When Should a Band Change Their Name After a Lineup Change?
Velocities In Music
Bands will often change and evolve their sound over time, and sometimes bands will change their lineup as well, bringing new members into the fold as others leave. As fans, we get attached to our favorite bands and their members, and sometimes when these sonic shifts and personnel changes line up, it can feel like a betrayal. After all, they're not even the same band anymore--how dare they go by the same name! In this episode, we explore some examples of when bands did or didn't change their name after a significant lineup change, and discuss when we think it's appropriate to just call it a...
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How Have Our 200 Favorite Albums Changed Over the Last 10 Years? (Pt 2 of 2)
Velocities In Music
People track their tastes in many different ways, and some prefer not to at all. At Velocities In Music, we like to make lists of our favorite albums every few years and compare them to old lists so we can know more about how our tastes have changed. In this episode, we compare our lists of our 200 favorite albums in 2019, after almost 10 years of Velocities In Music, with our lists from 2010, when Velocities In Music was just getting started. Jake's List: Tom's List:
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How Have Our Tastes Changed Over the Last 10 Years? (Pt 1 of 2)
Velocities In Music
As Velocities In Music approaches its 10-year anniversary, Jake and Tom reflect on how their tastes have changed over the last decade, and how VIM has specifically contributed to that change.
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The Lost Art of the Mixtape
Velocities In Music
For decades people have been making each other mixtapes, mixes, and playlists for a variety of reasons in a variety of formats. As technology has evolved and made these easier to create, convenience is at an all-time high, but crafting personalized mixtapes has become something of a lost art. In this podcast, we highlight some key mixtape experiences in our lives and why the practice is still important to us today. Listen to the Mr. Anchovy playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/039UPGIdiYAFy92w9bZFOv?si=7zFSZYQnTaisPiPEuSrKtA
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March 2019 - Record Fair Haul
Velocities In Music
Jake and Tom discuss the pros and cons of attending record fairs, and share the hauls from their respective fairs in Phoenix and Des Moines.
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Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde | A Track-by-Track Breakdown
Velocities In Music
In early 1966, after being dissatisfied with the results of his recording sessions in New York, Bob Dylan went to Nashville to cut his new album with some of the city's studio musicians. These rapid-fire sessions would become Blonde on Blonde, considered to be the first rock double-album and a masterpiece of the genre. In this podcast we walk through a brief history of the record and break it down track by track, addressing questions like: What's the best song on Blonde on Blonde? Should he have cut it down to a single disc, and if so, which songs should have been removed? Should Blonde on...
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Top 25 Songs of 2018
Velocities In Music
Listen to the playlist: A lot of great songs came out in 2018--some of them are from our favorite albums of the year, and some of them aren't. In this podcast, we highlight our 25 favorite songs of 2018 and a few one-offs that didn't make the list.
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Top 20 Albums of 2018
Velocities In Music
Another year of music is in the books! In this podcast we highlight our 20 favorite albums from 2018 and discuss what we thought of the year's music as a whole.
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Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 | A Track-by-Track Breakdown
Velocities In Music
Talking Heads: 77 is a classic debut album from one of rock music's most adventurous and influential bands. In this podcast, we walk through the album track by track and discuss its writing, production, performances, and legacy as one of the best rock albums of all time. Dedicated to Jeremy Nifras for winning Season 2 of the VIM Music League!
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Our Musical Upbringings
Velocities In Music
This podcast was requested by Sean Murphy, winner of the first VIM Music League! It's safe to say that everyone grows up with music around, to some degree. However, our friends, family, and culture can shape the way we listen to music based on what we're exposed to and how we internalize it, and this makes everybody's musical upbringing unique. In this podcast, we talk about our own musical upbringings--the music that shaped our childhoods and made us the listeners we are today, the people who got us there, the artists we outgrew, and the artists we never stopped loving.
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Featured Albums:
Forest Swords - Compassion (2:05)
Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog (3:51)
Perfume Genius - No Shape (7:03)
Slowdive - Slowdive (8:34)
The Afghan Whigs - In Spades (10:20)
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke (12:21)
At the Drive-In - Interalia (13:55)
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (17:27)
Honorable Mentions:
Logic - Everybody (19:11)
Juana Molina - Halo (20:39)
Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.2 (21:37)
Blondie - Pollinator (22:04)
John Moreland - Big Bad Luv (22:51)
Harry Styles - Harry Styles (23:17)
Pwr Bttm - Pageant (24:26)
Jim Jones & the Righteous Mind - Super Natural (25:16)
Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution (25:58)
Girlpool - Powerplant (26:38)
The Mountain Goats - Goths (27:14)
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology (28:04)
Don Bryant - Don't Give Up on Love (28:42)
Paramore - After Laughter (29:15)
Sun Kil Moon & Jesu - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth (29:49)
Pumarosa - The Witch (30:41)
Aldous Harding - Party (31:14)
Nick Hakim - Green Twins (32:06)
Land of Talk - Life After Youth (32:59)
(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket (33:37)
Wavves - You're Welcome (34:40)
Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street (35:15)
Pokey LaFarge - Manic Revelations (36:14)
The Charlatans - Different Days (36:45)
The Heliocentrics - A World of Masks (37:11)
Not Recommended:
Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud (37:56)
Black Lips - Satan's Graffiti or God's Art? (38:38)
Pond - The Weather (39:07)
Jlin - Black Origami (39:40)