//Music Friends//

//Music Friends//

Danny Bennett

//Music Friends//

Music History English

//Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The selection is always recorded live and posted as a teaser for the next episode//Additional segments are posted with additional Music Friends here and there//

//25//

//25//

//00:00//Tom Petty's Wildflowers (1994)//On love at first listen//On a true Music Friends record//On coming to it through The Heartland//On subconscious Wildflowers memory//On a Happy Music Sad Family record//On Most Things We Worry About Never Happen Anyway//On nourishment//On league-leading WPM and WORW for Zach//On not a party record//On back porch record Hall of Fame//On divisive Honey...

//24//

//24//

//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's GNX (2024)//Recorded 2-18-2025//On commission assembled//On Peakaboo, Coach!//On an immidiate pantheon Los Angeles Album for episode//24//On Kobe 2-4 in July 1-0//On a bit Carter IIIish//On meticulous Kenny//On breezier Kendrick//On Grand Nationals not bein' rational//On exponential Reincarnated rise//On Kendrick's compression socks//On GNX to the summit for Danny//On...

//23//

//23//

//(00:00)//Lou Reed's Transformer (1972)//On going solo!//On being hard to pin down//On all roads leading to Little Richard//On being smart, sensitive and intense//On electroshock//On The Beatles, again//On being in the main tent of the Andy Warhol circus//On Velvet Underground's not so underground resonance//On Vicious's viciousness//On a sneak Bowie masterpiece//On Hendrix always//On a...

//22//

08 October 2024

//22//

//00:00//Peter Gabriel's So (1986)//THE DAD POD//On Daddest-Mommest albums//On Albums as social phenomenon//On Generational Sgt. Pepper's importance//On Art Pop World Rock//On Gabriel out of the closet//On the JF "In Your Eyes" necklace//On "Is That Jimmy Buffet's music??"//On Bumper Cars Bumpin'//On JF on African Love Songs//On JF 2 Beers//On poor Freud and Jung discourse//On JF 3 Beers//On...

//21//

//21//

//00:00//Mariachi El Bronx'sMariachi El Bronx (I) (2009)//On listening changing over time//On pod brain v. music brain//On [Cough-f-theran]//On tasteful cultural appropriation//On better to outro than fadeaway//On your whole life to make your first album and 4 weeks to make your second//On Aqua Teen Mariachi Force//On not belonging to any time period//On following your creative instincts//On...

//20//

13 January 2024

//20//

//00:00//Taylor Swift's 1989 (2014)//On the most special guest//On grandiose albums//On the first MF double album//On a shining light in the darkness of residency year one//On the lazy MJ comp//On a maybe concept album//On a synth pop masterpiece//On the Capitol One commercial arc//On Polaroid getting the TS treatment//On Country to City//On the female empowerment jackhammer//On a sneaky ensemble...

//19//

13 October 2023

//19//

//00:00//Disclosure's Settle (2013)//On here with (in person!)//On albums as friends//On where they buried Al Capone and house music was born//On what isn't House?//On vocalists as instruments//On BPM CSVs//On the bellwether Disclosure track//On the rare sucky Weeknd feature//On Blick Bassey energy//On trendy African influences v. traditional African influences//On best and clearly worst...

//18//

//18//

//00:00//Daft Punk's Alive 2007 (2007)//On JF three-peat (weezy voice)//On pre-hyper internet information transfer//On close encounters with the EDM gods//On religious live experiences//On every man's losing their shirt moment//On feedback robo-rock//On remaining human behind the masks//On disco drums//On anti-electronica rock snobbery//On the potency of electronic music performed live//On the...

//17//

//17//

//00:00//Billy Woods' Hiding Places (2019)//On this mysterious guy with so much to say//On Billy's haunted house//On the density of an intensely well-read, inquisitive, worldly, sophisticated artist//On boomer hip hop//On exploring spaces you never wanted to return to//On spiderhole living/rap//On Mick's hip hop North Star////(39:45)//Radiohead's ⁠In Rainbows (2007)⁠//On urgent anxiety//On a...

//16//

06 February 2023

//16//

//00:00//JAY-Z's The Blueprint (2001)//On salute to a fallen Music Friend//On loss//On boss music//On re-purposing the Jay-Z picture//On stepping through the Biggie Smalls opening//On Jay-Z's diamond which pressure created//On not writing anything down//On Ye//On missing the old Kanye//On cutting a super classic in two weeks//On separating from the East Coast pack//On Jim Morrison-tinged diss...