When talking about music with fellow friends and enthusiasts, it's common to hear artists mentioned as being "ahead of their time." But what does that mean? And what artists does that label apply to? In this podcast, we explore this concept and give examples of artists we believe were truly ahead of their time.
In this episode, Jake and Tom catch up on the life changes they've faced over the past several months and how music has played a role in the transition. Topics include The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Brand New, record shopping, and musical catharsis.
Velocities In Music isn't just about music discussion--it's also about Jake and Tom trying their hardest to trip each other up and make each other laugh while they talk about their favorite music. This episode captures all the slip-ups from the podcast's first two years, the cutting-room floor material that nobody was meant (or probably wants) to hear.
Please be aware that by listening to this, you are subjecting yourself to:
- Adult language and content
- Endless wheezing
- Terrible puns
- Really, really stupid jokes
Jake and Tom discuss the future of the Velocities in Music podcast, and Tom talks about his experience at 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines, Iowa.
Listen to the Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/6wdn1EQtwVtrA7aFjYCTgB
Featured Albums:
Forest Swords - Compassion (2:05)
Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog (3:51)
Perfume Genius - No Shape (7:03)
Slowdive - Slowdive (8:34)
The Afghan Whigs - In Spades (10:20)
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke (12:21)
At the Drive-In - Interalia (13:55)
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (17:27)
Honorable Mentions:
Logic - Everybody (19:11)
Juana Molina - Halo (20:39)
Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.2 (21:37)
Blondie - Pollinator (22:04)
John Moreland - Big Bad Luv (22:51)
Harry Styles - Harry Styles (23:17)
Pwr Bttm - Pageant (24:26)
Jim Jones & the Righteous Mind - Super Natural (25:16)
Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution (25:58)
Girlpool - Powerplant (26:38)
The Mountain Goats - Goths (27:14)
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology (28:04)
Don Bryant - Don't Give Up on Love (28:42)
Paramore - After Laughter (29:15)
Sun Kil Moon & Jesu - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth (29:49)
Pumarosa - The Witch (30:41)
Aldous Harding - Party (31:14)
Nick Hakim - Green Twins (32:06)
Land of Talk - Life After Youth (32:59)
(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket (33:37)
Wavves - You're Welcome (34:40)
Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street (35:15)
Pokey LaFarge - Manic Revelations (36:14)
The Charlatans - Different Days (36:45)
The Heliocentrics - A World of Masks (37:11)
Not Recommended:
Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud (37:56)
Black Lips - Satan's Graffiti or God's Art? (38:38)
Pond - The Weather (39:07)
Jlin - Black Origami (39:40)
Spoon has been a seminal indie/alternative rock band through the 2000s, with history going back to the early and mid 90s. In this podcast, we cover Spoon's most recent five albums, rank all nine albums, and discuss where we'd like to see the band go next.
Best of Spoon Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/7EkcvHhVV4ZNGvv89N9sl2
Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/6uT1oe0dU6Oy5UidtchJrW
Featured Albums:
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (2:06)
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (27:57)
Gorillaz - Humanz (32:47)
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions (41:14)
Feist - Pleasure (43:25)
Honorable Mention:
Arca - Arca (46:12)
Wire - Silver/Lead (47:19)
Guided By Voices - August By Cake (48:22)
Joey Bada$$ - All Amerikkkan Bada$$ (49:07)
Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar (50:10)
Andrew Combs - Canyons of My Mind (50:45)
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars (51:19)
Future Islands - The Far Field (52:07)
Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock (52:57)
Fionn Regan - The Meetings of the Waters (54:11)
Woods - Love Is Love (55:16)
Actress - AZD (55:50)
Maximo Park - Risk to Exist (56:25)
Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution (57:19)
The Black Angels - Death Song (58:47)
Charly Bliss - Guppy (59:18)
Tara Jane O'Neil - Tara Jane O'Neil (1:00:26)
Little Cub - Still Life (1:00:58)
Willie Nelson - God's Problem Child (1:01:53)
Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory (1:02:32)
Mew - Visuals (1:03:06)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async (1:04:11)
Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness (1:04:40)
BNQT - Volume 1 (1:05:38)
Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle (1:06:38)
Sylvan Esso - What Now (1:07:35)
New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick (1:08:30)
Not Recommended:
Happyness - Write In (1:09:19)
Little Dragon - Season High (1:10:07)
Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good at This (1:11:03)
Incubus - 8 (1:12:04)
While She Sleeps - You Are We (1:12:53)
Spoon has been a seminal indie/alternative rock band through the 2000s, with history going back to the early and mid 90s. In this podcast, we follow Spoon through their formation and up to their 4th LP, Kill the Moonlight.
Best of Spoon Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/7EkcvHhVV4ZNGvv89N9sl2
On this podcast, Jake and Tom discuss the albums they purchased on their last few vinyl-buying excursions.
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/50GI8eRZ5eRxF4ResrCpjK
Featured Albums:
Grandaddy - Last Place (1:59)
The Shins - Heartworms (3:11)
Jay Som - Everybody Works (5:12)
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me (6:44)
Laura Marling - Semper Femina (9:38)
Spoon - Hot Thoughts (11:19)
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand (12:12)
Desperate Journalist - Grow Up (16:47)
Tennis - Yours Conditionally (18:10)
Honorable Mentions:
Temples - Volcano (19:53)
Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai (20:36)
Why? - Moh Lhean (21:15)
Nadia Reid - Preservation (2:13)
Blanck Mass - World Eater (22:55)
Sondre Lerche - Pleasure (23:43)
Chicano Batman - Freedom is Free (24:12)
Spectres - Condition (24:54)
Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (25:31)
Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir (26:02)
Valerie June - The Order of Time (27:01)
Depeche Mode - Spirit (27:45)
Idles - Brutalism (28:49)
Obituary - Obituary (29:16)
Pulled Apart by Horses - The Haze (30:03)
Sorority Noise - You're Not As ___ As You Think (30:36)
The Bug & Earth - Concrete Desert (31:15)
Pallbearer - Heartless (31:51)
Craig Finn - We All Want the Same Things (32:49)
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens (33:23)
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms (33:56)
Saltland - A Common Truth (34:42)
British Sea Power - Let the Dancers Inherit the Party (35:32)
Pharmakon - Contact (36:15)
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness (37:14)
Real Estate - In Mind (37:55)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy (39:02)
Les Amazones d'Afrique - Republique Amazone (39:43)
Not Recommended:
Sleaford Mods - English Tapas (40:03)
Minus the Bear - Voids (41:35)
Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales- Room 29 (42:19)
Conor Oberst - Salutations (43:18)
The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics (44:20)
Jamiroquai - Automaton (45:21)
Velocities In Music started at the beginning of 2010, and since then we've had the privilege of witnessing the release of some monumental albums. In this podcast, we highlight our top 20 albums of the decade so far.
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/41qlohpNu8qObXNg9hcMnw
Full List: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/best-albums-of-the-decade-so-far/
On this show, we talk a lot about ways of discovering new music. One way that we discover new music is through Music Leagues: friendly, competitive events where everyone playing submits a song and votes for the other songs that they liked.
If this sounds like something you and your friends (or coworkers) would enjoy, take a look at our example documents and start a Music League of your own: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxPjHMrv-jexdVBKVnpzWnlqNE0
Listen to the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/1xzK543YVcqiMbBODahmgP
Featured Albums:
Elbow - Little Fictions
Sampha - Process
Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
Lowly - Heba
Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
Ryan Adams - Prisoner
Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood
Honorable Mentions:
The Menzingers - After the Party
Eliza Carthy - Big Machine
Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.1
Duke Garwood - Garden of Ashes
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Backlash
The Sadies - Northern Passages
Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
Tinariwen - Elwan
Noveller - A Pink Sunset for No One
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy
The Feelies - In Between
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist
Lawrence English - Cruel Optimism
Molly Burch - Please Be Mine
Moire - No Future
The Necks - Unfold
Xiu Xiu - Forget
PVT - New Spirit
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon
Peter Silberman - Impermanence
Sherwood & Pinch - Man vs. Sofa
Immolation - Atonement
Thundercat - Drunk
Not Recommended:
Surfer Blood - Snowdonia
Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Light
Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Acceptance - Colliding By Design
As music in the latter half of the 90s drifted away from the Britpop style Blur had helped popularize, the band shifted into a noisier and more aggressive style of music. In this episode, we cover Blur's 1997 self-titled album through 2015's The Magic Whip, a period filled with inner conflict, departures, reunions, and transformations from a band who never seemed comfortable doing the same thing twice.
Starting as a young band in London in the late 80s and early 90s, Blur rose to fame in a few short years and helped the Britpop movement reach its peak. In the first episode of this two-part series, we cover their first four albums: Leisure, Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, and The Great Escape.
Listen to the songs featured in this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/2333pXtn664J7VXlysgsC1
Featured Albums:
Bonobo - Migration
The xx - I See You
The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody
Foxygen - Hang
Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town
Honorable Mentions:
Sohn - Rennen
Code Orange - Forever
Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
Throwing Snow - Embers
William Basinski - A Shadow In Time
Michael Chapman - 50
Tycho - Epoch
The Proper Ornaments - Foxhole
Ronika - Lose My Cool
Gabriel Garzon-Montano - Jardin
Emptyset - Borders
Tift Merritt - Stitch of the World
Sacred Paws - Strike a Match
Piano Magic - Closure
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Not Recommended:
Sundara Karma - Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect
AFI - AFI (The Blood Album)
Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr Ferryman
It's official--Jake finally got a record player. In this podcast, we go through the records we bought on Jake's maiden record-shopping voyage.
Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/1QcB6L0iHx5DskJfkvFkED
In this podcast we recommend albums from 2016 that we didn't include in a monthly wrap-up throughout the year. Albums included are:
Featured Albums:
Beyonce - Lemonade
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
The Amazing - Ambulance
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai
Solange - A Seat At the Table
Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!"
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
Honorable Mentions:
Rihanna - Anti
Basement - Promise Everything
Matmos - Ultimate Care II
Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Leaves
Lucius - Good Grief
Gnod - Mirror
Autolux - Pussy's Dead
The Hotelier - Goodness
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Little Scream - Cult Following
Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life
Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason
The Rolling Stones - Blue and Lonesome
Nine Inch Nails - Not the Actual Events (EP)
J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only
Noname - Telefone
Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
The Dear Hunter - Act V
Street Sects - End Position
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
2016 may have been an even better year for songs than it was for albums. We listened to thousands of tracks throughout the year, and in this podcast we cover the 30 of them that impacted us the most.
Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/6e3mK7YoGU7drMJ2ShaWpC
In this podcast we cover our 20 favorite albums of 2016.
See our top 70 list here: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/top-albums-2016/