411. Georgia Mooney on her debut album 'Full of Moon' (2023)

Today polymath, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and all around Renaissance woman Georgia Mooney joins me for a deep dive into the making of her glorious debut solo album 'Full of Moon', a month after it's release. We talk about the concept of authenticity, the strange intricacies of recording an entire album with rich orchestrations remotely during the panini, the alternate history version of the album, choosing which parts of your personality to reveal and funnel into songwriting and public performance and much more.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

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410. Hayley Marsten on Taylor Swift 'Red' (2012)

Australian singer-songwriter Hayley Marsten joins me to talk about the seminal album that soundtracked her journey into adulthood, Taylor Swift's seminal 2012 album 'Red'. 

Now that this album has finally been chosen for an episode, we make a real meal out of it, getting into how the album marked a fork in the road that forecasted the second half of Taylor's career to date, why taking the big swing is sometimes the less risky path, the musical eclecticism of the album, All Too Well (regular and 10 minute versions) and how Taylor has managed to flatten time and build her own multiverse of madness.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

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- Haley Marsten’s Spotify, Instagram, Facebook & Website.

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409. Pete Keppler on creating the sound of David Byrne's American Utopia and touring with David Bowie

Today legendary sound engineer Pete Keppler joins me for another look behind the scenes at David Byrne's American Utopia (check out episode 376 of this podcast for our audio documentary on the show), from conception to the world tour to Broadway, dealing with the technical and creative challenges inherent in reinventing the whole idea of a rock'n'roll band. Plus Pete talks about his time on the road with David Bowie as the sound engineer for his last ever tour.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Jeremy Dylan's website, Twitter and Instagram.

- Stream David Byrne’s American Utopia.
- Stream David Bowie’s A Reality Tour.

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408. Brian Koppelman on 10 years of Jason Isbell 'Southeastern' (2013)

Billions creator Brian Koppelman is one of our most loved returning champions and he joins me once again today to bring things full circle by discussing the album that was the subject of his first ever appearance on the podcast - Jason Isbell's 'Southeastern' - to celebrate it's ten year anniversary.
The album that turned Isbell from a cult hero to one of the most acclaimed songwriters of his generation, that set the path and the standard for all his future work and locked in multiple entries in the classic songbook of the 21st century. Brian and I revisit the album's immediate impact on first listen and set it in the context of Isbell's career to date and subsequent acclaimed albums, the discipline and rigour behind his songwriting, his gift for melody, the lack of vanity in his lyrics and much much more.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

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407. Take A Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of Hey Jude author James Campion

Today, author, music journalist and podcaster James Campion joins me to delve into one of the most iconic and enduring songs in the history of popular music as he gives a taste of his book Take A Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of Hey Jude. We talk about how McCartney took a song inspired by John Lennon's son Julian's feelings about his parents divorce and refined it into one of the most universal songs ever written, how John Lennon was the first of many people to think it was about himself, the difficulty of writing in second person, the songs unusual take on male friendship and how it acts as a sequel to She Loves You, how the recording saw the Beatles take another leap forward in the studio and the revolutionary elements of the track that now seem classic and inevitable.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

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- James Campion’s website.

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406. How we made Halfway Down Under: A Tribute to Jim Lauderdale (with Michael Carpenter)t

A fun change of pace this week on the show. Earlier this year, I co-produced a tribute album to Americana icon Jim Lauderdale, featuring an eclectic group of incredible Australian artists reinterpreting Jim’s incredible songbook.

Today, Michael Carpenter, who co-produced the record and played the bulk of the music you hear on the album, as well as mixing and mastering the project, joins me to break it down track by track. We get into how each song and artist were chosen, the arrangement process and how each track evolved over the months of production.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

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1. Blake O’Connor and Sinead Burgess - Hole in My Head

2. Adam Harvey - Where the Sidewalk Ends

3. Imogen Clark - Tough All Over

4. Katie Brianna - You Don’t Seem To Miss Me

5. Georgia Mooney - The Brighter Side of Lonely

6. Ella Hooper and Davey Lane - Halfway Down

7. Charlie Collins - You’ll Know When It’s Right

8. Holiday Sidewinder - Planet of Love

9. Clayton Doley and Jade MacRae - It’s A Trap

10. Georgia State Line - Run Like You

11. Shane Nicholson - El Dorado

12. Melody Pool - When Carolina Comes Home Again

13. Emma Swift - The King of Broken Hearts

14. Kevin Bennett - Headed for the Hills

405. Georgia Mooney on Martha Wainwright 'Martha Wainwright' (2005)

Today ARIA-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer of this podcast Georgia Mooney joins me for a delightful delve into Martha Wainwright’s self-titled debut album. We dig into the Wainwright clan and how they explore their relationships through each other’s music, seeing Martha play outside a prison and falling in love with her, Martha and Georgia’s shared method of songwriting slowly, Martha’s spiky directness in her lyrics, her vocal influence on Georgia, the song Bloody Mother-Fucking Asshole and much more.
Plus Georgia talks about her beautiful new single ‘War Romance’.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced & Edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS
- Georgia Mooney’s Spotify, Instagram, Facebook & Website.

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404. Robert Forster on Guy Clark 'Old No. 1' (1975)

Today legendary singer-songwriter and founder of iconic band The Go-Betweens, Robert Forster, joins me to pay tribute to the legendary Texan troubadour Guy Clark and his debut album Old No. 1. We revisit the fateful night in Santa Monica on the promo tour for 16 Lovers Lane where Robert saw Guy play live and had a damascene conversion to his music, how it impacted the the second act of his career as a solo artist, why Clark never achieved the broad fame of contemporaries like John Prine and Townes Van Zandt, Clark’s economy of language and melody and why this is “the Astral Weeks of country music”. Plus we delve into Robert’s brilliant new album ‘The Candle and the Flame’, knowing when to stop writing, growing into a better singer as he gets older and how his approach to recording has changed over the years.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced & Edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

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403. Francis Greenslade on Paul Kelly 'Comedy' (1991)

Today legendary Australian actor and comedy renaissance man Francis Greenslade joins me to talk about Paul Kelly’s classic album Comedy.
We talk about how Francis discovered the record when he was performing with Paul in an Adelaide theatre show, how Paul leaves space in his lyrics for audience interpretation, how his vocals serve the lyrics and he never over sings, From Little Things Big Things Grow, Paul’s off stage introversion and the agelessness of Paul’s music.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced & Edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS
- Francis Greenslade’s Website, Facebook, Instagram & Twitter

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402. Eves Karydas on Carole King 'Tapestry' (1971)

Returning champion Eves Karydas (aka Hannah Karydas) joins me for round three as we finally talk about Carole King’s iconic album Tapestry. We talk about the Laurel Canyon scene of the early 70s and the involvement of James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, Carole’s history as a hit successful songwriter in her teens and early 20s, the lost idea of musical communities, the comforting quality of the record, Tapesty as soul music and Hannah’s spellbinding cover of Natural Woman she recorded for Triple J’s Like A Version.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced & Edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

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- Eves Karydas’ Spotify, Instagram, Facebook & Twitter

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400. BETTER CALL SAUL wrapup ft. Patrick Fabian, Tom Schnauz, Sharon Bialy, Peter Diseth, Carrie Wittmer and Bob Odenkirk

Today we celebrate out milestone 400th episode with a special tribute to one of the all time great TV dramas, which recently concluded it's brilliant run. Better Call Saul is the rare spinoff that not only lived up to its parent show, it actually surpassed it.

Today I'm joined by writer/director/executive producer Thomas Schnauz, actors Patrick Fabian (Howard Hamlin) and Peter Diseth (Bill Oakley), casting director Sharon Bialy and journalist and cultural critic Carrie Wittmer, plus I revisit my 2020 conversation with Jimmy McGill himself, Bob Odenkirk.

Thanks for everyone who joined us today, producer Georgia Mooney for helping pull this together and to everyone who has joined me for the past eight years and 400 episodes, either as guest or listener. We're just getting started!

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced by Georgia Mooney.

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399. Bradley Morgan on U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America

Author Bradley Morgan joins me to dive into his fascinating book 'U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America'. We unpack the political underpinnings of the album, how the album has been recontextualised by the political environment of today, resisting nostalgia, how the members of U2 embraced the myth of America and then dissected it, the anti-cynicism of U2's music, how U2 appeals across political divides while foregrounding politics in their own music, their surprising late awakening to American roots music, the story behind One Tree Hill and Bradley’s pilgrimage to the site of the album cover photo.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced and edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Buy Bradley’s Book, U2’s The Joshua Tree: Plating Roots in Mythic America here.

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- If you dig the show, please leave a rating or review of the show on Apple Podcasts here.

398. Tom Schnauz on The Monkees

This episode contains spoilers for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

Today Better Call Saul writer, director and executive producer Tom Schnauz joins our rare three timer club as he returns to the show to talk about the legendary Monkees. We talk about the false perception of the Monkees as a ‘fake band’, the Monkees TV show and how it introduced Tom to their music, Tom’s friendship with Micky Dolenz, the original audition notice that led to the band’s formation, how and why Tom used two deeper cut Monkees tracks for montages in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and some Monkees trivia direct from Micky himself.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced and edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Tom Schnauz’s Twitter.

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397. Patrick Fabian on Rush 'Permanent Waves' (1980)

After eight years and almost four hundred episodes, we finally talk about Rush! Better Call Saul Star Patrick Fabian joins me to preach the Canadian gospel as we chat Geddy, Neil and Alex’s classic 1980 album 'Permanent Waves'. We talk about Patrick discovering Rush as a high schooler in Pennsylvania, taking the ‘magic bus’ to see the band at his first ever arena show, ‘growing old’ with the band as he’s gone to see them over four decades, the skewed gender balance of Rush fandom, how Patrick ended up with a pair of Neil Peart’s drumsticks and that time he met Def Leppard.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced and edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Patrick Fabian’s Twitter and Instagram.

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- If you dig the show, please leave a rating or review of the show on Apple Podcasts here.

396. Lola Kirke on Joni Mitchell 'Hejira' (1976)

Today singer-songwriter and actor Lola Kirke joins for a rollercoaster of a conversation about Joni Mitchell’s classic Hejira album and a lot more besides. We talk about how Lola was turned on to Joni by her then boyfriend, only for listening to the music to inspire her to leave him, Joni’s cross-country road trips and how they inspired the songwriting, whether people can write music like this in the ‘content’ era, how Lola forced her way into a Last Waltz tribute where she performed ‘Coyote’, Joni’s social media presence, celebrity autographs and how this record inspired Lola’s latest single ‘All I Had To Do’.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced and edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Lola Kirke’’s website, Twitter, Instagram & Facebook

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395. Is Batman: Mask of the Phantasm the best Batman film? with Amon Warmann

Empire Film Magazine and Fade to Black's Amon Warmann joins me to try and answer one of the great nerd questions of all time: Is a 75 minute animated film from 1993 actually the best Batman film ever made?

Warning: This is a spoiler-filled conversation after the first ten minutes.

Amon and I go for broke digging into a film we both love dearly covering topics including:

- Best Batman film vs best film starring Batman
- The love story that drives the film
- How the film and its parent show Batman: The Animated Series took key inspiration from classic Hollywood films of the 30s, 40s and 50s.
- Why this 'kids' film is one of the most emotionally mature superhero films ever made.
- How the film finds a unique way to tell Batman's origin story
- Kevin Conroy's definitive and multi-pronged take on Batman
- The strategic use of the Joker and how it parallels The Silence of the Lambs and Sexy Beast.
- How to go dark without slipping into pretension or self-parody.
- Vengance vs Justice.
- Shirley Walker's incredible classic score.

Plus we game out an alternate history of the 90s where Warner Brothers looked to this film for inspiration after parting ways with Tim Burton instead of making Batman Forever, and speculate on appropriate candidates to take over from Michael Keaton. Plus we have a spirited argument about whether a film should ever be three hours long.

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Subscribe to the podcast in Apple Podcasts here or search 'My Favorite Album' wherever you listen to podcasts.

My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Amon Warmonn’s Twitter, Instagram.
- Fade To Black podcast

- Jeremy Dylan's website, Twitter and Instagram.

- Like the podcast on Facebook here.

- If you dig the show, please leave a rating or review of the show on Apple Podcasts here.

394. Congee on Frank Ocean 'Blonde' (2016)

Today Sam Tsang aka Congee joins me down the line from London, as we look back on one of the iconic records of the last decade - Frank Ocean’s 'Blonde'. We talk about how Frank Ocean builds a new world with each album, and makes the release an event. We talk about the detail of the production, the care put into every choice, stories from the making of the record and speculate on the practical concerns of making a record where every song went through so many iterations. We talk about the guest cameos from everyone from Beyoncé to Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood, the rock influence on the record and what we think Ocean has up his sleeve for the next album.

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Subscribe to the podcast in Apple Podcasts here or search 'My Favorite Album' wherever you listen to podcasts.

My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced & Edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Congee’s website and Instagram.

- Jeremy Dylan's website, Twitter and Instagram.

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- If you dig the show, please leave a rating or review of the show on Apple Podcasts here.

393. Making TOP GUN: MAVERICK with editor Eddie Hamilton

Eddie Hamilton is one of the greatest filmmakers working in mass entertainment today. A genius editor whose resume stretches from the KINGSMAN franchise to X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and the two best MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE films (Rogue Nation and Fallout), he spent two years working on what has become the cinematic event of 2022 - TOP GUN: MAVERICK. Today, Eddie takes us a journey through the film, using the expertly chosen needle drops - from Hank Williams to T Rex to Lady Gaga - to explore the relentless rigour and refinement that goes into creating a truly epic piece of cinema.

Topics covered include:

• Striking the perfect balance between 80s nostalgia and creating a new timeless classic.

• Why specially written songs by Kenny Loggins, One Republic and Post Malone, and even a still unreleased Rolling Stones song, didn’t make the finished film.

• Creating a modern version of the original film’s opening sequence, down to the fonts in the title cards.

• The long theatrical run and incredible box office success of the film.

• A never before revealed Tom Cruise musical cameo.

• Feeding the internet’s appetite for Miles Teller thirst traps.

• How Eddie and his teamed rescued the pivotal F-18 training montage, turning it from something they were embarrassed to watch to a highlight of the film with only three days to go.

• A mini-masterclass on how to construct epic climactic action sequences from dozens of hours of raw footage, like the aerial dogfight in Top Gun: Maverick and the helicopter chase in Mission: Impossible - Fallout.

• The importance of inserts and cutaway shots to build emotional stakes and maintain story clarity for the audience.

• How Lady Gaga delivered the iconic power ballad the film had to have, and how they weaved the song into the film in big and subtle ways.

This is a spoiler-filled conversation - we literally go from the opening credits through to the ending credits - so if you are the one person on earth who is yet to see this film, please correct that posthaste before listening.

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Subscribe to the podcast in Apple Podcasts here or search 'My Favorite Album' wherever you listen to podcasts.

My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Most episodes features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

This episode was edited by Jeremy Dylan.

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LINKS

- Eddie Hamilton on Twitter.

- Believe it or not, there is even more fascinating behind-the-scenes info about the editing of Top Gun: Maverick that we didn’t have time to cover. I highly recommend listening to Eddie’s recent appearances on Light the Fuse and The Rough Cut for more incredible insight into this fascinating production.

- Jeremy Dylan's website, Twitter and Instagram.

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- If you dig the show, please leave a rating or review of the show on Apple Podcasts here.

392. Connor Ratliff on Elvis Costello 'Mighty Like a Rose' (1991)

Instead of watching a three hour movie about Elvis Presley, hit play on today’s episode for a shorter but no less exhaustive deep dive on the real Elvis, Elvis Costello, as actor/comedian and host of the great Dead Eyes podcast Connor Ratliff joins me to make the case for what he considers the ultimate Elvis album, 1991's ‘Mighty Like a Rose’. We talk about the album’s underrated place in the Costello canon, I check in with the album’s producer Mitchell Froom for his memories of making the record, Elvis’s dramatic change of look and how it impacted the way the record  was received, how the album showcases every string on Costello’s bow, the Costello/McCartney that never was and more.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced & Edited by Georgia Mooney.

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- Connor Ratliff’s Facebook and Twitter.

- Dead Eyes Podcast.

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391. Charlie Hickey on The National 'Trouble Will Find Me' (2013)

Today, Californian singer-songwriter Charlie Hickey joins me to celebrate the National’s 2013 album ‘Trouble Will Find Me’. We delve into Charlie’s childhood relationship with the band, the simple and sparse lyrics and how their affect lets them get away with potentially cheesy earnestness, coming back to the record as an adult, songs about feeling like shit and more. Plus, we talk about Charlie’s fantastic new record ‘Nervous at Night’, recording at producer Marshall Vore’s home studio, how you know when a record is finished and more.

Listen in the player above or download the episode by clicking here.

Subscribe to the podcast in Apple Podcasts here or search 'My Favorite Album' wherever you listen to podcasts.

My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentaries Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts and Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road.

Produced & Edited by Georgia Mooney.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Charlie Hickey’s website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

- Jeremy Dylan's website, Twitter and Instagram.

- Like the podcast on Facebook here.

- If you dig the show, please leave a rating or review of the show on Apple Podcasts here.