Music/Music producers podcast?

[ozleicester]

Anyone know any good music podcasts?

I have ZERO musical talent but id love to learn more about what goes into making a great song/album.

If there is something that focuses on production and engineering that would be great

Thanks

[RoboFox]

Are you more interested in the musical side i.e. song arrangement, lyrics etc. or the technical, more engineering side of production and what actually makes the songs sound good?

 

Tape Notes is probably a good place to start. 

 

 

[Voll Blau]

Probably not as specific an insight as you're looking for but Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt is fantastic.

[ozleicester]

33 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Are you more interested in the musical side i.e. song arrangement, lyrics etc. or the technical, more engineering side of production and what actually makes the songs sound good?

 

Tape Notes is probably a good place to start. 

 

 

hmm im not sure lol... im intrigued about how a song is built, changed, affected by producers.. i think

[RoboFox]

Just now, ozleicester said:

hmm im not sure lol... im intrigued about how a song is built, changed, affected by producers.. i think

Rick Beato on YouTube is excellent, especially his "what makes this song great" series.

 

He leans more towards the musician side rather than the production side, but TBH I think you'd find all the technical jargon boring and meaningless if you've no experience with it yourself. 

[Libertine]

Justin Hawkins (from the Darkness) does a fun Youtube thing which I'd recommend. He's knowledgeable musically but it's very accessible.

[KingsX]

6 hours ago, RoboFox said:

Rick Beato on YouTube is excellent, especially his "what makes this song great" series.

 

He leans more towards the musician side rather than the production side, but TBH I think you'd find all the technical jargon boring and meaningless if you've no experience with it yourself. 

 

Rick Beato is a god among men

[NewEnglandFox]

Tim Pierce's Iris Story with Rob Cavallo is my all time favorite. I've heard it rehashed on Dead Wax and Professor of Rock but both times it was like the interviewers watched Tim's video and basically re-performed the story.

 

 

Then Vice has a series on 9 huge hits:

 

 

[ozleicester]

On 30/09/2022 at 17:51, Voll Blau said:

Probably not as specific an insight as you're looking for but Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt is fantastic.

Thanks, listened to ep 1 today was interesting (if a tad self indulgent) especially the stuff about Sid.

[RoboFox]

On 03/10/2022 at 00:16, NewEnglandFox said:

Tim Pierce's Iris Story with Rob Cavallo is my all time favorite. I've heard it rehashed on Dead Wax and Professor of Rock but both times it was like the interviewers watched Tim's video and basically re-performed the story.

 

 

 

This is great. 

 

Rob Cavallo is really underrated as a producer. Green Day's American Idiot and MCR's The Black Parade are two of the best sounding rock records of the past 20 years IMO. 

 

If anyone likes this kind of more in-depth kind of look at song deconstruction, then Warren Huart's Produce Like a Pro do a good series called "Inside The Song" where he deconstructs tracks with band members / producers and often has access to the stems of the originals song which is always interesting. 

 

Here with Graham Coxon pulling apart "Song 2" 

 

 

 

[rico]

Posted this a while back....

 

 

[NewEnglandFox]

@RoboFox Obviously gotta make sure you see another Rob and Tim masterpiece: The song from the Lion King Tarzan.

 

 

Edited 4 October 2022 by NewEnglandFox

[NewEnglandFox]

Some drummer who wrote a couple eagles songs talks a couple.

 

 

 

 

 

[BrummieFOX]

On 30/09/2022 at 11:38, Libertine said:

Justin Hawkins (from the Darkness) does a fun Youtube thing which I'd recommend. He's knowledgeable musically but it's very accessible.

Seconded, really nice and easy watch.

[Voll Blau]

Good one out now about the story of Franz Ferdinand called 'Words So Leisured' for anyone who likes them.