CrossFade: The Dueling Album Review Show

And that’s a wrap on Season 1 of CrossFade! We’ll be back with new episodes in 2022. For now, we wanted to celebrate our supporters with another Community Shuffle, where we shuffle their favorite songs and talk about what shakes out! This episode’s crop is particularly vibrant, so be sure to check it out to discover great new (or classic) music you might just love!

A huge thank you to everyone who listens for your songs, questions, and insight! Matt and Jason will still troll around the MinnMax Discord and you can find them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively.

Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/

Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

0:00 - The CrossFade Community Shuffle: The Replacements, fire-toolz, Neutral Milk Hotel & More

3:04 - The Replacements - “Can’t Hardly Wait” (Devin Brooks)

8:58 - Takeharu Ishimoto - “Breaking Free” (Tactical Dreamer)

11:45 - Portishead - “Plastic” (Internet.Levi)

14:33 - The World/Inferno Friendship Society - “Just the Best Party” (Jason Wojnar)

18:41 - The 1975 - “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)” (Mitch)

23:52 - Parov Stelar - “Djangos Revenge” (Digtron)

27:12 - TWRP - “Feels Pretty Good” (Bread)

31:12 - Sturgill Simpson - “Make Art Not Friends” (Matt Rogers)

35:05 - Keane - “Sovereign Light Café” (Joel Hopkins)

37:57 - Crying - “There Was a Door” (Carlos Lima)

44:45 - Froukje - “Groter Dan Ik” (Kees ('Case') Mulder)

47:59 - Ghost - “Bible” (CalebMurray)

52:23 - CHVRCHES - “Bow Down” (Geoff Enright)

55:48 - 16 Horsepower - “Splinters” (Authoritarian)

58:31 - Neutral Milk Hotel - “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (Brian Corliss)

1:01:49 - Youth Sector - “Teeth” (James Burkett)

1:03:40 - fire-toolz - “mailto:[email protected]?subject=Mind-Body Parallels / Clear Light” (podbod)

1:06:37 - Earth, Wind & Fire - “September” (The Pattycake (Patrick H.))

1:10:23 - Aesop Rock - “Gopher Guts” (Breadward)

1:14:04 - Chen Yue - “Trail of The Angels” (Mike Lynch)

Hello CrossFade subscribers! This is MinnMax's Ben Hanson with a one-off interruption of this wonderful feed. In honor of MinnMax's 2nd anniversary, we're celebrating "Free Week" and lifting the curtain to offer free tastes of our Patreon-exclusive content. So this is The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake, the first part of our gigantic community game club on our Game of the Year for 2020. Normally we post The Deepest Dives on YouTube and offer the podcast version of the discussions to Patreon supporters, but here it is available to everybody for free!

If you're a CrossFade fan, we're sorry for this inconvenience but we hope you enjoy the discussion! We do technically rave about the soundtrack. New CrossFade episodes will be on the way with Matt Helgeson and Jason Dafnis in the new year.

If you're a fan of The Deepest Dive, we hope you enjoy the ability to listen to the discussion as a podcast and hope you consider supporting MinnMax on Patreon to unlock the rest of the series on Final Fantasy VII Remake. You'll also unlock podcast versions of Max Spoilers, MinnMax Interviews, and our Deepest Dives on Metroid Dread, Dead Space, Mass Effect 1, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Cyberpunk 2077, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, The Thing, Super Mario 64, Halo: Combat Evolved, The Last of Us Part II, What Remains of Edith Finch, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Chrono Trigger, and The Outer Worlds. Join the Thank You Crew over on Patreon to add your name to this list! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

Synced Up Podcast

Timmy Tie Oh No

Fixture Gaming Fixture S1

Iam8bit

Zachary Pligge

Ludwig Roque

Bryan with a Y

Andrew vala

BeatenDownBrian

PrettyGoodPrinting.com

Jawarhello

mark seliga

John Higby

Mirko Arico-Torreno

Conner McCabe

Drew Waranis

Dan Villone

Steve Bamdad

Purebrednumber6

Clemens Zobel

Ted Ryser

Starkiller

Spider_Dan

SpiralInYourEyes

Preetham Yarlagadda

GeneralNadine99

Note: This episode was recorded and published before claims of misconduct against Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler were made public on Aug. 27, 2022.

AJ Moser is the biggest Arcade Fire fan we know, and in this episode of CrossFade, he got to make the case for “Funeral” being one of the greatest indie rock records of the 21st century. Matt returned the favor with the esteemed, accessible Built to Spill record “Keep It Like a Secret,” which has the spirit and energy of jam band music but in a tight, catchy, interesting package.

In this episode, we talk about Arcade Fire’s reputation and career, what makes Built to Spill such fun, and grapple with the legacy of a debut record that got so much attention on release.

Follow AJ on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Radmure

Tune into the Indieheads Podcast wherever you listen and keep an eye on their Twitter for an upcoming livestream fundraiser benefiting trans youth in Texas: https://twitter.com/indieheadspod

Donate to Direct Relief, providing humanitarian aid to affected communities in Ukraine: https://www.directrelief.org/

Support Equality Texas in their fight for equality for LGBTQ+ Texans: https://www.equalitytexas.org/

We’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server.

Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/

Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox

Timestamps

0:00 - Arcade Fire & Built to Spill with AJ Moser

1:19 - Arcade Fire - “Funeral”

7:24 - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

13:35 - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)

17:13 - Haiti

24:12 - Wake Up

30:30 - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)

35:41 - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)

36:59 - Built to Spill - “Keep It Like a Secret”

40:07 - The Plan

43:17 - Sidewalk

46:02 - Center of the Universe

48:59 - Carry the Zero

54:50 - You Were Right

1:00:04 - Broken Chairs

1:10:35 - Community Questions (Why do we ‘whoo’?, albums or top tracks, Arcade Fire rankings + more)

1:30:51 - “Freshman Thesis” by Thee More Shallows (suggested by MinnMax supporter Adam Zimmer)

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sensitive topics like depression, sexual abuse, and suicide as explored in the music of The Mountain Goats and Silver Jews.

MinnMax Contributor and all-around gentleman Joe Juba brought an album by one of his favorite artists to CrossFade! This episode might be the most we’ve ever delved into lyrics. The Mountain Goats’ “Heretic Pride” and Silver Jews’ “The Natural Bridge” are both albums that go heavy on storytelling, picking unique perspectives to set the scene and evoke specific times and places. In this episode, we talk about what makes John Darnielle’s music so compelling, the legacy of David Berman, distinctive vocalists, OSTs we love even if we haven’t consumed the media they’re from, and much more thanks to questions straight from the MinnMax community!

Find Joe on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Joejuba and on the MinnMax network

We’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server.

Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI

Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/

Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox

Timestamps

0:00 - Silver Jews & The Mountain Goats with Joe Juba

1:16 - The Mountain Goats - “Heretic Pride”

9:29 - Sax Rohmer #1

13:32 - San Bernardino

20:56 - Heretic Pride

27:41 - Autoclave

31:41 - Sept 15 1983

35:14 - Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident

41:43 - Lovecraft in Brooklyn

48:49 - Silver Jews - "The Natural Bridge"

56:02 - How to Rent a Room

1:00:35 - Pet Politics

1:06:00 - Pet Politics (cover by The Mountain Goats)

1:08:26 - Dallas

1:15:47 - Inside the Golden Days of Missing You

1:19:29 - The Frontier Index

1:23:45 - Pretty Eyes

1:31:17 - Community Questions

1:57:15 - “Rum Pum Pum (람팜팜)” by Lee Jin Ah (이진아) (suggested by MinnMax supporter YokaiBlotch)

Neil Young’s had quite a career. A hugely influential solo career, his work with CSNY, that thing during The Last Waltz, and now you can’t even hear his music on the biggest music streaming platform on Earth. Wow!

To finally crack the nut on Neil, Matt brought in writer and fellow Neil Young fanatic Tyler Wilcox for an in-depth discussion on two essential Neil records: Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at The Bottom Line) and Tonight’s the Night. Take a listen to some Real Neil with the biggest Youngheads out there!

Find Tyler at the following links:

• https://twitter.com/tywilc
• https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/
• https://aquariumdrunkard.com/
• https://www.uncut.co.uk/author/twilcox/

We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server.

Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI

Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/

Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox

Timestamps

0:00 - Neil Young, “Our Rock Dad” with Tyler Wilcox

0:10 - Tyler and Neil Young

3:27 - The “expanding Ditch universe” of Neil Young

5:45 - Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at The Bottom Line)

8:18 - Revolution Blues

13:08 - Pushed It Over the End

19:01 - Long May You Run

24:53 - Ambulance Blues

29:45 - Motion Pictures

38:53 - Tonight’s the Night

44:25 - Speakin’ Out

47:59 - Mellow My Mind

51:06 - Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown

55:38 - Tired Eyes

1:00:33 - Albuquerque