Before The Stream – Details, episodes & analysis

Just a quick little update to let you know that Jason talked about Radiohead's album Kid A on the podcast "You, Me and An Album" with Al Melchior. 

You can listen to the episode here or wherever you listen to podcasts. Al has had a ton of great guests and discussed a lot of great albums if you don't know the podcast. 

Al and Jason also talked a bit about Jason's album The Grand Routine and the history and future of this podcast.

I hope you'll give it a listen. 

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A Safe Place is out. It's the 3rd single from Jason's forthcoming new album The Grand Routine. 

Great friend of the show Rob Collier joins again to talk about the song, how it was written, songwriting, production, Andrew Carlson's bass playing, music marketing, etc etc. 

The two friends also try to define what type of music Jason's music is, what Soft Rock is, if lyrics matter at all, and more. 

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D. James Goodwin is back on the show. 

We're taking a break from the Nirvana series to ask Dan some questions about his process of learning and engaging with the world via social media, technology, etc, before getting into R.E.M's 1992 album Automatic For The People.

Dan had mentioned his deep emotional connection to the album on his previous appearance so we decided to dig further into it.

As usual, we talk lyrics, production, songwriting, the specific qualities and characteristics of each band member, and more. 

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Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Travis Smith returns to the pod to discuss On A Plain and reminisce about Nirvana. Jason and Travis talk about album sequencing, "great little pop songs" vs "great songs", poignant lyrics vs throwaway lyrics, what stands out about this song in this performance and on Nevermind, and more.

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Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

We finally had to go out of song order for this one, but you'll be glad to get it sooner.

Singer/Songwriter/cellist/multi-instrumentalist Heather Woods Broderick joins Jason to talk about the penultimate song of the performance All Apologies.

The two friends and sometimes bandmates discuss Heather's memories of Nirvana, grunge music, and Unplugged before moving through a variety of topics like live performance versus recorded performance, how people will get inspired to learn an instrument in the future, songwriting, and more. 

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Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Chris Buckridge joined Jason to share his deeply personal connection to this song and to Nirvana. 

The two friends and erstwhile/forever bandmates discuss music theory, mental health, cognitive dissonance and of course, Nirvana. 

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Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Rob Collier returns to the show to talk about Pennyroyal Tea, the 5th song on the album. 

We explore why Rob didn't get into Nirvana in the 90s as much as he did the other major grunge bands, what makes this song and Kurt's performance of it on Unplugged so compelling, a little bit of music theory, and a lot more. 

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Dean Wareham (Luna, Galaxie 500, Dean & Britta, etc) is on the show! 

Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Dean's band Luna was making major label rock albums at the same time Nirvana was, so he has an interesting perspective on the time period. 

Dean and Jason talk about the aesthetics of "Unplugged", vocals, covers, and more. 

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We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York song by song. John Whitaker joins Jason to talk about Nirvana's cover of The Vaselines' Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam. 

The two old friends and bandmates discuss John's teenage perspective on Nirvana in the 90s, everything that Dave Grohl adds to this performance, what it's like to have lived a song, the gift that Nirvana gave so many people by covering relatively unknown songs, and more.

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We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York song by song. Our guest for Come As You Are, the 2nd song of the show, was born the same year Nirvana Unplugged was performed.

Guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Louis Cohen joins Jason to discuss his connection to Nirvana, musical plagarism, 90s guitar sounds and fashion, Judee Sill, and a lot more. 

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