The Ringer

[Bongorific]

I was referring to the “explosive growth in the mid 90s” portion of the previous post.

I don’t know. There are lots of reasons to be out on Yasi. Concertgoing is an odd disqualifier for me.

REM is arguably my favorite band of all-time. I never saw them perform. I sure listened to Reckoning a lot, though.

I was born in 1982 and had been to a handful of DMB shows in the 90’s.

It was just her general attitude. She tried to come across like the most qualified podcaster to talk about DMB because she’s the coolest person that likes them unironically. And has a picture of Dave on her desk. But she was so shaky on their early music and Rob asked her 3/4 of the way through if she’d seen them live and she admitted no. He was unsurprised. She came across as really unauthentic.

 

[Pablo's TB Lover]

Just to pile on Yasi, between Dave Matthews Band and Dave & Tim Reynolds acoustic shows, they've played a total of 3,200-ish shows (just looked it up). I mean, if you really want to see Dave Matthews there is literally no excuse not to have done so. I was a big fan of Crash being between HS and college at the time and not so much their albums since, but even I went to see them on a lark at Fenway in 2006.

 

[epraz]

DMB has played California 158 times.

 

[CantKeepmedown]

Yeah I'm not a huge DMB guy but very jealous of their hardcore fans because of how much he tours. You can bank on him touring every summer. And generally seems to hit all 4 corner of the US. Shit I'm in Portland and he played like 6 shows within 3 hours of me a couple summers ago.

 

[Spelunker]

Rob looks back at some major performances that came with pregnancy announcements, before focusing in on M.I.A and her 2008 hit “Paper Planes.” Along the way, Rob also touches upon the controversies that came with M.I.A’s fame. Later, writer and editor Puja Patel joins to discuss dancing on stage with M.I.A, the political and cultural conversation around the artist back in 2008, and much more.

 

[CaptainLaddie]

Nice one. It's too bad she's lost her fucking mind since 2020. Arular was an incredible record. And the song still kills in nightclubs -- it's one of the only songs I can play at an "open format" (meaning all sorts of music) night, a hip-hop only night, a throwback night, AND can even drop it in the right way at an EDM night.

 

[allstonite]

The “Kids” episode was great even if Rob is wrong about Oracular Spectacular. That album is great front to back not just 3 great songs.

But he’s already knocked off The Killers and now MGMT in that scene. He still has to do a LCD Soundsystem and, more importantly, a Strokes episode right? RIGHT?!

 

[Yelling At Clouds]

Rob absolutely has to cover either "Frantic" or "St. Anger" if only so I can hear him wax poetic about the incredible Some Kind of Monster.

This leads me to an interesting question - how many artists will have episodes in BOTH the 90s and 00s iterations of the podcast? Eminem and Jay-Z definitely will. OutKast and Radiohead are also safe bets. U2 might if he covers "Vertigo." I could see him doing "Toxic," so Britney will probably be a two-timer. Beyonce didn't get her OWN episode in the 90s - it was a Destiny's Child song - but she'll absolutely get one from the 00s. Similarly, No Doubt was covered in the 1990s, but Gwen might get an episode covering "Hollaback Girl."

As far as long shots go, Rob might cover something from Daft Punk's aughts output. Maybe something from Beck's Sea Change, too? Like my Metallica suggestion above, I could also see him covering one of Weezer's newer, shittier songs if only to contrast it with their earlier, better work.

Turns out it’s Missy Elliott.

 

[shlincoln]

Holy hell, Ben Fucking Lindbergh got Jason Concepcion to do a Ringer podcast