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In this ep, Mat and Tim discuss the best selling solo recording artist of all time: Garth Brooks! Everyone knows who he is, but does anyone know *who he is*? It's time to find out.

SONGS PLAYED:

Garth Brooks - Callin' Baton Rouge

Garth Brooks - Me Without You

Garth Brooks - Friends In Low Places

Garth Brooks - Papa Loved Mama

Chris Gaines - Lost In You

Garth Brooks - Shameless

Garth Brooks - We Shall Be Free

Vulfpeck - Back Pocket (Live at Bonnaroo)

Vulfpeck - Dean Town

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Zzzzzz... in this palate-cleansing episode, Mat and Tim discuss a topsy-turvy cottage industry within the music industry: "functional noise." That is, white noise! What is it? Why is it so comforting? And should white noise farmers be paid by Spotify at the same rate as musical artists? Answers within!

SONGS PLAYED:

Vulfpeck - Fugue State

Vampire Weekend - White Sky

Vampire Weekend - M79

Vampire Weekend - A-Punk

Vampire Weekend - Everlasting Arms

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Drop and give us 100! In this centennial ep, Mat and Tim share ten lists of ten tunes (which equals one hundred. You get it!) They laugh. They cry. They look back. They look to the future. Join them!

Visit Earbuddies.Army for the latest from your buddies, as well as exclusive merchandise!

Click here to see all ten lists of ten songs. This link contains spoilers for this episode of Earbuddies!

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Disclaimer:

Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” of copyrighted material in a manner that constitutes quotation, criticism, review, parody, caricature, pastiche, and other legal copyright exceptions. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

Those were the best days of his life! In this ep, Mat and Tim are joined by a songwriter whose work helped define rock and pop music in the 1980s: Jim Vallance. He tells us why for him, songwriting isn’t a choice: it’s what he must do. Plus, he offers insights into his long and fruitful career writing music with Bryan Adams.

SONGS PLAYED:

Bryan Adams - Summer of ’69

Aerosmith - Rag Doll

Bryan Adams - Don’t Ya Say It

Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife

Bryan Adams - Heaven

Heart - What About Love?

Bryan Adams - Heat of the Night

Samantha Barks - Anywhere But Here (from Pretty Woman: The Musical)

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When good buddies go bad! From ‘irreconcilable differences of ambition’ to ‘ultimate partnership betrayal’ – so many buddies of yesteryear have gone their separate ways. What can Mat and Tim, as buddies themselves, learn from these bygone buddies to ensure that their personal and professional relationship remains fruitful and life-giving?

Songs Played:

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Kiss On My List

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

The Beatles - Let It Be

The Civil Wars - Poison & Wine

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

The Everly Brothers - Dream, Dream, Dream

The Charley Family - Down By The Riverside

The Wonders - That Thing You Do!

Blossom Dearie - They Can’t Take That Away From Me

Show and Tell:

Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones - Long Time Gone

Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

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Grab your pitch pipes! In this ep, Mat and Tim discuss the world's preeminent a cappella group, Pentatonix. They ask (and answer!) so many questions: Are they a Christmas band? Why do they make those faces all the time? How in the world do they sound like that? Do they actually like being an a cappella group? And so on and so forth. Buckle up, choir nerds.

SONGS PLAYED:

Pentatonix - Mary, Did You Know?

Pentatonix - E.T. (from NBC's 'The Sing-Off')

Pentatonix - Somebody That I Used To Know

Pentatonix - God Only Knows

Pentatonix - The Sound of Silence

Pentatonix - Be My Eyes

Eric Whitacre - Sleep

Roomful of Teeth - Otherwise

Pentatonix - Daft Punk

Daft Punk - Get Lucky

Pentatonix - Evolution of Ariana Grande

Pentatonix - Jolene (ft. Dolly Parton)

Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque

Tiny Habits - landslide

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

T-Pain - I'm N Love (Wit a Stripper)

T-Pain - I Don't Want To Be (Live)

T-Pain - Tennessee Whiskey (Live)

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We'll pod our best for you (pa-rum-pum-pum-pum)! In this festive ep, Mat and Tim unwrap the entire history of the most important drum ever invented: the snare drum. From the nativity of Christ to the end of monoculture, we trace every boom-chick and rat-a-tat-tat throughout history.

SONGS PLAYED:

Traditional - The Little Drummer Boy

Buddy Rich - Talk of the Town

Greg Hutchinson - Drum Solo

Traditional - Fife and Drum of the Revolutionary War

Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried

John Philip Sousa - Semper Fidelis

Teddy Wilson - Exactly Like You

The Contours - Do You Love Me

Stevie Wonder - Superstition

Michael Jackson - Rock With You

Chicago - Stay the Night

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down

Paramore - Misery Business

Underoath - A Boy Brushed Red, Living in Black and White

Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Lorde - Royals

The Beatles - Eight Days a Week

Pentatonix - Little Drummer Boy

SHOW AND TELL:

Blink-182 - I Miss You

Luke Bryan - But I Got a Beer In My Hand

Phil Wickham - This Is Our God

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More like 'Rainy Days and Never Missing Mondays'! On this very special ep, Mat and Tim are joined by legendary songwriter Paul Williams. The award-winning musician shares stories about his career as a songwriter, including how he got into the headspace of Kermit the Frog for "The Rainbow Connection". He also discusses his work as an advocate for artists' rights and how he views generative AI in relation to music creation.

Learn more about Paul's work and career here.

SONGS PLAYED:

The Muppets - Scrooge

The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun

Kermit the Frog - The Rainbow Connection

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Please stop asking about Tim! In this, yet another solo ep, Mat takes us down into his music laboratory to analyze one of the great “middle of the road” musical groups of our time: The Carpenters. Why do so many of us only listen to them in December? Why don't we talk about their tunes very much? It's time to change things the only way Mat knows how to: for the better.

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Matty's on the mic to talk about the tunes! Or rather, a single tune – one that carried an entire feature length film and ran circles around much of the music it paid homage to: That Thing You Do!

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