Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 010 - Ep 1 - The Search For A Higher Plane, Part 1
Release Date: 03/20/2023
Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 013 - Ep 1 - I've Got The Oh Yeahs, Oh Nos, Dystopia, and Alienation
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This playlist starts with one of my favorite songs from 1974 that came to me while I was sleeping. The episode has a lot of energy, music spanning from the 60's through today, a couple of fun Uber stories, a French songstress, hardcore punk, and 3 versions of the same song (twice!). You'll also find out who wasn't a big fan of Cher, how the mother of one of the biggest voices of our lifetime factors into the discussion, and the most awesome way a Reddit contributor connects 2 British bands. Oh how I love how the narrative plays out in the editing process.
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Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 012 - Ep 3 - On The 3's, The Cat Empire and Toy Matinee
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On this episode we explore an Australian band that came together over 20 years ago and a duo that produced one album in 1990. Jeff definitely had differing opinions on each. I find positive qualities from both artists.
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Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 012 - Ep 2 - On The 3's - Between a Hard Hard Place and a Rock
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If you know where that lyric is from, I love you! This episode starts with another artist that we talk about their evolution. This band went on to be one of the premiere alt/dance acts of the last 40 years. The transition to the next song was a jarring one for Jeff (of course that was on purpose) and he didn't get the connection between the songs :( but that is OK. This song is a very important song in my history and absoutely stunning in its execution. And of course it led to a revelation I wasn't expecting. Hilarity ensues with the next transition and this song has inadvertently become the...
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Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 012 - Ep 1 - On the 3's - Artist Evolution
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I am dedicating this episode to my high school classmate Thomas Campbell who recently passed away. He was a huge music enthusiast and musician plus an occasional listener to the podcast who has corrected me on occasion (which I appreciated). We were not close in high school though if we had been my music knowledge and diversity would probably have come sooner than it did. I also think he would have appreciated this particular episode as it features artists from the '70s and '80s who were on the cutting edge of music that I imagine he followed at the time. The conversation in this episode...
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Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 011 - Ep 3 - What I Did Last Summer, Last Night
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Wow this episode has a lot of stuff going on in it. We first explore the world of the song of the summer and an emerging trend associated with it. It is certainly adding an interesting wrinkle to the Pop universe. A viral video becomes part of that conversation, as does a wee bit of political commentary. Next up, an artist up for Best New Artist at next year's Grammys who has been plugging away for over 2 decades. I then offer up contenders for my song of the summer and Jeff is really digging the winner. From there it's the "IT" guy of the summer based on my Uber experiences, and one who...
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Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 011 - Ep 2 - What I Did Last Summer, The Morning After
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This episode is nostalgia centric though it does stem from a fun summer story. There are lots of movie and television references in the episode as well. From the title, the Maureen McGovern song The Morning After leads us down a movie path and towards one of my favorite shows of all-time. Plus a group with a cheesy '70s instrumental has ties to the early days of hip hop. We move to the Carpenters where more TV is discussed and we end with my sister on stage at the Garden State Arts Center. After that we return to a major fav artist of mine and re-visit the idea of song bridges where...
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Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 011 - Ep 1 - What I Did Last Summer - The 40th Annual Music Party
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This is the first of 3 episodes focusing on a few music-oriented stories from this past summer. The first episode talks about things from my 40th annual music party (the Castlist 002 episodes from the fall of 2018 talk about the #1's at the parties). It was a great party, the weather cooperated and there were a few key moments that I talked about in the episode. Here I am posting the top 50 songs from the party game and the top 50 artists of the last 40 years. We mentioned and/or used 43 songs in this episode. And I brought up the Peanuts cartoon and the TV show Kids Incorporated. The top 50...
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Beyond Radio Presents - 8Trax with Manic Bloom Part 2
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This is the inaugural episode of our artist interview podcast (a two-parter). The title, 8Trax, harkens back to the era of the 8 Track tapes and indicates that 8 main songs will be discussed. The interview style is set up as follows. The artist brings 3 of their lesser-known songs that they love to the table and I do the same. The conversation moves through the stories of these songs and of course, leads down many roads. I felt that proceeding in this manner gets people deeper into an artist while my approach is that of a fan. The remaining 2 tracks are from different artists we wanted the...
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Beyond Radio Presents - 8Trax with Manic Bloom, Part 1
Beyond Radio Presents
This is the inaugural episode of our artist interview podcast (a two-parter). The title, 8Trax, harkens back to the era of the 8 Track tapes and indicates that 8 main songs will be discussed. The interview style is set up as follows. The artist brings 3 of their lesser-known songs that they love to the table and I do the same. The conversation moves through the stories of these songs and of course, leads down many roads. I felt that proceeding in this manner gets people deeper into an artist while my approach is that of a fan. The remaining 2 tracks are from different artists we wanted the...
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Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 010 - Ep 6 - Moms, Dads, Sarah, Christopher, and Survivor
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This is a non-music related episode that was the beginning of a conversation that will be out later this summer. It's a bit of a therapy session with my new friends from Manic Bloom (though they feel like old friends). It was just what I needed today to get me back in the game.
info_outlineThe next 3 episodes are inter-related and create an arc that has become something I had not necessarily intended. The original premise and core of the episodes is to take songs from one of my favorite lesser known bands of the last 15 years and revealing what I feel are influences on the band. These influences include some of the biggest bands in the last 50 years.
This episode starts with a project that I've been working on ever since the beginning of Covid. The first song we discuss may seem to not be related to the overall discussion and its placement becomes evident eventually. It was a last minute inclusion that ended up changing the overall narrative of Part 1 and Part 2.
In researching the artist Wilder Woods and the band Needtobreathe it led me to the Texas band the Toadies. This started the discussion about the search for a higher plane/higher power.
We finally get to the core artist after about 18 minutes, the Nashville indie rock band Manic Bloom. On their website they term themselves "Epic Melodic Rock" and the moniker is a good one. They put out three records (An EP and two albums) between 2008-15. This band commanded my personal chart between 2009 and 2016 with nine #1's, two #2's and 5 more songs making my top 15.
By comparing their music to well-known bands we get into some background on those bands. The first of those bands had my favorite song of all-time for a period of time from the mid-90's to the mid-2000's. We talk about Eastern philosophy, where energy comes, an 80's-style guitar solo from and an iconic album from the '70's (one one of favorites of the era).