Earbuds And Earworms

Amy and Mitchell are massive fans of skills that aren’t necessarily paid skills. They learn instruments, get into crafts, make stuff, listen to other people do their thing, and generally relish the joy that folks get out of whatever they are into. This week is a celebration of that structured time before work and bed. Hobby on, you Hobby-ists!

Music:

Bill Oddie - The Knitting Song 

Chuck McCarthy - Scrapbooking Song 

Boy Scouts - Nike 

Angel Du$t - Bang My Drum

Felicity Ford - Shetland Wool Week Song

Bearcubbin’ - Girls With Fun Haircuts

Leslie Hall - Craft Talk

Speedy Ortiz - Indoor Soccer

Bolt Thrower - Inside the Wire

Your Best Friend Jippy - Always Working

Why? - Ob Ish

On occasion, we just have a free for all because whatever is on our turntables, iphones, ipods, and Zunes doesn’t necessarily fall into a category, so everything just gets slapped in together. It’s fun, it’s mellow, and there were roller skates on during the recording of this show.

Music:

Gene Clark - Los Angeles

Lou Rawls - Dead End Street

Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

The Seasons - Tangerine

Catherine Feeny - Mr. Blue

Pale Lips - You’re a Doll

Buffalo Killers - The Path Before Me

Apes of the State - Internet Song

En Attendant Ana - Somewhere and Somehow

Dan Penn - Trash Man

Miloe - Everything (That Should Go)

This week is all about defending genres that don’t get love or are not super known. We finally get a true breakdown of what the heck “Sunshine Sludge” is. Also, welp, there is a lot of cursing and there are apologies to one specific mom, multiple times. 

Music:

Matthew Herbert - The Audience

Brooks and Dunn - Boot Scootin’ Boogie

Duke Ellington - Rhapsody in Blue

Floor - Song For Eris

Bohren and Der Club of Gore - Sollen es doch Alle Wissen

Hatsune Miku - Rolling Girl

Whitehouse - Wriggle Like a F****ing Eel

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

Southern Culture on the Skids - Whole Lotta Things

Nothing, Nowhere - Hammer

Gridlink - Constant Autumn

Fixation - Black Clouds

After about a 100 episodes of being highly caffeinated on microphones together, Mitchell and Amy finally tackle caffeine/coffee as a theme. From the quiet morning first cuppa, to the third undiluted cold brew, each song fits into the theme. Also, never flirt with someone who can’t escape you (i.e. baristas).

Show picture is from the “This Show Has Everything” Shop

Music:

Karate - Caffeine or Me

Ink Spots - Java Jive

Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee

Psychostick - Caffeine

Beabadoobea - Coffee

Black Flag - Black Coffee

Tony Alvon and the Belairs - Sexy Coffee Pot

Ella Fitzgerald - Black Coffee

Kim Mitchell - Go For Soda

Beauty Pill - Afrikaner Barista

Jack Stauber - Coffee

Mitchell and Amy have both been enchanted by Claire Saffitz (as well as the rest of the Bon Appetit test kitchen) and made this week all about food, because why not? There is discussion of some food ethics (although both can go on and on about all of that if you catch them in the mood to get preachy). Hot dogs and weird metaphors for all!

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Music:

The Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit

NRBQ - RC Cola and a Moon Pie

Led Zeppelin - Hot Dog

Ariel Pink - Jell-O

MiRthkon - Banana

The Detroit Cobras - Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat)

Mr. Bungle - Squeeze Me Macaroni

Galaxie 500 - Strange

Parry Gripp - Yum Yum Breakfast Burrito

Camper Van Beethoven - Ice Cream Everyday

Youth of Today - No More

The Aquabats - Pizza Day

Mitchell and Amy got spoiled by the plethora of suggestions from last week so Mitchell toss out a softball that didn’t elicit Barenaked Ladies’ One Week (ya’ll!). Amy is extremely tired for no particular reason so there are more tangents than there are days in the week. Also, punks like Mondays.

Music:

Fats Domino - Blue Monday 

Cherelle - Saturday Love 

Barenaked Ladies - One Week 

Malibu Ken - Tuesday

The Torn ACLs - Can’t Say No to Friday

Omni - Wednesday Wedding

Stone Temple Pilots - Days of the Week

Matt Chamberlain - Monday

NOFX - Thank God It’s Monday

DJ Shadow - Six Days

Bleached - Wednesday Night Melody

They Might Be Giants - Seven Days of the Week

Mitchell (and Amy, in spirit) combed through the most plentiful bounty of suggestions by the Earbuddies to make this absolutely phenomenal episode. Amy decides that she is taking it chill this week and Mitchell seriously put in the work, by explaining what makes Robitussin interesting, listening to over 100 song suggestions, and reassuring that finger bells were used in one particular song. 

Music:

Classics IV - Stormy

Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine

Beck - Steve Threw Up

No Joy - Judith

Lord Huron - Louisa

Dean Friedman - Ariel

Two Inch Astronaut - Andy’s Progress Report

Joanna Newsom - Sadie

Mindless Self Indulgence - Clarissa

The Raveonettes - Aly Walk With Me

Lilys - Ginger

Hozier - Jackie and Wilson

In a first ever episode of E&E focused on a specific audio engineer, Mitchell and Amy go all in on the man, the myth, the legend (gosh, so obvious of a metaphor), Steve Albini. Performer and crafter of sounds, Albini has a wide range of sounds and there is no shortage of genres going on here. This episode is all about great craftsmanship and ya’ll should enjoy it heartily.

Music: 

Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box

Descartes a Kant - Until the Day We Die

Melt Banana - Sick Zip Everywhere

The Ponys - Another Wound

PJ Harvey - Rid of Me

Pezz - New Math

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Honey, You’re Wasting Ammo

Low - Sunflower

Mclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions

In a nod to one of Amy’s favorite subjects and with the suggestion of the world-renowned Lum, this week is brought to you by the letters “VISCERA”! Missing the opportunity to make this a perfectly sexy episode (dude, the episode number is NOICE), it still gets pretty sexy. Mitchell steers the show back on track as Amy tries to explain the importance of the spleen because she has only had half a cup of coffee. Enjoy this “head to toe” experience. Also, there are lots of curses...just prepare your ears.

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Music:

Wovenhand - Sinking Hands

Jewel - Hands

Black-Eyed Peas - My Humps

Puscifer - Cuntry Boner

Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

Pushmonkey - Handslide

PEARS - Hinged by Spine

Rick & Morty - The Small Intestine Song

Big Black - Fists of Love

Nora Jones - Toes

In what is possibly the third rehashing of animals as a theme, the best of the best rises to the top. Like an eagle. Or a really ambitious parakeet. There is noodling (like an octopus’s legs) and musing (like whatever a cat is doing in the window while staring out there). The most important part is that some amps have something called a “fatness” button and truly, the world will never be the same.

Music:

Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog

TV on the Radio - Wolf like Me

Sun Kil Moon - Dogs

Tweak Bird - Pigeons

Billie Marten - Fish

Retribution Gospel Choir - White Wolf

Evile - Killer from the Deep

Groovie Ghoulies - Chupacabra

Suckers - Black Sheep

Mad River - Amphetamine Gazelle

Meneguar - House of Cats

Dan Reeder - Born a Worm