Completely Conspicuous Episode 120: Feel the Pain
Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Jay Breitling as we discuss music as a torture device.
Topics:
- Dig the live studio audience: Ric, Karen, Amy and Chloe
- Baby Breitling rocks
- U.S. military used music to torture prisoners at Gitmo
- Also used rock against Noriega, Branch Davidians
- Let's dwell on the negative
- Pizza arrives
- Kumar: CSN's "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" tormented hungover party guests
- Breitling: Ramones tape stuck in cassette deck tortured his family
- Kumar: Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride" evokes painful memories
- Follow-up singles from one-hit wonders popped up on MTV in the '80s
- Breitling: Aqua's "Barbie Girl" is the worst of the worst
- Kumar: The unholy trio of Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting with "All for Love" was brutal
- Breitling defends the honor of Bryan Adams
- Milli Vanilli attempted many comebacks after lip sync disgrace
- Celebutantes make albums: Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton
- Breitling actually listened to this dreck in the name of research
- Mariah Carey's Glitter soundtrack ruined songs by Robert Palmer, Foreigner
- Kumar: Mariah is vocal equivalent of wank metal guitar
- Spencer Pratt = tool
- Kumar: 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?" is truly horrible
- Dance mixes make bad songs even worse
- Bonehead of the Week
Music:
- Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
- Bettie Serveert - Deny All
- The Whigs - Kill Me, Carolyne
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The Teenage Fanclub song is on the album Shadows on Merge Records. Find out more at http://www.teenagefanclub.com. Download the song for free at http://www.mergerecords.com.
The Bettie Serveert song is on the album Pharmacy of Love on Second Motion Records; find out more at http://www.bettieserveert.com. Download the song for free at http://www.planetarygroup.com/newmedia/pages/bettieserveert.
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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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