A limited series of podcasts exploring virtually every studio album by the Beatles, month by month featuring Graeme Burk and Rob Jones.
…
continue reading
Everyone has albums that were special to them at different times in their life. Deeper Cuts brings three people together to listen to those albums. Join Graeme Burk, Shannon Dohar and Rob Jones every week as they listen to an album that meant something one to them and discuss what it means to them now.
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
6.6: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
58:06
58:06
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
58:06
What grabs you as a kid listening to songs on the radio may still grab you as an adult... but the nuances often come out after you’ve had years to process them, all informed by life experience. This was true for Rob and Steely Dan’s 1972 debut record Can’t Buy a Thrill. It was an album he immersed himself in his twenties during his first flush of C…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
6.5: Age of Mirrors - Screenplay (1987)
1:02:39
1:02:39
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
1:02:39
When you find out your friend is in a band and has made a record, it’s like finding out that they’re a practicing wizard, a superhero, or secret agent. It often turns music fans/friends into evangelists – “Everyone! Listen to what my friend made!” In the heady days when melancholic northern new wave roamed the earth, Graeme’s friend Bob, alias “Sim…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
6.4: Sweet Honey in the Rock - Breaths (1988)
59:42
59:42
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
59:42
Music runs deep and has the power to enlighten, educate, and empower. This doesn’t have to be a didactic thing and the best of it isn’t. Great songs can do all of those things as one listens and enjoys them. It does all that at the soul level. Music is weird – and sometimes very, very sneaky. Shannon connected with the world of acapella from her ti…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
6.3: Nick Heyward - North of a Miracle (1983)
54:51
54:51
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
54:51
There reaches a point in a young music fan’s life when they begin to detect the emotional complexities of the songs and albums they love. This usually corresponds with a capacity for sensing these things in real life between real people. One discovers that some things can seem happy on the surface, while being full of tumult and struggle underneath…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
6.2: Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing (1997)
55:08
55:08
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
55:08
We often find an attachment to certain music during times of emotional upheaval and loss. And it can be a double-edged blade. We love it and find it painful at the same time... because, hey, music is weird – and mysterious. For Graeme, the ending of a relationship led him to this exact place. Around that time, Sarah McLachlan’s 1997 record Surfacin…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
6.1: Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)
58:23
58:23
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
58:23
As is often the case with music, love can grow in increments. The Deeper Cuts trio touched on that in our discussion on Tom Waits’ Mule Variations album all the way back in Season Two when Shannon first saw the artist’s incendiary performance of “Chocolate Jesus” on Letterman. But even as listeners grow into a sound over time, artists themselves re…
…
continue reading
Twas two weeks before Christmas (a little bit less) and all through the podcast, Shannon, Graeme and Rob were receiving holiday presents... from our listeners! That's right, this year we've outsourced our traditional gift exchange. Listeners Martin Hajovsky, Drew Walco and Sarah Irvin have given Graeme, Shannon and Rob respectively albums that they…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Live Sessions 3: Paul Simon - Concert in the Park (1991)
1:00:25
1:00:25
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
1:00:25
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: The Live Sessions – a three-episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio looking at the live music albums that were meaningful to them, and pondering what makes a great live album. After exploring a theater and a concert hall as a setting for great live records, this time we consider the large-scale outdoor live show.…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Live Sessions 2: Indigo Girls - Live With The University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra (2018)
1:02:35
1:02:35
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
1:02:35
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: The Live Sessions – a three-episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio looking at the live music albums that were meaningful to them, and pondering what makes a great live album. During a hellscape of a summer marked by a never-ending work crisis, Graeme learned about the Indigo Girls' new live album through a Deepe…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Live Sessions 1: James Brown - Live at the Apollo (1963)
58:47
58:47
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
58:47
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: The Live Sessions – a three-episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio looking at the live music albums that were meaningful to them, and pondering what makes a great live album. There are wake-up calls and there are WAKE UP! calls. When Rob was growing up, his Dad’s copy of James Brown and the Famous Flames’ Live a…
…
continue reading
Ho! Ho! Ho! Our annual holiday special has returned and so has our traditional gift exchange! Join Shannon, Graeme and Rob as they exchange albums with each other (this year as a duo-- double the potential catastrophization!) and find out if their gift is a stocking hung by the chimney with care, or a Grinch-robbed home instead. Throughout, the Dee…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
5.7: Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015) (Part Two)
1:13:54
1:13:54
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
1:13:54
In part two of our exploration of the 2015 soundtrack to the musical Hamilton, the Deeper Cuts trio continue their discussion of the resonant themes in the musical that helped Shannon become the person she wanted to be and how music can help us set our values. We also talk about what Hamilton has to say about American history and the musical's use …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
5.6: Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015) (Part One)
1:00:48
1:00:48
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
1:00:48
How can art shape our very identities? How can it give us a sense of direction from the people we are to the people we want to be – shaping our very values? Shannon adopted the city of New York as her home, and many of her album selections for this show across multiple seasons demonstrate her love for the city as she made memories there and became …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
5.5: Steve Taylor - On The Fritz (1985)
58:00
58:00
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
58:00
When one is at a young age, the way isn’t always as straightforward as we initially think. This is true of the subcultures, ideology and even faith communities we find ourselves in. But what remains after we find ourselves on a different path years later? How do those lessons we picked up from a bygone age play now? They remain with us perhaps just…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
5.4: The Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here
57:20
57:20
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
57:20
Being connected. Feeling surrounded by those who support you. It’s vital to happiness, particularly during life-altering events like the birth of a child, for instance. This was on Rob’s mind as he anticipated the arrival of a new daughter, and the feelings associated with being surrounded by an extended support system of soon-to-be aunties, uncles…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
5.3: Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose (1987)
59:31
59:31
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
59:31
Romance! Everyone has an idea of what it means to them. It is certainly attached to intense emotional states, especially when we’re young. By the late eighties, Graeme was in college in doing content creation in a time before podcasts – this time as co-editor of the school newspaper. It was there that his fellow editor turned him onto the finer thi…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
5.2: Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (2006)
58:22
58:22
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
58:22
A clean slate. A new era. A dedication to a new focus. When Shannon moved to Boston’s Fenway neighborhood for graduate school, these were some of the things that characterized her life at that time. As we’ve learned by now, for every era in a music fan’s life, there is a soundtrack. Regina Spektor’s 2006 record Begin to Hope was just that, as Shann…
…
continue reading
Some records become the soundtrack for pivotal periods of self-discovery in our lives, even if we’re not aware of the importance of those times to our personal development – maybe even especially so. In the summer of 1987, Rob took a trip to Barbados to stay with his cousin. Driving around the island, A-Ha’s 1985 album Hunting High and Low played i…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Soundtrack Sessions 3: Ennio Morricone - The Mission (1986)
1:01:46
1:01:46
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
1:01:46
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: The Soundtrack Sessions - a three-episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio looking at the the intersection between film and music while looking at albums that were meaningful to one of them. As a teenager, Graeme was drawn to the world of orchestral film scores. Thanks to a friend at church who gave him a (wait fo…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Soundtrack Sessions 2: High Fidelity (2000)
50:12
50:12
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
50:12
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: The Soundtrack Sessions - a three-episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio looking at the the intersection between film and music while looking at albums that were meaningful to one of them. When favourite films and favourite soundtracks converge at exactly the right time in our lives, magic happens! In Shannon's …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The Soundtrack Sessions 1: Prince - Batman (1989)
56:45
56:45
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
56:45
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: The Soundtrack Sessions - a three-episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio looking at the the intersection between film and music while looking at albums that were meaningful to one of them. Some years really stand out as landmarks in our lives. The summer of 1989 was one such year for Rob (and for Graeme): a "cro…
…
continue reading
Our annual holiday special has returned and so has our traditional gift exchange! Join Shannon, Graeme and Rob as they exchange albums with each other and find out if their gift a Christmas cracker or a lump of coal. But this time they're not alone: we did this episode live in front of an audience on Zoom! Join the Deeper Cuts trio for Q and A and …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
4.6: The Muppet Movie (Original Soundtrack) (1979)
1:00:35
1:00:35
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
1:00:35
Why are there so many songs about rainbows? In this last episode of our fourth season, the Deeper Cuts trio indulge in some comfort listening, true to our well-established Muppet Agenda. This time, it revolves around the soundtrack album to 1979’s The Muppet Movie. Saving his money from a paper route, a young Graeme bought this, his first self-fina…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
4.5: Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game (2012)
52:30
52:30
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
52:30
A year and a half in a new city. A raffle for concert tickets. The tail-end of a slowly declining and not very healthy relationship. It was a time when Shannon realized that things were coming to a head in that phase of her life. This was Shannon's emotional context when she went to a concert as a part of the PBS series The Artist’s Den and saw Ruf…
…
continue reading
Remember record stores? Those magical places which seemingly contained all the music in the world? Rob remembers one such record store fondly -- Cactus Records in Oakville -- because it was there he encountered an album that he'd been interested in for years: Sade's sophisiti-pop opus Diamond Life. How were Sade's stylish sounds received by Rob's f…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
4.3: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (1967)
57:27
57:27
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
57:27
Parents are good for one or two things. Sometimes, one of them is how they serve as vectors for great music; how to spot it, what to listen for, and how to form your own lifelong love for musical artistry. At a young age, Shannon’s dad helped her hone an appreciation for music by listening to records with her, and particularly ones centered around …
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
4.2: Elvis Costello and the Attractions - All This Useless Beauty (1996)
52:29
52:29
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
52:29
The end of a road can take on many different forms. Sometimes, the road branches off in two or more directions. Sometimes, it’s a dead end. At other times, that road is shrouded in mist with no road signs to indicate what’s ahead. In any of these situations, you have to decide on what to do next to the best of your ability. At the end of his univer…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
4.1: Sting - ...Nothing Like The Sun (1987)
59:34
59:34
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
59:34
Sometimes, you find yourself growing up. You realize that some of the things you believed and thought were solid in your life really aren’t – and in fact are even harmful to you. You find you have to question those things to create a new path for yourself. You’ve got to start again. This was Graeme’s experience at the end of his high school years a…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The COVID Sessions 3: John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (original soundtrack) (2019)
46:03
46:03
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
46:03
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: the COVID Sessions -- a three episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio taking deep dives into music with deep meaning for us right now as we shelter in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Living in modern times can be exciting, and also terrifying. Sometimes, it feels like we’re just children in a big imposing wor…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The COVID Sessions 2: Bruce Cockburn - Night Vision (1973)
54:26
54:26
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
54:26
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: the COVID Sessions -- a three episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio taking deep dives into music with deep meaning for us right now as we shelter in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Right now during the COVID-19 lockdown, a lot of us find ourselves waiting. We're waiting for conditions to change, waiting for…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
The COVID Sessions 1: Fountains Of Wayne - Traffic and Weather (2007)
43:13
43:13
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
43:13
Welcome to Deeper Cuts: the COVID Sessions -- a three episode miniseries which finds the Deeper Cuts trio taking deep dives into music with deep meaning for us right now as we shelter in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. During his time sheltering in place, Rob turned to Fountains of Wayne’s 2007 album Traffic and Weather, a record that’s all abo…
…
continue reading
…
continue reading
Home. What does it mean? What associations do people commonly hold about what their home means to them? How can music help to tie us to home, especially when one is far from it and missing it? When Graeme went to a military school at the age of 12, ABBA’s penultimate 1980 album Super Trouper helped him to keep his feet on the ground while he was re…
…
continue reading
Sometimes, it’s just time to move on. And yet, after struggles, trials and tribulations and painful endings, sometimes that’s not the easiest thing to do. How do you find the right path? How do you redefine your life once an important chapter has closed? This is a situation we all face in one way or another. For Rob, the 2000 album Daisies of the G…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
3.4: Green Day - American Idiot (2004)
53:48
53:48
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
53:48
Rebellion. Anger. Even disillusionment. These are only some of what makes up the human experience. This may be even more pertinent during our youth, and when times of great turmoil are reflected in the headlines, and in the lives of the people we know. It could also be just about the drudgery of our existences, and the feeling that we need to get t…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
3.3: Mavis Staples - Have a Little Faith (2004)
44:08
44:08
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
44:08
The world can be a place of trouble and darkness. But in that darkness, there is hope to be found if one is open to doing so. That was just the message that Rob needed as grim world events were coming to a head and as the call to fatherhood to a baby daughter beckoned him at the same time, fears, doubts and all. It was former Staples Singer, soul p…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
3.2: Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys (1997)
53:06
53:06
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
53:06
Some music in our lives gets us at a young age. It bonds itself to our DNA for the rest of our lives, connecting us with memories of unfiltered teenaged joy, posters plastered onto bedroom walls, and the reckless abandon of dance moves and hairbrush microphones in front of the mirror. Our first pop album is all about the heart and about the enthusi…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
3.1: Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach (1968)
47:02
47:02
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
47:02
People are constantly doing things to improve themselves, to help make themselves a little smarter (or make themselves think that they’re smarter). Sometimes music can be part of a self-improvement. That’s what Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach was for Graeme; as the revolutionary electronic music album started the a-little-too-serious teenaged Graeme…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
3.0: The Band - The Band (1969) (Happy 50th Birthday Rob!)
39:23
39:23
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
39:23
Surprise! Before the new season of Deeper Cuts debuts next week, we did a bonus episode as a surprise party of a podcast for our beloved Deeper Cuts co-host Rob Jones, who turns 50 today (February 15, 2019)! Join Graeme and Shannon as they talk about a favourite band and a favourite album of Rob's, The Band's 1969 self-titled album (which was made …
…
continue reading
Happy holidays, Deeper Cuts fans! In anticipation for our upcoming third season, we have the 2018 edition of our holiday episode. This time, the Deeper Cuts trio gather around the yuletide tree to exchange gifts to celebrate the season. What gifts are we exchanging? Music, of course. Each of us gave another of our group a musical gift; an album eac…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
2.9: Bruce Cockburn - Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws (1979)
45:17
45:17
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
45:17
Spirituality. It’s a pretty open-ended term. But one thing common across the faith spectrum (or the absence thereof) may be the sense of becoming part of something bigger than yourself and experiencing mystery and wonder. It isn’t easily defined and categorized as some systems of faith might have us believe. But it’s significant all the same. Forme…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
2.8: Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (1959)
46:07
46:07
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
46:07
Music doesn’t always make it easy on you. It often challenges you. It shocks you. It confuses you. And through that, it makes you hear other music differently after a journey down a twisty path leading you through unfamiliar cultural and artistic territory to destinations you didn’t anticipate. Soon, you find yourself both challenged and delighted,…
…
continue reading
Moving on. We all find ourselves at the end of one era of our lives and with a new one ahead of us. It can be exciting. It can be sad. It can be both at the same time. Sometimes, it happens when you’re a kid, and there’s a feeling of helplessness attached to leaving a place and a time behind you. That’s what Shannon experienced at one point as a ch…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
2.6: Tori Amos - Under the Pink (1994)
52:54
52:54
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
52:54
Sometimes, that’s the best advice you can follow is shut up and listen. That way you learn more, particularly about the stories of others that often remain hidden from you, yet are vital to know and understand. During a period of discovery for Rob around the issues of feminism and the burdens placed on women by our culture, Tori Amos’ 1994 Under th…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
2.5: OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (2010)
42:12
42:12
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
42:12
The comfort album: in times of trial, it offers just the right song to make things bearable. It give us lyrics that speak directly to us when we’re most in need. They make us feel less alone, and remind us that “this too shall pass” – sometimes very literally. That was Graeme’s predicament at one point. And it was OK Go’s 2010 record Of The Blue Co…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
2.4: Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999)
48:10
48:10
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
48:10
Sometimes an album can offer you a point of departure: that moment when suddenly – WHAM! – everything clicks and new musical vistas are in front of you. We return to a theme we discussed back in episode 7 of our first season as we talk about Shannon’s journey with Tom Waits, specifically with his 1999 album Mule Variations. In this episode, we talk…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
2.3: Anne Murray - Let's Keep It That Way (1978)
53:06
53:06
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
53:06
Your parents’ music. It can shape your own taste in various capacities. Or it can give you something to rebel against. Sometimes, it can be both. Either way, the music your parents put on when you were a kid isn’t just a soundtrack to your childhood; it’s a part of the tapestry of their personalities, of what they value. And that in turn helps to t…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
2.2: Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (1971)
43:00
43:00
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
43:00
Sometimes you find your favourite music. But in those rarer moments, that music seems to find you. That’s the experience Rob had with 1971’s Bryter Layter by singer-songwriter Nick Drake. The record was Drake’s second album, exploring English folk-rock textures with some chamber pop and jazz thrown in, and with some interesting lyrical content to p…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
2.1: Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1999)
42:09
42:09
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
42:09
Break-ups! Autobiography! Pop crossovers! Season 2 of Deeper Cuts kicks off with a HUGE record from the late nineties, and a formative one for Shannon to boot while she was a musically curious 14-year old. Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill consolidated the nu-soul movement as it connected with hip-hop, reggae, and other genres by the en…
…
continue reading
![Artwork](/static/images/128pixel.png)
1
Holiday Special: John Denver and the Muppets - A Christmas Together (1979)
47:11
47:11
Spill senere
Spill senere
Lister
Lik
Likt
47:11
What is it about Christmas and holiday music? One thing’s for sure, it definitely takes us back to our childhoods. That’s precisely where the Graeme, Shannon, and Rob went on this special holiday episode of Deeper Cuts; specifically, to the 1979 album John Denver and The Muppets - A Christmas Together. They discuss favourite tracks, common themes, …
…
continue reading