Does anyone fancy some lasagna? While our bucket hats and tour jerseys may be safely tucked away, we are still yearning for Oasis Summer. From the moment we got our presale codes the excitement continued to build until we found ourselves in Wembley Stadium and the Rose Bowl for the concert event of the summer.

In this episode, we recap everything from purchasing our tickets through watching the Gallagher boys rip through the songs that defined our youth. It was an epic summer and one that deserved its own episode.

You gotta roll with it, little by little until you bring it on down to Champagne Supernova. Oasis vibes will always be in the area.

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Read Carla's recap of Oasis Live '25 at her Substack, Wax Puddle.

Check out Brad's Substack, Take Take the Noise in My Head.

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Credits: Intro/Outro — the Februarys, "Does Your Father Know" / "...in a Letter"

Reports of the death of Music Television were greatly exaggerated—or 25 years late, depending on your point of view. Wherever you stand on that question, we Gen Xers thought we'd set aside an hour to talk about four of our favorites from the good old days.

Hush, hush, Rio—and don't come around here full of love no more.

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Credits: Intro/Outro — the Februarys, "Does Your Father Know" / "...in a Letter"

Today we put 2025 fully in the rear-view, with Part Two of our Apple Music Replay series. Join us as Mark and Brad serve some choice cuts from their Best of/ Most of playlists.

Lots to look for in this one, including a surprise drop from Mark and a trip to São Paulo with Brad, amid simmering tensions in the ongoing '90s v. '20s battle.

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Credits: Intro/Outro — the Februarys, "Does Your Father Know" / "...in a Letter"

With nearly every app giving us some history of our activity this year, we decided to share with you three songs each that made their way onto our Apple Music Replay playlists.

This is a super-sized, two-part episode. In today's episode, Bob and Carla share their picks, a few of which come with some controversy and some attitude. Have Bob and Carla formed their own alliance? Will Brad and Mark ever listen to a band from the current year and actually like them? You'll have to tune in to find out.

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Credits: Intro/Outro — the Februarys, "Does Your Father Know" / "...in a Letter"

Today we are re-releasing one of our favorite episodes...our Christmas Special! Here we talked about some of our favorite (and not so favorite) Christmas songs and movies.

Joining us on The Nice List are the Pogues, Bowie and Bing, Weezer, Ella, Jose Feliciano, She & Him, the Kinks, the Vince Guaraldi Trio, John and Yoko, Darlene Love, the Waitresses, Elvis and more!

Dim the lights, stoke the fire, egg the nog, and Yule it up with The Mixtape Diaries. Your heart will grow three sizes this day.

Find the playlist for this episode on Spotify. You can also find Mark's Holiday playlist on Apple and Brad's Holiday playlist on Spotify.

This episode was originally released on Dec. 15, 2021.

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Credits: Intro — the Februarys, "Does Your Father Know"/ Outro — Cocteau Twins, "Frosty the Snowman."

Today we pay tribute to one of rock music's most legendary bass players, Gary "Mani" Mounfield of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream. We lost Mani in late November - far too soon. As tributes have poured in from many of our favorite bands including Oasis and Richard Ashcroft, we wanted to pay our own tribute to honor the man whose music and signature bass lines have left a lasting mark on all of us.

In this episode, Brad and Carla reference The Rockonteurs podcast episode featuring Mani that aired in October. You can listen to it here (Apple, Spotify)

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Credits: Intro — the Februarys, "Does Your Father Know" / Outro - The Stone Roses, "Shoot You Down"

What'sa happenin' hot stuff? Bob, Brad, Carla and Mark are back to discuss one of our favorite movies, John Hughes' first feature film, Sixteen Candles. This movie did not have an official soundtrack, but the songs featured in it are a killer combination of new wave, post punk and rock 'n' roll. Here are four songs we felt would have made the soundtrack cut.

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Credits: Intro — the Februarys, "Does Your Father Know" / Outro - The DiVinyls, "Ring Me Up"

That slick hook and spot-on beat playing over the PA in Target, at Cumberland Farms, in the venue before the headliner takes the stage: WHO IS THAT? WHAT'S THAT SONG?

We all have the Shazam app loaded on our phones, and it's wild to think that for more than half our lives (speaking for the Diarists), we did without it. Here are four songs Bob, Brad, Mark, and Carla dialed up over Shazam. Reach out to us with some of your own discoveries on Twitter and Insta.

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Credits: Intro/ Outro — the Februarys, "Does Your Father Know"/ "... In a Letter."