Picking Up Something Good
A limited event prestige podcast

STEELY DARCH VI: Two Against Nature / Everything Must Go

Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Steely Dan's output, all Dancember... er, Danua... Debruary long. Darch. It's Steely Darch now not another month.

Here we go - welcome to the finale of Steely Dancember. It's been a long month.

STEELY DEBRUARY V: Gaucho

Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Steely Dan's output, all Dancember... er, Danua... Debruary long.

This week, holy crap it's Steely Debruary. So sorry. Alex Riggs and Rose are back. One more to go.

STEELY DANUARY IV: Aja

Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Steely Dan's output, all Dancember... er, Danuary long.

This week, we're sorry for taking so long to put out the Aja episode. Alex Riggs and Rose join us to talk the Big One. This was recorded just after Xmas. Nicky's got some Glup Shittos in this one. We promise we'll get to Gaucho next week. Happy Steely Danuary.

STEELY DANCEMBER III: The Royal Scam / PUSG Mailbag!

Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Steely Dan's output, all Dancember long.

This week, we recognize that many of our listeners are actively listening to other bands. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of bands besides Steely Dan on Picking Up Something Good. Listen to 1976's The Royal Scam with us. We'll also answer some questions from the PUSG mailbag.

STEELY DANCEMBER II: Pretzel Logic / Katy Lied

CONTENT WARNING: We discuss a song on Katy Lied that is impossible to talk about without delving into general creepiness and discussion of a pedophile. This was uncomfortable for us to cover and is likely uncomfortable for some to listen to. The segment happens from 01:26:58 - 01:31:16. Please exercise caution when listening.

Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Steely Dan's output, all Dancember long.

This week, Zac Emerson of Doom Trip Records joins us to talk about some Major Dude Music - 1974's Pretzel Logic. After the break - a return to Skunk Corner and a trip through 1975's Katy Lied. Sorry for hating.

STEELY DANCEMBER I: Can't Buy a Thrill / Countdown to Ecstasy

Nicky Flowers and Echo Vessel are two best friends with a lifelong love of music. They also happen to have an infrequent podcast about it. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of... huh!?

SURPRISE - We're back! Escape the bleak cold of the 2022 holiday season and come with us to the halcyon days of the early 70s, where two guys could just pump out jazz rock bangers without a care in the world. This is the first episode of our brand new mini-season - welcome to STEELY DANCEMBER!

S2E10 – KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION (Catboy Museum)

Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album.

THIS IS THE AUDIO VERSION OF THE EPISODE. This version of the episode won't make any sense to you and is extremely meandering - more so than usual. We really intend for you to watch the video version! It's a fun Let's Play! Watch it here!

This week, we're live for the season finale. We're closing out PUSG Season 2 by exploring the original catboy museum, KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION, and discussing KID A MNESIA(E). It is absolutely crawling with little guys. Learn more and play the game for yourself at https://kida-mnesia.com.

OK Human (Cry Me Some Rivers, Cuomo)

Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album.

This is an EMERGENCY WEEZER BULLETIN. We are covering Weezer's new LP OK Human. We consider this album an existential threat to our podcast. I'm not even going to tell you what we cover. Jesus christ.

S2E9 – Earth (No Bangers Just Mash)

Nicky Flowers has never listened to Radiohead. Meys has. Picking Up Something Good is a limited event prestige podcast from Noise Space and neo-detritus where Nicky and Meys run through all of Radiohead’s output, album by album.

Whoa, hey, what did we miss? We're back with our second to last episode of Season 2 - this week, we're covering Ed O'Brien's solo album as EOB, Earth. That's right - we're talking about the 'yob. We spend a lot of time talking about a puzzle that had just come out at the time, as well as the worst cover of "Creep" we've ever heard. Meys also explains the plot of Death Stranding to Nicky. This is also an episode about Paul McCartney somehow. And Catholic mass. AND there's some massive news at the end of this episode!!! Wow, that's a ton. We'll never leave you for this long again.