Completely Conspicuous 488: Dig for Fire (Solo Beatles-Living Colour, part 3)

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we discuss musical blindspots: I dig into George Harrison's Brainwashed and Brian checks out Living Colour's Stain. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Jay: George Harrison's posthumous release
- Never heard anything from this on the radio
- Took repeated listens for it to click
- Ends with George and his son chanting together
- Harrison's solo work after first album is noticeably flawed
- Harrison worked on this album for 14 years
- Jeff Lynne production doesn't overwhelm Brainwashed
- Jay: All three solo Beatles albums I listened to were good
- Brian: The third Living Colour record is more aggressive
- Very angry, dark album
- Timely lyrical themes that would work today
- Doug Wimbish brings a different sound to Living Colour
- Industrial sounding, lots of sampling
- Band split up in '95
- Album was out of print for years after a lawsuit over its name
- Watching rock stars age is strange
- Robert Plant's stayed true to himself
- Next up: Jay will explore the Mountain Goats catalog, Brian will check out Buffalo Tom

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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 blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.