GAR! 172: The Prince Chronology, Part 1

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast presents a track-by-track album-by-album discussion of Prince’s career from his first album For You through to Controversy, including the self-titled Prince and Dirty Mind, as well as the debut album by The Time and the only album release from Vanity 6. We also talk about the early days of The Revolution, the tours, album art, Billboard charts, covers, radio airplay, record store memories, analog television, Andre Cymone, Ready for the World, Taylor Swift, hackers, and our new Twitter feed.

And since it’s about Prince, there’s a mature content warning on this episode, because yeah, we’re going to talk a lot about songs he wrote about vaginas. It is Prince after all.

Here’s the albums we reviewed. If you use our Amazon links, we get a small commission.

Prince, For You.

Prince, Prince.

Prince, Dirty Mind.

Prince, Controversy, pictured above.

The Time, The Time.

Vanity 6, Vanity 6. Sadly, not officially available, and ridiculously expensive, but still fun if you can find a copy.

And here’s the ad from the Courier-Post for Prince’s show at Emerald City in 1980. We mention this on the show.

The GAR! Podcast is the Glenn Walker and Ray Cornwall weekly podcast where they talk unrehearsed about whatever happens to come to mind. It’s an audio-zine for your mind, a nerd exploration of a nerd world, coming to you from the suburbs of New Jersey and the sunny lakes of Florida via Skype.

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Huge thanks to the team at PrinceVault for all the knowledge used on this week’s show.

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The GAR! Podcast 147: Avengers Best and Worst

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

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intro under siege / Roger Stern’s Avengers / line-ups / the Mansion Siege / Cap’s pics / Kristoff / Baxter Building blow-up / Glenn’s gaps / Roger Stern fired / continuity gaps / Captain Hydra encounters / Walt Simonson’s Avengers / Doctor Druid / Crystal and the jacket era / what makes a good or bad Avenger? / Glenn’s worst Avengers / squatters of the galaxy / lists like this / Glenn’s best Avengers / New Avengers / Hawkeye / the Swordsman / the best Kang stories / the best Avengers writers / the worst anniversary issues ever / more writer discussion / Giant-Man flipbooks / George Perez / the best Avengers artists / West Coast Avengers for the words / Al Milgrom / the WCA Thing / Thor done right / the best Avengers headquarters / the real Mansion / Jarvis / best spin-off / the move and scheduling / black racers / closing /

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Bearded Shirts

Captain America – The Damage Is Done

Every Member of the Avengers, Ranked

Let’s Rank Every Avenger Ever

84 Avengers Members Ranked from Worst to Best

Glenn on Kang the Conqueror

The real Avengers Mansion

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GAR! Podcast Episode 56: Action Park

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

pre-show intro / Make Mine Magic pilots / Stone Cold Steve Austin / spicy language / straight edge Ray / Boys State / the heat / Ray’s brilliant idea of the week / the Olympics / Eurovision / the Olympics in NJ / Action Park / flume of doom / rides of death / Simpsons Tooth Chipper / Ski Mountain / the turnpike / Battle of the Network Stars / XFL / The Waltons / early Fox TV shows / Fridays / Saturday Night Live / bands live / ranking the Weekend Update anchors / poor Charlie Rocket / Norm MacDonald / Dennis Miller / comedy and politics / The Late Shift / the lost art of the talk show / The Tonight Show / podcasting / cleaning out the fridge / shout outs / closing /

Links:

The Make Mine Magic Podcast: The Lost Pilots

The Steve Austin Show

American Legion Jersey Boys State

Deadspin

Nobody Wants to Host the 2022 Olympics

Glenn on the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest

Action Park

The Action Park Documentary

Action Park at Weird NJ

14 Story Log Flume

“Battle of the Network Stars”

“Mr. President” on Fox

“Herman’s Head” on Fox

“Woops!” on Fox

“Fridays”

GAR! talks SNL music

Ranking the Weekend Update Anchors

Norm MacDonald tells the funniest joke ever told

Spotswood Public Library Facebook Page

ALA in Las Vegas

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