Monday Morning Aural Sex
2019-07
Episodes
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Morning Aural Sex: 2019-07-29 (Rap vs. Hip-Hop Collection Edition)
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
What’s up, muthafuckaaaas?! Welcome once again to another Monday Morning Aural Sex! This week is a collection of tracks from past Rap vs. Hip-Hop editions, and there are a few newer tracks sprinkled in. I decided to make this because my Rap vs. Hip-Hop editions have been some of my consistently favorite podcasts to make and to listen to after the fact, and this is meant to be a bit of a retrospective to help further appreciate the journey going forward. I forget if I ever mentioned it in past editions, but I’ve loved rap and hip-hop ever since the early 90s, but I was told from my peers that my listening to rap was weird.
You know how it goes. When you’re young, you tend to listen to your peers. You give their opinions credence ‘cause you’re all trying to figure out the often terrifying world around you while you’re living in it. Anyway, yeah, because I also listened to Metallica, it was weird for me to listen to Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, etc. I branched off in the direction of metal and rock for a year or so before I realized my peers were full of shit, and ICP drew me back in to the rap/hip-hop genre. Amusingly enough, Eminem blew open the gate even wider a few years later when I heard Kim for the first time. For those unaware, ICP and Eminem were beefing for quite a while, but I enjoyed them both regardless.
So yeah, I’m looking forward to deepening my appreciation for both rap and hip-hop, and continuing to blur the boundaries between the two. I think this podcast does an excellent job of that, but fuck me and my opinions. To yojne, or not to yojne: that is the question. Personally, I’m gonna yojne my cock off backwards so you can eat the Cinnamon Toast Crunch out my sweaty ass crack, bitch! You should do the same!
01 2Pac - California Love (feat. Dr. Dre) (from Greatest Hits (Disc 2)) [00:01:14]
02 Afu-Ra & The Human Orchestra - Aural Fixation (from Life Force Radio) [00:05:53]
03 Psychopathic Rydas - Duk Da Fuk Down (from Duk Da Fuk Down) [00:10:12]
04 Bazaar Royale - What’s It All For (from Cradle 2 The Grave OST) [00:14:50]
05 Riff Raff - i SEE iCE iCY STUPiD iCE (from PiNK PYTHON) [00:18:39]
06 Ho99o9 - Mega City Nine (unknown virus 4.) (from Cyber Cop [Unauthorized MP3.]) [00:21:25]
07 Eyedea and Abilities - Void (Internal Theory) (from First Born) [00:23:39]
08 Die Antwoord - Banana Brain (from Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid) [00:25:50]
09 Twiztid - Barely Surviving (Ride or Die) (from The Continuous Evilution of Life’s ?’s) [00:30:32]
10 Eminem - Puke (from Encore) [00:34:59]
11 ASM - Simile Soliloquy (from Platypus Funk) [00:39:05]
12 Cypress Hill - Rise Up (feat. Tom Morello) (from Rise Up) [00:43:02]
13 Geto Boys - Still (from Office Space OST) [00:46:52]
14 Death Grips - You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money but I Know What He Really Loves You for It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (from Government Plates) [00:50:51]
15 Kittie - Da Shit Ya Can’t Fuc Wit (Da Brat cover) (from Brackish (Limited Edition)) [00:53:31]
16 Rage Against The Machine - Bombtrack (from Rage Against The Machine) [00:55:40]
17 The Killjoy Club - Don’t Fuck Wit Me (from Reindeer Games) [00:59:41]
18 Ho99o9 - Splash (from United States of Horror) [01:04:05]
19 Immortal Technique - Rich Man’s World (1%) (from The Martyr) [01:06:52]
20 Capone-N-Noreaga - Bang Bang (feat. Foxy Brown) (from The Reunion) [01:11:31]
21 Eyedea and Abilities - Paradise (from E And A) [01:15:54]
22 Blaze Ya Dead Homie - I’ll Connect (from Clockwork Gray) [01:22:26]
23 Twiztid - Lift Me Up (feat. Blaze Ya Dead Homie) (from Abominationz (Monoxide)) [01:25:27]
24 Lo Key - Pump Pump [Toxic Remix] (feat. Candi Creep) (from Jack Yo Beatz [EP]) [01:29:27]
25 Dr. Dre - Housewife (feat. Kurupt & Hittman) (from 2001) [01:32:46]
26 Molly Gruesome - I’m A Ghost (from Spitfire) [01:36:48]
27 2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up (from Greatest Hits (Disc 1)) [01:40:25]
28 Die Antwoord - Shit Just Got Real (feat. Sen Dog) (from Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid) [01:44:49]
29 Josh A, Iamjakehill - Pennywise (from Better off Dead) [01:48:36]
30 Rage Against The Machine - Fistful Of Steel (from Rage Against The Machine) [01:51:16]
31 ASM - Boom To The Bap (from Platypus Funk) [01:56:44]
32 Die Antwoord - Cookie Thumper! (from Donker Mag) [02:00:02]
33 Blue Scholars - Loyalty (from Bayani) [02:03:19]
34 Hopsin - I Just Can’t (from Pound Syndrome) [02:07:14]
35 Sage Francis - Keep Moving (from Human The Death Dance) [02:11:31]
36 The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La (from 100 Greatest Songs of R&B & Hip-Hop) [02:16:05]
37 Psychopathic Rydas - Bye Bye (from Ryden Dirtay) [02:20:10]
38 NaS & Damian Marley - Patience (from Distant Relatives) [02:24:17]
39 Dark Lotus - Swarm (from Tales From The Lotus Pod) [02:29:57]
40 Diabolic - Modern Day Future (feat. Deadly Hunta) (from Liar & a Thief) [02:34:42]
41 Beastie Boys - Pass The Mic (from Check Your Head) [02:38:06]
42 Sense MC - It’s Just A Ride (feat. Amoss & Dexta) (from The Elephant In The Room) [02:42:21]
43 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Notorious Thugs (from The Collection Vol. 1) [02:45:25]
44 Sage Francis - Water Line (from Human The Death Dance) [02:51:26]
45 Cypress Hill - Pass The Knife (from Elephants On Acid) [02:53:26]
46 Cypress Hill - Shut ‘Em Down (feat. Tom Morello) (from Rise Up) [02:57:02]
47 Beastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun (from Paul’s Boutique) [03:00:24]
48 Twiztid - Woe Woe (from W.I.C.K.E.D.) [03:03:52]
49 Cunninlynguists - Mic Like a Memory (feat. Kory Calico) (from Will Rap for Food) [03:09:05]
50 Ghostemane - Bonesaw (from N / O / I / S / E) [03:13:39]
51 Death Grips - Takyon (Death Yon) (from Exmilitary) [03:15:31]
52 Snow Tha Product - Waste of Time (from Waste of Time) [03:18:19]
53 Mr. Grey - Matter of Time (feat. Hopsin & Fury) (from Remain Raw) [03:21:37]
54 The Underground Avengers - Thanos (feat. Tech N9ne, Twiztid, Rittz, Jelly Roll, Krizz Kaliko, Crucifix, King Iso & Blaze Ya Dead Homie) (from Anomaly 88) [03:24:17]
55 Oliver Hart - Here For You (from The Many Faces of Oliver Hart) [03:30:12]
56 Jon Lajoie - Fuck Everything (from Fuck Everything) [03:35:11]
57 Immortal Technique - Crimes Of The Heart (feat. Maya Azucena) (from The 3rd World) [03:38:47]
58 Immortal Technique - Rebel Arms (feat. J Arch & Da Circle) (from The 3rd World) [03:42:55]
59 Eminem - Untitled (from Recovery) [03:46:52]
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Ha, a-ha, and a ha-ha-muthafuckin’ ha, muthafuckas! Clemeow (which is an anagram for “welcome,” for those paying some sort of attention) to the third installment of the Laughter is an Instant Vacation Edition of Monday Morning goddamn muthafuckin’ Aural Sex! Can you goddamn believe it’s been over 5 years since I made an all-comedy podcast? Funny, maybe I didn’t feel like laughing all that much ‘cause I was mired in crippling depression stemming from a laundry list of failures that made even entertaining the notion of a brighter future than death fucking laughable! HAHAHAHA! See what I did there? I made a shit-sandwich of a sentence between the words, “funny,” and, “laughable,” because this is a comedy edition!
For real though, I think we need to be checking up on stand-up comics more regularly. I know from experience how people sometimes use humor to mask some deep, deep darkness, and we all don’t need to look much farther than Richard Jeni and Robin Williams to see how comedians can excel at that particular coping mechanism. I know a lot fewer of you have any idea who Richard Jeni is, but he was one of my parents’ and my favorite comedians for many years. Any-fuckin’-way, let’s get to the fuckin’ comedy already, shall we?
But first, before we yojne, make sure to catch this news story later, especially considering it’s summertime. It might just save your life.
01 Berkeley Systems - News Teaser #1 (from You Don’t Hear Jack!) [00:00:59]
02 Robin Williams - Hot Enough For You? (from Live 2002) [00:01:03]
03 Robin Williams - Drugs To Make You Feel Better (from Live 2002) [00:04:16]
04 Robin Williams - Religion and Marriage (from Weapons Of Self Destruction) [00:05:53]
05 Bill Burr - Becoming That Guy (from Let It Go) [00:12:39]
06 Bill Burr - Little Things (from Let It Go) [00:16:46]
07 Bill Burr - What Are You A Fag? (from Let It Go) [00:20:29]
08 Bill Burr - Can’t Hit ‘Em (from Why Do I Do This?) [00:27:15]
09 Donald Glover - AIDS vs. Babies (from Weirdo) [00:31:20]
10 Katt Williams - Weed Places (from Priceless) [00:36:59]
11 David Cross - Truth = Cynicism (from Oh, Come On) [00:39:38]
12 David Cross - And Speaking of Taking a Rape Shower… (from Oh, Come On) [00:43:42]
13 Roy Zimmerman - To Be A Liberal (from Thanks For The Support) [00:50:47]
14 Patton Oswalt - Adorable Racism (from Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time) [00:55:15]
15 Patton Oswalt - Creative Depression (from Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time) [01:00:29]
16 Patton Oswalt - New Clothes (from Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time) [01:07:06]
17 Jim Jeffries - April 18th (from Bare) [01:12:47]
18 Jim Jeffries - Gun Control (from Bare) [01:18:34]
19 Jim Jeffries - Straight Talker (from Freedumb) [01:34:33]
20 Jim Jeffries - You’re Slowing Us Down (from Freedumb) [01:40:44]
21 Jim Jeffries - Freedumb (from Freedumb) [01:44:24]
22 Greg Proops - Orange 45 (from The Resistance) [01:52:08]
23 King Missile - The President (from The Psychopathology of Everyday Life) [01:55:29]
24 John Mulaney - The Salt and Pepper Diner (from The Top Part) [01:58:22]
25 Sarah Silverman - Killing Jesus (from We Are Miracles) [02:04:20]
26 Sarah Silverman - Looking Inward (from We Are Miracles) [02:08:08]
27 Sarah Silverman - Senator Obama (from We Are Miracles) [02:14:46]
28 Sarah Silverman - You’re Gonna Die Soon (from Jesus Is Magic) [02:18:49]
29 Berkeley Systems - P.S.A. #1 (from You Don’t Hear Jack!) [02:20:18]
30 Tom Green - Married People on Facebook and Video Phones (from Tom Green: Live) [02:20:25]
31 Tom Green - The Evolution of Text Messaging (from Tom Green: Live) [02:25:23]
32 Tom Green - Technology and Naked Pictures (from Tom Green: Live) [02:29:33]
33 Roy Zimmerman - Dear Number 1036924053887 (from Thanks For The Support) [02:32:58]
34 Adam Sandler - Toll Booth Willie (from They’re All Gonna Laugh At You) [02:35:35]
35 Adam Sandler - The Hypnotist (from What The Hell Happened To Me?) [02:39:19]
36 Iliza Shlesinger - Girl’s Night (from War Paint) [02:47:18]
37 Iliza Shlesinger - Witching Hour of Drinking (from War Paint) [02:52:44]
38 Rachel Feinstein - A Lap Dance, Finally (from Only Whores Wear Purple) [02:57:25]
39 Rachel Feinstein - Alabama / Guns / First Jewish (from Only Whores Wear Purple) [02:58:36]
40 Rachel Feinstein - Me and Jenna Jameson (from Only Whores Wear Purple) [03:03:04]
41 Berkeley Systems - Phone Message (from You Don’t Hear Jack!) [03:13:12]
42 Chris Rock - Drugs, Donuts, Wealth (from Never Scared) [03:13:35]
43 Chris Rock - Tip Your Hat To Whitey (Jamaica) (from Never Scared) [03:23:17]
44 Chris Rock - Crackers (from Never Scared) [03:24:50]
45 Bill Hicks - The Elite (from Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks) [03:32:38]
46 Bill Hicks - Rush Limbaugh (from Rant In E Minor) [03:33:41]
47 Bill Hicks - Humans Are So Neat (from Revelations) [03:35:59]
48 Bill Hicks - You Suck (from I’m Sorry Folks) [03:42:08]
49 Berkeley Systems - News Teaser #2 (from You Don’t Hear Jack!) [03:44:18]
50 Doug Stanhope - Ugly Woman Who Could Sing (from Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere) [03:44:25]
51 Doug Stanhope - Suicidal Species (from From Across the Street) [03:49:59]
52 Doug Stanhope - I Can Do Nothing Better Than You (from Beer Hall Putsch) [03:52:24]
53 Doug Stanhope - 60 Inches of AIDS on Any Given Sunday (from Beer Hall Putsch) [03:56:54]
54 Doug Stanhope - Faggot (from Deadbeat Hero) [04:07:22]
55 Doug Stanhope - Liberty And Justice For Who? (from Deadbeat Hero) [04:08:21]
56 Doug Stanhope - Free Country? (from Deadbeat Hero) [04:11:04]
57 George Carlin - They’re Only Words (from Parental Advisory) [04:14:51]
58 George Carlin - You’re Lost (from Playin’ With Your Head) [04:19:25]
59 George Carlin - Man Stuff (from You Are All Diseased) [04:19:25]
60 George Carlin - Names (from You Are All Diseased) [04:24:48]
61 George Carlin - How To Handle A Heckler (from George Carlin misc.) [04:29:11]
62 George Carlin - Guys Named Todd (from Complaints and Grievances) [04:30:13]
63 George Carlin - Answering Machines (from Complaints and Grievances) [04:31:43]
64 George Carlin - Coast-To-Coast Emergency (from Life Is Worth Losing) [04:32:35]
Monday Jul 08, 2019
Monday Morning Aural Sex: 2019-07-08 (Through Niflheim to Valhalla Edition)
Monday Jul 08, 2019
Monday Jul 08, 2019
To Valhalla, motherfuckers! Welcome, welcome, wel-fucking-come to the Through Niflheim to Valhalla Edition! This is basically a concept podcast, and I mean that quite literally. I still have lots to learn about Norse mythology, but what I have learned has been intensely fascinating. So, the beginning and end relate to the title in some way or another, and everything between is pretty much just disjointed chaos as far as the organization goes. I probably could have organized it better if I went and looked up every single track and how they relate to each other, but frankly, I just didn’t have that kind of time on my hands over the past week.
Plus, I’m pretty sure some of these tracks stray from Norse mythology altogether. Bottom line is that I absolutely love the video game, “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice,” and the group, “Heilung,” and I wanted to expand my knowledge in those general directions. So, if you have some constructive suggestion(s) how I could’ve organized this playlist a little better, let me know. I’d actually love to hear feedback like that, especially since I’m pretty sure nobody gave even a fraction of a fuck or a shit about last week’s Rave Review Retrospective. I was expecting that, though. I barely had it in me to give a fuck about an all show tune podcast, but it actually came out pretty awesome. Considering I spent at least 15-20 goddamn hours skimming through tracks, recording, assembling, yadda-yadda-ing, I’d fuckin’ damn well hope so.
Aaaaany-fuckin’-way, let us commence ze holy quest of yojne!
01 Eskapism - Wind From Niflheim (from Songs Of The Ancient Wind) [00:01:02]
02 Heilung - Galgaldr (from Futha) [00:08:16]
03 David García Díaz, Andy LaPlegua - Helheim (from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice OST) [00:18:33]
04 David García Díaz, Passarella Death Squad - Hela (from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice OST) [00:22:41]
05 Nytt Land - Völuspá (Ask veit ek standa) (from Sköpun: Songs from Elder Edda) [00:26:53]
06 Heilung - Elddansurin (from Futha) [00:32:14]
07 Eivør - Í Tokuni (from Slør + Bridges) [00:40:12]
08 Korpiklaani - Pilli On Pajusta Tehty (from Noita) [00:43:38]
09 Heilung - Carpathian Forest (from Ofnir) [00:46:18]
10 Percival Schuttenbach, Marcin Przybyłowicz - The Song Of The Sword-Dancer (from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt OGST) [00:48:37]
11 Darkher - Moths (from Realms) [00:50:42]
12 David García Díaz - Druth (from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice OST) [00:55:50]
13 Eliwagar - Heidr’s Drøm (from Heidr) [01:00:04]
14 Heilung - Krigsgaldr (from Lifa) [01:03:13]
15 Heilung - Hakkrskaldyr (from Lifa) [01:12:46]
16 Saunder Jurriaans, Danny Bensi - Ragnar’s Ride (from For Honor OGST) [01:15:36]
17 Rúnahild - Seidrúnar (from Seidrúnar) [01:18:00]
18 Heilung - Alfadhirhaiti (from Ofnir) [01:26:01]
19 Faanefjell - Drikkegilde I Jotunheimen (from Trollmarsj) [01:32:46]
20 David García Díaz - Shadow (from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice OST) [01:37:13]
21 Heilung - Fylgija Futhorck (from Lifa) [01:39:24]
22 Hedningarna - Räven (from Trä) [01:51:58]
23 SKÁLD - Rún (from Vikings Chant) [01:56:35]
24 Percival Schuttenbach, Marcin Przybyłowicz - Silver For Monsters… (from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt OGST) [01:59:11]
25 Sowulo - Ginnungagap (Acoustic) (from SOL) [02:01:27]
26 Heilung - Othan (from Futha) [02:05:34]
27 Osi And The Jupiter - Baldur (from Uthuling Hyl) [02:15:42]
28 Kaunan - Vallåt (from Forn) [02:22:03]
29 Valravn - Sjón (from Koder på snor) [02:26:09]
30 Heilung - Svanrand (from Futha) [02:30:39]
31 RÁN, Kai Uwe Faust, HEILUNG, Maria Franz - Suurin (from LYS) [02:34:09]
32 Sylvaine - L’appel Du Vide (from Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone) [02:39:58]
33 Korpiklaani - Kylästä Keväinen Kehto (from Noita) [02:47:32]
34 Heilung - Traust (from Traust) [02:52:12]
35 King of Asgard - Nordvegr (from …to North) [03:01:54]
36 Trobar de Morte - Summoning the Gods (from Ouroboros) [03:07:37]
37 Månegarm - Mother Earth Father Thunder (Bonus Track) (from Månegarm) [03:11:45]
38 Bear McCreary - Valkyries (from God of War OGST) [03:17:49]
39 Danheim - Temple of Odin (from Munarvagr) [03:22:53]
40 Skálmöld - Óðinn (from Börn Loka) [03:26:09]
41 Antti Martikainen - To Valhalla! (from Eternal Saga) [03:28:15]
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Morning Aural Sex: 2019-07-01 (Rave Review Retrospective Edition)
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
The show must go ooooooon, muthafuckaaaaas! Welcomemoclew to another enthralling, nipple-calcifying edition of Monday Morning Aural fuckin’ Sex! This week, I have kept the promise I made last week, and I thus deliver to you and your eager, throbbing ear sphincters: the Rave Review Retrospective Edition! What in the upside-down-quadratic fuck is that supposed to mean? Let’s discuss…
*ahem*
My father started a freelance audio/video production company called Rave Review Productions sometime in the early-to-mid 90s, and even at the tender age of 11-years-old, I was helping him out with technical work such as camera operation, PA setup, mixing board operation, et-fuckin’-cetera. Know what that means? Yeah, I’ve been at this shit for 23 years on and off. Couldn’t do much for the business when I was in college and all, but I pretty much took over when I returned to Jersey in 2012, and then fully took over when my dad passed in early 2014.
Lemme tell ya, perverts and pervettes, the past few decades have been filled with all sorts of adversity in regards to my age and appearance. I happen to believe (and seemingly quite logically, I might add) that neither age nor appearance can determine anyone’s technical ability. Regardless, I heard about all sorts of people saying things like, “How can a kid actually operate a camera (or mixing console)? He’s bound to screw it up!”
When I got older, and started exploring alternative styles of clothing and body modification, I was forever being told to censor myself for the sake of professionalism. Can anyone fucking explain to me how my style of dress, the color of my hair, the piercings in my ears, lips, nose, etc. have any fucking effect on my ability to do a good job? It’d be one thing if I looked dirty, or another if I smelled bad, which I’m assuming have never been issues. I consider myself pretty fucking good at what I do, and I’ve been told as much plenty of times. It’s one aspect of my life about which I can afford to be immodest. Not to say I know everything, of course.
I’m always learning, but my aesthetic no more determines my professionalism than Cheeto fucking Shitler’s capacity to construct even a marginally coherent fucking sentence determines his ability to (somehow) be elected Resident. *sigh* Anyway, I digress. I have competently run this business for 5 years in the wake of my father’s passing, but the clients fell away one after another, and just a few months ago, our business van’s brakes went absolutely kaput. Actually happened while I was in it, and on a downward slope. Fun story. Had to steer into oncoming traffic and dodge two vehicles, pass through a 5-way intersection (somehow) with no other traffic passing through, and settled on an adjacent upward slope so that I could park and wait for a tow. Only found out later that the goddamn registration was expired, so I probably would’ve faced some serious legal bullshit had I actually hit anyone or anything.
So yeah, the repairs were estimated at something like $2500-3000, and that’s more money than Rave Review will even make this year, sooooo fuck that. To be perfectly honest, while I’m a little melancholic about the whole thing, seeing as it’s the end of an era, I’m mostly relieved. Doing work for Rave Review was often rather physically and psychologically demanding. I found myself fighting crippling anxiety months before show dates, simply because I didn’t want to cart all the goddamn heavy shit around, set it up, run the show and/or rehearsals, tear it down and then toss it all back in storage. Never even mind all the fucking bullshit troubleshooting I had to do before (and during) shows. Never even mind how the FCC was pulling our livelihood out from under us by selling off frequency bandwidth in the same range as our wireless lavalier microphones.
Those lavaliers were basically our foundation. See, we mostly did theatrical productions which relied on body microphones called lavaliers, and when the FCC sold off those frequency bands, it essentially became pointless (not to mention illegal) to use microphones that operated within certain frequency ranges. Pointless because of the damn near inevitable interference we would get (pops, clicks, loud static feedback, etc.), and illegal because the bandwidths were sold to emergency services like law enforcement, firefighters, you know. To further elaborate, the older Sennheiser G2 models, a good portion of our arsenal were only operational between 700-750 MHz. Those microphones became useless back in 2012-2013. Only just last year, they did the same thing for the 600-650 MHz range, but this time they sold them to television networks for some reason. What all that means is that we went from having 40 something operational microphones to having maybe about 12. If there is a way to reprogram them to different frequency bands, I’m completely unaware of it, and I’m almost 100% sure it’s impossible. Either that, or it would require a great deal of disassembly, unsoldering, resoldering, reassembly, etc. I don’t have the fucking patience for that trash, nor do I have the clients to make it worthwhile anymore. We’ve also not made anywhere near the amount of money it’d require to just buy new microphones within the 500 MHz range.
Before anyone starts wondering, no, I didn’t lose all the clients because of that. I’m pretty sure only one opted to hire someone else because of that, and going from three clients to two was pretty much whatever. Not like that one extra client would’ve saved the business, but I’m pretty sure my dad’s clients just didn’t want to work with me for whatever fucking reason(s). Not even like I wanted the damn business to be saved, though. I told my dad even as far back as my mid-teens that I had no intention of making Rave Review into my career.
Even back in the late 90s, we had done so many utterly horrendous productions (children’s productions, I might add) that my sanity could scarcely withstand the idea of enduring a lifetime of shit like that. That’s one of the big reasons why I went to college for audio engineering, by the way. I knew that I loved the technical aspects of audio, not to mention the creative aspects, but I wanted a job where I didn’t have to schlep around all my fucking gear. Maybe that seems lazy to some of you, maybe it is, but my dad developed a number of health issues because of all his years doing shit like that. I don’t want to go down that same road.
So anyway, yeah, this fucking podcast. This is comprised of 4 and a half hours of music that I actually rather enjoyed throughout my two decades of providing sound for musical theater. A lot of it comes from productions we did with a theater group called The Garage, whose founder (Michael Bias) is a longtime family friend. Michael and my dad got along rather well for at least 20 some odd years, and probably largely due to the fact that they were both ex-hippies. Or maybe hippies in disguise. Or maybe not disguise so much as… evolved? I don’t fuckin’ know. I do know that The Garage productions were actually quite good, especially as opposed to the slew of garbage we did all over northern NJ. In case you might be wondering about the inclusion of songs by The Who and The Beatles, The Garage actually did productions of Tommy and Sgt. Pepper.
In fact, 8 out of the 26 different musicals from whose soundtracks I compiled this podcast were done by The Garage, and I even had small roles in their productions of Little Shop and Wizard of Oz when I was like 5 or 6 years old. Coincidentally, I was a small person with small roles, including being part of the Lollipop Guild: one of the groups of Munchkins who welcomed Dorothy to Oz. Yo, it took me for-fuckin’-ever to eat that goddamn lollipop after the show had long since wrapped up. No idea why, but there ya go. Random facts about yours fuckin’ truly.
Speaking of which, I actually did a bit of acting myself, although it wasn’t with The Garage. One of the most hilarious roles was Lank from Crazy For You. My mom directed it, and because it was a middle-school production, we were all horny little bastards. We drove her crazy (haha, see what I did there?) missing our cues, talking backstage, etc. Anyway, plenty of stories about that experience, but I also played Charles Dickens in two different productions of A Christmas Carol, I played Schroeder in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and I played the Prince in Romeo & Juliet.
Anyway, moving on, I should mention that there are a number of shows that I flat out vetoed because I cannot fucking stand them anymore. I can’t stand watching them, doing sound for them, hearing music from them, fucking anything. Annie comes to mind immediately, but others include Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music, High School Musical, Hairspray, Godspell, Little Mermaid, Frozen, and the list goes on and fuckin’ on. I actually tried sifting through the soundtracks of Grease and Sound of Music thinking I might have missed something worth including, and no. Really just done with all that crap.
Aside from that, I want to mention that my dad played Captain Hook in Peter Pan, which is why I included only the pirate songs from that show. I should ALSO fuckin’ mention that some of these songs come from movie soundtracks either because I couldn’t (or didn’t care to) find Broadway versions on Spotify, or I just preferred the movie soundtrack versions. AL-FUCKING-SO, that Julie London track, “Bidin’ My Time,” is (as far as I fuckin’ know) originally from Crazy For You, but I prefer her version. The Manson track is only there because of its usage of the dialogue from Willy Wonka, and I did a little somethin’ special with all that. You’ll have to listen and hear it for your damn selves.
Jesus fuckin’ jumping jack jizz in a gym sock Christ, this intro is becoming a goddamn novel. So, let me wrap this up and say that I have a ton of anecdotes to go along with these tracks. If by some wild fucking out-of-this-universe chance you’re actually curious to hear any of those, let me know and I’ll be happy to share.
Aaaaaand, with that, we now commence ze yojne!
01 Michelle Weeks, Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold, Ellen Green, Rick Moranis - Skid Row (Downtown) (from Little Shop Of Horrors OST) [00:07:27]
02 Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, The Do Wops - Da-Doo (from Little Shop Of Horrors OST) [00:11:39]
03 Steve Martin, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell - Dentist! (from Little Shop Of Horrors OST) [00:13:01]
04 Levi Stubbs, Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell - Feed Me (Git It) (from Little Shop Of Horrors OST) [00:15:27]
05 Levi Stubbs, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell - Suppertime (from Little Shop Of Horrors OST) [00:18:48]
06 Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colveg, Harry Stanton - The Lollipop Guild (from The Wizard of Oz OST) [00:20:46]
07 The Munchkins - We Welcome You to the Munchkin Land (from The Wizard of Oz OST) [00:21:11]
08 Irene Cara - Fame (from Fame OST) [00:21:50]
09 Irene Cara - Out Here on My Own (from Fame OST) [00:26:59]
10 Laura Dean, Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Traci Parnell, Eric Brockington - I Sing the Body Electric (from Fame OST) [00:30:06]
11 Venustra K. Robinson, Diane Lane, Josie de Guzman, Randy Ruiz, Ray Contreras - Minnesota Strip / Song of a Child Prostitute (from Runaways (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [00:35:03]
12 Karen Evans - To the Dead of Family Wars (from Runaways (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [00:38:21]
13 Julie London - Bidin’ My Time (from Easy Does It) [00:41:51]
14 Kirby Ward, Jeremy Harrison, Vanessa Leagh-Hicks, Helen Way, Crazy for You Ensemble (London) - Slap That Bass (from Crazy for You (Original London Cast Recording)) [00:45:41]
15 Ruthie Henshall - Someone to Watch Over Me (from Crazy for You (Original London Cast Recording)) [00:50:46]
16 Kirby Ward - They Can’t Take That Away From Me (from Crazy for You (Original London Cast Recording)) [00:54:26]
17 Amanda Prior, Shawn Scott - Naughty Baby (from Crazy for You (Original London Cast Recording)) [00:57:00]
18 The Jud Conlon Chorus - A Pirate’s Life (from Peter Pan OST) [01:00:33]
19 Julian Forsythe, Stuart Pendred, Marcus Allen Cooper, Mark Slama - Pirate March (from Peter Pan (Original Broadway Cast Recording 1997)) [01:01:02]
20 Paul Schoeffler, Julian Forsythe, Stuart Pendred, Marcus Allen Cooper, Mark Slama - A Princely Scheme (Hook’s Tango) (from Peter Pan (Original Broadway Cast Recording 1997)) [01:02:06]
21 Paul Schoeffler, Julian Forsythe, Stuart Pendred, Marcus Allen Cooper, Mark Slama - Another Princely Scheme (Hook’s Tarantella) (from Peter Pan (Original Broadway Cast Recording 1997)) [01:03:17]
22 Paul Schoeffler, Julian Forsythe, Stuart Pendred, Marcus Allen Cooper, Mark Slama - Hook’s Waltz (from Peter Pan (Original Broadway Cast Recording 1997)) [01:04:29]
23 The Who, Andy Macpherson, Jon Astley - Amazing Journey (Remixed Album Version) (from Tommy) [01:08:33]
24 The Who, Andy Macpherson, Jon Astley - Pinball Wizard (Original Album Version) (from Tommy) [01:11:58]
25 Susan Watson - How Lovely To Be A Woman (from Bye Bye Birdie (Original Broadway Cast)) [01:14:54]
26 Susan Watson, Jessica Albright, Sharon Lerit, Chita Rivera - One Boy (from Bye Bye Birdie (Original Broadway Cast)) [01:17:24]
27 Paul Lynde - Kids (from Bye Bye Birdie (Original Broadway Cast)) [01:20:06]
28 Robert Preston - Ya Got Trouble (from The Music Man (Original Broadway Cast)) [01:21:34]
29 Barbara Cook, Pert Kelton - Piano Lesson (from The Music Man (Original Broadway Cast)) [01:25:20]
30 Barbara Cook - Goodnight My Someone (from The Music Man (Original Broadway Cast)) [01:27:15]
31 Robert Preston - The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl For Me (from The Music Man (Original Broadway Cast)) [01:29:57]
32 Josie de Guzman, Peter Gallagher - I’ll Know (from Guys and Dolls (New Broadway Cast Recording (1992))) [01:31:35]
33 Faith Prince, Tina Marie DeLeone, Denise Faye, JoAnn M. Hunter, Nancy Lemenager, Greta Martin, Pascale Faye - A Bushel and a Peck (from Guys and Dolls (New Broadway Cast Recording (1992))) [01:36:28]
34 Walter Bobbie, J.K. Simmons - Guys and Dolls (from Guys and Dolls (New Broadway Cast Recording (1992))) [01:39:32]
35 Peter Gallagher - My Time of Day (from Guys and Dolls (New Broadway Cast Recording (1992))) [01:42:27]
36 Josie de Guzman, Peter Gallagher - I’ve Never Been in Love Before (from Guys and Dolls (New Broadway Cast Recording (1992))) [01:44:25]
37 Peter Gallagher, Guys and Dolls Ensemble - Luck Be a Lady (from Guys and Dolls (New Broadway Cast Recording (1992))) [01:46:28]
38 Evan Pappas - Larger Than Life (from My Favorite Year (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [01:49:27]
39 Evan Pappas, Lannyl Stephens - Shut Up and Dance (from My Favorite Year (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [01:54:10]
40 Tim Curry - If the World Were Like the Movies (from My Favorite Year (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [01:58:07]
41 Tom Mardirosian, Tim Curry, My Favorite Year Ensemble - The Gospel According to King (from My Favorite Year (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [02:01:58]
42 Stacy Francis, Kathy Deitch, Rosalind Brown - Somebody’s Eyes (from Footloose: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [02:03:39]
43 Dee Hoty, Catherine Cox - Learning to Be Silent (from Footloose: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [02:07:55]
44 Jennifer Laura Thompson, Stacy Francis, Rosalind Brown, Kathy Deitch - Holding Out For A Hero! (from Footloose: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [02:10:27]
45 Jeremy Kushnier, Jennifer Laura Thompson - Almost Paradise (from Footloose: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [02:13:41]
46 The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remastered)) [02:16:57]
47 The Beatles - She’s Leaving Home (from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remastered)) [02:20:23]
48 The Beatles - Within You Without You (from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remastered)) [02:23:55]
49 Ilana Levine - Schroeder (from You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (New Broadway Cast Recording (1999))) [02:28:57]
50 Roger Bart, Ilana Levine, Kristin Chenoweth - Snoopy (from You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (New Broadway Cast Recording (1999))) [02:30:54]
51 The Pirates of Penzance - I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General (from The Pirates of Penzance) [02:34:03]
52/53 Gene Wilder/Marilyn Manson - The Wondrous Boat Ride/Prelude (The Family Trip) (from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory/Portrait of an American Family) [02:39:55/02:42:06]
54 Oompa Loompa Cast - Oompa Loompa (from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory) [02:43:27]
55 Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Kevin Chamberlin, Anthony Blair Hall - Alone In The Universe (from Seussical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [02:44:23]
56 Jerry Dixon, Raúl Esparza, Amy Spanger - Real Life (from tick, tick…BOOM!) [02:49:10]
57 Raúl Esparza, Jerry Dixon, Amy Spanger - See Her Smile (from tick, tick…BOOM!) [02:52:26]
58 Jennifer Mesce - Come To Your Senses (Live (I actually mixed this one)) (from tick, tick…BOOM! (Stage Presence, Inc. 2006)) [02:55:37]
59 Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff - The Word Of Your Body (from Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording (2006))) [03:00:01]
60 Lilli Cooper, Lauren Pritchard, Brian Johnson, Jonathan B. Wright, Gideon Glick, Skylar Astin, John Gallagher, Jr., Jonathan Groff - The Dark I Know Well (from Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording (2006))) [03:02:55]
61 Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff, Brian Johnson, Jonathan B. Wright, Gideon Glick, Skylar Astin, John Gallagher, Jr., Lilli Cooper, Lauren Pritchard, Phoebe Strole, Remy Zaken - The Guilty Ones (from Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording (2006))) [03:05:58]
62 Jonathan Groff, Brian Johnson, Jonathan B. Wright, Gideon Glick, Skylar Astin, John Gallagher, Jr., Lea Michele, Lilli Cooper, Lauren Pritchard, Phoebe Strole, Remy Zaken - Left Behind (from Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording (2006))) [03:09:23]
63 John Gallagher, Jr., Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff - Those You’ve Known (from Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording (2006))) [03:13:37]
64 Jonathan Groff, Brian Johnson, Jonathan B. Wright, Gideon Glick, Skylar Astin, John Gallagher, Jr., Lea Michele, Lilli Cooper, Lauren Pritchard, Phoebe Strole, Remy Zaken - Totally Fucked (from Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording (2006))) [03:18:01]
65 Lauren Pritchard, Brian Johnson, Jonathan B. Wright, Gideon Glick, Skylar Astin, John Gallagher, Jr., Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Lilli Cooper, Phoebe Strole, Remy Zaken - The Song Of Purple Summer (from Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording (2006))) [03:21:12]
66 Alysha Umphress, Jay Armstrong Johnson - Come up to My Place (from On The Town (New Broadway Cast Recording)) [03:24:35]
67 Tony Yazbeck - Lonely Town Choral (from On The Town (New Broadway Cast Recording)) [03:28:04]
68 Jackie Hoffman, Megan Fairchild - Carnegie Hall Pavane (from On The Town (New Broadway Cast Recording)) [03:29:57]
69 Anything Goes New Broadway Cast Ensemble - There’s No Cure Like Travel / Bon Voyage (from Anything Goes (New Broadway Cast Recording)) [03:32:44]
70 Sutton Foster - I Get a Kick out of You (from Anything Goes (New Broadway Cast Recording)) [03:34:35]
71 Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal, Tracie Thoms, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Jermaine Heredia - Seasons of Love (from Rent OST) [03:36:57]
72 Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson - Light My Candle (from Rent OST) [03:39:55]
73 Rosario Dawson - Out Tonight (from Rent OST) [03:44:02]
74 Wayne Wilcox, Adam Pascal, Aaron Lohr, Cast of the Motion Picture Rent - Life Support (from Rent OST) [03:47:53]
75 Aaron Lohr, Wayne Wilcox, Cast of the Motion Picture Rent - Will I (from Rent OST) [03:48:47]
76 Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson - I Should Tell You (from Rent OST) [03:51:28]
77 Jesse L. Martin, Tracie Thoms, Cast of the Motion Picture Rent - I’ll Cover You (Reprise) (from Rent OST) [03:54:16]
78 Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson - Without You (from Rent OST) [03:57:52]
79 Adam Pascal - Your Eyes (from Rent OST) [04:02:01]
80 Cast of the Motion Picture Rent - Finale B (from Rent OST) [04:04:33]
81 Maury Yeston, Larry Keith, Alma Cuervo, Kevin Stites - Still (from Titanic: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)) [04:07:03]
82 Johnny Depp, Lilla Crawford - Hello, Little Girl (from Into the Woods OST) [04:09:28]
83 Lilla Crawford - I Know Things Now (from Into the Woods OST) [04:11:55]
84 Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone - No One Is Alone (from Into the Woods OST) [04:13:57]
85 Anthony Warlow - I Need To Know (from Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller) [04:16:51]
86 Anthony Warlow - This Is The Moment (from Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller) [04:20:31]
87 Anthony Warlow - Confrontation (from Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller) [04:23:57]
88 Kevin Chamberlin, Female Ancestors - The Moon And Me (from The Addams Family (Original Cast Recording)) [04:27:37]
89 Company - Move Toward The Darkness (from The Addams Family (Original Cast Recording)) [04:30:36]