Completely Conspicuous Episode 116: Pop Culture Principles, Part 2
Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Ric Dube as we continue to discuss the underlying rules behind pop culture trends.
Topics:
- White Men Can't Judge (on TV)
- Dube's Principle of Inevitable Communication
- Kumar's standard requirements for benefit songs
- Need at least one non-singer involved
- To win an Oscar, actor must gain/lose large amount of weight and/or become ugly
- Karen's Principle: Dumb actors only play characters that have their name (e.g., Tony Danza)
- Who the Hell Does That? Only on TV is a gift box lid wrapped separately from box itself
- Everybody leaves one side of dinner table open (for camera)
- Kumar: Rod Stewart Suckability Quotient
- Others that qualify for this list: Clapton, Sting, Phil Collins, Dave Navarro, Elton John
- Dube: Synchronicity album was beginning of the end for the Police
- Collins went from prog-rock drummer to frontman to solo artist to actor to hammy soundtrack artist
- Disney soundtracks = big bucks for Elton, Collins, Sting
- "Against All Odds" was first of many power ballads for Collins
- Jay blames Michael Mann for acting careers of musicians: Collins, Nugent, Sheena Easton, Glenn Frey
- Bonehead of the Week
Music:
- Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union
- The Morning Bender - Promises
- The Riverboat Gamblers - Robots May Break Your Heart
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The Titus Andronicus song is on the forthcoming album The Monitor on XL Recordings. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/titusandronicus. The Morning Benders song is on the album Big Echo on Rough Trade Records; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/themorningbenders. Download the songs for free at http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com.
The Riverboat Gamblers song is on the album Underneath the Owl on Volcom Entertainment. Find out more and download the track for free at http://theriverboatgamblers.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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