Sarah and Brian Linnen of Permanent Record Podcast
08/04/21 • 48 min
“Permanent Record Podcast is a look back at albums from the New Wave and Classic Rock genres.”
Think back to your favourite bands, songs and albums before the Internet – the songs you recorded off the radio or the albums that your friend let you borrow and copy with your dual cassette deck. How much do you really know about these beloved artefacts of your past?
Perhaps a fair amount, but Sarah and Brian Linnen of the Permanent Record Podcast demonstrate that there is always something more to learn about your favourites, especially with the advantage of hindsight and a few modern-day research tools.
Combining historical context and facts, trivia and endearing personal memories of the classic alternative and rock music of the 80s, Sarah and Brian will likely jog some memories of your own – from chart performance and critical reception to what you thought of the artwork on a cassingle or the band hairstyles and outfits in a music video.
Oh, you didn’t realise that there was another song on that album until much later in life? Probably because it didn’t fit on the only 60-minute cassette that your friend had available to record over, right? Don’t worry, Sarah and Brian will still have you in their club. You just need to be a fan.
In this episode of MetaPod, we talk about classic alternative music of the 1980s with Sarah and Brian – Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Communards, The Cure and others. We learn how Sarah and Brian select, research and present the albums they feature on the Permanent Record Podcast. We also discuss music more broadly.
If you’re a fan of Permanent Record Podcast, this is your chance to learn more about Sarah and Brian personally and all of the good work they do to provide listeners with a broad, yet detailed look at the much-loved classic alternative bands of the 80s.
Show notes:
- The First 100 Videos Played on MTV
- Album artwork for Falco 3
- Depeche Mode Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction 2020
About Sarah and Brian
Brian and Sarah spent the 1980s searching their local record shops for imports, new releases, and anything that spoke to them and their New Wave sensibilities. Now, decades later, they are still going on about those classic albums and the wonderful bands that were so important to them during those formative years.
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“Permanent Record Podcast is a look back at albums from the New Wave and Classic Rock genres.”
Think back to your favourite bands, songs and albums before the Internet – the songs you recorded off the radio or the albums that your friend let you borrow and copy with your dual cassette deck. How much do you really know about these beloved artefacts of your past?
Perhaps a fair amount, but Sarah and Brian Linnen of the Permanent Record Podcast demonstrate that there is always something more to learn about your favourites, especially with the advantage of hindsight and a few modern-day research tools.
Combining historical context and facts, trivia and endearing personal memories of the classic alternative and rock music of the 80s, Sarah and Brian will likely jog some memories of your own – from chart performance and critical reception to what you thought of the artwork on a cassingle or the band hairstyles and outfits in a music video.
Oh, you didn’t realise that there was another song on that album until much later in life? Probably because it didn’t fit on the only 60-minute cassette that your friend had available to record over, right? Don’t worry, Sarah and Brian will still have you in their club. You just need to be a fan.
In this episode of MetaPod, we talk about classic alternative music of the 1980s with Sarah and Brian – Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Communards, The Cure and others. We learn how Sarah and Brian select, research and present the albums they feature on the Permanent Record Podcast. We also discuss music more broadly.
If you’re a fan of Permanent Record Podcast, this is your chance to learn more about Sarah and Brian personally and all of the good work they do to provide listeners with a broad, yet detailed look at the much-loved classic alternative bands of the 80s.
Show notes:
- The First 100 Videos Played on MTV
- Album artwork for Falco 3
- Depeche Mode Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction 2020
About Sarah and Brian
Brian and Sarah spent the 1980s searching their local record shops for imports, new releases, and anything that spoke to them and their New Wave sensibilities. Now, decades later, they are still going on about those classic albums and the wonderful bands that were so important to them during those formative years.
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SPECIAL EDITION: Podcast pioneer Todd Cochrane
1 Recommendations“In the early days, it really was this group of geeks and hardcore people that wanted to create media and hardcore audiences that wanted to listen to it.”
How do you go from a career in the military to one in podcasting? Just ask Todd Cochrane, the founder and CEO of Blubrry, a podcast hosting company.
“Life has these right and left-hand turns and I had a right-hand turn in June of 2004,” Todd told us.
That right-hand turn put Todd among the pioneers of a new medium being raised by rebels.
While recovering from an injury that changed the course of his career in the US Navy, Todd discovered the work of Dave Winer and Adam Curry and this thing they were talking about called “podcasting”. Todd was sucked in and before he knew it, he was at the nearest Walmart purchasing his first microphone.
Podcasting since 2004 with his tech show Geek News Central, Todd Cochrane also established the first podcast advertising deal and wrote the first book on podcasting. He also founded the Podcast Awards and is a member of the Podcast Hall of Fame.
“The industry was exciting, it was basically pioneer days, we were making stuff up as we go, we didn’t really know what we were doing, but things progressed very, very quickly,” said Todd.
In this special episode of MetaPod, we talk to Todd about the early players of podcasting and what it was like to work with the techies, geeks and hardcore audiences of the medium. We also discuss how podcasting has evolved to this day, including investment, leadership, its increasingly diverse field of creators and the entry of big media platforms in the space.
Todd also tells us what the most important thing is for new podcasters to understand about the medium and why the first two episodes of Geek News Central no longer exist.
Show notes:
- Geek News Central
- New Media Show with Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee
- The Rise and Demise of RSS
About Todd Cochrane
Todd Cochrane is the founder and CEO of Raw Voice, Inc, also known as Blubrry Podcasting. Todd has been podcasting since 2004. He is credited with the first podcast ad deal (with GoDaddy) and the first book about podcasting (published by Wiley). He also founded the Podcast Awards and was inducted into the inaugural class of the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2015. Before going into podcasting, Todd served in the US Navy for 25 years. He retired with the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer. Todd spent the majority of the past 25 years in Honolulu, Hawaii, but now resides in Michigan.
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Brian Resnick of Unexplainable
“Unexplainable is a science show about everything we don’t know, looking at the most fascinating unanswered questions in science and the mind-bending ways scientists are trying to answer them.”
Dark Energy – what the heck is it? And what about UFOs – surely there’s some kind of analysis available that can shed some light on those mysterious objects in the sky?
Well, disappointingly, there is no definitive understanding of what either of these is – just a lot of speculation, ongoing research and, often, a lot of bad science.
Thankfully, Unexplainable is here to unravel the key elements behind these mysteries and many others, as much it can.
The Vox Media-run podcast is informative, entertaining and extremely thought-provoking. It has tackled the aforementioned subjects alongside others as varied as establishing the height of Mount Everest, planet-hunting, why placebos work and the length of human life.
Heavy stuff – but riveting and worth every minute of a listen.
In this episode of MetaPod we speak with Brian Resnick, co-creator of Unexplainable and Vox’s science reporter.
We wallow in the smartness of our guest and try to pick apart some of the topics in the Unexplainable portfolio of shows, as well as asking why does the internet need another podcast about science.
If you listen to Unexplainable, you’ll soon know why.
Show notes
- The Night Sky – How Henrietta Leavitt Changed Our Understanding Of The Universe
- How much worse can coronavirus get? (Brian Resnick for Vox)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why Science Is Hard
About Brian Resnick
Brian Resnick is a science reporter at Vox.com, covering social and behavioral sciences, space, medicine, the environment and anything that makes you think “whoa that’s cool.” He is the co-creator of Unexplainable, a Vox podcast about unanswered questions in science. He serves as the show’s senior reporter, shaping the editorial direction of the series. Before Vox, he was a staff correspondent at National Journal where he wrote two cover stories for the (now defunct) weekly print magazine and reported on breaking news and politics.
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