Dan Mangan

Maybe I'm stupid.

It's Dan Mangan.

It's our old pal Dan Mangan.

Dan Mangan, you know, a big, uh, hipster hero these days, playing all kinds of big places, and the, and the West End apparently for the first time tomorrow.

And there's tickets still available, or last I checked there was, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

So buy a ticket.

We'll play some Dan Mangan, especially we'll play you something from...

Remember that time he was here live in the studio and he brought along some famous friends who became even more famous? We'll, uh, we'll remind you of that coming up in this set.

Welcome to Dying of Exposure.

I'm your host, Dan Mangan.

On this podcast, I do long-form interviews with artists.

I do musicians, writers, actors, folks who've had interesting careers.

What, was it, um, was it the White Claw thing?

It was the White Claw thing.

It was with Daniel and Kyle, um, and I think it was just a three-piece.

Four-piece, I think, and it was, like, the worst show we ever played.

now it's just gone 3.30 it would be time for a treble 7 but between mine and Joel's extensive playlists of well there's about 60 tracks here we haven't got a treble 7 between us so what I'm going to do is do another double starting with an album from this week and an album from last week because there were so many last week we need to play catch up Adult DVD's debut came out and it was very nearly album of the week but you're just going to hear this track for now do as I please and I'm going to follow it with something from Slow Pulp's album that was out last week

Hello, this is Dan Mangan, and you are currently listening to The Breakdown on Sheffield Live 93.2 FM.

Nicely done.

The Breakdown

I, I, I think I said on the blog, I really struggled.

So one of the artists that I like, and we've talked about before is, is, is Dan Mangan, who's from, you know, bit of a Canadian legend, and he did an album, Club Meds, and it was, you know, this kind of, you know, a lot of, as, as Joey says, a lot of screeching.

A lot of screeching on reverb, and I really fucking struggled with it, and I saw him do it live, and it just made it even worse.

And, and then actually, when I think about it, I struggled when Radiohead did it as well.

... uh, the more you get into it, you're like, "Okay, well, this is quite clever, and this is quite good." I wouldn't say that this album is clinical 'cause that's, that's not the right way of explaining it, but I actually would say that there's a lot of space in this album, and the use of, of, of kind of all that space is done very well from a production point of view.

This album is...

And, and, and you know, Joey, what you were saying there, I was, I was sitting there trying to think, "Is this album giving me less of the ick because I've been through this with Dan Mangan, I've been through this with Radiohead-"

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I'm Mike Connery.

Our guest this week is Dan Mangan.

Dan's Vancouver, British Columbia-based musician who's become known for his signature wit.

sonic innovation, and lyrical insight in the indie folk community over the past two plus decades.

it's a perfect song it's a perfect recording it's a perfect everything she's amazing and uh i just i think that at any time if i'm in in a writing room you know writing songs with other people or something i think about nothing compares to you a lot as sort of being the north star of how you can infuse pop sensibilities and iconic anthemic chorus with something that is so truly emotional and uh you know some music is candy some music is roast beef and this this is sort of like it mashes all of these things together it hits every part of the the sort of palette of your your ears

well put and i understand the idea of just being drawn to her through this um Let's listen to it.

This is Dan Mangan's first song this week on Three Song Stories.

Nothing Compares to You by Sinead O'Connor from her 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got.

So anyway, there's a whole genre.

And I first got into it when I saw Dan Mangan, who's a Canadian singer-songwriter.

And he tweeted.

He's like, why does everybody sound like they're toddlers right now? But it's that kind of affectation that they do.

The Breakdown.

This is Dan Mangan.

The Breakdown.

And you're listening to The Breakdown.

God.

And this was a cool show because our friend Dan Mangan came by and did music.

Oh, my gosh.

His

We're going to hear our last clip.

This is from Vancouver.

This is with Ho-Ho, Dan Mangan, John Lennon, Santa, and Randy Snuts.

We didn't even talk about him.