Extended Play

On this week's Extended Play Podcast, hosts E and Tank give a peek behind the curtain to discuss how they discover music. Ever wonder how they find the songs they use for the Playlist Challenge? What's the past, present, and future of music discovery, particularly as AI becomes an existential threat/boon to humanity?

The episode begins with a timely discussion about the most recent "controversial" country song to top the charts - Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town" and what that says about the genre and America in general.

Stay tuned until the end for another Playlist Challenge, this time featuring songs with colors in the title.

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It's the second half of our "Befuddlement" episode! For this week's Playlist Challenge, hosts E and Tank and co-host Libby challenge one another to find songs with commands in the title. And no, they didn't each pick Soul II Soul's "Dance" five times (though, honestly, they should have).

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It's time for the The Extended Play Podcast! Join hosts E and Tank and special co-host Libby as they ask discuss artists they're supposed to like - but don't. When artists are incredibly successful and seem to fit into your musical wheelhouse, how do you explain just not getting it? Are your missing something? Is there just some sort of intangible quality to the music that just doesn't work? Or is it fairly random?

A first guest host means the group has a lot to talk about, so you'll be able to catch the three-way Playlist Challenge in part two of "Befuddlement," available next week.

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It's another episode of The Extended Play Podcast. Listen as hosts E and Tank talk about the sticky situation of enjoying music only to find out that the artist who made it is...problematic. Should you completely avoid anything the artist has created, going back to the beginning? Can you draw a line between listening to the music and tacitly endorsing the artist's behavior? What about situations in which the public isn't privy to the details of the alleged wrongdoings? Before that, the hosts recap their experience at a recent live show. That and a new Playlist Challenge! This episode's topic? Songs with names in the title.

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Join hosts E and Tank as they try to figure out the role of music criticism in 2023. Whose opinion can you trust? What happens when critics agree something is great and you just don't get it? How do you discover music when music criticism is harder and harder to find? Plus, another edition of our Playlist Challenge. For this challenge, E and Tank have chosen songs for one another that have an "and" in the title.

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In this episode, hosts E, Tank, and Limitation Crab slide further into becoming a Taylor Swift podcast while discussing non-album tracks (a.k.a. "B" sides). How do artists decide what goes on an album? When do cover songs succeed and when do they fail? That, and another edition of the Playlist Challenge, where our hosts come up with playlists that feature songs with verbs in the title. Well, unless you're Tank and you're not totally sure what a verb is in the first place.

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Join hosts E and Tank as they unpack just what it means for music to be "pop." What defines the genre through the ages? Will anyone besides Taylor Swift reach the heights of the great '80s pop icons? Can a couple of grown-ass men like pop music now? Were award shows like the Grammys always doomed to eventually become irrelevant? That, and another edition of the Playlist Challenge, where our hosts come up with playlists that feature songs with animals in the title.

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Hosts E and Tank have some concerts coming up and thought this would be the perfect time to talk about the live music experience. What do they love about it? (Well...the music, obviously.) What do they hate about it? (Well...the other people, obviously.) What makes a great live performance? A great live recording? What does Limitation Crab (patent pending) have to do with any of it? That, and the latest edition of My Five, in which the hosts pick their favorite live recordings.

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In this episode, hosts E and Country Music Recording Artist Tank discuss the way music soundtracks our lives. How do memories become inextricably tied to the music that was playing at the time? Can nostalgia outweigh the objective quality of the music? How do you choose what you're going to listen to? How important is the location? The weather? Your mood?

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Hosts E and Tank continue their discussion of country music, this time focusing on the features of the genre they appreciate. They talk about some of their favorite artists and introduce a new segment called "My Five" in which they each do a deep dive into songs they love. The topic? Country-ish songs.

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