Earbuds And Earworms

Amy gets way too excited about birthdays and Mitchell goes along with the exuberance and the Earbuddies work with the theme like All-Stars! From Pop Rock to Comedy Metal, there is a birthday song for everyone here. 

Music:

Lesley Gore - It’s My Party

The Crests - Sixteen Candles

Stevie Wonder - Happy Birthday

The Vandals - Happy Birthday to Me

Captain Zoom - Happy Birthday Song - Amie

Moby - Sunday (The Day Before my Birthday)

Uriah Heep - The Magician’s Birthday

Chrome - Saint Jimmy’s Birthday

Atom and His Package - Happy Birthday Ralph

Starflyer 59 - Happy Birthday John

Dethklok - Birthday Dethday

Hiss Golden Messanger - Happy Birthday, Baby.

Amy gets very geeked multiple times about Griffin McElroy and Esperanza Spalding’s interview on Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me! and Mitchell drops some knowledge about secret super influencers that are living a quiet life in Memphis. Actually quite shocking that this show wasn’t made earlier, because Amy always tells people that a podcast is just talk radio that you can choose when to listen to.

Music:

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Radio, Radio

The Weeks - Hands on the Radio

Autograph - Turn Up the Radio

Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control

Griffin McElroy - Ambulance Jam

Esperanza Spalding - Radio Song

Regina Spektor - On the Radio

Teenage Fanclub - Radio

Soul Coughing - Screenwriter’s Blues

M.O.T.O - Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance to the Radio

Joy Division - Transmission

Sylvan Esso - Radio

This episode is a journey as Mitchell and Amy attempt to nail down if they have seen the same NSYNC concert at the pre-Bass Pro Pyramid. There is also discussion of specific synths, vampires, Lars von Trier (who is creepy), and Bjork. 

Music:

Hańba - Racyje

Wardruna - Dagr

The Young Gods - Fais La Mounette

Jel - Sweet Cream In It

Freak Heat Waves - Let It Go

Joy Electric - Burgundy Years

Explode into Colors - Coffins

CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace

Heilung - Krigsgaldr

Nervous Curtain - City of Hate

One Day as A Lion - Wild International

Dan Deacon - When I was Done Dying

This week is a more somber episode with Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies reflecting on the music that has impacted them while the musicians that created the work have passed. 

Music:

Justin Townes Earle - Louisiana 1927

Mac Miller - Good News

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Cave In - Trepanning

Lou Reed - Andy’s Chest

Power Trip - If Not Us Then Who

Lymbyc Systym - Truth Skull

Morphine - Souvenir

DJ Screw - Love TKO

Tommy Keene - On the Runway

Elliot Smith - No Name #1

Juice WRLD - Fast

Silver Jews - Random Rules

School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep

In an attempt to focus on some more obscure genres, Mitchell and Amy celebrate math rock. Mitchell shines with his innate understanding of what a time signature is and Amy looked up a Youtube video and a whole Reddit graph to help her choose a song. 

Also, Joe-Joe brought GDJYD’s Durian What What What (and Amy got nervous about speaking all the letters so she forgot to credit him for this amazing song).

Music:

The Fall of Troy - Counting Sheep

Torche - Triumph of Venus

Alternative Tentacles - Automated

Tera Melos - Melody 2

Fang Island - Daisy

Matron - Meet Again

GDJYD - Durian What What What

Hella! - 1-800-GHOST-DANCE

Marnie Stern - Absorb Those Numbers

The Locust - Psst! Is That A Halfie In Your Pants?

Polyphia - 40oz

Nnamdi - Art School Crush 

 Yeah, sure, we could go for some meaningful lyrics that dig deep into our souls and pull the tears out. This week is not about THOSE lyrics, it is about the inscrutable, gibberish, what the heck lyrics.

Music

Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

Pavement - We Dance

Beck - The New Pollution

Vulpeck - 1612

Reggie Watts - Amazing Song

They Might Be Giants - Cowtown

Zappa and Beefheart - Tiger Roach

The Mars Volta - The Widow

Melvins - Hooch

Trace Mountains - Me & May

Elton John - Solar Prestige a Gammon

Why? - A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under

This week has NOTHING to do with the episode number (only Memphis will understand). Mitchell and Amy bond over their possible life of crime, which is not provable. Don’t come at them! Also, what is the statute of limitations of stealing your own art from your now defunct high school library? Asking for a friend. Also, the Earbuddies love themselves some criminals. It’s fine. Stop judging.

Music:

Angry Johnny and the Killbillies - High Noon in Killville

Amy LaVere - Killing Him

Neko Case - Make Your Bed

The World Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die - January 10th, 2014

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Curse of Millhaven

Jane’s Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

Kinky Friedman - The Ballad of Charles Whitman

Sonic Youth - Death Valley ‘69

Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr.

Dead Kennedys - Stealing People’s Mail

Masked Intruder - Crime Spree

Legendary Shack Shakers - Blood on the Blue Grass

It’s all about the action and this week, super action jam packed with action songs and imperative songs (and one triple negative multiplier). Amy forgets how to actually speak and Mitchell drops all the Sweeney knowledge on us.

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Music:

Smash Mouth - Walkin’ on Sunshine

John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads

They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head

Superheaven - Gushin’ Blood

Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me

Fountains of Wayne - Please Don’t Rock Me Tonight

Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push

Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me

The Esquires - Listen to Me

Chavez - Break Up Your Band

Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi Off the Bridge

Ringo Deathstarr - Do It Every Time

Amy just wanted to shoehorn a specific song in so Mitchell had the illuminating idea to let everyone shoehorn their songs in! It is a cavalcade of genres that are absolutely amazing. Did you know India had nu-metal bands? Neither did we!

Music:

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

Spoon - I Summon You

HEALTH - L. A. Looks

Remember Sports - Reality TV

Ben Ricketts - The Glow

Amyl and the Sniffers - Got You

Nnamdi - Flowers to my Demons

Hum - Waves

Bloodywood - Ari Ari

Zeus! Ft. Mike Patton - Human Fly

2 Minutes to Late Night - Dare to be Stupid

Young Guv - Patterns Prevail

When you’re the greatest and you’re a musician, you make music about being the greatest. This week is all about those narcissistic self-hype songs that get us all bopping. Somehow it managed not to be an entire episode on Run the Jewels.

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Music:

Mac Dre - Feelin’ Myself

The Detroit Cobras - Boss Lady

MC Hammer -  U Can’t Touch This

John Grant - GMF

Will. I. AM - I Am

Prince and the New Power Generation - My Name is Prince

Demi Lovato - Sorry Not Sorry

Run the Jewels - Banana Clipper

Lou Rawls - You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

Lou Reed - My Name is Mok

DJ Shadow - Walkie Talkie

Donny Benét - Mr. Experience