Beyond Radio Presents - Castlist 010 - Ep 2 - The Search For A Higher Plane, Part 2
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_outlineThis episode starts with the flow-through between Queen's "Death On Two Legs" and Manic Bloom's "Push Off The Ground", a bit of a recap of the prior Manic Bloom songs we spoke about and the reveal of the connection to Wilder Woods from the last episode.
We talk about the upcoming interview and Jeff had a great line "and it's not their fault they make great music".
The jump to the next artist leads into alien territory and conspiracy theories and we venture into the world of Japanese metal. I also have a couple of fun stories connected to the band.
The origin of the band connects to my favorite album of the '90s. Somehow references to Coldplay and Rod Stewart show up along with Kelly Clarkson (a second time in the episode) and Anthrax. Now that would be a concert experience. The direct connection between the artists ends up being a prolific music producer over the last 50 plus years.
We get to the final Manic Bloom song which brings up a piece that I hadn't thought I would bring up but it was meant to be. And another crazy synchronicity in post-production involves Mary J. Blige showing up twice.
Towards the end of the episode my oft used Nickelback joke comes up and we talk about the lead singer of Alice In Chains, an obscure Psychobilly band and another American Idol alumus.