Wherein we muse on the songs you may or may not know by heart, and at least one that you didn't realize was a Buffett creation.

Let's just get something incredibly obvious out of the way up top about this episode - there was a hiatus in between the time Ryan selected this LP and the time we were actually able to convene and record it.

We canvass the practice of the forty-seven minute drum solo, what it's like to sound a third angrier lyrically than is necessary, fake zombies, and something that comes across like Elvis covering Van Morrison.

Marc Bolan went out like a Roman candle or a speed bump or in some such way an incandescent rock star dies at twenty-nine, and left in his wake a glitterbomb of glam stardust and swagger a mile wide and a few albums deep.

We don't really know how many cc are the appropriate number of cc, but somewhere along the way, somewhere in time, ten seemed like a nice round number and we kind of all went with it.

You may understand the difference between the 'emo' and 'scene' scenes, and you may churn out catchy harmonies like they're growing on trees, but beneath the surface of incandescent melodies lurks melancholy. That's where we find Jade Lilitri and his erstwhile ensemble, Oso Oso.

It's always interesting learning the origin of a band's name. It may have a nonsensical relationship to the music or it can frame the very nature of that band's catalog. But seldom does a band capture the meaning of its origin as closely as Iron Maiden.

Sometimes you stare into the abyss, and the abyss stares back...in rhythm.

It is tempting with Marvin Gaye to start with the last chapter. To skip ahead to the tragic end, dog ear the page, and work backwards.

And there, in the way back machine, he is...nineteen, staring down the semi opaque business end of a flimsy promotional pressing LP, slapping it on a substandard turntable, and falling hard for whatever bumped and grooved out of the tinny speaker set.

Charlie Martin's pandemic experience has been much like the rest of ours, until it wasn't.

So let's just start with the obvious: we don't know where the scarf is.

The one where we finally come out of lockdown and talk about some of our favorites from 2020 and 2021.

After a couple of months hiatus, it's time to get back into things and what better way than with another mixtape show. We discuss some of our favorite tracks of 2019.

It can be difficult to recall on occasion that Willie Nelson is more than just the proverbial Kevin Bacon of country music. Recorded November 20, 2019

We ran into an interesting set of circumstances with Barrie and their initial release Happy To Be Here, from the SXSW set Mark and I caught in a Mezcal bar (with a local weatherman) to the fact that through dumb luck they came through Austin literally the night before recording, and Mark and I cornered Barrie (the person this time, not the band) to ask her a few questions about their music and her songs.

For our Labor Day Mixtape Show, we decided (cleverly? You decide-) that we'd bring to bear songs specifically about Work, Birth (or Babies) and/or British Parliament (though that Labour has a U in it).

At some point during the week before we laid down this episode, one of us circulated a Honda scooter ad starring Miles Davis from the 1980s. If you've ever seen it, it's more or less...terrifying, which is a helluva thing to accuse of a Honda scooter commercial from the 1980s.

In 1995, Spacehog released a great song called In The Meantime. Let's not forget that, shall we?

So to be completely fair (and you'll notice this straightaway), there's an elephant in the room in this episode. We ran into a weird situation - Mark actually left his usual recording array at home accidentally, and we decided to soldier on rather than go home and get it.