Join in to hear my Top 20 (okay, more like Top 30+) Bush / Gavin Rossdale songs! This is my 25th episode and marks the start of Season 2 -- thanks for listening. BTW ... Regular episodes coming again soon. Stay tuned!

SPECIAL EPISODE: Our furry friends don't typically get obituaries, funerals, eulogies, or headstones. I'm using my platform to change that for my beloved boy, Brutus, a.k.a., Boobie. A good boy who was once called a "very handsome dobie man" by our vet, Boobie crossed over to the Rainbow Bridge on 11/03/2022 at the age of 9.5 years.  Please listen here as I tell you about the wonderful life of Brutus, and how he made our lives much more wonderful, too. "Brutus, I loved you for your whole life, and will love you the rest of mine. You were my favorite hello and one of my hardest goodbyes." Listen to my podcast episode about Brutus, here. Check out my written tribute to Brutus, here . Check out my tribute videos to Brutus, here  and here View more photos/videos of Brutus on my Instagram  or TikTok. View Brutus's memorial fundraiser, here.

Steady All the Ways - Part 2: a lyrical analysis of the Bush song Heavy Is the Ocean from the Art of Survival.  (In Part 1, I talk about the new Bush  album as a whole, plus a little about Taylor Swift and how cancel culture could impact music.) PS: Happy Birthday to Gavin Rossdale!     TW: trigger warning for explicit language and a lyric using the word suicide.

Steady All The Ways - Part 1 -  In part one of this two-part episode, I talk about the Bush album the Art of Survival, and also discuss a little about Taylor Swift's Midnights and the negative impact 'cancel culture' could have on music and art. In the forthcoming Part 2, I will lyrically analyze the Bush song Heavy Is the Ocean. PS: Happy Birthday to Gavin Rossdale!     TW: trigger warning for disordered eating, body dysmorphia, explicit language.

A personal episode discussing the recent Bush concert / meet & greet, along with my reasons behind doing this podcast, what their music means to me, and more! 

Episode 20 - wow! In this episode, I get on my soapbox about haters and critics who don't even put forth the effort to understand early Bush songs, and wax poetic about how Gavin Rossdale deserves far more credit than he used to get. Also: I analyze & interpret the 1999(ish?) Bush song, Disease of the Dancing Cats!  trigger warning as usual 

We've got defrocked priests, we've got rings of gold, we have ladders to heaven and Devil's Pulpits ... we have: Blood River... a Bush song written by Gavin Rossdale, from the 2020 album, The Kingdom.  Enjoy Episode 19 of Deconstructing Bush, hosted by Beulah Marie.

Episode 18: this one's for all the literary-minded folks, out there! English majors and "word nerds," unite! Today, we take a look at symbolism, themes, and motifs in Bush songs, and examine songwriter Gavin Rossdale as a "rocker poet." Plus, another plug for my Sweet Relief Musician's Fund fundraiser. PS: excuse my cold and my 3 barking dogs lol!

Who wants a quickie? In this brief bonus episode, I talk about a recent mix-up relating to Greedy Fly + Chemicals Between Us; I plug my Music as Medicine episode & blog post, and my Sweet Relief Musicians Fund fundraiser; I panic about whether or not this podcast would offend Gavin Rossdale or the band; I fret over if I could ask them to wish me Happy Birthday at the Raleigh, NC show.  BUT - most importantly... I attempt a "One Second Synopsis" for each song, summarizing each Bush song I've covered so far, in a quick lil' speed summary.  Happy listening! 

A special Badly Branded x Deconstructing Bush crossover episode about how music and concerts have helped me cope with illness, pain, grief, and broken dreams. It's a love letter to my concert-going / pop culture obsession, and I talk about everything from having brain surgery and then seeing Lady Gaga at the Oprah show, to Ed Sheeran and Bush concerts helping me cope with joint replacements and loss, to how facial paralysis derailed my Music Business education, and more. Plus, learn about the Sweet Relief Musician's Fund for career musicians facing illness, disability, injury, or age-related issues. Enjoy!