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deadheirrecords
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Episodes
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~NEW SHOW ALERT~
hi friends this is a special announcement to let you know deadheirrecords has premiered a new show on YouTube. Click here to watch episode 1! Musical Exquisite Corpses will release a new episode every saturday. come join us in the morgue and hang out while we do the autopsy. xoxo leo
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ep 001: bad choices pt. 1
the remastered, reissued on vinyl, deluxe edition of deadheirrecords: episode 1 of the pod in which our heroes make a first attempt at sitting on their couch and talking to each other, talk shop about what gave them the dumb idea to apply to juilliard back in the day, dissect some of the early...
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ep 037: mitski's cop car
hi all. join me for a lo-fi audio asmr adventure where i listen to mitski's latest song cop car and talk to myself. it's like you're there in the car with me.
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ep 036: actress/singer
hi all. back with a surprise episode for the new year. i go on a long monologue about acting and performing music. i hope it rings true to ya'll in some way, because it helped me crystallize a lot of ideas i was having about performing, and how i always felt uncomfortable with it. and i truly…
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ep 035: crazy talk
what do patsy cline and gnarls barkley have in common? they both wrote a song called crazy and we analyze both and decide who wore it better. how is the word crazy best represented in musical language? what is the infinite in music and how can you represent it? why can i listen to the gnarls...
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ep 034: radio drama
hi folks it's an episode about the aught's favorite hipsters the decemberists! every once in awhile it's healthy to acknowledge that our personal heritage is made up of sad white guys, so we take a listen to a song i've been hearing on the radio a lot called "sucker's prayer." we talk…
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ep 033: we're back
season 2 of dead heir records kicks off with a hit disciple of cheree by suicide from 1977. hi again to all our billions--we're still out here don't worry. happy birthday to us! this episode is releasing exactly 1 year after our first show, bad choices pt. 1--go listen to it. and as a birthday...
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ep 032: a brief history of every idea ive ever had
holy moly does anyone remember "all for love" from the three musketeers? it came out in 1993, and rod stewart, bryan adams, and sting really go hogs deep in this one. we talk about it for longer than anyone arguably should. but boy oh boy what a pretty song. ever wondered what dependability…
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ep 031: cheap yugoslavian lumber
the boys return from their break and analyze ty dolla sign's "don't judge me." anonymous 1 attempts to settle beef with his judging peers, anonymous 2 takes beef with rappers who get stuck, and we speak at length about the desire to fill up space after you sing in music. THEN THERE'S A 7/8 OUTRO....
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ep 030: like pears
in which dhr dissects madonna's "like a prayer" and wonders why it's just so goddamn good. this is the kinda song that makes u wanna pull grandpa off his deathbed and get him to dance with too!! we talk the use of slow introductions in songs, cellular melodic motives, gospel choir, the throwing…
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ep 029: it's quite finished
introducing anonymous number 5 who joins us for a special cast to talk about sampling, how he got into music, beat making, what you listen to and look for in music when you're not a big music theory nerd. and bioshock, jay z, and ramses shaffy. check out his "a remix, brother" on our channel…
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ep 028: welcome 2 buffet town
we dare each other to listen to a stupid ass song and wind up getting stuck in margaritaville for almost 2 hours. what an intense song about alcoholism and giving up. one of us had never heard it b4 and it kinda blew their mind. shout outs to jimmy for making an entire industry out of one stupid...
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ep 027: in which beethoven doesnt try 2 sell u viagra
what is there to like about classical music? we talk about what it actually has going for it, and what we still hold very dear 2 our hearts about it, despite being just so aggro in this podcast series about its failings. turns out it can be pretty cool if u r interested. most of the piano music…
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ep 026: the person your dad said he was
what is being intentional in music? does an improvisation or freestyle tossed off in 2 minutes have just as much going for it as a string quartet that had months of work poured into it? we discuss different genres of music, and the role that improvisation vs. intention plays in each of them,...
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ep 025: tater totsick
the boys talk about one of their favorite songs of all time. that came out when we were but kiddos. and made us all feel things. it's a wild ride. i hope we don't get taken down cuz i really like this one. welcome to our new guest who you all haven't heard before. it's nice to get not our voices…
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ep 024: fun times to punch holes
spring break has ended and the boys are back at it. we do a hit disciple this week on a psychedelic golden oldie from 1980's "underwater moonlight" called kingdom of love. we also get incredibly hung up on this one guitar riff for like 20 minutes that for the life of us we can't write down. so...
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ep 023: it's not a competition
music competitions tend to be where classical musicians lose interest in playing anymore. but they also are the so-called place where classical musicians get their big break. but they are also just inherently stupid and misguided. so what's the big deal? are music competitions just misguided...
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ep 022: not sued yet
dj rashad is on the brain. and chicago footwork. and we talk about "i don't give a fuck" from 2013 album double cup. this episode has some real intense rhythms in it. we realize they are much harder to understand and notate than melody, pitch, and harmony. but we try any way. hope you all enjoy....
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ep 021: i don't want the devil
we like video games. and we like video game music. so we each picked a good track of video game music to talk about. they are ninja gaiden: act 3 part 1, sonic 3: angel island act 2, and neir automata: memories of dust. if you all like video games too, you should go check out 8bit music theory:...
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ep 020: canadian denim demon
we talk about an old favorite song by leonard cohen called "suzanne." and we get really confused by the weird ass switch from 6/8 to 4/4 in the beginning of the song. and then we theorize about pronouns in music and what they mean in this day and age. what happened to the chorus that makes up our...
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ep 019: a cup of water in a giant circle
so we analyzed a song none of us like. as an experiment. to see if it would make us like it. it didn't. not gonna mention its title because there's a very good chance it gets taken down. we might be a little hard on this song, but you know what? anthony kiedis has $120 million according to some...
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ep 018: not guilty
the boys speak to classical music guilt and how we've dealt with it. we go back to the roots of our evil and try to figure out where it all started, and how it fueled us through juilliard. then we address a bigger issue--that of the ghosts of composers haunting all of us. we establish a glenn…
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ep 017: groundhog day
it's groundhog day. and in the spirit of lowering the bar even further, we don't even talk about music. we dig deep in the archives of our recording sessions back to when we first bought our mics to bring you a conspiracy theory as that runs as deep as the darkest burrow. please come and…
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ep 016: the haunted episode (a 100 ft beach ball)
hit disciples back and we analyze a song we love way too much. lucki's "count on me" from the chicago rapper's 2013 album "alternative trap." he was 16 when he made this track. that's nuts. we lose our minds about how good it is for like 2 hours. and we saw you all liked our last hiphop episode…
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ep 015: boyz party
it's a party in the bronx and we've stuffed a bunch of people into our little room to record a group hit disciple that our boy matt requested--we talk harmonic shop, and then conversation devolves into sexuality, boy bands, 90s vulnerability, and whatever else we can think of. special thanks to...
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ep 014: scream into my mouth
hit disciples is back with special guest: anonymous # 3!!! who joins us with a nice cute song of their choice. we talk about where home is. and i repeat many a time that the cantina band from star wars is evoked in this song. and macklemore sucks. and hey we're still here and not taken down yet…
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ep 013: we might get sued
i'm not gonna say the name of the song we analyze cuz i feel like it increases the likelihood of some algorithmic robot finding us and killing us. like the squiddies in the matrix. remember them? but this might be our last soundcloud podcast if we get flagged for copyright, so keep us in yr...
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ep 012: fart of a$$
hit disciples is back with the last podcast of 2017 and we analyzing "heart of glass" by blondie from the 1978 album parallel lines. we're talking bout what makes hits hit, and why this song bugs us but makes us happy still. and how the there's nice parallels between the lyrical idea of deception...
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ep 011: bored the platform
it's opposite day again and we switched table sides once more to talk about the music bidness. we come at from the angle of "what is a platform" for music in this day and age and why most of them suck. then we tell you want we want you as bad as uncle sam wants young american men. join us, send…
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ep 010: a few pointers
i hope ya'll like the 80s. hit disciples is back and we talk about the pointer sister's song "automatic." 1983 hit that revels in the joy of giving up caring about important things so that you can become a capitalist party robot. we all should be so lucky. pics of our analysis can be found on our...
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ep 009: we don't speak spanish
hit disciples is back with a club banger from the buena vista social club presents ibrahim ferrer. it's called bruca manigua and it's the first non-english song we've done. it's also the first one where we objectively suck at understanding what's happening and struggle a lot. so enjoy listening…
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ep 008: opposite day
we have a nice discussion on opposite day about if genres are changing. and what they used to be. and what they are now. and what they are becoming. and the death of rock coinciding with the rise of hip hop and that that's not nothing. hit disciples back soon.
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ep 006: i only have ice
we're back with another edition of hit disciples where we analyze the 1959 flamingos hit "only have eyes for you." it's a dope song. and we have fun. compare and contrast it to last week's "what becomes" and theorize what chord "YOU" is. taking a break from depressing discussions of classical...
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ep 005: hit disciples
episode 5 of the cast where our boys ask "what makes a hit hit?" we wanna know why music is so bumping. so we're going through all of it. year by year. bar by bar. chord by chord. word by word. inaugural test episode of this concept. first of many to come. what becomes of the broken hearted by...
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ep 004: moneymusic
the first podcast following our george lucas-esque juilliard prequel trilogy. we talk money and music. and dead heir records. and jobs. and if musicians should ever get paid again. happy podcast thursday. xo music by young thug
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ep 003: bad choices pt. 3
episode 3 of the podcast in which our heroes offer some fatherly advice to the next generation, give a brief history lesson on classism and music, deconstruct the claim that music that needs to be "saved" and decide to keep doing dumb shit. music by christopher lee and 1000 jingles for our lord
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ep 002: bad choices pt. 2
episode 2 of the podcast, in which our boys start to realize they fucked up, call out some of those who wronged us, get into why classical music blows, and play some heroes of might and magic. music by titus andronicus, the sea life, and 1000 jingles for our lord
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ep 001: bad choices pt. 1
the remastered, reissued on vinyl, deluxe edition of deadheirrecords: episode 1 of the pod in which our heroes make a first attempt at sitting on their couch and talking to each other, talk shop about what gave them the dumb idea to apply to juilliard back in the day, dissect some of the early...
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