Lifes Rich Pageant

Great to be here.

So Jason, I'm going to ask you, we would know you, 97X listeners would know you from your time with Bob Mould's band, your touring basis for Superchunk, you have your own work as Split Single, and you've also recently completed the European leg of Michael Shannon, Jason Narducci, and Friends, where you're doing Life's Rich Pageant.

So you've done three tours with REM albums.

But we want to start from the start and go way, way back because you, my friend, much like Tommy Stinson, have spent an entire life in rock and roll.

yeah

so we're kind of learning as it goes and feel so fortunate when it goes well and um but yeah the cover band orbit or world i i'm i don't know that much about it

Well, I was fortunate enough, the closest you came to Cincinnati was Bloomington, which actually has significance with Life's Rich Pageant because some of it recorded there.

And I went with an REM super fan, Life's Rich Pageant, his favorite album.

I have to do my personal REM album rankings.

But yeah, one of their favorites albums, Life's Rich Pageant, came out right around this time.

Yeah.

REM for me was actually a band that I liked... as a youth.

So right now I'm really into it, but you know, that's just cause I've been listening to so much and I kind of got myself into the lore of it and, you know, delving into the research kind of gets you, little more invested so you know we'll see but right now i think i like it a little more than reckoning and i think reckoning is my least revisited album um for whatever reason i think

i like reckoning maybe the best of the three but i appreciate this we'll talk about this as we get into it i think side two maybe isn't as strong as side one of this record but i also love that they're trying something different now you can feel this is a band that's sort of like digging deep and trying to figure out things and they're trying not to repeat themselves but figuring out who they are and i think without this album you don't it life's rich pageant which is so i think there's like a really interesting important transitional moment for them that i respect a lot yeah

for sure and murmur still my favorite interesting so

yeah i think reckoning's my favorite so far it's a lot of people's i think yeah um but you know like if this one like i said this whole time it's been frustrating i think i like it better than murmur but i feel like it also could have been my favorite if they stuck with the more kind of moody aspects yeah i do think Maybe like

anything And we're continuing on with the guys from Athens, GA, internationally acclaimed Arian folks.

That was from Life's Rich Pageant.

Now we move forward to a little more recent song, Blame and Blame.

on Ivan Waves.

unfortunately.

Life's Rich Pageant, so 1986.

They're getting political in this record.

Yes, it's a very...

When they're watching it in their own bunkers.

Yes, wondering what happened.

That's why this dang record, Life's Rich Pageant, is just so damn relevant, you know? Sorry I said the D word.

Which comes from comedy, of course, Life's Rich Pageant, doesn't it? The line from the Pink Panther movie.

So can't say much fairer than that.

Now, R.E.M. opened their 1986 album, Life's Rich Pageant, with the song Begin the Begin, and that's exactly what we are going to do.

We will head to the north of Glasgow to discuss Partick Thistle's 1-0 victory over Ayr United.

Seb Drozd pounced on an error from Harry Stone late on in the first half to secure the win, and Thistle's, Thistle's first victory in three matches.

I went out to see them a number of times afterwards.

I loved, um, Fables of the Reconstruction, and then Life's Rich Pageant, which remains my favorite, and then they did Document, and then they switched labels.

They went from-

Mm

I highly recommend going.

They did Life's Rich Pageant from start to finish in a couple of hits.

It was awesome.

They're going to do Document next time.