Pod Like a Hole

BONUS: Top 5 "Frontperson"

In this supplemental episode of Pod Like A Hole, your hosts spend an hour ranking their top 5 frontpeople in the round robin fasion. The criteria is what you make of it - be it based off performance, stage craft, attitude, etc. Please enjoy and join us back here in 7 days for our discussion of Station to Station.

A Space Poddity 3 : Never Let Me Down

If you've ever wondered how it would be possible to have three guys talk for nearly 3 hours about David Bowie's self-admittedly worst album, then wonder no more. Our trusty Diamond Dice sends us to David Bowie's 17th studio album, Never Let Me Down, where we traverse through what's considered David Bowie's career nadir.  Eric, Marc, and Steve go track by track and compare it to the re-worked 2018 versions available on Loving the Alien (1983-1988) to see if this album got a bad rap, and we're not just talking about Mickey Rourke's appearance on the record.

Links:

1. Day In Day Out (Official Music Video) - https://youtu.be/eK4MyREDv1M
2. Time Will Crawl (Official Music Video) - https://youtu.be/YHU28e8hZkA
3. Never Let Me Down (Official Music Video) - https://youtu.be/pCjeX08WdYQ
4. Glass Spider (Live) - https://youtu.be/q9aKZzbShT8
5. That's Motivation (From Absolute Beginners) - https://youtu.be/hVYHI1T0PGo
6. When the Wind Blows (Trailer) - https://youtu.be/4h1lRqUBuSI
7. Iggy Pop - Bang Bang - https://youtu.be/HcUa65cgX9c
8. David Bowie - Bang Bang (Live) - https://youtu.be/IrrJbf4hRFM
9. David Bowie - Never Let Me Down (2018 Full Album) - https://youtu.be/Zjs-ktomv4E
10. Too Dizzy (Deleted) - https://youtu.be/KkGLwQ76E5o

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A Space Poddity 2 : Space Oddity

Pod Like A Hole presents:  A Space Oddity  

02:  "Space Oddity"

Marc, Eric and Steve, your hosts, rolled the Diamond Dice.  Fate chose the next album and that choice sent us into a tin can, where we have been ever since...sending a track-by-track analysis of the David Bowie album "Space Oddity" back to ground control.  Does anyone hear our transmission?

Enjoy this episode as we dissect this strange, folk-a-delic album.  We look into the world of 1969, and have special legacy guest Jeff Anderson explain the politics and music scene of the summer of love from first hand experience in a series of sound bites.  

Does Major Tom ever get back to Earth?  Does the Growth Lab ever stop sucking life from their Messiah?  Does Hermione enjoy her letter?  We get into all of it and hope you enjoy it.  

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Artwork by Greg Wolgast 

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LINX:

Space Oddity Promotional Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

Memories of a Free Festival pts 1&2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIrGZErqkD0

Prettiest Star 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16A1bxJsPNY

Conversation Piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA5WyBMPULE

Italian Space Oddity 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tPlPYuDZYs

Rammstein -  Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2NeDHI

A Space Poddity 1: Blackstar

Pod Like a Hole Phase 2:  A Space Poddity

"Blackstar"

After sending Pod Like a Hole into the black hole at the end of Season 1, your boys have returned as a singularity.  An enlightened entity of hope, wit and outrageous flash.... Marc, Steve and Eric have returned to host Season 2:  A Space Poddity.  

For each of these episodes we will randomly (thanks to our "Diamond Dice") review a David Bowie album.  As always we'll give history, pop culture, and patented Pod Like A Hole humor and camaraderie.  In this premiere episode, we begin at the end with the delightfully nu-jazzy swan song, known as "Blackstar".  We bid Ol Button Eyes adieu, just as we nod bonjour.  

In this episode we also discuss Kendrick Lamar, Aleister Crowley, and some recently dropped "Nine Inch News".  

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Music Videos:

Sue (or in the season of crime) [Nothing Has Changed version]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NYgRuxO2sw

Tis a Pity She's a Whore [Nothing Has Changed version]

https://youtu.be/mBq0VScaTMw

Blackstar

https://youtu.be/kszLwBaC4Sw

Lazarus

https://youtu.be/y-JqH1M4Ya8

Lazarus (via Michael C. Hall)

https://youtu.be/hKBUc4yW2bo

Donny McCaslin Band perform "Warszaw"

https://youtu.be/1j385NN9JDo

"I Can't Give Everything Away" (Farewell Mix) by Trent Reznor 

https://youtu.be/cR2ibMBWsZ4

"No Plan" music video 

https://youtu.be/xIgdid8dsC8

Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus "Old Town Road"

https://youtu.be/7ysFgElQtjI

Over & Out

Well, it's done for now. After trekking through all Nine Inch Nails albums, singles, scores, and side projects, the hosts finally reach the end. We rank the albums and share our "Top 9" Nine Inch Nails Songs (It's actually 10, having O be the true #1, but we're sooo clever). As this season (series?) comes to its conclusion, we also look ahead to what's next.

 

 

In Conversation with Rob Sheridan

In this episode, we have the pleasure of talking with Rob Sheridan, former art director of Nine Inch Nails and creator of the new comic book, High Level. Rob shares his insights and experiences working in the comic industry, his time with Trent Reznor, and the state of the world in the era of social media.

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Check out the video for The Black Queen's "Ice to Never" at https://vimeo.com/140036455

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Bonus: The Fragile Deviations

 

In this BONUS episode, Eric talks with Nick Rusis, the very lucky fan to win the very lucky cereal box  "Co-host a Bonus Episode" giveaway. Nick discusses becoming an Australian NIN-fan and the two give "The Fragile: Deviations" a deep dive.  Or a much deeper one than your core hosts did a year ago.  

It's a robust discussion about one of the greatest bonus albums of all time, all in a pithy, but entertaining, Bonus episode.  Enjoy.   

Add Violence

In this episode, your hosts explore the second EP in Nine Inch Nails’ planned trilogy, Add Violence. We take a look at the thematic elements and how any of this could fit into a re-interpretation of The Matrix films. Of course, Eric pours over the lyrics as if they were scrolls from the Ancient Ones, Steve does a dance for us in studio, and Marc gets dust in his eyes at one point. We even manage to get in some U2 and Todd Rundgren talk as well. Join us next week as we close this whole song by song thing out with Bad Witch. 

Links:

 

• Less Than Music Video - https://youtu.be/gDV-dOvqKzQ
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross discuss The Lovers on Song Exploder podcast - http://songexploder.net/nine-inch-nails
• The Lovers Live from Rehearsal - https://youtu.be/KR_2sbeuNTU
• This Isn’t the Place Music Video - https://youtu.be/_g8nAqDu3gI
• Chris Cornell One/One Mashup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMLpOn0MWg
• Radiotopia – Polyibus https://www.radiotopia.fm/showcase/the-polybius-conspiracy
• Planet of the Apes – The Musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmzUEQxOvA

Bad Witch

The team (Marc, Steve and Eric) delve into the final (well most recent) NIN album and really give it their all.  The drawings are bleeding down the cave walls, but we all somehow somehow make sense of them.  The world is in a state of disrepair and we deserve every terrible thing we do to ourselves.  Now let’s listen to 6 jaunty tunes about it!  Your boys break it all down, discuss it’s connections to Bowie, how this ties in to the big Trilogy, and discuss other Big Trilogies!  Listen, enjoy, interact:  tell us what you think about this album, and trilogies in general.  Don’t worry, though this is NIN’s last album, we are NOT DONE YET.  Big announcements afoot regarding when we are making our big announcements.    And also:  Face/Off.  

Links:

 

• Face/Off Trailer: https://youtu.be/95VvTW1FvS8
• Ahead of Ourselves Live: https://youtu.be/frMcQmyzUZM
• God Break Down the Door low-concept vid: https://youtu.be/eeJ_DzRJUI4

Not the Actual Events

In this episode, your intrepid hosts take a look at Not the Actual Events and decide whether its a return to form or a noisy departure to the land of Clang and Bang. We spend a little time reflecting on 2016 and the political implications that surrounded the EP. Of course, we go track by track and Steve offers up a relevatory statement on one of the songs that brings Marc to a place of wonder. Eric dives into the lyrics to suss out the themes and narratives while Marc tries to think how any of this relates to "The Nine Inch Nails" appearing on Twin Peaks: The Return. Finally, Steve is trying out his new smoky, sultry voice on this episode that will sure to please our discerning audiophile fans.

Links:

• The Schizophreniasdiary - https://schizophreniasdiary.wordpress.com/
• "The Nine Inch Nails" - She's Gone Away from Twin Peaks: The Return - https://youtu.be/QczxCxFRUf0
• Burning Bright (Field on Fire) - https://youtu.be/cvyywDE67tY