Completely Conspicuous Episode 109: The Future is Now

Special guest Ric Dube joins me to take a look at the future of music.

Topics:

- Dube: More band reunions this decade 

- Three kinds of reunions: Genuine, threatened and recycled

- A note from Husker Du's Grant Hart

- Musing on a Led Zep reunion

- Kumar: Do we need age limits for rock?

- Many rock icons will hit 70 this decade

- Lemmy's still louder than anybody

- Will someone die onstage of natural causes?

- Mick Jagger's a cyborg

- "The Gambler" as metaphor for life

- We need a new song as metaphor

- Ric nominates Jerry Reed's "When You're Hot, You're Hot, When You're Not, You're Not"

- Jerry Reed: Master of talk-singing

- "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" has many levels

- Debating the merits of Jon & Vangelis

- Whither the cassingle?

- "Jailhouse Rock": A gay anthem?

- Jay's prediction: Next big format will be edible music

- Behold...the Skittle Player

- Horny.org: A good cause

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- The Besnard Lakes - Albatross

- Scarce - Racecar Gasoline

- Pavement - Gold Soundz

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The Besnard Lakes song is on the album Are the Roaring Night on Jagjaguwar Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/thebesnardlakes. Download the song at http://www.thebesnardlakes.com.

The Scarce song is on the EP Girl Through Me. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/scarcetheband. Download the track for free at http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/index/scarceno1#tab=show_bills.

The Pavement song is on the greatest hits compilation Quarantine the Past on Matador Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/pavement. Download the song for free at http://www.matadorrecords.com.   

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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.net. 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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