catalog club

Catalog Club: John Prine’s “Bruised Orange” (1978)

His fifth album is a Zen statement about living gracefully with loss and disappointment

Oct 12 • Steven Hyden

40:00

Catalog Club: John Prine’s “John Prine” (1971)

One of the greatest debut albums of all time heralds an all-time singer-songwriter

Oct 5 • Steven Hyden

51:13

Catalog Club: The Smiths’ “Louder Than Bombs” and “Strangeways, Here We Come” (1987)

It’s the end of the road — and it seems like the songs are hinting at it in advance

Sep 28 • Steven Hyden

46:19

Catalog Club: The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead” (1986)

It’s their undisputed masterpiece — though I will (ever so slightly) dispute it

Sep 21 • Steven Hyden

48:08

Catalog Club: The Smiths’ “Meat Is Murder” (1985)

A conversation about their second album that touches on parallels to R.E.M.

Sep 14 • Steven Hyden

40:50

Catalog Club: The Smiths’ “The Smiths” and “Hatful Of Hollow” (1984)

Two great albums about sorrow and weakness that project strength and swagger

Sep 7 • Steven Hyden

50:45

Catalog Club: Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s “Broken Arrow” (1996)

His last and least famous of the ’90s marks the end of an era — for Neil and for rock

Aug 31 • Steven Hyden

38:32

Catalog Club: Neil’s Young’s “Mirror Ball” (1995)

A superstar team-up with Pearl Jam that doesn’t feel like a superstar team-up

Aug 24 • Steven Hyden

41:19

Neil Young & Crazy Horse's "Sleeps With Angels" (1994)

One of his most painful and despairing records, for a painful and despairing time

Aug 17 • Steven Hyden

40:47

Catalog Club: Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" (1992)

After one of his loudest (and best) albums Neil made one of his quietest (and best) albums

Aug 10 • Steven Hyden

45:41

Catalog Club: Neil Young & Crazy Horse's "Ragged Glory" (1990)

'90s Neil Month begins (where else?) with the greatest guitar album of his career

Aug 3 • Steven Hyden

47:14

Catalog Club: Deerhunter's "Monomania" (2013)

A "I feel very proud to be hideous" kind of record from the end of their golden era

Jul 27 • Steven Hyden

42:57

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