Earbuds And Earworms

Look, this year is weird, and it is almost over. It has been hard and different than any year, so we might as well have a Christmas episode that represents the complicated feelings we are collectively having about this holiday season.

Music:

Lo Fi Geek - Jingle Bells LoFi Remix 

Gus Johnson - All I Want for Christmas (is a COVID vaccine) 

Sting - Gabriel’s Message 

King Diamond - No Presents for Christmas

Emily Senn - All I Want for Christmas (is a Vaccine)

Donny Hathaway - This Christmas

Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree on Fire

Fear - F*** Christmas

Sparks - Thank God It’s Not Christmas

Spinal Tap - Christmas With the Devil

Fountains of Wayne - I Want an Alien for Christmas

Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers - Give Me a Second Chance for Christmas

In a year where the world has been in various states of stand still, Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies bring what was actually good this year, the music! So many good albums have come out and some of it has flown completely under the radar or musicians that have taken a break have come out with some new stuff. Amy may have totally credited Kaylah with liking show tunes,which may or may not be true, but she for sure loves Genesis (even has a tattoo!)

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Music:

Sarah Mary Chadwick - Please Daddy

Bullion - We Had a Good Time 

Andy Shauf - Dust Kids 

Nothing - Famine Asylum

Kay the Aquanaut & Kitz Willman - Ancient Fish

Mint Mile - Amberline

Deftones - Ohms

Run the Jewels Ft. Greg Nice & DJ Premier - Ooh La La

Little Dragon - Another Love

Pendulum - Driver

Sweeping Promises - Hunger For A Way Out

Dan Deacon - Sat By A Tree

Hey, we needed a feel good about humanity episode, so we made a feel good about humanity episode. 

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Music:

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are

The Replacements and Tom Waits - I Can Help

The Rembrandts - I’ll Be There For You

Old Crow Medicine Show - We’re All In This Together

Landromat - Humans

Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain

Japandroids - Continuous Rain

Alanis Morissette - Empathy

The Weakerthans - Bigfoot

IDLES - Cry to Me

Bright Eyes - Bowl of Oranges

Mitchell brings his November social media project to the show this week with his Nu-Metal November theme. Turns out, Amy legit didn’t know she loves most of Nu-Metal that doesn’t have sad dolls on the front cover. Oh, yeah, and Cher has only two children (this will make sense after you listen to the show, so don’t tweet too quickly.)

Music:

Deftones - Nosebleed

Korn - Ball Tongue

Limp Bizkit - Boiler

Deadsy - Key of Gramercy Park

Linkin Park - One Step Closer

Reveille - What You Got

Mushroomhead - Sun Doesn’t Rise

Deftones - 7 Words

Primer 55 - Loose

Adema - Giving In

TRUSTcompany - Downfall

Ocean Grove - Junkies

This is an absolute lovefest of music that we learned about by making the show and listening to the show. Memories of shows past, like how Craig does have the best taste in music, and there is a beard parody song band, as well as a show theme idea come up. Also, towards the end, both Mitchell and Amy admit that they watch TikTok videos as a form of stress relief.

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Music:

Bloodywood ft. Raoul Kerr - Ari Ari

Amyl and the Sniffers - Got You

The Raveonettes - Christmas Song

Crocodiles - Groove is in the Heart/California Girls

The Marty Ray Project - I Can Grow a Beard

Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me

The Housemartins - Anxious

Emperor X - Allahu Akbar

Kitten - G#

Infinity Frequencies - Virtual Lust

Rozwell Kid - Michael Keaton

Young Statues - True Liberty

Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling & The Dharohar Project - Mehendi Rachi

Todrick Hall - Y. A. S.

Sugar - Your Favorite Thing

This week, month, year has been exhausting, and while this next week is even exhausting to think about in America, we are just going to focus on how ding dang tired we are and listen to music about how ding dang tired we are.

Music:

Tegan and Sara - Wake Up Exhausted

Townes Van Zandt - Rake

Edwin Starr - Twenty Five Miles

Sugar Candy Mountain - Tired

Otha - Tired and Sick

Eels - I Need Some Sleep

Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon

Tim Heidecker - Nothing

Jim’s Big Ego - The Ballad of Barry Allen

Ceremony - Sick

Bobby Bland - So Tired

Culture Abuse - Take It Out on Yourself

Aspirations, we all got aspirations! Be it the end of this year, holding someone’s hand, getting them dollahs, it is all covered here! Also, Amy wants to know the reason for Graham’s song is used to mess with Jeremy. Reach out!

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Music:

The Beach Boys - When I Grow Up

Scarlett Johansson - I Don’t Want To Grow Up

Garbage - When I Grow Up

Joanna Gruesome - Hey! I Wanna Be Yr Best Friend

I Don’t Know How But They Found Me - Clusterhug

The Clash - Death or Glory

The Peabodys - I Wanna Go Parking With You (But I Don’t Have a Car)

POE - Angry Johnny

The The - This is the Day

Dire Straits - Money or Nothing

Ben Folds Five - Kate

Bill Wurtz - When I Get Older

Coming off of last week’s anxiety-fest, it seems suiting to have the next theme be about being calm, chill, and generally relaxed. All the atmospheres of chill are here, from jazzy to lo-fi to psychedelic.

Music:

The Babe Rainbow - Morning Song

The Mercury Program - You Give Me Problems About My Business

Tom Doolie - Darjeeling

David Crosby - Laughing

Lusine - Just a Cloud

Yo La Tengo - Before We Run

Khruangbin - First Class

LTJ Bukem - Untitled 1995 Mix

Múm - Green Grass of Tunnel

Glasys - Aquatic Ambience (from Donkey Kong Country)

Mild High Club - Windowpane

The Album Leaf - The Outer Banks

If there is an unspoken theme of Earbuds and Earworms for the last near seven months, it is probably our low-key constant anxiety. This week, it gets spoken and discussed, and that catharsis is great to remind us that maybe we do need to relax our jaws and find our little escapes (like F*cked Up suggests).

Music:

Josef Salvat - Modern Anxiety

Ruiners - Anxiety 

Dead Soldiers - High Anxiety

F*cked Up - Black Albino Bones

Autre Ne Veut - Gonna Die

Surfbort - High Anxiety

The Housemartins - Anxiety

Faith No More - Separation Anxiety

The Shangri-Las - The Train from Kansas City

Defiance Ohio - Anxious and Worrying

Zig Zags - Voices of the Paranoid

Nothing - Vertigo Flowers

Surprisingly, “mundane tasks” has not been a theme before but oh, what a well! Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies delve deep into songs that cover washing clothes, checking the cell phone, flipping through TV channels, and any number of mundane things we even do. Amy found some slugs, so that is also a topic.

Music:

Tim McGraw - Watch the Wind Blow By

The Equals - Rub A Dub Dub

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardner

Healing Potpourri - Blanket of Calm

Working Men’s Club - Cook A Coffee

The Mountain Goats - Half Dead

Remember Sports - The Washing Machine

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Can’t Keep Checking My Phone

Body Type - Free to Air

Municipal Waste - Untitled Track

The Buzzcocks - Sitting Round at Home

Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin