Re: What podcasts are you listening to?
Posted: Sun March 26, 2017 1:54 am
The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.
It's good. The Great Albums podcast on PJ isn't as good. It's a slog.durdencommatyler wrote:The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.
I'll avoid that then.LetMeSleep wrote:It's good. The Great Albums podcast on PJ isn't as good. It's a slog.durdencommatyler wrote:The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.
It's just derivative, basic facts are missed and it's 2 hours long for each episode.durdencommatyler wrote:I'll avoid that then.LetMeSleep wrote:It's good. The Great Albums podcast on PJ isn't as good. It's a slog.durdencommatyler wrote:The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.
Oh man.LetMeSleep wrote:It's just derivative, basic facts are missed and it's 2 hours long for each episode.durdencommatyler wrote:I'll avoid that then.LetMeSleep wrote:It's good. The Great Albums podcast on PJ isn't as good. It's a slog.durdencommatyler wrote:The Celebration Rock series on Pearl Jam is outstanding.
I unsubscribed from Crimetown about ten eps in. It was fine, I just realized I didn't really care. I didn't feel like there was a solid through-line between all the characters and stories for me to hold onto, which may have contributed to my apathy.Simple Torture wrote:Listened to the first episode of S-Town today. Recommended, but I do wish they had visual supplementals on their website like Serial, TANIS, Crimetown, and other podcasts have--there are lots of rich descriptions, and they come across well aurally, but I'd love to see some of these things, too.
I can see that--I thought the Buddy Cianci stuff was absolutely riveting, but the mob-only stuff hasn't really held my attention as well. I think the fact that I've lived in RI for 11 years now has helped keep it interesting for me.The Argonaut wrote:I unsubscribed from Crimetown about ten eps in. It was fine, I just realized I didn't really care. I didn't feel like there was a solid through-line between all the characters and stories for me to hold onto, which may have contributed to my apathy.Simple Torture wrote:Listened to the first episode of S-Town today. Recommended, but I do wish they had visual supplementals on their website like Serial, TANIS, Crimetown, and other podcasts have--there are lots of rich descriptions, and they come across well aurally, but I'd love to see some of these things, too.
Yes, I wouldn't fault anyone for being into it. I feel like there are good stories in there, they're just not melded together into one narrative. They're sort of just throwing spaghetti against the wall. wop. wop. wop.Simple Torture wrote:I can see that--I thought the Buddy Cianci stuff was absolutely riveting, but the mob-only stuff hasn't really held my attention as well. I think the fact that I've lived in RI for 11 years now has helped keep it interesting for me.The Argonaut wrote:I unsubscribed from Crimetown about ten eps in. It was fine, I just realized I didn't really care. I didn't feel like there was a solid through-line between all the characters and stories for me to hold onto, which may have contributed to my apathy.Simple Torture wrote:Listened to the first episode of S-Town today. Recommended, but I do wish they had visual supplementals on their website like Serial, TANIS, Crimetown, and other podcasts have--there are lots of rich descriptions, and they come across well aurally, but I'd love to see some of these things, too.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Totally agree. I'm four episodes in. And holy shit. This thing just keeps getting more and more gonzo. I really love it.Simple Torture wrote:Three episodes into S-Town; the world of this podcast is gonzo bananas. It's almost as if it's fictional, there are so many layers. I saw someone describe it as a real-world Faulkner story, and that's basically right.
I mean, the fifth wildest thing was:
The fact that it gets even more gripping than that speaks to how compelling it is.
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Yeah, that's dumb.Simple Torture wrote:I had the big reveal from the end of episode 2 spoiled for me, but it hasn't hurt my enjoyment one iota.
I Googled "hedge maze Alabama" because I wanted to see if there were pictures of it somewhere and
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numbers wrote:Loving S-Town so far.