss Bowie and Dylan in the year 2013. Chaz is so enveloped in mystery, in fact, that he doesn't give one interview or one concert for the entirety of the podcast, while Jake paints yet Another Self-Portrait. Bowie has so many videos and singles for Chaz to discuss that Jake heads out on a never-ending tour and comes back The Next Day to find out the score. Dear listener, you too can self-mythologize and act like you're listening on this mostly gate-filled edition of Bowie Vs. Dylan!
And when you're done, give yourself a 2013-filled listening experience with this episode's custom Spotify playlist at bit.ly/BvD-EP09.