Two fearless middle class white men give their lukewarm takes on the music they enjoy. Come for the entertaining playlists, stay for the underwhelming personalities.
Episode Notes We finish up our dive into the best cheesy songs on the planet Earth. Along the way Adam philosophizies, we touch on Christopher Lee's late-life metal career and finally hit the end of the road. Enjoy. Track list: "Evil Woman" - Electric Light Orchestra "Ballroom Blitz" - Sweet "Do You Realize??" - The Flaming Lips "Pinch Me" - Barenaked Ladies "Accidentally In Love" - Counting Crows "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - Wham! "Silly Love Songs" - Wings "Just A Dream" - Nelly "End of the Road" - Boyz II Men
Episode Notes This week and the next we bring you songs that are cheesy as hell, but so deliciously listenable. Feel no shame in your guilty pleasures. Like your favorite white boy radio show, for instance. Track list: "Shadows of the Night" - Pat Benatar "Want to Want Me" - Jason Derulo "Abracadabra" - Steve Miller Band "Cuando Me Enamoro" - Enrique Iglesias, Juan Luis Guerra "Take on Me" (MTV Unplugged) - a-ha "Fine Time" - New Order "Shake Your Coconuts" - Junior Senior "Breakfast in America" - Supertramp "Far Away Eyes" - The Rolling Stones "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" - Aerosmith
Episode Notes The boys are back. It's a classy return to radio-ing with a good old-fashioned minisode. Dig it. Track list: "Alabama" - Night Moves "The Cedar Room" - Doves "Lonesome Night" - New Order "Caroline, Please Kill Me" - Coma Cinema "Bring the Noise" - Public Enemy "Get Em High" - Kanye West "Black Qualls" - Thundercat" "Western" - Stew and the Negro Problem
Episode Notes A playlist to hold you over till we get some real shows. We busy with other shit, be patient. "Jump Into the Fire" - Harry Nilsson "That's All It Took" - Gram Parsons "Kodachrome" - Paul Simon "Lookin' Out My Backdoor" - Creedence Clearwater Revival "Passenger Side" - Wilco "Such A Night" - Dr. John "How Could You Babe" - Tobias Jesso Jr. "Sweet Pea" - Amos Lee "I Wish" - Stevie Wonder "Only For You" - Heartless Bastards
Episode Notes Today we bring you a very special minisode indeed, in which we make up topics and choose songs on the spot. Later, we bring in a very special guest to pad the run time. This one's at least a 7 out of 10.
Episode Notes It's an end of the week playlist for ya. Guitar pop's here to rescue your weary, wayward souls. Carry on.
Episode Notes We finish up with the second part of our two parter, with dives into Rush and John Prine. RIP to Neil Peart and Prine. But mostly John Prine. Sorry Adam. Track List: "Finding My Way" "Fly By Night" "A Passage to Bangkok" "The Spirit of Radio" "Distant Early Warning" "Time Stand Still" -Rush "Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)" "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" (live) "Illegal Smile" "Blue Umbrella" "Clocks and Spoons" "Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)" -John Prine
Episode Notes We return in the new year with a playlist of some excellent music released by women in the past year, in genres we don't play often enough. Basically, that means there are no whispy-voiced white indie rockers. 30 minutes, unimpeded by our manly voices. Cheers. Track list: "shut up" - Ariana Grande "Forgive Me" - Chloe x Halle "Magic" - Linda Diaz "B.S." - Jhené Aiko ft. H.E.R. "Nada" - Lido Pimienta "Like That Bitch" - Flo Milli "What's Your Pleasure?" - Jessie Ware "Can't Fight" - Lianne La Hava "Good In Bed" - Dua Lipa
Episode Notes As we say goodbye to the year (insert the same 3 2020 sucks jokes), MobGowski Radio would like to take a moment to express gratitude for a few things this week, including Festivus, the Day of the Goyim and all the delightful English football on Boxing Day. We'd also like to appreciate the music of some of our favorite musicians who we lost in the last 12 months. Thus, we've compiled a little playlist to compliment said appreciation. None of our pesky chatting, just the music. And yes, Neil Peart-ers, I know there's no Rush. You'll have to wait till next week for part 2 of Let's Play Two for that sort of noise. Track List: "Eruption" - Val Halen "Keep On Running" The Spencer Davis Group (Spencer Davis) "Long Tall Sally (The Thing)" - Little Richard "Sick Day" - Fountains of Wayne (Adam Schlesinger) "Can We Pretend" - Bill Withers "The Gambler" - Kenny Rogers "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" - Fairport Convention (Judy Dyble) "The Way You Do the Things You Do" - The Temptations (Bruce Williamson) "Theme for An Imaginary Western" - Mountain (Leslie West) "That's the Way the World Goes Round" - John Prine
Episode Notes You experts take medium-deep dives into a couple artists they adore. We get two sets apiece to prove that our musicians are so much more than their surface-level successes might suggest. Part one of two. Track list: "Money Changes Everything" "Right Train, Wrong Track" "I Drove All Night" "Yeah Yeah" "Maybe He'll Know" "All Through the Night" -Cyndi Lauper "I'm Not in Love" "Who Is It?" "Houses in Motion" "Pull Up the Roots" "Radio Head" "Lifetime Piling Up" -Talking Heads
Episode Notes The lads tackle more top-shelf music to get you through the week. However, our recorded dialogue represents some bottom-shelf sound quality. Many apologies. Perhaps we could avoid such issues if one of us didn't live in the woods. "Calamity Song" - The Decemberists "Baby I'm Bleeding" - JPEGMAFIA "Computer Age" - Sonic Youth "Jump Rope Gazers" - The Beths "Master" - Alex G "Debra" - Beck "One Girl / One Boy" - !!! "If You Want It" - TV Girl
Episode Notes A double feature! We dive into the Paul Verhoeven classic, Robocop, then its distinctly inferior sequel, Robocop 2, notably not directed by Verhoeven. Compliments, critiques, cries for help abound. Patience, Lewis. We're only human. "Movies is Magic" - Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks "RoboCop" - Kanye West
Episode Notes Missed us? Then wolf down this tasty little offering. Track list: "Calamity Song" - The Decemberists "Post Humerous" - Gus Dapperton "Porch Song" - Orchid Mantis "Sirens" - Moon Panda "Can't Stop Thinking About You" - Tobias Jesso Jr. "Love is a Rose" - Neil Young "Hearts and Bones" - Paul Simon
Episode Notes In which our heroes discuss the 2018 film, "Under the Silver Lake," directed by David Robert Mitchell. Obviously spoilers. Fuck you if you listen to this not expecting spoilers. Not that anyone's listening...
Your heroes check in with each other and share some more exciting new music. We also tease a new show on the horizon?? My, my. Track listing: "It's Only Right" - Arverne "The Only One" - Beauty Queen "Aerostar" - Video Age "Texas Sun" - Khruangbin and Leon Bridges "It Must Be Someone Else's Fault" - Courtney Marie Andrews "It Ain't A Weekend" - Seán Barna "Benson Arizona" - John Carpenter, Bill Taylor and John Yager
MobGowski At The Movies! The very first! Today we take a look at John Carpenter's first theatrical release, "Dark Star" (1974), and chaos ensues. Or something. Hey, I've seen that movie too!
Episode Notes Part 3! Your hosts take on the songs they never skip on shuffle, but get a little drunk finishing the episode and are forced to DO IT LIVE. Final note to Five Hour Energy: seriously, don't fucking come at me. Actually, though, we're not liquid, it's not worth you're time. Track list: "Underwater" - Elizabeth and the Catapult "Running Wild" - Moon Taxi "Clearest Blue" - CHVRCHES "Already Naked" - Blondie "E-Pro" - Beck "Magnet" - NRBQ "New Theory" - Washed Out "Natalie Wood" - TV Girl "Can I Go On" - Sleater-Kinney "POWER" - Kanye West
Episode Notes Part 2! Your hosts take on the songs they never skip on shuffle. This one may or may not include the Beatles. Gotta stay original. Continue not to come at me Five Hour Energy. Track list: "This Boy" - The Beatles "Honey Pie" - The Beatles "Just One Look" - Doris Troy "Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks "i" - Kendrick Lamar "BagBak" - Vince Staples "Sun's Out" - Hoops "Only For You" - Heartless Bastards "Last Bus" - Van Goose "What Once Was" - Her's "Family Man" - Fleetwood Mac "Girlfriend is Better - Live" - Talking Heads
Episode Notes Your hosts take on the songs they never skip on shuffle and discuss their respective changes in geography. Groovy indeed. Don't come at me Five Hour Energy. Track list: "Hello Again" - The Cars "Calamity Song" - The Decemberists "Come Down" - Anderson .Paak "Between Two Rooms" - Wildermiss "She Bangs the Drums" - The Stone Roses "Limelight" - Rush "Hungry Heart" - Bruce Springsteen "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" - Bruce Springsteen "Ask" - The Smiths "Pot Kettle Black" - Wilco "Superbike" - Jay Som "oui" - Jeremih "Hypnotize" - The Notorious B.I.G. "One of These Nights" - The Eagles
Episode Notes Part six of our many part series in which we each examine an artist from every decade (60s-2010s, with a little bonus 50s thrown in there). Our artist gets one song that's more popular, one that's underappreciated and/or less listened to. We're very interesting to listen to, as usual. Actually this is the last part of the many part series. So it's a six part series. Six of six. A half dozen. A half baker's dozen minus one half. That's math. Fin. Track List: "Sarah (Bonus Track)" by Alex G (Trick, 2012) "Sandy (Bonus Track)" by Alex G (Rules, 2012) "16 Mirrors (Bonus Track)" by Alex G (Trick, 2012) "Future People" by Alabama Shakes (Sound & Color, 2015) "Suzanne" by Bermuda Triangle (single, 2017) "I Love You" by Yello (You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess, 1983)
Episode Notes Part five of our many part series in which we each examine an artist from every decade (60s-2010s, with a little bonus 50s thrown in there). Our artist gets one song that's more popular, one that's underappreciated and/or less listened to. We're very interesting to listen to, as usual. Track List: "Goddamn Lonely Love" by the Drive-By Truckers (The Dirty South, 2004) "Letting You Go" by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Reunions, 2020) "I Can Change" by LCD Soundsystem (This Is Happening, 2010) "Watch the Tapes" by LCD Soundsystem (Sound of Silver, 2007)
Episode Notes Part four of our many part series in which we each examine an artist from every decade (60s-2010s, with a little bonus 50s thrown in there). Our artist gets one song that's more popular, one that's underappreciated and/or less listened to. We're very interesting to listen to, as usual. Track List: "Airbag" by Radiohead (OK Computer, 1997) "Reckoner" by Radiohead (In Rainbows, 2007) "A Long December" by the Counting Crows (Recovering the Satellites, 1996) "I'm Not Sleeping" by the Counting Crows (Recovering the Satellites, 1996)
Episode Notes Part three of our many part series in which we each examine an artist from every decade (60s-2010s, with a little bonus 50s thrown in there). Our artist gets one song that's more popular, one that's underappreciated and/or less listened to. We're very interesting to listen to, as usual. Track List: "Little Red Corvette (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI, 11/30/1982, Late Show) by Prince (1999: Super Deluxe Edition, 2019) "Vagina" by Prince (1999: Super Deluxe Edition, 2019) "Dreams Never End" by New Order (Movement, 1981) "Face Up" by New Order (Low-Life, 1985)
Episode Notes Part two of our many part series in which we each examine an artist from every decade (60s-2010s, with a little bonus 50s thrown in there). Our artist gets one song that's more popular, one that's underappreciated and/or less listened to. We're very interesting to listen to, as usual. Track List: "Train Leaves Here This Morning (Version 2)" by Gene Clark (No Other: Deluxe Edition, 2019) "Strength of Strings" by Gene Clark (No Other, 1974) "Have a Cigar" by Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here, 1975) "Not Now John" by Pink Floyd (The Final Cut, 1983)
Episode Notes Part one of our many part series in which we each examine an artist from every decade (60s-2010s, with a little bonus 50s thrown in there). Our artist gets one song that's more popular, one that's underappreciated and/or less listened to. We're very interesting to listen to, as usual. Track List: "Calamity Song" by The Decemberists (The King is Dead, 2011) "You Send Me (Demo)" by Sam Cooke (single, 1957) "I'm On the Firing Line (Version 2)" by Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers (Same Cooke with the Soul Stirrers, 2002) "I Don't Want to Cry" by Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers (Same Cooke with the Soul Stirrers, 2002) "19th Nervous Breakdown" by The Rolling Stones (single, 1966) "Factory Girl" by The Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet, 1968) "Time of the Season" by The Zombies (Odessey and Oracle, 1968) "Changes" by the The Zombies (Odessey and Oracle, 1968)
Episode Notes Your heroes continue to take on the music of the first part of 2020. Part 3! Track List: "Summer" by Chasing Daze (Eyes, EP, 2020) "Wake Up" by Kowloon (Single, 2020) "And Yet It Moves/Y Se Mueve" by U.S. Girls (Heavy Light, 2020) "Lost in the Country" by Trace Mountains (Lost in the Country, 2020) "Patience" by Kevin Krauter (Full Hand, 2020) "Hey You" by Katy J Pearson (single, 2020) "The Night in Question" by TV Girl (The Night in Question: French Exit Outtakes, 2020)
Episode Notes Your heroes continue to take on the music of the first part of 2020. Part 2! Track List: "The Steps" by HAIM (Women In Music Pt. III, 2020) "Fell Into A Hole" by Loose Buttons (Something Better, 2020) "FUNNY!" by Tamara & the Dreams (single, 2020) "Dying To Believe" by The Beths (single, 2020) "I Want You To Love Me" by Fiona Apple (Fetch the Bolt Cutters, 2020) "Can't Do Much" by Waxahatchee (Saint Cloud, 2020) "Your Reply" by Frances Quinlan (Likewise, 2020)
Episode Notes Your heroes take on new music from the first few months of 2020, the year to end all years. Track List: "Calamity Song" by The Decemberists (The King is Dead, 2011) "circle the drain" by Soccer Mommy (color theory, 2020) "Hawt Heart" by Born at Midnite (Born at Midnite, EP, 2020) "Nothing's Impossible" by Caroline Rose (Superstar, 2020) "How To Forgive" by Tennis (Swimmer, 2020) "The Steps" by HAIM (Women In Music Pt. III, 2020)