Photo of Mulligrub by David Van Den Bossche.
Includes:
- Guest host David Skene helps out with this edition of a rock'n'roll gossip show.
- The episode revolves around Ghost Hole's first show--D proclaims the whole new genre--GarfieldXCore!
- T and D somehow don't give away tixx to the hippest band on earth, TRST.
- We listen to Mulligrub, another GXC band, in a few of its different incarnations.
- D and T discuss the acts in detail, what made them hip and enjoyable.
- D points out the irony that the violin-and-drum combo Violent Screech was the most experienced act of the night.
- Another GXC band--The Uncanny Valley Girls--is discussed for their absurd Fripp-Eno dynamics. We hear a track from them.
- We round out the hour with a new segment titled "Is This Song About Me?" Before listening to Video Brats' only song, D makes his case that this song is about his exploits with the band members.
Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ztnmmqmxry5otmn
Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.
Includes:
- Taylor and guest host David Skene proclaim that they will investigate ripoffs definitively, to celebrate or condemn the offending artists.
- First, T plays a pairing which is an obvious homage: "Street Hassle" and "Ode to Street Hassle."
- D and T discuss the line between homage and ripoff; D says ripoff artists take others' work and pass it off as their own. D points out Spacemen 3 are citing their sources in the very song title.
- The next pairing is an unabashed sample: Liars uses ESG's original. T draws comparisons between the two bands, both New York bands removed by a few decades. As usual, Lydia Lunch has some pretty harsh things to say.
- D say these two songs sound to be of the same piece. T says the Liars song does stand on its own. However, the song blatantly references its inspiration, unlike other bands. [I didn't say this on-air, but the final lyric "Rather loved/ Than not loved" directly echoes Lunch's comments that Liars are looking for their moms' approval. Oddly, they've pre-empted her criticism and embrace that fact.]
- Next up: James Murphy. He does not stop admitting his influences/source material.
- T professes his love for The Rapture during the Echoes-era, but the influences are so obvious!
- Murphy's own band, LCD Soundsystem, does not escape T and D's scrutiny, and admiration.
Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?66uku5ah3ob4ml1
Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.
Show date: February 3, 2013
Includes:
- Brynna reads a selection from the 2012 'winner' of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
- B reads friends' submissions "My Supernatural Creation," and "The Most Beautiful Girl in School," which are from middle school and pret-ty embarrassing.
- Taylor gets his lazy butt out of bed and into the studio.
- T and B read Scott Leroux's creative writing from a couple years ago, and he calls in.
- T reveals the not-so-mysterious origins of his series Lightswitch, and reads a selection from one of his notebooks.
- B revisits her terrible literrry times.
Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?a8a6j862ugmxmta
Does Taylor lose the game? Y/N
No.
