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//Music Friends//

//Music Friends//

By: Danny Bennett
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//Danny Bennett is a writer and when he’s writing and when he’s not he’s anxious//curious//restless//stoked on what he doesn’t know about music//Music Friends chips away at what Danny doesn’t know//Every episode covers two albums//One selected by Danny//One selected by one of his Music Friends//The selection is always recorded live and posted as a teaser for the next episode//Additional segments are posted with additional Music Friends here and there//Danny Bennett Music
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  • //26//
    Dec 20 2025

    //00:00//Coheed and Cambria's Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe [New Entities Edition] (2025)//On Koi Boyz assemble//On straight into THE LORE//On intimate Claudio//On Space Opera//On thumbs medium//On Dillon SMASHING the Nick Fell question//On King James Claudio//On Zakk Dickinson and Gold-Plated diapers//On more Andre flute//On best of Coheed??//ON MORE LORE//On earthed emotions sans lore//On "are we sure we're starting cryptic string motif then an accoustic song?"//On Good Apollo's accesible violence//On lore-master Dil//On the Amen Break//On the Keith Lapid question genesis//On heliocentric Keith-ball//


    //(1:16:56)//Jack's Mannequin's Everything In Transit (2005)//On concept//On before and after albums//On electric newness//On hook-downs//On roller skates being silly walking--legendary Dillon take//On I'm Ready laugh track//On legendary Andrew McMahon social commentary//On legendary dirty laundry commentary//On thank you Andrew McMahon for the best laugh of my decade//On least likely Tommy Lee cameo ever//On SoCo v. J'sM//On Andrew McMahon's voice sucking//On gimme any other singer//On everybody still being a mess//On doing things no one is asking for//


    //(2:23:42)//Preview of episode//26//

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    2 hrs and 50 mins
  • //25//
    May 5 2025

    //00:00//Tom Petty's Wildflowers (1994)//On love at first listen//On a true Music Friends record//On coming to it through The Heartland//On subconscious Wildflowers memory//On a Happy Music Sad Family record//On Most Things We Worry About Never Happen Anyway//On nourishment//On league-leading WPM and WORW for Zach//On not a party record//On back porch record Hall of Fame//On divisive Honey Bee//On maybe Coen Bros are too narrow a filmography//On sky-high VORP for Petty and Rubin and Tench//On Stan Lynch going Mid-Kanye//On Zach Leaving Virginia Alone//On difficulty pin-pointing Petty's most culturally resonant moment//


    //(1:10:04)//Tom Petty's Wildflowers & All The Rest (2020)//Alllllll The Rest//On desecrating Tom Petty's deliberate and specific desire to have Wake Up Time conclude the great work of his career//On tasteful re-ordering//On Ugliest Rock n' Roll Frontman Mount Rushmore//On tough pod for Stan Lynch Stans//On would you rather Heartbreakers or Solo stuff//On I turned around and he was gone//On Petty forever//


    //(1:28:07)//Preview of episode//26//

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • //24//
    Mar 11 2025

    //00:00//Kendrick Lamar's GNX (2024)//Recorded 2-18-2025//On commission assembled//On Peakaboo, Coach!//On an immidiate pantheon Los Angeles Album for episode//24//On Kobe 2-4 in July 1-0//On a bit Carter IIIish//On meticulous Kenny//On breezier Kendrick//On Grand Nationals not bein' rational//On exponential Reincarnated rise//On Kendrick's compression socks//On GNX to the summit for Danny//On the great rap war of 2024//On the seven game rap war//On Euphoria as moving Draymond to the 5//On giving Drake his due//On sinister Meet The Grahams//On JF going back to Eminem, again//On Drake taking his eye off the ball//On Luka Booker Game Seven//On R.I.P. shopping rap//On Drake The Appropriator//On "Hey Drake, I hear you like acting"//


    //(1:17:44)//Kendrick Lamar's ⁠Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (2022)⁠//Recorded 5-17-2022//On grown Kendrick//On shepherd Kendrick//On therapy//On Eckhart Tolle and Kodak Black back-to-back//On the hurt hurting others//On singular Kendrick//On the holy quadology of pop stardom//On not savior Kendrick//On the Kyrie stamp of approval//On Kodak's imperfections as our imperfections?//On humor sprinkles//On early Eminem tracks//


    //(2:13:03)//Kendrick Lamar's ⁠DAMN. (2017)⁠//Recorded 4-17-2017//On the To Pimp a Butterfly release valve//On the uptempo vs. downtempo ratio//On wickedness vs. weakness//On the depth of Kendrick//On back-to-back-to-back champs//On bedroom rap//On mysterious Kendrick//On not doing it for the gram//On forcing his way into the conversation//On storytelling wizardry//On Kendrick's 2016 Finals' comeback moment//On Mike Will energy//On covering all the bases//

    //(2:57:41)//Preview of episode//25//

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    3 hrs
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