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bookgeekgrrl · 22 days

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My media this week (31 Mar-6 Apr 2024)

lady constance is a seven foot tall badger and knows acab

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

pretty much nothing! It was a rough reading week! The first part of the week I was fairly consumed with the D20 I was watching & not reading much. Then I spent FIVE DAYS reading a little over half of a 258K fic before finally accepting that though it was pretty well written and not bad, I just wasn't into it and the thought of fighting thru another 120K was appalling, so I bailed.

and I did read about 20K of shorter stuff but nothing I want to shout out so.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

This Is Going To Hurt - s1, e1

QI - series S, ep 10-12

Death In Paradise - s11, e2-3

D20: Mice & Murder - "The Stabber of the Evening" (s9, e4)

D20: Mice & Murder - "The Eye of the Storm" (s9, e5)

D20: Mice & Murder - "Busted" (s9, e6)

D20: Mice & Murder - " I've Been Here the Whole Time" (s9, e7)

D20: Mice & Murder - "Outfoxed" (s9, e8)

D20: Mice & Murder - "The Belly of the Beast" (s9, e9)

D20: Mice & Murder - "Unfinished Business" (s9, e10)

D20: Adventuring Party - s4, e4-10 [Mice & Murder]

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Infernal Conflict" (s21, e13)

D20: Adventuring Party - "All Pulp, No Juice" (s16, e13)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

What Next: TBD - The Psychological Toll of Mars

Working - How a Magician Designs Original, Mind-Blowing Tricks

Hit Parade - The Bridge: Like a Revamped Stone

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #7: Kahuna

WikiHole - Greek Easter (with Ellie Kemper, Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson!)

Welcome to Night Vale #245 - Fridge-worthy

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep7 "Kahuna"

Today, Explained - Making taxes less taxing

I Said No Gifts! - Tig Notaro Disobeys Bridger

⭐ Switched on Pop - Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country

Consider This from NPR - Measuring The Economic Impact Of Baltimore's Port Closure

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter

⭐ Vibe Check - This Ain't Texas, This Is Vibe Check

Better Offline - Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left ft. Molly White

Wiser Than Me - Julia Gets Wise with Bonnie Raitt

Short Wave - How To Make The Most Of Next Week's Solar Eclipse

Ologies with Alie Ward - Heliology (THE SUN/ECLIPSES) with India Jackson and Michael Kirk

99% Invisible #576 - Chambre de Bonne

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #8: The Catch

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Untranslatable Words

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Ripley

Song Exploder - Shania Twain - You're Still The One

Off Menu - Ep 238: Katy Wix

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep8 "The Catch"

Choice Words - Live in Fear or Love? (with Karamo)

What Next: TBD - Truth Social’s Rocky Week

Short Wave - The "Barcodes" Powering These Tiny Songbirds' Memories May Also Help Human Memory

⭐ Pop Culture Happy Hour - Monkey Man And What's Making Us Happy

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Nevada Week: The Martin

Endless Thread - Nerd Fight

Strong Songs - "The Way" by Meshell Ndegeocello

Today, Explained - The Sephora kids

It's Been a Minute - Is DEI a slur now? Plus, control & basketball

Radiolab - The Moon Itself

Choice Words - Choices We Made: Stay Silent or Sue the Cops? (with Eric André)

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Chris Pine

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #9: The King of Cups

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep9 "The King of Cups"

Under the Influence - Cheeky Advertising

In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 1: What makes a TV ending?

Dinner’s on Me - Kristen Bell

Dinner’s on Me - Dax Shepard

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Louis Jordan

Ozzy Osbourne

Meshell Ndegeocello

Cowboys + Queens

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haveyouheardthispodcast · 4 months

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#Song Exploder #poll #music

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nonesuchrecords · 10 months

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Natalie Merchant is the guest on the latest episode of the Song Exploder podcast. She talks with host Hrishikesh Hirway about "Sister Tilly," breaking down the song from her new album, Keep Your Courage. The song was arranged by Gabriel Kahane. You can hear what Merchant had to say here.

#natalie merchant #song exploder #podcast #hrishikesh hirway #sister tilly #keep your courage #gabriel kahane

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thoughtportal · 10 months

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In May 1980, the band Joy Division was devastated by the death of lead singer Ian Curtis. The three remaining band members, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris, decided they would keep making music together, and a few months later, Gillian Gilbert joined them. They called the band New Order.

New Order is one of the most influential bands of the last four decades. Their song “Blue Monday” came out in 1983, and it holds the record for being the best-selling 12-inch single of all time. Rolling Stone put “Blue Monday” on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and Pitchfork included it in its Top 5 Best Songs of the 1980s.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of “Blue Monday,” in this episode, New Order discusses how they created the song. This episode was produced in collaboration with Transmissions, the official New Order and Joy Division podcast produced by Cup & Nuzzle. We’ve put together this story out of the hours and hours of interviews they’ve recorded, along with a new interview I did with Peter Hook. As you’ll hear the four of them explain, nothing about Blue Monday’s success, or really even its existence, was something that they planned for.

#Blue Monday #song exploder #podcast #podcasts #music #20th century music #20th century #new order #joy division #music history #1980s #1983

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popgirlnyc · 8 months

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#liz phair #song exploder

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riverscuomo · 1 year

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Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori - Weezer

+ Featured on Song Exploder

#posting this because the song exploder is good!#weezer #the white album #weezer the white album #weezer white album #not to be confused w the b**tles #summer elaine and drunk dori #song exploder #audio #mine

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sweetsongtraveler · 2 years

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"Oh, my love,my darling

I've hungered for your touch

A long lonely time

Time goes by so slowly

And time can do so much

Are you still mine? "

— Unchained Melody [ Elvis Presley ]

What i think the song means :

Unchained Melody is such a beautiful and profound song ever written. It makes the listener dive into the depth of time and how it changes a person's emotions. How time can play with a person's emotions. How as time goes the longing we wrap ourselves in, traps us for more, for that one person's touch,warmth, words and everything. It isn't just about love and longing. It's about how people change with time by the bounds of bittersweet nostalgia. It was one of the last song performed by Elvis presley before his dead in 1977.

#elvis presley #elvis movie #unchained melody #poems and quotes #dark acamedia #melacholy #pop music #pianolove #musicislife #song exploder

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sonatine · 2 years

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the fact that this song is about grief and loss is so 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

#glass animals #heat waves #song exploder #this is a wild interview #and it’s not loss of a lover btw it’s about losing his friend 😢

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raspberryconverse · 1 year

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My new favorite fun fact I've learned through Song Exploder is that New Order decided to sample farts when playing with their new synthesizer because of course they did.

— Coley (she/her) bisexual glitter explosions💗💜💙✨ (@raspberrychucks) May 4, 2023 May 04, 2023 at 11:41AM via Twitter https://twitter.com/raspberrychucks

#IFTTT #Twitter #song exploder #new order #blue monday #farts #Spotify

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itsallmadonnasfault · 2 years

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#Madonna #Stuart Price #OMFG #2022 #Hung Up #Song Exploder #Finally Enough Love #finally enough love: 50 number ones #confession on a dance floor #2005 #Madonna and Stuart #Madonna 2022 #Queen Of Pop

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sinceileftyoublog · 2 years

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The Mountain Goats Live Stream Review: 5/19, Mandolin

BY JORDAN MAINZER

There are a few guarantees in every Mountain Goats show. The band will lead the crowd in anthemic chants, whether individual lines or the entire words of a song. John Darnielle will introduce a tune breaking down its context with the depth of an entire Song Exploder podcast. And he’ll also perform a mid-concert solo set with a couple deep cuts thrown in. All of these trends were on display Thursday night at Thalia Hall (and livestreamed via Mandolin). From the very opening performance of “Heel Turn 1″, an unreleased jangly strummer written for Beat The Champ but never recorded, with a life-affirming refrain of “I’m not gonna die in here,” the crowd was ready to aid The Mountain Goats in songs of hope and overcoming.

What really stood out to me, though, was how much the band turned Darnielle’s perseverant statements into songs that, too, kept on keeping on. It was more than responding to “Something here will eventually have to explode” into, yes, an explosive bridge jam, drawn out from Matt Douglas’ gorgeous piano sprinklings and Jon Wurster’s limber drum fills. Really, Darnielle, sometimes on acoustic guitar and sometimes on electric, Douglas, Wurster, and bassist Peter Hughes were transformative. Take a song from Goths, the first Mountain Goats album to feature no guitars. “Rain in Soho” was dialed back from the somewhat overwrought album version, Darnielle’s vocals beginning dark and deadpan before desperately increasing in volume, accompanied by staccato keys, pounding drums, and sharp electric guitars. “Younger” shuffled along almost like a Bruce Hornsby song, dramatic and melancholy at the same time. When Darnielle sang, “It never hurts to give thanks to the local gods / You don’t know who might be hungry,” you almost forgot that it was a Dungeons & Dragons reference; it came across like a life-saving declaration before Douglas’ ripping saxophone solo.

If Tallahassee was the first “full band” Mountain Goats album, but one that saw Darnielle perhaps a bit reticent to embrace the increase in range that more personnel brings, then this current incarnation of The Mountain Goats is the true surprise. “Tidal Wave”’s journey from quiet, gentle tune with cascading keyboards and hi hats to disco drum beat boogie with a rounded electric guitar solo was a peak before the salve of Darnielle’s solo set. The interplay between Darnielle as a vocalist and the rest of the band is increasingly dynamic. On the piano-driven “Broom People”, he held the note of the final line--“I am a babbling brook”--as the band marched forward and stopped on a dime. So much of The Mountain Goats’ power comes from Darnielle’s passionate delivery; now, coupled with instrumental showmanship, it’s all the more inspiring. By the time they got to “This Year” and “No Children”, guaranteed set highlights every time, it felt more like a victory lap than a climax. For a band who releases new albums--often centered around esoteric themes--and tours at a breakneck pace, their true evolution has proved to be more gradual and rewarding.

#live music #the mountain goats #john darnielle #thalia hall #mandolin #merge #matt douglas #jon wurster #beat the champ #merge records #song exploder #peter hughes #goths #bruce hornsby #dungeons & dragons #tallahassee

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bookgeekgrrl · 7 months

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My media this week (1-7 Oct 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🙂 Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe (Phil Plait, author & narrator) - The Bad Astronomer paints pictures of what the sky would look like standing on the surface of other planets, asteroids, etc.

😊 Initiation (Sex Wizards #1) (Alethea Faust) - erotic BDSM fantasy - actually a bit more plot & worldbuilding than I was expecting tbh, entertaining

😞 Miss Aldridge Regrets (Canary Club Mystery #1) (Louise Hare, author; Georgina Campbell, narrator) - This isn't a mystery the MC investigates, it's a mystery that happens TO her. She was tediously passive, seeming really rather naïve & foolish (esp given her age and life experience) and entirely in denial about pretty much everything that happens to her (since she's being actively framed for murder). However, the very short interval chapters from the killer's perspective did hook my interest and left me genuinely curious about the mystery. At about 44% I jumped to the end to see how the mystery resolved. I'm counting it as read since I did read over 50% of it.

😍 A Most Agreeable Murder (Julia Seales, author; Fiona Hampton, narrator) - comical pastiche/parody mashup of: Jane Austen (specifically), regency-set/gothic novels (in general) & Agatha Christie/country house mysteries - funny & entertaining, deftly done. Very Nightmare Abbey vibes in the absolute best way. I enjoyed all the caricature characters but 'overlooked tedious (but secretly a [redacted]) sister' Mary was my fave, absolute gothic queen

💖💖 +94K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

I'm dating the least inquisitive man in Ottawa (GlitterCity) - Rachel Reid's Game Changers: Troy Barrett/Harris Drover (but really mostly gen), 4K - cute, really nailed the character voices

Tinder Is the Night (rohkeutta) - MCU: stucky, 6K - hilarious, forever fave [reread]

Stay (fandomfluffandfuck) - MCU: stucky, 31K - silver fox/old guard Dom Steve subbing for newbie Dom Bucky - great character voices, hot af sex!

bitten hand guides best (frankoceansmoonriver) - The Witcher: Geraskier, 33K - lovely little fic with werewolf!Jaskier & witcher Geralt

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Make Some Noise - s2, e1

Dirty Laundry - s3, e2

Only Murders In The Building - s3, e10

Deadloch - s1, e1-8

Our Flag Means Death - s2, e1-3

D20: Burrow's End - "The Red Warren" (s20, e1)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Stoatal Recall" (s15, e1)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - October 1: Not My Own Master In The Matter

Welcome to Night Vale #235 - Book Club

What Next: TBD - Inside Crypto's House of Cards

Re: Dracula - October 2: Play for the Stake of Human Souls

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Searching for Squids with Dr. Sarah McAnulty

Ed Zitron's 15 Minutes In Hell - Episode 9 - David Roth

Re: Dracula - October 3: The Holiest Love

Into It - Tech Bros Laid the Foundation, but Women Built Social Media

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Enchanted Woods

Switched on Pop - In Defense of Crunk

Re: Dracula - October 4: It Is Like Death

Vibe Check - Freedom, Cut Me Loose!

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Baobab Fare

⭐ Shedunnit - Agatha and Plum

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Wilhelm Scream Remix

⭐ Song Exploder - Alvvays "Archie, Marry Me"

Re: Dracula - October 5: Baptism of Blood

Today, Explained - Caste away

Re: Dracula - October 6: My Affairs of Earth

Dear Prudence - My Girlfriend Is Always Late! Help!

Endless Thread - Find A Grave: Social Media Icon

Into It - Are Bed Bugs and Katy Perry Out for Blood?

Today, Explained - Who shot ya, Tupac?

Switched on Pop - Metro Boomin Wants Some More

ICYMI - Stop Snitching on Main

⭐ One Year - 1955: The Hiroshima Maidens

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Troubadours From the Tribe

Alternative Radio • 2000s

Foundations of Metal

Rob Zombie Radio • 2000s • Familiar

Metal Radio • 1980s

Manowar Radio

"Give It Away" [RHCP] Radio • Familiar

Stand And Deliver: The Very Best of Adam & The Ants {1999}

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dvdregionseven · 1 month

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Oh my god Molly's demo for Archie, Marry Me is so cute I was tearing up listening to it in the tub. I want more Tweegaze love songs

#alvvays #song exploder #hey hey

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nonesuchrecords · 2 months

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"Rhiannon Giddens is one of those people where I feel like they have to start inventing new awards, because she's already won all of them," Song Exploder host Hrishikesh Hirway says of his guest. On the latest episode, Giddens talks about "You Louisiana Man," breaking down the song from her new album, You're the One. You can hear what she had to say about it here.

#rhiannon giddens #song exploder #you louisiana man #you're the one #nonesuch #nonesuch records

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thoughtportal · 2 months

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The first episode of Song Exploder, about The Postal Service song “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight,” came out 10 years ago, in January 2014. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the podcast, we’re doing what bands do, and putting out a deluxe, expanded edition of our very first release: this version features a new interview, new insights, and new pieces of the song and demo.

The Postal Service formed in 2001. Their debut album came out in 2003, and it was a game changer. Their combination of electronic music and indie rock not only sold over a million copies; their songs were everywhere on TV and in film, and influenced a generation of artists. Last year, they played sold-out concerts across the US in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the album, and there are more shows to come in 2024. A few weeks ago, I spoke to Ben Gibbard, and I combined that with my original interview from 2013 with Jimmy Tamborello. And here, together, the two of them tell the story of how they made their song “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.”

#podcasts #podcast #song exploder #the postal service #music #the aughts #noughties #21st century

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misterradio · 3 months

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my coogie

#facing an ants invasion (queue the song by adam and the ants) in my inbox today it seems #original nonsense #q&a #image described #damn this post is reaching some unsavoury people. why are you guys tainting my coogie.#whatever. if youre a proshipper and you reblog this you will explode in 1 day. and ants will eat u

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