It's time to grab a six pack, a 50 cent piece, get some beetroot, and hang out with the podcast you can trust. For See Hear Podcast episode 15, Tim picked the Australian documentary from 2013 Cosmic Psychos - Blokes You Can Trust. The band started out in the early 1980s in the state of Victoria and (albeit not with the same lineup) are still around in 2015. Bands and artists such as Eddie Vedder, King Buzzo (The Melvins), Mudhoney, L7 and Butch Vig all line up not only to sing the Psychos' prais...
Mar 25, 2015•1 hr 21 min
Time for another episode of See Hear podcast - episode 14 to be precise.Miss Wendi has picked the film for discussion this time. She has selected the Alison Anders directed film from 1997, Grace of My Heart starring Ileana Douglas, Eric Stoltz, Matt Dillon and the always awesome John Turturro. It covers about 12 years in the life of Edna Buxton who has a dream to be a singer and a songwriter in a period when you were one or the other but not both. The film follows her ambitions, disappointments,...
Feb 18, 2015•1 hr 26 min
Happy 2015, everyone. See Hear podcast is back for its second year, and we hope you join us for what should be a great year of music-film discussion. Episode 13, our first episode for the year has Wendi, Tim, Bernard, and Maurice discussing a documentary (or is it?????) from 2006 directed by Alexander Lipsitz called “Air Guitar Nation”. The film follows the fortunes of a group of (mainly) young men who seek to be crowned the world champion of playing air guitar - and restore American pride!!!!!....
Jan 18, 2015•1 hr 3 min
It’s official. See Hear podcast is now one year old. Bernie, Wendi, Tim and Maurice have survived the jungle out there that is Podcastland. It’s a cutthroat and vicious environment, but we’ve survived to bring YOU the music film discussion we just know you crave. So the crew humbly delivers their first anniversary episode for you to dig on. Well……Maurice wasn’t available, but Bernie, Tim and Wendi carried on regardless to discuss the 2013 documentary directed by Jay Bulger, “Beware of Mr Baker”,...
Dec 16, 2014•58 min
Welcome to episode 11 of See Hear podcast. This month, it’s Bernie’s pick for a film to discuss, and he’s gone for 1984 film, Suburbia directed by Penelope Spheeris and produced by Roger Corman. It’s a disaffected teenagers story, but rather than just being another tale of misunderstood youth versus adults who “just don’t understand us”, there are other layers to this. There’s even a case to state that PT Anderson may have been influenced by this for Boogie Nights. How so? Tune in and find out. ...
Nov 18, 2014•1 hr 13 min
See Hear Podcast hits double digits. We’re up to episode 10. A small milestone, but one we’re very happy to have arrived at. This time around, Tim has picked Jim Jarmusch’s ensemble cast anthology film of 1989, Mystery Train including Steve Buscemi, Nicoletta Brasschi, and Screaming Jay Hawkins. Three stories, one hotel in the one and only Memphis. We discuss whether this actually qualifies as a music film, Memphis the iconic town versus the ordinary Memphis displayed in this film, Elvis versus ...
Oct 20, 2014•1 hr 42 min
Finally, the whole crew are back for episode 9 of See Hear. This time around, we discuss “Allegro Non Troppo”, Bruno Bozzetto’s 1976 parody / tribute to Fantasia. The live action (in black and white) features a sadistic conductor and an artless producer gather an orchestra of old women (brought in on a cattle truck) and an animator (taken from a prison in solitary confinement) to create something never done before – animation set to classical music – a shame that someone called Prisney or Grisne...
Sep 19, 2014•1 hr 14 min
Time for episode 8 of See Hear, the podcast that discusses music-related films. This time around, we discuss the 1976 documentary about the Outlaw Country movement, Heartworn Highways directed by James Szalapski. There’s no narration or talking heads to describe a development in country music. Appropriately, it’s a series of scenes mainly featuring emerging singer songwriters of the time (Guy Clark, Townes van Zandt, Rodney Crowell) performing their songs, and discussing ordinary details of thei...
Aug 25, 2014•1 hr 46 min
The whole crew of See Hear are back for episode 7. Wendi has picked the 2007 rock bio-pic parody “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” starring the great John C.Reilly for us to watch. Taking cues at first from films like “Walk The Line” and “Ray”, it takes aim at many of the clichés of other biography films and popular conceptions of many iconic musicians in general. Probably another film that this could be mildly compared to is Woody Allen’s “Zelig”. The titular Cox (tee hee…see what I did there???...
Jul 13, 2014•1 hr 25 min
Scheduling issues unfortunately meant Wendi, Tim and Sticky couldn’t join in to record Episode 6 of See Hear Podcast this month. However, we at See Hear HQ didn’t want our listeners to be deprived of a music related film discussion, nosiree Bob!!! I put out the call to the See Hear Facebook community, and Hank Hellman answered the call. Hank joined me to discuss the Northern Irish film from 2012 Good Vibrations. This covers the true story of Terri Hooley through the Seventies. In the midst of Th...
Jun 23, 2014•59 min
Episode 5 of See Hear is ready for your earholes. Here’s a recipe: Take a large cup of Phantom of the Opera. Pour in a generous helping of Faust. Sprinkle in a dash of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Add just a pinch of Psycho and Woodstock. Throw in some over-the-top hammy horror, a thuggish doo-wop group, a man called Beef, and songs that pastiche the history of rock to that point and voila you have……. Phantom of the Paradise. This month, the See Hear Crew discuss Brian De Palma’s 1974 rock musica...
May 26, 2014•1 hr 19 min
Welcome to Episode 4 of See Hear podcast, the show dedicated to music-related film Bernie Sticky chose this month’s film, Franco Rosso’s “Babylon” (1981). Blue (Brinsley Forde from reggae band, Aswad) is a second-generation Jamaican living in Britain. Like Jimmy the mod in Quadrophenia, he’s surrounded by circumstances that make him question where he belongs. Like any teenager he wants to break away from his parents’ values and who appear to have forsaken their own identity to assimilate in Marg...
Apr 23, 2014•1 hr 22 min
Welcome to episode 3 of the See Hear podcast. Wendi was absent taking part in a drum battle against Animal, but Tim, Sticky and Maurice carried on regardless. This time around we discuss Robert Altman’s final film, A Prairie Home Companion. Plenty of music is performed here, but the focus of this film is more on death. Having said that, this film is a million miles from being morbid, and is a wonderful celebration of life. We discuss the movie but also get all philosophical on y’all discussing p...
Mar 17, 2014•1 hr 33 min
Welcome to episode 2 of the See Hear podcast. Wendi, Tim and Maurice are joined by Mr Bernard Stickwell Esq to discuss the 1982 film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains directed by Lou Adler. The film is prophetic in seeing a less-than-talented band gain a loyal following using the help of the media. No publicity is bad publicity. Moral compasses from nearly every character in the film are pointing south. It was a great discussion, and we hope you can join us. Join the podcast Facebook gro...
Feb 17, 2014•1 hr 5 min
Welcome to episode 1 of the monthly See Hear podcast (temporarily utilising the Love That Album podcast RSS feed). Join your hosts, Wendi Freeman, Tim Merrill and Maurice Bursztynski as they discuss music related films – narrative or documentary. No gentle start for the team as they discuss the Todd Phillips documentary about notorious punk rock singer GG Allin. The film is not for the faint of heart (and our language may reflect the content discussed), but it is a fascinating look at a man who ...
Jan 13, 2014•1 hr 20 min
