🎙️ Welcome to Two Fat Guys and an Album – the only fat guys podcast that matters! 🎧🎸

This week, hosts Mike Blackburn and Maestro Brek Hufnus dive into King Crimson’s 1981 progressive rock masterpiece, Discipline. 🔴 With polyrhythms, New Wave urgency, and Robert Fripp’s hypnotic guitar loops, Discipline pushed prog into the future with mathy precision and minimalist brilliance. From Elephant Talk 🐘🗣️ to Frame by Frame 🖼️ and the emotional sweep of Matte Kudasai 🌊, this is essential listening for fans of Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and Bill Bruford.

But that’s not all—in the 🌟 Beyond Classic Rock segment, the guys dig into The New Pornographers’ 2002 indie power-pop explosion Electric Version 🇨🇦🎸. Packed with lush harmonies, clever hooks, and the combined magic of Dan Bejar, Neko Case, and Carl Newman, this record is a kaleidoscope of wit and sonics 🌈💥.

Join Mike and Brek for a fun, deep conversation about two wildly different records that both know how to challenge and delight.

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📼 Episode Breakdown

0:00 Welcome + Nuggets

8:28 Artists Influencing Artists – Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, No Wave scene

19:50 Side One: King Crimson – Discipline (Chauncey & Adrian Belew)

30:16 Chapman Stick, Frippertronics & Guitar Effects

41:00 Album Discussion – The Land of Prog & King Crimson’s “Mountain Range”

50:00 Frame by Frame – Track by Track

1:05:45 Landmark? Perfect? 💯

1:11:15 Side Two: What’s Going On? Ringo Starr – Look Up; Goose – Live It Up; The Thing – Dave’s TV; Japanese Breakfast

1:25:45 Side Three: Beyond Classic Rock: The New Pornographers – Electric Version

1:38:40 Side Four: Ranking + Thank You 🏆🙏

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