Episode 13: Adam Boyd
Adam Boyd joined the Badass Records Podcast for episode #13, and what a treat it was to have him. We go back some 15ish years to the good, old service industry, a time in which we'd occasionally agree to disagree on this, that, or the other. These alleged debates were -- in my experience -- almost always light-hearted, in the spirit of quality conversation, and often over a post-shift cold one.
Adam was always one of my favorite F.o.H. soldiers, and -- though we seldom see one another now -- he remains one of my favorite humans; I suspect his wife and kids feel lucky to have him both a) in their lives, and b) out of the business, as the saying goes.
When it came time for calendars and brass tacks, etc., we -- by way of happenstance -- broke a few BRP barriers, in that this conversation not only included more badass records than any of the previous, but it also shattered the existing longest-run-time mark, clocking in at just a smidge over four hours. I imagine the Wednesday morning after our chat to've been a foggy one for Mr. Boyd at the ol' jobby-job, but, hey -- when you're hashing out 15 records -- it's gonna be a minute.
Anyway, Adam's list arrived via the text-message machines and included the following albums (in this order):
Nirvana's In Utero (1993)
This Year's Model (1978) by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
the infamous London Calling (1979) by The Clash
Pink Flag (1977) by Wire
the game-changing Loveless (1990) c/o My Bloody Valentine
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan
the currently-on-display-behind-Tom-Segura's-chair (2 Bears 1 Cave Podcast) Ready to Die (1994) by The Notorious B.I.G.
Prefab Sprout's 1985 record titled Steve McQueen
the 1976 self-titled album by The Modern Lovers, which I accidentally skipped
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (1969), Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Joy Division's 1979 release, Unknown Pleasures
Paris 1919 (1973), John Cale
The Velvet Underground's 1969 self-titled debut
a 1968 number called Odyssey & Oracle by The Zombies
Either/Or (1997), Eliott Smith
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968), by The Kinks
Many thanks to Adam for being willing to dust off the ol' communication lines and share his unofficial COVID-19 music project with me, and extra-special thanks for being willing to come sit in my basement and bullshit about it for four hours. Please consider giving our conversation a view or a listen, and please -- if you dig it -- pass it along.
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the intro/outro audio, but -- as per yoozsh -- they're too good not to use. They are samples from 2Pac's "I Ain't Mad At Cha (featuring Danny Boy)" from his 1996 record, All Eyez on Me (c/o) Interscope Records, and "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" off of the Talking Heads's 1978 release entitled More Songs About Buildings and Food (c/o Sire Records).