The Next Track
A podcast about how people listen to music today.
Episodes
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Episode #285: Is Classic Rock the New Classical Music
July 3rd, 2024 | 27 mins 39 secs
No one gets up in the morning and says, “I want to be in a classic rock band.”
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Episode #284: You Can't Beat the System
June 19th, 2024 | 29 mins 2 secs
Something always goes wrong. "The grass may look great, but it's not real grass."
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Episode #283: Another Green World
June 5th, 2024 | 30 mins 1 sec
Doug and Kirk discuss one of Brian Eno's best early albums, Another Green World.
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Episode #282: Embracing the CD Revival
May 22nd, 2024 | 29 mins 54 secs
Continuing with our multi-episode arc, we discuss the joys of listening to CDs.
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Episode #281: Kirk's New Audio Gear
May 8th, 2024 | 31 mins 36 secs
Kirk buys new audio gear for the first time in several years. Tech doesn't always work.
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Episode #280: When CDs Won’t Play, and Other Tech Tales
April 24th, 2024 | 29 mins 21 secs
Tech is full of surprises.
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Episode #279: Lyrics
April 10th, 2024 | 27 mins 10 secs
We discuss lyrics in popular music. Have they become simpler and angrier over the years?
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Episode #278: Gear Acquisition Syndrome
March 27th, 2024 | 28 mins 51 secs
Gear Acquisition Syndrome, or GAS, affects people with many interests: musicians, photographers, and audiophiles. We discuss how this syndrome can affect people, and why people just want to keep buying more gear.
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Episode #277: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Star, Part 2
March 13th, 2024 | 29 mins 59 secs
This time, Kirk chose three rock stars to discuss from David Hepworth's book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994.
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Episode #276: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Star
February 28th, 2024 | 32 mins
We didn't all do our homework, but Doug discusses three chapters from David Hepworth's book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994.
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Episode #275: Dead at the Sphere, Vision Pro, Grammys, Taylor Swift, the Superb Owl, and More
February 14th, 2024 | 31 mins 11 secs
We have a “two guys in a pub” episode, in which we talk about the next musical artist to perform at The Sphere: Dead & Company. We also discuss Apple’s new Vision Pro, the Grammys, Taylor Swift, the Superb Owl, and more.
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Episode #274: OMD
January 31st, 2024 | 28 mins 21 secs
We discuss the first album by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, aka OMD, called Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. This was a foundational album in the synth-pop movement that started in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK.
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Episode #273: Sheik Yerbouti
January 17th, 2024 | 29 mins 24 secs
Doug has long been a fan of Frank Zappa’s music, yet we’ve never spent an episode discussing it. In our irregular series looking at individual albums, we look at Zappa’s best-selling record, the 1979 Sheik Yerbouti.
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Episode #272: Keef
January 3rd, 2024 | 30 mins 9 secs
Keith Richards is still alive. We recorded this episode on his 80th birthday, and we discussed how he is one of the most important guitarists in rock music, and the backbone of The Rolling Stones
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Episode #271: New in Apple’s Music App
December 20th, 2023 | 28 mins 54 secs
Apple’s recent operating system updates have added some changes to the Music app. We look into these features and how they affect the way you manage your music.