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Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast
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Our favorite albums, open parenthesis, song by song, close parenthesis. Posts by Amanda and Rich. https://linktr.ee/discordpod
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Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast @discordpod.bsky.social · 16d
We are celebrating HalloWeen by discussing Chocolate & Cheese! Join our return pilgrimage to the shrine of the mighty Boognish, and remember: don’t believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free. #MusicSky

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167: Ween - Chocolate and Cheese (1994) — Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast
Buenas tardes, amigos, and happy Hallo-Ween, my good friends. It took us way, way too long to get the bright idea to devote our annual All Hallow’s Eve episode to the Brothers Ween, but now that we ha...
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I can't believe I never noticed that the Boston spaceship is a guitar
cover of Boston self-titled, the spaceship is a guitar
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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bowiesongs.bsky.social
i love the story of Neil getting consumed with Kenny Buttrey needing bigger sticks, to the point where you wonder if NY envisioned him using like a baseball bat on his snare
johnlingan.bsky.social John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social · 1d
Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young, an Olympian figure and the subject of some of the funniest quotes in BACKBEATS thanks to his tempestuous relationship with Kenny Buttrey.

“Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can.”
Neil Young was among the folk rockers to follow Dylan's lead to Music City. He was still largely known as a crunchy electric guitarist at that point; he used distortion to signify joy and abandon on "Cinnamon Girl" and heartbreak on "Ohio." But his recent songs had been written during extensive physical recovery, like Dylan's had been, and were calmer for it. Buttrey, along with Tim Drummond on bass, Jack Nitzsche on piano, and Ben Keith on pedal steel, became Young's Nashville band, which he dubbed the Stray Gators. Harvest, the record they made together, was Young's biggest in every way. It featured a full orchestra on multiple tracks, two career-defining singles ("Old Man" and "Heart of Gold," his first number 1), guest background vocalists Ronstadt and James Taylor, and some of his best songwriting, particularly the straightforwardly country title track. Buttrey helped Young achieve that, even if their relationship was hardly chummy. "Neil tells everybody what to play, note for note," Buttrey said later. "If you play somethin' he doesn't like, boy, he'll put a look on you you'll never forget. Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can." Young told Buttrey not to play cymbals, and to hit his hi-hats with his nondominant left hand. Everything about Neil Young was defiant— his overdriven guitar tones, his nasal high tenor, the mix of unaffected directness and inscrutable poeticism in his lyrics. And that extended to his sense of rhythm. The prehistoric stomp of his work with Crazy Horse, like his distinctive hammer-on acoustic guitar style, was all about riding a groove, and the ambitious productions of Harvest didn't get in the way of that goal. "Out on the Weekend" and especially "Harvest" have a methodical, subdued gait that comes directly from Young's strumming, not the drums, as Buttrey acknowledged. The strings of Young's guitar fill the spaces where cymbals would otherwise go. "It's just ultra-, ultra-simple, a laidback kinda thing nobody but Neil does, and if you're right with him it sounds great, and it sounds awful if you're not," Buttrey explained. "If I can't see Neil's right hand when he's playin' guitar, then I'm not playing. His rhythm playing is just perfect—it'll feel like he's slowing down, but it's just the Neil Young feel. No drummer should ever hold Neil to a certain tempo, because if you put a metronome on it, you kill the Neil Young feel." After the success of Harvest, Young brought the Stray Gators on a 1973 tour, the first time Buttrey had allowed himself to be lured out of the studio and on the road. Supposedly the drummer requested an exorbitant payment of $100,000 to offset his lost record-making wages, which prompted the other musicians to ask the same. The anger never abated between Buttrey and Young, who was also reeling from the recent overdose death of his friend and Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten. Increasingly reliant on tequila to calm his nerves, playing in bigger venues than ever before, and bereft of his harder-rocking backing group, Young was at his wits end through this tour and took it out on Buttrey. "Neil would just jump all over me," Buttrey said. Young kept hectoring him to hit the bass drum harder and get bigger sticks, and Buttrey kept buying thicker and thicker ones until a music store clerk told him, "Son, anything bigger than this is gonna have bark on it." Young once got so angry he punctured Buttrey's snare with a drumstick during a sound check. "I was playin' ten times louder than I had ever played in my life," the drummer recalled. "I was tryin' thicker heads, bigger sticks. It was drivin' me crazy. I looked down at the snare drums one night and saw somethin' splatter. My hand would bleed, it was drippin' down the stick and formed a big puddle on the snare. And when I hit the drum, blood would fly through the air.. It was the roughest time of my life." He quit midway through the tour, and the other musicians, Young included, plowed ahead in wretched shape from overdrinking. Incredibly, Young released a live album from this tour, Time Fades Away, though he chose performances from the leg that featured Jefferson Airplane drummer Johnny Barbata as Buttrey's replacement. It also contained only raw and rowdy new songs, recorded sparely, not the recent melodic hits that made his fame. In the longer context of his career, especially the chilling records that followed in Young's "ditch trilogy," it remains an exhilarating album, with songs that aren't found elsewhere in his catalog and a bleary, brown sound to match its cover. Yet Young basically disowned it, and let it fall out of print for nearly fifty years.
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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jediane9.bsky.social
My daughter did a round of senior photos in front of First Avenue in Minneapolis and I had to honor @discordpod.bsky.social at least once.
Picture of one of the many star photos outside of the Minneapolis music club First Avenue of the band Ween
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
discordpod.bsky.social
Been on a Sloan kick lately, so I'm just going to thread a bunch of great Sloan songs.
Sloan - People Of The Sky
YouTube video by sloanmusic
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November 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
discordpod.bsky.social
The hosts on our podcast belong to a very specific generational cohort who will tell our kids that we once mimed playing songs on plastic instruments, and we will never pretend that it was not awesome
stereogum.com Stereogum @stereogum.com · 5d
Guitar Hero came out 20 years ago today 🎸
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
discordpod.bsky.social
Our most downloaded episode, thanks to the Pandora algorithm broadcasting us to confused patrons of various spas, garden stores, and wellness clinics!
neonstreets.bsky.social Neon Streets @neonstreets.bsky.social · 6d
I was today years old when I learned from @discordpod.bsky.social that the chant sampled in Enigma’s ‘Return to Innocence’ was a Taiwanese indigenous peoples folk song and NOT a Native American chant 😬

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Pure Moods (1997), Tracks 1-6
Podcast Episode · Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast · 09/24/2019 · 52m
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November 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
my sources are telling me that the song of the fall is …by god, this can’t be right. it’s, once again, deacon blues by steely dan
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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zipphusky.bsky.social
“And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings”
Spinning “Eagle” from ABBA The Album
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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amonduulus.bsky.social
Long time friends of mine when I retweet anything related to this album into my timeline and they see it
Leo pointing meme
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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stevenhyden.bsky.social
A good way to weed out the jerks in the Deadhead world is asking what they think of Donna Jean. I absolutely love her. An integral part of the all-time best Dead era. RIP.

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Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux Dead at 78
Donna Jean Godchaux, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead and provided vocals on an Elvis Presley hit, has died at the age of 78.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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robynhitchcock.bsky.social
Note to self: you are still here, alive and on earth. Go outside and look at the leaves changing colour. They will look back at you: let’s see who blinks first…
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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artbarca.bsky.social
#FallFriday meets #Halloween 👻
THE FALL, There’s a Ghost in my House
#postpunk #musicsky #indierock
The Fall - There's a Ghost in My House HD
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October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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File under: Pictures You Can Hear
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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bowiesongs.bsky.social
Compleat Beatles, dated as it is, remains important as it's the one non-"house approved" Beatles documentary that got to use all the music & images etc. Plus Malcolm McDowell's narration was never bettered. & it does the job in 2 hours!
jasondashbailey.com Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 14d
Just had a lovely interview with Patrick Montgomery, director of THE COMPLEAT BEATLES, a film that legit changed my life.

He's a delightful dude and good news, he's totally fine with all of us bootlegging his movie
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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“Tortoise did have a champion at, I believe, ‘Conan O’Brien.’ Every time we put out an album,' McCombs recalled, NBC’s Tortoise fan 'tried to get us on the show. And then the producers would say, ‘Who do we point the camera at?''"

Tortoise on resilience, rejuvenation, and survival:
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Tortoise has done a lot in their 30+ years as a band. In the ‘90s, they became standard-bearers of the Chicago scene, their unusual instrumentation (three per
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October 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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stevenhyden.bsky.social
Cheering for the Blue Jays because I’m spiritually Canadian (ie I’m an American who owns all the Tragically Hip albums)
October 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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spectrumculture.bsky.social
Today’s vibe:
October 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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tarkus1980.bsky.social
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
October 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
discordpod.bsky.social
Learn more about the band that once prompted @daveweigel.bsky.social to quip, "This is about as funny as Tim fucking Allen. Fuck!"
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
discordpod.bsky.social
We are celebrating HalloWeen by discussing Chocolate & Cheese! Join our return pilgrimage to the shrine of the mighty Boognish, and remember: don’t believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free. #MusicSky

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167: Ween - Chocolate and Cheese (1994) — Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast
Buenas tardes, amigos, and happy Hallo-Ween, my good friends. It took us way, way too long to get the bright idea to devote our annual All Hallow’s Eve episode to the Brothers Ween, but now that we ha...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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bluenoterecords.bsky.social
RIP to one of the all-time greats... Jack DeJohnette has passed away at age 83. The legendary drummer is pictured here at the September 24, 1965 recording session for Jackie McLean's "Jacknife," which marked his first appearance on a Blue Note record.
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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tarkus1980.bsky.social
The upcoming @discordpod.bsky.social episode on CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE (by Ween) will please some of our listeners, and will make some listeners regret that they ever hit the "subscribe" button.
October 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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synthstatic.bsky.social
Candy but it’s really USB drives with the text “These kids think they’re getting candy. They’re actually getting JAZZ FUSION ALBUMS”
October 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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ostparty.bsky.social
Be the demon knight you wish to see in the world!
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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tylerwilcox.bsky.social
Telling my kid we can’t afford to send her to college because I bought Florian Schneider’s VW bus.
October 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM