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Screw It, I’m Just Gonna Talk About Music Or Whatever

A music podcast with each episode featuring songs selected on a loose theme. Sometimes solo hosted, sometimes featuring guests. Conversational and wide-ranging, this should feel like chatting with your friends about music you’re really into.

Copyright: © 2023

Latest Episodes:

Finger Pickin' Good Nov 25, 2024

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Today's playlist contains all songs with finger-picked guitar parts! Or at least I'm pretty sure that's right, I don't play guitar. The songs are all good though.

Songs discussed in this episode:

Elizabeth Cotten - Freigh Train (1957)

Elliott Smith - Pretty Mary K (Other Version) (2007)

Dando Shaft - Coming Home To Me (1971)

Nick Drake - Which Will (1972)

Lightnin' Hopkins - Shaggy Dog/Dad (1967?)

Aldous Harding - The Barrel (2019)

Labi Siffre - Cannock Chase (1972)

Leo Kottke - Watermelon (1974)

Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again (1977)

Dolly Parton - Jolene (1974)

Nico - These Days (1967)

Jacco Gardner - Brightly (2015)

Songs With People Names Nov 15, 2024

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Today's playlist features songs whose titles are people names (names only, not names in a phrase).

Songs discussed in this episode:

Basement Jaxx - Romeo (2001)

Pixies - Allison (1990)

Jennie Lawless - Annie (2021)

Ween - Gabrielle (2005)

Paul Simon - Duncan (1972)

Jack Ladder - Susan (2018)

Weezer - Susanne (1994)

Perfume Genius - Jason (2020)

Boney M - Rasputin (1978)

The Replacements - Alex Chilton (1987)

Prefab Sprout - Faron Young (1985)

David Bowie - Andy Warhol (1971)

Gillian Welch - Caleb Meyer (1998)

Paul McCartney - Jenny Wren (2005)

Robert Palmer - Johnny And Mary (1980)

"Whammy" by The B-52's - with Joel Spence Oct 26, 2024

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My friend Joel Spence is here to talk about The B-52's 1983 album "Whammy"! We also talk a lot about The B-52's in general and I manage to also sneak in "Janitor" by Suburban Lawns.

Male and Female Singers Oct 11, 2024

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Today's playlist is all songs featuring both male and female singers. Sometimes harmonizing, sometimes in unison, sometimes call and response, sometimes doing background for each other. Fun!

Songs discussed in this episode:

Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (1968)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sometimes Always (1994)

Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber (2009)

Emillia Contessa - Terbuka (1980)

Suburban Lawns - Anything (1981)

The Rosebuds - Shake Our Tree (2005)

John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want (1978)

Pixies - I Bleed (1989)

Kevin Ayers - The Oyster and the Flying Fish (1970)

Ohtis, Stef Chura - Schatze (2021)

The Fall - In These Times (1988)

Shintaro Sakamoto - One Day (2022)

X - Make The Music Go Bang (1983)

Cults - Abducted (2011)

1 to 10 Oct 03, 2024

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Today's playlist contains songs with numbers 1-10 in the titles! Kind of a flimsy theme but they're all good songs so I guess deal with it.

Songs discussed in this episode:

The Lemon Twigs - The One (2020)

Frank Black - Two Spaces (1993)

Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney - 3 Legs (1971)

Masumi Hara - 4 X A Dream (1984)

David Bowie - Five Years (1972)

The Cure - Six Different Ways (1985)

Nancy - 7ft Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues (2021)

Hüsker Dü - Eight Miles High (1990)

Kitty Craft, Bonnie Koloc - Devil's Nine Questions (2020)

XTC - Ten Feet Tall (1979)

Side One Track One - With Mel Cowan Sep 26, 2024

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Today my friend Mel Cowan joins me to talk about a sampling of our favorite album openers! We didn't have time to play and talk about every possible entry in this list, but we mention a ton that weren't discussed and you should check out.

Songs discussed in this episode:

The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (2014)

Orange Juice - Rip It Up (1982)

Beastie Boys - Sure Shot (1994)

Portishead - Mysterons (1994)

The Pogues - The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn (1985)

Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (2000)

Courtney Barnett - Elevator Operator (2015)

Carole King - I Feel The Earth Move (1971)

Marnie Stern - Vibrational Match (2007)

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (1989)

Let's Talk Time Signatures Sep 14, 2024

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Today we're talking about time signatures - what are they, and why are songs with non-traditional time signatures so cool sounding? This is not super math heavy or expert-level analysis, but in it I share some of my favorite songs with weird time signatures and/or meter changes.

Songs discussed in this episode:

The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There (1963) (snippet only)

OCS - Memory Of A Cut Off Head (2017)

The Beatles - We Can Work It Out (1965)

The Mad Capsule Markets - 公園へあと少し (1994)

Wipers - Taking Too Long (1981)

Ben LaMar Gray, Finom - Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks On You (2021)

Robert Palmer - Woke Up Laughing (1980)

Genesis - It's Gonna Get Better (1983)

Rihanna - Desperado (2016)

Basement Jaxx - Distractionz (2009)

The Stranglers - Golden Brown (1981)

Pentangle - Light Flight (1969)

Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky (2009)

Ty Segall - To You (2024)

The Chills - Don't Even Know Her Name (1989)

Kassa Overall, J. Hoard, Angela Davis - Show Me A Prison (2020)

Ough, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love English Orthography Aug 20, 2024

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This week we're exploring one facet of how stupid the written system of English is by featuring songs that feature words containing various pronunciations (all 6!) of "ough".

Discussed in this episode:

Fleetwood Mac - Although The Sun Is Shining (1969)

Stephen Stills - Thoroughfare Gap (1978)

The Beatles - I'm Looking Through You (1965)

The Creation - Through My Eyes (1967)

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - It's Not Enough (1977)

Beastie Boys - Tough Guy (1994)

Misfits - Cough/Cool (1977)

Butthole Surfers - Cough Syrup (1996)

X - I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts (1983)

Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know (1995)

Beyonce - Love Drought (2016)

Repeating/Again Aug 12, 2024

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Today's theme is doing something more than once, so all titles reference that concept. Musically repetitive songs will be a theme for another time!

Discussed in this episode:

Grizzly Bear - Yet Again (2012)

Ty Segall - Repetition (2024)

Robert Palmer - Not A Second Time (1980)

Roger Fakhr - Gone Away Again (197?, released 2021)

Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again (2012)

Daft Punk - One More Time/Aerodynamic (2007)

Badly Drawn Boy - Say It Again (1999)

The Durutti Column - Requiem Again (1989)

Fiery Furnaces - Benton Harbor Blues (Again) (2006)

Hot Chip - Over And Over (2012)

Geographical Titles Aug 02, 2024

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Today's theme is geography, so these are all songs with geographical names in the titles. And - get this - the songs are all good.

Discussed in this episode:

Sufjan Stevens - Flint (For The Unemployed and Underpaid) (2003)

Parquet Courts - Berlin Got Blurry (2016)

Foxygen - San Francisco (2013)

Brazilian Girls - St. Petersburg (2008)

Ric Wilson, Terrace Martin, BJ the Chicago Kid - Chicago Bae (2020)

Bob Marley, The Wailers - Zimbabwe (1979)

Fugazi - Turkish Disco (1999)

Stereolab - French Disko (1995)

Amanaz - Africa (1975)

The Psychadelic Furs - Sister Europe (1980)

Wilco - Impossible Germany (2007)

Sufjan Stevens, Angelo de Augustine - Fictional California (2021)

Frank Black - (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain (1994)

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