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

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.

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.

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.

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!

This week, Sean Barry (@thatSeanBarry) joins us once more to speak for two uninterrupted hours about 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool. Also: WALL•E, Bald Thom Yorke, and an averted bad future for “Identikit”.

This week, we’re giving… Him… another chance. It’s Phil Selway’s 2014 album Weatherhouse. Let’s go. Also: Quarantine, a Star Trek argument, and the story of They Might Be Giants. Stay inside. Wash your hands.

Nicky and Meys have new music out, too! Go check out suffer comfort and Hyperreality.

This week, we’re discussing Thom Yorke’s 2014 album Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. We have a new theme song by Nicky Flowers this week. We’re gonna spend the rest of the episode getting hella divorced.

This week, we’re discussing Atoms for Peace’s 2013 album Amok. Also: Flea vs. Michael, Wild Hogs, Star Trek: Picard (spoilers!), and Thom’s big threat.

Theme music:
“Protofunk” by Kevin MacLeod
License: CC BY

This week, we’re discussing Phil Selway’s 2010 solo album Familial, I guess. Also: a look at the American Football house, 2010, and the results of a British poll about space.

Theme music:
“Who Likes to Party” by Kevin MacLeod
License: CC BY

This week, we’re back and covering 2011’s The King of Limbs! We’ll learn a couple of behind the scenes album tidbits and also hear Nicky’s essential on-location report from Midwest Furfest. We’re so glad to be back.

This week, we’re closing out the first season of Picking Up Something Good by covering B-sides and other odds and ends from the 2000s. We’re taking a short break after this and will be back in a couple of weeks! Don’t forget about us. Please god don’t forget about us.

This week, Nick Pitman from Hard Pass, Bot Garden, sometimes Continental Shelf, and For Everest joins us to talk about 2007’s In Rainbows. We talk about Radiohead memes made by Radiohead, Thom calls in with some heartbreaking news, and we get absolutely fucking sidetracked by an immensely hot picture of Jonny Greenwood. This one’s unedited and almost two full hours long. Buckle up.

This week, David of Tuning Fork and The Stick joins us to talk about Thom Yorke’s 2006 solo album, The Eraser. For more information, please visit our website at ThomYorkeTheEraserAlbumCover.com.

This week, we’re just about blasting through 2003’s Hail to the Thief. Who is the Thief? Is it George W. Bush? Is it Tony Blair? No need to speculate – we find out by the end of the episode. Mission Accomplished!

This week, we discuss many things including but not limited to 2001’s jazz classic Amnesiac. Meys learns who Paul Simon is, Nicky says the word “oeuvre” again, and special guest al Riggs reminisces about almost capsizing on “it’s a small world”.

No new content this week. Instead, Meys reads Brent DiCrescenzo’s infamous review of Kid A on a park bench in Pasadena. See you next week.

This week, we’ve finally made it to Radiohead 2 on 2000’s Kid A. Also: Thom explains “Morning Bell”, the eternal battle between Praxy and Banksy, and the shocking secret truth behind LMFAO.

This week’s theme music is a… very special cover of “Idioteque” by @Ceasepool.

This week, we’re taking it real easy and covering select b-sides released from 1993 to 1997, from “Pop is Dead” to “Talk Show Host” to “Lift”. If you thought an hour on Pablo Honey was a stretch, wait ’til you hear our five to ten minutes on “Pop is Dead”.

This week, we’ve got our first guest: Sean Barry of RadIsh! We’ve got way too much to say about 1997’s OK Computer. Also: Thom calls in, segue innovations, and Idiot, Slow Down.

Cold open music:
“Carpe Diem” by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed under CC BY

This week, we’re tackling Thom’s bends on 1995’s The Bends. Also: ahhhh, #FindThePabloHoneyBaby, and Ballad Talk.

We’re starting off with 1993’s Pablo Honey, a real freaky and real creepy album. Also: PUSG: Origins, baby covers, Thom’s Corner.