Season 21 Episode 7

SPECIAL "SYNTHSTRAMENTAL" … "INSTRUSYNTHAL?" EPISODE!

1. Dream Sequence - Danz CM
2. Temper - Gravité
3. Robotman - Gravité
4. Cosmom Cinematic - Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips
5. Cats - Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips
6. The Big Conference! - Louie Zong
7. Computer Lounge! - Louie Zong
8. Japan Musick - Sweet Juice
9. Ariel Vendor - Sweet Juice
10. Concorde tercera versión - The Holydrug Couple
11. Atlantic 19 de agosto - The Holydrug Couple
12. Lichen Maps - Green-House
13. Far More Other - Green-House
14. Felicia - Kolumbo

Season 21 Episode 6

1. Best Day Ever - The Derevolutions
2. Prep-School Gangsters - Vampire Weekend
3. Pravda - Vampire Weekend
4. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Demo - San Francisco 2/71) - Paul Simon
5. Duncan - Paul Simon
6. Follow the Ghost - The Eastern Plain
7. Should I Stay or Should I Go? - Nouvelle Vague (feat. Alonya)
8. This Charming Man - Nouvelle Vague (feat. Melanie Pain)
9. Pareidolia - Matt Monsoor
10. I Love My Television - The Rhythm Method
11. Curse - The Rhythm Method
12. Show & Tell - Bored at My Grandmas House

This episode features some edited down clips of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on Radio X talking to John Kennedy about the origins of the two songs I played in the episode. The Paul Simon documentary I mentioned is called In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon by Alex Gibney.

Season 21 Episode 5

1. Eclipse - Jacco Gardner
2. Lorelay - Jennie Lawless
3. Start a New - Bull
4. Red Rooves - Bull
5. Imaginary Conversations - Bull
6. Running Around - STRFKR
7. Together Forever - STRFKR
8. The Main Thing - Ducks Ltd.
9. Heavy Bag - Ducks Ltd.
10. The Sea - Baby Cool
11. Poison - Baby Cool
12. Black Holes, the Stars and You - A. Savage
13. Put It In Reverse - Pina Palau

This episode features a clip from the Blocked and Reported podcast with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal talk about the confusing shake out on who supports which side in the Israeli vs Palestinian/Hamas war. Also, Benjamin of @holylandspeaks opines about the fixation on Palestinian suffering by people who completely ignore Ukrainian or other suffering.

Season 21 Episode 4

1. You Woo Me - The Courettes
2. Water Underground - Real Estate
3. Somebody New - Real Estate
4. New Moon - Laetitia Sadier
5. Panser L’inacceptable - Laetitia Sadier
6. BUG0BEAT - Cool Sounds
7. Another Way - Cool Sounds
8. Firad - Dina Ögon
9. Tomma lådor - Dina Ögon
10. Hard Erase - Worn-Tin
11. Replace Me - Worn-Tin
12. Northern Boy - Ruby Sue

This episode features a condensed clip from The Big Conversation podcast where Alex O’Connor talks about how religious people try to give take credit for the progress made at dismantling all of the awful stuff their religious traditions got wrong historically. Also, a clip from Christmas Vacation about Ruby Sue.

SPECIAL “ALL WOMEN” EPISODE!

1. There She Goes - Hazel English
2. Fast Lane - Genevva
3. Crazy Horse - Genevva
4. Instinct That I Wanna Know - Jade Imagine
5. Back and Forth - Jade Imagine
6. Principia - En Attendant Ana
7. The Cut Off - En Attendant Ana
8. The Drinking Song - Nellie Mckay
9. Make a Wish - Nellie Mckay
10. Le Temple Volant - Crumb & Melody's Echo Chamber
11. Apathy - White Poppy
12. Happy - White Poppy
13. Til We Run Out of Air - Hatchie

This episode features a clip of Julia Steinberg's testimony in front of Congress on November 9, where she talks about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and its modern roots in the conflict theory of the oppressor vs. oppressed.

Season 20 Episode 10

1. Life Waits for Nothing - Phantom Youth
2. Don't Fade Away - Beach Fossils
3. Tough Love - Beach Fossils
4. I Wish - Dayaway
5. A Brief Dream of Sun - Dayaway
6. Milanesa al Pan - Juan Wauters feat. Zoe Gotusso
7. Modus Operandi - Juan Wauters feat. Frankie Cosmos
8. Big Black Void - TV Girl
9. All the Way Through - TV Girl
10. Shame - TV Girl
11. What the Echoes Say - Jeanines
12. Tilt in Your Eye - Jeanines
13. Riding Into the Sunset in a Busted Car - Free Cake for Every Creature
14. In Your Car - Free Cake for Every Creature
15. Trepanation Party - Voxtrot

This episode features an edited-down “41 Lessons from My 41 Years” list presented by Nate B. Jones on TikTok. It was too long to include the whole thing, but I really don’t disagree with any of his list. This kinda thing easily veers too far into trite, but there can be a lot of truth in well-composed bumper stickers, and I think Nate hits them all well.

Season 20 Episode 9

1. Good Friday - Ham Sandwich
2. Newfound Oxygen - Steady Holiday
3. The Balance - Steady Holiday
4. Coma Culture - Coma Culture
5. Bad Habits - Coma Culture
6. Virtual Dancer - Group Rhoda
7. Din För Evigt - Kanot
8. Bottenmannen - Kanot
9. Dee Dee - Nimrawd
10. Quicksilver (single version) - Nimrawd
11. Aquamarine - Hand Habits

This episode features a clip of a CNN Town Hall where former NJ governor and Trump lackey Chris Christie recounts how Trump gave him COVID, which very nearly killed him, then lied about it, naturally.

Season 20 Episode 8

1. Hot Blue Summer - Dayaway
2. Shooting Star - Sylvie
3. Further Down the Road (Maston Remix) - Sylvie
4. Waiting for the Band - Nicky Hopkins
5. You Have Something Special - Joanna Sternberg
6. This Is Not Who I Want To Be - Joanna Sternberg
7. I Never Get Lonesome - Arthur Russell
8. Iowa Dream - Arthur Russell
9. Wan Ka Helaa - Dur-Dur Band Int.
10. Riyo - Dur-Dur Band Int.
11. Love Missive - Courrier Sud
12. Fool Moon - Courrier Sud
13. Trapdoor - Los Bitchos

This episode features a clip from a recent episode of Sam Harris’ podcast Making Sense, where he talks about the incomprehensible waste of collective attention the human race has wasted on about the least important human to ever be born. I didn’t include much of it, when he gets into a media analysis and so on, but I’m 100% with him on all of it.

Season 20 Episode 7: Special “Music from Soundtracks” Episode!

Asteroid City

1. Last Train to San Fernando - Johnny Duncan

2. Freight Train - Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group

Poker Face

3. Charlie's Theme - Pellea

4. Six Foot Down - Gene Ski

5. Blues Run the Game - Jackson C. Frank

John Denver: Country Boy

6. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver

The Worst Person in the World

7. Waters of March - Art Garfunkel

One More Time

8. Yours to Keep (acoustic version) - Myie

Rogue Agent

9. Just Like Heaven - Hannah Peel

Cold Feet

10. Just Like Honey - Hannah Peel

Fleishman is in Trouble

11. Wise Up - Aimee Mann

Little America

12. Come On Home - The Lijadu Sisters

Lord of War

13. Mama Africa - Young Bakuba Band

Masters of Sex

14. You Don’t Know Me - Lizzy Caplan

This episode features a clip from NPR’s Fresh Air where film critic Justin Chang reviews Asteroid City, and also a brief clip where Taffy Nivert talks about the origin of Take Me Home, Country Roads from John Denver: Country Boy.

Season 20 Episode 4 - SPECIAL “MUSIC IN FRENCH!” EPISODE!

1. Soulevant - Cléa Vincent
2. Contact - Jarvis Cocker
3. Le cannibale - Juniore
4. Je me suis fait tout petit - Juniore
5. B1 - Ce soir - Kumisolo
6. Kabuki femme fatale - Kumisolo
7. La Femme aux Faux Cils - We are Enfant Terrible
8. La poudre aux yeux - Lisa LeBlanc
9. Tite gêne - Lisa LeBlanc
10. Apprenti - Dumas
11. Fille Sauvage - Richard Anthony
12. Bohemian Rhapsody - French - Freedom Fry
13. Les idées roses - Louïse Papier
14. Sur le pavé - Holden

This episode features a clip from Jim Gaffigan’s album Quality Time about eating French Cheese, as well as a very old Louis CK bit about being approached in NYC by a French guy who needs directions. Light, but relatively topical fare for this episode. heh.

Season 20 Episode 3

1. Organic Tea - Jacob King
2. We, Us the Pharaohs - Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard
3. I Had It All - Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard
4. Always on the Telephone - The Ladybug Transistor
5. Stranger - Tiny Microphone feat. Gary Olson
6. Mine Forever - Lord Huron
7. At Sea - Lord Huron
8. Blameless - Zach Schimpf
9. Mind Like a Sitting Duck - Zach Schimpf
10. Time Bomb - Jacklen Ro
11. Side by Side - Jacklen Ro
12. More Than Chemical - Homephone

This episode features a brief clip from FOX’s The Family Guy which made me LOL, and a TikTok by @philjamesson about his incredibly successful social media empire.