Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 2: The Next 15
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09/25/23 • 76 min
The next 15 songs in our definitive-comeback-song season storm the booth! Sometimes the song is coming back to the podcast from a previous season; sometimes our lunch is coming back on us thanks to cynical bongo glurge; and sometimes we're wondering if there's a portrait of Jeff Lynne in an attic somewhere? Execrable album-only tracks, the supergroup conundrum, market forces' inability to control a film soundtrack, how you score the montage during The Big Game, and our joint memoir, Morbid Tales Of Disgruntlement (To A Bossa Nova Beat). Throw on a gold lamé tunic and some fuzzy slippers, dunk those Russell Stovers in a vodka mart, and tell Alexa to crank this all-new MASTAS ep!
Our intro is an LL Byrne J mash-up, and our outro is Michelle Branch. For more information/to become a patron of the show, visit patreon.com/mastas.
SHOW NOTES
- Not sure what's going on here? Start at the beginning!
- Episode 242: Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car"
- The "Got My Mind Set On You" video
- More on The Harder They Come
- Our cousin pod, Listen To Sassy, also seeks justice for Cher
- Stevie Wonder burns it down on The Ed Sullivan Show at just 13 years old
- Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 3: 1991-2006
- Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over on Prime
- Episode 193: Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"
The next 15 songs in our definitive-comeback-song season storm the booth! Sometimes the song is coming back to the podcast from a previous season; sometimes our lunch is coming back on us thanks to cynical bongo glurge; and sometimes we're wondering if there's a portrait of Jeff Lynne in an attic somewhere? Execrable album-only tracks, the supergroup conundrum, market forces' inability to control a film soundtrack, how you score the montage during The Big Game, and our joint memoir, Morbid Tales Of Disgruntlement (To A Bossa Nova Beat). Throw on a gold lamé tunic and some fuzzy slippers, dunk those Russell Stovers in a vodka mart, and tell Alexa to crank this all-new MASTAS ep!
Our intro is an LL Byrne J mash-up, and our outro is Michelle Branch. For more information/to become a patron of the show, visit patreon.com/mastas.
SHOW NOTES
- Not sure what's going on here? Start at the beginning!
- Episode 242: Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car"
- The "Got My Mind Set On You" video
- More on The Harder They Come
- Our cousin pod, Listen To Sassy, also seeks justice for Cher
- Stevie Wonder burns it down on The Ed Sullivan Show at just 13 years old
- Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 3: 1991-2006
- Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over on Prime
- Episode 193: Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"
Previous Episode
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 1: The First 15
What is the most representative comeback song in pop history? Our Do Call It A Comeback season will find out...and we have been here for years, thinking about the philosophical definition of a comeback, great creative leaps forward, when B-plus vocals lead to A-plus artistry, the middle-school melodrama of '70s supergroups, savvy collaborations, and how MTV brought the '60s into the Reagan era. Put up a Successories poster and slap it out with a new MASTAS season!
Our intro is an LL Byrne J mash-up, and our outro is Luscious Jackson. For more information/to become a patron of the show, visit patreon.com/mastas.
SHOW NOTES
- An oral history of Atlanta's Backstreet nightclub
- Episode 200: Cher's 10 Most Popular Songs, Ranked
- More on Ray Davies's sister(s)
- Episode 30: Robyn, "Call Your Girlfriend"
- Episode 150: 10,000 Maniacs' "In My Tribe," Ranked
- Scott Muni's New York Times obituary (gift link)
- The chilly shade of Cheap Trick's Wikipedia page
- Episode 105: Miley Cyrus, "See You Again"
- Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 4: 2007-2022
Next Episode
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 3: The NEXT Next 15
It's the second half of the first round, and some of our toughest choices yet, as we struggle with how comebacks used to look in a monoculture; human Razzie Awards; the comeback-osity of an "X featuring Y" track; why J. Lo never seems to be having fun; weird H.W. Bush presidency detritus; returns from '70s banishment; and what exactly we have to do to get fake fade-outs in pop songs outlawed. Throw on a Nauset Warriors ringer tee; it's time for an all-new MASTAS.
Our intro is an LL Byrne J mash-up, and our outro is the Bee Gees. For more information/to become a patron of the show, visit patreon.com/mastas.
SHOW NOTES
- Not sure what's going on here? Start at the beginning!
- Extra Extra Hot Great 263 on Special Forces: World's Toughest Test
- Remembering Kozmo.com
- J.Lo's social-hygiene approach to life
- Shades of Blue was on for THREE SEASONS, people
- Episode 43: The "Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack, Ranked
- Episode 138: Duran Duran, "Rio"
- Episode 109: Def Leppard, "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
- Episode 100: Surprise Party
- MB writes up the Sundays at Chart Chat
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