Bowie Vs. Dylan

Happy continuing New Years, everybody! On this episode, Charlie discusses Arthur Russell's 1986 album "World of Echo", which is his entry for the "Albums That Hit Us Hard in 2020" theme, despite it clearly not coming out in 2020.  Jake listens to it and discusses as well, but thought it might have come out 2020 for all the influences he hears from it in today's new-fangled minimalist sad-sack reverb bandz. Bet poor Arthur didn't know he'd created a new musical micro-genre, did he, on this episode of Louder Than Sound.

Happy New Years, everybody! On this episode, Jake discusses Kahil El'zabar's 2020 album "America the Beautiful", which is his entry for the "Albums That Hit Us Hard in 2020" theme.  Chaz listens to it as well, and discusses as well, but gets distracted as usual by making bongo drum noises with his mouth, which is his wont, but he doesn't quite get that only other bongo drums can understand him, and our audience is made up of about 25% bongo drums and 75% human people, according to our latest metrics. But that's 2021 for you, isn't it, on this episode of Louder Than Sound.

Merry Christmas Day, everybody! On this episode, Charlie discusses Sufjan Steven's 2006 holiday classic "Songs For Christmas", which is his entry for the "Christmas Albums" theme. They're all EP's, but whatever, he says out loud, but jovially, and as a card-carrying hipster, he is required to, but in fact enjoys it un-ironically.  Jake enjoys it as well, he swears, but as a card-carrying winter cocktail kind of guy, he may have had too much of both the immense playlist and of course those fine winter cocktails. We swear we didn't plan to put out all of our episodes on Fridays just to have this land on Christmas, we swear, on this episode of Louder Than Sound.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!  On this episode, Jake discusses the good, bad, and the existentially ugly of Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift For You!", which is his entry for the "Christmas Albums" theme.  Chaz rocks around the Christmas tree as well, but straight up knocks himself out running into that famed Wall of Sound. It's a holiday delight for everyone besides Charlie, who is now lying unconscious on the floor of his home office, on this edition of Louder Than Sound.

Chaz presents his weird thoughts on Bjork's weird Drawing Restraint 9 as his choice for the agreed-upon "One-Artist OST" theme. Jake also tries to discuss it from that one and only time he will ever listen to it at the gentle behest of the above-mentioned Chaz, but each of them just ends up panting, squelching, and slamming their pinkies inelegantly on gamelan chimes. It's an honest but doomed attempt at a truly experimental podcast structure, on this edition of Louder Than Sound.

Jake presents the English version of his French thoughts on Benoit Charest's The Triplets of Belleville as his choice for the agreed-upon "One-Artist OST" theme. Charlie also discusses it from that one recent time he listened to it at the gentle behest of the above-mentioned Jake, but also because he's been quite familiar with it since it came out in 2003. It's probably more the latter than the former, to be honest. Bon appetit! For your ears, that is, on this edition of Louder Than Sound.

Charlie presents his nerdy nerdy thoughts on Cluster's Zuckerzeit as his choice for the agreed-upon "Gateway Albums" theme.  Jake also discusses it from that one recent time he listened to it at the gentle behest of the above-mentioned Charlie. The ground-breaking majesty of the vintage synthesizers heard therein are made evermore monumental when the two brothers who host this podcast, so like the two communal "music-brothers" who made this album, find a way to program their synths to sound exactly like embarrassingly executed German accents. Nein!  On this edition of Louder Than Sound...

Jake presents his thoughts, all the way from his mere boy years to his current mannish boy years, on Muddy Waters' aptly titled Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live  as his choice for the agreed-upon "Gateway Albums" theme.  Charlie also discusses it from that one recent time he listened to it at the gentle behest of the above-mentioned Jake, and boy is he excited!  He keeps whooping and hollering at the top of his lungs any time Jake says anything at all, but mostly when he spells simple 3-letter words. That's M...AAAAA...N... on the latest edition of Louder Than Sound.

Special guest host Nancy Beck (AKA Jake and Charlie's indomitable mother) brings her musical knowledge and enthusiasm to one of her all-time favorite LPs, the 1976 album Luxury Liner by Emmylou Harris. The boys listen in rapt attention like some kind of throwback to their childhood story time before giving their personal, and wildly divergent, opinions on the country classic.

Louder Than Sound: a podcast about music for people who like music made by people who love music. Charlie introduces Elza Soares, an 80-something samba singer who is a living legend in her native Brazil. In 2015, she released Woman at the End of the World, an explosive departure from her previous dozens of albums and possibly her finest work. Jake dips his toes into Elza's wild decades-long career and lets us know his initial thoughts.

Chaz' Special Secret Diary: August 23rd, 2021: Dear diary, I just want to tell you how special of an ep of BvD we just recorded today!  I was so funny and insightful about Bowie's albums list, and Jake also happened to be there. Chaz' Special Secret Diary: September 15th, 2021: Dear diary, remember that sweet sweet ep of BvD I told you I recorded a few weeks ago, the one where I'll be considered for the Pulitzer?  And Jake was there but just stared at me and drooled the whole time?  Well...it's not been published yet.  Guess I'll have to talk with the boys in the IT department! Chaz' Special Secret Diary: November 1st, 2021: Dear diary, I've become perturbed, because the legendary lost episode of BvD from August still hasn't surfaced, and I hate to rag on the guy, but Jake has REALLY DROPPED THE BALL ON THIS ONE.  He's the one who's responsible for putting them up and he JUST HASN'T, and here it is nearly Webbys season.  Chaz' Special Diary: December 6th, 2021: It's so cold, diary.  I fear this will be my

Louder Than Sound, the new podcast from the fellas who brought you 64 episodes of Bowie Vs. Dylan, is back for a second go. Jake presents the context and background for Soul Coughing's 1994 LP Ruby Vroom as his choice for the agreed-upon "1st Albums" theme. Charlie gives his thoughts on a terribly unique album that up until now he had never apparently listened to. Does he like it? Does he hate it? Will that affect your own feelings about it? Listen to find out.

From the fine folks who brought you Bowie Vs. Dylan comes a new podcast that explores the enormous world of music. For the inaugural episode, Charlie presents his studied thoughts on Tom Waits' 1973 LP Closing Time. Learn along with Jake about Waits' shadowy past and try to figure out how on earth he actually sings like that. Top it off with Jake's take on the album, not necessarily from a place of expertise, but from that one most recent time he listened to it at the gentle behest of the above-mentioned Charlie.  

Wow, the reason that Chaz and Jake haven't been providing fresh new episodes of this podcast for the past couple of months has been because we got lost in the desert on an annual BvD Board of Directors-mandated team building exercise.  We almost starved, too!  That Charlie really was looking pretty tasty for a couple of days there, wasn't he? Anyway, we're back, but we've had no access to the news or to the outside world for most of 2020.  Did we miss anything?   (Shuffles papers). Are we sure that this Bowie release schedule is correct?  How many 90's-era soul patches must we endure? (Shuffles different papers). Dylan's still BACK?!  Like, for realskis?  That's rad! Like you are, dear listeners, who will never hold it against us that we refuse to catch on the state of domestic affairs, not to mention global ones, on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.

In the latest episode of Louder Than Sound, Jake presents his thoughts on an actual, real-life classic album: Bruce Springsteen's 1982 LP Nebraska. Come along as Jake (and by extension, the Boss himself) weaves a sweet web of tantalizing info about the home demos that somehow became a masterpiece. Charlie (who never really got into ol' Bruce) listens to it for the very first time and lets you know if he thinks it's all it's cracked up to be.

Welcome to Louder Than Sound, the new podcast series from real-life brothers Jake and Charlie, which finally answers the only question they didn't ask on Bowie vs. Dylan: What's better? Jake or Charlie's taste in music? Listen every Friday as they discuss favorite albums from their deep record collections based on themes, reactively guess and react to each other's reactions to their reactions! Welcome to Louder Than Sound!

Here's one or more sentences to describe this shockingly (long) final regular-run episode of the shockingly (all figures relative to actual popular) popular podcast, Bowie vs. Dylan: It's the last one. Jake: Are you cryin', Chaz, because I'm not cryin'. Chaz: I'm not cryin' either, Jake. Jake: I'm DEFINITELY not not cryin'. Chaz: Wait, does that mean you ARE cryin'?  Your double negative is confusing, as are all your double negatives, and frankly, all of your words altogether. Jake: I'll let you be the judge, but just know that I had to get a new beer that I'm not not cryin' in, and buy a new keyboard that I didn't not ruin because I was not not cryin' on it, and Lord I hope it comes via not Amazon in time for me to finish this one-or-more-sentences blurb about this not not last episode of Bowie vs. Dylan.  Chaz: (not not cryin') Jake: (not not cryin') Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVT_mvvZLo Chaz: I'm Charlie, and I like Bowie, as well as superty-duper long episodes of the podcast I co

Hey, what you can say about 2016?  Besides, of course, GREAT YEAR.   Absolutely nothing upsetting happened that continues and will continue to reverberate through the political ages, nor did, like, 154 important musician/celebrities die unexpectedly within what seemed like a 6 month span. Nope, good one, 2016.  Way to go!   You won't find us complaining, not even because David Bowie passed away, because hey, he released an amazing album just before that that took on a whole new and deeper meaning immediately.  Eh?  And even though Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature, which must have seemed like a huge bummer for him, at least he stretched the boundaries to their breaking point for actually accepting the coveted prize.  All of Bowie's albums shot to the top of the charts, Dylan was 2 million kroner richer, and me and Charlie are about to ride off into the sunset having talked about it way too much. So at least we got that going for us, which is nice, on this 2016 edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.

Can I interest you in a vintage year for this podcast episode, maybe a 1965, perhaps? No more Bowie dominance in the year 1977, no more personal rock bottoms for poor, lost Bob Dylan, and even more so his embattled family.  Just sweet, pure, unadulterated, mythic, apocryphal, top of the world musical dominance from Bob Dylan that will last forever and ever, er, I already forgot about my opening metaphor, which if I remember correctly was a bottle of wine, so...maybe...Dylan fans will drink it up heartily while Bowie fans will swish it around for a sec then spit it out onto their couches.  Does that satisfy the metaphorical requirements? What's that you say?  What was Bowie doing in Dylan's best year, whoops spoiler alert?  Ummm, was he even David Bowie yet?  Weren't there some flailing attempts at bands and singles and...other stuff?  What's that you say?  Who cares? Charlie and all the other Bowie fans out there care, that's who, on this edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.

1977, ho hum, nothing much happening here at Bowie vs. Dylan podcast, just a random year of the comings and goings of David Bowie and/or Bob Dylan.  Let's see, what might be the rub?  Probably an album or two apiece from the two of them of varying quality and breadth, some number of singles from Bowie and maybe one from Dylan (if we're lucky, that is), a tour or something, certainly the ridiculous exercise of assigning points to their subjective pursuits coming out in the wash to basically a tie.  I mean, that's been the story, more or less, since this podcast's inception 61 episodes ago, what could possibly be the big difference this time around? (Puts on this very episode, vigorously checks notes while half-listening, becomes increasingly horrified) Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...there's no other way to say it, it's a bloodbath.  Although looking at the year (1977), I bet you can't tell which artist comes out on top!  You'll have to listen yourself to find out who!  Oh boy, who could it be?!?!?!? (Slowly starts lau