Completely Conspicuous 121: Bad to the Bone

The podcast's back with special guest Jay Breitling, who joins me as we continue our discussion of music as a torture device. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:

- Breitling: Bad covers by inappropriate people

- Case in point: Lenny Kravitz's "American Woman"

- Another: Big Mountain's cover of "Baby I Love Your Way"

- Watch out for white guys with dreads

- Kumar: Bob Seger's "Shakedown"

- Kenny Loggins was the patron saint of crappy '80s soundtrack hits

- The Bruce Hornsby button

- Dube: Arthur Lizie came up with the Beverly Hills Cop genre of music

- Footloose was the Rosetta Stone of Beverly Hills Cop music

- Breitling: Rockapella sucks

- Michael Winslow was the ultimate beatboxer

- Breitling: GNR's "Used to Love Her"

- Liked it, but heard it so many times he got sick of it

- Kumar: Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"

- Breitling defends Christie Brinkley's honor

- Smash Mouth's "All Star" is evil and catchy

- Steve Miller's whole head sucks

- Beach Boys' "Kokomo" was doomed by the Stamos Factor

- Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" supersucked

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

- Midlake - Acts of Man

- Jawbreaker - Gutless

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The National's song is on the album High Violet on 4AD. Visit High Violet to download the song for free.

The Midlake song is on the album The Courage of Others on Bella Union Records. Download the song for free at Insound.

The Jawbreaker song is on the reissue of the album Unfun on Blackball Records. Download the song for free at Rolling Stone.

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The 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 at his blog.

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