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.

Links:

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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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GAR! 155: Trumped

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

intro / Civil War II / Bendis / Captain America, again / Fantastic Four, again / Spider-Man / Netflixing / Black Panther / Cinema Purgatory / The Unquotable Trump / showers and scandals / Jeanine Pirro / the Roy Cohn method / party lines / Quora / Ravishing Rick Rude / Jimmy Superfly Snuka / Kurt Angle / La La Land / Run The Jewels / The Black Monday Murders / Dennis Hopeless’ X-Men / closing /

Links:

Glenn’s reviews of Civil War II

Captain America ? The Damage Is Done

GAR! On the Fantastic Four movie

Robin Renee

The Unquotable Trump

Glenn’s review of La La Land

Run The Jewels

Biff Bam Pop!

The Biff Bam Pop! Podcast Network

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The Adventures of Ray

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The GAR! Podcast 154: The Smartest Person in the Room


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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast is a GAR threesome with Nerdfect Strangers’ Jerry Whitworth, and includes discussion of the following:

Bleeding Cool / Wizard / Quora / who is the smartest person in the Marvel Universe? / the Ethan Davis scale / the validity of an Xavier degree / Jughead / marketing / Richards and Doom / narrowing it down / psychosis / humanity / Valeria and Otto the babysitter / Spider-spoiler / the Clone Saga / the smartest person in the DC Universe / king Batman / many mad scientists / JLA braintrust / Ozymandias / back to Batman / closing /

Pics related to the show:

Links:

Nerdfect Strangers

The Nerdfect Strangers Podcast

Comic Art Community

The Most Intelligent Character in the Marvel Universe

Who Is Smarter ? Dr. Banner or Dr. Octopus?

Glenn’s reviews of “The Flash”

About the Al Rio Kickstarter

The Al Rio Kickstarter

Jerry Whitworth on Twitter

Jerry Whitworth on Facebook

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The Biff Bam Pop! Podcast Network

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The Adventures of Ray

The GAR! Podcast on Pinterest

The GAR! Podcast on Instagram

The GAR! Podcast on Stitcher

The GAR! Podcast on iTunes

The GAR! Podcast Group on Facebook

The GAR! Podcast Page on Facebook

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GAR Podcast Episode 87: Sports?!?

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

intro / the Super Bowl / deflate-gate / Baltimore Colts / 30 for 30 / XFL / New York Islanders / deflated balls don’t matter / Marshawn Lynch / beast mode / Ferrari / Super Bowl picks / Philadelphia 76ers / the cheating Colts / it’s all about money / New England Black Wolves / George Brett’s bat / Barry Bonds and steroids / Hall of Fame / steroid wars / performance enhanced Ray / Roger Goodell / the investigation of Ray Rice / life mistakes / WWE Network for free / the Royal Rumble / The Rock booed / the Fantastic 4 trailer / Chronicle / comics still ruined for Glenn / Amazing Spider-Man 2 / Chronicle 2 / Roger Corman’s revenge? / New Avengers / Stryper / closing /

Links:

30 for 30

Marshawn Lynch’s Lamborghini

WWE Network

WWE Free in February

The Fantastic 4 trailer at Biff Bam Pop!

JP Fallavollita’s Twitter

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Pinterest

The GAR! Podcast on Stitcher

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GAR! Podcast Episode 43: Slave Princess Leia on American Idol

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

intro and premise / Bruce Springsteen / American Idol / Harry Connick, Jr. / crazy auditions / Slave Princess Leia / back to Bruce / Born in the USA / cover songs / Prince cover songs / Battle Royale / Hulk Hogan / WWE Network / perils of pay-per-view / Comcast / Jake the Snake Roberts / Galveston / comics free / Furious and Vandroid / The Barkeep / Ultimate Cataclysm by Bendis / The Walking Dead / Camden Comic Con /

Links:

“Barbie Girl” by Aqua

“Darlington County” by Bruce Springsteen

Ben Harr on IMDb

Ben Harr on American Idol

“Born in the USA” by the Stanley Clarke Band

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Favorite Cover Songs at Biff Bam Pop!

“Livin’ for the City” by The Dirtbombs

Robin Renee

“Alison” by Robin Renee

“Hotel California” by the Gipsy Kings

“Billie Jean” by Los Picadientes DeCaborca

WWE Network

El Rey Network

Bridgegate

Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

The Barkeep by William Lashner

Marie Gilbert reviews “The Walking Dead” at Biff Bam Pop!

Camden Comic Con on Facebook

Camden Comic Con on Tumblr

Camden Comic Con on Twitter

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

Videos:

“Badlands” by Bruce Springsteen, live in 1978

The 20 Worst “American Idol” auditions of all time

“Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen, 2000

 

GAR! Podcast Episode 41: Sexy Feet Potato Chips


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

uneasy opening / the snowpocalypse / Siri / watches and weather / TV news / John Bolaris / Cecily Tynan / Vanilla Ice / Tiffany / New Radicals / Men Without Hats / hip hop covers / Secret Avengers / sexy titles / Candy Crush / Bubble Yum / rare candy bars / Valentine’s Day iPad / Lay’s Do Us a Flavor / weird potato chip flavors / new Fantastic Four / the worst superhero costumes / Neal Adams / Olympics / Bill Gates /

Links:

Cadence Watches

John Bolaris

John Bolaris on Twitter

Philly.com

Cecily Tynan on Twitter

Durham Academy Snow Day

Tiffany’s singles

Skybar

3 Musketeers

Lay’s Do Us A Flavor Contest

Last year’s Do Us A Flavor contest at French Fry Diary

Mieke Zamora-Mackay

Weird potato chips flavors at French Fry Diary

Steak potato chips at French Fry Diary

New Fantastic Four

Wonder Man costumes

Hank Pym costumes

Fatman on Batman

Glenn interviews Neal Adams on the All Things Fun! Podcast

“Gett Off” by Prince and the New Power Generation

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

Videos:

Durham Academy Snow Day

Vanilla Ice MTV meltdown

“You Get What You Give” by New Radicals

Miri Ben-Ari Pepsi commercial

“Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen and The Fugees

“We Trying to Stay Alive” by Wyclef Jean