Why do musicians create what they do? Why do they create in that particular way? Mark Linsenmayer (aka songwriter Mark Lint, and host of The Partially Examined Life) talks to songwriters and composers about specific recordings, which are played in full. We cover lyric meanings, writing and recording techniques, arrangements, band dynamics, the stories behind the songs, and even music theory.
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NEM#8. Tim Quirk Is the Philosopher-King of Beers
Tim describes himself as not a singer, but a writer with a band, and he shouted at the front of Too Much Joy in the late '80s–'90s and has since recorded now and again with Jay Blumenfeld from Too Much Joy as the techno-tinged Wonderlick. He's also a digital music hot-shot, working with Google Play, Rhapsody, and now Freeform.
On this episode of the Nakedly Examined Music podcast, we discuss "King of Beers" from TMJ's Cereal Killers (1991), "Donner Lake" from Wonderlick (1992), and "Just Like a Man" from Mutiny (1992). We also listen to "Extraordinary People" from the 2015 Wonderlick album Super. The intro/outro music is "Crush Story" from Cereal Killers.
Read Tim's thoughts about the music business and rock criticism at tbquirk.com, and read more about his bands at toomuchjoy.com. The song that had the sample from Bozo in it over which they got sued was "Clowns." Read the story about "King of Beers" being used for a Budweiser commercial and Tim's account of the writing of the song. Other things brought up: John Prine's song "Out of Love" filled with beer slogans. See how crazy TMJ's gigs got, with people flooding the stage. Here's that PopMatters review of Wonderlick I refer to. The TMJ spinoff band "The Its" only put out one album, which was self-titled. Here's Tim talking about marketing music in the digital age. Here's info about Henry Fairlie.
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