TapeMakers
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin two friends in their quest to "objectively" rate and rank every album ever released. Josh and Jared sit down and discuss the history, musicality, and impact of some of the most well-known and also the most obscure albums of all time. After all that they make the most important choice, where does it rank in The List of every other album they've discussed. Come let the TapeMakers guide you to new music and a deeper understanding of what you currently love.
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Episodes
Carrie and Lowell & Future Perfect
March 28, 2022 09:42 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBThe guys get back together and talk albums once again. CW: Parental Death, Suicidal Ideation, Mental Health Struggles, Substance Abuse, Abuse The First album is Sufjan Steven's Carrie and Lowell. The Second album is Future Perfect by Autolux. Theme Music: No Lagoon by Jared Richert Hosts: Josh Dolar and Jared Richert The List Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars & Jaime
March 02, 2022 15:00 - 2 hours - 125 MBThe guys start off this episode with some stories about buying rigs, places with good deals, and the frightening realities around car buying. Then they start with the Bowie Classic Ziggy Stardust. A first listen through a bowie album for both of them. How did they interpret the glam rock/proto-punk/pop album that is considered by many to be one of the important and historical albums to have ever been released and cemented David Bowie as a mainstay of popular culture? After the break, they ...
MASSEDUCTION & The Crane Wife
February 14, 2022 15:00 - 2 hours - 124 MBJoin the boys after an episode of less than stellar music in hopes that better music abounds! They start off the episode with some NFT talk in relation to music and how it is actively hurting musicians before touching on the #cancelspotify movement spawned on by someone Sportify paid $100,000,000 to and has actively promoted anti-vax rhetoric and had over 100 episodes of their podcast removed for racist language. The first album that they dive into is St. Vincent's MASSEDUCTION which is a...
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes & Denis Was A Bird
January 31, 2022 15:00 - 2 hours - 113 MBThe boys are back after a holiday break and some time on the podcasters' health and safety protocols list for a Friends and Family Episode! The First Album they talk about was recommended by Josh's Dad and it is Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes by Jimmy Buffett. Josh relives childhood and Jared gets his first glimpse into the Man who created Trop Rock and from whom Yacht Rock was born. Are taken hold of the sounds of Margaritaville or does this laid-back album not offer what they...
Loveless and Let It Die
December 27, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours - 140 MBHappy day after Boxing Day! The guys are here for one last episode before 2022 comes to be our new reality and they got two wonderful albums to talk about. They start off with some updates about why they both sound scattered and maybe losing their voice before diving headfirst into the early 90s with Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. How does the seminal ShoeGaze Album hit for them both? After the break, they then get into Feis's Let It Die, an intimate album that says a lot while doing litt...
Bonfires on the Heath & Pure Comedy
December 09, 2021 16:31 - 2 hours - 147 MBCONTENT WARNING: 1:06 till 2:21 religion, religious trama, misogyny, the 2016 elections, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, Dying, Death, Drug Abuse, Being Drugged Abuse. STRAP IN for the longest episode yet! The boys start with some talk about Christmas Music, Adele, and the Beatles before getting into the lush and quintessentially British album Bonfires on the Heath by the Clientele. They discuss the merits of reverb, drug-inspired sounds, and the idea of the music being able to set a ...
Timing is Everything & Eons
November 18, 2021 09:00 - 2 hours - 117 MBAfter a hotly contested week of controversial music takes, the boys are back! They talk about the weather and going to see bands play before the end of a multitude of things. CW: Climate Disaster They then get on to talking about the albums of the week! Starting with Timing is Everything by Voxhaul Broadcast, the guys talk about what works and what doesn't when it comes to turn of the decade indie pop-rock, recordings, and what does a band labeled as the "next big thing" sound like a decad...
I Go Missing In My Sleep and Razzmatazz
November 04, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours - 116 MBWelcome to the 6th episode of TapeMakers! Join Josh and Jared as they test the limits of their friendship over musical opinion. The first album talked about is I Go Missin In My Sleep by Wilsen. Do the boys think that this ethereal dream folk album delivers on the promise of the feeling of the hours before the sunrise or did they miss the mark with their indie-folk small sound? After that, they get HEATED over the album Razzmatazz by I Dont Know How But They Found Me. Who loves the synth-po...
As The Eternal Cowboy and The Shape of Colour
October 23, 2021 18:55 - 2 hours - 121 MBWelcome to our first-ever friends and family show! We review two albums recommended to us by you the listeners, and this week we have albums from our friends. Thank you, Jake Hammer and Mitchel Boaz for the albums! We start off with the punk band Against Me! and their 2003 release As The Eternal Cowboy. We dive into the political and personal messages of this album, the intentionality of messiness as an artistic choice, and sidebar our way into American Geopolitics. After the break, we then...
Big Mess and The Beautiful Game
October 07, 2021 14:30 - 2 hours - 120 MBThank you for joining us for Episode #4 of TapeMakers! We start off by talking about a live show that happened recently and how we are both on our #grindset. Then we pick apart the Industrial Metal/Orchestral experiment that is Big Mess by Danny Elfman. Did a whole career of working on scores affect Elfman's ability to write songs from a personal perspective or did his experience with orchestras lead to a perfect melding of musical identities? After the break, we get into the pocket with Vu...
Wasteland, Baby! and Destroyer's Rubies
September 23, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 122 MBWelcome to episode #3 of TapeMakers! We are back this week to talk about all sorts of things! First, we catch up as Jared has moved house and Josh visited the middle of America. Then we get deep into Wasteland, Baby! The much-anticipated follow-up to Hozier's debut album. Does this Irish Blues, Folk, Gospel artist hit it out of the park with his new R&B-infused sound or does it leave us wanting more? After that, we pontificate about the obscure and referential lyrics of Destroyer on his off...
Blood Pressures and Pieces of a Man
September 09, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours - 116 MBWelcome back to Episode #2 of Tapemakers We start with talking about Jared's recent gig experience that was... interesting. We also talk about all of online music crit talking about how we have the absolute wrong takes about Pearl Jam's Ten. We then talk about The Kills album Blood Pressures to see if it's punky, full of sexual tension, in your face rock still hits the same as it did when it came out. After that, we dive into GIl Scott-Heron's first full studio album, Pieces of a Man, and d...
Ten & Boarding House Reach
August 26, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours - 122 MBWelcome to TapeMakers Episode #1! In this episode we explain a bit about our musical tastes and then go DEEP into Pearl Jam's seminal grunge classic, Ten, to see if this album holds up or was a product of its time. After that, we dive into Jack White's Blues/R&B/Hip Hop/ etc. madness, Boarding House Reach, to see if his embrace of "maximalist" production comes together or if it tries and fails. We also introduce our elaborate ranking system and pick the albums for the next episode. See The...