Their Very Best: Recent Episodes
Waldron Faulkner and Bill Noto
A podcast where total amateurs make wild proclamations about the work of expert, professional musicians, despite having no actual qualifications
Good ol' "Simple... In A Good Way"; Professional glockenspiel hunter; But you're getting next week's episode at full price
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Which of us is John and which is Paul?
An episode within the episode; Endless quizzes; Isolated vocal tricks.
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Our shortest podcast title yet; Václav Havel references; Let us remind you what it's like to love music
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Bill and Waldron finally finish a series; Solo career material invalidated; Vibraslap sound effect, activated; Visit the Episode Page; Check out the Playlist
The episode where we artfully navigate our differences over the nature of time; Manifesting correct quiz answers; Right-sizing Stairway; Cover songs; Visit the Episode Page; Check out the Playlist
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Lecture in Blues 101
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Pop quiz in Stats class
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Complimentary haiku
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Kurt Vile song formulae
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75% ear range
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Matador podcast name
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Just hanging out with Béla and Victor Wooten, no big deal
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Every genre but bluegrass
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Upright fiddle solos
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(but really he was my bassist first)
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Default music for any occasion?
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Clapton verdict delivered
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The Doors at the bottom of the list
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Introducing: The 77 Club
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Most different artist yet?
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"Billy Billy Billy"? "No, no, no"
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Skipping the "27 Club" discussion
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Pressure on Bill
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Mostly-wrong predictions
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Call For Help meets cry for help
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Ladies and gentlemen: the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world...
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Bill vetoes the veto
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Waldron has an Exile problem
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Their Very Best album cover
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Quiz: when did Tim drop "little" from Little Timmy Linberg?
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Suit Stevie vs. Dashiki Stevie
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Tim founds the very lonely "Five Episode" club
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Waldron's a lover, not a fighter
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"Bad Ass": 7
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Alternate copy takes
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Going from technical to emotional
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"Palette": 3
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Placing Lowell George into the TVG Guitar Hall Of Fame
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They always did agree on most things
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Listen as loudly as you dare, but beware your fillings
- Animal noises breakdown
- Can it even BE decided?
- He maketh me to edit complicated episodes
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Is Broncho the best band you've never heard of? No, but it IS your new favorite!
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Smell The Van
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Sign up for the Portland, Maine Broncho show: contact@theirverybest.co
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- Tim's voice? Haggard and Husky
- The Their Very Best Podcast officially does not endorse riding in the beds of old pickup trucks
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"Sort of a guitar weeny deep dive" - Bill Noto
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Quiz gets ruined by preexisting knowledge
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It's not Eagles Junior. Not The Band. Not Jackson Browne
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Even Waldron endorses
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Should Bill & Waldron record exclusively in white Tyvek suits?
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Bill's about to sell 5 copies of The Three EPs
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Moon birds, fer sure
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FUSDA: The Frequently Used Sample Detective Agency
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Visualizing school mate attrition visualizations
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All day I was listening to The Cult!
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Non-verbal Bill communications
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HR department process compliance
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Pedestrian gnome songs
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Billy goes false-by-two in impromptu quizes
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"Jazz odyssey"
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Playlist odyssey
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Checking it out right now
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Going off
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Strap into that middle seat and fly with us on Eagle Air!
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Which song ended the dance better? Hotel or Stairway?
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AOQ hosts form the Jack Tempchin appreciation society
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Bassists don't like to sing high notes
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Strap into that middle seat and fly with us on Eagle Air!
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Which song ended the dance better? Hotel or Stairway?
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AOQ hosts form the Jack Tempchin appreciation society
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Bassists don't like to sing high notes
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Overlap prediction accomplished
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Very Bestie "Street Team" CTA
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How long until Tim Linberg hears that sick "bakers dozen" burn, if ever?
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Even Waldron knows ?uestlove
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Bill is a multi-trick pony
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Huge in Singapore
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Casual hangs with George Martin
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Bill right / Waldron wrong
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The un-falseable quiz
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Billy loves a live recording, and has a treatise to prove it
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Did you really hoance?
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World's best theraminist
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Teasing the anniversary episode
Episode Page: https://theirverybest.com/episodes/032-portishead
Bill and Waldron engage in multiple disagreements, but both parties are in fact wrong.
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Yacht rock 3.0
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Bad marketing instincts
Episode page: https://theirverybest.com/episodes/031-lake-street-dive
Heaven help the fool / who moves in downstairs
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Genre-roulette speed round
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Easiest quiz ever
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Mystery ghost rolls
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I just don’t think I’ll ever have anything humorous to say in or about this episode
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Breaking rules
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Remembering friends
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Is My Morning Jacket the successor to Radiohead? Waldron stages a format coup to turn a Tour into a 3x3.
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Yilly Yoto
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Rules Committee clarifications
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TVB schism
Episode page: https://theirverybest.com/episodes-028-my-morning-jacket
Is PJ Harvey the female David Bowie? Episode page: https://theirverybest.com/episodes/026-pj-harvey
Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest rock & roll band in the world: https://theirverybest.com/episodes/-25-the-rolling-stones
Waldron indulges his need to narrate the origin of his major/minor fixation; Revenge-quizzing; King scatting
Waldron goes on assignment to report on the Bon Iver concert; Career advice for aspiring drummers; Why don't you play the old stuff!?
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Bill passes the mic to Tim Linberg, who in the mid 90’s had more turntables than time; Don’t want to brag or boast; Beast doesn’t approve of the F-words
https://theirverybest.com/episodes/018-beastie-boys
Band HR policies and procedures; The last song on the final mix tape; Rolling Stone list outrage;
https://theirverybest.com/episodes/017-third-eye-blind
The old Bill & Waldron can't come to the podcast right now. Why? Oh! Because they're dead! Expecting compensation but assuming debt; Dead-on “predictions”
TVB Bonds vs. TVB NFTs; Detox with Iggy Pop; Oblique Strategies for TVB; https://theirverybest.com/episodes/015-david-bowie
Episode dedicated in memory of drummer Billy Conway, 1956-2021.
Waldron and Bill finally face the music. Literally;
It's "Sand Man", not Sandmn;
NOT invited to send corrections
Bill schools Waldron on The War On Drugs; Pain & Suffering vs. hammock fodder; Something to the root; https://theirverybest.com/episodes/013-the-war-on-drugs
Let’s Take a (Winnebego) Trip Together (to Mexico); Partners don’t veto things; https://theirverybest.com/episodes/012-morphine-pt-1
Brothers and co hosts be damned; The voice from Tom Noto; https://theirverybest.com/episodes/011-the-who
Screw those Steely Dan bastards; It’s called empathy; https://theirverybest.com/episodes/010-aimee-mann
Roads to and from Memphis; Mike Berringer; https://www.theirverybest.com/episodes/008-booker-t-jones
Fans’ favorite Rolling Stone over/under; ASPM; https://www.theirverybest.com/episodes/007-talking-heads
Rolling Stone over/under; Among Our Very Favorites; https://www.theirverybest.com/episodes/006-the-police
Party Beck vs. Sad Beck; Waldron’s “Bill’s Galactic Problem”; Surrogate family court of public opinion
https://www.theirverybest.com/episodes/005-beck
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4N3rxEFgtY5UNMyeKy4WTJ?si=65b30b1c987142d1
An actual podcast; HMFR; Teen anthem
https://www.theirverybest.com/episodes/004-lord-huron
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7jJHSlnmb2LTH3rvuXnmyq?si=e1f92f0f7f34496c
Quarter note stomp meets dominant seven sharp nine; Wrong predictions
https://www.theirverybest.com/episodes/003-jimi-hendrix
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sh382AWanuev7jxy7NnPg?si=9d3bb4752a4947d9
Awkward copy; Bill’s Galactic problem; Family court of public opinion.
https://www.theirverybest.com/episodes/002-galactic
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/189wWfbZyGt9HIyGnQFDzH?si=6d0d81fec7854266
Dubious credentials; Yacht rock vs. smooth jazz; Court of public opinion.
https://www.theirverybest.com/episodes/001-steely-dan
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1gzCaEouz56AwcIH65mLM1?si=35dfdfa6ebf54838