Episode 12: Put It In Your Easter Basket
Listen! Hark! Sh’ma! HARK is back, and HARKier than ever! We’re celebrating Easter and Passover with two religious holiday songs, “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and “Mi Y’malel”.
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Episode 11.5: SOCK, The Holiday Footwear Podcast
Due to technical difficulties, Ian and RJ are unable to bring you the totally great, insightful, hilarious, avant-garde, award-worthy episode that they recorded this week. Instead, please enjoy this minisode,… Read more »
Episode 11: Marcus the Christmas Moose
Mount your noble Christmas steed and join us on this long, winding journey through two bizarre Christmas songs about festive animal companions. We review and rank the unfortunate earworm “Dominic… Read more »
Episode 10: F-Bombs and High School Flashbacks
It’s a very oughties x-mas this week as Ian and RJ cover two listener requests that are new to their ears, yet remarkably recognizable. A love song by Paper Route… Read more »
Episode 9: Have Yourself a Campy Little Christmas
Things get a little dark, a little bright, and more than a little musical theater-y. Ian and RJ get some more Christmas classics into the mix this week with two… Read more »
Episode 8: Blossom Dearie and her Vocal Opposite
In this somewhat sentimental episode of HARK, Ian and RJ discuss songs from Christmases past, inspired by a song request from Ian’s sister Emma. Find out why Blossom Dearie’s honey-voiced… Read more »
Episode 7: Roomful of Goyim
So far all of our holiday music has been mostly about one holiday… but any song that you would basically only hear between November and January are songs we will… Read more »
Episode 6: Creepy Valentine’s Day
Ian and RJ offer their thoughts on two “Christmas” classics that never actually mention Christmas at all. “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and “Let It Snow” don’t get much play beyond… Read more »
Episode 5: A Sudden Nosedive in Quality
Here at HARK, we’ve committed to reviewing and ranking to EVERY holiday song… even the bad ones, especially the bad ones. But as our list hits its first milestone, we’ve… Read more »
Episode 4: Non-sequential, Santa
Is the deed to a platinum mine a sound financial investment? And how much cash is actually in a five pound box of money? Could that song about talking sexy… Read more »