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Bands with longevity, who don’t turn into wank

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Last Updated on May 6, 2024

S01 E76

Anybody can put out a classic album, yeah? Anybody. Like me. I’ve done it. Suck it. Anybody can put out two classic albums, yeah? Anybody. Like you. Or three. It’s EASY. I’ll tell you how. You can even ask ChatGBT to do it (but there’ll be something inauthentic about it, so maybe not).

But, what does it take to make a career in it? To transcend the scene one emerges from, to continuously make good, interesting music that means people don’t just want to hear stuff from your first two albums.

Maybe you can go down the tech death metal route, where stuff is just too complicated to digest and thus you can play anything you want. But … I mean, who likes technical and progressive music, anyway?

Or you can go down the route where you take an artistic approach, and the music transcends its limitations.

So, this is how you can make a classic album: just copy Scott Walker. Or Robert Wyatt.

Riffs of the week

Dr Sam’s Riff

  • The Rentals – Friends of P (opening)

Andrew’s Riff

  • Green Lung – Mountain throne (opening)

Dr Sam’s track choices

  1. NoMeansNo – Heaven Is the Dust Beneath My Shoes (2.56)
  2. Cannibal Corpse – Time To Kill Is Now (1.33)
  3. Robert Wyatt – Just As You Are (0.48)
  4. Scott Walker – The Old Man’s Back Again (opening)

Andrew’s track choices

  1. The Bluetones – My neighbours house (0:15)
  2. Kyuss – Sandpiper (0:17)
  3. Crowded House – Not the Girl You Think You Are (2:01)
  4. Against Me – Rebecca (opening)
    Andrew was going to choose Beatles but they get the video blocked worldwide!

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Comment from Callis
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Letter from Bowditch

Morning. Was listening to your podcast on the way to work and a couple of things about Cattle Decapitation. There is only one singer, Travis Ryan, who has an incredible range of styles. Plus, the band started out as having all vegan members and their position was that if we viewed what we do to animals as if we did the same to humans, its would be horrific. So that’s what their songs are about. Plus now also about the unsustainability of the human race as a whole. One of my favourite metal bands 🤘🏼