Vinyl Four Podcast
The Vinyl 4 Podcast, brought to you by Signal Syndicate Productions, puts a tournament spin on the Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of All Time. Each week, Shawn and Craig face off with 16 randomly selected records, whittling them down through head-to-head matchups until only the ultimate “Vinyl 4” remains. Equal parts music nerdery and bracket madness, it’s a fresh take on discovering classics, debating favorites, and having fun with the albums that shaped music history.
Vinyl Four Podcast
S1 - Ep 12 - Round 10: The Pixies, Kanye, Beach Boys & More in an Impossible Matchup
Shawn and Craig enter Round 10 of the Vinyl 4 Podcast, and the bracket has officially reached “no easy choices left.” This week brings another powerhouse set of 16 albums — a mix of groundbreaking classics, cult favorites, and genre-defining masterpieces.
The lineup includes Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model, D’Angelo’s Voodoo, The Beatles’ Rubber Soul, and Pixies’ Doolittle — plus Kiss, Buffalo Springfield, The Beach Boys (twice!), Richard & Linda Thompson, Graham Parker, Jay-Z, Kanye West, TLC, Sinead O’Connor, Peter Wolf, and EPMD.
It’s soul vs. hip-hop, punk-pop vs. folk-rock, ’60s sunshine pop vs. ’90s alt-rock — and somehow it all fits into one brutal bracket. Shawn and Craig debate, dissect, and eventually narrow the field down to 4 survivors.
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