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2	[[caption-width-right:500:[[{{Tagline}} Friends make a pact to listen and discuss 1001 of the best albums in a basement tiki bar]]]]
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4	"1001 Album Club" is a podcast that began in January 2018, that focuses on an interchanging group of music-loving friends going through Robert Dimery's 2005 book '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'. The podcast's most frequent panelists include Birch, the host, his friends Rob & Ben, who have had plenty of experiences in bands, his wife Ann, [[EnsembleCast and plenty more from where they came from.]]
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6	Starting from Episode 327, recorded in Spring 2020 but released in March 2021, the podcast began switching back and forth between recording remotely, in-person, or sometimes a combination, because of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The podcast celebrated its 500th episode in November 2022, along with an exclusive interview with [[SpecialGuest Robert Dimery himself]], who talked about his new book, his experience writing the original '1001 Albums Book', and had to sit as the panelists listed their gripes with the original book after going through it for 500 episodes.
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8	It can be heard on [[https://open.spotify.com/show/7f5Rdm6RukUPsWFtxlEfOb?si=09a1d61892224f62 Spotify]], but its main website is [[https://www.1001albumclub.com/ here]].
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10	!!This podcast contains examples of:
11	* ClusterFBomb: Many of the panelists, particularly Rob, are prone to this from time to time.
12	* DeadpanSnarker: Each panelist in spades, but especially [[OnlySaneMan Birch]].
13	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first episodes had the albums rated on a thumbs-up/down scale, but later Birch incorporated the Positive-Neutral-Negative scale in order to make his panelists really think about how they overall felt about the album, which stuck.
14	* HehHehYouSaidX: In Episode 88, [[Music/{{Cream}} Cream's]] Music/DisraeliGears, Birch praised the album for pushing music in a new direction, to which Rob eggs him because it sounds like "nude erection".
15	* LargeHam: Rob, either when he's very excited or very pissed about an album in the book.
16	* OnlyOneFindsItFun: This happens occasionally, for instance, Kyle was the only one who liked "Picture Book" by Simply Red, and Rob was the only one who had any nice to say about The Style Council's "Cafe Bleu".
17	* RunningGag: The bringing up of reviews by [[CausticCritic Robert Christgau]] of the Village Voice, especially when he doesn't have much nice to say about an album.
18	* SeinfeldianConversation: Not to the extent of [[Podcast/RockOfAgesPodcast Rock of Ages]], which openly cites 1001 Album Club as a main influence, but on occasion the panelists, especially Rob, Ben, and Kyle, will tangent to a subject barely related to the album, only for Birch to rope them back in.
19	* SpecialGuest: In tandem with Episode 500, [[Music/TheCure The Cure's]] "Pornography", a special bonus episode was released with Birch, Ann, Rob, & Ben interviewing the original author of '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die', Robert Dimery.
20	** Though he technically isn't a special guest, Adam Turla of the band Music/MurderByDeath is an occasional panelist.

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