Silver Jews & The Mountain Goats with Joe Juba
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05/06/22 • 124 min
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)
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)
Previous Episode
Matt & Jason Raid Each Other’s Bandcamp Collections
What would make you buy digital music in 2022? Is it respect? Curiosity? Guilt? Little bit of all of the above?
That’s what we wanted to know from each other – and why we took a dive into each other’s growing collections to interrogate each other’s music tastes! Matt and Jason each picked five songs from the other’s Bandcamp collection to talk about, poke fun at, or marvel at a new favorite we never would’ve found otherwise. It was a really fun exercise and we hope you enjoy listening to the results!
You can find Jason’s Bandcamp collection at https://bandcamp.com/jasondafnis and Matt’s at https://bandcamp.com/matthelgeson. What’s in yours? Did you discover a new favorite from this episode? What buried gems are we missing? Get in touch at https://twitter.com/minnmaxshow and let us know!
We’d also 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
The alternative music video for Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” feat. Zach Galifianakis and Will Oldham (a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79vKj8R_h8s
Timestamps
0:00 - Matt & Jason Raid Each Other’s Bandcamp Collections
11:00 - Jason’s collection
12:52 - White Denim - “Work”
17:33 - MACROSS 82-99 - “Let It Be Real (feat. Emi Aramaki)”
24:14 - Fievel Is Glauque - “Decoys”
29:32 - Fievel Is Glauque - “Simple Affairs”
32:10 - PUP - “A.M. 180” (Grandaddy cover)
41:20 - Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy - “My Blue Suit”
50:11 - Matt’s collection
50:34 - zeroh - “The Lord & Nature”
55:47 - Shabaka and the Ancestors - “The Observer”
1:03:44 - Big Thief - "Time Escaping"
1:10:01 - Mark Fosson - “Jubilaya”
1:19:33 - Tropical Fuck Storm - “G.A.F.F.”
1:31:28 - Bob James - “Angela (Theme From 'Taxi')
Next Episode
Our Favorite Albums of 2022 So Far
2022 is almost halfway over! To mark the occasion, Matt and Jason picked their favorite records released this year for this special discussion.
Jason picked Soul Glo’s “Diaspora Problems” (March 25) because it’s high-energy, it bends genres, and crams a lot of righteous fury into its lyrics. Matt’s loved the work of Benny the Butcher for a long time, so his latest release, “Tana Talk 4” (March 10), is a shoo-in for Matt’s favorite records of the year. In this episode, we talk a lot about hardcore music made by people of color, what makes rap like Benny’s timeless, and how it feels to find music that just hits all your buttons.
We’d also 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 - Our Favorite Albums of 2022 So Far
0:57 - Soul Glo - “Diaspora Problems”
9:09 - Gold Chain Punk (whogonbeatmyass?)
14:04 - Coming Correct Is Cheaper
18:01 - Fucked Up If True
21:02 - Driponomics
26:10 - Spiritual Level Of Gang Shit
29:04 - Thumbsucker
32:35 - Benny the Butcher - “Tana Talk 4”
37:58 - Johnny P’s Caddy
40:59 - Back 2x (feat. Steve God Cooks)
45:01 - Uncle Bun (feat. 38 Spesh)
47:52 - Tyson vs. Ali (feat. Conway The Machine)
51:41 - Thowy’s Revenge
55:11 - Weekends in the Perry’s
58:46 - Our runner-up choices
59:00 - Nolan Potter - "Gregorian Chance"
1:00:51 - Mitski - "Working for the Knife"
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