Completely Conspicuous Episode 93: We're All Guilty
Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Ric Dube as we discuss guilty pleasures.
Topics:
- What is a guilty pleasure?
- American Idol as a presumed guilty pleasure
- No stigma attached to liking old unfashionable music
- Now mainstream pop culture can be guilty pleasures
- Time makes formerly unhip bands cool
- Guilty pleasures are completely subjective
- Rush fans have a serious inferiority complex
- The denial phase
- We don't listen to music closely anymore
- Guilty displeasures
- It's hip to like bad movies
- Going to see Loverboy for the opening act
- Small doses
- Transitioning from the Bee Gees to Zeppelin
- Disco Demolition Night was the turning point
- Nevermind demolished hair metal
- Dube was at ground zero of the Seattle scene
- Identifying artists as "that song"
- Indie rock snobs
- Satellite radio fizzles out
- Bonehead of the Week
Music:
- The Raveonettes - Last Dance
- Joel Plaskett - Down, Down, Down
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
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The Raveonettes song is on the band's forthcoming album In and Out of Control on Vice Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/theraveonettes and download the track at http://music-mix.ew.com.
The Joel Plaskett song is on the album Three on Maple Music; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/joelplaskett1. You can download the song at http://www.planetarygroup.com.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart song is on the band's self-titled album on Slumberland Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/thepainsofbeingpureatheart. The song is courtesy of IODA Promonet; download the song at http://www.iodapromonet.com.
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.com. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at http://bobdurling.blogspot.com/.
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