Rich, Mike, and Amanda answer a bonanza of questions from listeners. Topics include retro prog, great live albums and not-so-great live shows, fantasy supergroups, synesthesia, our favorite recent releases, and no fewer than three questions abo

138: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)

23 days ago 2h 37m

Peter Gabriel is a favorite artist of many of us here at Discord & Rhyme, but we’ve saved him for our own 138th Episode Spectacular. Peter Gabriel III (aka Melt, so called because half of Gabriel’s face on the album cover looks like a melting c

137: Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984)

Mar 19th, 2024 2h 7m

Hear that? There goes the siren that warns of the air raid – or maybe that’s just Bruce Dickinson’s voice. This week, Mike continues his quest to make Discord & Rhyme more metal with the album Powerslave by Iron Maiden. In the popular conscious

136: Kylie Minogue - X (2007)

Mar 5th, 2024 2h 13m

Kylie Minogue had a big comeback last year with the Grammy-winning TikTok hit “Padam Padam,” so Rich decided that it was finally time to give the Discord & Rhyme treatment to one of his favorite divas. Kylie’s 2007 album X wasn’t just an artist

Listener Q&A: Call for Questions!

Mar 4th, 2024 49s

We're doing our annual listener Q&A next month, and we want to hear from you! Send us your thousand million burning questions at [email protected] on Instagram @DiscordPod by the end of the day Friday, April 5. Keep as cool as you can!

135: The Dillards - Live!!!! Almost!!! (1964)

Feb 20th, 2024 1h 49m

Amanda has been threatening to talk about bluegrass on the podcast for years, and we finally settled on the perfect album to start with: Live!!!! Almost!!! by the Dillards. Half a comedy album and half a virtuoso performance by expert musicians

134: Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards (1972)

Feb 6th, 2024 1h 24m

Uriah Heep were never critical darlings, but for a brief period in the early seventies, they were making some absolutely killer fantasy-tinged rock. Phil has always had a soft spot for 1972’s Demons And Wizards, which is probably the best examp

133: Rodgers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma! (1964)

Jan 23rd, 2024 2h 8m

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma! was a massive hit on Broadway in 1943. It changed musical theater forever and inspired a well-remembered 1955 film. Ben hasn't seen the musical or the film, and he doesn't know the plot or the names o

132: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

Dec 25th, 2023 2h 20m

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were gifted musicians with a deep and complicated personal relationship, which makes them perfect subjects for a Discord & Rhyme holiday episode. Their magnum opus, Bridge Over Troubled Water, was a huge hit in 1970

131: Wire - Pink Flag (1977)

Dec 12th, 2023 1h 56m

1 2 X U! As punk was just beginning to take off in the UK, Wire was already looking ahead, itching to push the genre toward artsier, more abstract frontiers. Their 1977 LP Pink Flag planted the seeds for post-punk and hardcore before most kids

130: The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball (1987)

Nov 21st, 2023 2h 18m

It’s time for a psychedelic podcast extravaganza, five years and two recordings in the making! The album Chips from the Chocolate Fireball by XTC’s alter-egos the Dukes of Stratosphear was supposed to be our fifth episode, but technical difficu

129: Gentle Giant - Octopus (1972)

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 45m

Gentle Giant comes up so often on Discord & Rhyme, especially considering how obscure they are outside the world of hardcore prog rock fandom, that it’s amazing we haven’t covered them yet. Many 1970s prog rock bands aspired to combine rock wit

128: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks (1986)

Oct 24th, 2023 2h 22m

For this year’s Halloween episode, we wanted to go with an artist who scares the living daylights out of us, and what better choice than Nick Cave? After all, this is a man who once recorded an entire album of murder ballads, and whose legendar

127: The Beatles - Beatles for Sale (1964)

Oct 10th, 2023 2h 20m

Beatles For Sale is a relatively obscure album, to the extent that any Beatles album could be called obscure. This album was recorded at a time when the Beatles were creatively exhausted and almost half of it is covers, which is why it’s often

126: Slint - Spiderland (1991)

Sep 26th, 2023 1h 41m

Slint are a true one-of-a-kind band - they showed up seemingly out of nowhere, singlehandedly defined an entire genre on a single album, and disappeared before that album was even released. What happened? Why is Spiderland so influential? And,

125: The Beach Boys - All Summer Long (1964) and Sunflower (1970)

Sep 12th, 2023 3h 32m

It's Discord & Rhyme's 125th episode, and we are marking the occasion with one of our favorite recording strategies: tackling a famous band by discussing two of their albums while making an end-run around their most critically acclaimed period.

125: The Beach Boys - All Summer Long (1964) & Sunflower (1970)

Sep 12th, 2023 3h 32m

124: Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (1978)

Aug 29th, 2023 1h 53m

Whether he likes it or not, Warren Zevon will forever be most remembered for his surprise hit “Werewolves of London,” but he’s a far more complex and interesting songwriter than most folks are aware. Forever a musician’s musician, Zevon’s uniqu

123: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Naturally (2005)

Aug 15th, 2023 1h 47m

Are you ready to do the Dap Dip? This week, the Discord & Rhyme Super Soul Revue travels back to 2005 to discuss Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, who play sunny R&B that sounds like it came straight out of the late ‘60s or early ‘70s. But despite

Bonus: Unexpected Guitars!

Aug 1st, 2023 1h 43m

We're on summer vacation after finishing our King Crimson episode, so please enjoy this release from the Patreon vault! We call these our Mad Libs episodes, where we pick a category and discuss songs that fit that category somehow. This is one

122: King Crimson - Discipline (1981)

Jul 18th, 2023 2h 3m

It's only talk! This week, Mike rounds out our fifth-anniversary triad of King Crimson discussions with some dialogue, duologue, diatribe, dissension, and declamation about the band's 1981 album Discipline. On this album, bassist Tony Levin and

121: King Crimson - Red (1974)

Jul 4th, 2023 2h 32m

Part two of the Discord & Rhyme celebration of King Crimson brings us to the 1974 album Red, the band’s final studio(-ish) album before it disbanded for 7 years. John’s history with King Crimson began with this album, and while he didn’t initia

120: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

Jun 20th, 2023 2h 1m

As frequently as we mention King Crimson on this podcast, you’d think we would have done a proper episode on them by now. But we wanted to hold off until we could really do it up right, so this is the premiere of our three-episode series on the

119: The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager (1981)

Jun 6th, 2023 2h 16m

It’s time to follow the Moody Blues into the 1980s. After a long hiatus and a disappointing comeback album, the Moodies reconvened with a new keyboard player and a new producer to start a new decade in their long career. Music production styles

118: Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (1970) [LINK]

May 23rd, 2023 32s

NOTE: This episode was removed from the feed by our podcast host. Listen on our website: https://discordpod.com/listen/118-neil-young-after-the-gold-rush-1970By the time he recorded his third solo album, After the Gold Rush, Neil Young had alre