CeeGees Aloud

About CeeGees Aloud

Finding Common Ground, forging Common Good, fighting Corporate Greed (and musing over '80s metal and other musics)

Category

music · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Feb 2024

Latest episode

20 Mar 2024

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Mar 2024

   "Hard to Say I'm Sorry"

   ON THIS EPISODE: In this audio version of last Friday March 15th’s CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, we come to the next stop on the tour of my vintage cassette collection: Def Leppard’s Hysteria. Then the week’s serious-er subject that stood out to me most: data being released that affirmative action did not help the folks it was created to help—namely Black and Native Americans—as much as we thought. And we go into a bit more detail on the…well, the details. And then our friendly neighborhood AI (*gulp*) picked “Rusty Cage” by Soundgarden to mull over for our final segment (inspired by the “Recollection Records: Music That’s Entered My Head Out of Nowhere (https://substack.com/redirect/18977946-3fb1-46d9-9edf-ddeb9417d27b?j=eyJ1IjoiZDE5dSJ9.e80CLnH1kw2DugMKiOTNXQ085PTqfHENG2XtQt043kk)” Spotify playlist). The Primary Link to check out on affirmative action is a “The Morning” newsletter from The New York Times, gift link HERE (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/briefing/affirmative-action.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE0.wjp0.wa4TtC2zes32&smid=url-share). The Quote(s) of the Show: As [President Johnson] said in 1965 (https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/bbCUREc-2mFtsKaTq9eleQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn1qi1P0TpaHR0cHM6Ly90aW1lc21hY2hpbmUubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vdGltZXNtYWNoaW5lLzE5NjUvMDYvMDUvOTcyMDU4NzYuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD05JmVtYz1lZGl0X25uXzIwMjQwMzE1Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExNzY3MyZubD10aGUtbW9ybmluZyZwYWdlTnVtYmVyPTEmcmVnaV9pZD05NTgyNzA5OSZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MDg2MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9MmM4NTczYWY1ZDg5ZjI5YzllZDAyMzM3NjM3MDNkYjVXA255dEIKZeK1I_RlccTBSlITbWNobGR2ZG1yQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~), “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, [and say], ‘You are free to compete with all the others.’” Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him.” SHOW SYNOPSIS: CeeGees Aloud: where together we try to figure out how to find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed in this absurdist 21st century society of ours. And to help the medicine go down, we discuss classic rock, classic pop, classic country, and, especially, '80s metal, too. (OK fine, call it "hair metal" if you must...) Theme music: Faith in Phantoms' "Let It Go"

2. 

   15 Mar 2024

   "For the Love of Money"

   Last week’s Substack CeeGees.org newsletter version of this episode: https://www.ceegees.org/p/for-the-love-of-money (https://www.ceegees.org/p/for-the-love-of-money) ON THIS EPISODE: In this audio version of last Friday March 8th’s CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, we provide a refreshed rundown of the mission of the newsletter and podcast—which is to “…find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed.” That’s the tagline, but it’s tough to implement the harder work it’ll take to actually move the needle. (It’s definitely gonna take more than just me bellyaching from my bedroom…) And then, next stop on the vintage cassette collection tour is Scorpions’ World Wide Live. And artificial intelligence picked “Shake & Tumble” by Firehouse to mull over for our final segment (inspired by the “Recollection Records: Music That’s Entered My Head Out of Nowhere (https://substack.com/redirect/18977946-3fb1-46d9-9edf-ddeb9417d27b?j=eyJ1IjoiZDE5dSJ9.e80CLnH1kw2DugMKiOTNXQ085PTqfHENG2XtQt043kk)” Spotify playlist). A couple links to check out from the current events portion of our program: In Biden’s 2024 State of the Union, he said: “Wall Street didn’t build America. They’re not bad guys—they didn’t build it, though. The middle class built this country. And unions built the middle class.” Joe ad-libbed the “They’re not bad guys” part. Read the speech as it was written here (https://substack.com/redirect/2b2fe500-79db-48d0-84bc-ec4771527633?j=eyJ1IjoiZDE5dSJ9.e80CLnH1kw2DugMKiOTNXQ085PTqfHENG2XtQt043kk), and then read the transcript of what he actually said here (https://substack.com/redirect/bc4e2e6e-18ce-408b-a49e-7ab180c6fd9d?j=eyJ1IjoiZDE5dSJ9.e80CLnH1kw2DugMKiOTNXQ085PTqfHENG2XtQt043kk). SHOW SYNOPSIS: CeeGees Aloud: where together we try to figure out how to find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed in this absurdist 21st century society of ours. And to help the medicine go down, we discuss classic rock, classic pop, classic country, and, especially, '80s metal, too. (OK fine, call it "hair metal" if you must...) Theme music: Faith in Phantoms' "Let It Go" https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms (https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms)

3. 

   24 Feb 2024

   "Brick by Boring Brick"

   The Substack newsletter version of last week’s CeeGees: https://www.ceegees.org/p/brick-by-boring-brick (https://www.ceegees.org/p/brick-by-boring-brick) ON THIS EPISODE: Starting this episode, we narrate the dang newsletter first, then revisit the current events piece for an update on what’s gone down since the newsletter was published the Friday before. In Dean’s recitation of last Friday February 16th's CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, he reckons with the curse of record collector completism, goes local to spotlight the singer from Paramore’s ballsy call-out of the Tennessee House, and looks back at some personal experiences with this week’s super-heavy (but melodic) Top Slice of the CeeGees proverbial music/news/music s#!t sandwich. Looking back, then, on Tennessee politics, we suggest a podcast on which a writer for The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum, talks about her article “Is Tennessee a Democracy?” (Hint: the answer coulda been a straight-up “no,” I spose, but…it ain’t great.) This week's media to explore further: The Tennessean: “Paramore's Hayley Williams decries TN GOP after Allison Russell resolution dustup” https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/16/paramore-hayley-williams-decries-tn-republican-leadership-after-allison-russell-resolution-dustup/72614456007/ (https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/16/paramore-hayley-williams-decries-tn-republican-leadership-after-allison-russell-resolution-dustup/72614456007/) The Tennessee Holler Podcast: “Anne Applebaum Asks, ‘Is Tennessee a Democracy?’” On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OOnJzta1zHmTjoYvf2oIm?si=AfdR0pxLQs2extr8XMLKtw (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OOnJzta1zHmTjoYvf2oIm?si=AfdR0pxLQs2extr8XMLKtw) On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anne-applebaum-asks-is-tennessee-a-democracy/id1463126787?i=1000621652662 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anne-applebaum-asks-is-tennessee-a-democracy/id1463126787?i=1000621652662) The Atlantic: “Is Tennessee a Democracy?” (gift link) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/tennessee-republican-partisanship-one-party-state/674732/?gift=g4VZR7q4r0asHoB9wEmtBSJkYmKih_6QA9kcFt662mY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/tennessee-republican-partisanship-one-party-state/674732/?gift=g4VZR7q4r0asHoB9wEmtBSJkYmKih_6QA9kcFt662mY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share) SHOW SYNOPSIS: CeeGees Aloud: where together we try to figure out how to find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed in this absurdist 21st century society of ours. And to help the medicine go down, we discuss classic rock, classic pop, classic country, and, especially, '80s metal. (OK fine, call it "hair metal" if you must...) CeeGees Aloud is 50% narration of the previous week's CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, and 50% check-in on the current events discussed in that newsletter. Theme music: Faith in Phantoms' "Let It Go" (https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms (https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms))

4. 

   16 Feb 2024

   "Balls to the Wall"

   ON THIS EPISODE: As with (probably) all episodes this season, this second pod back revisits the current events topic of the previous week’s CeeGees Substack newsletter (at CeeGees.org): President Biden’s age. BONUS asides (informed by events that took place since last week’s CeeGees) include commentary on the need for the president’s team to SHOW-DON’T-TELL us that Joe can still do the job at a high level. We need to see him kicking ass behind the scenes if he indeed kicks ass behind the scenes so dang much! Then Dean narrates aloud last Friday February 9th's CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, which asks readers and listeners, “What was your musical heaven growing up? Specifically the record store where you rushed to after school every Tuesday to devour all the new albums that had come out that day?” And after discussing “the age thing,” the “Pick a Number” music segment breaks down Kiss’s complicated relationship with Germany and Dean’s complicated relationship with Peter Criss’s 1978 solo album. This week's articles to explore further: New York Times (gift link included to bypass paywall): "Opinion: Biden’s Age Is a Campaign Problem, Not a Governing One" by Michelle Goldberg (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/joe-biden-age-campaign.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V00.AXdg.go7Jo1x1MTpR&smid=url-share (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/joe-biden-age-campaign.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V00.AXdg.go7Jo1x1MTpR&smid=url-share)) New York Times (gift link included to bypass paywall): "I’m a Neuroscientist. We’re Thinking About Biden’s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way." (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/neuroscientist-on-biden-age-memory.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V00.sKLm.WadMpQIx8KP4&smid=url-share (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/neuroscientist-on-biden-age-memory.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V00.sKLm.WadMpQIx8KP4&smid=url-share)) SHOW SYNOPSIS: CeeGees Aloud: where together we try to figure out how to find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed in this absurdist 21st century society of ours. And to help the medicine go down, we discuss classic rock, classic pop, classic country, and, especially, '80s metal. (OK fine, call it "hair metal" if you must...) CeeGees Aloud is 50% narration of the previous week's CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, and 50% check-in on the current events discussed in that newsletter. Theme music: Faith in Phantoms' "Let It Go" (https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms (https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms))

5. 

   9 Feb 2024

   "Optimistic"

   CeeGees Aloud: where together we try to figure out how to find Common Ground, forge Common Good, and fight Corporate Greed in this largely absurdist 21st century society of ours. And to help the medicine go down, we discuss classic rock, classic pop, classic country, and, especially, '80s metal. (OK fine, call it "hair metal" if you must...) It's kinda-sorta Season 2, but really it's the first episode not generated on Substack. CeeGees Aloud is 50% narration of the previous week's CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, and 50% check-in on the topics discussed in that newsletter. This first pod back explains what our new initiative is, ties in college basketball with this music and current events podcast somehow, and then recaps that Congress' bipartisan border/international aid bill, their bipartisan bill to help poor kids (and REALLY help rich adults), and their bipartisan siege upon the evil social network companies were all successful and perfect and we're finally tired of winning we're winning so much. And then Dean narrates aloud (with some new BONUS asides woohoo) last Friday February 2nd's CeeGees.org Substack newsletter, which analyzed Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation album and the Doobie Brothers' "It Keeps You Runnin'" for very important reasons Dean will explain within. This week's articles to explore further: NPR: "Congress devolves into chaos over border and national security funding" (https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229490663/congress-devolves-into-chaos-over-border-and-national-security-funding) (https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229490663/congress-devolves-into-chaos-over-border-and-national-security-funding)) NPR: "Senate GOP blocks border bill, Democrats shift focus to Israel and Ukraine aid" (NOTE: As mentioned in the episode, NPR first titled this piece "With border deal derailed by GOP opposition, Democrats move to pass Ukraine aid") (https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1229785349/border-deal-ukraine-aid-senate) (https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1229785349/border-deal-ukraine-aid-senate)) Common Dreams: "'A Mockery': House Passes Tax Bill That Favors Corporations Over Children" (https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporations-child-tax-credit) (https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporations-child-tax-credit)) Theme music: Faith in Phantoms' "Let It Go" (https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms (https://faithinphantoms.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-phantoms))

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