Dubliners (Version 2) by JOYCE, James: Recent Episodes
Kenn Edwards
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, and maturity. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Co-bros Patrick Miller & Kenn Edwards bring you an episode of epic proportions (read: length) covering the first leg of the Revolution Radio Tour! Join the International Superfans as they listen back to clips they recorded on the days of the Green Day shows in Boston on 10.1.16 and Norfolk on 3.12.17!
Kenn & Patrick bring their Alex Jonestown Massacre bandmates Mike Engle and Tom Ripley back to the show to cover Green Day's most recent album Revolution Radio, the much anticipated 2016 release that inspired this very podcast! They discuss the merits of when a band takes fewer risks and if it's fair to let that impact your opinion on the quality of the music, recap their Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction, and play clips of this episode's four hosts playing songs and covers together!
International Superfans Kenn Edwards & Patrick Miller are moving on to tackle the Trelogy's titular album, iTre!
After finally allowing a discussion of Billie Joe Armstrong's 21st Century Breakdown to take place, Kenn & Patrick highlight their favorite songs from the 2nd album of the Trelogy. Then, the entire album is played in real-time while the Dos Lonely Boys guest on this punk-rock thrashover episode with James Munoz' Human Loser podcast. Enjoy! Listen to Human Loser on Soundcloud!
Patrick and Kenn delay discussing iHeartRadio just long enough to wrap up their discussion on iUno! Plus, a Weezer podcast is started.
This week Kenn and Patrick do everything within their means to distract themselves from really digging in to the first album in Green Day's 2012 ¡Tre!logy, ¡Uno!, so you'll get to hear a bunch of The Clash and The Replacements. Here, they watch the video for the album's lead single "Oh Love," as well as listen to the first three tracks of the release. Tune in next week for ¡Uno Punto Cinco!, when we'll cover the other 8 tracks on the album. PLUS: This week Patrick and Kenn share the first clip from a song recorded with their new band (comprised of other past WTP guests Mike Engle & The Talented Mr. Tom Ripley), Subhumans (US). Get it?
Kenn plays a song from Green Day's 2011 live release, Awesome As Fuck. Patrick watches. You listen.
Kenn & Patrick invite Denver Crawford (Johnny) and Rachel Hindman (St. Jimmy) - cast members from the Richmond, VA production of Michael Mayer's Broadway brainchild American Idiot - onto the show to discuss Billie Joe's personal narrative in relation to the Broadway adaptation of Green Day's multiplatinum album, and their own personal experience in the local production of the show and the impact it has on each community that takes the show on.
Kenn Edwards, Patrick Miller, and Trish Blaine return to complete the track-by-track discussion on Billie Joe Armstrong's music 8 ball, 21st Century Breakdown.
Kenn and Patrick welcome Trish Blaine to the show to discuss the dystopian vision presented in Green Day's much anticipated follow-up to American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown. In addition to trying to solve the mystery that is the left-turn of hiring Butch Vig as producer, they talk about how it thematically clashed with the political climate at the time, and the eerie prescience when looked back on in contrast with the state of the world today. In this episode, we discuss tracks 1-4. Stay tuned for Part 2, Class Of WTP!
The International Superfans Kenn Edwards & Patrick Miller give into The Temptations and listen to some Nuggets from Green Day's garage-rock side-project Foxboro Hot Tubs in a track-by-track discussion of the band's debut/only 2008 album, Stop Drop and Roll!!!
Kenn & Patrick watched the 2005 concert film Bullet in a Bible as an excuse to talk about Green Day's performance on the tour following the explosive success of American Idiot, with particular focus on the first time your hosts experienced the band for themselves live in person in Fairfax, VA, Halloween 2004. Plus, a mom is called! Whose mom? Listen to find out!!
Kenn and Patrick welcome back Mary Jane French and Kate Carroll to discuss Green Day's American Idiot, as well as the myriad of other bands that Rocked Against Bush, defeated fascism, and put John Kerry in the White House.
Patrick & Kenn welcome Richmond comedians Kate Carroll and Mary Jane French to the show. Welcome to Welcome To Paradise! Or so we'd hoped. The group discusses the sad state of our current political climate and how it mirrored the feeling of hopelessness felt in America in the early 2000s in the wake of 9/11 and George W. Bush's 1st term. This is the era that birthed American Idiot, Green Day's momentous 7th studio album. Just when they start to dive into the track-by-track, the International Superfans run out of time. Stay tuned for Part 2, sweet children.
Join Pat & Kenn as they take a peek into the mystery box that is the curious identity of the elusive band The Network. Musician Zach Kojoyian joins them to help put the puzzle together one song at a time in this bleepy, bloopy journey through the group's only release, 2003's Money Money 2020. Do you Fink you can figure out what's going on before they can?
Grab a margarita, hop in your bookmobile, and join Pat & Kenn as they take a ride through Shenanigans, Green Day's 2002 B-Sides & Rarities release. Not having a defining theme, sound, or story to the collection leads to a Desensitized discussion about why the band chose to set these songs aside for others in the first place. Don't be an Outsider, you Rotting Scumbag - get On the Welcome to Paradise Wagon before you Suffocate. We're So Tired of Waiting for You.
WARNING: This is a drunken rambly late-night romp complete with Chumbawamba breakdowns, talent show adventures, heated arguments about LOST, and we've been waiting a long time for this episode to come. Though you may not need their authority, Patrick and Kenn welcome the talented Mr. Tom Ripley to the show for a lengthy breakdown of Warning, the album that turns Green Day from Sweet Children into Sweet Men.
Kenn and Pat are joined once again by Mike Engle and welcome Rich Girls Comedy's Neil Heltzel to the show for a deep dive into the acclaimed paradise that is Green Day's 5th album, Nimrod. Going track-by-track, they discuss the advantage of the band taking time off between tours to write and record their songs carefully through the expert guidance of producer Rob Cavallo, and how that turned Nimrod into one of the best album's of the band's career. Hold onto your blands!
Things get (relatively) heavy for Pat and Kenn as they continue to follow Green Day's narrative from unexpected pop superstars into the anxiety-ridden self-denial and substance abuse that fuels Insomniac, the fastest, dirtiest record the band has released yet. Throughout this track-by-track breakdown, your sleep-deprived hosts debate the pros and cons that influence Billie Joe Armstrong's songwriting when a band's identity crisis resentfully evolves into the inevitable need to prove who they are (and aren't).
Kenn and Patrick welcome Richmond phenomenon Mike Engle to the show as the group discusses 1994 ("THE YEAR PUNK BROKE") by way of an in-depth dive into Green Day's seminal multi-platinum major-label debut, Dookie.