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Pretty Good Vibrations

Pretty Good Vibrations analyzes and celebrates pop and rock music and its crucial role throughout our lives. Podcast veteran and host Dan Koch (You Have Permission Podcast) has been a professional musician for most of the last 20 years: songwriter for the emo-pop band Sherwood, then as a commercial composer since 2012. Multiple episode styles include bracket-style tournaments, chronological walk-throughs, and deep dives into genres, artists, and eras.

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91:02

1st & 2nd Wave Ska Tournament (Part 1)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/07/18

Do you have what it takes to become Chief Rudeboy?! Grab your passports and your time machines as Chris Cron (Melee) and I take you back to 1960s Jamaica and 1980s England. First Wave and 2-Tone ska artists will duke it out in a winner-takes-all tournament. The actual tournament starts around the 29:00 mark if you'd like to skip our throat-clearing and personal ska stories. Don't worry -- eventually we will get around a to a Third Wave ska-punk tourney! Part 2 drops next week. Spotify playlist for

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78:09

Weezer Albums Tournament (Part 2)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/07/11

** This is part 2 -- start last week for part 1 ** Do you stop at Pinkerton? The Green Album? Or do you celebrate the guys' entire catalog? Original member of the Rebel Weezer Alliance (and high school bandmate of mine) Roman Honeycutt joins me as seemingly every single idea Rivers Cuomo has ever had dukes it out in a 16-album tournament! I come to some important realizations here, both as a result of prepping for this episode and recording it. On=W=ard! Spotify playlist for today's episode:

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107:46

Weezer Albums Tournament (Part 1)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/07/04

Do you stop at Pinkerton? The Green Album? Or do you celebrate the guys' entire catalog? Original member of the Rebel Weezer Alliance (and high school bandmate of mine) Roman Honeycutt joins me as seemingly every single idea Rivers Cuomo has ever had dukes it out in a 16-album tournament! I come to some important realizations here, both as a result of prepping for this episode and recording it. On=W=ard! Part 2 drops next week. Spotify playlist for today's episode:

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62:43

Top 10 Bands We Toured With (Part 2)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/06/27

** This is Part 2 -- start at last week's Part 1 for context ** I met my guest and friend Jeff Martin on tour in 2005; both Sherwood and his band This Day & Age were opening up for The Rocket Summer. Over the years, we have stayed in touch, and this week and next we will be talking through our favorite tourmates from those years, including Hellogoodbye, Say Anything, The Format, Copeland, and many more. We also talk about the role that many years on the road has played in our development and how

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60:41

Top 10 Bands We Toured With (Part 1)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/06/20

I met my guest and friend Jeff Martin on tour in 2005; both Sherwood and his band This Day & Age were opening up for The Rocket Summer. Over the years, we have stayed in touch, and this week and next we will be talking through our favorite tourmates from those years, including Hellogoodbye, Say Anything, The Format, Copeland, and many more. We also talk about the role that many years on the road has played in our development and how that time reverberates in our careers and lives to this day. Part 2

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146:00

Beach Boys Mega-Tournament (Part 2)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/06/13

** This is Part 2 -- start last week with Part 1 ** Summer approaches. Days grow longer. You forget to wear sunscreen, but you never forget your first musical love -- and mine was The Beach Boys. Jason Holstrom (United State of Electronica, Sunstrom Sound) joins me for a massive 32-album tournament, a winding journey through the entirety of their catalog. This part is 2 hours long, with another 3 hours and change to come next week, but with so much good stuff to talk about, can you blame us? The

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125:01

Beach Boys Mega-Tournament (Part 1)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/06/06

Summer approaches. Days grow longer. You forget to wear sunscreen, but you never forget your first musical love -- and mine was The Beach Boys. Jason Holstrom (United State of Electronica, Sunstrom Sound) joins me for a massive 32-album tournament, a winding journey through the entirety of their catalog. This part is 2 hours long, with another 3 hours and change to come next week, but with so much good stuff to talk about, can you blame us? The playlist is extra worth a listen for these episodes,

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58:19

80s Punk Tournament (Part 2, with Sam Tallent)

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2023/05/30

*Part 2 -- check out Part 1 from last week* Grab a 6-pack (or don’t if you’re Straight Edge) and get in the van! Your buddy’s copy of Book Your Own Fucking Life doesn’t have too many pages stuck together, and it looks like there’s just enough gas to get to Bakersfield for tonight’s basement show. Comedian Sam Tallent joins me as we pit songs by Black Flag, Bad Brains, Descendents, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, and more against each other in a winner-takes-the-only-clean-towel

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64:57

80s Punk Tournament (Part 1, with Sam Tallent)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/05/23

Grab a 6-pack (or don’t if you’re Straight Edge) and get in the van! Your buddy’s copy of Book Your Own Fucking Life doesn’t have too many pages stuck together, and it looks like there’s just enough gas to get to Bakersfield for tonight’s basement show. Comedian Sam Tallent joins me as we pit songs by Black Flag, Bad Brains, Descendents, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, and more against each other in a winner-takes-the-only-clean-towel tournament. This music has played a massive role in

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54:48

Warped Tour '04 Tournament

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/05/16

What were you doing in August of 2004? I'll tell you what my guest Joe Greenetz and I were doing: sweating it out on the Vans Warped Tour with our band Sherwood. Joe and I give some brief context of our experience that summer before launching into an efficient 16-artist bracket focused on bands we heard daily walking the festival grounds, regretfully guzzling free-to-artists Monster energy drinks (I have not taken a single sip in the last 19 years). This was the first tournament episode I recorded,

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54:49

Dad's Tape Deck: Comedian Simon Gibson

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2023/05/09

The Rolling Stones, Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem, Aerosmith, and other artists populate the musical memory of comedian Simon Gibson (Cannonball, Inside Jokes), whose father was a local musician in Portland, OR throughout Simon’s early life. We also hear the soundtrack to his early-2000s move to Los Angeles to pursue comedy and about the friends who helped him see the value in digging deeper to find great

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79:14

Walk Me Through: Jesus Movement Music '67-'79 (Part 2)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/05/02

*This is part 2 - check part 1 from last week!* Ever wondered how White Evangelical Protestants got the way they are? The music that generation created played an outsized role in the formation of their subculture, one that would come to dominate a large chunk of American sociopolitics in the coming 6 decades. And you know what? Some of it rules. (Some emphatically does not.) Lindsay Strannigan (Holy Ghosting Podcast, formerly of The Militia Group) joins me to break down this movement from a

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64:44

Walk Me Through: Jesus Movement Music '67-'79 (Part 1)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/04/25

Ever wondered how White Evangelical Protestants got the way they are? The music that generation created played an outsized role in the formation of their subculture, one that would come to dominate a large chunk of American sociopolitics in the coming 6 decades. And you know what? Some of it rules. (Some emphatically does not.) Lindsay Strannigan (Holy Ghosting Podcast, formerly of The Militia Group) joins me to break down this movement from a musicological angle over two parts, focusing on music

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72:00

Convince Me: Nu-Metal Has Any Value At All (with The...

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/04/18

Today we hear arguments in The United States vs. Nu-Metal. So de-tune your guitars, turn your hats backward, put up an ad at Guitar Center that says “Rap-rock band looking for DJ to fill out our sound,” and find something to break! A soundtrack of Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Korn, and even Rage Against the Machine (do they count??) dots the landscape of a surprisingly astute and sociology-heavy case made by my guests Matt MacDonald (The Classic Crime) and James Wightman (also kind of The Classic Crime)

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49:10

Emo/Punk "Scene" Radio Tournament (Part 2)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/04/11

Part 2 is here! (Part 1 aired last week) Get comfortable, focus on your breath, slowly close your eyes, and imagine you are looking at a Hot Topic wall of band t-shirts circa 2008: My Chemical Romance, Blink-182, Yellowcard, The All-American Rejects, The Used, Dashboard Confessional. It used to just be you and your friends who knew bands like this, but now you hear them every time you turn on the radio in your 1999 Toyota Camry (which doesn't have a working CD player, hence the radio). The Plain

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100:38

Emo/Punk "Scene" Radio Tournament (Part 1)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/04/04

Get comfortable, focus on your breath, slowly close your eyes, and imagine you are looking at a Hot Topic wall of band t-shirts circa 2008: My Chemical Romance, Blink-182, Yellowcard, The All-American Rejects, The Used, Dashboard Confessional. It used to just be you and your friends who knew bands like this, but now you hear them every time you turn on the radio in your 1999 Toyota Camry (which doesn't have a working CD player, hence the radio). The Plain White T's own Mike Retondo joins me to pit

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82:59

Walk Me Through: Bon Iver / Justin Vernon (Part 2)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/03/28

** Check out Part 1 from last week first ** Throw your oilcloth rucksack full of seed catalogs and aspen twigs over your shoulder, pick up your pawn shop acoustic guitar, and join Kristen Tideman and me for a brisk early Spring walk through the fascinating and brilliant music career of Justin Vernon, AKA Bon Iver. Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rw8qbpdHxd46EhOtu5sIN?si=ee84e141932e4d1a PGV Shirts: prettygoodvibrations.bigcartel.com PGV Facebook Discussion

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82:44

Walk Me Through: Bon Iver / Justin Vernon (Part 1)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/03/21

Throw your oilcloth rucksack full of seed catalogs and aspen twigs over your shoulder, pick up your pawn shop acoustic guitar, and join Kristen Tideman and me for a brisk early Spring walk through the fascinating and brilliant music career of Justin Vernon, AKA Bon Iver. Part 2 releases next week. Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rw8qbpdHxd46EhOtu5sIN?si=ee84e141932e4d1a PGV Shirts: prettygoodvibrations.bigcartel.com PGV Facebook Discussion Group:

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82:47

90s Punk Mega-Tournament (Part 2)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/03/15

**Listen to Part 1, last week, first** Calling all head-to-toe-Converse-and-Dickies children of the 90s! All hail the $2.99 Epitaph/Fat Wreck Chords sampler! Santa Cruz native Ben Bishop joins me as 32 -- yes, THIRTY-TWO -- punk rock bands from the 1990s compete for bragging rights in a March Madness-style bracket tournament. Think NOFX, Rancid, Green Day, Social Distortion, Lagwagon, MxPx, Face to Face, The Offspring, and so many more. Spotify playlist for today's episode:

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67:08

90s Punk Mega-Tournament (Part 1)

Pretty Good Vibrations ·

2023/03/09

Calling all head-to-toe-Converse-and-Dickies children of the 90s! All hail the $2.99 Epitaph/Fat Wreck Chords sampler! Santa Cruz native Ben Bishop joins me as 32 -- yes, THIRTY-TWO -- punk rock bands from the 1990s compete for bragging rights in a March Madness-style bracket tournament. Think NOFX, Rancid, Green Day, Social Distortion, Lagwagon, MxPx, Face to Face, The Offspring, and so many more. Part 2 will drop next week! Spotify playlist for today's episode:

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