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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GAR! Podcast Episode 102: More Ask Us Anything Plus

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

intro / Stevie Wonder / Stevie at Motown / Superstition / Happy Birthday / the female Thor revealed / Adventures of Ray re-launch / Bill Simmons fired / Podcast Mount Rushmore / Serial / Joe Frank / role-playing games / making Ray blog / Ray’s second podcast / Secret Wars / future Fantastic Four / doing Wonder Woman right / Taylor Swift, Wonder Woman / Glenn’s Age of Ultron, comics and film / Whedon Thanksgiving / favorite films / favorite artists / Moonlighting / Big Brother vs. Survivor / Happyish / fixing Agents of SHIELD / Legends of Tomorrow / The Flash season two wishes / Better Call Saul and Ray’s new job / pronoia / bigfoot theory / Ancient Aliens / Grendel / interim Green Lantern / closing /

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Links:

Is Stevie Wonder blind?

GAR! on the new female Thor

Joe Frank

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

GAR! interviews Bryan J.L. Glass 2015

GAR! interviews Dennis Knight 2014

Glenn’s review of Avengers: Age of Ultron

The Make Mine Magic Podcast on Avengers: Age of Ultron

The Biff Bam Popcast on Avengers; Age of Ultron

Glenn’s reviews of the Age of Ultron comic series

Glenn’s reviews of the “Agents of SHIELD” TV series

“Breaking Us in Two” by Joe Jackson

“Legends of Tomorrow” preview

“Supergirl” preview

Glenn’s reviews of “The Flash”

Ensley F. Guffey on Twitter

French Fry Diary

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Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The Adventures of Ray

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GAR! Podcast Episode 54: Crazy Chick Mount Rushmore

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

an hour? / wrestling is never over / good month for Daniel Bryan / breakneck sport / Kingdom Rush / Godzilla 2014 / spoilers / Agents of SHIELD / Original Sin / the Black Widow / Identity Crisis / super smart Ant-Man / drummers / Ringo Starr / Keith Moon / Bono / Frank Sinatra / U2 / Motley Crue / Bon Jovi / Cher / crazy chick Mount Rushmore / Lindsey Lohan / Britney Spears / Miley Cyrus / Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac / Carmen Electra / Jenny McCarthy / Sinead O’Connor / Wendy O. Williams / The Tomorrow Show / Sean Young / Ray first / closing /

Links:

The Nerd Signal

Glenn’s spoiler-filled Godzilla review at Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s SHIELD season finale review

Glenn’s SHIELD reviews of the entire season

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Videos (so much fun Ray had to add snarky commentary)

“Magical Mystery Tour” by the Beatles: (Ringo is awesome here)

“Love, Reign O’er Me” by The Who (best drum riff at the end of a song by Keith Moon):

“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” by Frank Sinatra and Bono (sadly, we can’t embed it)

Bono bugging us (oh God, those hats, that ponytail…I’m not so sure we didn’t commit a crime by posting this)

Motley Crue doing “Helter Skelter” (much better than Bono bugging us)

Wendy O. Williams on “The Tomorrow Show” (NSFW) (but they BLOW UP A CAR ON LIVE TV)