MATT'S COMPANION GUIDE TO EPISODE 3: MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE POD

This week we’re talking about The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and Japanese Breakfast’s Soft Sounds From Another Planet, two experimental pop albums put out 51 years apart. It’s hard to imagine Soft Sounds will have the kind lasting impact Pet Sounds did … — This week we’re talking about The Beach Boys’ *Pet Sounds* and Japanese Breakfast’s Soft Sounds From Another Planet, two experimental pop albums put out 51 years apart. It’s hard to imagine *Soft Sounds* will have the kind lasting impact *Pet Sounds* did (but it’s possible nothing ever will).

Japanese Breakfast "Soft Sounds From Another Planet" (album art) — Japanese Breakfast "*Soft Sounds From Another Planet" (album art)*

Japanese Breakfast basics:

Members: Michelle Zauner

Founded: 2013

Studio Albums:

Psychopomp, 2016
Soft Sounds From Another Planet, 2017

What they’re saying about Soft Sounds From Another Planet;

“Inspired by the cosmos, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner addresses life on Earth. Her voice shines over melancholic arrangements, evoking Pacific Northwest indie rock as much as shoegaze”

— Pitchfork

“For a record with its aspirations in the allegorical freedom of the cosmos, Zauner returns over and over to the painful architecture of this world. There’s beauty in it, too, this seeing more clearly, this holding of two things in mind at once. There are no bromides or reassuring aphorisms here.”

— Consequence of Sound

“Soft Sounds From Another Planet… [is] a somber, starry lullaby that results in periods of fitful sleep marked by struggles with fading love and death’s vague mystery.”

— Paste

Beach Boys basics:

Members:

Brian Wilson
Dennis Wilson
Carl Wilson
Mike Love
Al Jardine

Founded: 1961

Audio Albums: 20+ wikipedia that shit

What they’re saying about Pet Sounds;

“But Pet Sounds....nobody was prepared for anything so soulful, so lovely, something one had to think about so much. It is by far the best album Brian has yet delivered, and it paradoxically began the decline in mass popularity that still plagues this band. It also reflected Brian’s preoccupation with pure sound.”

— Rolling Stone

“Almost predictably, as the deserved praise for the vocal arrangements may never wane, I’ve heard more fine things said about the instrumental tracks recently than any other aspect of the record. In any case, the technical achievements of the record (only given further support by the stereo issue of the record in the late 90s) have tended to overshadow the emotional and spiritual ones, at least in my lifetime.”

— Pitchfork

Appendix:

Townes Van Zandt

Hayley’s been dipping her toes in the catalogue of a songwriting legend. Check out my favorite Townes track with a cover from Andrew Bird thrown in free

From "Townes Van Zandt" (1969)

I DO NOT CLAIM THE RIGHTS TO THIS SONG, I AM SIMPLY POSTING IT. This is my favorite song from the new Hands of Glory album. For more info, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Of_Glory

The Modern Lovers

I called this number three times already today But I, I got scared, I put It back in place, I put my phone back in place. I still don't know if I should have called up. Look, just tell me why don't ya if I'm out of place.

Emo Revival

http://www.stereogum.com/1503252/12-bands-to-know-from-the-emo-revival/franchises/list/

Stereogum published this nice Emo Revival primer. I’d add the following three artists to their list:

Modern Baseball - Two Good Things "i do not own this song" i just like it"

I need direction for all of my callousing Standing, screaming that the time is now Spend your money when you're rich in a way you don't need A bare perfection all of the way down I need substance, spit me out into the street You're heavy, almost continually You can take it but you better give it back to me Spend your week searching for a way out I need direction, feet first into me Where do you find yourself when you are out?

The Front Bottoms | Talon Of The Hawk http://www.bar-none.com | http://www.thefrontbottoms.com LYRICS (scroll down) This is for the lions living in the wiry broke down frames of my friends bodies. When the flood water comes, it ain't gonna be clear. It's gonna look like mud. But I will help you swim.

Songs: Ohia

From the CD Magnolia Electric Co.

Otis Redding

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/otis-redding-the-crown-prince-of-soul-is-dead-19680120

Jann Wenner had no idea he was leaving out what would become Redding’s most famous song when he wrote this obituary in 1968. Also, here’s the song that almost made Hayley crash on I-20:

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Feist

Titel: Brandy Alexander Interpret: Feist Album: The Reminder Jahr: 16.04.2007 iTuneslink: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=220155357&s=143443

Louvin Brothers/Andrews Sisters

"There's A Higher Power" by The Louvin Brothers from their 1960 album, "Satan Is Real."

My favorite rendition as sung by the Andrews Sisters (OSA-Radio History, 1937-1938)

Here’s Mike Love on meeting Charles fucking Manson

Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love, author of the new memoir "Good Vibrations," tells a WSJ+ audience about mass murderer Charles Manson's attempts to infiltrate the band.

Bill Mallonee

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2006/07/pastes-100-best-living-songwriters-6170.html

Paste named Bill their 65th-best living songwriter in 2006. He shares the list with some absolute powerhouses. While he’s probably had less commercial success than anyone else on the list, his lyrics are pure class. He also replied to a fanboy Facebook message I sent him when I was 16. What a dude.

Vigilantes Of Love - 3 - Skin - Blister Soul (1995)