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//Music Friends//
by Danny Bennett
//Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The selection is always recorded live and posted as a teaser for the next episode//Additional segments are posted with additional Music Friends here and there//
Episodes
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//28//
//00:00//The Beatles' Revolver (1966)//On R.I.P. The Bunker*//On Cultural Scripture//On Church v. John Lennon by the numbers//On anthemic cultural shifts//On re-shaping conscious trajectories//On Revolver as the Sonic Moon Landing//On a Billy Elliot quote for the ages//On revolutionary...
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//28//
//00:00//The Beatles’ Revolver (1966)//On RIP The Bunker and my Mic sounding good//On The Beatles v. Jesus Christ//On secular scripture//On The Sonic Moon Landing//On Tomorrow Never Knows the flag in Lunar Soil//On ‘If Rock n’ Roll disappeared we could recreate all of it with Revolver’//On...
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//27//
//00:00//Neil Young’s On The Beach (1974)//On Music Friends via Geese//On the perils and glory of vinyl addiction//On Neil enters the chat//On Neil as we know enters the chat//On American Hero Neil//On cautiously optimistic depression rock//On perfectly imperfect Neil//On Wurlitzer slap slap...
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//26//
//00:00//Coheed and Cambria's Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe [New Entities Edition] (2025)//On Koi Boyz assemble//On straight into THE LORE//On intimate Claudio//On Space Opera//On thumbs medium//On Dillon SMASHING the Nick Fell question//On King James Claudio//On Zakk Dickinson and...
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//25//
//00:00//Tom Petty's Wildflowers (1994)//On love at first listen//On a true Music Friends record//On coming to it through The Heartland//On subconscious Wildflowers memory//On a Happy Music Sad Family record//On Most Things We Worry About Never Happen Anyway//On nourishment//On league-leading WPM...
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//24//
//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's GNX (2024)//Recorded 2-18-2025//On commission assembled//On Peakaboo, Coach!//On an immidiate pantheon Los Angeles Album for episode//24//On Kobe 2-4 in July 1-0//On a bit Carter IIIish//On meticulous Kenny//On breezier Kendrick//On Grand Nationals not bein' rational//On...
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//23//
//00:00//Lou Reed's Transformer (1972)//On going solo!//On being hard to pin down//On all roads leading to Little Richard//On being smart, sensitive and intense//On electroshock//On The Beatles, again//On being in the main tent of the Andy Warhol circus//On Velvet Underground's not so underground...
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//22//
//00:00//Peter Gabriel's So (1986)//THE DAD POD//On Daddest-Mommest albums//On Albums as social phenomenon//On Generational Sgt. Pepper's importance//On Art Pop World Rock//On Gabriel out of the closet//On the JF "In Your Eyes" necklace//On "Is That Jimmy Buffet's music??"//On Bumper Cars...
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//21//
//00:00//Mariachi El Bronx's Mariachi El Bronx (I) (2009)//On listening changing over time//On pod brain v. music brain//On [Cough-f-theran]//On tasteful cultural appropriation//On better to outro than fadeaway//On your whole life to make your first album and 4 weeks to make your second//On Aqua...
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//20//
//00:00//Taylor Swift's 1989 (2014)//On the most special guest//On grandiose albums//On the first MF double album//On a shining light in the darkness of residency year one//On the lazy MJ comp//On a maybe concept album//On a synth pop masterpiece//On the Capitol One commercial arc//On Polaroid...
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//19//
//00:00//Disclosure's Settle (2013)//On here with (in person!)//On albums as friends//On where they buried Al Capone and house music was born//On what isn't House?//On vocalists as instruments//On BPM CSVs//On the bellwether Disclosure track//On the rare sucky Weeknd feature//On Blick Bassey...
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//18//
//00:00//Daft Punk's Alive 2007 (2007)//On JF three-peat (weezy voice)//On pre-hyper internet information transfer//On close encounters with the EDM gods//On religious live experiences//On every man's losing their shirt moment//On feedback robo-rock//On remaining human behind the masks//On disco...
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//16//
//00:00//JAY-Z's The Blueprint (2001)//On salute to a fallen Music Friend//On loss//On boss music//On re-purposing the Jay-Z picture//On stepping through the Biggie Smalls opening//On Jay-Z's diamond which pressure created//On not writing anything down//On Ye//On missing the old Kanye//On cutting…
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//15//
//00:00//Brand New's The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)//On the essence//On beauty in the exploration of darkness//On the crossfade intersecting loop chant thing//On point-counterpoint//On to emo and beyond//On the Brand New ark//On Brand New @ MSG//On the best part of doing this...
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//13//
//00:00//Middle Brother's Middle Brother (2011)//On odes to things that aren't had//On peak rock-bottom Isbell//On mood and/or audience//On Orbison karaoke//On Wilco-adjacent//On Newport Not-So-Folk Festival's history//On Middle Brother principal symmetry//On the grand Deertick conversation 15...
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//11//
//00:00//New Found Glory's Sticks And Stones (2002)//On summer lovin'//On the genesis of sweating girls//On albums with memory//On riffs as hooks//On deep drumming lineage//On tasteful heaving noises//On downhill uptempo emo-pop//On peak information//On peak NFG//On spousal musical enjoyment//...
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//10//
//00:00//Gustav Holst's The Planets (1918)//On JFII//On the solar system of emotions//On war vibz//On the Lusitania//On Mars, Jupiter and Neptune//On suites, compositions, movements//On melodic plagiarism//On all roads leading to Holst//On Kalamazoo!//On Mars as a double IPA and Jupiter as a…
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//9//
//00:00//Steven Wilson's Hand Cannot Erase (2015)//On crushingly depressing songs//On all concept record roads leading to loneliness//On dulcimers and chapman sticks//On Floyd vibz//On vignette roulette//On the internet making it easier to be alone//On aliens?// //(43:20)//The Beatles' Let it Be...
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//8//
//00:00//Green Day's American Idiot (2004)//On dorm life releases//On relatability//On strip mall depression//On super great records post-greatest hits records//On the paradox of selling out//On hailing Jesus of Suburbia//On Broadway runs//On validating Billie Joe as Saint Jimmy and Saint Jimmy…
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//00:00//Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)//On constituent parts of thematic rock//On one part empathy, two parts essential pop, one part cultural scripture//On having mental issues or whatever//On Us Us Us and Them Them Them//On high art with the music//On primordial mental health...
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//00:00//Beck's Guero (2005)//On road trip albums//On cinematic vibz//On multi-instrumentalist Beck//On congruence//On the long bread of the Dust Bros//On digital robo-rock//On the complete Beck-ography//On weirdo maybe-Scientologist Beck// //(33:12)//The Avalanches' Since I Left You (2000)//On...
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//5//
//00:00//Nas' It Was Written (1996)//On The Wire S4//On ghetto reporters//On Trackmasters slickness//On the power of opening with A Change Is Gonna Come//On the relentlessness of Shootouts//On Nasir vs. Sean//On Nasology//On S/Os to ringtone albums//On inventing longevity//On Nas on the list//...
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//4//
//00:00//Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden (1988)//On the character of a favorite album//On post-rock's patient zero//On expanding musical vocabulary//On the Radiohead arc//On stitching together a masterpiece in the dark//On Miles Davis echoes and Pete Townshend apparitions//On the Talk Talk holy...
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//3//
//00:00//The Hold Steady's Boys and Girls In America (2006)//On perpetually, sonically youthful//On the truth being in the keys//On Finn, Craig doing Kerouac, Jack doing Dylan, Bob//On psychological solo cups//On Teeth Dreams stans//On Bob Dylan at the end//On being hard on the heart and soft to...
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//1//
//00:00//Explanation of the Music Friends concept// //(01:11)//Preview of episode//2//
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
//Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The selection is always recorded live and posted as a teaser for the next episode//Additional segments are posted with additional Music Friends here and there//
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//Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The...
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