3,2, 1 – New Music Monday / 09-28-26

(3,2,1 New Music Monday Intro)

Welcome to Music That Matters with 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday.

This week: Leon Bridges gets a little Jungle help, Tom Morello invites in some friends, and Nothing But Thieves goes back to basics.

Plus, Taylor Swift, U2, and Alice in Chains unplugged on vinyl.

(Countdown Video)

3 major album drops.

First up — Leon Bridges with Happiness Anytime.

(“Happiness Anytime” clip)

This is Leon’s fifth studio album where he teamed up with J Lloyd and Lydia Kitto from Jungle for four days – and came away with half an album. That’s chemistry!

(“Talk It Over” clip)

Leon wanted music he could actually dance to onstage, and you can hear that extra groove all over this record.

Next, Tom Morello rages again with friends on Everyone Gets Everything They Want.

(“Unconquered” clip)

The guest list is stacked.

Serj Tankian is here. So is KNEECAP. Beartooth as well.

Tom’s son Roman Morello is all over this thing too.

(“Adjourn It” clip)

And then we have Nothing But Thieves returning to the same studio where they made their debut album.

(“Testosterone” clip)

They went back to that smaller, noisier sound of five guys making a racket together.

This is their fifth album – Stray Dogs

(“Stray Dogs” clip)

2 new singles.

This first song is actually one of four included on the expanded encore to last year’s album The Life of a Showgirl.

Taylor Swift with “Patient Zero.”

(“Patient Zero” clip)

Bottom line – it’s brand-new Taylor, and yes, that automatically makes it one of the biggest releases of the week.

Also new – and also big – U2 with “Silencio.”

(“Silencio” clip – sill-len-see-o)

This is the second song from their upcoming album Carnaval De Luz, arriving November 13th.

And that album will be U2’s first studio album of entirely new material in nine years.

(Record Scratch video)

And finally, one vinyl pick.

Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged – its the 30th anniversary.

The new double-LP reissue brings that 1996 performance back to vinyl, with stripped-down versions of “Nutshell,” “Rooster,” “Down in a Hole,” and “Would?”

(“Would?” clip)

That’s your 3 albums, 2 singles, and 1 vinyl for the week.

This has been 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday

Until next time.

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 – opening to “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started”)

Okay…

apparently we’re STILL not done…

with September 24th, 1991.

Because on the very same day as Nirvana…

Red Hot Chili Peppers…

and A Tribe Called Quest…

Bryan Adams also released…

Waking Up the Neighbours.

(Music Cut #2 – hook to “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started”)

And the album included a song Bryan Adams wrote…

for Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

But the movie studio…

wasn’t exactly blown away by it.

(Music Cut #3 – Robin Hood / end credits)

So they stuck it…

over the closing credits.

From there – “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”…

became one of the biggest hits

of Bryan Adams’ entire career.

(Music Cut #4 – “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Don’t tell me it’s not worth fightin’ for
I can’t help it, there’s nothin’ I want more.” – Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 – opening to “Verses from the Abstract”)

Okay…

we’ve already covered TWO albums…

released on September 24th, 1991.

But it turns out… we’re still not done.

A Tribe Called Quest…

The Low End Theory

(Music Cut #2 – more “Verses from the Abstract”)

Tribe wanted jazz to be part of the album…

so they brought in legendary bassist Ron Carter.

His one rule?

No smoking in the studio.

(Music Cut #3 – “Footprints” Miles Davis)

And when Ron Carter makes a rule…

you listen.

Even Q-Tip.

Before playing with Tribe…

Carter spent years playing bass with Miles Davis.

So there’s the direct jazz line…

from Miles Davis…

to A Tribe Called Quest.

(Music Cut #4 – end of “Verses from the Abstract” with Ron Carter getting cited)

MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 – opening to “Sir Psycho Sexy”)

Yesterday, back in 1991…

Nirvana released Nevermind.

But they weren’t the only band…

dropping a big album that day.

Red Hot Chili Peppers…

Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

(Music Cut #2 – of “Long, long, long, long time ago” from “Sir Psycho Sexy”)

To make the album…

producer Rick Rubin moved the Chili Peppers…

into a massive mansion in LA…

where they could live…

write…

and record together.

Well…

MOST of them lived there.

(Music Cut #3 – intro to “Suck My Kiss”)

Chad Smith wanted absolutely no part it.

He believed the mansion was haunted…

so while Anthony Kiedis, Flea and John Frusciante stayed there…

Chad left every night…

and went home.

(Music Cut #4 – more “Suck My Kiss” with the hook and then drums)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the funk will make me freak
If I should die before I waked
Allow me Lord to rock out naked” – Red Hot Chili Peppers “Sir Psycho Sexy”

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Movies That Matter / 09-25-26

(Movies That Matter Intro)

Welcome to Movies That Matter, where we look at three movies worth knowing about before the weekend begins.

Brad Pitt stranded in Alaska with only his dog, DreamWorks sending us somewhere – I forget, you’ll see why, and Avengers: Endgame – one more time – it’s the encore!

(Countdown Video)

What’s new? Brad Pitt is heading into the Alaskan wilderness for Heart of the Beast.

(Heart of the Beast “The Hard Way” clip)

Pitt plays a former Special Forces soldier who survives a plane crash and finds himself stranded with only his combat dog by his side.

So basically – freezing temperatures and no help, but one very important “good boy.”

(Heart of the Beast – dog jumping into water clip)

Alright… after all of that survival, I really need something to help me forget about it all.

(Forgotten Island clip – “Welcome to Forgotten Island”)

Yeah – I went there with the bad joke. Forgotten Island

It drops us onto a mysterious island filled with creatures, surprises and – judging by the title – a place everybody forgets about on the map.

(Forgotten Island “the longer you’re here” clip)

And finally… Avengers, assemble.

(Avengers: Endgame “Avengers, assemble” clip)

Avengers: Endgame is back for an encore

Now, seven years later, you get another chance to see it the way it was meant to be seen – on the big screen.

(Avengers: Endgame “Second chance” clip)

Saving the universe once just wasn’t enough.

That’s this weekend’s Movies That Matter. From surviving Alaska to getting lost on a forgotten island to assembling the Avengers one more time, there should be something waiting for you at the movies.

Until next time – keep on popping the corn.

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 “On A Plain”)

Yesterday…

we talked about an a band that helped inspire Nirvana.

On September 24th, 1991…

Nirvana released the album…

that changed everything.

Nevermind.

(Music Cut #2 – more “On A Plain”)

And one song on Nevermind…

wasn’t really supposed to be a song at all.

Nirvana was struggling through a take of “Lithium”…

(Music Cut #3 – “Lithium”)

then Kurt Cobain got frustrated…

and the band just exploded into a noisy jam.

Producer Butch Vig kept the tape rolling.

(Music Cut #4 – “Endless, Nameless”)

That meltdown became…

“Endless, Nameless.”

It was supposed to be the hidden track on Nevermind…

after nearly ten minutes of silence.

Except…

the first copies of the album accidentally didn’t include it.

So Nirvana accidentally CREATED a song…

and then accidentally forgot to put it on the album.

(Music Cut #5 – “On A Plain”)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“Love myself better than you
I know it’s wrong, so what should I do?.” – Nirvana “On A Plain”

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 – “U-Mass”)

Released on this day in 1991…

Pixies dropped their fourth album…

Trompe le Monde.

And exactly one day later…

a band they helped inspire…

was about to change it all.

(Music Cut #2 – more “U-Mass”)

By this point…

Pixies had already become one of alternative rock’s most influential bands.

And one musician in particular…

was definitely listening.

(Music Cut #3 – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”)

Kurt Cobain.

He later admitted that when he wrote “Smells Like Teen Spirit”…

he was basically trying to write…

a Pixies song.

And tomorrow…

exactly one day after Trompe le Monde arrived…

Nirvana released Nevermind.

Two albums.

Two days.

And one amazing connection.

(Music Cut #4 – “U-Mass”)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“We’re not just kids to say the least
We got ideas to us that’s dear.” – Pixies “U-Mass”

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released on this day in 1996…

Marilyn Manson introduced us…

to some very…

“Beautiful People.”

(Music Cut #2)

With Trent Reznor helping behind the boards…

Marilyn Manson created one of the defining songs of his career.

But that title…

“The Beautiful People”…

actually came from somewhere you probably wouldn’t expect.

(Music Cut #3)

A book.

Marylin Bender’s 1967 book The Beautiful People…

about the world of celebrities…

fashion…

and high society.

Nearly 30 years later…

Marilyn Manson borrowed the title…

and made “The Beautiful People” sound a whole lot less beautiful.

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“It’s not your fault that you’re always wrong
The weak ones are there to justify the strong.” – Marilyn Manson “The Beautiful People”

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MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

Released on this day in 1995…

No Doubt introduced the world…

to a girl…

who was about to change alternative rock.

(Music Cut #2)

“Just a Girl” became the first single from Tragic Kingdom…

an album produced by a guy…

who already knew what it was like

to have a hit of his own…

more than a decade earlier.

(Music Cut #3 – “Break My Stride”)

Yep… Matthew Wilder.

The guy singing “Break My Stride”…

went on to produce No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom…

including “Just a Girl.”

(Music Cut #4)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“I can’t do the little things I hold so dear
‘Cause it’s all those little things that I fear.” – No Doubt “Just A Girl”

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3,2, 1 – New Music Monday / 09-21-26

(3,2,1 New Music Monday Intro)

Welcome to Music That Matters with 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday.

This week: Miley persuades with bass, Beck gets lonesome, and beabadoobee turns the distortion pedal on.

Plus, new songs from Travis Scott and Matt Berninger, but not together, and Phil Collins gives Face Value the full treatment on vinyl.

(Countdown Video)

3 major album drops.

First up Miley Cyrus with Bass Persuades

(“Bass Persuades” clip)

This is her 10th studio album, but it’s also the first one released simply under the name Miley.

No Cyrus.

Just Miley.

And across 10 tracks, we get dance-pop, love songs, and a whole lot of bass doing exactly what the title promised.

(“Let’s Get Married” clip)

Next, Beck is here again with Ride Lonesome

(“Ride Lonesome” clip)

If you prefer Beck in his Sea Change or Morning Phase mode, this one is for you.

He even reunited with musicians from those records for a quieter, more atmospheric return.

(“Run Away” clip)

And finally – this one is just fun to say – beabadoobee with Pylon

This is her fourth album, and she’s leaning much harder into grunge and ’90s alt-rock.

(“Write Me A Letter” clip)

2 new singles.

And with the first one – Travis Scott is giving us an early taste of the Grand Theft Auto VI soundtrack with “RHYNO”

(“RHYNO” clip)

And producing the song is Guy-Manuel of Daft Punk.

So, that’s Travis Scott, GTA VI, AND half of Daft Punk?

That’s a whole lot of cool packed into one song.

Now this next… technically isn’t just a single.

(clip)

Matt Berninger of The National dropped a five-song EP called Type It Up — basically, more than a single but not quite enough music to call it a full album.

(Record Scratch video)

And finally, 1 vinyl pick.

Phil Collins is giving his solo debut Face Value the full value for its 45th anniversary.

The new box expands the album to four LPs with demos, live recordings, outtakes and previously unreleased material.

(“In The Air Tonight” clip)

Yes – that means even more ways to play along to that drum solo

That’s your 3 albums, 2 singles, and 1 vinyl for the week.

This has been 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday

Until next time.

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