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Music for the Quarantined Soul
Born out of the Covid-19 crisis, this podcast asks guest to discuss the 5 albums they would take with them into quarantine. And just for fun, their most embarrassing album buy.
This episode the guys connect with a new friend, Matt from Birmingham in the UK. Home of Ozzy! Matt leans more to indie bands and introduces the guys to 5 bands they have not heard of. Matt's picks are:
- To My Boy: "Messages"
- Tellison: "The Wages of Fear"
- Blood Relatives: "Deerheart"
- The Sounds: "Dying to Say This To You"
- Wonder Villains: "Rocky"
Embarrassing album: Richard Blackwood: "You'll Love To Hate This"
Play out music is Lauran Hibberd, DJ Lethal - Still Running
Playlist of songs mentioned is at Season 4 Ep 5 - Matt's Q5
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This episode the guys meet Steve Lambert from Winnipeg. Steve is well prepared for the episode and has a lot to say about all his picks:
- Quadrophenia - The Who
- Remain In Light - The Talking Heads
- Leftism - Leftfield
- Amnesiac - Radiohead
- Since I Left You - The Avalanches
Steve also tells them about the great tradition he and his buddies had with unwanted albums from their youth. His most embarrassing album buy "gets the bat!"
Playout music for this episode is by a Manitoba band, Yes We Mystic - Working for the Future in the Interlake
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This episode the guys chat with Fiona, a surgical gynecologist from Calgary. Fiona asks her patients what they want to listen to while under anesthesia and then tweets out the surgery set list!
Her albums are:
- Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
- Led Zeppelin IV
- Still Bill (Bill Withers)
- Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
- Live At The Troubadour (Carole King/James Taylor)
Fiona makes a bold statement about embarrassing album buys as well!
Here's another promo trailer for another podcast we've had the pleasure of working with. The hosts are Karen Johnson - Diamond and Stephanie Wolfe and we had them as guests way back in Season 2. Their podcast is called Scamtime, where they gasp and giggle over the topic of frauds and phonies, Ponzis and pyramids plus hoaxes and hilarity. Check out their trailer!
We're helping out our friend Steve from the podcast "For the Boo's" by posting his promo audio. Check it out!
The first regular episode of Season 4 has the guys meeting Steve, a fellow podcaster from Florida. Steve's podcast is For the Boo's and can be found here .
Steve's 5 albums are :
- A Day to remember - Homesick
- Van Halen - Van Halen
- La Dispute - Somewhere at the bottom of the river between Vega and Altair
- Jim Croce - You don’t Mess around with Jim
- Metallica - And Justice for All
Also Steve questions the existence of bass players, Cam confirms that they do exist. As well Clifton and Steve have a moment together when then realize they are both big fans of Tim Henson.
Play out music is by the Cheapeasies
This is too good not to share as well. The guys end up talking a little sports including the New England Patriots recent performance. Steve gives his opinion on that.
Cam & Clifton met with Steve from Florida to record an episode. Hear what happens when Steve finds out they are Canadians! This is an outtake, and not really about music, but too much fun not to share!.
We are Music for the Quarantined Soul. Each episode we ask a new guest for their 5 albums that they would take into quarantine with them. We discuss those 5 albums and their reasons for picking them. We also ask them for their most embarrassing album buy. Sometimes we mock them. :) We often get new music suggestions from our guest, and may offer something for them to check out as well.
Welcome to Season 4! The guys start off the season with a look back at 1982. We have our friend Steve on, and we each pick 5 cassettes from 1982 to discuss and then round out our picks to make it to 40ish. Here are the guys picks, with the first 5 being discussed in depth.
Clifton
· Aldo Nova – Aldo Nova
· Judas Priest – Screaming for Vengeance
· Billy Idol – Billy Idol
· Steve Miller Band – Abracadabra
· Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
· Michael Jackson – Thriller
· Duran Duran – Rio
· Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
· Men at Work – Business as Usual
· The Clash - Combat Rock
· George Thorogood – Bad to the Bone
Steve
· Richard and Linda Thompson – Shoot Out the Lights
· R.E.M. – Chronic Town
· Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – The Message
· The Blue Mask - Lou Reed
· Vacation – The Go-Go’s
· Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall
· Walking Among Us -The Misfits
· Black Metal – Venom
· Milo Goes to College - The Descendents
· Pornography - The Cure
Cam
· Men at Work – Business as Usual
· John Cougar – American Fool
· Rush – Signals
· Eye in the Sky – Alan Parson’s Project
· Long After Dark – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
· Love over Gold – Dire Straits
· 1999 – Prince
· The Nightfly – Donald Fagen
· Diver Down – Van Halen
The guys have Chris Jewett back for a guest host as they finally get around to wrapping up Season 3. Discuss the highlights for them for this season. Chris forces them to offer up the albums the guys had a hard time listening to as well. They discuss some of their guests and their choices and somehow end up discussing Blackberry Smoke’s Stoned and Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger. As always, when Chris joins us, wackiness ensues!
During the recording of our latest episode, our guest Jennifer Engbrecht, told us how as a music teacher she taught outside, in the winter, in Manitoba for 120 days! We felt that it was important for people to hear her story so we offer this as an out-take from the regular, album-oriented podcast.
The guys chat with Jennifer, a teacher from Manitoba. She has a very local Quarantine 5 with the exception of one. (Can you spot it?) Her albums are:
- Wailin Jennys: 40 Days
- Kelly Bado: Hey Terre
- Raine Hamilton: Brave Land
- Jake Chenier: Content d’être moi
- The Beatles : White Album
Clifton asks her for some new music that she's listening to as well as posing the question "Can you hear an accordion in space?" which led to wondering what Astronaut Chris Hadfield's Quarantine 5 would be.
Jennifer also discussed her time as a music teacher during the pandemic and how she taught outside. We're publishing that as an out-take, so look for it!
Play out music is by Beck - Take it Back
This episode the guys head to the West Coast and speak with Zac, another new friend from Twitter. Zac takes us on a ride. Albums are:
- The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
- Counting Crows - August and Everything After
- Max Richters - Recomposed : Vivaldi 4 Seasons
- Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache
- Jonsi - Go
Zac also tells us about mix tape parties he used to attend and how he collected mix-tapes at them. Playout music is by Tiny Moving Parts - Medicine.
This episode the guys chat with Melissa , a life long Winnipegger, music fan and often concert reviewer. Her albums are:
- Hawksley Workman - Last Night We Were The Delicious Wolves
- Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves
- Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
- The Fugitives - In Streetlight Communion
- Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
She has no embarrassing album but does tell us about her current obsession with Balkan dance music.
No play out music because we ran outta time!
This episode the guys chat with Sue from Edmonton. She's passionate about her music and it definitely comes through in the episode. She does the unconventional and slips in 2 embarrassing albums but hey, we always say "No rules!" Sue's album picks are
- David Bowie Heroes
- Crowded House - Crowded House
- Nirvana - In Utero
- Vivaldi - Four Seasons
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Embarrassing picks are Whitesnake AND Tiffany.
Playout music is Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on Parade
This episode Cam & Clifton discuss 5 albums with Amy Scott, another social media find of a guest. This episode has more of an indie feel to it, so please check out these deserving artists. Also discussed: a) how things might work at Shazam and how we might all get a job there b) David Bowie's pants. Amy's albums are:
Lia Ices - Grown Unknown Cold Specks- Fool’s Paradise Corrina Repp - The Pattern of Electricity Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is an Animal Neil Young - Harvest
Playout music is Free by Florence and the Machine
This episode the guys chat with Chris Roach, a music fan originally from Manchester England, now living in Canada. Chris has some great stories and some great albums in his 5. Which one do you think Cam will take a pass on? Gotta listen to find out! Albums are:
- Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
- U2 - Achtung Baby
- The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
- The Tragically Hip - World Container
- Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Plus Chris reveals his most embarrassing buy which he has only ever told 3 other people. Esta loca!
This is part 2 of our interview with Jord Samolesky from Propagandhi. In this 2nd part, Jord talks about
- NoMeansNo - ONE
- Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Lost Trident Sessions
He also tells us about an embarrassing record buying situation he faced. And suggests a couple of newer albums out, one from La Armada, a band that Propagandi has toured with in the past.
This episode the guys talk to Cam's old roomate and good friend, Jord Samolesky from the band Propagandhi. The guys have so much to say that it turns into a double episode and is being released in 2 parts over 2 days. In Part 1, Jord discusses 3 of his quarantine albums and gives us some insight as to what started his drummer career.
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Rush - Permanent Waves
Voivod - Dimension HatrossThere's also a poll on our website https://musicforthequarantinedsoul.weebly.com/ for listeners to tell us what they hear at the start of AC/DC's Problem Child.
This episode, Cam & Clifton visit with Peter Bjornson. Peter is a former teacher and politician with a wide range of music interests. The guys go easy on him with a Greatest Hits album, and Peter drops several bands that the guys need to check out. Albums discussed are:
- Streetheart - Meanwhile Back in Paris
- The Del Lords - Frontier Days
- The Tragically Hip - Trouble at the Henhouse
- New Order - The Best of New Order
- The Clash - London Calling
Peter's embarrassing album is an obscure Canadian musician that needs to be checked out.
This episode's play out song is "Unloving You" by Dane Bjornson. Check out Dane's website at www.danebjornson.com/
In this episode the guys chat with Chris Eccles, a teacher from Winnipeg we met on social media. Chris is also a keyboard player and shares some stories from the road as he has had some interesting experiences with one of the bands we are talking about. Which one could it be? Turn up this episode to find out! Albums discussed are:
- Van Halen - Right Here, Right Now - Live
- Supertramp - Live In Paris
- Roger Waters - The Wall (Live in Berlin)
- Deep Purple - Machine Head
- Autograph - Sign in Please
Plus his most embarrassing album buy and it's not so much embarrassing as it is just a terrible album. The KISS of death if you will. ;)
Chris also suggests some music to check out. This episode's play out song is Phantom of the Opera by Nightwish.
Season 3 continues with our guest John Finch. John brings 5 classic albums and somehow sneaks in a 6th (as his so called "embarrassing pick, that is a critically acclaimed album). John's 5 (6) albums are:
- Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
- Rush - Farewell to Kings
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon -
- Van Halen - Fair Warning
- Keith Richards and the Xpensive Winos - Talk is Cheap
- 'Embarrassing Album: Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
The long hiatus is over! Season 3 has finally been released. This episode, the guys talk to Mike, an Internet find of a guest. His 5 albums are:
- Spirit of the West - Labour Day
- The Clash - London Calling
- George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
- Moby - Play
- Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings the Blues
We also ask Mike for the order that he would play them in upon arrival in Quarantine. The segment , Your Most Embarrassing Album Buy makes a return, as well as some new music that Mike has discovered. Mike also suggests a new segment, Your First Album Buy With Your Own Money.
We are glad to be back!
The guys had a tough time getting together to record this and then edit it for upload. Chris is back for a guest host gig and we have a great discussion about the past year. We discuss our favourites, our surprise gems, our tough listens and the most deserving embarrassing albums. We even get into some "cancel culture" discussion and eerily discuss Bill Cosby before the very recent news of his release. Be aware that this was recorded before that happened.
The guys are taking a well deserved summer hiatus and will be back in the fall to speak to a whole new batch of guests and their quarantine 5 albums. Enjoy the summer everyone!
This episode the guys talk to Jamey that is project lead at their sponsor, Grow Media. Jamey has some great picks and some awesome concert stories to go with them. But he has another side, as you will hear in the most embarrassing segment. Jamey's picks are:
- Green Day - American Idiot
- The Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59
- The Tragically Hip - Road Apples BONUS sponsor only Hip album " Saskadelphia"
- Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
- The White Stripes - Elephant
He has some great suggestions for new music including Royal Blood, The Black Keys and the Arkells. Today's outro is a clip from the Arkells new song.
The guys catch up with Sheldon who also works with them and is known for his heavy metal t-shirts that he wears. Both Cam and Clifton were surprised at his wide range of picks, with some fairly obscure Canadian artists. His picks are:
- Mood Jga Jga
- Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
- Walter Rossi - Six Strings Nine Live
- Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East
- Black Sabbath - Vol 4
This episode the guys have Michelle B on as their guest. Michelle is a western Manitoba blogger, author, and fellow podcaster. She says she has never been asked for her musical opinion by Ed the Sock, so we rectify that. Her albums are:
- John Anderson - Seminole Wind
- Alice Cooper - From the Inside
- Hamilton - Original cast recording
- Rent - movie soundtrack
- Shaggy - Hot Shot
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This episode the guys check in with Rick Haley, a retired school principal, hockey blogger and musician and fan. The guys finally get around to listening to Montrose, Sammy Hagar's first band. Along with a few others. Discussion of the Winnipeg scene happens along with a shout out to Poor Michael's Emporium in Onanole. Rick's 5 album are:
- Teenage Head - Frantic city
- Montrose - Montrose
- Cheap Trick - In Color
- Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
- Paul McCartney - Ram
He's got a great embarrassing buy as well, although apparently Clifton uses that song on his workout playlist.
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The guys celebrate the podcast's first birthday with guest host, their old friend and bandmate Chris. The guys discuss the the birth of the podcast, some of their favourite moments and some future plans. Who will be their favourite guests? What albums did they add to their personal playlists? What will happen when the pandemic is over, will it still be called "Quarantined Soul"? Only one way to find out, you gotta have a listen. The guys also play the theme song in it's entirety, "Rock n Roll Getaway" by the Chris Barker Band, with Clifton on vocals and guitar.
This episode the guys talk to Brandi & Mark, a married couple that are co-workers of Cam & Clifton. These 2 have a serious vinyl addiction. They each give 5 albums each with a little cross-over. Their 10 picks are right up Clifton's alley ranging from Metallica to Steve Earle with some newer bands in the mix as well. Their picks are:
Brandi:
- Steve Earle –Guitar Town
- The Steel Woods – Straw in the Wind
- Corb Lund – Agricultural Tragic
- Blackberry Smoke – Holding All the Roses
- Garth Brooks - No Fences
Mark
- Eric Church - Sinners Like Me
- Blackberry Smoke – Little Piece of Dixie
- Pearl Jam – 10
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skynyrd
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
This episode the guys talk to a local Dauphin musician and fan, Bayne Balchen. Bayne's always had a taste for British artists and some jazz, and it shows in his picks. He also has quite an interesting list of concerts he has attended. Bayne's picks are:
- ELO - Live at Wembley
- Chicago ll
- Zombies - Live at Bloomsbury Theatre
- Ray Davies - Americana
- The Magic Gang - Death of the Party
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The guys bring back an old guest as a emergency replacement due to some unforeseen circumstances and just talk about a lot of music. They cover Tom Petty's Wildflowers, The Travelling Wilburys, Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty concerts and others they have attended, how to be a guest, Big Star, new music we're listening to and an idea for an all covers song episode.
This episode sees the guys interviewing another person they've met on Twitter through a friend. Scott from Winnipeg gives us his 5 Quarantine Albums, his most embarrassing CD buy and a few suggestions for future listening. And we're pretty sure his wife isn't going to be too mad at him, although that does remain to be seen. Scott's 5 albums are:
- Sex Packets - Digital Underground
- Beastie Boys Music - Beastie Boys
- The Ghosts the Haunt Me - Crash Test Dummies
- Up - Great Big Sea
- Permanent Vacation - Aerosmith
This episode the guys speak to Tara, a recent listener that they connected with on Twitter. She shares her quarantine 5, and maybe possibly, connects us to Kevin Bacon. Certainly, her mom, who has agreed to be a future guest. Tara's albums are:
- Better Than Ezra - Deluxe
- Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
- Pearl Jam - Ten
- Gavin DeGraw - Chariot
- Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
and she sneaks in both an embarrassing pick - Bette Midler's Beaches Soundtrack as well as her guilty pleasure, which intrigues the guys, Miley Cyrus' new album Plastic Hearts
This episode is a double episode with two fellow podcasters, Steph and Karen from the podcast Scamtime. The guys had great fun discussing the ladies picks and numerous other wacky items. Albums discussed are:
Steph
- Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
- Lauren Hill - The Miseducation of Lauren Hill
- Hamilton - Original cast recording
- David Bowie - Let’s Dance
- Sinead O’Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Karen
- Neil Diamond / His 12 Greatest Hits
- Neil Diamond - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Roger Whittaker/ The Roger Whittaker Christmas Album
- Floyd Collins - Original Cast Recording
- In The Heights - Original Cast Recording
This episode the guys talk to former guests Bernie, Mike, Peter, Carter, Matt, & Bill in our 2nd Chistmas Extravaganza. Albums discussed are:
- Burton Cummings - self titled
- John Lennon - Rock n Roll
- War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
- Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
- Broken Social Scene - self titled
- Public Enemy - What you gonna do when the Grid goes down?
The guys decide to celebrate the holidays by having a Secret Santa tyo thing where past guests pick albums to give to other past guests. It turned out better than we thought! So check out the album gifts:
- Tracie --> Kam / Levi | Velvet Revolver - Libertad
- Kam/Levi --> Chris Jewett | Matthew Good- White Light Rock & Roll Review
- Chris--> Trevor | The Dears - Lovers Rock
- Trevor-- > Cam | The Modern Lovers - self titled
- Cam --> Kris Luke | St. Motel - My Type EP
- Kris--> Tracie | Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
This episode the guys speak to an old high school classmate of Cam's who just happens to be married to Russ Kunkel, legendary LA based session drummer. His discography is extensive and includes Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Carole King and many more. Both Shauna and Russ offer up their own Quarantine 5, and oddly enough some of Shauna's are ones that Russ played on. She swears that has nothing to do with it! Russ also offers some behind the scenes info on Jackson Browne's album Running on Empty on which he plays. This episode is not to be missed!
Shauna's picks are :
- Joni Mitchell - Blue
- Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
- Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
- Carole King - Tapestry
- Tragically Hip - Essentials
Russ' picks:
- Al Green - Greatest Hits
- Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
- Muddy Waters - Best of
- Everly Brothers - Essentials
- The Beatles - Essentials
This episode, Cam and Clifton check in with Rey Page, who Cam knows from University. Rey is a visual artist as well as well as a music fan. His tastes run a little towards heavy so Clifton is all ears. Rey' picks are from 5 different decades, the 70's to the 2010's:
- Kiss - Destroyer
- Metallica - Ride the Lightning
- Soundgarden - Bad Motor Finger
- Propagandhi - Today's Empires Tomorrow's Ashes
- Mastadon - Emperor of Sand
His most embarrassing picks include Boney M AND Barry Manilow. Shocking.
This episode our guest Kirk (from www.reefermed.ca) gives us his Quarantine. Kirk is a big Neil Young fan (he calls himself a "Rusty") so it's an all Neil collection. HIs picks are:
Time Fades Away
On the Beach
Tonight's the Night
Freedom
Sleep with Angels
and one of the best most embarrassing picks , Culture Club's Colour by Numbers, although the guys agree that with time, the album has grown on them.
This episode is a double shot. Bob and Mac are a father - son combo that are both music fan. They have influenced each other's musical tastes. Their picks are:
Bob
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Mac
Nirvana - In Utero
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Radiohead - Kid A
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
We neglected to ask what their most embarrassing albums were but we have a new segment where we ask for some suggestions. Bob and Mac suggest the following artists: Weekend, Volbeat, Simple Minds (Walk Between Worlds), Neutral Milk Hotel (On Avery Island), Elliot Smith, Title Fight (Hyperview).
For this episode, Clifton convinced Cam to release his Quarantine 5. So after much deliberation here it is. Joining us this episode as a guest co-host is Cam's son Tanner, a musician and music fan of his own.
Cam's 5 albums are
- John Mellencamp - Scarecrow
- Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
- U2 - The Joshua Tree
- Rush - Roll the Bones
- Paul Simon - Graceland
Cam's most embarrassing pick is Flock of Seagulls third album - "Listen"
In a new segment, Cam recommends some new music: Bruce Springsteen's "Letter to You" , The Sheepdogs "Changing Colours" . Other bands he suggests are Magpie Salute, The Haggis Horns, California Honeydrops and Galactic
This episode came together because Cam and their guest Steve can't make up their minds. Cam was putting together his quarantine 5 and could not pick between 3 Hip albums. Steve was in a similar boat so , following the 'no real rules" thinking they decided to do an episode on the first 5 Tragically Hip albums. Plans are in place for future Hip episodes for other albums. So find some headphones and check out the guys discussing
- The Tragically Hip
- Up to Here
- Road Apples
- Fully Completely
- Day for Night
This episode the guys catch up with another former Dauphinite (and another musician!) Jennifer McPhail. Jen is a long time Stones fan and gives the guys 5 classic rock albums that are right in their wheelhouses. She even sneaks in another Stones album on them along with essentially a Greatest Hits album. Her picks are:
- The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
- The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
- AC/DC - High Voltage
- The Cult - Pure Cult
- 54-40 - Smilin Buddha Cabaret
Her most embarrassing pick is the New Kids on the Block's Bodyguard - Biscuit - we're not even sure what album it was.... :)
Our latest guest got us talking about ourselves, so we decided to release it as an out take. Listen to this sort of preview of our upcoming episode with Jen McPhail. The guys and her talk about our episode 1 guest, Trevor Sytnick, the band that Cam and Clifton play in together, some Streeheart / Kenny Shields stories and give some hints on Cam's Quarantine 5. Check it out!
This episode, the guys and their guest celebrate the work of the legendary Eddie Van Halen. Guest Gary Procyshyn has been a longtime fan and credits Eddie as a major influence. Gary even played Eddie in a late 1980's VH tribute band in the Toronto area. We discuss the 6 album of the Roth era of Van Halen:
- Van Halen 1
- Van Halen II
- Women and Children First
- Fair Warning
- Diver Down
- 1984
The fellas continue to branch out, this time discussing 5 albums with Matt Jewett. Matt is the first "out of Dauphin/ Parkland" person that neither of the guys know, guest. Matt is the brother of former guest and guest host Chris Jewett. Matt's 5 album picks are:
The Who - Tommy
Radiohead - Kid A
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Meligrove Band - Planets Conspire
Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Most Embarrassing / Weird Thing in My Collection - Aleister Crowley - Dark Magic Recordings
The guys finally get around to recording a new episode and get a little off track. When they did the Bernie episode, Cam forgot to hit record. Here they tell our guest about it and it turns into a discussion about Hip- Hop. Not really part of the 5 album theme, but a fun little conversation nonetheless. So here's that out-take just to warm you up a bit. Can you guess who our guest is?
This episode brings back a former guest, Chris Jewett, as the guest host and puts Cam and Clifton in the hot seat as he asks some challenging questions of the hosts from the inaugural season of Music for the Quarantined Soul. Find out which albums the guys had trouble with, which ones were comfy sweats to them, and which of the embarrassing ones rated the most embarrassing. All that and more on the season 1 recap.
During the recording of the Episode 11 special episode, the guys got talking about the weird, Mr. Roboto voice that sometimes plagues us. You will hear it from time to time, even though we do our best to edit it out. This lead into a story from Cam about him performing surgery on a Tom Cochrane and Red Rider cassette tape. Check that out here. The special episode 11 will be out soon, just putting the finishing touches on it.
This episode the guys go on a long drive with Mike Penner. Mike is a local teacher and music buff that has a wide range of musical likes. And we have our first repeat album. Check out Mike's 5 quarantine albums.
- Steve Earle -Copper Head Road
- Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
- Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
- Guns and Roses - Use your Illusion - 1
- The Ramones - Greatest Hits Live
Most Embarrassing
- Jon Bon Jovi - Young Guns II Soundtrack
This episode, the guys talk to Peter Nadolny. Peter has another wide selection of albums, from a Canadian Icon to International Mega Stars. He tells some wonderful stories, and lets us know which artists he met and which ones he missed, as well as making it into a Canadian music video. Which one? You have to listen to hear the stories!
Peter's albums are:
Stompin Tom - Bud the Spud and Other Favourites
Bon Jovi - Crush
The Pogues - If I Should Fall from the Grace of God
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Violent Femmes - Why do Birds Sing?
Most Embarrassing - Corey Hart - Boy in the Box
This episode the guys talk to local teacher and music aficionado Kris Luke. Kris & Cam share a fair bit of favorite music, including some RUSH. She sorta cheats too with a double album and a live album. ;)
Check out her 5 albums:
- Duran Duran - Rio
- Genesis - Three Sides Live
- Queen - Live Killers
- Rush - Signals
- Eric Johnson - Tones
Most Embarrassing Album - Fun in Space
This episode, Cam and Clifton invite local music aficionado Carter to discuss his 5 albums:
- Butch Walker - The Spade
- Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
- The Replacements - Let it Be
- Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off
- U2 - Achtung Baby
In Episode 6 the guys talk to another local musician, Jeff Gilroy. Jeff's 5 albums are:
- Shake Your Money Maker - Black Crowes
- August and Everything After - Counting Crows
- Nirvana - unplugged
- Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
- Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Jeff is a huge Tom Petty fan and shared the stage with Cam & Clifton when they did their Tom Petty Tribute night. His band, Morgan Lane, even recorded a song about Tom Petty. You can listen to it here.
Their set from the Tom Petty night is here, courtesy of https://www.tannerbennetmedia.com/
This episode the guys talk to 2 local musicians, Kam & Levi Winters. We let them have 6 albums to take into quarantine, because they shared the first 4. Their albums are: The Union - Glorious Sons , Traveller - Chris Stapleton, Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses, Everybody Wants - The Struts, Battle Born - The Killers 2012, Powerage - AC/DCand their embarrassing picks are Prozzak- Saturday People and Britney Spears Oops!... I Did It Again.
This episode the guys talk to Chris Jewett, an old bandmate of Cam and Clifton. Chris is a musician and a teacher. He has a wide range of musical tastes and knows so much that we just had to extend the episode. He is very passionate about Supertramp, that you will hear at the end. ;) Chris offers up a range of material and we know that you will enjoy something in the mix. We do apologize for some tech / sound issues that were unsolvable by our poorly paid technicians. The poll this week? Is Chris right? Does every house have 2.5 Supertramp albums in it? How many Supertramp albums do you own?
Cam and Clifton meet up virtually with an old student of Cam's and classmate of Clifton's, Bernie Dowhan. Bernie takes the guys out of their comfort zone again and spend the time discussing some of the top Hip Hop albums of all time. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet , Beastie Boys - Ill Communication , NWA - Straight Outta Compton, A Tribe called Quest - A Low End Theory, Ice Cube - The Predator. Bernie goes cheater and will not list his embarrassing buy, have a listen to see what he does instead.
Cam and Clifton speak to another former Dauphinite, Tracie Orisko calling in from Las Vegas where she is in self isolation, running her business. Tracie's Quarantine 5 are Ed Sheeran - Divide, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, David Bowie - Let's Dance, Megan Trainor - Title, and Journey - Greatest Hits I. This week's poll? Did Tracie cheat by picking a Greatest Hits album? You decide!
Cam and Clifton discuss with Trevor Sytnick his top 5 quarantine albums. Trevor is a long time musician and music fan. His picks are
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Echo - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band
Use Your Illusion I & II - Guns and Roses
Does Trevor cheat by including double albums? You decide!