Category: 3-MusicSometimeTalk

On a very special live recording of Take This Pod and Shove It at The Chief Comedy Festival, Danny and Tyler sat down with three of their comedian pals to discuss their gateway song to country music. Christie Buchele talked about the deceptively horny "Fishing in the Dark" by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Aaron Naylor discussed the gritty, lyrically stunning "Charleston Girl" by Tyler Childers. And Zach Peterson discussed the more-outlaw-than-outlaw "Longhaired Redneck" by David Allen Coe.

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Special thanks to Wally Wallace and everyone at The Chief Fest for having us and providing a fun weekend of great shows and audiences.

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Using Artificial Intelligence is becoming more commonplace and more controversial each day it seems. Recent discussions around AI's ability (and potential) to write creatively and convincingly inspired us to do a little experiment. On today's episode we tried to write some hit country songs using Chat GPT and the results were.......well, you should listen to hear for yourself! Let's just say they were semi-sonic??

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In May 1980, the band Joy Division was devastated by the death of lead singer Ian Curtis. The three remaining band members, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris, decided they would keep making music together, and a few months later, Gillian Gilbert joined them. They called the band New Order.

New Order is one of the most influential bands of the last four decades. Their song “Blue Monday" came out in 1983, and it holds the record for being the best-selling 12-inch single of all time. Rolling Stone put “Blue Monday” on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and Pitchfork included it in its top 5 best songs of the 1980s.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of “Blue Monday,” in this episode, New Order discusses how they created the song. This episode was produced in collaboration with Transmissions, the official New Order and Joy Division podcast produced by Cup and Nuzzle. We’ve put together this story out of the hours and hours of interviews they’ve recorded, along with a new interview I did with Peter Hook. As you’ll hear the four of them explain, nothing about Blue Monday’s success, or really, even its existence, was something that they planned for.

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Vince Gill is one of the most accomplished country musicians of all time. He's received a record-breaking number of awards, sings like an angel, and makes shredding on guitar look easy. This week we are joined by comedian James Hamilton (@thejamham, VICE) to discuss Gill's smooth country bop "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away."

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Follow the link below to keep up with which songs are being added to our Ultimate Country Playlist on Spotify, now including "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away":
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New to Vince Gill? Here's some more tunes as recommended by James,  Danny, and Tyler:

• Whenever You Come Around 
• Go Rest High On That Mountain
• Pretty Little Adriana
• I Will Always Love You (with Dolly Parton)
• Look At Us
• Ridin’ The Rodeo 
• Sight for Sore Eyes
• Oklahoma Borderline
•  She Don’t Know
• Savannah (Don’t You Ever Think of Me)
• Turn Me Loose
• I Don’t Wanna Ride The Rails No More

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This week we cover a modern favorite of the Red Dirt Country movement: Turnpike Troubadours. The boys are joined by comedian Stephen Taylor (@formerlyfatstephen, Fountain City Comedy Festival) to discuss Turnpike's history, songwriting, and recurring characters. Plus we add fan fav "Good Lord Lorrie" to our public playlist!

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Here's some other Turnpike recs from Stephen, Danny, and Tyler:

• 7&7
• Long Hot Summer Day
• 1968
• Pay No Rent
• Bossier City
• Shreveport
• Gin, Smoke, Lies
• Whole Damn Town
• Tornado Warning
• House Fire
• The Mercury
• 7 Oaks

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It’s usually hard to pin down when a genre of music starts. But people point to this one party in August 1973 in the Bronx as the moment where hip-hop was born. That makes this year the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. In honor of that, I wanted to revisit an episode looking back at one of hip-hop’s classic tracks: Shook Ones, Part II, by Mobb Deep. Here’s the episode, originally recorded in June, 2020, when I spoke to Havoc from Mobb Deep:

The rappers Prodigy and Havoc met when they were still in high school in New York. Havoc grew up in Queensbridge, the biggest public housing projects in the country, and as a teenager, Prodigy lived there for a while, too. The two of them formed Mobb Deep in 1991.

In 1995, they put out their second album, The Infamous. It was a success when it came out, but in the 25 years since then, the influence of the album has only grown. Complex named it one of the 10 best rap albums of the 90s, and Pitchfork gave the album a rare perfect score, 10 out of 10. The Washington Post called it a “masterpiece” of hardcore rap, and in Slate, it was called one of the best albums of the ‘90s, and one of the best hip-hop albums ever made.

Their biggest song from the album was “Shook Ones, Pt. II.” Havoc made the now-legendary beat that he and Prodigy rap over. To celebrate the 25th anniversary, Havoc told me the story of how the whole song came together. Prodigy passed away in 2017, from complications due to sickle-cell anemia, a debilitating disease he’d battled his entire life. But the legacy of Mobb Deep lives on.

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Since the release date of this episode happens to be Tax Day we decided to explore country music's complicated and contentious relationship with the I.R.S. Whether it's Cash or Paycheck, or the many in between, they've got beef with the government, and today we tell their stories! Who owed millions, who lost their property, who wrote songs about taxes, and who got songs written about them—it's all here in this episode!

Some announcements too!
Take This Pod and Shove It will be doing a live show at The Chief Comedy Festival in Trinidad Colorado again this year—May 5th at 5pm. Danny and Tyler will also be performing standup live at the festival.
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Good luck with your taxes, and we'll see you next week when we add another song to our public playlist.

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At long last! The incomparable Willie Nelson gets added to our public playlist! This week we dig into the innovative and influential album The Red Headed Stranger, and how Willie made the most of his newfound creative control in the early 70's. Plus we get into lots of fun Willie trivia!

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Here's some other Willie recs from Danny, and Tyler:

• Can I Sleep In Your Arms
• Denver
• Hands on the Wheel
• Buddy
• Remember Me
• Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
• Whiskey River
• Pretend I Never Happened 
• Bloody Mary Morning
• Gotta Get Drunk
• I Don’t Go To Funerals
• Yesterday’s Wine
• Sad Songs and Waltzes
• Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other
• Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die

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King of the Hill is one of our favorite TV shows of all time, and on our newest bonus episode we discuss how frequently the show incorporates country music and country music stars. It's a lot of fun, and you can hear the full hour long episode exclusively at our Patreon!

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Thanks for listening and thanks for your support!

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Yaeji is a singer, songwriter, and producer from New York. During her childhood she moved between Queens, Atlanta, and Seoul. While she was at college in the States, she started DJing and releasing her own music. That led to two EPs in 2017, and since then, she’s also done remixes for Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, and Robyn. Yaeji won the International Breakthrough Award at the AIM Awards in 2020. This week she’s releasing her debut album, With A Hammer.

For this episode, I talked to Yaeji about her song “Passed Me By.” She sings the song in Korean and English, and she told me how using both languages gives her a broader palette to express her ideas.

For more, visit songexploder.net/yaeji.