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The Beat Generation
by Bad Boys Media
Season 3 of The Beat Generation is here, a look at the music throughout the years that changed our world. From the Beat Generation musicians of 60’s to the musicians we grew up with through the decades, they have become know for their influence on the music that has shaped the soundtrack of our lives. Simply known as The Beat Generation.The Beat Generation got its name from the 50’s writers that inspired so much music. During Season 3, Shayne Brian & Andrew Hackett look at albums that have changed our lives by artists that have changed the face of musical landscape.A full show listing and a podcast of this show can be found at http://facebook.com/musicthatchangedtheworld.So sit back, put your headphones on, crank up the dial and journey with us into The Beat Generation.
Episodes
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Nirvana - Nevermind
Journey with us this week on our Season 3 finale, as we take a look at an album by an band who shined a light on the Seattle Grunge movement, were responsible for one of the biggest bands in the world, Foo Fighters and single handedly changed the music industry. The band was Nirvana and the album...
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Journey with us this week as we take a look at a homegrown Australian classic, one that is possibly the greatest Australian album of all time, not so much for its effect on the music industry, more for its effect on helping build a bridge between white and black Australia. Of course the band is…
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Journey with us this week as we take a trip into Motown with arguably the greatest funk, soul and r&b artist of all time - Stevie Wonder and his landmark album Innervisions. Shayne and Andrew take a look at the man who reshaped R&B music with his unique blend of synthesisers and electronic...
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Journey with us this week in Episode 9 as we head to the Dark Side of the Moon and explore the world of Pink Floyd with their classic album from 1973. Shayne Brian and Andrew Hackett take a look at an album that would go down in history as arguably the greatest concept album ever, one that still...
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Van Morrison - Moondance
Journey with us this week in Episode 8 and one of the most iconic artists of all time Van Morrison and the album that officially kickstarted his solo career… Moondance. Shayne Brian and Andrew Hackett take a look at the songs that have gone down in music history from an album the set the path for...
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Journey with us this week in Episode 7 and our look at the album that rebooted a career of one of the biggest artists from the Jersey Shore - of course we are talking about Bruce Springsteen and Born in the USA. Shayne Brian and Andrew Hackett take a look at the man they called The Boss and he…
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Michael Jackson - Thriller
Journey with us this week in Episode 6 and a look at the album that did more for the reconciliation of black and white than any other album in history - Michael Jackson's Thriller. Shayne Brian and Andrew Hackett take a look at the iconic release from 1982 that was the highest selling album of…
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - David Bowie - Life On Mars? Part 2
Journey with us this week in Episode 5 and part 2 of our look at the David Bowie Trilogy of albums that forever changed the way we look at David Bowie, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. This is David Bowie - Life on Mars? Shayne Brian and Andrew Hackett take a look at the Bowie years...
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - David Bowie - Life On Mars? Part 1
Journey with us this week in Episode 4 and a look at the David Bowie Trilogy of albums that forever changed the way we look at David Bowie, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. This is David Bowie - Life on Mars? Shayne Brian and Andrew Hackett take a look at the Bowie years from…
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Dire Straits - Brother's In Arms
This week we go bad to 1985 when we took up arms...Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits. Brothers In Arms was an album that spent a staggering 34 weeks at number 1 in Australia (a record that has never been beaten), and a tour that sold 2.5 million tickets and once again in Australia set a record for...
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
This week we take a look at one of the most iconic and influential albums in Motown's history - Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" What's Going On has been proclaimed as the album which changed black music forever and it is one of the greatest socially conscious music albums of all time. If the…
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Albums that Changed Our Lives - U2 - Rattle & Hum
Sit back, put your headphones on, crank up the dial and journey with us this week in Episode 1 and the year Love Came to Town and U2 released Rattle & Hum. This is The Beat Generation. This is the start of an incredible season which will encompass artists from the 60’s like The Beatles and The...
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The Beat Generation Explores the Music of Yes and Jon Anderson (Part 2)
This week Shayne Brian takes the Beat Generation listeners on the second half of a journey through the progressive rock world of Yes and it's lead singer Jon Anderson. This week we discuss Jon's Animation album, the 90125 album by Yes and a 2016 album, Invention of Knowledge, a collaboration with...
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The Beat Generation Explores the Music of Yes and Jon Anderson (Part 1)
This week Shayne Brian takes the Beat Generation listeners on a journey through the progressive rock world of Yes and it's lead singer Jon Anderson. Speaking with Jon about his spiritual influence in the writings, the profound impact the name Yes had on the band and the success overseas, the show...
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The Beat Generation Chats with Aussie Idol Shannon Noll
Last week Shayne Brian had the opportunity to chat with Shannon Noll about his music and his journey on The Bad Boys Lockdown so it was a perfect opportunity to explore the music he has created over the last 20 years. The interview was genuinely funny, the man himself was as true blue Aussie as…
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The Beat Generation Boards Starship & Jefferson Starship (Part 2)
Last week we looked at how the band that is now known as Jefferson Starship had its beginnings. And we finished with possibly one of their most famous tracks from the 70’s Jane. With the 80’s came some big changes, the least of which was their name change to just Starship. In reality Jefferson...
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The Beat Generation Boards the Jefferson Airplane & Jefferson Starship
This week on The Beat Generation, we take a look at one of the most iconic bands of the 60,s 70’s 80’s through to today, Jefferson Airplane and it’s follow up band Jefferson Starship. In part one of our interview, we chat with the current line up of Jefferson Starship and look at the music legacy...
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The Beat Generation Explores the Work of Shane Howard - The Solo Years - Part 2
This week on The Beat Generation, we continue our chat with Shane Howard the man behind the musical legacy of Goanna, a short lived band with a massive impact on the Oz music scene. Of course those who fell in love with the sound of The Goanna Band also embraced the music of Shane Howard during…
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The Beat Generation Explores the Work of Shane Howard - The Goanna Years - Part 1
This week on The Beat Generation, we chat with Shane Howard who guides us through some of the stories of his days in Goanna including the iconic Solid Rock which denounced the injustice that Aboriginal Australia has endured for over 200 years. His music and message has remained a legacy in...
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The Beat Generation Explores Classic Oz Rock With Graham 'Buzz' Bidstrup - Part 2
In this second episode of season 2 of The Beat Generation, it is part 2 of the chat with Oz Rock Music Legend, Graham 'Buzz' Bidstrup. From sharing the stage with one of the greatest bands of 70’s and 80’s, the Angels, through to the heart felt legacy left by Indigenous artist Jimmy Little that…
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The Beat Generation Explores Classic Oz Rock With Graham 'Buzz' Bidstrup
In this first episode of season 2 of The Beat Generation, Shayne Brian chats with Oz Rock Music Legend, Graham 'Buzz' Bidstrup. There are not many artists who can say they have looked into the infamous little black book that Bon Scott wrote all of his songs in, or start a band that emerged out of…
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Fighting For Our Future
In this week's edition of the Beat Generation we look at the Doomsday Clock and the bands that are Fighting For Our Future. We also speak with Birds of Tokyo's Adam Weston about the song Empires. As the Beat Generation bands sing their songs of freedom, the Doomsday Clock inches even closer to...
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The New Protest Era
This week on the Beat Generation we take a look at the New Protest Era, focusing on the 80's and 90's. We speak with Shane Howard from Goanna and get into some Midnight Oil. The late 70’s and early 80’s seemed a lifetime from the atrocities of Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement, a dim and very...
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The Rise of Punk
This week on The Beat Generation we look at the Rise of Punk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Champions of the Environment.
This week on The Beat Generation we take a look at songs with an environmental message. Later in the show we catch up with one of Australia’s greatest environmental artists from the 1980’s, Shane Howard from Goanna. While many Beat Generation artists were campaigning against the fighting in...
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Roots, Rasta and Reggae
This week the Beat Generation looks at the rise of reggae and the iconic artists that help build a genre that is rooted deep in the beliefs of the Beat Generation although not influenced by the 50's writers. The original Beat Generation poet, Allen Ginsberg and the father of reggae Bob Marley…
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The Rise of Hip Hop
The effect of The Beat Generation was being felt across the world throughout the indigenous community as the 60’s protests against white supremacy gained momentum. In the early 70’s violence was spilling into the streets of the Bronx, gangs that were formed to clean up the streets of growing drug...
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The Rise of 80's Music for a Cause
The 80’s seemed a long way from the 50’s Beat Generation and their ideals of revolution and a new way of living. The ideal world that Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs wrote about was coming seemed to be coming to fruition. The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 lead to the end of the cold war two...
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The Rise of Soul
The Beat Generation, the original writers of the 50’s, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and, to some extent, Gregory Corso, were the typical example of white middle class America, yet they wrote about suffering and the 40’s post war counter culture that was rising. At the time...
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The Rise of Progressive Rock
The 60’s era of protests, freedom of speech and free love started with a bang and when Woodstock happened a shift was occurring. Bands that we thought would be together forever like the Beatles parted ways. Amongst the tears and cries of anguish, artists had embraced their spiritual independence...
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Into the Mystic
The Summer of Love was coming to an ubrupt end. The dropout culture was beginning to unravel and those experimenting with the drug culture were seeking other sources of inspiration. The Beat Generation had spawned a counter culture that was diametrically opposed to the anger that was spilling…
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The Age of Aquarius
It was 1965 and the summer of revolution was about to be replaced with the summer of love. The ideals passed on by the beat generation started to move away from protesting about the outward issues and started to look inward at ourselves. There was a spiritual revolution happening as the love...
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Protest Songs of the 60's
The Beat Generation was an era of introduction into amazing ideas that challenged the core fabric of society. With authors like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, the landscape started to change. Little did we know at the time that the Beat Generation would have an effect that...
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Season 3 of The Beat Generation is here, a look at the music throughout the years that changed our world. From the Beat Generation musicians of 60’s to the musicians we grew up with through the decades, they have become know for their influence on the music that has shaped the soundtrack of our lives. Simply known as The Beat Generation.The Beat Generation got its name from the 50’s writers that inspired so much music. During Season 3, Shayne Brian & Andrew Hackett look at albums that have changed our lives by artists that have changed the face of musical landscape.A full show listing and a podcast of this show can be found at http://facebook.com/musicthatchangedtheworld.So sit back, put your headphones on, crank up the dial and journey with us into The Beat Generation.
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