Episode 87: Bacharach n Roll

Brian reports back on The Age of the Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets, discovering that Alex Turner's side project sounds less like Arctic Monkeys and more like the soundtrack to a 70s or 80s spy film. The discussion wanders through David Bowie, spaghetti westerns, supergroups, and the unposed question: is being called "background music" a bad thing? Then things take a turn. Brian unveils the next "impromptu" game dedicated to the guys' apparent inability to correctly identify famous people named Moore. Mistakes were made and hopefully corrected. From there it's on to Memphis radio nostalgia, why podcasts have apparently become television, Lionel Messi's remarkable World Cup run, the economics of MLS, and Brian assigns Cort a double spoonful of Spoon. Cort's Last Assignment to Brian: The Age of the Understatement — The Last Shadow Puppets https://open.spotify.com/album/2y3Rm0cT1xbf2NoTQwKv99?si=u7DCZPL7R-CojeASyerW7g Brian's Next Assignment to Cort: Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon https://open.spotify.com/album/5E4CY0Z7SxuIbsviGBhW4L?si=2iZ8hqOgQZOsGXUjfjf2Ow Bonus Assignment: All the Weird Kids Up Front (More Best of Spoon) (Spotify playlist) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60iWAXiwBBUw6kvNz3rcaC?si=6431252835f34b4a (Amazon Playlist) https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/5257a2ae50224cfca211dab339f643e9sune?ref=dm_sh_X2oaC3LYzdtUdgJgET0ASicZ1&referrer=dm_sh_messages 🎶 Theme Song: Cyrus Oh Cyrus — The Flying Scrub Jays https://open.spotify.com/track/3S9T5HUS4cwky1922WhF1J?si=6fcad8771f724492