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DISGRACELAND

Bonus Episode - Great Girl Groups au Go Go

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.613.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week in the After Party, Jake ponders the greatest girl groups of all time and wonders about our AI-driven future if AI doesn't even have the Go-Gos on its radar as one of the all time great girl groups. Next week, we're presenting our episode on Marilyn Manson, and Jake wants to know: Who was the most subversive artist of the 1990s? Tell Jake at 617-906-6638, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or on socials @disgracelandpod. For more great Disgraceland episodes, dive into our extensive archive, including such episodes as: Episode 93 - Taylor Swift Episode 105 and 106 - Britney Spears Episode 40 - Motown Records To hear an extended version of the After Party and unlock access to a monthly exclusive episode and ad free listening, become a Disgraceland All Access member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠disgracelandpod.com/membership.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.disgracelandpod.com/merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to see the latest Disgraceland merch! Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GET THE NEWSLETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (formerly Twitter)  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Discos.

0:02.4

Need a little more disgrace land in your life?

0:04.9

Just a touch to get you through?

0:07.4

Yeah, me too.

0:08.8

This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.

0:11.7

Welcome to Disgraceland bonus episode. A little thing we like to call the after party. This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full episode of disgrace and to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt.

0:41.1

On this bonus episode, we are talking about this week's episode subject, The Go-Go's.

0:47.5

We're previewing the coming Marilyn Manson episode, getting into some recommendations and some

0:52.9

subversive 90s talk.

0:54.7

And we go through your voicemails, text, DMs, emails.

0:57.2

And as always, a whole lot of rosy.

0:59.5

All right, discos.

1:00.6

Let's get into it.

1:17.6

All right, the go-go's this week's full episode, subject of disgrace and they did something that no one has ever done before. They were the first group of all female musicians to have a number

1:21.7

one album of songs that they wrote themselves. And that's noteworthy, as we discussed in the episode, because in the beginning

1:28.9

of their career, they were told by music industry insiders, namely record executives, that they

1:33.2

couldn't expect to write their own songs and have a hit album. But that's exactly what they did.

1:40.0

So the obvious question then is, are the go-go's the greatest group of female musicians in pop

1:45.9

music history?

1:47.3

Now, I both love and hate these big dumb questions.

1:50.7

I love them because as dumb as they are, they force us to have a conversation about things.

1:56.9

I dislike them immensely because they're so basic and they are so limiting. They eliminate any

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