//00:00//Neil Young’s On The Beach (1974)//On Music Friends via Geese//On the perils and glory of vinyl addiction//On Neil enters the chat//On Neil as we know enters the chat//On American Hero Neil//On cautiously optimistic depression rock//On perfectly imperfect Neil//On Wurlitzer slap slap slap//On No Country For Honey Slides//On Sautéed Marijuana Depression Rock//On going to the radio interview and ending up alone//On 10 million dune buggies coming down the mountain//On Charlie Manson—secret genius??//On hating and secretly loving 80s Neil//On sneaky influential album//On artists left-turning//

//(55:07)//Rosalía’s Lux (2025)//On life between your rosary and your cigarette case//On masterpiece obligation//On grappling with the grandeur and totality of this record//On shared shamelessness around Barcelona//On a sneaky breakup record//On the worst part of this album is Rosalía’s hotness//On let’s talk about Yves Tumor on Berghain//On celestially hypnotic Rosalía//On God Bless vinyl goodies//On the 3% being 84 separate entities//On being Mahomes in her pocket//

//(2:05:14)//Preview of episode//28//

Lux is Latin for light. Only 18 words of the album’s 3,622 present in Western Civilization’s ancestral mother tongue, but don’t take the bait. Lux is pursuant of it however it manifests for you. Don’t take the bait or get distracted and eventually you’ll bask in it.

Maybe the contours of the movements will move you. A holy and earthly thematic arc tracing the record that could make your favorite Prog band shudder. Earthly existence juxtaposed with heaven. Sacred and profane not separate poles to judge from but of a piece in humanhood at large.

Maybe. Maybe not. Beneath Spanish spoken or Ukrainian sung or Italian obliterated. Below God and womanhood and what happens after. Above the density, brilliance and grandeur is Rosalía’s voice.

With authority absolute and ambition approaching apex, across an album dripping with what is and isn’t divine, it’s her voice that is assuredly celestially hypnotic.

//00:00//Coheed and Cambria's Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe [New Entities Edition] (2025)//On Koi Boyz assemble//On straight into THE LORE//On intimate Claudio//On Space Opera//On thumbs medium//On Dillon SMASHING the Nick Fell question//On King James Claudio//On Zakk Dickinson and Gold-Plated diapers//On more Andre flute//On best of Coheed??//ON MORE LORE//On earthed emotions sans lore//On "are we sure we're starting cryptic string motif then an accoustic song?"//On Good Apollo's accesible violence//On lore-master Dil//On the Amen Break//On the Keith Lapid question genesis//On heliocentric Keith-ball//

//(1:16:56)//Jack's Mannequin's Everything In Transit (2005)//On concept//On before and after albums//On electric newness//On hook-downs//On roller skates being silly walking--legendary Dillon take//On I'm Ready laugh track//On legendary Andrew McMahon social commentary//On legendary dirty laundry commentary//On thank you Andrew McMahon for the best laugh of my decade//On least likely Tommy Lee cameo ever//On SoCo v. J'sM//On Andrew McMahon's voice sucking//On gimme any other singer//On everybody still being a mess//On doing things no one is asking for//

//(2:22:42)//Preview of episode//26//

//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 Bee//On maybe Coen Bros are too narrow a filmography//On sky-high VORP for Petty and Rubin and Tench//On Stan Lynch going Mid-Kanye//On Zach Leaving Virginia Alone//On difficulty pin-pointing Petty's most culturally resonant moment//

//(1:10:04)//Tom Petty's Wildflowers & All The Rest (2020)//Alllllll The Rest//On desecrating Tom Petty's deliberate and specific desire to have Wake Up Time conclude the great work of his career//On tasteful re-ordering//On Ugliest Rock n' Roll Frontman Mount Rushmore//On tough pod for Stan Lynch Stans//On would you rather Heartbreakers or Solo stuff//On I turned around and he was gone//On Petty forever//

//(1:28:07)//Preview of episode//26//