Episode 287: Jim’s Big New Year
The summer solstice approaches (in this hemisphere), and we’re celebrating the new season with two New Year’s Eve/Day songs! By listener request, we add another song to our list from… Read more »
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Episode 286: Fake Sinatra
Hang on to your beep-boops, in this episode we returning to the world of neural-net-generated carols! OpenAI’s Jukebox performs an original song created by fellow neural net GPT-2, under the… Read more »
Episode 285: Sword Tweets
With Victoria Day approaching, we’re once again covering holiday songs from across the pond! By listener request, we discuss “I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek” by The Go-Go’s,… Read more »
Episode 284: Hard Jazz
You ever hear a brass instrument doing its thing and you think: that’s jazz, baby! And then in another song you hear a brass instrument doing something, maybe not its… Read more »
Episode 283: O Christmas Weed
This was supposed to be our annual 4/20 episode, but it also turned out to be a sleeper Halloween episode – though I suppose an anxious, paranoid vibe is not… Read more »
Episode 282: HSM:TM:TS:THS:TS
This week we’re forgoing our tradition of covering more religious songs for the Easter and Pesach seasons in favor of lighter fare. We dig into two 2020 Hanukkah songs brought… Read more »
Episode 281: Fun-Fun, Bad-Bad
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, so for this episode we’ve got… well, one mildly relevant song. By request, we listen to “The Season’s Upon Us” by Dropkick Murphys, a Celtic-punk entry… Read more »
Episode 280: She’s a Lady (Reindeer)
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th, we’re listening to two songs that bring women to the forefront of the Christmas character canon! Uh, sort of. “Good Queen… Read more »
Episode 279: Más Idiomas
In honor of International Mother Language Day on February 21st, we’re increasing the linguistic diversity of our list by covering two songs in languages that haven’t been featured on the… Read more »
Episode 278: Reluctantly Flopping Into Christmas
As Lunar New Year approaches, we’re looking back at one very specific year – the only year between 1943 and 2020 that has never had a song featured on the… Read more »