Ep55: 1973 - Aladdin Sane and Pin-Ups vs. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and DYLAN or The Glam Gaucho of 1973

Dear Listeners- We're back, baby! With an episode of Bowie vs. Dylan. With an episode of Bowie vs. Dylan that's more than a year later than the previous episode of Bowie vs. Dylan. An episode of Bowie vs. Dylan that concerns the year previous to the one that we're currently navigating with grace and obvious peace. An episode of Bowie vs. Dylan that's alternatingly salty, sweet, scandalous, saccharine, sultry, slap-happy, and sassy, all at the same time. An episode of Bowie vs. Dylan that's so ALL of the above in the multiple choice game that Jake had no choice but to wait nearly 3 months from the time of recording said podcast with Chaz, to actually posting it. And that my friends, is how you win the podcast game, on this episode of Bowie vs. Dylan.

Picture yourself, listeners: You've purchased premium tickets for the Outlaw Festival, which is not exactly a festival per say, but much more exactly a 4-way split bill consisting of "classic" podcasters who each "perform" a live podcast of exactly 48 minutes, "legends" in their own time and right, mind you, but now that we here mention it, the price per minute on this bad boy, what with the travel and hotels and campgrounds and food and outrageously priced alcoholic beverages, is really starting to steal your attention. Anyway, it's also absolutely hot as H, and you've slogged through some real dog-butt live "classic" podcasters to get to this point, which is the precipice of what you've been waiting and hoping to experience first-hand, live, FINALLY, the act you and your fellow 40,000 concert-going travelers have ALL (and by all, we here mean you) been waiting for: BOWIE VS. DYLAN Episode #72!!!!!! The crowd goes wild, on this belated-upon-belated-upon-belated 72nd edition of Bowie vs. Dylan.

Dear Bowie vs. Dylan consumers: Please find below a synopsis, free of charge, from one of our esteemed children, Mabel, of the following episode, #71 in an unending series. Mabel also serves as an executive producer of the podcast, and was instrumental in actually getting Jake to post this sweet ep, which was truly meant to go live to the world at large not too long after 2023 ended, and 2024 began, because of course the subject matter of said sweet ep is a rundown of all of the many doings of David Bowie and Bob Dylan in the year 2023: It was super cool and it now should be called: "Mabel's Dad's Cool Songs", and in Dad's cool songs, they talk about Bowie vs. Dylan, because they're really cool. But there's no Charlie! Just Mabel and Dad; that's why it's "Mabel's Dad's Cool Songs". I'll bet you can't resist clicking "Download" now, can you, on the latest episode of Mabel's Dad's Cool Songs.

Quick survey, yes or no questions, real quick, no skin off your back: Are you a frequent listener of podcasts? Yes. Do you frequently listen to podcasts that have music as their subject? Yes. Do some of your most preferred music podcasts fall loosely under the category of "classic rock"? I guess, but don't you find those genre signifiers outmoded and narrow in scope, especially as they pertain to certain artists who might happen to have decades-long, groundbreaking, and chameleonic careers? ....... As a listener of classic rock podcasts, do you take a virulently entrenched stance as to who's better, David Bowie or Bob Dylan? HELL YES. As a listener of classic rock podcasts with a virulently entrenched stance as to who's better, David Bowie or Bob Dylan, would you be willing to engage in any sort of physical altercation with a member of the opposite preferred artist's camp, no matter how frighteningly it might escalate? Why, I would fight someone right now given the opportunity. When listening to this highly specific, but growing in popularity, niche of podcasting, do you want, hope, and in fact crave for the content of said podcasts to, for the most part, be about discussing and analyzing music that could be considered, at a minimum, "good", and hopefully "great to transcendent"? Yes, that would be a reasonable expectation. Then you've come to the wrong place, on this Top 10 Worst Songs of Their Entire Careers-themed episode of Bowie vs. Dylan.

Find out how shocked the boys are, on a scale of 1-10, that the Bowie camp decided to release TWO good boxsets in consecutive years. Spoiler alert: the answer is 11. But not to fear! They also released literally 68 other things that weren't nearly as shockingly excellent. And what's that, you ask? Did Dylan do some stuff, too, whether good, bad, or ugly? Spoiler alert: the answer is maybe? 2022 is the new boss that you meet that's the same as the old boss, on this episode of Bowie vs. Dylan.