May 19, 2025 • 6 mins
From the collective desk in the shared work space that is the Major Label Debut Podcast Network comes an exciting non-pope related announcement.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's Major Label Debut, the podcast about major label debuts.
My name is Graham Wright. Now the remit of major
label Debut has broadened week by week, which brings me to,
you know, the major label debut of the Catholic Cardinal is.
Of course, when they ascend to the papacy. We're not
really here to talk about the Pope. I have this
vision of all of our people who signed up to
(00:26):
listen to us talk to you know, nineteen nineties rock
and rollers, scratching their heads and then turning the podcast off.
We're here today, in fact, to tell you about an
even more exciting initiative from MLD Productions Major Label Debut
producer John Paul. Thank you for indulging my papal riffing.
I'll throw to you to tell the people what are
(00:47):
white smoke? What message it carries?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We are going to do a movie club. It's called
Major Label Debut Music Movie Club, where we're going to
watch a bunch of great old and new music movies, documentaries,
really anything, and talk about them and hopefully use this
as a way to engage with you, get your opinions
and feedback about what you like, what you don't like,
(01:13):
and what's funny and what's not funny, and what's interesting,
what's not interesting, and maybe sexy even. I think that's
a nice bit of thing. And in the very first
movie we're going to watch is Oliver Stone's nineteen ninety
one classic The Doors starring Val Kilmer Rest in Peace.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
A movie that I saw for the first time in
your apartment when Tokyo Police Club was in Los Angeles
recording our last record TPC. We came over to your
place to watch The Oscars. And I didn't know this
as an East Coast guy, but it turns out in
La the Oscars are over it like the sun is
still out, and so you got other stuff to do
that night, and so we didn't want to stop hanging out.
We decided to watch The Doors, which, when you're in
(01:52):
the middle of making a record, which can be a
process that gets pretty self serious, pretty uptight, you start
to you know, you kind of have to sniff your
own bullshit a bit when you're making a record because
you're swimming around in it. Watching a movie like The
Doors at that moment for me was really helpful in
sort of it's such a serious movie about such a
serious band, and both Jim Morrison and Val Kilmer's performance
(02:15):
as Jim Morrison are so self serious that I just
found it really skewered something that needed to be skewered
for me in the moment. And I'm really excited to
watch the movie again and get a little more into
how it sort of mythologizes a band that was pretty
self mythologizing when they were making music.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
No doubt, and I do think that it is a
movie that more people should see. It is deeply complicated
and there's a lot going on there, so I think
it's perfect fodder for this first time out and a
perfect way to sort of engage with everybody who's been
supporting a podcast and listening and commenting so far. It's
(02:56):
we're trying to figure out what we want to do here.
We could just record a podcast and stick it up online,
or we could do some kind of live stream or
do a comment live kind of twitch set up through YouTube.
Please comment here in the comments of this video or
(03:20):
on the podcast platform that you're listening to it, and
tell us what you would like if you'd like it
for us to do Facebook live or some technology that
I'm unfamiliar with. I want to learn and I just
want to talk to you about Oliver Stone and the
Doors for as long as you can stomach it. Major
label debut.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I feel like one of the implicit threads that we're
always pulling at is the way that narrative it can
start to shape a band's career. Like the story you
tell or that is told by your publicist or your
major label or whoever, or by your fans, that tale
can start to wag the dog in the way that
the perceived story a band is such an important part
(04:01):
of the way that people experience it. And so I'm
really excited to talk about movies, both documentaries and fictional
movies and you know, biopics, et cetera, because there's sort
of these coalescing moments of those stories, and we can
really look at a story being told in real time
and see the decisions that are made and what that
says about the perception of the music. And especially nowadays
(04:25):
with the documentaries and biopics that are being heavily controlled
by the artists themselves or their estates, the way that
it's now being used is yet another facet in like
the reputation building industrial complex. I just think there's so
much there's so much to talk about, and I'm really
really excited to dig into it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Let's experiment and have fun and watch some movies together,
some of which I think will be awful, probably, but
I meant that. One thing I found was my VHS
copy of the Year Punk Broke, ironically also from nineteen
ninety one, the Year of the Doors movie. So I
desperately want to rewatch this, and it's full of like
Nirvana and Sonic Youth and Gumball and the Ramones and
(05:08):
that kind of thing. Please just suggest stuff, Yeah, please,
if there's a movie you've never seen before, you want
to have a reason to watch it and then talk
with the two of us, you know, just do it.
We're here for you, and I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I'm excited to So look out for the mld MMC,
which also is like a Roman numeral copyright on a
Hollywood movie. At this point, we haven't set a date
for it yet, but you know, we'll write that in
the description when we figure it out or will announce it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, sometime in mid June, right, yeah, I think around there. Yeah,
we'll stick up notices all over social media and thank
you for listening to this announcement.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yes, thank you for listening to this announcement. Congratulations to
the new pope. I'm Graham, right, John Paul Bolok, thanks
for being here. I can't wait to watch the Doors
and more movies with you and all of you the listeners.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, and thanks to Greg also for his incredible theme song,
and the genius producer Josh Hook, who makes us look
and sound great. We tried to shame him into doing
this with us and he refused, so thank you for that. Josh.
We're coming for you.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
We're coming for you. Soon you will be the man
on the balcony leading the church. That is our podcast.
Following thanks for listening to major label debut, we will
return with more tales, news and film analysis from the
intersection of art and commerce.
It's Major Label Debut, the podcast about major label debuts.
My name is Graham Wright. Now the remit of major
label Debut has broadened week by week, which brings me to,
you know, the major label debut of the Catholic Cardinal is.
Of course, when they ascend to the papacy. We're not
really here to talk about the Pope. I have this
vision of all of our people who signed up to
(00:26):
listen to us talk to you know, nineteen nineties rock
and rollers, scratching their heads and then turning the podcast off.
We're here today, in fact, to tell you about an
even more exciting initiative from MLD Productions Major Label Debut
producer John Paul. Thank you for indulging my papal riffing.
I'll throw to you to tell the people what are
(00:47):
white smoke? What message it carries?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We are going to do a movie club. It's called
Major Label Debut Music Movie Club, where we're going to
watch a bunch of great old and new music movies, documentaries,
really anything, and talk about them and hopefully use this
as a way to engage with you, get your opinions
and feedback about what you like, what you don't like,
(01:13):
and what's funny and what's not funny, and what's interesting,
what's not interesting, and maybe sexy even. I think that's
a nice bit of thing. And in the very first
movie we're going to watch is Oliver Stone's nineteen ninety
one classic The Doors starring Val Kilmer Rest in Peace.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
A movie that I saw for the first time in
your apartment when Tokyo Police Club was in Los Angeles
recording our last record TPC. We came over to your
place to watch The Oscars. And I didn't know this
as an East Coast guy, but it turns out in
La the Oscars are over it like the sun is
still out, and so you got other stuff to do
that night, and so we didn't want to stop hanging out.
We decided to watch The Doors, which, when you're in
(01:52):
the middle of making a record, which can be a
process that gets pretty self serious, pretty uptight, you start
to you know, you kind of have to sniff your
own bullshit a bit when you're making a record because
you're swimming around in it. Watching a movie like The
Doors at that moment for me was really helpful in
sort of it's such a serious movie about such a
serious band, and both Jim Morrison and Val Kilmer's performance
(02:15):
as Jim Morrison are so self serious that I just
found it really skewered something that needed to be skewered
for me in the moment. And I'm really excited to
watch the movie again and get a little more into
how it sort of mythologizes a band that was pretty
self mythologizing when they were making music.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
No doubt, and I do think that it is a
movie that more people should see. It is deeply complicated
and there's a lot going on there, so I think
it's perfect fodder for this first time out and a
perfect way to sort of engage with everybody who's been
supporting a podcast and listening and commenting so far. It's
(02:56):
we're trying to figure out what we want to do here.
We could just record a podcast and stick it up online,
or we could do some kind of live stream or
do a comment live kind of twitch set up through YouTube.
Please comment here in the comments of this video or
(03:20):
on the podcast platform that you're listening to it, and
tell us what you would like if you'd like it
for us to do Facebook live or some technology that
I'm unfamiliar with. I want to learn and I just
want to talk to you about Oliver Stone and the
Doors for as long as you can stomach it. Major
label debut.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I feel like one of the implicit threads that we're
always pulling at is the way that narrative it can
start to shape a band's career. Like the story you
tell or that is told by your publicist or your
major label or whoever, or by your fans, that tale
can start to wag the dog in the way that
the perceived story a band is such an important part
(04:01):
of the way that people experience it. And so I'm
really excited to talk about movies, both documentaries and fictional
movies and you know, biopics, et cetera, because there's sort
of these coalescing moments of those stories, and we can
really look at a story being told in real time
and see the decisions that are made and what that
says about the perception of the music. And especially nowadays
(04:25):
with the documentaries and biopics that are being heavily controlled
by the artists themselves or their estates, the way that
it's now being used is yet another facet in like
the reputation building industrial complex. I just think there's so
much there's so much to talk about, and I'm really
really excited to dig into it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Let's experiment and have fun and watch some movies together,
some of which I think will be awful, probably, but
I meant that. One thing I found was my VHS
copy of the Year Punk Broke, ironically also from nineteen
ninety one, the Year of the Doors movie. So I
desperately want to rewatch this, and it's full of like
Nirvana and Sonic Youth and Gumball and the Ramones and
(05:08):
that kind of thing. Please just suggest stuff, Yeah, please,
if there's a movie you've never seen before, you want
to have a reason to watch it and then talk
with the two of us, you know, just do it.
We're here for you, and I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I'm excited to So look out for the mld MMC,
which also is like a Roman numeral copyright on a
Hollywood movie. At this point, we haven't set a date
for it yet, but you know, we'll write that in
the description when we figure it out or will announce it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, sometime in mid June, right, yeah, I think around there. Yeah,
we'll stick up notices all over social media and thank
you for listening to this announcement.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yes, thank you for listening to this announcement. Congratulations to
the new pope. I'm Graham, right, John Paul Bolok, thanks
for being here. I can't wait to watch the Doors
and more movies with you and all of you the listeners.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, and thanks to Greg also for his incredible theme song,
and the genius producer Josh Hook, who makes us look
and sound great. We tried to shame him into doing
this with us and he refused, so thank you for that. Josh.
We're coming for you.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
We're coming for you. Soon you will be the man
on the balcony leading the church. That is our podcast.
Following thanks for listening to major label debut, we will
return with more tales, news and film analysis from the
intersection of art and commerce.
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