LYRICS FOR LUNCH

Lindsay is in the driver's seat this week as we cruise down the dark desert highway. Is The Eagles' Hotel California a backmasked, Satan-worshiping pop odyssey? A cannibalistic reggae riff? A thinly veiled metaphor for a trip the the mental institution, hidden to protect copyright? Or something far more sinister, a commentary on the music industry itself? All that and more, this week...

How did a sexed-up blues ditty become a non-sensical ode to ... Italian ice cream? We've got the scoop, this week, as we we take a look at the life and times of one Richard Wayne Penniman.

Since its release in 1997, "Barbie Girl" has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide. But not everyone was too pleased with its success. This week, we've got the dream house worthy details about the dance-pop song that spurred a four-year lawsuit and Rolling Stone deemed the worst song of the '90s.

With Lindsay down and out after a botched wisdom tooth extraction, we sadly had to take a week off from the show. But in honor of her troubles, we're calling on our friend Matt from Pick A Disc podcast, where Aviv guest hosted last year to talk about one of his favorite albums "You're My Lover Now" by The Teeth (get it?). We wish Lindsay a speedy recovery and we'll be back next week with a regularly scheduled episode of Lyrics for Lunch. For now, enjoy Pick A Disc!

David Bowie is beloved for good reason: His iconic music catalogue is an international treasure. His uncanny ability for reinvention and self-expression redefined sexuality and helped so many people embrace their own. He's the irrefutable King of Glam Rock. He has a remarkable, whimsical ability to convey the bizarreness of existence in his lyrics like no one else. But when he died in 2016, a debate sparked online about his sexual past. Was he a genius or a monster? A rock god or a rapist? Faced with the Moonage Daydream Bowie documentary that dropped last month, we ask ourselves: What are we do to when our heroes fall from grace? Should we even have heroes at all? 

In summer 2004, a hot new group of 20-something anglophiles dropped an album that became an instant classic. That band was the Killers, and the album, Hot Fuss. What inspired its opening track? What did it have to do with the 1986 Central Park "Preppy" murder? Who is the real Jenny? And how many songs were written about her? We've got the deets, this week as we revisit one of the best breakout albums we care to remember. 

Our long awaited ABBA episode (says Aviv): The Winner Takes it All. What do you get when you take four Swedish superstars, a victim of a Nazi eugenics program, a Eurovision won, 9/11, and two doomed marriages? The greatest pop band of all time (says Aviv).