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

Oct 26 2024 42 ep. 63 mins 60
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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.

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"Whammy" by The B-52's - with Joel Spence

Oct 26 2024 105 mins  
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 55 mins  
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

1 to 10

Oct 03 2024 42 mins  
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 (

Side One Track One - With Mel Cowan

Sep 26 2024 88 mins  
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)

Let's Talk Time Signatures

Sep 14 2024 78 mins  
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 - Me

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

Aug 19 2024 45 mins  
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) John

Repeating/Again

Aug 12 2024 49 mins  
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

Geographical Titles

Aug 02 2024 60 mins  
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

I'm 75 Years Old

Jul 24 2024 45 mins  
Here are a bunch of songs that would have been from my childhood if I had been born 40 years earlier. I say in the episode that the songs are in chronological order and now that I'm typing it out I see that that's only mostly true, please forgive me. Songs discussed in this episode: Odetta - Santy Anno (1956) Buddy Holly, The Crickets - It Doesn't Matter Anymore (1956) The Del-Vi

"Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?" by Of Montreal - with Will Hines

Jul 14 2024 95 mins  
Today I'm joined by Will Hines (Screw It We're Just Gonna Talk About the Beatles, Comedy Bang Bang) to talk about the 2007 Of Montreal album "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?"! Other Of Montreal songs played during the episode are "So Begins Our Alabee" (2005) and "Lysergic Bliss" (2004).