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Picking Up Something Good

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Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of a specific artist's output, from humble beginnings to the present day.

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United States

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Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of a specific artist's output, from humble beginnings to the present day.

Twitter:

@pusgpod

Language:

English


Episodes
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STEELY DANUARY IV: Aja

1/12/2023
Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Steely Dan's output, all Dancember... er, Danuary long. This week, we're sorry for taking so long to put out the Aja episode. Alex Riggs and Rose join us to talk the Big One. This was recorded just after Xmas. Nicky's...

Duration:01:43:20

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STEELY DANCEMBER III: The Royal Scam / PUSG Mailbag!

12/19/2022
Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Steely Dan's output, all Dancember long. This week, we recognize that many of our listeners are actively listening to other bands. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of bands besides Steely Dan on Picking Up...

Duration:01:19:04

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STEELY DANCEMBER II: Pretzel Logic / Katy Lied

12/12/2022
CONTENT WARNING: We discuss a song on Katy Lied that is impossible to talk about without delving into general creepiness and discussion of a pedophile. This was uncomfortable for us to cover and is likely uncomfortable for some to listen to. The segment happens from 01:26:58 - 01:31:16. Please exercise caution when listening. Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is...

Duration:01:47:36

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STEELY DANCEMBER I: Can't Buy a Thrill / Countdown to Ecstasy

12/5/2022
Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of... huh!? SURPRISE - We're back! Escape the bleak cold of the 2022 holiday season and come with us to the halcyon days of the early 70s, where two guys could just pump out jazz rock bangers without a care in the world....

Duration:01:49:10

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S2E10 – KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION (Catboy Museum)

11/22/2021
Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. THIS IS THE AUDIO VERSION OF THE EPISODE. This version of the episode won't make any sense to you and is extremely meandering - more so than usual. We really intend for you to watch the video version! It's a fun Let's Play! Watch it here! This week, we're live for...

Duration:01:46:54

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OK Human (Cry Me Some Rivers, Cuomo)

2/4/2021
Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This is an EMERGENCY WEEZER BULLETIN. We are covering Weezer's new LP OK Human. We consider this album an existential threat to our podcast. I'm not even going to tell you what we cover. Jesus christ.

Duration:01:21:56

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S2E9 – Earth (No Bangers Just Mash)

9/26/2020
Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. Whoa, hey, what did we miss? We're back with our second to last episode of Season 2 - this week, we're covering Ed O'Brien's solo album as EOB, Earth. That's right - we're talking about the 'yob. We spend a lot of time talking about a puzzle that had just come out...

Duration:01:19:53

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S2E8 – Anima (These Are Me Loops)

7/2/2020
Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, Bran from The Children's Television Workshop and New Nintendo Podcast XL joins us to talk Thom Yorke's 2019 solo album Anima. Come check out our loops! Also: an unbearably long review of 2019's Anima screening, Hollywood's Thom Yorke Denny's, and a quick...

Duration:01:46:54

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Radjacent Family Feud!

6/12/2020
Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. SURPRISE! This week, let's take a break from the endless pursuit of Radiohead and join our friends from RadIsh and Kid Nation Nation for a Radjacent crossover spectacular: Family Feud! This week, Tyler's your host - it's Team PUSG (Nicky, Meys, Sean) vs. Team KNN...

Duration:01:03:17

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S2E7 – Suspiria (Live Action Yaoi)

5/26/2020
Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, al riggs and Dustin Britt join us to discuss Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018). Don't worry! Thom Yorke did the score for the latter film so this is thematically appropriate to the show. Mamma mia! Also: more bad accents, Italian Thom Yorke, and the...

Duration:01:32:10

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…And Also With You – Year One

5/4/2020
A few days ago in the same galaxy... Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel devised a podcast. ...And Also With You is a once-yearly limited event prestige podcast about Star Wars: A New Hope from Noise Space and neo-detritus... with a horrible secret. May the Force be with you. Seeing this in the Picking Up Something Good or Noise Space Pilots feed? Subscribe to our new show at Noise Space.

Duration:02:36:40

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S2E6 – A Moon Shaped Pool (JON•E)

4/26/2020
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, Sean Barry (@thatSeanBarry) joins us once more to speak for two uninterrupted hours about 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool. Also: WALL•E, Bald Thom Yorke, and an averted bad future for “Identikit”.

Duration:01:30:28

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S2E5 – Weatherhouse (The Virgin Phil Selway vs The Chad Thom Yorke)

4/9/2020
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, we’re giving… Him… another chance. It’s Phil Selway’s 2014 album Weatherhouse. Let’s go. Also: Quarantine, a Star Trek argument, and the story of They Might Be Giants. Stay inside. Wash your hands. Nicky and Meys have new...

Duration:01:15:28

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S2E4 – Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (Master Chief Fucked My Mom!?)

2/29/2020
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, we’re discussing Thom Yorke’s 2014 album Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. We have a new theme song by Nicky Flowers this week. We’re gonna spend the rest of the episode getting hella divorced.

Duration:01:30:51

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S2E3 – Amok (Zendaya is Meechee and Laura Dern is Marmee and Flea is Donnie)

1/31/2020
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, we’re discussing Atoms for Peace’s 2013 album Amok. Also: Flea vs. Michael, Wild Hogs, Star Trek: Picard (spoilers!), and Thom’s big threat. Theme music: “Protofunk” by Kevin MacLeod License: CC BY

Duration:01:19:54

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S2E2 – Familial (The King of Limbs 1.8 HD ReMix: Chain of Memories)

1/22/2020
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, we’re discussing Phil Selway’s 2010 solo album Familial, I guess. Also: a look at the American Football house, 2010, and the results of a British poll about space. Theme music: “Who Likes to Party” by Kevin MacLeod License:...

Duration:00:42:37

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S2E1 – The King of Limbs (Sittin' Pretty On Top of No-Ballad Mountain?)

12/17/2019
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, we’re back and covering 2011’s The King of Limbs! We’ll learn a couple of behind the scenes album tidbits and also hear Nicky’s essential on-location report from Midwest Furfest. We’re so glad to be back.

Duration:00:56:23

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S1E10 – B-Sides 2000-2009 (It's Beautiful, It's Haunting, It Fucks)

10/27/2019
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, we’re closing out the first season of Picking Up Something Good by covering B-sides and other odds and ends from the 2000s. We’re taking a short break after this and will be back in a couple of weeks! Don’t forget about us....

Duration:01:22:06

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S1E9 – In Rainbows (HOT_JONNY.JPG)

10/17/2019
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys will run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, Nick Pitman from Hard Pass, Bot Garden, sometimes Continental Shelf, and For Everest joins us to talk about 2007’s In Rainbows. We talk about Radiohead memes made by Radiohead, Thom calls in with some heartbreaking news,...

Duration:01:48:06

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S1E8 – The Eraser (A Bed Covered in Vicks® VapoRub™)

10/10/2019
Nicky Flowers (@yiffpolice) has never listened to Radiohead. Meys (@echovessel) has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys will run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album. This week, David of Tuning Fork and The Stick joins us to talk about Thom Yorke’s 2006 solo album, The Eraser. For more information, please visit our website at ThomYorkeTheEraserAlbumCover.com.

Duration:01:14:37