It's part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of 2019.

Show notes:

• Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ

• This program is not affiliated with Moviefone

• A decade of talking rock

• Near

• Breitling: Had time to listen to a lot more music this year

• The Billie Eilish vs. VH debate has been raging for a while

• Kids don't know or care about music from 10 years ago, let alone 35

• A lot of butthurt older music fans getting worked up for no reason

• Most kids have zero interest in classic rock

• Listen to what you want

• The "OK Boomer" phenomenon

• When music becomes something on in the background

• Breitling needs to see Idiocracy

• The albums that didn't make our top 10 lists

• Breitling: Floating Points, Rroxy More, Top Down Dialectic, Katie Dey, Max Richter

• Kumar: Mikal Cronin, Ty Segall, Mark Lanegan, Trinary System

• Mission of Burma's second act may be done

• Breitling: Juana Molina, Bedroom Eyes, Lubec, DIIV, Tullycraft, She Sir, Snowball II

• Kumar: Sleater-Kinney with a controversial new album; Janet Weiss pushed out of the band

• Breitling: Would have been better received under a different band name like Unicorn Butt

• Kumar: Pixies, Palehound, Kim Gordon, Pile, Black Mountain, Sebadoh, Fontaines DC, Telekinesis, Hold Steady, Desert Sessions, GBV, Wilco, Plague Vendor, Oh Sees, Nick Cave

• Breitling: Better Oblivion Community Center, Florist, Big Thief

• Next: Our top 10 albums

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.