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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourNashville Rock n Pod Expo 2018Ahh..Yes!! Well, it would be an understatement of sorts to say that we haven't been around in a while, but that's pretty-much the case so, we want to say Thank you for your patience while we're doing things outside of this podcast. So, the last time we Dandy Classic Music met-up, it was at this year's Rock & Pod Expo 2, lovingly made possible by Chris Czynszak and friends. We weren't even sure if we'd be going because of this and that, but we made it, and it was fantastic to see e...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourChris Cornell Part 1Let's face it, if you're interested in this program, odds are you were either a Music fan and/or a Chris Cornell fan and know most or all of the details of losing him a scant few weeks ago so we'll save you reading the saddening details yet again. The idea of this show is to express how much of a fan Dan Minard and Randy W. Hall were, and are, of Chris Cornell. First in Soundgarden, then as a solo artist, and also in one-off Temple of the Dog and his well-known supergroup Audioslave. In Part 1 we discuss our ow...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourAdrenaline Pumpin' Songs - Part 2Join us for Part 2 of this particular-themed episode, (nothin' generic 'bout that..)
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourAdrenaline Pumpin' Songs - Part 1Today’s list show is made up of Dan and Randy’s high-octane, balls-to-the-wall most adrenaline-pumping favorite songs of all-time! So if you’re dragging ass and need some audio Red Bull this show is for you. No Coldplay, Barry Manilow or Celine Dion on this program! So crank it up and get ready to get lit (that’s some mild foreshadowing people!).
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Who LONG LIVE ROCK - PART 1The Who are legends. Aside from the Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the Who and Led Zeppelin are as big as rock n’ roll gets. And, believe it or not, the band are one of Dan Minard’s all-time favorites and inspirations. So it’s about time we did a show on them. The challenge is it’s hard (pun intended) to settle on just one album. ‘Who’s Next’, ‘Tommy’ and even ‘Quadrophenia’ all deserve the Dandy Classic treatment on their own merits but we decided to go ahead and just do a two-part retrospective on the all-time greats.
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourWhat Does Music Mean To You? - Part 2Lots of music & feelings in this one . Well worth the listen.
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourWhat Does Music Mean To You? - Part 1 Music makes the good times better and the bad times bearable. Thanks to my Dad I got into music at an early age. He was always playing his records and some of my earliest memories involve his massive collection of 45’s in those classic cases and the musty smell. When I’d start choosing my own music it was cassette’s I’d buy because a Walkman was cheap and portable (although the first album I bought was Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ on LP with some of my First Communion money). When we finally got cable in 1987 it was MTV and VH1...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourONYX, Bacdafucup Part 1Has it really been 25 years since Onyx released their debut record ‘Bacdafucup’?! As a guy of 42 this album hit the streets during a pivotal time in my development and, believe it or not, had a bit of an impact. While it’d be a stretch to say I pull this album out and listen to it very often, it’s always an interesting time capsule when I do go down Memory Lane to see how the four-man crew of Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr, Sonny Seeza (aka Suave) and Big DS have aged in the intervening years. So when Dan...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourSong Roulette 4Hey! did ya miss us? So.. umm... whatchoo been up-to..? Hey! did ya miss us? So.. umm... whatchoo been up-to..? (cut & paste mothafucka..)
2018-03-191h 32Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourTop 10 Bruce Springsteen Tracks – Part TwoTop 10 Bruce Springsteen Tracks - Part Two! Get ready to celebrate the best songs of one of rock’s best album-makers of our times.
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourD A N Z I G - PART 2EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVI...
2018-01-151h 14Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourDANZIG DANZIG - Part 1What the hell do I know about Danzig? Not a whole helluva lot about a week ago. But since researching their debut album from 1988 in the interest of the Dandy Classic Music Hour podcast it’s come to my attention they’re far more than the belated hit ‘Mother’ off of this LP. How much more? Well I guess you’re gonna have to listen to the show to find out. Are they a criminally underrated or overrated metal group? Was the Misfits as good as it ever got for Glanzig? All this and much more as we honor Mr. Jeff Price’...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourLadies Of The 80s Whitney. Madonna. Cher. Diana. Babs. Tina. Sade. Olivia. The ladies of the 80’s had a lot of personality, women known by a singular name and especially, talent. This much is clear as we wrap-up our Female Artist Appreciation Month (aka ‘Chickcember’) here at Dandy Classic. We give all our listeners, just in time for the holiday season, the gift of one of our highly-acclaimed list shows as Dan Minard and Randy W. Hall countdown our Top 12 favorite female sung songs of that totally rad decade. This means we could regale you with the stylings of teen-pop sensations like Debbie G...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourCarol King, Tapestry - Part 2We talk about Carol's masterpiece, and also some uncomfortable truths about James Taylor.
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourCarol King, Tapestry - Part 1I think everyone who has even a passing interest in popular music knows Carole King’s Diamond certified album “Tapestry” helped revolutionize singer-songwriter music for female performers in the 1970’s and beyond. It was a landmark album and artistic statement whose impact is so far-reaching it’s practically immeasurable. Practically every woman who’s stepped out in front of an audience behind a piano owes Carole King at least a small debt. As Female Artist Appreciation Month rolls on here at Dandy Classic Music Hour we get to this seminal masterwork by an artist who’s written, or helped write, over 100 hit so...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourFiona Apple, Tidal - Part 1 Fiona Apple – Tidal (1996) In the mid-90’s it was a halcyon time to be a female artist. From the piano stylings of Tori Amos, to songstresses like Sarah McLachlan to female-lead bands like Garbage and Belly, the world of rock had lots of ladies representing. And today we open up our Female Artist appreciation month of December a week early by featuring one of the most unique artists of the era in Fiona Apple as we discuss her debut album, Tidal. Apple was 18 when she recorded most of the record but to listen to it now and you’d never think t...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe White Stripes , White Blood Cells - Part 1This week on That Dandy Classic Music Hour we welcome back a previous guest, Jeff Popp who was on our Pearl Jam 'No Code' episode, to talk about fellow Detroiters who've relocated to Middle Tennessee, Jack White and his legendary duo, the White Stripes and their commercial breakthrough 'White Blood Cells'. With his ex-wife, Meg White, the Stripes used a huge sound to make blues-based garage rock with a punk flair for a new generation of rock fans at the turn of the millenium. Getting their start in the cannibalistic rock scene in metro Detroit, the pair staked out their cl...
2017-11-1359 min
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourMix CD Roulette Part 3Third time the charm? Maybe yes, maybe no but it was one helluva show. If you're a regular listener of That Dandy Classic Music Hour you probably know the drill on this concept show as this is our third go-around with it. What Dan and Randy do is grab six random mix CD's that Randy's made over the years and assign them a #1 through 6. Then we roll a dice and whichever # it lands on we grab the corresponding disc, load it into the computer without knowing the songs on it, and then play the songs live on the air...
2017-11-061h 212017-10-301h 03Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music Hour20 Great 21st Century SongsWhat do Tori Amos, The Killers, Feist, Robert Plant, Megan Trainor and Audioslave all have in common? They all made the cut for Dandy Classic’s Twenty Great 21st Century Songs Volume 1 list!
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourSlowdive - 'Souvlaki' , Part 1Odds are that even if you are a big music fan there's a better-than-good chance that Slowdive's sophomore album, 1993's "Souvlaki", has escaped your notice. If you are familiar with its ethereal pleasures then consider yourself one of the lucky, and likely, super smart ones😉. With the release of a new album this past May it has made it more possible for a new generation of fans to give this show-stopping record a chance. When the album came out in Europe in May 1993 it was met with mostly indifference and had trouble finding an audience. When it was finally released in t...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Replacements Pleased To Meet Me - Part 1The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me 1987 was a banner year for music fans. Just about every demographic got served that year. Pop metal fans got Def Leppard's 'Hysteria'. Pop music fans got new albums from Michael Jackson ('Bad'), George Michael ('Faith'), Whitney Houston ('Whitney') and arguably Prince's magnum opus ('Sign O' the Times'). Fans of rock got U2's biggest album ('The Joshua Tree'), the biggest debut album of all time in Guns N' Roses ('The Joshua Tree') and hair metal as a genre was in its heyday. Even fans of soundtracks got 'The Dirty Dancing' soundtrack, one of t...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Live Top 5 KISS Songs PanelThe Live Top 5 favorite Kiss songs panel w. Pods N' Sods from the Nashville Rock N' Pod (with special bonus interview footage w. Craig Smith and Cobras N' Fire) On August 26th, 2017 history was made. We aren't talking about the fight between Mayweather and McGregor. We're talking about Pods N' Sods and Dandy Classic joining forces to pick their Top 5 favorite Kiss songs of all-time! Not only that, we did it live on stage. For those of you unfamiliar with Pods N' Sods, it features Craig Smith and Eric Miller and their longstanding friendship was formed over Kiss. They've done so...
2017-09-1848 min
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourRock N' Pod Expo Interviews - Part 2Rock N' Pod Expo Interviews Part 2 We came, we saw, we podcasted! The first ever Rock N' Pod took place at the Music Valley Event Center on Saturday August 26th (regular listeners of the show probably are well aware of it since we've been talking about it incessantly since it was announced in the spring) and it was lit. Dan Minard and Randy W. Hall set up shop and spread the gospel of our podcast far and wide. We were one of about 25 shows (!) that came to the inaugural event put together primarily by Chris Cynczak of The Decibal Geek a...
2017-09-1152 min
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourRock N' Pod Expo Interviews - Part 1Rock N' Pod Expo Interviews Part 1 We came, we saw, we podcasted! The first ever Rock N' Pod took place at the Music Valley Event Center on Saturday August 26th (regular listeners of the show probably are well aware of it since we've been talking about it incessantly since it was announced in the spring) and it was lit. Dan Minard and Randy W. Hall set up shop and spread the gospel of our podcast far and wide. We were one of about 25 shows (!) that came to the inaugural event put together primarily by Chris Cynczak of The Decibal Geek a...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourBuilding the Perfect Illusion'Building the Perfect Illusion' The story of this weeks podcast is one of friendship. No, we're not talking about Axl and Izzy, or any member of Guns N' Roses in relation to each other. I'm talking about between Dan Minard and Randy W. Hall. You see, dear listener, when the Use Your Illusion albums were released on September 17, 1991 we were one of millions of teenage G N' R fans who waited with baited breath for the "Most Dangerous Band in World" to release their long awaited proper follow-up to the most successful debut album of all-time "Appetite for Destruction". It had...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourTop 11 Favorite One & Done SongsWhat is a one-and-done song in Dandy Classic Music vernacular? Is it just a clever-sounding title drummed up by our marketing department? Maybe a little of that slick-sounding click-baitesque sounding logic applies. But what it boils down to is Dan and Randy didn't want to do a straight-forward one-hit-wonder list. While there are several of those sprinkled on each of our lists. it encompasses more than that. Basically we open it up to include that one song by artists we don't either like (ala a Staind or Hootie & the Blowfish) or have any more knowledge of to include a song of...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourMonsters of Folk - Part 1 Apparently Dan Minard likes 2000's supergroups. For the second time he has gotten us to do an album from one (Them Crooked Vultures were the first). Coincidentally both records came out in 2009! This one features four fellas who found themselves together on a tour in 2004 with their respective 'day jobs' and hit-it-off to the point they conjured up the idea for this collective five years prior to actually releasing an album. Jim James (from 'My Morning Jacket'), M. Ward (solo and 'She & Him'), and two guys from 'Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst & Mike Mogis) recorded the album over the cou...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourMarvin Gaye, What's Going On - Part 2Part 2 of the 'What's Going On' podcast from Dandy Classic Music.
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourMarvin Gaye , What's Going On - Part 1On the shortlist of great soul albums, Marvin Gaye's 1971 classic "What's Going On" is always mentioned first or second seemingly. And for good reason at that. Considering that it's amazing to contemplate it almost never got made in the first place. It all started when Obie Robertson from the 4 Tops along with Al Cleveland, wrote the title track and presented it to Gaye for his consideration. After hearing the rough idea for the song, Marvin added his own special flavor to the track before agreeing to record it. Informed by his correspondence he had with his brother Frankie who was fi...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourBelle & Sebastian, The Boy With The Arab Strap- Part 11998 was NOT a great year for pop music and rock n' roll. Between tepid R&B, bullshit rap/metal amalgamations, juvenile Southern rap, and the re-emergence of boy bands, it is remembered by most as a possible nadir for Top 40 radio. Half a world away in Glasgow, Scotland an 8-piece outfit by the name of Belle & Sebastian (the bands name pays homage to a children's book) was releasing their third LP, "The Boy With the Arab Strap", to a largely underground audience. Helmed by the sickly and well-read Stuart Murdoch, who sang lead vocals and played guitar, the group cultivated a c...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourBig Star Radio City - Part 1By request, per Christopher D. Thompson, one of our most loyal listeners, Dan and Randy review, track-by-track the sophomore album by the Cult Band of Cult Bands. We’re talking about the legends-years-after-the-fact Big Star from Memphis, TN and the album ‘Radio City’ from 1974. There are many reasons why Big Star never made an impact in their own time. First of all, they weren’t even a big deal in their own hometown. They were the Black Sheep of Stax Records subsidiary label, Ardent Records, the lone rock band on a soul label. As tough as that was, they also barely p...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourPublic Enemy It Takes A Nations Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Part 20
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourPUBLIC ENEMY It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Part- 1 Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back We sometimes get the question about an album or artist: What took you guys so long?! Well this week certainly applies to that sentiment. By the time 1988 rolled around and Public Enemy, the hip-hop collective from Long Island, NY, released their seminal sophomore LP “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”, rap had come a long way from its innocent impromptu house parties roots. It had broken through to the mainstream with the multi-platinum success of their Def Jam label mates Run DMC and most notabl...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Killers - Hot Fuss Part 1When The Killers came steaming out of Las Vegas in 2004 the world was ready to embrace the bands brand of retro disco-rock. The nostalgia cycle was beginning to embrace the 1980's New Wave of synth music with a healthy assist from, of all places, the world of video games and the mass appeal of 'Vice City' and its 80's pop-rock heavy soundtrack. Into the void stepped a previously unknown rock band known as The Killers (a name they nicked from a New Order video 'Crystal' from the fictional band depicted in it). Also it helped immensely that the band had a...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourMix CD Roulette Vol. 2Sometimes here at That Dandy Classic Music Hour we need a ready-made show. That’s where the idea for Mix CD roulette came in. We did our first volume back in the fall and had so much fun we figured we’d revisit it again. The concept is Randy took six of his hundreds of different mix CD’s from across different eras and years and rolled a dice to see which one of the 6 we’d then put in Dan’s computer, without knowing the tracklist. From that point we played each track, sight unseen, and provided commentary spontaneously (sort of a ‘...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourZZ TOPAnother week another Rock N' Roll Hall-of-Fame inductee for Dandy Classic to dig into. At least lately it seems. This week we've got ZZ Top and we're doing something a bit different by suggestion from our very own Dan Minard. Instead of focusing on a solitary album track-by-track as is customary here, or doing a countdown of our favorite songs by a particular artist (a la The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen or The Ramones), we just shoot-the-bull for 75 minutes and give an overview of ol' ZZ and highlight some of our favorite songs and albums alike. Featuring the technical precision of...
2017-04-101h 23Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourFleetwood Mac, Rumors - Part 10 The 1970’s was the dawn of the true blockbuster. Blockbuster movies like ‘Jaws’, ‘Star Wars’ and albums like Eagles ‘Hotel California’ and Pink Floyd ‘Dark Side of the Moon’. Twin blockbusters (movie and soundtrack) like ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Grease’. And perhaps the most unlikely blockbuster seller of all is the album we’ve taken on the next two weeks, Fleetwood Mac’s twenty million seller ‘Rumours’. Fraught with crumbling relationships, in-fighting, partner-swapping, rampant drug use and competing creative tensions, it’s a minor miracle the album was completed, let alone thrived. Out of the five members of the group, no less than three relatio...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourBelly KING - Part 2 BELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY. ;-)
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourBelly KING - Part 1 For the 1990's alternative rock band Belly their second album 'King', which we delve into track-by-track this week and next, was supposed to vault the group to stardom. Instead it alienated much of their fan base and didn't spawn any hit singles to gain the traction with the uninitiated they were counting on. In the intervening years, however, those who bought the record at the time and gave it a chance, became like a tiny legion championing what we knew was a lost classic. Which 'King' totally is. Also over the course of 22 years the album...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourBeastie Boys Licensed To Ill - Part 1One of the more interesting careers in popular music of the last 30 years has to belong to the Beastie Boys. Starting with their mega-popular debut album, the one Dan Minard and I discuss this week and next, 'Licensed To Ill', the Causian hip-hop trio known as the Beastie Boys hailing from New York City, over the course of seven good-to-great records left a legacy as varied and respected critically combined with commercial appeal as well. Until Adam 'MCA' Yauch's untimely death in 2012 at 47, the group continued to explore and expand their sound within the parameters o...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourPink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon - Part 1What do you get when you combine a heady English rock band, astronomy and a cynical stoner culture? Why you get the mega-album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd! Released in 1973, the album had unprecedented staying power as it remained on the Top 200 selling album charts of Billboard for over 15 years as generations of music fans bought the record time-and-time again. It eventually has sold over 20 million copies in the US and over 30 million worldwide! What's amazing is it was the bands eighth release as a collective and although they had a solid a...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourGeorge Michael Faith - Part 1Last Christmas 2016 – When the world and I learned this last Christmas Day 2016 that George Michael had passed away at age 53, it was yet another musical luminary who died unexpectedly and too soon. While he had stepped away from the music scene at large, Michael was the type of talent who always had the potential of a comeback, even if it was a slim chance. For me, George Michael will always have a special place in my heart as a music fan. When he released his masterpiece, ‘Faith’ in 1987 I was the perfect age to embrace this meteoric rise and give myself...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourNew Wave Music Top 12 - Part 1After missing a new episode last week, Dandy Classic comes out swinging for the New Year with our Top 12 favorite New Wave song countdown! New Wave is a bit nebulous in what it exactly means, but it was a huge musical movement and genre in the late 70's and through the 1980's. Typically it featured synths and young white folks with questionable hairstyles and wardrobes. Well that may not be exactly true (but it was often true), but it was most definitely a thing. A huge thing in fact. Coming on the heels of the...
2017-01-1659 min
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourDandy 110 Madonna 2What purpose do frogs serve..? Anyways, Part 2 of Dandy Classic Music talking about Madonna's "Like a Prayer"
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourMadonna 'Like a Prayer' - Part 1 “Life is a mystery Everyone must stand alone I hear you call my name And it feels like home” Madonna – Lyrics from “Like A Prayer” For our last artist of Female Appreciation Month we wanted to do one of, if not the, biggest female artist of Dan and Randy’s lifetimes, the one and only Madonna. The reason Randy chose this album, Madonna’s fourth, was because it held personal meaning for him and when this came out he was going through puberty and this made a lasting impact on him for that and other reasons J. In 1989, the year this was released...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourJoni Mitchell Blue - Part 11971 may have been one of the best in the history of the album. On the rock side of things we got three all-timers with "Sticky Fingers" by the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin with the legendary 'IV (or Zoso) and "Who's Next" by The Who. For those who liked soul music, Marvin Gaye released his pantheon album "What's Goin' On" and Stevie Wonder let everybody know "Where I'm Coming From". Not only that, Gamble & Huff were scoring hit & hit out of Philadelphia with a cadre of great artists. Also from Sly & the Family Stone there was "A Riot Goin' On". Across...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourPJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea -Part 2HELLO! hello.....? ? HI! (anybody..?)
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourPJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea -Part 1For "Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea", P.J. Harvey decided to clean-up her sound and write her "pretty, beautiful" album. While the final results were decidedly P.J., there's no denying that in the body of her life's work, that "Stories" is indeed the outlier in terms of easy-to-digest melodies and nearly commercial-sounding songcraft. That's not to say it sounds like a Madonna record or anything, but compared to anything else she did before or since, this is her bid for a wider audience. She ended up winning the prestigious Mercury Music Prize in 2001 for her trouble (s...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Joshua Tree – When U2 came to America and got the blues – Part 20
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Joshua Tree - When U2 came to America and got the blues - Part 1U2 were a band that pretty much followed the blueprint for small-time growth from album-to-album. They hooked up when they were late-teenagers and through their first four albums they'd grown their base in Europe and the United States slowly, but surely. They debuted in 1980, got their sophomore slump out of the way in 1982 and became an act to be reckoned with on their third album, the succinctly-titled 'War' which got them their first two well-known songs 'New Years Day' and 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. They also summed up their early era with a live album that got a lot of airplay...
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Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourDandy Classic Top 10 Movie Soundtrack Songs - Part 2Song from movies. Us listening to them. And we talk. (you "may" hear things..) Thumb US UP^ on iheartradio.com (look up dandy classic music)
2016-11-0755 min
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourDandy Classic Top 10 Movie Soundtrack Songs In a world where music podcasts are fast and furious, and we fight to get the audiences attention a pair of young, old guys from Detroit stepped in that competitive vortex to form a bond and partnership unprecedented before. That or I wanted to say something suitably dramatic since this week we're talking movie soundtracks. You decide which. Movie soundtracks serve a variety of useful purposes. For the directors they often help drive a narrative or stress a particular emotion or theme in a particular theme. For the artists they can be a w...
2016-10-311h 00
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourMix CD RouletteOccasionally here at DandyClassic we like to give the fans a fun surprise. This week would be such an occasion. What we did was take several mix CD's that Randy has made over the years, mixed them up, and then picked one randomly. At that point we burned it onto Dan's computer without knowing any of the songs on it, and then played all the tracks one-by-one and more or less freestyle our instant reactions to which songs come on. It has the potential to be hilarious, insightful and even embarrassing. So join us as w...
2016-10-241h 18
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourMotown vs. Stax Vol. 2Motown vs. Stax Vol. 2 Back in the early days of That Dandy Classic Music Hour we had a special show called Motown vs. Stax where Dan and Randy had an enlightened and fun discussion comparing and contrasting the two pre-eminent soul labels. On that show Randy took up for Motown label, while Dan represented for Stax. On that 2-part episode we talked at length about each labels rich and illustrious history and then proceeded to pick our 5 favorite artists and 10 favorite songs. Well we wanted to revisit the topic and give the flip side with D...
2016-10-171h 29
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourBlack Sabbath Paranoid - Part 2We finish honoring the Metal efforts of Black Sabbath in Part 2.
2016-10-101h 07
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourBlack Sabbath Paranoid - Part 1In the annals of British heavy metal there are two groups that get the lions share of the credit when it comes to creating a uniform prototype of the sound. Led Zeppelin, of course, and the band that we're covering today, Black Sabbath. Some folks might want to throw Deep Purple in there, but they were more traditional rock than Zep and Sabbath in my opinion (and loved to include the organ, mostly unmetal, in their typical sound). For 'Paranoid' it was the groups second album and showed off the bands expanding sonic palette and showcasing the...
2016-10-031h 01
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourHandsome Dan (the WRVU interview) - Part 2Handsome Dan is interviewed one of Nashville's classic radio stations: 91.1 WRVU. The station is no more but was a huge supporter of independent music. Gone but not forgotten. https://handsomedan1.bandcamp.com http://www.iheart.com/artist/handsome-dan-323140/ https://www.facebook.com/handsomedanmusic/?ref=page_internal
2016-09-261h 06
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourHandsome Dan - 1st EpisodeDan channels his 'handsome' persona, mainly because Randy's on vacation...
2016-09-1924 min
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourDandy Classic Music Top 24 favorite Rolling Stones Licks Show – Part 2We finish counting down our favorite Stones songs!
2016-09-121h 28
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourDandy Classic Music Top 24 favorite Rolling Stones Licks Show - Part 1When it comes to the band The Rolling Stones the music speaks for itself. But with them we got so much more. Bad boy purveyors of blues-based rock who've been going strong over 50(!) years into their legendary career. They've released 27 studio albums, a dozen live albums of different persuasions, and scads of compilations to help fans become familiar with their immense library of material. And how many bands have had their exploits covered by Martin Scorcese (I'll give you a hint, it's one)?! Not only that but if you like a little (or a lot in some instances) personality in...
2016-09-051h 01
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Meatmen "Were the Meatmen and You Suck" - Part 2MORE PUNK ROCK FROM THE MEATMEN. YOU SUCK. www.thatdandyclassicmusichour.com https://twitter.com/DandyClassic https://www.facebook.com/ThatDandyClassicMusicHour/
2016-08-291h 21
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Meatmen, "We're the Meatmen and You Suck" - Part 1In 1983 the world of punk rock had seen a lot in the seven years since punk was spawned. It had seen its apex with the popularity of The Sex Pistols. It had broken through critically with the Ramones and The Clash. It had also waned in popularity as a nationwide malaise from the Carter administration took a toll and the country and youth took solace in synthesized New Wave and post-disco evolved into hip-hop to escape the turbulent national outlook. But like any music movement, punk still existed on the fringes and in those fringes arose regional acts such as M...
2016-08-221h 01
Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourTaylor Swift TributeVery pleased to be doing a show with some of the best & most original songs!
2016-08-151h 032016-08-081h 18Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourGarbage Version 2.0 – Part 1Dan & Randy talk about a bunch of garbage they listened to.
2016-08-011h 03Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourR.E.M. Top 5 Favorite Songs – Part 2PART 2 OF TOP 5 FAVORITE R.E.M. SONGS PODCAST DANDY CLASSIC MUSIC/ THE GREAT ALBUMS/ BFF
2016-07-251h 15Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourR.E.M. Top 5 Favorite Songs – Part 1For our REM Top 5 Favorites, Dandy Classic called in some reinforcements in the form of The Great Albums podcast. They feature a duo of buddies who discuss great music on their well-regarded show (http://www.thegreatalbums.com/) 'Wild' Bill Lambusta and Brian Erickson.
2016-07-1859 minPodcast – That Dandy Classic Music Hour2 Pac Me Against The World – Part 2The Dandy duo drop Part 2 of Tupac's: Me Against the World. Keepin' thangs real.
2016-07-111h 17Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music Hour2Pac Me Against The World – Part 1Tupac Amaru Shakur Born: June 16, 1971, East Harlem, New York City, NY Died: September 13, 1996, Las Vegas, NV
2016-07-041h 08Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Beatles Live at The Hollywood Bowl – Part 2Yo Mama Listens to The Beatles.
2016-06-271h 12Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThe Beatles Live at The Hollywood Bowl – Part 1If you're a Beatles fan, do you own this...?
2016-06-2048 minPodcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourPrince Tribute Finale – w/ BJ Kramp & Casey CooperTHE RETURN OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF PRINCE.
2016-06-131h 29Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourPrince Tribute with Craig Smith of ‘Pods & Sods’ – Part 2.NWAD EHT OT EMOCLEW
2016-06-061h 122016-05-301h 422016-05-231h 07Podcast – That Dandy Classic Music HourThem Crooked Vultures – Part 1WE DON'T GIVE UP SOMETIMES AT DANDY CLASSIC.
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