287 - X - Los Angeles - Dana Gould

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EPISODE SUMMARY:

William Faulkner and the South. Jay-Z and New York. Sergio Leone and the Wild West. Some artists are so inextricably linked to a place on Earth that it's hard to imagine that location without thinking of them. So it goes for punk icons X, whose 1980 album Los Angeles permanently cemented their status of the perfect embodiment of the City of Angels. So much so that there may never be another band that better captures the existential desolation, manic dreams and gritty noir feeling of the town they called home. Certainly, no one does a better job in the eyes of comedian and TV writer Dana Gould.

SHOW NOTES:

01:00 - Intro
09:00 - Celebrity sightings
15:45 - Marketing music genres
23:00 - City of Angels
31:15 - Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it don't
38:30 - The Father of the Scene
48:45 - Top five of all time
57:15 - A Manifesto
1:05:00 - Enter the Orange County kids
1:13:00 - Rock evolution
1:19:00 - Lightning round
1:22:15 - Outro/New music

ALBUM STREAM - LOS ANGELES:

NEW MUSIC INSPIRED BY X:

“Be Together” by Eleni Mandell