The show notes...
Topics:
- What is a guilty pleasure?
- American Idol as a presumed guilty pleasure
- No stigma attached to liking old unfashionable music
- Now mainstream pop culture can be guilty pleasures
- Time makes formerly unhip bands cool
- Guilty pleasures are completely subjective
- Rush fans have a serious inferiority complex
- The denial phase
- We don't listen to music closely anymore
- Guilty displeasures
- It's hip to like bad movies
- Going to see Loverboy for the opening act
- Small doses
- Transitioning from the Bee Gees to Zeppelin
- Disco Demolition Night was the turning point
- Nevermind demolished hair metal
- Dube was at ground zero of the Seattle scene
- Identifying artists as "that song"
- Indie rock snobs
- Satellite radio fizzles out
- Bonehead of the Week
Music:
- The Raveonettes - Last Dance
- Joel Plaskett - Down, Down, Down
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
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The Raveonettes song is on the band's forthcoming album In and Out of Control on Vice Records. You can download the track here.
The Joel Plaskett song is on the album Three on Maple Music. You can download the song here.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart song is on the band's self-titled album on Slumberland Records. The song is courtesy of IODA Promonet:
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
"Come Saturday" (mp3)from "Come Saturday"
(Slumberland)
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More On This AlbumThe opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography here.
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