Episode 293: Earth, Wind, Fire, Trainor, Water, Heart
Do you remember? That’s right, it’s almost September the 21st, and to celebrate, we’ve got two Christmas songs by Earth, Wind, and Fire! The first is “December” by Earth, Wind,… Read more »
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Episode 291: Jingle Horse 5: Ballad of the Horsey Folk
The Gold Cup Parade (???) is approaching, which means (???), but anyway, we’re doing a jingle horse episode. Maybe Dan Brown ghost-wrote this one because we go deep down some… Read more »
Episode 289: The Most Exciting Holliday
It’s Ian’s birthday this week, so you know what that means – he’s selflessly gifting half of his Birthday Boy’s Choice to RJ!! What a sweetie. Ian and RJ exchange… Read more »
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 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 »