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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Moby started as a New York City crate diver before taking some hard left turns in his career and isolatin...
The Story Behind: Chic - Risque, Ep. 244 (01:27:17)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Chic set out to make sophisticated and elegant dance music and took the disco world by storm before wanin...
The Story Behind: Nick Drake - Pink Moon, Ep. 243 (01:30:13)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Nick Drake released 3 relatively unheralded albums in his short lifetime and only decades later became a ...
The Story Behind: The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus, Ep 242 (01:33:06)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The Stranglers started with a jazz drummer and an ice cream van, and somehow made it work such that they ...
The Story Behind: Bad Brains - I Against I, Ep. 241 (01:41:19)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Bad Brains revolutionized the DC punk scene by being consistently adversarial and unpredictable. The fell...
The Story Behind: The Chop - Stay Puft (01:21:06)
Special bonus: we made an album - hear us, the musicians and producers tell the backstory - first of The Ghostbusters film that was our inspiration, and then of how we made Stay Puft together. And - w...
The Best Mean Tweets of 2025 (00:42:55)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected stories behind the making of your favorite albums. Happy (almost) New Year! In order to take a little break for the holidays we've painstakingly compiled o...
The Story Behind: Taylor Swift - 1989, Ep. 240 (01:42:35)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Taylor grew up on a Christmas tree farm and moved to Nashville to become a country star before ditching i...
The Story Behind: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands, Ep 239 (01:20:28)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The Jesus and Mary Chain started as warring brothers with a port-a-studio and ended up on Top of the Pops...
The Story Behind: Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell, Ep. 238 (01:30:12)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Meat Loaf met his soulmate Jim Steinman on stage in New York and the two set about crafting the most over...
The Story Behind: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ep. 237 (01:56:58)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Tom Petty came up in the swamps of Florida playing tiny clubs and sock hops before heading to LA and maki...
The Story Behind: Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age, Ep 236 (01:42:09)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Queens of the Stone Age were birthed from a desert party culture deep in the southern California dunes an...
The Story Behind: Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors, Ep 235 (01:29:21)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Dolly Parton worked her way up through the country music landscape by being a genuinely kind person while...
The Story Behind: Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock, Ep 234 (01:15:31)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Michael Viner was an idea man floating around LA for years before he landed on his most lasting idea: a ba...
The Story Behind: k.d. lang - Shadowland, Ep 233 (01:21:55)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. k.d. lang came from the prairies of Canada with a mission to be the next Patsy Cline, and with some savvy...
The Story Behind: The Police - Reggatta de Blanc, Ep 232 (01:57:50)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The Police started as a punk band but quickly pivoted to something completely new and started releasing a...
The Story Behind: Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner, Ep 231 (01:22:29)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Tom Waits struggled to find his audience on his first two albums but had the confidence and backing of a ...
The Story Behind: The Cars - The Cars, Ep 230 (01:45:14)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The Cars had years to learn and perfect their pop rock craft before locking in a becoming just what Ameri...
The Story Behind: Merle Haggard and The Strangers - I'm a Lonesome Fugitive (01:28:15)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Merle Haggard was in and out of prison several times before being discovered by Lefty Frizzell and launch...
The Story Behind: Blur - Parklife, Ep 228 (01:39:17)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Blur were London's answer to the Madchester movement up north but grew into Brit-Pop force to be reckoned...
The Story Behind: Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run, Ep 227 (01:42:35)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Paul McCartney was feeling left behind by his ex-bandmates' solo careers and dealing with an ever-shiftin...
The Story Behind: Sonic Youth - Evol, Ep 226 (01:36:21)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Sonic Youth set out to reinvent rock music by merging avant garde art world ideas with noisy guitars. By ...
The Story Behind: Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power, Ep. 225 (01:26:51)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Pantera transitioned from a glam metal band into the sludgy groove pioneers we know them to be today and ...
The Story Behind: The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Ep 224 (01:43:34)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Stephin Merritt set out to write a songbook's worth of material and record it in his bedroom in Manhattan...
The Story Behind: Television - Marquee Moon, Ep. 223 (01:34:18)
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Television helped kick off the New York music scene of the 1970s by building the stage bands played on - ...
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