The Needle Drop

Guardian said it was one of their best albums in years.

And Needledrop gave it a 3.10.

There are some reasons for that, though, I think that we might talk about in this review.

Rachel, what'd you think of Reality Awaits?

It's getting harder to love them as, like, a cool band.

They were cool.

[laughs] But then when you start feuding with fucking Needledrop, I...

[laughs]

And this is Meg, the author of this podcast.

welcome to music 101 where sounds story and history come together to shape the music we know today another week another great episode before the needle drop the archaeology of the american groove pre-1950 part one

yes this is before the needle dropped the records that built american music which consists of eight sections in part one which we'll do today that's sections one through four section one the miracle in the groove traces the technology itself edison's 1877 phonograph berliner's disc gramophone the acoustic to electrical recording revolution of 1925 and a critical clarification of what album actually meant before the lp existed in 1948.

Section 2, The Delta in the Dark, covers W.C.

Handy, Bessie Smith's commercial breakthrough, 780,000 copies in six months, Robert Johnson's two record recording sessions, and includes an explicit title correction.

But in conclusion, jazz is a fusion of collective improvisation and individual expression of European harmonic structure and African rhythmic complexity that became the structural DNA of virtually all subsequent American popular music.

Well said, Mr. Meg.

Before the needle dropped, the archaeology of the American groove.

[upbeat music] Like movies? Like music? Then you, my friend, have dropped in to the right surgery.

Hi, and welcome to the Needle Drop In, a new bite-sized podcast from Siren Music.

In each episode, we ask a guest about the songs, soundtracks, and musical moments that have stuck with them on screen.

From the iconic to the obscure, if it's in a film and it isn't the score, we want to talk about it.

Pleasure to be here on perhaps the hottest day of the year.

Uh, it is pretty sweltering.

I am so psyched about your choice, uh, of Needle Drop topic today.

So without further ado, why don't you tell us what that is.