Mental Platypus

Song 4 from Nick Hornby's Songbook, Led Zeppelin's HEARTBREAKER, leads Jared to express some opinions that leave Jason shaking his head in exasperated disbelief.

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This week, Nick Hornby's SONGBOOK inspires a heated debate over what qualifies as pop music snobbishness or elitism, and they remember to talk a little bit about the song at hand, Nelly Furtado's I'M LIKE A BIRD.

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It's on to song 2 of 31 in Nick Hornby's SONGBOOK, an obscure little number by an up and comer from New Jersey, Bruce Spring-something-or-other, called "Thunder Road"

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If Mental Platypus has a spirit animal, it's probably Nick Hornby. This week, Jason and Jared embark on a journey discussing the 26 chapters on 31 songs contained in Hornby's Songbook starting, appropriately, with the Introduction and Teenage Fanclub's "Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From".

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Our dear friend Chris Ayers joins us this week (from Canada, by way of Zoom) for a film discussion, including what our personal favorite years in film are respectively. Chris, among many other things, does fantastic reimaginings/alternative film posters that you can view and purchase from his website, http://www.chrisayerscreative.com/movie-posters

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Live music is coming back, and one of our hosts is more excited than the other... Anyway, it was an inspiration for a trip down concert memory lane.

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This one is all about the art of the mix...but it's also about the mystery of Track 6.

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This week, Jason and Jared talk PJ Harvey, being behind with this year's Oscars, and manage to complain a lot about first world problems in a way that is hopefully endearing.

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This week, a conversation with Chicago-based singer/songwriter Steve Dawson (Funeral Bonsai Wedding, Dolly Varden) about his new album, AT THE BOTTOM OF A CANYON IN THE BRANCHES OF A TREE (out July 16 from Pravda Records), the art of songwriting, and much more. The new single from the album, "22 Rubber Bands", is available now on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, and you can see the video on YouTube. Please visit https://stevedawsonmusic.com for further info.

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This week, a discussion of action films, a little bit of trashing Johnny Depp, and the usual shenanigans.

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