Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

Episode 2 of our Wrecking Crew series features one of the best pop songs of all time followed by one of the worst, with some okay ones in between! Try not to get too excited as we discuss how these incredible musicians could work with just about anything. 

Today's tracks: 

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

The Fifth Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic

The Routers - Let's Go (Pony)

Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Deep Purple

Ritchie Valens - Donna

The "Let's Go" montage: 

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night

Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?

John Fogerty - Centerfield

Slade - Give Us a Goal

The Cars - Let's Go

Hoodoo Gurus - Like Wow - Wipeout!

Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon - Dog Show

The Seatbelts - Doggy Dog

England FanChants - England (Clap)

Cohosts: Rich Bunnell, John McFerrin, Amanda Rodgers

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GoddammitbabyyouknowIain'tlyintoyouThisIsDiscordAndRhyyyymeYEEEEEAAAAHHHHWWWW!!! Van Halen was a cultural phenomenon in the late 1970s and early 1980s until David Lee Roth split with the band, and they’re one of the first bands that John had any real opinions on in his journey of getting into rock music. With this album, the band largely redefined the boundaries of what an electric guitar could do in a rock context, but they also found a way to make this boundary-pushing fun and light on its feet in a way that largely helped shape rock music for the next decade. About half of this album is radio staples, but the other half has some real gems as well, so come listen to John lead a discussion (with Rich and Mike) about a great album from what was, for a few years, an absolutely great band.

Cohosts: John McFerrin, Mike DeFabio, Rich Bunnell

Complete show notes: https://discordpod.com/listen/171-van-halen-van-halen-1978

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This Is Comp is back! We're reviving our compilation series with a great one: The Wrecking Crew!, released in 2015 as a soundtrack to the excellent documentary film of the same name. The songs on this comp cover a huge range of genre and quality, but the session musicians are always top-notch. From weird crossover country to Mexican folk to one of the finest pop songs ever recorded, we had a ton of fun with this first batch of songs and we're thrilled to be back. 
Cohosts: Ben Marlin, Amanda Rodgers, Sean Rodgers
Songs: 
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Moments - Walk Right In
Gary Lewis and the Playboys - This Diamond Ring
Jewel Akens - The Birds and the Bees
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba
Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel
The "Be My Baby" montage:
 
 
 
Daryl Hall & John Oates - The Last Time
Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
The Afghan Whigs - Algiers
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Clinic - I.P.C. Subeditors Dictate Our Youth
The Magnetic Fields - Candy
Deerhunter - Vox Humana
Billy Joel - Say Goodbye to Hollywood
Camera Obscura - Eighties Fan
The Barracudas - (I Wish It Could Be) 1965 Again
Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve
The Clash - The Card Cheat
 
 
Links: 
The Wrecking Crew! liner notes on Discogs
Lesley Gore on the T.A.M.I. Show

It … is happening … again! This week, Producer Mike rings in 2026 with NorCal producer DJ Shadow’s 1996 masterpiece Endtroducing….., whose release was a watershed moment for the art of instrumental hip-hop. It’s in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first album to be composed entirely out of sampled sounds, but focusing on the technical achievement seriously undersells the depths of Shadow’s artistry. This is lively, organic music, with compositions that feel like sculptures crafted from the clay of music history, and the entire 21st-century DJing movement stands on the foundation of what Shadow accomplished here. Mike himself is a composer of sample-based music (including our awesome theme song) and a long-time admirer of Shadow’s work, and he’s invited Rich and returning special guest Shivam Bhatt to deconstruct an album that builds a mighty head of steam out of a grain of salt.
Cohosts: Mike DeFabio, Rich Bunnell, Shivam Bhatt
Complete show notes: https://discordpod.com/listen/170-dj-shadow-endtroducing-1996
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It feels like there shouldn't be anything left to say about The Dark Side of the Moon. It's one of the best-selling albums of all time, and it's consistently rated as one of the greatest albums of all time by critics. If you tune into a classic rock station for more than a couple of hours, chances are better than 50/50 that you'll hear a track or three from it get played. It's so common to hear tracks from here out of context that it's become easy to forget that these tracks, when heard in order from start to finish, constitute one of the most stunningly coherent artistic statements of the album era, and that makes it an album that Discord & Rhyme had to cover in depth at some point. Join Amanda, Mike, Rich, and John as they discuss the 1973 classic that transformed Pink Floyd from a niche-famous British prog-adjacent band into one of the most famous bands in the world. 
Cohosts: Rich Bunnell, Mike DeFabio, John McFerrin, Amanda Rodgers
Complete show notes: https://discordpod.com/listen/169-pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-1973
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