A show in which we dive headfirst into a musician's discography, discuss, and rank the phases of their career. Shannon and Nick pick a band or artist and in their own time listen to all of the albums from that band. During the show they compare their rankings and conclude with an ultimate album ranking. The Discography Divers cover a variety of genres including Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, and Indie.
Grateful Dead are one of the all time jam bands and on this episode of Discography Divers Nick and Shannon are going in head first. They are both relatively new to the Dead experience. Luckily they have their friend Andrew McDonaugh-Lee to ramble on with them.
Grateful Dead are famous for their live concert experience, but for this episode they are only discussing the Dead's studio albums. Their studio album experience tells a story of a true American band. Over the course of 13 albums Grateful Dead begin as a prototypical 1960s San Fransisco psychedelic band, focus their song writing into a folk rock oriented sound, and then gain mainstream radio success in the 1980s. Grateful Dead fuse rock, jazz, country, bluegrass, reggae, folk, country, blues, and psychedelia into a one of a kind sound.
How do the Discography Divers react to this original sound? Do they have similar taste or does the eclectic nature of Grateful Dead divide their rankings? Would the Deadheads approve of their ultimate ranking?
Listen now and beat it on down the line.
5 Jun 2022
Death Cab For Cutie - "The Sound of Settling"
This, right here, is the first Shannon Pick! Shannon went back into her history of buying CDs at Fred Myer and chose Death Cab For Cutie. Death Cab began as a lo-fi local Pacific Northwest band and grew into to a major radio player. On this episode Nick and Shannon dive into their career and discuss how Death Cab fit into the definition of emo music, why Ben Gibbard's lyrics are so perfectly poetic, and if their themes of unrequited love is dangerous. It is just the two hosts on this episode and their goofiness comes out. Shannon can't help but discuss her love of the Forbidden Love EP and The Postal Service and Nick just can't help but singing.
Want to catch up on Death Cab? Listen to our accompanying Spotify playlist at this link (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20stCObk5eqmcD4prU4qSv?si=522cc0f68f52434d).
21 Apr 2022
Bob Dylan (60s Years) - The Times They Are A-Changin'
The Discography Divers are back with a special episode, Bob Dylan. Obviously Bob Dylan has too many albums over the course of his entire career to rank in one episode, so this episode is just his work in 1960s. Still, Dylan released 9 albums across the decade, many of which are considered masterpieces. Comparing and ranking Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited, The Times They Are A-Changin, Bringing It All Back Home seemed like an impossible task but somehow the Discography Divers pulled it off!
This episode features a very special guest, Nick's dad, Frank Busichio! Frank has firsthand experience listening to Dylan in the 1960s. He shares personal stories about protesting while listening to Dylan, his perspective on Dylan going electric, and why Dylan's music is still relevant today.
Check out our accompanying Spotify playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5tvCwAUpa1wWQTuZXvcPUa?si=c70b6c0d5b5b41f3)!
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