The Too Bad Eugene Podcast: Recent Episodes
Too Bad Eugene
Host Adam Nigh - bassist, lead singer, and songwriter for Santa Cruz punk band Too Bad Eugene - talks about the band, its history, songs, influences, and activities.
Adam, Sam and Jason hang out in Adam's living room talking about, and listening to, the evolution of the oldest original song on Battle Scars, Release Your Crown.
Sam makes his triumphant return and, along with Adam and Jason, check out some early demo versions of Sick, talking about its evolution, musical influences, and lyrical themes.
Season 2 kicks off with all 4 of the TBE guys talking about track 1 off of their new album, Battle Scars: Fool's Gold!
Adam FINALLY got around to doing an episode on the final track of the album, but ends up talking more about TBE's forthcoming new album and its first single, SHAKING MY FIST AT CLOUDS, which drops Nov 23!
Adam sits down with Jason Ragan (Next In Line, Craig's Brother, and Too Bad Eugene for about the last year) to talk Star Wars, high school, and I Lost the World.
Adam breaks all the rules of proper Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner behavior by talking...religion and politics...as he breaks down the music and lyrics of Antithetical.
Adam welcomes TBE guitar player Sam Skelton to talk music, CCR, Lodi, and Get Back There!
Adam talks Anecdote, as well as addressing the thorny issue of whether Too Bad Eugene is "Christ punk" band and why the answer is no.
Adam talks Take Another Shot and then enjoys a long, meandering conversation with TBE drummer, Calvin Nigh.
Adam welcome's his daughter Mercy Nigh as his second episode on the podcast to discuss Stuck, on which she is featured singing lead on the bridge, as well as backup harmonies throughout the album. Adam also breaks down the writing of the song, including a couple different demo versions of the chorus.
Adam invites his first guest on the show, his wife Rachel "My Annie" Nigh! Listen to a middle aged couple get all gross and romantic talking about their nearly 30 year relationship, being in the youth group worship band together, going on tour right after they got married, raising two insanely talented kids, and other intolerably adorable subjects. Seriously sickening!
Adam details the thrilling journey of evolution Back To Life has gone on starting as a Thrush song called Still Waiting in the mid 2000s, taking a shocking turn into a psychedelic pop song in the early 2010s, and then to a punk song in the mid 2010s before finally maturing as Back To Life on the new TBE album, Distance. Adam shares demo versions of each turn in the road on this song's bizarre journey. Come with me! I promise I won't put my shoes on your feet!
Adam breaks down Non Grata, the third track on Too Bad Eugene's album Distance. He plays a little bit of the original demo of the song, showing its origins as a very different, very not punk, song, but tells the story of how it became the punk jam that it is. He also gets into the painful experiences that serve as the lyrical subject matter of the song. A good time is had by all!
Adam breaks down track 2 on Too Bad Eugene's new album Distance, a swinging little ditty called Deconversion Story. He talks musical influences which include oldies from Elvis, Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers, to punk classics like Social D's Story of My Life, Green Day's Longview, and even Queens of the Stone Age's No One Knows. He also talks about the complexities of being a Christian responding to friends leaving the faith and how that informs the lyrics of the song.
Adam breaks down track 1 from TBE's new album, Distance, a protest party anthem called Talking Head. He talks the song's origin and development, music influences, and lyrical themes, as well as its place among the other tracks on the album. Cool other bands name-dropped in the episode include Ill Repute, Stiff Little Fingers, and Swingin' Utters.
Adam introduces the podcast, outlines the plan for future weekly episodes, and tells the story of what has happened since TBE called it quits in 2002 until releasing their 3rd album, Distance, in 2022.
A quick announcement/trailer for the Too Bad Eugene Podcast! Launches Monday, Sept. 26!